skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to me that so many smart minds in content outlets can't figure out a way to make money other than ads, particular privacy invading ads.

It's been said often enough and long enough to sound tired, but we really are products, not customers. The entity that a content outlet cares about is the ad networks. NOT you. The content is just a bug zapper meant to attract you in.
Buffer is Very Transparent
That's some funny logic there.
Kiwigrid's Smart Grid Management Platform
Jack Ma: 'Harvard rejected me 10 times' [video]
I really hope that I am actually addressing that in my essay.
Their entire purpose is to kill people, why would you expect them to care about some animals?
i think @tankerdude has it right...easy $100
It is sad we spend so much money on military yet can't give NASA more money. I hate politics!
> I hate the word unicorn too, but it's shorter than private market companies with a valuation of more than $1 billion :)

Small-cap companies is shorter than that too and it actually means something. Don't give excuses for using stupid terminology.
Yes, I'm so upset that the government funded all the initial development of the Internet, crushing things like Compuserve and AOL and AT&T's videotex offering. Who knows where we could be today if only those had been allowed to flower. (Well, I know the planet would be 3 inches deep in AOL promotional mailers. But besides that.)
For the soccer channel, are you going to showcase games from the Premier League, La Liga, Ligue 1, Bundesliga etc.?
Not to mention that most IDE's (Eclipse, IntelliJ) are more frameworks to tie together various ad hoc tools into a sorta-unified UI, often even calling the underlying Unix-style binary.
Unicorn just pokes my brain the wrong way, like bad kerning. On the other hand, it does describe how rare these things are, which I feel does make it an accurate term- it also explains how companies like this are essentially legends.

It's an annoying term, but it works (unfortunately)
Startup makes retro game cartridges for your smartphone
Europe historically had a problem where powerful nobility owned massive portions of the economy outright. Competition? Maybe with an army.

Today, it's a lot better than it was, but in many places the powerful noblility have been replaced by other powerful interests and some industries still operate like they have the God-given right to supply automobile tires to the French people and all good men must express solidarity to expel these upstart invaders... :(
This Is What Virtual Reality Zelda Looks Like on Oculus Rift (2014)
OK, but this is going on your permanent record.
Maybe that's just poor documentation on the author's part. If you simply try and go get the package (running Go 1.5 here):

~ $ go get -u github.com/otoolep/syslog-gollector
warning: code.google.com is shutting down; import path code.google.com/p/log4go will stop working
warning: code.google.com is shutting down; import path code.google.com/p/snappy-go/snappy will stop working
~ $

Everything is fine (aside from the warnings about code.google shutting down).

Yes, Go does not have a culture of versioning, but it _does_ have a culture of _vendoring_. You should be getting your reproducible builds by vendoring your dependencies. That way, you don't need to do any hunting or git-bisect shenanigans.
To contrast with what you said, it’s very common in french contracts to be able to fire an employee in the first 8 month of her employment. This isn’t really « at-will » employment but it’s pretty close, especially for Europe.
In other (more direct) words: we have no idea how to look for companies that will become extremely successful in the future.
The Thorium Dream (Documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ9Ll5EX1jc
Berlin seems to be bursting with startup culture, between all the co-working locations & Soundcloud & 6Wunderkinder acquisition. Are the German startups focusing more on profit & bootstrapping approaches rather than Angel funding then?
Intercom's Des Traynor on Product Strategy in a Growing Company [video]
The Thorium Dream (Documentary)
The Youtube API has a concept of quotas, where requesting some types of information is more costly than others. I imagine you could implement a similar system that additively increases the cost of a query as it grows in complexity and fails if the quota is exceeded.
Can confirm - a very close friend of mine who is a flight attendant on JetBlue who has helped me out with numerous flights using his buddy passes, gave me insight into this. Basically, airlines are allowed to oversell because historically, a number of people will miss flights by differing margins, and this helps recover potential losses for those who do miss their flights. Works great when people normally miss their flights, but not so much when everyone shows up.
This is such a non-issue (from the article):

“The project is planning to produce new Pu-238 at a rate that supports currently projected NASA missions,” says Rebecca Onuschak, program director for the DOE’s plutonium infrastructure. “There is no shortfall of material projected to meeting those needs, and so no remedy or action plan has been implemented.”

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The argument that if NASA had more RTG's laying around it would be doing more is a bit suspicious as that's not how space missions are planned. Not to mention, Charles Bolden just wrote a letter to Congress asking them why they can't fund the SLS properly. There's no extra money laying around.
Anecdotal of course but for what's it's worth on the basis of around twenty cross-Europe trips by car I would say very few speak English. We live in bubbles and tend to believe they're shared by all.
It depends on your definition of easily accessible. For example, on my TP-Link W8961N you can use Python's Requests library, Beautiful Soup and HTTP Basic Auth to retrieve and parse the client list.
The languages are also a problem for Europeans, because it's a big threshold for finding a job outside your own country. For example The Netherlands is very small, but German or French are to hard to speak. It's Dutch or you'll have to move to an English speaking country. Most Dutch people speak English, so there is that.
It is called RSS
The new browsers
Europe had a crippling diversity deficit and so the US easily took the lead in tech, but under the guise of the so-called "refugee crisis" Europe is now executing a cunning Blitzkrieg assault on America's former advantage. D is for diversity, E is for EUgle!
I'm lucky enough to live on a piece of land surrounded by hobby farmers. It's a strange thing to say, but when you get up close and personal to farm animals you see through the "stereotypes" of them. Sheep aren't brainless followers, and can actually be pretty smart and as friendly as dogs. Pigs are cool too, and will actually recognise you and wag their tails when they see you bringing them treats like apples.

I'm not a vegetarian, but you do start to respect them as animals in their own right, rather then just meat products.
I prefer hardware separation: just use old smartphone, without connection to internet, as password vault. No connection — no risk of stealing (except physical stealing, of course, so use _old_ ugly smartphone, e.g. with broken screen).

Keep your important passwords encrypted with GPG on flash card, with backup on an another flash card. Regular GPG works flawlessly in terminal. Small shell script, which will ask for password and site name to display site password(s), will do the job on any Linux-compatible smartphone.
Not everyone in the USA speaks English either.
This, now obvious with hindsight, is the perfect application for other DARPA developed technologies such as the "robotic feeling hand" recently on HN. Limiting applications to anthropomorphized form factors is, of course, extremely limiting.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/14/robotic-ha...
This one hits the 12,000ft mark at around 8:30 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKARaE51SPo

Thing is, I seriously doubt many people fly their quadcopters that high. It's not much fun (not more fun than, say, 500ft), you don't have line of sight, and the wind will blow it away so if you don't track where you're going you're likely to lose your craft.

Plus at that range, we're talking some serious long-range equipment. Ready-to-fly consumer drones max out at approx. 1 mile range. If you buy this stuff, you probably understand (you should!) what you're doing.

It's possible alright, but not very likely.
Yeah, this is just plain creepy.
This is FL510

You can get ballons to fly that high but not much anything else at an affordable price.
"The third reason I hear is that the US market is bigger and therefore it’s easier to get traction. Yet there are 503 million Europeans living inside the EU vs. 319 million US living in the US"

Stopped reading after this line. So to this guy, a market is a geographic definition. Well, we're not in the 19th century anymore. We're not defined by hills and roads and river access.

IT startups identify markets from culture and language first and foremost. And you obviously won't market a product the same way in germany, france, or greece. It's the biggest issue with euro so far: same currency, 25 different cultures.
From the article, it sounds to me as though the webkitdirectory performance issue would only become a problem with excessively large trees of directories & files. So, as you mention, in 99% (or more!) of cases it won't be a problem.

Should they go with it, then? I don't know. Ultimately, I think, as you suggest, just getting something common to all major browsers that mostly works is more important than getting this absolutely perfect. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be what any of the browser vendors are aiming for.
360 take on YouTube with embedded controls
I do. It's less convenient, but I feel more secure.
Yeah. Good tools won't make a bad craftsman good, and that's as true for programming as it is for carpentry and plumbing. But that doesn't mean that good tools don't help good programmers.
re: my phrasing, I did assume that the drone pilot in question started from a much lower (unknown to me) altitude.

>Multi-rotors using BLDC motors cannot really be

It's got nothing to do with the type of motor or fuel.

>"Reasonably duration" is a nebulous phrase. So

So is "quite happily carry". I'll admit that it appears that it's not impossible for such a flight, but I don't agree that any drone is "happily carrying" anything at that altitude.
I agree thorium isn't without its problems, but the end byproduct of a lftr reactor is plutonium.
What part? Is the incorporation of a company complicated\bureacratic? I know here in Czech Rep you pretty much need to have a local Czech speaker setup\registered\licensed with a certain status before you can create a new company. Or is there some capital requirements ("you must have €x,000 in the company accts to operate"), or lawyers fees that make it either tough\impossible for the early "ramen" stage?
Thanks for the reply. Looks like all those resources are old and outdated (over 3 years old on the 'newest' one)
That's not true of the Netherlands, for example. Maybe Europe as a whole, but as time goes on English is becoming much more widely understood.
I would assume you didn't read this: https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/node

Also, let me introduce you another good website for this kind of question: http://stackoverflow.com try it.
my mistake, thanks for the correction.
It there a similar study done more recently on this exact topic? Would love to know if the problems revealed in this paper have been fixed in 1Password and others
I commented before reading the article, as I was having trouble loading it.

I've managed to read it and I see you did mention it. You other points do add some interesting ideas that I haven't considered before. Especially #3 is interesting.
AFAIK it's because they last a long time with very small amounts of reactants, are low maintenance, and are potentially very small. I mean, it kinda makes sense but RTGs are better for space applications because you really don't need massive amounts of power in space, plus the whole "power forever with no effort" aspect; they might as well be perpetual motion engines.
Don't forget digital computers :)

No gubbermint funding and directing innovation then, no digital computer in your pocket now.
> There should be a lot of limitations. makelisp behaves very strangely when you pass a broken Lisp code.

I can't imagine why..
Is there a way that I, as a consumer, could sell ads to ad networks that would be "viewed" (i.e. consume resources) by content outlets? Maybe they could be so resource intensive that admins would feel compelled to review logs, and the log content would somehow have enough information that an admin would buy a shoe.

Maybe http headers sent to content outlets could have ads.

Maybe something magic and really creative, I don't know.

You could even customize part of the message. One part from the advertiser, and one part from me, "Please do me a solid and stop blocking my ads to you. I need the ad revenue to help pay for my broadband fees."
I also welcome the rules. People flying stuff (balloons, RC aircraft, drones, kites, etc.) near airports should be punished. It's just that I don't think even stricter rules are the answer.
I speak English very well. I have spoken it in professional environments for so long that, in a regular conversation, even accent barely reveals that I'm a non-native speaker anymore. However, my own native language is part of my cultural heritage, a heritage that I deeply appreciate, which is very dear to me and which cannot be adequately rendered in English any more than The Canterbury Tales can be adequately rendered in my own language.

We stick to our local languages because they're part of who we are. Europe would probably have a little more money if we stopped doing that, but it would be a lot poorer.
It's a matter of semantics. Parent is correct that mosh requires SSH to function. From the same page you linked:

> Mosh doesn't listen on network ports or authenticate users. The mosh client logs in to the server via SSH, and users present the same credentials (e.g., password, public key) as before. Then Mosh runs the mosh-server remotely and connects to it over UDP.
How depressing that a country of 300+ million individuals has candidates from the same families again and again.
Please see: Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
The use of quotation marks to indicate sarcasm or doubt is pretty new, while using them to just mean "this is literal text from elsewhere" is much older. Not to say the new usage is somehow "wrong" but neither would I call the BBC's usage odd.
An excellent essay about "concept" products, including (of course) cars:

Why Apple doesn't do "Concept Products"

http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/
you're absolutely right.

successful examples that started in europe soon moved to the us to take off. qliktech/qlikview as a swedish example. intercom being spread across ireland and SF. etc.

the one market that could rival the US will be china. it is harmful to non-chinese investors though, but once they open it up a huge, homogenic market will pop up. wechat, baidu, alibaba already show what is possible there. apple and uber coming in with mature(rer) businesses. wonder when we'll see a mixed-background startup emerge in china.

as someone from austria that moved to the bay area - you must be bonkers to try ramping up a startup in most of europe. if your desire/plan is unicorn-scale of course.
A big difference in China is that the writing system is the same regardless of spoken language, so that works pretty well for the Internet. I think you also overestimate how many and how well people speak Mandarin in China. According to the Internet only about half of people in China can speak Mandarin:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/07/content_5812838...
It's indeed difficult to explain how diverse the countries are in Europe, you have the same kind of cultural differences that you have in the whole United States in just a single European country from one side to the other, it's pretty dense.
Once again, state in the US != country in the EU, and Europe != China. Those are not "local" languages (or "minority" languages), they are "national" languages, no matter how ridiculously small you may think those nations are. There are "regional" (or "local") languages too, but they are rarely used in a professional environment, and thus more akin to dialects in China. This has strong cultural implications.
Well, with democracy at least it doesn't take a war to change them....

... um....
And yet even there they chose to split off. The subject requires deeper examination.
Moving from REST to GraphQL
It makes you wonder if the idea that capitalists are rewarded for being good at allocating capital is incorrect. It sounds like a post hoc rationalization of the fact that some will be winners and some will be losers. Enough monkeys allocating enough capital makes the markets operate.
ISP wins 11-year battle to reveal warrantless FBI spying [pdf]
Tech workers turn to ‘forest bathing’ to unplug
Except that due to it being of the daemontools family, it doesn't get the same sort of treatment as something like SystemXVI or SystemD. Sadly.
English (or rather, some sort of English-like pidgin dialect) is the lingua franca in most or even all IT companies at least in Germany and I would guess also Scandinavia. It is true though that a lot of subtleties are lost if you don't communicate in your native language. Also the downvotes for you are completely justified. Languages and dialects are a cultural treasure, not a disadvantage.
> I'm not sure I understand the argument. They people weren't grey scale either. The photo itself re-writes history, this is just an abstraction to make it more visually distinctive.

I think the claim is that the viewer intuitively understands that information has been lost in a conversion to greyscale, but does not intuitively understand when looking at a colourised photo that the colours might not be right. That is, the greyscale is regarded as a known-incorrect record of reality, whereas the colourised photo may be regarded improperly as a correct record of reality.
> huge social cost of having your own minority language.

Scandinavians are some of the most successful societies, despite of small languages. Languages have cultural baggage to them; every time I hear English, I see high inequality, poor worker rights, obsession with money, yet excellence in science and higher education. No one wants to abandon their own and assume English identity.
Unless it uses some capacitor technology and the gigafactory is obsolete haha
I'll wait for black Friday.
What actually stops other auto manufacturers from putting a Tesla SuperCharger port on their vehicles? Does Tesla's port do any authentication?
"If it was only a matter of investments then surely US investors or Asian investors could just come in with the money" - grand-parent is saying they don't, you're saying they could.

You're both right.
We do the learning on GPU and efficiency is not a concern because the learning result goes out as a firmware update. Let's say it takes 2 weeks to train a neural network - the customer never sees that, they just get the firmware update. Similarly, we can use a lot of GPUs to train one network because that training result goes out to many chips.
Mac. Does sleep when battery flat, rather than "die" completely - but how long do you trust it for? Knowing Sod's Law, I opted for the run.
I'm new to infosec and I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how PasswordSafe is able to modify the master password without re-encrypting the entire database with the new salt.

The only scenario I see this happening is if, upon the creation of a new master password, PasswordSafe encrypts the header (with the old password). This way, when the user enters their new password, PS uses it to decrypt the header, and then uses the old password (stored in the header) to decrypt the database. This would make it easy for someone with access to the old password and the database to simply decrypt it.

Is this how it works? I can't think of any other way it would be able to not re-encrypt the database with the new password. Plus the lingo/acronyms in the paper are going a bit over my head.
> Isn't it more important that 200 years ago they still have media that makes people remember Steve Jobs?

Yes, but wouldn't a black-and-white photograph do that as well, and be less deceptive?
Unicorns? Ha! It's hard to survive, let alone be successful. No investors, convoluted laws, high taxes and complete lack of startup mentality.
I'm a cofounder of an italian startup, and the road is on an unbearably steep slope. The bureaucracy is insane, the cost of running a small business is daunting. Other companies refuse to work with you because in their eyes you're a scrub (I heard so many times bullshit like "I don't know if you'll be alive in a year or two, so I can't adopt your technology").
You can't hire someone else because you simply can't afford it, and the best people go to the USA anyway. It's immensely frustrating, the only thing that keeps us going is passion, but passion won't pay the bills. Before talking about unicorns we should talk about creating an healthier business environment.
It's possible that being thrown at an ancient, loosely-managed Delphi project has given me a poor first impression of it.
A Web Crawler with Asyncio Coroutines
Well I gave a payload (gopro, 350-400grams with gimbal) and a duration (10 minutes), I'm not sure what else to say! The aircraft was completely controllable with no memorable handling differences apart from a very slightly reduced response to high thrust demands, but as we fly our platforms for stability rather than speed it wasn't something that we really noticed.
Office 2016 is coming with New Features
In what ways are pigs smart? In particular, what makes you say they're smarter than dogs?
and I thought that Europeans were bit more insular than their US peers but wait till you see an ethnocentric/lingocentric American voices their opinions on the English language and its perceived supreme status over other languages of the globe.

No wonder Jeb Bush is taking a lot of flack for speaking Spanish in public when you got crowd like this.
Porsche can probably more easily afford to setup the 800V network than Tesla can its 400V network. They have a large, wholly self-sustaining business. Their operating profit of $3.x billion last year is comparable to Ford's operating profit.
Graylog v1.2 released, 30+ new features including LDAP group mapping
The value proposition of a dog as a pet or as a working dog is much, much higher than keeping them for meat. They've been domesticated for hundreds of years and are loyal, easy to train, and smart enough for useful tasks. They also can be vicious defenders of your property, your kids, etc.

The value proposition for pork is really good. Pigs are huge, yield a lot of meat, meat considered safe and desirable by Westerners, etc.
I hope the author can follow up with more evidence to reduce the possibility of these inferences falling victim of the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
IP/Non Compete Agreement at Startups?
Hey,

I joined a startup as founding team and now they have decided to move ahead with a different strategy that I developed. Obviously I have learnt a lot during my stay there however I am not interested in the vision they are pursuing. At this point, I would like to work on the vision that I desire however I am concerned about the IP/Non Compete. Would this be a problem if I do something similar to what the previous company was doing. It is not exactly similar but would use few of the tools that we used at the startups. I have not coded a single line.
Suggestions required