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> Don't be disingenuous.

I'm absolutely not being disingenuous. As I said, I am -in fact- not making a comparison between the situation with Mozilla and my hypothetical statement.

As I stated, I'm illustrating the general point that it often pays to keep track of when an entity has wronged you so you can weigh their current attempts at reconciliation against their history of wrongs.

Remember also that I was replying to the following statement:

> This kind of negativity is really common on HN and it makes me sad. ... "This group of people did something I don't like, and then they changed their mind and stopped doing it. But rather than being happy about fixing their mistake, I'm going to keep criticizing them for making the mistake in the first place."

I address the author's misconceptions in the first 'graph of my reply.
I'm not convinced with you proposal and really opposed to respond to what happened in Paris with less freedom. And Israel is absolutely not an example. Been there. Experienced the feeling of being safe everywhere because of armed guards, soldiers, security personnel everywhere. But I remember as well the feeling of being a stranger as soon as I showed that I don't speak Hebrew. Hated both feelings. And hated the many taboos. That's not a world I want to leave in.

What happens in France really concerns me, because it will influence how Europe will answer to this threat. And so far we are going in a direction of less freedom, more military, more borders, more segregation. :-(
Or in case of Germany, zero risk because hyperinflation after the treaty meant Germany didn't have much to lose and a lot to gain.

Blame Hitler all you want but England and France are ultimately responsible for WWII.
I think this has biggest advantage in military submarine communications.

You launch a drone underwater. Drone flies off, sends radio message, records another from headquarters. Then flies to preprogrammed place. Then dives to another preprogrammed place and is recovered by sub.

This would me major improvement over communication buoys. Currently when buoy is transmitting, you can guess that the sub is 0,5km away in the general direction of movement of the buoy.
Reproducible builds are really rather important -- and open up some other possibilities too...
Knowing nothing about Pakistan, don't the coups demonstrate the lack of power military holds? If I was a military chief, I'd rather prefer to steer policy from the background assuming I had any real influence. Not saying you're wrong. I'm trying to understand...
> Doomsday drones --or machines if you will-- are likely already in place and able to decide to blow up the world in an instant.

What do you base that on?
I'll second that. I find it really odd more consulting companies aren't remote given their clients almost always are anyway.
Dislodging a many-billion-euro incumbent is a lot harder than dislodging a funny irc pic sharing site.
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Why are people looking for a second Google in Europe?

They should instead look in China, where there already is not only a second Google but also a second Facebook, Amazon, WhatsApp, Stripe, ...

So, why did the Chinese succeed where Europe failed? Here are my thoughts:

* Regulation: With its strict censorship and great firewall, the Chinese government effectively shut out most American IT companies from their market, giving local companies enough time to grow.

* Culture: Chinese culture is much more different from American than European culture is, hence it is also much more difficult to adapt an American IT service to the Chinese market than to the European.

* Market size: With 1.3 billion people, 900 million of which speak Mandarin the market size for any IT service is enormous, even taking into account that many people still do not have reliable Internet access or a lot of money to buy services / products online. Likewise, the market growth is much higher than in the US or Europe.

Personally I believe that the main competition for American IT companies will not come from Europe but from China. Right now, most Chinese IT startups only follow in the roots of their successful American idols, but with so many well-educated young entrepreneurs this should change soon, and I predict that we will see more and more disruptive Internet startups "made in China" very soon.
Stop complaining and use Ada or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_%28programming_language%.... There is also a web Server in Ada: http://libre.adacore.com/tools/aws/
My point is that they kind of dismiss previous approaches using this only logical argument, which is not applicable anyway. Using such a rigorous logical reasoning in the realm of social science demonstrate either a misunderstanding of logic or a purpose to mislead the reader.
I think you confuse the founder/owner status with the work role. I would rephraze this - you can never make good money as a salaried employee (google with it's early-stock-millionaires is an exception).

The second question is, how can a company be succesfull? I know several very succesfull software businesses which were not directed by software engineers. The question about competence to run a company is far more complex than saying if domaim specialists won't run the show it will tank.
Does booking.com count? Founded in Europe in 1996, still entirely located in Europe, over $1 billion _yearly profit_, but acquired by an American company in 2005.
I think a mixture of 2 and 3 are the main reasons

"People in European countries on the other hand seem to be encouraged to avoid risk and avoid anything that might lead to less job security in the short term.

Hence the best programmers, designers and other such people usually either find employment in a more stable company (read, one where there's a work/life balance) or move to the US to work in Silicon Valley."
Yes, look at the photos in the original article from the Staples Center in 2015.
Also, I'd say the university system may have something to do with it. US unis work more like UK Sixth Form Colleges, where students study a variety of subjects and encounter people with different interests (whereas a UK university education is about one subject with a much smaller group of peers). As a result, the US system is arguably a lot better suited to networking and meeting people with an interest in starting a business.

How many tech company founders met at university? Now, how many studied the exact same things? I'd say a lot less of them.
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> If we want a 'European Google' or European startups in general, we need to become less risk averse, more willing to reward the types of people needed to work in those companies and less obsessed about regulations.

I think we don't. Europe just isn't setup for breakaway successes in the way that the US is. And we wouldn't be able to stomach the societal cost even if we were to try.

Europe is built to enable a Mittelstand [1] though which also allows for lots of diversity and innovation and is why Germany is still an industrial powerhouse.

If Europe wants to compete it should do so on its own terms; except doing so is virtually impossible when companies can claim ownership of their users data because that inevitably leads to the massive centralized monopolies we're seeing now.

One thing Europe is good at though is pushing through laws which prevent companies from establishing harmful monopolies though and that is what Europe needs to do.

If in addition to "the right to be forgotten" Europe would push through "the right to own your data" and forced companies operating in the EU to return all user data (down to request logs used for analytics) to the user the dynamics of tech industry would change dramatically; and in a positive way for the user too.

That will take a while but I think, or hope, it will happen eventually and either way; it will have a much greater chance of success than trying to copy a model that is inherently at odds with a value system developed over dozens of centuries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
Well, at the risk of sounding negative but I'm surprised that this incoherent rambling made it to the top of the chart on HN and garnered such interest from the community.

I read the whole thing but I couldn't follow exactly what he was trying to convey there. Yeah pricing is difficult and one of the most intricate subjects in marketing and just ask any marketer or MBA student/pro and he will confirm that and labor is no different.

I also think that compensation would be a better choice of words than pricing. Human labor is a commodity and thus carries a price but the human being itself is not a commodity and can't be priced, bought or sold whether he be a programmer, plumber, astronaut ... etc.
I thought it is well known under conspiracy theorists that Hitler died near Bariloche, Argentina at the Nahuel Huapi Lake. The secret postwar center of the highest german NAZI criminals.
http://www.google.com/?q=hitler%20bariloche%20argentina
Arguably, it was. See:

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/13890-the-second-amendmen...

http://news.wabe.org/post/right-bear-arms-against-slave-revo...
No. We don't ship KODI. We do ship ffmpeg as a libretro core, but it's not accelerated.
I'm a researcher on online cognitive behavioral therapy.

I spend a lot of time answering questions from patients through instant messages.

Most questions are similar in nature.

My first thought was, can we make this for humans?
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All 3 are array methods taking a function to call with an element (and its index and the array itself):

forEach element without exception(pun!)

for every element until a false is returned. Alternatively, the method itself returns true, or

until some returns true. Alternatively, the method itself returns false.
Or to phrase it in a slightly different way: followers ignoring their own judgement to root for ideas they think their leaders might like, combined with leaders trusting an overwhelming agreement between their followers more than their own initial opinion. It's a feedback loop than could even pick up random noise and amplify it to the level of ideology, if it wasn't for preexisting cultural seeds that have a headstart over that random noise. It would not even need the often cited climate of fear to work, even though that would certainly "help" a lot (and should therefore certainly be avoided): a uniform wish to get ahead, strictly positive reinforcement, should already be sufficient to make an organization collectively believe funny stuff none of the individuals would ever believe on their own.
"Quaero was announced by Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder during the French-German ministerial conference in April 2005. [...] Quaero was often described as a European competitor to Google [...]

The main source of disagreement was the format of the search engine, with German engineers favoring a text-based search engine and the French engineers favoring a multimedia search engine. Many German engineers also balked at what they thought was becoming too much of an anti-Google project, rather than a project driven by its own ideals."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero

https://www.exalead.com/search/

The project failed to deliver. Though the Exalead web search engine survived and got bought by Dassault Systems (CATIA 3D CAD). Next time they should open source the public funded projects...
I agree with everything you say, apart from the general assumption in #1.

The examples you provide for European laws being too restrictive are correct imo, and there are more examples of laws that were, in my mind, the poor execution of a good idea (take the EU privacy directive that forces the opt-in for cookie tracking. This has in its execution by Google etc. generally become more of an annoyance than a privacy feature).

However, I think the decisions the European Court of Justice makes on these issues could be a chance for Europe. The 'right to be forgotten' and the recent safe harbor decision show--in my opinion--that the ECJ wants to establish a more privacy-focused jurisdiction in Europe. That could be a chance for, say a Google competitor that does not track you through AdWords but, instead, relies on a monthly subscription model (this might not be a very good idea, but you get my point). And when Angela Merkel says that 'too much privacy is bad for business', I disagree, because Europe cannot come to the table one decade late and copy what worked in the Bay Area.

If Europe establishes a reputation for a different sort of service that relies on strong encryption, user privacy and the absence of ad-support but rather subscription, I think the European startup world could thrive in serving a market that is currently emerging rather than one that has been there for the better part of a decade.
There is a libretro version of the DOSBox emulator. If that's what you want. It's not yet in the default installation but can be added using the core updater.
Funny pic sharing vs. funny digital yearbook.

Irc-galleria was many million euro behemoth in the context of Finland. Facebook at the time could not spend even 10k to tackle irc-galleria.

Tackling many billion-euro incumbent is probably harder than tackling many million-euro incumbent. But it's probably like twice as hard, not 1000 times harder. And it has happened in less favorable situations before. Look up Toyota.
I agree with all of the above but I think you missed another important aspect about money.

Engineers in SV are paid bucket loads of money.

They can afford to take one year of to travel the world or just work on their own projects.

For me that is key.

How many people do you know in Europe that can do that?

Another thing is in Europe the biggest tech hub is in London. And if you're in London you have to wonder

Why am I dealing with this crappy weather when I can move to somewhere where I'm paid 2-3x more and it's summer all year?

I know someone who falls along these exact lines and has moved to SV. Although he was already working remotely to a US company.
You forget politics. Especially in Germany the hacker scene is very political and fairly well connected. If you're product is essentially spying on people and selling the results (Google, Facebook, ...), you limit the pool of employees, especially good employees, willing to work for you substantially.
Huh. How can gold, silver and emeralds taken from South America, be “national cultural patrimony” of Spain? Aren't they a treasure of the South American natives they were taken from?
Sure, we can go philosophical and say that when I'm ordering a taxi I'm programming - although my input is a simple time-coordinate pair.

Since we are using natural language as real human beings our communication is context sensitive and this instance the context was the role of a paid position in a programming role. Don't go too philosophical without setting up the context, preferably with examples. And then think if you are actually saying something non-obvious.
> Killing unarmed people with a firearm should be emasculating

I'm sure that a lot of soldiers and drone operators feel more masculine after the kill.
> This would be terrible in production...

Yeah it could be. Frankly, I'd likely reach for Erlang Releases before I reached for this when updating software in production.

However, for a large variety of dev work, this automatic module reloading thingie works pretty well. :)

> You could pretty easily use code:soft_purge/1 prior to loading to avoid killing lingering processes though...

Mmm. Okay. So, I'm not 100% on how this works, so please bear with me and my inaccurate terminology. :(

In any given Erlang system, there can be two versions of a module running, the "current" one, and the "old" one, right?

So, if you call code:soft_purge/1 when there is no "old" code loaded, it should return true, yes? (In addition to returning true when there's no process running the "old" code.) [0]

So, would this be a way to write an auto-loader that doesn't purge in-use code?

* code:soft_purge(?MODULE)

* if false, wait a while then retry

* if true, code:load_file(?MODULE)

I guess maybe you'd want to build up a list of all the modules that have been modified, and wait until code:soft_purge/1 returns true for all of them before loading the modules. (maybe.)

You also -obviously- want an override that allows for the purging of in-use code.

[0] Testing indicates that it does, but it's often good to double-check. :)
They also seem way smaller than Mozilla. You're essentially saying, Firefox can't keep up with Chrome lets hack its limbs and see whether that will work.
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Reproducible builds can have some unexpected benefits. For example, a package build machine could track compiled files that have changed since it compiled an older version of the software, and store them at the start of the archive when zipping the installable files into package. Then when the user’s package manager updates to the newer package, it only has to download enough of it to extract all the files that have changed between versions, thus saving time and bandwidth. Software that builds reproducibly will have fewer gratuitous changes (dates, etc), thus making this process work better.

In fact, OpenBSD’s and PC-BSD’s package managers do this. It’s briefly touched on in the last slide of this talk: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2015-packages.pdf
I for one welcome our new programmer overlords. Kneel before the quadrocopter swarm of doom!

But really. Menial? Like teachers, doctors and kindergarten workers?

Societys true value is in something else than the value in the bank account.
Google being in Ireland, for example, has likely had a big impact in terms of the local employment/economy but maybe not much else?
I made my own virtual pet game for Apple Watch (where I think they belong, in modern times), a few months ago.

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What's the betting that if Microsoft had originated in Europe, it would have been stopped in its tracks? For all its monopoly (draining somewhat now as the world moves on) it's created trillions of dollars of wealth across the world.
did you read the article?

It says nothing about Spain asking anything.
I tried to cover this line of reasoning a bit in an other post in this thread.

No deep analysis from me, but very briefly looking at ROI of Google's shareholders one can see it flows to investors worldwide, not the US in particular.

Taxes then... very minimal, and are mostly redirected through a Dutch-Irish tax scheme anyway, EU probably profits more than the US.

Employment, 50k or so, that's significant for sure. But 40% is outside the US, and compare it say to Walmart which employs literally a couple million, and you'll find tech companies in general don't make large dents in employment figures.

As for actual services, there's barely any difference. A European benefits virtually the same from Google's products and services, albeit sometimes say the launch of the latest Nexus happens two weeks later in small European countries like the Netherlands.

Mostly I'd say the benefits are related to generating and disseminating your own culture, more political/legal influence in worldwide companies, drawing talent to your country etc. These benefits are significant, but I don't think Europe has anything to be alarmed about. Tech here is great, lots of solid companies with billion dollar valuations, solid infrastructure, but fewer unicorns. And that's no surprise with the EU being, deep down, a fragmented market where the biggest first-language market is German which stands at 18% of the EU population. It's not easy to roll out companies that grow to hundreds of millions of people in Europe, if the biggest language that people speak as a first language is only spoken by 18% of the union. European talent with great ideas that aim very large tend to go English first, and then move to the US at the earliest signs of solid traction. Everyone else stays, and that's how you get lots of solid companies like Supercell with a few billion dollars valuation that are relatively small compared to a Facebook. That's not a bad thing.
Is the cloud really the safest place for you to store your critical databases?
Does anyone know of any examples of a "solid state" lidar as mentioned in the article? Im unable to visualise how such a thing would actually work, and its got me excited!
> Why are people looking for a second Google in Europe?

Because they are in Europe, not China. It's a British article.
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Biggest Internet companies are in advertising or catalog merchant business that started in late 90's or early 2000's. American Internet startups in these areas had immediate access to markets of 300 million people.

Homegrown American, Chinese or Japanese Internet company can have hundreds of millions in revenue before it even starts to think about localization and adjusting to other countries, cultures, languages, payment system and advertising biz.

Network effect rules in the Internet business and US based business had huge upper leg in this regard in early 2000s.
Is not Spain. It is from Colombia.

Are you from North America? Canada or US? Because following the same rules you state the land in which you live is not yours, but from the native Indians you exterminated before.

Or in a more recent example, ISIS would be the rightfully owners of the modern day gold, oil, that is under their territory the US wants to steal from them.
This isn't the public. This is military-funded research at Rutgers. The military generally doesn't have a reason to fund things it has (although DARPA might just not know about classified technologies developed by different branches). But in most cases, the military funds things in academia, a fraction of which become militarized later.
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ISTR that, you can reload core Erlang modules, but that there's some sticky_directory stuff that prevents it from happening by default.

I'm pretty sure that I can reload the inet module: [0]

Eshell V7.0 (abort with ^G)
1> l(inet).
{error,sticky_directory}

=ERROR REPORT==== 6-Dec-2015::03:37:00 ===
Can't load module 'inet' that resides in sticky dir
2> code:which(inet).
"/usr/lib/erlang/lib/kernel-4.0/ebin/inet.beam"
3> code:unstick_dir("/usr/lib/erlang/lib/kernel-4.0/ebin/").
ok
4> l(inet).
{module,inet}
5>

Not that this is a good idea, mind, but I'm fairly certain that it's doable. :)

(Also note that you can reload the mnesia module without hassle. Its ebin directory is not marked as sticky. :) )

> I have to use DNS for load balancing [because the load balancers fall over often].

Oh lord. That's a terrible situation to be in.

[0] Which is part of the kernel application, which is one of the applications that hot upgrades require that you restart the emulator to upgrade. [1]

[1] http://www.erlang.org/doc/system_principles/upgrade.html