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> The US never tried to take over the territory later called Canada, whether to annex it or to remove the British.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Canada_(1775)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#Invasions_of_Upper...
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> Because you don't risk bankruptcy by having a health issue, if you're single it's not a sausage fest, more laid back work (in SF it seems you're bound to stay longer times at the office), greater tourism choices (a short trip away) and probably still cheaper than rent in SF even if we're talking London

We have another reason right in this very answer: People in SV are willing to take more risk and sacrifice. Sure there are chances one may be bankrupted because of a health issue. Sure there are fewer entertainment choices. Living in SV may not be an ideal lifestyle for many but it has attracted a lot of adventurous mind from all over the world, who together conjure up trailblazing ventures.
I've been multiple places where requests to fix what was broken in the production system were shot down repeatedly because there "wasn't money in the budget to fix that system".

Yet if anyone added up the manhours it took to fix the same production issues that repeatedly popped up, it would've clearly been less expensive to fix the recurring bugs.
I really liked the idea of Assembly, and was so eager to work on something on it, but whenever i tried looking for something , it just didn't feel right, the UX was horrible, the way I could contribute to a project was not clear at all, you find something like a wall, where everyone says he will do something or take a step for something , and i could not get started doing that thing and any thing else would be dependent on it, i prefer clicking a Github explore and work on a random project that i like than struggling to just choose what to do, everytime i tried i ended up wasting more than 30 minutes on the website, i would never work on something like that.
I'd be very hesitant to push a system that gave significant bonuses to salary increases based on going out and getting an additional degree. A.) Does the material in the additional education in any way contribute to making you better/more efficient/whatever at your job? B.) The risk of bullshit diploma mills goes up again.

I have family in education, and many districts have incentive programs for teachers to get Master's degrees, so that in addition to the pay bump, they get some or all of the tuition covered. I've known a number of people who've done this, and not one says that it helped them do a better job as a teacher - the programs were big rubber-stampers, and the only real outcome is that they are now not quite so pitifully paid.
Maybe they use a digital micromirror device also used in dlp projectors. By using a fish eye lens you could use the mirror array to look around and calculate the traveling distance of light pulses.

I am also thinking about a 3d camera. Maybe those are getting good enought to measure distance.
> Apple, the first major computer company to make Open Source development a key part of its software strategy

Sounds true assuming Apple thinks of itself as "the only major computer company"
This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10472829

Scarcely "a few" days back, but it seems to match your rather loose criteria.
I like the point made about the hypocracy of Google saying that European companies don't have the right to affect what people in other countries can see in search results, but, at the same time, filter results based on the special interests of US copyright laws.
Sometimes I wonder if you or people writing comments like you ever think of being in the shoes of someone escaping a war, and how idiotic and xenophobic your worries look like (not to mention the lack of minimal understanding of the Israel-Palestinian conflict).

Europe has a pretty good wall called the Mediterranean sea. You make it sound like coming to the Netherlands from Syria is as easy as your summer trips to your favorite sunny destination.

So stop being a total insensible person and at least let governments help people which are in desperate need, and hopefully save some lives, if you don't want anything to do with it. And if you're worrying about your personal security you can well complain about traffic, pollution, suicides and all the other causes of death which are way more likely than terrorist attacks and which also your government could help to prevent.
no matter what some leftist people might want to say

This ridiculous polarised and incorrect caricature of "left" and "right" is not only ridiculous, but also damaging. You don't even live in the US, so you've no excuse. It's the rightists who want lots of foreign immigrants, because it means that businesses have lower costs of employees. No, wait, it's the leftists who cause terrorism because their policy of free-thought and individual liberty creates closed minds. No, wait, it's the rightists, because their belief in the free movement of capital causes... no, wait, leftists are in favour of... goodness me, it's almost as if reducing a complex situation, with roots going back decades, to two caricatures of political thought that only exist in the lazy media is useless.
How many tech company founders met at university? Now, how many studied the exact same things?

Well, a short search returns:

Google: two PhDs studying the same thing.

Apple: Jobs and Woz met when the former was in High School; they never attended the same college.

Yahoo: two EE graduate students.

Microsoft: childhood friends, didn't attend the same college.

Oracle: didn't attend the same college, met when working for the same company.

Red Hat: didn't attend the same college.

Salesforce: met while working at Oracle.

At least for the software behemoths, it seems it's not that important to have mixed colleges.
They often have different personalities.

Also:
Marketing has a measurable outcome.

Lawyers work like slaves (very well paid ones) and have a measurable outcome.

Politicians do a lot of marketing / fundraising.

Programmers don't always measurably see the value of the things they create. Especially on a large team. This obviously depends on the product.
> education tends to prepare for a job rather than for running a company or being a founder.

This is an interesting point. Can you elaborate?
Reducing London to "all this crappy weather" is just nuts. It's one of the greatest cities in the world. A lot of people are motivated to live in London for reasons other than the weather!
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Microsoft held back computing for a decade or more. So many companies didn't start because they were afraid of being crushed by MSFT. Such a lack of diversity and experimentation. So many security problems.
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Have you tried using ALL CAPS?
The Chinese government believes it's important to have a company that follows their rules. It doesn't necessarily follow that the people benefit from it.
>The smaller countries are mostly used to everything being in English (Slovenia, Finland), so they don't care.

I live in Finland and I can tell you that you don't have full access to mass markets unless you handle the language, deliveries and local payment methods as well.

Case: https://www.varusteleka.fi/en It's very successful Finnish army/outdoors store that sells mostly trough net (probably biggest in the Europe). They have build loyal international customer base outside Finland mainly because they have a great customer service and they're very honest about the products it sells. No marketing bullshit, if they sell inferior products, they tell that the product sucks balls and sell it very cheap.

They have been gradually expanding their operations from Finland to Sweden, Estonia, Russia and other countries. Similar company started in Minnesota (same size as Finland) would be several times bigger by now.
When you only have a master and backup drive, in the case of failure, you put yourself in a critically dangerous position.

Restoring from backup isn't just stressful for the human, it's also stressful for the hardware.

When you have a single failure, it's nice to at least have TWO independent backups in case during the restore there is a second failure (either due to hardware or operator).
One of the big issues in Europe is almost non-existent local M&A (and to lesser extent single pan-European shared IPO) market. As long as that is purely focused on US e.g. the exits at all stages (from tiny few million acquihires to hundreds of millions acquisitions) are mostly based in America, a healthy tech market will not emerge in Europe.
.. unless they also wanted to do business in the US.
I was wondering about that when I read that post ;)
Why does Wikipedia ask for donations even though it has over $60M?
Deleting the old backup is no longer the first step AFAIK. Yes, I have seen that behaviour in the past. Now, it gets renamed and then deleted once the next backup is completed successfully.
This is cool but the autonomy problem remains. Most (aerial) drones can't fly more than 15 minutes. I am curious about the power used underwater to move it.
Thank you for the feedback! Actually, the whole point of the library is to generate shape information based on data, and the actual rendering is left to the user. So the demo is left as an example, and I don't want to add too many features, because it would make the example more complex to follow
We probably would know more about the Aztecs and Maya cultures
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> Time to stop asking questions.

Absolutely not. Vigilance often keeps allies who might turn on you from turning on you, and -when it fails to do that- it alerts you to their treachery. This is why I asked for evidence of Google's treachery, rather than dismissing the possibility.

In any significant conflict it is very wise to have an idea of who your stalwart allies are, and who you are able to currently rely on.

Any ally can turn on you at any time. That's human nature. However, the man who allows himself no allies is far weaker and far more susceptible to attack than the man who has some.

Like any ally, Google may one day turn on us. For the past several decades, examination of the reports from people working in a variety of positions inside the organization leads us to understand that -despite the fact that Google is a huge advertising company- it realizes that insecure computers and computer systems hurt them at least as much as they hurt everyone else. Those reports also lead us to understand that Google works really hard to ensure that the software that it relies on and the software that it produces is as secure as it can be reasonably made, given the resources Google has available.

If this confuses you, think of it this way: Google makes money by keeping the data that it collects on you (and the analysis of that data) secure and out of the hands of everyone outside of Google. Because they use commodity hardware and software in the regular course of their business, they find themselves testing and fixing issues in software and -sometimes- hardware that we all use.

Because there is no competitive advantage for them to withhold those fixes (indeed, doing so makes everyone safer and keeps them using their computers, which keeps delicious data flowing into Google's robots), Google publishes these fixes on a regular basis.

I look forward to your cogent reply.
I think you did a very good job at dissecting this attack.
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Subs are not really weight limited, so you could have a 20+ mile long cable attached to a buoy giving 2 way communication. Which creates ~1200+ square mile search area assuming you can't just follow the cable.
I think the language issues are overplayed; translating the software is not expensive, and it's usually not very difficult to hire someone who can read and write in English, German and/or French.

We are a <10 person startup, and yet we have customers that speak Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.
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I think universal end-to-end encryption is an all-or-nothing proposition. You can't sell it by saying, "It's secure, except when it isn't." It's also a slippery slope to establish a key escrow for the government; will it be a crime to encrypt using a key that isn't in escrow?

Encryption can facilitate evil, but it also protects against evil. Universal adoption is hampered by obstacles including:

1. It's hard to do.

2. It's hard to understand, even if the tools become more user-friendly.

3. Most people will share a private key with a stranger when asked.

The right way to handle this is to encourage people to use strong encryption and acknowledge that it can be safe from eavesdropping, but still subject to weaknesses or participants revealing the information in other ways.
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A friend's son wants to get into electronics, he is 9, brilliant and loves to learn new stuff by himself. What would you recommend as a Christmas gift for him? An Arduino board and a good book on what to do with it? Maybe something else?
I doubt that, legally, a shipwreck of colonial times in Colombian waters is owned by Spain.

And I would like to think that most of the Spaniards agree with that.
Maybe, but that unfairly biases towards writing types of code that scales when that isn't always the case. Lots of work doesn't scale in the same manner and still needs to get done. Plus the company owns those workers you made now.

Of course, the company itself captures most of the created value from this process, so if we're sticking with capitalism I'm fine with making extra money.
I think the Incas were closer. It could have become a clashing point between both empires.
We'll know when having a secret is a criminal offense.
Japanese design trends roughly follow the same timeline as Western ones. "Modern" brands eg Toyota will use katakana or a "gothic" kanji typeface, similar to a sans serif.
Yeah, the graph chart is buggy, and advertised as such. I have been wanting to improve that for a while, but I did not find the time yet...:-(
The first paragraph says he made a mistake when uninstalling Redis, he didn't have it running on purpouse.

Everyone is fallible, things tend to go wrong. Insecure defaults in software hurt even expert devs (which this guy is if you look at his blog).

If your software is "designed to be totally insecure if exposed to the outside world" you should not ship it with defaults exposing it to the outside world. IOW you should not design software to be totally insecure by default.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090542 : 108 days ago, 233 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553008 : 23 days ago, 280 comments

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093134

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10682359

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10685049

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10683527

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10511242

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9730541

I'm sure there are more.

Edited to correct incorrect URLs initially posted.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10685076
Gender distribution is not particularly different in the European tech scene than in the US one. Quite a lot of companies (both in the startup and agency world) have no female employees.

Hours I'd assume wouldn't be so different in a real startup, since that sort of business kind of depends upon its employees not really doing anything else in the day.

And rent is definitely not cheaper, not if you want to live anywhere decent.

Still, you're right in terms of tourism choices, and it's a lot easier and more enjoyable to explore London on foot.
The good book is key. And a tutor, and/or regular visit to a makerspace, to get him started.
Another story on the topic from the unusually engaging authors at DamnInteresting.com.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-t...
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They indicate that they expect a better quality of worker.
"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)"

That's because Google rather have these annoying notices than make it easy to disable tracking. The EU did the right thing in leaving it up to the industry how to solve these problems, it's just that the industry doesn't want to.
I'm curious - why is the LISTEN option only useful in development?
I don't think you have to be academic to be successful in open source. One example of non-university developed financially successful open source would be MySQL. I'm sure there are others from other parts of Europe that I'm not familiar with.
"DuckDuckGo has recorded a 600% rise in traffic enjoyed in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations two years ago."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/17/duckduckgo...
Regarding the shipping price differential.. That shipping might be cheap, but the 20% VAT and the higher cost of taxes and social charges quickly destroy that competitive advantage. So that 5€ shipping really costs much much more than NA when the much higher costs of doing business are factored in.
Leave. Life's too short.
WW II was probably the last big colonial war - where the objective of the warring parties/world powers was to gain or defend direct control over territories and natural resources. I find it is such a pity that the world did not figure out a couple of decades earlier that it is cheaper to buy raw materials rather than to kill dozens of millions in a war over those damned resources; so many lives would have been saved;

What have the Americans ever done for us? Post WWII American leadership brought us decolonization; i think that this was a really significant change; one of the biggest changes of the twentieth century...
Given that its original purpose was to discourage the authorities from torturing or jailing you in order to compel you to give evidence against yourself, one could argue that the Fifth would need new justification in a future where thoughts were easily read.
When my daughter was younger, we bought her a "Snap Circuits Jr electronic Set". It's easy to connect and has a few projects. She liked it a lot.

Later we bought her a "Arduinos Sparkfun Professional Inventor's Kit", but she didn't play with it too much. (This is more expensive (x2 or x3) that buying each part separately but it's a nice starting kit and has many initial projects. (Buy more LEDs in the local store, they are cheap and nice.))

For more ideas, I remember a very interesting page: The Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show! : http://sylviashow.com/
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It's not Enterprise Ready until it is SillyCapsed.
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> "Without research, I don't think it's any more reasonable to say "stereotypes are mainly accurate because they're self-fulfilling prophecies" than to say "stereotypes are mainly accurate because groups of people are naturally different."."

First of all, calm down, I'm not here to argue with you.

I made a statement about what I believe. I assumed that using the word 'believe' would make it clear that I was stating a personal opinion, it seems that wasn't clear enough.

An important difference between my personal opinion and the science in the linked article is that I never attempted to pass off my opinion as scientifically proven. If the linked article had merely stated some compelling evidence to consider, then I wouldn't have bothered replying. My argument against it is that it makes large claims based on very limited evidence. Perhaps that's the best evidence we have so far, but I certainly wouldn't say it's in any way strong enough for the conclusions being pointed to.

As for my own beliefs, I don't think they're controversial, nor am I attempting to hide anything. I believe that stereotypes can (note: not in all cases) be true because they become a self-fulfilling prophecy. How so? By setting expectations on accepted behavior.

Consider the following: It is a common stereotype that men are more prone to have stronger sexual urges, and this is used to excuse many different behaviours. Sexual objectification of women is one such behaviour, we see this as normal because of the stereotype that men are overwhelmed by such stimulus, and so cannot be held as responsible for such behaviour. The more common the stereotype becomes, the more people use the stereotype to set expectations, which influences what becomes normal for the group in question, regardless of whether it was originally true or not.
but it runs and binds to 127.0.0.1 by default, what better default is there for this?
That's what the governments want. They want you to cower in fear from the terrorists so that they can pass any draconian law they want and the people will thank them for it. The people who aren't fearing the terrorists then fear the government because they see what the government is doing.

As you point out France is looking to change its constitution. Belgium is looking to do the same and there is even talk of passing some sort of Patriot Act style law.
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I fully agree. Bad choice of words on my part.
The fist two threads you linked had no comments, perhaps you copied the wrong URL.

(In this case, I'd avoid to link to the others threads unless one of them have a very interesting comment that deserves to be rescued from an obscure thread. This is more frequent in technical threads, were the comments may add a lot of information. Basic Income is too close to politics and usually the threads are full of unsupported opinions.)
This is quite interesting from an entrepreneur point of view, people could try lots of different startup, company ideas but still have at least a basic income.
Install things through the package manager when possible. This makes it easier to uninstall the software cleanly.

Of course one uses the system package manager when possible, and a specialized package manager like npm in most other cases, but not all is lost when one needs a recent version of some autotools monstrosity. In that case just install it using GNU stow. Then uninstalling is just an invocation of "stow -D" (plus deleting a single directory).

But that only makes sense for a box one physically possesses. Why on earth would one reuse a VPS? Nevertheless, I'm glad that TFA did, because the investigation was very interesting.
Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before European arrival
These are useful techniques but they kind of miss the point. They all concentrate on the question of how to do something, but completely ignore the (much more interesing in my opinion) question of what to do. Besides raw intellectual ability good answer to this question requires creativity and also philosophical and ethical skills (that includes the ability to make tough decisions). Much harder.

Worth remembering who the mentats were in the Dune universe - servants of those in power.
According to http://www.antirez.com/news/96 it binds to 0.0.0.0 by default, though in latest versions there is an example config file provided for binding to 127.0.0.1
Why the fuck are we patenting things that are effectively art (games) or design ideas?