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Not that I disagree with the essential point, but at least the Servlet specification is an example of the process failing. The Servlet spec is a wreck full of awful cruft. The REST tooling (JAX-RS) pretty much pretends that the Servlet spec doesn't exist.
When the company has no liquid asset or property, the bank will use your personal assets (e.g. your house) as a security. These loans has to be continued at the year end or be paid back within a year (over-year loans have different regulations). This is what happened to me. After two years the bank didn't continue the loan because we couldn't show up 10% profit increase or 10 times of the loan in revenue, so I had 8 days to a) pay it back b) find an other bank to finance, but because the loan was in my books, and my personal assets were also the securities, it was very-very difficult to solve this situation.
Solazynme is not a biofuel company. They produce tailored oils, cosmetics and food.

Guess who manufactures the oil in Soylent that makes it possible to have 12 months of unrefridgerated shelf life?

Yes, they do provide fuel to UPS but it's just a sidenote.
Far fewer photos than expected, but a nice article nevertheless
""We suck at dealing with abuse," Costolo told staffers in an internal memo. "We lose core user after core user by not addressing simple trolling issues... I'm frankly ashamed of how poorly we've dealt with this."

Hard problem to solve. Not sure what the solution is, the source appears to be, 'the weak men of the Internet'.
Postmortem: Server compromised due to publicly accessible Redis
“Why wasn't this page found? We asked some leading economists.” [FT's 404 page]
I found this page simultaneously entertaining and educational. My personal favorite:

SPECULATIVE BUBBLE: The page never actually existed and was fundamentally impossible, but everyone bought into it in a frenzy and it's all now ending in tears.

Also,

MORAL HAZARD: Showing you this page would only encourage you to want more pages.
What about the opposite direction: create builds from the same source that use different memory layouts to make the life of attackers harder? I think diversity could create resilience, too. Obviously it makes verification harder.
I've had the same experience, TM backups were suddenly broken several times.
Related previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10537852
I've been reading Asimov's short stories recently, and not only are they brilliantly imaginative, they also have unusually vivid characters.

They're not as developed as they would be in a novel, but they're certainly not emotionally flat. In fact they're colourful but economical - just a few choice phrases and snatches of dialogue paint enough of a picture to bring them to life, complete with complex, sometimes hidden or unexpected motivations, and inner conflicts.

They may be of their time, but they're certainly not cardboard.
Because every cut of steak is different. Some grill well, some go under the broiler well, some fry well, some braise well.

And the way commercial butchers carve steaks nowadays, they cut off too much fat. Its annoying.
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I prefer it over using olive oil, but only for steaks, and I use pure coconut oil instead of refined, so I get a stronger coconut oil taste from it.

For some reason, I find it makes beef taste better. Not sure why, I'm usually a purist when it comes to that sort of thing.
European Unicorns: Do they have legs? [pdf]
and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html.
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> How many American startups are a result of a pissed off employee working at a successful company going off and creating the same thing his or her employer did but better?

Some numbers might make your point more convincing.
“The combined value of the top three internet companies in the Americas – so, basically, in America – is around $0.75tn (£0.5tn). In Asia, it’s around $0.5tn. In Africa, it’s $50bn. And in Europe, it’s just $25bn.”

In Europe, we have wealth redistribution. A few companies with so much concentrated financial power is not healthy.
Ask HN: Searching old post: make startup prototype in 9K$. Anyone bookmarked it?
Few days back someone had posted that they will make startup protoype for 9k USD. I am searching that post. Can anyone help me in finding that?
This Death by Coconut reminds me some mice from my colleague Jun.

These mice had a mutation in one gene but they were doing fine.

One Friday Jun gave them a chow diet from another supplier. The following Monday all mutant mice were died, control mice were OK.

TLDR, the new diet contained coconut oil instead of lard. After more study, this serendipitous observation led to discover a gene important for the break down of vegetal fat.

The study: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2013.08.032
Where a website is hosted has very little to do with what you can and can not report to the FBI and whether or not they decide to turn something into a criminal investigation would require that there is a crime first.

Posting dumb comments in a forum is not a crime (and it probably should not be or youtube.com will be out of an audience).
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Pedantry?

Japan's intrusions and occupations of Korea and China lasted decades before 'it kicked off in late 1939'.
I wonder if they will sell seats on these flights for people wanting to watch a launch? Can't see Branson wanting to miss any opportunity to turn a few quid..

(Yes, I'm aware of the safety implications of the method of launch!)
The authors want to introduce pure binary logical reasoning into social science. Therefore, from a logical point of view, if a statement or belief about a group is accurate, the it must old for all members of the group. Following their pseudo logical reasoning, it follows that a single counter example imply that the belief is not true, and thus inaccurate. Which invalidate any further statistical analysis.
The US would do a lot better with mixed-member proportional representation: It would solve gerrymandering outright; money in politics would be less than an issue, because money would have to be spent everywhere and not just on swing states/districts; and soon there would be more than two parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_repr...
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they are hating our freedom

Uh huh. Sure they are. It's nothing to do with the last several decades' worth of foreign policy.

(I did wonder if that was perhaps ironic or sarcastic, but in the end I decided it wasn't - I could well be wrong, though)
BuildZoom is hiring a head of marketing
Isn't this just how employment works? If you build something and it turns out to have been a total waste of time and energy, you get paid all the same. If you build something and it turns out to save the company $600k a year, you also get paid, but the surplus value goes to the company in exchange for substantially reducing your financial risk. You can't have it both ways: if you want to capture more of the value, you need to share in more of the risk.
It doesn't seem to be so common among marketing people, lawyers, or politicians - all of whom, in increasing order of severity, might benefit from more if it.
Agreed that the presentation does not help but it is an interesting train of thought and by far the most interesting part of this particular thread on HN. Indeed the output has value, the skill by itself is of no value. Just like painting has value and writing have value. There are lots of terrible paintings, terrible programs and terrible books. Those have no value, and then there are some really good paintings, great programs, great books. Those do have value. And the skill that allowed the bad stuff to be created is the same skill that allowed the good stuff to be created. So the skill per-se is not the differentiating factor, the quality of the application of that skill is what allows one to create valuable work and being the intermediary between someones ideas and valuable work is why programmers, writers and painters can make a living.

It's the whole basis of IP law and all the associated bits-and-pieces that allow all of us to make a living. Intellectual property has a shadow side, but this side is the one that keeps the IT world afloat.

The same laws that govern file sharing allow writers, programmers and other people skilled in some art to create enough value that they can make a living, sometimes even a very comfortable one and those writers and programmers that manage to hold on to the fruits of their labor long enough can do very well for themselves indeed.

> What would happen if you exercised clarity? Bad things?

Unlikely, but not everybody is equally capable of expressing their thoughts clearly. I should know, I've struggled with this for many years and only in the last 5 or so I've gotten better at that. HN has definitely been a tremendous aid in learning how to express myself more clearly to avoid being mis-understood.
Personally (as someone from Europe), I'd say the general reasons we don't have an equivalent tp Google or Silicon Valley or any of that sort of thing are more that:

1. European laws are too restrictive. It's especially notable with stuff like the hilariously stupid online tax laws the area has (having to apply different tax rates based on the location of the user rather than the business makes it hugely more complex than it has to be) or the right to be forgotten, but it just feels we're too restrictive here in general.

2. Culture. People in the US seem more ambitious and more willing to risk everyone for the small chance of becoming a millionaire/billionaire at the end of it. 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. Probably because failure in the US is seen as a minor bump in the road, whereas failure in Europe is seen as the worst possible thing imaginable.

3. Money. Not just in the form of venture capital (though that's a huge reason), but also because US startups tend to pay their employees more, whereas their European equivalents stick to the average local wages. 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.

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.

Oh, and fix the issues certain areas have with internet connection speeds. The fact that a lot of areas in large cities like London can't get fibre internet and the likes is not helping our tech businesses compete with their US counterparts.
Easily googable and not news

Intel started like this.

See the companies founded by ex-Googlers
BCloud
Hello.
We have almost completed development of the project for the unification of the clouds in the same application.
Yes, you say, that such apps already exist, but you will be wrong :)
Unlike all competitors, we do collect everything in one place. All photos from all clouds are in the category of photos, music in music category, etc.
You say that this is cloudGOO, but cloudGOO gives only 3 clouds in the free version, and we give 7. cloudGoo allows you to get up to 42 GB, and we allow you to get minimum 100 GB. We allow you to create additional categories, our app is translated into 25 languages, allows you to find and remove any duplicates, we give detail statistics about everything concerning clouds and files in them and provide easy search of all the files in the clouds, auto uploading all types of files and work without an Internet connection. We allow you to manage settings of all categories, and all the clouds, to decide which category to link with clouds, and much more.
We made really easy to use and beautiful app that collects all in one place and gives 100 GB of cloud space for free :).
This is mobile solution, so please do not compare us with otixo, which deals only with file transfer, with Jolicloud, which does not collect everything in one place, and you still have to switch between clouds, as in odrive.
Although, half a year more and our decision will be released on PC and MAC, and believe me, there we will offer features that will surprise everyone :)
We do not have a sponsor, and there is no money involved. We all pull ourselves so could yet develop only android solution. You know that there are more than 5,000 kinds of Android devices and we can not physically test our app on all of them, we ask all concerned and curious to take part in beta testing.
Please, send your gmail to bcloud@bnesis.com, so that we could send you an invitation next week for beta testing.
"de facto platform, it’s hard to control and even harder to dislodge"

There is a Finnish service called irc-galleria.net. It's a service that was created to let irc users to share pictures of themselves to other irc users. It got really big in Finland. They even had big screen in center of Helsinki to show new pictures uploaded to the service. They had this paid feature which let you keep a list of friends in there. Everybody talked about irc-galleria stalking.

Then Facebook came. The major difference was that facebook let you make friends for free. Year later nobody remembers irc-galleria.

Dislodging a platform is easier than ever. It's enough to make better or cheaper product, then just get lucky. Previously you had to also take distribution and marketing into account and then get lucky.
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Europe has plenty of big companies - Total, Volkswagen, ING, Daimler, Fiat, Siemens, Tesco, BMW, HSBC, Nestle. The problem is that it's very difficult to make new ones. "Mergers aside, the youngest firm in the CAC 40, [France's] main stock index, was founded in 1967."
This thread looks like it has an unusually high amount of flagged/down-voted comments.
Also: Different languages to cater to right from day 1, better job security so less of a drive to be independent, education tends to prepare for a job rather than for running a company or being a founder.
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They installed the cert because they've been told to and because likely "the internet doesn't work" when they don't. But that doesn't imply they know what a root certificate actually does or what the consequences of adding new root certs are.
You can look at it as utilizing the same power that prohibits employers from knowingly maintaining a workplace that contains dangers that are both mitigable and not intrinsic to the work being performed.

Or do you feel that OSHA & co.'s power to -say- require a warehouse operator to ensure that its shelving will hold the loads that are to be placed upon it and won't suddenly collapse and crush warehouse employees is an improper use of the power of coercion?

Edit: Upon further reflection, my last 'graph might sound a little too pointed. I ask the question because I've known many people who object in the strongest terms that everything that OSHA does is unreasonable and an obvious overreach. I have no way of knowing if you hold this opinion (or a similar one), hence the question.
> I'd suggest that in most fields, you don't make significantly more money until you're managing a significant percentage of people, or tasked with making decisions that set the direction the company. Why should programmers be an exception?

One way of looking at programmers is that they are managers of an extremely cheap, fast, scalable, yet stupid, workforce. Once that workforce is put into action it can operate indefinitely. The problem is this workforce is very rigid in what it can do, and it must be told exactly what to do. It also requires a certain amount of maintenance due to security issues and ecosystem rot, but even so, the fundamental nature of this workforce has completely changed the landscape of the global economy by discovery of a new type of worker neither human nor animal.

Looking at it in this light, programmers potentially deserve to be paid on the order of top managers and even entrepreneurs and growth-phase directors. But not all of them, because being a programmer entails getting lost deep in the weeds of the mechanics of managing this invisible workforce. So the people who are capable of doing this are not necessarily the type of people who are good at understanding and articulating the business goals. Furthermore, because of the inscrutability of the work to non-programmers it is very difficult to enforce accountability from the outside, and therefore it is all too easy for programmers to become infatuated with operations that actually yield no value to the greater business.

At the end of the day programmers can drive businesses just as management can, but the tools are different. This is why I believe calling programmers "engineers" is a misnomer—it's not because real engineering is harder, but because programming is much more open-ended; a running program is literally logic incarnate. There is no limit to what can be done with software, but whether that can be harnessed to create a profitable enterprise is another question.
Well, a European Google would still have to abide by the patent minefield that search has become so it has very little chance of getting off the ground without a breakthrough in search engine technology outside of Google or Microsoft. Good luck with that, the head start is tremendous. And the likely outcome of such a thing happening would be an acquisition by... Google or Microsoft.
It doesn't reflect well on you to say that basically all the projects you worked on failed.
I live in The Netherlands and I'm afraid of my own country for different reasons. I'm afraid of our politicians who seem to be almost exclusively EU-minded and don't seem to care much about the safety of their own citizens.

I don't think the Dutch government realises the threat of the massive muslim influx happening in Europe today. With almost no background checks happening, since the Dutch immigration office can't handle the influx.

What European countries need to do is consult and take some cues from Israel, since they've been dealing with muslim terrorism for a long while. And every time I visited Israel I felt save. At the same time I don't think Israel is a police state.

I remember, back when I was young, almost every couple of months, maybe even every month, there was some bomb exploding in Israel, killing people at marketplaces and in buses. Once Israel build the wall and increased border checks, these events happen way less often. The wall did work well to protect the citizens, no matter what some leftist people might want to say. Likewise, I do believe walls will make Europe saver.

Of course now Israel deals with stabbers, but I'm sure they figure out a solution. At the very least, they have armed citizens all over the country, ready to take countermeasures once these things happen. Here in The Netherlands we're mostly sitting ducks.
> I wish that with a court order, we could read the thoughts of a suspect, too... But that's not possible, either.

So you're happy getting rid of the Fifth Amendment then?
> Please note carefully that I'm not comparing poor corporate governance to spousal abuse.

Don't be disingenuous. That's a ridiculous and awful comparison and you know it. You should be ashamed.
The creed of speed: Is the pace of business really getting quicker?
If the public can come up with them surely there are some cool military versions already out there. While it is interesting what was shown in the video it clearly is not designed for two mediums. If anything you would add features like putting the motors on gimbals and feathering of the motors not used. You should not need to tilt the whole thing to change directions underwater, surely a better solution exist
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How would that go for, say, the use of lead paint?

Certain societal decisions need a central consensus point. The already extant coercive power of the state is something we are unfortunately stuck with; we may as well use it for good.
Well, that bit about management is true but sucks.

I saved my previous employer 60k years in running cost on my first three month on the job, and couldn't get a 10% raise out of it. Just promises and nice words. Well guess what? If you pay programmers as blue collars and get them to work as blue collar in a "software factory" paying them blue collar wages, you are in a self fulfilling profecy about their value.
Mind some nitpicks? :)

It's not possible to put a sector back into the piechart by clicking on it again. So once you clicked on any sector, there's no way to go back to the original chart state.

Using up/down arrows to change selection in comboboxes doesn't update the graph.

Tree Chart has no animation on leaf expansion/collapse, so clicking, for example, on Grandma results in the graph transformation that's abrupt and not immediately obvious. There's also no way to tell collapsed nodes from those without children (leafs).

Sankey Diagram could use some fade transitions to make highlighting less jarring.
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I think it's a fairly straightforward cultural difference. Americans take more risks and are more ambitious. This is true of both entrepreneurs and VC, although I'd say VC is the heart of the problem. Money goes into safer investments in Europe.
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There's various research projects out there to, at compiler level, create different output binaries out of same source code to accomplish this task. I'm not really following it I just remember a professor at my undergrad was recruiting people for his lab on it, and I'm pretty sure his project was not only one. https://ssllab.org/trac/wiki/MultiCompilerPublic

edit: see compiler/compile-time randomization? see some other similar projects under these key terms.
They said that in the first couple of pages. I know it's long and wordy, but it gets more practical and down to earth the further into it you go. They have addressed your concern in quite a lot of detail.
People want to know exactly what happened; the cyanide pill would have been enough to kill him so where did the story of the shot in the head come from? And now that it is not sure if it happened then did it happen or did he just take cyanide and was the self inflicted head shot story only added to make him more of a 'man' after the fact (as in; women use poison, men use guns/swords to kill themselves (and others))?
For the downvoters:

Go make friends with someone who works on Safari, then take them out for drinks. You'll understand why I'm saying what I'm saying. :)
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Also submarine launched radio controlled "drones" carrying nukes have been around since 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSM-N-8_Regulus

The only reason why it's called "cruise missile" is because it's self destructing. That's hardly of any tactical importance when talking about nukes.
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Similarly, air sickness rates have become much lower since airplane cabins haven't been filled with cigarette smoke.
Just a question, how many people actually benefit from a Google being in their particular country?
It doesn't reflect well on you to not understand how this works.
Not sure how they are related but Qwant is the new Google rival. It's also partly funded by the French government:

https://www.qwant.com/
Tuples are useful for writing fairly low level features such as marshalling between threads. std::bind is another way, if you need to marshal arguments with a function...but if you don't have a function to call, it's just a tuple.
LOL. How about Australia? The lucky country indeed...
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