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Finding the target audience is a problem in itself. If it is in a professional industry, maybe finding a forum or using a paid linkedin account to reach out to people might help.
Maybe it is a dumb question but does fusion really matter that much? I mean that nuclear reactors are ridiculously expensive to build and maintain and fusion only removes the cost of fuel acquiring and disposal. It might be 20%, 30% or even 40% cheaper but still not a revolution, no "Free energy for everyone". Are people over-hyped?
I feel that people to use free speech as a shield want to be able to scream at a random stranger whatever is on their mind without that stranger telling them to f* off. Maybe they don't exactly see it that way, but it seems to be the result. It's like forcing everyone to watch Steven Universe (frankly I don't see the point of that show or Adventure Time, go figure). Anyone worth their salt would see this as a violation of their liberties. Yet, when we look at universities or similar institutions like Twitter some people decide that they must be unfettered platforms for all speech even if it's clearly criminal. I don't see how people make a special case in this situation. Maybe I'm dense, but I just see an institution as a person at least in the legal sense and having all the authority to protect their reputation.
Thousands of pages of documentation must be how Hell feels like for engineers ;)

I'd start by reducing it. Either generalize or make it less ambitious (whatever fits better your idea).
All of the replies are missing the main point here, which is:

We are not even at the prototype stage. This is still the design stage, and of only a single design to boot. Do not expect 110 m/s to be the maximum speed limit of this technology. We're just barely getting started.

The potential to go much, much faster is still there.
I wonder whether they'll consider bringing it back to smartphones, if/when Servo starts to make inroads into the Firefox for Android codebase. FirefoxOS seemed way too late for any early mover advantage, and too early to present web apps as a credible replacement for native apps (they can replace relatively simple apps but not much further at the moment).

In some ways, it would have been better if Mozilla had just kept it chugging along as a proof of concept, which you could install voluntarily on rooted phones, and use it as a basis for developing the API's, and the parallel layout engine, which along with a few years of development in client-side javascript should improve the reach of web apps. It was in some ways too late, and in some ways too early for the grand launch.
Come to Europe, lots of models to choose from.
New Git client built on Electron
I don't know about good questions, but here's one that I ask.

"I have been through a few acquisitions, and all of them ended badly for me. Can you tell me a bit about the ownership structure of your company and their exit strategy?"

You have to watch their facial expression as you ask it, as they will almost certainly tell you that the current owners have no plans to sell that they are aware of. (Your interviewers probably won't include any owner required for a majority bloc.) But they also might tell you some names, and you can check for yourself after the interview what generally happens to their peon-level employees.
Apple has been declining since about 2011 not only in software quality, but also in hardware quality, in innovating hardware, and in innovating software.

When I got my first Mac, it had Mac OS X Tiger on it, and everything about it really felt like it had the user in mind. These days everything about using it feels like it has shareholders in mind. The features being added seem like the kind of things you'd have executives brainstorming up in a committee, and then demanding that engineers implement.

It's a shame. It no longer does The Right Thing™ by default, and there are more hardware and software bugs than I can ever remember in an Apple product. I've listed them before but here's a short list again:

- This mid-2013 Mac Pro wakes up every few hours at night, even though I have disabled every "wake from sleep" setting that exists in OS X

- My mid-2013 MBP has, several times this week, turned on while closed, and continued as if it was opened (playing YouTube videos or whatever else it be doing), only shutting back off after about 120 seconds or so

- Every time I turn this Mac Pro on, it doesn't recognize the wired Apple keyboard that's plugged into the Apple Cinema Display, and says it's looking for a bluetooth keyboard, until I unplug and replug the keyboard in at least 3 or 4 times

- My MBP once emitted a (very) loud buzzing sound from its speakers, for absolutely no reason, that lasted about 3 or 4 seconds, startling everyone nearby, when no sound-based programs were running

- Yesterday I tried syncing my iPhone to remove about 200 songs, and iTunes said it would remove them, and then "did" remove them, but they were still there on the device, and iTunes once again showed them being present; it took a full iPhone reset to clear them off.
It is interesting... I guess FDNY for east coasters and LA County/City for the west coasters are like the Google/Apple of the fire service world. You guys have a unique set of problems; scale, frequency of high risk operations, etc. Even if those problems don't apply to smaller departments, they (we) emulate your tactics/strategy and constantly compare what we are doing to FDNY/LACO Fire. It's not always applicable, but one can rest assured that the strategy or tactic will get us "in the ball park" or serve as a good starting point.

The really interesting thing happening in the fire service is the NIST research, IMO. We have built some fire props based on the research and have changed our strategy significantly. Also, due to the thermodynamic studies NIST has provided we have changed the entire conversation regarding fire behaviour in west coast areas. Personally, I am always trying to find something relevant to hack on that would provide some value to the fire service...
What I’d Do Differently If I Were Starting My Business Over
A trip down to any consumer store here in Germany?
>'Follow your dreams'...'Do what you love and the money will follow'...'Nothing ventured, nothing gained' these are phrases that all sound great from the other side of success, but when you have a normal life with a family and a mortgage, the decision to pursue your opportunities is not as cut and dried.

I agree with your point but I don't think that "taking entrepreneurial risks" is the emphasis of the author.

Instead, her theme seems to be more similar to these soundbites:

- he talks a big game but doesn't follow through with anything

- he has grandiose ideas but doesn't take any action

- he's stuck on "analysis paralysis"

Those ideas can be applied to other goals besides business execution. Goals like programming an ambitious open-source Facebook clone, learning ten foreign languages, climbing Mt Everest, etc.
So what I did was bought a beefier android phone (not that beefy, just a Nexus 5), and flashed FirefoxOS on it :)

The default phones that FFOS comes with are pretty weak (except for the flame which wasn't that bad), but they have some pretty decent support for flashing popular phones.

I don't blame you if you don't do that, obviously -- android is definitely easier to use and update, and better supported than FirefoxOS. It's obviously completely OK to dislike FirefoxOS because of this, and choose to go with the more stable/simple option. Free up those brain cycles for something else.
http://virnetx.com/virnetxs-gabriel-collaboration-suite-now-...

Not sure if they're actually out there, but at least their website lists one product.
> that made the impression Germany is so advanced that we even have a physicist as Chancellor, while Merkel in fact is a member of a christian party.

Christians can't be physicists? Someone tell Newton, Leibniz, Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin...
is it my or does 625 million seem a tad excessive for a feature of the phone that isn't totally central and probably is used by maybe 20% of phone users?

Apple has sold maybe 800million iOS devices. Say 400 million that support FaceTime. $1.50 per device. wow.

Or 625,000,000/ 14 employees.
Why It’s Still Hard to Get Started with App Development
Yes, they do, but Azure beat them to offer first-class support and did so with their own Docker-API compatible endpoint. This was back around the first Dockercon in 2014. Rackspace had a similar integration at the time, but I was definitely more impressed by what Azure was doing.
By showing a full screen alert ?

There are also a lot of free file hosting sites with tons of those fake download buttons. Good luck downloading from them now.
We are trying to collect all landing page companies in this list and as most of you know - speed is not an option for landing pages anymore - this is a key factor in web site conversion. This gives a general idea of how these companies approach web site speed and how optimized they are. Any help in getting all these companies in this list would be appreciated :)
On­-demand chef service La Belle Assiette raises €1.3M
I'm not sure what part of servers failing to POST is especially complex or related to distributed computing.

For all the fawning over being provided technical details, this article was pretty light on them.

I don't think Github going down for a couple hours is that big of a deal TBH. But it does seem to expose a few really basic failings in their DR planning IMO.

I also think it's ridiculous that some commenters are trying to frame this as a distributed computing problem. It's not even a clustering problem (apparently). It's just looking at the iDRAC or whatever to see why the server isn't getting past POST and putting your recovery plan into action.

This is white box vanilla stuff that happens to everybody.

That servers had to be rebuilt as part of DR says a lot.

The fact that there was a Redis dependency during bootstrap? Probably a good thing. You know as well as anyone I'm sure the last thing you want is a bunch of processes that only look like they're up. And even if they could not error without their Redis connections, if Redis is used for caching, what's that going to do to availability? Would it be a good thing to have the processes up if they can only handle 10% of the usual load?

Those are details that aren't there.

But complex distributed computing problem this is not. Not as it was presented anyways.
Only HTTPS for one month
There are docker containers available for most of these. Spring Boot is made by Pivotal too, so has native CloudFoundry support if you want a PaaS. Docker is likely the most portable, but if you're happy writing an init.d start script or something you'd just need to call:
java -jar /path/to/myapp.jar
Setting up Intellij IDEA for your Golang project
The case of EnumSet
Yes, ICE 1 and ICE 2 "only" go 280 km/h, only ICE 3 (403/406/407) can do 330 (320 for the 407).

ICx / ICE 4 are meant to replace the IC/EC trains first (which are slower than ICx) and later ICE 1 and 2. It seems that their slightly lower top speed shouldn't matter because of improved ac-/deceleration and relatively frequent stops (every ~70km). ICE 3 would do the 300km/h bits with longer distances. That seems like a good idea to me.

I'd like to ask on a source for your claim that ICE 3 "are scheduled to be reduced even further." The series 407 trains are just being rolled out.

Also, by definition most tracks will always be slow because there are many local / less-used tracks where such speeds simply don't make sense. Most long-distance tracks are pretty fast, and lots of upgrades are being built or in planning. I find your point misleading.
You're aware that people view websites through browsers which don't run Google's safe browsing software, right? How is leaving them to get tricked into downloading malware (served via Google) "more sensible"?
Threat and Leak Analysis with the help of text analytics
Although i would argue that asking for a raise should always come first, before interviewing. If it doesn't happen you do interview and leave the company.

It is also good to interview occasionally to simply know your current market rate. If you're already got offers though, it sounds like you know it as is.
PrimeNG 0.1 Released
I tend to agree that the bugs in OSX during the last few iterations are quite unbecoming of a company with Apple's legacy and reputation. I hope it's just a temporary glitch in their process.
Show HN: GearPlan – Airbnb for music equipments (built with Meteor)
> work to mask the consistent refusal by the courts in the Eastern District to end meritless cases before trial.

More trials should mean more money for lawyers in the area, judges, ancillary people like stenographers and clerks.
Why not a bounty amongst the industry for whoever takes a patent troll to court and wins?

The way it works now is that most defendants want to settle because the legal costs are too high for the defendant, and the patent trolls know this. If the defendants pooled their money for anyone who took them to court and won (not even a full patent co-op, which has its own challenges) - would that change how the patent trolls did their math - and diminish their ability to sue many parties?
No. That's not how diplomatic bags work.

Diplomatic privileges don't give the diplomats any right to transport individuals across another country's territory.

Convoluted 'diplomatic bag' schemes don't reflect how the law actually works.
> I'm surprised of the negativity towards this action

Its pretty basic. A lot of people are not happy that Google is serving these ads that they are telling you they will stop at the browser-level with a warning that makes the site owner look guilty. They want Google's Ad network to stop serving the ads in the first place.
Open source operating systems for the Bangladeshi farmer's smart phone smartphone: a computer used until it breaks and improves a person's quality of life.

What infrastructure is needed to make making open source projects easy for ordinary people to use easy?

+ What sort of tools make developing software for embedded devices that is updatable [securely when and where needed] easier than making software that can't?

+ What does an easy to use security model for a world of updatable embedded computing devices look like? How does it play out in situations with high communication latency and network partitions?

+ How can general purpose computing be integrated into devices and be made as easy to use as a smartphone camera?
I use that term for companies judging from how useless the patent they are defending is. Like "slide to unlock", "rounded rectangles of the device" etc.
Almost as much as the $1B Apple was originally supposed to win from Samsung for equally silly patents. (It's since been slashed down to a tenth of that, but still.)

Is it too much to say "live by the sword, die by the sword"?
MPEG-LA is pretty much a patent coop.
Is There a Science Behind Data Science
This is probably silly speculation, but I'm neither good at testicle models nor the more squishy sciences.

So sperm virility is correlated with temperature. My phone gets very warm if I leave an app running. I keep my phone close to my testicles. The wikipedia page on "Semen quality" is now in my browser history.

I mean it's spurious, but I wouldn't be surprised if a running cellphone heats up the inside of your pants just enough for you to take a minor hit to semen quality. There's also a blood vessel that leads to the testicles that sits fairly close to where my phone sometimes goes. My browser history now contains anatomical diagrams of scrota. This could interfere with the thermoregulation of the testicle.

That or the tails act as tiny antenna. I'm sure glad that I'm nowhere near the field of Biology, and I'm sure Biology is glad too.
Err, no. Building up equity is not the same as appreciation. It's basically a savings plan. This assumes that the property values remain sane and rational, not that they will constantly grow.

If the house appreciates then you get that money at sale no matter how long you've paid into it or how much equity you have.
There are a lot of pieces to that puzzle. One of them is a stock program that basically guarantees the investors have a voice, but zero actual steering capacity for the company, coupled with a CEO who wants to take risks, coupled with a company track record of risks paying off in bizarrely outsized ways just often enough to keep investors hungry for the stock in spite of the fact that ownership of the stock grants them no control.

In short, the company's founders have the ability to steer where the company's money goes, nobody has the authority to tell them otherwise, and so far benevolent dictatorship is working. To give a concrete contrasting example, Apple ousted Steve Jobs when his leadership became fiscally risky; because of Alphabet's stock structure, there's no legal way for holders to directly oust Larry Page.
Wonder how many of the layoffs will be from QA?

Fusion 360 is the buggiest shipping product I've ever seen. Really hoping they don't lay off any QA staff. But, seeing the shipping product so far, I'm not optimistic. :(
You've convinced me... thank you for using evidence to back your argument
When I had Nexus 5, the battery lasted for two days of normal office usage. (I.e. no games, no permanent facebooking, no permanent browsing, having good signal and the only "optimization" was turning Google Now off).
The caveat being that on the level of the user it's more like (love, sort of like, guilted into saying you liked) vs (hate, feel kind of meh about, guilted into saying your hated).

The aggregation of those likes is more useful but at the individual user level it's a terrible signal. Especially since the entire social structure of the network is geared toward getting you to click like whether you actually like it or now.
A Deep Dive into the Restlet DHC API Testing Platform
Hey HN. I built this over the past year for a client of mine and recently launched it. I'd appreciate any feedback and would love to answer your questions.
One of the most damaging pieces of information I ever applied to my life was the idea that not finishing thigh things was bad or undesirable. You know why? Because the result of internalising that wasn't that I finished more things, but rather that I started fewer. I no longer got even the learning I previously did from the start of a project and the research involved etc.

To this day I am still struggling to return to where I constantly started projects all over the place only to leave them unfinished. It was so, so much better that way.
Hovering the link to check the URL is a good old trick. Well until browsers start to hide that as well.
It seems the app developer was dying for the thrill of selling his first company. Spanish media is growing, particularly in the US, so there's no reason to think his app sales were about to decline, at least not enough to sell his golden goose for a mere 500k. But congratulations to him on selling his first company.
That doc could use a little more in the way of discussion about controlling fire flow. It briefly mentions control of the door (though I assume that talking about short term "don't get yourself cooked" control). It also talks a lot about chocking the door. It doesn't talk much about all the times you would want to avoid chocking the door.

We don't chock doors by default. We secure them so they remain openable, but we don't chock them open unless we have another reason for leaving them open. Controlling airflow is critical in firefighting (something we in the US are just starting to come around to with the research being done by NIST/UL, etc). Propping a door open means you risk taking a fire that is burning rich (and therefore 'cool') and pushing it closer to an ideal stoichiometric ratio. We're actually in the process of putting 'door curtains' on the rigs so that we can chock the door, but drop a canvas curtain over the opening to block airflow.

(I suspect you're very aware of this, as the Governors Island tests were critical to the recent NIST/UL studies, just wanted to add some more color to your comment and the posted document)
The Rustonomicon: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming
It's not going to do them any favours to "share a vision with Microsoft". Tablet sales are declining and Microsoft barely has 10% of the tablet market. I get that Continuum is cool, and so is mobile Ubuntu, but from what I can see, the market doesn't care about these things.
> But when it all goes tits-up it is a lot harder to work out why.

How so? Maybe you're just more comfortable with a different environment?
The Adjacent Possibility
Um, Quicktime? iTunes? Apple's software was always terrible (as a Windows user).
Resilience of Deployed TCP to Blind Attacks [pdf]
Exactly. Does anyone believe Autodesk won't pull an Oracle once they've transitioned their products to be Cloud only.

I don't. :( Hopefully I'm wrong. :)
1. Oracle.

2. "Better the devil you know". A lot of people don't trust JIT and especially GC to do their jobs well. Seeing the plethora of alternatives and options that have come along over the years doesn't help. Those things might be awesome by now, they might solve way more problems than they create, but too late. A lot of people have already taken a look and decided to stick with what they know.

3. Oracle.

4. Deployment headaches. Forget developers for a moment. Consider users. The JVM is no trivial thing resource-wise, even compared to other VMs. A lot of users don't want to add that much bloat, plus a whole parallel set of libraries installed "through the back door" instead of via the system package manager, then solve all of the tuning/sizing and dependency problems, to run one app. Developers who care about their users listen to this feedback.

5. Oracle. I know it seems like I'm making a joke here, but that pernicious influence a serious negative for a lot of developers and users.
Great site thanks.
For me, the hate is about several things:

(a) CC's price make sense only when compared to the price of upgrading the Creative Suite at every release (under the old model). But I did not do that; I used to upgrade every two/three releases: the Suite is mature software and in most cases there is no need to be on the cutting edge. By the way, I work in the design industry and this was standard practice. So for a lot of people the subscription model is much more expensive.

(b) With perpetual licenses, one can stop upgrading and he will still be able to open the old files in the future if a need arises. With the subscription model, you are locked out of your own files. (Ironically, it has been noted, cracked software is more reliable, as it lasts forever).

(c) Generally, then, this policy is clearly about Adobe's monopolistic greed and nothing else. There was no regard for the wish of users, as perpetual licensing was suppressed after CS6.

Because of all this, I have put Adobe in my personal blacklist. I discourage people from using their products when possible.