skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question! I've learned a lot about this as I've gotten to hear from entrepreneurs that tried to setup in their own country, but ultimately came to the US. The video on our site gives some glimpse into the problems these entrepreneurs run into: https://stripe.com/atlas#stories

The gist is that certain countries have a better business and banking infrastructure than others for entrepreneurs looking to establish a global company. This isn't necessarily specific to the US—and we'll be expanding Atlas to more countries—but the US is a solid starting point, based on what many entrepreneurs in emerging markets already do.

For example, incorporating in a place like Delaware allows companies to issue stock to employees, makes it easy to raise money from global investors, and provides the stability of clear corporate rules and case law. (Most Fortune 500 companies are established in Delaware). Getting started with a US incorporation also makes many more services accessible to you, that might not be available if you incorporated in your own country with less support for new businesses.

It's a personal decision, for sure, but if you're in a country where you're finding your business constrained by the lack of particular banking infrastructure or access to business services, we think Atlas can help.
When it comes to government projects, I always wonder how many people involved treat it only as an opportunity to make as much money as possible without being caught - after several years you just sweep the whole thing under carpet so nobody remembers how much money has been wasted and you're set.
Can you vary your salary according to revenue, so that your salary always == revenue?

(Thus completely avoid corporate taxes by never paying dividends, and nominally having zero profit.)
I bought a used Leaf two weeks ago from a dealer. From the dash computer, I saw the previous owner's CarWings username and password, as well as his address book, Bluetooth details, and lots of other history. I called Nissan to register the car with the Owner's portal (https://owners.nissanusa.com) and remember being surprised that I didn't have to give Nissan anything that proved I owned the car.
I think in 20 years it's still much easier and cheaper to rebuild a human workplace to be suitable for (very dumb) robots, than it is to use humanoid robots for human tasks.

We already replaced humans for many tasks such as assembly etc.
The next step is cognitively challenging but physically easy tasks like driving cars.

A lot of "simple" human tasks such as making sandwiches in a restaurant require fine motor skills, creativity and other very difficult robotic traits. Those jobs will be done by robots long long after we as humans stopped driving cars or building them. Given the budgetary difference between making a sandwich and going into battle, we can be pretty sure sandwiches will come last. If anyone is still around to eat them by then that is.
This is borderline negligence for the lack of authentication and security of the app. I suppose it may just be a matter of time until someone figures out how to get access to other more critical systems in the vehicle, similar to the Tesla vulnerability from last year. It took the Tesla security researchers less than a year from when they found they could access the sound and climate systems (over similar cellular networks) to being able to flash custom firmware on-the-fly and take control of steering and acceleration / braking.
As an ex-media hoarder, I am fine with this.

The major benefit of owning music was that you could consume it easily on-demand. Since streaming services have expanded their libraries, delivery channels, and made songs available offline, there are less competitive benefits to actually owning a digital copy.
This is not specifically malware, just a blatant ad, but I expect it's only a matter of time before someone exploits it.

Upload a booby-trapped image, let Bing categorise it and let the bombs start falling...
People always use the large number factor as an argument which pretty much assumes we and they are on similar wavelengths, so to speak. Its a strawman.
>What "vastly superior" FOSS solutions do you have in mind?

Depends on the problem domain. A good example is 1D numerical perturbation theory; my colleagues struggle to beat mathematica over the head until it gives them roughly what they want. On the other hand, it's much easier using jupyter, numpy, and matplotlib.

>Do you think these aren't going to have errors in them?

Of course they do, but they won't go unfixed for years on end. You can also figure out what's wrong without having to reverse engineer a big binary blob.
If you made a nice blog post about this, in detail, and shared it, a lot of folks would find it extremely interesting!
Apple Has Gotten Federal Orders to Help Unlock at Least 13 Devices
Have you considered pausing before hitting "reply" and asking yourself: "does this comment add anything? does it have anything intelligent to say?"
I remember this being quite the story. Anybody know what came of it? Still in litigation?
Because after a while, more money doesn't motivate. Most of us are making levels of money where an extra $10k or so isn't really going to make as much of a difference in your day to day life as some of these other things.
Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses
hey, do you know any good blogs or articles or studies about this sort of 'empire building?'
VegasTechFund is now VTF Capital, looks beyond Sin City for commerce startups
It seems weird in the computer world because unlike with your car example, the ads actually track you.
This is a byproduct of the massive increase in tooling that we've seen over the past few years. Granted tooling has always advanced incredibly quickly but I do feel that somewhere in the 2014-2016 time period we hit an inflection point.
Kind of an alarmist headline for what's essentially a screen saver type thing that's set as the default but can be changed to something else.
I think these emotional issues may be solved by making them look less human and more like machines.
Amazon Kindle does the exact same thing with their "Special Offers"
Freelance worked before because companies needed smallish jobs done here and there. Now they need a full-time team. Shouldn't that be better for the web designers? They don't have to be on a treadmill looking for leads all the time. They can settle in and work at one company with a high level of job security. And probably they'd have much more clout in terms of how things are done in the companies, driving bigger changes and potentially earning a lot more.
1: it can actually be a lot of fun if you look at it as a sort of digital archeology. You are exploring an ancient world! I enjoy it.

2: write reams of documentation for every function and module and service you decode, check them off on a checklist, and point out how you generated x pages of new docs and analyzed y% of a previously mysterious codebase. Then when you refactor, you get to point out how many thousands of lines of obsolete PL/SQL code you replaced with 10 lines of Ruby.
Those numbers dont even take into account the submachineguns being made in mass production by gangs.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/03/10/australian-pol...

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/04/04/australian-mot...

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/sub-machin...
Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
Am I missing something? My employer is having a hard time filling a single developer position. We have 100 million people within a 10 hour drive and we've posted to HN and SO. We're not an elite startup paying tons of money with stock options, but if there is no work like the author says, it shouldn't be that hard. I have recruiters messaging me about jobs thousands of miles away. I talk to other developers in the area and they confirm the same problem.

I like the audio feature here by the way, I can listen while working, pretty awesome.
What Is Bitcoin: Gold, Oil or Cigarettes in Prison
I was in product at LinkedIn, and I thought this was spot on. LinkedIn is a two-sided platform. Increasingly the revenue model undermines user engagement. To some extent, one side no longer builds the other, one subtracts from the other. LinkedIn is a platform for spam more than it is a platform for content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sided_market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDIR_e3XRKM

Frank Millar's The Dark Knight tells a different story.
Definitely. I was talking about their galaxy client.
I got hacked mid-air while writing an Apple-FBI story
I was in the middle of writing a script to pull down all the metadata from a GitHub repository when I stumbled upon their Migrations API[1]. Designed for moving organizations to GitHub enterprise, this feature creates an archive with everything in a set of repos: issues, pull requests, git repo, wiki, comments, attachments to comments, milestones, etc. It's in preview with no UI, and afaik no existing client library supports it, so I hacked together a quick tool to make it easy to use.

[1] https://developer.github.com/v3/migration/migrations/
Austinite here. Interesting article.

> how can I go about doing that if I’m not being supported
> by VCs in Austin?

As a three year old firm, you might be running out of runway. I don't disagree with your statement that Austin VCs are more risk adverse than SF, but in my experience we do have a serious funding environment that many cities would be envious of.

Austin is not really competing with SF, but occupies a niche with a nice tech ecosystem while simultaneously remaining affordable with a nice work-life balance. [The affordability is rapidly eroding as the city-center grows]
Indeed, I've seen some talk about latency/jitter issues on the vfio mailing list. I haven't tested it myself yet, so we'll see how it goes. Though I figure things will just naturally get better over time as the kernel's support improves.
it may not be the ultimate, conscious aim, but I am convinced that there is a sort of 'social emergent behaviour' that will move us more and more toward that state of serfdom unless we actively fight against it.
The author means design work specifically.
IDC PC numbers are depressed partly because it doesn't count tablets/2-in-1s as PCs, it counts them as tablets.

The story to which you link notes that "The impact for 2016 will be larger as detachable tablet volume grows, boosting earlier forecasts of PC growth in 2016 from -3.1% to growth of 1 to 2%."

The quote is saying that if you add those "tablets" back, it's predicting that the PC market will grow this year.

Another important point is that the vast majority of Windows 7/8/8.1 PCs will run Windows 10, and the upgrade is free. There's very little need for most users to buy a new PC.

If users only buy a new PC every six years, then Windows PC sales should halve, compared with a three-year upgrade cycle. It doesn't mean that PC usage is declining (though it might be), it just means that PCs are lasting twice as long.

Smartphone sales were, of course, hugely inflated by the fact that they only lasted for 18 months or so. When people keep their smartphones for three years, smartphone sales with halve as well.
Agreed, this the same info I followed to get Elite Dangerous working in a Windows VM on a Ubuntu host. Feels very nice to have Windows not as the root of a machine.
The problem with TANSTaaFL is that it uses a completely different definition of the word free than normal English. Normally the word free only references the price paid by the consumer, not the cost of production.

If I give you a lunch without asking for anything in return, and without inconveniencing you, that's a free lunch for you. Of course somebody paid for it, but that doesn't stop me from giving it to you for free.

>Which is the point in context to someone saying "If only there really was universal expectation of free software...".

"I get my software for free but be offered the option to donate" is the model that's giving us Dwarf Fortress. It's free (as in beer) software in any useful sense of the word free.
Someone is posting images of dead unicorns in the heart of Silicon Valley
Signs of Mortgage Meltdown in Australia
I look forward to hearing your argument against maintaining an Air Force.

The constitution lists and army and a navy. It doesn't say anything about an air force.
> and afaik no existing client library supports it

I spoke too soon: seems like https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb supports it
Even if the ability existed, the answer would be still be "no". Nation states have no recourse beyond economic/military actions. I don't understand the potential threat of China requesting information we won't give them anyways.
For those that want to make sure you never are forced upgraded to Windows 10

http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

GWX Control Panel - blocks Windows 7/8 from ever installing W10
This is a silly forum in which to have a long debate :). I will admit, I mostly agree that the vast majority of software patents should probably be invalid, and that the existing system leaves a lot to be desired.

A couple of important points:

> They are still making innovative products, but they distorted their market power and millions of poor Indian citizen's lives were immeasurably worse off for it.

No, most innovation in new drugs happen in countries with strong patent protection. There is a lot of development outsourced to India, but almost nothing innovative on the development side. That isn't to say India's policy doesn't make sense for them, but they are essentially just stealing from the US and other countries. Imagine if that were true worldwide 20 years ago. Health insurance would be a lot cheaper, yes, but a large percentage of drugs developed in the last 20 years would not exist. It's a trade off that maximizes a longer term return.

> infringement

Yeah, I was just pointing out that a lot of the patent system is designed to protect people who are being infringed by larger entities. Just because it is abused by others doesn't mean it doesn't serve a purpose.

> patents distort markets

Of course they do, but it is not necessarily net negative.

> demonstrated that patents aren't orthogonal

Yes, that is a very long discussion. However, it should be fairly obvious that the software developed by industry and the software available in the open source world is not the same. I would go so far as to say the open source world is an order of magnitude or two smaller than software from for-profit entities. There are different incentives for releasing open source software than starting a business, and patents are designed to make the latter more attractive.

> Patents attempt to produce a monopoly on an idea and prevent anyone else from capitalising on it for decades.

No, patents provide a temporary, licensable monopoly on an implementation. You don't patent the idea of holding paper together, you patent the concrete implementation and manufacture of a paper clip.

More importantly, they require disclosure of that implementation to the rest of the world. I think this gets lost when people talk about removing the patent system. The primary purpose wasn't to encourage invention, but to make sure people disclose it.
I don't know if those are all in the same category. For example the Army cancelled Future Combat System because it didn't work. Would the project have been considered a "success" if they had put it into production instead?

For my money, a real failure is like the giant BART fiasco in the 90s where they spent 80 million dollars on a new train control system that simply never existed, at all. They had to sue General Electric to get their money back.
The FBI doesn't just want to unlock one phone. They want a system to unlock all iPhones. This case is just a convenient way for the FBI to force Apple to comply with their greater goal.
I hope this means I can get Xamarin through BizSpark now!
Microsoft acquiring Xamarin
Why not move Airbnb's message inbox tables from MySQL to a new database, like Apache Cassandra[1], that's much easier to scale horizontally?

[1]: https://cassandra.apache.org/
IIRC BitLocker with pre-boot authentication mitigates DMA attacks. Most Windows hardware doesn't come with FireWire or Thunderbolt ports nowadays. Microsoft recommends pre-boot auth for devices with DMA ports.
It's easy enough to disable the adds. Also check the Microsoft account and there are various preferences with toggle buttons associated with "targeted ads." To be honest, some people like having targeted ads if it's something consumers may be interested in.. Why not inform them?

And for those who don't like them.. Just go through those settings and change them. As long as these ads are configurable it's not a big deal.

That being said, if they became something customers can not opt out of that is a different story.
Seems weird that searching 'slim' yields no results. How exact do users have to be when searching?
I have a hard time calling this an ad. It was one of the wallpapers released for the new Tomb Raider game, and it's a pretty nice lockscreen picture in it's own right.
> That would mean the vast majority of initiatives would be statutes, which could in principle be subsequently amended or overridden by the legislature.

No, they couldn't. The power of the legislature to legislate is a delegated power from the citizenry, and, based on that principle, initiative statutes cannot be repealed or modified by the legislature (the legislature can send a measure to the voters amending them), unless the initiative statue itself expressly waives this protection.
Microsoft agrees to acquire Xamarin
They are not exactly deducible by pure reason, but an artificial life algorithm based on human psychology and randomly sampled polls might be able to figure out the optimal allocation of powers to delegate to the government and to be retained by the people to maximize a total public benefit metric.

What we have now in the US is basically a guess from circa 1783, based on the prior centuries of British-American Common Law, plus a few hotfixes in the form of subsequent amendments.

This iteration has only run for 2.33 centuries, and hasn't entirely collapsed yet, but a preliminary analysis seems to indicate that the interstate commerce clause, self-reinforcing redistricting procedures, and the currency clause should have undergone a bit more scrutiny the first time around.

As for "natural rights", so long as "might makes right" is the dominant political paradigm on Earth, the natural rights are pretty much everything that people might threaten some form of rebellion over, if they were to be infringed. So there is no universal set. Different people would go to war over different principles.

If you love Taco Tuesday, and enough people share that sentiment that you would collectively present a legitimate threat to your current government if you were to actively oppose it, then you have a natural right to eat tacos on Tuesdays. Any government infringes upon that right at its own peril. That natural right is "secured" by the government only in the sense that its officers don't want to be fired (or guillotined) over a handful of cilantro. It does not secure and defend natural rights on behalf of the people, but avoids attacking them--actually just avoids presenting the appearance of attacking them--because the people will defend them if they are threatened.

So your rights did not exist before you were born. They didn't even exist as you were a baby. What you may have thought in retrospect was your right to live was actually your parents' right to not have their children killed. You didn't get any of your own natural rights until you acquired the ability to inflict some form of pain--or at least inconvenience--upon potential adversaries. Your right to yummy dessert after yucky vegetables was not defended by any government, but by the threat of the wailing, flailing temper-tantrum.

You decide what your "natural" rights are. If the government can't find some way to slot them into its existing laws, then you will eventually have a problem with each other.
Captain401 (YC S15) raises $3.5M to help more businesses offer a 401k
PiZero Available again, get yours quickly
So you're deferring your worry?
Google+Apple+Microsoft+Yahoo can save the future of emails
Emails are one of the most popular communication tools we have today. It works! Everyone has at least one email address. People are registering @gmail.com addresses for their kids. Email is used for verifying you're a real user when signing to new services.

Many attempts to replace email were made, but email is here to stay.

Email works, but CODING EMAILS IS HELL! Email clients support a subset of undocumented HTML with many quirks and a 1998 feeling to it. Companies spend money and time on writing these. This has got to change.

The only companies that can change this are Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo. Not just one of them, but all of them together.

They hold the most useful email clients (gmail, outlook and apple's iPhone client, yahoo mail). Releasing fixes for ALL past clients that includes a modern browser for showing the emails will solve a lot of pains. There won't be breaking changes if we use the HTML5 doc type. Emails can become amazing and evolve, just like the web did.

Let's make emails great again!
>the states

Surveillance isn't any more okay because it's at the state level instead of federal.

In fact, I'd argue the more local the surveillance, the worse it is, because in federal government databases you are just a number, while your town/village government is more likely personally know you, your friends, and your family and have opinions about your lifestyle that they might share with those people.
Eavesdropping by the Foscam Security Camera
Wow, that's a great resource! I'm glad to see your disk benchmarks were also all over the place. I couldn't seem to make much sense of CrystalMark's results, even when increasing the test size above my RAM size to eliminate caching. I'm using virtio to an SSD dedicated to the VM and saw, like you, some markers were better in the VM than they should be, and some where significantly worse. Very weird. Luckily I won't matter for gaming.
My family and I have had more success with Facebook Messenger's video chat than with Skype: the people we want to talk to (grandparents, aunts, etc) are already on Facebook, and the only trouble is that you have to determine whether to accept on your phone or your computer.
This behavior is caused by a preinstalled modern app called "Get Office", which you can find in your Start Menu's All Apps list. Along with it's brethren "Get Skype", right click and uninstall both. The fact that these apps are unable to tell that you already "Got Skype" and "Got Office" is definitely irritating.
Ok, we changed the title from "work has dried up" to "web design work is drying up". If someone can suggest a better (more accurate and neutral) description of the article, we can change this.
Pretty much.

Honestly, the only reason the codebase isn't a mess is its a single project I've been able to tightly control and enforce things on [because its 100% my problem if something goes wrong].

The rest of our codebase is filled with drama. :/
A few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11169215
Well, that is the end of Theranos. They should just return what money is left to their investors at this point. This explains why they could never get the tech right...
This only really works for people that aren't already setup as a company though.

You can't just open a new company in another country and expect to start moving your revenue to it, it just doesn't work like that. For instance, I'm registered in the UK and would have a tough time telling HMRC 'oh that's my US company, nothing to do with you'. It's a completely different problem if you already run a business and want to open a US branch. That's the same for pretty much anyone in the EU.

I think that needs to be made more clear in the schpiel.
The ones I feel for are the fake children of these relationships when they come to an end.
Decrypting an iPhone for the FBI