skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there certainly is more cultural diversity across Europe than within the US, this article overlooks some other fundamental problems faced by new businesses in Europe as they try to scale out to different markets.

For one thing, you have to figure out how customers can pay you. This is not a trivial problem, particularly for B2C companies, because there is nothing even resembling a universal method of payment. Credit cards are near universal in some countries but hardly used in others. Direct bank charging via SEPA or other Direct Debit schemes is popular in some countries but not others. There are national schemes that are widely used but only in one country.

Then there are the tax rules. The EU is absurdly bad at this, as anyone affected by the VAT rules can tell you. I've talked with local businesses here in Cambridge UK that are considerably larger than any of mine, and some of them still say that with hindsight they would have simply dropped all of their customers from within the EU but outside the UK when the rules changed last year, because the compliance costs simply aren't justified.

There are also very different legal environments in fields like consumer protection and intellectual property, which can have a big impact depending on your line of business.

And finally, there are the overheads of starting and running a business at all, which obviously is a prerequisite to scaling. The UK is regarded as relatively business-friendly compared to some of our European neighbours, yet the current government has already hurt small business owners with not one but two major tax hits since taking office last year. Those apply even for small all-director businesses, which might be the case for the stereotype three-guys-in-a-garage kind of startup, but as soon as you take on any employees at all you're in for a whole new world of joyous regulations, form-filling, cash-grabbing and statutory obligations. It's a crazy situation that makes setting up a real company that can grow and create jobs a significantly worse proposition both financially and in terms of regulatory overheads than just going it alone or in a small group and all being self-employed. And as I said, this is in the UK, which is paradise for entrepreneurs compared to some other European nations.

Ultimately, the factors that give startups the best chances to become established and then scale up are mostly about flexibility and moving money around easily. You can go too far -- I wouldn't want to give up reasonable protections for employees to exploit them in the way that US companies routinely do, for example -- but in general, most of Europe has a lot to learn from our friends in other developed economies about those two key areas.
InVision named to Forbes’ Cloud 100 List of the top private cloud companies
It isn't that weird.

Mercedes and Matternet both have an interest in the efficient, cost-effective delivery of things. Matternet, for now, is concerned with the "last mile," (https://mttr.net/company), the aerial logistics part, and Mercedes is concerned with every other mile.

Amazon is a prospective client, they have the things people want.
Meet PocketBlock, the crypto engineering game for kids of all ages
How does one pre-order something that ships in August 2016... Is it shipping now?
In Europe ( at least in France ) ss means Nazis' Waffen SS. Something like sostat would have been a better choice imho.
Yeah, that's why I brought it up. Should have made the reference more clear. :) Dawkins had an insight and shared it with the world. I'm not sure this pop-sci article is the same magnitude of revelation or what, if anything, is actually there.
"The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of a man who succumbs to infection with a penicillin-resistant organism."

- Sir Alexander Fleming
Most nicer restaurants will offer you bottled water if you ask for water. Sometimes they won't even offer tap and you have to specifically request it, and the waiter will roll their eyes at you. (I've only seen that once, but still)
For the record, I use Senheiser C500 headphones. They cost about £30, but the bass response is fantastic for an in-ear bud.
> People are not just randomly assigned to reading and commenting on Hacker News

No they randomly show up being either directly or tangentially associated with either technology or startup culture. That's it.

And while those people really do love to think of themselves as more intelligent than the general population, I don't see it.
FYI, Coke's Dasani, and PepsiCo's AquaFina are both just tap water.
Isn't there some theorem stating that all 3 coordinate reps of rotations in R^3 have a singularity? But bumping up to 4 coordinates (or 9 if you like rotation mats) eliminates the singularity.

Edit: seems kind of like latitude and longitude. At latitude + or - 90, all longitudes map to the same point so that coordinate has no information.
Personally I do not think that the recording is a problem by itself. Problem is with who this recording is shared.
This is really and truly sad that USA can't provide drinkable water.
> And Democrats are powerless to prevent the GOP from "criminalizing science"?

Basically, yes.

> How about having the mainstream media news talk about it

The "mainstream media news" doesn't work for the Democratic Party (in fact, it mostly is owned by corporations that preferentially support the Republican Party, though people tend to get confused by studies showing that workers in much of the media lean Democratic, as if firms were directed by workers rather than owners.)
Indeed, I love https://betterexplained.com/ which is all about intuitive understanding of calculus and other stuff. A post on the constant 'e' - nobody ever told me what that number really means. More such material, and a willingness to learn is all thats needed for a majority of folks, in my opinion

Edit: typo
Agro lobby is pretty powerful in the US. The people lobby - our dear senate, republican and democrat simply sells out.
If it's healthy and your kids don't mind you absolutely should give it to your kids. Maybe they'll develop a less sensitive, more environmentally friendly palette.
At this point it's pretty obvious that this process is mostly run by people in terms of reviews. These people are probably under the age of 25, which means they are more likely to have a liberal viewpoint. All of that said, FB might be well served to hire a few people at/near senior citizen age to also do reviews, and have 3 reviews per post... Same for appeals.

This should lessen the influence of any one viewpoint. That said, I see plenty of promoted posts (mostly libertarian) in my feed, so I'm somewhat surprised that conservative posts are being suppressed in terms of promotion.
She never explicitly says this 'this is a photo of me and my team', however a Chinese reader with no other context would make that as the natural assumption.

It says stuff like 'under the supervision and guidance of our CEO and Founder Beau Rose Jessup, our team of experts will analyze the characteristics you're looking for in a name and blah blah blah'.

Then there's a single shot of the same woman with text that begins "I am Beau Rose Jessup the founder and CEO of Simple Name" and then goes on to detail her 12 year history of visiting China.

It's very heavily implied that these are the people behind the site.
Code Generation: The Inner Sanctum of Database Performance
The standards regulate things that will actually hurt you, not things that will make the taste go off.
The soda companies will be just fine. They've been preparing for this for decades. Who do you think owns the bottled water companies?

Hint: Dasani is owned by the Coca-Cola Company. Aquafina is owned by PepsiCo. They're only at risk if people inexplicably stop drinking regular bottled water and subsist solely upon San Pellegrino or other sparkling varieties.
I like that metric, because I was considered super smart as a kid, and I have two IMDB credits. (one even a Sundance winner)

But I failed the other criteria in the article, inventions (even if I invented a certain computer-game-as-artform category in the 90ies), PhD, scientific success, ...

Yes, it's a funny metric. And even if e.g. Cannes states that you can attend the festival if you are on IMDB, they never let me in. (Nowadays I wouldn't want to either because of politics)
So it's inconsistent also.
> You're probably one of those who also insists that India has the best teachers.

While this is completely unrelated to the thread and extremely judgmental, I'd still like to know if you seriously think that somebody with the exposure to have an account on hackernews would also think that India has the best teachers?
You're right but as I'm not using it I don't know what's the situation about that.
Maybe the fact that you have accepted having to buy drinking water in a bottle is now at least partly to blame for the tap water quality not improving?

Are people demanding that their tap water be as good as the best bottled water? If not, why?
In the US if taste is your problem put a filter on it. If you don't live in Flint, MI, this should be good enough.
"Drinkable" and "Tastes like the water tasted where I grew up" are very different things. There is not one flavor of water any more than there is one shade of white. There's no evidence that the water OP refers to is actually not drinkable.
More: IANAD said "there is no true objectivity" as if that statement were objectively true.
Lots of people just sneak in their own sodas. This is discouraged by authority, but it doesn't seem immoral. At least, it isn't more immoral than going without soda entirely, so long as one doesn't throw the empties on the floor.
"They're just developing different talents," says Lubinski, a former high-school and college wrestler. "But our society has been much more encouraging of athletic talents than we are of intellectual talents."

Bingo! Along with our society has been much more encouraging with the extrovert personalities vs the introverts.

I encourage everyone to read the book Quiet by Susan Cain.
This is New York in the not-so-distant future
Agree with all of this, especially the last sentence.

If you don't already know some "tips", you might wanna consider doing some more research before starting your company.

Also, if it's one guy, it's not an "agency".
You're correct and I was mistaken to give the impression that it is a "military-only" sort of thing - far from it. That being said, the human tendency to optimize for laziness often overrides our adaptive capabilities and instead pushes for maximizing comfort. The military does tend to train against this mindset (to varying degrees of success) - yet they are far from the only (or even most successful) of that ilk.
Finding someone smart to talk to is important, and a lot of people fail at this step. I like to consider myself decently good at Linux troubleshooting and get asked a lot of questions most days.

My sole piece of advice to folks looking for help: Be specific and help yourself. This means don't come and ask "why is my server slow?!" - it's coming into the conversation telling me the exact symptoms and what you've already tried and where you think the next steps are.

If you are not at that point, you haven't put enough effort in for me to bother. Those are called paid consulting engagements.

I would say most people get this wrong, and end up being ignored over time. The few folks who consistently give me interesting (even if they are trivial and I've seen it before) problems to help them with that they just need a bit of specific knowledge to solve? I look forward to them contacting me.
What does condensation have to do with the public water supply?
I like these two quotes of Knuth where he lets us know how hard he worked.

--

From this other small interview [1]:

"When I'm working on a research problem I generally begin by filling dozens of sheets of scratch paper with partial calculations. When I eventually get to a point where I can think about the problem while swimming, then I'm often ready to solve it."

--

From OP's interview [2]:

"So I went to Case, and the Dean of Case says to us, says, it’s a all men’s school, says, “Men, look at, look to the person on your left, and the person on your right.
One of you isn’t going to be here next year; one of you is going to fail.” So I get to Case, and again I’m studying all the time, working really hard on my classes, and so for that I had to be kind of a machine.

I, the calculus book that I had, in high school we — in high school, as I said, our math program wasn’t much, and I had never heard of calculus until I got to college. But the calculus book that we had was great, and in the back of the book there were supplementary problems that weren’t, you know, that weren’t assigned by the teacher. The teacher would assign, so this was a famous calculus text by a man named George Thomas, and I mention it especially because it was one of the first books published by Addison-Wesley, and I loved this calculus book so much that later I chose Addison-Wesley to be the publisher of my own book.

But Thomas’s Calculus would have the text, then would have problems, and our teacher would assign, say, the even numbered problems, or something like that. I would also do the odd numbered problems. In the back of Thomas’s book he had supplementary problems, the teacher didn’t assign the supplementary problems; I worked the supplementary problems. I was, you know, I was scared I wouldn’t learn calculus, so I worked hard on it, and it turned out that of course it took me longer to solve all these problems than the kids who were only working on what was assigned, at first. But after a year, I could do all of those problems in the same time as my classmates were doing the assigned problems, and after that I could just coast in mathematics, because I’d learned how to solve problems. So it was good that I was scared, in a way that I, you know, that made me start strong, and then I could coast afterwards, rather than always climbing and being on a lower part of the learning curve."

[1] http://authenticinquirymaths.blogspot.pt/2015/11/maths-in-sc...

[2] Transcript from here: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
I use it through second level abstracting site hnapp.com

I don't care about the Y Combinator self promotion of their startup incubators, nor do I care about Y Combinator's own blog content. I also don't have time to read the entire firehose of content that comes through daily from the "new" feed. I self limit to posts that have at least a score of 50. I also use a RSS feed so I can dip in/out as needed.
Rethink Your Work – And Workplace (Jason Fried)
La Croix is sparkling water with very subtle natural flavoring.

As for Sodastream, I've seen lots of folks say that they did the math and found that it wasn't any cheaper in the long run -- or was just barely so -- once you take the cost of the CO2 into account. There are still environmental reasons to get a Sodastream, of course. But if it's not any cheaper and requires learning to use a new contraption and making sure you don't run out of CO2, I think it's easy to see why many people just continue to buy the cans. Plus a Sodastream is a much larger up-front investment, and what if you end up not even liking the flavors?

For what it's worth, La Croix is roughly the same price as name-brand soda like Coke where I live.
Oh, you are right. Thank you for this. I somehow have overlooked it.
Building Resilience in Spokes (GitHub Engineering)
He's using MathJax to display equations. There are a lot of equations.

https://www.mathjax.org/
as a native san diego, i drink tap water and dont notice anything wrong, but my girl and her dad (non natives) think its nasty. just anecdotal.
Try a 1-wire counter, e.g. the DS2423 [0] for the rain gauge. It can be powered either from the ESP or via a coin-cell. You read the counters whenever you need to.

You can talk to 1-wire either via I2C (e.g. the DS2482 [1]), or you can easily bit-bang 1-wire via a GPIO or UART [2].

[0] https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/products/digital/one-wire...

[1] https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/products/interface/contro...

[2] https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/21...
For a second I thought this was the story behind the 1977 book and 1982 film Firefox which were about the MiG-31. Might have been inspired though.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(novel)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(film)
They do noticably improve the taste in my experience. There's also a lot of psuedoscience in bottled water as well.
Well, the most effective response is already here: don't use the service.

While that can be a big ask for many services, we're also doing a great job of replicating the functionality of many closed services in an open way. As long as the FOSS/hobby tech world still cares, we'll keep biting away at the new markets closed services create.
Whoops, Amazon just introduced the iPhone 7
Not quite:

- B- in Chinese is unvoiced, whereas it's voiced in English

- the -ing in Chinese and English are pronounced slightly differently

- Bing in English is usually inflected somewhere between 1st and 4th tone -- 病, properly pronounced, has a much more noticeable downward pitch slide

It's fair to say though that if you say 'Bing' when you mean 病, a Mandarin speaker will probably understand you.

Source: am native English and Chinese speaker
From the guidelines:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names

Though this might also equally apply:

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.
There’s no evidence that wireless earphones are “better” in any sense. Right now, if I let the earphones just dangle, they stay together and attached to the phone nicely. If I take out the wire, both earphones stay together because they are attached. There is even a logical place for a microphone and controls on the wire, depending on the model.

What can I do with wireless earphones? Oh that’s right, I can lose ONE but not the other; or I can lose both; nothing tethers both of them and the phone together. Oh, and there is probably going to be some reduction in audio quality for the sake of the wireless trend.
The subject is interesting, but I don't think the article author gets into the real issues. I'm thinking something broader - it seems like there's virtually no business/tech innovation in Europe at all. How many innovative American tech companies are big in Europe? Apple, Google, Uber, AirBnB, Facebook, Amazon, etc, just off the top of my head. Can you name an innovative European company that's big in the US? I can't think of any that I could call innovative with a straight face.

What's behind this, though? Excessive business regulation? Investment regulation? Culture of entrepreneurship? All of the above? Something else?
What changes bubble size?
a STEM PHD is anything but 'easy' - it requires an original contribution of research, for one , and it must be defended and published
The fact that GP is in the black while this post is downvoted is puzzling to me.

Several people must have read GP "yuck @ tap water" and nodded along, and then down-voted this comment.

However, if you think the USA can provide drinkable water, you'd have downvoted the "yuck" comment, because it is incorrect, and then this one as well.

Or, If you agree with the "yuck" comment, then this poster is correct, and you shouldn't have downvoted them.

Unless some people are really elitist about their drinking water but also really patriotic? idk, it's confusing.
I perfectly understand the physical genetics advantages. But people here and everywhere are attributing intelligence to genetics as it was as evident as physical traits.
Cesarean Birth Linked to Risk of Obesity in Childhood
Wow, that was a long article for something very obvious. Its not because they have guaranteed sales, its because they are one of the biggest smartphone brands in the world! Its that simple! There are Chinese brands already who have removed the aux jack and include a type-c to 3.5mm adapter, their sales are doing fine. The difference is that these Chinese brands are not big enough to be a trend setter and this won't catch on until some bigger brand starts with it.
This is exactly why we need open source drugs. I have written about this extensively.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=93

It's the flipside of the factory farm and overprescriptio fiascos. Yes, those are bad, but we haven't discovered new types of antibiotics for decades... and many diseases get far less attention, because of patents and silos. Even researchers working as a result of public funding are snapped up by big pharma once they make a discovery which then acts as a parasite on the public money.

Science progresses when anyone, anywhere, can contribute. Same with open source. It is the reason Wikipedia is larger than and just as accurate as Brittanica or any other encyclopedia. It is the reason Android runs on so many phones, and Linux runs on toasters. It has given us everything from WebKit to Wordpress and created a massive amount of solutions for the LONG TAIL instead of just boutique drugs.

It took 30 years to discover a new antbiotic type:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/14/first-new-anti...

More people studying eg human bacteria in the nose will find cures if they are unencumbered:

http://www.nature.com/news/the-nose-knows-how-to-kill-mrsa-1...

We need patentleft! All that phage therapy etc. shouldn't be controlled the way monsanto controls agriculture now.
The site is http://specialname.cn

Judging by the amount of well written Chinese text on the page this girl is either a native speaker or she had help.

Nowhere does the page indicate the names are paid. However clicking though the flow takes us several seconds and requires us to agonise over five different qualities. By this time we are now sufficiently invested in this site. We are now so invested and curious we consider paying the 68 RMB price anchor. Luckily there is an ongoing "promotion" that allows you to buy your name for only 9 RMB, what a deal!

This is the work of a genius.
I believe the idea was, the truck is going too fast to stop and wait for them to return.
Live from Apple's iPhone 7 and Apple Watch
So avoid hospitals unless absolutely needed. Gotcha.
OpenBSD 2016 Fundraising Campaign
This is extraordinary. Thanks for sharing. It's amazing that BMW aren't shouting about this from the rooftops. They mention something about social media on the page for the i3 (at least on my local site) but nothing about the manufacturing process used for the body and the other innovations.
You've seen the only XB-70, prototype #1. Two prototypes were made, and the other was destroyed in a mid-air collision. There is a very good episode of the televison show "Great Planes" on the XB-70.
Yes. That would be sad if it were true.
My main issue with tap waster isn't the waste treatment facilities. It's the pipes in my neighbourhood and in my old apartment building.
There are experiments in this area: https://node-os.com/
I came across a really ugly and badly engineered PCB the other day and it prompted me into coming to the same conclusion:

http://41j.com/blog/2016/09/ugly-solutions/

If the engineering solution is good enough (for the customer) there are other things that matter more, mostly marketing, sales and customer support.
Add to that the fact that the Chinese love to substitute similar sounding words to make puns, and it's completely impossible to come up with a name that doesn't admit some negative reading.
Here's an idea: pay extra for on-call work. As a professional I want to fix stuff if I break it, but there's a limit to demands on my time.

It's especially infuriating to spend an evening away from my family to fix a problem that someone else caused and could have fixed in 5 minutes, but I had to spend several hours getting familiar with.

At this point, if management asked me to start on an on-call rotation I'd want to know how I was going to be compensated for the additional time and opportunity cost of being on call, or I'd start looking around for a new gig.