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I believe the article is suggesting London or the UK, is hindered when trying to compete with SV or other similar start-up\technology based cities. That most companies (though the examples in the article aren't the greatest) are bought out or shifted off shore inhibits the UK from developing that scene further.

I'd suggest it's a little more complex than just starting a company and not selling out to a larger competitor. London is not Silicon Valley. Never has been and any opportunity to cultivate that type of culture within the city will surely be even more challenging with the Brexit?

But I digress. When the Brexit vote is enacted, I suspect we'll find business and investment into start-ups in the UK continuing to diminish in favour of EU based states or else where.

Actually. You could really say this about almost every industry in the UK with the exception of the Banking and Financial sector, they're all diminishing in favour of offshore? If they haven't already anyway? That's profound.

Source: ex-pat from the UK

Edit: words, additional statements.
Same here. What am I missing?
infinite scalability with little loss of performance

I call shenanigans on that - Google's experience was that they tried it and then got bogged down as every developer had to roll their own mechanism for waiting for syncs - hence they developed F1 instead...
Not possible. To provide a good service then jobs found via recruiters must be included, the recruiter must be paid.

Instead, the best they can do for you as a candidate is negotiate hard on your behalf. This might be a good service for someone who is currently underpaid and is happy to give up 10% to have a negotiator get them up by 30% from their current role.

The help with CV etc. stuff can be got a lot more cheaply and is not an exact science anyway.
I feel your pain. Same thing happened to me twice(!) and then it tried to delete all my Google contacts.

iTunes is now second from the top on my list of software-I-will-never-use-again[0], so that means no shiny Apple devices for me. Which is a shame, because otherwise I quite like Apple stuff.

[0] Of course, Lotus Notes is top of the list
Well, yes, if you could make a completely artificial, controlled environment that presents a problem well-suited for the current flavor of AI, the AI would probably be able to beat a random animal at solving that problem.
This is an amazing port, it doesn't even use canvas. It was made too early for that.
Please note that asciidoctor already is an alternative implementation. The original asciidoc tool (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/index.html) is written in python.

Both, the original and asciidoctor, offer a CLI tool to convert asciidoc to different formats (and there is always pandoc). Additionally, asciidoctor aims to integrate with JVM languages courtesy of JRuby. So you have multiple implementations callable (in one way or another) from any language imaginable.
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I remember old game Settlers (also called Serf City in some regions) that allowed a coop splitscreen with two mice.
It does seem pretty odd. As a UK citizen, am I meant to feel proud of the existence of ARM for some reason? And presumably now I'm no longer allowed to use ARM chips because they've betrayed 'us'?
IMHO, biggest issue is that attacks usually appear to be coming from 'not-so-cooperative' countries (eg, Russia, China). Even if the attack is not based there they can appear like it (eg, via proxy/VPN). That makes it difficult for US police to track down the criminals without involving Interpol or use some other means of cross-country police cooperation. And that usually means it has to be a really big fish to catch.

So best solution is still prevention and education.
The article doesn't go into the the substance of this topic, but I've learned a bit about the issue from talking to friends who work in government economic development roles here in Australia.

The balance they're trying to strike is between attracting foreign investment vs losing companies via foreign acquisition.

Foreign investment (along with export revenue) is great, as it creates jobs, grows ecosystems, increases demand for the currency, etc.

Foreign acquisition is not so great, as the jobs/expertise/ecosystems and export revenue are lost.

Of course, if the founders/early investors go on and invest their returns in new local companies, then that's a good thing, but is perhaps beyond the scope of what governments are able to measure (or generate PR from).

I have no strong opinions about how sensible this attitude from governments is; I just know that's how they think, at least in Australia, and probably in the UK too.
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That's impressive! It even has math support! I do wonder about generating the diagrams at every page load. Seems like markdeep might as well have been a static generator?
Yes. That is what I mean.
My wife and I both have 6 Apple devices, 624GB in total (well, yes, they are not full yet, but still) + 1 2TB AirPort Time Capsule, which could store all these GBs easily.
All devices (except for old iPod) have WiFi and can connect to the capsule.

Do you know how I transferred my photos to the capsule last time?

I had to:

1) Connect iPhone to Macbook (via USB cable, not wifi)

2) Run shitty Photos app

3) Copy all pictures to the capsule...well, NO! Select 50% of pictures (because I don't have enough space on Macbook), press Import all selected pictures (don't forget to check Delete after import!)

4) Wait, wait, wait

5) Then drag all imported pictures to the capsule

6) Wait, wait, wait

7) Then Google where Photos stores all photos

8) Delete them

9) Repeat for the rest pictures

It is even more difficult if you want to transfer YOUR music from iPod to the capsule. I had to make a backup, then google backup location, then copy everything manually (bad thing is that all files have cryptic names).

Apple loves to say that all their devices are integrated with each other.
What I want is, for example, to press 'Transfer all pictures/music/whatever to Time Capsule' and just wait until it is done (via WiFi).
Just as important is global data available to train the AI. According to this we're at 10+ Zetabytes versus < 0.1 in 2005.

https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/3/005/078/00c/0745630.jpg
I was expecting to see the comedian for some reason.
Well, in our programming world new languages seem to come out every week, trying to find better ways to write programs. By this standard a new way to encode music is long overdue.
The issue is that these companies were doing really well, got acquired as a result, but then mostly shrivelled to nothing. Let's hope ARM doesn't get cursed that way...
I recently used https://www.honeypot.io/. And the experience was quite good.
Not quite a strawman. It was a rhetorical question in an attempt to make people think about how they would respond to the costs and benefits of voluntary work reduction if only they did it and not other peers.

Also, I have seen this line of argumentation. In a thread less than a week ago, somebody said how he found it unfair that I or others might work 60+ hours and he only work 40 and that pay scales should and job promotion abilities should be equal so he didn't have to give up his life to compete against those of use that had a different set of priorities (my terminology -- his was a little less forgiving). People choosing 32 hours a week would be upset to get passed up by those choosing 48+ hours. It's natural.
Actually, nothing, since no-one knows what the post-Brexit world will look like, and even if they did, Article 50 takes 2 years.
I suppose they are "sell outs" in a sense that Apple, Microsoft and Google are not.
I'm using idb.filesystem.js in https://www.sharedrop.io, so that only very small part of the transferred file is stored in memory, but then without asking users for permission (i.e. using non-persistent storage) you "only" get ~4GB (not sure exactly, I tested it with files up to 1.5GB).
That's kinda scary for AI, actually. We're plateauing..
No-one should forget that ARM's predecessor Acorn "sold out" to Italy's Olivetti too...
But that's not the story with Sinclairs/Amstrad, who both launched bad products at some point, and never recovered from it.
As an EVE player this headline made me feel a bit uneasy.
No ones knows what Brexit actually means (apart from the slightly pathetic "Brexit means Brexit" which we seem to be getting from the current prime minister)

Currently there seem to be two groups:

The Brexit Light group who want to preserve access to the single market with hopefully some concessions on free movements.

And the Hard Brexit group who see controlling migration as the most important thing even at the cost of losing access to the single market.

Whatever happens there is going to be a long period of uncertainty which could last for 5-10 years. Only once the dust has settled will we know what impact there has been on the economy and country.

Companies are going to be less likely to invest in the UK, before Brexit it was a logical choice to open offices in London, now it is not so clear cut.

It is also less likely that talented people from across Europe will be tempted to move to London. Pre Brexit the UK (in particular London) has been a very attractive place for highly skilled people, post Brexit those people are likely to choose a different capital city to call home.

My feeling is that Brexit will be very bad for London in the short to medium term.
This would be a nice way for getting the code formatter configuration about right when switching to a new editor with an old project.
We are running a React based static site using https://instant.cm for content management. Works like a charm and Instant basically works on every static site.
The main problem for me is that the absolute majority of them target blogs and if you try to adapt them for a more complicated website you gonna dive very deep inside the code or continue constant search. Now I look at hugo as it seems to be a more general-purpose tool that allows to play with structure and content types.
Shaving cost was a good goal when computers were still too expensive for the average home though. Another notable one was what could have been an IBM competitor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer) .

Britain was a great innovator back when individual inventors could manage a project, they never seemed to transition into corporate innovation though.
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"i don't understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible."

All you need to know about Apple UI is this:

Sometimes you click the green (maximize) button and the window gets smaller.
It must be really hard to maintain and add features to such a huge old application. Platforms have changed underneath it, the devices and services it connects to have come and gone, Objective C has changed a lot as well. And then there's the Windows version...

Still, iTunes is crap. I hated it so much that I wrote my own music player for iOS, just to avoid using iTunes for putting music on my phone [1].

My guess is that sooner or later, iTunes will be dismantled and the features will be split into multiple smaller apps. There will be a music app that JUST plays music from the Apple Music account, a podcast app that JUST plays podcasts, a sync app that JUST helps you manage stuff on your phone etc. Some features will be removed (Internet radio, ripping & burning CDs). And of those that remain, only a few will need to keep a Windows counterpart. That way, things will be easier to maintain.

[1] Tiny Player: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1140849233
First of all the article is very good. It's packed with very insightful gems. I recommend it.

Second of all, have you stumbled upon an increasing number of articles on this theme lateley?

Well that's because it's autumn. It is that season when nature starts its decaying cycle, and we as part of it, can't escape this process either.

About a week ago my mind simply stopped. I was working on something but it didn't matter. I woke up in this sort of a limbo state and I'm still in it. I feel like doing nothing, it seems that nothing really matters. I just sit and stare blankly for minutes. It feels like a part of me is not here anymore. I know it'll come back, it happened before, roughly in the same period. So I just sit, and I suppose this is a good thing. It's nature's way to remind ourself not to take everything too serious, and detach a bit, you know, breathe the air, smell the flowers, enjoy without worrying...
I'm not proficient in Philosophy but I think that we just select to draw the line at some point and accept that perceived things are such and such. AFAIK there is no way to even logically assert that other people exist (solipsism if i recall right) but it would make no sense to go that way at least according to our biological substratum. It makes sense to just assume that such dead-end philosophic avenues are not the way to go. As long as none of them proves itself more correct than the more 'realistic/pragmatic' alternatives we can go about just fine.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. Worker protections like guaranteed holidays and unlimited sick days might be the first things to go "to remain more competitive", which is an obvious BS. The same with environment protections - someone made an argument to me, saying that EU is bad because it stops UK from fishing certain types of fish in the north sea......yeah, of course it does, because we were overfishing massively and in a decade there would be none left. Even if UK leaves EU that won't change - it's not like you can magically ignore environmental regulations when you are not part of EU, especially if we are talking about international waters.
That is a great idea for a plugin.
> "We sent them a prepared PDF document pretending to be transaction confirmation and they opened it which led to Twitter handles, usernames, and identity information."

I'm glad to see that PDF is still a safe format....
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I think that the main part of the problem is the sales are to foreign companies.

Many companies tend to focus efforts in their home countries and there's always a risk that a foreign acquisition will see its operations downsized in their native country and moved either to the home country of the acquiring company or to a low-cost cost location.

Also from a tax perspective, foreign companies don't generate as much revenue for the British government, so every time one is purchased by a foreign company that's more long term tax revenue lost.
This is not quite accurate. Sure, directly it only affects the bond market. But the bond market is not isolated from the rest of the markets. After you push loads of money into it, it lowers the returns on relatively low-risk bonds. We now are seeing government bonds with near-zero interest rates (ZIRP). The low returns on bonds pushes capital that otherwise would have gone into those bonds into risker and risker assets, a direct consequence of QE. This has people chasing higher returns in stocks, and yes, VC as well.
I'm a vim user, but org mode is one of the things that I really like the sound of from emacs.

For vim, I use vimwiki[0] in (github flavour) markdown[1] mode, and also publish the entire site to HTML. I really just use it for notes, rather than an entire website, but still, one could.

[0] https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki/
[1] https://github.com/patrickdavey/vimwiki_markdown
> Now, if that awareness created or creates the physical world (as the Bhagavad Gita seems to state) that would be pretty amazing and I'd love to read about it.

I am not surprised that the top comment in HN, in 2016, is that of pro-solipsism ... given its recent proclivity towards all things spiritual over rational.
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When clients ask this question, I always suggest starting with a good SQL solution and then figure out why it won't work. So if you're not hitting any major problems with MySQL or SQL Server, then NoSQL solutions will just be incredibly labor intensive for, from your perspective, a loss in functionality. Each NoSQL database is different and designed to approach problems from SQL databases differently. For Mongo, this is having a very flexible denormalized schema with very fast reads. However, companies such as Pinterest and Facebook have found they can accomplish this with MySQL or Postgres through different data modeling. I think the reasons for NoSQL become much clearer when trying to build applications that do not keep a normalized data model.
I'm a (full stack javascript) contractor and have started getting a call a week asking if I would consider relocating to Berlin or Frankfurt.
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The problem is, they can never satify everybody. I bet you that if they ever split iTunes up in separate apps like you suggested there will also be a lot of people who dislike that approach and rant along the lines of "Why did they split it up? It was so convenient to have everything in one place. Now I have to open a multitude of apps" No matter how much sense that may make, there will be people like that. The question is, how many compared to people who want things to be plit up. Apple would be best served to conduct some polls or maybe even a nice beta programm where you can use separate apps and then give feedback if it works as intended.
But was it done by hackers? Or the whole talk is full of shit?
> C major is identical to A minor, and I don’t understand why we need both.

Well, an orange and a carrot are the same color, but does that mean we don't need both? These two keys have the same signature, and that's it. To say they are identical is false.

> I don’t know anything about music.

You got that right.

> I suppose it’s possible to change the sound of an entire piece of music just by changing the key signature, but does anyone actually do that?

Only about every major composer who has ever lived. Look through any Beethoven sonata and see all the key signature changes throughout.

Your article didn't even hit one of the most important parts of music, modulation, which if you understood it would make many of your other confusions go away.
a fantastic article and wonderful to have a calm conversation on the topic.

I can not fault anything in the article but I would add that immigrants also bring dynamism and new ideas to the country. Not necessarily of economic value but certainly of value. For example the relative greater openness and tolerance levels of the cities with larger immigrant populations might have become that way because of their arrival.

Obviously I may have confused cause and effect, obviously this may or may not be worth the economic consequences but I think it is worth thinking about.
He did pentesting for Kuwait government.

He's saying he could have done it.
Because a reputation is the result of the experience of many different people who communicate with each other. Your experience with Apple software is a very small sample.

Your position is a bit like saying: "Although everyone else thinks the earth is round, it looks flat to me!". Of course, you're free to disagree with the consensus opinion, but you'd probably need a better argument than personal experience.

If the consensus differs from your personal experience, it's worth taking a second look.
Which book are you referring to?
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E-bike fires from bad lithium batteries or bad chargers are a problem. Same problem as hoverboards. Boosted Skateboards went with LiFePO4 batteries, which have lower energy density and cost more, but don't catch fire or blow up, even if punctured with a nail. Some e-bikes use LiFeP04 chemistry, some use LiPo, some use Li-ion. Go with LiFePO4 and look for UL approval on the charger.

Pedego had to recall 5,000 e-bikes after battery fires.[1] There have been some major fires at e-bike shops.

[1] http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2015/Pedego-Recalls-Electric-...
I thought about trying out MongoDB. Which NoSQL are better in your opinion?
> Go doesn't have a nice REPL like IPython, and it never will.

https://github.com/motemen/gore

There are a few others too.
I recently found this service: https://reep.io which, I believe, uses WebRTC to directly transfer between 2 browsers (they claim that after the initial 'handshake' they are out of the equation). I'm curious how it compares with Instant.io for simple file sharing use cases (example: send my mom a movie of my kids that is too large of a filesize to email, in a manner sufficient for a non-technical person to be able to easily receive, view, and save)
The pedestrians along Embankment in London are usually tourists so it's difficult to train them :-D I think the signage needs to be better - or I would rather the curb on the pedestrians was raised to make them think a bit.
Makes sense, I am Java/Scala guy, we have different audience
FTA:

But the firm got unstuck when it tried to enter the business market. Its Sinclair QL was designed to outperform IBM's PCs, but its tape-based Microdrive storage was unreliable and the British company did not offer the kind of telephone support the corporate sector required.

His failure wasn't in terms of price but of price/performance.
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Are cops actually prepared for this sort of thing? If you handed them the information and was like "Here's a hacker, take them down." The cops have a division or something for cyber security enforcement or whatever? I'm just asking as I don't imagine police officers being the tech type regarding hacking.
Never thought of it as seasonal ebb/flow but it figures.
Don't do it. There are plenty of people who become unavailable after work hours (when they are not supposed to be on call). Every YC article that comes up about the topic there are plenty that will tell you how.

In the end it comes down to people making a decision. They are willing to take their work home with them essentially, either literally or via phone, because they value that job enough to compete with the others who are willing to do the same.

There are plenty of slightly less demanding jobs or even fields that will give you that ability, but that drive for the little more financially comfortable life is quite powerful. Too many people act like they are powerless when in reality they have the power to start looking into jobs or careers.
I'm not sure if this counts as a "static website", since the page is not delivered exactly as stored. It requires JavaScript to actually renders the page, which seems like an overkill.
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I've got a little time after work that I'd like to pool into helping folks on HN (as it's done for me on multiple occasions on throwaway accounts). What would you folks would love to have in your life?
In comparisons between the US and Europe, you often hear the argument that Europe doesn't have a Google, Apple or Microsoft. But how can you build one if every promising start up gets bought up by a foreign company?
With RDBMS you have to design the schema first, with NoSQL you don't need to. This is nice when you're dealing with very diverse data (or data you don't even know how it'll look like) or are prototyping. One thing I like about this: You can store your data as it is, you don't have to fit it into your model / world view. You can make sense of it later.

At some point you'll probably have to deal with schema anyway. If this comes at a later stage, you'll have to deal with a lot of diversity and inconsistency on potentially many points. This can become much more painful and time consuming than having dealt with it from the beginning.

If you're thinking about NoSQL as something like a simpler, modern SQL alternative, you're probably having a faster start and a lot of problems in the long run.

Scalability is something, NoSQL databases have for them, definately.