skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem in Europe is definitely not money, there is plenty of that. Also - 'moonshots'? They are big, failed R&D projects that may or may not pan out. Europe needs their own 'Salesforce' (i.e. 100 000 high paying jobs, massive revenues and value creation) not 'Drone Balloons'.

The issues are many and they are often at odds with other things, like 'quality of life'. From lack of large centres of innovation, not quite the right immigration system and attitudes towards migrants, a lack of hyper competitive attitude towards business (easy to see how this could be corrosive from another perspective), taxation and payroll taxes / inability to let people go (i.e. France), really closed business systems all over Europe, smaller markets, lack of risk taking everywhere from buyers, to investors, lack of big, cash-flush acquirers like Oracle, MS, etc. that eat up a lot of startups, a lack of 'flexible 1->n workforce' - ie the kinds of staffers that know how to go with a growing company and help it get established (this is a big ingredient of 'secondary domain knowledge' missing everywhere outside the Valley), to more sophisticated kinds of financing, and finally even just the right cooperative kind of attitude. Despite the competitiveness, there is definitely a 'goodwill' in the Valley that doesn't exist in most parts of the world.

Elk would be much better in trying to help Europe understand and overcome structural limitations because they already have the money.
I suspect this forum has an (relatively) high ratio of people who can and do manage to do exactly that.
It means physical beauty, like an attractive appearance.
There are documented cases of each in the press.
Placebos get the worst rap. I think it's a startling human ability that should have way more research money going into it than it does. All hail placebo.
Importance, value, and HN rankings are three different things

Front page average votes as I count them now is several multiples above 7 votes
Recent low tech inventions that have changed the world
Is still cannot comprehend how in the world Chinese fell for American cars.

One thing I noticed is that recent Chinese immigrants to the West often get a very unpleasant surprise after buying GM cars in North America. GM in China is known to be much better than American GM, but they are still known as quite a bad deal to more technically literate buyers.

I guess, some people will drive just any car for as long as it's not Japanese.

Or may it be the appeal of a an image of a product made for "rich old people" is still so irresistible to Chinese buyers.
I wouldn't call anyone who doesn't feel it's worth the investment to customize something an "assembly line worker", it implies that they aren't doing creative work with the tool because they happen to be more focused on the project than the tool. It's just insulting and I don't get why you'd bother to go that far.

I also don't know why you'd draw any kind of line at "modified own tool". Building your own 3d printer doesn't make you creative if you're using a kit, it's the parts you make that are creative or not. Classify based on what someone is doing with the tools, not the tools themselves, that's just a cargo cult.
Because Brave is a very niche browser still. As soon as it gets popular, people will start to remember.
Most of the cash goes to the labels, not spotify. Universal music alone has an implied valuation of $30bn
It's funny how these things go. In my circles at the beginning of the 2000s it was somewhat of a mantra that Radiohead's OK Computer or My Bloody Valentine's Loveless were the best albums from the 90s (I would go for the latter). Loveless was somewhat of a rediscovered thing; before that, I imagine that Nirvana's Nevermind was one of the most beloved.
Have you listened to Sgt Pepper recently? Certainly great in its time and groundbreaking, but musically it's not aged that well and its songs are not particularly relevant. I say this has a huge Beatles fan who can sing just about every song. What's Going On both is both great musically and has remained completely relevant - its passed the test of time far better.
Sounds similar to PulledPork for Snort
Incredibly interesting research: hopefully this pans out in human studies too.

If I understand correctly, in order to achieve this:

1. a nanotube is created that contains a chemical compound (SHP1i) that inhibits the the "don't eat me" (antiphagocytic) signal of plaque.
2. These nanotubes are engineered to be taken up by white blood cells.
3. White blood cells tend to be more present at areas of inflammation (such as plaque), which in turn increases the chance that the chemical compound mentioned above will be released in areas where plaque is present.
4. This presence of nanotube-loaded white blood cells at areas of plaque will turn off the antiphagocytic signals of all cells in this area,
5. which induces plaque (and all other antiphagocytic cells in the area) to be removed through traditional cellular activity.

Assuming what I said above is correct, what I still don't understand:

- How do the nanotubes bind to the white blood cells? Is there a specific technique to achieve this?
- If I understand correctly, the chemical compound (SHP1i) removes antiphagocytic signals indiscriminately, which causes issues with toxicity of most therapies that attempt to use this technique without tightly controlling delivery (because organs might become a target of white blood cells). What happens however if a patient has other areas of inflammation? Does this exclude patients with auto-immune diseases from benefiting from these approaches, for example?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Other sources:
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0619-3 (Original article)
It's was metaphorical, not literal pain.

> People who have myopia or astigmatism also may experience halation (from the word “halo”). Halation occurs when light spreads past a certain boundary, creating a foggy or blurry appearance. In other words, white letters can appear to bleed into a black background, making it more difficult to read, especially if the print is fine.

https://www.allaboutvision.com/digital-eye-strain/is-dark-mo...
The Tax in Europe is generally much higher, but a lot of it is hidden in payroll tax and VAT that you don't see.

So x% has already 'come off your paycheck' before you see it, and then an extra 15% on everything that you buy. Which is also hidden.

That is offset by extra services, esp. healthcare, but in tech, healthcare is usually a benefit on top of salary anyhow.
Luna, Amazon’s Upcoming Cloud Gaming Service, Will Run on iOS via the Web
I'll pay you cost, then a bonus matching cost, plus hourly rate matching your day job, min 4 hours (for each)
You might want look in Kaizen, which one of the key basis is that the workers closest to the problem are empowered to stop production when issues arise and have input when approaching problems on the line.
i was going for an explanation of how art and aesthetics are not purely subjective. and how one could arrive at the statement "semi-objective ranking". so im not arguing "Sgt. Pepper is beautiful" im arguing "there is objectivity in art therefore some art is better than other art" thus implying some form of objective "ranking". nonetheless, ill try to answer what makes something (in this case music) beautiful. there are many different explanations that converge on similar concepts/ideas.

in many traditions, ranging from Chinese philosophy to the ancient Greeks, beauty is associated with goodness, virtue, and truth. particularly of the Greeks, there was an emphasis on its relation to mathematics, namely proportion and symmetry. aesthetic considerations like symmetry/asymmetry, simplicity/complexity are utilized in mathematics, physics and cosmology to define truth (or lack thereof).

the Thomistic view is that:
A) beauty is a transcendental (a Platonic view)
and B)that there are 3 conditions:
1. integritas (wholeness, integrity, perfection)
2. consonatia (harmony and proportion)
3. claritas (radiance/clarity that makes apparent the form to the mind, analogous to processing fluency)

The definition of beauty thus converges on the idea that: something is beautiful when it is harmonious, complete, and clear. something beautiful is virtuous, good and true. you could also argue this as "in accordance with natural order" as the natural order is complete, clear, and harmonious (and thus beautiful). you could go further with this idea and argue that beauty is "of God" or "in accordance with God" or "in accordance with the Logos". but that is a different argument for a different time.

art is the field of human interest whose ideal is beauty. therefore, it follows that beautiful art is complete (has integrity, wholeness), is harmonious (perhaps in accordance with natural world i.e. proportions such as golden ratio, etc. this is not limiting), and is clear (the form is readily made apparent to the mind, i.e. high processing fluency, the information is easily processed)

Does Sgt. Pepper fit this criteria? Is it beautiful?
Send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com , they usually reply soon.

I don't think this is shadowbanning. I have another definition of shadowbanning.

A post with a few flags get a small penalty, and with more flags it gets a [flagged] label and more penalty, and with even more flags it is autokilled. Perhaps the post got only a few flags? Perhaps you are overestimating the normal decay?

About the Tulsa riot, this site has a lot of users from USA (60%?), so it has a USA bias. [Hi from Argentina!] Post related to other countries sometimes get ignored.

Also, there is a bias for current events, and things related to current events. If tomorrow Turkey decides to bomb Athens, my guess is a repost would get more traction. (But I hope we can never test my hypothesis.)
How to Fix Your Mistakes in Git (and Leave No Trace)
I'm just going on what I've read here but I think the biggest point of contention that others have pointed out is if they don't sign up for Brave's choice of proprietary monetary systems [0], including its own which it/you has a stake in, the donatee receives nothing. It seems you're trying to reinvent the wheel (browser), or rather pre-existing technology, and make a profit off of it when even decades ago a donate button worked fine without another middleman trying to shove their greedy hands between you and the donatee. You understand why this irks some people, right?

And threatening people online to basically shut up, who you view as misunderstanding, you're vastly underestimating the expected demeanor of a CEO. As a user you'd expect me to be frustrated sometimes and complain but as CEO, honestly, you should just answer the questions as it doesn't make you look professional when denigrating those who used to be in your userbase. And if anything, the fact that I among many have these questions and they've ran so rampant and unanswered even on this very tech-related forum reflects at least poorly on your company's PR department.

0: https://brave.com/funding-your-brave-wallet/
Came here to say exactly this...it's still a click-baity title.

This really has nothing to do with demanding ransom. You could hack a website leaving a message and claim they could "Demand a ransom".

Quite simply this is just the ease of hacking IoT devices which unfortunately is not new and has happened with every industry as it becomes "connected" (cars, homes, etc).

I would have clicked if it said merely "IoT /s/Home Devices /Coffee Makers/ easily hacked" but the "ransom" aspect is purely to heighten the fear, arguably even in the article itself.

This reminds me of the range-rover when they reported on it as if they had taken over a jeep "in-the-wild" where in reality it was a very controlled scenario and arguably much more sophisticated. Even then it wasn't as sensational as this (just my opinion).
Yes, in that people try and identify what’s there. No, in that it’s not expected to find evidence of a prior advanced civilization. The prior existence of oil as an easily recoverable resource is a strong indicator that nothing like our civilization existed in the last several million years.
American products are considered a luxury status symbol in much of China. There are literal "Jeep" stores in Beijing that are just selling Jeep-branded camo apparel at upscale prices.
What sort problems did you have? I installed it and exported an environment variable and it has since worked flawlessly for me, so I'm curious.
There isn't a magical virus barrier at the border. But there's a jurisdictional barrier there. Contact tracing across the border is much more painful than doing it locally. Our civilization-level immune system is bureaucratic in nature, so you can say that national border is a barrier for its antibodies.
SoundCloud does have a donate button. At least in the sense that an artist can setup a paypal button that shows up on their profile.

I have created something similar with SoundRat (https://soundrat.com) that connects more with the patreon-like features and makes listening of music free but gives fans an option to donate to artists and get some perks for doing so.
‎Widgetsmith and the Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad
It’s more than two pilots since they can’t fly 24/7? Pilot salary for fedex is 100k+
The YC model has not been copied anywhere, and FYI there have been a zillion attempts at incubators in Europe. The problem is generally not money, it's a wide array of other things.
Pandemics, by Death Toll
I’m aware of this risk and don’t care. The files I FTP down are things I don’t care about.

I don’t think there’s a “good chance” of someone altering the files I download. It’s certainly possible, although unlikely based on the number of times it’s happened to me (0) vs the times I’ve served or retrieved an ftp file (millions, perhaps billions).
You have a heck of a brand-name on your hand....trademark!
> They show FBI radicalizes people and creates "terrorists", not catches terrorists. They act like criminals and intimidate people into compliance and then arrest them.

> But for some reason if you tried pretending to be a terrorist, you'd still be a criminal

That depends. The informant/infiltrator needs to "play along" till some extend. However, they should also not stimulate other people to commit crimes. It is a careful balance.

So for example, if Alice asks Bob to make a bomb, and Bob complies (with a fake bomb), then how exactly did Bob (who works for the FBI) create a terrorist? They didn't. They caught one by pretending being one. Apart from the ability to safely catch Alice red-handed, Bob can also testify the intend of Alice. 2 in 1.

Would you rather see it was Charlie who made the bomb, but then a real one? Of course not. Sometimes, this infiltration method is one of the few or the only viable way to catch a terrorist or criminal. It is not without risk though; it is high risk, high reward. Not the first option to be chosen; you want low risk, high reward options first.

EDIT: in hindsight it would've been better to use different names, ie. Mallory. I leave the above as-is.
The primary difference is that you can have short-lived certificates, but ssh-keys are eternal. If you fail to remove one, it sticks around and may come back to bite you if compromised at a later point. Certificates expire, after which they’re useless to an attacker.
The number of websites for which I want notifications isn't zero.

It's drastically smaller than the ones which bug me about it, and no, it doesn't include your regional news site or niche vertical blog, and it never will.
Beauty is the canonical example of a subjective criterion. There's even a well-known phrase about this you've probably heard: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", a phrase so old and time-tested that it predates Christianity by several centuries.

It's hard to even make sense of what you're saying because you're using words in exactly the opposite manner that everyone else uses them and thus only offering up contradictions, which are by definition already false.
In periods of 100s of millions of years whole continents disappear or move around, new layers of rocks are formed and old layers are buried. The Rocky Mountains formed just 55 - 80 million years ago.

Cities disappear completely. Concrete and glass becomes rock (again), steel is oxidized and is just layer of iron ore. Plastics degradate and breaks into nanoparticles.

As the article speculates, most evidence would be likely something like synthetic biomarkers in deep sea sediments. Traces of industrial chemicals not produced naturally. Wrong chirality in some organic chemicals. Transuranic elements.
Because in terms of potential benefit to society, this is orders of magnitude more efficient than giving artists a few more bucks.

I don't even agree that they deserve it. The aggregate musical output is valuable, sure, but individually it's commoditized and worthless for all but the top musicians.
the big three have been Lenovo, HP and Dell for a long time, order of those has switched sometimes. so depending how you slice the share, you could find a niche where somehow it would appear as whatever you want it to be, usual thing when reporting market shares: "we are top in this is super-niche slice of the overall market"
>in real life common sense is often not correct

I can easily imagine a real-life scenario where some quick and dirty fix works, say, 75% of the time. (And maybe that's good enough.) But the expensive process change works 99%+ of the time and, even though there are cheap ad hoc alternatives that work in a particular scenario, you're still better off actually fixing the problem properly.
"it should fund sustainable innovative companies or open source foundations."

Show material examples of this.

Also, the EU needs 'big companies' that employ a lot of people, pay high salaries, can afford to sustain complicated projects with know-how, to acquire and integrate other projects.

A nice batch of 'open source' projects that some people might use will not move the needle.
I don’t know what causing that, but they work if you toggle video capture off and back on using the icon on the Safari menu bar.
I am participatingn in such a program now. Can confirm, it looks great on paper (and it's mostly about writing reports etc) but creating useful outputs is optional.
I don't particularly like java. Most don't. But it's undeniably well designed.

Some of its design choices have fallen out of favour in recent times—I still disagree with their elision of unsigned integers—but they're generally at least defensible.
So much of what is toxic about cars and car culture could be fixed by downsizing and slowing them. Primarily, less injuries and deaths - but also lower overall energy consumption and less pedestrian and cyclist hostility. I wish north america would fully get on board with these small EVs
Here is a cat discovering its own ears in a mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akE2Sgg8hI8

Cats grow old too. They have time to learn.
- Sales and Marketing go together, but the paths diverge once you know the importance of each function. It is good to get a broad idea of both. You can do some courses on coursera/MooCs, and try to get hands-on with running some marketing campaigns.
- "The Challenger Sale" is a fairly easy and good book to read in general.
- Have a look at SaaStr channel, there are some nuggets there https://www.youtube.com/c/Saastr/videos

All the best. Try out a lot with short feedback loops so that you can course correct suitably. Always respect the customer and their needs.
You're very very wrong. Don't believe blindly everything that the music companies want you to believe.

You don't buy the right to listen to a CD, you buy a copy of the CD and the music for use as you wish.

Many European countries have an explicit right to private copy, you can copy/transform/archive anything you have for personal use. There is a tax on storage media that goes to the labels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

I believe the US has something similar (you can do whatever you want with the copy that you own) but an American would be better place to comment on that.

What you generally don't have (across jurisdictions) is the right to make copies and distribute them.

CD rippers have never been illegal. They are illegal in a few places if they circumvent copy protection mechanisms and even there it depends on the details.

You can have a look at the legal FAQ of VLC media player that debunks some of the myths. https://www.videolan.org/legal.html
I'm sorry to hear about your situation. It sounds like you need optionality and mentoring. I've found larger and top-tier places to be great for this.

With smaller firms, you run the risk of insufficient n-value to find great mentors (though you can be lucky.) In larger firms, esp with cross-functional roles, you increase your chance of finding great mentors.

FAANG seems like one obvious choice. I'm not sure what the top tier consultancies might be in 2020 but they will also be great choices. Good consulting firms are sociable, you work in intense situations where you quickly develop relationships, and there is lots of attrition and cross-pollination -- which means you constantly increase the n-value and your chances of meeting super-interesting people.

I started my career at Accenture (the consultancy.) Many of my informal mentors are still from Accenture. I've had the pleasure of seeing many progress through their careers. Some have rapidly ascended at other firms. Others more slowly, to the extent that the mentoring relationship has flipped. It has been 19yrs since I started there, 14yrs since I left there and the relationships still continue.

Happy to chat, contact info in my profile.
4230$ for an EV with a 170km range is insane if you live in a city.
Something important to know is the difference between an actual sale (i.e. closing) and a sales process. If you want to be a good sales person, you focus on the sale, but if you are building a company, you need to figure out a sales process (which usually includes marketing on one end and onboarding on the other, not just sales).

It doesn't matter how good of a sales person you are if you are not getting any leads. Conversely, you can be a bad sales person, even with a bad product, but with enough leads, eventually they will buy - you can see this with crappy restaurants at airports for example.

Successful startups are very aware of this and they setup processes to generate enough leads so their sales people can close them, to generate their target revenue. Also, the sales person's responsibility is to close the people that "come through the door", but it shouldn't be their responsibility to bring those people in.
Positive article. Ek is correct when he states the entrepreneurial spirit in the United States is quite absent in Europe. In fact, investing in "deeptech" startups is a preferable action in relation to this net worth. On the topic of net worth, why did he remark "We all know that one of the greatest challenges is access to capital." His net worth is $ 4.5 billion. Still, it is a noble venture of his to promote entrepreneurship in Europe(quality it substantially lacks).
Horizon 2020 does not work. It's all gobbled up by professional grant writers, not professional researchers.
What happens if a user manually places an ssh key in ~/.ssh/ ? Do you have a way to automatically remove those?
I mean, would you go around reminding your friends of their shortcomings and then reminding them how helpful your feedback is?

Sometimes people are well aware of the problems and are actively trying to solve them.
Thank you. I was mainly curious if the migration from 5 to 6 (or 7) was smooth now.
https://archive.is/AL3ju
What a minefield of a question
I love my iPhone SE since I can easily use it one-handed without worrying about dropping a $1,000 electronic device
Do you have an example?

Note that the mods cherrypick a small amount of stories and send them to the front page for a short time. Perhaps you saw one of this stories? More details explained by dang in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380