skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite so simple. The nuclear industry wanted/needed federal dollars, so not being in the uranium game looked like a bad bet. Once you have all that infrastructure invested in uranium, investing additional resources into thorium looks less attractive.

The department primarily responsible for the research of nuclear technology including nuclear weapons development is the Department of Energy. Therefore the preferences of the DoD influence DoE decisions.
The Halloween Costume Guide to Politician Approval Ratings
Added to the fact that people coming from India and China don't have options like DV list, O1 and are sort of ill-treated and are looked down upon, etc., - I owe a lot of gratitude to the outsourcing and loan staff boom. Thanks Infosys, Wipro, etc.,

Can someone comment on how London compares with Berlin?
Why are upgrades from existing users attributed to the conference? What does '300 additional signups' mean measured against a typical day's signups, and more importantly 'active users'?
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
-- John Steinbeck

Although I do not actually support socialism, I think this quote is one interesting take (of many) on the problem you've outlined.

Edit: looks like someone beat me to it by one minute.
There is an extreme financial disincentive for Americans to work abroad. If you travel frequently to Dubai (as an example) as I do, it will astonish* you to discover very few Americans working there, but tons of British, Australian, South African, etc. people busily making a living, building a business, etc.

The reason is taxation. Americans working in Dubai (no income tax there) must still pay U.S. income tax and pay a ton to get the tax returns done correctly. A British citizen working in Dubai pays nothing to Inland Revenue and does not file a U.K. income tax return.

Question: who is cheaper to hire, if you are an employer in Dubai?

Hint: that's why all of the international bankers are NOT American.

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* Sarcasm.

EDIT: this is one reason why our law firm has a booming business in expatriation -- people giving up U.S. citizenship/green cards.
My Devops horror stories, one sentence each:

- Somebody deployed new features on a Friday at 5pm.

- Fifteen hundred machines running mod_perl.

- Supporting Oracle - TWICE.

- It turns out your entire infrastructure is dependent on a single 8U Sun Solaris machine from 15 years ago, and nobody knows where it is.

- Troubleshooting a bug in a site, view source.... and see SQL in the JS.
It's for the favicon of all things: http://bruceackerman.com/paypal-redesign/img/favicon.ico

Holy cow, Google, this is pretty good for automatic protection. It looks like Google sees that the guy is hosting the Paypal favicon (or something very close to it)... why would any legit site do that? Even the redesign doesn't need to show the Paypal favicon. So Google errs on the side of caution.

Wow, that is really cool. Good job Google!

For comparison, the actual Paypal favicon:
https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/icon/pp_favicon_x.ico
Battery life was excellent on the N900 actually, I could go an entire weekend of good use without charging. My Nexus 4... not so much.
I once spent a month creating and tweaking a country-specific tech news blog and realized that 85% of the tech news (in this other language) was regurgitated US tech news with, as you said, pretty much exactly the same info. Eventually, I put a stop to the blog because it wasn't something people were looking for (that is, translated, country-specific tech news).
I'm pretty sure that's actually not the case. If so, why does my kindle switch itself 'off' after not using it for a few minutes? While the screen might take no energy to keep an image, I think it keeps other parts active to be ready to flip to the next page, and turns these off when, well, off.
Could the good Doctor Strangelove be wrong?
Just to chip in on the Berlin train. As OP stated, it's fairly easy to get a visa, but you might not even need one. I know tons of people who have no official visa whatsoever, are just there on a tourist visa, which really is just a simple stamp at the border. No one really cares.

Usual talking points include the low living costs but relatively high standard of living, making it the ideal ground for people in their 20s-30s trying to get something off the ground.

Can't really comment on what happens once you get off the ground, generally Germany is just a bureaucracy if not worse than the US.

Also, it's super hip to hate on all the newcomers to Berlin and how Berlin becomes no hip no more. Funny thing is that most of them have barely been a year or two in Berlin. As born-and-raised Berliner, I reserve myself the right to shit on the influx of people.
Yep. At least some HN members will get the same attitude back at them in the form of their users bragging to others about how smart they are since they managed to bypass the company firewall or some such thing, and saying "so far, I haven't caused any security breaches, so it can't hurt"..
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm looking into that phishing error, strange...
The article was going along nicely until the huge bright orange banner came down asking me to vote on HN. I just couldn't read any more after that, it was simply too distracting and I couldn't get rid of it.

I don't criticize attempting to get some upvotes, but please consider doing it in a less intrusive manner.
> The amount of talent that I need for the problem that we're trying to solve

NumberFour has an incredibly high turnover of talent, both from what I anecdotally hear from people who workED their (apparently no one sticks around for longer than a year...) and when looking online at their ratings: http://www.kununu.com/de/be/berlin/in/numberfour1

So, if you you want to emigrate to Berlin, please do so, but be aware that there are great and ... not-so-great companies here (like everywhere else).

[Disclaimer: I shortly considered applying at NumberFour, but quickly dismissed it ]
Considering the article goes so far as to claim that infected machines can still continue infecting others when they're unplugged from A/C, I'd argue that yes, you're absolutely right. This sounds like a "ghost story."

Edit: I should note that after about the first 2/3rds of the article, there is some effort made to explain this (and negates the entire first bit of the article), but there is much better information others have shared here regarding malware embedded in USB controllers. I still like jameshart's assertion that this is just an elaborate ghost story for Halloween.

Edit edit: The conveniently mention toward the latter part of the article that the machine unplugged from A/C was a laptop which was then running off battery. I'm growing more and more suspicious of the quality of this particular article.
>there is a financial disincentive to working abroad, and that's not taking into account the fact that this is a disincentive to look for jobs abroad

If you don't want to do something, you can always rationalize it. If really wanted to work in Berlin or elsewhere, you'd do it, and it wouldn't be a big deal.
SEC Issues Proposal on Crowdfunding
I think the journalist must have misunderstood something told to them about the limitations of the project, and failed in reporting it.
...why to [sic] poor people vote republican?

Why does anyone vote republican, or democrat? Because those are the two choices on the ballot.
Firstly, you are dismissisive to the point of bigotry if you ever refer to someone as stupid, I don't care if they are rich or poor.

And while I'm all for personal responsibility and accountability...how many classes in public schools teach things like money and lifestyle management? Home Ec? Pretty sure all I learned there was how to cook and omlette.

This country refuses to blame the parents yet we do nothing to as a society to prepare future generations for the real world. Instead we teach to a bullshit testing standard that has taken the initiative out of the hands of our teachers during a time in history when creativity and drive is so vital to the global economy.

Instead ignorant people post ignorant messages about how some lady with a bunch of kids in a welfare line is sporting a Gucci bag.

Stop trying to stereotype the problem and start trying to look how collectively we can benefit one another through education and understanding.
I read the whole article and do not agree. Here in Silicon Valley the importance of appearances has become marginal. Yes, you have to be clean, presentable, but that's it. After that you need the skills, talent, knowledge and aptitude to perform your job. And you need that everyday, to keep your job, in this hyper-competitive environment.

I was a poor starving immigrant student at one point. I did fine without even mildly expensive clothes, shoes or cars. I've also hired poor resource-less college kids. Anecdotal, but the best workers (in our technical field) were the ones who cared the least about appearances.
this ^^^

I worked in canada for a year and was offered to stay, my permanent residency would have been granted after 6 months and citizenship in 2 years.

After 5 years in the US, I'm on this situation, even after obtained a Software Engineering master degree in the US from CMU, my application is being dragged.
1. Pushpin can route by the start of the request path using the path_beg parameter in the rule (e.g. "*,path_beg=/uploads [upload server]"). For more advanced routing logic I suggest putting HAProxy in front of Pushpin.

2. I'm not sure I follow. If authentication is used (say with Authentication or Cookie headers), then the request just gets passed to the backend server like any other request. Would you not want this?

3. This probably doesn't belong at the Pushpin layer. X-Forwarded-Protocol is used to indicate use of HTTPS, though, which the backend could use as input for enforcement.
I think this was a scam set up by PG himself to make us hackers do some proper work for a change. Hell, it worked.

I bet bitcoin that they finally managed to fix Obamacare.

Was this an example of kindness through cruelty?
I don't know the statistics off hand but I remember reading that there were poor counties in the US in which Romney did not receive a single vote. So yea I'm not sure what context OP is referring to.
"Radios Guru", coincidentally. (Or "A drug is our".)

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=Dragosruiu&...
This was mentioned in the article, but if you're looking for a TogetherJS-like tool that takes a different approach to collaboration you should look at what we've put together at Firefly: http://usefirefly.com.

It works all the way back to IE 8 :)
A New Open Protocol for Inter-Device Communication Within the Home
> Actually, I hope that this push succeeds.

For me it would be a reason either to leave Germany! I'm 47 years old, and worked less then 4 years employed. The result is, that my retirement insurance would be less then Hartz IV, even if I start retirement insurance and work till 70.

Unemployed, and retirement insurance make no sense. Not for normal pay roll worker, and even less for self employed.
> less thinking.

That's exactly my point in a way. I realized that I am always immersed in technology. There are one or more screens of some sort in front of me nearly any time I am awake. A lot of us have lost contact with the idea and practice of thinking. Of talking to yourself. Perhaps doodling in a notebook to explore ideas and thoughts in your mind. For some reason I started to use flights as an excuse to practice thought. As noisy and uncomfortable as that environment can be I have found it amazingly effective for the simple task of letting my mind take trips in various directions with nothing but a piece of paper and a pen in front of me. I no-longer do paper-coding in flight. I think.
Anyone who wants to "belong" to a league of people who would waste 2500$ on a handbag IS stupid. Whether they are poor or not is immaterial. It is also a huge leap to say that being "presentable" is the same as wasting money you do not have on status symbols. They aren't the same thing.
There are a lots of articles that explain the concept of lean startup but not as many that talk about how to apply it. Thanks for sharing. This should be helpful for anyone thinking about testing a two-sided network problem.
as an aspiring foreign entrepreneur (to US), i have personally been through visa hell the past year. i spent almost an entire year going through the horrible visa process, and til today i'm still yet to receive one. i've been denied 3 times already and i highly doubt i will ever get one. i don't understand why america is so hostile to foreigners these days.

for the record, i have a bachelor's degree from a respectable american university (the only visa i've ever gotten), i have no criminal convictions and i come from a wealthy 1%-er family from my country. i cannot see how i pose any risk at all to america by letting me in. i've very recently made my last attempt to return to US, and if this fails again, i will not try again and will be looking to canada instead where i will bring all the resources i have and try to start something. i hope to succeed, if only just for the chance to be in the news and say something to the effect of "America, you could have had all these taxes paid to you and all these jobs created by my company, instead you shut your doors to me and so fuck you"
Since ESPN considers poker to be a sport there's the remote change they may someday have live competitive coding.
I love anything related to art and humanities, I play beginner's go, read all the science fiction I can find, but coding is the thing that gives me food and always has.

It was an obvious decision to study computer science, and I guess I am not the only one.

BTW, I envy those toys you had.
OwnCloud is quite nice, but its Dropbox-like feature isn't his best asset. We have big shared folders and the client app does weird stuff sometimes (and given the way things are architected, I'm not confident it will change).

On the other hand, it gives you a nice web-based file browser, CardDav, CalDav, and a RSS webapp. And there's a basic iPhone app.

The approach posted somewhere else in the comments[0] seems interesting. Use BTSync for the synchronization, and put ownCloud over that for the web interface and other goodies. I'm tempted to experiment with that.

[0] http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/05/23/how-i-created-my-own-p...
Garbage in the Walls
Incredulity reflects how people really believe that other people may, in fact, operate in some sort of rational world. When we think of ourselves, for the most part, we tend to think we would make rational decisions in all circumstances we were faced in, especially those we are NOT in.

Irrationality of consumers is great for the retail economy, though, and while it defies years of economic logic, behavioral economics has been in the spotlight for many things these days, more so than simple rational-consumer theory.

(perhaps it's simply the logic of smart poor people in a stupid/deranged society?)
And for at least 1.7 million people last year, they were?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101099732
This is the same issue I have with btsync, so about a month ago I started working on an open-source clone, with similar features but an open, documented protocol. https://github.com/jewel/clearskies
I'm enjoying the Groove posts too, and agree with your general point - being upbeat is valuable, as is soliciting feedback and calls to action. I just think I'm too cynical to be too pushy in an email, even if it's dressed up as good-buddy niceties.

I mean, that '1 hour early' incentive is original and all, but it's clearly a confidence trick. It's a little insulting to his readers' intelligence, no?

Overall I'd say it was the content of the post more than the email copy that has made this series of theirs a success.
Looks very interesting. Similar but with additional widgets that aren't in TogetherJS. Interesting to use eventing model and tie it more directly to lead scoring and qualification.
Sure, an artisanal, handcrafted and authentic product is alright. But I just don't see the point if it isn't bespoke.
No.

That old saying that "there is no such thing as a stupid question" is wrong.
German labor law has some features that might interact in interesting ways with startups.

Germany lacks employment-at-will; it appears that disputed terminations can easily become lawsuits there (but German law also seems to have orderly mechanisms for resolving these disputes, which boil down to mandatory severance).

German law has what appears to be a strict policy on hours worked per week and per day, and on working over weekends.

German law has statutory maternity leave (which I think is unproblematic) but also a statutory 3-year(!) parental leave, during which time employees aren't paid but are entitled to their job on return. Are startups exempt from this?
>> It's just better to store this data in-house and don't provide unnecessary point of potential failure by using an external service.

Isn't this the point of rfc2616 sec13? I haven't looked, but if there are etags etc then I think a computer is better than a human at looking for new data, no?
Is Steinbeck still right about that?
Greenwald provided his contact info in the article. Perhaps send him an (encrypted) email?
I agree that the color is too bright. There's sometimes a fine line between being intrusive and not being noticed at all.

For example, I don't show the banner until you're 30% of the way through the article because I don't want to annoy people who haven't even started reading (and thus have got zero value).

The orange banner will disappear mods remove the ?ref=hn from the URL.

I'm the author obviously.
Chromecast Gets Pandora with Today's Update
The US gov't diversity green card lottery for year 2015 ends in 2 days
The gist of it is the "religious right" got in bed with all the big money/exploit-the-world old white men.

Then, messaging to voters becomes "I LOVE GOD!" instead of "All your money flows up to me." The "poor people vote republican" line of thought follows from people believing poorer/more-religious people vote only on religion above all else without regard for how much their representatives also want to exploit/maim/kill/cancer them.

Recent evidence doesn't entirely support that conclusion, but it makes for a convenient story.

What we end up with is the representatives not keeping up to date with reality. The reps stay "god god god religion god god jesus" while the world drifted more to "Uh, actually everything is pretty okay. Just stay out of our way." You can see that effect in southern "we hate all the gays" politicians while most real people don't want oppression/repression/persecution of them at all.

But—to get your way—all you have to do is scaretivate (scare+motivate) a small vocal base into voting for your overton candidate. (See: 2004 GWB election where "kill the gays" was set as a constitutional amendment in a dozen states along with "Vote for GWB!" — Drag the crazies out to vote for their delusional pet social bigot issue while also catapulting your candidate pet back to victory (well, victory against a droning sedated sloth, but victory nonetheless))
That's the opposite of a conspiracy nut. One person is not a conspiracy.
Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands - awk, sed, bzip2, grep, wc
MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete

It may be an issue with the Wired author, but the headline warrants qualification. People dying would be one such qualification. It really has little to do with the startup itself (if any). So the Dropbox allusion is just off base. People that have experience in extreme environments have reason to be wary of anything such as this. To use another analogy, its akin to taking pain medication to run with an injury. It would be irresponsible to say that such medication "would make doctors obsolete". In other words, by treating a syptom (pain) and not the problem (injury), you may actually be increasing risk (further, more severe injury). The concept of a personal cooling system itself is not science fiction or without merit. Its actually rooted in golden era of the space program. But there are resons the Apollo solutions did not look like this.
Exactly this. We don't teach what we want people to know as adults, unless you realize many politicians would rather have ignorant populous they can lie to with impunity. We should teach basic economics from early years until they graduate and can't be fooled any more.
I actually didn't write this, Layla Foord at Envato is the OP.

I found the post particularly interesting because I am going through the same exact process at HubSpot in Cambridge.

I'm planning on writing a blog post next week on the pros and cons of a "startup within a startup". Would love to chat and share ideas, Ry. My email is in my profile if you want to reach out.
I agree with you for the most part, but I think the point the author's trying to make is that "poor" people may not see it that way; instead, to them, lavish riches create a sense of belonging.
Really? Why?

Edit: Or were you being sarcastic? I'm used to Internet People saying silly things, but "failure to conform must be punished" is such a bizarre opinion to see on Hacker News of all places that I'm not sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

My understanding is that schemes that would be resistant to quantum attacks are much less efficient, and have more negative tradeoffs, than the systems in use today. Speed is an important property for a most cryptography, so few people would adopt such a system until the threat seems more pressing.
According to his example in the first few paragraphs, he calls "Smalltalk and Lisp" modern and "Perl and Unix" postmodern, so the postmodern view would correspond to the "Worse is Better" ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=worse+is+better ) approach.
"Let them come, and they will build it." :)
I've got noscript running, so I didn't see it. Goes nicely with my point though - treat your readers with respect. Some crowds are more sensitive to it than others, but even those who don't notice any foul play shouldn't have their ignorance abused?

Of course some people will want easy ways to do things, which I completely understand. It's just normally the case of someone trying to drum up business, rather than millions of users wanting easier access to that person/service.
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't think her arguments are very strong.

I personally think people make bad decisions to buy things or do things not on the premise of it being an "investment", but because most of us are very weak.

We do the things we do because we are victims to advertising and peer pressure. You think they spend billions on advertising for nothing?

If you read this and you are thinking, "No I am not." You are 1) in denial 2) above average. If you are above average, then you should realize averages exist because half of the people are below it.
Poor in urban areas = Democrat

Poor in rural areas = Republican
I consider myself poor, and although I vote for a third-party I do vote against programs that would help me financially. I do so because I consider them unfair to others and poor government, so on principle, I vote against my own financial interests at times.
>unison

The forgotten gem.

It was a poster child for OCaml. Didn't get the attention it deserved.
Google's Original X-Man: A Conversation With Sebastian Thrun
Way cool to hear about this just down the street! The north end of Seattle is lacking for co-working spaces.

That DevLocal is hosting the Open Device Lab[1] may be just as exciting. Wishing you all the best of success!

[1] http://seattle-odl.org/
I Never said no one has built business logic in Node.js.

I'm also not sure where you implied that I've dismissed Node, because I most certainly haven't. In fact I have several Node applications in production at my company. I'm just stating facts, and to be honest I'm extremely open minded when it comes to new frameworks.

But Meteor, I've been there done that. It's called JSF in the Java community.

Thanks.