skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yawn.

The only major thing we're lacking in Europe is venture capital.

All the other cultural differences (which aren't "European" but vary wildly from country to country), are red herrings Americans and European self-haters like to emphasize. But in reality we a) learned to work with them a long time ago, otherwise we would never have been economically successful, and b) those differences are strengths as well as weaknesses in equal measure.

Yes, the lack of a barrier-free "single market" is also a bit of a pain, but the biggest issue here is language and culture, not laws and regulations, and that's not going to change any time soon. So there's no point on dwelling on it, it's like complaining that the climate in Norway isn't suited for growing bananas.

In reality there are lively start-up scenes all over Europe, with more than enough entrepreneurs willing to take risks, more than enough smart people with innovative ideas, and more than enough people willing to work for them.

The one and only thing that is truly missing is funding, funding and funding. The investment culture is the only place where there is a suffocating risk-averse attitude.

(And most of those anecdotes about how stuffy and risk-averse European culture is are bullshit outliers. I can dig up a ton of totally true anecdotes about the US and make American culture look completely fucking insane. It has nothing to do with the day to day reality of living and doing business on either continent.)
>I expect the remedy in that situation would be to recommend that the speaker and offended person not discuss religion any further. The horror.

Let's not simplify and make a more elaborate analysis.

Ok, so you propose that developers do not talk about:

* religion (scientology)

* gender relations (meta-discussion about CoC, dongle incident, gender pronouns, etc)

* politics (gay rights, abortion, etc )

* some health topics (anti-vaxxers, homeopathy, obesity epidemic etc)

* sexual topics (the ultimate transgression)

Do you not understand the possible chilling effects of such policy? Do you not feel that developers should be able to converse and disagree without fear of being labeled as a CoC offender and a non-decent person?

Aren't these reasonable questions? Please respond without straw-man arguments about sexual harassment, as that is only a subset of the CoC
Someone once told me, "you are far too interested in what you have to say". I think that applies to this write-up.

I mean, it was educational and somewhat entertaining, but the lack of professionalism bothers even me, and that's saying something... Just stick to the technical aspects so that people can fix this as quickly as possible.

With all due respect, find a more appropriate soap-box next time. All the ranting simply caught me off guard in a 0-day announcement.
I'm a dev in the US, I really dislike profanity (especially in excess), and in most work settings, it's completely not-OK.
I'm not saying it should be "friendly and delicate", just not gratuitously shoving in profanity every other word.
As always, it depends on what you want to use it for. I say this even as a borderline Apple "hater" but if you want to use the notebook for running Office or the Adobe suite or any number of OSX- (or even Windows-) only software, running the Chromebook OS or Chrubuntu won't get you what you need, regardless of savings.

Not saying I'd personally shell out for a MBP (because there's nothing I need that is OSX-only) but most of my applications need at least OSX or Windows to run.
While Putin has many faults blaming him for the situation that lead up to modern day Ukraine is not right. The Ukrainian people overthrew their elected government lead by Yanukovych who may or may not have sought Russia's help in protecting his government. Basically a series of dysfunctional leaders led to Yanukovych's ouster and when they could not get their affairs in order Putin took Crimea.

So while Putin's people are likely causing issues in Ukraine it is just as likely there are many people in Ukraine who did not support the revolution and seek outside support for the last legitimately elected government.

TL;DR. the people of Ukraine made a mess of it, gave Putin and opening, and still cannot sort it out. Not the news HN should be showing
I quite agree with that statement. I can talk about the French case since I'm French but I don't know about Germany. There is a lot of obstacles for a startup that you will have compared to other countries but I would not say that firing someone is one of them, it's just that you need a reason to fire someone, you can't just fire them like this. One of the main problem for me is the taxes which are ridiculously high but the most critical point in my opinion is the bureaucracy. The amount of paperwork is so high that you need to seek for advices all the time, the system is really really over-complex, it takes ages for the administration to process stuff, the bureaucracy is really killing the country. I still discover stuff every year I did not know about, if you never lived in a country like this, you have no idea how badly it can affect the economy.
Does that run OS X?
It does make sense:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/16/5724952/companies-that-hat...

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/05/the-aol-verizon-merg...
It's not universally unpopular, I tend to think the people who would care can't be arsed to. I know I gave up when ICANN started selling TLDs.
I've resorted to sharing photos with family by uploading them to a 200GB EBS volume and automatically generating simple HTML pages that look like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>My album name</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My album name</h1>
<img src="/photos/2015/04/IMG_3895.JPG" />
<p>A caption!</p>
<img src="/photos/2015/04/IMG_3899.JPG" />
<video src="/videos/2015/04/IMG_3904.MOV" controls />
...
</body>
</html>

It literally took me a week's worth of evenings to scrap it together, and everyone in my extended family seems to like it. It's fast, simple, and I'm much closer to "owning" all my photos (the only intermediary is AWS).

I feel fortunate that I know how to do that, seeing what's available to the "average consumer." It's kind of sad. I have yet to find a photo sharing product that is not expensive, bloated, and buggy.
Seems pretty one-sided and biased. Mentioning Putin personally way too many times, unrelated to the proportion of influence that he's got in the situation.

We are engineers here, we know that big disasters come from a complex of different factors. Why do you think Ukraine is an exception, why continue blaming a single person? I don't see why this sort of article should be on HN.
Laws aren't all equal. Stealing a car is zero-sum: if I take your car, you no longer have a car, which is a very, very expensive toy.

If I download Game of Thrones, the outcome for every single person in the world except me is exactly the same as it would have been if I had simply gone and read a book instead. HBO gets no money (I'm reading a book), and you still have the ability to watch GoT (I haven't done anything to prevent that).

Sorry, that's not entirely true actually. The outcome is ever so slightly different because I contribute to a metric that content producers do pay attention to: estimated pirated copies of GoT downloaded.

They make decisions based on that (like the launch of HBO go, which is not available in canada), and eventually, my hope is that they'll realize that there is a problem with the way they're selling their content and they'll fix it for everyone.

(Meanwhile, yes, benefit for me: I get to watch GoT).

Btw, you're being unfairly downvoted. Sorry.
Is Starbucks Under Siege from Hackers?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/01/28/the-ibm-axe-...

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/28/looks-like-those-ibm-layoffs-h...
Is this satire? You don't think the ability to communicate well is important in customer facing roles?

>Pleasant white and native English-speaking staff in the front of the house, brown and struggling to get a foothold types washing dishes in the back

Pray tell, where did the parent comment mention race or even suggest it was a factor? Believe it or not, America is a melting pot where those of all races speak a common language.
How many of these DSLs are still in use as planned?
Impressive - rated me only 5k (USD) higher than I make now, and nailed down the other types of jobs I'm interested in.
If we were in opposite sides in a court case, and I were to receive Radio shack data regarding you, your lawyer, all the witnesses, the judge, and all members of the jury, would you be fine with that?

If the answer is no, then how can trading such information ever be acceptable when you don't know who in what context that information will be used?
POC of Akka Application in Scala Interacting with Hardware on Intel Edison
Shipping a product with sqlite doesn't contradict with having well structured code.

Also, it's fine to write a prototype to get to market faster. But building further on top of that prototype is dangerous, because it will become harder and harder to make changes to the system and still have it behave correctly. And once the incorrectness of the system gets beyond of what the business will accept, it's very hard not to do a full rewrite, which is often very dangerous as well.

Granted, this is still what often happens ...
iMacs have been shipping with ATI/AMD cards since 2009:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_(Intel-based)#Unibody_iMac
This post will bring in a lot of Russia's professional internet posters. You will see the parents and GP's talking points again and again. They will not debate or answer, just post their talking points.
How we used Docker when developing our site
Why you can do :hover::after and not ::after:hover
TypeScript's proposal for JSX/React support (.tsx extension)
The difference isn't that Europeans are risk-averse. It's that, if you come from a relatively privileged background and have connections in Silicon Valley, you can launch a startup without taking any real risk.

Speaking for my fellow Americans, we're as terrified of being broke as anyone else. (In fact, we have more to fear, because we don't have universal health care.) That said, these kids who become founders straight out of Stanford aren't taking any real risk. They say they are, to justify getting 100 times more equity than their employees, but their backers have enough pull to ensure a "managed outcome" (acqui-hire into a middle-management role) even if the worst should happen.

We are just as risk-averse as Europeans. On both sides of the Atlantic, there are a few people who naturally tend toward creative risk (who are usually socially rejected, there and here) and a much larger set of people who climb the ladder that's put in front of them, follow the rules, and get into positions of power or influence the old-fashioned way (two parts schmoozing, one part birth, two parts luck). The major difference is in the window dressing. In Europe or New York, that ladder tends to be banking or consulting. In Palo Alto, it's programmer or PM to executive to founder to angel investor to VC... but if you go to the right schools, you can skip a couple of the bottom rungs. The actual willingness of the people to take risks isn't any different in one place or the other.

Of course, when it comes to risk attitudes around capital, it's a different environment entirely. Europe is too conservative and cynical for its own good, and California is too optimistic (and thus prone to "capital evaporation" by socially well connected types) and far too trusting of the wrong sorts of people.
looking at anandtechs side by side comparison with the 2014 model, this isn't much a of a change.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9268/apple-announces-2015-15-r...
Prepaid funerals are way cheaper and far less burdensome on family and friends.
this is presumably USA specific but nowhere does it actually spell that out

We humans have a hard time remembering that anything we communicate has _a lot_ of implicit context. On the Internet, this becomes especially conspicuous because our communications quickly escape the realm where that implicit context is known & valid. Up to now, the way to deal with that seems to be EULAs written in Legalese.
> There is a saying in Germany: if you own a business you got one foot in prison.

So true. On the other hand, it is said (not a proverb, but a tendency in the feeling) that if you start a business, you have to become very rich faster than prosecution finds you out.
The Power of a Comment on Hacker News
I do not see a 32GB option on their site.
For several years, an AOL floppy was my go to boot disk for Windows 95 installs and repairs.
It was not an invasion. The people of the east rebelled against a government that condecorates NAZI SUPPORTERS. A goverment that oppresses it's people so much not even super biased VICE documentaries can hide it anymore. Stop with this bandwagon mentality and go see the light.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/05/17/i-switched-from-a-ma... doesn't inspire confidence in ChromeOS...
Yes, that is indeed a distinction that can be made, but in practice I don't think it is - which is my fear.

Quoting from the article: "However, the student said her professor focused on the beauty of the language and the splendor of the imagery when lecturing on the text. As a result, the student completely disengaged from the class discussion as a means of self-preservation. She did not feel safe in the class."

For this student, it seems like they aren't able to disengage from the triggering sections or treat the discussion as an academic exercise. Even with the replacement of visceral passages (an accommodation I think is quite reasonable for those students who need it), it seems like this student would still not be able to see anything but the rape.

This is certainly understandable, but being able to break something and examine it with different lenses is a key part of studying texts and an important life skill.
The argument that Slate and Pando led against Uber, and which the company denies, is that there's a high churn among drivers. The initial numbers quoted in the ads look good, so people sign up, but after calculating their total income 6-9 months down the road, and incorporating maintenance, gas, wear & tear of the vehicles as well as downtime, the numbers don't look as appealing.

Those same numbers are pretty hard to predict beforehand, since you don't know what kind of mileage you'll be putting on the car (and a car nearing 25k requires different maintenance work than a car nearing 100k or 200k miles) as well as the quantity and quality of trips (e.g. a drop-off to a remote suburban neighborhood, where you have a zero chance of finding another customer vs quick-and-easy airport runs).

Insurance is also pesky if your mileage is suddenly 3x-4x compared to the same period last year - sometimes they won't even mention "commercial transportation", but raise the rate exorbitantly to gently push you to a competitor.
Typically it's hard to do that when companies check against registered billing addresses for cards, or indeed card holder names, etc etc.

In general I've started just saying "No". I mean, I went to get my eyes tested and three different people tried to get my email/mobile for their records. I'm not even that bothered about surveillance it's just i'm sick to death of twats phoning me at work to claim compensation/buy something/ give feedback.
You can also use OpenVPN on port 443 as a last resort (only as a last resort since TCP over TCP is a bad idea[1])

1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2409090
Radical ideological extremism is harmful, no matter whether you think you're justified.

Yes, a lot of Russian politics are pretty worrying and negatively impact the lives of all kinds of people, but if you paint everyone in such broad strokes, you end up coating the entire world.
I still don't get what 'reads like its own language' really means though. Rake is still Ruby syntax and semantics. Rake just adds new methods - they're still Ruby methods and calling them reads like any other Ruby method using the same parsing rules.

I'm playing the fool here - I do know what an internal DSL is but I think the term is entirely meaningless when you really think about it.
That's cool.
Does Meteor actually make, sorry for using such a dirty word, money from something?
>> who, by the government requirements, can't take a citizen's job place.

The ironic part of my project is now my manager is under pressure because they want to start converting people to full-time and I'm the only one eligible since the rest of the team all have to go back to India soon.

In my 1:1 meeting's my manager is always frustrated since the executives want more full time people, but keep bringing in H1-B's. They just don't get it.
The idea is that you let a million flowers of innovation bloom. You shouldn't need VCs to pursue your ideas and it's usually recommended (Joel Spolsky, Philip Greenspun, Jason Fried and DHH etc. recommend against it).

It should be better in Europe because of the safety net and limited work hours; sure it's easier to be comfortable, but it's also easier to take some time off and work on a cool idea that doesn't have to be a revenue generator.
Tower 2.3 is coming
Remember seeing this a year back,hands-down it's the best photo management app I've seen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7101923
What Nokia Growth Partners looks for when investing in mobile consumer services
Meh, i will take a company that can do a low valuation but keep on going over a pump and dump VC darling any day.
Like other commenters have said, I would recommend waiting for a bit and working in industry to get a feel for how large projects work, and fail.

You'll know you're ready when they start coming to you ;)
Can anybody tell me what is the business model of Meteor? If they are getting investments, the investors has some idea of a ROI and what that could be?
Is this better than Kodi + Genesis?
> I disagree with yo not to be contrarian, but because you're wrong.

You're wrong about him being wrong. He said there's no one European culture, and you even agree with him:

> Of course there are still cultural differences between Greeks and Irish.
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How so? What is Standard General going to do to them?
Are you being daft?

Lots of people will spend several days together on a cruise ship. They will get acquainted, exchange opinions, drink, have fun, socialize, discuss various topics they are interested in. Developers are human, you know, not some wet-ware apis limited to development/programming topics.
Why I am a Russian Professional Internet Poster ? I'm just somebody with a different opinion. This is the sort of dangerous disregard for the opposite opinion that somebody like Peter Thiel would deem like a hyve mentality. You are wrong. Face it. Actually I don't think you will face it, you will just keep thinking like the maintstream.
I'm a little disappointed Apple, the new MBP doesn't have a top of the line graphics card, and it's still stuck to 16GB of ram. This is hardly a pro option.

I wonder if I need a #hackentosh if I want 32GB of RAM, and an nVidia 950M or better.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes

The problem containers are trying to solve is not isolation of environments (though, that's a tremendously good outcome).

The problem is how do you develop microservices that are self-contained, easily composable and inherently portable. It doesn't matter if you're running on Java 1.1 on AIX 3.0 or Node on Ubuntu 26, if I have a ball of computing providing a service in Dubai, and want to move it to Ireland to take advantage of computing space that just opened up, containers make that trivial (and about a million other scenarios).
Sometimes you need an outside Hired Gun--

Whether it's an Attorney, Accountant, Advertising/PR, Management Consulting, or some moron Recruiter. All of these experts will undoubtedly claim to have specific industry experience in the clients space. "Hey we get you!"

As with any 'profession' the good ones know just enough to be dangerous, deliver a modicum of value, and some even make a nice living.
Because Radio Shack no longer exists. No contract.
It seems that you can upgrade to 32GB as well.

For the iMac, yes, but apparently not for the Macbook Pros. See:

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MJLT2L...
I run transport mode IPSec on my LAN at home under Linux with racoon to encrypt NFS with certificate based auth. It was a huge pain in the ass.
>ethnic tensions

No ethnic tensions really happened in Ukraine ever. Biggest problem I (as ethnic Russian and Ukrainian citizen) ever had was about spelling my name in Latin letters.

It's totally made up topic that just appears before elections.

You can use spoken and written Russian almost everywhere including contracts, court, communication with government employees, etc.
One that nobody else has mentioned.

I'd suggest avoiding sending anybody your CV that shows you haven't touched it for 6 months. Change the date or remove it.

If you're keeping it, make sure it's current whenever you're sending it to somebody - it will at least look like you've considered the company/person you're sending it to.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the schema
If the other person is young enough, you can almost always get away with 867-5309.
The cost of the hardware options doesn't reflect the marginal cost of the hardware at all. It's just a price discrimination mechanism, which is why there is so much bundling.
You Sound Sad, Human: Computers are getting pretty good at detecting emotions
Your example is a tad ironic. Why wasn't the original system implemented in the straightforward way? Unless there's a good reason, your example is a pretty effective demonstration of what Dijkstra is warning about.
It's literally illegal to say it's OK to be gay in Russia. They are an oppressive government that is targeting my people for extermination.
I don't think we have any basis for disagreement. I say Uber wants to commoditize its drivers. You quote the article saying that Uber doesn't want its drivers maximizing their income per hour of driving.
If you read the labor department site on H1B, "not replacing an American job" is actually not a requirement. Highly skilled, yes. But the part about the resume needing to perfectly suit just the H1B application (which, I've heard about for years, and even seen it done) actually I couldn't find it in the law. Seems like it's folk lore.
Justworks raises $13M series B, hires chief architect of Tumblr
Ironically Steve Case just came through where I live. I imagine if I was there to meet him I would let him know that AOL is basically responsible for me being a professional software developer.

I remember building all kinds of weird "PrOgZ": punters, mass imers, emailers, scrollers, etc.

So much fun :D
Plenty of actual people are using the product because it offers something that no other system does

Workers are not making those decisions -- large companies that employ them (or consultancies employed by those companies) are doing so, probably for the same reasons that companies have been choosing Windows for 20 years, which have nothing to do with touchscreens.
Part of being a good software engineer is knowing when to do the "wrong" thing (implement something poorly to ship fast). But you must be aware of the trade offs. For early stage companies/products that are struggling for a market it often makes sense to hack things, but at a company that has a large and growing customer base, it rarely does.
Agreed, if they allow the sale then they are pretty much saying that you can put in all the protections you want in a PP and then turn around and sell your company making all previous agreements near-null-and-void.