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Saus··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
>By funding Mistral, ASML might be able to buy a lot of political favor, while having stakes in a company that is unlikely to completely fail in the near future due to the EU administration support.

With regards to the topic of political favor, this is an interesting read on where US government went to the Dutch government to pressure ASML in buying Mapper, which was at risk being auctioned off to China. The article is in Dutch so a translation might be necessary by your favorite translation tool: https://archive.is/jmpmU

Saus··on Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models
This was said on aviation forums after the whole MCAS situation, with the grounding and the checks.

Yet here we are due to a door that just flown out.

Saus··on Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
I've bought an Alfa adapter 10+ years ago because you can use them in promiscuous mode. So you can snoop wifi traffic, listen for handshakes and doing so crack WEP/WPA (wifi) encryption.

Things probably haven't changed..

Saus··on Sorting Two Tons of Lego, the Software Side
Nice work, I enjoyed the write-ups. You wrote that you wanted to sell off complete sets.

Would you be able to first make an inventory of all your available pieces. And then load a DB with (all?) complete sets and let the machine sort different sets in 1 bucket (starting with the most expensive set first?). Or how are you going to get your sets together?

Saus··on Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map
Fusionbox (Denver Colorado) is displayed in a Dutch Themepark. On top of the rollercoaster 'The Python', because their location is 'Python'.

http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/51.6468119/5.05352849... http://rcdb.com/897.htm

Saus··on Ask HN: Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?
I'm in sales (network monitoring, deep packet inspection and security). I've tried code bootcamps six or seven times, but coding isn't for me, talking is my thing. As you said, the frontpage is the day after tomorrows news in my industry. Just because I read HN, it seems I'm very well informed. Besides that I'm a failed entrepeneur (closed shop after 2 years, now mostly wantrepeneur/idea-guy ;)) and I enjoy reading succes stories of others.
Saus··on The most expensive e-book
Isn't the affiliate cookie a XX-day cookie? Place it now, and if I buy a completely unrelated book, you'll still get the commission? Because then it is valuable to place those links here.
Saus··on Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers
Problem is that some of the Tesla chargers in the Netherlands have a maximum parking time of 30 minutes max (Picture source: http://baminfratechniek.nl/sites/default/files/domain-116/st... ). As the maximum charging time is 20 minutes, it was sufficient [claimed by the journalist]). Ofcourse I don't know if you can just move your car or reconnect to the supercharger. But 'officially' it's not allowed to charge more than 20 minutes.
Saus··on Linksys WRT1900AC is the spritual successor to the WRT54G
I can't provide any other options. But I can 'vouch' for Routerboard. We use their products in a carrier grade environment, for almost consumer-prices. The RouterOs isn't 'next next finish' you have to put some time in it. But check out the leaflet which features there are available. If you want a 'cheap' high-end router with some nice features available (SFP's, true port-mirroring, vlans and integrated hotspot functionality) Routerboard are definitly worth exploring. http://www.mikrotik.com/pdf/what_is_routeros.pdf
Saus··on ClanBase is no more – we are sorry
Don't forget Amsterdam Rob (Wob?), he was one of the original founders as well I believe.
Saus··on ClanBase is no more – we are sorry
Anyone wants to guess when the first spam runs start on the e-mail addresses from users? Don't know if the current owner is shady enough for it. But money is tight and the data is the only valuable thing they got out of it plus there are still debts to be paid.
Saus··on Sent $10,701.03 to Coinbase. Still missing bitcoins.
The problem what I have is 'fairness' (not just Coinbase, mostly all companies with customer service).

OP tried to solve it without making a fuss, without causing trouble for CoinBase but they couldn't help him and they didn't want to help him. Now he is creating negative press (exactly what you don't want) and see the response from last night. CEO probably comes in and saves the day.

The problem is that the people who 'behave' will get shafted, and those who seek 'social media' will get a prompt resolution.

That is a disappointing trend that with Twitter/Facebook only became worse (before those it was mostly threatening with consumer advocate programs on TV). Try it yourself, send an e-mail and a tweet to a company. E-mail gets a reply within 48h, twitter within 1h. Companies are creating their own monster this way....

Saus··on North Korea 2013 – A travel journal
For those visiting Beijing in the near future. Koryo has a 'day-trip' option to DPRK! You can board the night train at 18:00 and arrive at 07:00 at the border in Dandong. You hop in DPRK and the tour there starts at 08:30. At 18:31 your train leaves which will bring you back to Beijing (arrive 10:10 the following morning).

Don't forget to get a double-entry visa! At this point only 40 western tourist visited this part of DPRK! I'm aiming for a visit early January.

Saus··on Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Belarus and Iceland

  IIRC the one with the biggest fallout was some Pakistani ISP which fucked up a YouTube block order - they broadcasted the null-route to the entire Internet and Google couldn't do anything, lol.
I never heard the 'Pakistan shutting off Youtube globally'-story, so for those equally interested: http://www.renesys.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nanog43-hi...