skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no low tax on salaries, that is a myth … and there is a lot of additional mandatory fees in addition to direct salary tax. Switzerland is only a tax haven for a very small target group – and someone has pay for these tax privileges, i.e., salary earners in the private sector.
We've been turned down twice with ConferenceBadge.com, once at the interview. It's now projected to make around $750 000/year. We were rejected for good reasons, it's definitely not a billion dollars business.

More recently we've been rejected three times with Missive, (https://missiveapp.com), still not financially successful, but starting to receive a pretty good vibe from early users + big potential.

I wrote about how we manage the two projects side by side with a small team of 4. https://medium.com/missive-app/successfully-bootstrapped-a-p...

Everyone is biased towards themselves, but still, I think we're a high quality, high achievers team that should have been accepted. You can now troll :).

We will reapply until we are in or until it doesn't make sense anymore. The value proposition of YC is that good + life is an adventure.
HN community, how would I make my core model + business logic cross-platform? I want to re-use the model and its behavior (like some data evaluators) in my Web app, on Android and iOS without rewriting it every time from scratch. I'm fine with creating native code for the UI. but I'd like to share at least some code. What would you recommend?
"Make electronics" would be a very good start so. Your basics will be refreshed, and then you'll be confident in the next steps.

The more specific (by theme) Make book won't explain those basics most of the time, they're more like paint by the number, which can be good. Still, being able to understand the underlying will allow you to change and evolve them.
It sounds like you have an insiders's perspective. From my very outsider's perspective it would appear that Yahoo did not manage to make much of the talent and opportunities it had or acquired.
If you mean CVE-2015-6639

The Widevine QSEE TrustZone application in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49F and 6.0 before 2016-01-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages QSEECOM access, aka internal bug 24446875.

then it's not strictly TrustZone that have been cracked, but some software running within, already patched. TrustZone itself is a hardware mechanism, basically a new level above the usual user/kernel modes.

But sure, this hack reportedly gave possibility to run arbitrary code as "trusted" and mess up any other software running on the CPU, trusted or not.
OT

The new diff script (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highligh...) is juicy indeed.

It is written in Perl. The Perl interpreter is available on most UNIX systems, so that's handy. I wonder if there is any Lisp-like language that is as common, that you can write scripts and expect them to run on most systems. Would be nice since Lisp languages have very few concepts to learn...
DNA isn't an API. DNA is the source code. The API is more similar to the translation apparatus, but even that's a stretch.
‘Demonically Clever’ Backdoor Hides in a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip
Goodness, fascism at its worst, promising to preserve your freedom!
About 3 years ago Samsung realised that they were having trouble understanding how to deal with free and open source software. They were actively recruiting people to help them improve on that area.

Source: I applied for the job. I didn't get it ;-)
You don't use any of the deductions or credits you qualify for? How noble.
One issue with the argument you presented is that a not-for-profit or charitable entity by definition does not have profit in its interest. For-profit entities also have the liberty to freely move their capital to satisfy their business requirements.

Although there is no law against a charity or not-for-profit deciding to remove funding for a program they, by definition, are not motivated by the money flow of the program. Sure they are interested in making the program run efficiently and that there is enough funding to begin the program and see the program through but profit is not their core motivation and thus, I would argue, are more committed in their programs and investments. Those exploiting inefficiencies for gain should be reprimanded by the system granting these special business types.
Or is supposed to tell that he is?
Not all the fields; both its Drama and its Robotics programs are very good, among others.
Everyone who has an EU passport (including Romania and Bulgaria since 1.6.) can / will get a work permit.
US News ranks it #23 of domestic schools. It has top-10 graduate programs in Compute, Mechanical, Electrical, and Environmental engineering with an overall engineering school ranking of #5. It has a top-10 fine arts program (#6). It is weaker (not in the top 25) for pure sciences and applied math, although it's #11 for discrete math and combinatorics likely due to the CS program. It's business school ranks #7 for undergrad and has top-10 graduate programs for information systems, operations, and logistics.

So, by and large, it's actually a fantastic university if you want to be an engineer, a computer scientist, an artist, or a business person. It certainly isn't "VEEERY poor" in all other fields.
Imaginary property is a bad idea.
Facebook Returns SMS Support for Messenger Andriod App
Nice win. SaaS M&A so hot right now ;)

We use Joyent for nodejs microservices, chiefly any server side DOM manipulations (using jsdom), and it's been solid! Currently evaluating docker container management and will give Triton a go...
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I don't mind switching between different contexts, I frequent the terminal for git an other stuff anyway. I think it is fairly magic that one may finally develop the same code for both iOS and Android. Huge productivity win, especially using Clojurescript!

I agree with the instability though, nothing for someone afraid of rumbling around in the RN source code to solve things like this https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/7720
Those basics knowledge are part of the first chapter of the Make Electronics book, and then afterward you'll get the full explanation about why chose this or this component. I can't vouch for them enough !
I second the ability to use a Lisp language for this also (Racket Please).
Search for burnout. People ask these questions pretty regularly here.
How to improve reproducibility in research – an essay competition
That's true, but you can grow a pool by progressively replacing smaller disks with larger disks.
This comment really spoke to me. To a surprising extent, actually. I love having some days with no responsibility, no plan, no compulsory activity. That feeling of freedom and effortless enjoyment is one of the most satisfying feelings I know. And, looking back, it's often been that same freedom that's spurred me on to learn/make things.

So, anecdotal, but don't be too busy!
+1 for this. I started using it a few months ago for all my git diffs and I quite like the output. The biggest thing for me is being able to easily see partial line changes.
Comment threads are not reliable for gauging what a community thinks. The selection affects for comments can be extreme.
Freedom to control what your group works on versus resources (high quality staff, compute, etc.) to effectively pursue that work are very different things.
Hmmm, you kinda confused me now
How should it go?
> Yahoo had a tiny team dedicated to mobile and she wanted to change this fast

I'm not sure what was the point of buying Tumblr 1 Billion if Yahoo had a mobile strategy problem. Tumblr isn't big on mobile.
If you use react native on mobile and react on the web the core model and business logic can easily be shared since it is just pure js. And you can use any of the languages that transpiles to js: TypeScript, Clojurescript etc.
Hardening Linux desktop machine against people from my household
Google praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches
While reading that article the page changed its font-size by at least 150% five times (thus far). No I did not press any buttons. There is some detection Javascript running that gets confused. Maybe my touch screen (laptop)? Page zoom does not change, CTRL-0 does not reset the size, so it's not me.

As for the article... I'm amazed this is so popular (given the attention previous submissions here already got). Well, I guess it's nice to have a link to point to for all the things that do not matter.

This sentence scares me:

> Rozovsky and her colleagues had figured out which norms were most critical. Now they had to find a way to make communication and empathy — the building blocks of forging real connections — into an algorithm they could easily scale.

And this is a surprise:

> ‘‘By putting things like empathy and sensitivity into charts and data reports, it makes them easier to talk about,’’ Sakaguchi told me. ‘‘It’s easier to talk about our feelings when we can point to a number.’’

and

> And thanks to Project Aristotle, she now had a vocabulary for explaining to herself what she was feeling and why it was important. She had graphs and charts telling her that she shouldn’t just let it go.

Really? I have to crunch some numbers how I feel about this.

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PS: figured it out: When I just touch the screen the font-size changes. There are three steps. It takes a double-click with the mouse - but only a single touch with the finger on the touchscreen. I can't imagine this being useful anywhere - especially since when you have a touchscreen you can also already do a two-finger zoom if you want to.
Anyone should be able to code any piece of software, any time, and offer it free for download, without it being illegal.
Is there already a pre-built package for MacOSX?
QML is basically a JavaScript superset ?
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Things are far too out of hand, my friend.
Trustzone is different, although it can be used to wall things off from the user (and their viruses) it's more of a secure hypervisor, or way of constructing a TPM-equivalent that shares chip resources.

If you have control over the boot process on an ARM chip, you don't have to enable Trustzone.
Yeah, but they're difficult to monetize as part of a general-purpose site like Tumblr.
Why did they shut down all the apps/software that they acquired? Why not simply to continue with the service like they did with tumblr?
Don't take me wrong - TCS is an important discipline, with both interesting practical and theoretical results.

The only thing I am criticizing here is the _metaphysical_ implications of computational complexity classes (and also, jargon which is misleading for not TCS people - e.g. O(n^100) s not "efficient" or "fast"). Furthermore, as you pointed, some problems have practical solutions which usually work efficiently, even if not always or give approximate, but still - useful, solution.

> There have been plenty of results that stand to be very physically relevant

What I meant was not "can be applied to physical systems" (I agree!), but "is a foundation for physical laws" (I am highly skeptical and I am yet to see an example).

(Though, to be honest, I was more in quantum info that quantum computing; and right now I am more into... quantum JavaScript: http://quantumgame.io/)
QML has always had it, as far as I know. It makes for a little pause when loading an application as the logic is compiled. I'm not sure what other markup languages have done this, though.

They do have a Qt Quick compiler though which removes the need to JIT the user interface; maybe next release it'll see the light of day on the open-source side of things.
can anybody help in adding submodule in my project https://github.com/amitshekhariitbhu/AndroidNetworking using new git 2.9
Barça is only used for the football team, the city is Barcelona, Bcn (for short) or "down there" if you are not in the area but still in Catalonia
Yeah I'm going to give vscode a shot.
Netflix did not create a New World.
There are plenty of existing software outsourcing companies. For your argument to make sense you'll need to explain why FB doesn't use them already if cost control is his motivation here.
Drapetomania, or the Disease Causing Negroes to Run Away (1851)
I use FastSpring for managing BugMuncher's subscription payments. It works really well, and it's great not having to worry about VAT.

Having said that, as revenue grows I'll be looking into just doing it manually with Stripe. Partly because FastSpring takes a much bigger cut than most other payment providers, but also because their payment pages are a bit shit.
"The story of computing begins roughly 4000 years ago..."
I get triggered when people say they get triggered by things.
Oh no, what should I do...
Point is: everything can be counted as bad or good.

If he does some charity, it's a non-democratic way to give money to the poor, which is frowned upon by many.

If he would give the money to the government, which will spent it in a democratic way, people are also unhappy, because of all the burocracy that eats up money for dumb things.
No, that thread was talking about it being positive for Tumblr, and the community thereon. Or at least not destroying it by trying to clean up the NSFW blogs.

I can't see any of those posts saying it would be great for Yahoo or its investors.
What happens when you take some body who is good in the UX department and ask them to run a company? Peter's principle is what happened.
We can't ban the government from doing what private businesses and people can already do. Otherwise they can simply buy the data off private companies who have cameras on private buildings.
Antarctic CO2 hits 400ppm for first time in 4m years
Thanks! Any summary? (I admit, GRT is not something I am deep into.)
Titles are important. They not only tell you what an article is about, but also the form the article takes.

Using "What" in the title was a mistake here. When you see "What" you expect mostly facts, mostly findings. If they had titled it with "How" I would have been more prepared for a lack of immediate answer. "How" denotes that an explanation is needed, and backstory is often necessary in explaining.

Titles are especially important on the web because links only have titles. There's no other context to which you can get an idea of what you're getting into. It's not like in newspapers where you have the context of what section an article is in or visually see how long it is from a glance.
Non-enterprise customers need not any of those. Hence they should be allowed to turn ME off if they wish so. That ME thing actually mean i don't have full control of my computer anymore. Anybody can access my hardware even when its turned off. Scary sh*t.
They are. In general it Facebook open sources something it means they use it.
As a Romanian, that sounds great! Does the Swiss tech scene have any life in it? I mean, apart from Google's offices and the like (I would personally like to avoid big corporations, mostly). I'm asking because as seen from Eastern Europe industrial powerhouses like Germany and Northern Italy look like they're at least 10-15 years back when it comes to IT (Berlin excluded).
> I think there was some email about a free hosting account I could theoretically use with some company, but I never looked into it.

We were offered either one or three free years of hosting on a Joyent SmartMachine, depending on what your initial investment was. After this free trial, you would be converted to a regular customer.

Adding my voice to the bitter-parade. Joyent wouldn't be where they are today without us early bootstrap investors. It was basically a Kickstarter campaign before Kickstarter existed. Not only do I feel like I failed to receive my early investor benefits, but WORSE off was how the whole situation was handled. We had to beg and plead to get our data back. The company essentially went dark to all of their oldest, most loyal customers.
The most sadistic and surprising of Dahl's novels is the totally overlooked My Uncle Oswald. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/My_Uncle_Oswald

It is a real-person slashfic about raping famous men for money. (Freud, Picasso, Shaw, all by name.) Seriously.
Hey just a little thing on your website - the headline "How it works?" is a bit weird, maybe it should be "How does it work?" ?
Sprint doesn't exist in Germany.

I am pretty sure what my "Search for updates" returns as error message.
Great release. Submodules are bad practice riddled with problems, I think it wouldn't be bad to remove this feature at all, that way no-one will be have an option to use it.
There is so much content online, and readers are so fickle that it makes too much sense to me for writers to be as concise and straight to the point as possible. I read the article on the subway train so I didn't have much else to do but if this was a tab I was glancing over at work I wouldn't have made it past the first paragraph.
That´s correct. Please see the privacy document here: http://77.66.117.45/~blipsyst//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Bl...
> If you are smart, you can build a core of your business and then let yourself be acquihired by the big players if you wish to, why bother with employment at Google unless it's your first job outside university?

Because if you care more about tech than about building products, startups suck. It's a whole culture based on wasting money with inefficient technology (cough cloud) at a ridiculously small scale, both in usage and in complexity.

I've had 20% projects at Google that I spent a few weeks working on and likely handle more traffic than a whole batch of YC backed startups.
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Berkeley-EDX: Data Science and Engineering with Apache Spark
Where are these top10 crowd-funded PCs now?
Maybe I'm missing something, but that link doesn't say commit.verbose is true by default, it just documents the new setting you can set.
A few weeks ago, when I was struggling with focusing, HNers had a lot of advice which I tried to take, including to try out the pomodoro technique (set a timer for a task, give yourself a break at the end of it). Others also suggested setting a timer for a task and sticking to it, or creating a work plan for the day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11804035

After two weeks of using it that technique, I found the number of hours I've spent on working, both on projects and on hobbies increased by 6x. Even my weekends feel a lot more productive in terms of getting certain fun project I want done. And I reduced the number of hours on social media, YouTube, and gaming. I also spent more time calming my brain through meditation and spent a little less time on the computer.

I think a big part of all this is being very concerted in not allowing certain work times to be interrupted by e-mail/Slack/text or random thoughts that pop in my head ("Hey, I feel like going on Reddit/YouTube!"). And the fact that I was creating a structure where none existed before.

Subsequently, because I worked longer hours, I got tired more easily in the evening. So I ended up sleeping earlier and waking up at a regular time.

And then I never considered perceiving self-discipline as a muscle (as others mentioned in that comment thread), but by creating more structure via the pomodoro technique and just believing that keeping that focus could make it easier in the long run, I have definitely found it easier to keep true to my work hours even when I hit a road block.
You sound a little bit jealous. What apps / web services have you made?
Can someone say how this differs from 'git rebase -i --exec' ?
XAML/BAML/WPF?
Actually, since you mention Realtek, some of their gigabit NICs do take some firmware. I have a vague notion that it's not needed for the basic functionality of sending and receiving packets, but I might be wrong - it's been a few years since I dealt with it.
you answer mails aswell?
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Yeah, it's that bad... If all of your code base is C++, what do you think the mindset is of the main developers? The only compromise they were able to allow themselves to think in was... ECMAScript. Sad.
Maybe I missed it in the article, but why is this only present on x86 chips? How do 64-bit processors from Intel offer the same management functionality without this ME subsystem?
Removal of that weight would not be enough to hit 100mpg, as evidenced by the fact that steady state cruising does not get you 100mpg
For an influential principle or senior principle who is in high demand, none of these are problems.
Good catch, I've just removed the "?".
Ok, I'm no expert on streams of right-wing ideology, but grouping together, "1488" and the "libertarian crowd" is just unfair to libertarians. Like, sure, libertarians believe in an insane liberal-capitalist ideology, but they don't use jocular-sounding memes as code for "Heil Hitler" (http://he.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=1488).
Or somehow incentivize companies to follow an academic model.
Ah, sorry!

- "register a domain" or "register domains"

- "stand in the way"

- "these awesome stickers" or "this awesome sticker"

(I'm not a native speaker either, though.)
Since no article has mad it clear, what is providing the heat source here for the Stirling engine? Is he pumping the heat from a standard gasoline engine to the stirling engine, is that the idea?
SendGrid and Buffer are the two biggest I have heard of.

Surely there must be more? Otherwise either their success picking good companies is amazing or the program itself is a huge advantage?
With LGPLv3, the Qt company is sending a clear signal it's time to pay if you want to use Qt in a device (the industry being clearly anti-(L)GPLv3). It could be the chance for GTK, if they weren't also busy digging their own grave :-/ http://lwn.net/Articles/691131
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That's a really good point, thanks for the input. It's true that the tracking is off putting for a lot of people
Does anybody have experience with other cross platform GUI toolkits that are still actively developed? It's starting to feel like Qt is going to win it all because they are enduring (and excellent).
Interesting. I never had the feeling of not growing up in a tech friendly environment in Germany. It's traditionally geared a bit more towards machines than software but overall I think fairly tech friendly/open. Maybe it depends on the specific region.

Entrepreneurship is another issue, I feel like "failing" had and still has an overly negative connotation here.
Interestingly, Knuth believes P=NP. See his interview, in particular his answer to question 17:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.m...
Well, finance takes also a large chunk of Switzerland's GDP and thus is scooping up many engineers as well. Maybe it's not as pronounced as in London, but it certainly isn't very easy to hire good engineers here because of all the banks and hedge funds.

I think google came to Zurich because of EPFL/ETH, the very high living standard and most of all the rather liberal labor law. It's very easy to fire someone in Switzerland, compared to the surrounding countries.
Mainly taxation.
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I'll have to re-read "George's Marvellous Medicine", that was my first Roald Dahl book. My dad bought it for me on a journey across the Irish Sea on a holiday trip. He bought my sister "The Magic Finger", which she finished quite quickly and was impatiently waiting for me to finish mine so she could read it. She was 2 years younger than me but reading at a level quite a bit older than me. I was reading at a age younger than I was (this is based on our school reports). "George's Marvellous Medicine" actually kickstarted my reading and love of books, so I'll always be very grateful for that.
Any data to back up your assertions? It's often rated #1 best company in the USA to work for [0] and has a pretty high 4.4 rating on Glassdoor (from 4300+ reviews) [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Corporate_affairs_and_c...

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079.htm

Disclosure: I do NOT work at Google.
Fixed, the app that helps you fight tickets, gets acquired by a law firm