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"Many of these founders have only "made it" in a paper sense. It's at best ungracious to be living large while your employees and investors are still sweating it out and/or losing money."

Is it only in a paper sense until what? The IPO? Many companies are staying private much longer, because it's better for them. Can you really say that a company that has a valuation in the billions, that, let's be clear, has been paying thousands of employees, suppliers, etc. for years, and that is choosing to stay private because it's the smarter move for all its shareholders, is not considered a success warranting of the founders taking some money off the table?

Not to mention the fact that lots of companies simply remain private always, that's a perfectly legit option although not as often used in the startup world for various reasons. Nor to mention the fact that the founders who are "taking money off the table" are quite literally doing it by investors buying shares from them, meaning the investors themselves necessarily have to agree to this arrangement. (Although admittedly, those are later stage investors, and this could be against the interests of earlier shareholders, but then they made a business deal with a company, it's on them to do it in a smart way).

I don't get why suddenly when it comes to tech startups and founders, the normal rules of business are suspect. People start companies and sell off parts of them to outsiders all the time, and it's mostly up to the parties involved to agree on the details that seem right to their situation. If they are willing to do a deal with a company that isn't currently making a profit, fine! That's their business.
Depends, if you go out once or twice a weekend, and travel a few times a year, with that 2200$ rent, only a 100k income will get eaten pretty fast.

If you're a homebody type, that's different.
> Otherwise, toughen up.

> If it was easy, everyone could do it.

It seems these two sentences are mutually exclusive.
On the desktop you can, I used Greasemonkey to completely customize the appearance and use the pieces from Fritz when I used it a while back.

Don't know if it'll still work but it did a year ago and it's a starting point.

https://kopy.io/gZy5n
Well, it's been a temporary glitch for, what, 13 years now?

Yes, Java will fix this eventually (although, doing this for generic collections would also require reified generics, no?). But, of course, C# will also advance further in that time.

The general problem, I think, is that the process that Java uses for language evolution is deliberately slower than C#, so C# can bring new features faster. There's a trade-off there in that there's also less breakage, and acquired Java skills take longer to become obsolete. Which probably has something to do with why Java is still very prominent in the enterprise, and in industries like banking.
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The most amazing thing about the Great War is not that people started out like this, but they continued once they knew the truth.

We are very unlikely to get as wakeup call after any AI War because we will all be dead.
> An actual roadmap to rewrite remaining C++ from OpenJDK in Java

Very cool. I wasn't aware of that. Do you think this will help introduce more "low level" features in Java since it is paramount to at least keep the same level of performance, and definitely improve it in the future?
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Of course they're not disconnected - they're simply priced in.

Everyone knows that if you go work for e.g. Google, you're getting a certain base salary, plus a bonus package (plus options/RSUs, plus free food, plus a lot of things). People consciously subconsciously price these in as much as they can. Of course if bonuses are variable it's harder to price them, but the same can be said of stock grants in companies. And no one can afford to ignore those - they can in practice make up a huge part of your pay package.
I'm trying really hard to see what price has to do with anything I've said.
I remember reading how someone actually did this. They hired someone from craigslist to sit with them at a coffee shop, quietly watch what they were doing, and poke them to stay on task if they got distracted. It worked out ridiculously well.
Well, of course, but I think the question wasn't purely rhetorical and deserved some kind of response.
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The difference is that I can make almost all the components of a killer bot in my living room, and the rest with of the shelf components and access to a maker space with tools.
You don't need to beat Google on revenue. You just need to make enough to cover costs and retain enough talent to keep improving your search engine.
World maps without NZ are such a common occurrence that I cannot be sure if NZ was left off of this map deliberately or was just forgotten.
You are already paud by your employer, you are not going to get more money or security from him.
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Agreed! Also, I don't quite understand this discussion. I'm very satisfied with Google search. True, sometimes you need to ask for "verbatim" results to prevent it from interpreting the terms of the query too much, and sometimes it's more efficient to restrict the search to some sites if you already know which ones are more likely to have an answer (which is, not often).

But Google works very well. Competitors like Bing, Duckduckgo, Qwant, etc. are really bad by comparison -- and I don't know what I would do better even if I had infinite ressources.

Search on a specific site is likewise much better on Google than on said site; if you want to find a family of products on Amazon it's much more efficient to search for it via Google images with site:amazon.com; same for Alibaba, etc. And those are companies that one imagines has the ressources to build good in-house search. Yet they don't, or can't.
Well you cannot innovate without experience. Innovation means to bring something new. You can't bring something really new if you don't know what is already there, and why what you want to do doesn't exist. There often are reasons.
You're probably an outlier, but congratulations nonetheless. For most non-executives in tech, vested sellable equity is a minuscule part of the compensation package. I've been in technology for going on 20 years (~7 years in SF) and my equity compensation has not once been even 20% of my salary.
The only feature I miss is Undo.
Would there not be an equal or a greater number of edge cases for self driving cars?
Because I trust Mozilla more than both Google and $random_developer.
> I also think blockchain, right now, is like the internet was in say, 1998, and there will be some huge companies emerging from that tech.

Why do so many people seem to think this? As someone with a background in crypto, I just don't see the resemblance. Blockchains are useful for proof-of-work and Merkle Trees give you a way to compress many individual signatures, but those things are inherently made for distributed decision making and this comes with a lot of overhead. The exact opposite of what a corporation needs.
Oh dear. I'm just gonna go bathe in my weltschmerz again. :/
What does foreign mean? Does all this apply to European elections?
Interestingly, I just searched for it and the results are:

DDG:
1. WebMD 2. Walmart 3. examine.com 4. Wikipedia 5. Amazon 6. some site apparently dedicated to r.k. 7. livescience.com 8. some webshop 9. HuffPo with the clickbait title you mentioned 10. Some kind of webmd clone

Google:
1. WebMD 2. healthline.com 3. examine.com 4. Dr. Axe (no idea what this is but doesn't seem to be purely spam) 5. livescience.com 6. Wikipedia 7. HuffPo clickbait 8. Some kind of webshop 9-10. Amazon

I wouldn't say it all spam, though there are questionable sites in top 10, but there are also a number of legit ones.

I note though "rasberry ketones" is not a correct spelling, it should be "raspberry". Maybe that's the reason you've got bad results?
This does look very nice! I really like the idea of using TXT records for meta data.

I am the creator of https://ForwardMX.io so I totally see the need as well. Current solutions sucked. However i dont offer anything for free :)
I'm no fan of Facebook as a corporation but they seemed to handle the election interference situation about as best they could.

The default stance for posts and advertisements should always be to not censor, which is what happened. When they were presented with clear evidence of malicious advertising and accounts, they provided everything they knew about them to law enforcement and to Congress. And now they're proactively monitoring for future attempts.
Thanks for posting this. The Jupyter notebooks (and the fact Github has built-in support for them) really help illustrating the concepts.

The book I've used so far to study is "Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty", by Michael J. Evans and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal. This book is not being published anymore and is free in PDF form.
Totally agree--I think the compensation problem is a direct consequence of the "respect and admiration" problem.
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One of the worst and shadiest-looking sign-up pages I've ever seen on a corporate website. Could that be part of the issue?

There are also some grammar and writing issues on the landing page, though nothing too bad.

The "THE ELITE 100" link leads to the landing page.

There's almost no information about or examples of what any of the core features actually do or look like.
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As a former solo founder, "just toughen up" is very bad advice. It's not something to just power through, and trying is likely to be bad for your mental health. Much better advice would be to get a cofounder and/or join a startup program or some other group of peers.
You can't really ban software. Sooner or later someone will write it, opensource it, and it will be on GitHub/piratebay.
> When they were presented with clear evidence of malicious advertising and accounts, they provided everything they knew about them to law enforcement and to Congress.

I kind of agree. The issue of fake accounts and pushing propaganda was known for a long time. It's only when it became common knowledge / no longer possible to ignore that they reacted. There was no proactive monitoring it seems so it had to be pointed out to them by third parties. A cynical person could risk a guess they cared about active users - doesn't matter if human or not.

They definitely could've done better.
ICYMI, there was some discussion on HN two weeks ago[0] around https://wiby.me/

As opposed to a search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for, I see as wiby as more of a "serendipity engine" that helps you find what you weren't looking for.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15633361
Interesting note from the page: "Some well-known infinite integer sequences provably satisfy Benford's Law exactly including Fibonacci numbers, factorials, and the powers of almost any number."
I always go to reddit for that kind of stuff.
Either site:reddit.com or !reddit on DuckDuckGo does the trick
1. Ban eHow (and the few other sites like it.

2. Ban any site that shows different content to the Google bot vs the user. (looking at you Quora, with your login required to read, Pinterest...)

3. Ban all the myriad of sites that do nothing but list out every possible phone number or random words. AI should have no trouble detecting those.

4. Ban all the sites that do nothing but copy content wholesale from other sites. I thought they had a duplicate content penalty, but it doesn't seem to work.

Do those simple things and you've just made Google search 10x better.
> I know I could join a coworking space but I question whether it's worth $400+ a month

I'm not sure whether this is available in every country/big city, but I've been working from Seats2Meet [1]. You can work there for free, and although it can get noisy, for me, having some buzz around me helps against loneliness and doesn't impact my productivity that much.

[1] http://seats2meet.com/
Fritz the engine hasn't been very strong for a few years, Fritz the UI (which also allows you to use other engines) is still the best thing out there for learning/play.

They seem to have focussed more on making the Fritz engine a good tool for human analysis rather than the strongest possible engine.

Not sure what the new stuff is like the last one I bought was Fritz 12 some time ago.
Well, you don't have to constantly be buying coffee, or stay there the entire day. I find about 2 hours and a single $2 cup twice a day to be perfect for re-energizing and getting some human contact.
Very first gut impression is you might be asking for money from people who don't really have any to spend. Freelancing is a linear profit model and so margins, and costs, matter. I suspect people only at the stage of thinking of becoming freelancers may have even tighter margins.

Second, the typeform signup form feels sketchy, and the animation on the homepage made me think "MS Frontpage".
Since you asked, I'll try to share what I've learned. You can become incredibly effective if you invest in the skills to become a better teacher. Usually if someone is not learning, its the teacher not doing a good job.

1. Test - before starting any topic, make sure your student has a grasp of the prerequisites by giving them simple tasks. Just because you have taught them the prerequisites a week ago does not mean that they didn't forget.

2. When you are teaching them, talk as little as possible. The only thing you should be saying is the concepts.

3. Ask lots of questions. Ie: What is an object (expect them to repeat what you told them); What happens if (insert 10x different cases). Teach by asking.

4. Set 0 expectations. If you get frustrated its because you have expectations. Many people have self confidence issues. Being disappointed will cause your students emotional stress and they will not be able to learn. They might start to avoid asking you questions...

5. Listen. Many times, your students could be saying what you wanted to hear, but worded differently. Their analogy could have the same concept as yours but very different. Learn to recognize what students are saying.

I can't emphasize #3 enough. When I teach, I never say more than 2 sentences without asking a question. Because you quickly realize that people have a hard time retaining more than 2-3 sentences at a time.

You should 100% invest your time to get better at teaching. Teaching is a skill that schools robs from our childhood growing up. It helps you sympathize with people better, understand people better, communicate with people better, etc., all pretty real skills to have.
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Ehhh while I agree that you should talk to your customers, you need real relationships, not transactional ones.
I regularly forget how Bayes works. Everytime that happens I browse up to that page: https://www.bayestheorem.net/

I love the way it’s explained there.
You can make a chemical weapon too, your local hardware store has enough hazardous chemicals.

We're only safe, because crazy or truly evil people are rare.
This seems like a particularly bad article, especially considering that it's published in a business publication. While the article does say:

Norway derives about 20 percent of its economic output from oil and gas. Finance officials have long debated whether reinvesting those profits back into petroleum producers leaves Norwegians overly exposed to the volatility of oil prices.

It fails to state clearly that the only reason that Norway has a $1 trillion dollar surplus of funds is because of their oil wealth. They are divesting from oil stocks due to simple goal of diversification, to prevent the Norwegian economy and the fund from being too closely coupled. While it's gauche to quote Wikipedia as the arbiter of truth:

The Government Pension Fund Global, also known as the Oil Fund, was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector.

The Government Pension Fund Global (Norwegian: Statens pensjonsfond Utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income is deposited. Its name changed in January 2006 from the Petroleum Fund of Norway. The fund is commonly referred to as the Oil Fund (Norwegian: Oljefondet).

The purpose of the fund is to invest parts of the large surplus generated by the Norwegian petroleum sector, mainly from taxes of companies but also payment for licenses to explore for oil as well as the State's Direct Financial Interest and dividends from the partly state-owned Statoil. Current revenue from the petroleum sector is estimated to be at its peak period and to decline in the future decades. The Petroleum Fund was established in 1990 after a decision by the country's legislature to counter the effects of the forthcoming decline in income and to smooth out the disruptive effects of highly fluctuating oil prices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...

The most charitable interpretation I can come up with is that BloombergMarkets assumes that everyone bothering to read the article already knows this. But somehow I doubt this is true, and that the authors were actually making this assumption. So why is it written this way? Spin, ignorance, or just bad editing?
There is almost _no_ information on your website about how any of those services you are offering work or what they look like.

I would have thought you'd at least make each of those 6 services clickable so I can see how they will look if I sign up.

Simple things like lacking a floating header so I can move up and down the site make it feel gimmicky.

Signup form looks cheap and nasty; if you're going to be presenting a polished UX for my clients, I would expect _your_ site to be a _top notch_ example of the quality you're going to offer to my clients.
Does this use amazon Polly?

Ideally there would have been a demo to listen to.....

I always felt that Stephen Fry narrated Infocom games like The Enchanter would be something extraordinary to play.
I would guess: we ban civilian drones from carrying explosives, nerve-toxins and other weapons; we invest the bulk of research effort in developing anti-drone drones. The anti-drone drones don't carry weapons that can be used against humans. Advanced drone tech would be less like nuclear weapons, against which there is no defence, and more like vaccines or antidotes.

Which is morally very different. Actually morality is an interesting aspect of the video/story. We had the bad guy white male presenter on the stage playing the good guy and claiming that his weapons could distinguish good guys from bad guys (and then of course the targeting of said weapons with a pitifully inadequate and unrealistic set of criteria).
Then came the crows:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/startups/news/a28...
Oh wow, thanks for the tip!
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> and the boss is the one deciding how much both sides get.

Why would the boss give anything to the employees then? I think you’ll find that the employees decide how much they want.
Although driven by their own policy, the fact that almost half of the new cars in Norway are electric/hybrid vehicles is incredible. I think they know EVs are on a growing trend, and they just get to see it at an accelerated rate than everyone else - but they probably believe the same will happen elsewhere, just 5-10 years later. I think it's unlikely that this wasn't at least a small factor in their decision.

I also believe that as EVs grow to 5%, 10%, 20% of the global sales for cars, Norway will increase its "hedging" over the next few years, which will show some direct correlation between EVs and Norway's decision to hedge its oil stock risk.
Time to censor The Economist for meddling with the US political process!

Speaking of, does Facebook censor Al Jazeera? It is foreign State run media that often runs English language stories tinged with Anti-Western agitprop.

Their drive to limit clickbait is at least noble, though we'll see what that means in practice. Some of the worst clickbait offenders are none other than the large US media institutions themselves, from NYTimes, to WaPo, to Vice and BuzzFeed.
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That was my question too - it refers to sharing ads with congress so does that mean this is US-focused?
however useless of a code someone writes, they might have had alot of fun writing it. Coding can be alot of fun, and everyone can learn it.
A java package is a namespace right? In .NET you can't query a namespace, but you can query a module (very rarely used) or assembly. Surely Java has something to query a jar.
Foreign means parties outside the sovereign state in which they act.
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When I click on "Investing in operations" or "Updating our policies", I see US-formatted dates such as "August 28, 2017", so foreign probably means non-US.
previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4634843
TL;DR Chrome lit a fire on their collective arses. They’d never have switched otherwise.

> Earlier in 2016, the Chromium development team decided to implement a change to Google Chrome, preventing access to certain in-browser features on ‘insecure’ (non-HTTPS) web pages. In practice, this meant that key features of certain products, such as the location-finding feature within the Homepage, Travel News and Weather sites, would stop working if we didn’t enable HTTPS for those services.

Thanks Obama, I mean Google.
Why can't you provide search results of reddit and HN threads while also serving commercial ads in an ad section?
Nano does what is does very well. Want to quickly modify some some file it is the tool of choice in the way a hammer is the tool to drive a nail. Right tool for the right job.
If you compare someone with quite a few of the ai bots out there (image recognition, chat bots), you will realize how intelligent they actually are. Every human person is like a super AI machine.
Agreed on all points, I meant "innovation" in the context of the study, which is certainly different to...well, actual innovation.
Nobody is going to give you their credit card information straight off the bat, without knowing exactly what they are signing up for.
+1

Reddit is a pretty good source of quality reviews for products ranging from niche (mechanical keyboards) to mainstream (MacBooks).
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If you schedule a meeting in the future you typically agree on a local time in a specific timezone. So the (local time, timezone) tuple is the authoritative value you want to store (you can cache the utc time if you want).

Just storing the utc time and timezone is problematic, since the conversion function between utc and local can change via tz database updates, sometimes with little notice (Israel is notorious for sometimes only deciding on the DST switching date shortly before it happens).

In principle you could store (utc-time, offset used to convert from local, timezone), but I find that rather unintuitive and error prone, since it doesn't cleanly separate authoritative from cached values.
This entire attack on immigrants in tech is pretty disgusting. I'm curious on if there is real data driving this, or it's just some ruse under the guise of "maga."
Damn, I'm a foreigner. Will I be banned from speaking about US politics on facebook?
I'm not a fan either, but honestly--if a presidential election can actually be swayed by "people buying ads on Facebook" then the USA has problems much deeper than Facebook. What happened to the five whys and getting to the root cause of a problem?

To any politician ready to crucify Facebook over Russians buying ads I ask: "What have you personally done to help separate money from politics?"