skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I would love to know more about is how European SAAS startups handle invoicing and taxes. Afaik the tax situation in Europe is super complicated and you have to charge the tax of the country the customer is from.

I am in Europe and want to start a SAAS service that caters to individuals and small companies. I wonder if it is feasible to do so in Europe. Do I really have to ask each customer where he is based, if he is an individual or a company and then tax him accordingly? Do I have to create invoices?

US based startups seem to simply not care. Even big companies don't. They just ask for your credit card number and thats it. For example I used Amazon Mechanical Turk recently to outsource some work. And there simply is no way to get an invoice from them.

Do European startups have a big disadvantage in this regard or am I missing something?

Are there services that abstract that away? Deal with all the invoicing and tax issues?
Since I finished school, my frequency of hearing that word seems to be asymptotically approaching zero.
Why is it not justified? What you you replace it with, or cut from current government spending. Most Danish on this thread and the few I know have been in support of the tax, which I find interesting.
I'd be concerned that these take-home assignments were really jobs the company needed done and were willing to solve Mechanical Turk-style, only with unpaid Mechanical Turks.
I agree with you. Growing up, I never heard the end of it. How housework was a full-time job. My mother chanted "men's work is from sun to sun, women's work is never done" like a nursery rhyme, or a prayer. When I moved out, I discovered that working 40 hrs was pretty hard, but housework was a joke. Right now I probably spend around 10-12 hrs per week, max, on housework. And the overwhelming majority of that is just preparing food, which I could spend less time on if I didn't cook. And housework is easy, repetitive, and requires no thought. I mean, I can do laundry unconsciously while writing code in my head.

So since I moved out 22 years ago, my hypothesis has been that people who think housework is a full-time job are actually probably suffering from severe depression and/or anxiety.
Sorry I wasn't using the strict term of fission[1].

This reactor says it uses U-235 which would be full fission similar to the US SNAP-10A[2] or Russian BES-5 RTG[3]

So yes the fission part is more complicated than a P-238 alpha decay RTG. Perhaps I mischaracterized the R&D complexity on the reactor portion, although it has been done before.

1. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/35303/alpha-deca...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BES-5
Everything Old Is New Again
You can grab all the PDFs with wget:

wget --random-wait -R ".html,.png" -r goalkicker.com

Or download the archive directly (Not PDF, data is in JSON format): https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z
India. We're not known for the thoroughness of our driving schools :)
> they think that if the programmer fails, paying 100 USD for "nothing" is a waste

This angers me, as it suggests the programmer wasting time for nothing is fine..
> No need to print anything related to programming on high quality paper

Why print anything related to programming at all? What's wrong with opening the PDF on your computer and putting it side-by-side to your IDE? Isn't this more practical anyway? (Full text search, being able to copy & paste, and so on)

Of course you can argue that some people prefer reading on paper over reading on a screen. But that argument would be a strawman: The original commenter said they would print this specifically for the case of a broken internet, meaning their normal behaviour is to read that stuff online, on screen.
Guess I'm an idiot heh, totally missed that
Suckers keep being born.
>There is no widely accepted model of what really happens on microscopic scales,

There's no experimental reason to come up with one - virtual photons work, which means anything else is at this point a matter of philosophy. That's not to cast off philosophy, of course.
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From the Wiki page, its all companies 'excluding associations and educational, government, or religious organizations'.
Why did StackOverflow shut it down? It was really useful.
Agreed. But I interpreted part of his point to be: seek out the perspectives of others to help you notice new details.
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If you listed universities, it seems like you'd have to list churches as well, and then they would dominate the list. They're not really "companies", more like organizations.

The page even says "excluding associations and educational, government, or religious organizations."
I disagree. Although I wasn't a military spouse or in the service, I worked on base for 7 years and saw a lot of things that made me think military service is essentially the ultimate cult.

They:

* break you down in boot camp to build you up in their image, with their values (esp Marines)

* force you to accept teachings that are demonstrably false (source: friend went to nuclear engineering school, nearly got kicked out for pointing out flaws in how they taught nuclear theory).

* control where you live, where you sleep, what you eat

* indoctrinate you (onboarding at my base was literally called "indoc[trination]")

* bestow status for pleasing the leaders of the cult (the career game)

Personally, I think the indoc makes service members believe lives and national security are on the line. Anymore, I believe the biggest threat to our country (and thus the lives of those who protect it) is ourselves.

I don't disagree this can be effective, but strongly believe the military is a cult.
No, Manhattan was not based around cars, and that's a good thing. It's what allows for such high population density, and so many unique neighborhoods. Allowing so many people to live comfortably and efficiently in its limited space is what give Manhattan many of its most sought-after features: The food, the diversity, the infrastructure, the walkability. We shouldn't design for cars and accommodate for pedestrians, we should design for pedestrians and accommodate for cars.

There are many cities based around cars exactly as you describe. They're okay, and there are great places in them that you can drive. But it sort of necessitates driving. In these cities, it's harder to just walk out of your apartment and get groceries, or eat at a restaurant, or watch a movie, or go to a pub, because things are much farther away, because of the scale of roads and parking needed for fast car transportation. And that, in turn, decreases population density, increases isolation, and destroys any sense of a neighborhood. It make far, far, far more sense to make places easy to walk to first, and worry about cars second.

I don't think you realize what NYC would be giving up if it were designed the way you suggest. Less intersections and faster traffic + all the parking needed would mean less people, less shops, and most of all less culture. Those roads have to go somewhere. It doesn't matter how many pedestrian bridges you build, designing things around cars means that you need to design everything at the scale of cars. Imagining Manhattan designed around cars and every attraction having individual parking so people can drive there is a nightmare scenario. Times Square: Gone. Street food on every corner: Gone. Small niche shops and restaurants: gone. Because people couldn't walk there easily anymore.

Look at these two satellite images [0]. One is downtown Florence, Italy. The other is an interstate interchange in Atlanta. These two images are at the same scale. Which makes more sense? Which would you rather live in? How much does it matter that driving is hard in the first picture?

[0]: https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2014/06/sprawl.jp...
> The destination building require a lot of paperwork in a very specific format just to deliver something. The paperwork is always a little different.

Automating this sounds like a business worth several million in annual revenue, easily.
It shouldn't be hard to make a statistical estimate of how many people have an undiscovered cancer of this kind?
I do a bit of consulting so I use a different container per client. I use to use chrome profiles but love firefox containers for that workflow.
I just confirmed with a professional IP attorney who has handled merchandise counterfeiting cases before: the buyer is NOT responsible if they were not aware that the goods were counterfit.

(Disclaimer: this post is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer even though I asked one, etc)
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That makes sense. The answers I refer to read just like a slightly annoyed text message reply to a family member who should know better than to ask.
The De Bruijn-Newman constant is non-negative
A word of caution; some of the microcode updates have apparently been causing reboots [1].

[1] - http://www.zdnet.com/article/meltdown-spectre-intel-says-new...
> Clearly something is discouraging women from enrolling at the college level,

Have you ever been in a 100-level CS course? Granted, it's been a while for me, but they're generally full of 18-year-olds who lack a certain amount of social grace. IME, most people are pretty okay, but there was a notable minority of people you just don't want to spend time with: annoying, obnoxious kids who feel the constant need to correct everyone around them (including the instructors) to demonstrate how frickin' smart they are, and who don't realize they're also surrounded by other smart people who aren't as annoying and obnoxious. And, IME, many of these people actively make young women uncomfortable with their advances and behavior.

There are still lots of liberal arts schools that are very much gender-segregated (Wellesley, Smith); I can't think of any "women's" tech schools. I wonder what the CS classes and enrollment is like at places that are more-or-less women-only.
Wow. This is awesome. Thank you!
I've long noticed this, it's easy to build complex thing with simple blocks.

Lego and Minecraft fit into this. I once got my old Legos out and suddenly had dozens of ideas of what to build. Although I could've done the same in woodwork at any other time. The boundary is the most important thing to fuel creativity imho.
Another happy Bear user here. Markdown, syncing, and tags all work really well.

The downside is that it's Apple-only at the moment. It's not a problem for me right now since I'm deep in the Apple ecosystem, but I'm keeping my eyes open for alternatives that are as polished as Bear, but are cross-platform.

Worst-case scenario, Bear can dump out to markdown files on disk (images too) if I ever need to migrate to something else.
US regulators charge three Bitcoin operators with fraud
A take home test is not as bad a whiteboard test. As for whiteboard tests, see "Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview"

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/embarrassing-code-i-w...
If you're contemplating leaving this world, that would be considered a crisis in most places. Look up crisis hotlines in your area and please get help...
Because of the license of the source material. I believe it's all originally published under one of the Creative Commons Share Alike licenses.
Have any of the other exchanges (besides Bitfinex, of course) that trade Tether (Bittrex, Poloniex, Binance, Kraken) commented on the situation?
When was anything there last active?
Manhattan is fundamentally limited by space, not sure how you expect to solve this problem when there is going to be more demand for this good than we can actually supply. This problem is only going to get worse as we get self-driving cars.
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I can't help but think that a lot of people say "tech culture" when they mean "San Fransisco/Silicon Valley tech companies", because these observations are a different world than the one I live in. I didn't graduate from MIT or Standford, so I wasn't recruited to go work on space shuttles after I graduated, I was stuck doing the "enterprise CRUD" type jobs that I didn't even realize I was supposed to hate (I was grateful to have the sort of job that let me sit in an air conditioned office and drink coffee all day). I spent four years in central Illinois in the mid 90's and, although it's true that the places I worked were predominantly white, they were also completely gender-balanced - I didn't do a headcount, but it sure looked like there were as many women there, doing technical-type jobs, as there were men. In the late 90's I moved down to north Texas and there was a shocking demographic shift in the sorts of tech companies I worked at. I've been here now for 20 years across five different employers and without exception they've all been pretty much gender balanced, but _dominated_ by Indians. So maybe 60/40 men vs. women but 95/5 Indians vs. anybody else. So it seems a little strange for me to hear somebody say that women are, say, 10% less represented in the "tech industry" than they ought to be and say that this is evidence of a vast conspiracy while ignoring what seems to me to be the elephant in the room.
> Not as a defense of Google, but what's so wrong about Google not contacting FreeBSD? It's obvious that not all operating system vendors could be contacted (should they be contacting small hobbyist operating system projects? What about small niche commercial ones?), so choices of who to contact and when had to be made.

> I understand why BSD devs are upset, but the complaining comes across as exactly what it is, whining they didn't get treated like the big boys. It sucks. Linux used to be right there with you, and neither got any special treatment, but times have changed.

Not notifying the FreeBSD devs is bad for the entire internet. The Netflix open connect CDN is FreeBSD and pushes 37% of North American downstream traffic[1]. Limelight one of the big CDN providers use FreeBSD for it's edge network[2]. Some of the DNS servers for .com and .net are FreeBSD[3] Juniper routers run FreeBSD[4] PS4s run a modified FreeBSD[5], the Apache foundation runs a lot of there infrastructure on FreeBSD[6]. Whatsapp with it's billion plus users run on FreeBSD servers[7].

None of those things should be vulnerable to known bugs if we want a safer internet. So notifying the FreeBSD devs 6 months late did the entire internet a disservice regardless if you use FreeBSD directly or not.

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/20/netflix-boasts-37-...

[2] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonial/limelight-netw...

[3] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonial/verisign/

[4] https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/con...

[5] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/16/sony_playstation_4_...

[6] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonial/the-apache-sof...

[7] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonial/whatsapp/
A long, deep struggle with God. I've always been a believer, but often a half-hearted one. Fortunately, I've been put through many economic issue to learn my dependency is not on myself, or other, or money, but Yahweh and him alone.

I quit my job, moved to Florida to support my wife. I had 50k in the bank, so I figured I'd be fine. We bought an old house that we always wanted. It passed inspection.

Then we found out that the chimney's had to be rebuilt. 18k gone. Found out later that the company that rebuilt the chimney's scammed us. They're solid, but not properly fixed. That was crushing. I prayed and found comfort in the fact that this was part of God's plan to say that my money will come and go, but I needed to trust in him.

Saved up money over the course of the next year. 150k in the bank. Thought that I'd be fine. I can finally focus on my software.

Turns out that a lot of my self-image was wrapped up in being the expert for others. I needed to be the Tech Lead. I needed to hear how great the solutions I made were. Now I'm alone in a small office everyday. Depression set in.

I didn't get much accomplished during that time. Drank more. Ate terribly (fast food twice a day for a year). Gained weight. Wouldn't pray much.

Then we found out that the house was missing a sill beam (true 8"x8" bean that held up 7 feet of the 40ft tall wall). I could't get anyone to help. So here I am with money, but that won't do anything since no one wants to take it.

After all this I finally decided to surrender. I cut back drinking. I'm trying to go Keto. I read to my wife from the Bible every night. I finally learned to internalize the song I've known since my youth, Through It All, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJ8JOzdjrc
Float textures were just optional back in WebGL 1[1]. Any new spec is going to lose in support coverage to WebGL 2 which has been shipping for a year now!

[1] Look for RGBA32F in the WebGL 2 and corresponding OpenGL ES 3.0 specs. Also documented on MDN's coverage of OES_texture_float.
Its like git fetch vs git pull
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Does it matter? It's not as if the deposits migrate.
This is my educated guess why they are not doing this. 100 USD for a company is like, nothing but you have to get it approved and so on.

Also many companies live in the illusion people are supposed to be excited to work for them or even worse they think they're Google although most lack the brandname. They look at how Google hires and think "Google is successful", so we just copy them, which will make us successfull, too. Well, this is a guaranteed way to fail because Google can allow themselves to do this due to Sergey Brin & Larry Page who turned tech into value, which turned into prestige/brand. This reminds me of PG, who wrote in one of his essays: "Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious"
Unsafe APIs off heap performance experiment
Linear extrapolation?
“Be in a timeless industry” seems to have heavy weighting :-)

Most are hospitality or alcohol production, it looks like.
Agreed. The Haskell version has advanced topics such as Free Monads in chapter 8 and higher-order functions in chapter 35! The author for each piece of content has also not been included, which means I have no way of knowing if the content has been authored by a computer science professor or his/her student.
Not sure... transactions costs could be defined as costs that need to be payed by either side to complete the transaction.

In this case, we are talking about a shift of surplus towards the consumer.
If you have a high willingness to pay, it is beneficial for you to signal that your willingness to pay is actually low. If there was only one price, this would incentivize the firm to give you (and everyone else) a lower price.
Instead, to get you to pay more, the contract proposed to you must be relatively more beneficial to you than just choosing a simpler service plan or a lower value good and bagging the surplus for later. This "relative benefit" is the information rent you will earn.
That seems like cheating.
Because that's how it was 10-5 years ago. One on-site interview for couple of hours.
I spent multiple hours on one assignment, only to have the guy tell me off in a 2 min email. Didn't even have the courtesy to give me a call and let me justify the decisions I made with the code.

If you want me to spend more than 30 minutes programming for you, that's called work, and I would like to get paid for that.
I wonder if you could order counterfeit goods in someone else's name (eg celebrity or politician) and get them disqualified from the trusted traveler program. It's not hard to get a CC with an arbitrary name.
Unfortunately, Capital exists to continue the existence of Capital, and once UBI is necessary for this, states will not hesitate to bring it about; Marx didn't really foresee its concessionary nature which has kept it going for the last hundred years, with no end in sight.
These journalists should just call their critics racist and sexist. It worked during the Gamergate scandal.
Imagine if a state had a law making it legal to discriminate against women. You might argue that would give the hiring company valuable hiring and firing flexibility. But it's probably obvious that, aside from the ethical issue, it would be bad for business to seek such jurisdictions out. Skilled workers (both women and men) wouldn't want to work there, and the PR impact would be negative.

Many corporations have been extremely vocal in their opposition to these laws in lobbying. They're bad for business because they make hiring harder, and it's bad PR.
The oldest restaurant in Europe is in Wroclaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piwnica_Świdnicka

I once went there without knowing the fact, and it amazed me. It feels so different to sit between those old walls, trying to imagine how the place used to be before or during WWII, or in the 13th century...
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> The poor person is still priced out in your scenario.

correct, but they haven't been taxed for something they can't afford to use anyway, so they are better off.
Not so much poor people (who don't pay much if anything in taxes) but middle-class people.
Why is someone paying lip service (which I interpret to mean they know their actions are wrong, they don't stop doing it, they just say some of the right things) better?
Complaints about the web site itself aside, I'd like to encourage designers to exercise more restraint when applying some of these laws. Most poignant for me is the misapplication and zealous over-application of Hick's Law. If you review the detailed link provided by the site [1] you will see some commentary about when not to use Hick's law.

Personally, I would significantly expand where Hick's law should not be applied. Examine the example provided that compares two remote controls: one with a common suite of buttons, and another with a dramatically reduced set of buttons. The site seems to suggest that at the very least the stripped remote yields ratings of "better user experience" from users. I would argue that such ratings alone should not drive UX decision-making.

In my life, I have seen the trend of simplifying user interfaces chip away at functionality in virtually every interaction I have with technology, and I don't feel better for it. I really miss the opportunity to more finely control devices and applications according to my needs and wants. The most recent technological epoch—focused so much on mobile devices as it is—has been among the most pronounced with its stripping of functionality (ostensibly to make things easier to use on tiny displays).

I often feel that this law is misapplied, perhaps subconsciously as an excuse to not build more comprehensive functionality. Why build a hard button that can turn on and off Closed Captioning when you can just put that in a menu, or better yet, not implement Closed Captioning at all?

(To be clear: it can be perfectly fine to hide infrequently-used features in special menus. I use about:config in Firefox routinely. What bothers me most is that, for example, the browser on my phone doesn't have a tenth the options of Firefox and certainly doesn't have anything like about:config. The argument this is because it's a small screen device seems hollow to me; the real reason almost always rings of laziness and contempt for customization by users. Sometimes it will be spun as a means to reduce testing time—laziness by another name—as if mobile software has had any track record of being tested more thoroughly versus old desktop software.)

Designers, hear my plea: Let's start pushing back on Hick's Law. Yes, in cases of needing a fast decision, a stripped user interface is agreeable. But in many cases, we're not acutely rushed while using our devices. Generally, I want more functionality from technology, not less. Stop using a UX law as cover for laziness and reduced feature sets.

[1] https://uxplanet.org/design-principles-hicks-law-quick-decis...