skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the smoking gun. This is what happened to Maplin as well.

In both cases the underlying business might be failing, but this kind of debt-encumbering buyout purchase usually results in a transfer of money from both what's left in the business and also the (bank) creditors to the capital firms.
Majority of students go for practical or practically sounding degrees. And those who dont are clustered among students from more rich families. The "students are choosing impractical degrees" is just a way to ignore actual economy problems and blaming result on students.
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What else do you use it for?

I also have a series 0, and maybe I'm self-constrained because of its limitations, but I use it mainly as a simple PDA in my wrist. Notifications, workouts, Siri, calendar, weather and messages. Works fine though a bit slow, but I don't mind

Are there really any other uses for the watch?
German news media of highest reputation (including Zeit and Spiegel) regularity report about political torture and murders in Zimbabwe, Turkey, Syria and yes: China.
If you actually read the EU proposal then it does not require filtering upon upload, it seems fine to perform filtering upon download. Secondly the proposal states that the measures should be proportional, which might mean that code is not affected in any significant way.
Relevant username is relevant.
Wood certainly is a suitable material -- in Germany where I live, there are at least two toy stores around the block that carry a large selection of wooden toys. It may be a German thing, but people here hold them in high regard.

Wooden toys are more expensive and often less complex -- perhaps that is what you are referring to?
I said this a little earlier in the thread, but I would definitely say plenty of students we work with already have some of the skills needed to market themselves and they'll do fine on their own, but job seeking is rarely a binary of you're either fine or you're not.

Outcomes from job seeking fall on a spectrum from underemployed to dream job and our goal is to help get you an outcome that's at least 7% better than what you would've got on your own.
So, is taking it private a way to avoid scrutiny while they bleed the company dry? Or am I completely wrong?
No worries :)

What does exactly makes no sense? Using WKWebview would be much more optimal, it is clear. But I stated specifically that I wanted to try electron. I didn't try to make it perfect.

And again, if using chrome instead of WKWebview, does not make sense. Then for what kind of applications would you pick Electron? And how do you measure the line where choosing electron is an overkill that takes to much resources?
Similar to Maplin: http://www.coppolacomment.com/2018/03/the-sad-story-of-mapli...

Note the use of an elaborate corporate structure which involves a company paying its parent company 16.5% (!) on debt.
I grew up with this feature. At the age of 5, that was 1986, I used my father's just bought Amiga. I took all of this for granted... So for a long time I never used a PC seriously. Around the time Commodore blew it, I looked into PCs and linux, 1993 IIRC. PC have looked primitive to me for a long time.
> If DNA is the ony information that makes it from a parent to offspring

I don't think this assumption is warranted. Human embryos develop in utero, not in eggs like amphibians. They are connected to the mother through an umbilical and immersed in amniotic fluid. Both the umbilical and the amniotic fluid are full of chemical signals in many forms, not just hormones. Human embryos (and all mammals, really) develop in symbiosis with their mother.

What you are saying is another one of these CS-centric views of the world that only focus on where the information for development comes from; that the development of the brain is somehow encoded in DNA, and that the entire development of a human is therefore also encoded in the DNA.

I've come to doubt this view, not only because of mammal development, but the fact that immune systems and digestion (the microbiome of the GI) develops in response to the available biodiversity of food and encountered pathogens.

So the view that we just put the little DNA program in a dish and feed it raw materials and energy and out pops a fully-formed human is just false.

Humans develop in cooperation with, and in response to, the environment.

It's a bit like staring at the code of a machine learning model and expecting to figure out how it works. The system (a human) contains a lot of code (DNA) but also responds to data (training set)--much more so than we ever realized.
Find the contact info of as many people as you can who operate recycling centers (in other countries as necessary). Call or email all of them to ask for an "informational interview" (basically, a chance to ask them questions about their business and their role, what the job is like, how they got there, how a recycling center works, etc).

If you contact 50 people, chances are one or two will get back to you. They'll know better than random software entrepreneurs what's involved in starting a recycling center and what your next steps might be.
The info-link to Magna is wrong. This is Magna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_International
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> But if Github's phrasing accurately represents what EU wants to do

It doesn't. It's just a proposal. Not all proposals become law and this one has "not gonna make it" written all over it.
Wood is the best material for toys. In the unlikely event it breaks, you just fix it in 5m and get extra good feeling for no cost.
No, the FN was the biggest loser of the election. Marine Le Pen showed to the entire country and her own electors that she's totally not fit for any government position. The FN is dead (even with its name change), it has not even credibility on what was it's main selling point a few years ago: immigration. Also while MLP advocated for exiting EU and euro, that's not something voters want: they actually vote for her in spite of that.

EU may have a somewhat bad reputation amongst some part of the population, the majority if far wanting to quit it.
Well I'm instinctively against this, but on the other hand wouldn't it encourage serious adoption of a decentralized system? Which might not be a bad thing. Or?
The problem is not that there exist people who are creating fake content and hosting it on youtube. If that were all, it would be (mostly) fine.

The problem is that gamification and engagement mechanisms pull people deeper into that rabbit hole. Go see what the recommendation algorithm does with "fake news" style content sometime. It'd be harder to build a system to "radicalize" people towards extremist ideas if you tried.

As one guy on twitter put it: "my dad and his iPad went from vaguely interested in the knights templar's operations in portugal to believing in ancient aliens seeding global cultures in the space of like three weeks"

I probably agree with you that there shouldn't be straight up censorship. But neither should youtube blindly and algorithmically identify that someone is susceptible to conspiracy-style content and then drive engagement by serving them a never-ending stream of the stuff.
GitHub has had no problems implementing censorship on their platform if it’s using their own values (see: WebM for Retards), so why should we care if they are now forced to censor using an external parties values?

I was concerned when GitHub started censoring repositories that didn’t meet their code of conduct, but was told it was for the greater good. Now the issue is coming back to bite them it seems.
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almost is not enough to make anyone care.

It's good enough that I use it primarily on my phone over Google Maps, in the UK
As a system administrator, I’m regularly amazed by the number of web developers who have little or no understanding of HTTP, the protocol that underlies the bulk of their work. Many don’t know even know what a transport protocol is in the first place. They know that most form submissions (or AJAX requests) should be POST and that some can be GET but they don’t know that these are HTTP methods.

I’ve had to teach quite a few people the basics of HTTP: a user-agent makes a request and a server replies with a response, that both requests and responses are composed of a header and an (optional) body, and some of the important information that might be included in the headers (cookies, character encoding, caching information, etc.).
How do you share knowledge within the team as you grow?
I joined a startup (11 people) not too long ago after working for a company that was around 500 people big.

What I noticed is that the company I'm currently working for is that there's no real structure in place to enable sharing knowledge within the teams. I'm seeing that most of the knowledge is in the heads of the founders. I'd like to see this change gradually so that everyone in the team understands more (and, in turn, democratize decision making).

How have you enabled your team to share knowledge? Where I used to work we used Confluence, but I feel like that's overkill for a startup and I'm not a huge fan of document-based knowledge base / internal wikis.

Any thoughts on this? Also founders: do you worry about this at all?
all science fiction, unproven theories,

where are the scientific experiments proving earth is moving? must be a reason why they invented Special Relativity,
search Michelson-Morley ,Michelson-Gale experiment, (professor Michelson is 1907 Nobel prize winner) Sir George Biddell Airey's failure, Sagnac experiment , Nordmeyer-Bucherer,
Trouton-Noble Experiment prove earth isnt moving. In 1986 The US Air Force repeated the Michelson-Morley experiment , published in the Nature Journal Volume 322. reproving the motionless earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7tIbwK0ulM
I would have much the same feeling if I didn't have a child myself. There are many good toy stores around. Toys-R-Us just isn't one of them anymore. At some point between when I was a child and now, someone cannibalized that whole business for short-term profit, and that seems to have come due.

Last time I was there, there were zero toys at Toys-R-Us I'd want to buy for my kid. That's not a commentary on socioeconomic status either; I'm pretty poor. But I can get high-quality educational toys elsewhere cheap.
People don't seem to understand that the entertainment industry doesn't just lobby in the US, but worldwide. A few years ago we had the SOPA scare which imposed draconian measures to stop copyright infringement, and those were proposed by the US. We'll have to accept that every few years, a lobbying attempt manages to get a concrete proposal to the floor either in Congress or in the Commission, and we'll have to respond with outrage every time.
Is there a stable Os for it that gets timely security patches etc? (Not that Raspbian does too well here either..)
I have extreme issues doing any sort of math in my head and have been like this since birth - I failed a general level math course in high school. I can't add 2 two-digit numbers in my head at all, forget multiplication.

However, I understand compound interest and consumer debt very well - I pay my credit card in full every month, I save for retirement, I actively budget. I've also had a career in the computer and Internet business for 25 years. A calculator solves a lot of problems.
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It must be increasingly frustrating for anyone in Brussels if every opponent of any legislation always starts with threatening the whole idea of European cooperation. “Do anything I disagree with and I’ll vote for the fascists in the next election” really isn’t constructive. The accusation of being on the side of big business is also insincere, as exemplified by your two examples of recent legislation that quite clearly side with consumers over large businesses.

Even this legislation, while misguided, is actually aimed at large businesses (mostly YouTube) while the beneficiaries (publishers and artists) are rather small, comparatively.
> It's a bit like staring at the code of a machine learning model and expecting to figure out how it works. The system (a human) contains a lot of code (DNA) but also responds to data (training set)--much more so than we ever realized.

Or like a Smalltalk programming environment, which consists of an image with live, editable objects, not just a static text program.
> I don't think wood is a very suitable material to make children's toys with, but to each his own.

I grew up with Brio railway[1]. I still remember the vast networks my brother and I built. 40 years later these same toys are used by our own children.
These wooden toys have stood the test of time much better than any plastic ones we had at the time.
In every regard.

[1] http://www.brio.us/products/all-products/railway
>Frexit seems to be coming ever closer.

All the polls are showing EU citizens are much positive about the EU after the Brexit referendum. Even Greek
citizens -- probably the most Eurosceptic -- prefer the EU compared to a few years ago.

What your saying isn't backed up by what polling data is saying.
I suppose it very much depends on how it was spoken and the emphasis. There's a fair bit of hyping of OBOR and a gratuitous name check for the boss in there. Bear in mind the eye roll was at a particular point in the question, not at the end, so it's probably related to a particular part of it.
I feel like a lot of people don't realize how much small changes can add up. For a lot of people living paycheck to paycheck, they would be broke regardless of whether they earned $1500/ month or $2000/ month, because their spending adjusts upward any chance they get. If you optimize your purchases on the margin, you can escape this trap much easier.
Very few dev tool organizations employ dev-oriented UX designers. It’s mostly the developers and PMs themselves doing UX design, when they have been evaluated and promoted based on other things (coding, project management).
I was really hoping to live long and prosper :-/
Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects
I am looking for writings/tutorials/videos which describe a specific technology or feature by implementing them, ideally in no more than few thousands lines of code (and not just 10-20 line code snippets). Idea is to teach about underlying technology by a hands-on project, which is not overwhelming like trying to implement full-feature game engine and yet captures the essence of technology. Some examples are -

* Build a simple database (https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/)

* Containers in 500 lines (https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html)

* Malloc tutorial (https://danluu.com/malloc-tutorial/)

* Nativecoin - build your own crypto-currency (https://lhartikk.github.io/)

I'm sure there are great such projects/tutorials in domains like networking, filesystem, databases, compiler, web design, messaging, game design, fintech, etc. If you have come across such writings/projects, kindly share.
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> I actually get most of my news filtered through HN comments and from independent podcasts by journalists I trust.

Hacker news is not a great news source. A very limited view, a very hash filter, an echo chamber with extremely like-minded people on tech.

As a result you get the frequent ideas that tech is the solution to everything (in fact it's horrible at most human nature problems), and the bias that the majority of people on here have been brought up with privilege even if the don't like to admit it, and are also currently living a life of privilege - most don't know what the world looks like for even the majority of Americans.
Googles was nearly 2 years ago though... Thats a long time in this field
"Breaking the internet" I suppose is just saying that a meme or event went viral.
That's correct.

A neighbor comment mentions the shape of the uterus, but AFAIK this only matters in later stages of development (extrauterine pregnancies happen, and are quite deadly unless aborted since most tissues are not meant to be invaded by the placenta).

Some of the non-electric signals are given by gradients of expression of the Homeobox genes.

There is also a process of mutual differentiation where neighbouring tissues cause each other to differentiate. For example, holoprosencephaly happens when the brain fails to (fully) develop into two hemispheres.

The most severe cases results in the formation of a single eye that in turn induces gross face deformity (Cyclopia, with a nose stub above the single eye).

The mildest cases result mostly in normal people with a lack of smell and a single top central incisor.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holoprosencephaly
Rent seeking has everything to do with trying to extract a continuous profit out of a resource.
This is pretty funny, because I'm in an incredibly similar situation.
From my experience, most of the development-oriented things you need is hard but not unrealistic.

However, "production-grade" is a term more easily thrown around than implemented, especially in the financial sector.
I assume hiring consultants from that is not an option?
And less fun writing them.
I think it's time for distributed git a-la bittorrent.

We should have everything sensitive in encrypted P2P networks and then demand that snail-mail privacy laws are applied.

I'm not expecting this position to be popular on HN tho, you can't build an unicorn on freedom.
> it seems fine to perform filtering upon download.

What that suppose to mean? My web service should be fine as long as I agree for the Government to MITM me?
As someone who runs a large filesharing platform I don't really care since we are already more-or-less compliant.

We already check newly uploaded files automatically against known bad content and stuff copyright holders have reported in the past. It's basically just file checksums though, nothing fancy.

I don't know what what would be "appropriate and proportionate" according to the directive though, and having to check code for copyright infringements sounds absolutely painful and vain.
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Of course that happens to persistent political activists, but it's far more likely that she will just be frozen out of state press conferences, boycotted for interviews and briefings and her employer pressurised to 'let her go'. A bit of general administrative and police harassment and obstruction is also probably in order.
Reframe it. You're not spending money, you're investing it. Spending $500 on marketing will get you $2000 in sales if you do it right. Spending $100k on engineer salaries will help you build a product that can generate $1M/yr in revenue, etc. This is why they say you have to spend money to make money.

Your raise size sounds like seed or series A funding, so chances are you're not yet at the point where money spent has direct payoffs. You may not have figured out a profitable marketing spend strategy yet, for instance.

That's OK. That's exactly what this money is for and why your investors invested in it. What they expect you to do right now is to invest that money in learning. Spend that money making experiments and making mistakes. So that by the end of that 18-24 months of runway you'll know how to consistently turn $500 of ad spend into $2k or more of sales.

Once you have that formula down you'll be in the right place to raise a series B round and build a highly profitable or sellable company - which is what you and your investors want. You want to get to a place where you can say "invest $1M in us and we know how to turn that into $20M in sales."
Whether it's positive is irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion. It's there, so not confidently stating a 100% certainty in the existence of God is not something Christians just do as a matter of being Christians.

For the two latter questions, not sure what you're getting at, but, no and no.
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Ask HN: Career Advice for Sales Engineer
I'm working as a Sales Engineer for a Cybersecurity vendor. I love my job especially the fact that it exposes me to the technical as well as the business side of things.
That is also exactly what I hate about it.

It's hard for me to know which side to focus on for my future, and what steps I have to take to get there.

I talk to my friends we went to school together in CS (I'm 29) who are now developers and they have a clear path of where they are heading. They are mastering technologies and have a solid profile as "developers". The only development I do is quick Python scripts automating some of my tests but I never get to build / work on an actual product or learn more about Software Engineering practices in general.

This is depressing because the only path I see for myself is "senior sales engineer". I don't see how I can ever have advancement to a more significant role in any company (VP of engineering ....not even VP of sales. I'm on neither side.)

My dreams to found a company are dying because frankly, I'm a worse developer than I was when I finished college 5 years ago. Day after day I feel like I don't have what it takes to build a product.

Yes, I get to know more about Cybersecurity (nothing really fancy other than configuring firewalls and explaining SSL and IPSec to new hires at our customers) but where can that really take me in the future? (I cannot found a Cybersecurity company because they are basically just software companies developing a Cybersecurity product. And I can't code competitively like I used to).

What do I do? How can I architect my career?

Sorry about the rant. I just wanted to get this out.

Any advice is welcome.

Thanks
As with most things it's not a simple black and white, good versus evil issue. It could lead to developers actually bothering to put a license on their open work, stricter enforcement of open source agreements, and, like you suggest, people looking at alternative ways of hosting code.

On the other hand, it would also mean that we'd be 'randomly' told that we can't commit something because it looks too similar to some other code someone wrote. In the case of Google vs Oracle that would be a relatively trivial, obvious-to-an-experienced-developer 10 line method. That wouldn't be great...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
What I'd like to know is did those firms make money (by leaving the lender holding the bag) or did they lose money (the money they spent to buy the company)?

Sears also seems to be headed down the same path, and I have the same question there.
You are making a subtle mistake here. Tyler's legal defence came from his parents' finances, not his grandparents.

Also, Tyler opting to become a whistleblower on Theranos caused a strain between his grandfather, who is a Theranos board member, and his own family.

So unless they resolve the impasse, it is unlikely that the grandfather will offer a helping hand (financially) to his son and grandson after outing the fraud in a company associated with him.