skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most resources say they make ~25-30 billion a year in revenue in Europe, and the idea that Germany makes up the majority of said revenue is a bit silly.

Did they pay taxes on the revenue they made in Germany? If so, I'm not sure what your problem is with them? Are you saying that they, a company that owes nothing to Germany, given it wasn't helped by the country at all really in terms of benefits, talent or monetarily, should have to subsidize a country based on the fact that they're successful in other markets?

If every country had that kind of a notion towards taxing, Apple would have less than 1M in profit after paying everyone taxes based on global earnings.
Full table of contents here:

https://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/ebooks/PhilSciAdventures...

Looks like I have some new bedtime reading.
That's not a refutation or argument but just restating your opinion in a pejorative way.

Just drop it.
What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes–And Our Ability to See?
Never thought about that, very interesting but not completely surprising when you hear stories of Apple and Google working together to keep salaries low.
You know, I actually don't remember if they referred to themselves as "Gazans". I definitely remember colleagues calling them that.
How do articles like this pertain to Hacker News?
Agreed. Softie > 5 years, dramatically different culture amongst the three teams I've been in.
> The longest chain is Bitcoin.

Useless pedantry that doesn't even map into real world use. The real world has shown your definition is incorrect.

Ethereum forked. Which ethereum fork is the "correct" one? Bitcoin forked. Which one is the correct one? Depends on who you ask...
I just wish the included adapter had a longer cable. The 6-ish feet is just long enough to get you off of a wall, but not quite long enough to move away comfortably. I assume that it's due to the spec though.
I'm a big fan of the book 1491 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JMKVE4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...) by Charles Mann.

It really changed my worldview about what the Americas were like before Columbus.
> Half of them are judgmental turn-downs - they won't return my call and never get back to me, because they think poorly of me.

I'm not at all downplaying your difficulties, but it may help to know that many people without felonies on their records endure this same lack of communication from perspective employers. In some cases, it may have nothing to do with the felony.

I hope you find a great job.
Sure, he rightly points out that you need a plan. My comment to "just quit" was specifically to convice yourself that it's time to leave, with the assumption that you have a plan in place.
The problem in 2008 was the investment, not the deposit arm of banks.

Bitcoin has had problems with both the investment, and the deposit arms. Most ICOs are pure fraud, and i've lost count of the number of robbed exchanges.
got mine from bizspark
Taming the Epic To-Do List
iOS 11.3 is available today
Proposed ElCerrito housing with 10 affordable units meets opposition from locals
Well, it's that spirit in the first place that gave us such polluted oceans.
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Link still points to this URL?
If they are actually spending their money on things to advance their cause then it is not a scam. It is likely an unwise enterprise and a terrible investment, but a scam is different...
Next time try clicking in to TFA and skimming the first sentence.
Serial is a popular podcast among the hacker news crowd. So a follow up on one of their stories is probably going to be popular too.
I don't understand. Who wants to pay for a random crypto? Am I missing something?
Doesn't seem to be updated yet...
I agree, but that won't happen until large tech organizations incentivize and reward maintenance work. See this related HN discussion about someone who left Google partly because they were not promoted for their documenting and bug-fixing efforts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241
> I would have a hard time recommending Scala Native over Rust.

Why? Scala is so much nicer.

> I would have a hard time recommending Scala.js over Typescript.

For this too, Scala is so much nicer. The base libraries are far better than in both Rust and TS.

> I have a hard time convincing JVM devs that Scala is a good choise over Kotlin. At the place I work in all new projects are Kotlin, and Scala is used for the projects that were started in it.

That sounds strange. I know Scala's got some warts and all, bit I still can't imagine Scala devs wanting to downgrade to Kotlin.
Beating a child with a wooden scraper is more humane than using a wire bristle brush.
Almost no one has enough savings to last two years. It's an absurd metric and enforces how out of touch the author is. It reads as nothing more than a brag.

Anyone good enough to get hired by Facebook in the first place is going to have no problem finding a job in two weeks, nevermind two years. Quit, shop around and burn some savings until you find something good enough. If it's not your dream job, stick with good enough while you shop around some more.

No one worth working for actually cares about some amount of job-hopping. More employers care about long gaps than about minor job hopping. Neither is a showstopper if you find a good destination.
Nice, check Designing for Empathy and Retention by DoorDash, it could be a good addition.

https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/designing-for-empathy-and-r...
This is interesting, and a good point, but the existence of harmful natural mutations isn't by itself a refutation.

The idea I have (again, perhaps wrongly) is approximately that harmful-to-humans mutations make up a smaller fraction of the space of viable (i.e. allows the organism to survive at all) natural mutations, and a larger fraction of the space of viable transgenic mutations. A secondary point is that this is because the space of viable transgenic mutations is not constrained by the prior state of the genome, the same thing that makes transgenic mutations powerful also makes them risky.

So, I am (or I was, anyways) positing _fewer_ dangerous natural mutations, not necessarily zero.

I'm certainly less convinced that there's an important difference than I was yesterday, though, but mostly because the _accessible_ space of transgenic behaviors is evidently limited by investigator effort, which does not scale, so even if the _theoretical_ space is larger, it doesn't matter, we're not going to sample it.
> Banks have better rates for new customers, sometimes actual free money.

Hence the whole cat-and-mouse churning game.
Meanwhile according to the fanboys in /r/teslamotors it appears deliveries are still riddled with obvious defects. Look at the rims on this brand new vehicle!

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/87wbxv/model_3...
What rules though?

If they’re not turning a profit there’s no income tax owed.

Just because he lacks the ability to understand slightly complex concepts doesn’t make them “unfair”.
> Kind of a bummer that none of the mainstream payment processors allow crypto related businesses on their platforms.

Surely you're not surprised? Credit card chargebacks make it virtually guaranteed that widespread fraud would occur.
It depends on what you consider normal I suppose. Its the 'devil you know' .. or maybe 'glass houses'. HTML, JS, CSS, etc, are all so buggy to where we have not managed to create a reference implementation for any of them (AFAIK). Imagine 100 browsers implementing the HTML/JS/CSS spec. Yeah..
Yeah, I get it. The first thing I disable on any Windows machine is the "search the web" part of search. I never ever want a web search when I'm using the Windows search box. That default behavior drove me nuts.

The only thing I really use it for is launching apps (via the Windows key), in the way I used to use a hot key + spotlight on Mac.
Yeesh, the mindwash is strong. I had a hard time continuing to read this post after the Prestige by Association section. Working at a respected company known for cutting edge work is generally a good sign but it does not make you an Internet God or widen my eyes.

It is like saying you went to Harvard or MIT. That's neat. You are probably reasonably intelligent. However, even that isn't an automatic and I'll reserve judgement until I've made my own assessment.
Point taken, although there, of course, is at least one exception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_r...
I couldn't find a wire brush when I bought my grill but was surprised to discover that the actual grill plates were "Porcelain-enameled cast-iron". I just dump them into the sink and let them soak every couple of weeks and they basically come out nearly spotless.

However, I don't normally clean them except for using a plastic brush when they are cold—mostly to get rid of the big pieces. I rather like the "seasoning" :)
Is it really? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-usa/uber-boss-says-u...
That's not the point. A software engineer would work perfectly well for the example in the parent post.
Awesome, I'll check it now, thank you so much
I'd love to hear from someone who has implemented this in production. Seems like really cool tech, but haven't had a chance to use it on a project yet.
Yes, that's very true of course. I came from a large enterprise company (100,000+ employees) so I know it's really only your immediate team culture that matters.

I joined Microsoft Canada. Perhaps Corp HQ is different, but here in the sub it quickly became clear that a culture of fear and CYA is alive and well. There are dozens of meetings where the primary objective is to make sure that the organizer doesn't get blamed for stuff.

Honestly, what blew me away even more was the terrible quality of execution. It's 2018, and apparently it's impossible to embed a reg form into a page. Everyone agrees that we should do it, but no one is willing to take responsibility. I tried, but multiple teams agreed that it's not my job to do it - it's not their job either, apparently, but it's definitely not mine!

I'm sure Microsoft is a great place to work (I was excited to join as well), and maybe I just got really unlucky with my manager, but the idea of spending my days writing emails for CYA and not focusing on a great customer experience is not my idea of what I want from a job.

Another anecdote - planning and strategy is done by FTE (full time employees), but the execution is often left to vendors - and no one really cares whether customers see a high quality outcome. It's almost comical how bad some things are.

Sigh, I don't mean this to be a rant, but maybe someone else reads this.

At the end of the day, no job is worth being unhappy at - or worth compromising your own personal integrity (to be clear - here I mean my desire to provide great customer experiences - MS is a very ethical and honest company in my experience)
> It took double entry accounting hundreds of years to spread around the world, why would you expect triple entry accounting to take over any faster?

Here in modern times information moves orders of magnitude faster than when double entry accounting was invented.

By modern standards, blockchain is ancient and has yet to move beyond its current use as the world's greatest platform for financial fraud ever invented.
Facebook and many many other tech companies are built on gathering as much data they can on their users.

Should people revolt (hint: they probably won't) tech is in for a world of hurt.
I don't know if we know one another, but the same here: quit my job of many years at Apple (engineering, very good rank, loved Apple) because I also wasn't able to apply my technical skills, and transferring to another department is really hard to time such that it works.
Competition will solve that. It becomes a problem when you have no effective alternative.
They need it, but they sometimes don't realize it.

Personally I had trouble selling it but that's probably my fault. One had "clear text passwords of C-execs" before it got any attention and rewrites.
It's a bit disconcerting to see the apparent narrow mindedness of educated, technical people in regards to the forced windows update system. Linux's way of manual updating is better than windows, only because the only people using Linux are capable of understanding security issues and will update as soon as is is convenient.

The majority of the windows user base is of people who do not understand and maybe do not want to understand the security issues. Windows had the option to manually control the update process in windows 7. The HN demographic updates on time, grandma and the guy in accounting don't. They won't update until a major security issue reaches the mainstream. Even then the majority don't update simply because unlike us, they do not have the knowledge to do so.

Microsoft had to make a hard choice, and they made the hard choice. That hard choice is the reason 98% of wannacry infections were on windows 7 and barely 1% on windows 10.

If ubuntu somehow ends up replacing windows in hands of the general public, don't be surprised to see the same update system to appear in it.
I think you're clearly downplaying some of the risks the original poster notes, simply to make a point.

Nitrates, for example, are in fact quite bad for us. They're carcinogens according to the WHO (1)

It's also well known that plastic does indeed frequently leach into our food and drinks.

I agree with previous poster, less snark would be appreciated considering you are also incorrect in some of your points.

1. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/11/03/repo...
Other people in the linked HN discussion had similar experiences. It's genuinely weird.
B&W is easy to develop yourself, too. And good 35mm cameras are sitting in closets everywhere. They can be had for next to nothing.
I'm saying that there seems to be a disparity in the value judgements the HN hive-mind applies to itself, and the entrepreneurial activities of young women.

Go on the thread for yourself, there are lots of people picking apart the idea, but no one saying the creator is foolhardy for favoring an entrepreneurial career / calling him a scammer.
Chevy Spark
I'm a huge Musk/Tesla fan (maybe even a fanboy), but the idea of volunteering so Elon can earn his $55Bn bonus is unnerving to say the least.
A massive issue with Microsoft's college recruiting pipeline (this may not apply to you) is that college hires are placed pretty much arbitrarily without input from the hire themselves.

People interested in backend work get placed on frontend, people interested in frontend work get placed on backend. As a result, retention for Microsoft college hires is rather poor. Contrast this with Google where once you're selected you're often given a choice of a few teams and you can indicate your preference.
> In technological terms, it is old.

Really? This doesn't seem true at all. I feel like it takes decades for many good ideas in tech to get traction, usually going through many, many failed iterations.
I read that they're shifting from launching everything together in one single event where some products might not be entirely ready to launch their updates when they are actually ready. is this part of that new schedule?
> Being told something like "you are intrinsically amazing and working here proves it" flatters in a deep existential way but also insidiously creates a dependence on that validation.

Well that hit home.
"Volunteers"
How would throwing stuff away that is in storage make you happier? I mean, I understand saying it is a waste of money, but if it is in storage and you never look at it or even think about it really, how would it make you happier for it to not be there?
"Software development companies are often willing to hire developers who need a lot of guidance and direction." Is it in US? As a developer with 1 year of experience I find most of the companies are looking for only junior(3-5 years) or mid(5 - 7years) or senior(7+ years) of experience.
Beyond 2 years salary in savings, one should also factor in the cost of medical insurance. One bad accident or illness will eat that savings account in a heartbeat.
what a stupid title. How is it different than quitting any other job?
Excel is Getting Smarter
As a maintainer of one of the aforementioned libraries, I think the amount of dogma the proponents of them have is a bit overblown. :)

At Verizon I worked in projects that were pure FP/heavy Scalaz, as well as working in scala projects that were basically java++.

Both of them were projects I had architectural input on, but depending on the teams comfort level, we decided upon what style of Scala would be used.

The language is deeper than some others, and while a java programmer might be able to pick up python in a few days and vice versa, there's definitely going to be more of a learning curve to pick up 'FP style Scala'. However, we had people who had no prior Scala experience come in and dive in successfully to even our most hardcore FP projects. As long as you are OK with a bit of ramp up, the disparity between various styles of Scala are a bit exaggerated in my experience.
Obviously the content of these young girls' entrepreneurial pursuits don't appeal to you. They don't appeal to me either, the target audience is 8-14 year-olds. It's celebrating a new generation of girls who are interested in business or entrepreneurship and want ideas to get into that business.

It's a new magazine, how can you say that a 15 year-old girl that does something revolutionary couldn't be featured? I'm reading this as, it's a new magazine that's focusing on the low-hanging fruit and could eventually gain enough traction to feature other things. Who's to say the lessons learned from these "girly" ideas couldn't also be applied to STEM-related pursuits (after all, a specific section is called out where someone pitched a roomba-like idea).
Yes. You are missing the viewpoint of a large part of the public who has heard that cryptocurrencies are the hot new investment. These same people have no clue where to start, how to get a wallet, etc. This looks like a turn-key way for them to make a small purchase and suddenly be "in the crypto game".

It is probably confusing from a business perspective to many on HN because it makes little sense. But think about it from the perspective of your aunt/grandma/etc. They get a USB drive (something they have a rough understanding of) that comes with "a bunch of cryptocurrencies". Some of these people probably think this is the next Beanie Baby. Buy it, set it on a shelf and wait 15 years, at which point it will certainly be worth enough to pay for their kids' college. (/s).
Travis Kalanick’s new gig
I don't really think this is true in practice. There is a risk to scamming, plus even with zero risk not every customer would choose to scam them (given morals/etc).
> who have achieved success through alternative routes (make up lines, t-shirts, YouTube channels) than the standard middle class millennial career path of "being born into the right family, liberal arts education...

You bled through a little here. The vast majority of YouTube stars aren't being discovered on the street, and the vast majority of kids who buy in to the promise never become stars. You're contrasting two largely overlapping paths while framing them as the alternative versus the standard.
> Did they pay taxes on the products they sold in Germany?

VAT is a tax paid by the consumer, not vendor or manufacturer.
zaggynl posts clear evidence that OpenBazaar is being used for illegal and immoral purposes, and instead of addressing his point you snipe irrelevantly about link aggregating.
Would you able to divulge the name of the company?
Europeans also had writing, which enabled military leaders to benefit from a thousand years of military history.

Consider that an organized Roman legion could (and did) defeat barbarian hordes, equally armed, ten times their size. That's what strategy and tactics will do.

Pizarro's swords and muskets didn't defeat the Inca army. It was strategy and tactics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca
>if for no other reason than that everyone else keeps screwing around and tweaking things that don't need tweaking.

Sadly, Microsoft has decided to follow this path lately too. It's truly terrible that this mentality has infected them because there doesn't currently exist a decent alternative. They'll just keep screwing things up just enough that other desktops are still screwed up worse.

Makes me want to give up computing and live in a cave.
John Baez's "Struggles with the Continuum" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.01421.pdf) covers similar topics in more detail.
It is all about density. Europe in general is more dense; if you go to a crowded city in the US, you will find similar sizes.
so is this good news for google+ finally? :P lol
> If your company's reputation can widen the eyes of everybody you meet when they learn where you work, your company has given you a very powerful perk.

But you worked at FB, so everyone knows you're just a PHP monkey. j/k
Absolutely, you can pick genres instead of just your favorite venues.
If you think it's not useful, flag and move on ...
But it is quite hard to think of a useful application for blockchain that isn't done better and cheaper by existing methods.
This is America with much less social safety net than most eu countries.
Wondering if I should just short TSLA. Already canceled my model 3 preorder I had placed some time back.
3-month training program by a company in US is unheard of. I would greatly appreciate to know the company's name.
I don't think I can imagine a situation where exposing yourself in public merits 7 months in jail and permanently making it almost impossible to find employment.
Can you explain why an explicit lifetime is needed in foo_impl? I don't see a connection between the function argument lifetime and the return value lifetime, as the return value is a brand new object with cloned values... I realise I'm missing something fundamental here.
I'm not fan of conspiracy theories but that's where my head has been too. None of the Cambridge Analytica stuff is as bad for facebook as the media is asserting, and none of the data Cambridge Analytica acquired is available anymore through public APIs. Yet the New York Times is buying ads on facebook telling people how to quit facebook... Either news orgs don't understand the real issues (totally a possibility) or are using this moment of weakness to wrest some control back from facebook after facebook's blatant land grabs throughout the last decade.

I recall seeing editorials in the past (not NYT) about how facebook is kicking the feet out from under content producers by making facebook the only viable source for content. Producers began promoting their content through FB to reach a wider audience, but the audience has grown in a walled garden and now facebook has total control over what content is shown and what isn't, so are now charging producers to promote their own content. And fake news is prominent throughout social media. I can see why news organizations would want to fight both of those things. Feels pretty underhanded if that's what they're doing today though.
The pay is good at a top tier tech job.
Yes, which makes the Gov dumb for letting them get away with it. That's why he became president, to fix dumb things (in his opinion) in government.
Yes because the Silk Road developers were just running a marketplace and bore zero responsibility for how it was being used.

History disproves your disingenuous comments.
Cambridge Analytica still hasn’t deleted Facebook user data as promised
If you guys are not a registered Money Service Business you should stop ASAP.

What your doing sounds like a jailable offense.

See the local bitcoin guy who went to prison for selling bitcoin in Florida.
Applying to Y Combinator
I’ve been going through the application process for YC and I really don’t know what to expect. Anyone here done this?