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Ask HN: Quitting a job in favor of a startup?
I am currently working on an AR platform with a partner. I also work full time as a full-stack dev at a large marketing company. Yet, each day that goes by I feel like I should make the leap. I am not quite sure how I would handle it financially but suffer from massive amounts of FOMO. Any thoughts?
No, it's unlikely if Tether was legitimate USDT printing would correlate so closely with bitcoin (crypto) market downturns.

The reason being, assuming tether is legitimate, for every printing they are sourcing additional USD to back the newly minted USDT. The idea they could so consistently find large investors willing to make NEW 100M+ investments while the crypto markets were in free fall is unlikely to say the least.

And it's not as if that's the only complaints about Tether. The fact Bitfinex and Tether has the same management; USDT pretty much acts as a proxy for Bitfinex to maneuver around banking laws; and that USDT supply pretty much grows monotonically are just a few of the other issues that suggest Tether is not legit.
Not quite. Since we know the markup of the chemicals of the universe we also know that it has a beginning and an end date or simply put that energy was required to set it off. That would explain that it can't be timeless whereas we simply do not have any attributes or what the creator is made of hence can't come to a conclusion regarding his mortality
Huh? A porn site company runs a porn filter? Surely the individual ISP's have devices in their DC that filter the specified things?

Edit, so after reading - the filter is less a filter, and more mandated age-check verification? Isn't that like claiming a guy checking ID's at the door to a pub is an alcohol filter?
> maybe this VPN service effectively solves both of those problems.

Sure, for the low, low price of $12/month.
There are asset management firms with AUM well in the trillions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asset_management_firms

That "biggest" claim is based on a Cnet article, which is based on a ZeroHedge article, and they just state it as a self-evident fact, that Bridgewater is the "biggest" hedge fund.

And it's again not clear that Braeburn is a hedge fund. (It's very composed of many smaller funds anyway, each with different risk profiles.)

That said, yes, Apple's cash is absolutely not just sitting in Tim Cook's basement.
Some Amish communities have a cottage industry around air powered appliances because the rules state that you can't use electricity for frivolous uses, but people still want a blender or mixer or something.

In practice I think that adding the fittings and the long hose from the tank to your work area probably makes this somewhat impractical, but it's a cute idea.
Not that I know of. The only other comparable project I'm aware of (including relative ease of use as a criterion here) is Linux' AppArmor.
Oh, and non-technical leadership explaining what are code regression, technical debt, project creep.
I'm not so sure about YouTube. It's a huge distance, and the potential for data loss somewhere in the middle is pretty large and video consumes a lot of bandwidth. E-mail might be doable, but for reddit you would need A LOT of patience since it's going to take ages to load the cat picture you just clicked on.
Duckduckgo 'Mindgeek age verification UK'
Office environment!

I recently interviewed at a lunch meeting, and then second interview in a coffee shop (very casual interviews). By the end of the second interview they wanted me to make a suggestion for their offer. I said I needed to see their offices and look at their product before I'd consider moving from my current position.

I was rather taken aback that they didn't really consider I might want to see the environment I'd be spending a lot of my time, nor want to see what I was going to be working on.

Eventually I got to see the offices and the product, I loved the product but just couldn't jive with their office. It wasn't terrible or anything, but compared to where I work now I wasn't prepared to make the switch.

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to be picky about where I work. Every day I come to work I think about how fortunate I am to be happy with my work.
Yes, I'm getting there. I'm going to embrace it.
I remember feeling the same way. The website is back now though: http://www.l0pht.com/

However the front page hasn't been updated since 2015.
Trump cancels North Korea summit
But can it app?
Usenet will make a comeback! Over interplanetary UUCP.
This happens, and you could argue is how Google and Microsoft got started.

In practice though, knowing WHAT to build is at least as important a skill as HOW to build it. Things an engineer wants to build are not necessarily things a customer will buy. So starting with someone with understanding of the market is probably more likely to bring success.
Come on dude...

Small-scale compressed air energy storage systems with high air pressures turn the inefficiency of compression and expansion into an advantage. While large-scale AA-CAES aims to recover the heat of compression with the aim of maximizing electricity production, these small-scale systems take advantage of the temperature differences to allow trigeneration of electrical, heating and cooling power.
Keep in mind that a self-driving car will necessarily need to have a much safer track-record than a human driver. That's what drives the need for more than just two low resolution cameras looking out the front. Plus you need the cameras to be able to look behind and to the sides of the vehicle which is easier to do with more than two front-facing cameras.
I'm not talking about transaction price, I'm responding to

> How much energy is spent securing conventional financial systems? You have to include everything: banks, minting, enforcement, physical security, even military and intelligence action.

I really feel like I shouldn't have to explicitly point out why this reasoning is so flawed, but to start with, bitcoin does not IN ANY WAY obviate the need for banks, law enforcement, physical security, or "military and intelligence". There isn't some kind of "well, actually..." response to this, it's totally and obviously incorrect and we're living in two different fundamental realities if we can't agree on that base line.
Comcast has 15 billion in net income last quarter whereas Netflix had 185 million. And PE ratio of comccast is 19 whereas Netflix is 188. In the future where the cord cutting trend continues and Netflix gains tons of subscribers the valuation might make sense. But for now, I feel this looks like very overvalued.
Your eyes have significantly more dynamic range than even the best generally available cameras. For example, your eyes can see enough details to walk in a dark room at night while cameras would need additional illumination (flash or IR).

Smart enough is also pretty hard, especially for edge cases. For example, imagine driving on a highway and there's a discarded grocery bag flying around. Based on the flying pattern, it's pretty easy for you to identify such an object if you've seen one before. For a deep neural network, if it hasn't seen enough examples of such objects, it'll fail to classify it properly. What will a self driving car do if it sees an unknown object in front of it while driving at highway speeds?
No, the Age Verification system (recently delayed[1]) is compulsory that porn sites must implement to be able to trade in the UK. It requires that they perform age verification on everyone accessing the site from the UK. This verification would be performed by supplying ID and linking it to your account.

This is separate from ISP supplied filters in that it applies to the porn companies themselves, not the end consumers. Obviously a company like Mind Geek having your ID and all your porn browsing history is not worrisome at all.

1: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/03/age-verificati...
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Tesla seems to think software license agreements don't matter though, because they've been violating other people's license agreements for years by shipping GPLed code without source. About a week ago they finally released some (not all) of the code they're required to.

https://electrek.co/2018/05/19/tesla-releases-softwar-open-s...
Court Rules That Gov Officials Who Tweet Can't Block Users
How does this tool compare to other (libre) anonymization software programs, such as ARX [1]? From what I understand, there are only basic routines so to sample records and coarsen a few attributes (e.g. ZIP code, dates) implemented so far.

This might also not be sufficient to truly anonymize data, as a large body of research has shown so far [2,3,4]

[1] https://arx.deidentifier.org

[2] https://www.uclalawreview.org/pdf/57-6-3.pdf

[3] http://randomwalker.info/publications/no-silver-bullet-de-id...

[4] http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05627
If you want a binary alternative to awk, try using lex.[1]

You can feed in regexps and c code fragments and it will generate c code for you.

[1] https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Lex-YACC-HOWTO-3.html
As a chef, I have seriously considered this. Unfourtanetly I live in Japan now, there isn't as much of a customer base for this sort of thing as say, Australia.

Then again, the more I think about it. You know if you added in a system of reusable containers (for small amounts of spices and herbs), which could be returned for a discount on your next order. . .

Still a hell of a lot to consider, but in a busy enough place (eg Tokyo), might be an interesting idea.
GDPR is a shadow monster that can hunt down US firms
This kind of problem is what lawyers are for.

Unless, of course, one is shortsighted enough to compromise business in order to avoid being bothered with law compliance, a rather common attitude among the aggressive startup-minded audience of Hacker News. I look forward to GDPR-like laws in the USA.
I posit that, in that case, a new "normal" baseline would be established by social consensus (perhaps, owning a home, smart phone, access to media, high quality medical care, and organic food) that is above what is afforded by the UBI. Falling below that threshold would then be deemed just as unacceptable as the poverty line today. And people won't solve it by taking on these undesirable jobs, they'll rail against an unfair system instead, just like we do today when things are already better than they've ever been.

Such is human nature. Always has been, always will be. We just do the best we can to balance between indulging it with socialism, and leveraging it with capitalism.
Or for the other side to prove that you are wrong. Let's be honest here, none of us can "proof" the existence or non existence of a creator but we have been endowed with intelligence and humility to hopefully come to the right conclusion.
I'm also not sure why would they want to become GroupOn? I haven't heard about anyone using that service for years. Yelp still offers a useful service for finding good restaurants that I use weekly.
There is some paradox about it, but that doesn't make it untrue. I long for a society without suffering. It's probably a drive caused by evolution: protecting my kind.
Thanks for your answer

I’m not too scared about the family part, I came in acutely aware that it could be an issue but after working with them it seems to be a non problem.

The part I’m most confused about is the equity, it doesn’t seem to be a standard way of doing things in the startup world.
Now you're just shifting the argument.
Gasoline has to be mixed in a perfect ratio with air to be dangerous and explode. A simple leak from that enormous amount of air storage could be catastrophic. A leak of your gas tank and it just piddles out on the ground.
I have worked as a Deliveroo courier in London for a good while. I had no problems with it.

The issue as I see it is with people relying on their employer, client, whatever you wish to call it.

Business is business. If you treat it as anything other, you will eventually encounter issues (especially at the lower end).

The union stuff should be seen in that framework. It's a negotiation.

I got on my bike, made ten quid an hour in some free time, got a bit of exercise, and that was that. It's obviously not a career.

It's kind of frustrating to see people hypothesise. Go and apply and do it and see what it's like, the barrier to entry is near zero.
That looks like it might easily involve lots of fiddling, tweaking and dealing with obscure issues while XFence just works, which is worth a lot to me these days.
I'm guessing, if that's enforced, that a lot of these same organizations will opt to refuse service.
What is alt-right? I thought it was people who don't like immigration. Seems to have nothing to do with this.

Edit: Just read up on the term. It's meaningless.
So either way I’m not getting a good deal ?
People don't always make rational decisions? I'd agree with you, but the times they don't make up a minuscule fraction of all times. When we have incomplete information we're left to make probabilistic approximations about how likely each possibility is the real explanation for something.

Operation Barbarossa is great example - I really enjoy WW2 history! You seemingly think this was an arbitrary act of a mad man. In reality it was a rational and calculated decision. The Red Army was amassing on Germany's border and it was later revealed that Red Army generals had already been requesting permission to begin their attack, but Stalin was waiting for a more strategic opportunity. In particular he wanted England and Germany to go to war and for his army to march over the remains. By contrast England in the west was wanting the exact same thing with the USSR and Germany. America was also looking more and more like it might take a more direct role in the war.

Germany basically had two substantial powers on either side of it, waiting to pounce. It had even offered peace to England, who rejected the offer, in an effort to avoid fighting a war on both sides. And both sides were also massively ramping up their forces. It was during this era that millions went without under Stalin as he dedicated massive and unprecedented resources to a military buildup. And England, as mentioned, was also receiving increasing support from America. In other words, his enemies were getting stronger faster than he was. His invasion was what he saw as the best of many bad options.

When there is an explanation that follows logically and clearly for something, and another explanation that simply relies extensively on illogical events and turning 'bad guys' into caricatures, I tend to go with logic. Could I be wrong? Like I said, absolutely. And I'm fine with this because history shows time and again that logic tends to be far more accurate than a one-sided perspective on events.
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+1 for salary range. It's bizar that some companies require you to first go through the entire interview process and only do the salary negotation at the end. At which point you might find out that there never was a possibility for a match and you both have wasted your time.
I simply optimize for personal bliss. Luckily this includes not causing pain to others and the good feeling of doing good. Also be amazed at the complexity of these random swirls of reality and the weird dip in entropy mankind exists in.
It might be a good time to mention that Algo VPN now supports Ubuntu 18.04, many new cloud providers, and soon (days) will have Wireguard support.

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
WSJ is blocking me 100% of the time, no matter how I get in, perhaps because of ad-blocking or something. Anyhow:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-crash/ntsb-uber-self...
It sounds like we have a different definition of programming. For me, programming is producing code that gets executed by another piece of hardware or software.

The complexity of the code is not part of the definition. Nor is your understanding of the hardware/software involved.
Their cheerleaders usually reply claiming that they're under no obligation to publish audits and pretend that statement doesn't exist on the website, or is an old outdated webpage they forgot to remove.
> Why isn't there a better source for this than "four people"?

Because they're leaking. "Four people" is how a media organization says "it's not just one whackjob making shit up".

> I didn't see anything on the DOJ site.

Why would you? They don't appear to have publicly announced anything yet.

> Is it normal for the DOJ to anonymously report its activities to journalists like this?

It's normal for people at the DOJ to do so, yes. Some leaks are done on a semi-official basis (https://boingboing.net/2017/02/22/the-leaky-leviathan.html), others are just individuals doing it on their own.
Yes, the illusion of free will is crucial for many things.
It would be a lot better if people stop being so alarmist.

Indeed. It's odd looking at discussions about the GDPR on HN.

On the one hand, we have people who argue that compliance isn't really that big a deal if you're not doing anything horribly wrong, most ethical businesses would already be mostly compliant anyway, etc.

On the other hand, we have people who argue that even if that is the case, the length and ambiguity of the regulations and guidance combined with the potential penalties still cause significant overheads and risks, particularly for smaller businesses without dedicated resources to deal with compliance matters.

There is some truth behind both of those positions, I think.

But then I've seen so many comments now on HN and other geek-friendly forums that seem to be based on the premise that most/all businesses are somehow doing evil things with personal data and they must be stopped. A noticeable number of people are advocating obviously vexatious use of the new subject rights, not in response to any specific concern or after some unsatisfactory attempt to resolve concerns reasonably, but as a weapon with the clear goal of causing maximum disruption and cost to organisations. I wonder how anyone can think giving so much "legal ammunition" to these people is a good idea.
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When I wanted to try Reason, tooling was just not there, coming from Elm, I was really put off by things being not more streamlined. I would keep an eye, as I like Ocaml etc, but at the moment Elm provides much better experience to me.

Oh yes, big thing is that interop with Reason is way simpler then in Elm.
Same, FIS Alpine racing. Mostly Downhill for me, but raced all events. Mostly on the Europa Cup and NorAm circuits and a bit at WC level.

I'm not sure if Yamaha is still active in racing, but they had some really amazing skis, and they tried out a lot of interesting ideas. One of my favorites was a triple-core construction where two of the cores were a high-energy elastomer pre-stretched in the mold to ~5x their original length. The idea of this pre-load was to have a moderately soft flex but return a lot of energy as the ski un-bent as you exited the turn -- and it worked like crazy -- the best pair of GS skiis I ever had! I also had a pair of 220s to try for DH; they were not fast probably because they had too much energy and vibration on the straights, but they were an absolute blast for hi-speed free-skiing -- just crazy spring out of the turns -- I was sad to have to turn them back in since they weren't going in my race bag.

Fun times...
They could have a proxy that would buffer requests and received data and then use the delay tolerant protocol to send that to spacecraft I suppose?
Hence why the cable companies are trying to buy ISP's and vice-versa.
Does the UN mean anything to the young?
> If you had a strong interest in Ethereum (for example), then I think you’d want to avoid the wholesale destruction of Bitcoin. If the biggest crypto currency fails, it’ll probably send shockwaves through out the entire crypto currency market.

That's true as long as cryptocurrency itself is seen as fringe; it's less true if cryptocurrency becomes generally accepted.

Of course, a nation-state or other actor interested in preserving the role of fiat and keeping cryptocurrency on the fringes is also a possibility.
I'm an EE with RF design and antenna chops, but I've been hired into a few jobs where I had only the vaguest idea of what the work actually is. One was a configuration management role, and the other was a software test engineer (and I've coded maybe 150 lines in my lifetime).

Neither of them had any mention of these activities in the postings, and both of them were specifically for EE's with requirements to understand antenna and radio systems. The interview started to shed light that it wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but certainly there would be the opportunity, so I was told.

To me, a disclaimer that mentions you may not be doing anything actually related to this posting would be nice.

Generally speaking:

1) what is the actual, physical, tangible, product?

2.) What is my actual, specific, day-to-day role for this product? Or how will I fit into the creation of this product?
Any kind of high-density energy storage is basically a bomb.

If you charge or discharge Lithium polymer or lithuium ion batteries "wrong" they explode too.

I wouldn't want to be near a flywheel that stores 360 Wh of energy when it breaks.
Honest question: do you ever come across companies that aren't open floor plans? I don't, so it isn't a very useful question.
It is not defined what "who are in the Union" means. The safest bet is that it means a subject is European Union resident. If they mean that person should be physically present in the European Union, the law would have stated that, but it is not.
good god I hope you haven't exposed SQL ports open on the internet. what kind of responsible admin/dev would do that?
Churn rate at the company and if there are people who left their phone number as references.
Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold. I think about it like ad-blocking, something that may work itself into the mainstream despite it's questionable ethics.
I used CIS for some things but as you say the charges were pretty high. I mostly used a private local BBS at the time. I’m guessing it was more like 1994 or thereabouts when I started FTPing files and getting into Usenet.
What's the point of this emergency braking system if it can't take action and can't alert the driver?

Maybe it reports so many false positives that Uber turned those off and just collects the data to improve the algorithm?
Even without "cryosleep" or the combined download of the world's entertainment aboard, the crossing will be a walk in the park compared to what explorers on early sailing ships endured.

Plus they probably won't get scurvy, so there is that.
> If we continued on the trajectory we were on in the 60s we'd likely already have human outposts, if not civilizations, on the Moon, Mars, and perhaps even some of the outer planets' moons.

I was amazed when I started looking at old maps of North America and realized how short a time it was between Columbus stumbling across the West Indies and a wave of explorers/exploiters mapping out the western hemisphere.

(Obviously it's a vastly different situation than we face in space, and based on what we're learning about biology in space we might well have abandoned any such outposts by now, but your lament is well-taken.)
I'm just excited for https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/27/update-on-async-renderin... , and curious to see how it works in our code.
Salary, location.
Incognito mode used to work, but it seems they patched that. And web.archive is blocked for me at work, unfortunately.
I can't think of massive leaks that involved data that wasn't 'legitimate'. What's your go-to example?