skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be possible to sue a lying company for damages in a case like this? Especially if (as it seems) they were not forced to give traffic data by a warrant but instead complied on their own?
More than unpleasant. I bought a license, missed the (2 week or something?) deadline to install/activate, and their support ghosted me, leaving my repeated pleas to open another window unanswered. $1k down the drain.

I'd take 'em to court if I knew how.
MS is also investing heavily in Kubernetes and their offerings on Azure is actually pretty nice. I've run k8s and OpenShift on premise, I've managed 'own infrastructure' - and no, I don't want to continue/go back to that. You cannot do that well and at that price on small-scale. If you think you can, you're doing something wrong.
I don't think their chart is very convincing. So there's less high-tech startups than in the 1999-2001 era, why is that a problem? I'd be a bit worried if we did have that same spike. And it seems to me that tech giants are bad for a lot of reasons but I'm not sure how they disincentivize startup formation. They do lots of competitor buyouts so they probably do reduce the average lifespan of startups but I would think that just slightly moves the risk/reward of creating a startup down.

To me the chart reads that the problem with startups is in every sector except for tech. In that case perhaps we should look at economy-wide reasons for a slowdown in entrepreneurship. Considering the number one predictive factor for entrepreneurship is receiving an inheritance or gift maybe we should look at whether we're placing people in too precarious of a position to take on the risk required in starting out on your own.
The current low cost of capital favors legacy companies and fewer, overfunded startups. Once the next recession hits there will be a premium on efficiency again.
> I'm going to need a citation that 20% of the US population are college-educated professionals. Any way you want to slice it: of voting-age, registered, or that actually went to vote.

Per the US Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey, at least 27.24% of the voting-age (18+) population has at least a Bachelor's degree. That’s based on the number from the Over 25 population meeting that description divided by the whole over-18 population; for some reason they only report a count of over-25 with at least a bachelor's degree. [0]

Turnout increases significantly with education [1], so the share of the actually voting population with such a degree must be even higher.

So, you were right to suspect 20% was way off—just in the wrong direction.

[0] (Description page) https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-a...

(Data table) https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/voting/...

[1] http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics
Wells Fargo not alone: OCC finds sales abuses at other banks
> Remember how lifechanging the original iPhone's google maps integration felt?

Just for historical perspective, Google Maps Navigation for Android predated the iOS version by three years ( 2009 vs 2012 ).
I've been doing this since I was in college ~ 20 years, before the fasting craze became a thing. I just didn't really ever eat breakfast, and now I only eat between the hours of 2 - 8/10ish. I experience the same effects as you described. Increased focus / awareness. Consuming plenty of liquids is definitely required though while you do it.
I'll never understand the middlebrow hate directed at America's most iconic brands. McDonalds made real business ownership a possibility for an entire generation of people that would have never had the resources to do something on that kind of scale. I actually like McDonalds' food, it's simple but endearing.

Bud Light might not be the most flavorful beer, but have you ever tried the original Budweiser? You know it's actually pretty darn good. And when you compare Bud Light to truly bottom-market beers, you begin to see the value of Budweiser's offering. Also, I don't know how many foreign countries you've visited, but a lot of them really desperately need a Bud Light just to give the local brewers some real competition. Some of the beers I had were just bad.

I can understand if you don't want to consume mass-market products, but really, you shouldn't just dismiss something because it looks big to you. These things solve real problems that people have, at real scale. Your local brewer might have great beer, and your local butcher might have great meat, but you know what would happen if everyone was at the mercy of local business? Everything would be 4x more expensive and wages would be half as much. Just like it was before those brands emerged.
So are you saying that we don't encourage unpaid labor with open source? Are you saying that companies choose OSS for non-business reasons?
The anti-immigration campaign doesn’t help startups either.

The majority of startup founders are immigrants[1], benefiting from the longtime American ideal that America welcomes immigrants. Smart potential immigrants can start companies in other countries.

[1]https://www.statista.com/chart/14065/countries-of-origin-of-...
We don't. :)
theres a lot of weird things that dont make sense. like how a minimalistic framework sinatra/padrino is slower than rails doesnt seem to make sense at all.

i feel these benchmarks are misleading to say the least.
Yes, I came to the same conclusion: I need employees that don't need to be micro-managed. Changing their behaviour (if that is even possible) seemed to require more effort than I was prepared to put in, so I ended up replacing them.

However, I haven't found a good way to assess whether potential hires are good at this. Everyone claims to be an independent self-starter who is great at remote work whilst in the hiring process...
Just a reminder if speed was the only thing that mattered we all would be using assembly now.
Can’t say I’m surprised.

When the mobile app market began and cloud computing was becoming a thing and social media was connecting more people than ever, it seemed like everyone suddenly had an idea for a hot new app.

I remember fielding calls from people who wanted mobile apps developed when they had no business being in this industry. Many of them seemed like the types who would be easily swayed by stories of people becoming overnight millionaires off of one simple app.

I remember Startup Weekend events were blowing up all across the country and people would go to these events and take them very seriously, no matter how ridiculous or derivative the ideas pitched were.

I remember reading articles hypothesizing about where “The Next Silicon Valley” would be, and people trying very hard to host “events” to make their hometowns into that. Of course, Silicon Valley itself had become nothing more than a cesspool of startups with ideas built on short term thinking and fastest possible growth.

A startup scene built on hype like this is not sustainable, at least not without a major pullback at some point.
This is Facebook we are talking about. One does not need to be clairvoyant.
How so? Southern Europe is very relaxed in this sense culturally, and it's the most religiously Christian part of Europe at the same time. While atheist northern and central Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Switzerland) place a lot of emphasis on reliability.

Sure you could argue that these nations are culturally Christian, but Christian culture still doesn't imply an emphasis on reliability.

At most I might agree with this being a case of the protestant work ethic, which seems to have a high correlation here (northern and central Europe as well as America is very much protestant, southern Europe is more catholic and orthodox).

However first of all most historians agree it's false, and second you get places like Germany, where the economic powerhouse is the catholic south (Baden-Württemberg has Porsche, Daimler (Mercedes), Audi and Bosch, Bayern (Bavaria) has BMW, the protestant North and East are more poor).
Responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17255296
Question for remote workers: how do you deal with the innate need for managers to know that you are busy?: i.e. that you're not just more or less slacking off for a salary.
35L starting sounds like exaggeration. The most common is <15L for 0-5 year of experience.
IHOP says it's changing name to IHOb. Huh?
Magic Leap could certainly fail, but I don't understand how they could be another Theranos.

Theranos had contracts-signed, money-spent deadlines for things they couldn't provide (the Walgreens deal), and was selling further investors by lying about having their product already in use by the government.

At least publicly, Magic Leap has promised virtually nothing. They said in December they'd ship something this year, but there's nothing binding in that. Even in the worst case - the tech is literally useless and they spent all the money - it'd be a bad investment rather than fraud and breach of contract.
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Possibly relevant?
That depends on expectations, whether in a given industry or culture. In most professional settings showing your hand as essentially a mercenary in terms of allegiance and showing no stickiness, will result in considering an alternative candidate, in the US.
A bunch of crappy generalizations here driven by emotions - "quality of engineers in India is sketchy at best". I can say the same about the American engineers around me right now. There are good and bad engineers everywhere. Same about culture. And companies like Google, Amazon won't hire sketchy people to save money. Think before you talk. The system is driven by basic economics and what's allowed by law. Companies take advantage of that. USA is now turning protective and hire its citizens. Good for them. The world will chug on either way.
What does the CEO of your company make?
I hope it's "burritos". International House of Burritos? How could you possibly go wrong?
Redistribution of wealth is bad enough to begin with, but redistributing it to pad the coffers of political patrons and harebrained unproductive finance that destroys rather than produces wealth really shows you how messed up the system can get.

It seems the productive end up paying immense tax and rent burdens to the unproductive tending moats and establishing political capture and networks, for the supremely undesirable service of making everything worse.
Most decisions are made prior to entering data in to the system. One area that is an example are accruals. You must wait until the end of the month to know what invoices haven't hit the accounting ledger to then know what accruals to enter. It gets complex because invoices are not standardized and it typically requires a level of judgment as to whether they should be entered.

Then there are other transactions. Is this capex entry really capex or should it be opex? Well, we need a meeting with a technical accountant.

There have been a lot of steps toward automating accounting, and most (lets say 95%) of transactions are instant and require no intervention.

The 5% remaining require human intervention. In order to close the books faster you would need to either figure out a way to automate the rest (really hard) or hire a bigger finance and accounting staff who would then be idol most of the month.

I dont work in accounting, I work in FP&A, so I am sure there are other examples I dont know about.
> Even if surveillance is already widespread, that doesn't make more surveillance a good thing.

I'm one of those types who uses cash, doesn't own a cell-phone, doesn't have Facebook or any of the others, opts for pat-downs at the airport as a form of protest, etc. etc.

Having security and surveillance on our ports of entry seems entirely reasonable to me.

The problem I can imagine is that we're almost guaranteed to run into No-Fly-List style mistaken-identity situations and I sincerely doubt CBP will have reasonable recourse for such mistakes.
To add to this, competition with the already wealthy is hard enough as-is, but when large, well-known companies have FREE offshoots in your domain, it’s almost impossible for a company to survive.

Can Snapchat compete with Facebook/Instagram stories? Can a startup compete with Google Analytics? Can OfferUp compete with eBay? The list goes on...
My goal has been to increase protein intake and reduce my caffeine. My body and brain works better when fueled with protein. With caffeine I have to "refuel" every 30 - 60 minutes and snack on stuff but with a big protein meal I find myself not thinking of food or drink for 3 hours of hard focus.
+1, and the test seems to use php 5.5, this is definitely not OK

Also since we are at php, how Laravel is much faster than Symfony? and why Symfony has so many error?...
> This hesitation demonstrates the often tense relationship between game preservationists and private collectors. According to a screenshot uploaded by Saint, the private collector threatened to pull the entire folder of content from the directory and stop uploading games altogether if anyone leaked Labyrinthe.

I really can't empathize with the attitude of the private collectors. It's extremely selfish to want to keep a work "lost" so that your copy is more valuable and special. This attitude also greatly increases the chance the work will become truly lost, since you'll die eventually and your heirs may not realize its significance. Why not just take credit for finding and releasing it to the world?
Why can’t you raise funding? If you truly have a great product with product/market fit, and established LTV greater than CAC, then you are a perfect investment for a VC who just needs to pour some gas on the fire.

This is exactly the kind of problem a Series A is meant to solve.

On the other hand, if the problem is your competitors are VC funded and are spending more than LTV on CAC, then (1) that sucks, but eventually they will burn out, and (2) you need to find ways to compete with more finely targeted ads that result in higher CTR to outweigh the bid differentials. Or, you need to raise the price of your product to increase LTV in line with the inflated CAC.
It's incredibly hard from a recruitment point of view. A degree in the US, even from a mediocre university, at least means that the student is capable of some amount of hard work and application.

But in India, colleges simply don't fail kids. Some others inflate their grades just for bragging rights ("our students had an average score of 80%).

So every time I see an application from a college that I haven't heard of (which is pretty much every college apart from the top ones), I would be skeptical: can this kid actually work hard or am I just wasting my time?
> One of the first VPN services, Anonymizer, morphed into a CIA operation

I assume you mean anonymizer.com? If so, can you point me to some reliable source for this info? Would like to know more...
Nope, they run a warm up stage.
I've just started using the Amazon Prime Video app on Apple TV 4k. It's web-based and frankly horrible. And not just horrible because of the technical constraints imposed by having to target a web runtime - there are some serious, glaring beginner type UI anti-patterns in the UI.

Is this experience indicative of what I can expect with an Amazon TV device? (I suspect so.)
Poorly designed securities regulation prevents private capital formation except by giving up your ideas or company to accredited investors or getting funded through a bank which is impossible unless you are already wealthy. Accredited investor laws need to be abolished and the funding portals need to go up to 10 million and need to be exempted from state regulation.
New iPhone Leak Confirms Apple's Illuminating Surprise
> Nothing has any defence against global traffic analysis.

It's possible to guard against global traffic analysis by establishing permanent fixed-bandwidth links between each node and sending traffic along them even when they aren't assigned to a circuit (or the circuit is idle). Then there is nothing to passively analyze because the amount of traffic between each node is always the same.

The problem is that this consumes a very large amount of bandwidth.
Like everything, it's a balance -- open source can also be used to make money (open core, closed source plugins/enhancement suites). At the very least, it's about tact and doing things that are just open enough to not betray your desire to create a walled garden.

Let's use Google's Kubernetes as an example -- it's a fantastic tool that doesn't require use of their ecosystem -- so open in fact that both Azure and AWS are spinning up their own hosted versions. Many of the architectural/organizational pieces are non-trivial as well, years of work at google went into it, and they open sourced it.
If you are a software engineer in the US, you are the wealthy.
Lots of folks seem to be getting drawn to actix-web, which features quite a bit up the top of these benchmarks. I've not used it, but it works on stable, is fully async, and has been met with many good reviews!
I think there's a difference between the sort of high-skill and/or wealthy immigrants that create billion dollar tech companies and the low-skill immigrants that americans are mostly mad about.
Its a nice language though some of the output is weird. Like I did a PHP target as a test and I think I did a print statement and it added a lot of code in there when i was expecting a simple echo or something. So it can have its downsides depending on what you do. Definitely curious where it stands for Mobile though.
How Sanctions Feed Authoritarianism
War, for one.
I like your answer. But you say : "are part of self interest". In which way ? What puts self interest above those traits to make it encompass them ? 'cos I'd argue that if values, morals, ethics are part of self interest, then self interest is not much more than "personality". If so, self interest is not a concept that is very useful in itself... (no I didn't read A.Smith)
Utter FUD. There are at least 3 major payment processors on the level of Stripe or Braintree. These have existed for the better part of a decade now.

India is a very domestic market - most tech products don't leave our shores at all.
Not that I agree with it but my guess is this would be seen similar to how infrared license plate covers are deemed unlawful.
There's a yotaphone 3 apparently. Though it looks like it's only sold in China
I'm yet to find a single AMP page that I didn't hate. Don't know why Google keeps pushing it on me. At least in my country, data is ridiculously cheap - I can't spend a few MBs on a page if I want to read it
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It is a little, unsettling, when they set up checkpoints to make sure people exiting the country are authorized to do so. I'm sure people can state good reasons, but it feels very East Germany-est.
Windows Forms, WPF, UWP, Android, Qt, depending on the project.
Plenty of people were born into wealth or have enough saved up that they could afford to take a risk. The safety net enabled people in lower socioeconomic classes, who didn't have the birthright benefits to survive a tumble, to take the same type of risks that the upper classes could. The erosion of the net effectively killed the bottom of the ladder

The extreme downvoting probably reflect the affluent upbringing of a large portion of the HN community.
Im with you, although we will see if animations can hide loading times.

Btw, you will always have people that disagree with you. I get crap about the loading time of my website, but since I changed to a massive beautiful change, my conversion doubled overnight.

I think a human can decide for themselves if something takes too long. I ran into this issue and optimized, but I wouldnt be chasing benchmarks.
Thanks, I browsed quickly through the explanations and didn't see that.

That explains why java frameworks are doing so well but raises questions about pypy!

EDIT: Looking closer, tornado is faster running pypy.
Can anyone give me a list of respectable independent media that I should be subscribing to?

The economist comes to mind. Any others HN recommends?
But in that alternate universe Apple would still have been a huge success, and the iPhone would have been another failed product like the Windows Phone. In addition to this pattern to success, Jobs was not a criminal. Theranos made VERY negligent statements such as the military using Theranos products(they did not).
The key to getting the most bang for your buck for advertising is in undiscovered channels. If you only advertise through mature efficient channels you will pay more for less. If you are a startup with little money that is not where you should be.
If mighty Apple centres its main event on emoticons and ways to take better selfies, there is a big big big problem with the direction of capitalism (and mankind) for sure.
This is the first time the PHP extension swoole (an async library) was on the test. It took #10 place on the JSON serialization test. The remainder of the tests rank terribly because the implementation incorrectly uses synchronous DB calls, but once that's fixed it should be very promising.
PostgreSQL Standard SQL Gap Analysis
Remember how beat up they eventually looked? You couldn't do anything about that.

The old Nokias (since the 5110) were actually designed to always be used in a case (which would characteristically snap off when it hit the ground, reducing the impact). Don't you remember all the custom 3310 cases?
I am really surprised at the vitriol and bias against India and Indians in this group. If similar blanket statements were made about any other sub groups in USA it would be met with quite emphatic censure. E.g. if you were to say that all/most of the people of a particular race/community were lazy or criminals based on anecdotal experiences.

Based on my experience India provides similar spectrum of capabilities in software development as found in US, UK, Germany, Singapore, China (I have worked in all these countries besides India in the software development field). I have encountered poor quality, mediocre and brilliant software developers in all these countries. I have found people who can deliver on commitment, who freeze in analysis paralysis, who can talk a big game but there is no substance as well as people who go way above and beyond and just knock the ball out of the park. Finally I think it ends up with what kind of leadership you can provide in terms of assessing the provider of service/capability, defining the expectation, tracking the progress and quality and pivoting based on the incremental progress, reacting to new discoveries etc. Of course similar to other comments this is anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt.
France outlaws mobile phones in elementary and middle schools
it's a little difficult to extrapolate a broad picture of union benefits or costs from these anecdotes, just because one of them is, well, a kid's story from a lifetime ago...
Can you give any model to explain cause and effect, how what you say effects startup? IMHO, If anything, then abundance of free capital should stimulates startups through avaliable capital investment, easy money. So I'd tribute the change in startups due to information technology becoming more mature and having less opportunities.
Starbucks drip is absolutely crazy. I always feel awful if I drink on an empty stomach.
ProtonVPN (operated from Switzerland) claims[1]: "Our security team has also identified at least one VPN service which is working on behalf of a state surveillance agency."

If I had to guess, it would be PIA: the most popular, the most accessible, and the most affordable US-based VPN.

When a VPN is run by NSA, of course it will stand up in all courts. How would a state surveillance agency let its tool be so publicly destroyed? And it doesn't have to keep any logs at all. They can just be forwarded in real-time, based on a set of filters and rules ("URLs that are requested by <IP>", "IPs that are requesting <URL>").

[1] https://protonvpn.com/blog/threat-model/
would it be possible to steal a website's code, then tack on a service worker that intercepts requests to qeys?