skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When living in Germany, I found that the Germans were quite blunt in comparison to the United States and discarded a lot of the word fluff and fake friendliness that I often see people using in the United States. They prefer to be direct and get to the point. There was no need to beat around the bush and hint politely at something. So the attitude of getting rid of the meaningless words and stick directly to the information seems like a very German attitude to me.

However, I also found (particularly in written contexts) that the Germans were really big on formality. If you don't use their proper titles, they'll get very upset. If the paperwork doesn't have an official stamp on it, it's meaningless waste paper. If it does have an official stamp on it, then it's holy and undisputed, no matter what nonsense is written on it. I'm surprised that there isn't a flourishing fake official stamp black market because of the importance people place on those things.

I find that all the fluff in German written documents revolves around formality, rather than fake politeness. I always got the feeling that all those extra, meaningless words and phrases were more about doing it the proper, formal way (no matter how meaningless that was), whereas in the United States, the people are much more informal, but use a lot of fluff words to convey fake friendliness.

German academic writing is ridiculous. There's so much formality and academic vocabulary involved that they'll write long, complex sentences with fancy vocabulary to convey a simple concept. It's about as formal as you can possibly imagine, so it's wordiness and complexity has to compensate.
European engineers will move to places that pay them higher, like a chunk of them do today.
Supporting Afrikan entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders
The perfect combination for me for a writing tool would be a combination of notepad++ and evernote. I've tried tons of tools, but none of them are completely satisfactory.

Np++:

Pro: extremely flexible editing, moving lines around, structuring thougths with tabs and keeping the indentation level when pressing enter.

Con: Having tons of tabs of notes like "new23", "new25" makes it difficult to keep track of stuff.

Evernote:

Pro: convenient naming of snippets, tags, auto saving everything, cloud sync between devices (optional: embeddig images, or files).

Con: horrible editing experience (compared to np++ which I'm accustomed to)
Rewards are nice, but usually only a few percent. Even at 5% cash back, you'd need to spend sixty dollars to pay for a $3 dollar coffee. (200 dollars at the more common 1.5% mark).

Personally, I've found I generate way more "rewards" by using cash for my entertainment budget. Having to look into my wallet at the month's "fun money" and pull out some of it engenders critical thinking.

(This is one of the main reasons casinos use chips - to abstract away the value of your money and induce spending)
Just use NoScript, it stops the media from playing and you get a static image.
In the EU the ceiling in the regulation is 0.2% for debit card rates and 0.3% for credit cards. 1% cash back credit cards are virtually non-existent...
Not sure what you're seeing, it still works for me.
re: music while working in garage --

I don't think that's anything new. It used to be that everyone had a boom box in their garage. What seems to be new is that the music is getting louder and louder because so many people have early stage hearing loss by age 30 as a result of cranking the music on their earbuds up too loud.

I'm semi-regularly amazed to discover the things I can hear and people 10 years younger than me can't.
Skyscanner | full-time senior and lead hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia, Shenzhen | ONSITE, VISA https://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/

We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. We have a unique position in the market and are continuing our incredible growth as a tech company. We'll soon be a top-100 website in the world by traffic.

Hiring at an experienced level in lots of disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science & machine learning, full stack (modern frontend + api skills), designers, product, iOS & Android. Languages we like and have great tooling for: Java, Python, JavaScript & NodeJS.

We have a number of offices in Europe, and are focusing on Scotland, London and Barcelona in particular.

We want to hire great people to solve large-scale challenges and build industry-leading new products. In short, if you've got good software industry and tech company experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to improve product and people around you, we're interested.

I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability here. We have room to make decisions, move fast, and the encouragement to make things better. It's exciting.

Please ping me an email at jakub.kadlubiec@skyscanner.net if you want me to refer you, and/or have questions. Please specify which job are you applying to and which office would you like to work from.

Permanent & onsite roles only. Relocation / visa assistance for senior roles.
I've encountered several cash-only restaurants over the years. Some in NYC and even a few in my area. The local one that stands out in my mind is a combination of the restaurant being extremely good and reasonably priced, so there's always a long waiting line. There's also the "cash discount", which my dry cleaner offers. And I can't tell you how many house contractors will charge less (sometimes substantially less) if you pay them in cash.
You have the basics correct, but not where they make the profit from. Someone spending $3,000/month on a card and paying it off winds up paying little to no interest. However, they do get to make a good deal off of the fees.

Like the article says, the fees make the cards a lot of money.

That person putting $500 per month on the card likely isn't poor either unless they are paying most of their expenses with it and paying the card off each month. Again, they get some fees. With a limit high enough for $500 a month without paying it off, they aren't as high risk - after all, that is at least a $6,000 limit. That's a full 20% of a 30k/year income, after all.

These folks are in a middle ground. The company can make some of their money off of transaction fees, but will try to make up for it through interest rates, which won't be all that horrible.

The actual poor person has a credit limit of $500-$1000. They aren't spending enough for the company to make much from fees, so they try to make it up in interest.
I doubt it was deliberately engineered as such but it does seem to be having that effect.

It's also disrupting international wire transfers and venture capital, two antiquated industries ripe for it.
Sometimes turning on QoS disables offload on all ports including lan. Try a download test between local machines
I've always assumed cash-only businesses are up to something mildly shady, like tax evasion (local example, Paseo).

Also, I've encountered a couple card-only businesses lately (local example, Optimism Brewing).
archive.org link since at least for me the page seems overloaded: https://web.archive.org/web/20180702100253/http://ivory.idyl...
QoS Classic.. A total branding excercise. All of these strategies were deployed in the past under the umbrella term "QoS".
The issue is you’re maintaining a tax on a purchase after it’s purchased. It’s perpetual sales tax. If we can tax in over ways, why create a specific instance for this kind of tax?
Directus is always at the top of self-hosted CMS lists, but one of the reasons I avoid it and other PHP self-hosted headless CMS solutions is due to the difficulties(tech debt) of automating dev environments and CI/CD pipelines across different distros and OSes.

I would have possibly given Directus a spin if it didn't have hard dependencies on the following PHP system extensions: curl, gd, finfo, pdo_mysql and mbstring. Not to go too off topic, but I wish PHP extensions could be installed via Composer and Packagist (similar to how NPM handles native modules).
My favorite story about Ice Poseidon was when he and his friends were at a Denny's talking shit about black people and a person comes up to them and calls them out to fight outside for being racist. They backed down so fast.

That's the problem with people who grew up streaming their lives, there is no normal life for them. Everything is a meme, etc.

Regardless of his political views, they can't be that important to him to back down from his toxicity when called on it.
The words " What else do you think it applies to? The latest version of the law that I've seen says:" are subject to your copyright and hacker news exists to give public access to copyrighted matter such as your words above. Also almost nothing is strictly non commercial.
In my Google interview, toward the end of the day I told the guy who I really didn’t want to work with anyway:

What’s the hardest thing about software development? Removing the constant time overhead factors from performance critical code.

He didn’t like that answer. But I had kinda already decided he was an asshole.
Everything You Need to Know About Transactional Email but Didn’t Know to Ask
But I think the point is - would you be up for earning £200k a year when it's still your company doing what you want to do. I am not suggesting comparing a £200k a year with having a job - that's very very different and I would never want that. To me that really is a failure.
I often ask the question - what would I do if I had £100m++. maybe I would go travel for a few years, but as I am still in my early 40s I would end up having a small company doing some cool stuff in the latest tech. Its what I enjoy doing. You can only sit on so many beaches!

What is the end game? having £100M+ in the bank account is only the start :) i wondering if anyone who has made some big money reads hacker news - or is that all now do :)
I'm reasonably confident I lose, burn, have stolen from me, or otherwise fail to enjoy the benefit of far less than 2 of every hundred dollars in my wallet.
'My daring grandfather took a bit of East Berlin for himself'
Amazon doesn't take cash, they seem to be crushing everyone else.
This is absolutely not confined to free products. I did security audits for companies and part of that job was giving a go ahead before we allowed people to install software on their devices. Free software behaved much better than paid software by a wide margin.
+1, very much looking forward to that Show HN.
You definitely need something to channel that dedication into. Political groups use it for change in their favor, companies use it for work, terrorist groups use it for terrorism.
Well I am just doing the summary for you to save you time searching, and more time working on FreeBSD :P

Edit: Now I remember, it was the story about Intel Pentium 4 scaling problems. He broke the story about Intel will never reach whatever silly Ghz they initially promised. And Intel were not happy. ( That was nearly 20 years ago... I am getting old)
> I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the HN crowd doesn't care to distinguish between types of creative media

No snark: did/do you think anyone who has ever read Shakespeare is not aware of that? Even without literature teachers to explain the history and background, the format gives away that secret.
Beginning Self (Self UI Intro Videos)
I have been to cash only bars (think neighbourhood pub), donut, and pizza shops in the bay area this year. there are plenty still.
Can you compare pros/cons to Contentful?
If only 5% of your sales are in cash, you nearly all the expenses of storing, securing and transporting cash.

So if 50% of sales are in cash, it doesn't cost you 10x more.

But every incremental credit card transaction costs another 3%.

So you can't argue that cash customers are subsidized by card customers when cash costs are relatively fixed while card costs scale linearly with volume.
I believe this too.

And also improve electricity access in more remote areas (where real estate is cheaper) - especially pushing distributed solar power.
Not to mention the significant fraud risks when dealing with cash.

Many years ago I worked retail. A few minutes after I sold something to a man, he came back to my counter angrily. He said I'd given him change for a $20, but he'd given me a $50. I was quite certain he'd given me a $20 and he was trying to steal from us. This is not a pleasant situation to be in, and it wouldn't have been possible if he'd paid with a card.
Those are related things. A locality is more willing to solve a housing shortage if existing residents are also being punished for said shortage in the form of higher property taxes.
Business news must be slow today...
I think of prop 13 as rent stabilization for a thing you've actually bought. If you buy a new $1.5M home around here, you're paying around $19K (1.25%) per year to the government in taxes. It's almost $1600 / month in taxes alone. I'd imagine a ton of the people who bought at $500k can't afford $1600/mo on top of their mortgages.

If I offer you a ton of money to buy your house, you can accept that or reject it. Rejecting it is a fine choice. But you still have to pay higher "rent" to the government just because I'm willing to buy your house for a lot? It's nice to stabilize people's homes against the market.
Addiction is very difficult to diagnose and should be left to professionals who are fundamentally bound to a Hippocratic oath.
I really wish we could just make credit card rewards schemes go away entirely. I don't expect that to happen any time soon, but they just feel like such a waste of time and effort.

I don't even like the name "rewards" - it's really more of a rebate/refund (on the raised prices of everything), with the catch that you forfeit the refund if you pay with anything except a "rewards" card.
I appreciate the sentiment but indeed I know very well how complex a typical site is. Unfortunately I think a very large portion of most websites are far too complex for what they provide.
Show HN: Testing HTTP-based APIs
It also doesn't work in the Windows default browser, but I think that's an Edge case.
What we have with deep learning is the first data center application for lots of compute with high latency. This will enable data centers in locations previously infeasible.
> Because these companies show a disdain for the law.

A disdain supported by people, i don't think they would have survived this long if they did something that people at large didn't approve. People who supported and fought for uber to be legal in their cities are to blame too for showing disdain for the law.
So... bitcoin miners in Iceland aren't using ASICs?
That's my impression as well in Romania, but I was too young to know what was going on back then and my family immigrated to the US shortly thereafter...
I could not disagree with this more. I remember vividly having this "low-intent" vs "high-intent" debate at Thumbtack, when we rolled out changes that A/B tests showed increased conversion (by a lot), but some people in the company thought the changes were ugly and "off-brand" and argued they brought in the wrong type of customers. So we ran the test again that we knew raised conversion by a lot, and then followed the 2 cohorts of customers and watched their behavior. The control group vs the 10% more from whatever the test was that increased conversion. They behaved exactly the same. They came back again at the same rates. They made the same amount of profit (per customer). Their response rates to emails were the same. They closed jobs at the same rates. As far as we could tell they were identical.

I have to admit I was a little surprised too, but for our business it didn't seem this "high-intent" vs "low-intent" distinction existed. And with that out of the way we continued to optimize conversion rates, and our revenue continued to go up.

Every company is different so I don't want to generalize too much, but if somebody tells me they ran an A/B test that said some key flow went up 10%, but then afterwards the traffic/revenue/whatever didn't go up 10%, I think the most likely candidate is bad test design. Humans are really good at rigging A/B tests to produce wrong results in their favor. I guarantee every single company who isn't maniacal about A/B testing does at least one of the following:

- Uses a tool to grade A/B tests that isn't statistically sound

- Let's people check tests too often and allows them to stop the test when it hits a good result

- Running a test with a lot of similar variations and cherry picking the best one

- Doesn't plan for enough traffic to detect the percentage of change their test is likely to produce

All of these create the potential for the perceived gains of the A/B test not matching up with real world result.

I'm not saying the distinction between "low-intent" and "high-intent" customers doesn't exist, but it is fairly easy to test for. Do that test for your business and see if that distinction exists. But don't use it as some magical explanation for why your A/B tests aren't producing the results you want as this article suggests.
Ouch.

...you are not wrong. Lack of imagination then?
Wait, so you’re telling me the laziest form of scientific analysis, the A/B test, doesn’t produce accurate results? Colour me shocked.

A/B tests routinely leave out important observations, have way too small a scope, uncontrolled populations, I could go on... they run the gamut of anti-patterns.
burning witches at the steak can be a good thing...
The leadership of the European Union is fundamentally undemocratic - Junckers et al
It's not so vague as it might sound. There's good evidence that people with amyloid plaque build-up, in the brain or in other organs, have different versions of the genes that code for the production of amyloid proteins than people who do not.
You should probably look into the JVM or .net platforms, where the same libraries are available through multiple languages. For example .net have F# which is a very strong functional language, and the JVM have Scala and Clojure.

Pyhton is not really that kind of language.
Firefighters and police are doing just fine in California. Indeed, public employee compensation is driving the CalPERs fiasco which is even more dangerous to the state than Prop 13 ever was.
That it a bummer. Any thoughts on the feasibility of outputting js canvas instead? And the performance file size tradeoffs
Of course it may vary from place to place, but in many places in NCR (Delhi and nearabouts), people expect government to eventually allow adding an extra floor so they add on pillars / iron bars for future needs.
Android P Preview 4 tweaks gesture navigation, revamps system icons
At the time the SIMD instruction set did not exist and the MMX instruction set was difficult to apply in a way that got us an advantage in our application. When you say all modern processors have Hyperthreading, are you sure you don't mean multithreading? I am not sure every processor has hyperthreading. I am not knowledgeable enough to argue about the overall value of MMX and Hyperthreading but I think the point of the article at the top of this page is that it in the end -- although maybe not at first -- it was counter-productive.
How Global Wealth Distribution Has Shifted Since 1800
Same here. Also got the premium rental car insurance from them, and ended up breaking the tail light on the rental while in France. I had to just to call them a file a short form, and then they took care of everything else.
It's really, really hard to build an open source (free) product that makes any money. GitLab works because it's a very complex product that a few really large companies are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on it. I can't imagine that being true of a CMS.

That being said, different genres of software have "known" price points. For source control, it's expensive. For analytics, it's expensive. For blogs, it does seem like the open source model is the only one that's really taken off... Wordpress and Ghost both use the model, and (for better or worse) anchored the price point of blogging software somewhere between free and $10/mo. Makes it hard for any incumbents, which is probably why WordPress still is so popular.
uber and lyft deserve it. I use lyft multiple times/week.
> Sports teams are companies.

Not the national teams in the Olympics/World Cup, which I think is the more relevant comparison when we're talking about "standing behind a nation's companies." Less relevantly, neither are college teams.
When I first got to know GNU/Linux, SuSE was the go-to distro in Germany, because it came with German documentation, and - most important to me - ISDN worked out of the box. Also, Yast made it very newbie-friendly.
You can configure FQ_Codel to match on different parts of of the packet. Default matching "tuple" for flows includes source/dest port along with source/dest IP. If you set this to source IP only it should fairly distribute bandwidth based on LAN IP alone. If cake is a normal QDisc you might be able to enable flow-per-ip without adding any code. For an example with FQ CODEL see:

$TC filter add dev $IF_WAN parent 11: handle 11 protocol all flow hash keys nfct-src divisor 1024

At https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/...

Unfortunately every modem I've seen, including "business" models, doesn't use CODEL.
You don't necessarily know which functions are going to be chained together though. If I write (my Python's a bit rusty):

def f(x):
return map(someOtherFunction, map(someFunction, x))

how can I know whether someOtherFunction interferes with someFunction if they run at the same time? The only way to know whether the maps are strict or lazy is knowing what x is, but x might come from some a different file or a different project even, so there's no way to know whether this function only works (and is only expected to work) for strict x or not. Actually even knowing what x is isn't enough, because even if x is strict, f can end up being called in a lazy way if I later do:

(y for x in someGeneratorThatGeneratesLists for y in f(x))
Open source at 20: The ubiquity of shared code
The sad part is that Shaw devoted a sizable part of his estate towards establishing the script, but after debtors and everyone else was done with it, there were only enough funds to publish one book (Shaw's Androcles and the Lion)... To think we might have made maybe even a tiny step towards English orthography reform...
I believe requiring 10 hour work days are 1. unnecessary and 2. immoral.

10 hour work days IS outrageous. Maybe it's common in this industry, but that doesn't make it any less wrong.

And considering that most tech jobs are exempt, this is just a way of getting you to work more hours for the same amount of pay.

During the last century, we all agreed that a 40 hour work week was the standard. Let's keep it that way. I don't want founders and VC creeps prying the overton window in their favor.
I'm aware of at least one research project[1] which is currently prototyping Terahertz communications in the range of several hundred Gbps over distances of several meters.

[1]https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/research/photonics/eu-2018beyond-5g...
Side note, I hate every device that needlessly makes a beep. Everything seems to make a useless audible sound constantly.
Squidex is MIT license and has reasonable pricing for their cloud offering, also has graphQL support and more feature rich.
There would probably be a lot more people complaining about scheme!
> I wonder how much actual writing these writing app devs actually do.

Writing app dev here. Not nearly enough is the answer.

Building a writing app is probably the greatest mistake I ever made as a writer, because I spend 75% of my free time fixing bugs, following up with users and building features and the other 25% writing.

I say it's my worst mistake as a writer. But as a coder it's been a very rewarding experience and helped me land my current job
Elon's Boring Company's working on something like that, too. I hope that venture succeeds.
"Don't try." -Bukowski
In Washington state, we have a 1.2% excise tax on the sale of real property.