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While HN is also one of my most visited websites, I agree about the "opinion" articles. I have enough of an intuition now to spot them and not click through them, focusing more on news, technical articles, and releases of software.

For most of these comments, it just comes down to "why are you right? What's your experience?" There's so many armchair speculators that get upvoted. If I can't go through your post history or look at your cred, why should I trust you to be correct about complicated topics that I might not understand? Do you even write code? Humans judge this stuff based on accomplishments and reputation in real life so why not on the internet?

I only realized this after coming across these kinds of comments about fields I specialize in or have a lot of experience with, and seeing blatantly wrong comments being upvoted and affirmed by other comments. If it's like this for exporting I have experience with, it's probably the same for stuff I don't know. Upvotes and affirmed comments should not be taken as truth.

And in the end opinion doesn't really matter unless you have influence in a community. Otherwise nobody that matters will really listen. Write a longform blog or something more captivating rather than some sneaky comment on HN that people will forget about after a week. Same goes for this comment I guess ;)
You have the direction of the time vector descriptor backwards.
> But on the point of the article: I'm against all laws that force others to participate in your religion

I think you are reading something into the article that is not there.

It starts off with a little background wherein we learn that the author's first exposure to strict observation of the Sabbath was when his dad was hired because their family was not Jewish. I don't think it's likely he wants to force "his" religion on others considering it's not even his religion.

It also says, "It is time for us, whatever our religious beliefs, to see the Sabbatarian laws ... as the liberatory statements they were meant to be." Two interesting things about that sentence: (1) the "whatever our religious beliefs" and (2) the shift from "laws" to "statements".

One of the themes of the article was that the sabbath idea was probably incorporated into the religion because it was founded by former slaves. I think that's significant. Two different ways to view the ideas contained within a religion are (1) they originate from god and are revealed to humans and (2) they originate from man as cultural elements and get promoted to religion. The first (downward flow of ideas) is more of an insider, true believer way of looking at it, and the second (upward) is more of an outsider, religions-are-just-part-of-culture view. This article definitely gave me the impression that the author leans more toward the second, which in turn suggests they see the idea as separable from religion.
What a load of crap.

There are tens of thousands of money making consumer facing businesses, the division - in my practice - between b2b and b2c is roughly 50/50.

What the USA has that Europe does not have is a huge advantage in terms of one language and currency to be able to address 300M+ people, and if you just look at the language you can add another 45M or so. That's impossible to compete with for anything with network effects or a market to launch a product in.
Bad analogy, since the ISP lays a (figurative and real) pipe between Netflix and the user; this isn't correct for electricity.
HN can't take criticism. See my comment is downvoted as soon as truth is spoken.
Since we're throwing ideas out there, how about weekends vs. weekdays? ;)
H4!b5at+kWls-8yh4Guq here.

I wish there was a disclaimer...
Dang, I must of been hacked - now I have to go change my password everywhere. (I'm kidding)
For wireless, it could be last-mile congestion issues rather than ISP's peering.

I don't know how this works with e.g. LTE, but I had a little experience with cheaper-grade WiFi networks that had lots of active users. Some stuff (especially early uTP traffic, when it was a high-PPI network killer) made service severely degrade.
Is that a Bay Area thing?

Just wondering since I grew up in the Bay Area (though haven't lived there since '88) and have developed passive aggressiveness to truly magical heights over the course of my life.
Designed by Apple in California (2013) [video]
And including google in your résumé will probably open doors to thousands of more steady/stable/better-paying startups in the future.
It depends on whether you are driven by money or by a need to have fun or to be more in control. If money is your main driver then Google any day. If you want to be in control then the start-up is good but only if you are a very early hire.

If you want to have fun it depends on how the fit is between what you will do at both places, then pick then one that seems most suitable.
I'm afraid I don't follow. Can you give me an example of the borrow checker compelling one to write such a piece of code? I admit I can't think of an example of Rust code that would fail to panic when the equivalent C code would tend to segfault.
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Disclaimer: I'm a founder of an early stage startup, so I'm biased.

You need to figure out what your goals are. We can't answer for you because we don't know what you want.

If your goal is just money (which is fine, don't be afraid to say this), then definitely go to google. In 10 years you'll be earning 500k per year, and have put away a ton of cash too. Financially, if the startup is successful you_might_ make $10m, but that's unlikely. At google you can guarantee you make $1m.

There are some good reasons to choose a startup:

1) you want the work environment of the startup. Less politics, less optimizing for career advancement, much closer to the customer and the decisions.

2) You want to learn. At a startup, you'll get to do everything. I'm assuming you're an engineer, so you'll get to do backend, frontend, ML, scaling, infra, etc. But you also get to do things like customer support, sales, marketing, etc, which are very valuable skills to learn and understand.

3) You want to do a startup yourself. Seeing how a startup works, and learning the hard lessons of how it doesn't, makes a huge difference if you ever want to start one later.

There are also other good reasons to go to google: you'll get to operate at a scale that a startup wont (that's a plus and a minus), you'll automatically have tons of customers for whatever you build, etc, etc.

Decide on your goals and what to optimize for, and only then can people help you choose.
You probably want to say more about your situation. How much experience do you have, what kinds of things are important to you? Are you already wealthy?
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Yes DNA.

I hope so. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/740592...
Boston come to mind after bay area. I have never seen so many spineless people as in bay area followed by Boston.
There is misunderstanding of th "Netflix and Google, which already pay for direct connections to ISP networks."
Paying interconnection fee in major metro for private peering is peanuts. On other side delivering that traffic to the end customer is expensive. So if everyone OK that payment should be only on one side, i.e. consumer of the traffic, that means that every data center should be getting free bandwidth from ISPs, since that traffic is requested by the customer. By that logic cloud provider bandwidth expenses should be zero, so video streaming services and so on. Basically you create 8K streaming service and DEMAND ISP to give you interconnect and they MUST deliver that content to the end users and recover cost on the end customer side.
Plus early stage stock always gets diluted in further rounds of capital raising ... that 6% will turn into 1% or less and some later hires inevitably will end up with a lot more.
Sure, but is that because we cannot do it or because we don't really want to do it? I'd argue that bringing back a the elephant bird would be more exciting (from a 'cool' perspective and scientifically) then bringing back a pigeon or parakeet. There are already dozens (or more?) of species of both of those alive today, with some very close relatives included.
>This comment is out of touch with the current economic reality in the US. Unemployment is the lowest it has been in decades and real wages are rising.

That's because those things are increasingly more creatively measured to paint a nice picture.

For example today any crap job regardless of quality/wages/precariousness etc is measured as "unemployment", whereas in the past you could have the same number of jobs but they would be much more solid (the "company man" and so on. Heck, a GM factory worker in the 50s could buy a house and raise 2 kids earning the only income in his family).

People who given up looking for work, because they can't find any, are also not counted, while still unemployed and struggling to make ends meet.

"The stock market, for example, has completely recovered from the financial crisis, and then some. Stocks are now worth almost 60 percent more than when the crisis began in 2007, according to a inflation-adjusted measure from Moody’s Analytics. But wealthy households own the bulk of stocks. Most Americans are much more dependent on their houses. That’s why the net worth of the median household is still about 20 percent lower than it was in early 2007. When television commentators drone on about the Dow, they’re not talking about a good measure of most people’s wealth.

The unemployment rate has also become less meaningful than it once was. In recent decades, the number of idle working-age adults has surged. They are not working, not looking for work, not going to school and not taking care of children. Many of them would like to work, but they can’t find a decent-paying job and have given up looking. They are not counted in the official unemployment rate."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/columnists/great-...

>Do you have a citation for this claim? Also why should we be helping "local communities" and not simply helping people?

For one, because tax havens (where that money go instead of local communities, e.g. Apple's Ireland's cash stock) aren't "people".

Second because those local communities where the business is located are what should thrive first and foremost. You can't help "people" without first helping yourself.
Risk. Banks aren’t in the business of unsecured risky loans.
VCs are. If you want an unsecured risky loan, talk to VCs.
Scientific subjects Ars Technica journalists enjoy covering the least
Actually, what can be sold is a function of market rules, law in other words.

That is our collective check against over exploitation, abuse of position, hazards, snake oul, and other easily identified, harmful market antics.
Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks
"6% options is about average for a co-founder-level tech lead at a very small company."

Even if true, the fact that there are a lot of gullible young tech leads driving this average down is no good reason that the poster should be equally gullible.

Do the startup thing when it can be your thing. "First employee" is really the worst of all worlds.
> It will not only open doors for you for all your future jobs

Is this true though? I guess it might help with the first contact, but I've heard from x-googlers that they still had to prepare and pass all those whiteboard CS-riddle based interviews again, for next endeavors.
Right.

There are almost no free markets anywhere in the world.
Basic offer and acceptance.
It is interesting. I haven't read all the laws, but I'd guess that the "occupy the field" standard could come into play. Basically, even when there is no direct conflict between state and federal law and even when federal law does not expressly say that the states can't legislate on the topic, sometimes the federal law is so broad and pervasive that it's clear that it's meant to preempt state laws on the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption#Field_preem...
Well, obviously not or I wouldn't have problems...

So anectodally, you have problems but there hasn’t been any wide spread report of Exchange issues on iOS for almost a decade. It couldn’t possible be an issue with your server could it?

Which would be the first one to get five updates. Everything before that, didn't.
(correction the 5s was released in 2013)

iPhone 5 - released in 2012, last update July 2017

iPhone 4s - released on September 2011 - last update August 2016.

iPhone 4 - released on June 2010 -
Last update June 2014

iPhone 3GS - released June 2009 - last update Feb 2014

I don't know. There are too many. You know, that thing with having a choice and so on.

If you want an Android phone that gets regularly updates after two to three years, there are no choices...
> the Wisconsin DMV put a flag in the computer system for my license plate. The flag was to remind the Wisconsin DMV to make sure my address was updated next time I came in

I will assume that a flagged car will always be impounded when found. I guess that's the point of flagging it.

If your car was impounded because you were flagged without breaking any rules maybe you can address that somehow. Since your registration was paid up, flagging you car seems excessive, especially when it was just as a "reminder". There must be a way people don't end up in this situation for a "reminder" flag. So you can work on your side to make sure others don't get flagged unless their car really needs to be impounded.

Unless you were you supposed to update your address and check in with them to remove that flag, especially before leaving the state. In which case some more care from your side is required.

I'm not saying "privatizing law enforcement" is good. To a hammer everything looks like a nail and when you pay that private company "per nail" you can bet that's what they'll find at every corner. But you can always grab the issue from your end and try to do something about it. Otherwise next time you might as well have the Police impound your car and pay them for the ride. Same difference.
I've never heard of a "time vector descriptor", so what do you mean?
Wonderful game!
No, This is like going after murderers for being late on their taxes. Call me a cynic/skeptic but I don't see cracking down on tracking that's ubiquitous in big tech (google, fb) on some small devs as a positive. This is a distraction and an attempt to by this DA get PR points for "cracking down on tech" for the next election.
Me too...E-Ink/Clear Ink/Mirasol whatever I don't care...just something reflective and not an LED backlight shining in my eyes. I am angry the patent greed has stunted this for so long. There is no physical reason we cannot have laptops and desktop displays with this tech, it's all business bullshit.
Read some articles about the way people get diluted in successful startups. That should change the expectation value calculation. Also, you will have a larger network at Google.
Ask HN: What RSS Feeds are you subscribed to?
The simplest explanation of machine learning you'll ever read
I've heard that many things are arcane in-house proprietary stuff, not easily transferable knowledge/experience.
Here's a question for you then about the definition of net neutrality. Would it be net neutral to treat all data as the same net value but partition the cost differently? I.e. the cost of data from Wikipedia would fall on the consumer while the cost of Youtube data would fall more on Youtube?
The core problem is humanities have accepted materialism. This leaves two options:

1. Subjectivity to preserve the values of goodness, truth and beauty

2. Deny such values exist

However, the humanities are predicated on the objective existence of these values, which is denied by either option. Thus, the acceptance of materialism necessarily kills the humanities.
Which specific parts of the Constitution would you change?
We need an alternative to HTML for content made for reading
Ask HN: Is traditional soft. development more satysfying than machine learning?
I am considering my career right now, I am at uni. It feels like machine learning is less "funny" to do, than tradititional programming, where you can play a lot with how you structure your code. Machine learning seems like a lot of redoing the same thing with different parameters till you get something right.

Machine learning is probably connected with more interesting problems - for example gesture recognition for smart mirrors, and in traditional dev you would probably do more boring stuff like APIs and not do anything that innovative. But is it worth it?

Anyone that transitioned from traditional software development to machine learning, do you find your job more fulfilling now?

(Sorry for bad english)
And the delivery of electric power doesn't require any infrastructure, pipes, wires, etc?

An odd argument by an account created right after this story was posted...
Hell, I could (and have) gone back to 2013 and survived easily. Even a Nexus 5 is perfectly adequate for me, with a comfortable screen size to boot!
That is a personal question. Nobody can choose for you. Nobody. Not your parents, or your partner,or people on hacker news, it is you.

As an adult you start making decisions that will affect the rest of your life. Children have their decisions taken for them.

If you take the decision of going with the startup it will be one of the worst experiences in your life. If will be daunting, it will be taking risks every single day. At the same time, you will be making a contribution. Even if you fail you will learn things you will never learn in Google. If you success you will be free with freedom few things will ever give you.

If you go with Google you will be safe, isolated of the mundane problems most people have and you will be able to focus immensely on very interesting problems sharing your time with some of the smartest people on earth. On the other hand your creative and independent muscle will almost disappear, atrophied by not using it, as the big organization takes the load from your shoulders. Over time, it will make your shoulders less strong.

The decision is yours to make. Write down on a paper what your values and priorities are in your life and how each decision will affect them.
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> there "Instant-availability of the secondary market" you're just talking bullshit

https://steamcommunity.com/market/search?appid=730

https://steamcommunity.com/market/search?appid=578080

https://gamdom.com/

https://csgoempire.com/

https://csgoroll.com/

https://csgodose.com/

https://csbets.org/

https://flashyflashy.com/

https://csgospeed.com/

First page results from a quick google search, who's talking bullshit
Fwiw, they don't. They can't. They have vastly more money than they could ever spend on themselves. The majority of their income is just directed back to towards protecting and growing their capital.

The flaw in the entire capitalist premise is that this investment is assumed to be an implacable driver of productivity, but as the market is purchased (a free market is either for sale, or it's not actually a free market - it's a manipulated market), investments flow into non-productive asset classes, freezing consumptive momentum (ala Thomas Picketty's book).

Moreover, the sale of the market makes zero-sum games more attractive, since, without the protection provided by competition, squeezing resources from others becomes more attractive than creating new opportunity.
This is often not the case. As an example, in the US, I can buy a paperback book and then pay someone to put a hard cover on it. In the UK, many paperback books have a license that prohibits doing that. That license doesn't work in the US.
No remembering the table is the ROM-table part. You need the algorithm part too.
I dont really use RSS right now.

I am subscribed to a lot of newsletters, and do most of content discovery via twitter.
No.

Others have spoken about paying, but let me touch on one of the issues not talked about really so far:

Peering.

Netflix/Google/et al have peering points where they connect to networks like Frontier.

(Non-large customers peer with their own ISP and the ISP has peering points with other ISPs, etc).

These peering arrangements are either paid or settlement-free. That is, the two networks either pay each other for the traffic for money (details vary), or do it "settlement-free".
It's called settlement free because there is no process needed to settle out the charges between the two peers.

One thing to realize is that large ISP's (AT&T, Time Warner, Comcast, and Verizon) have always had paid peering for larger customers. They are oligopolists, so they have no reason not to.

To be fair, some also have settlement free agreements, but they generally would not apply to most customers:
https://www.xfinity.com/peering

To give a sense of scale: comcast has 40+ settlement free agreements in place, and 8000+ commercial agreements in place.

Additionally, netflix/google/etc often do provide benefits for settlement free peering.

For example, for netflix, if you allow them to peer settlement free, netflix will place caching appliances with significant portions of their content library, inside your datacenters.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

The alternative is generally "not peering with netflix".That alternative means the ISP is probably paying for the bandwidth transit (to someone) for their customers to view that netflix content.

Since netflix represents 30%+ of traffic at peak times, I would bet frontier/et al save more not paying for the netflix traffic.

Instead what you see is that they want, essentially, netflix to be forced to peer and pay. (like they are with oligopolists).

That way they pay essentially three times for the traffic - customer a, interconnect, customer b.

In practice, this game is mostly a waste of time. In truth, silicon valley could end this game end time it wanted by getting together.

The top 10-20 websites account for most of the time spent daily on the internet.

If 10 of them (Google, Netflix, Facebook, etc) got together and said "okay, great, there is no net neutrality, we are no longer serving comcast customers because it's too expensive", i'm pretty sure i know who would win that and how long it would take.
(At worst, you end up with a net neutrality bill being approved!)

It's the lack of togetherness that enables the "divide and conquer" strategy.

(It would also be hilarious to watch comcast complain about unfair competition).
http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
>“embrace the boredom”. That’s what I tell my 7-yo repeatedly. Boredom makes you more creative.

Being creative is the opposite of embracing the boredom because you're fighting it by being creative.
Lack of self-control really is a bad reason to choose one over the other.

Just make a contract with yourself to save 2/3 of salary each month.

More savings and more experience puts you in a lot better position to do a startup later at your terms, as a co-founder or similar.

Early employee in startup is really the worst of all worlds.
>Many contemporary accounts reported the Festival of Reason as a "lurid", "licentious" affair of scandalous "depravities"...

Sounds a bit like Burning Man
> would have also had undefined behavior (in the game world).

"Undefined behavior" is a term of art in programming languages. She would have a logic error, but not UB. See my comment over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995007
What I mean is that Netflix pushes the bytes from one side. Bosch doesn't push electricity from one side to make my Bosch washing machine work for example. (Which highlights another reason this analogy is bad: the electric company gives you power which they have to generate themselves, while an ISP is pipes)