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6. What do you mean with incorporating?
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That link is about Show HNs - and this isn't a Show HN.

What really grinds my gears are companies selling nonsense that is actively hurtful. And the article makes a pretty compelling point that EV certs are pointless - and they cost a whole bunch of money - and that makes them actively hurtful. And, then we have a self aggrandizing comment here with no clear audience defending a status quo that helps no one and hurts small businesses. That, I find disrespectful.
If you believe that programmers are a cog in a wheel and that there are many more cogs on the market, cogs who are working 10% less hours are good candidates to replace with new ones. They probably understand that there will be a temporary instability as old people leave and new replacements come in.

Not that I believe this, but I can understand the logic of it.
I used to live 2 blocks from Delancey. I had them move me into my apartment, move me out, hired them for two office moves, and they were the labor for the SF-end of a significant datacenter move. Great guys, hard workers. The professionalism at the cafe is almost military, I had breakfast there almost every morning for 2 years. It's part of the reason I'm so fat.
It's not about the best tech.

We seemed (well no one knows for sure) to have the best data available (it was an analytics product) over our competitors, but didn't earn enough money with it. I can't blame our sales department as I have zero ideas how to even sell sliced bread, but our customers regularly said they liked our data better than what they got from the competition.

We did spend months improving our tech and even had stuff like geo-based load balancing, multi-DC failover, and a lot more. We prepared for a lot more customers and traffic than we needed to handle in the end. Some of it was warranted, but especially improving our data/algorithms even further was absolutely wasted time. We went from like 90% professional setup to 95%, and went from 99% good algorithms to 99.5% good algorithms, but we should have added more fancy dashboards and better UX. Admittedly, many customers just logged in and grabbed a CSV export, they paid for the data. But a not insignicant amount of customers also said the competition's presentation was a lot better. We never had a dedicated front end person with real design chops (not just being a JS developer), we should have hired one or two.

We also held on too long to old features/products that weren't the current focus but spread our resources too thin. We weren't enough developers/SREs for the workload, that means we either moved too slow or stuff got postponed.

I think we also never fully made the switch from "we'll do some customizations for customers to get them to fully make a commitment" to "this is the SaaS offering, take it or leave", but maybe the market space was also too small for that. It was B2B and the customers weren't something like Small businesses, where you have thousands.

Things that 100% did not matter: permanent overtime, too much vacation time
We were a German startup acting within German work conditions, e.g. 40h were the norm (sure there were exceptions when something exploded), we had paid oncall and if you didn't sleep the whole night then you just handed over in the morning and went to sleep.

TLDR: Lack of focus on a single product, not selling to enough customers, did not perform step to lower-maintenance SaaS (worked too much like an agency)
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This will hasten the move away from the dollar.

I hope that this allows the EU to trade prime matters and other goods in Euros, since interests are alligning perfectly.
Dentists seem to have really inconvenient hours for whatever reason. Which makes you wonder how many people have poor dental care not because of costs, but because the dentist surgery's hours are simply too inconvenient for them with their current working arrangement...
Don't donate to the Red Cross anyways. I was a long time donor and I recently told them off when I actually took the time to read the packets and disclosures and it turns out they ship your blood off to universities for testing and research -- with or without your consent, which I object to on principle alone, but also there is now a moral unknown for me if my blood is going towards research I morally object to. Again, maybe not most people's here problem with it, but on principle I do not like not being in control of what is done with own blood (I want it to go help people, not be test subjects), and probably most people here can at least agree with that.

Also, they sell your blood to hospitals at a hefty markup. Donate directly to the hospitals -- most if you walk in and say you are there to donate blood will happily accept you. Second best is probably a community blood center.
China has threatened to start export controls on raw materials used by US manufacturers. Three trade war is complex.
I would say erlang is an interesting new language, except that it's not new. The idea of a functional language that is just very careful about its impurities and has a clever way of managing state without spinlocks or mutexes is a great thing. Beam languages have almost no footguns and programming them feels like programming with inflated gutterball balloons. A chip architecture that was highly optimized for the beam would be great.
(NB not criticising you here, but pointing out a cultural problem).

This is a classic cash flow problem in business. Any very simple (usually free) “start a business” course from local government in the UK will cover this. I went on such a course and they explicitly talked, in detail, about this issue. They flagged it as a major cause of business failure.

Point being not to criticise the parent but to emphasise that startups are not different from any other businesses when it comes the basics like cash flow. Something that really stands out in the startup world is how little regard is given to the simple everyday business issues that business advisors the world over teach about every day. Anyone starting a tech business should do a simple course on business basics, in this example it could literally have saved the startup for an investment of a few hours.
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In 2017 the US had a $40 billion trade surplus in services, and a $375 billion trade deficit in goods.
Could it be that the "greatest generation" were just really bad parents? The men came back from WW2, and then again Korea, completely broken with PTSD"?

The boomers didn't deal with nearly as much war as their parents. Violent crime peaked exactly 18 years after Roe vs Wade. An entire generation was allowed to wait until they were ready to be intentional parents rather than accidental.
You whippersnapper!
Why would you not pay an extra 25% when buying from AliExpress?
We were too early regarding the technology (doing 3d real time reconstruction of inner rooms using laser scanner - 2011), without even owning a laser scanner (price tag: $30000). We got to rent one for some hours ($2000/4hours) to get some samples but they were too few to draw a generic, working algorithm. With the samples it worked well, but we didn't get the opportunity to move further, then we ran out of money (funded by a University Program, from the money we bought computers, office stuff and travels) pretty soon, because none looked pretty interested in the product. 3 years later, other technologies reached the market and it was 'successful', even though I don't see any disruption until today.

Learned a lot in laser scanning and improved my programming skills tremendously (was CTO and main IT guy after finishing university).

Unfortunately PCs were not so fast as today and there was no help like today with all those APIs available, but only 2 major libraries that helped me to achieve the MVP: OpenCV and PointcloudLibrary.
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"Goods exports totaled $129.9 billion; goods imports totaled $505.5 billion. The U.S. goods trade deficit with China was $375.6 billion in 2017."

"Trade in services with China (exports and imports) totaled an estimated $75.0 billion in 2017. Services exports were $57.6 billion; services imports were $17.4 billion. The U.S. services trade surplus with China was $40.2 billion in 2017."[0]

Seems to be an order of magnitude of difference, setting aside possible tariff rates.

[0] https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peo...
Well, you can certainly apppreciate the fact that for EV, Apple is also changing the indicator. Perhaps it is only a matter of time before Fifrefox does it as well. The logic is reasonable, EVs are not widely used and therefore not worth having as most users probably don't use it to assess the legitimacy of websites. They are also expensive as all hell as I can see from the article.

Considering your point that the way EV are displayed is similar in form to not secure, I find it weird. As the article points out, on mobile the EV looks not different than a DV. On desktop, it is written the full EV name versus the "Not secure" label.

It seems EVs are on their way out, you should at least concede that. It seems the Chromium team are pushing for accentuating the top domain name instead, so there's that.
What book would you recommend to know more about SOC?
Can it be also hacked?
I was really excited to try this, but then I realized it wasn't on Android :(
Yes, I forgot about categories.

Regarding JRuby, most of the issues were related to translating Ruby code into JVM semantics.

Doing FFI to external Objective-C is a bit different.
What about the article isn't compelling?

We have an expert here, writing they are useless.

We have various case studies of different websites using them and then switching away from them without any user outcry - again, showing they are useless.

We have various examples of CAs making highly misleading claims with a clear intent to financially benefit themselves.

We have a "warranty" that no one will explain what it means.

We have major browsers, saying they are worthless by removing their special treatment.

We have major websites voting with their feet, never using them, indicating they are useless.

Its extremely unclear to me exactly what you are objecting to. Maybe if they were useful, then, they would be useful, but, that's circular.
With 30 hours per week I would really prefer to work for 10 hours 3 days. This way after each work day I will have a day off. This way I can recharge myself sufficiently to have productive 10 hours.

As for productivity then I noticed when debugging hard bugs times really fly.
The reason that fuel cells are so expensive is because of limited metals. The best fuel cells are made with a lot of platinum. If fuel cells were cheap and did not need the use of limited metals, then they would be a huge deal. Until then, how you produce the hydrogen is a minor detail. (Maybe there have been amazing advancements in fuel cell tech since I last looked into it. Any links?)
It depends what the OP call core math competency.

If you mean the ability to solve and think critically about problems, I like a combination of "How to solve it" by Pólya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It) for more general ideas and regularly finding puzzles onm different topics such as the ones proposed here (https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-riddler/).

For deeper mathematics, I feel like that's hard. I come back to my notes from Grad School once in a while, or try to follow proofs for topics of interests. But to be honest, most of them are a little beyond me at times. Maybe Fermat's library (https://fermatslibrary.com/) can offer some annotated reading which would be helpful?

Regardless, I wish you good luck. Please do share if you have any more good ideas.
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Hey, we're working in the space of navigation by bike as well, though not in the exact same way as your startup from what I understand. It would be awesome if you could share your backend with us (email: rohan.pandey at gmail). Thanks!
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Depends on who you ask I believe. Both Reddit founders have gone on record stating that he was not a co-founder. Wikipedia says Paul Graham says he was, but he wasn't technically there since the beginning. He joined forces with them through a merger of his project called Infogami six months into Reddit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Aaron-Swartz-and-Steve-Huffman...
Telemetry is added in the Microsoft code for sure, plus some suggestions to Microsoft extensions.
Throttling video speeds may very well be a good thing for many (most?) users who have a fixed data cap. Throttling means Netflix/Youtube/etc react by sending lower quality video to your tiny screen, where you won’t be able to appreciate higher quality anyway.
What I'd give to have that performance in a folding fish filleting knife. Resharpening after every 2nd fish when you have 30 fish to do gets tiresome after a while.

I tried to find such a beast, but either they don't exist of my google failed me.
In related news, Bombardier is deploying a battery powered train in Berlin: https://montrealgazette.com/business/local-business/bombardi...

Most of the rail system in Germany is electrified anyway. With batteries to power the non electrified bits, why bother with hydrogen?
I think this is very regional. I have never had a snow day in my entire life because we get snow several months per year.
I think the "snow day" phenomenon happens in cities where snow is rare enough that there is no infrastructure in place to take care of it (having that would be more expensive than just accepting everything stops a couple of days per year) AND not every car has winter tyres.

After 60cm snow on one night everyone is expected to be at school and work, on time, just like any other day. It should be noted that as a driver I also expect the roads to be bare at 7am even after that kind of night, and amazingly they almost always are. At least all major roads will be, but residential streets will not. https://static-cdn.sr.se/sida/images/109/b924f65c-8cc4-4332-...
Yis, butt taht sence isnt verry interstating.
40 mph?

On I95 in the DE-NY area, it's more like 60 mph in heavy rain. Or even in moderate snow. Everyone knows that they could never stop. But they're counting on others' inability to stop ;) But occasionally, there are massive chain-reaction pileups :(
It's true, but it's also why all our software is so terrible.
It only drives up the cost of phishing attacks if the customer actually expects the EV cert UI and is willing to bail if they don't see it. One of the major issues with EV is that, while seeing the EV cert may give the user confidence that they're visiting the business they intended to, not seeing the EV cert is not detrimental in any way, because users generally don't expect to see them.

And a personal anecdote to back this up: I'm a pretty savvy web user, I've been around for a while and visit lots of websites, and yet if you were to put a gun to my head and tell me I had to name a website that I was confident would have an EV cert, the only site I could possibly name is my bank, and even that I'm not positive about, I just know that banks usually have EV certs.

(just checked, my bank does in fact have an EV cert)
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Two seconds of scrolling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/9gq4q8/average_2...
Some, maybe dumb, thought.

Imposing tariffs and therefore reducing the goods that are transiting to (and from) the US across the globe is not, indirectly, ecologically good?

Less goods transiting, less transport to bring them across oceans, less container ships, less oil…
How can I learn to Speed Read?
I strongly agree, as I said in the article by license using VSC your renounce your rights to reverse-engineer the VSC. So you take a legal risk making it and blogging/talking/podcasting about it on Internet and can face legal actions.
I’ve recently been at a master students’ thesis defense where a method was discussed that is supposed to speed up algorithms by deciding whether to run them on GPU or CPU. The method is to look at the program code with deep learning algorithms.

Fair enough. There’s apparently a set of benchmarks that other papers used and were reused here to compare against. Yet the student was unable to answer my question as to how bias in this dataset was treated or even what percentage of the algorithms was faster on GPU to begin with, they only showed how much better their deep learning fit the data. As in, if 99% is faster on GPU I could as well just provide that as a static answer and be better than any machine learning.

I frankly find it tragic that this kind of stuff is not ironed out in academia. This was was in a very highly ranked university.
Is anyone here curious about where the tariffs income will be spent?
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The grand parent says individuals can import a thing up to $800 before tax.
Years back, I operated a small ISP to serve a need until cable broadband arrived in the community. I had to monitor overall usage and throttle clients frequently with high torrent/video usage. It was also an issue with hotspots in RV Parks/campgrounds where there was a higher ratio of video usage. There are technical limitations to spectrum/bandwidth, I'm curious why this isn't mentioned more in discussions like these?
> they think whatever they're doing must be "the best", irregardless of what <others> think

The word that comes to my mind is "arrogance". Is there a better fitting word? (Honest question, not a native speaker)
> On the one hand, china is taking advantage of us and is in part rotting our our middle class and blue collar workers. On the other hand, this could spark economic turmoil.

Actually, this is much more complicated than getting taken advantage of. Let us walk through an example:

When you're posting a message online on HN, we post using many chinese components going into your China-assembled HP laptop. Cost: $800.

A tiny tariff of 10% will just make the cost of that laptop go up. For the sake of argument, lets say it passes through to customers and that same laptop now costs you $880. We're already eliminating any benefits of tax cuts passed earlier this year.

At 25% tariffs, some components might start getting manufactured here. But the price of those components will be more than current Chinese imported price. Say, the price of that same laptop will go up to $1000.

So now you will be a proud owner of a laptop made in USA by shelling out $200 more.

And you might be fine with that cost for American patriotism. But here is the kicker.

HP laptops now cost $1000 in global market whereas other laptop manufacturers outside the US can still manufacture the same laptop for $800. Maybe HP (an American company) was able to sell laptops to Europe and India before. But not anymore. Because Lenovo can still make it for $800.

Lenovo just gained market (and revenue) from HP simply because of tariffs.

Trade is much more complicated than what we're giving credit for.
Simple: you don't accept a license. If you want to reverse engineer it, just do it. You don't need their permission.
Uber advanced technologies, routing tech lead here. This sounds interesting. Lets chat?

You can email me: michaelv at uber
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Can someone in this thread summarize what are the terms? AR, AP, APR, retainer, etc.
The article is kind of vague. What they seem to be doing is operating a ground penetrating radar under the vehicle so that underground details can be used as positional references. This is useful only if you have a map which includes that data. At best, this tells you where you are. It tells you nothing about what's ahead.

LIDAR units that return "first and last" returns are helpful in dealing with rain and fog. The first return (nearest thing seen) will be noisy in rain, but last (most distant thing in that direction) should be stable if it's from a solid object. "First and last" is used with aerial LIDAR surveying; "first" gives you the treetops, "last" gives you the ground.

Range gated imagers for seeing through fog and dust have been available for over a decade. These are active devices which allow filtering out anything that's outside a narrow image range gate. You can adjust the gate and get images layer by layer. This technology is used by the military and seems to be somewhat restricted.[1][2][3] In addition to fog, it can show what's behind a camouflage net, objects concealed by brush, and such.

The submillimeter radar people are slowly making progress, too.[4] Automotive radars are currently running at 77GHz, which is low resolution compared to LIDAR. The resolution gets better with frequency. There are now systems in the 300GHz range.

So the sensors needed are available now, in expensive forms, and can get cheaper.

[1] http://www.dvsmil.com/PDF/Imaging_Lidar_Seeing_Through_Cloud...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOTo-6jXOYo
[3] http://www.sensorsinc.com/applications/military/laser-range-...
[4] http://consortis.eu/
Bailout (buying votes) for more farmers who will lose export markets?
If you started using it in 2016 you are basically using chrome. Before it had its own rendering and js engines and wouldn't really be useful for engineers working with web technologies. That a side it is now owned by a Chinese consortium with some bad reputation.
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Thanks for this post, I remember reading about "Flyweight" and being confused at the time, if it's just memoization that instantly makes sense and is just such a better way of describing things.
And another problem to solve in Spain, I bet you all they haven't reached an agreement by April.
By Gun ownership I meant people protecting their own property from other people who might use force to steal away or damage the property. I do not mean shooting people dead but the mere indication that store/farm owner might be armed deters potential thieves away.

I agree with you on everything you have said but the real issue is with the American people who get scared easily and act as if anyone branded as criminal should be treated as animal. For example people think it is great if people are forever locked, raped in jail, disallowed to work etc. because "they are bad people". To change that mindset we need to build far better communities. I feel we should break up larger metropolitan areas into several smaller ones and force people to actively participate in the governance instead of relying on a hate mongering politician who turns up every few years promising to lock up the bad guys.
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And after the tariffs what do you expect will happen to goods and services going from the US to China?