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> "Meanwhile we were stuck translating into 20 European languages.” - Christophe Sapet (French entrepreneur)"

That's such a bad excuse. There is nothing stopping them from executing in English, or in French in France in the first place. There are five major languages in Europe: English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. No startup starts doing business in >1 market, not even Uber/Google.
Not to worry. I have been staunchly admonished in a Danske Bank branch for attempting to pay a bill of roughly $50 (a laundry bill for an old lady of my acquaintance) without being able to produce the required official ID. I was clearly a terrorist pedophile laundering drug-money for the Russian mafia.
Low salaries are not a good thing for the startups!

Here's an article from a French engineer that is currently on the front page of HN: https://web.archive.org/web/20180925150228/https://florentcr...

tldr; he moved to SF because salaries are much, much higher than in France, even considering the social benefits that you get in France.

Other threads on HN have French engineers saying that they love living in France while working remotely for American companies.

I've lived in Paris, Berlin, NYC and California. I'll never understand how European founders can keep saying that 40k euro salaries for engineers is a benefit while they watch so many great engineers leave to American companies.
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/

Cant say the quality of this study, but it came up in recent discussions about the topic when the US supreme court ruled on a related matter, and claims "employees win 21 percent of arbitration cases, compared to 57 percent of cases in state court. " and "Workers also get less money when they're successful: $109,000 in arbitration compared to $575,000 in state court" (quotes pulled from a digg summary)
Isn't this a case against minimum wage laws? Obviously people's paychecks need to be paid from somewhere. Not all business models are going to work when you have to pay $15 /hr. So in that case, no job gets created and the person who could have done the work gets no money.

By removing the artificial market controls, people can voluntarily choose to get paid less, and make something (which is better than nothing).

I think people that complain about Uber not providing "basic employment rights and both minimum and living wages" don't really know what it's like to be poor. Talk to an Uber driver sometime, they're grateful for the opportunity to make some cash on their own terms.
>"I can look into your question, later, but you can answer it by searching for citations of the original research."

I think we both know that direct replications remain rare for this type of research and it is highly unlikely that one exists.
It's easy to second guess... "if only they'd hung there, the $100B valuation today would be theirs".

But how many first time entrepreneurs would turn down a $1B offer after 2 years of work?

Guaranteed the writers of these articles have never been in that position.
I mean, if you're a libertarian that makes sense. If you're not then wonder about why things like minimum wage exists, surely if people are willing to work for less than minimum wage why stop them?
The UK has a pretty poor human rights records lately and they don't really seem to care about it (Assange).
Nice point, I was trying to guess what value could this have for apple.
Chump change for Bezos. Really.
Optional 1b: Make it dominant.

This might encourage firms to step in. With or without, only facilitating individual developers to offer maintenance contracts would be limiting.

I hope kemitchell or someone tries the idea described by kemitchell and succeeds wildly.
Doing a misjudgment here but the fact is "Companies like facebook don't need founders, they will eventually make the product that people might use in everyday life, they will do it anyhow; by either copying that product or to buy it. Remember that the 'poke your friend' feature is only unique from facebook everything else is someone else's things"
this evil face of facebook will hurt more and more companies day after day and in a result a chain reaction that will affect the life of general people.
Hm, if the author happens to be on here: I can't seem to email bug reports.

"Unfortunately, your email to GitLab could not be processed. We couldn't find the project. Please check if there's any typo."

Also, are issues turned off on the repo?
As a kid in the late 70s I recall people telling me if I sat too close to the TV I'd catch a cancer.
> Exotic names are your parents expressing themselves through you

All names are your parents expressing themselves through you.

I also fail to see how one can no longer express themselves due to a given name.
Unlikely. Intel and Apple both know better than to be that obvious.
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The main bulk of their income is/was from affiliate income paid by Apple, hence the buy-out.
Being sent "home" when you've been living and working in another country for possibly years at a time doesn't really make it any better. You don't necessarily have a "home" wherever you came from.
From what you said though, it sounds like when you opt out of data tracking, you're at a disadvantage from those who are being tracked. (i.e. those being activity-tracked and proved to be healthy get lower insurance premiums) This seems to be the opposite of what OP wants -- be motivated to stop being tracked.

At a higher level view, this appears to be a prisoner's dilemma. If everyone opts out, everyone is eventually better off. But some people will opt in now, and get the short term benefits (lower insurance premiums). In the long term, everyone will be worse off.
No. As they are secret courts, fundamentally biased against the human when against a corporation by virtue of money, and not required to follow the law, they indistinguishable from an agreement to lose.

https://www.centerjd.org/system/files/ArbitrationWhitePaper....
https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/bclawreview...
All the anecdotes we hear about high compensation come with a heavy dose of survivor bias---we only hear about the high salaries. There are lots of good devs making more modest figures at less glamorous startups or small shops. Glassdoor reflects that.
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

You'd figure that four years after this article came out the larger social media companies would have solved this issue.

A section that stood out to me:

Eight years after the fact, Jake Swearingen can still recall the video that made him quit. He was 24 years old and between jobs in the Bay Area when he got a gig as a moderator for a then-new startup called VideoEgg. Three days in, a video of an apparent beheading came across his queue.

"Oh fuck! I've got a beheading!" he blurted out. A slightly older colleague in a black hoodie casually turned around in his chair. "Oh," he said, "which one?" At that moment Swearingen decided he did not want to become a connoisseur of beheading videos. "I didn't want to look back and say I became so blasé to watching people have these really horrible things happen to them that I'm ironic or jokey about it," says Swearingen, now the social media editor at Atlantic Media.
That is 100% correct. Another way (a better way in my opinion) is to think of a speed booster is it's a sensor size increaser.

In effect a GH4 with a Metabones EF speed booster attached is effectively comparable to an EF camera with an APS-H size sensor (1.3x crop factor).
Lower noise levels at high ISO are an advantage of FF. Very useful for shooting action in low light (e.g. sports and dance), where you need high shutter speeds to freeze motion.
There are so many more things than substances to be addicted to. Psychological dependence on certain behaviors can be just as strong as physical dependence on a substance.

It looks like this study is focused on drug addiction which on its own is really intriguing, but I wonder if there would be any evidence in the human genome to predict behavioral addiction.
"3 years in SF will not only have been an amazing experience you’ll always remember; they’ll pay dividends for your whole life."

I lived in Mountain View in the 1980's, and I have found this to be true. My wife and I left the area to be closer to our relatives when we started our family, but every job I've had since that time was easier to get due to that experience.
Ask HN: Since Chrome is Evil would you like to pay for a browser?
Can you provide links to high quality studies that would convince a skeptic of your claim? I am unable to find studies demonstrating strong causal relationship between high voltage lines and reduced health.
Maybe you trust Google or Facebook or Microsoft. That's fine. And probably sane; they're large corporations with huge numbers of processes and procedures in place to make sure data is used in ways that is at least parallel with their terms of use.

Do you trust that these companies will never be hacked? In a world where, this year, we discovered that a fundamental optimization in the literal silicon of processors, which went unnoticed for a decade, and affected every modern processor on the planet, allowed for some level of unintentional data leak, do well-meaning intentions even matter?

Just a few days ago, Twitter announced that an unintentional bug leaked private DMs to third-party app developers. Oh darn, we're sorry, we didn't mean for that to happen, it just did.

So, do you trust any of your personal information being obtained by any random person on the planet?

This is our world, its just taking everyone a bit of time to realize it: If you have information stored on the internet, it will get leaked eventually. Then at that point, its just a matter of having enough attention for one person who wants to do you harm find it. Do you have no enemies at all?

Oh you don't? Are you alright with your credit card and social security numbers being available for anyone to grab? Look at that, you do have enemies, they just don't care about you personally, all they care about is themselves, and they'll hurt you to accomplish that. Let's say you're a woman. Are you alright with your address being publicly available? How about your Google Calendar? Snapchat real-time location? Feed from your Nest security camera? Didn't think so.

"Privacy" is not when a company says they care about your privacy. Its when they fucking implement End-To-End Encryption and physically deny themselves even the ability to see your data. Any company who says they care about privacy but isn't doing this is fucking lying to you, full stop, no exceptions, because if they really cared then they (A) wouldn't put concessions on their position like "well we need to be able to see this data for X", and (B) would have the humility to recognize that the world is more vulnerable than its ever been before, and they will be hacked, its just a matter of when.
> Hmm, I guess fundamentally I find it hard to believe that a large corporation would acquire a smaller one just to let them run completely independently - it just seems counter-intuitive unless the acquirer is a holding company, basically.

I don't find it hard to believe - it is a perfectly valid defensive move to contain a potential competitor. What if an independent Zappos decided to start selling everything, not just shoes? Also, it might provide an internal 'skunkworks' where Amazon finds lessons applicable to the larger organization without killing the golden-egg-laying goose. It's quite a reasonable way of self-disrupting.
I wonder if current navigation apps are smart enough to only propose a new route to a portion of the total number of drivers in that location.

Ultimately, the only way to have optimal flow is to delegate all itinerary decisions to a central authority...
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. But it's not bad for everyone: I really enjoy it here and, honestly, my biggest fear is having to leave someday due to costs, because my quality of life is so high and because I have a lot of friends here.
> The first is by far the most likely from a scientific point of view, and the evidence for it is actually pretty overwhelming.

Not really, few physicists have tried to explain consciousness - Roger Penrose being a notable exception - and no physicist has ever sufficiently explained how artifacts like the complete works of Shakespeare come about. They seem to have been invented by Shakespeare but if Shakespeare had no free will to invent them, then were did they come from? While we're at it, where does the continuum and the mathematical structures between real numbers come from? Are real numbers even physically possible? I've read a paper once that argued that they cannot be physically realized, because that would violate the laws of thermodynamics (and a few others, too). What about the rest of mathematics like perfect squares or functions that cannot be computed? Are these illusions?

In a nutshell, there is a whole lot that physics cannot explain, including all of human culture. That's the gist of Popper's three worlds argument. Physicists surely claim that the physical world is closed, but they haven't provided any arguments that go much beyond "human culture is super complex but we believe we could in principle explain it somehow with our theories".

Now Popper argued for some not too plausible dualism, but the central negative part of his argument still stands.

As for explanations, I agree that not many good ones are on the table and maybe the Philosophy of Mind confuses more than it clarifies. My personal favorite speculative theory is a rare form of computationalism, namely the position that some computations might have consciousness as an emergent property when they run on a suitable physical device, and that in theory we could even be able to determine which class of computations these are by mere analytical insight, provided we have the proper conceptual tools. Computationalism is not very popular in philosophy, though.
"Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google all contributed around $50,000 by matching employee gifts."

That seems paltry for Google, given that their knowledge graph benefits a lot from Wikipedia content.
In Germany, I used an uber-like app, having the same tracking and reputational semantics, but it hailed actual taxis. very nice.
I'm sorry, but I absolutely reject that argument. No business is not hiring someone because they can't pay them below minimum wage.
People really overestimate how much COL affects how much you earn in San Francisco. $70k in Atlanta is not close to $235k in San Francisco (both typical new grad starting salaries). Assuming you spend $40k on rent a year without having a roommate in San Francisco you still have $101k after taxes.
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Seeing as established giants can just kill a start up by copying them, I'm left to wonder. Could Snapchat have patented/trademarked Stories?
99% of the time this is just pasting one dependency line into a file, and a Gradle file reads more intuitively than a Maven pom file. IMO performance aside Maven really only excels in edge cases. Most projects would never see any advantages from using Maven instead.
885,086 customer records exposed in search engine
If I'm not mistaken, Rdio's engineering team helped build Pandora's on-demand service. I've switched to it from Spotify after using Rdio in the past. Its recommendations feel similar to Rdio's, but the interface is a bit lacking. There aren't general recommendations. Instead, you must build a playlist and then you can add a set of recommended songs to the playlist. Of course, there are also radio stations.
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On Snapchat, you can hold the camera screen and it starts to "Shazam" what songs are playing.

I wonder if Apple will allow them to keep this feature.
young people, please don't take the advice in this article seriously.

> My objective in this post is to convince you that you need to move to SF.

There are many ways to have an enjoyable life. Anyone telling you that you have to make all of the choices that they made to have an enjoyable life is worth ignoring.
It sounds a lot like a blockchain: "Your log is immutable and message order is preserved - every message+previous_hash is signed" which means no deletions, ever.
Hi! Issues are on: https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/issues
The email bug report got broken when I renamed the app from mmmmm-mobile to manyverse, I thought GitLab would handle it still. I'll release a new version. For now you can open issues or tweet to me
Linux, Git, MetaEdit+: how 3 Finns brought versioning, models and code together
Google went after Freebase, did all the knowledge transfer to their graph and discontinued the project. Wikipedia now became a vitally important source of information and it is great to see big players trying to keep open knowledge base funded.
This service seems to promote a very odd consumption of podcasts. Most people don't have a problem finding new podcasts to listen to if they want another one to listen to. The much bigger issue they have is finding which of the previous episodes to listen to.
It would be much nicer if this let you review each new episode release of a podcast and send you an email if the new episode of a podcast you were kind of interested in is highly reviewed relative to the other.
I like the concept and installed the android app.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't call it a beta version. I would say alpha since it seems to ... lack a lot. I was even unable to report a bug via the in-app mail link. Got a response that there is no such project on gitlab ;)
But, if they're not employees, then how can Uber do this?
Twitter market manipulation is entirely Elon Musk's fault, not something Tesla and its employees are responsible for (except, perhaps, for some inner circle who might have stopped him). On the other hand, the newly revised Chrome is a core product: disagreeing with management but allowing it to be distributed isn't enough.
> they couldn't do math

Generously, bulk firings like that can be an attempt to add runway, or compensate (painfully) for over-expansion. Telltale management may have been hoping for a few more high-profile releases that would keep them solvent, and cut staff devoted to riskier or lower-margin work in hopes of surviving until those profits hit. When the numbers came in lower than hoped, there was nothing left in the hopper and no more point in delaying the collapse.

Of course, everything in Telltale's story screams mismanagement, and the overexpansion was pretty clearly an issue in the first place. A studio producing largely one-trick games around expensive branded properties can't spin up new projects freely for new staff, and even if they do they were competing with their own games to the point of market saturation.
>if you end up working 10 or 12 hours a day,

when i walk the dog past the cool&hip startups in the downtown Palo Alto, i always wonder what happened - nobody is working in the evening in these nicely appointed open floor offices designed to foster creativity, collaboration and communication. Those 10-12 hours a day seems to be a myth these days.

>caged, distracted, annoyed (but fed!) at work, go home to a meager existence, have zero friends, zero romance

the Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc. downtowns (and what i gather the Mission and other cool places in SF) are bustling in the evening with young techies socializing and romancing when they are supposed to be crushing their soul in a soul crushing startup. One more SV myth ...
If you're intersted in the orbital debris problem, I reccomend Nasa's site:
https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov
What makes this a cynical and absurd conspiracy theory? Is it that cookies are being kept so as to not break browser login, or that the decision-making was driven by software engineers?
You realize that "flix" is a synonym for "movies", right? Have you heard of a chick flick? That's why "Netflix" makes so much sense. So you're basically calling a podcasting app "pod-movies".
The title said bash.

Replace "local" with "typeset" and what I wrote is compatible with KSH too -- not Bourne nor POSIX, I know, but still.
I think what you meant is that low noise and high ISO are advantages of large pixels. Larger sensors just happen to have more such pixels. If you where willing to eat the reduction in resolution, you'd get the same noise and sensitivity from any size sensor. For example, a 10MP APS-C sensor has the same sensitivity as a 25MP full frame sensor, all other things held equal.
You are right that letting the acquired company "do whatever they want" wouldn't be Amazon's jam.

But the Zappos case was different. They didn't NEED to sell, so they put in the selling agreement that they get to keep a bunch of autonomy.

Basically Zappos loves being a part of Amazon for shipping and logistics benefits.

But Zappos core strategy/identity is based on being an uncommonly fun place to work and being great to its employees. They wanted to make sure when they sold that the never had to deal with employees "the Amazon" way.
In a completely free market, corporations are free to distort economic and labour policy so that poor unemployed people are desperate to get any job they can, regardless of how poorly it pays.

This is why minimum wage and other laws exist.

See also: race to the bottom.
That's why TIVO (or whichever DVR company) had the skip 30 seconds button. If it was a 60, you hit it twice. However, they also sell 15 second blocks. Now, it's just fast forward at ludicrous speeds.
The main source of X rays in old tube televisions wasn't actually the CRT as far as I know - it was the high voltage rectifier and shunt regulator tubes. Later versions of some of these tubes apparently used leaded glass specifically to mitigate this.

This guy I watch on YouTube who repairs old electronics explains it here in one of his repair videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdcA93xJh2g#t=5m40s
It's the size of the pixel that matters, rather than the size of the sensor. Sensors with fewer pixels will perform better than the same sized sensors with more pixels simply because they each have a larger surface area and can capture more light.
Just to distill that statement into specifics, the "goal" as you see it literally says (1) they had no written record before, and now they will and (2) two other vendors did the actual work. There's nothing technical about it but it implies intent behind the recommendations.

IMO, that statement alone does illuminate a "solid solution", which is to reduce vendoring out some of these critical functions and gradually staff leadership with a mix of people who have significant hands-on experience with technology. Or more shortly, "care for properly."
5mph over can be the difference between life and death in a crash with a pedestrian. I don’t understand why people trivialise it or act like it’s draconian to expect people to drive under a speed limit.
Good luck if you aren't a US citizen.
I had to leave Firefox for Chrome at the office because Meet and Hangouts; I missed this: https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/firefox-is-now-supported-by-...

Since Firefox 60 you don't need Chrome for that, so I'm back to Firefox. Firefox isn't perfect, and that was OK because there was always Chrome. Now it starts to feel like it is Firefox or nothing, which isn't ideal.
Namecoin is cool but I think there are still big issues to be fixed, like renewals/pricing to avoid one person getting all the good domain/sane names.
Just years of seeing them credited in random forums & social media sites.

Quick Google Search:

Credits Hanselman & Guthrie - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8596268

AMA w/ Hanselman mentions it being 10 yrs ago - https://hashnode.com/ama/with-scott-hanselman-cjbx98jh506b34...

This article might be exactly what you're looking for - https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-finally-came-around-open-so...
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Holy shit I had no idea, that's nothing short of amazing.
Curious now about how exactly your Corporate IT team is disabling sync by default. Especially given the change as described. Possible to elaborate?