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Well, I am a german and i'd argue we'd need to do it the SV way to have the same kind of global success stories. Sure your small german startup can be GDPR compliant and find it's niche, but making products of massive global scale is inherently harder here than it is in the US because of a number of things, only one of which is data privacy.

Not saying as a consumer i do not prefer EU privacy laws, I do, but it will be hard to compete on a global scale being handcuffed in a lot of these smaller areas. (privacy, language barriers, taxes, salaries etc)
Fears by who(m)? There must be some interesting partisan politics you are barely hinting at.
400-year-old shipwreck 'discovery of decade' for Portugal
No, because you need more energy to heat it up (and cool it down if you live in the US).
I feel the same way.

I've read through the whole thing and it's essentially a hand-wavy marketing pitch without any concrete details. At one point they link to a repo containing some node code (2-year-old code, mind you), but that didn't exactly help elucidate things for me.
No. I don't see why I should log in to another website or make an account there when you already have all the info you need right here.
C#/.NET 64 bit does this too but there were always limitations such as not being able to reload the code if method parameters were changed, closures were modified etc.
Chinese payment giants are lightyears ahead
Well it worked for us in the car space. As engineer coming from university it is clear where you want to work in Germany: Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Audi, great places to start a career.
Oh and ‘add your producst’. I’m out.
I remember when I was 18, back in 1998, installing a specially licensed copy of this thing called "Visual C++" and doing just that, i.e the thing they call 'debugging'.
I've used Firefox tracking protection since it was release, and I definitely have had occasional issues with "honest" sites not loading. Not super often, but it's happened.
Google is just incredibly unreliable. The one Google app which I've really taken to over the past few years is Inbox, so of course it's being discontinued.

I pay for Google Music, and doing so gets you access to the Youtube Premium + the youtube app /w no ads. But despite the two applications being related, the UI teams don't appear to be on the same page, which has resulted in the 'thumbs up' and 'thumbs down' button to be in opposite placement depending on which app you're using. It's infuriating if you've already basically built in muscle memory from Google Music.
This is what works for me.

1. Start the day with a plan (15 to 30 min)

2. List things that, absolutely, need to be completed

3. List things that would be great if can be completed (bonus)

4. Have a set time when you are going to finish work. For me, 6pm. So when 3 or 4pm hits and I still have 1 or 2 things from my list #2 above, I get on it right away. That also helps me to stay on track whenever I am in meeting or unexpected phone call etc. Excuse myself or end the call quick so that I can get back on track.

It sounds very simple but it has helped me feel accomplished when I end my day at 6pm. Feeling accomplished for the day is very important for me. I usually hit the gym at 7pm and if I don't feel accomplished, I end up having a sucky gym time. A good gym time, run or outdoor activity, helps to set the tone for the rest of the night. If I am working on a side project, I usually start working again around 10am and stay up until 12 or 1am latest. Rinse repeat until Friday.

So MY short answer to "How do you decide when you've done enough work for the day?" = When you feel "accomplished" for the day :)
> Which German company has a foreign born CEO?

"William R. "Bill" McDermott is an American businessman and the CEO of the technology company SAP SE" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McDermott
Startups need immigrants.
Germany only accept immigrants from EU, not from China or India which produce cheapest empoyees offering max value.

One key difference is that Startups lack fund.

So either:

1. Funding be made more generous by offering tax advantages to invesitors

2. Or, biggest expense are employees, so we need employees accepting a dream stock unit and very low wage, so we can hire more of them.

But I've talked with German employees, literally, none of them will accept more money for more work. There is very strong emphasis on work life balance unlike US. So only way to overcome this issue is to get larger funding and that's smth government needs to fix.

That way startup can become more competitive.
It is still in the EU, so there is no resson why you wouldn't incorporate in, say, Estonia and be based out of, say, Berlin. You would still have to pay taxes in Germany.

Government support is, as far as I can tell, not a deciding factor in SV. In setting up an start-up friendly ecosystem it can definitely help, France is good example for that.
I'd say the chances of getting a grant are very good, back in the day the success rate was around 50 % and you could apply up to three times (to my knowledge), which made it highly likely that you'd get the money if you were persevering. It's true that you have to choose a good university as the quality of the provided coaching and mentorship varies wildly. I can recommend LMU & TU Munich as well as TU Berlin or one of the other well-known technical universities (e.g. RWTH Aachen), to my knowledge they have very good programs. You don't need connections at your university either, you just need to convince a professor to support your application, which they are often happy to do as it counts towards the amount of funding they raised, which is a relevant metric to them.

If you can get that money it's really an excellent opportunity and will help you to get further funding, as I said before I just find it sad that nothing comparable exists for experienced people from industry.
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While I tend to agree, I am confused by the examples.
If you are looking at GAFA, you are not looking at startups. Tech =! Startup

If you are looking at it that way, you have only one company in Germany which is SAP.
Very true. There's a proliferation of content nowadays but most of them are just of absolutely horrible quality. I regret having wasted quite some time on hastily written free contents instead of more systematic books.
I'm on my phone so this is untested:

`composite js document.location.href | !s mpv`

Should work. I think we might have a `currenturl` ex command that you could replace the js bit with but I can't remember.
A perfectly reasonable question probing at limits of software engineering.
I worked in Bay Area for 6 years and never wanted to work for Google. Amazon? That’s a terrible place to work at.

Instead, I worked for seed stage startups with ambitious missions such as changing the world. Even some crazy ideas can get funding in US because today’s angels are used to be engineers of yesterday.

Germany is not there yet. The market here needs to evolve years to get there. For example, if I could get my startup funded and successfully exit, then the next generation startups could have better angel options as I’d be willing to invest in startups with crazy & ambitious goals.
> With a limited budget of just $800, of which nearly half went into a leather jacket

This is my favorite bit :)
Tech "startups" are supposed to be profitable almost right away.

Which precludes much of what is worth trying. The problem is that this attitude severely limits the potential upside.
Then they named Lake Powell after him!

For those not familiar with the American West, Lake Powell is the 'upper half of the Grand Canyon', blocking tributaries that only a handful of white men had ever ventured into before the whole lot was flooded.
If it's newly issued the price will be dilution of the other shareholders stock. I guess it's a smallest burden on Elon and the rest of the shareholders.
You answered that question. But Americans are being offered more compesation in American, why would they follow this CEO and move to Germany?

You need examples from countries which are less prosperous than Germany.

Where are Chinese, Indian, Ethopian CEOs of German companies?
Seems like roms for emulators are becoming kind of book like. As soon as a new platform reaches market relevance, there is a dash to make sure these old platforms are emulated.

However, rom files specifically (as opposed to executeables for retro computing platforms) seem to be distinctly less fickle in becoming reliably emulateable.

The reason is seemingly simple, the early rom files were essentially an operating system, having all the software required to boot the system included in what now looks like one file.
Gotcha. I’ll add it then.
Doing a startup is usually a financial mistake, that's why it's risky. I founded a startup in Germany and got a similar amount of seed funding of 150k for 2 founders and spread that money over a team of 5 living on a minimum salary. For me that was a risk i was willing to take to pursue my dream and I don't regret it despite not making it in the end.
This is part 3 of a series; part 1 was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16417490
Parametric Polymorphism aka Generics in Scala [video]
If I may, I’ve been bankrolling a project for about 7 years along these lines, and I remember being very impressed with Sandstorm. Our approach was a bit more “Wordpressy”:

See the video on qbix.com and qbix.com/platform

We just wanted to focus on developing a general-purpose “operating system” for social networking, so startups and any communities can build their social networks by just installing the system, getting plugins and throwing reusable components on pages (like chatrooms, collaborative documents, group rides, etc.)

That way we can get real user and community adoption and then gradually decentralize things like so:

https://qbix.com/blog/2018/08/28/vision-for-a-new-truly-dece...

To date we have about 5-6 million users download our apps, and around $1M in revenues that we can reinvest into this thing. I would love to speak more to you by email if it makes sense... please look at the above links and let me know your thoughts.

I really believe that the project that will really make this take off will have to work backwards from user adoption (by doing for social networks what Wordpress did for blogging) and then incrementally move towards the decentralized architecture where everyone owns only what they are entitled to. The key is to avoid painting yourself into a corner, so that you can decentralize your own software later without losing features. But until now we focused on actual killer use cases, like this:

https://youtu.be/Z7Q7IzVv1VU
you never heard of zalando?!
That's scary. Listening on localhost or serving a LAN/VPN behind a firewall does not make your web app secure from attackers on the Internet unless you air gapped. HTTP Basic Auth and HTTPS doesn't change that. Please do read up on CSRF.

This has been an issue for decades and just recently been in the news due to massive attacks against home routers (web apps listening on the LAN) and desktop apps (both web apps and web APIs listening on localhost). I get the impression that this has not been considered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery
Sorting algorithms made in ruby
You’re right. Probably not the best examples. But it’s not like we started doing startups yesterday. We should have 5 SAPs by now
I would not work at alcohol, tobacco, gun industies.
This is very interesting and implies a kind of paradox. As some things become radically cheaper, it should leave us with more resources to spend on things that are difficult to make more efficient. But instead, it makes it appear as if they have become so expensive we can barely afford them anymore!

Does this fallacy have a name?
I agree. The way to run startups and maybe to some extend tech companies in general seems not that compatible to the German mind set. Every industry Germany is or was internationally successful in rewards you for being precise, optimizing a lot and generally investing a lot of time. It's pretty much the opposite of the fail fast approach where you quickly cobble something together, throw it at the wall and hope it sticks, if it does, you start to think about everything else.

(Inb4 counter-examples. Yes this is oversimplified, exaggerated, stereotyped)
In order:

Inflation, regulation/globalism, corrupt system, wait, don’t, up to us all, good question, good question, remove politics, no, books, papers, don’t try, no, false laziness.
Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web [pdf]
Sticking with Adam Curtis, I greatly enjoyed The Power of Nightmares.
Please take any single one of the sentences of my first paragraph above, to explain what's cool about the comment and the OP. Any one sentence would, if true, make this material far more worthy of hacker interest than the typical HN front page article. That the post above shows all of them makes this comment one of the better contributions to the site in the past week. I'm still making my way through all the material and without a doubt consider it the best information I've learned all week.
Maybe he invested 2% of his net worth in Tesla at the IPO, was determined to hold the shares for at least 10 years until they executed on their vision, and has been too stubborn to sell until now.

Re-balancing your portfolio after things have started to go very, very well is certainly sound advice, and so is selling all your equity in a promising startup the moment it has significant market value (it will most likely still be worthless).
From what I understood it uses RDF triples, linked data, and uses an ontology, that is compatible with Solid aka linking a "Person" to a "Wallet" and actions to a transaction/service/resource

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)

[2]: https://docs.solidpay.org/appendix-a-sample-data
The largest German startup is Wirecard.

If you received a prepaid card from online service like Payoneer, highly likely you've consumed services of this startup indirectly.

There is also Dr. Bentz, creator of Bentz Bone which many people in Silicion Valley have used.
Look up the concept of Flow Theory by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I run a relatively small Creative Agency called Lazy Eight, where we are experimenting with 60 hours a month(measurable execution), its been working well so far but will be interesting to see once we scale a bit more.
https://theconversation.com/why-new-zealand-was-the-first-co...

Women as moral citizens

As a “colonial frontier”, New Zealand had a surplus of men, especially in resource towns. Pragmatically, this placed a premium on women for their part as wives, mothers and moral compasses.

There was a fear of a chaotic frontier full of marauding single men. This colonial context saw conservative men who supported family values supporting suffrage. During the 1880s, depression and its accompanying poverty, sexual licence and drunken disorder further enhanced women’s value as settling maternal figures. Women voters promised a stabilising effect on society.
The main use case for NoSql is scale at the cost of consistency. What's the exact use case for UnQLite - as in - what scaling issues do embedded databases face? In what scenarios?
>> Why are programming environments still so primitive?

I think adding all the features the author is requesting and have it work seamlessly is much much harder than be seems to realize.
I haven't. Where are you from? I live in Southern Europe and I have never heard of them. I looked at their website and everything is stupidly expensive.
Or: "US government releases PR press release to hide what facebook and the secret services are really up to".
Why the down-vote? I think I know what I am writing about.
> Extreme gender imbalances are societally destabilizing

Imagine what will happen in Northern Europe after the large influx of asian single men who will want to marry in a few years.

China - 114 men for 100 women (wikipedia)
Sweden - 123 men for 100 women (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35444173
Due to the volatility and the extreme short interest, those puts are quite expensive, and have been for years ;) You could certainly buy out-of-the-money options at 50% of the current market cap expiring in the next quarter, and been doing so regularly during the last five years during which Tesla's prospects have seemed quite dodgy.

But it would have more or less have wiped out your upside. So if that's the insurance you would have liked for such a risky investment, it would have been better to just invest in something else.
I don't know the exact situation in Germany or US, but in Italy, the "no profit, no taxes" is definitely not true. Depending on the company type you registered, there's a significant cost to just keep the ability to run the company to _do_ business in the first place.

By experience, the dead cost of the smallest company you can run is between 5-15k per year. It might not seem much, but I've heard here on HN over and over how to grow a side/passive income, and there's basically no way to do this here. The moment you want to start a side business, the fixed minimal cost is sunk, so unless you start making a significant sum from the start you're just losing money that eats into your primary income. And there's no legal way to do the business below that. That's not how I understood people in the US do this sort of passive income. It sounds like "no money = no tax", but this is not true here. You often have to pay taxes in advance on the projected income of the next year, even if you never had a business first: the projection is based on god-knows-what market estimates you have no control over.

The market segmentation, language barrier and tax situation in EU is a huge burden. If you're working on a niche product you want to start with a wide basin of users, at least as large as the EU block. Sounds stupid to start in a single country. It's doable, but don't expect to start with a small capital, and typically not with the wannabe-VC we have here in the EU. The 100k for 3ppl/year is not a joke.. a "100k-300k" ballpark is very common for startups here. I'd consider that just for marketing, or even then. With this money you basically cannot do anything serious, just considering how hard is to penetrate the market.

I've yet to see something in the likes of Stripe in the EU. And a decent replacement for Paypal for smaller setups. I'd love to have candidates here. Accepting money is cumbersome if you're small. This is sad.

Workforce is a problem. But not because of talent. The extra regulation here implies a strong commitment when hiring. This forces companies to grow very cautiously. You cannot resize the workforce to match the load. If you grow too much, you may doom the company at the first financial difficulty. This causes a lot of sub-contractual work to be done, with a significant decrease in quality and cohesion. Not to mention, this line of working is being limited more and more over time - I was working as an entrepreneur in the beginning of my career but I cannot do that anymore and have to be regularly employed. I could have started something from scratch much more easily 15 years ago compared to now just due to regulations.

I could go on for pages...
The Little Known Polish Startup That Raised Millions in an ICO
I wonder if the competition in EU is hard enough, if companies always choose the "safe" or "good enough" solution?
I am with you on this. I find DDG completely unusable

Ha but my point was just to explain how it works. I've been using DDG for years and find it extremely usable :)
>You provide individual, one-on-one full time tutoring to each student

So, at a modest 2 hours of instruction per day, and assuming people spend on average 12 years in education and 48 years in the workforce, you need at minimum for 1/16th of your adults to be teachers. Not 1/16th to be employed in education but just teachers and just for this education scheme. Today it's about 1/40th (in the us) and that includes post-secondary and administration, logistics etc. so you're scaling up the education sector by 3x or 4x AND you need to find something to do with the kids for the other 5-6 hours when their parents are working.

>It's worth it, since educational spending is close to the most effective public spending imaginable - something in the $3-$5 return per dollar spent

Marginal ROI does not work that way. Even assuming you get that return on what you're spending now, that doesn't mean the marginal dollar invested in education is getting that return nor that you can scale up the amount you spend and continue getting that return.
Well, not really.

You could have a single secure system that holds encrypted session keys (and encrypted data if needed) for all the calls, and have it give them out under arbitrary logic, which could include rate limiting, multiple approval and publishing access requests (maybe after a delay), which would prevent "no encryption" from happening, assuming that system is properly secured.

Non-physical security can obviously be made perfect, and physical security can be achieved by launching the system hardware on a rocket, which still allows to communicate with it but makes physical access obviously impractical.

But obviously the issue is that the users have no incentive to use such a program as opposed to one without "key escrow", and there are plenty of PCs and Android smartphones on which arbitrary software can be installed.
> As engineer coming from university it is clear where you want to work in Germany: Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Audi, great places to start a career.

meh, working with embedded hard-heads on experimental features for a car segment driven by oligarchs, CEOs, and mafiosos.
> Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? Emacs, Smalltalk, Genera, and VBA embody a vision of malleable end-user computing: if the application doesn't do what you want, it's easy to tweak or augment it to suit your purposes. Today, however, end-user software increasingly operates behind bulletproof glass. This is especially true in the growth areas: mobile and web apps.

I'll pick this one: end users back then (emacs/vba/smalltalk era) are the power users of today. Today's end users are a new kind of users.
I agree. Also, Please replace the companies I mentioned by of your favorite startup, the result is the same
I am from a tropical country. When you started describing the pain caused by morning glory, I though this must be a certain climber which has the best of abuses reserved by the farmers here. I google it and I was right.
It hinges on the interpretation of the word "capable"?

That the hardware can do it doesn't always mean the radio as a system is "capable" of it. For example, the firmware may contain a list of banned frequencies or bands. From a commercial perspective, my understanding is that the FCC is okay with radio hardware being widely tuneable, as long as the end user never sees the widely tuneable characteristics and has no way to use the device outside the defined frequencies.

I'm guessing the FCC has yet to grok what "capable" means when it is a non-proprietary system where there is no manufacturer to act as gatekeeper? My guess is that the FCC would consider a radio not to be capable if it required a firmware reflash, or some other major action on a workbench, to transmit in a band, meaning it is impossible to accidentally change bands or to do so in the field. Even if the FCC disagreed that firmware can render a radio non-capable, a bandpass filter, counted as being an integral part of the radio would do so?

From my listening of the conversation and reading the article, the above is consistent with what the FCC said, if you use the above defintion of "capable".
Not sure I follow the logic; don't physical books suffer from similar downsides? Books degrade and libraries burn down. Seems a lot like bitrot and file mirrors disappearing.
It is pretty interesting and kinda disappointing to see renowned tech luminaries hopping on the hype train left and right.