skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk has said publicly that he doesn't want SpaceX to be public because short term market interests and pressures will likely override his goal of getting to Mars. In truth he doesn't want Tesla to be public either, but it was the only way to get the needed capital.
Has the author not heard of Rocket Internet? Hello Fresh? Zalando? Contentful? SumUp? Wooga? Deepstreamhub? Delivery Hero? N26?
Maybe Softbank wants to sell it to a bigger fool? They invested in Flipkart, a competitor of Amazon, and then sold it to Walmart. But I gotta admit, they'll need to find extraordinarily dumb money to buy their stake in Uber.
Jeremy, do you see any change in the attitude of employers and recruiters for ML positions or they still want people with advanced degrees like yours even for an entry level position in the field?
Since the officer was booked for murder right away I figured it wasn't in the US...
>social media is bad for everyone

disagree
I wrote an app for my old pebble watch to display on the watchface how much I work. Some days are inevitably longer than others but by Friday evening I try to leave once I clocked 45 hours for the week. Any remaining brain power at the end of each day goes into side projects.
Things have already changed. It's becoming more and more common in rural China to marry South East Asian women from places like Vietnam and Cambodia... which of course potentially spreads the problem

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-...
The true heroes - the actual researchers and engineers putting in ridiculously long hours out of pure passion and thereby making the steady stream of breakthroughs necessary to allow new technologies to flourish - rarely get any press or credit.

However, there are circus ringleaders (as Elon has been accused of being), and then there are true polymaths who can both competently direct large scale engineering efforts and deal with entirely disparate realms such as corporate governance, marketing and negotiations. He may not have been getting enough sleep lately, but I think he's more the latter than the former. You don't get put in charge of revolutionary payment systems, luxury vehicles, interplanetary transport and energy storage one right after another purely by accident.
I read this article a few days ago with three different ways of funding a startup in Germany, namely (1) crowdfunding/crowdinvesting, (2) business angels, and (3) wealth families (family offices).

http://www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/pm-en/online-magazine/invent-a...
When Apple introduced Cocoa they also introduced Carbon however, an extension of the legacy MacOS APIs. Apple already slowly killed their Win32.
How to make $8000 per day working from home using on cash rich website?
I assume this is Bitbucket.org?

Because Bitbucket Server (on prem) has been fantastic for us and is continuously improved. From what I know, it's a different codebase though (was once known as Stash)
If organisations critical of the government are prevented from doing their work, voters will be less informed, and democracy takes a hit.
Indian police is notoriously infamous for what is termed as "encounter." Encounter is an extra judicial murder done by the police. Sometimes its mafia that tells the police to kill their competitors, the police pick them up and shoot them and term this as an encounter. Other times innocent civilians are murdered by the police and framed as criminals. The civilian killing is done for promotions.
For several generations, ham gear has never had to 'certified' so long as it is known to obey the rules ... power, modulation type, non-interference, etc.... for the band it's being operated in.

OTOH, if a particular amateur does not have the knowledge to know (from observations) that the gear does not violate the regs, s/he could, of course, be in violation.

I'd guess that the ARRL will have something to say about this by Monday.
Audi's electric E-Tron ditches side-view mirrors for cameras
It's because they don't need to. Startups often include difficult and intense work environment. For exactly what? Better than average compensation discussion is frowned upon in Germany. There is ramphant latent descrimination against people from other countries. Which German company has a foreign born CEO?

In US, Google and Microsoft have foreign born CEOs.

This is my own experience, so downvoting is only silencing a voice.
I gave 200MB/s down and 10MB/s up. I suspect this is more normal.

Yes, it depends on country. But I also suspect the total upload bandwidth for typical users in typical locations simply isn't there to make the idea work at scale.
i have a feeling we will be seeing a lot more incidents like the cambridge thing with facebook that will motivate people to switch to something that they are more in control of.

another thing that will help more is that solid will be running on the safenetwork when its released and since people can earn money on the just by simply sharing their resources i cant see that as a huge motivation to switch.
i suppose it just depends on when google, facebook, dropbox etc decide to move to the safenetwork. if they hesitate then it will give some decentralised apps more time to build up users
Tangentially related, for the chart related to american gdp embedded in this article, even though it claims to be on a logarithmic scale, that doesn't mean it doesn't have some sort of "banking to 45" applied.

http://vis.stanford.edu/papers/banking

Paradoxically (to me at times, perhaps to you) banking to 45 is supposed to make the chart more accurately read. It does so by more apparent to the viewer where the relevant inflection points are (in this case, the great depression really sticks out visually).

Theoretically, the great depression might not stick out as well if banking to 45 were not done (as I suspect may have been done here).

Whether or not it turns out to be the case here, I suppose lots of the other curious questions in the article have similar answers. When dealing with qualitative measures using qualitative measures, I think even ethical people can forge a system where emergent fudging arises.

I think we (the tech folk) need to sort of up our game in casual analysis from tools like excel (which in actuality relatively good) to something like www.anylogic.com. With systems dynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics software I think we have a tool that can better elucidate this curious phenomenon where we notice questions whose data "feels a little funny" but may turn out to actually have a demonstrable excuse/justifiable explanation for looking so.
You said "That's not why people in England use spice", so I assumed you were generalsing to the whole of England, and not just prisoners and people who are homeless in England. Sorry if I misunderstood.

I agree that for a subset of prisoners and people who are homeless, they are looking for the cheapest possible drug, regardless of negative side effects.

> Approximately no-one is using spice because cannabis is illegal

Not sure if you're still only talking about people who are homeless here? Regardless, spice only even exists because cannabis is illegal.
Usually when I go around in Eastern Europe I have an easier way trying to speak German than English.

And in southern Europe I am lucky to be able to speak most languages, as anyone beyond a certain age hardly speaks any word of English, specially outside the major cities.

Which is indeed a challenge, on the other side is also something quite rich, as most traveling Europeans tend to speak fluently three languages on average.
Why are programming environments primitive? That’s worth a blog post-length reply, but I think it’s because coding is relatively silo’d and non-standardized (in languages, build systems, deployment schemes, and other tools). The impact of a single better tool is minimal because it could only address a tiny fraction of all developers. This is changing quickly, though, so I’m optimistic.

We are working on making programming environments less primitive. Here is our master plan: https://about.sourcegraph.com/plan/.
Don't single out the BF-F8HP as if it were the radio the FCC is talking about. There are many similar radios made by Baofeng, AnyTone, TYT, Wouxun, and other manufacturers.

By "similar" I mean "capable of transmitting outside the amateur bands." The radios are all different, but this is the point they have in common. (FWIW, the BF-F8HP is one of the nicer Baofengs, not just for the extra power but because it comes with a much better antenna than the cheapest models.)

The current point of confusion is that the FCC seems to be saying that amateur operators can no longer legally use a radio within the ham bands if that radio is even capable of transmitting on another frequency, unless the radio is type certified for whatever other frequency that might be.

This of course is ridiculous. It goes completely against the way the FCC has always regulated amateur radio. Hams have always been allowed to build their own equipment and to repurpose military or commercial radios to use in the ham bands.

It's fairly shocking that the FCC would change their views on this so suddenly. If true, it means that radios hams have bought and used legally are suddenly illegal. I have to believe that there is some misunderstanding at the bottom of all this.
The solid infrastructure looks promising to me.
Based on the other submission today on Solid[1], there are varying opinions on whether it will take off and really be able to challenge the big social media.

However, I think we _need to want_ this to succeed, even if there are other ideas of what decentralised architectures should look like.

It may not be the best system to everyone, but it has some clout with Tim Berners-Lee behind it and its architecture and capabilities can -and will- evolve. It looks to me like our best chance to start 'disrupting' the current status-quo, even if it flies under the radar for a while.

I can imagine an Instagram-like app that would let me import a take-out archive from my Instagram account and just let me continue where I left off.
Maybe I would need to rebuild a user-base, but that's OK, there would be new people on that platform and and more control over what I want to see, rather than some ad-optimized algorithm deciding for me.

A payment systems built on top could allow direct monetisation for content-creators without having to go through a 3rd party that enforces arbitrary rules over what content gets and doesn't get monetized.

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100895
He seems to be saying don't build something if it's possible that some people could do bad stuff with it. That would mean we shouldn't build end to end encryption, because terrorists could use it to hide. And that we shouldn't build Tor, because child pornographers could use it.
Oh! I didn't realise that, wow! Well, that's interesting. Hmmmmmmmmm.
Okay I'll bite. I've worked in both retail and corporate banking for over a decade. I've been responsible for software that processes large payments and receipts daily. I've cloned a few cryptocurrencies for fun and have a pretty good understanding of them. I cannot understand anything on this entire site. Does anybody know what this is all about?
> Startups often include difficult and intense work environment

Compared to the USA? Lol, you have no clue. The standard for a software engineer in SV is to take drugs to work 12 hours a day 6 days a week, pay a fucking high rent living with 4 other people and if he's foreigner and freshly arrived, he has to suck his boss' cock everyday because they might take away his visa sponsorship and put him into troubles.

In Berlin most people I know work less than 8 hours a day, can afford to have their own apartment at their first or second job and save enough money and energy to go travel somewhere every 3 months. Because you know, we have 30 days of holidays per year.
I can't find a source for the price-matching clause (I'm on my phone, sorry) but have read it several times. The lower-priced keys typically come from cheaper markets/regions (e.g. Russia), which AFAIK is kind of a grey area depending on jurisdiction, or from time-limited offers.

I base part of my reasoning on this article, where the author points out there are already cheaper options with good tooling such as itch.io, yet they do not attract a lot of titles: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-...
Very obviously so on mainstream social media.

I'm on some tiny, tiny progressive forums and we regularly see pretenders - posters who make the right noises in a "I don't really understand this, so I'll do my own parody version" way - and spoilers who post random and/or obviously divisive crap from strange IPs which disappear as soon damage is done.

And not just spooks.

I mentioned glyphosphate in a FB post once, and I was immediately jumped on by a couple of aggressive posters who denied it caused cancer, said there was no scientific evidence it caused cancer, and so on - which was an epic overreaction and hilariously disturbing, because Roundup and cancer were some way from the main topic.
As a German, I have no idea what you mean by the German eBay and PayPal (Facebook was StudiVZ, I guess, but now it's just Facebook).
Rocket Internet were just the scumbags that ripped off every US based idea and tried to implement it in Germany. A few "me-too" businesses. Okay.

There are very few big ideas that investors in Germany would pour money into.
This is one of those things where I'm baffled by how strongly people feel about the re-design. In fact it doesn't even feel like a 're-design' to me since the layout is more or less identical to the previous version. I've had zero issues with using the updated look and I actually enjoy that it looks more modern now. If you don't like it, why not just switch to an actual email client and forget about the web interface?
The client can understand and choose based on that. Back when we had different caps for international/national/in-isp traffic, there was a fork of eMule which intentionally prioritized downloading from IPs in ranges from the same ISP, and then country, before pulling from outside.
Once I'm braindead, have stomach ache, become too distracted, etc.
The AI-First SaaS Funding Napkin
As a southern European I'm very happy about this situation. I don't want my country to be like the Scandinavian countries, the GP summed it up pretty well. Everybody knows English and American culture is literally swallowing the local culture. I'm happy with my language and my culture, thank you.
I have a hard stop at 6 PM, and I made sure everyone else knows that. I do check email one last time at around 10 PM and work on a code review or respond to a comment.
meanwhile there is not a single tech startup from germany worth talking about, but yeah sure not everyone has to do it the SV way of doing things, like actually being successful
I’ve lived in Berlin for some years. What I‘ve seen from most of the startup scene there was that people are more collecting memories than building businesses. The predominant mindset was like „we don’t want to take over the world and we will most likely fail anyway“.

The successful ones, like Dubsmash, leave for the US after a while.

If I, as a German, was to create a startup in Europe today, I’d do so in London.
> Except for maybe eBay who couldn’t enter the market.

https://www.ebay.de/

??
Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how?
How about adding some sort of block based scripting language line Scratch or Snap. Make it more approachable and encourage experimentation
“Germans don’t do tech startups” is obviously clickbait but it’s equally obvious that Germany can’t compete with SF when it comes to startups. As a Dutch founder of Germany based scaleup Transloadit.com I’d say taxes and workforce-legislation are more prohibitive than a lack of funding (tho it may also be a problem for others as clearly there’s less going around). I realize why taxes and protection of the workforce are necessary and am happy to live in a country that sands down some sharper edges of capitalism, but when you are just starting out, it’s overwhelming the amount of money you can’t allocate for more growth, and the commitment/risk that comes with having people on the payroll. Even though we have work, and money to spend on having that done, going that route is like the last resort because it’s so scary (maybe there isn’t money/work next year, what if they become sick, it could just ruin the company). Not even talking about resources needed to get acquainted and comply with the rules. So currently we try to work with freelance/invoicing as much as possible, but that comes with its own set of legal constraints and high costs. Feels a bit like driving with the emergency brake on. If somehow the government could have a special set of lightweight rules for folks just starting out, I think you’d see more startups flourish.
I'm European and I have never heard of any of those.
In addition to being uncivil, this is wildly wrong ("The standard for a software engineer in SV") and you misread the parent comment.

Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?"

Because relative prices (e.g. the ratio of the price of a 42" TV to the price of a cinema ticket) are constantly changing due to changes in technology and competitive dynamics.

Some things have gotten (and continue to get) much cheaper due to technological progress and economies of scale. So, relative to those, anything that hasn't benefited from the same trends looks like it's getting expensive (in real terms). And if that thing (e.g. undergraduate degrees in the US) has weird competitive dynamics (e.g. willingness to pay is driven by the availability of credit, and availability of credit is driven by sticker price, and sticker price is driven by willingness to pay), then that effect is even more pronounced.
> German eBay

That's a startup?! It was some dodgy scheme set up by infamous brothers, hysterically taken over by eBay within first couple of months of its existence.
> While a lot happened in the US during World War II, it's easy to forget how short the period in question was: American involvement lasted 3 years 8 months and 23 days.

How does this stack up against US involvement in other"good" wars, where the foe is the unambiguously bad?

I.e not a Vietnam style ideologically motivated confrontation.
It had features that appealed to early adopters and not just advertisers and lowest common denominator users on futuristic hardware
Someone is wrong on the Internet. Quick, attack!
maybe 50 kilos of cocaine. but marijuana? that shit is worthless even in mexico
Sheer random fluke. Originally I was on a normal team - then that team got shut down, and I was transferred to a new team that was partially remote. Management wanted us to go into our nearest office, but it was far and nobody on the team was there anyways, so it was pointless. Management knew we might quit if they made us trek 3 hours round trip to this empty office, and the project was behind schedule and they couldn’t afford to find new devs. That was that.

It helps that the current project is iOS and there’s a dearth of qualified iOS devs here. If it was some generic service work, we probably wouldn’t have had much leverage. Crazy way to start my career!
"they’ll likely drive bride-price transactions underground — and possibly to new heights as parents demand a risk premium for paying up."

Eh? Wouldn't parents demand a risk discount for paying up?
Startups are not average cushy corporate job.

The only way to get any startup to work in EU is by importing immigrants and they'll work hard on their own and compensating them appropriately and making sure they can reach top ranks in a company otherwise no one will ne motivated to work hard.

Germany has infrastructure. Taxes are not that bad.

Any country which will accept foreigners with open heart and give them opportunities will have plenty of startups.

There are still clubs in Germany which do not accept people of color.
To get the free coffee, university students must [...]

Funny, the definition of "free" seems to have changed.

It may be that no money changes hands, but the coffee is certainly not free.
How easy or difficult is it to get doctors on board?
This is a losing gesture. It used to be that installing an ad blocker was the weird tech thing to do, and it was their fault that the site broke. Now tracking protection is the browser default, and it's the sites that are weird.

It's a small distinction, but an important one. When stuff doesn't work, the default reaction is to blame whatever the weird tech thing is. In this case, CBS is moving from a position of being able to say, "well, you messed with your browser, and you broke it" to, "we're doing something odd, and it requires an instruction manual to make it work."

It's the same reason, for better or worse, that people were worried about secure boot for systems like Linux. When you hand someone something, and it doesn't work, and your response is, "well, you just have to mess with some config settings"... well, sometimes that works. There will be some people who do it. But now you're in "Linux territory". It's doable, but you have a prerequisite now to slightly educate people on tech literacy before you can ask them to do the thing you want. And none of your other competitors have that prerequisite.
This is only going to fuel (accelerate) the tech bubble helping already bloated unicorns burn more cash.

Masayoshi is unquestionably a smart guy, but he's making some pretty big bets on an uncertain future.

Uber has raised $22.2B so far and made a $891M Net Loss in its second quarter ending June 30. It's difficult for a mere mortal to see how Uber will ever be profitable considering the cumulative losses.
I‘d have been eligible for EXIST, but that program is a bad joke. 100k for 3 persons for one year before tax? C‘mon. That is financial sucide, if you’re in tech these days.
Their big idea was to copy every idea in markets where the original company hadn't expanded yet.

It might not be the greatest technical achievement, but it certainly paid off for them, demonstrating that execution is more important than being the first to have an idea.
Trust is not a boolean (trust / no trust). We trust DDG more than Google and that's enough. Also, their official privacy policy says they do not track: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy while Google admits permanent tracking.
Worth nothing that Schmidt probably behaved like a 45 year old when he was 30 and Musk behaves like he's 22.
> collecting memories than building businesses

The lifestyle entrepreneur is a phenomenon that you can find in the US as well.
The most important thing to learn is how to decide what to do. This is far more important than the number of hours, or your skill level. A great programmer writing the wrong code has zero productivity. This is the most important advice for getting things done: deciding what to do. Sam Altman said something along these lines recently, he’s bang on.

This is strong advice - I’m saving this to refer to later. Thank you. This whole post is great, and you were insightful to see the real question I was asking, and answer it. =)
As a positive twist, women got the vote in New Zealand partly because of fears that a surplus of rowdy men 'on the frontier' would cause problems.
Giving women the vote would give families more leverage in Parliament.
To be honest, most companies using Jira never actually configure it to match their requirements. That's not really their fault, Jira is a beast and quite a lot of time needs to be put into getting it just right.

Jira's always been hard to get going with, and it's still way better than pretty much everything else (once configured), but they are really bad at actually making it easy to use.