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Do you know where can I buy R4i SDHC 3ds RTS on USA?
Someone give me the suggestion that 3DS-Flashcard.com will be the best reseller, they can ship the r4 card to me from USA, it sounds good.
Keys from those regions are almost always region locked.

What about the Humble Store? Those are mostly Steam keys.

Itch.io has even less curation than Steam. It has less of a feature that people want.
Yes, it's called Baumol's Cost Disease [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
The difference is: We have labor laws.
Total cost of ownership for malleable software is higher than for something you pay someone else to specialize in modifying, and businesses have gradually learned this. They increasingly realize that software shouldn't be their core business, especially if it's applicable to more than just their own industry. So this is just the normal tinkering -> specialization dynamic seen in most new technologies.
It says it's opinionated, it didn't say its opinions are correct :)
> there's a significant cost to just keep the ability to run the company to _do_ business in the first place

Yes, but that's a fixed cost, it's not "taxes". Fixed costs exist in other places as well (though 5k is definitely a lot!)

I agree with the other things in your post, and they worry me as well.
> is worth more than artificially (VC-)inflated companies, that might make it... one day... maybe.

For who? It's probably more satisfying because you are making it without any help. But that's it.
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> Total monkeys.
I tried a while back. Not being at one of the universities you mentioned ,I would have been an extension from TU Munich. Funds where hard to come by at that time (right after the elections, so no governmant, no government budget, no EXIST funds). In the end, I talked to all relevant profs at my university, they talked to the giys at TUM, and the feed-back was "no need to tey, your idea is not innovative enough. Try a bank or bet your house."

Also the expected time line was around 6 months to get into the program, so for me it would have just been a colosal waste of time.

EDIT: While coaching is anive thing, it is access to follow-up funding that matters. At let's be honest in that regard YC is different league all together. And if you don't need funding beyond 100k you really could have used bank in the first place.
How I handle juniors and beginners:

It is ok to stay longer

It is ok to stay longer especially as a beginner. You are in a learning phase. But still need to do your stuff.

It is also ok to screw up or ask questions.

Never ever go every week over 50 hours. I have a junior right now which works longer because he sees us working long hours. I will tell him soon to suck it up and go home on time.
This may come as a surprise but most big companies are just making everything GDPR compliant for all users because it's easier and it's not like the restrictions you need to put in place affect data quality too much
If his net worth is $1k, with $500 in cash and $250 in Tesla that makes perfect sense.

Under 35s median net worth is $4k

https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com...
Or maybe there's something to it, and it's still being worked on?

I have no opinion either way on Solid (yet), but the comments on these submissions seem extremely critical considering they're still rolling it out and it's a work in progress.

When I read the OP link above, and the other submission today, I just see an early-stage project that is still being actively developed, no different to thousands of other projects posted on HN.

I do think their marketing/buzzword approach to be a bit "thick", but that could also be said about 90% of HN-loved products/services.
Even when they used torrents, they had http mirrors implemented inside of the torrent client. In fact I believe Blizzard pioneered much of the http seeding work that I think eventually got standardized. Haven't kept up with it so someone can correct me...
Estonia sues Gemalto for 152 mln euros over ID card flaws
> Why are there so many successful startups in Stockholm?

Several reasons. First, you need to recognize that any Sweden-based startup will, when it gets to be known internationally, have a Stockholm-based office. So it's not about a city of 1 million inhabitants, it's a country of 10 million that's the true number here. As an example, I believe Spotify opened their original offices in both Stockholm and Göteborg more or less simultaneously.

With that said, a commonly stated reason for why Sweden in general has such a high prevalence of tech startups comes from a bunch of fortuitious decisions in the 90s and 00s. In 1998 Sweden's government started a program that allowed employers to sell their employees computers under a tax free scheme (the so called Hem-PC-reformen https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hem-PC-reformen). This was extremely popular, and led almost every Swedish home to get an often extremely overpowered personal computer. Thus, practically everyone who was a kid in 1998-2006 (the rebate was cancelled in 2006) grew up with a computer. This gave Sweden a huge advantage compared to other countries in the early Internet revolution.

Sweden has also invested heavily in building a fiber network, you have access to gigabit Internet even in some extremely rural areas.

Another thing is that Sweden doesn't have the tradition of dubbing movies. That means kids will be exposed to English from an early age. This leads to Swedish tech companies not being afraid of hiring talent globally and generally use English as their business language.

Finally, out of the 5 examples posted, one is Mojang, which is clearly an outlier. I'm not saying what Notch accomplished wasn't extremely impressive, but it was essentially a one-man operation, and probably shouldn't be held as an example of a trend.
Replying to self: judging from the voting here people on HN have a poor view of business. I'll point out Stripe or most smaller tech companies as an example of listening to customer feedback and doing something about it.
Note: The draft linked in the title [1] has been superseded by the finished book [2] (free pdf download here [3]), which is even better!

This is probably the most useful book I have read during my studies in physics and I highly recommend it to everybody with some technical interest because it focuses on teaching general and useful tools (using science and engineering examples (mainly physics)).

During the first years of my studies I did reasonably well, but it always felt like I was just manipulating symbols on paper, and the results didn't mean much to me -- it was all just theory (and if the results would have come out some other way I probably would have believed that too). This book taught me how to be reckless and throw away unnecessary complexity in order to make said theory simple enough to apply it easily to real-world problems, which suddenly made my theory knowledge much, much more useful (previously it was mainly good for passing exams). Now, during my PhD I still use the methods from the book almost daily!

Compared to the earlier book draft [1] that has been floating on the web for many years, the final book is much improved, mainly because it focuses on general tools rather than specific physics topics. However, if you want to have a quick demonstration of how powerful the methods from the book are, I'd recommend to read chapter 9.3 about waves in [1], which unfortunately only partially made it into the final book. Within a few pages you quickly derive all the properties of waves in different regimes and draw practical conclusions such as the speed limit for boats, the speed of tsunamis, why bugs walking on water don't generate waves, etc!

[1] http://web.mit.edu/6.055/book/book-draft.pdf

[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engin...

[3] https://www.dropbox.com/s/bmqwzc8qqt5lv9p/9017.pdf?dl=1
Where are you seeing a signup/login? I'm only seeing the documentation (maybe one of my plugins is blocking something?).
Not to be critical, but I pose this question in response:

Why do billionaires so often love to muse about interesting things outside of their field, get attention and praise for their thoughts, and then publicly allocate only tiny portions of their wealth and time to these projects so ineffectually while passing down the majority of their wealth to disinterested heirs?

e.g. Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Edgar Prince, Steve Jobs, Richard DeVos, Bill Ackman, Mark Zuckerberg, Ken Griffin.
I don't need a citation to counter an obvious lie, by a notorious liar, backed by nothing. The same person also claims that he works 120 hour weeks. Obvious falsehood.
Seems like this is a downvoted opinion, but I concur. Strange really, how much months/years of expenses would $10k get their family? Not much more than a few months I assume?
Was. They use CDNs now.
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You can consider it as such, yes. The main difference is that whereas street fighting mathematics was focused more on the mathematical side, this book focuses more on physics. However, the spirit and bold worry-free approach is exactly the same.
Those downsides only apply to the book or software itself. My point was about the stuff you need to have apart from the book/software in order to read it. You need a computer to run software; all you need to read a book is an understanding of the language. It does get harder and harder to understand books over time, but not at the same rate that computers are changing (and language tends to stay relatively simple, anyway, because people have to be able to learn it).
What city do you live in? I'm from Delhi and the situation is very different here for sure. And in India, the girl's family usually pays dowry (usually much more than $10k + gold jewelry) to the guy's family, so that's something literally opposite to China culture? As another commenter mentioned, the situation in metro is developed enough where you'll find a partner through love rather than status.
thank you so much for the advice.
however, as previously mentioned:
technically it should be safe, the connected client can access only the exposed functions. furthermore each instance exposes methods identified by dynamic object instance id, and unless the developer defines a fixed identifier for a specific method, it should this dynamical definition makes really difficult to programmatically access specific functions.
this means that the attacker have to know the ID of an object instance, in the actual running instance to point to a defined function.

however, the safety of an application is up to the developer, that can leave opened also the door of a safe atomic bunker
Ms is my favorite tech company. They, however are their own worst enemy. They produce many awesome but crippled stuff - like honey stained with drops of bird shit.

UWP's appx format is awesome - one click installation, sandbox, clean uninstallation, potential for diff updates. All these have nothing to do with portability.

But they crippled it by making it store only until recently... Too late.

One reason I hate using Edge is because i like chrome and Firefox, it's impossible to install extensions from the browser.

Why can't I use the store through my browser? There's absolutely nothing stopping the store from acting as a downloader and installer in the background.

If the store worked from the browser, usage would pick up.
And the magnet link... magnet:?xt=urn:btih:72C83366E95DD44CC85F26198ECC55F0F4576AD4 ;-)
Closer to 1/3rd of the working population as teachers, actually, by my numbers. Current spending is $13k/yr per student, I'd bump that comfortably up 4x to $52k per year. That's about one full time teacher per student.

As for marginal ROI, if the effects are as dramatic as the stated research implies, it'd be more than worth it. It would be a larger increase than the entire implementation of formal secondary and tertiary education system combined, which cost a lot more than K-8. I don't think you can overstate how large the demonstrated effect size was. Think "industrial revolution" or "invention of the printing press".

Essentially you'd be spending an extra 3x the amount we currently spend to get... 5x? 10x? better outcomes. Results from those studies were equivalent to making the current best students in the country suddenly the very lowest tier of educational attainment - top 1% suddenly becomes the minimum standard. Think Rhodes scholars being "the new special ed kids", or the new "functionally illiterate must-pass graduates".

(This is all assuming that the research was accurate, and the magnitude of difference is really that large. I'd want to see a lot of follow up.)
I would like to see an equivalent study on Indian weddings. All the people I know who got married recently spent between $50-$100k on their wedding. My own wedding was about $50k. Food alone was nearly $20k (over 1200 guests were invited - which was on the low end)
So... The same thing that's happened for decades in the west? Good luck finding a woman if you're not over 8/10, taller than 180 cm, have a job, and accept her being a cheat... :-)
Most people that are not in IT.
Way to turn great content into a poor piece or journalism. This is extremely interest and all they can do is pile puns, fluff and force a personal story on top of very little about the actual technology.

> The only significant time she spends in her private office is to pump milk for her 9-month-old daughter, who goes to the day care next door.

> For one thing, she looks like Audrey Hepburn, with a preppy sense of style.

> She tried her hand at finance and later law, and was unlucky enough to excel at both

> Wearing a frilly fuchsia dress [...]
The bitbucket.com website gives a check box to select whether to close a branch though. Unless you mean that the on-premises product doesn't?
I think Inbox was an interesting approach to "fixing Gmail", which I've long had un-cite-able suspicions of internally being horribly broken (in the sense of maintainability and elegant architecture, not visible bugs).

Amongst only 11 outages in 14 years of continuous operation and use by probably a billion people, in 2011 Gmail lost 0.02% of users' email due to "a storage bug" that nuked all copies of data, and they had to restore from tape: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-eve...

This status quo and example, along with the fact that https://google.com/appsstatus lists Gmail at the top, is a clear demonstration that Gmail is probably locked down so tight _everything_ has to be demonstrably proven to be at near-aviation-grade reliability before it's rolled out. I wonder if the Gmail team retains the same people from 5-10 years ago to minimize the amount of onboarding churn and maximize the chances things will be broken from unfamiliarity.

The Inbox idea was pretty inspired: _start again_, make a separate property/"brand", keep it reasonably niche, and you can get away with an effectively-lower SLA. And then once you get past the teething problems and speedbumps you can pivot the functionality back into Gmail.

But yeah, doing the pivot/fold-in does nuke the identity that got created. That makes power users who liked it more sad. And obviously you can't tell everyone the project is temporary or it won't go viral.

These systemic issues are not at all unique to Google, of course.
OK, we're going down that eoute3. Rhen I recommeend "Bus 174" which takes a look at the story of a bus hijackers life and how he found himself in that desperate situation. I'd say this one is more throwing nd depressing than Tropa Do Elite1/2. I got more understanding of those kids fate before I visited Rio for a month. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bus_174/
>Tesla will file for bankruptcy protection in 2019.

We've been hearing this bankruptcy thing every year without fail since the company was founded 15 years ago. This doesn't mean the company won't go bankrupt but that they are more resilient than given credit for.

>And probably lots more that we don’t yet know about.

Those court cases you listed are daily life for big companies. Intel has been tied in a court case with the EU since 2001. Google just settled a court case. Google is also facing a bunch of other court cases. Tesla gets the spotlight but look around.
Some feedback. On mobile the logo is very big and clicking on a job post to see details is weird, sometimes it does not work?
I always enjoy seeing historical texts in the original. The collection of scans referred to in the end is fascinating.
Little slow replying to this one, but that's fortunately given 3 other people in a similar position to reply and I can't agree more with the sentiment. Have I used my knowledge of approximating PDEs using multi-variate finite element methods? No, not really - though it makes for some interesting conversations with meteorologists occasionally. Whether it's the deep understanding of logical constructs (everyone should know what the contrapositive is) or the ability to model a problem and remove cruft, the way of thinking a maths degree instills will be invaluable forever.
Same for me. The book and its tools are extremely empowering. In general, anything from Sanjoy Mahajan (the author) is extremely insightful:
-Street Fighting Mathematics
-The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
-Lecture notes on signals & systems (a bit harder to find)
-Lecture notes on thermodynamics (real-world insights rather than endless manipulations of weird partial derivatives)

Afaik he is currently working on a textbook on mechanics.
> like honey stained with drops of bird shit.

That is a very specific image that I've never encountered in real life. Is it something that only beekeepers get to witness or is there some bird that homes in on honey pots?
Things are not this simple. I think these questions have more complicated answers than you think.
I feel the same. From my own experience, I've done both 9h-10h of productive work for few weeks in challenging projects and 8h ass-in-seat in crappy and bad managed ones.
Selerity tweeted content that was already posted on Twitter's IR site. That $8B was likely to evaporate the following day anyway. (Weather forecasters who predict a hurricane don't cause the billions in hurricane losses either.)

Social media gaffes of the "optional" variety (Kylie, Elon, Roseanne) are a different category IMO.
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I previously read someone's take on this in relation to people feeling secure enough to take risks here (not just in Stockholm but Sweden as a whole I guess). While notch's success may be an outlier, the process of trying to do your own thing isn't here. I'm not sure when in his development Notch left King, but in general there are quite a few people here who just try to go their own way (sometimes completely outside of their previous industry even). It helps when you don't have to live in fear of being completely penniless should you fail, I think.

Purely anecdotally, I am not part of a startup, but do a lot of hobby work in coffee shops around Stockholm. I'm always seeing/hearing people in local cafes discussing some new startup or project they are getting off the ground. I've also seen first hand many people get maybe a year or two of funding and start up their own game studios, for example. Of course not all of them end up being successful, but many people feel secure/comfortable enough to try. I think the volume of these attempts and people trying to do something new also helps drive up the number of "hits" overall, to be added to these kinds of lists.
Okay sure I don't like the status quo, but I was just telling you something that's actionable. If you have a strategy to change the email ecosystem, by all means work to do so. But until then what I told you to do is at least something you can start doing today. It'll also solve your problem more effectively than complaining about it on HN.
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Nice try, officer, people advocating against privacy and Internet freedom always use child protection as their banners but start abusing the anti-privacy facilities for whatever else they want (and that's rarely about children) as soon as they manage to establish them.

What I mean is it's Ok for an officer with a search warrant to look inside a big crate but if they actually find letters there it's not Ok to read them without the consent of the recipient or the author.
Depends. In rural China this is still a lot of money.
The BBC trialled peer-to-peer distribution for their early iPlayer.

People were very upset about use of bandwidth. This would have been around 2007 when most Internet accounts in the UK had download limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer#Computer_platforms
Germany has a lot of drawbacks to be the next silicon valley:

* the most difficult tax system in the world. even freelancers have to use accountant services, because most people will not be able to pay taxes properly without it.

* high taxes - 42% income tax + Solidaritätszuschlag 5.5% = 47.5%; for corporations it's ~30%.

* A LOT of buerocracy. I can't even send an email to tax authorities in my area, because they only accept paper letters but nothing else.

* highly qualified foreigners have to learn German and it's quite difficult language.

* the market in Germany is much smaller comparing to USA. If you want to target EU, then you have to support a lot of different languages, date/time formats, regulations and laws etc.

* recently the EU introduced a lot of additional regulations for internet companies (GDPR, new copyright directives that require checking uploaded files, etc...).

* weather is not that appealing as in the valley.

* the difference in salaries between regular developers and rockstars is very low. So there is zero motivation to become one.

* low salaries for software engineers. The most of senior software developers will earn 50.000 - 60.000 EURO anually and after paying taxes it's only ~2.600 EURO per month (3.000 USD)

* poor internet connection in a lot of places / poor connection speed - almost any country is better in this regard
It really does have excellent gameplay.

Although I wouldn't call the game depressing - I found the satire funny as hell.
Also, HTML version works even with JS disabled.
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This is an interesting one to me.

Will voice recognition at home coupled with AI allow people to start "programming".

Currently home automation systems through something like Alexa are only listening to direct commands. Interesting follow-up functionality:

* The capability for introspection. Alexa, who is home? Alexa, why are the lights on? Alexa, why are the lights not on? Especially the latter means advanced reasoning capabilities.

* You preferably also want to adjust the behavior by voice. Alexa, when I enter the room I want the lights to go on. Alexa, the lights only need to turn on when it's dark outside.

I had one student working on this problem: https://crownstone.rocks/attachments/thesis/nannewielinga.pd...

Recently I got a request from a person who works a lot with blind people. A system that allows them to query the state of the environment is very valuable to them as well.

It's a different take on being "truly programmable", but I think the different modality makes it an interesting one.
Interesting. To be honest I don't recall an instance in my life where my mind woke me up to go peeing. If your bladder can handle 0.5l and you drink 4 liters a day, that's like 8 times peeing a day. Do you make sure you go to the toilet often?
Definitely, having a social safety net that allows for moving on from failures is probably a huge factor.
I don't think I had kidney stones. My water intake before was less than 1l a day. Much less. So I'm guessing it was the reason for the pee colour being on the extreme side. I'm on the other extreme now.
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