skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel better if I completely turn off WiFi or Bluetooth. I can see I'm exposed to plenty of other signals by living in a city but it doesn't mean they're nothing. It just removes the added damage being done and it makes quite a difference to quality of life which would be hard to imagine for you.

My ammature theory (5Ghz wifi feels worse than 2.4Ghz wifi) also says higher frequency for short range signals does more harm, thus it's more sensitive to turn those off than being exposed to other lower frequency used outside.
If you're thinking about starting a company in Estonia under the "e-residency" program, you should know that Estonian banks have recently become very skeptical about opening bank accounts for foreigners. It's not enough that you have an Estonian corporation, you'll probably be expected to demonstrate that your business has actual ties to Estonia.

Finnish entrepreneurs are being denied bank accounts despite the close ties of the two countries:
https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000006279056.html
(Article in Finnish only, sorry)

The background for this change is a huge money laundering scandal where Estonian banks took in Russian money over decades with very few questions asked... It sucks that "little guy" startup founders are the ones getting excluded, but that's how it goes.
HP was a different company by 2008. The HP Way had been replaced by the usual corporate abuse - good for the share price, bad for everyone else.
> Also, one should probably have employees or customers physically in Estonia, otherwise the company tax residency might change into other jurisdictions.. IANAL.

You no longer need physical presence with their e-Residency program.

[1] https://e-resident.gov.ee
Would you be as surprised if given equivalent technological achievements the mayor of, say, Oklahoma City or Richmond VA, did some horn tooting on qz.com to try to drum up outside investment and interest? Estonia’s population is between that of those two modestly sized metros.
That's amazing! So great to see react native developing into more and more advanced ecosystem with such awesome tools out there!
> in particular in the EU

Then add Brexit to this mix and stir.
Rememeber: We're talking about a country that had to be bootstrapped after the fall of Soviet Union. They have had very little legacy (as in "old but not old enough to warrant a replacement") tech and legislation to deal with.

My personal favorite is their wireless PSTN: Take existing NMT technology and give people tabletop terminals that will accommodate ordinary analog phones.
This has been done for forums: BoardReader.com. Google also had Discussion search previously. Now you can add "forum" to your Google searches.
I have some questions, if I want to make a free-speech protected project, is Estonia a country that will protect my business over silly demands or anything close like that?
> Graphics programming is fundamentally a form of client/server programming.

Thanks, in that way it is a lot easier to understand. So do you mean GLSL would be compiled into SPIR-V?
In 50 years, people will look in disgust and utter disbelief at our treatment of Assange.

Or maybe this is too optimistic. Maybe our grandsons will indeed understand us. They will understand us too well, and be ashamed of us.
I don't know, but the final note on the article doesn't seem like inspiring much confidence:

>[Author’s note: A Google search for “Austin Electric Essex UK” failed to turn up any information or website for the company. The photos in the Daily Mail story are proprietary and cannot be republished by CleanTechnica, but nothing prevents you from reading the Daily Mail story yourself. I have guests from the UK staying with me at the moment and they suggest the Daily Mail may not enjoy the highest reputation for journalistic excellence.]

Link to the Daily Mail article:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eigh...
I would like to hear more about this. Could you share some information?
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I agree, mostly because I think it's just practical for small markets (like ~1 million person countries) to band together but I remember in Estonia everyone always thought of themselves more as a Nordic country rather than a Baltic one
That's actually not a bad idea, a lot of people already have headphones with integrated microphones and processors.

Noise cancellation headphones could be easily transformed into hearing aids with a change of the firmware. In fact, they could be excellent hearing aids, because they probably have more computing power than the average professional hearing aid.
I have used Macs for quite some time now, mostly as secondary machine. PowerMac G4, Quad G5, first Intel aluminum iMac, 2013 iMac (and a few others occasionally in between), and basically all the OS versions up to and including Mojave. That's where I stopped and moved away from Macs (at least for the time being). Not because they're bad but because I can't find a compelling reason to keep using it, it just steered away from what I considered a good match with my preferences and use cases. Still very much enjoy the iPhone and iPad. Just no room for the Mac.

I guess my point is something doesn't have to be "good OR bad" for some people to like it and others to dislike it. Pretty sure it can be both at the same time, depending on where you're looking from.
> some dumb decisions

I think the relevance is in the definition of some.

Lots of people had an inkling it was a lot of smoke and mirrors, "tech company this" "we're a platform that", with a lot of weirdness alongside - but then the IPO dropped and confirmed every single assumption and it turned out truth was more ridiculous than fiction.

The larger relevance is how completely unworthy businesses are sprung into a position by cheap VC cash when the foundations are made of custard and spaghetti. Wrap in the "cult of personality" with a seemingly deluded founder and you have the SV equivalent of a soap opera.

Alongside that, it's also a dramatic pantomime as to how said investors are trying to optimise an acquisition without the optics of a failing business. We was a poster child for the Vision Fund, and Softbank has to play this game delicately.

It's fascinating to watch it play out - this isn't just a case of a large business that's fallen on hard times. This is a story about a (hopefully) unique company that should never have worked in the first place, somehow navigating a black swan moment, and potentially turning into a real business.
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Latvia has a similar corporate income tax model which is also good for reinvesting. Essentially 0% corporate income tax until you want to pay out.
Thanks for the down votes.

While I understand that you might want to silence vocal minorities for business reasons, I've only stated facts from my past 20 years of life.
I was certainly a "participant in the Internet circa 1996" (and before) and besides the inevitable quote from Krugman pretending not to understand what is happening here [Network effects don't care that "most people have nothing to say to each other" and we should laugh at a supposed "economist" who didn't understand that in 1998] I don't see a connection to the Internet as a "toy".

I guess there are two and a half possible mistakes here, which I'll address separately.

1. The Network is a toy. No. At least as far back as the Treaty of Bern (in 1874) the importance of the global Network is so obvious that national governments give up a little sovereignty to have it work better. Communication makes the difference almost everywhere almost all the time. Bern of course is about written letters, but the Telephone follows the exact same course, and so if you accept the Internet as a natural successor all the same things apply.

2. Maybe the Internet is not the Network? This argument looks completely reasonable in 1986 when IP networks are mostly an American phenomenon and there is a lot of X.25 out in the rest of the world. Maybe the Network will be X.25. By 1996 that's a distant memory, everything is IP. It's a done deal, the Internet is the Network.

2.5. Mistaking the Web for the Internet. The Web initially looks like a toy. HTTP/0.9 era Web has lots of toy-like qualities. Academics have been designing powerful hypermedia technology for many years by 1990, surely this half-arsed tech demo from a CERN guy who isn't even a Computer Scientist is a flash in the pan? You can make a better argument that the Web is still a toy in 1996 than the Internet, I don't think it's a good argument but it can be made -- however the Web is just an application. A competitor hypermedia solution that crushes Tim's Web but uses IP is still the Internet.
You no longer need physical presence to register your company and do business through the programme but you should still be very careful about taxation, tax residency whether personal or corporate gets very complex very fast and I highly recommend talking to a tax expert
The project website: https://browser.mt/

According to the Data page [1], it at least makes use of ParaCrawl multilingual corpus [2].

[1] https://browser.mt/data

[2] https://paracrawl.eu/releases.html
Which one did they chose?
The crosswalk is not part of the intersection, so it's the latter definition. For example, blocking a crosswalk and blocking an intersection are separate offenses.
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None of these companies - Infosys, Tata, Wipro etc - actually has a business beyond convincing technologically illiterate Western senior managers, by whatever means, to outsource the core of their businesses for short term gain.
But if you live in any industrialized country and have relatives or friends or joust listen to people talk in the office, you would know thst most people own TVs.

Only 2.6% of households in the US don’t own TVs (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-tvs-in-american-hom...). Statistically, it would be hard to think that you would encounter too many people that don’t watch TV.

The smart phone penetration rate is actually lower. Would you be incredulous if someone said “do people actually use smart phones? I haven’t owned one in ten years”.
Isn't this what bankruptcy is for?
Which would result in their license to practice being revoked by the professional association.

It takes ~8 years to fulfill the requirements to acquire a professional license. It's not worth the risk of being caught.
If you don't want to buy everything at once, go shopping wearing something the new piece should go together with. Is that not common sense knowledge?
> If I value my free time at $20 an hour, and you value my labor at $40 an hour, we will be able to come to an agreement where you pay me $30 an hour, and we will both benefit according to our subjective perception of value.

This is the price, not value. Value is the benefit provided to an economic agent from a good or service, whereas price is the exchange value for a good or service.
Privacy from the vendor, for cloud backups, is barely addressed by most of the cloud storage providers. I find the best solution is to - like many comments here about photo and music storage - stick to older more stable standards that aren't about trying to sell you services.

In my case that means a chunk of SFTP-based storage, and rclone to make that storage encrypted at-rest.
Unfortunately, it isn't a new issue, I left the e-residency programme soon after the banking scandal (unrelated to why I left) but bank accounts have always been a major problem, especially because most of the business banking sector in Estonia is run by foreign firms with local branches rather than Estonian banks.
Sounds too cheap
Class action would have standing, though you'd have to find all companies affected by frivolous suits over the invalid patents.
This has been done against drug patents before, though I have no idea if they were successful.

E.g. https://www.classactionsreporter.com/antitrust/zytiga-and-pr...
Simple enough answer but true for many folks. Lots of jobs were kept and you'd just go about your business.
Perhaps, but you're still lopping your SV salary in half, and if you want a central 1 BR that's not government housing, you're paying close to SF housing prices.
It's more common than you think. In industries that are locked into legacy apps, cloud costs are massive. Same for industries where storing massive amounts of data for decades is normal. Healthcare and banking spring to mind. I wouldnt be surprised if big pharma are private cloud too.
Wework and softbank are interesting because they pretty much show you the limits of private equity and tech disruption. Wework was so far away from technology it was fascinating to see the story around it and how it ran its business. Softbank is really interesting because of their role, the unique position its in because of how deep its pockets are, and how the timing of WeWork's story has interacted with SoftBank's raising for the Vision fund. If you want to see how crazy things in PE can go, you can make a good argument that you should be looking at Softbank - with their positions in ARM, uber, Alibaba, Boston Dynamics, Slack, Wag. I mean, we can have an entire conversation about Wag.

But also, this story isn't over. This story has been almost an unmitigated catastrophe for the last year and yet this news is telling you that Softbank think that WeWork is currently still the most valuable company in the office rental space despite everything. It also tells you softbank isn't just funded a tonne of companies and are willing to let them go big or collapse - they don't seem able to walk away from WeWork. The reason this is interesting is because this is now raising big red flags about how Softbank's investment portfolio is looking - and it'll be interesting when we hear whether they start to suffer because of it.
"Extradition shall not be granted if the offense for which extradition is requested is a political offense."

If an American journalist in UK is publishing Chinese military secrets, he will not be extradited to China.

If an Australian journalist in UK is publishing American military secrets, will he be extradited to America?

This is the question now...
Definitely I plan to donate, but it's important that this gets a lot of media attention. Patent trolls go through certain lax courts and judges who rule on the side of patent trolls an alarming number of times. If there is enough media attention around this then should there be any corrupt judges involved, they will have to think twice about their verdict as it will be closely scrutinized.
But ... doesn't the tax come due only if you exercise the options?
I wonder if this explains why Mozilla unexpectedly remotely disabled Page Translator add-on yesterday after previously permitting it to be distributed as a side-load for two years. https://github.com/jeremiahlee/page-translator/issues/26
While this is great, I like to give a shout out to DeepL Translator [1]. I'm not affiliated with them but I like to recommend them to people who like to step out of Google ecosystem. I am using DeepL for about a year now and I mostly use it for NL<->EN, DE<->EN. So far, I never felt that the translation is off, or terrible, and if not better in some cases, it's as good as Google Translator.

[1]: https://www.deepl.com/translator
Before you say that Google has world-class ML engineers and Mozilla doesn't even have a chance of competing, consider that the quality of the startup deepl's translator is comparable and possibly even better to the quality of giants like Google or Microsoft. So this seems like one of those problems where small companies can still be competing with GAFAM-scale ones.
Hey Chris. Love the posts. Lots of insight.

A bit offtopic, but could you remove the fixed widths of your #content (.baby-container) at screen width below 767px ? 300 pixels is just too narrow for the content. Maybe set width to auto and set margin to 15px for a better responsive experience? :)
Germany and Estonia have two completely opposing views when it comes to personal information, and the Estonian way is the way to success.

OTOH, the issue with USA is the conflict of interest between the public and private sector. Turbotax is a prime example.
I guess that’s the downside of paying people as little as you can get away with.
I'm seeing a surprising number of comments describing catastrophic tax outcomes due to exercising options with a large spread and holding the stock long enough for it to tank before selling, while still being stuck with a massive tax bill.

This situation is easily avoided by filing your 83b and early exercising your options immediately, or at least before a subsequent funding round/term sheet valuation cycle.

None of the comments describing those outcomes mention this. For those reading and new to the startup game, read up on the 83b. When you're an early employee at a startup, the cost of early-exercising even a substantial number of shares is often not cost-prohibitive. And should you leave the company before it all vests, you get a check for the unvested remains. It's a NO-BRAINER when the exercise cost is small.

https://blog.wealthfront.com/always-file-your-83b/
my 2013MBP is still working fine and awesome. But I think 2015MBP is also fine, the keyboard is a little bit thinner but I like it anyway.
It's a far cry from the following generations with throw-away keyboards.
Huh.

https://www.volantedesign.us/pages/star-trek-collection

So from the pre-Abrams reboot series, they only have their interpretation of the TNG-era uniform. It actually does look pretty nice. $300 is a lot for a jacket, though. Thanks anyway!
And what has been the result of that anonymous discourse?
You are forgetting that Estonia comes nowhere close to India in terms of population and literacy. India is now estimated to have 125 million(and increasing) English speakers. Not sure if all of them are part of "elite" that you're talking about.
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I tried something similar with "rejected.dev" (https://coderfit.com/rejected-dev) but no one was interested. There is some kind of stigma attached to being rejected, it seems. If another firms throws you out, even if it is not your fault, there is still some loser touch attached to you and the perceived value of you drops, sadly.
It's interesting that the article suggests that making a phone call would be preferable to ordering online. There's been quite a culture change since then; I'll do anything to avoid having to make a phone call.
Startup idea:
Create the globalized equivalent of Silicon Valley Bank in Estonia — a local bank that serves credible startups around the world, with staff that has the competence to evaluate customers’ tech chops.
Why don't you show the videos of spanish police sent to Catalonia to beat up peaceful catalan protesters? To force a reaction and then accuse them of violence when it really is self defense?
We already know all the spanish dirty tricks. It is not different than what China does in Hong Kong.
Sending Spanish policemen to Catalonia to beat us... Spain is like Russia or China. It is so bad not even real spanish people want to be spanish.
IME analysis paralysis is worse when almost everything is crap. For me, shopping is reasonably fun when I go to a store that has mostly good stuff. Picking a good item from 5 good / 3 bad ones is much better than picking a good item from 2 good / 20 bad ones.
This is so darn awesome ... thanks OP.
Right, the price I get for my labor is the value I am attaining for it. The price the employer gets for the product of my labor is the value the employer is getting for it. The value that I as an employee can attain for my labor is not equal to the value the employer can get for its product. The employer's capital is adding value that enables them to sell the product of my labor for more than I can sell the labor alone for.

There is no grand con in the free market exchange process. No exploitation that Marxists uncovered that condemns all employers as exploiters who deserve to have their property seized.
I find the deepl translations in the available languages very good, much better than google translate. Unfortunately, the selection of languages is (still) very limited.
That sounds like not only putting the cart before the horse but an entife stable. The certifcation is to serve the profession not the other way around.
Did you/people internal to your company set that up or did you use some agency that specialises in incorporating businesses in Estonia?
it's a consequence of privatization

No privatization occurred in CA -- it was never a public utility.
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Same story in Southern Africa (although one couldn't say because of competition). The whole of Southern Africa should be a free trade zone, but isolationist behaviour takes place because of other factors, like for example xenophobia or in the case of Botswana, being pissed off by our (South African) instability vs. their more stable country.
Likely? I’m inclined to believe that there’s something wrong with your addon, rather than Firefox being anticompetitive about an extension that doesn’t compete with a feature that doesn’t exist yet.
I buy about ten t shirts a year and wear them almost every day. After about a year most are garbage - holes in them, stains, etc.

Any suggestions? I’d love to not have to do this anymore.
It is on my wishlist for my blog but for now I haven't gotten around to it.

Also planned: some kind of list of the latest pinboard.in entries from certain tags.
Holy crap, HN mods you should edit this title and make it more sensational, like the most posts on HN. I feel this post is not receiving the attention it deserves
i'd prefer not to. We work for a number of different clients, and its common to have pg11-clientanme.*
and node-clientname.* ...

I have over 200 domains internally, that i don't have externally.

but its also flexibility. We often when we develop, want to redirect certain domains to our endpoints, for testing or whatever, and do that on DNS so that not everyone has to edit host files etc.

we have pfsense internally, with number of people that can and do add/remove hosts/domains on daily basis, but host our external DNS on CF, and only 2 people have access to that.