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I don’t understand the “if it’s so easy then go do it” argument. Personally I’m interested in founding something at some point in my life. And I’d much rather do it with a group of people who I’ve shared more equity with. But that’s not the point at all.

In this thread we’re talking about what stops people from leaving their cushy jobs at big corp to join a small gig where apparently the talent is sorely needed. My response to that is, “if it’s so needed then speak with equity and more favorable comp strategies that are more likely to pry those smart people out of FAANG’s grip”. If the world needs a few principle engineers for some incredible new idea then surely the world can find the capital to fund the equivalent of a few 500k salaries for a few years—whether it’s with more cash or more generous equity or both.

It’s a two way street. Every time I hear someone lament about the dying startup scene my response is generally that humans are acting rationally and the industry has realized that the ~0.2-1% equity offered for positions 4-10 at a small gig is not really worth the sacrifice required unless some other stars align (mega exciting domain, super unique opportunity, write off as professional development).

So either the startup industry is dying and all the good talent is locked up in FAANG. Or maybe startups don’t need principle engineers and 0.1% talent in the first place. It’s probably some of both.

And I’m certainly not sitting in a pile of my own self entitlement at FAANG thinking, “if you want me pay me more because I’m hax0r”. I’ve made my own sacrifices to be a part of growing a small company. We’re in a specialized domain where finding the right talent is especially difficult. I’m unable to fault anyone for rationally biasing towards more comp and stability and less stress. So when the topic comes up I like to remind people that the status quo equity/comp strategies that you see at most places are a little dated and despite it being (as it seems) somewhat presumptuous of me, suggest that founders might be biased towards overvaluing their own contribution to the cause. If the cap tables were a little looser I think you’d see the scene perk up again...
It is not about having the right to fork under the same name only, but also having the ability to apply small patches to the code without going to the great lengths of rebranding everything---of course we can discuss if changing a single bit from the source code would qualify the result as a fork or not.
How long do you wait for medical stuff? In Poland wait is sometimes >1 year
City slickers man. Wouldn't recognize a black mold if it was poisoning them every day for 4 years.
I wonder what world would we be living in if people like this fellow were actually focusing on automation and not on making business cards that run Linux.

Maybe we wouldn't be living in such a lowly automated reality, using concepts from the previous centuries. Robotics might even make sense...
Home Alone is popular all over. It gets broadcasted in Japan, too.
> - the tourist industry is dying. People used to visit and fall in love with SF. Now, they get embarrassed about the state of the city (the more obvious stuff like homelessness, cost of living, filth) and leave trying to forget about this city.

Not true. From https://www.sftravel.com/article/san-francisco-travel-report...

> San Francisco Travel is reporting a total of 25.8 million visitors to the city in 2018 (with minor adjustments expected as final data is received), up 1.2 percent over 25.5 million in 2017.

Total spending by visitors was $10 billion, up 2.3 percent over $9.8 billion in 2017 (including spending on meetings and conventions).
Another example would be that some neonazi marches are accompanied by protestors promising a certain monetary amount to a refugee relief organization for every kilometer marched.

They show up along the march's path with signs thanking the neonazis for participating in this fund raiser.
I don't understand "back burning", but I'd say it makes sense not to count bushfire since these trees are going to grow back and re-capture the same amount of CO2 that has been released in the fire.
I do agree that cannabis health “benefits” are often exaggerated but this happens with any substance. Also, social media bots spam about many things all the time. Should we then talk about all the topics spam bots post about?
Yeah, so the EU should focus more on stimulating remote work instead of stuffing cities like the rest of the world.
It's cheaper than the current options, and yields gigantic returns for most large tech companies.
And you can refuel much faster. I can fill my entire tank in less than 2 minutes, to get the same mileage with a car I'd be looking at an hour (if not longer). I spend less than 2 minutes a week getting gas and as a renter I can't install charging at home, and work doesn't have any charging options, meaning I'd be sitting around an 30-60 minutes a week at a charging station twiddling my thumbs. Also the cheapest Tesla is more than I gross annually. You just can't beat that time savings, I've got better things to do than driving way out of my way to find a charging location, hope a fast charging is available, park and sit there for ten minutes or more while right now in my 15 minute commute I pass 8 gas stations, that can all provide me fuel, that are all much faster.

EVs are never going to get widespread adoption until old apartments start getting torn down and replaced with new-construction apartments that have charging at every spot as a quick Google query shows something like 39 million people in the United States live in apartments with one article claiming:

>Apartment rentals will make up 27 percent of all new housing units built in 2018 and 2019. [1]

And the simple fact is, apartment owners are cheap. They generally use the cheapest appliances, the cheapest carpet, the cheapest fixtures... you think they're going to start shelling out even 1-2k$ per parking spot? Even if they added a surcharge of a few cents a kWh it would probably take them 3-5 years to recover their cost because people will charge elsewhere from time to time, and not everyone will drive an EV so some will sit unused for potentially years.

[1] https://www.nreionline.com/multifamily/apartment-rentals-now...
For mail.ru, I was expecting [1] you would use tarantool for this task

[1]https://hackernoon.com/tarantool-when-it-takes-500-lines-of-...
>Is it better in the US?
The places you listed are probably the worse when it comes to feudalism-lite. I live in the middle of the country and the engineers I graduates with purchased property around 26-27. Our salaries are probably 75% of the bigger cities but cost of living easily makes up for that (in my opinion).
Well they def. do not have the tax base that SF has.
> I don't understand "back burning"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn
The compiler implementation is rustc.

There's a reasonably complete alternative (it compiles most code but doesn't enforce borrow checker rules so is more permissive than rustc) called mrustc.
I think you're attacking a straw man here. Chinese and Indian people can certainly compete with European people, and they do it everyday. But they can do it from China and India.
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>> That assumes that the person doesn't change in the meantime.

In the meantime of what? I didn't suggest any action but merely suggested that sometimes money could clarify whether you do something because you love it or/and because you have to make money.
To me it's truly mind-bogging that a tiny $1.42 chip contains almost everything needed to boot Linux: a 500mhz cpu, 32MB SDRAM, 2D GPU, SD/MMC support, and USB controller, all packaged inside a 10mm x 10mm chip? It makes me really want to get into embedded development.
This might be, to be fair, because you’re likely a SWE and €800 a month in Bratislava gets you a three bedroom flat.
There are several films that are probably streamed throughout the world during christmas.

One that I used to watch every year on cable TV here in Brazil when I was a child (you can guess I'm not that old) is "Jingle all the Way"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_All_the_Way
Interesting. I like this guy.
"People that say you have nothing to hide often care the most about their privacy. For example Mark Zuckerberg spent $30m (£18.8m) buying four houses that surround his own home in California in 2016. “Why?” you might ask, because he cares about his privacy."

I have no idea if Mark Z. has "something to hide" but he takes precautions like he does. We all remember this picture of his laptop with not only the camera covered, but the mic ports as well?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/22/why-has-ma...
I never paid much attention to this the first time around because it seemed that everyone involved seemed to be genuinely insane. I can’t imagine it being any more interesting now.
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The process of web application development
Yes you are missing something. Don’t give such young children these devices. Be a parent instead of having devices babysit for you because Apple (or any other corporation) does not care about the wellbeing of your child. Personally I let my youngest use an iPad but only to watch shows and play games on rare occasions, and never without supervision. My two older children never even had phones until they were in their teens and they survived just fine without them and I would say their lives were better off that way. I am seeing parents give their children these devices in a very unsupervised manor, even letting them take these things to bed. Sorry if this sounds like the rant of a parent, but I feel kind of strongly about this.
« Rent is a little expensive, my landlord is nice, my neighbors are ok: why I was not going to write a blog post about this »
My hundred year old house was not well maintained, had a super wet basement, and never had mold. It was leaky enough to air that it stays dry.
The haight outside of the street itself is fine though.
I’ll echo what other happy SF residents have said - it’s pretty great if you’re able to put yourself in a good part of town. Look I’ll be honest - your experience in SF is going to correlate with your ability to afford living here (I hate to say it but it’s true). If you’re up for spending $3-$5k/month on an apartment, you can live in a nice area (Hayes Valley, Marina, Cow Hollow, Pacific Heights, etc.) and life there is pretty darn good.

There’s access to some of the most spectacularly beautiful cycling on earth (just across the Golden Gate Bridge), the Presidio is a beautiful, Marina Green/Chrissy Field is beautiful, Golden Gate Park is beautiful, the food is amazing and there are wonderful new restaurants popping up all the time, the Mexican food (cheap!) is some of the best you’ll find.

There’s plenty of access to shared bikes and scooters (you don’t need to own a car), the CalTrain makes it reasonably easy to get down to the peninsula, and the competition between Uber and Lyft keeps ridesharing costs relatively low (for now - that’ll change).

It takes only 20-30 minutes to get to SFO, United has pretty good coverage of the whole world from there, so if you like to travel it’s easy to get away.

And, if you’re in tech, there’s plenty of other like-minded people around so there’s always a group of folks to nerd out with. And in general I’ve found people are very welcoming of newcomers (but of course this depends on the social circle you find yourself in - I perhaps got lucky).

I know this isn’t the “popular” opinion because it’s easy to hate on SF for the various PR things you read about (it’s expensive, there really is a bad homelessness/street encampment problem, and the NIMBYism/old coots voting in their own interest can be annoying), but if you happen to fit one of the molds this city is well-suited to handling, it’s quite lovely here.

That ALL being said - there are days where I look at how much I spend in rent and how much it would cost to own an apartment and I do daydream about moving to Vietnam and living like a king....
> We have enough skilled workers in the EU.

No you don't. Companies have to prove that they couldn't find a person who fits the position before hiring. Otherwise they have to hire someone in EU.
"Surviving SF: A beginner's tutorial" seems like a normal HN post title.
Europeans and Canadians move to the US, Indian and Chinese move to Europe and Canada.

This is mostly a salary issue.
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The project and language are called Rust.
The compiler is rustc. You could make an alternative compiler under a different name than rust or rustc with this trademark restriction.

Cpython and Python are similar here.
>If Airbus wants to hire 300 software engineers, good luck finding them in reasonable time periods in Germany or France.

Airbus can't find 300 engineers in Germany and France? Come on! More like Airbus can't find 300 engineers in Germany and France willing to work for peanuts. It's always the last part that gets lost in the translation.

Has Airbus thought about training said engineers instead of expecting them to magic themselves out of thin air whenever they're needed? Looking at their margins it's not like they can't afford it.

>The EU is doing the right thing by trying to pull more people in.

The EU is doing the right thing for Airbus shareholders, not for the local workforce.
> * The board was told that there were only 800 bugs, and yet the independent review found that there were more like 2000

If there were only 2000 bugs in a full bank migration, they were doing pretty well.

Our fairly small single page app is going on 300 now after some 5 weeks of testing.
As a German: why does the clickbait title say this is secret?

Is this different from how other countries handle lost+found?
> Anyway, this article was probably written on a computer booted with a proprietary bios, typed on a keyboard with a proprietary firmware, a proprietary CPU microcode and what else.

Ah ok, let's give up then.
> Just clean the damn thing.

I think the current (my) generation was never taught that things need to be cleaned and maintained regularly to stay in proper operating condition.

Knives need sharpening, boots need waxing, buttons need reinforcing etc.
So the Android release works like this:

1. Google releases the new version.

2. Recent pixel phones get it around the same day. At this point it's extremely buggy. For example, your phone may not be able to make calls or acess Internet. It may crash twice a day

3. 3-6 months passes

4. By this time Google has fixed some of the more urgent bugs.

5. Only now Samsung and the rest start working on a proper release

6. 0-3 months passes

7. Samsung issues an OS update that is polished and mostly free of bugs.

Some companies try to be faster. But that requires a huge team of developers to fix and maintain a moving repo. But as much as we consumers complain about updates, no one is actually buying phones from these companies, so this will not continue forever.

TL;DR: Googles first release is just a beta by anyone elses standard
>But you can easily live in the Western Europe on even €30k. EASILY!

I have trouble supporting a child in Greece, with a gross household income of around 50k.

I most certainly do not lead a luxurious life.

I shudder to think how this would work out in Western Europe where rents are even higher than the ~500 euro most people pay here for a medium sized apartment.
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People at large generally have a set of blinders on where the monetary incentives of large companies are clear and undeniable, but the monetary incentives of concerned organizations are passed over. An anti-vaccine group is going to pay good money to a researcher who can find links between vaccine and $EVIL, and indeed, this is already known to have happened (see Wakefield, Andrew).

In the case of being against agrichemicals, there is a readily identifiable commercial industry: organic agriculture. (And, again, don't discount the size of an industry just because it's the "little guy" working against "the man"--the health supplement industry is an example where the "little guy" is actually guilty of everything they accuse of "the man" of, and much worse). In addition, there is a pretty staunch anti-GMO activism running around in Europe as a whole which provides ready funding fuel here.

The entire glyphosate controversy, to me at least, has long been a case of "[the people against it] know it's somehow evil, because big agriculture, we're just trying to figure out something that will actually show it."
Are you confusing "contractors" with "employees"
In France, when I was younger, it was on new year’s day (Well the night between the years) and a channel always runned Tex Avery cartoons.

Every year. Don’t know why or if it’s still true (not living in France)
Sounds great but my niche isn’t supported (Staffing) and I would love to see 2-3 results before you ask for my card details. I can’t sign up without checking the quality is somewhere near what I expect.
9 months of stolen packages because of a broken doorbell? Here, I'll help https://www.amazon.com/Zeapa-Receivers-Transmitter-Indicator...
How would they even stop you from doing that? It just sounds like a challenge for a workaround to me.
All the "SF is a dystopian nightmare" posts are referring to a few downtown neighborhoods which represent probably less than 5% of the city by land area.

LOL

Downtown neighborhoods? Like the Haight? Potrero? SOMA? the Tenderloin? the Mission? Western Addition? Fisherman's Wharf / Aquatic Park? Homelessness and grime isn't endemic to "downtown" San Francisco. Most of the tent cities I've seen in San Francisco are in SOMA, but even walking from the inner mission to market at night you'll find plenty of sidewalk dwellers.
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Tech- and designwise, very neat.

And then there's the occasional sourfaced old party pooper like myself. Two seconds in, and I no longer see the sweet wizardry or the polished black surface; I only see @gmail, internally translating to "someone who doesn't really care".
There are so many complications when it comes to REALLY understanding the health effects of weed. The science is really tough, and underdeveloped.

One problem is that there are so many varietals, and so many different vehicles for administration (smoking, vaping, eating, tinctures, lotions, etc) — that make it hard to announce, globally, that "marijuana does X to your brain."

Really, the most we can say after a given experience is something like "Strain Y, when inhaled as a combustible, appears to show effect X."

Another problem is the weed that's available for experiments in the US. There is one — and only one — weed crop that the FDA will approve for clinical studies. From a farm at the University of Mississippi. (https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pot-monopoly-20140529-s...)

And according to a weed researcher I spoke to (Sue Sisley - https://medicalcannabis.com/about/faculty/suzanne-sisley/), that Mississippi weed is very low quality — aged, with a lot of stems, seeds, and adulterants.

None of this is to say that weed can't be beneficial.

But I'd argue that anyone making any global claims about weed's health benefits are, at the very least, overgeneralizing.
This is cool as it showcases his embedded engineering prowess.

Years of startup meets[1] have left a bad taste in mouth for the business cards. I've seen people exchange business cards ceremoniously, only to give a missed call to each other immediately.

Business cards are a waste of money, paper and I don't want to get started on the plastics. I honestly thought that proliferation of NFC in smartphones would help to change this behaviour, but with Google shutting down Android Beam(its reasoning: no one is using it) and newer, cheaper smartphones without NFC; I think that ship has sailed.

At-least, in WhatsApp countries; people share contacts via WhatsApp.

[1]https://hitstartup.com/honest-startup-meet/
I don’t understand how someone that clueless could be CEO of anything
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Is there an existing project that does allow for forks with the same trademark? (that is not in the public domain and similar licenses)
It is the legal obligation of the landlord to fix the bell, but sometimes you've got to threaten to sue / ruffle a few feathers to get shit done. Or do it yourself.

Guy's allegedly been building and selling since '01.

Where's the money gone?
To put in the effective Tesla chargers, rather than the slow trickle ones, in many cases building owners would need to upgrade their panels, and likely need to put in higher amperage services. That's not cheap, and unless the premium you get for having a charger is on the order of a couple hundred bucks a month, or there are massive subsidies, it is not very attractive.
Unskippable paywall.
What problem does BERT hope to solve for search?
Which will be attrited away over funding rounds
OP found a perfect example to show how cannabis share same of the benefits as ginger. So he’s actually suggesting his friend to get weed if he cannot take get ginger :)
CitC ?
Next Evolution of Social Media
What is the next evolution of social media apps?

2020—it’s a year that, because of its symmetrical numerology, tends to attract a disproportionate share of futurist musings.

According to my research, I found that social media usage will continue to grow. 1 million new people joined social networks every single day in 2017. And nearly a quarter of a billion new users came online for the first time in 2017. This growth will continue—and we’ll see interesting uses of social media come from Africa which currently has the fastest growth rates, with the number of internet users across the continent increasing by more than 20 percent year-over-year.

These are my predictions:

1) Gen Z drives VR and AR adoption

By 2020, we’ll see more practical uses of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in marketing. Amazon, for example, are exploring how to use AR to help consumers to try on virtual clothes and explore products. Snapchat’s Geofilters and Lens functions have been broadly adopted in marketing campaigns including creating location-specific videos to influence nearby customers such as event attendees or pedestrians near a store location.

2) Social for product research

For online product research, search still leads the way. But social is catching up.

3) Passive networking

Globally, online consumers spend one-third of their time on social media. But as people spend more time on social, we’re seeing new behaviors emerge.

People are sharing less personal information on major networks. Instead, they’re watching videos, killing time, and sharing things to connect with friends.

4) Turning those followers/fans into IRL friends

(http://hangout.landen.co/) I'm working on this, your feedback is appreciated

What are your thoughts on social next evolution?
When I was self employed I paid for my own health insurance. When I’ve worked for companies they had very affordable health insurance plans.

I think the problem probably exists for people with part time jobs that don’t make enough to pay for private insurance. However, I have family in that situation and they still were able to acquire insurance.

Some medical expenses are not covered by insurance and that is a problem. Even when I had my own insurance, while self employed, I did end up with appendicitis. After insurance paid up the amount I was covered for I was left with a pretty big bill. Nothing compared to what people with longer term issues end up paying though.
Outsourcing was a trend ten or so years ago. It seems to work well enough for grunt work, but for more complex stuff, not so much.