skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to be on site with a Secret clearance, a DUNS number, and about three months of paperwork, never mind the cost of the proposal hours to get on the multi award BPA to have the opportunity to win this task order for the work which was 1000 pages and half a year of capture and messaging. The market has a huge cost to enter which makes it sound insane to anyone that's ever posted something to Fiverr
The problem with this model is lack of both supply and demand. On the supply side the revenues are relatively low restaurants amortise costs across lots of customers which someone hosting in their house can't really do, so they either have to charge more (weakening the demand-side) or take the financial hit. There's not really a lot of money in it for the amount of work involved.

On the demand side there's no significant value-add for customers over restaurants.

That's not to say that there's no business model that might work in the space, but rather it will require more innovation.

The obvious model would be for people to operate their own takeaway businesses. Services like Deliveroo and UberEATs essentially mean that all you need to be a takeaway is a kitchen, everything else (marketing, payment process, delivery, etc.) you can outsource to your platform. Takeaways are much more scalable than "eat-in" allowing for more revenue and the demand-side doesn't care if you have a shop-front or not.
Agar.io like game with snakes instead of circles
Of course, there is the minor issue of "simply" convincing everyone to embrace anarchy, or "simply" disposing of everyone who doesn't.
Did I miss something or do you also see a 5-10x difference in RPS?
The "minority" is just skimming the "take" not building a business or anything else useful.

In same cases? Maybe. In many cases (including my own MBE/DBE-certified business) we are using those projects to build a business (2 bootstrapped partners to 8 employees and national recognition in 4 years) and to use some of that revenue & expertise to help folks that normally couldn't afford our services. And there are any number of businesses I can point to that are achieving similar success (of course there are also failures, but that's true of businesses in general).

With regard to Frondo's claim "where you get the minority contractor who acts as a pass-through to give the real work to the majority-owned firm" - at this point I'm pretty sure that's the exception rather than the rule. The various state MBE/DBE certifying agencies are extremely diligent at policing this behavior and will slap down firms found to engage in it. Primes and subs are audited, contacts are reviewed, MBE/DBE subs are interviewed (included onsite visits) etc. MBE/DBEs must submit annual sworn financial statements, along with examples of contracts, invoices and evidence that firm can conduct the work it's contacted for (resumes of principals, references, list of equipment, and so on).
Accurate Wi-Fi based indoor location positioning already exists, though with different pros and cons. For example, the following system still works reliably when walking around, but may be a bit less accurate. And it requires no calibration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foVqKLE4Mpk

That demo is based on the new 802.11mc standard. Surprisingly, this new standard isn't mentioned in the paper. So no comparison between this and their system...
Do I think I pay too much tax? Yes and no. I'd like to pay more, but I have basics to take care of first.

I think that taxes should be reserved for those with some level of financial stability/independence. I don't know how to come up with a benchmark for that, though.

If I earned what I do now in a low cost of living environment, then I could pay 80% and still get by just fine.

Put simply, as a UK citizen, to a very good approximation, a worker earning 50K pa pays the same amount of tax whether they own a 5 bedroom home outright or whether they live in a tent. (Council tax / property tax exists but is generally small).

I don't think that's an efficient policy. It makes bootstrapping much more difficult than it should be.
It's because understeer is more desirable in a mass-market car than oversteer. The average driver's natural reaction, which is to quickly lift off the accelerator and jab the brakes, leads to disastrous results in an oversteer situation.
Have you tried watching or reading the news at all while you're here? This comment reads like someone imagining what American media might be like.
I have to completely disagree with you. I think it's actually a great looking little car.

Me too. I rather like the Fiat 500e better than the Tesla for styling. I'm going to put down the deposit for a Tesla Model 3, though.
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Have blind people overcome this because of past experience and living with the fact of being blind, or is it the case that the software isn't necessarily intuitive in the first place?

I think when I have a moment I might attempt this as an exercise...
It's not until message #245(!) that anyone sounds even remotely reasonable: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703#245. The whole thread really makes me wary of using Debian.
The extended warranty is 4 years after the included 4 years. That's 8 years. There's presently no option beyond 8 years. At the moment, Tesla literally owns the keys to the car in the form of activation, and at the moment there's no way to know what 3rd party parts or repairs are acceptable. It's also unknown what happens if a significant software problem is found after 8 years, whether there will be a software upgrade service beyond 8 years and what that will cost. In theory the car could cost less than a regular car, but a huge part of the reason why specific traditional model cars end up being inexpensively and safely maintained is the wide availability of service parts and manuals. None of that is true yet for Tesla. That's workable for a unique high end vehicle, I don't think it is for mass market.
And it could be stored in a tamper-proof chip on the device itself...
> a lot of people think I'm crazy driving my (rear wheel) Camaro in the winter.

It's because you are, maybe, depending where you live.
All of the problems you mention are completely, 100% solved:

https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/git-review

You're welcome ;)
"Let me say this unequivocally: Yarvin chose to produce this controversy. This is not an accident. He is not a pitiable figure who is persecuted for his beliefs. He is not simply an eccentric functional programmer who, like you or me, happens to hold a couple of beliefs out of the mainstream. Nope.
Yarvin’s hobby is writing hateful things, publishing them, and cultivating a movement of hateful people working toward hateful ends. This controversy serves those ends. He knew when he submitted his proposal that, if accepted, he could count on at least a brief flurry of interest in his ponderous, indulgent treatises."

This is a really twisted view. Yarvin has been working on Urbit for many years and it is his life now. He signed up for the conference to promote it. His political blog has been dead for over two years. I don't see any reason why he would want this controversy, and he claims himself he signed up for the conference to talk about Urbit -- https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/how-to-respond-to-hostile-...

I also think it's a major stretch to call his blog "hateful." (And what does that even mean, OP is pretty hateful toward Yarvin, should OP be banned too?) Yeah, his Moldbug character was an edgelord, writing in the style of 18th century pamphleteer. So what. The supposedly terrible quotes were taken out of context and misunderstood or distorted (again, see link above). Much of the blog is quite fascinating history and political analysis, written in ironical style. I'd hate to see the next interesting, edgy blog scared to start writing, even under a pseudonym, for fear someday people would try to ruin their careers.
I think the progress in neural networks is amazing. Every week the usage of tensorflow and friends seem to become a good chunk easier to use. Even people like me with close to no mathematical background can now spin up tensorflow and run a neural network. I'm loving it!
In 2016 you have to give a damn good reason to start beginners on MongoDB.

A blog has a known schema, simple relationships, and basic constraints on its fields. It is a case study for beginners to learn about data integrity and how un-scary SQL can be.

Beginners have to trust your judgement and will grow along the lines you draw for them. Please start beginners off on the right path.
For anyone trying to access the site, you annoyingly have to register before going to anything other than the index.
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> In certain sectors of government, decision makers are required to disclose things like when vendors take them out to dinner or pay for fancy seats at ball games.

I used to work in this space. Not only what you are saying is wrong but it's very illegal. I was lectured for offering a government representative lunch from a cheap place we were all going to (have to give them the opportunity to pay).

There are so many rules around this that the type of bribery you're referring to just doesn't happen.
Nah because the whole idea is that the system needs to be unpredictable.
I have a side project that I use to solve this problem. It creates your own reference that is downloaded and searchable locally for instant results. https://www.cof8.com
That's one screenshot, are you prepared to submit a legally binding quote for the project with that little information? Are there more screens? I don't know. Did the client require multiple designs and iterations -- each stamped with the approval of several stake-holders? I don't know.

Judging the final output without any consideration for the process is akin to asking why it took a week to fix that hairy bug. It was only one line of code that changed, how could it possible take you all week to fix it?
That's what shits me. If it's smart, viable strategy, why not make it available by default for every citizen with a basic tax framework instead of something only available to the wealth to push further ahead?
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Looks like the same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9647253.
We used PR based review before, but we found it is hard and inefficient when many changes are required. Its hard to see whether comments is being addressed in Bitbucket PR. We switched to Phabricator recently, and the incremental reviews really helps.

I think you can go over your previous PRs, and see how many of them has multiple rounds of reviews. If most of them are minor changes/fixes, then switching maybe unnecessary.
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On CNN, top news is about some soccer star charged with DUI.

And nothing about this Panama thing on the home page.
Users wouldn't confirm this in in real time just like users have no way of verifying in real time that their paper ballot was actually counted.

A better outcome for this type of system would be a pre-election and post-election verification of each machine (which isn't unreasonable since the number of machines is far less than the number of ballots) in which interested agents from each party/group could be present during the verification process (and use their own machine if they desire) to ensure that all the digital signatures match and there's no foul play.
It seems to me that a lot of the discussion is in the manner of "what programming language to teach first", and that here as with programming the main thing is to start.

I would boil down my advice to a couple of points. First, get good shoes. If you are a beginner, go to a store where the staff is gaunt. (I think of the Pacers stores in the Washington area.). You can count on them knowing something about running and shoes. Second, listen to your body. Don't try to run through an injury. If you are running in hot weather, be very aware of how you feel. Never hesitate to stop and walk back if something isn't right.

Beyond that, I would quote Joshua Slocum (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6317/pg6317.txt): "To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go." (And of course, I include young women.)
There are probably a lot more reserves out there that no one's found yet because the current reserves were sufficient for the demand. In the longer term there will be plenty.

In the short term, though, existing reserves are mostly in Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia. I wonder how difficult it would be for a cartel to manipulate pricing?
They're hiring. Good people needed. Please consider it. Quite an opportunity to actually embed a solid tech culture in some places that really need it: https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser...
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I just don't have the time to explain to everyone on the internet why they're wrong. I'm sorry :/
What is WAY worse is that they probably purchased 10,000 ipads to run this stupid app.
Because people in general don't like to socialize with strangers and get into potentially awkward situations.

With Uber you just need to get from place A to B - a much easier sell, we already did that with strangers driving taxis anyway.

With dining, you want to relax, and be in an environment you like. And you need to trust the cooking and all that, and you don't want an afternoon out with your friends/family/spouse/romantic interest to get ruined from unfit hosts.

The same reason "rent-a-tool-from-your-neighbors" social services haven't caught on.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3050775/the-sharing-economy-is-de...
Fair enough. I imagine that the paperwork and app verification is where most of the cost was generated.

Sometimes bureaucratic inefficiency just really gets under my skin.
Xero lets you upload files so they are attached to invoices etc., and when yo send invoices you can elect to send the paperwork too.
At least StrangeLoop's clearly vindicated now. Unlike Lambdaconf, they didn't stoop to getting cash from KKK-types like (https://twitter.com/clarkhat/status/682022959830151168):

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "There's nothing you can ever tell scientists about the natural world that will hurt their feelings."

Grim Dark Future Hat: "Blacks have lower average IQs. Your move."

Guess there's reasons not to invite speakers notorious for advocating racism against fellow conference-goers and their families! [1] (And why one hires knowledgeable diversity consultants who've seen these dynamics a thousand times.)

[1] "It was really quite lovely. Later that day, in the jeep to the ranch house where everyone was staying, he started up with the casual racism, and everyone ignored him." (https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/606799534983770112)
If Chesterton had seen modern laws (and he was already quite vocal for the proliferation of BS laws back in his day) he would never have brought forward his "fence" argument.

Really, a huge numbers of modern laws and restrictions are as far removed from utility as possible.

And unlike in "Chesterton's fence" case, it's not like they are old and we don't know why they come up with them back in the day.

Quite the opposite. We DO know why the come with them, and for a lot of them, we witnessed lobby groups and special interests, concerned citizens "think of the children", etc press for them -- and it has been mostly BS.
I'm working on this 'Portfolio' approach at the moment. Slowly, because I'm choosing to keep my main income fairly high which means it warrants more of my time.

Current income sources:

- Primary business, working as a business coach/consultant. Affords us a fairly decent level of life, but I cap my income (well, time) to focus on other streams because consulting income is only ever as good as next month

- Investment properties - 1 tenanted at present, with some plans to do the same with our current house. This is in Australia - both would be negatively geared, meaning they 'lose income money' every year (costs>revenue) but that's made up in capital growth. I originally thought property would be my primary wealth vehicle, but then got into business

- I have one live profit share arrangement with another business I helped build, where I get x% of revenue for a period of time. Nothing awesome, but a valuable experience and some 'free' income each month

- With my newest consulting brand, I plan to build on online membership knowledge base. Working on the structure and product/market fit right now.

- There's another company I'm actively working on, with the same membership model in place.

Both of the final two are 'proofs of concept' for me - learning by doing. I believe my current business skill set lends itself to creating the brand and product for this business model, so I want to add experience with the online platforms and channels to round it out. If I can get that combination humming, there's nothing stopping me partnering up with subject matter experts to create a few similar business each year. Each that work might only be mid-6 figure pa businesses and I'd have a minority stake, but you don't need too many like that in your portfolio to have the financial independence you're describing.
I like to think I don't have political views, just observing faults of existing structures and finding bug fixes. I'm neither left or right or peachpie. Maybe you would call me a realist and I'm sure there's a way to put me in a box for that view, though it's important to stress that I don't subscribe to any particular political system. Humans are just too hard to manage that none of those black/white ideologies work.

Having zero governing bodies is a thought experiment laid out more than a few times in Sci-Fi, so assuming those weren't totally wrong, I don't think the human race can do without. The problem are humans and their motivations. Greed is one problem, laziness another. I don't know how to solve those. How do you make sure people do not exploit their freedom by making others suffer?

Okay, let's say there's no governing body. Now, there's a dispute. How is it resolved? Fight to death? The achievement of modern society is that we do not kill each other, and that requires rule makers, rule enforcers, oversight to keep chaos down to a minimum. If we do, it's a punishable offense. But punishment as implemented right now is totally wrong and doesn't solve anything. Putting people away for years does not make the crime undone and also doesn't turn a killer into a pet store owner. There are experiments with different kinds of containment and reintegration into society but this is also a hard problem that's unsolved.

I honestly don't know how without some sort of management entity a peer to peer society would work without rules of any kind.

Once you enact rules of conduct, you have everyone follow the rules, and something somewhere needs to make sure rules are not broken unjustifiably.

It's like distributed systems or cooperative threading, if you think about it.

Can you tell me how you'd do it?
> That looks more in line with wildcard SSL prices.

Because I'm buying a wildcard cert. (Which Let's Encrypt doesn't currently offer.)
This proves that similar absurdities are common practice within large corporations, and breaks down nicely how they are justified. I doesn't, imo, prove the price isn't absurd.

The point about field testing is fair, but shouldn't account for a huge chunk of the price. The invisible-to-the-public features point is also fair, but there's no way to estimate that cost of those.

The rest of the points, though, while fairly reflecting the way enterprise works, just show how utterly dysfunctional the process can be, and imo bolster, rather than refute, the position in the original article.
"[P]aired programming is about optimizing for the team" (source: http://goodrequirements.com/2013/pair-programming/). Long-lived feature branches optimize for the individual. A useful alternative is described at http://paulhammant.com/blog/branch_by_abstraction.html.

What is your definition of "small"? The projects I worked on at ThoughtWorks for over three years numbered in the dozens of developers, all pairing, and all committing directly to master.
Great point on the accessibility audit, added that to UI/UX section.
Oddly enough, I am a small business with no regular income. (Self-employed. Was an LLC in the US. Now an AB in Sweden.)

Regarding the "You made a million dollars thanks to your hard work" - first, that's misdirection. Don't make the mistake and think that working hard is all that was needed for $1M; many more people work much harder than I do, and make even less. $1 million also requires a non-trivial amount of good fortune. It means I did not get a heart attack, did not get into a car accident, didn't become depressed or burnt out from working too hard, etc. It means I guessed right about where the market was going, and how to reach customers.

Regarding the question of how to handle tax on $1M if I am uncertain about the following years.

First, I can live for 5 years on $100K/year, so 50% tax still leaves a huge amount. My business is little more than me and a few computers, plus conference and customer travel.

Second, quoting http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-llcs-are-taxed-29... :

> If you will regularly need to keep a substantial amount of profits in your LLC (called "retained earnings"), you might benefit from electing corporate taxation. Any LLC can choose to be treated like a corporation for tax purposes by filing IRS Form 8832, Entity Classification Election, and checking the corporate tax treatment box on the form.

Third, I would look into setting up a Delaware C Corp.

What's wrong with any of these three options?
Do you have a source for the 15 years number? I keep seeing people on HN saying 15-30 years, probably based on that widely misrepresented SXSW talk, and that just doesn't match up to the state of the technology or progress on the legal/regulatory front. Robotaxis will be in some California cities around 5 years from now unless some major setback happens. Here's a report that summarizes some of the sentiment I see in the industry [1].

Remember: there are already 100% fully autonomous vehicles roaming real roads in Silicon Valley. 5 years is a very long time to shrink and improve sensors, learn from real-world driving experiences, and beef up the software.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/report-10-million-self-drivin...
simple != easy

I didn't say it would be easy. But we ought to at least have a target to aim for, yes?
I think what OP meant is that there are reasons for companies to be off-shore which are totally above board.

A common reason that investment funds are in off-shore tax-havens is because they have lots of international investors. If the fund was say in the US all the investors would have to file tax documents in the US even if they weren't US based, by being based in a tax haven it means investors only have to file local tax paperwork and not paperwork in a second country.
Also wasn't this a law firm whose data was leaked? A lot of that information is probably financial and personal records which would be massively irresponsible, not to mention highly illegal, to release in a dump.
Well then you didn't make a million dollars, you made 500k. Gross is an admittingly galling fiction but is for day to day purposes pretty much that, a fiction.
Interesting. That's what I thought about you four posts up.