skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the process of getting ready to make the plunge.

Right now doing 9-5 on top of part-time software consulting, mostly WordPress sites with trendy front-end stuff, but with occasional custom-backend and mobile app projects. I've partnered with a local design firm that outsources development and they provide me a steady stream of projects generate a majority of my side income). So far no marketing except for word-of-mouth advertising from happy clients.

I'm on track to do over $50k this year, but I don't think I can scale this any further without quitting my day job. My plan is to score another $XX,XXX project in the near future, stock up on cash and health insurance for my family, and finally take the leap.

My biggest concern is that we're dreaming of building a house in the next 3-5 years and how that'll affect my ability to secure a loan. We're planning on having the land paid off before we begin construction, but I still need to learn more.

Anyone have experience here?
I hear music too, when I am close to sleep. I often have problems getting to sleep, so when I hear it, it's reassuring to me, because I know then that I will fall asleep soon.

However, it never suddenly stops for me.

I've fooled around with music since I was a teenager, but was never really good at playing or composing it. But what I hear at night always sounds like good music. I can't tell if I'm making up brand-new music, or if my mind is "mashing-up" songs that I've heard before.

Sometimes I rouse myself to hum the melody into my phone. More often, I'm so close to sleep that I sort of "dream" that I get up and record it on my phone. Or, the music is so clear that I am sure I will remember it when I wake up. The melodies are never that interesting or complex; it's more the voicing of the "instruments".

I can't wait until they invent a machine that can record and playback our thoughts, dreams, etc. I would love to hear my sleep music while awake. I hope I have access to it in my lifetime.
How does wife like it now? Is she happier despite the income disparity, or has it been a permanent sacrifice she has made for your happiness?
Okta partners with Google to secure cloud identities
That's correct. We don't enforce restrictions on political speech or deviant pornography, for the most part. But we do enforce intellectual property restrictions that largely benefit Western corporate interests.
The internet already is a public good.
I wann introduce you to my application
Hello, I want to show benifits from my project. I started to develop applicaiton with one idea to help parents deal with his children. Nowadays we are living in the gadget world and children everytime playing games on the phone or table. But now my application will help parents to manage children activity. The main idea saound like this: you can control period of time when the user will not enter a password to get access to your smartphone or tablet, but at the end of the specified time frames gadget will be locked and require a password.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snappik.lockscreenwithtimecontroller

Thank you
You can't provide a fake phone number for account recovery / two-factor authentication, as they verify that you control the phone number before accepting it.
Well, I work 9<something> to 5<something> most days and so do most of my colleagues - employer is very sensible, nice office, interesting varied work....
Yes, this seems like the best approach. The key for this to gain support is for Github's diff system to support it.
What were you doing with it that gave you performance problems? Basic navigation has millisecond response time. Auto-complete / live syntax checking for Python is instantaneous.

My peeve is with font rendering. The same fonts look better in pycharm. I hope they improve this.
You know what always gets me: PuTTY's website isn't served over HTTPS. That software everyone downloads to type all their firewall and router credentials into... is from a website not served over HTTPS. I see the download and signature links are, but if I could have this non-HTTPS website offer up different links to your web browser...
If your KPIs suck and another potential investment's KPIs rule, whether due to timing or due to a better business plan, it's irrational to fund the one with shitty KPIs.

This is especially true when (as demonstrated here) it can be anticipated that a drop or rise will be coming. Pretty basic stuff.
Exactly. And I read earlier on here that for lots of companies, for each year you've been at a company you can do a remote day a week. Sounds perfect to me.
except battery life is what?
It sounds like Netflix's host naming scheme is what made it possible for the researchers to do this. I assume that means using regions and incrementing counters in the hostnames.

Who wants to bet that in the next year we'll see their hostnames change to be random-looking instead?
Similar real line: Does it still eat battery like a mid-westerner at a buffet?

I've thought about using underlying tech for a desktop app. I don't know how easy it will be to sell given that it would drain battery at probably 1.5 the rate of a normal Java or QT app.
UDP isn't designed to be unreliable. It inherits the reliability of what it's built and run on, and doesn't compensate for it.
To ask people to give to a cause, while you seek to increase your fortune, is dishonest. I do not feel compelled to donate to charities run by hypocrites.
This. I went from an original Pebble to a Garmin FR 235 and am completely satisfied. All I want is time, GPS, and notifications. Most watch apps are a novelty.
The methods on that paper are hilarious. It's scores provided by a committee.
At least moving around tabs is fast now. Other than that I feel Atom is pretty fast on my computer. Still some problems with large files compared to VSCode but I still like Atom more.
Starting from a circular Mars orbit rather than Hoffman transfer would put their initial entry speed closer to 7000mph.

> Parachute can bleed off 80+% of that speed for little additional weight unlike wings which would need to survive supersonic retry heating making parachutes a no brainier.

Sure, Parachutes make a lot of sense for a one way trip.

But Parachutes are a consumable, one which would be really hard to manufacture on Mars (compared to rocket fuel, which just requires water, carbon dioxide and electricity). Also the size of the parachute gets ridiculously large for larger spacecraft.

If you are planning to make a rocket which shuttles people or cargo (or fuel) between Mars' surface and low Mars orbit, then it makes a whole lot more sense to just manufacture the extra fuel on Mars rather than trying to manufacture parachutes on Mars or shipping extra parachutes to Mars.

As for wings, you don't really want to use them for the subsonic phase. I'm not really sure how viable the idea is, but you want to use them to prolong your trip through the upper atmosphere, where the atmosphere is thinner. This allows you to stretch out all that supersonic atmospheric heating over a much longer time period, at a much slower rate than what your heat shield can dissipate.

Retractable or reconfigurable wings might be needed so you can maximize lift in the upper atmosphere then minimise drag through the supersonic to subsonic transition.
So, do you require the PTR and A records of the remote host to match?
In exchange for that subsidy, the government isn't (directly) running programs like homeless shelters and food banks. Societal necessities so long as homelessness and poverty remain parts of our society.

Cut the tax break, fine, but then we need the government to intervene and provide assistance for citizens.
Nothing "earthshattering" in either of these releases. But progress is definitely being made.

I have nothing to really back this up, but it looks like they are in the "death by 1000 cuts" mode of trying to speed things up. Little improvements here or there, little speedups across the board, refactoring bits of code to skip processes that aren't necessary when possible. Those kinds of things. If you are waiting for a big event like "hey we did X and now it's 5x faster across the board" i don't think you are going to see it any time soon (and if it does happen, you can be sure it'll be in the title!).

That being said, this release does bump the node version up, and the npm version. A lot of the startup slowness is from finding and loading node modules (at least from the bit of profiling I did months ago), and NPM3's flatter structure should allow maximum "reuse" of modules meaning less time reparsing identical modules.

I don't know if this will have any actual visible changes, but again, death by 1000 cuts.
> IMO, a great many problems would be avoid by removing the charitable giving tax break.

It at least would be desirable to stop it from being a deduction and make it a credit at some percentage of donations, about equivalent to the income tax rate on the median dollar of income nationally.

That would, at least, remove the current issue where the public is effectively subsidizing the charities favored by wealthier donors at a higher rate than those favored by less-wealthy donors.
The version number going from 1.9 to 1.10 disturbed me...
Yes and I would also add - is it stable yet ?

I had numerous instances where Atom would crash at inopportune times on my 2015 16GB MBP.

I Really hope these core issues have been fixed. Seems like a great editor and I’d love to be able to give it another shot.
Ask HN: What C# books are highly recommended for professional .NET developers?
Naira has fallen: The Lambs remain Silent – Medium
Back when I ran a mail server for a small business, I would see the spammers literally going through all the permutations of email addresses for a domain. In the logs you'd see:

failure to send to a@example.com

failure to send to b@example.com

...

failure to send to aa@example.com

etc.
How the startup economy is replacing the traditional resume
Put simply: Being in control of my own time, day rate, and outgoings.

I grew up in a very entrepreneurial environment, so after university I took a full-time job for 12 months (as a junior dev) then went freelance. I started cheap and upped my rate by £50 for every new project I took.

During the 10 years I've been freelancing I also came up with my quality of life ratio, which is: How long does it take me to earn a month's rent? This balances both increasing my day rate with reducing my outgoings. It currently takes me 4 hours to earn a month's rent.

I currently work for around 3 months per year, which gives me cash to spare. I also live in a communal warehouse. I had to build my own bedroom (which now looks awesome), but rent + communal food + bills comes out at about 1/2 - 1/3 what most would pay.

I've also spent a few years running my own startups during this time. None were what I would call successful, but neither did any afford me the quality of life that freelancing does.

I loose around 50% - 75% of prospective work because I'm too expensive, but that is fine and something I account for. I also have a number of more junior developer friends I can field this work off to.

With my free time (and funds) I'm currently working on setting up a community in rural Portugal.
Show HN: Ridiculously simple container deployment and CI tool
I don't think it is, this is the only thing I'm interested in hearing from Atom. Every time I've tried it has been unusable to me, I need it to be at least close to Sublime performance and resource usage to matter.
If you're that confident that you have either already been phished or haven't had someone try. It happens, you make a mistake, you click too fast. A little humility goes a long way.
An FR 235 is around $300 and has rock-solid GPS and basically equivalent features to a pebble.
This is pretty neat. Neat enough to make me use it over Emacs? ...maybe. But Emacs+GDB is pretty hard to beat. Unless you're an MDB user, I suppose. Other than syntax, I never really saw the difference.

GAS support is nice. I actually like AT&T syntax, but I seem to be in the minority on that.
We get the correct price but we strip currency (for numerical comparison)
IndieHackers looks really nice, although it would be useful to have the interviews dated to see how recent they are.
Nokia's Head of Technologies Is Leaving
> By taking money from people who don't.

That's an incredibly entitled attitude (specifically, "entitled to other people's money"). Paying less in taxes is not equivalent to "taking money" from others. If you want to take less money from everyone, decrease taxes, or eliminate actual tax loopholes and deductions that don't provide a net good in the world (or serve any function at all other than rewarding those who bought and paid for them).
Here's my take on it and someone can chime in if I'm wrong on the details...

Imagine you're a startup/inventor that manufactures a widget that you'd like to sell to the mass market, you could either (1) try to sell direct from your website (2) get on the shelves of national stores like Best Buy, Target, Walmart, etc. The "shelves" include the real ones at their brick & mortar stores and the virtual shelves on their online websites.

(1) is hard to attract shoppers since nobody knows about your low-traffic website. Also, you'd have to handle the hassle of fulfillment yourself. Amazon Launchpad leverages their competency in global logistics to do this for you.

(2) is difficult to get meetings with corporate retail buyers and convince them to carry your product. Sometimes, there are also "slotting fees" (sometimes aka "bribes") to get prime shelf locations (eye level vs the floor.)

What Amazon is doing is opening up their "shelves" which includes the prime pixels real estate on their front page to promote startups' products. They are actively marketing your product. This is a different initiative from passively showing the 3rd-party marketplace sellers on amazon product pages.

However, to filter out the low quality junk and avoid every garage warrior trying to sell their flavor of homemade barbeque sauce, the products have to come from "the approved network"[1] that includes firms such as a16z, Accel Partners, etc. If we scan that list of affiliates, we'd expect the products vetted by them to be "cutting edge" and "innovative".

What's not specified in all the press releases and FAQ about Amazon Launchpad is the type of payment structure Amazon expects. Is it negiotiated on a product-by-product basis? Is it flat percentage?

[1]https://www.amazon.com/gp/launchpad/network

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee
Do you trust StartCom?
To me it is a testament for the resilience and sane architecture of the Internet as we know it that restrictive governments can not achieve their goal without changing the underlying structure of their part to a central controlled version. Other technologies like the radio or telephone were centralised by default, so much more "dictatorship friendly".
Amoral people aren't always stupid. Amoral cops refuse bribes when the (probability of being caught) * (cost of losing their job) is above the bribe amount, and parasitic employees know they will earn more long term if they don't kill the host company.

If Facebook takes care to only hire smart amoral people they will last much more than 87 days.
The two-year rout in oil and gas markets is cascading into manufacturing
That is correct. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395442.
> Tax exempt status is a form of subsidy, paid by everyone who pays taxes.

Tax exempt status may or may not be for any given operation (lots wouldn't pay any, or many, taxes even if they weren't tax exempt), but tax deductibility of donations to an organization is very clearly a form of subsidy, and one which increases with the marginal income tax rate (and thus, with the income) that would be paid by that organization's donors before considering the deduction for their donations.
> I'm curious if she rejected the settlement—and (presumably) stayed on the case—because she thought they would win? Or because she thought shooting victims owing the theater $700k would be a bigger black mark against Cinemark, than it settling for $150k?

I don't think there was any logic involved in her decision at all. I'm guessing that the unimaginable horrors that had been inflicted upon her and her family clouded her judgement. I feel really sorry for her, but I agree with the decision, and the law that led the judge to make it.
Please tell me this is sarcasm. The system is working...
Why We Proudly Represent Boutique Marketing
It depends on what you're having manufactured. I was thinking of original products.

But I'd be doing it more to learn about supply chains, manufacturing, etc. and the problems people face. Plus, some of those sites support plugins and have their own ecosystems, so I might see opportunities for automation other people have missed.
Thank you! This is a good compendium of what is wrong and can be right...
Good point, will add dates soon!
I'm assuming it's all dollars. There is no $4.57, it's actually $4,567 (but I guess the actual number doesn't matter if you treat them all the same).

spend_mean, spend_min, and spend_max are probably the amounts you'd spend if you were in the mean, min and max respectively. For example, according to this data, the mean amount you have saved up is ~$667,459 (I calculated this backwards) - so for the first year you'd spend 2321 + 0.002102*667459 = $3,724. Likewise if you saved the max in the dataset you'd spend $5,358 instead (total, not in addition to anything).

And yes, the var spending is in addition to const spending, it's explained a bit lower in the article.
I absolutely agree. I wouldn't suggest a naive definition of "overhead" as "everything spent on administration"; a reasonable organization need some amount of administration, and "0 overhead" would be the sign of an unhealthy organization (or a passthrough shell).
A quick question here while I check some more:

Are pure-play software (SaaS etc.) and/or digital goods startups eligible for this?
You can't have an account named "the raper" on HN. Even if I'm not parsing it the way you intended, many other people will read it the same way. That breaks the civility rule here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393835 and marked it off-topic.
If it's going to match Godwin's Law, then whoever mentions Rust automatically loses the argument...
I was actually paid to build something like this once.

A financial products company wanted a visualization tool that would let a customer enter their wealth, pick a variety of investment strategies, spending strategies, and retirement durations, and then see how it all played out over historical data.

You could scrub a timeline back and forth to change the starting year, and see your weath and spending charted out over the course of that retirement.

It was best retirement savings education I've ever seen. Almost every retirement planner just shows you averages, and life looks simple and predictable. Reality is very, very different.

Things I learned:

1. The stock market will probably crash at some point during your retirement, and you will loose half of any wealth you have in it.

2. In spite of the big drops, the higher compounding rates of stocks mean that a bond heavy retirement gives you way less money, even in the worst market retirement years. 30 years lets money grow for a long time.

3. Attempting to spend as much money as possible drastically increases your odds of running out of money, or suddenly having a lot less to spend. (Seriously, what is up with people attempting to run out of money exactly on their 95th birthday?)

4. Any retirement planning should take into account that you could end up with way more, or way less money that you thought.

(Sadly, the web app was never released by the company.)
> If the organization is large enough why shouldn't the CEO make that much?

If the a non-profit organization is the size and complexity of the US government, than a salary equal to the salary of the Chief Executive of the US government is quite appropriate, sure.
Maybe Monsanto is a great company because an $80 Million fine for accounting issues, and a $22 M whistleblower payment makes for great cover to distract everyone from the things Monsanto does that everyone should actually be paying attention to.
Sweet, I'd love to hear your feedback/ideas sometime! @csallen
A New Way to Predict Who Will Die from Infection
> The tax deduction provides a major motivation for philanthropy; removing it would massively reduce charitable giving. If anything, I'd like to see that increased.

It provides a major motivation to spend wealth via charities. The extent to which that corresponds to doing good to others is what's in question.

> Thought experiment: what would the charitable landscape look like if charitable donations deducted directly from tax burden, not from taxable income? (Perhaps with some upper limit.)

Even worse, I would think.

The tax break is equivalent to a matching program coming from public funds. Thought experiment: if you were setting up a matching program that used public money (i.e. tax income), what would your criteria be? Is that an appropriate use of public funds at all? I can see that some causes might be good enough to contribute public funds to (though in that case why not spend tax money directly on that issue, rather than via a private foundation?), but any and all organizations that happen to be structured as charities?
I have friends that use their guns every weekend. I don't think they are killing people.
Right, but if you had amazing KPIs a few months ago, and there's a really good explanation for a seasonal drop in sales, then an investor shouldn't be too worried about that.
Dang, thanks for the heads up :(

Hmm I need to dig into this. I'll take a look
Why? 1.9->2.0 would not make sense in most release schemes. Most release schemes are major.minor, so incrementing the major number implies a MAJOR change. So major that it is probably not backwards compatible with the 1.X versions.
“an intended audience in a reliable and predictable manner. Messages are stored as files at a server for retrieval by the intended clients. Each client transmits requests for messages to the server at automatic and periodic intervals.”

I don't pretend to know anything about this but aren't these software patents ridiculously vague? The above could apply to pretty much anything!
import std.stdio;

@safe int f() {
int* x = new int(6);
delete x; // !!
return *x; // !!!!
}

@safe void main() {
writeln(f());
}
React Storybook 2
Curiously enough, Switzerland is one of the two european countries where making a copy of a copyrighted work for private use is not illegal.
It is mixed feelings. She is happy that we are now close to the income we wanted even though progress has been slower than expected. Every once in a while, she does question if I did the right thing. Mind you though. Our expenses were very high when I quit. We got accustomed to a certain lifestyle back then and never had to think too much about money. That has changed but it does not mean we are poor. She is practical and smart and sees the long term benefit for all of us, not just me. Without her support, I would not be able to do it easily. No questions about it.
I agree. I feel that the only reasons to choose an outcome with a value lower than an expected value are ignorance, or aversion to gambling risk (when taking a one-time risk rather than averaging over time), neither of which should be applying here. I'd love to see some counterpoints.
Tried it. Too laggy and unresponsive compared to Sublime. I shouldn't need an i7 to run a text editor.
Without a third party showing sales of padlock boxes with and without space for two or more locks, there's no actual way of being SURE which is more common.

Even if there are ten times as many boxes available that only have space for a single lock, what matters in the case of the puzzle is, a box with space for two or more locks is readily available. Suggesting in the puzzle "by the way the box has space for two locks" really kind of destroys the "puzzle" aspect.