skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran a remote team doing part time work for about a year and a half while having a full time job. For the part time work, I acted as PM and somewhat of a TLM. I learned a ton about managing people and customers. I shut it down when I felt I wasn't learning as much (and learned a lot about how not to drop customers...). It was stressful and the incremental money was only $20k-30k/yr or so. Looking back it was definitely the exposure to new roles that was the main value.
Tech ≠ Silicon Valley
Before tax, that was exactly 1700EUR per month * 14 (here we get paid 2 extra months). After tax it was about 1300EUR per month.

It was my highest paying job to date here, at a startup of 4 people.
If it's so trivial, can you put the instructions here so the rest of us can learn from your experience?
My First Week on the Chain, the Blockchain, That Is
Ffmpeg isn't a tool. It's a library to be used by programs who work with video and audio files. It has lots of features because different applications need different features.

The ffmpeg command line program is basically a demo that exposes every one of those features directly. Having it "do less" would defeat the point.
The article wasn't about the bill at all.

It was about sharing the food, and who chooses what items are ordered, and how to coordinate that so everyone ends up happier.
This. Our data is such that it must be instantly searchable the instant it hits the database.
Some of those are classics. The Lipton-Perlis-DeMillo argument against program verification is a good one.[1] They demonstrated that manual programming verification via hand theorem proving is buggy. Automated theorem proving was new back then.

This was an issue back in the 80s for a philosophical reason in mathematics. Mathematics classically approves of short, clever, elegant proofs. The paper-and-pencil crowd was trying to do that for code. In practice, program verification is about mechanized grinding through massive numbers of dumb assertions to catch off-by-one errors.

This used to bother mathematicians. When the four-color theorem was originally proved, it was done partly by hand and partly with computer case analysis. The computer part bothered many mathematicians. The culture has changed. Recently, someone redid the proof with the old hand parts re-done by computer. Since that eliminated some possible human errors, that was a step forward in solidifying the proof.

We also know now how to check a theorem prover. Some theorem provers emit a proof trace, huge files of "Step 2437: apply rule 42 to change 2*X to X+X". Proof traces can be fed into a dumb proof checker which does the indicated rewrite and checks that the expected output is obtained.

So progress has resolved that issue.

[1] http://www.yodaiken.com/papers/p271-de_millo.pdf
One of the biggest mistakes I made in my life was assuming that soft skills have no play book.

Then at work, senior people and invited speakers decided to have occasional lectures once in a while and explained their soft skills.

Yes, while advice is not as "algorithmic" as it is in mathematics, there is good advice - some of it well tested. Around the same time, I started reading psychology books by academics (Influence by Cialdini is a great one), as well as negotiation books. Suddenly, all the pieces fell together. I could often tie in the research to how people network.

Getting back to the point:

Everyone seems to recommend Keith Ferrazzi's book "Never Eat Alone". I myself have not read it, and the Amazon reviews are actually quite poor. Yet, everyone I know who is someone and has lectured about soft skills recommends it. The last time someone did, I asked if the complaints in the Amazon reviews were accurate. The answer was "Yes, but I still recommend it."

There are other hacks. Every week or other week connect with someone professionally and ask for their time: A half our for coffee, etc. Maintain a list of people to potentially connect with.

There is etiquette involved, especially if the person is very senior. Always be mindful of their time, don't be late, and don't complain if the other party cancels on short notice.

Then there's the issue of what to discuss when you meet someone. Learn about it. Read up on it. The most common advice I remember is: Butter them up and get them to talk about themselves.

Sorry I can't be more specific. I have not yet put this much into practice, so I don't want to come off as an expert. Just thought I'd repeat some of what senior people have told me.
I had both of them they had advantages over the iPhone as far as the device capability goes.

Even some apps were better, the problem is that Nokia continued to work on feature phones rather than their platform.

If Nokia had a decent store and opened Symbian development to the masses properly it would not have been at a disadvantage, vanilla iOS was pretty horrible.
Tongue in cheek, but this a good analogy for transaction costs and signaling theory.

I drive my wife nuts by keeping my order secret, but eight times out of ten we end up sharing everything. Unless she's eating a whole fried fish in which case I just stare politely like Tom Hanks in Splash.

But damn, people, why let FOMO drive so much angst and gamesmanship at a meal? You're hungry and probably not thinking straight. There's no dishonor in two people ordering the same dish. Just pick something and stick to your guns.
In the US, Title II of the ADA is applicable to government institutions. It allows collecting 'reasonable attorney fees' [1] but not punitive damages. It is only state accessibility laws that can go beyond this.

Keep in mind that ADA is civil rights law, and that from a legal standpoint, not serving the disabled is similar to not serving people based gender, creed, or ethnicity. Having been the law of the land for more than a quarter century, it's hard to cast failure to achieve accessibility as burdensome, it's just a cost of doing business and a sudden increase in effort is a symptom of lack of previous effort.

[1]: https://www.ada.gov/qandaeng.htm
Yes, sorry i pressed the wrong reply button. See above :)
The article had nothing to do with money. Perhaps you read too fast.
Most people just talk to the police. The overwhelming majority of interactions with police are benign.

Consider avoiding police interactions if you are black/latino and not a resident of the neighborhood where the interaction occurs; if the police are knocking on your door or doing something else that deliberately involves them confronting you; if you carry or have casual access to firearms or contraband; if you have any criminal record.

Statistically, most people don't fall into these buckets and thus don't land in the fact patterns that generate the majority of abusive interactions.

I know it's hard to believe on Internet message boards, but in majority-minority neighborhoods in the US, the primary complaint residents have with the police is that they aren't doing enough.

(I do not also mean to say that residents of black neighborhoods aren't also concerned that the police will casually murder them in tense/hostile confrontations, because that is a real concern as well).
You're being downvoted because you clearly didn't read the article, despite your claim that you did. It's a funny post about how people order and share, not about bill-splitting.
Sure, I read that however I was referring to the establishment of an internationally accepted certification protocol much like the Kimberly Process Certifaction Scheme has for diamonds.

Also I don't think anyone can say with any degree of certainty that Cobalt is not helping to finance militias or warlords when the DRC ranks at 129 out of 149 countries on the Corruption Percpetion Index.

Source:
http://www.worldaudit.org/corruption.htm

It is accepted that much of the "Great War" in the Eastern part of the DRC was financed by Cassiterite, Cobalt, Coltan and Tungsten.

See:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-congo-still-ravaged-by-u-s-...
It's actually $500k https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
That's what I do these days. Inspired by scrypt or bcrypt. Whichever I saw first. :)
"How often I've been wide awake at night because I couldn't stop thinking about my side projects."

Try writing stuff down quickly on paper - just scribble the ideas. I do this with my teaching (I don't work in IT). It seems to 'earth' the thoughts and then I can relax.
European companies don't give you any stock/shares (even startups) as far as I heard from my friends who work in various countries in Europe.

Benefits/perks are rather equal across the employers. Europe is a socialistic world, lots of things are regulated by law.

Again, that's what I heard from some folks currently working there.
Show HN: Slack + Discourse + StackOverflow = EffectiveDiscussions
Hi,

I've combined features from Slack (chat software), Discourse (forum software) and StackOverflow (question-answers) into a single piece of software, EffectiveDiscussions.

EffectiveDiscussions solves some problems here at HN that annoy me, and you too I would think:

1) When you return to a topic, how do you find the comments added while you were away?

2) It's hard to find the parent comment, if it's far away. Then, once you've found it, it's hard to find the comment you were reading before, somewhere far away downwards.

3) Downvote because disagree or not?

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Feedback/ideas/questions are welcome. It's open source.

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If they have went with Android they would've been just another OEM, nothing guarantees that they would have outlived their fate and could be competitive with Samsung or LG today.
As somebody that has used both quite a bit in the last year, I have to disagree. Compared to Elastic Search, Sphinx is harder to install and configure, harder to scale, harder to work with,
offers fewer features and is improving more slowly. It might have been a competitor a few years ago, but now I can't see any reason to choose it.
"Of course, having a live, networked, corporate-controlled mic in your bedroom, living room and toilet is an idea that is so unbelievably terrible on its face that you could use it as the introduction to a term paper in 2040 explaining how human civilization nearly collapsed in the early 21st century."

This was the highlight of the article for me.
This looks neat, but for a total GNURadion/Satellite telemetry n00b, is there a birds-eyes overview on this stuff you recommend?
The article is pretty correct, and I like the comparison to trade and countries. But I can't help but think that this is something that happens naturally to a couple. I don't know many married couples that are stuck in Stage 1, and I don't think it's a huge revolution to get to sharing two entrees freely.
I had some clients on a Small Orange. They used to be great.

EIG took over a Small Orange in 2010, but thankfully left them autonomous for while. Unfortunately in 2014 Douglas Hannah (ASO founder) left and since then things have gone downhill.

This happened around the same time EIG took over HostGator. HostGator founder Brent Oxley and (no coincidence) friend Douglas Hannah have gone on to start a new venture with their big time profits from selling out to EIG.

2014 and 2015 were riddled with major outages at both A Small Orange and HostGator.

I'm sure you remember the 4-day Small Orange VPS outage of Christmas 2015 ?! That was fun.

I got my last client off them after that and never looked back. Just now I looked at their status page and looks like they never really recovered:
https://status.asmallorange.com/
I'd love to contribute, where can I start learning about graphics code and pipelines?
In my previous job, I taught darcs to a designer/graphics artist. It took about half an hour to go through the CLI, and after that he used it successfully and asked me maybe a pair of questions ever.

Now the guy was pretty technical (part of his job was AS development), but he was not a developer.

Darcs's and Git's fundamentals are not that different[0], but Darcs's CLI actually makes sense in and of itself independent from the implementation details, and when it diverges from the older standard (e.g. SVN) it's so that commands make more sense, not less. Meanwhile Git has taken pretty much the opposite tack.

Git's porcelain is a giant steaming roasted turd sandwich, no other DVCS has such a complex, hostile and nonsensical CLI that people tell you you're supposed to learn it from the storage model up and then it'll make sense.

Don't try to shift the buck to VCS/DVCS concepts, while they are complex Git's CLI goes a great way towards making them nonsensical to beginners and non-beginners alike. I routinely used three different DVCS before I had to take the plunge into Git, and it was still a fucking pain in the ass. And that's a problem at every level of resolutions, just compare the hot mess that is gitrevisions(7) to mercurial's (more powerful, more flexible, more readable and more regular) revsets. It's not like revsets are a genius's flash of inspiration either, "hey I'm trying to manipulate sets of revisions, how about I manipulate them as sets?" We're not talking turing award worthy discovery here.

[0] well they kinda are, but by and large the fundamental differences are irrelevant to basic day-to-day use.
No, they're likely just putting their name on some other OEM's Android phones.
> Isn't it apparent that if that branch doesn't exist we need to create it?

It could just be misspelled. I've accidentally created quite a few misspelled branches in my time. E.g.: "bug-fix" vs "bug_fix" vs "bugfix".
Or prevent you buying their product. Amazon no longer sells Chromecast.
It all depends on the market they claim they're competing in.

If it's search, I'd wager you're 100% correct. They've won that by all measures.

If it's voice assistants, maybe you're right. Even with Android devices everywhere, it would be hard to show how much share they have.

If the market is home automation, then the Nest thermostat is probably their biggest risk/penetration in the space, especially, if they can frame DropCams as monitoring and not automation. Odds are security companies and others we've never heard of have most of this market.

But if they can position the market as voice-based home automation, they are almost definitely safe. Amazon and Samsung probably have the majority of that market and Google is the "little guy" coming into the fight.

The big variable is that if search gives them an "unfair advantage" in the Court's eyes... which will be up to lawyers to argue.
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I guess you(and several others, including the parent poster) have no clue how boards of companies work.
Yeah but then there's the issue of simple misspellings. Perhaps switching and creating should be separate commands.
That's a really interesting point. As an immigrant myself, I'd say that one of the objections to immigration (generally-speaking) which I find has the most sway is something along the lines that you have mentioned.

I genuinely believe that some of the "negative" things countries experience are directly related to certain cultural norms/values that many of their citizens may share, and that by moving to a different country, some of those values could also be embedded in the receiving country and similarly "pollute" it.

But I think that the answer to that is MORE immigration, not less. By restricting immigration, we're introducing small pebbles into the gears which allow people to find the best opportunities for themselves and their families. I think is it precisely those issues which allow public policies and cultural norms to distort so much. With MORE immigration, I think competition would very quickly weed out norms and practices which are inconsistent with a healthy and productive society. I think a story like Chavez's and Maduro's would be a lot more difficult to come by in a society where their citizens could not be forced to live under their regime.
"blending ads much better with the organic results"

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I think calling an 800-1200sqft house "tiny" is a bit ridiculous. My apartment is about 35m2, or ~400sqft, and it's still large enough to have a good-size kitchen and bathroom, large wooden dining table, couch and comfy chairs, a working area with a large desk and a decent amount of storage space. I have no problem having any reasonable number of guests over.
Visual Assist was helpful for Unreal Engine 4 programming as the default VS code completion was insanely slow
I think Kim Stanley Robinson's R/G/B Mars series covered a workable Mars calendar in detail, FWIW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

It's interesting that the recent SpaceX announcement of a Mars colonization plan included 100 colonists.
(OK, it was "at least" - perhaps it will be 101)
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The commands are enough to get through the first month of using git for your own project.

They are certainly not enough to work with Git for your whole career :)
What would you suggest for a new person wanting to contribute to look at first?
Don't be evil Google?
The point still stands -- your arm is not going to survive in any way shape or form, while small groups of people can and will, despite difficulties.

Humans have survived the collapse of their own societies before, but no cells survive the death of a body (HeLa cell line notwithstanding).
Who has a 20th bite of steak?
I don't know about elasticsearch specifically, but here are postgres -> x instructions using LISTEN/NOTIFY.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/postgres_external_tr...
Hack everything: re-purposing everyday devices [video]
I love the quality of replies that you guys are providing!!

I think I'm gonna combine your hook and newsletter idea with another posters landing page idea .
If I have a good running email list it'll be way easier to get things off the ground !
Global Catastrophic Risk Survey, 2008 [pdf]
Hg has a lot of problems. It has bookmarks AND branches (for some reason). To edit your commit history you need to pray to the elder gods and sacrifice a newborn. I consider myself pretty smart and yet my mind went completely blank every time I read about anything related to Mercurial Queues. The default install lacks too many features, you need to enable extensions to do even the most basic stuff, like stashing.

Darcs is obviously better than git, but very few people know it exists. And none of free web repositories support it.
Playing semi-organized soccer, frisbee, etc. on a Sunday afternoon is the solution for millions if not billions of people. It's a way of life for whole communities and has been for generations.
Exactly. It would be like if `cd pathname` was the equivalent of `mkdir -p pathname && cd pathname`. Even with tab completion, only a tiny minority of users want that behavior. To most, it invites mistakes.
> Falklands - British Territory had been invaded at gunpoint

I think what you meant to say was that England felt like invading random weaker nations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty...
"Distributed" is, by popular convention, associated with systems that span multiple computers (or even processes on the same computer).

"Decentralized" is associated with systems without a central point of failure or control.

Git qualifies as both, and Dropbox only qualifies as distributed.
I love PostgreSQL, regardless of the version as far as it's >= 8. Super efficient and reliable RDBMS yet less "enterprise" that Oracle. I always wondered why MySQL gained more popularity.
Tesla delivers 24,500 vehicles in Q3, a 111% annual increase
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12621552 and marked it off-topic.
It was widely reported that the "comedian" was "suffering from depression"

It fed into an existing trope and nobody was willing to have the conversation that would challenge that, or if they did it was viewed as insensitive and downvoted to the point of censorship
> or there are at least four competing technologies on the market

Alexa, Cortana, Siri, Samsung S Voice, wit.ai, Mycroft, ...
>You can't really compare the US state system to different countries that are openly hostile or may not even talk to each other (e.g. US and Russia, or US and North Korea) and expect to have the legal cooperation that could enable freedom of movement.

That reveals a fundamental difference in how we see the world. The hostility which you mention is real, but I see it as a byproduct of the kinds of walls and separation we artificially place between ourselves. Let's not forget that same animosity existed between the U.S. and China, and more commercial relations reduced those tensions.

I fundamentally believe that the PEOPLE in the U.S., Russia, and yes, even the North Koreans, are fundamentally good. These artificial barriers we palce between one another create this us v. them environment, and that leads to this hostility.

How many times don't we hear complaints about "our jobs going oversaas," for instance? Mind you, many of the people voicing those complaints are also people who loudly advocate for increased job opportunities here at home. The lack of empathy for people in other nations is real. But it is created by these restrictions.
> but RL is also widely used in Robotics, Image Processing and Natural Language Processing

RL for NLP? I would love to know about counter examples, but I'm not aware of a serious project using RL for NLP, let alone 'widely used.' However I do believe RL makes sense for a number of NLP problems.

Either way, well done. I appreciate a collection of the algos from Sutton's book (great book), and in Python.
125k base + some stock... 8 years experience, age 36. Bay area. Full stack, mostly java.

Talking with friends it seems like salaries have exploded the past 1-2 years. I know of two at ~160k and recruiters are indicating 160-180k base right now.

So it seems like I'm leaving a lot on the table....
Swiss Gold Vaults Are the New Swiss Bank Accounts
Often I feel like the only reason i'm even invited is so I can order all the unhealthy food my partner wants but is unwilling to order.
Wheat sits at its lowest in decade; storage remains tight
The examples I mentioned were taken from notes I made myself when I was learning git (whenever I had an "aha" moment, I would make a note so I wouldn't forget how to work around it later, since I didn't know the git jargon and thus couldn't Google effectively). Maybe my experience is atypical, but at the time I didn't think I was doing anything novel.
What about one in your pocket?
The only "nice" Android hardware I see now is coming from Sony.

Understated black slabs, no lazy bulging camera lens protruding from the back, no half-arsed slapped-on fingerprint sensor mucking up the chin and no strange amorphous blob-like body shapes.
There is a thought that the "disposability" of Japanese housing [1] has played some role in Japan's economic issues. Housing can still serve as something of an inter-generational value transfer even if children don't end up living in the actual house/land. (Which I agree isn't all that common.)

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-japanese-homes-dispo...
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