skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I manage a 2-person remote design and development team that seems similar to yours. We all got started doing individual freelance work, and then we raised some money as a team to pursue building our own software product. When we ran out of money, we went back to individual freelancing. We decided to actually start a consulting firm when we landed a big client that required combining all of our skills. We still actually operate with individual S-Corps which contract with our consulting firm LLC, which we own equally. Sometimes we still do individual freelance work outside of our firm. You may want to talk to a CPA about the best way to set things up for your particular goals.

- Look for projects everywhere. Even if someone is looking for an individual freelancer, there's no harm in presenting yourself as a team and trying to get the gig anyway.

- Local, remote, doesn't matter. The quality of the project is what matters most in my experience. Burnout matters even more when your team is small and everyone is relying on getting income from a project.

- Definitely reach out to other agencies, particularly local ones. Tell them you can help with overload and custom coding problems they might not have the in-house talent to tackle.

- I've never had a mentor/coach, so I can't really say if it's worth it.

- You should probably start by doing the outreach yourselves. Try subscribing to some paid curated lead generation services for freelancers/agencies. For a couple hundred dollars a month you can get dozens of leads sent to your inbox every day and a few of those might be promising. Follow up with everyone relentlessly. I use a service called Cloze for this.

Other thoughts:

- Keep expenses other than payroll in mind as they can add up. You can probably start with less, but there are a lot of great tools that can streamline things and save your team a lot of time. We pay for a co-working space, DocuSign, Slack, GetHarvest, UberConference, Google Apps, and Cloze, to name the ones I can remember right now.

- It's a really good idea to have a written contract with all of your clients. This is my favorite video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8. The lawyer in that video, Gabe, reviews all of our contracts and he really is my favorite person to pay.

Best of luck!
The metadata database for open folders is entirely resident in memory.
Why did they seize power?

Because they were the only ones pointing out the economic collapse of rural and interior America.

Liberals should have been in front of this issue but they ignored it, preferring to hide in coastal urban bubbles and navel gaze. So they opened the door to a bunch of demagogues.

Immigration may not be a major cause of these problems but it makes a convenient scapegoat.
Do you think that there's room for consistent work from a company like this, or would it be more project specific work like you explained?
How Slack Supports Junior Engineers
As a web developer, I wonder if this class of accessibility functionality renders the web accessibility guidelines [1] obsolete? Many of the guidelines have to do with organizing content and following rules that make it easier for older (inferior) screen readers to handle. But I just enabled this feature on my iPhone, and browsed some sites that I know are ridiculously noncompliant, and it handled them beautifully. Even guidelines having to do with describing photos and avoiding text in images could be rendered obsolete with some of the third-party apps that perform OCR and use AI describe photos.

[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
If you go this route, you might even find an opportunity you realize would be better suited to making and selling a product rather than consulting, allowing you to delay that decision to consult or make/sell a product to find the right fit for a problem!
non paywall protected link @NYT http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE3DE153DF...

great article, thx for link
How do you handle the JVM pauses due to GC and jit kicking in? Or are you just able to accept some milli sec delay every so often ?

I work on very-low-latency products (sub-sub-msec) and we have only been able to mitigate this, never fully solve it.
My experience is that it's usually project specific. If it is recurring they will, at some point, bite the bullet and hire someone.
Interesting point here, if you search old HN discussions you can find a reference, but 200-250ug is the effective dose for melatonin, and larger amounts have a slightly decreased effect. I know it's never sold this way, but it's something you might want to experiment with (quartering 1mg pills or taking a few drops of a 10mg/ml liquid works well here).
Apparently most of us can't, or it wouldn't be worth using them. ;)

Really you could consider it a subset of truth in advertising law though. How can it be a 50% discount if it's never been sold at full price for a significant amount of time?
think how much easier it will be to plan anything that spans timezones

Unless you expect all the Auzzies to move to the night shift, it just becomes more of a pain in the ass. You still have to line the phase of the day and timezones help simplify that by doing the work upfront.

You could switch to only using UTC outright for all your planning today. But even if you do, you'll find there is still a translation step of figuring out that business hours at location X are Y-Z UTC. Timezones make juggling the offsets easier, and also give you a stronger ability to roughly predict someone's schedule (like what time the business day starts, or not planning something during their lunch) just based on geography.
For IQ, in fact, I agree. That one accepts obesity as normal is telling (not everyone here is American, you know?)
This is a design piece, inspired by a gallery exhibition that did something similar, but mechanically.

The creator is in this thread and can speak for himself on this, but complaining about it not being a clock you'd actually use really doesn't contribute much.
True story, I've shared here before: many years ago, a co-worker had to run home for some reason in the middle of the afternoon. On his way home, a woman jaywalked in front of his Escalade on a street with a posted 40mph limit. (He wasn't driving that fast, because he was still accelerating away from the stop light.) He hit her, watched her head bounce off the hood of his vehicle, and her go flying to land in a heap a few dozen feet in front of him.

He called 911, and, because there was a fire station like half a block away, the medics were on scene immediately, and the police shortly after. The policewoman who took his statement thanked him when she was done with that, and said, "Now, if you'll excuse me, sir, I'm going to go write her a ticket."

He responded, "Do you have to? She's already had a bad enough day."

She stopped, looked him in the eye for an uncomfortably long moment, and said, "Sir, you want me to write her this ticket..."
Security is not a binary. "Secure" is not something that can be evaluated without context, ie, a threat model. Security is something that comes with tradeoffs. If you require a 100% certainty that no adversary, no matter how well resourced, can obtain electronic communications from you when conducting active surveillance, your only defense is to stop using computers. Most of us don't live with that sort of a constraint, and thus can evaluate things that increase our relative security given a threat model of mostly passive surveillance by state actors and active malicious attacks from private parties that mostly just want our credit card numbers.
>let’s just say that while the Mac App Store is convenient for consumers, it doesn’t really serve the needs of some developers

Boo fking hoo. If you didn't want to sell to consumers then the choice of selling your app in a less consumer convenient way would make sense. If you just don't want to do a little extra work or are put off by Apple's consumer focused restrictions, you can just go away if you ask me.
Well I thought it was beautiful and, the real test, my children agree
if this happens, bitcoin would become valueless. The value of bitcoin comes from the fact that you can't just pump them out, the energy requirements required to solve the calculations required for mining are one of the limits to bitcoin production. Free energy like feasible solar or dyson spears would just be a license to print free digital currency making it worthless.
The flip side of strong ethnic ties and ingroup preferences enabling fraud, is that they make it possible for, eg, Hasids to conduct an extemely high-value diamond trade on a handshake basis internally. https://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/21/new-yorks-diamond-dist...
More or less yes - unless the simulation itself is auto-generated by some other mindless program. (In which case we can eventually find God recursively.)
Most beginners think the power is in the hands of the client because he has the money.

This is a framework with 12 simple principles to reclaim the high ground in the client relationship, beat back the pitch and win new business without first having to part with your thinking for free. It enables stronger practices amid the forces of commoditization.

Of course Blair Enns is a better writer than me (English is not even my native language), but there we go:

1) specialize (another common rookie mistake is to position yourself as a generalist)

2) replace presentations with conversations

3) diagnose before prescribing

4) rethink the meaning of "to sell"

5) do with words what you used to do with paper (never again spend a night writhing a detailed quote for free)

6) be selective (don't waste your time with the wrong client)

7) build expertise fast (specialization helps)

8) do not solve problems before being paid (never let the client "pick your brain")

9) address money issues early (if you are unable to talk about money you will make no money)

10) refuse to work at a loss (be ready to fire abusive clients)

11) charge more

12) hold your head high
I read PDFs a lot on my iPhone with Voiceover. It wil of course not read the kind of PDFs that just contain an image of the page. For that you need an OCR app like the KNFB reader mentioned in the video.
bmmayer - that's a very insightful post. I'm in a similar boat. I recently left a VP, Product level position in a software company to start my own consulting practice. I'm trying to focus on early customer discovery/development/strategy for small/mid stage B2B startups. I'm wondering how your experience freelancing has been so far? How long have you been doing and what were you main motivations to switch to consulting from FT? Do you have any plans of (or are already) scaling your practice beyond yourself and getting partners/employees to work with you?
"But I will always wonder. What did my boss have to gain by refusing to believe that sexism exists? Even when the evidence is screaming at him, even when his employee who makes him an awful lot of money is telling him, even when THE BOY on staff is telling him??"
> Que

It's 'cue'. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cue
I also did some reading about vitamins last year and ended up taking vitamin d for a while, then magnesium for a while. My method wasn't any more scientific than that, but the vitamin D had no noticeable effect, while the effect of magnesium was dramatic. I was suffering from mood swings, poor concentration and low energy serious enough that I was considering seeing a psychologist about depression. Magnesium seems to eliminate the problem completely.

I just wish there was a better way to figure out your deficiency than just popping some pills and wait to see what happens. A weekly blood test for vitamin levels combined with mood and health journaling would probably give me the kind of data I'm looking for, but that only seems to be available in science fiction so far.
Politician ?
Entire Hyperloop could be destroyed in seconds [video]
Why Google’s Answer to AWS Reserved Instances Is a Big Deal
- Short intro:

Spent 2 years as freelance and 4.5 years building a 20 people consulting company (1). During this time met dozens of CEOs of various size consulting companies to share knowledge and learn.

- The why:

Think hard and long before you get into this field.

1. Turning into a product company statistically never happens.

2. You will become profitable only after a year+ (most consulting companies get stuck at 3-6 people and are NOT profitable). Profitable = you earn more than working full time for someone else.

3. With each year you will spend more time managing and less developing.

4. Its not like a startup - but you will have highs, lows, worries and sleepless nights.

5. Its all about building a name - takes years.

6. If you want to build your own product, stop reading here and don't even start with consulting.

7. Location matters - you didn't mention yours.
The research on Ketamine as a one-shot cure is very promising too. Microdosing of LSD or psilocybin also has some interesting anecdsta behind it. There is definitely a lot of research to be done on these and other psychotropics like Ayahuasca/DMT, and MDMA. Organizations like MAPS are starting to get this work done.
>>last December I became a morning person using early morning light and exercise //
>Where do you live that gets light on December mornings?

It could just be that stretchwithme just turns on all the lights, etc. Living in the Pacific Northwest, I know all about waking up and leaving in the dark and coming home to the dark in the winter time.

I do a similar thing in the mornings, though I didn't ever consciously decide to be a morning person. I go to bed at pretty normal times between 9 and 10PM most nights. If I wake up any time before 1:30 or 2AM and keep all the nights off and fumble through the dark I'll be able to get back to sleep no problem. If I have to flip on a light it will take me much longer to get back to sleep.

If it's after about 2:30 or 3:00AM, there's no way I'm going back to bed- and I'm going to be supplementing with copious amounts of coffee to keep my face from dragging on the floor all day.

After about 4:00, I'm fine. Without an alarm I usually start waking up a little after 4:00 and my routine usually has me out of the house about 30 minutes from deciding to get out of bed.

The first thing I do is review my To Do list for the day on my phone. 2 reasons: 1) I start crunching on it in my head as I'm going about the morning routine, and 2) the blast of light (even w/ night mode still on) is like a jolt to get me moving when it's otherwise pitch black.
> And there will be no increase in daylight compared to businesses adjusting working hours to open an hour earlier.

That's just not how it works. it's much easier to have one entity say this is the time. having every business open up an hour earlier without some decree is not tenable because of tradition and change inertia.

the noon argument is not very compelling to me.
Digging throught the Conway's Life rabbit hole is a fun trip back to what the WWW used to be like:

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ca/

http://www.math.cornell.edu/~lipa/mec/lesson6.html

http://kaytdek.trevorshp.com/projects/computer/neuralNetwork...

http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/mcell/rullex_life.html

I love it!
I have to assume this has been well trod elsewhere, but nothing that I've seen, and this is the second or third recent HN article about the whole "maybe we're in a simulation" thing, so I'm going to ask in good faith:

How is this not just... religion?
I don't mind Vancouvers overcast gloom at all because it's such a beautiful place to live. I'm from rural England though.
Amazon charges at least 15 to 20 times the going rate for bandwidth. So if you are serving large amounts of data, it could easily be the case that you can pay for enhanced uptime with just the savings on bandwidth alone.
How did you manage to get the movie posters?
I don't know what the author is saying. His example of NYC to Rome is flying east and he recommends darkness in the morning.

But then 2 paragraphs later, he says "Travel east and you’ll need morning light".

I find the entire article hard to read, but I am pre-coffee right now.

I find that I can go one night with minimal sleep and function just fine during the next day. So if I was going from NYC to Rome, I'd lift the shades in the early morning in Rome to make sure I'm super tired by the evening and go to bed at the correct time.
Can confirm, it's awesome.
I dont understand the simulation argument. If I have a quantum computer, dont I have to use at least N particles to simulate an N particle system? What am I gaining by using a physical system to simulate a physical system?
Yeah, you're going to want to turn off f.lux, if you have it running.
Shift their school cycle to be more in line with the sun.
Yes it does work, it's just seriously lacking in features and responsiveness. I use both Talkback and Voiceover and can get things done far faster with Voiceover.
Preact internals #1: the easy parts
If its a falsifiable claim its not religion. Supposedly its a falsifiable claim.
The biggest mistake young job seekers make
We updated the title to “Over 280 Analog Clocks Give Digital Time”, but on second thought have put it back to the original.
What Happened When a Man Signed Work Emails Using a Female Name for 2 Weeks
How Metamaterials Are Reinventing 3-D Radar Imaging
Docker has launched a beta version of a volume plugin called CloudStor: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-aws/persistent-data-volum...

It currently supports EFS (in those regions where AWS supports EFS) and should be easy to use when deploying a swarm using Docker4AWS (https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-aws/). EBS support is coming in the near future.

Disclaimer: I work for Docker
I think this might be a response to some other comment, or perhaps a straw version of my comment, since I agree with basically everything you've written, especially the part about analogies.
I don't know why people always assume other's positions boil down to illogic.

People don't eat meat for many reasons. Those reasons may or may not include a moral component. If it does include a moral component, there are varying amounts of pragmatism you can add to it. I eat meat, but I'd happily switch over to vegetarianism if, say, I lived in India and the vegetarian food there is amazing, and everyone around me was also eating vegetarian.
For my experience sleep deprivation increase aggressivity and nervousness.
Ask HN: Criticisms of Bayesian statistics?
In tech circles, it seems that Bayesian statistics is often favored over classical frequentist statistics. In my study of both Bayesian and frequentist statistics, it seems that the results of a Bayesian analysis are generally more intuitive, such as when comparing Bayesian credible intervals to frequentist confidence intervals. It also seems like Bayesian analysis avoids what I think is one of the most serious problems in analysis, the multiple comparisons problem. It's been easy for me to find any number of Bayesian critiques of frequentist stats, but I have rarely seen frequentist defenses against Bayesian stats. This may simply be because I mostly read technology related sites as opposed to more general statistics oriented sites. As such, I would really appreciate hearing some frequentist critiques of Bayesian stats. I feel like the situation can't be as cut and dry as one being better than the other in all things, so I would like to acquire a more balanced perspective by hearing about the other side. Thanks!
If the simulation and programmer were both physical, most would not say the programmer was God, if thats what you mean.
Because the word "religion" has different semantic connotations. Just because I propose a question that has no falsifiable answer does not mean I have suddenly invented a religion. If I start actually marketing my non-falsifiable answers to you, then you could say I am on the road to making it into a religion.
But it is correct. You're like a child who keeps telling everyone that it has a secret but it can't tell anyone. Considering how you have approached this whole "discussion", I am hardly surprised.

I presume that your super secret secret is KB3073930, which is about as dodgy as your argumentation and is not a part of Windows.
I just founded Elastic Byte (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net) which is a DevOps-as-a-service and infrastructure consulting startup.

The biggest challenge in starting a consulting business is indeed building relationships and selling. It is very different than running my other company a traditional web SaaS. I'm spending lots of time in CRM (managing inbound leads), communication with leads, and setting up phone calls and Google Hangouts. It is absolutely critical though that YOU do these tasks to start. Don't try and hire a sales guy too early and push everything off to him. You must interact with the clients at the start to discover pain points, processes, and pattern matching.

In terms of partnerships, I'd say don't get bogged down in that. Companies will reach out wanting you to use or pitch their products, all good, but don't waste time setting up partnership meetings yet.
Machines Are Better Than Humans at Hiring the Best Employees (2015)
Previously discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836588 highly worth reading imo
tl;dr: Don't by used Android phones from third party resellers.

Every one of these was bought used from a third party that installed malware prior to reselling. If you buy a new phone from a manufacturer, major retailer, or major carrier, this doesn't apply to you. If you buy a used phone from a trustworthy friend or family member and reset it for use, you're probably cool. If you buy a used phone from someone you don't know/trust online or off, flash it back to factory condition before you use it.
This story being about a marketing department might seem like it's not applicable to a software company, but when it comes down to it, we still break down our work into bite-sized stories that can/should be accomplished in a timeframe that's estimated ahead of time. Some shops have more nebulous tasks because they've never done something before, I get that. But for the build the thing we know how to stuff? We should be able to deliver consistently. It comes down to your ability to break down the work into small enough pieces such that you know how long it will take. If you don't know how long it will take, it's not broken down enough.

Now to play devils advocate - I'm generally in favor of carrot not stick.
Duplicate from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836588
Checkout selfhosted.reddit.com there are a lot of self hosted Trello clones already
"Excuses are the nails used to build the house of failure," or so the saying goes. A teacher used to repeat this phrase to any grade-school students who failed to turn in homework. He didn't care what the excuses were; no amount of excuse can undo the passage of time and the truancy of students.

The bulk of the post is about compensating for the lack of excuses with compassion and teamwork, and avoiding creating a culture of blame. This is important. Excuses hide accountability, but blame makes communication impossible.
How to avoid the curse of knowledge
http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/05/android_...

There's a picture of their crappy security in practice. It needs much better and more granular controls for me to consider it secure.
Oh, sorry for being unclear. Being a dynamic website, I rolled my own simple comment system (mainly to learn, I eventually replaced it with Discourse).

Thanks for recommending OpenShift. I'll be getting my first paycheck in July and will move to a hosting provider that provides best value.