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every business is a data business -> every business can benefit from machine learning.

most businesses are do not benefit from CV.

most companies who do hire for CV require a PhD plus years of work experience, publications in top tier magazines etc. its glorified scientific masturbation.
Ah that's right, I guess it would be weird "hey here's a random account let me deposit into it"
> this guy should be respectful of this small, indiegogo compnay

This guy should be respectful in general.

That's a basic prerequisite for any normal communication regardless of the context.
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> How about providing a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi

The issue is more about connection to external servers than the particular board itself. A product that both runs great out of the box, and is also hackable to the point where it doesn't 100% rely on the original company being around to run is the sweet spot I'm thinking of. I'm mostly just thinking aloud about what features the product needs to have in order to hit that sweet spot.

> That said, I'm not buying any IoT devices, self-hosted or not, in the foreseeable future

That's cool, but this isn't about the average HN user. Consumers want to, and indeed they do, pay for these devices. I just want a nice model where these products can be sold while not leaving the customer stuck if the original company goes under.
I want (in fact, I need, because of my sensitivity to CO2 levels) a nicely working CO2 sensor in my room. I tried a few cheaper options, but they didn't work as reliably. I did my research, and it was either NetAtmo or some industrial-grade sensors, more expensive and ugly.
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That was my first thought, but since you've posted it my runner up is "The Egg":

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Familiarize yourself with Chesterton's fence. It might give you some insight into one of the reasons why your rhetoric finds no traction.
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Lawyers and Pilots, hahhahahaha. I guess you are completely out of loop on unemployment among Lawyers. And Airline Pilots are even worse off. So no some magical unicorn union isn't going to fix massive oversupply of intelligent Chinese and Indians, if America tries another not directly named Chinese Exclusion Act (The White House just tried that with Muslim Ban), then maybe its Canada who will benefit.
> The manager's competence in the domain itself is also important.

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a minority view in management circles
Big difference between company policy (which will be abused) and good decision making by the company in individual cases.
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The "sold by people who don't care" is a bit of a problem. How do I know they care? I'm a software engineer, I'm much more technical than most people around me. I have a hard time picking my way through that - is that childs toy bluetooth or wifi, with whom does it communicate what, how do they handle the data that they may or may not gather. Is it using a secure protocol to do so? How am I going to explain that to my less technical friends that don't have my knowledge? How can I educate them or how can they self-educate to a point where they can make a conscious decision about which toy is trustworthy? Heck, Miele had their dishwasher hacked, generalize for all IoT devices.
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> Nobody gives a crap where you live or what you drive - including yourself.

Nope. Cars are one of my passions in life. I love driving my sports car. It's not about impressing people either. I don't understand why nerds _never_ understand this.
I'll try my best to explain with my electronics hobby background...

It's full of analog circuitry like integrators, comparators, op amps etc (note: it's made from discrete transistors, so you won't find an opamp chip in there). The "state" as you mentioned is maintained as a a voltage.

The velocity of the ball is stored as a voltage, and the position is produced by integrating that with an integrator. Collisions are found with a comparator, and connected to the circuitry that maintains the velocity.

The output to the oscilloscope is two voltages that control the position of the beam.

Analog electronics is one of those dying art forms where the number of people capable of doing things like this is quickly dwindling. It's no longer a viable way of building actual products except for a few special applications.

I find it a sad state of affairs that we, the mankind, have learned and developed skills and knowledge that we'll be collectively forgetting less than a century later.
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I'm wondering if it would not really be pheasible to be a general-consultant with regard to people coming to you and saying "Here's what I want" and you say "Oh yeah, that would fit in this category using this stack." Then you can help them pick out a person/group to help them with their site.

It seems like you'd need to be able to develop on the different technology out there to be able to do that.

I also picture weirdly in my mind an office they walk into and have brochures that they flip open with glossy covers looking at website samples like they're real estate property or something.

I'm helping a client pick a future developer to replace myself and it is interesting this "dynamic?" of a person not knowing much about web tech and trusting/depending on you and me being able to pick out people that are competent/not competent/fake.

I am curious if anyone is a "web tech" consultant. Granted I'm no superstar myself, despite my capability I'm using old technology and closer to novice/intermediate.
Simply testing that you maintain backwards compatibility is a royal pain though.

One could imagine a test rig which created a db with test users in it, then ran v1 of the software, then v2, then v1 again, and checked v1 didn't crash on the now mutated datastructures.

Most datastore mutations might only happen on certain user actions and inputs, so making sure you get full coverage would be rather tricky.
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Ask HN: Can you do TDD in a complex product (data science, AI, etc)?
I have been considering introducing TDD in my startup . We do a fair bit of non-trivial work in our Python/Flask APIs : credit scoring, accounting, workflows, etc

I'm wondering if TDD is even a good idea ? Can one get to a stage where writing testcases is as easy as writing specs or whiteboarding ?

Or does TDD become one of "those processes that founders shoved down our throat" ?

There was a very interesting discussion about this a few years back on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240595

P.S. A lot of responses I get are "whatever works for your team". Fair enough. But I'm looking for fairly opinionated answers - how do you do it ? And what would you do better ?

what's your mental model around writing tests ? Do you write tests after every function, every commit , every day ? When you are building a new product (and maybe hacking stuff together in the middle of the night), would you still write tests before moving forward ?
A web based interface IMHO would be more usable. However nice project. I am an emacs person so using the system via a vi-like editing style seems hard to me.

Maybe you could automatically generate invoices with LaTeX and save a pdf, that would be cool.

Also, you could add an account overview, where you could see the balances of all your accounts, compare it with previous periods. Paint them red if you're expenses are soaring etc. Maybe some graphs...

You could also prepare a screen for financial indexes such as cash flow, debt-capital ratio etc.
Deterrence. Having your ID on file (vs knowing only a name that they likely made up) makes a potential criminal much more likely to get caught, so they're much less likely to do anything bad.
I agree, getting out into a forest is always more rewarding than I expect and something I aspire to do more of, as is reading books from fields I know nothing about (which gives me lots of options...). I have not seen creative output mentioned much either, I love to make music, write, those things take time, so it's a luxury for sure, a rewarding and low cost one too if it has to be.
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i am a student and i recently started an organisations that provides short bootcamps (1 to 3 days), tech-talks and hackathons for other students at our university[1]. While i think my university provides a very challenging education, it's short on teaching practical skills (like python, react etc.). This is ok, the university should focus on what they are good at and not "waste their time" with teaching frameworks etc. We don't have any experiences with these bootcamp-style formats yet, maybe one can chime in and give us advice how to best approach it. We want to provide it for free and rely on other students who want to share their knowledge.

[1] beware, german! also we are reworking the website: https://hackundsoehne.de
That's a slightly awkward looking reference customer list (assuming that's what it is).
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There is always an old trick of setting up a company and hiring yourself as qualified worker, then getting PR status in few years.
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[1] - https://github.com/heartsucker/rust-csrf

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The obvious alternatives are to use a (dynamic) blog which supports commenting. Things like wordpress, ghost, etc will do the job.

If you want to have a static-blog you can look at self-hosting a commenting system though, I wrote one which uses javascript to fetch, display, and add comments easily enough. Styling is hard and you lose integration with facebook, etc, but its an option if you have time to tinker.
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Just out of curiosity: what prompted you to make it ncurses based?

I can see lots of reasons why this could be practical but most of them (like bad network connection or slow hardware) belong to the past.

Is it just a personal preference or aesthetics?
At our place, we rollback every few weeks just to test the system, even if nothing appears abnormal.

Next we plan to automate the process - 1 in 10 rollouts will actually be a rollout, a rollback, and another rollout, checking system health at each step.
> A journalist has already reached out to the customer.

Then let's hope the journalist won't forget to talk to Garadget as well.
I'm sure it does, but every farmer I've ever met drank raw milk, so I'm not convinced it's so terribly unsafe.

For the record, I don't live in the US, and here they don't pump cattle full of antibacterials. I buy my raw milk at the grocery store, it's legal and vetted by the health authorities.

Also, yes, it is addictive levels of goodness. :)
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This sort of reasoning ignores the law of supply and demand.
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Maybe Google got tired of "System D" trying to take too much control ...LOL!

OR it could be a UEFI experiment...

"This project contains some experiments in software that runs on UEFI firmware for the purpose of exploring UEFI development and bootloader development."
-https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/bootlo...
As someone who has done lots of molecular biology (and also is a reasonably good programmer) I took issue with the comparison of CRISPR to ken thompson's Unix hack for this very reason (among others).
Sounds like you just need to move to a more bike friendly city/country :)
Amazing response. In the Ubuntu thread many people argued as if the issue were Linux. me and I assume others as well are tired from answering that this all is long fixed in some way or another especially if you can not show them a friendly easy guide that just works. Glad to know fedora got that all covered.

Will forward to my fancy pants friends with 4k touch screen laptops
So, with a little shame I'll admit I've actually been "banned" from Amazon. The one thing I can still access is all the digital content such as books, videos, and like, games or game keys that are associated with my account. I can't get into half of the account settings, can't even view my stored payment methods, for example.

But, to their credit, I can read my stupid Kindle books. Luckily their eBook DRM is terrible and I have liberated my content, but, still... to their credit, they did not block what I had paid for.

Now, I'm not saying it's impossible for them to block this content, but, it seems they are sensitive to the dubious legality or morality of doing so. I suspect it might have something to do with the huge negative backlash they got a few years ago when they did disable someone's entire content library and it got publicized.
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> A web based interface IMHO would be more usable.

I'm sure you're not the only one but I can see how this could be much nicer than a Web UI for someone (like me) who prefers Vim and Mutt over Atom and Gmail.

I have a supicision that OP is also a Vimmer who (like me) gets upset when a user interface doesn't accept hjkl and all the other idiomatic Unix/Vi keyboard commands.
CRISPR is not a virus. It does not come with a delivery mechanism.
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take a random sample of 100 devs in Ukraine and India and offer them a green card to the US of A. how many do you think would take it? and for people who wouldn't, how many do you think would cite Trump as their reason?
Here in the UK the difference between London vs the rest of the country is insane: I would love to live somewhere with a better quality of life but it's much harder to find a good job outside London. I wonder how much of the resistance to setting up offices in smaller cities is due to senior managers and engineers not wanting to move away because of kids / partners, or because at their level of income they can pretty much afford anywhere.
Back at university I dreamt of creating bacteria to do desalination, powered by the sun. All the necessary components exist–in fact, a seemingly endless number of genes code for channels and transports that selectively target the charged ions (Na^2+, Cl- mostly, but also Potassium and Magnesium). It's partially the legacy of life having arisen in saltwater, and many biological processes are controlled with ion concentration gradients. Signal transmission along a nerve? -> Ions. Want to get all this water out of here? -> Transport the salt across the membrane, and the water follows voluntarily.
In Singapore that still requires large capital investment in your company.
>If you're a fantastic developer in Ukraine, India or China and have very limited needs (compared to a guy with a family and kids), your disposable monthly income net of taxes, rent and commute expenses is still likely to be higher in Silicon Valley than Ukraine, India or China.

No it would not. Nothing can beat sub 500 USD apartment, 5% tax rate and 3 cents for subway ticket
Because for every person passionate about sports cars (I track mine) there are 5x as many killing the clutch as they drive circles through traffic in their murcielago.
Pretty sure PayPal does. But like someone else said, so do most banks.
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Isn't especially mac known for having various issues with dual monitor setups? Sure the scaling works pretty well but the flicker and the idea that you can only use it with power cable are definitly deal breakers for me.
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Of the four people I know who make < $120k/year who are paying $1,000+/month to finance a > $60k car, only one of them is a real "car enthusiast" who does it for himself. The other three are trying way too hard to prove that they are living the rich life. They don't give a single damn about the car; their only concern in the world is that other people notice they have an expensive car.

If owning an expensive car is what brings someone personal joy, I'm all for that. When a friend tells me he can't come watch a movie with me or come on a cheap local road trip because he's behind on his car payments, and he says it with a depressed facial expression that clearly shows regret for the car... yeah. I don't know how else to take that other than "stupid life decisions". And no, I don't drop my jaw in awe over their car - I just see them as a moron who has misplaced priorities.
I think the term "Hadoop" is becoming almost meaningless. It seems to now be more of a pointer referencing a basket of distributed processing technologies that run on YARN/HDFS. Agree completely with having multiple technologies to solve every problem, that's one of the most confusing parts to learn.

My own perspective is that there are lots of businesses that haven't yet needed the capabilities provided by a platform like Hadoop, but they likely will in the future. So the market may be saturated based on current needs but that market will continue to expand. Whether it's Hadoop (YARN/HDFS/etc.) that wins that market share or some other stack like Spark/Mesos remains to be seen.
Spark SQL does the same thing, slower than Impala (does not even have join reordering) but probably more popular.
Been in Warsaw one night, live in German city; can confirm.
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I broke a hip and my pay was slashed to the legal minimum requirement after 10 days off.

I was able to burn through my holiday/vacation time for a bit to avoid bouncing debts but this is in the UK where we actually have job protections and rights never mind in the US where (I've heard) you can be fired for anything with no notice. I'm still paying off the debt I racked up during that time (~2 years or so).

They can't fire you because of the injury but they can and will start keeping a hawk eye on you to see what they can get you on if you're not useful anymore.
I rather have no dedicated graphics and couldn't care less about touch pad and screen but want a decent keyboard. People want different things, that's something Apple always sucked for
I hear you, so apart from hiring an agency, my advise remains stick to following:-

1. Hire at least 3 people and not 1.
2. One Can be senior with an ability to work on multiple techs, while other 2 can be even fresh engineers (around or under 6 months of exp in their respective technology i.e android or iOS etc) and they shall scale themselves up in good company (It's tried and tested by many entrepreneurs, including myself).
3. Utilize that senior tech guy more like CTO, architect, and backbone programmer (one who takes care of DB, APIs, troubleshooting, guiding, figuring out libraries to use, pros and cons of various tech. stakes etc) and remaining 2 fresh would do all sort of coding in less cost.
What's old is new again!

Beautiful and reminiscent of old school mainframe systems in CICS.

When system users were mainly roomfuls of data entry staff (universally female) these systems were absolutely optimised for power users banging through as many transactions as possible. No mice in sight, all keyboard operation.
But the money that funds PACs can come from commercial activities. If all a company has to do is create a PAC, and PACs don't need to be truthful, it seems to me commercial speech is protected.
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Surely they pay taxes locally, no?
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Another approach is you start up a full copy of the new system with all new versions, then change loadbalancers to direct all traffic away from the old system and to the new. Then decomission the old system.

With dedicated hardware, you need twice as much hardware. With cloud, you only pay double for 10 minutes during the rollout, which usually is very cheap.
I remember how, when I was child, video store clerks used to operate this kind of systems blazingly fast, knowing all the key shortcuts by heart and achieving incredible productivity.
>Why exactly do you need one?

This is one of primary functions of any (democratic) government - to protect its people.

People don't want anyone to be able to come and settle as their neighbour - for both rational and irrational reasons.

And governments must listen to their people, because if they don't (like in case of EU/mainly Germany during last migrant crisis) people start having feelings that the government doesn't care about them, which in turn creates room for extreme populist and extremist parties.
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