skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's false, it's actually dangerously false since you personally may be liable for the VAT not paid. The limit is actually a hard limit and it gets more and more dangerous the closer you creep to the edge. At the years turnover, when you write the next years first invoices, you need to know your tax status and you don't have at that time the previous years tax declaration. The tax authorities will not notify you of that change in status. If it turns out you had a total (vat)-taxable income of 17499 EUR, you're fine. If you miscalculated and had 17501 € and mistakenly already wrote your invoices thinking you'd be VAT-free then there's two options: if your customer is a company, you can correct the invoice and have them pay the VAT (their accounting department will absolutely love that if you come back half a year later on a paid invoice, trust me). If the customer is a private person, you get to pay the VAT. I've seen people fall in that trap and I can tell you, re-writing all your invoices for a year sucks, paying 20% of your income as VAT because you simplified the rules sucks even more.

You also need to file the registration with the tax authorities before you write your first invoice (you need a tax number for a correct invoice).

As a general rule of thumb: You don't simplify when it comes to taxes.

(Side note: This is still unrelated to registering a company or even registering with the Gewerbeamt which may or may not be required depending on what exactly you do. Members of the Freie Berufe for example don't need that.)
I’d separate:

- longitudinal, predictable acceleration, where you can safely tell people to stay in their seats and all will be fine, I’m quite confident most humans would be comfortable with 1G horizontal that adds up to 1.5G diagonal: that’s basically a roller-coaster; it’s not too bad if you ease people into it, i.e. you minimise the jerk;

- lateral, predictable acceleration, like one would expect in turns: not familiar with train technology enough to know if you could adapt pendular train to MagLev, but it seems like a simple enough hack to increase comfort significantly;

- vibrations and turbulences: seem unlikely in a tube on rails, without a train coming in the opposite direction. Those definitely, customers don’t like.
That doesn't sound like a disabled chipset...
I assume SPIFFE is more useful to system to system authentication without the end user context - like how Netflix uses short-lived certificates to secure interactions between microservices (https://medium.facilelogin.com/short-lived-certificates-netf...) ?
depends on the style, pixel art often doesn't require that many frames per animation (especially at low res).

It's also generally a lot harder to find people who can competently animate at all so animation-light style are often preferable.
Really quite rich people relying on Excel for economic world-scale critical stuff has ruined/cost more than a few lives. Do you blame Bill for his shitty software or do you blame the rich corporate types for not giving a shit/incompetent minimum effort IT?
Fast-Paced Multiplayer: Sample Code and Live Demo
I'm gonna be honest here, this is how this reads to me: Decentralize... with Google (Suprise! It's a Chrome fork). Funded by a couple of tiny science grants and the NSA/McClathyDC who owns Knight Ridder Foundation, earns 56.4% annual revenue from advertising in 2016 and 15% of careerbuilder.com, has been losing nearly $1B USD annually and has been in trouble for undermining counter-terrorism efforts - so easily controlled. They've got a fed with a clearance [GSA 18F] as an adviser, no matter how anti-gov his Twitter looks. Their 'partners' amount to the same few friends with the same logos, feds, academia, and former Mozilla hypocrites who now work on a technology powered by Google+GitHub [req. Chrome+Electron] to drive... decentralization? Specifically the Dat project as described by Max Ogden provides an alternative to GitHub, did they read that? But while looking suspect already, they're explicitly not building privacy, and citing 'a secret URL' as the key to encryption in the project pages. Underlying the project, is Dat. Dat appears to be where the real meat is, and it is geared for big data, government, and centralized decentralization. Man WTF, I'm sorry I wasted my time investigating. Give your research, data, and content to -big brother-, er... everyone! Set it free! lol Additionally they're node-obsessed.js v0.0.0.2a throughout and the only mention of security or authentication methods I found in the admin guide were a section on OpenStack integration (+1 for that at least, to use their Google-speak).
If you run your bank/brokerage off a fucking spreadsheet then maybe you don't deserve those six bars p.a.
Tell that to the 1322+ Superfund sites in the US costing ~1 billion per year.

The optimum strategy for small land ownership is often maximum exploitation. In the case of the ocean fishing people would fish as much as possible, and just wait for more fish to wonder back.
That's actually not such a bad idea, since you seem to have discovered one of the traits of good abstraction: it makes code more concise.
Another interesting read for anyone designing CRUD software in 2017: https://ipfs.io/blog/30-js-ipfs-crdts.md
Point them to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

:-)
Back when I used to work at a large enterprise the use of 'var' was banned in our coding standards.

Using Linq was heavily frowned upon. It took quite a few years before it started to be accepted..

At one point we were also strongly encouraged to place a #region around every single method! I never understood why, and luckily that one did get dropped.
Yeah, I know you can do that, but I can never remember which suffix is which ;-)
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AWS and Microsoft unveil Gluon: A new library for machine learning
I think most industries have their own terms for essentially the same base idea.

xkcd [0] made an ingenious comic about this that I keep coming back to

[0] https://xkcd.com/793/
Additionally something being unprofitable doesn't mean people won't still make loads of it :)

My unscientific anecdotal experience with the European game dev scene suggests that the vast majority of indie/small developers are people working on their first game who then go out of business upon release and/or are funded by government funds for "creative media" and the like.
We are working towards that with Peergos [1][2]. Your username is public, but the network can't see your social connections, or your physical location. Note that this isn't true yet though, as we haven't started using Tor hidden services.

[1] https://github.com/peergos/peergos

[2] https://peergos.org
Google buys 109 hectares of land in rural Sweden
> At one point we were also strongly encouraged to place a #region around every single method! I never understood why, and luckily that one did get dropped

Shudder!!

Especially since VS has plugins (or maybe it's built-in?) that will let you fold/hide individual methods, if you really want to do that!
Interestingly, this works on desktop but not on mobile
At Facebook's big Oculus VR event, the big news wasn't VR UK
I thought it was easy to obtain, but nobody actually wanted it!
Stackery and the Emerging Adoption Paths for Serverless – The New Stack
A healthy repository allows you to make a trivial patch without fear. The surprises will all be documented in an obvious place. All of it (at least the important parts) will be tested one way or another. "How do I know if my patch worked" will be automated somehow so you don't even need to talk to them about how they broke things. It will either be obvious or clearly documented how to step through the code while it runs on a real-enough set of data, so that people can watch it work and learn about it that way.

> In another thread, a Google employee said the manager didn't expect them to make a real contribution in the first six months. Is that unreasonable?

I can't comment without more details. In particular "real contribution" can mean a lot of things. I think a trivial bug patch (forgot to validate an input) or implementing an already designed feature (we have five of these, implement the sixth) should be possible in the first couple weeks.

I am surprised that Google has code bases like that. I was under the impression that Google has engineers from completely different parts of the company transforming each others' code all the time so they can make breaking changes to libraries.
Surprised there wasn't more Class1.cs
In Australia where Basa fillets can go as cheap as $5/kg in a supermarket (Chicken breasts are can be as cheap as $9/kg for reference), some people don't buy Basa fillets. Why? The reputation of basa is that it's farmed poorly in Vietnam where people shit in the same farm that grow fish.

Note: Basa is a type of catfish that can grow well despite dirty water.
> Power is also the legal system, and corporations don't make, pass or interpret law either, even if they have an undue influence on some of those who do. But even with that influence, they're still at the mercy of voters.

Undue "influence" is a gross understatement.

Some people pointed out the more abstract type of influence (this is correct and meaningful); I'll point out the material: the list of, let's say, "indirect ability to make laws" is neverending, and it is directly proportional to a given company size.

Small and random, but significative, sample:

- Mickey mouse laws
- HSBC money laundering
- Massive tax dodging in Europe

The above examples show, each in a different way, that when a company is very very big, the leverage it can exert does not fit in the "influence" definition anymore.
The close encounters will cause issues even in integrators more sophisticated than Euler. One body of research used regularizing integrators to change variables when the bodies get close, to avoid numerical instabilities.

This integrator is used in my three body app, to remove the issues due to close encounters. An old blog post of mine has the details: http://nbodyphysics.com/blog/2015/12/08/threebody-2-0/
SNES-era (relatively) high-res pixel art is where it starts getting not actually cheaper/easier to produce than just 'normal' 2d art made in photoshop at native resolution.

That's why you mostly see 8-bit/early 16-bit style pixel art.
Could you give an example for the 'eliminating weaknesses is more important than growing strengths' part?
I think I've encountered this before - where letting an incompetent developer go would have accelerated a project much more than hiring a very competent one.
No, this is not about his setup, Igor is giving you very valuable insights about important features that might be very good addition to your project.
An MVP is actually released to production and is not a PoC It was popularized by Eric Ries in his book _The Lean Startup_.
Multipath TCP Check
Which is more beneficial in today's web: Serving static contents from a cookieless domain but two dns lookups vs. all contents from same domain, but one dns lookup?
For me it does.
It’s the Visual Studio default. It definitely improves readability for me sometimes. Having empty lines makes it easier to read.
> As a manager, one of my main jobs is ensuring that the team's bus number is always above 1

Bus number of 1 would be nice to experience for once, I have yet to see a team with a bus number above 0...
What's the point of not using stable language features? I don't get it.
Plato was a fascist.
In which context ? In personal life I would simply avoid them.

In any case trying to confront them and get them to "change" is bound to lead to disastrous results.

Just focus on yourself unless it personally affect you.
*shakes you while saying, "bro, FB war, wake up..."
Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend
GitHub's State of the Octoverse 2017
If I am not mistaken, Visual Studio automatically places an opening brace on the next line. When setting up coding standards, I asked my team not to fight Visual Studio. It generally has good auto-formatting functionality, but even more important is the uniformity and consistency of the code.
>More likely than not, Im looking for an intern who I can pay intern wages, and maybe slightly more as he improves.

The problem with this interpretation is that a lot of these so called "intern-level" jobs are not labeled as such. In fact, many of these opportunities require this so-called intern to have senior level skills based upon the job description and (no joke) seven-part interview spread over several weeks. So if these companies are just looking for interns, why not decide in one simple interview? And the other problem here is that many who apply to be older "interns" who are career changers are also rejected. There is really no way for the hiring company to explain that away as over-qualification.
Lateral acceleration is much more annoying to deal with than longitudinal or vertical, even if it's constant. Perhaps they could tilt in bends to convert some of that lateral to vertical?
I’ve always assumed that’s because C# used to not be cross platform (yes, there’s Mono, but that isn’t as popular as it should be)
> Apparently Android-encrypted phones are the safest though.

That's odd. I guess the implication is that iPhone hsm is broken (or they can get past a short pin via an exploit that allows brute forcing - typically an hsm should (be possible to configure to) permanently destroy the keys after N attempts).

I suppose it demonstrates that secure encryption requires the user to memorise something equivalent of 96-128 bits of entropy, that will be used for key derivation.

[ed: i suppose it's conceivable that there's an attack against how the iPhone generates symmetric encryption keys, but I would guess that's less likely]
As cornet Joyce proved "people with guns" is the defination of power
> I think that smartphones (and iPhones) are so ubiquitous these days that there's no lifestyle to project from having an iPhone any more

Lifestyle signaling never stops playing a role, for anything sold commercial, in any market in any nation.

Nike has been popular and common for three decades. If anything shouldn't be a lifestyle signal, it would be Nike, right? There's a gap between Russell Athletic or Champion and Nike. You can go further and use Gildan (generic, medium quality) vs Nike. Here, take a walk around Walmart's athletic wear department:

https://www.walmart.com/browse/men/men-s-activewear/5438_133...

You'll instantly notice the lack of Nike or Under Armour, much less anything more expensive. There's a reason for that: the bottom half of the income bracket can't afford to frequently, needlessly pay a large mark-up for the swoosh logo. That below middle class, 13 year old, knows there's a lifestyle gap between Russell and Nike, and very particularly so does the Nike Corporation - it's something they monitor like a hawk.

Poorer people know there's a gap between a new iPhone model and other cheap phones that get thrown at you for $0 or $39 as part of a deal in signing up with a telecom carrier.
I've used Python professionally since 1999.

While Python found an extra niche with scientific libraries (and not just/especially machine learning) post numpy and co, it was already very popular then, taking the throne from Perl.

Ruby at the time (and until Rails) was seen as an interesting contester, but nobody doubted Python's top popularity as far as scripting goes.

P.S. What about "the comments I've been churning"? If you mean regarding P3 adoption, then we're still quite a long ways away. Not even 50% -- and well after 10+ years. But that's beside the point. That doesn't mean I don't like Python (including 3).
They can have expansion joints around bridges, but generally speaking you're correct, they're thermite-welded and adjusted to correctly handle thermal stresses without kinking (heat expansion) or fracturing (cold contraction).
Yes with a plug-in.
Save Networking Tools on iOS 11
I suppose its because people would have had to host a C# Wordpress on Windows servers instead of nice cheap Linux ones. Maybe that will change going forwards with .NET Core etc
10x price won't get you 2x capacity in the same form factor.

Maybe you'll get some additional capacity, but probably not a lot. Quite possibly there isn't a higher capacity option that is acceptable for other reasons.
Number one thing: highlight the people in your team. Problem with working with Indian agencies is that the programmers are hidden behind the project managers. That is not effective way of working in iterative work.
Well, you're not going to be able to change the status quo that confidence is largely admired and taken at face value. That's the world you live in and have to deal with.

But if your specific goal is to prevent overconfident people from "bringing down" those who are less confident (presumably mainly you), your best bet is to move the discussion concrete, measurable past successes and failures, and resist attempts to change the topic away from those.

If the discussion is inherently about plans for the future and there is no past record of achievements (how do you know they're overconfident then?), insist on a process that produces concrete, meaningful process in reasonably short increments so that unrealistic promises will be exposed early on.
Reverse proxy grapher
If the N version has almost no telemetry, then I bet there will be plenty of customers. Almost everyone I've talked to who is unwilling to use Win10 has mentioned the telemetry/privacy aspects.

The previous N versions only have no Windows Media Player --- something a lot of users either want or don't care about, so no wonder they weren't popular.
Announcing balena: a Moby-based container engine for IoT
India is a big place. To me that is like saying, "what are your views on development agencies based in the world?"
> Qualcomm Atheros is a big no no

Sarcasm? If not, care to elaborate?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For example I used to put the opening brace on a line of its own, mostly for simmetry reasons ( `{` in the same column as the relevant `}` ).

By the way, after many years I had to change it for coding style reasons. Now when I look back to old code and I see that lonely `{` my reaction is "ewww", so I guess it is also a matter of habit.
You balance the sheets, close down the company and it remains in some "in liquidation" state for another year to make sure that the sheets are, in fact, balanced.

Makes the company more trustworthy for potential partners since they won't face closed doors from one day to the next, but otherwise makes little difference: a company in liquidation is really low maintenance if the paperwork is in order.
Awesome client-side resource! WebRTC is poised to hit the big time now that it is supported by iOS 11.

For both of my questions below I will link options from previous discussions[1]; any experience you can share would be appreciated.

1) What is the best option to implement a server that can tie into WebRTC for audio/video/screensharing?

https://github.com/mappum/electron-webrtc - simple but bulky Node.js WebRTC via a hidden Electron process

https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/webrtc - C++ Chromium WebRTC

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-videobridge - Java video conferencing

https://github.com/Kurento/kurento-media-server | https://github.com/OpenVidu/openvidu - Node.js media server transitioning after Twilio hired key devs

https://www.wowza.com/products/capabilities/webrtc-streaming... - commercial; in preview

2) What is the best minimal WebRTC server-side option just for UDP?

https://github.com/js-platform/node-webrtc - Node.js native module with mystical pre-built binaries

https://github.com/HumbleNet/HumbleNet/ - C++ Mozilla + Humble Bundle code drop that does signalling via WebSockets (instead of STUN/TURN/ICE?)

https://github.com/rawrtc/rawrtc - C with CLI examples; media someday? https://github.com/rawrtc/rawrtc/issues/4

https://github.com/seemk/WebUdp - prototype C++ WebRTC datachannel server for Linux looking for help

https://github.com/brkho/client-server-webrtc-example - C++ MVP using Chromium WebRTC http://blog.brkho.com/2017/03/15/dive-into-client-server-web...

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[1] A real world guide to WebRTC | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14787285 (Jul 2017, 59 comments)
My view is that its hard to form a generalised opinion on a entire sector. Especially when that sector is in a country with 1.3 billion people.
I think stress is like excitement with risk. Something exciting and not stressful probably doesn't have much risk involved. However, if the individual perceives risk, then stress is introduced. Think skydiving. Skydiving can be pretty exciting, but if you perceive a high risk of death or injury then skydiving would be pretty stressful.

If we want to make real life more engaging, perhaps we need to focus on how to reduce risk. Or at least, reduce the risk of a superbad negative outcome.
Sometimes I got to work because I have no real choice. This isn't a new thing, I've been that way my whole life. I do sometimes enjoy my work. But sometimes I don't.

Games, however... I only play them when I'm enjoying it. Nothing is forcing me to do that.

Games are absolutely more engaging than work.
Remember, we're ALL learning all the time, always progressing in knowledge and ability. Or at least we SHOULD be.

So lets take something simple. tying your shoelaces. when a 5 year old does it while singing the bunny song, they feel they have it down pat. SO when a 3 year old sees it, the 5 year old MUST be a master, right? the 5 year old thinks they're awesome at tying their shoes when the bunny goes around the tree and through the hole, etc.... so it must be true, until they see the NBA ballers do it without missing a step or 3 seconds off the clock.

The point is that being a "master" actually depends on the viewpoint of the person(s) they're interacting with. In this case, you or the person you feel they are subtly bringing down. IMO, the best way to handle these situations is to humbly remind everyone that we're all still learning. There is always someone better out there, there is always a better or more efficient way to do things. Correcting someone while teaching them (and without insults) is optimal (especially if you're not the expert you thought you were, either). Doing it this way brings both the braggadocios and the meek to the same plane and does it without bruising egos. It works even better when these two personalities are on the same team - But this is just my experience.
using UnityEngine;

Is the second most used 'using' that's non-Microsoft (after Nunit). Shows how important Unity is for C# take up. And presumably most people using Unity to write games are not going to be sticking their code on GitHub either so this must be a fraction of the real use.
I asked this as well, but about having a 2mm thicker phone. The response was "I don't need a bigger battery, I have a charger in my car, at my desk, and lots at home."

I was flabbergasted. He'd rather sacrifice wirelessness to have a 2mm thinner phone.
A “diva” is generally used nowadays to mean someone who complains about everything. So a diva fit would be a diva throwing a fit. Basically the adult version of a tantrum.
> I also anticipate that I’ll be told the only way is for me to be more vocally confident in myself

If you know better you should be more vocally confident in yourself.

The world is full of people who bullshit. You should not hide from it, and you should not deny it.

>the same individuals tend to put down others who are more humble/less confident in their skills, directly or subtly.

They also need to learn that the world is full of these kind of people. If you wan't to help build their confidence , you can explain how the 'master' is overestimating his/her skills.