skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* I use hourly mostly because it is common and is met with the least resistance. Either way, raise your rate at least a little after each gig. Don't get complacent, just keep ratcheting it up.

* I've actually been blessed with a great accountant. He's saved me thousands over the years and sent letters to the IRS on my behalf clearing up a couple issues along the way. I would look for someone who specializes in small, professional service firms that is used and referred by people in your area. If they tell you they don't think you should organize as an LLC, look elsewhere.

* Starting out I used recruiting firms. They have the advantage of an established network and getting you paid every 2-weeks. The disadvantage of course is they take a cut. Their first ask will always be a low-ball hoping they can get a huge margin. Always try to get them to make the first offer and always ask for more. You'd be surprised how much room they have to negotiate up most of the time. As I've made connections over the years I've relied more on my network, but I'll still use an agency to fill the gaps. Also, boutique consulting agencies can be great for sub-contract work. They often need to staff up for a project they just landed, but don't want to take on full-timers and they usually command excellent rates.
It exists -- but it is not the norm, especially in VC backed companies. VC demand returns, and prefer to see $100 today compared with $100 in a year's time!
> "You can't build a product company like this."

Sure you can, you just bootstrap through monetising the ground work. For example, if you want a product company you can start out as a freelance design agency. The bulk of the initial design work will be for clients, but you can be involved with low volume manufacturing on the side. As the company grows, not only do you have the funds to take on progressively more ambitious product manufacturing projects, you've also built up a team of designers that can help push these projects forward. You're going to need designers right? Why not get them making you money from day one.

To give an alternative example, let's say you want to manufacture mobile phones. A good way to start small would be to manufacture accessories for existing phones. This is within the grasp of anyone within the Western world, given enough drive to do it. The revenue and knowledge you can gain doing so allows for increasingly sophisticated accessories to be built until the point where you have your own manufacturing premises (or have access to one at low rates, due to the volume of products you're pushing). The step from this point to manufacturing mobile phones is not that great.

Does this require more patience than burning through VC money? Sure, but it's also lower risk. Building a company gradually from the ground up means you get a better sense of what it takes to run a successful business (or in other words, experience is the best teacher).
'middle click a tab to close it' makes things much smoother for me!
Seems like it would be perfect for SETI.
We use foursquare. BTW, you can customize the list if you'd like. Just click on the map.
I don't follow. So if your company "conquers" the world, everyone associated with it is an "indecent" person?
Cool idea and great execution. Just a heads up, it looks like there's some padding on the house icon in the blown up map that can cover up nearby roads at some zoom levels
So all the spammers/scammers can't see what car you just bought and how much you paid for it and use it for spear phishing?
Has anyone considered that maybe the human biology is actually smart enough to figure out whether you should/shouldn't be focusing on something at a given time and that there might be negative effects to trying to scam it into doing what you (your boss) want (wants) all the time?
It's totally worth $200. Same person has probably splurged on something they deem is worth $200.
It's not ideal. I can't speak from personal experience, but have a relevant anecdote.

My brother was in SIGOPS in the Canadian military, and they had to run combat and stealth field exercises during periods of sleep-deprivation over the period of days(++). He said by a few days in (I can't recall exactly) they were experiencing vivid, realistic audio-visual-tactile hallucinations that they regularly succumbed to believing.

Until he said he started seeing white rabbits bouncing all over an open field between him and passing enemy actors.

Beside any other negative health effects, I just don't think it would be sustainable. The world is weird enough.
Is the city does not also allow housing to be built, then all the tax money in the world won't stop the fact that all of Amazon's highly-paid workforce will out-bit existing residents for limited housing.

States need to look at the amount of office space being built and mandate that towns allow additional housing so that there are at least 3 beds per desk.
HN never fails to disappoint on the "let's read his comment as the most extreme possible version it could be, nevermind subtlety, nuance, or reading!" front
Interesting. I am no audio engineer but maybe this could add another layer of immersion to a VR system using binaural audio and eye tracking data.
It seems there is a method to add tooltips, though it looks a little rough. Worth a shot, I suppose.
https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/155518/77180
As the article says!

It's pretty amazing her accomplishments in the field, yet today is the first time I have heard of her. I wonder why her name isn't as popular as Grace Hopper and other women who helped pioneer the field right alongside men?
Well I’m asking because there have been news stories about this exact practice. And those are only the ones that have been found.
I'm not a googler, but from my readings about their dev culture: it wouldn't be practical, as such, for a lot of what that dev server is really used for. Stupid-much development, however, is API driven and based on isolated logic. Those individual components or spike solutions would make absolute sense on the laptop.

More importantly: with the kinds of operations Google is running these days you'd really expect lots of the APIs youd need for product development to be readily accessible.

So, yeah, you'd be hacking on your laptop separately, and maybe doing some kinds of work. They run a monorepo, though, so it'd be of a somewhat peripheral nature. Proper dev is what the dev station is for.
No one's seriously suggesting going back to horses.

Many are advocating mass-transit or bike-friendliness.
Especially all the renters, which is almost the entire Millenial generation.
Wow very nice! I don't AirBnB my house but could see using this in a corporate office esp. where hosting people from out of town for meetings, etc. Might be cool if you could highlight a route - 'to the airport' 'to the beach' etc.
How much actual money is flowing towards social influencers and vloggers?

It's all just advertising. Print advertising is dead (hyperbole), replaced by social advertising.
I won't, thanks for the extremely useful information. My life was absolutely incomplete until your reply!
The wealthier are paying a lower percent of their wealth/income, it's just they make so much more than the masses it doesn't matter.

Should think of the marginal utility of their funds. If a $20,000 a year person pays $5,000 - it's much worse than a $10,000,000 paying $100,000.
Canadian Chris Urmson and his SV startup are racing to launch the driverless car
So you see my point about your comment at least.
Really? Cool! Thans for pointing it out. (goes googling for how to make sure I'm using this...)
I think we pretty much agree, and I don't think it's fair to blame Amazon more than any other company, proportional to their effect on the community. I'm just saying, there is an effect there, from Amazon and other business, and the market itself isn't equipped to naturally house the homeless in these circumstances. Without government intervention, the homeless population will grow without any support.

A cynic could argue that the market is operating well in this case because the homeless don't contribute much economically — but I try not to go to the same bars as those people.
1) Don't know. But not all of Apple's other markets are as huge as iPhone/iPad/Mac Laptops (i.e., Apple TV, Mac Pro).

2) In fairness, Amazon Echo did not do multi-room at launch either. I tend to think Apple fans won't have a problem waiting for that feature update. I'm not an Apple fan myself any more, but in general, when they do a feature, they do it right.
I'm in freaking Seattle and this isn't available in most of the city limits.
>Where? By whom?

LinkedIn, for one.

>Here's a quote from an article from an employee that I think captures it: “Amazon is a culture of self-driven workaholics”

You are quoting a subjective statement from an article, in support of the article's veracity? That makes absolutely no sense.

Amazon employs tens of thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands have worked there over the past 20 years. The NYT article was a collection of anecdotes.

"Accurate reporting"? Lol, I for one am shocked that out of the hundreds of thousands of current and former employees they were able to find a handful that had bad experiences. I mean, what are the odds? Amazon must be the worst.

"Accurate reporting"? From what I remember, not a single individual references worked in software development, they were exclusively in marketing and bureaucratic levels.

>If you join the cult and agree it's a good idea to work yourself to death, it's a good place to do that

Again, based on a few anecdotes you've reached the conclusion that it is a cult? It's really obvious that you've decided Amazon is evil a priori, and are using circular logic to rationalize this, because your evidence so far is anecdotal (from an article based on anecdotes).

>It's not a good place to go if you want to be a Seattleite, participate in a community or have a life at the same time.

I work 40 hours a week, average. So does nearly every engineer I know here. I love Seattle and my work-life balance is awesome.
Scary. I am not going to try this. Seems like if you try it once, you acquire the sense for some time.
It's irrelevant whether exchanges accept privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, because people could always use atomic swaps: https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/what-are-atomic-s...

I don't think they're going to be able to ban atomic swaps.
I wish Robert Buderi's book on radar was available in e-print because it's really good as an overview of the relationship of the war, O/R, technology and specifically the transistor.
Well, PGP is an email encryption layer that's 20 years old and was very enthusiastically adopted by the privacy community. It actually has some uses, e.g., Edward Snowden used it to communicate with Laura Poitras. But it's too complicated for the masses and nobody uses it. Kinda like bitcoin.

As for BART, I only took the train a few times in my life so I can't really elaborate on that.
Coincidentally, I purchased the Earthsea series for my son a few days ago, who I think is the right age.

I also read some of her work from the 1990s, a short story collection whose name I cannot recall, but was very powerful and thoughtful. I think in many respects she was able to take science fiction and fantasy in emotional and social realms where few authors were willing to tread.
Particularly, I actually want to remove all sections and titles and just have the map.

Would it be possible to not show headings if there is no content in that section?
Branchless Doom
Wow this is beautiful and well-done. Are you getting the top 5 things to do data from Yelp?
What did you expect? They are in the business of making transactions, bitcoin isn’t anymore.
> Righteous anger properly channeled can be a force for good.

There's a Terry Pratchett quote which I like on this subject:

> Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
I was cured of that particular delusion when I realized that language has literally always been attacked since the day it was created.
As a lifetime student of art I consider the art world and its notions of 'intrinsic value' to be bunk. As I said before he is free to price his art at whatever rate he wants, and I am free to object to whatever price I want.
To clarify my point... Exercise, good sleep, healthy diet, a social life, and a career, are some pre-requisites before you get to start talking about being CLINICALLY depressed. Situationally depressed, sure. But I'm making a distinction between someone who is depressed because they aren't meeting some basic needs (of which exercise is one), and the type of depression that persists DESPITE meeting these basic needs.

By no means am I saying that a clinically depressed individual "cant be helped". There's nothing comforting about that thought at all. Quite the contrary, those types of people DO exist and have found relief visa vi standard modes of care (CBT, and medication).
Yeah, innovation levels differ much more within countries than between them. Rankings of metro areas would make more sense.
I'd just like to gripe a bit about the use of "fiat currency" as an antonym of "cryptocurrency". Bitcoin may not be similar in all respects to typical government-issued money, but it is far more similar to fiat currency than to hard currency: its supply is artificially controlled, and Bitcoin itself has no intrinsic value. Bitcoin is administered by a de facto government in the form of the miners that run the network. That this government does not have a direct correlation to a UN-recognized nation-state does not make Bitcoin any less artificial or more real.
I had one of those as a kid. The idea you could listen to the radio without any local power source (mains or batteries) was pretty amazing.
I don't mean technically. I mean that's my behavior. If there were at least a "starts at" I would know whether it's a complete waste of time. When there's not, I assume it is.
> "At Roche, we only hire Swiss citizens to administer the SAP servers."

Ex-Genentecher here too, and that quote really surprises me. Maybe it got that way later, but when I went to Basel in '95 to do some work I found a very international team. Granted, there were probably more Swiss among the IT guys than the Pharma people but it was by no means all-Swiss.

The office language was English but the techies spoke a lot of German (and occasionally Swiss German) among themselves. My impression was not speaking German would be a disadvantage for IT, but I definitely did not feel like anybody was discriminating against the non-Swiss. (I speak German but not Swiss German.)

I wonder if it changed that much, or if you just met some difficult people.
It's easy to make exclusive lists to try and make one country or another look better.

And who is the rest of the world? The USSR achieved a lot in comparison to Africa, South America, the Middle East, and SE Asia.
Leave the perfection echo chamber.
Discuss ideas with potential users, people in the industry which you want to improve. Team up with somebody to implement/market/sale it. Your idea benefits may outweight the flaws. Nothing is perfect.
This is where you are wrong, many of the 'more-developed open-source projects' are what once used to be on Show HN and other forums. Instead of working on their personal projects, if people only contributed to more-developed open-source projects, then that is all we will be left with, only those softwares, no new innovation.
Steem regularly processes 1.5 million transactions per day and is at 0.13% capacity[1]. If my math is right, that comes out to the ability to process 14k tx/s.

[1]: http://www.blocktivity.info
You first paragraph describes an article I really want to read!
I don't understand why would there be a time slot in the first place... do people not own their own laundry machines in Switzerland?
We also wouldn't have very much environmental pollution without automation. Humanity wouldn't have left much of a permanent mark on the Earth if we had gone extinct before industrialization.

Barring the desertification of the Fertile Crescent (arguably natural climate change had a hand too) and the extinction of the American and Australian megafauna, both of which are relatively insignificant in geological time, we simply didn't have the means to harm the environment very much.

Compared to that, industrialization has had side-effects that will endure for millions of years: the upending of the carbon and nitrogen cycles, and the addition of plastics and radiation. Aliens could come to the Earth 20 million years after we go extinct, and still be able to find traces of us.
This is why buddhist monks talk about reality vibrating - the continuity of reality is an illusion constructed by the brain, while the actual perceptions generated are a series of discrete experiences.

Also, eye saccades are a great example of this. If you look at your own eyes in the mirror and switch between looking at your left and right eyes, you don't see your eyes move. If you watch someone else do this, you do.
You can get a work visa if a Swiss company wants to hire you for a special skill or expertise you have. The easier way is probably to start working for a Swiss company in the US and then let you relocate to Switzerland still working for that company.
I’ve started working on this, it seems the current Dockerfile for caffe2 doesn’t work out of the box because of a forced push.

Follow me on Twitter, and I’ll post it there when it’s finished. Same username as here.

* edit: I've put a pull request in that builds the Dockerfile for the GPU for now: https://github.com/facebookresearch/Detectron/pull/15
Opioid Hysteria Comes to Massachusetts Courts
Agree that people in entertainment always making more money than skilled-professionals. But my point is that younger demographic is heavily influenced by current social-media-preneurs rater than STEM achievers.
> IMO, what happened with Ethereum was not exactly the correct economic perspective. More like the ethereum devs went on to support the Ethereum and ditched the coin. Bitcoin Cash/Gold on the other hand seems fine.

I agree with this, actually. The hard fork showed that ETH would be forcibly redistributed if the result of correct VM behavior was not what the maintainers had in mind.

So the ETH hard fork fits into the very typical pattern in human institutions of excessive centralization resulting in corrupt behavior. Most of the early adopters of ETH who lost money due to the DAO attack were essentially the political allies of the maintainers, who in turn held great sway with miners. We've recently learned that ETH mining is far more centralized than BTC.

The ETH hard fork was a nice wakeup call that even for supposedly enlightened proponents of decentralization and distributed consensus, when there is real money on the line pretty much any excuse will be acceptable for why the "theft" had to be unwound via a hard fork.

Ironically, in order for market incentives to work properly in a smart contract system, finding exploitable cases of correct (or incorrect) behavior of the VM should result in profit, or else there is simply no market incentive for the system to be secure and to behave in a predictable manner.

In order for Ethereum to have passed the institutional test imposed on it by the DAO hack, it would have had to deal with the difficult issue of victims of the attack claiming "theft" and would have had to allow the difficult lesson to be learned. Now that we know that Ethereum was a toy when the DAO hack occurred, when will it stop being a toy? Is the current fork real?

Anyway, apologies for the hyperbole, I just wanted to make the above point.
It would be helpful, to really dig into this, if we could look at a survey or study, as opposed to hearsay.
Nobody who works on Rust is in Mountain View. There was one person once, for a while.

There are even only a few people in the SF/Oakland area at this point. Most are from outside of California.
You seem to be conflating valuation with innovation.
Amazon Go is much more akin to a 7-11 than to a Trader Joes or Costco. They have yet to show that this model even works on this tiny scale. The capability of this tech to scale up effectively to an actual grocery store much less to a warehouse type store is completely unknown. (I personally wouldn't count on it.)
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If I listen to the radio (speech) and then start to read and try to simultaneously listen to the radio it becomes incomprehensible. Quite weird.
It's not zero sum if you have overall greater precision. We believe we do and have proven it across dozens of case studies.

As we publish more, we hope to let data talk. If I were in your shoes, I'd be similarly skeptical. Most companies in the space overpromise and underdeliver.
88-05-27 Changed name of file to erlang.pro
First major revision started - main changes
Complete change from process to channel based
communication.
here we (virtually) throw away all the
old stuff and make a bloody great data base

88-05-31 The above statements were incorrect much better
to go back to the PROPER way of doing things
long live difference lists

Big change lasted four days :)
too bad lithium is such a hard drug to administer (it's psychoactive at doses very close to harmful doses, so usually there needs to be monitoring of the levels of lithium in the blood)
Re: Highlighting a route. Great suggestion. Added to the list.
A well publicized example happened during the mortgage crisis where a couple foreclosed on a Bank of America branch in Florida after BoA refused to pay court ordered restitution: http://business.time.com/2011/06/06/homeowner-forecloses-on-...
> In 2016, the UN’s International Maritime Organization announced that by 2020, international shipping vessels will have to significantly cut sulfur pollution. Specifically, ship owners must switch to fuels with no more than 0.5 percent sulfur content, down from the current 3.5 percent, or install exhaust cleaning systems that achieve the same reduction, Shell noted in a brochure for customers.

The UN has teeth like a 17-year old golden retriever... So who is actually going to enforce these mandates? I don't think the various flag-of-convenience countries will go out of their way to enforce regulations. Nor, in the present circumstances, would I expect much movement on the issue from the United States or China.
People who own houses and apartments usually do but rented places often have shared laundries. In newer buildings every apartment has its own laundry.
Is Amazon not composed of human beings who are citizens of various cities, states, and nation(s) in which there is homelessness?
No, you don't actually need any such assumption. We often use that language, but that isn't really what evolution is about.

Evolution is about surviving the winnowing. Strategies that create high survival rates tend to propagate. Proposing a "purpose" for the strategy is just a means to try to understand the mechanism that causes them to foster higher survival rates and thereby propogate.
Google Takes on Amazon with New Audiobook Offering
Great idea and great website. I am jealous of your design skills!

It would be great to be able to move and resize the zoomed bubble. Even a quick toggle between the corners would do.
I am just in the flow of re-reading her novels, and now this news. :-( Such a writer! And one from whom it has been easy -- well, never easy, but accessible and immensely rewarding-- to learn the craft of storytelling on a human, epic scale.

God bless you and family, Teacher, and your voice still sings.
This is torture, how do you stop it???

Don’t try this if you haven’t!!