skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at a travel B2B SaaS company, and we roll out MVP products to our clients all the time. I think the key difference between selling to businesses and consumers is the appetite for risk.

So assuming you have a good product, you have to consider two things: commercial terms and SLA. This is a delicate balancing act when you're trying to shop your MVP. You don't want to underprice because implicitly you're saying the product isn't ready for production. You don't want to overprice, and set expectations too high. You also want to be careful about what kind of level of support you're agreeing to with your product. If it's an MVP, are you going to drop support after 6 months if your business can't support itself?

Good businesses consider these things before they sign-on for an MVP product, make sure you have good answers to these questions.
I had less then pleasant experiences with Booking and Uber - not to mention that Uber doesn't have the best reputation globally. I'm interested if you speak from experience.
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No, there are multiple options. If you are a contractor is one way, or an own Delaware LLC that is used for invoicing, you just need to hire international tax accountant to be good with both US and your-country-of-tax-residence's tax offices.
A more accurate description would be that it's really hard if you never test things and rush them into a launch because of political pressure
Trump... Superbowl...

Look seasonal, and more importantly seasonally adjusted. What do you see there? Anything underlying?

[Not just seasonal events, like Easter, everything to adjust for, weather, etc...]
You work for ULA?
Reminds me of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Cycle. The Tsurani's planet was devoid of metal so they had all wooden armor and weapons... uncomfortable silence
PWK/OSCP Review
This might be what you're thinking of: http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Best-of-the-Burgh-Blogs/Th...

Here's a street view link: https://goo.gl/maps/smQp7BpkgHF2

It's a bit of a random little stub street, so I'd never noticed it during my 4 years of undergrad, but it's a neat lil artifact.
Elon was probably having a beer with some Air Force brass and they were like “hey you really want to pay for disposal of that thing? Or... I’m sure some of our boys would love to use that for target practice.”
I think telecommuting is fine for certain roles. Sales is largely telecommute, some software dev is, if you have second or third offices that cross talk then you are already remote.
Actually, N1 failures had little to do with the complexity itself, and engines were reliable enough for the time.

Due to the lack of funding (the soviet lunar program was given the priority well into the moon "race") they were using the old methodology of testing it in the actual flight, not doing any static fires and only doing a bare minimum of ground testing. Saturn V, on the other hand, heavily relied on the ground testing before the launch. That's why Saturn V mostly worked and N1 failed. Energia worked perfectly much later, because it was developed with the proper amount of ground testing.
No, we need more SpaceX, since this is one of the most interesting and actually important things happening right now on this planet.
I love that there is a real effort for open source projects to seek distributed funding from the people getting benefit from all the hard work the contributors do. I don't have to buy a license, but I can support the projects I use regularly and it feels like the best of both worlds. I do wonder how sustainable funding will impact the rate of change in the Open Source / Javascript community. If you are actively investing in a project are you less likely to replace it as quickly with "the next thing" or volunteer to improve the tools that you are already using and donating to? It will be interesting to see!
So it finds similar images to a person and shows those comments?
GGP probably meant including the UTC offsets in the timestamps, not timezone names like "Europe/Berlin" or whatever.
I quite enjoyed developing the app and I'm pretty pleased with the result. So I'd love to keep maintaining it, especially if it gets some attention.

I also plan to add support for comment and post submissions. I hope I'll have the time to do so in the next few weeks.
Please stop wasting your precious time on Blockchain
...okay, seriously, you went to a site who's stated purpose is to be insulting, and you're surprised when it says distasteful things? What did you expect?
I have a different perspective: Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. "Controversy" is just another name for clashes of opinions that have occurred since the beginning of humankind and will likely continue to occur until the extinction of our species. These clashes occur within discursive spaces, and Twitter is one such space.

This is why I'm bullish on Twitter. It's a space for conversation, and people want to converse. (Also, it occupies a unique middle ground between message boards and real-time chat.) The other two spaces I can think of are Reddit and Facebook, and there's enough differentiation to allow all 3 platforms to peacefully co-exist.
It's almost like you read the article.
Same answer as the many years before: Rails, Django, or .NET.

Anything else and you're making serious tradeoffs on mindshare, features, or something else.

Of those 3, I know Rails has good realtime support via ActionCable.
Unless I'm mistaken, isn't commercial real estate usually cheaper than residential?
I don't know why companies take for granted that employee in PL/CZ/SK/RO should earn 50% less while being treated worse and having more work to do. Interestingly employees in these countries prefer to undermine and treat like shit each other for 10% payrise (infamous middle-management/POs/PMs/Scrum lunatics over here), instead of doing something about the overall situation.
A sport is defined by the artificial limitations placed on it. I could break the world record for the mile run if I were allowed to drive a car or use a bicycle instead of my legs. At some level there is a subjective evaluation of what the sport is about, and an evolving attempt to allow technological improvements to enter where they are in the spirit of the sport (like grippier gloves in football) and ban them when they change the nature of the sport too much (like superchargers in F1).
Kubernetes has helped to make our app less distributed.

Parts of the system were distributed not for capacity, but for HA reasons. So where before we had two instances of beanstalkd with their own storage and clients had logic to talk to both, we now have a single instance of beanstalkd backed by distributed storage and a Kubernetes service that points to it.

And I think we get more benefit deploying dependencies than we do our own apps. If one of them is low volume and needs mysql, just `helm install mariadb`. No complicated HA setup, no worries about backups, we already know how to backup volumes.
Currently, the incentives are to (a) give the fund administrators nice big bonuses, (b) increase the wealth of the organization, and (c) give the donors a kind of lingering life after death from their bequest, thus lots of strings and clauses.

The thing that's missing in this is progressing the goals of the organization itself, its mission.

Universities shouldn't be hedge funds with a sideline in teaching and research.
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Ah, clever. Thanks for link
Interactive GPU Programming, Part 2: Hello OpenCL
This is really well done.
How much are you willing to pay for that Service-Level Agreement?
You don't have a clue about New York.
Visa's are by definition documents providing authorization for (re)entry and specific kinds of work. If you're not inside the country's geographical boundaries, you are not in their jurisdiction and hence don't need a visa.

Now, taxes though... that's a different beast.
So they’re paying above average, which was my point.
In Germany you have to master at least C1-level, preferably C2-level of German, which is a huge time sink (3-5 years of studying). Only then you would be accepted for positions/contracts >100k, even if you are a world-class person smashing code/deep learning/etc. like crazy. I'd recommend anyone that doesn't know German on such level to avoid both Germany and Switzerland; you'd probably be better compensated even in Romania as I've heard. Avoid UK in any case, they don't value techies at all and salaries there are just jokes. Try Norway/Denmark for better luck or make a Delaware/Nevada LLC and do your business in the US while residing in Europe.
The right answer for your son would have been for them to jump right into surgery (or whatever you Brits call it, seeing as you apparently call a doctor's office a "surgery"... the act of cutting into skin for medicinal purposes) for something which looked like a flu complicated by an ear infection. Reaching that diagnosis would likely have involved magic on the part of the MD (or whatever you call a physician) and MDs don't get their licenses from Hogwarts, not even in the UK.
Do i understand this right that there still is no evidence and not even a small technical explaination how or why this even could be a issue? The title states no results have been altered, so what is it even about?

Honestly this still sounds like propaganda the way it is portrait. No actual information and a lot of finger pointing.
Places that have gotten expensive because they've become desirable places to live and convinced lots of people to move there? The horror!

The only real problem here is shitty local governance and NIMBYism that refuses to acknowledge reality and build more housing. In the end, it doesn't stop people from moving there, it just drives up costs and drives out natives and people lower on the socioeconomic ladder. If you want affordable housing markets, you have to build housing in response to demand.

Regardless, we're talking about NYC here, so the fact that Google is buying some building instead of leasing like they have been is a total non-story. It'll have zero effect on NYC.
The most famous bootrom exploit I think was the one named “24kpwn”. Here’s some background on it:

https://medium.com/@freakyn00b/understanding-24kpwn-c4d33bf0...
Except that in this case the previous poster was simply saying that the technique alone is the issue, not the tools.
Their "journalistic methods" are fraud, full stop. It's fabrication. Nothing they've ever released has been true, it's all either lies or heavily edited footage that draws a conclusion that is the exact opposite of the truth.
In the United States we do even better. We propose laws for values of pi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
I'm saying they're rare conditioned on the fact that you're searching for them.
Yes, it is. That was my point.
Do you think the processing of room acoustics might make a big enough difference that the speaker sounds as good as or better than more expensive options?

I'm wondering if it's a similar situation to the iPhone camera? The iPhone's camera sensor (AFAIK) isn't exceptional. It's their software that holds the magic. Could that be the case here - the speaker isn't exceptional, but the processing is?
I find the tech scene in NYC to be a lot more tolerable than other places. It seems like many of us here understand that we're small fish compared to, say, the sharks on Wall Street.
Pure Python 3D Rendering with PyRay (Interview)
The N1 had insufficient component level testing. They decided to go straight to full up tests due to the cost of the test stand needed.

The big complication with the N1 was that they tried to steer it with variable thrust, rather than the usual approach of thrust vectoring.
"I don’t doubt that there might be a few hotel executives that are willing to bet on this, and sign up at this very early stage at a discounted price, but contrary to the belief of many others, this is really unlikely, and it’s not worth spending too much effort on considering the expected return."

Not worth the expected return? This sounds like a case of you wanting 'instant gratification' and to be making huge amounts of money from the start, which is bogus. With a few customers you will:

1. Be getting the use cases, bugs, feedback directly from your customers

2. Show you can get some funding and are building something people will pay for (or if they drop you, you'll understand why)

3. Have numbers, knowledge, and customer referrals which will VASTLY help getting more customers. I.e. when you are in the sales pitch, saying "X hotels have been using this for a year, and have generated Y additional sales, and have learned Z metrics about their hotel guests" etc.
Just sell something on top of a blockchain protocol.
Think Ripple, but 100% private blockchain. Just don't allow anyone to sell to anyone but you.
Suddenly you've removed the volatility and deflation risk inherent to cryptocurrencies.

The bad part is you don't become insanely rich in 24h; but I think that time passed long ago.
Fast, Globally Scalable Data Streaming with Pulsar (Interview)
This isn't a unique problem to Kubernetes, it's an issue in general within the industry. There are very few competent operations people, and you'd think they'd be in high demand but in actuality operations groups are heavily mistreated compared to their software development peers.

I've abandoned operations as a career path and have now gone into product management, but I was an operations person for more than 12 years. In that time frame I learned very quickly that upper management considered the operations teams to be "system janitors" and that developers considered operations engineers to be their inferiors. The "move fast and break things" attitude is great sometimes, except it gives license to shortsightedness.

The reality is that operations is not a specialized skillset, in fact it's a generalized skillset made up of being a specialist in multiple facets of complex systems. There's simply not that many people out there who have that level of knowledge and understanding, and the industry has both perpetuated this problem by treating operations people terribly and worked around this problem by focusing on building stacks that require minimal operational overhead. Any good operations person could have been a software developer, but wanted to get beneath the abstraction layers. Instead, we get treated worse, paid less, and have less job demand despite being more competent. Most of the best ops people I've worked with ended up either leaving ops entirely, like myself, or becoming software developers to get a pay bump.

Luckily I got to work for a few decent companies along the way in my career that treated me well and I made a lot of life-long friendships with very smart people as well. So don't read the above as some deep complaint. It's just an observation of the reality that the incentives aren't there for smart and talented people to invest their energy in operations. I advise most of the young people passed my way to become software developers. They'll have more autonomy, get paid more, have higher job demand, and get treated better in general.
You think our government websites aren’t already messed up? Look at the ACA site for example. There are plenty of websites that suffer from mundane reliability and maintenance problems.

18F was a crucial step in modernizing our infrastructure and attracting people to work for their government who would normally never touch this Byzantine nonsense with a 10 foot pole.

God bless the people still in the government fighting for good tech.
Running my life off the grid with DIY Solar Power
> The Republican Party position for the last two decades has been that government is incompetent to do anything except defense and transfer money to the rich.

It's closer to five decades; to be honest, the Republicans have been something of a party of moneyed industrial interests since not long after the Civil War, but that didn't start transitioning into being really anti-government until they were up against Roosevelt and the New Deal Coalition, which promoted something of a realignment which made both parties more ideological and less regionally focussed. And the anti-government focus came into even more sharp relief after LBJ signed on to federal civil rights legislation, which led to the Republican Southern Strategy to reorient policy to pick up disaffected Southern Racists. To avoid overtly racist appeals, this largely focussed on anti-government appeals against federal policy.

But, while it understates the case in one sense, the “two decades” comment may be right in another: while the general orientation of the party has been in that direction for closer to five decades, the realignment between the parties was still a gradual thing, and it wasn't until the mid-1990s that the realignment had reached the point where that was hthr clear and consistent orientation of the party to which there was no significant dissent from major office holders, where it had passed from the usual stance of the party to the unquestionable dogma of the party.
They've only become desirable because of an influx of tech employers. Ergo, it makes sense for non-tech employed citizens to not want those employers to locate there (or expand).

Also, existing citizens who own and live in these locations take priority over people who want to move in. No one is entitled to additional housing when tech companies foist externalities of additional workers (workers who could work remotely!) on a geographic region.
I also would like to see some in-your-face actionable advice for the average user. I give a fuck now about climate change, what can I do, really, to influence a change in this and prevent doomsday? You could do something similar to what FFTF did for net neutrality.
Please forgive my ignorance: What is the 'SV' abbreviation referring to here?
Google Zurich (~250k CHF), Glassdoor 4.6

Facebook London (~100k GBP), Glassdoor 4.7

JetBrains Munich (~80k EUR), Glassdoor 4.8
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I don't see the similitude..?
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's a good point. There's a couple of links here that time-lapse the meter across a consistent 2D or 3D voxel space which gives a better idea of the radiation field, but some are clearly just driven by an arbitrary path chosen by the photographer.
Would it then make sense to plan for even more smaller engines? Like while BFR is meant to have 31 Raptor engines, could it have 60 Merlin engines instead or something?
Always be closing. You will never really know what your customers need if you don't have any!
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Hey, that's a joke: BuzzFeed made it.
It looks like sssniff just checks whether a handful of packets are smaller size than expected; isn't that completely trivial to fix? Granted, it's one step in a long game of cat-and-mouse.
Amazon's EKS is still in preview. I wouldn't expect it to be generally available (that is, stable) for several months at least. I've also heard reports that getting into the preview is really difficult at the moment.

It's using a new networking model: https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s

> Alpha This is an experimental release as part of the Amazon EKS Preview. Interfaces and functionality may change. Expect bugs (and please help us squash them). DO NOT use for production workloads.
If the average is $1500, then a number of transactions have been above average, so this isn't that unusual. There are a lot of reasons you might pay 5-10% above average: location, building quality and condition, how much deferred maintenance there is, historical or architectural significance, etc, etc.
It still beggars belief that anyone would add a critical external dependency to their product in order to save themselves the time of writing something like "left-pad". Depending on libraries that auto-update from "the cloud" and could completely remove or subvert vital utilities? What the hell.
That was a fun one to work on :)

iPhone Wiki is a better source though: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/0x24000_Segment_Overflow
Thank you for your correction! I'll update this shortly.
I would also want to be sure that someone else couldn't order something to my room. You'd need some sort of one-time use code/key or something, and then the friction gets even higher.
Which topics make good physics research problems
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You realize that your assertions are heavily influenced by the climate of where you live, right? While what you said makes a lot of sense for somewhere like Texas or Arizona, it is completely wrong for, say, the majority of Canada.
It's conditioned to output replays way more than make new jokes. But it does make new jokes occasionally.
Automatic security testing workflow
The new office has been open for 3 months and Google has had a presence in Boulder for a decade. Google is pretty far from "dictating...how they want want the neighborhood and city to be structured". The city council has promoted low growth and high housing prices for decades and will continue to do so.
So what's semiennial mean?
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Windows subsystem for Linux and sublime3
The minimum, mandated by the EU, is 20 days. Several countries have their own, higher minimum.

Professionals are often given one-two weeks beyond the minimum.

Working hours are as important as paid holidays. Working ~40 hours a week is normal (35, 37½, 41, it varies by country), although in some sectors working longer hours is more common.

There is a list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
I agree. I did not mean to refute your point, but to provide more context.
Democratize the Universe
Only if you do machine learning (140k EUR) or Big Data (110k EUR). German C1 is often a must; EEU citizens not welcome.
Ask HN: Which library would you like to see ported on language X?
As a practice exercise for every language, porting a library is a great way to have a better grasp of a language while filling a gap for its developers needs

It gives your learning project a real meaning and therefore helps with your motivation to learn.

I'm trying to build a list of libraries having this potential.

Which library made you think "I wish it was ported on language X" ?
100% agreed. A lot of the cloud computing products are simply re-implementations of what was created in the Erlang/BEAM platform, but more mainstream languages. IMO it's cheaper to invest in learning Erlang or Elixir than investing in AWS/K8s/etc.

Elixir and Erlang are basically a DSL for building distributed systems. It doesn't remove all of the complications of that task, but gives you excellent, battle tested, and non-proprietary tools to solve them.