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I don't work on computer vision specifically, and can generally suffer a few seconds of latency, but we have a two-stage process that I think applies fairly generally

1. all lowish-level production code (importing, transforming, modeling) is written in packages, which are thoroughly unit-tested with a CI system

2. that code is wrapped up into docker container(s) in separate repositories, which are built and integration-tested with CI. In addition to the Dockerfile and any testing scripts, there's usually a single code file here which handles I/O specifics, API endpoints, and primarily calls code from the package

This works well with R or Python and should work with others; we use Gitlab for the free private repos and awesome built-in CI.

This doesn't cover where the data or models are stored, but that varies more per-project for us. Lately we've been using Pachyderm and loving it, but you can get pretty far with a postgres instance for data and storing trained model objects in S3/GCS.
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You're operating at a much higher level than myself but this is very inspirational: I'm 43 and shooting to launch my first app/business/product this summer.

Good luck!
I love this post for celebrating hard work.

It feels like so much Silicon Valley culture is focused on giving programmers distractions at the office that are not work, like foosball tables and ping pong.

I like the idea that the reward of work is satisgsction with the outcomes rather than non work recreational perks.
I'm not sure I understand your question.

The submission links to an article at fox13memphis.com. The user I'm replying to suggests a "much better" article at seattletimes.com because it includes content which I'm pointing out is already contained at the submission link.
Say you give an estimate on a project that includes work to address side-effects and other problems, and they ask you to provide a revised estimate assuming you didn't address those problems, you know, just so they understand the costs and can perhaps invest in other solutions to those problems. Not illegal, not even really unethical, but it's fishy because they're probably setting you up to be the engineer who didn't address those problems.
Uninstalled Fb app and messenger long time ago. I can't uninstall whatsapp even if i wanted to and it's hard to uninstall Instagram.
Perhaps on a related note, our roads are in embarrassing condition.
Elizabeth Warren's book "The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke" describes this phenomenon pretty well
Number 2/3 sort of already exist. At least, the notifications part for concerts, and the "Spotify singles" for the exclusive tracks (it's not really the sense you meant, though).

Being able to buy the concert tickets simply and easily would be killer though. Especially if it meant I wasn't paying $14 "convenience fees"
Sigh. I disposed of an otherwise perfectly good 49" television last week because something on the IR receiver board failed. What leads I could find for a replacement board (a) had them listed around 50% of what a comparable replacement television costs today and (b) didn't actually have any to sell me.

Upside, I now have a much bigger and nicer TV that was 40% of what the old one cost.
That falls under his 1.
I think the insights are good ones, I just don’t enjoy being hardcore about productivity. Ideally I’d get a whole lot done every day, some days it doesn’t happen like that. I’m not pausing a CD player when I go to the bathroom.
But whether or not you should create fake reservations to harm your potential clients so they give you money is pretty damn simple. Sure you can find complex ethical dilemmas, but most issues at work are either right, wrong, or unclear. Getting stuff in writing helps keep honest people honest, and can help make things clearer. I think GP's point is that getting it in writing doesn't move it from wrong to right.
There's a theater chain in my area that is always crowded and does really well: Alamo Drafthouse.

Their pitch? Pretty much comes down to good service including food and cocktails, at low prices, and a no-noise policy.

You buy a ticket ahead of time picking your exact seats. Tickets are about $11. The pre-show instead of being ads are usually short videos or clips from earlier movies. Food is around $12-16 an entree, alcoholic beverages are between $6 and $20 with most cocktails around $12.

Oh, and if they see your phone or if you're talking during the movie, you get kicked out with the option to be banned.

It's an amazing movie experience, and I regularly go at least once a month. Their food is genuinely good restaurant quality and their drinks are creative, often times with special cocktails or entrees to go along with big releases. It's obviously not an every day thing, but it's cheap enough to be a once a week kind of thing.
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That sounds like a problem with the trucking industry, not Uber. So the trucking industry as a whole should be the thing being taxed more.
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The rationale for taxation has changed over time. We are no longer on the gold standard, so the reasons for taxation are different. But overall the reason for taxation hasn't changed, which is to maintain the demand for the central money supply. This of course is the rationale for sovereign entities with their own money supply like the United States. The rationale for taxes for towns, counties, etc is completely different.
Source: plausible extrapolation based on Uber's storied history of violating labor laws to one extent or another in just about every market they've entered.
I'd say it was an unintentional lesson in the merits of grit. When I went back to school my attitude towards my non-computer science courses did not change -- I still very much disliked them. However what did change was that I decided I was going to graduate no matter what. It didn't matter how I felt or how much I'd rather do something else, I was going to study and graduate.

And I did. And it was hard as hell. But I graduated and for the first time I really felt a sense of personal accomplishment. I hadn't finished college because someone told me I was supposed to, I did it because I wanted to.

Once I left college and I got to work full-time in my field of choice this lesson paid dividends. When I have a problem I really enjoy trying to solve, the hours can melt away. When I have a problem I really don't want to solve, I can still sit down and force my way through it. And don't get me wrong, my brain still fights against me in those moments ("Hey guy, go check Hacker News or Reddit!"). But most of the time I am able to recognize when it is happening and reign it in as necessary.
Apparently journalists have their own whiteboard interviews/take-home exercises!
Also a long time customer here for Spotify. 2 is very interesting and I would certainly like it. 3 I am not interested in. I hate when other platforms do it, so I am not interested in the platform I use doing it as well. Maybe I am just not used to it. Netflix originals, however, I have no problems with. I wonder if I am the only one who feels a different opinion on visual/audio segregation. For music it just feels... blah.
Indeed, that is the justification for planned obsolescence, the environment be damned.
It is probably harder to automate the last few miles. The Uber depots in the video can be standardized, but terminal pickup and dropoff is legacy. That cramped loading bay in the downtown Giant Eagle in Pittsburgh is never gonna get much better.
I remember uninstalling Facebook was pretty difficult. I was only able to truly get rid of it by rooting my phone(I didn't do it for that purpose, but that ended up being one benefit). They must pay Samsung a lot of money because there's no good reason why a non-critical app would be so hard to remove.
Trains are much less flexible. They have more constraints on their schedules, they have to share tracks, they only go certain places, you have to stop the entire train with all its freight in order to add any more freight, the unloading and loading points are much harder to scale.
The founder of Onavo is shady and a sociopath.
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I did the same almost two decades ago. Old AT power supplies on Proliant servers would turn the server off only after you lifted your finger. I have pressed it on a wrong server. Had to reach with my foot to the phone lying close by on the floor to call accounting department to log off the application to prevent corruption when the Novell Netware server powering it was was rebooted.
If they were genuinely interested in making it easy you'd see pricing information every time you're spinning up a new EC2 instance / whatever other service, right there, without needing to go pull up the cost calculator. Have an instant "estimate my current bill" button, etc, etc.
Is that due to the use of PCH in MSVC, so the hotspots only happen if the headers change?

What does clang offer in this regard? Is incremental build sufficient?
Does "5 times cheaper" even mean 1/5th of the price?

To me, 5 times cheaper implies the starting point is not price of the thing being compared to. "5 times cheaper" sounds like it could be 80% of the price of normal methods.

Method A: $1005
Method B: $1000
Method C: $975

Method C seems to be 5 times cheaper than Method B.
They could give it a pretty large spin on being great for the musician as well.
Can't answer the age factor into YC's acceptance decision, but as a YC founder, I have met many founders in their 50s and 60s in the last few batches.

You should definitely apply to YC regardless of your age, circumstances, etc.
I edited the original comment to include a source. Serious talk of self-driving cars was around by then, as they had already successfully used auto-pilot in planes, it wasn't that infeasible.
"available free of charge" And that's the point were you become the product.
> However, the economic pie will be enlarged and there will be more to share. How the fruits of technology will be distributed will depend to a large extent on negotiations and politics.

I think this is you ceding your original comment. I think most people clearly understand this is merely a (potential) distribution problem.
Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) were set to put Bank Tellers out of a job, but since its introduction, the number of Bank Tellers increased [0]. While I can't guarantee that something similar will happen for truckers, automation does not guarantee that fewer humans will be employed doing that specific job.

[0] http://www.aei.org/publication/what-atms-bank-tellers-rise-r...
>Nowadays holding it for 5+ seconds still turns the system off, I wonder if this is a BIOS or a hardware configuration. Probably it's the PSU's logic, to power off if the 2 pins are shorted for more than 5 seconds.

It is BIOS+Hardware (the PSU is not involved).
As a matter of fact to "switch on" a ATX power supply (not connected to a motheboard) you normally use a paperclip (or a short piece of cable) to connect the green with any of the black see:

https://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=394

The whole point is that (unless the PSU has a mains switch and it is turned off) an ATX power supply is always partially ON, powering (parts of) the motherboard at all times (this allows for such things as Wake on Lan or switch on via CTRL+F11 or dedicated key on the keyboard).
Launch HN: Shogun (YC W18) – Storefront Builder for ECommerce Sites
We're Finbarr and Nick, co-founders of Shogun - a storefront builder for eCommerce sites. We started the company 3 years ago. Initially it was a page builder for Rails apps[1, 2]. After about 9 months, we couldn't convince many companies to pay us for that, but one of our prospects wanted to use it for a Shopify store. So we wrote a Shopify integration, waited a week, and gave up.

Within a month of giving up, we had some paying customers, so Nick and I continued to work on it as a side project. I went to work as a software engineer, and Nick moved to Thailand. We continued to work on it in our free time, and figured maybe someday it could be a lifestyle business.

But it continued to grow. And grow. And grow. By spring of 2017, it was making enough to pay Nick and me a modest salary, so I left my job and Nick came back from Asia. By fall, our growth wasn't slowing down, and we figured that this could be a full-on software company.

We applied to YC, and Shogun grew 30% during the month between our application submission and our interview. We got in to the Winter 2018 batch.

Today Shogun is one of the most popular apps on Shopify. We just launched on BigCommerce as well and are now building out support for other eCommerce platforms.

In regard to tech, the hardest part has been implementing workarounds for all the bizarre quirks of each platform. We also build our pages to co-exist with the existing CSS and theme elements, so we have to be really careful with styling conflicts.

There are a lot of page building tools out there. Our major differentiator is that we focus on eCommerce specifically and integrate into your existing eCommerce platform/backend. Shogun is also developer friendly with strong controls over details like padding and margins. We also built in a "custom elements" feature that allows developers to code re-usable drag and drop templates. Finding the right balance where developers love it and non-developers can learn it is very difficult.

We're looking forward to hearing feedback and ideas from the community.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9257363

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9571603
Wow, what a blast from the past. When I first took the IC engines class, it was in that lab from your pictures. During grad school I helped move it over to the fancy new MERL building. I remember doing a project in undergrad to add closed-loop control of equivalence ratio via O2 sensors to the LS1.
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> These labs are private businesses

Yes, these ones are, but the ones that are part of law enforcement offices (particularly, the FBI’s lab) have been even more notorious problems (like the complete junk science of hair comparison) driven by a clear conflict of interest.
Well, what to say about a country that forces men to pay child support to ex-stepchildren?
Curious, what was the thought process behind removing the 'News' and 'Mass Media' request for startups?

Not sure when they were removed exactly, just noticed now.
I think that’s like saying one “uses” advanced physics every day because they use a cell phone. The OP question was probably asking more about what practical uses are there for normal people to actually use trig, the way you use arithmetic to calculate a tip at a restaurant.

To that I’d say: finding the height of something only knowing the length of the base and an angle. Or triangulating your position, surveying your property to make a garden, etc.
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The Xiaomi phones absolutely work. They're amazing for the price, and very popular as imports here in Ireland. There's always the chance they might have Chinese govt spyware however, as has been alleged with Huawei https://mashable.com/2018/02/14/huawei-prove-phones-not-spyi...
Literally, it means "can turner".

Originally the expression came from football (soccer), as it happens in a lot of stuff within Brazilian culture.

In 1950 Brazil lost the finals for the Worldcup to Uruguai at Maracanã, the country biggest stadium. It was a national tragedy that left the country depressed (see "Maracanazo"). A very famous journalist from that age, Nelson Rodrigues, complained that the country was under a "stray dog syndrome", feeling unworthy when it was a lot better than that.

The important thing to notice is that Rodrigues was talking exclusively about football. He hated politics and deeply despised any form of nationalism. He actually didn't hold the national character in esteem.

It was much later on, on the 90's after his death, that the expression was hijacked and twisted to antagonize any Brazilian that criticizes Brazil in front of foreigners.
weaving machinery is going to drive out of work all the textile workers!
I haven’t used vim in years so I’m not sure what those would be. But yeah it should only take like 20 minutes to add more if I can find a good cheat sheet.
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Emails and PO boxes can get you a long way when you are homeless.
> who have been driving our cargo around for whole generations

What does that add to the argument? Is there some inherited right to work in a specific line of work? Also, how many generations can that be? 3-4?
Ha, right, people definitely don't worship hard work day in and day out in Silicon Valley.
Doesn't hurt to do the same when writing UPDATE queries, `WHERE id=X LIMIT 1` ctrl+a `UPDATE...`
Wow, that's pretty crazy - ~5% bonds for conservative and ~7-8% for aggressive would have been more appropriate in my opinion. And I feel even those numbers may be a little optimistic.

Currently it's more like "what if you have a great market year every year until you retire" or "what if you can reliably beat the market" - neither of which is likely to happen.
Subsidized by whom? Norway is rich off oil and gas money.

With greater distribution of capital (not income, that's just more wage slavery), we could likely not only afford kids more, but also support social relations that make rearing kids easier. Society wouldn't be fighting you.

Mondragon and the cooperatives in Emilia-Romagna might be work looking at.
I have no idea where my copy of that book is now so thinks for a link to that archive!
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...oops.
I can't uninstall whatsapp because my entire family communicates via whatsapp.
http://firecalc.com has better math and less distracting gunk like the nonsense ways to "Save more"
Coding is a very HN comment :)

More realistically, he can do the trucking office work from the truck.
I used to use it for events too, till they broke events pages in mbasic
+1 for A Random Walk Down Wall Street, it was really eye opening to see how unpredictable the market really is.
It is a bit longer, but how about a series where you outline writing a good README.md for a github project. This would include the descriptions, examples etc. Many times I will come across a project on github that seems interesting, but there is only a single sentence in the README.md
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I agree and working at a place like id Software is definitely not the place to get complacent. Lots of big enterprise companies are totally fine with that type of work though and you can easily get through your whole career without ever working super hard - or maybe you work hard when you start, get kinda burned out and then don't anymore.
Can you sort that out from simple insecurity about not meeting society's standards from a traditional family? And if that is the case, wouldn't it be more prudent to change education or provide counseling to some couples in that situation?

And I have no problem with people getting divorced. Divorce rates are a ridiculous standard to rely on because it is based on moral principles. We make it really easy for people to get married, with little to no education about what a healthy relationship might include. I'd rather folks get divorced while they can be on friendly terms, actually, and I'd happily require them to go through some counseling to learn how to do so afterwards (so long as there is no abuse involved).

Women do physically produce the child and most can breastfeed or pump milk. Ideally, strong fraternal leave policies means she can get some support while doing this stuff. Even if the father doesn't live with the mother, he can still help out. After that, there isn't anything the woman does that a man can't do, especially while they are young. It just might take some education. Men do it all the time when the woman dies during childbirth, after all. And honestly, a woman should be up to date with education as well since her information could easily be out of date with current medical standards.
That's sort of the point. The reality is complex and the future is unpredictable. Simple calculators give false confidence in their results.
Makes it easier to jump to distributed systems that span multiple processes or machines, where you can’t just set a breakpoint. Also makes it easier to debug production systems, where you may have logs but can’t jump back in time to attach a debugger.
> PLEASE stop posting this stuff. Facebook should never be trusted.

Hi. I wrote the post and I disagree. There is a great deal of rhetoric and scaremongering these days when it comes to cyber security coverage in the media. I think it is important to actually look at the available data and ask direct questions derived from it.

I am fully aware that Facebook is not a bastion of privacy by any stretch, but collecting observable facts regarding this matter can allow people to better understand what is happening beyond “Facebook is invading your privacy” and decide how they feel about it.
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aren't most roads maintained (supposedly) via gas taxes?

The last time I looked into this, studies put it at something like 50% - 80% of costs paid for by fuel taxes. It's hard to come up with a straight figure because of so many levels of intermingled tax funds.
You have no idea what parent poster's income and skills are.
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No doubt, but I think it's just the nature of complex systems. You could invent a drug that cures all diseases and maladies, and there would still be practicing doctors for 5-10 years while the cost/distribution/red-tape was worked out.
Is there an upcoming product similar to instagram?

I really am over all the main facebook products, but seems like instagram has a monopoly on that specific category of apps.
The example code uses Allegro (http://liballeg.org/) which was one of my _favorite_ libraries when I was learning to make games as a teenager in the early 2000s.

I had come from a QBasic background and was trying to learn C++. QBasic was wonderful because it put everything a budding game developer could want at their fingertips—full screen graphics and text modes, drawing primitives, sprites, rudimentary sound and music using the PC speaker, etc.

In 1999 I got my first taste of C++ with MSVC++ 6.0, but soon lost interest. I had to limit myself to text-based command-line programs, or attempt to learn the Windows APIs, which seemed way over my head at that point. What I really wanted was C++ but with QBasic-like APIs.

Probably around 2002-2003 I discovered Dev-C++ and the Allegro library. It was exactly what I had been looking for and more! It reinvigorated my interest in programming and helped me learn tricky concepts like pointers and memory management. I probably wouldn't be an engineer today if it weren't for Allegro.
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Should be a fun day when people realize they can pretty easily hijack automated trucks.

I assume you could either get in the back of the thing while it's moving, or simply slow down in front of it and cause it to stop. Unload your newly acquired goods and be on your way!
The counter-example would be the Industrial Revolution. Compared to 150 years ago, nearly every job has had the amount of work necessary to do it dramatically decreased, yet wages increased dramatically.