skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that your main selling point is that you are good writers and communicators judging from your website. I bet you are getting hired because of these business skills and not because of your code. It's great that you can do both!
This notion of the distinction between contractors and consultants as a career status strikes me as similar to the distinction we make between developer and manager. And then, this is useful advice if what you want to do is manage, and code less.

I've been consulting professionally since 2005, and I think I've gotten pretty good at it? And my take on this is, graduating from "IC" to "manager" in the eyes of your client is presumably one way to ratchet up your status. But there are others, and I think they can be more lucrative.

Two straightforward alternative approaches to leveling up a consulting business that you've started by freelancing IC-type work:

1. Scale it out. Take on more work, find trusted people to subcontract it out to, eventually bring on a partner, standardize and methodologize what you do, get to the point where you can train other people to do it, start hiring people. You will probably find that when you get to the point of hiring consultants to work for you, your business accelerates naturally --- one of the most overlooked and important value components of most consulting businesses is on-demand availability, which is expands as your roster does.

2. Specialize. Start looking for commonalities between the projects that you do. Build tooling for them. Maybe publish some open source stuff. Build a specialty practice around that. You can do this repeatedly, for different areas; eventually, you'll do it for business verticals. In both kinds of cases you'll find that you become attractive to different kinds of companies when you change from generic to specific.

In neither case do you stop coding, or reposition yourself from the kind of company that writes code to the kind of company that tells other people how to write code.

We agree about hourly billing, though!
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You can just as easily get too close to your limits with high-rep work. In fact, if I've ever been injured doing something, it's been wear and tear from high-repetition strength endurance exercise. IMO neither is inherently mote dangerous than the other, you have to know your limits whatever the repetion range you work in.
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Related to the aside: It has been this way for a while. Check out ebay listings for < $1 USD shipped. Pretty much anything you could buy in a dollar store and more can be shipped to your door for less than a dollar if you are willing to wait up to 30 days sometimes. That entire inter-country shipping system is broken. From what I understand, they hand off the package with no fees going to the USPS. I believe it is that way for most tiny packages.
That doesn't help - you get better business meetings, but you don't get the non-business conversations that might lead to something more.

Real collaboration happens at the coffeepot - when people who didn't know they should talk accidentally run into each other and happen to talk about something they can help each other with.
would love to see a parts list for the ThreadRipper build.
"Market rate" is not sacred. There's a ratchet effect here: the potential upside for both the CEO and the people who decide on CEO hiring is extremely large, while the downside for both parties is artificially limited by corporate structures and liability law. Worst case for them is that the CEO parachutes to another company, and the other rentiers take a slight loss quickly made up by their other bets. "Market rate" means nothing when the market is so severely distorted, and the viability of the free market itself depends on removing such distortions.

As for aristocracy, where else do you think this ratchet effect leads? It leads directly to a level of inter-generational wealth disparity that is functionally indistinguishable from explicit hereditary peerage.
I don't think this is limited to articles! I'll often read the documentation for some library or tool and I'll encounter a weird flag or option where I end up wondering: what is this for? When you're not incredibly familiarized with a problem domain it can be hard to figure out the purpose of a lot of things.

By providing real examples you also help the reader build up a mental index in case they ever have to deal with a similar problem.
Bulk purchases by single buyers perhaps?
Let's be real concrete here with no analogies:
I asked you to define what you see as abuse?

Give me concrete examples.

I explicitly pointed out to you a social norm, not a violation of contract. I did not define it as breaking a contract or law. I defined it in terms of the social norm that was set by the creator of the license, or the "spirit" of the license.

I want to understand what you see as "violation of that spirit", not the legal definition. As mentioned, most definitions i've seen here are explicitly not what the creator of the license intended (again, not what they wrote down, but what they intended).
It's hard to see something that doesn't violate the spirit of the license as abuse.

For example, i often hear about "not contributing back" to GPL projects.
RMS explicitly was okay with "not contributing back" in the broader sense, as long as they released their source code. He had no expectation he would get anything other than a pile of source that he would have to deal with. He just wanted to be able to hack it, so as long as it had the right stuff, he didn't expect others to care. He thought it would be nice for sure, but it's not "abuse".

(A great concrete example of abuse is usually binary kernel blobs that have deliberate shim interfaces. This clearly violates the spirit of the license even if the license says it may be okay.)

So far i haven't seen what you have defined as abuse especially by "large companies".

Additionally, I pointed out to you the notion that large corporations are the ones doing the abusing is wrong under almost all definitions of abuse, spirit, legal, aspirational, you name it.
And here, there's a trail that leads to Amazon as the cause for disruption. In both cases, interested parties could know who was at fault but the result is the same: such catastrophic loss during the run of "the process" that the seller is out of business regardless.
What? When did it stop being an issue? Here in Ohio you most definitely still end up with bugs on your windshield.
Is this just the kernel, or the OS as a whole? This is probably a redundant comment, but maintaining a fork of a vendored product kind of defeats the purpose of using the vendored product. If at all possible I would recommend either to use the vanilla release, or fork it once and stop integrating. If you were shipping your custom FreeBSD to customers, and they were relying on it being FreeBSD plus your changes, I can see integration providing significant value. But since it's for a CDN, it's probably only being used by your team.
Are the little balls still intact or have they disintegrated?
Google Music has the first, possibly the second
It is probably a lot easier and cheaper to colonize the Sahara desert than Mars, but since there are less incentive to do it we won't.

Mars surface area : about 144.8 million km²

Earth Desert area* : about 44 million km²

[*] including Antarctica & Arctic
> I'm exhausted of this consumer society that quashes all appreciation for the dynamic, the non-linear, the relationships of the micro to the macro, of the individual to the mass, of ecologies.

I used to work as a microbiologist / geneticist. One of the standard exercises that beginning microbiology students perform is to

* take a small number of bacteria

* inoculate the bacteria into a sterile container of liquid "food"

* measure bacterial growth in the container versus time

Once the bacteria get going, there's an exponential explosion in their growth. "Exponential" growth continues until they begin to exhaust their resources (food). I used to think about that a lot ("How dumb the bacteria are. They can't plan for the future. They're unaware of how they fit into the larger picture and they just 'race' w/ each other until they deplete their own resources.").

Collectively, I'm not sure we are much different.
>In the UK doctors are not governed by the working time directive because the UK negotiated an opt out so hospital doctors work ridiculous hours.

In UK doctors are treated much worse than they are in the USA.
... oh and welcome to the club.

For more inspiration you can listen to the Tim Ferriss podcast with Jason Fried (CEO of Basecamp)[1] somwhere at the end of the pocast he is talking his hobby of restoring prairie.

[1]https://tim.blog/2018/07/23/jason-fried/
Or better yet -- make it that sound TV stations play when they've stopped airing for the day, for some extra nostalgia.
Like Shindler's story, in these times of cynism and selfishness, these stories make me a little at peace with humanity.

Even with all the flaws that these men had, they did something extraordinary good.
A significant amount of freedom is necessary to maximize people's potential in terms of both productivity and happiness. People also need clear expectations and accountability for their work. These are not mutually exclusive, but much easier said than done. I always lean toward more freedom than control and always will.

Sometimes you need to let people have enough rope to hang themselves. Sometimes you need to take risks that may come back to harm you for the betterment of your culture & team.

Micromanagement should be a last resort and is indicative of other issues that should be addressed.

I like what the Netflix culture slides say about Freedom & Responsibility [1].

[1] https://jobs.netflix.com/culture
To think he was told he was going to die so many years go, yet it still never stopped him from having ambitions as large as we have come to realize today.
I miss companies being able to put out one really good product without being bought out or trying to become a huge corporation. Github, Nest, Waze, Oculus, it's a long list. I think we'll lose SoundCloud to a buyout within the next year. Roku and Sonos are decent holdouts but I'm sure they're getting offers all the time.
I grew up in Punjab so I've seen probably hundreds of instances of turbans falling off during road accidents and general brawling. I've never heard of a turban wrapping itself around someone's neck as the result of a fall. They are tied in intricate designs, not just wrapped around the head like a scarf.

They can however easily fall off even before the person makes contact with the ground.
I am TRULY sorry to put this burden out there but someone explain to me the "transparently political" here because it's either too early in the morning or I am just not seeing it in that comment for some other reason.

Am I somehow out of line here for reading that comment as an allegory for what's happening with Amazon, as it happened with Sears, as it happened with many other institutional market players with enormous market power going back several hundreds of years? Is it wrong to ask if that loop is repeating itself now with Amazon and other giants of commerce in 2018? Because that's what I got from that commentary. It's an interesting thought experiment and I'm happy to oblige that.

Playing a game of knee-jerk word association just to torpedo the commentary as ad-hoc political, yes, in my opinion signals some lack of appreciation for history. If you want to call that ad hominem that's fine, but I'm not taking it back.
At what point will posts like these begin to be called, in reddit parlance, “shitposts”? I can’t count how many of these identical articles I’ve read in the past 6 months. Give it a rest
Are there plans for OCR?
Complain to the company's management. Organize other customers to shun the company. If it is really an example of gross negligence or overreach on the part of the company, their customers will care and hold them over the fire for it.

The company exists to make money which it can only do by servicing those who use it. It may gain a lot of power with a monopoly, but it must still provide its service or die.
I thought autophagy was what "cleans" the brain i.e. fasting or keto.
How vulture capitalists ate Sears
This is absolutely horrifying. Insects are mother nature's sex organs!

In 1945 after world war 2, the US had an abundance of ammunition supply and decided do make use of it in other means than warfare. They used that ammunition supply to make Chemical NPK fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and rodenticides. This was the onset of commercial farming and - not so ironically - exactly when the world insect popluation started decreasing! Now we are just seeing it in its most drastic potential.

Pesticides not only destroy the detoxifying organs in our body upon consumption, they also destroy the basis of every ecosystem on Earth!

They don't stop at just killing insects though. Ever hear of the phrase of war "Salt the earth", where countries would pour salt over airable land to knock out the enemies food supplies? Pesticides are salts! They destroy the Humus of the soil which contains all of the microfungi and microorganisms which have a symbiotic relationship with the roots of the plant to send filaments of nutrients through the roots and receive sap from the roots in return.

When you realize that the food you're getting is so much less nutrient dense than food that was farmed organically which actually obeys the laws of nature, you begin to realize that this commercially farmed food literally takes more energy and nutrients out of your body in the processes of digestion, metabolization, assimilation, and elimination than you get from the food!
Amazon can't send cops to my house if I decide I'm gonna keep selling my product on eBay or register for a new Amazon seller account. If you keep trying to run a business that's been condemned by local government eventually cops will show up and stop you from running that business.

The stakes are lower in the case of Amazon. You're not renting shop space. You're not sitting on as much inventory. You can jump ship more easily (kind of hard to relocate your business to another location). The trade-off is that they can also kick you out more easily.
Spot on. The downvotes on my post are telling...
The PC implementations are really horrible. I have an HP Z Book 3 and the trackpad is unusable for me. I was desparate to get a mouse instead.
Go take a look at OutSystems.
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This isn't slow, by evolutionary standards. The bugs are trying to adapt to a changing, rapidly increasing temperature.
>The study you linked does not support your claims.

It does support my claims - but that was not the purpose of the study so you'll actually have to read beyond the abstract to see it

>Also, professional athletes do both high rep and low rep weight training. The high rep build the strength but the low rep build the endurance to use the strength.

I agree - which is why I don't believe that heavy weightlifting is detrimental to one's ability to do multi-hour hikes.
> Use WhatsApp to talk to normal people. Use Signal for nerds.

This has been my go-to advice for a while now too! The key driving point is that amazing crypto is 100% useless if the person you're talking to doesn't use it, or uses it incorrectly.

The only sticking point with the above advice is the nerds who think they understand crypto but don't and insist on you using some crazy app :/
There's Lisp as an Alternative to Java: http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf
Does being bored make us more creative? (2014)
Hear that Elon?
Ah but that would keep the audio devide alive, and my headphones )both the wired pair and the bluetooth pair) would keep emitting that white noise.

But that's only a problem if I want to keep them in. Otherwise Cage's 4'33" might well do ;)
nextcloud talk looks good. btw, telegram web has mobile support.
> exploit permissive licenses to the max

I feel like many people deciding to use an open source license for their project never consider the consequences of such choice. They use OSS because it's "cool" or they hope to get some free work done for them. If you pick an open source license and someone uses your code to build something else within the license boundaries, that is not a Bad Thing(tm).

I have released many open source projects under MIT and GPL licenses and I have no problem with anyone repackaging it however they please, as long as they respect the license terms.

On the other hand, when I pick an OSS software to build upon, I pick it exactly because of the license and plan to use the license to the extent it is allowed. If the license doesn't look like a good fit, I use something else or write my own code.

I don't feel like Google/Amazon/etc. owe anything to anyone just because they made it and now have a lot of money.
I did the same experiment, and often have the same thought. We might be intelligent, but collectively we do seem to act in the same manner.
I wish we could loose mosquitoes and ticks...
Segfaults on my 18.04 ubuntu.
Designing a VoiP application on GKE
This is not accurate. I used WSL professionally for 2 years until recently switching back to Linux for unrelated reasons¹. The only issue I have had with WSL is filesystem performance. However, that is largely a result of the real-time virus protection in Windows Defender. Real-time protection is practically useless and slows down the rest of your computer as well, so disabling it is a pretty easy fix.

WSL is actually a fantastic piece of software. I can't believe how easy it is to install literal Arch Linux onto my Windows machine. It's also fairly simple these days to integrate VS Code with it.

¹ I've gradually lost enough vision in both eyes that I frequently lose track of the mouse cursor, so I switched to Linux for i3wm and better keyboard controls. Otherwise I would likely still be using Windows + WSL.
>Isn't the simpler explanation that they want to make as much money as possible?

Yes, as I said, they're neoliberals ;)
Even before then it's highly likely that they're gathering as much metadata as possible:-

* who's chatting with whom,

* via what means (text, audio, video),

* conversation time and duration,

* location of participants,

* how much data transferred etc.

There's a lot they can gather and imply from all that when WA users phone numbers will be known to FB, so they can graph connections via others' who run the FB app or previously shared their contact info. Also those who are perhaps logged in on, or simply visiting other sites they track via like/share buttons etc. Whilst what you say is encrypted, the circumstances around that conversation can be used, at least to advertise to you.
Mozilla Awards $79K to Wick Editor Through Open Source Support Program
This might be an example what the GP meant about doing core work in addition to squatting. If your lower back is strong, your abs need to be strong too to keep things in balance.
Snowkel App
I will be releasing an App I call the Snowkel, Improvised Word for Snorkel. A News Trending App, That requires everyone, To edit, submit their trends on the App. And thus there will be an Algorithm which determines their Articles by the Number of Reads it has, Until such time their Post / Article becomes a Trend, and shows up in the Top Most layer of the Website.
Ask HN: Doordash account hacked. I have their address and phone. What to do?
I have a Doordash account that used a shared password that was leaked in a data breach. It's been used three times to order food to addresses in Edmonton, Georgia, and Waterloo, Ontario. I've never been to any of those places.

I've already changed my DD password and contacted them for refunds. But I have the delivery addresses and phone numbers of the recipients.

Guessing this was a kid who found the pass in a breach and is messing around. My goal is to put the fear of Johnny Law into them. What's the best way to accomplish this? Report these to the local police depts in each city? Something else?
The Bezos way: sleep, puttering, and three high-quality decisions a day
Chinese shippers in many cases do get cheaper rates than local shippers. The Universal Postal Union sets rates between postal services for different countries, which are called terminal dues. I'm not sure what the terminal dues are for China -> UK specifically, but for China -> US, the shipping is much cheaper for posts originating from China to the US than from within the US to within the US. It's centered around China -> US terminal dues, but this article[1] gives a good overview.

This is also why you won't see many Chinese sellers shift wholesale inventory overseas. It might lessen the transit time from purchase to delivery, but would drastically increase their shipping costs.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/united-nations-subsidy-chinese...
Except rlua goes out of its way to look like anything but the Lua C API. So you've immediately lost all productivity for people who know that abstraction well. Additionally, anyone whose spent any significant amount of time in that space knows of the amateur alternatives, and this looks no different.
Not sure what "a bit too far along" is, but TinySeed's intent seems to be to help those on the lower rungs of profitability (even no profitability) to grow revenues more quickly. I see their mentorship as invaluable to anyone who hasn't reached a point in their revenue trajectory that they're earning a full-time income, with enough extra to invest in the growth they want/need.
Mumble / Murmur are close to this, but without chat history syncing. End-To-End PFS encryption though. Very decentralized, but you can tie it into ldap and other authentication systems. I linked in another part of this thread.
Actually from what I can tell, it is a more liquid model.

In Augur you buy shares of an outcome, and the value of those shares can change day to day, and you can sell at any time. Whereas with a bookie, you bet on the outcome with fixed odds. Bookie lines may shift, but your bet will be locked in and unable to appreciate in value.

I'm not sure why bookies haven't implemented this share model, maybe its needlessly complicated.
Sounds like image steganography. If anyone wants a python example here ya go https://github.com/jermainezhimin/culpriteCTF/blob/master/LS...
Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep into the Near Future of AR and VR
I don't get the whole "macros make your code incomprehensible" thing that is always brought up. A macro is just another way to add abstraction to your program.

You might as well say functions are bad because without reading the source code for the function you don't know what the function does.

A macro that looks like one thing but does something else is a bad macro. We don't throw away functions just because someone can write a function named "sort" that actually randomizes it's argument rather than sorting
I've already got dedicated eBook readers and article stashers (Pocket, usually), but I can see an excellent use for this: Gamefaqs walkthrough companion.

Right now if I want to play through a game with a walkthrough (usually HTML or text only), I load it into my tablet and leave it in a browser window. This is an inefficient way of doing things, because the page generally sits there for about a month as I'm slowly progressing through the game, and very often the browser will forget its place if the tab loses focus or if the tablet goes to sleep.

This will also probably be much better for going through Programming Books than my normal e-reader app.
I found it harder to make a clean, smooth user interface. Lots of workarounds to make things fit into the right place, to make the right thing in focus for user input. I'm not a professional front-end developer so maybe I just wasn't any good at it, but achieving a basic level of quality was much harder.