skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make sure you have a tight scope, have a note that features beyond that scope will happily be quoted and approved by them as an additional milestone/fee.

Break the project up in to milestones.

I would move your estimate up to 300 hours (or more if you think they have the budget for it). And break it in to 10 milestones, over a time of 10 weeks. (or 2 week milestones if you've worked with them before, and they pay reliably)

I would probably not show hourly amounts in your estimate but I would use at least $50/hour for your quote/estimate for total fee of at least $15k.

Work through the project milestone by milestone, you complete a milestone, setup the app on a test location, they review that milestone, give feedback and pay for that milestone. If you have worked with them before you could go 2 weeks at a time if you/they don't want weekly invoices. The important thing is you don't do too much work without them seeing it, testing it and paying for it. That way you are both happy with the project.

Use stripe for payments/subscriptions.

I know you're mainly React and Python, and considering Flask but I would check out Laravel (it has Laravel Cashier built in for working with Stripe Subscriptions, there is also Laravel Spark (SaaS in a box using Vue for the front end). These could save you some time.

If you can build it don't discount yourself, there are lots of seasoned developers that would have trouble with this and you will too, you will bear that cost in extra time figuring things out that you didn't expect to take you very long.

Include a monthly fee for maintenance, updating the framework as new versions are released, automated backups, etc. This shouldn't be a non-trivial amount. Maybe set it up as an annual maintenance fee, include it in your quote for the first year, and then invoice them after the first year.

Good luck with your first large app.
So in your view who are the principle agents pushing for the backstop?

The DUP are pro brexit, but I suppose would like the best of both worlds if they could, but weren't in favour of the proposed backstop.

Teresa May, appears to me to be the principle agent, but while a remainer, seems to be more in favour of keeping her party together, than doing what's best for the country. So I cant really see her going for the backstop, and continuing to defend it without good reason.
> leading tool for real-time crash reporting and tracking down errors to their source. Every month, almost 1 million developers across tens of thousands of organizations find the root cause of their errors faster because of us

curl https://sentry.io/
curl: (7) Failed to connect to sentry.io port 443: Connection refused
Variation in general intelligence and our evolutionary history
Do we consider self-driving cars "parked" or "loading" if it's parked in a yellow or white zone? The definition today seems to be if you have a human behind the wheel, you can generally squat for a bit as you're assumed to be loading but what about a self-driving car? How do we know it's not waiting to pick someone up vs. someone just double parked it there?
One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
Why would it have to happen on the drive?
> We look for candidates’ ability to mentor and add value to technical discussions while understanding their own limitations, supporting a technical decision without acting as a decision-maker.

It's nice that they are keeping this in mind. I was a technical lead for a new product in the company at my last job and had a new engineering manager hired over me. I ultimately quit because he wouldn't let me do my job, insisting on making every technical decision, and that he knew better. Many of them were poor decisions. He was a mid-level engineer with a big ego in a manager's position, and was given the power to do whatever he wanted.

I've been working professionally as a software engineer for almost 10 years now. By far the worst experience I've ever had.

Making sure that an engineering manager knows their limitations is very important.
Yes, I agree the premise was great, which is why I bought the book. Unfortunately the execution was very bad, for exactly the reasons you mentioned. Very, very disappointing.

In contrast, Igort and his Japanese Notebooks seem to treat the Japanese with respect, even when they do things that seem strange or unappealing to him (like the stressful work environment of manga artists).
Wow this really does make it worse. Google is intentionally inconveniencing users who turn off location tracking, not for any technical or privacy reason but just to try to get them to turn it back on.
linuxbrew / homebrew does a pretty good job at downloading packages and compiling them.

The wildcard is cross-platform. vcpkg doesn't seem to be 100% there and has many bugs for example the folders where includes and libraries are kept changes based on platform.

The other problem is static vs dynamic linking, as well as conflicts between different combinations of cmt libs etc. it gets very messy quickly.

Its almost like you're spending more time trying to get all the libraries you want working together than actually coding.
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We'd love to talk to anyone interested, but in particular we are looking to bring folks on in:

- SRE/DevOps: Kubernetes-admin, scalable monitoring across the firewall, hybrid cloud/on-prem deployment

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Or a single page with a single word:

No
And this is...good?
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https://simplyevents.io/Direct-France-Pays-de-Galles-match-en-direct-tv

https://simplyevents.io/France-vs-Galles-en-direct-on

https://simplyevents.io/France-vs-Galles-en-direct-on-Tv

https://simplyevents.io/France-vs-Galles-en-direct-on-Sky
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
One of the weird, nearly constant cultural boundaries is fermented foods. I suspect even without the tariffs cheese will still be expensive in Japan.

It doesn't really 'go' with a lot of the cuisine. I mean, if you handed me donburi with cheese in it I'd probably say, "Okay, that's weird but it could work so let me try it," but I'm wracking my brain trying to think what other dishes you could fit in it. Certainly ethnic food from Europe and the Americas, but how else would you go about naturalizing cheese into the diet?
Well, that's not the real issue, the real issue is that unloading and loading of taxis at airports is at best chaotic.

The local airport has similar issues with Lyft or Uber, which are in a separate zone from the taxis, so if it were possible to optimize better they probably would've tried already.
I've always been apt to push for a more technology-oriented manager due to logistics because I don't need/want a non-technical "career coach" calling the shots on implementation/execution when they don't even have an IDE installed on their laptop... which is why I feel they specifically nailed it with this - "We look for candidates' ability to mentor and add value to technical discussions while understanding their own limitations, supporting a technical decision without acting as a decision-maker."
Yes! As a west coast native and sometime visitor to the midwest, I'd say that is true for the whole western US at least. If you learn to read the forecasts and maps you can actually start to grok it and intuit the mechanics.

You can start to imagine the jet stream whipping like a hose and understanding that the exact rate of its swing might vary, causing weather fronts to sweep across the plains a little earlier or a little later, or steering the atmospheric river a little north or south as it sprays the coast. This is the mechanism behind those sudden wild changes in Chicago, when you switch between northern to southern weather in a single day.

And in the short-term data, you can watch a radar animation and get pretty good at predicting when a rain wall or big thunder cell is going to cross your location, and what to expect on a quick errand.

The only thing you cannot reason your way through is when the maps indicate large areas of instability and you really just have to set your mental threat condition and wait to see whether something erupts over your head or not. Afternoon thunderstorms in the mountains or coasts often have this uncertainty to them.
You... Can install multiple things in Windows at once... You can also uninstall multiple things at once... Just find the uninstaller exe and run em all at once.
Hiring is a hard problem, and I don't think these are good solutions to optimizing the front of the funnel.

If I was applying to a position and was given this, it would immediately signal that the company doesn't respect my time. It's clear that they want me to put in work without any investment on their part, and a coding exercise with no previous interaction does the same.

I may be biased as an engineer at a large, well-paying tech company with a few years of experience. If I was desperate for a job, for instance applying for a first job, I may be more willing to put up with the power and respect imbalance.

> how they speak, how they look like

What if a candidate isn't able to speak? I'd also hope that no decisions are being made based on how the candidate looks.
+1, I would rather have the cruft than have magic annotations. These dumb data classes also tend to proliferate when you are using other annotation heavy magic libraries like hibernate/spring. If you are having a dumb data class that is not a class that is meant to be serialized on disk (protobuf/avro etc.), then you are likely doing something wrong. See if you can avoid it.
I disabled web and app activity and then voice commands stopped working in Android Auto so I had to turn it back on. Why does Android Auto need my web and app activity to process sppech and search for me? Sheesh.
'Panelist' is just the term for that role in a market research program, and that's also what Google calls them:

https://support.google.com/audiencemeasurement/answer/756613...

But this, too, is irrelevant. Is there a contract? (Yes.) Are they being paid pursuant to the terms of that contract? (Yes.) They're contractors.

Can you find me a lawyer who's argued otherwise?
When discussing UU one has to mention that it had simply insane system requirements at the time. If I remember correctly it required a 386DX with at least 2MB RAM, which at the time of release meant a PC worth several thousand bucks. To boot, it was also a pretty expensive game. Wolfenstein OTOH ran fine on a 286 in fullscreen, AND it was shareware. That's why everyone and his dog played it, although its engine was less advanced than UU's. It was a very deliberate decision made by id/Carmack, and it payed off big time.
No it's obviously bad.
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The solution in my experience (also the approach at Google) is to always build from source but cache the build artefacts. This is how Buckaroo works too (although it is Buck instead of Bazel).
Articles on the fear of the Earth's field flipping are, as expected, not very realistic. The best current knowledge is that it takes thousands of years for the field to flip and the current fluctuations are within normal bounds. The wikipedia article on the Earth's magnetic field[1] is pretty good. See relevant quote from it below. Scientists recently updated the standard Gaussian coefficients used to describe the Earth's field a bit earlier than the usual 10 year adjustment. This is because the field has changed a bit quicker than the recent past and people are more interested in having a high accurate model these days, among other reasons. The release of this new model is why these kinds of stories are in the news at the moment.

The Earth's magnetic field is created mostly by the convecting liquid iron/nickel outer core of the Earth. It is a quite turbulent system and can not be modeled very well for numerous reasons. Here are a few:

The pressure and temperature is so high that depth (2900-5100km below the surface) in the Earth that is impossible to create similar conditions on the Earth's surface for more that milliseconds on milligram samples. The only measurements that can be made of the core are from seismic waves passing through thousands of kilometers of the heterogeneous Earth. We have decent measurements for the Earth's magnetic field only since people have been recording compass readings (1600AD or so) and really good global measurements only since satellite readings starting in the 1960's. IAAPM (I am a paleomagnetist)[2] and am happy to answer questions about this topic.

"At present, the overall geomagnetic field is becoming weaker; the present strong deterioration corresponds to a 10–15% decline over the last 150 years and has accelerated in the past several years; geomagnetic intensity has declined almost continuously from a maximum 35% above the modern value achieved approximately 2,000 years ago. The rate of decrease and the current strength are within the normal range of variation, as shown by the record of past magnetic fields recorded in rocks."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223645
How would you distinguish them now?
Yet not only are you so certain that it's hard, you're willing assign all sorts of benevolent motives to Google.

Google would change the rate at which your terminal cursor flashes if it could find a way to monetize it.
This shows how just trying to protect your privacy alone doesn't work. Facebook relies on the unintentional betrayal of your friends and associates.

You might not have put your phone number into facebook, but someone you know put your number in with your full name and the facebook app harvested it. Facebook now has your phone number in your shadow profile.

Everyone less privacy savvy than you will inadvertently permit a corporation to harvest your personal information to profit from.
I don't understand how power, internet and retail companies deal with peak demand ! /s

You deal with peak demand by having a supply that is equal to the peak. Automatic Rideshare companies can self balance over a large area, watch the predictable trends that show up during a year and so on and will print money and thus have a lot of capital.
I'd been looking at the GPD Pocket 2. Thanks for this review.
Uh, Azure revenue, by many accounts, is greater than AWS:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/10/29/1-microsof...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/04/27/microsoft-...

And sorry, G Suite is a joke compared to desktop Office for serious work. It doesn't matter what the youngin's prefer, what matters is what gets (or facilitates getting) real work done in the enterprise, which generally revolves around Excel and PowerPoint in some fashion.
Can you give any tips on how you find people to outsource to? Where do you look? Do you interview them? Do you give them a trial period of some sort? Do you do fixed costs or hourly rates? How do you agree on prices per task? What do you do if you're not happy with the quality or they're late?

Thanks for the article by the way. It takes a lot of bravery to be this transparent about your earnings and expenses.
The driveway...

That nust be a different planet than the one I live in.
G Suite is very appealing over MS Office with the collaboration and version history features until you experience waiting MINUTES for spreadsheets to update. If Google moved some of the processing from the user's browser to their servers then, I believe, more people would make the switch.
always love to see your posts man!
yep, me too. it's depressing.
Real-Time Image Stitching for Automotive 360 Vision Systems (2014) [pdf]
Agreed.

Or she could have assumed, quite reasonably, that Deslisle was a dumb foreigner who could blurt out what she said to whatever person, out of ignorance.

There's another horrible bit near the end where Deslisle is on a tour where they describe alleged torturing of Koreans by US soldiers, and Deslisle thinks (sorry, the bad translation is mine) "our tourist guide was beautiful, and after hearing so many descriptions of torture, I began to imagine myself as a US soldier practicing new torture methods of my own invention on her".

I was speechless after reading that, my little remaining sympathy for Deslisle completely evaporating.
They aren't infeasible; a real lisp could target Python. However, just bolting on lisp syntax to python ends up in an uncanny valley of "not python" and also "not lisp."

I would actually recommend watching the entire youtube video I posted earlier (Clojure for Lisp programmers). Rich talks about a lot of the design decisions that went into Clojure. Some decisions I agree with, some I don't, but there was thought into creating a unified whole and he was clearly aware of work that had gone before, even when he chose to do things differently.

Note also that Clojure was his third attempt at doing a lisp/java interop, so there was a lot of previous experience backing many of those decisions.

Lastly, it's really easy to make a bad lisp-frontend for a language and a massive amount of work to make a good one. This is well known by anyone who has been in the lisp community for a while (if for no other reason than they themselves have made a bad one) so for better or worse, such frontends tend to be ignored.
There are a couple of issues here and it is important to be careful about not conflating them.

One, is the question of "how long" does a flip take? There is some evidence that it can take as few as 100 years[1], the previous consensus estimate (2004) was about 7000 years[2]. That is important because the faster it happens the more havoc it is likely to cause. If it happens over thousands of years then humans will adapt to a 'non constant' compass direction and find other ways to navigate. For example, GPS 'north' which can always point you to 0,0 on the globe.

The second thing is the timing. The pole is currently "racing" towards Siberia[3], so it may have already started flipping. At 30 miles a year it would take 416 years to fully flip. That is well within the 7000 year window and only 4x the 100 year window.

It is one of the more interesting confounding influences on climate change as changes in the magnetic field strength and orientation can change the amount of energy that makes it into the atmosphere from the Sun. That works both ways, either reducing the energy (more charged particles deflected) making it colder or increasing the energy (more charged particles impact the atmosphere) making it warmer.

[1] https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/10/14/earths-magnetic-field-c...

[2] https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100358

[3] https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/stories/ma...
Yes. I drove a taxi for a time during college and I remember drivers would camp at the airport for hours to get a $100 trip but would resent “short trips” despite you actually making more money on multiple short trips than a single airport run. Many of those drivers would use the airport wait time to take a shower, play poker, socialize, sleep. (For those not familiar, taxis at major airports wait in a slow moving off-site queue before you actually ever see them arrive at the terminals; that off-site often resembles a third-world village with everything from laundry, food vendors, ping pong, etc.) Drivers line up their cars, and they do their thing, returning to the vehicle from time to time to move it forward in the queue.

Autonomous vehicle “drivers” don’t need to shower, use the bathroom, eat or sleep, so instead they can be constantly moving rather than camping at airports. A car in motion is generating revenue, so I think autonomous taxis would be fewer in number than human taxis as well as behaving in revenue-optimizing ways (i.e. not camping at the airport.) Theoretically, those airport taxi villages would likely turn into charging stations with a few employees to provide necessary services.
How are you planning to make money from the keto app? What would people pay for?
I'm happy to adjust when people object, but it's relatively rare that that happens.
Except no matter how much we spend on the NHS - it still can't cope. Schools are full, and the transport system struggles everyday (the tube every morning is a miserable experience).

These every-day issues are the things that people are most concerned with.
Just because you don't like a city does not mean it isn't a city.
Lack of pre-defined and centrally-planned route.
Visas for Toronto?
Why? He's been in the industry for 12 years working for big companies. A single person working at MS or Google can save $50k a year.
> The problem is they are no longer best-of-breed for any of their markets

Operating systems? I personally love Windows 10 (now its more mature), and Windows Server 2019 is embracing containers.

On cloud, AWS is very entrenched, but Microsoft can capture a lot of the enterprise market. I've worked extensively with Azure, and I think it's a fantastic product. TBH, I'm not sure there is a "best of breed" cloud provider - they each have their strengths and weaknesses, and there is plenty of room in the market for all the big players as well as smaller, specialised ones.
Ask HN: How to charge and PAY our users?
Is there a good, simple platform to both charge and pay users?

e.g. in a paid content platform, with authors and readers

We are willing to take a fee hit if it takes care of taxes, international payments, etc.

You can argue that this is a core competency we need to handle and not outsource. But lets worry about that after the first 10K users..
Thanks, I meant to post this link instead: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/twilio-closes-acquisition-...
Its not a free trade issue, its a matter of contractual distribution agreements with geographical limitations. That's pretty common in many industries, not just those dealing in digital goods.
It's not an acquisition, per se, so much as some of it was acquired and the leadership changed at a time that major changes were being undertaken.

At a time when the executive controlled roughly 3/4 of Vice, Fox purchased 5% of it; other major media have done so. Shortly before this occurance, Gavin McInnes had left his leadership role over alleged differences of opinion on how to run Vice Media.

His departure, the arrival of large media conglomerates as large minority shareholders, and the rapid expansion of Vice into new properties and markets all occur within a very short time span.