skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that something already exists doesn't exclude the possibility of making money off of that idea. In fact, it actually validates the thought that the idea is viable.
Tldr; Blah blah blah, work harder, give your best, squeeze out all your juice mantra
I did not mean that of the documents 5% of every document was custom: I mean that of the say 100 docs I signed, 5 were not just standard out of the drawer with only the parties changed.

Disclaimer here is that I am not from the US and as I understand legal things are different there: many things were you get sued over in the Netherlands where the contracts could be an issue in the US, are basically laughed out of court here in NL. Anecdotal; someone tried to sue us for damages because there was a misspelling in a contract with him. The judge told him literally to not waste his time as the intention was clear. Also indirect damages are not taken very seriously here (and should be nowhere imho, but I hear they are in the US).

So I only made my comment based on my experience in NL, DE, HK, ES and UK and there I mostly saw copy/paste work while still being billed hours for that non-effort.
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Show HN: Golang RPN-calculator to assembly compiler
It wasn't a giveaway, it was a discount. If I sell cars for $30,000 each, and you negotiate me down to $25,000, have I given you $5,000 ? No.
> If academic Data Science programs aren't emphasizing data engineering as part of their curriculum, what differentiates a Data Science program from statistics or business intelligence?

In my experience, they're emphasizing software-based data work like machine learning, but not the (vital) peripherals like
cleaning/studying/loading data or monitoring and sanity-checking outputs.

A data science student might get a process-first task like making predictions from data using KNN, regressions, t-tests, or neural nets, choosing a method and optimizing based on performance. A statistics student might focus on theory, choosing an appropriate analysis method in advance based on the dataset, and reasoning about the effects of error instead of just trying to reduce it.

But the data scientist could still be training on a clean, wholly-theoretical dataset or a highly predictable online-training environment. The result is a lot of entry-level data scientists who are mechanically talented but stymied by real-world hurdles. Issues handling dirty or inconstant data, for one. But there are a lot of others: a tendency to do analysis in a vacuum, without taking advantage of knowledge about the domain and data source; or judging output effectiveness based on training accuracy, without asking whether the dataset is (and will stay) well-matched to the actual task.

I don't mean that to sound dismissive; there are lots of people who do all of that well, even newly-trained. But it does seem to be a common gap in a lot of data science education.
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You don't think

> feel free to pat yourself on the back for not "falling for it"

is condescending?

Because to me it sounds super condescending, flippant, and dismissive.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bizjournals.com/newyork/new...

?
A blockchain is a distributed non trustful database with a method for resolving disputes built in. Roughly speaking in something like quorum, everyone checks everyone else's work, and the majority consensus is ground truth. DTCC requires a trusted third party to administer the database. Quorum doesn't. Quorum could presumably also replace intra-bank transactions as well (instead of maintaining some other kind of database).

I guess the missing piece that seems to break people's brains; the ledger in the distributed database represents a dollar amount (in the case of quorum's dollar thing) and it has money-like rules, unlike, say, postgres which ultimately relies on some other piece of software to make ledger like transactions.
I think freelancers and contractors also have an advantage in that they're exposed to a far wider set of business problems when compared to a developer working as an employee.

When you're exposed to a bigger set of problems, you're more likely to see something that you can provide a solution to. And when you see similar challenges happening again and again, you start to get a sense of what problems need a software solution. If only one client has a specific problem, it might not be amenable to a SaaS solution. But if you see the same problem occurring over and over across multiple clients, you might just have a good SaaS idea on your hands.
I’m an entrepreneur, 2 employees. I may be running to my loss in theory, but by all means I help employees starting their side projects. It is much better to give them ideas for things where you know it won’t collide, and they come back knowing React and SQL.

It has worked so far. A previous one has left for consulting gigs, after a few months trying his gigs under my umbrella company. That was the best « smooth transition », he saw for himself, I got a ~20% cut, and now he’s dying under paperwork to create his own company (we live in France, which explains why it would have been even harder for him to create his company when he was unsure he liked it), and I have set a nice example of « promoting » which helps me recruit.

Employees are not owned. They were where I was 10 years ago. People change jobs. It’s part of the success of a career. They go through our companies but I’m tired of employers acting like their employees don’t exist after the end of their period or as if they owned property.
You're vastly overstating the effects of 25k people in a metro area that's >20M people strong. You're taking for granted that all of those people are going to live in a few blocks radius in LIC, and that's simply not close to what would've actually happened.
> Remember DHH started and built Basecamp 1.0 and rails while still working on his consultancy business 40 hours a week.

I don't want to assume anything, but from what you've said, it seems like scaling his time up and down as needed would've been very easy.

People with hardset 35 - 40 hour / week jobs where they aren't their own boss can't really scale time commitments that easily.

Otherwise, I definitely agree.
and wasted the time and resources of tons of municipalities across the country who placed a bid on HQ2 with the false impression that they had a shot at winning it.
Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search (1976)
> An important take away from this article is simply the perils of home buying ... it's really easy to make a very expensive mistake.

This article was interesting but I don't think the author was at any risk of making a financial mistake. At the end of the day, Sunrun had a lien on the property. The title company and the lender would not allow the sale to go through unless the Jug estate was able to deliver a clear title. If the title company somehow missed the fact that Sunrun had a lien on the property, the author's title insurance would cover the damages.

> Check everything out with true third parties and be ready to back out.

The insurance company, title company, lender, and home inspector are already highly incentivized to ensure that the property isn't a dud.
Would this work with ASCII-art faces?
This is rad. I usually like to put up a PR early and add a WIP label. This lets my teammates take a look at the early direction of whatever I'm doing and I can make changes as necessary. This is a small but really impactful feature!
Yup. Color, RAM, price will all be mentioned on the page. This tool will be suited for slightly more esoteric, rare questions.

Try using this to find actual questions people might ask: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0762S8PYM/ref=ask_ql_qh_d...
I'll agree that "a near impossibility" feels like a real big overstatement; curves are very doable and common in hand-cut glass. That's true even in my first piece, under discussion, which is chock full of curves. I talk a bit in the process diary about getting comfortable with doing curved breaks after being over-cautious with my first few bits of glass.

That said, I can see how a CNC approach could help with the speed of the process; shallow/simple curves are easy enough to do reliably, but deeper, more complex, and significantly concave curves require additional effort and planning, potentially a lot of manual work with grozing pilers to break out a concavity, and additional grinding to finish out the shape.

So being able to turn a machine process to some of those cuts would save a lot of manual effort and potentially get you right up to the final polish-grind stage in one go, which certainly sounds attractive for some kinds of design.
Maybe your personal projects shouldn't involve programming?
Yeah, if we were doing something really shady, I don't think I would be able to justify staying here as long as I have, personally.

It's not the most rewarding job I've ever had, but it is the most high profile. I wouldn't imagine having so much of an effect on the business of multiple Fortune 100 clients just a few years ago.
I'd love to read this but can't find it-- link/title? (I did use search but could not find anything).

edit: I think this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133394
> a sprawling corporation with a multimillionaire board of directors, waging political war among themselves for resources, power and an ever larger number of underlings.

A blockchain does not get rid of those things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
BI dashboard creation is torture in the same sense that creating web applications might be torture for a software developer. In other words, if you find it to be torture you are probably in the wrong field. At the end of the day I've found myself much happier as an engineer when I am less focused on the tools I am using and instead the impact I can have on the business I am serving. If a BI dashboard provides that value, then that is fun because I am making an impact. Maybe more so than if I was using a complicated RNN somewhere when it provided little value.
Buyers took a risk. I would gloat to the ones that claimed insider trading for it that they were jealous for naught.
Somehow your anecdote seems to be better than mine. I've only worked in two other countries, aside from the US, and 4 distinct industries, and, again, except in SV, no PM or functional QA wanted to even get close to a terminal. Closest thing would be Excel, and always going through the formula UI.
For heavier duty text processing, try

emacs -e myfuns.el

When it comes to mashing text, nothing beats emacs.
Yes, to Manhattan. Commuting Jersey to Queens is asking a lot.
Open a fried chicken shop. Like Texas Fried Chicken.

Ok not literally. But the analogy is suitable. I'm suggesting you try learning about an established business model, on a small scale, so that you learn some things about business in general. How to do accounts, pay your VAT and tax, buy supplies, advertise, ship, and so on.

So something like a webshop that sells your favourite widget might be suitable since you're a software guy. You can easily look at how the pages are set up, how payments are hooked in, how to do a landing page, and so on. The advertising side is a deep dive as well, but well supported by your background in coding.
I spent about 8 years in the independent film business. It's a business that attracts people because they love movies or like the glamour of it, and from an investment standpoint, is one of the least likely to return. Lots of hand waving, creative people, and cool parties. Almost no assurance of success, even for execs with years of experience.
No because NYC doesn't need Amazon to be a large, thriving city with all the agglomeration benefits large cities have. Because it already has all those things. Amazon arguably needed NYC more than NYC needed Amazon.

On the other hand, smaller, not thriving cities may have indeed benefited from attracting an Amazon. But it's a bigger debate whether they would benefit more than the cost they might've had to pay to attract an Amazon.

Do we even have an example on record of a state or city making huge concessions to attract a company and it "completely reviving a city and building up a new ecosystem that funnels in new wealth and new money"?
Winter isn't that bad.

Have you been there this year? It was -26F without the wind chill a couple of weeks ago.

Come for the cold weather and stay for the high taxes and high housing prices on the St. Paul side. Also, traffic is going to be fun on the west side for a couple of years.
Or not having a relationship or even much of a social life. I've gone through periods when I was single, spent much of my "me time" working on side projects, some of which shipped and made a little money and another one that got funded. Both OP and one of your replies say this is a "choice", which is true. You can have kids and choose to try to spend less time with them if you are not their primary caregiver. You can not spend time commuting or work on side projects during commute if you aren't driving if you choose and get the right job, etc. I think at some point for most people spending time with your kids or partner is more value than fucking around with side projects and "trying to start a business" that doesn't go anywhere. Sometimes you have to build something, and I think in that case you can figure out a way to do it, but just as often its aimlessly building vague ideas that don't ship or go anywhere. Burn out and mental fatigue are also real risks if you push this too far. Although side projects are fun, essentially working two or one and a half jobs for a long period of time (work, eat, work, sleep, repeat) with no real down time or social life will probably burn you out.

edit: That said, I still suggest you don't quit your day job. With the caveat of you should quit your day job if you have savings\runway\revenue\funding to do so, and you'll be ok with your project going nowhere and returning back to a regular day job after that runway expires.
I think throwaway-1283 isn't necessarily wrong, the author herself said as much -- she chose to forego a relationship for now and focus on side projects. Kids take even more time than just a relationship.

Not as a challenge to you, but just out of curiosity, how old were your kids when you started the latter business? I have an infant now and it's hard to imagine having time at all to do anything outside of work. There just isn't that sort of time. When I was "just" in a relationship or married, I didn't have any problems putting time and energy into both founding a startup and even engage in side projects (even as I work on my startup). Having a baby is a whole new story. I imagine things will get better as kid grows older -- probably better at school age, and then even better at high school/college age. But it'll be a long time. Maybe 15 years later like you said.
It sounds like the error correction that we need for a lot of "general" purpose quantum functions requires a lot of qubits. However, it also sounds like we can build some special purpose machines using the 50-100 qubit machines that are coming online now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=BvVciA5iXH4 (Contains mention of work that Scott Aaronson did that could be usable with 50ish qubits. Specifically, generating random numbers that we can trust.)
Thank you! Yes we are looking forward to that integration too!
I have a postgres instance doing 3k/qps on a single core server without braking a sweat and at 9-10% cpu. Databases are underrated.
I use Dgraph everyday, it's fantastic.
"Did you know you're a horrible looking person. You're ugly, and we can see your pimples. And your eyelashes look like thin straw. And your mouth and lips look dry and colorless. Your hair is a tangled dry-ends mess. But our products can make you look human again."

This is what women are subjected to day in and out by all the media targeting them. They're told how ugly they are, how inhuman they look, how they stink, their disgusting bodies (periods), and more that I know I dont realize being a man.

And only the company's products - well, they never make you awesome. They make you whole from ugliness and disgust.

Lo and behold, we see the same strategies being used in this realm too. It's fear, uncertainty, doubt, and self-loathing; and only that company can save you... for a 20 year hunk of flesh.
Do you have any recommendations for how to make it seem inanimate like Google Search? Where people ask a question without expectation of a real person answering it.
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How much increase in tax revenues will NYC get now that they’ve scared off their expansion? NYC is not responsible for Amazon’s success and is not entitled to a share in their revenue via taxes.

Claiming that they are simply because they want to expand and hire into their market does not result in successful outcomes for either party.
I heard this advice from various people over the years. It's not bad advice, but it's missing some details

This advice only works if your side project and your day job aren't equally intense ie. if you're programing for your day job and your side project involves more programming, you will burn out. You can pretend that you relax with even more programming, but your body will disagree.

To make this work beyond a few months or a year as a programmer, you will either need to do an easier side project where ideally you're not doing the programming; or better yet you will need a very easy day job that doesn't use up the bulk of your daily creativity and problem solving stamina. Yes, it is a finite resource. The true ideal situation is being able to work on your personal projects during down time at your day job...

Also as someone else already mentioned, read your employment contract. Outside of places like California, the IP portions of that contract are draconian ie. your employer will own any idea that you generate whether it is on the job during office hours, or in your sleep or free time at home. This is even more important to keep in mind if you work remotely even just part of the time.
Good talk. I still hate systemd, to complex causing more issues than it claims to fix.(most of which I didn't see as problems) init could have gone modern without scattering it's files all over the file system, and turning into a borg monstrosity (cronyd,firewalld,journald,etc).
I count at least 17,800 requests for this feature. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22WIP%22+inurl%3Apull+site%...
Studies have shown that people can't reliably work mental jobs for more than 8 hours a day long-term and keep up the same level of quality.

I can't see why it would matter if those hours were spent at home or in an office.

So yeah, I'm sure that it's not sustainable long-term.
Isn't so secure either. Kids were getting on the AOL LAN in the 90s by creatively working around 2FA.
http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
In general his complaints regarding logic are incoherent. A function is not a messy weird object in mathematics; it's a possibly infinite set of ordered pairs where there are no duplicates of the first element of the ordered pair. That's it all it is, formally. Or "class" is a concept that has highly specific meaning in NBG theory—in ZFC it's not a formal distinction and so there's a transformation that must be obeyed where "x \in Class" means "{ x | x satisfies class definition}"; which due to Foundation must be the subset of some other, preexisting, class (and thus is Russell's paradox defeated). Almost all of these things exist and are present and are extremely well defined in the theory, he just doesn't like them for some reason.
NYC by virtue of political clout gets to meddle in all sorts of issues that affect upstate and warp them for it's own benefit. This time the state cut a deal that NYC wasn't in on and NYC didn't like it but at the end of the day it's still getting what it wants.

Having self government on a local level but then getting constantly steamrolled by a state government that is dominated by some other city really sucks. NYC (and Boston, and Chicago, and a whole load of other cities that dominate their state government) should try it sometime.

On one hand I'm annoyed that an opportunity for part of NYC to feel what that's like was missed by this > < much.

On the other hand the deal that NYS cut with Amazon was a boondoggle load of crap that set a terrible precedent so I'm glad it's not happening.
The book cured me of mumbling "I could make software better than that in a week" every time I saw a receptionist at a small office struggling with a bad app.

What if the acquisition cost could be made low? Doesn't patio11's appointment reminder app fall into this category?

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-grew-my-appoint...
When asked what surprised him about humanity the most, the Dalai Lama replied:

“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
Google announces $13B investment in 2019 expanding U.S. offices and data centers
^ For anyone doubting this, Planet Money did an excellent podcast on how this phenomenon played out in Kansas City with corporations like Applebee's, and cost the city millions:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/11/16/668769284/epis...
> Some of us are able to learn from failures and regrets through trial and error, the consequences and being more aware we could be hurting others.

Is it possible that the making of this video is one of those instances where a person could be hurting others?

Do you think that this video was extending charity to the people at YC?
The Davos crowd hates this news. And for that reason this is great news, and great news in general for clamping down on cronyism.
It's about as mildly condescending as anything can be. I'm all for civil discourse, but there comes a point where we're just sanitizing it.
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Whats the name of that service?
Kails bring Rails to 2019!
I don't think that's true. I am very willing to pay for small tools. Just make sure buying and deploying is easy and quick. Spending double digit amounts on a tool is a total no-brainer in my company.
The problem with us common folk understanding climate science is the problem seems so daunting how do we even start to tackle the problem and a road map that's easy to digest to get us to where we want to be.