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Ask HN: How do you decide which “great opportunity from a friend” to work on?
So I now have two groups of friends who are wanting me to work on unrelated projects. I am the only person bringing coding chops to it. Both groups have good sales people that could sell the product once it was done.

I am in a rut in my day job and so I would like to work on both if I can because they would help increase my skillset. Both are greenfield projects so I can choose any code set to work with which means I can shore up skills that I don't have or have let languish. But I am not sure which project to go with.

One is a problem that is explained by the business as something that if solved would help on boarding of customers and be able to be cross sold to other business of the same type.

The other is a project that while the primary has thought it all out the target audience is aimed primarily at users who are not computer savvy.

I can provide more details, but I am curious what constraints or measuring sticks HN uses when pursuing a project that doesn't have an upside any time soon.
What direction would you go in?
This is an industry that has had 15-20% returns for decades. I'm not sure what "computer sciences" is as an industry separate from the rest of software, but saying there are some sectors more profitable than pharma says not much. Pharma is huge as a fraction of GDP and consistently profitable because its profit is based on rents. If it is flagging in recent years it is because public sector spending on research is flagging and hasn't yielded as many cash cows as usual.
Amazon owns game studios and might have many different game concepts being worked on, such that an employee might inadvertently compete with a similar game studio idea.
Some of the other noises I hear are microwaves, humidifiers, outside noise (when the window is open), the grunting printer and the constant gargle of the water cooler.
Could we replace animated arrows between different blocks, to something that is easier to interpret. I had to train my mind to search for negative/positive sign and current state and then add it and say in my mind "encourages doing things".

Instead of "demotivation", you could use "motivation". So that, we wont have to worry about double negatives.

I would prefer to add weights, to the connecting arrows, to give more detail.
the point of a cdn is that they have thousands of pops spread globally to be closest to the user and their network is highly tuned to routing to the nearest pop using AS networks.
It may shock you that scandalous names such as "Microsoft Azure", "Imgur", "Photobucket", "Imageshack" also have to deal with large amounts of child pornography and that the name of the file host has little to do with it, the mere existence of a file host is all it takes.

I also incur zero administrative costs from dealing with anything because I don't allow anyone to upload to my website (and never have). If you have a free file host, you will be dealing with child pornography within a few weeks, almost guaranteed. There are systems made to automatically deal with known/"common" images [0] [1]. Also to clear up a few things regarding the name, the domain of my site is "kimiwo.aishitei.ru". The name of my host is "Lovehost". The domain is Japanese and translates to "I love you". The software it runs is what is called "lolisafe".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9868352

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/
what an argument
I didn't really need someone to come along and serve as an example of not only some of the forms of thinking I talked about above but also as "criminal as sub-human other (not decent folks like me and mine)", but I guess it's a convenient underscoring of the idea that some people approach society very, very differently.
You should extend this line of reasoning to other goods. Pay 10x for your food, too, so someone else could get theirs for less. Pay $50 per gallon of gas, stuff like that.

The op's POV might seem cruel, but only if you're in an ivory tower. There are _plenty_ of people right here in the US who can't afford drugs because we insist that they should be 10x the price in the US than everywhere else.

In fact, I'd say those people comprise a _majority_ of US healthcare consumers, due to just how unequal the incomes are.

There's also another negative side effect: due to what amounts to dumping, other countries essentially don't have any pharma research of their own, likely because it wouldn't be profitable. That includes pretty much all of them other than Switzerland (where both the health insurance and drugs are pretty expensive).
Good times to be a lawyer.
but it is still dying. Some people identify with their political movement. Other identify with other people (Ubuntu: person living through a person). Or just simply believe in your self (all packages together).
I was kind of wild in high school. I graduated in 2008.

We had a lot of parties. drinking, smoking, etc.

My parents were really upset with me later in life. I have always brought up to them The fact that they were allowed to drink at 18. There were bars that would accept them. They had places to go.

In 2008, me and my peers had nowhere to go. The choice is to either find a place to secretly meet, or don't congregate at all in your teens. The choice there is obvious.
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I work in back office bank IT which I realize is really boring and stupid. And my coworkers are all like 40 and I'm in my 20s, pretty dry atmosphere.

If I drink a double espresso and have a somewhat well-defined task, I can get about 1-2 hours of "cruising" where I'm in Zen Mode(tm) implementing it or learning it.

Otherwise, it's pretty bad and I look out the window and laugh at how meaningless it makes my day, week, month.
makes you ask DIWhy ?
Is one bacteria landing on your tongue, being sucked up your nose or inhaled into your lungs going to do anything? Are there any bacteria and virus that can kill with just one making contact?
> Almost everyone used Skype back before we had Discord and other alternatives

Yeah except for when gaming, Skype "always on" voice was very annoying for any games and the latency was way higher than Mumble or Teamspeak so we would use those for our gaming groups but Skype for person-to-person calls rather than group chats.

I guess if you didn't have anyone technical enough to setup a Teamspeak or Mumble server in your gaming group YMMV but they were 1000% better than using Skype which had worse quality audio, no push to talk and huge latency.
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The absolute futurist-cynic inside me wants to reply, badly, to this statement:

> you still have to raise your child irl.

with the fact that increasingly I see children being strolled around with tablets mounted in front of their faces, by parents with phones in front of their faces. Imagine these strollers were self-guided, say, they were monitored and could tram children around the park while they played on their pacifying devices! I feel we aren't too far off. DJI could certainly make quite a nice stroller, I would imagine.

I recently had a baby, and we had to fend off MANY attempts to gift us battery (or plug) powered baby seats -- and still we ended up with a mamaRoo[0] in our closet because my mother wouldn't take "no" for an answer. This is a device where you can strap your newborn in (!) and the chair will rock her for you, play gentle music either via the onboard memory or via Bluetooth, to soothe or quiet your baby for you. Behold the truly dystopian image on their product page[1]. Our thinking was that we wanted to keep responsibility of this task for ourselves, along with the stress, thank-you-very-much, because we wanted to experience it and we wanted our baby to experience it -- physically. But still! There are emporiums, I came to learn, full of these types of gadgets that are designed to offload the burden of parenting.

With the sheer momentum of technology and the absolute hijacking of our attention spans, I can all-too-vividly imagine a world not far from now where raising your child can happen almost entirely by "remote". I fear this, of course, but I can imagine it.

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0. https://www.4moms.com/mamaroo

1. https://www.4moms.com/assets/mamaroo/ultimate_seat-602c8d008...
This looks like creating a problem to solve rather than actually solving the problem at hand.
I'm slightly disturbed by the amount of comments that appear to suggest people in the west "can afford" to ruin the environment with car travel. That boat sailed a long time ago, no matter what your personal finances are like.
This is an important conversation, but being on HN I cannot resist...

> there are things that local (geographically) communities can provide that online communities simply can't

Identify this delta! It may just be the seed to the next big social network. :)
I think it'd be awesome if Eritrea were to produce some pro cyclists. Right now, the pro peloton is, within a rounding error, entirely Caucasian - which I think is something of a shame. To take some examples - while the famously cycle-friendly nation of the Netherlands is extremely strongly represented, China is not - despite the latter state also being known for its embrace of bicycles. I imagine this is almost wholly down to lack of opportunity, with the majority of pro cycling teams being based in Western Europe or America. Would the Kazakh flag be as common a sight in pro cycling were it not for the influence of Team Astana? I doubt it. Hopefully one day we may see Eritreans compete alongside the best in the Grand Tours - if nothing else, it would hopefully stamp out some of the uglier attitudes in the peloton (see: Moscon).
Under this standard, we should not approve inconvenient things like SSL.
I was primarily thinking about corruption and political stability, and civil rights (particularly women’s rights) are a concern wrt Malaysia, which otherwise leads in the EDBI for the region.
What makes the standard one not enough?
You may wish to re-read the article.

Apple is going above and beyond China’s legal requirements in censorship, censoring news voluntarily in their News app on US phones with US SIM cards when used in China-phones that can access normal news websites without censorship just fine outside of the News app.

This is a behavior specific to Apple’s new product, which has not launched for Chinese users at all yet.
> I’m not sure exactly how it happened. I think the lazy answer is “GitHub!!!!”. I do think GitHub played a role, but I think the answer is more complex than that. I personally think that gender plays a huge role. But that’s a different essay. Regardless of why it happened, something did happen.

"GitHub!!!!" may be a lazy answer, but why isn't "gender!!!!" an equally lazy answer?
Big companies simply shouldn’t use Google services until they resolve these issues with their awful support. I know this is about Apps and you can’t really avoid google if you make apps, but the story is the same throughout their services.

I’d Azure breaks I have a direct hotline to Seattle. Granted we’re enterprise and spend a lot of money on Microsoft products, but I can still call Seattle and they’ll work on it and give me hourly status reports until my issue is resolved. If our google cloud breaks I can talk to a chatbot.

Maybe having fewer support staff saves google money on the budgets, but I’m not convinced it’s a very good long term strategy if you want enterprise to take your services seriously.
I'm guessing the tkinter tooling that comes with Python.
No: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18282810/tesla-model-3-st...
I haven't used the Overwatch/Blizzard voice chat but can people outside of the game talk to people playing?
Just because other people disagree with you does not mean there is any coordinated effort.
My values and yours probably overlap -- I'd agree that whatever penalties you might hand out to someone not making child support, taking away a DL is counterproductive.

But I think it's probably a values/temperament issue, which isn't necessarily an intelligence issue, and might need different solutions.
>Google still saves and parses every email it gets and likely uses that data for a number of purposes.

Sure, but so does literally every email provider. Storing your email and spam classification are pretty much the two biggest features an email provider can provide.

This is like objections to "algorithms" or "chemicals".
No, it wouldn’t help. It looks at the country code transmitted by the cell tower you are connected to. The only countermeasure would be to keep your phone in airplane mode.
Salut! I've finally decided to register for writing, after years of mute reading ; )
Brave does more than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

Adblock Plus should fork its own web browser with built-in Acceptable Ads whitelisting. It'd be more honest than Brave.
Any take on how this looks for someone who doesn't work at Amazon?

I know Apollo is their deployment tool. No idea how they plays into a Kubernetes or even container stack.
Like in process flow diagrams we need different shapes to represent different ideas. Circles alone can't be used for it.
You probably want "old fashioned" regression models if you want to understand which predictors affected survival and how they affected it.
The interesting thing about this article is it describes a cpu technique that can supposedly beat hardware intensive GPU methods.
Depends on what you're looking at for ETFs and mutual funds, but I think 8%, with a lot of work, CSVs, and tracking performance can be obtained. I know 12% is doable with a lot of work.
I agree. Also the obsession with school and getting into college (much more work, much less play).
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Most of the top holders of any big public company are funds that invest in every big public company.
It’s difficult to know. Knowledge of such a study can get internalized into a founders psyche and become self fulfilling. And they are the type to do so (both seeking out this kind of report and being impacted by it).
Been following this all day. Glad to see it worked out. This probably wouldn’t have happened if you had only used Pony [0], email that sends once a day!

[0] https://www.pony.gg
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As best I can tell there's no way for individuals to send amp emails. In order for gmail to accept an amp email it's sender must first register [1]. Registration comes with a couple requirements, one of which is a "Consistent history of sending a high volume of mail from your domain (order of hundred emails a day minimum to Gmail) for a few weeks at least."

This is so contrary to how anything else on the web works that I feel I must have missed something. Their "standard" is not available to individual developers. Only those who are already sending lots of mail may play. This is far worse than how web sites have slowly become more opaque so that it's now harder to learn how to develop them. It's simply not possible to play around with this new medium.

The open web is no more.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail/register
I love it! It's like the simulations of iThink [1], with the "analogic" sketching UI of GRaIL [2].

[1]: https://www.iseesystems.com/store/products/ithink.aspx
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQhVQ1UG6aM
> you would want to use bare metal for Amazon's scale

Containers are "bare metal".
This reminds me of that Simon Sinek vidéo that talks about how millennials want to “make a difference” 10 months into their job (ironically, this is kinda what the author in the article alludes to). You’re bluffing yourself if you think you can make a difference just a few months out of college, without adequate experience under your belt.
I use 1600 for main living, and 1200 in a nice "unfinished" poured wall walk out basement, with (insulated) concrete floor with no posts, as area for all storage, hobbies, crafts - kids roller skated, skateboarded, build forts, ping pong, foosball, TV, living room furniture, all winter long. I could even drive a car in. And it walks directly outside to an all sports freshwater lake. No additional taxes or insurance on 1200 b/c unfinished. You would not believe how inexpensive built new in the 2000s. People do make mistakes, in my opinion. Just watch how they buy motorhomes; same issue.
That wouldn't bug me at all. People who totally respect me would ask me that. "Why didn't you put a resolution on Ticket XYZ?" blames me. "There is no resolution on Ticket XYZ" states a fact and lets me offer an explanation of why I do that kind of thing. Or, like as not, investigate how I closed the ticket by accident or assigned it to someone else who closed it. There are usually lots of good explanations and if you can't even raise the subject without getting mad, you miss those opportunities to not screw up. Maybe I thought no one cared about the resolution and this teaches me someone does look. It's a positive thing to do IMO.
Sounds like Chinese version of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw
Just because you have a US IP address, doesn't mean traffic actually gets routed through it.

My limited understanding (from one uni course) is mobile devices get a secondary identifier that the networks use for the actual routing process. While a device may officially identify as having a US IP address, the cell carriers communicate a secondary, current IP address/identifier local to the device's current position.

It's much like how DNS works. You don't route all traffic through a DNS server. You send it a readable name, then communicated directly with the IP address that's returned.
Unless you entertain/throw parties!
“spent about $3.5 million in 2009 to build their dream home: a roughly 7,500-square-foot, European-style house“ er no that is not European we mostly live in much smaller apartments or houses.
You need to readjust your experience meter.
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>E.g. most wine today is made using machine learning.

Where are you pulling this number from?
no one uses in game voice chat, literally no one. even the friendliest most inclusive games with really amazing voice chat systems(all 3 needed to belong to this list) like overwatch had players use voice chat for maybe 3 weeks after launch and then go back to their private discords.
You ever feel like the kid makes the place feel small? That's a big thing with my kids in our ~1200sqft house, particularly during a long stretch of cold/rainy weather. If you have any tips I'd love to hear 'em!
>$80,000

This is approximately less than my annual stock grant will be this year at Google, just as a point of comparison. I'm not yet a "Senior" Engineer, just a mid level one.
I was around for those arguments in the 90s as well, and that's not at all my take on it.

The FSF was always very clear that the BSD-type licenses (at least once the minor issue of the "advertising clause" was dealt with) were Free Software licenses in their opinion. The Debian Free Software Guidelines always covered a wide variety of permissive "open source" licenses, and in fact the DFSG was used as the basis of the OSI's Open Source definition.

So I've never seen Open Source as a superset of Free Software - or vice-versa. Rather, they have always been almost or even exactly the same set. It's not, and never has been, about alternative taxa - instead, the difference was always more one of marketing.

It's not a question of What - it's a question of Why. The Why of Free Software is "So that people are free to share and modify the software they use", and the Why of Open Source is "Because this method of development creates better software.".

If a new movement does crystallise, it will be because neither of these Whys satisfy the new constituency, and their new answer to Why Permissively License Your Software? will be their rallying point.
There was a Tour of Beijing[0], with pollution as one of the concerns[1][2].

Perhaps in the next decade, once China has made more effort to clean up its air and traffic congestion, this will return.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_of_Beijing

[1] http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/riders-fight-against-polluti...

[2] https://sports.yahoo.com/news/tour-beijing-stage-slashed-ove...
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Those cars generate a lot of sensor data. (Tb per drive?). Id imagine that data needs to be made actionable and seperated into training and simulation sets pretty quickly. Mapping is a massive problem to automate.
I think Taiwanese engineering is a great bunch of seemingly underpaid developers. I visited Taiwan for 2 weeks from India and had a few observations:

1. Food and transport are quite cheap. So cheap that almost everyone eats out for all their meals.

2. Everyone stays far from the office. They said the area around the offices is expensive but the rent I heard did not sound so high. Most of my friends in Mumbai, India already pay rent close to that figure and they get by just fine.

3. Consumerism is quite high. Almost everyone in the office had fancy clothes and gadgets which are usually considered signs of good wealth in India.

My conclusion was that people are not paid a lot, and they spend a lot of what they make on clothes and gadgets but that is just the picture I could paint.

Would appreciate some input from people who have more knowledge about Taiwanese culture.
I don’t know about you but I challenge every MSFT employee I know about the moral gymnastics involved in working for the largest software vendor defense contractor. Battleships run Windows. It made me really sad when they bought GitHub.

Same for Amazon, who runs a whole racist region (GovCloud) which only employs US citizens.
I had to pause for a second to think about what’s so hard about this? And then it hit me - negative numbers.
Uops.info – 200K pages of latency/throughput/port usage for x86 instructions
for some reason all the open source wikis look really bad in their base state, i dunno why they try to look like v1.0 wikipedia
Your comment is better than the original article. Can we push this one to the top, HN?
There are Eritrean pro cyclists and some have competed in the grand tours.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Eritrea
| social on their own terms

I think that is the key insight. Phone calls and instant messaging before smartphones meant that you had to make a deliberate choice to be available at a given time, and to give that communication most of your attention. When you wanted to stop, you simply logged off.

Now there is the expectation that you're always online so nobody wants to be the one to "bother" everyone and interrupt what they're doing. And you're constantly reminded of what you missed out on with the endless feed of everyone else's messages to each other.
I think you’re parsing that sentence incorrectly. The emphasis should be on “anyone ... be(ing) seen.” Yes, it’s been possible for a long, long time for anyone to set up a blog, but each blog lives in its own little shell, virtually invisible unless it generates links and traffic. With Medium, your post could be shoulder-to-shoulder on the same page with something written by a Pulitzer Prize winner, or by the founder of Amazon.
That’s just a choice though. In-N-Out is cheap but the food is high quality. McDonalds would rather use marketing to compensate for quality. It comes down to priorities.
I spotted more Maseratis than BMWs and there were already a lot of BMWs.
maybe if you have a simple text app, try implementing background sync, modern UIs even db stuff gets really convoluted really quickly. forget about camera/audio support

my current company supports down to only api level 19 and even then it's like having to maintain multiple apps to support apis <23