skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I'm just as capable of seeing things from another point of view as anyone [perhaps this is the voice of Dunning-Kruger]. I have to say that this perspective is limiting and is exacerbated by my co-founder's somewhat desperate financial straits. I have been adding features--the best I can do is revise code as I go.

The point about development buzzwords is well taken--I use them with some misgivings. I would like my co-founder to educate himself on some of them, however, instead of barking. Software development has advanced in the last 30 years.

My "droning" is confined to a question here. I don't believe I deserve angry, aggressive and peremptory behavior from an excitable person who seems to have anger management issues and delusions of grandeur about an app. What he does have is drive.

However, I find that adding features requires considerably more work than it would have been otherwise. It was a struggle to advance over every little point: use non-UI tasks for network operations lest you get an exception, etc. Also, I'm in the position of having to do merges since he refuses to use version control. Anyway it is a problem to work with one's hands tied--it takes me somewhat less work for me to implement features than my cofounder, even in the face of impediments that I find unnecessary impediments that would be straightforward enough to rectify--if only I could. This tends to perpetuate unfortunate practices.
Is there another source other than the daily mail i.e. one with an ounce of credibility?
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I've charged more than $175/hr in the past, when I wasn't in a startup. There are many clients for whom above-average rates are worth it and then some. (For reference, I'm not in the Bay Area.)

$175/hr, on its face, is not an outrageous number. That's fairly typical of a skilled mid-level developer's time at a consulting firm with a good reputation and track record of success.

(Edit: Another poster pointed out that OP edited his earlier post to remove the line "I'm very good and very expensive. You probably can't afford me." [0] I didn't see that when I responded, but that's not a great way to encourage people to work with you, IMO.)

[0] http://i.imgur.com/lyTtxVf.png
Are you arguing that it would be a good thing to limit the best education to the richest elite? Coming from a free education country this sounds like a very strange idea...
That's not correct. The code that's been released is for BCM21553, which doesn't have a VPU. There are bits and pieces of VPU assembler in there, but they're unused on the ARM target. The intention is that people port this (ARM-based) drop to run on the ARM on BCM2835. No reverse engineering required.
That was my first impression, too.
It's quite an ancient "war" technique to simply have population over decades or centuries slowly migrate to a region, and then either through voting power or simply creating a new group of who have a common interest or similar values are now in this new region and can leverage their numbers.
That looks neat but for me, RDF and SPARQL go hand-in-hand. It is nice to learn SPARQL, then be able to use many linked data frameworks and tools.
I tend to agree that the US would take such steps, but if the US decided to control larger portions of the country than just their bases (which is what is sounds like Russia is doing), that is a major problem and more than just protecting a military asset.
I'm glad this is getting more attention since the vast majority of the developed world doesn't share a lot of knowledge regarding Easter Europe / post Soviet countries.

What's happening currently in Ukraine can easily happen in any other country that's under Russian's sphere of influence, and the only solution, imo, would be the intervention of a 3rd party.
The scariest part of all of this is the 6000 mystery troops that showed up without any logos on their uniforms or carriers or tanks.

They took over the border, airport, etc. without any identification, simply guns to insist "do as we say". They even blocked the coast guard from leaving their ports.

Which means they had this kind of force all prepared.

Can you imagine if US troops showed up somewhere in huge numbers with all identification hidden (I realize small "special forces" operate that way but not regular troops).
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refuses to use version control

It sounds like this person is used to working alone. If the parts you're working on are completely separate, that might be okay. If you're both technical and both working on the same parts, it seems like the repeated breaking of the code would make your argument for you.

strongly discouraging me from redesigning and refactoring bloated multi-purpose objects

Are you launched? Unless this is the critical bottle neck that's preventing further development, there are a lot of people who would agree with him.

What do you do in the face of implacable intransigence?

It sounds like the bigger problem you're facing is being able to successfully argue with each other. That's what you have to figure out.

PG recommends having different cofounders be masters of different domains. Where they come together, you need certain core values you agree upon and to be able to explicitly argue why or why not a particular position supports those values. It also helps to give some level of deference to the person who's actually going to be doing the work.

I'm limping along and am inclined to fork the project

Always an option, and a decision better made earlier rather than later. Someone who was worth trying as a cofounder is worth going through some pain to learn how to constructively argue with. But nothing else will make up for not learning how to do it.
neonazis

I guess that's the talking point of the day.

Ironically, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia under the pretense that it was to protect its ethnic Germans.
It's over 400GB uncompressed, so currently this person would have to settle for a subset on a 128GB MicroSD like http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IIJ6W4S/. I think there are larger SD cards. And certainly there are small 1TB hard disks. I'm not sure what sort of device would be best for carrying around the world viewing these things, but probably what this person wants is possible, if expensive and inconvenient.
Good on you for not trusting the Daily Mail, it's not even a rag at this point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security...
As a hobby you have complete control, as a professional in a large team, you have very little control.

I think that more mirrors why so many people who program professionally get so much satisfaction by hobby projects or taking time off to work on their own project.
Why not just admit that you wrongly impugned them?
It's all going to be fine. Hitler stopped after getting Sudetenland too, right? Oh wait ...

All of Easter Europe should watch this carefully. We all knew that Russia considers all east of Dresden to be their property. When they were leaving here after their invasion of 1968, they told us it's temporary.

Now they are starting to reclaim it. All of it.
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Practical question: Are we supposed to submit only one form per group or multiple? Because the introductory explanation talks about a group submission, but on the form itself there are fields that are explicitly personal: e.g. "Please tell us about the time you, rk17, most successfully hacked..."

Addendum: If there are any noob mistakes you want to point out, I'd very much appreciate it because it's the first time we're applying.
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I don't know how it works for dentists, but my understanding is that for doctors we've essentially given the doctors' guild the ability to legally dictate how many medical graduates they will allow, making them the envy of unions around the world (and schools, who are very happy with an arrangement that allows them to auction off a restricted supply of meal tickets). Sometimes you'll hear the AMA blame congress because they've gotten congress to pay for part of the education process and it hesitates to periodically increase the handout, but the reality is that they could change things tomorrow if they wanted to. Which they don't, because they rather enjoy the sky-high salaries that come from the artificial scarcity they've created.

The market is slowly working around this constraint by allowing nurses to train and take on some of the responsibilities that were previously subject to the artificial labor scarcity.

Unfortunately this only represents about ~1/3 of the problem with our medical industry by market share. The other two thirds come from drug price overruns (US drug buyers pay twice as much as single-payer countries which have much more size = bargaining power) and the medical insurance industry (a textbook case of "costs of competition" dramatically exceeding the benefits in a measurable way).
I thought the opposite: it makes for a lot influence on Ukraine only if it remains a part of Ukraine. Yesterday I thought Putin would back off after having made a point of "protecting Russians abroad".
Ugh, politics. Why bring into a "hacker news" site? Keep that garbage on Facebook and in reddit where it belongs.
You're oversimplifying the situation. Yes, Ukraine is a sovereign country. But half of it is ethnically Russian, and identify themselves a such. The Ukrainian border--like many geopolitical borders--is arbitrary and does not signify a single united nation.

I'm not saying one side is right and the other is wrong. I'm just highlighting the fact that's it's not as simple as you make it out to be.
He's worth it, if he can get people to pay it.
From the article: Maybe talented people just practise more and try harder at the thing they're already good at - because they enjoy it?

There's a profound implication here: that you can train yourself to enjoy something you originally didn't. And even if it's no less hard of a problem than it is to make yourself a 10,000-hour expert in something, it's one with a broader impact.
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Crimea is "Russian", it was granted from the Russian SSR to the Ukrainian SSR by Khrushchev in the 50s.

It's interesting that the situation is playing out pretty much according to this blog post: http://cluborlov.blogspot.jp/2014/02/shock-over-ukraine.html

"Most of them don't even know what it is they are protesting, but, in essence, they are protesting the very existence of their country, which is made up of two parts: Eastern Poland, which is Ukrainian-speaking and predominantly Catholic, and Western Russia, which is Russian-speaking and predominantly Orthodox. The “Russians” outnumber the “Ukrainians” two to one. The ultimate resolution to the crisis lies in partitioning the country. Nobody has the stomach to even talk about it—yet. But until that happens we will continue being subjected to this strange spectacle, where every single actor in Ukraine does everything possible to undermine the country's political system. Deep down, the Ukrainians don't want there to be a different government in Kiev—they don't want there to be a government in Kiev at all."
I think the strange/comical part of this is that Russia thought that "we'll just take off our logos" was a good strategy for keeping a secret or saving face.
There comes a point where questions themselves are being used as an abusive form of politics. At that point, a display of anger is totally appropriate.

Tim Cook has a responsibility to protect himself as CEO, the company itself, and the other shareholders, from manipulative questioning by a fringe group. He also has a responsibility to stand for the company's values.
On the topic of ways to improve the terminal, I'd like to see output separated from input.

Put the prompt 1/4 of the way down the screen instead of at the bottom. Above the prompt, we have a backlog of the commands we input. As we press up, it scrolls through the backlog, as normal.

Below the prompt, we see the output of the command.

I'd also like to see tab completion (and maybe some form of hinting) on programs, not just file paths.
Same thing happened in Georgia in 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country)#The_South_Oss...
"The potential strike by the [Russian Federation] against [Ukraine], despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond [Ukraine]’s borders. A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the [Chechnya] problem and the [Syrian] conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance." – Vladimir Putin, six months ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...
That's normal for Russia, sadly. Yesterday there was a voting about mandatory registration of all web sites in Roskomnadzor (heavily controversial bill). 438 for, 0 against, 0 abstained. Russian democracy.
One thing us hackers should be especially aware of is that it is a violation of the free Google Maps API terms of service to embed Google Maps in anything that makes money.

Read that again. If you make a classifieds website but charge businesses to list, it's a violation of the free Maps API TOS and you need to purchase an Enterprise license. Enterprise licenses start at 5 figures/annum for low-volume usage.

This is not some abstract ideological nitpick. Google has ramped up its attempts to monetize Maps ever since they introduced quotas a couple years back, and they are actively pursuing businesses to force them to buy an Enterprise license. So there is a very real risk that you could be targeted if you embed Google Maps, especially if your website gets big. This is no doubt one reason why companies like Foursquare, Craigslist, etc. use OpenStreetMap rather than Google Maps.
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The Russians have this kind of force prepared because of their naval base at Sevastopol.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Fleet
My father was an economics prof at a Canadian university. In canada a large part of the tuition cost is the actual professors. What the student pays doesn't even cover the professor salaries, the rest is made up by the government.

Consider that a tenured prof makes about 120k and teaches only 2 courses per semester, 2 semesters per year, while an undergraduate might have 6 courses per semester and pay 6-10k. My faculty had 2400 undergraduate students and while some classes in first year had 100 students, most were 20-30 students per class.
I'd say going from total incompetence to walking, communicating, and generally surviving despite minimal training assistance is pretty darned successful.
Ivy and tech will probably remain. Frankly, some Americans could do with experiencing other cultures (myself included).
The problem is that he edited his post after I posted my comment in order to conceal his pompous attitude that is ruining San Francisco and other great cities.

http://i.imgur.com/lyTtxVf.png http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

"I'm very good and very expensive. You probably can't afford me"

Well if the tech industry can't afford you, then you might want to become a lawyer, buddy. We don't need that pompous tech-valley-swag-trash in our industry.
Depends what you're wiping with it ;)

Thanks for posting a more balanced and altogether less scary sounding article with references.
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I really wish "complaining about stuff being off-topic" was also against the guidelines.

Oh wait, it is:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Securit...
My guess is it's just to give them short-term deniability. By the time anyone proves who they are it'll be too late.
You can't become an expert without staying in "the Beginner's mind" (as in the Zen meaning of the phrase).
It might be a worthy goal, but it might also be destructive to shareholder value if it results in shifting attention to green politics and a nasty battle with climate change deniers.
I think it was actually a brilliant FUD strategy to buy the Russians time and stop the West from intervening in a timely (from their perspective) fashion.
There is a difference in practicing for 10,000 hours and practicing for 1 hour 10,000 times.
I already do charge around $100 an hour. But I don't preface it with Colin's ass-backwards line:

"I'm very good and very expensive. You probably can't afford me" [redacted] (http://i.imgur.com/lyTtxVf.png http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...)
I think one can not go into personal bankruptcy for student loans...
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Especially over the 20 years mentioned in the article.
> I have been known to find the answer in the bottom of a pint pot.

Spoken like a true Englishman.
If no one points it out, people won't learn.

You folks can downvote all you want. I am more than willing to spend my "karma" to attempt to preserve this site from politics.

Also, while we're being picky, "I wish it were", not "I wish it was".
Russia has a long tradition of "protecting"

"[...]The Soviet Government also cannot view with indifference the fact that the kindred Ukrainian and White Russian people, who live on Polish territory and who are at the mercy of fate, should be left defenceless.
In these circumstances, the Soviet Government have directed the High Command of the Red Army to order troops to cross the frontier and to take under their protection the life and property of the population of Western Ukraine and Western White Russia."

People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R. V. Molotov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
What would you say is the usefulness and value of local inference vs global inference?

In my experience, local inference eliminates a lot of boilerplate and clutter, while global inference isn't so important, because writing types is good documentation as you zoom out from the details of functions.
I can't reply to gk1 for some reason, but he's exaggerating. Russian's are still a minority, not half the population as he/she suggests. According to wikipedia it's around 17% of the population.

Russia has a lot of control over Ukraine however since over half of their exports go to Russia (and those exports are generally of poor quality that likely couldn't be exported elsewhere) and they're also heavily reliant on Russia for natural gas...
They are literally not medical doctors.
You exaggerate. Mostly it's people who don't do well at their colleges that have trouble. At Ivy Leagues it's fewer people because they have the worst grade inflation and don't accept many borderline students.

For state schools there are lots of people at the margin - IE they don't do well enough to really reap a benefit from their degree.

Maybe getting good grades at a public won't get you 6 figures in your first job, but in most fields you aren't going to get that from an Ivy League, either.

But if you do well or choose a good major your in state school will be fine - you'll get a job, and it'll pay alright.

This is 3 or 4 times as true if you're planning on being something like a Nurse or a Teacher and less true if you're planning on being a hedge fund manager, but frankly if I were a student I'd be happy for the future hedge fund managers of the world to go somewhere else.
I once stumbled upon this youtube about Transnistria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6kub-Ehbd4
Really fascinating, I had never even heard of the place. They really make it seem like the country is dependent on black market arms deals of former Soviet stock. Is it actually true?
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