skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineering, depending on the discipline, is on the scale of 140-200k right now, which translates to $80-$100/hr

Also don't try to force traditional business rules like 9a-5pm hours, most engineers tend to have flexible hours, be more focused on outcomes than hours.
Absolutely. I have a Feedly Pro lifetime subscription and I use it several times a day. RSS is great, too bad major social networks refuse to use it.
In America, if you discuss why a candidate was rejected and your reasoning can be interpreted as one of the many reasons that have been deemed illegal, you open up your company to being sued for discrimination.

This happened at a company where I worked. A candidate who was rejected emailed and asked why he didn't get the job, and one of the interviewers replied that he had a thick Indian accent (coincidentally, the interviewer was also Indian), and that would make it difficult for customers to understand him. He sued and later settled out of court for a rumored 6 figures. After that, rejections were handled automatically via snail mail direct from corporate.
I agree completely.

It's hard to generalize though, you can find engineers for just about any stack with the right price points.
We've done deals directly with a bunch of merch companies as well as the largest vinyl distributor in the world.

Merchnow has a great collection of indie artists- will work to find a way to partner with them.
> I cherish Microsoft for its work in Windows, it is the only mainstream OS that can save us from UNIX monoculture.

Note that the Microsoft way tends to lead to another monoculture and to vendor lock-in. I'd say "of course, the same applies to the products of every other corporation", except that in my experience, everyone is using Windows on the PC.

Probably because I'm not a hacker from the 70s, when I discovered Linux (note a BSD variant would also have worked, had I known about them) it was a breath of fresh air in the ubiquitous monoculture that was Windows.
Show HN: WebGL Fluid and Particles in Haxe
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It's also worth mentioning that in the event that, upon first seeing c1, c2 hails c1 and receives no response, good AI logic will have c2 treat c1 as an unknown and begin running probabilistic predictions against c1.

For a possible example: If there are potential bends in the road coming up, one of those predictions will warn c2's main logic, and then c2 might decide to pre-emptively slow down to give itself leeway to brake if c1 does decide to change lanes. Likewise, if c1 is similarly programmed, it might make a more cautious tentative to shift lanes, but give itself time and space to maneuver back in case c2 doesn't slow down. And again, the same kind of logic can happen between c2 and c3, or c3 could have the same prediction as c2 against c1 or even against both c1 and c2 in the case where none of them can talk to eachother.

So not all is lost, and in cases where reliable communication and acknowledgements cannot be obtained, AI cars would (if they're well programmed) adjust their current logic/driving so that they have the mechanical leeway to adjust to various scenarios.

For a very well programmed AI present in all cars (but without common knowledge of this), each car would consider the physics and pick the optimal way to drive while keeping enough margin of error to react and avoid collisions (or being the cause of collisions! avoiding two cars only to make one of them bump into a third one is no good!). In the vast majority of actually-existing situations, I suspect this would still be faster and much safer than human drivers (given the above assumption of good AI).
New California law requires drivers passing cyclists to give 3 feet of clearance
I think path dependence and software affordances are sufficient to explain why bad ideas seem to mutate and grow; no need to reach for Sapir-Whorf. It is a lovely metaphor, however.
I'm interested in this and how SignalR would fit into the picture.

I have a few projects at work I think I can squeeze SignalR, which should be interesting. I've heard good things from a few devs that I know of that have used it.
Surprised this is the top comment. Your first link is reporting on an unrelated military program to replace the RD-180 rocket engine. The other four links are all blog spam using the same source: the Wall Street Journal article by Andy Pasztor. Pasztor is well known in the aerospace industry for writing what you might call "speculative" articles based on not much more than rumor.

Edit: here's the WSJ article so people can go to the original source. You'll need the google trick to get around the paywall.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/boeing-takes-lead-to-build-sp...

Fair warning I don't think it has any actual news content. The expected outcome was that Boeing and SpaceX would both be winners, but because SpaceX is always cheaper, Boeing would get a larger amount of money.

It certainly could be true, but the official announcement is in two hours so probably just makes the most sense to wait and see what happens rather than post more speculation.
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Or the fact that you need a binary blob to boot an operating system on it.
What I learnt from my MBA
This is great to hear. The decision lacks any limits on the number of dealerships in MA, unlike similar decisions in NJ and PA (from what I could see, correct me if I am wrong). I hope more states in the future take this route of allowing sales without any limitations.
Uber has very little to do with the auto industry. If anything they're in the taxi business.
Any dissenters around here? We're going through this stuff now in Georgia. I like the ideal of trying different market approaches than your competitors, and I generally think businesses should; but I did read a counter point[0] that at least made me think.

If a large number of individuals or businesses are heavily invested in the-way-things-are, is it ever dangerous to rapidly change the market rules that we've built up- usually for the purposes of consumer protection or fostering businesses that benefit the larger community?

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[0] http://www.peachpundit.com/2014/09/05/tesla-uber-internet-sa...
erm, Uber is a middle man taxi company.
Well, in Germany the only thing you need a taxi medallion for is waiting at taxi stands and being hailed off the street. Everything else can be done as a 'rental car with driver' (i.e. livery), which is allow to receive driving assignments via radio (which I am sure also covers an app).
There is no quota/medallion system for livery cars, nor any fare regulations, nor a requirement to act as a common carrier. However, the drivers are required to have a commercial driving license and special health/vision and defensive driving tests, which I think is what Uber is trying to avoid.
I've bounced between Newsblur & Feedly, but keep sticking with Feedly because of their Android app.

My biggest psychological point that I've learned of myself is I find myself skeptical & leery of long-term using Feedly because they won't take my money. My gut is telling me "I want a RSS Reader with a business model so I know its worth my time investment", although my brain knows that a subscription models ensures viability with the same guarantees as ad models.
Click and drag to interact, I'm trying to get a handle on WebGL, so let me know if it doesn't work with your setup :)

https://github.com/haxiomic/GPU-Fluid-Experiments
Yes. Tiny Tiny RSS (self-hosted): http://tt-rss.org

It's lightweight, has a GReader-like UI, a decent Android app, an API, keyboard shortcuts, etc.
The general lack of updates is exactly why I use/install/recommend Firefox. That and the automatic syncing w/ Desktop and the regular performance improvements. (Chrome isn't an option. I can't even turn off third-party cookies. In 2014.)

Too bad it uses quite a few resources and may be too heavy for low-end phones.
For now. But if self-driving taxis become sufficiently cheap and popular, they'll have a huge impact on the auto business.
OP here. Any legal hackers out there who want to get involved, please do reach out. Our customers get really excited when they see how much work we take off their plate.
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If the spot is education, I should say it has failed (maybe not in the US, I don't know there).

Where I live, you can be happy if people knows what Linux is, maybe you find 1 between each 100 computer users.

Teachers here does not know to program a lot. You can be happy if they are able to copy&paste commands, and blindly follow search engine results.

Of course 100 of each 100 computer users know what android is (not what it means for their freedom, surveillance and privacy). And the market is full of java/android programmers making cry to any UNIX-like sysadmin or security expert with their code.

Education here gets ipad and Microsoft stuff. With agreements hard to break.

At much, you see a "fedora" computers room, on public universities, just to run a few mathematical programs on some careers, and nothing else.

Out of certain universities, it's hard to find people doing things (even in the educational land) with minix.
Ask HN: What will you do when software eats your software developer job?
This is not a question of whether or not you will lose your job, it is a question of what you will do when you lose your job.

Seriously, fast forward a number of years and you lose your coding job because it has become automated, Uber has eaten all the taxi dispatcher jobs, Tesla has eaten all of the dealership jobs, self driving cars have eaten taxi driver jobs, drones have eaten pilots jobs, robots have eaten cooks and waiters jobs and the list continues...
It depends on what exactly you're asking, and what your goals are.

Is the question: Can I earn a living wage for myself by selling my skills around setting up hardware and software for end-users?

or is the question: Can I start a company that I can grow upwards of 10+ people by providing home and small business hardware and software support?

or is the question something else?

Ultimately, the answer is "probably yes". Hardware and software is complicated. Not everyone knows everything they need. When this happens, people are typically willing to pay for qualified help.

The specific economics of this come down to the market and your costs.
Just curious: I like Meteor but it does not seem appropriate for apps that need to have a huge number of concurrent users. The developer experience is sweet though.

What don't you like about Meteor?
Great, I've long wondered whether something like this could work! I'll see if I can get some local musicians to sign up and give it a try.
Depends on how much work it is. The company should put roughly the same investment of time into you that you do into them.

Also: involuntary unemployment happens in our industry. Sometimes it can take a while to find a new job. People who live in top-5 cities might say "any good candidate has offers three deep by the time they leave," but that's just their big city privilege speaking. Since we are talking about remote workers, most of them are in places where this isn't the norm.

So, anyway, if one is involuntarily unemployed, it's nice for there to be some employers out there who would say "here, spend 8 hours working on this," because it gives said-unemployed a chance to show off that they would be a good hire.

It has benefits and drawbacks to the hiring process, and I definitely worry what would happen if all employers demanded it regardless of the job market. But it sure beats "tell us about your last big project" and then waiting to make sure the candidate says the right buzzwords.
"Just about any big game studio uses P4 these days. I haven't seen one that doesn't."
That's a very interesting statement. I wonder why? Maybe it's just grandfathered into these companies. IMHO, even if you're an enterprise software shop I think git can handle that with the proper tools and practices.

I'm currently having to use Accurev in an enterprise environment, but I haven't run into anything that Accurev offers that can't be accomplished with git in a better and faster way. But then again, that's just my opinion :-)
I thought it was something wrong with my CM build, or maybe because I didn't install gapps (Google's proprietary apps). I'm amazed to find the developers call this acceptable.
> Sendmail X (/10) looks far similar to postfix or other modular mail servers than sendmail 9 does.

Super, so I can finally replace Postfix with something which is like postfix, but not quite, and hasn't been as proven in the field.
I use goread.io -- I pay for it, but it's free for you to host yourself on AppEngine. It stays free if you stay under AppEngine free limits.

It's similar to Google Reader in UI and features.
The people are the secret sauce. Specifically, the people at YC who know everyone worth knowing in the valley. You join YC for their rolodex; nothing else they do is that different from any other accelerator.

Not that YC doesn't add value (they do; especially in companies with very raw founders) but Silicon Valley is all about who you know. That's a lot of value right there.
Communication is absolutely key for remote teams to work. That being said, I often find remote teams using hip tools as a crutch for communication. We use Trello/HipChat/Hangouts/etc, but it doesn't mean Asana/Slack/Bootcamp/etc work as well.

IMO, I usually rate remote resources on the following:

- Are they a resource that will "finish my sentence"?

- Do they constantly set expectations about progress and milestones?

- Do they tell us when things aren't going well and need help?

- Do they update our communication channels frequently?

And we do this by putting them in a small project first and then moving forward after. The project typically has very little to do with code, but rather to see if the points are true.

Source: I've almost exclusively been running/working-with remote teams for 8 years now.
No. If they cared above reliability above all else, they'd be more likely to use something like HP's nonstop systems, which are from their Compaq purchase, where were from Tandem. You can hotswap the motherboards of those things with 0 downtime.

They run the backend of much of the airline industry (former delta employee).

Edit:

Links with more information for those not aware of these behemoths:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop

http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/integrity...
Are you sure? My Galaxy S 1 (one) still gets updates, as does my S3. They're monthly milestones now.

Maybe you need to install CM 11 first, so the system has a base to work with.

I think you can see if your phone gets updates if it's listed as CM11-supported.
Firefox has built-in "Live Bookmarks", and it's just a dropdown of your feed so it doesn't take up the whole page (like feedly does),just goto an rss url and it will ask you to subscribe.
> In fairness, Google Now's pitch is a lot more about location-awareness than it is about speech recognition, innit

Google Now's pitch is a lot more about all-around awareness -- not just "location" awareness. Voice isn't really even part of it (the voice actions are all part of the Google app, which Now integrates, but they aren't really part of Now -- and actually predate it.)
Feedbin[0] for managing and viewing from laptop, Reeder for viewing on iOS[1]. There's 75+ feeds in my Feedbin account - a few need removed but I'm sure I have a few to add as well.

[0] http://feedbin.com/

[1] http://reederapp.com/ios/
Even if a new public key is added to the keybag, the NSA wouldn't get old messages, only messages from that point forward.

Still troublesome, and I wish there was some way to see what keys are being used and cross verify them with the remote user, so that if a new key is added you would be notified.

But there is no way for Apple to retrieve old messages and send them to the NSA.
That's a bit strange. I don't always know whether people are talking to me, and I wouldn't say my speech recognition is crude.

Why don't they just allow for naming a device? You'd use names in your everyday conversation.
Marginally related: Anyone know when startup school invitations go out? I believe the application deadline was last week.
I'd be interested in an elaboration on why Node was a better choice than C# or Java. I don't mean that snarkily; I'm really interested. I work mostly in C# and actually feel pretty happy with it as a language (I've used Ruby and Java in other major projects, used to do a lot of my side hacking in Clojure, and I'm learning Haskell now). It's one of the more solid languages I feel that I've used, especially combined with LINQ and some other tools.

Also was wondering if you had heard of SignalR in .NET, and if you had, what your thoughts on it are? I don't know a ton about it. I've heard good things from other C# dev friends, but it seems to be aimed squarely at the real-time/near-real-time web arena
Not sure what you mean by won't take your money. Feedly offers a pro subscription.
There was a monthly in August something, and I just installed the latest one which is from today. It may not yet be built for all supported devices though.
I'm not sure I would want Twitter/FB/G+/et al updates via my RSS reader, and I certainly wouldn't want to have to sort through all the stuff on the social networks to get good longform content (or pictures of baby animals). Different platforms have different strengths, and I'd hate to see the utility of one diluted to chase another.
Never under estimate the ridgidity of those who make money by maintaining the status quo.
So you need to be very careful in being happy about this:
All the court said was that the dealers have no private cause of action. That is, they can't sue to block tesla themselves.

The state AG/etc could still do it.
The problem is that decimal types don't make things any better, at least when you have finite precision. They have the same problems with rounding error. The error analysis is exactly the same when designing your algorithms, only in a different base.

The only thing that they make easier is parsing and displaying numbers. The number of times where you deal with things that are guaranteed to be perfectly represented by powers of ten are relatively few.
> have a well understood set of employment laws

If you're "hiring" remote workers, you generally don't have adhere with local laws unless you have a physical presence there. What I mean by that is - they remote resource is generally responsible for their own legality.
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On IOS:

I use the hackernews app by @ashishgandhi. Its okay, there are some serious flaws. Like if you actually sign into the app it breaks and needs to be completely re-installed.

But honestly I comment to much as is, so just reading is likely good for me.

Most other apps I find are very ugly, or lack simplicity of navigation. I just prefer its presentation.

TL;DR I'm trapped in a rut with a semi-broken tool.
This is very good news and about damn time.

While legal, this tax avoidance hurts competition (as smaller companies pay tax normally, while larger ones do not) and also means that some countries can actually lose money while hosting a business (e.g. business uses national infrastructure but doesn't pay towards it).

You often hear companies use their employee's income tax as a way to justify the business's tax avoidance, but that is utter nonsense: employee's individual income tax goes to paying for infrastructure and service that that employee utilises, not the additional infrastructure cost imposed by the business itself.

One thing that does need to happen is that it needs to become easier for SMBs to pay tax to dozens of different countries while operating in the digital space. If they really want things like sales tax/VAT to be paid then they need to make it relatively EASY to do. Otherwise SMBs just might start rejecting customers from smaller countries (as paying the tax for a single transaction is never worth the cost of setting it all up).
This is realtime, right? I still can't believe it. How did you manage to reduce latency enough to be manageable? Even the slightest latency kills performing for me.

I always thought you could go A -> B -> C, but A only hears herself, B hears A and B, etc. Do all musicians listen to each other?

Does this need particularly good internet connections? What is the acceptable latency between peers?
Somewhere it was said that invitations would go out about a week after the deadline, so I would expect them by September 19th.
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I think Uber is great, but I don't think it's cutting out a middleman. It's just replacing one middleman with another, albeit a more efficient one.
I tried Bazqux (before settling on Digg), but right near the end of my free trial they removed the one feature I give a damn about.

I've never cared for reading entries in the reader, I just want it to show me a list of links that I can easily mark as read and click through to the original article.
I've got an iPhone 5.
Sometimes I, as a human being, don't know if someone is talking to me unless they preface their statement with my name. How are computers supposed to be any better?
I'm really liking Feedly, and their iOS apps are really nice. I wish they had a cheaper paid version. I don't really need their pro features, but a $10-20/year subscription would be enticing instead of just coasting for free.
Yes, rss2imap.

https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap
HackReactor is doing it with great success, wouldn't be too surprised to see positive feedback for this course leading to something similar.
Isn't that what you are for, if you're computer-literate?

The first thing I install on my gf's computer or phone is Firefox and configure it to sensible settings (turn off third-party cookies, install ABP and Ghostery and stuff like that).
Yes. I use Reeder (the old one which is no longer available on the App Store) on iOS with local RSS (it fetches ever time I launch it).
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I think his post demonstrates a poor understanding of the state of voice technology.

> That being said, current voice recognition technology is incredibly good at certain things. It’s great at detecting and transcribing words, listening for specific commands, and making matches against expected inputs.

Current state of the art is not actually great at transcription or detection, in fact only Google and Apple's algos are any good and they both involve sending all your voice recordings to their servers where huge models are used to transcribe, meaning lag times and it's not efficient to always be sending every minute of audio to them. If you want to do continuous listening or use local voice transcription it's possible but you are limited by your hardware.

Listening for activation words is also a hard problem. In fact, Moto X has a chip designed just to listen for "Ok Google" so clearly you see some of the problems: 1. it uses lots of power, 2. it has no flexibility.

Other examples he gives assumes the phone won't intercept outside noise or will differentiate between voices. This is unfortunately not the case -- you could maybe apply a training and have a custom voice model but it's still just an unrealistic idea at this point.

> The reason current voice interfaces suck is because they force the speaker to consciously enter a “voice” mode and then create context around the action they want the computer to perform. This makes no sense; the computer should just always be listening for potential commands within the context of whatever the user is doing.

Yes, this is true. But it's all side-effect because of power, bandwidth, and processing-power constraints given today's algos / models. Today's voice processing algos rely on lots of data. And also the fact that voices aren't differentiated right now and it'd be havoc if everyone were setting off each others' phones.