skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious here, willing to share how you're able to source part time work at $200/hr?

I've been doing the same sort of thing, but:

a) have only been able to find people through personal contacts (limiting the pool)
b) most want full time, not part time
c) max I've been able to find is $100/hr

Are you doing very specialized stuff that commands more? Or maybe have a pool of contacts or location where people are willing to pay for the value you deliver?

I'm not asking you to give away all the secrets, but I'm wondering what I can do better. Better sales, better way to find clients?
It seems to me that the several bitcoin auctions by the US government aren't that bad a thing for the cryptocurrency movement. To me, it provides a headline story that's sure to raise awareness of bitcoin for the general public (something that is certainly needed). Plus, it brings out the major bitcoin buyers. It's the equivalent of Sotheby's or Christie's having an auction of Picassos or Warhols.
> So, just like almost every other revolution in history, eh? (The American Rebellion and the English Civil War are arguably two exceptions, both enabled by extremely special circumstances.)

There's actually lots of examples from regional separatist movements that had strong buy-in from the local elites, like the American Revolution (to use its popular local name, though it really wasn't really a revolution.)

> Admittedly, revolutions do happen in part because of the breakdown of tyrannical regimes, but incrementalism, even in the face of tyranny, is historically far more likely to produce better outcomes.

Tyrannies violently purge even incrementalists, and revolutionaries (because they start out with stronger boundaries and an expectation that they'll be hunted whereas incrementalists are more open expecting to be able to work within the system) are, on average, more prepared to deal with that kind of effort.

> It is what freed most of Eastern Europe from the Soviets, for example.

It may be what freed most of Eastern Europe from Soviet-style local tyrannies, but what freed them from the USSR was the economic collapse of the USSR after a protracted spending war with the most developed economies in the world (no small part of which involved the more developed countries backing revolutionary groups in places that were within the Soviet sphere of influence, so in a very real sense revolutionaries were quite instrumental.)
> I think the reason why rates fluctuate so much is that
> developers don't know their worth (positively or
> negatively). It's nothing you can truly measure. There
> are shoddy developers with $150 rate and great
> developers with a $70 rate. In all kinds of different
> cities and situations.

Yep. Which is why only an insane person would allow open salary discussion in a team they were managing, let alone open-salary policies some places have.
I think a lot of tree code is good for practical recursive examples.

Of course, it really helps to have algebraic types and pattern matching because they more clearly expose the recursive structure of both trees and tree-based algorithms. I've also found that writing things out in a patter-matching style, case by case, really helps convey how to think recursively. Instead of trying to run a recursive algorithm in my head, having the separate cases separate makes it easier to consider them one by one.
And in the UK, is endangering your IR35 status...
>you can't put a camera, lenses or processors on a device going into outer space without having done some serious testing

old timers have been saying this for a very long time, and it took years to convince someone to JUST FUCKING SHOOT A PHONE UP THERE

http://www.space.com/21036-space-smartphones-photos-nasa-pho...

Shaun Meehan (almost 100 private satellites currently in orbit, all more or less smartphones in space) talks about this in the podcast:
http://www.theamphour.com/220-an-interview-with-shaun-meehan...
We're talking about 2 different issues. If your project is GPL anyone using it could/should be able to get the source. With a BSD project that is not necessarily true.
Talk with a lawyer is your best course of action, as a great deal of this will depend on documentation, e.g. contracts, emails; and your relationship with the company.

Best of luck to you.
That doesn't do anything. Large corporations don't have to distribute your software for internal usage. It can reach hundreds of thousands of employees and still be internal.
Look at what Google and Amazon are doing with databases
If someone is looking at trying attic and wants something a little nicer to configure and run than the very basic shell script from attic's Quick Start[1], check out the wrapper script I wrote to make this a little easier[2]. It's still somewhat "1.0" right now, but it does the basics for me. See the included sample config files for an idea of how the configuration works.[3]

[1] https://attic-backup.org/quickstart.html#automating-backups
[2] http://torsion.org/hg/atticmatic/file/tip
[3] http://torsion.org/hg/atticmatic/file/tip/sample/config
This is awesome. Especially the beautified intellectuals.
Then total anarchy is the only "free" society you'd accept. If you believe that then we're much to far apart to have any rational discussion.
You are conflating UX with aesthetics. When you are saying that "the UI looks terrible even with transparancy dialed down" you are just saying the new Yosemite is ugly to look at.

That's a personal opinion and really doesn't matter on HN.

The link you provide is not about aesthetics, but about UX. So to back up your (pointless) claim that Yosemite is ugly to look at, you link to an article that rightly points out useability problems. This is like saying "The top speed of my car is too low, here's an article that talks about its slow acceleration"

I am assuming you are being downvoted because your claim is irrelevant to HN discussion and your link is irrelevant to your claim.

Your second claim is partially true though. While volume indicator does show black corners, there are plenty of rounded corners that do show correctly in Yosemite with transparency turned off.

Lastly, according to the HN guidelines, you are kindly asked to "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. "
So what does it say when it is shown Rorschach's test? It's supposed to represent different shapes to different people, what does this machine have in mind?:)
Sure there's a tradeoff, but for most people it's really rare to use software that isn't being actively maintained. So let the maintainers update their dependencies when there's a security flaw, the auto-update will pull in the changes, and I'll still benefit from OS X's 30-second install process.
Every Apple Product Ever Made (infographic)
The rififcoup!

So named for the fabulous film Rififi, in which burglars rented an apartment, then drilled through the ceiling to the floor below. This was a direct reference to the French criminal anarchist Alexandre Marius Jacob who famously carried out just such an attack in the early 20th century. At his trial (for murder, among other things) he uttered one of my favorite quotes. He was asked what had become of him, he had traveled the world as a sailor, he was educated, how had he become a murderous anarchist. To which he replied:

"I have seen the world. It is not beautiful."
Did The Harappan Civilization Avoid War for 2,000 Years?
What are your thoughts on using LSTM? The google paper is using it, but it seems you're not.
I think <30min is reasonable. I send candidates a test that should take about 5-10min. My primary goal is to filter out candidates that can't complete tasks on the level of fizzbuzz.
I quite liked the opinion part.

Specifically, I liked it because there's a huge number of opinions on programming languages and (as the author notes) people ranting against other people's opinions on programming languages. I think it's very valuable to say: I understand the ecosystem of opinions on programming languages and purport to be above that.

You know he's not serious when he says it is the best language (the word 'opinionated' is even in the HN title, though not the article itself?), but you know it means that he's trying to go beyond bickering over functional vs imperative, typed vs untyped, etc. It got my attention and started me out with a good impression.

It.. somewhat delivered. I don't know Prolog, which makes it harder to decide. Some of the opinions are very reasonable and reflect awareness of language-advocate-bickering (for example I agree that 'optional typing' is the only defensible way to handle types if you are trying to unify lots of preferences on languages). But non-deterministic variables, while cool, look like black magic to me and I can't judge their good-vs-bad-ness from this article.
FWIW, I did an upgrade and I haven't seen any (new) problems what so ever.
Haha. Oops. I didn't notice that. I wouldn't have posted this if I had. Thanks for pointing that out.
This seems like a really bad example of a sample bet: "the claims of climate change alarmists will be proven wrong in the next year"

...and just how will that be decided?
8-14 months for bugfixes to what exactly? All the serious packages you use in most servers are installed via packages/ports. What's actually in the base system that isn't (a) also in ports or (b) needs upgrades more frequent than to as frequent as Fedora (which is 6 months btw).
Another opportunity to collect marketing data(at the least).
Upgrade from a newly installed Mavericks. Yeah, definitely could be the difference. If it keeps happening, I'll definitely consider a fresh install.
I do get canal soreness from foam plugs. I've recently found that the silicone blob ear plugs are much more comfortable (perhaps because they stay in the outer ear), and are also more effective at sound reduction.

I guess one of the challenges for this project will be handling the variations in ear geometry.
This is always my hacker's-block-breaker. If I'm stuck on something, and not feeling particularly creative, I'll make something intentionally useless, and funny, and it usually cheers me back up and gets me working again.
> Oh and it's totally safe to broadcast your account number to everyone, most companies have it listed on their website. No way to pull money from it through ACH without their permission

Totally second this; I'm from India. It's bit scary to know that in US "account number + routing number" is sort of secret key to the account, this is from my limited knowledge of course, but I don't think I'm far off.

And yes, account to account transfer has been around here for ages; though they were bit late to get it right now we have a whole range of options; pay to debit card, IMPS and what not.

Sometimes I wonder if banking in the so called third-world countries are is evolved than in the US, I could be wrong though.
Yeah I can see that ending well. Why teabag your enemy when you can press the big red terror reporting button? 14 year olds are going to love this.
As per the article I linked, it also likely nullifies the Klayman case, a case which could very likely turn out to have an even bigger effect than this bill.
Which company is building these kiosks?
A cynic would point out that anyone who is purchasing FLAC music is, by definition, not purchasing from the iTunes Store, so there is very little business reason to facilitate this behavior.

A more practical person would say that nearly everyone who does purchase from an alternative store doesn't want FLAC anyway (or at least, shouldn't want it, though it would not surprise me to see a lot of people who opt for FLAC do so because they think it's a good thing when they really get no benefit from doing so). Very few people ever need to reencode their music these days. Back when MP3 was new and newer encoders kept coming out that got better results, it made more sense, but these days high bit-rate MP3 or medium bit-rate AAC is more than sufficient for effectively all personal uses. Given that, users who purchase from alternative stores would be best served by picking a lossy format that is compatible with their software/hardware (e.g. for Apple users that's AAC if it's provided, or MP3 if not).

For those vanishingly small number of people who have an actual use for FLAC and who wish to play their music on Apple products, it's not very difficult to transcode it to a format that is supported by Apple products. They should be transcoding it for personal usage anyway, because there's no need to be carrying around unnecessarily large files on mobile devices or on laptops. Keep the FLAC somewhere safe if you think you'll actually need it again, and transcode to a more appropriate format. Or better yet, just download the appropriate format to begin with (most independent stores I've seen that offer multiple formats let you download in all the formats you want to instead of forcing you to pick).

> Yep, since it's the only practical lossless format offered as above. And Apple chose not to support it to screw their users.

You do realize that your repeated assertions that Apple is intentionally choosing not to support FLAC out of some personified desire to screw their users is ridiculous, right? I don't know why you keep claiming this. Even if you want to personify Apple instead of treating them like a company that makes decisions that are in the best interests of the company, it's absurd to claim Apple is trying to screw its users.

But beyond that, you keep claiming FLAC is "the only practical lossless format". And yet by your own argument it's impractical, since it's not supported on the hardware/software combination you want.
How is this different from every other Hackathon?
Sales collateral of very highly-paid trainers should have evidence of value and a great way to do that is exactly those kind of real examples, which a highly experienced and effective trainer will have picked up over the years. Reputation is secondary evidence of value of course, though considerably weaker. Strong evidence of value is how people can be persuaded that it's a sweet deal to pay huge amounts to consultants in any field where those consultants come with a long list of similar organisations they helped.

For the rest of the training market it would come down to a client requirement for the service, general qualification to do the job, and typical market price - existing budgets and product pricing kicks in at this point rather than ROI on specific individuals or teams. We see this in the dev contract market as well and that's what the article is about - commodity resource vs stars.

tl;dr if you can't demonstrate exceptional value, you will trend towards commodity.
There's been such a massive propaganda campaign over Ukraine that it's difficult to verify anything.

But what we do know is that it's all a geopolitical power struggle. The US wants Kiev under its control, but that control has been slipping.
Here in Seattle many people use it, and I know of people who use it in Chicago
OkTurtles: Simple, surveillance-free communication using Namecoin technology
I have experiments with LSTMs as well, but I didn't include them in the paper because I couldn't get them to work significantly better than the RNN, which I consider to be a simpler model (they work comparably). That is, a simple RNN with RMSProp, gradient clipping, dropout on non-recurrent connections and careful cross-validation of hyperparameters has so far given me the best results. This might be because sentences are not actually very long structures, so the advantages of LSTM might not be as large. I'm not certain on this point. I'm currently running more extensive experiments with LSTMs and it might turn out that once I tweak everything properly they might work better, but I think it's still valuable to have the RNN numbers as a baseline if nothing else.
The responsible consortium is CityBridge, which is made up of Titan, Control Group, Qualcomm, and Comark. http://www.link.nyc/
This is perhaps pedantic, but the US is also not going to order a drone strike in Cambodia.
I believe this is a step in the right direction.
Jon Skeet facts, of sorts.
Off topic, but possibly useful information for the OP. Your use of "haha"s are quite off-putting for me, I think because to me they imply you are not taking what you just wrote seriously.

Do they bother anyone else, or am I just out of touch with da yoof?
If the prosecution loses the case, it can be held liable in a civil case to losses the defendant made. So this is just an agreement between both sides to lower that risk and which does change nothing related to the case (so the judge will agree too). I guess, if there are no objections (even from a third party), this makes totally sense for anything else, too.
Spark in NZ has rolled the Wifi access point idea out all across Auckland, and in patches across the rest of NZ.

https://www.spark.co.nz/shop/mobile/whyultramobile/wifi.html
After writing my previous comment I debated installing OpenBSD on a spare laptop I have here (that has an Nvidia card in it) but you saved me the trouble and disappointment. Thanks.
Looks interesting except for:

"MICA is connected by AT&T’s mobile broadband network and includes two years of wireless service with the device purchase."

Well that's horrible. You need to pay for two cell phone bills with this? And you are locked in with AT&T?

(And did anyone else find "Opening Ceremony" to be a really confusing name? I initially thought, is that like some variation on designed by committee?)

Also, don't bracelets rotate? Won't the screen randomly be in different positions?
I wonder what chip they're using, Quark SoC perhaps?
This one was honest
Right, but a translation to English should not include "(female)" unless it's essential information, which it isn't here.
i really really hope that you didn't know what they just released today...
This may be the first big move towards "Snapchat as America's Tencent"[0], and although there are red flags all over the place and that video (especially the software-eats-making-it-rain bit) is absurd, I get the feeling this might actually work.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/andreessen-snapchat-2014-1
Aren't we all participating in this hackathon on a global scale except for a very small number of us who build something people want?
Oh really? did not know that. Can I link accounts?
Reading the rest of your comments makes it evident that you have an axe to grind.

Food deserts are caused by decades-long social and economic pressures that may manifest as "consumer choice," as espoused in the following comments. It is really not surprising whatsoever that opening a grocery store in a food desert did not reduce BMI in the community in 6 months.

From my perspective, you are using the veil of rationality to advance an intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt argument. When I encounter a line of argument like yours, I find that it is nearly certain the other individual has little personal experience with underserved communities or individuals. I challenge you to any first-hand work in truly underserved American communities. The vast majority of these people are not simply lazy or lacking in impulse control, but are stuck in a socioeconomic feedback loop.
I don't know about the US, but Canadian universities spend 3.5-4% of their endowments annually and expect this to preserve the real (inflation-adjusted) value of the endowments. So they're expecting between 5.6% and 6.1% nominal annual return over the long term.

Nobody ever invests an entire endowment in bonds; even aside from the lower rate of return, the inflation risk is much too dangerous.
At the same time, though, you lose the thread if you miss any "X is the next version of Y" update. Probably HR-number-hash would be ideal.
Subclassing in Go
I suspect that regardless of how far this technology advances, doctors will still be manually reading X-rays and MRIs for decades to come--and of course, in the US, collecting obscene salaries for doing so.

Sure, they may adopt the technology to make their diagnoses more accurate, but they will still demand that they have final say and that the law effectively make them its gatekeepers.

Even if these systems prove more accurate, doctors will still fear-monger (successfully) about the danger of trusting algorithms and stress the need for competent, highly-educated MDs being involved at every step along the way.

Medicine will be the last field automated.
Aw, I should have entered my rotary mobile phone...:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8
> Not to say that Tarsnap doesn't contribute ...

Sorry, I was afraid that remark would be misinterpreted.

As a long-time FreeBSD (and previous Tarsnap) user, I'm certainly appreciative of the fact that you donate to the Project (in addition to your other contributions). That's the "happy feeling".

The "disappointment feeling" comes from wishing that Juniper and VMware's donations were of an amount that would put them in a much higher category.

In other words, my thinking was along the lines of "These two [huge, public] companies are donating roughly as much as Colin himself is". (I realize that, technically, Tarsnap is the entity donating but the fact is that that would be extra money in your pocket otherwise.)
Yeah... might want to mark this NSFW
If you live in a walk-up building and there is a payphone/hotspot on your block, would this actually allow you to cancel your internet and exclusively use this for your Wifi? (Article says 150ft range...)
I don't have an NYT subscription or use any sort of workaround to access NYT pages, so I am not a member of any 'club'. You can view something like 20 stories a month before they ask you to subscribe, and I don't feel bad about posting an interesting story from a site that uses a paywall once or twice month.
I am also a very happy attic user and can attest to the wonderfulness that is it.

Here's a blog post about it:

http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
So what you're describing is a 'senior developer' or 'lead developer', who is noticing that the build system is an issue, and reporting it up and suggesting issues.

Whereas I said "If you have good devs, the other teams will have communicated that up".

The only difference I'm seeing is you're positing someone who is aware of developer issues, and 'with little time to contribute meaningfully'. How, if the person isn't developing, is he/she going to be able to tell what the development issues are? He/she can't just ask the developers; if they're aware of it they're not 'down in the weeds', and just communicating it upwards is enough.

I'm pretty sure this issue is best served with a retrospective.
I think I'm having an internet crisis ... I read your article, and examined your project, and I've spent the last hour convinced that Cosmos is a very smart joke.

Forgive me if this is insulting, because either way (real or a prank), your project is impressive.

Can you help me out? Otherwise, I'll spend all night thinking that nondeterministic monads are the new hotness and then I'll need to quit programming and start selling scones on craigslist.