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___cs____ commented on Ask HN: Can I just open source a new technology or should I write a paper? · Posted by u/hsikka

hsikka · 7 years ago

Great points, I think I may be overestimating the speed of Open Source development in my mind, leading to the mistaken assumption that all my time should be used rapidly building better tech. If that isn't the case, and there's bound to be a slow uptake on the OS side, it certainly seems prudent to shift my attention over to communicating and disseminating my work, perhaps through a paper.

___cs____ · 7 years ago

What I have seen lately is, writing a paper + open sourcing code, would be more beneficial than doing one thing. At the end, you will be talking to two communities.

___cs____ commented on NLP Architect by Intel AI Lab nlp_architect.nervanasys.... · Posted by u/tsaprailis

yorwba · 7 years ago

word2vec and fasttext are specialized tools for creating word embeddings, this is a more generalist library. It's more comparable to PyText, AllenNLP or Flair, the main difference appearing to be that the other three use PyTorch, not Tensorflow.

___cs____ · 7 years ago

with the recent change for TF 2.0. If you would design something similar, will you use TF or Pytorch? What I am trying to ask here is, Is TF 2.0 is comparable to Pytorch when it comes to ease of use?

___cs____ commented on NLP Architect by Intel AI Lab nlp_architect.nervanasys.... · Posted by u/tsaprailis

___cs____ · 7 years ago

Yet another interface on top of Pytorch/TF/Gensim.

___cs____ commented on Best book/paper you read in 2018? · Posted by u/yesenadam

___cs____ · 7 years ago

- Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better

- Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

___cs____ commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018) · Posted by u/whoishiring

alicetech · 7 years ago

ALICE Technologies: ALICE leverages AI to revolutionize scheduling in the $17+trillion global construction industry.

Currently, our stack mainly consists of the following: Front-end: TypeScript, Angular/React, and Data visualization (including D3.js) Back-end: Scala (Play framework, slick, akka), Postgresql, AWS, & 3D-Computer graphics (involves C++)

Open engineer & technology positions:

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___cs____ · 7 years ago

These people don't help with VISA and Relocation. They ignored my application after knowing that. Please don't put VISA/Relocation if you are not willing to consider those who need sponsorship

___cs____ commented on H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies mercurynews.com/2018/10/0... · Posted by u/muzz

___cs____ · 7 years ago

Canada/Australia have thriving scene, but somehow the number of jobs is really low.

There was a nice discussion on reddit about brain drain to Australia/Canada.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/9l1pug/w...https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/9l3ueo/which_coun...

___cs____ commented on Ask HN: Should I incorporate a company for software side projects? · Posted by u/___cs____

tyingq · 7 years ago

"only if your idea is already profitable beyond ramen profitability"

I don't know if this applies in EU, but in the US, incorporating would give the separate benefit of protecting your personal assets in the case your company was sued. So, it might be worthwhile even if you aren't profitable.

___cs____ · 7 years ago

I was given the same advise. Specially if your business is using a unique skill to solve the problem (e.g: ML, .. etc)

___cs____ commented on Ask HN: Should I incorporate a company for software side projects? · Posted by u/___cs____

nik736 · 7 years ago

You have to pay taxes in Germany, it doesn't matter if you found a company in the US, Estonia or somewhere else, you are living in Germany and that's the important thing that decides you need to pay taxes there.

In Germany you could do a "Nebengewerbe or Einzelunternehmen", where you can write invoices in your name, this is a fast way to get started.

Otherwise you have the UG, which can be created with 1 EUR "Stammkapital", or the GmbH with 25k EUR, but you only need to have 12,5k when founding it.

Which taxes have to be paid is different if you do the "Einzelunternehmen" or found a company (UG/GmbH). With the company there is the Körperschaftssteuer instead of the Einkommenssteuer, additionally the regular Umsatzsteuer (19%) and also you have to pay Gewerbesteuer. Gewerbesteuer, Körperschaftssteuer and Einkommensteuer all have a free amount per year, if you don't hit that limit you don't have to pay it.

I would advise against founding in a different country, because taxes have to be paid in Germany and founding a company outside of Germany makes it a mess and really expensive.

___cs____ · 7 years ago

I have my full-time job in Germany. I don't work freelancer as a full-time. This project doesn't take 40 hours week. I built the platform, and now I am maintaining it as a side project. However, I want to make it profitable.

> "Nebengewerbe or Einzelunternehmen",

Can I still do this while I have other full-time job ?. In Germany, they have the status of freelancer, and I am not on freelance VISA. I thought that it is only for freelancers.

P.S: feel free to suggest organizations/lawyers/consultants who can help with these matters.

___cs____ commented on Ask HN: Should I incorporate a company for software side projects? · Posted by u/___cs____

9wzYQbTYsAIc · 7 years ago

If you already have customers, it’s probably a good idea to at a minimum create a legal entity to be liable and insured for the work that you do for said entity.

___cs____ · 7 years ago

That's my point actually. I want to protect the data, the work and consumers. At the same time, brand my work under one company, so it would be easier to get new freelancing work.

___cs____ commented on Ask HN: Should I incorporate a company for software side projects? · Posted by u/___cs____

epynonymous · 7 years ago

i'm not an attorney, nor should my advice be taken as legal advice. i would strongly suggest getting a lawyer to handle this.

i can suggest, however, the main things to consider are separating your personal and business income tax and absolving yourself of personal liability in case something overbearing happens like a lawsuit, these are good things of incorporating.

again, i'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, i know nothing of eu laws either.

___cs____ · 7 years ago

> i would strongly suggest getting a lawyer to handle this.

As stated above, I couldn't find one, someone who can deal with tech-y stuffs here in my area.