jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you choose to buy partial insurance (for example high deductible, AKA major medical insurance) make sure you buy one with very good negotiators!

The value you get from paying below list price will likely be more than the value from the insurance payments.

The patient in this article didn't have such a plan, they have essentially a HSA, they paid a premium to have some cash paid toward procedures, but the "insurance" company didn't do any work on his behalf to lower the premiums - because they have no reason to, they pay a fixed amount.
Setting off an explosives detector isn't reasonable suspicion?
Can't you move downtown?
Thanks for writing this post.

>When it came time to reapply, I did so with someone who was widely recognized as one of the smartest technical folks on HN

Who was it?

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I'm a bit surprised that YC hasn't funded another non-technical, single founder yet.

Even though there's only one Steve Jobs, I'd bet several non-technical people will go on to build great tech companies in the future.

Perhaps these people have just found quality technical talent to partner with, so they're co-founders.
Ah, I understand.

It's something I'd noticed. I'll definitely look into it.
This has been proven to not happen often in the real world.

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog37/presentations/matt.lev...
No but I'm open to adding dropbox support through their API if I ever release a "pro" version (read: http://codr.cc/pro.html)
Developer program docs, such as they are, here: https://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/

That gets you access to the SDK. Access to the store is a messier deal. I've found brief summary docs, and a pointer to the application, in two places:

http://nookdeveloper.zendesk.com/entries/20009311-qualify-as...
https://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/nook-app-dev.html

Requirements for being a developer include at least a U.S. bank account and Tax ID#; the questionnaire also wants you to say why you're serious, and what other platforms you've already shipped on. (Having an app and wanting to sell it doesn't prove that you're serious enough?)

Royalty terms are given in the press release at 70% of the sale price, but I'm still looking for the page that explains whether that's after discounts (and if so, by how much), and explains the other terms and conditions.
Has your company paid 10x what it would cost for it to build and market something? And that cost includes getting that many users.

I am starting to think they are buying the founder's passion and nothing more. Which evaporates soon as s/he is bought out but that is why they make sure you stay on a while and show them the ropes, after that time a replacement is chosen by the founder I suppose.
The metaphor that I used when describing this to my boss was that sometimes you need a traditional hotel, sometimes you need an extended-stay hotel, sometimes you want to rent an apartment, and sometimes you want to buy a house. It all depends on where you want to be and for how long.

Right now, we're in the extended-stay hotel phase. It doesn't mean that people who buy their own homes or stay in traditional hotels are doing it wrong.
This is great information and in light of the AWS outage of last week - I would recommend a hybrid model. Just as you recommend AVPC be used for dev/testing - you could potentially achieve an ideal hybrid by deploying some smaller % of the dedicated hardware and having AWS fulfill elastic capacity needs.

Obviously this is determined by your application specifics, but there are a lot of deployment methods to consider.

The biggest issue I take point with in your assessment, however, is the networking gear cost at 10% being far too low.

You can get fair LB capabilities from low cost vendors like Coyote, but your switch infrastructure will likely be much higher than 10K unless you're doing some bare bones setup with 1U stacks and no redundancy.

Further, I would expand this model and add stand-by and failover hardware in the calc.

In which case I would round up to 60 servers and have a tertiary DB box as well.

Finally, I would add a support/contingency budget of 15% for emergency gear replacements.

In the case of staff -- there is a strong likelihood that you would need more staff to dedicated setups than you would with the hosted setups:

You need your staff to have more specialized skills in DB, routing, sys-ad etc. You also need to consider that you'll have more support costs for round the clock and on call support. While you have these costs with AWS, they are lessened as your staff are fundamentally in a reactionary state only with AWS - there is no proactive PM on hardware etc with AWS - you simply respond when outages occur and wait to regain access to your affected systems.

Staff on call would be required to be able to delve much deeper to root cause any outages you have in a dedicated environment, travel to the site and physically mitigate any gear failures.

Overall though, this is a fantastic perspective that everyone should have in Excel and type in their own numbers.
Wow, thank you everyone for the incredible responses and support. I'm really glad people found the post useful.

I didn't link to Munchery because I intended to write something to help future interviewees, not to promote the company. But it's really encouraging that people seem to like the idea :)
Isn't that arguing in favor of unfair competition (specifically undercutting), in a roundabout way?
> Build systems inevitably evolve into something turing complete. It makes much more sense to implement build functionality as a library or set of libraries and piggyback off a well designed scripting language.

This is so true. That's why I hate and love Jenkins at the same time.
This actually isn't true. Servers makr minimum wage, if all night they were tipped $0 then the resturant is required to pay them more hourly to hit minimum wage. Their combined pay from tips and the restaurant's pay must meet minimum wage. That is a federal law so it applies to all states. States can increase the minimum wage but cannot decrease it.
You said it yourself though, the market isn't completely free, and this is widely believed to be a good thing.

You cannot discriminate against me because you don't like where I come from. You cannot discriminate against me because of my race.

Some people believe these protections should generally be extended to beliefs or political tribes or other forms of identification.
I own Twitch. Can't I just shut it down if I wanted? Or should I be forced to stay open after becoming really popular because shutting it down would prevent millions of people's participation in a social setting?
I'm sure he'll love it.
I've wondered whether you could spend the rest time for one muscle group by doing an exercise for a different muscle group. Is that a no-no, or is it not done for practical reasons (the logistics of jumping back and forth between machines)?
i will automatically give less credence to an anonymous person. They are giving me nothing of themselves, so they expect nothing, and feel no obligation to present the truth. On the flipside, being anonymous, i don't take myself seriously enough. Yes, this has regrettably made me come close to trolling, i've worked on it, but i'm still not close to being fully genuine and i know that.
According to Wikipedia, misdemeanors are OK too, as long as they were committed in the presence of that citizen.

I think the real difference is that the cops have qualified immunity, meaning they aren't at fault even if the arrest turned out to be unjustified, and regular citizens do not.
No they don't but they allow to pretend (make it look like) strict evaluation.
I'm not a design expert by any amount. But I really like its shape. Maybe it's because I was an 80s child. It's like Robocop's car. The design attracts me much more than the more ... conventional, rouded? Tesla vehicles.
This assumes that we should expect to observe alien life with any meaningful probability at all, which may not be a reasonable expectation and completely independent of the difficulty of interplanetary expansion.
I'm a bit ambivalent about the overall theme of the essay, but this bit in particular is spot on:

"But worse than the brogrammers, I think it's the 'entrepreneurs' that bug me the most. The word feels so tainted now"

The word entrepreneur is approaching 'thought leader' as far as being eyeroll worthy. I have deep admiration for people who start their own business and work hard, but some LinkedIn profiles of self described 'entrepreneurs' are so utterly shameless. Even worse are the subtle variations on the theme - serial entrepreneur, social-media entrepreneur, etc etc...
Gitx has a panoply of forks on github, some add LOTS of features.
> These certs I have consistently seen lead to jobs, even for those in difficult to place circumstances.

Even for those without much experience?
This is not a troll, but a genuine call to question an assumption: what utility does policing have? I see no evidence that they present any kind of solution to economic or social issues of any kind. They will cage or hurt people or tear apart families to protect insured private property, never mind whatever "moral" aspersions we cast on a given instance of "crime," which is itself a wonderfully flexible and fluid term we bandy about like it has a fixed, equitable meaning.

Let's first scientifically test the wild, unproven assumption that we improve society by threatening each other with violence. I am skeptical, to put it mildly.
This is true. What I meant is that he writes about interesting stuff that happens on markets and thought experiments, and less about the practice of investing. That's because he himself does the correct, boring thing (index funds) and who wants to read about that every day. So maybe I had in mind more 'investing' than 'finance'.
I avoid both NYT and Fox, because it's too much effort to fact check every detail of every article I read. Both have too high an error-to-fact ratio IMO. That sort of thing has a way of affecting one's thought.
Do you have any recommendations on books to read to help with negotiation?
Taxation has nothing to do with it. Indian drivers are reckless. Crash tests are useless when Indian drivers are running over people.
My institution's administration does this. Every message from them is typed in Word, then attached to an email whose body says "Please read the attached message". They do this for every message, no matter how trivial.

I asked them why they do this, but haven't received a reply, perhaps because my question was in an attached gzipped Postscript document.
Was anyone able to actually play the game? It took me to an introduction, the last slide of which was "I'm finished with my hour of code" and I couldn't go any further.
Update: A representative for Syddansk University has issued a revised estimate of the compound's efficiency. They told Vice in a statement: "I am just updating our story on our website, because it turns out that Prf McKenzie made a calculation error. Pls note that it is not a SPOONFUL of this stuff, that we need to rid a room of oxygen. It is a bucket (10 litres). We apologize."

Well at least they admitted it was all hype.
> but asking for raises means they aren't happy

That's an assumption on your part.

And since you state up front that you are giving reasonable raises you essentially forestall the negotiations so unless your definition of 'reasonable' is different than the ones that your employees maintain you should have next to no turnover. If that's not the case you might have a problem there.

The 'opportunity to work on cool stuff' is worth $0 to a working dad with a mortgage, so likely you can do this but only to younger people, but people do not remain young forever and sooner or later their expenses will go up. And you sound like you will not be taking their position into account at all.
I'd suggest going with mechanize from the off - not just, as the article says, "[when] the site you’re scraping requires you to login first, for those instances I recommend looking into mechanize".

Mechanize allows you to write clean, efficient scraper code without all the boilerplate. It's the nicest scraping solution I've yet encountered.
Yeah, I didn’t quite understand it correctly at first. That’s a really good example of a legit use case that’s collateral damage from Apple vs Facebook.

I can think of other issues now too. For example, I think government services should be structured as subdomains instead of each department registering a separate domain. This will encourage the use of separate domains if they need to track effectiveness and that’s bad IMO. We don’t want to normalize stuff like irsonline.com because of the boost it gives phishing.

There’s definitely two sides to this one.
I understand the grumpy old person archetype now. I feel like I've been one for a long time, but it's really hitting home over the past decade.
Well, they are doing that, just not quite as much yet.

To the extent they're not, the difference is that ISPs don't have their logo on the services they host.
Thank Fefe for that: https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9e9221ad (second update in posting, completely in german)
Coincidence or bad press covfefe? ;)
> They are still subject to regulation

Not according to Section 230.
Weirdly, on both Firefox and Chrome, the Medium post jumps automatically to the top of the page if I scroll a bit into the DDIA section. Reader view on FF prevents this.

Thanks for recommending Effective Kafka!
An 11/20 didn't give a great Unix experience though. You needed an 11/45 with a 80MB drive to support multiple users.
Your comment is very helpful, but it would have been perfect if it included the first paragraph.

> TLA+ is a formal specification language developed by Leslie Lamport. It is used to design, model, document, and verify programs, especially concurrent systems and distributed systems. TLA+ has been described as exhaustively-testable pseudocode, and its use likened to drawing blueprints for software systems; TLA is an acronym for Temporal Logic of Actions.
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That is fantastic, I remember when they were new ideas without any implementation but just a few people trying some things on GitHub issues.

https://engineering.bitnami.com/articles/scaling-wordpress-i...

This article does the NFS approach justice I think, I was pleased to find it has been a working strategy for a while!
There are dozens of providers outside of the top 3, like DigitalOcean and Packet. FB already has a massive investment for their own infrastructure so the marginal cost is greatly reduced.
Hello Ivan, love the product! I'm always checking to apply for a PM opening, but I don't see it on the jobs page!
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Are you blocking reCaptcha?
I was exposed to Parse, but was it ever widely used/popular?
> unexpected deserialization error

I've had this with Boost.Serialization. Not fun. No exception, just a crash.
Put it on the shelves anyway. Most people aren’t going to be picky when the option is that or your hand.
>...but it's really not that much effort to have to see bad ads on each "bad" domain _once_, and then blacklist...

I don't want to download a trojan from a malicious ad-server. Not even once.
The N900 supports both touchscreen and physical keyboards, so you get the best of both and I'd wager the Neo900 continues this.

Personally I've always found the physical keyboard to be far more productive and have wondered why smartphone manufacturers didn't keep on making them.
Can we now see a similar article for how to learn a foreign language in 17 days while commuting 30 minutes each way to a 8 hour job 5 days a week and while raising a child or two?

Seems like just about anyone can learn to speak French when given the opportunity to immerse themselves in a bucolic French village with nothing to do!
> A Broadcom engineer named Josh watched my earlier videos and realized the ancient LSI card I was testing would not likely work with the ARM processor in the Pi, so he was able to send two pieces of kit my way

I'm curious about this; naively, I expect hardware/drivers to be basically independent of architecture/platform. If I've got the connectors/adaptors, why can't I plug in any arbitrary card and have it work?
Can't come fast enough. I welcome ai/ml replacing jobs left and right from fast food to janitorial to grocery stocking and call centers.

I'm anxious to see what the next step is in our evolutionary process economically. Do the people who rely on these jobs starve and does society descend into Mad Max or do we actually create UBI?

What happens when 60% of most country's populations are just surplus? What happens when even elite college grads are mostly just surplus?

When only 30-40% of the adult population is employable how will the market compensate and how will the economy work?

There's obviously going to be painful years ahead as governments and industry catch up, but it could be an exciting shift if we actually get to a post-scarcity society that actually functions and has a way so everyone "fits" and can still find purpose.

What do we do when ai can do 100% of the jobs? How do we find purpose then?
Good. Nobody benefits from fragmentation in deep learning.
since x and y are simple names, have simple values, and are unique pairs that apply only once to a point: attributes.

to use anything else means relying on an arbitrarily-complex custom schema rather than the much-simpler-and-far-more-standard schema of the language itself. similar to how we use datatypes in programming languages rather than just strings everywhere. both work! one is clearly giving up a lot, and gaining little.
None of these things exist. A taxonomy of three kinds is entirely inadequate to describe the potential of anyone working today. These sorts of quick fix mental models are pretty poisonous. There are literally recommendations for all three saying how useful they are. This is some of the dumbest snake oil to infect software development.
No sources and a lot of assertions here. I'm not sure how true this is tbh. Some of the best TAs I've worked with have a very broad knowledge of a lot of technologies, without being much of an expert in any specific technology.

I'm also personally somewhere between a tall-skinny and t-shaped engineer. Admittedly jobs seem to be a little harder to come by, but there are some jobs (especially with small startups) that really appreciate engineers who have a wide range of skills.

I'd love to see some data, confirming this. I suspect OP is right, but I don't think "short and fat" engineers are under valued as a rule, it's more that 90% of the time companies are looking to hire someone with a very specific skillset to fill a very specific role.
this adds entry-barriers and further strengthens current giants
Guess I'll work on a browser plugin that makes lots of responsible sounding financial queries.
Editorialised title, despite a clearly buried lede.

"What is Really New in Fintech" is original.

"IMF says credit score should incorporate browsing history" was submitted.

Buried lede:

Fintech resolves the dilemma by tapping various nonfinancial data: the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases. Recent research documents that, once powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these alternative data sources are often superior than traditional credit assessment methods, and can advance financial inclusion, by, for example, enabling more credit to informal workers and households and firms in rural areas.
They didn't try though, that's the point. You have to try in order to succeed or fail. I mean, the USA famously had a plan to invade Canada - but they never did.
Let's be honest, Google still contributes more heavily to OSS, whitepapers, and security research than Apple does.