skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to double-digit credit card rates they are. The counter-party risk is still present (as the title suggests, the balance cannot be wiped out, but the payments can still be missed, constituting technical default).
Pretty much. The CAD will be fully browser based and connected to the documentation and analysis side as well.

There are a lot of things that are somewhat similar at first glance. However, many of those require the user to write a document of some kind in a text editor and then upload it to a server where it is viewed through a URL as a web page. With CADWOLF, the user creates a new page and edits it in a WYSIWYG format.
This response is also valid for the main thread. Initially looks like a good idea but probably company that is willing to do this is in a more "desperate" position.
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I don't understand how you're going to measure and duplicate effective learning strategies.

What is a better metric for learning than the student's grade? How will you improve on it? How will you give the teacher the feedback they need to improve the student's outcome?
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"but people who use drugs to enhance reality don't have the same problems as those that use them to avoid it"

In terms of lifestyles, professions, and passions I have a very horizontal range of friends/coworkers/acquaintances. I see the motives behind drug use as being very personal through observation and I understand the self derivative nature of addiction through my own experiences with a wide variety of substances.

For some people an escape (not necessarily a complete avoidance) from reality acts as a reality enhancement (novel antidepressants such as dissociatives similar to Ketamine and other NMDA agonists fall into this category). Its use offers a renewed perspective on life and can put issues into perspective as to how important those problems are or how simple it is to solve many of them.

There are also those that use drugs to enhance reality (mostly through the use of stimulants which promote a feeling of sober sobriety) and those users may fall into a dangerously addictive mindset best summarized as 'Reality without a drug to enhance it is a very dull and mundane mode of existence. When I use this substance my reality is enhanced and I become the best version of myself I can possibly be.' Those individuals are not operating under a need to solve a problem, they view the drug as a way to follow the mantra 'just be yourself' because the use of the drug lets them do that with a sense of weightlessness. The use becomes the path of least resistance towards an unequivocally enhanced reality.

Personally my first experience with any 'problem drug' belonged to the category of benzodiazepines and it was prescribed to me. The dissipation of anxiety from the point of view of a chronically anxious and nervous user turns the litmus "Xanax is the greatest drug ever" towards something akin to the discovery of 'the secret chord' in the song "Now I've heard there was a secret chord, That David played, and it pleased the Lord [..] It goes like this, The fourth, the fifth, The minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing Hallelujah." I never fell into a xanax addiction, I was happy with composing hallelujah, but I understand the sentiment behind its value to some users.

There are classes after classes of drugs with effects ranging beyond my own personal experiences. It comes down to what does the drug do, what conditions primed the user for abuse, and what conditions have arised from the use of the drug (if any) that are negatively affecting the user's life. There is no simple cure for addiction but there is a period of time where the addiction isn't about physical dependency on the drug and that is, in my opinion, the best place to search for when 'curing' and understanding addiction.
Show HN: Dials 1.0
Totally can add Braintree and others, but want to start focused.
I agree, perhaps the price isn't perfect, but $5/month buys you not having to manage the server, configure nginx for your domain, easy site upload, etc.
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so basically v2 of google notebook... I loved Google notebook..too bad they discontinued that and now is back in a different form.. hope this lives on for a little longer.
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Despite the fact all your numbers are wrong, I don't get why people think saving money on servers is the most important goal.

Revenue - expenses = profitability. You can move either of those dials, and revenue is the bigger lever because it has no upper bound - expenses can never get to zero, but revenue can grow to any amount.

If a business is anywhere near breakeven, and can increase expenses by 10%, and revenue by 15%, it should do it.

Simple equation: grow by $300,000 PER MONTH or save $11K per month - which is better? I say chase the revenue growth over some minor cost cutting, but that is just me.

I dunno, but I reckon Buffer knows a little something about growing...
My parents didn't have college money set aside for me either, but even if they did, I don't think I would have taken it.

I would take it if I had a rich father, but mine wasen't.

He liked to brag he was a well paid union electrician, but we seemed to barely get by. After taxes, and my mom's depression shopping. (She didn't spent much, but she needed to buy something everyday. She was clinically depressed before people knew about depression. Later in life when she got a job, the depression went away completely. She is now literally afraid to retire.) My father always said she was the reason he didn't have any saved money. It wasen't the tiny amount she was spending, it was taxes, bills, life, etc. We did have money for emergencies though. I remember the family dog, a dachshund, slipped a disc. My father walked in, and said no to the operation. We all started to cry, and he asked how much. He gulped, and he finally said yes. She lived another 7-8 years?

Oh yea, why wouldn't I take money from him to go to college?

I just didn't want any more stress to succeed back then. I was taking hard courses, but my father was working harder at his job. When he died, he told me thanks for not asking for money growing up. Yea, we had our differences, but I never felt indebted to him for any big decisions in my life. It was a liberating feeling at the time. Looking back, I could have used some help, but glad I didn't take it. I did take the student loans though.

Plus, going to college was easier in the 90's. The courses weren't easier, but the price was reasonable, or at least
I thought. My biggest gripe was the cost of used books, and transportation to school. I still think if I had a reliable vechicle back then, my college life would have been easier.
Later in life, I went to automotive school. One of the reasons was I just want to know how to work on vechicles the right way. It was still pretty cheap to go to a community college in the late 90's.

I got by cheaply by going to a state school, and working security jobs. Actually, my best college jobs were mini-storage assistant manager jobs. These mini-storages are 99% full. You just basically sit in an office, and walk the grounds every once in a while. I would get all my studying done on the job.

Cost of going to school back then was cheaper than today though. I repeated that because I see how you young graduates have been extorted.

And it definetly wasn't a party school. I don't remember one party, but then again it was a state school that was out in the boonies, and most of the students just wanted to graduate.

I still knew the worst day at school was better than working construction.
- abuse is a concern. I'm hoping the disposable nature of the experience limits it.
- there is a monetization strategy dependent on the user base. We want to offer helpful services (deeplinking or otherwise) that are location/context specific.
- there is a white-labeling feature too for a smaller cash-flow. Let's say Red Bull wants to use it for a Fleugtag (sp) weekend of activities.
- we're hoping the disposable nature of hashtags will allow for enough of a namespace.
- You have to subscribe through EventCast. Growing the userbase will be THE challenge as this is a tool useful when you need it but otherwise dormant.

The early users, though, found it to be their go to app at the 4AsTransformations conference, for example.
"My commute is actually takes longer than it did back when I used to commute from a walkable New York suburb into midtown, even though the physical distance is about 40% less."

I'm not sure I understand this properly. How does this happen?
SaaS Founder/CEO Equity at Time of IPO
Quick questions: Is the fax market really growing at 10%+ per year? Who are the customers and how large is that market? Why are those customers "left behind" from the wave of innovation that transmits more and more data electronically?
So the UK is basically subsidizing worthless degrees.
If Trump honestly believed everything that he says, I would agree that his thinking would necessarily be shockingly _shallow_ on many issues.

But to compare him to a four year old then make a sweeping statement like "isn't that bright" ?

How could anyone think this? Isn't it obvious that there are domains in which he is, for better or worse, exceptionally intelligent within that domain?
Indeed. It's the best (shittiest) way to deploy code on as many people's desktops as possible.
How is your service different from what CloudFlare offers with it's DDoS mitigation? I think I might misunderstand your goals.

Is bot traffic a nuisance or actually a problem? If it's not enough traffic to bring my site down, why would I care as a website owner? If the bots are probing for security vulnerabilities, how do you detect that? Do you plan to add services to address the vulnerabilities?

> How are we measuring our results? 1) Reduce overall bounce rate. 2) Increase visitor page views per session. 3) Increase visitor average session duration.

How will eliminating bots help this? Why doesn't (or can't) google analytics filter out the bots?
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Thanks I have actually observed several startups attempt this over years in one form or the other.

My hope is that in case we fail I still leave behind a good theory/framework, academic papers and hopefully some quality open source code from my research that allows the next guy to pick up. There are some good developments over last year as far as access to data is concerned. We also have some good medical discoveries using this platform that we expect to publish over the next year. I will follow up on email tomorrow.
We offer a card-less and hassle free experience compared to fivestars. Also, with our solution the customer actually interacts with your brand and not with a 3rd party brand like fivestars.

Currently the merchant has to use our kiosk app but we are working on integrations with solutions like square.

With AirLoop you get a completely white labelled solution, fully customizable with your brand and we don't share your customer data with other merchants.

We make money with our outbound marketing tools such as targeted campaigns delivered through SMS.
We're running many small (10s of nodes) clusters on metal with coreos. Networking is some in house stuff we've purpose built so we can get public ips on the pod.

Internal adoption seems to be going well so hopefully this grows.
Sorry, I've just realised from other responses that what is being proposed is just dedicated bus lanes. These are very much a given in the UK, so I'm always surprised that they are seen as new development in the US
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Tell HN: Selling a SaaS (experience)
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Company1: See, we have given you 1000 dollars, this is a very big amount for startup.

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Company2 ($1B+): You guys increased the price from $250 to $1000. Now its out of our budget. But we liked your product very much.

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Me: We increased our price from $200 to $250 per month.

Company3 CTO ($300M+): No, no. You earlier agreed on $200. Please don't increase the price.

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Me: We have an annual plan which is $11k, in case you want to try for 1 month, its $1000.

Company4 CTO: Do you have a shorter plan like 2 weeks?

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Company5: We are ready to subscribe but we will cut a TDS on the payment.

Me: What?! Its a product not a service (although its a SaaS)

Company5: No, we do it for AWS too. They cry while dealing with us.
My personal intuition is that splitting your userbase like this is disastrous for a game in the long-term (to say nothing of my intuition that 90% of people longing for "the old days" are just looking for a quick hit of nostalgia, with no intent to pay long-term).

However, it's worth mentioning that Runescape now officially offers a "classic" version of the game alongside (and separate from) the modern version, which should be an interesting experiment to watch.
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Wow.. Thanks for the insight here. I'll definitely take you up on some more advice as we get going.

Like you, we're finding that largely vendors need to be reached out manually through phone calls. Our first phase is to focus in on vendor silos that can be largely iterated via chat/email/photos.

We'd love to hear about what specifically failed when you introduced the bidding services. We're seeing that the pain we feel with on boarding vendors is the exact pain that couples go through over and over trying to iterate with vendors today. We're hoping that vendors that accept technology will be rewarded with more business.

In terms of booking fast, we're considering running this auction with some sort of time limit, but that will likely only happen when we feel like there are enough vendors looking at the auctions.

Re: Trusted Vendors - One surprising number we found was how few people actually use wedding planners (sub 20%). That means 80% of the time couples are going out there and having to make their own judgement on which vendors to trust for this one-time gig. It's pretty nerve wrecking for them. Similar to something like Airbnb hosts, we think that vendors need to reviewed, socially validated, and rated on response times.

I'll definitely keep in touch as we get past this version 1.0. I'll drop you a line as we go.

Thanks for your direction here!
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Good point. Most creditors would be aghast at 100% LTVs that student loans seek, so it would have to be a combo of a significant down payment, parents' HELOC (or other secured credit facility) and finally unsecured credit card debt.
I'm wondering if their objective here was to make an example out of this particular server as they have with others. Once they reach a particular critical mass, they gain Blizzard's interests and down comes the legal hammer.

Although you have to wonder what sort of impact this is going to have, if any. I'd wager most of the players are unlikely to pay for a retail subscription if they aren't already simply on the merits that they were actively looking for a 1.x vanilla server. Further, it has to be a bit like a game of whack-a-mole: For each server they shut down, one or two reappear to take their place, but it does serve as trademark/copyright protection against dilution and illegal use of game assets.

I've read a few threads on the official forums out of shear curiosity, and it almost reminds me of the discussions that occurred during the height of Napster et al. The primary difference being that the private servers recreate a product that effectively doesn't exist anymore (not justifying the legality of it, but if you ignore the copyright/trademark issues, that's essentially the underpinning issue). Blizzard claims there's insufficient interest in prior expansions to justify re-implementation (and maybe they're right) but the number of private servers surely can't all be populated with freeloaders.

Part of me wishes there was a better resolution to this. WotLK was my favorite expansion, and it'd be nice to play it again with some of the more recent improvements mixed in (minus the spell culling and talent nonsense--it feels far too dumbed down).
Another option: caption of your own pirate ship, inside a giant battleship.
It's popular and relatively easy. It doesn't require any special skills. Anyone with an average IQ can learn it. There's low cost and barrier of entry to getting started.

If all of those things were true, then the field would be saturated and it wouldn't pay nearly as well as it does. I would claim that while you don't need an exceptionally high IQ, you do need a systematic way of thinking that is relatively uncommon.

You will be worthless if Western civilization ever fails and drops out of the Technological Age.

Sure, as would most white-collar workers.

As we advance and become more organized and cohesive, the need for programmers will be reduced.

The need for all types of workers will be reduced. The demand for programmers will remain higher than for many other professions; somebody actually has to implement the automation.
Maybe you should start the Thesaurus Party and run in the next election. I'm sure voters would swiftly capitulate to the erudition of your insuperable sesquipedalian fulminations. None of those pathetic made-for-TV words that Trump has bedizened his 8th grader lexicon with.
You still have interfaces. When you invoke a method on an interface, you don't know exactly which code will be called. It could do anything from crash to format your hard drive. In theory, the semantics of the interface should be well-specified and any implementation that doesn't conform to them is a bug, and Go culture holds pretty strictly to this, but there's nothing in the compiler that imposes solid restrictions on what the implementation of an interface can do.

If you're disciplined, you can write solid, easy-to-understand code in any language, Javascript included. I've worked on million+ line Javascript codebases and been productive (as a developer new to the codebase) within 3 days. But this imposes trade-offs in verbosity and flexibility that are often not worth it for most (non-Google-scale) JS codebases.
Exactly. This finders keepers losers weepers shit is so f'n annoying.
This is something you will have to deal with anyway. Let's take the the US for an example (although this will apply virtually anywhere in the world). I don't have time to gather excellent data, but wikipedia tells me that in 2010 28% of households made less than $25K, 51% made less than $50K, 69% made less than $75K.

So in reality, about 30% are in a fairly serious pinch nearly all the time and 50% are probably doing OK, but still having to watch their budgets pretty closely. Only 30% of the population has the kind of earnings that people on HN generally consider acceptable.

Let's say that energy which doesn't liberate much carbon is 20% more expensive than carbon intensive energy (who knows). Really, only 30% of the population can easily swallow that cost increase. And even then, if we are talking about replacing cars, etc, etc the capital costs are actually outside the reach of a large percentage of those people (imagine being told that you have to replace your car today... could you afford it?)

In reality, if only the people who could afford it switched, it would not actually represent a large reduction in carbon usage. You have to disproportionately affect lower income brackets because that's were the vast majority of people live.

So if you tax carbon to make it attractive to switch, it's really not any more expensive. The main issue is making sure that people are able to deal with the capital expenses. Otherwise they won't switch. So IMHO, you are correct that carbon tax alone won't be enough. But there isn't really a downside to such a tax as long as you find a way to deal with capital expenses. In order to be successful, the poor must switch to the more expensive option.
In spite of drivers being non AGPL, companies with 'absolutely no AGPL' policy cannot try the open source version of these DBs which puts these products behind others. I don't think AGPL provides any real benefit for the vendor. Most small organizations will want their patches (if any) to be upstreamed so they don't have the maintenance burden. Most big organizations will want commercial support anyway. All AGPL does is discourage adoption.

There are plenty of non-AGPL DBs out there doing pretty well. Here are some examples of GPL/MIT/BSD style licensed DBs: Riak, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ArangoDB, CouchDB.
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Conceptually, I love this idea. A few questions:

1) How do you ensure that the work is valued fairly and that realistic expectations are set for scope, etc? When working for cash, these questions are resolved by market forces, but getting paid in something that is difficult to value, I'm concerned there's a lot of opportunity for unhappiness.

2) How do you ensure that the value doesn't get wiped out by liquidation preferences, or some future action dis-proportionally dilutes the value of the shares?
What do you mean by the main index? There isn't one yet that's specifically for Apply HN posts, but there should be soon.
How about modifying it so one can choose to use the 1,000, or 2000, 5000, or 10,000 most common words, for instance? Should be pretty easy and done dynamically (although tuning the number _down_ would require more work).
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Definitely agree w/ danieltillett, a post mortem of some sort could help a lot of startups in the C2B space. Although, I know how painful it can be. Thanks again for the help you've already given us.
Another hoax?
"Have you ever actually tried to write code in Modula-2?"

Three people wrote a consistent, safer platform in it from OS to compiler to apps in 2 years. Amateurs repeated did stuff like that with it and its successors like Oberon for another decade or two. How long did the first UNIX take to get written and reliable in C?

"Has there ever been an efficient, portable implementation of Cyclone or Popcorn? "

I could've said that about C in its early years given it wasn't intended to be portable. Turns out that stripping almost every good feature out of a language until it's a few primitives makes it portable by default.

"And, if you just randomly picked three examples, why are they all bad? What does that mean about the other examples, statistically?"

It means that, statistically, the other examples will have most of C's efficiency with little to none of its weaknesses. People using them will get hacked or loose work less. Like with all safe, systems languages that people turned down over C. Least important, it means I picked the examples closest to C in features and efficiency because C developers' culture rejects anything too different. That includes better options I often reference.

Why is that bad for their ability to produce robust programs? And what does that mean about C developers statistically?
You have symmetric read and write rates? That's pretty odd. Also if you are writing at that rate, presumably those writes aren't persisted?

EDIT: That's also a rate of 1.6us per query. I've never heard of a JSON/REST stack that could take in and return results in that period of time. Are you doing something special to accomplish that?