skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate you taking the time to respond. It seems like you're targeting two different markets (developers & their clients/employers), and having to construct two different product stories. Of course, what appeals to the developer market doesn't necessarily appeal to their client/employers and vice versa.

I'm speaking as a freelance developer that's firmly in your target market, charging well in excess of $49/month, and delivering three static websites in the past month for clients, one being the University of Leiden. I understand very well what you're trying to solve, and pointed out the places where your product is superior.

Right now, it feels like your product is heavily slanted towards developers. And it feels like that's who you're asking to pay for the service. My clients couldn't careless about API proxying, deeper Git integration, or auto-building any branch to unique deploy URLs, even if that makes sense to me as a developer. They're not going to be working with those things. They wouldn't accept me saddling a $49/month charge upon them AFTER I've delivered the project and all they want to do is run a one-off script to deploy the website for minor updates to content over the next 3-5 years.

What I'm saying is, yes, Netlify makes it easier and eliminates servers for pre-rendering and form submissions. That fits the SaaS model. But I think you're missing out on another part of the market: the people willing to pay a one-off license per site for your deployment software, i.e., setup S3/CloudFront, SSL with Let's Encrypt, domain handling, a nice deployment pre-processing pipeline, preview past versions locally in browser, etc. in an automated fashion and then allow them to push updates with one command. That's what my clients want, and that's what I deliver to them. They'd be willing to pay $49, once, for that script (folded into their invoice).
The title is very misleading. If San Francisco's housing bubble was really "collapsing under its own weight" prices would be falling, and he's provided no indication that's the case.

Yes, teachers can't afford to live in SF unless they're bringing in a lot of equity from somewhere else. They're probably doing the same thing everyone else without at least a mid-six-figure household income is doing - commuting from the East Bay.
I think people retaining control of their machines, in spirit as well as in practice, is more important long-term than security (and more conducive to it). Techno-dystopia scares me more than the odd bit of fraud.

Privacy without security is like a hut in the wilderness. Security without privacy is like prison. Where would you rather live?
heating with oil is expensive. solar panels actually can heat well. just heat a block of concrete. the concrete is the battery. electrodacus is doing this now.
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Do you think the 'existential danger from mobs with pitchforks' is justified? If they don't believe the outrage is justified, then they may be aware of this, but still speak these things out loud.
They're cheaper than that, if you're willing to deal with shady(ish) companies: lowendbox.com
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Having children is a life choice in a social context by definition. Along your lines of argumentation, someone could make absurd arguments like that when you retire you should not be allowed benefits paid for from the tax base you made the choice to not enhance. Or should you be allowed to employ or even work with people who were raised and educated at the expense of people who made the choice to do so? Paternity and Maternity leave is a drop in the ocean in subsidizing the expenses parents make or the benefits of their choice to society.
NRE = 'Non-recurring engineering', for those as ignorant as I was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-recurring_engineering
My questioning the long term safety of GMO's is logical though. Peer reviewed studies on the topic just plain don't address the very real possibility that GMO's can have very harmful effects 20, 30, or 50+ years down the road. Both to our environment and our bodies. Believing that a short term study that concludes they're "safe" also means they're safe in the long term is quite a leap of faith, and illogical.

Edit: To put it another way, I'll bet short term studies concluded that asbestos was "safe" to use as a building material. In the long run though, that didn't really turn out to be the case.
Unfortunately, none of the Bitcoin developers are currently aware of any "insider info" at all. This was force-pushed by a single individual who has not been communicating with anyone about this alert.
Cisco is laying off 14,000 people, 20% of its workforce. If it is so strong, why would it let go so many people? Cisco makes good profits now, precisely because the US government protects Cisco from competitions in the US market. Yahoo was worth $200B at a time. How much was it sold to Verizon?
Many keep pointing out the Walmart theft numbers and his they correlate to the local crime stats. I wonder if there is a correlation to theft numbers and distance to nearest bus stop.
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Even assuming that's the kind of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman wants, it will take generations to lift the people off the oil teat and into a productive western, capitalist economy. It might just barely be starting to pay off near the end of his lifetime, and that's being pretty optimistic IMO. He isn't just fighting the economy either, but the cultural and religious attitudes of the people.
Sure, in theory, but I've struggled to find a single example of such an implementation.

It seems like you either have to delegate authN to your chat service, with authZ handled by hubot-auth, or find a way to get your chat client to pass a token along with every chatops request.
A mouseover quick summary of the differences between the times would be really useful.
This goes back to mastery, autonomy, and purpose as key motivators / engagement of workers today. However, purpose and quality of coworkers are what's different from the two which means that motivation and job satisfaction are at least correlated and that the differences may be better explained with models based more around relationships - relationship with oneself is a big part of finding purpose in life or career, after all in the western world.
You've got that almost completely backwards, though few people are aware of this (in the United States).

I'm hazy on the details myself, but briefly:

1. Healthcare insurers are covered under ERISA, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, of 1974. Among the provisions of that act are limitations on the right to sue, under the theory that a retirement fiduciary is an agent of the employees. It's been a long time since I've looked at this, and I don't recall all the specifics, but yes, there are some limitations on suit for lack of coverage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Retirement_Income_S...

2. Lawsuits against the government are possible and happen all the time. I'd have to see what specific limitations apply, if any, to Medicare, Medicaid, Disability, and VA care, but you'll find numerous instances of suits:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lawsuit+medicare+denial+of+(care%7...

Update, additional info on ERISA and its impact on lawsuits: appeals through the insurer must first be exhausted, but statute of limitations applies whilst lawsuits are blocked: https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/stock_option/...
Oops, misread your comment. Sorry, and thanks for talking about GitLab.
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The is literally what every consulting firm does when they come in.

They create a "Whale" chart, aka "Cumulative Customer Profitability".

See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-feat... for a, umm, insider view of it.

and http://www.magesblog.com/2014/01/whale-charts-visualising-cu... if you want to see some sample code :-)
i think it's important t to keep in mind that the professor's valuation does not include a liquidation preference or other protective provisions that investors pay a premium for.
We use them for our middleman based website. They are fantastic from a performance and support standpoint.
To your second question: because some projects are fundamentally irresponsible, and providing vulnerability reports to them means making an engineering contribution, which decreases the likelihood that the project will fail.
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This is also on upstream projects not to lock themselves into CUDA. Yes, it's great, but everyone suffers when there's only one supported API. Even more so when it's closed and locked to a specific vendor, as CUDA is.
That hasn't been my experience. There are views that HN generally opposes, like being anti-GMO, and newcomers who don't know what HN's opinions are might accidentally run into something and get punished for it. But once you know what the standard HN opinions are, you just need to be very clear about exactly how you depart from them when you voice dissent. This means disclaimers and hedging — poor style in traditional writing, but necessary on the internet where you can usually assume that someone protesting GMO foods is committing the naturalistic fallacy.
Why use it, if it locks you in?
Thanks.

Okay, and when my Web site software, with several special back end servers, is all working well, what platform do I use to keep, say, an 8 core AMD processor at 4.0 GHz busy?

On Windows, I'm aiming at Windows Server (WS). My initial usage of WS will be just dirt simple. As I get revenue, for more I will pick up a phone, call an expert, maybe you, pay for an hour to walk me through the most recent issue, take notes, and then move on until the next issue.

For Windows, I have used the .NET Framework, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, a little of platform invoke to call some C code, etc. and, of course, Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) to sit between my Web pages and the users. I wish the .NET documentation had better technical writing, but otherwise I'm from happy enough to thrilled with .NET. If I am to use .NET heavily, then I sense that to minimize mud wrestling with weak documentation and too many bugs (e.g., from trying to get .NET to run well on iOS or Linux) I should stay on Windows.

Maybe implicit in your suggestion is that I would deploy for production on some Linux system? Okay, which one? And how many loose ends, third party, open source, do it yourself issues would I encounter?

Roughly I get the impression that for high end production use of Linux, I would be nearly rolling my own operating system -- this could be wrong. I'm eager to have good information on any operating system I use, but really I want to draw a line at the operating system, compilers, etc. and not cross that line.

At this point, I about have to go ahead with Windows. Maybe I'll get some books Windows Server 101 for Dummies or some such.
Burning natural gas is among the cheapest forms of heating we have, and it works 24/7/365 and at all latitudes. Solar heating using a slab as a heat reserve requires re-engineering houses completely and may be impossible in a lot of places that don't get a lot of sun during the coldest months.
I wish they'd support the installation of synonym files and plugins. The lack of dynamic scripting is problematic for some of my use cases.
If you have a conviction about oil prices that's a really easy bet to make.
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Thats assuming that the current page wasn't altered by the attacker.
Bad idea to sign the key just by looking at possibly newly downloaded old releases. Shouldn't keys only be signed after meeting in person?
Looks like good work, but I'm thinking more of a rapid response system that will have something up within hours after "Gluten causes GMO in children" goes viral.

With the hope that the debunking can stop the growth before it's grown to full size.
https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/765993262473678848
Ephemeral PKI
Being able to instantly go back to any previous version and click through the content without impacting the git workflow is a great feature.
At least, as of a few years ago, Apple figured out that incremental updates are not such a bad thing. There is only so much “damage” they can do with an update; and although they do screw up stuff, you can at least figure out what happened.

Where do you start though when W10 changes the entire damned UI, replaces a bunch of apps, moves stuff around, creates two versions of some control panels, etc.? That is just a special level of “don’t give a crap” that is embarrassing for any company making billions of dollars.
This needs a few layers of obnoxious javascript to put it over the top. Funny idea.
Very nice... Just browsed out the site. Now, you seem to have a lot less vitamins, etc. in your selection compared to what is on most off the shelf products. Is that by design (or researched evidence) or just that you haven't found a way to print them into the pill yet?
The actual number being reported now is 5500, significantly less that 14K.
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Death Tax hike?
That's actually the intention. The federal government was originally intended only to provide basic functions like national defense and border control. Domestic policy would've been practically irrelevant.

The United States is a collection of fifty sovereign states that pool resources to pay for things that are beneficial to the geographic neighborhood, like a giant HOA. It's not fair to compare the universal policies in a conglomeration of sovereign states to the policies in independent jurisdictions; that is, the comparison should be California<->Sweden, not U.S.<->Sweden.

Under that framework, all labor law should be state-level. This promotes competition among jurisdictions for population, which means people have the option to move somewhere nearby if a jurisdiction passes a really undesirable law. More local jurisdictions also makes representative government a lot more feasible. A rep with 25k constituents is going to be much more available to the average citizen in their district than a rep with 25m constituents.

Some areas in the U.S. do have mandatory sick and parental leave, and some don't, and that's how the respective peoples like it. Time will tell which approach is superior. We think that kind of competition is good.
Sorry, have to follow up -- I erred in that comment. If tech enabled taxis to get better utilization, that would have increased the steady expected revenue during each shift, and increased the medallion prices, not disrupted it.

The only similarity with Uber is that it would have made it easier to get a ride, but the effect would still be opposite of Uber with respect to medallion prices.
Yep. Clinton wanted to tax employer-provided health care too. McCain and Clinton were right about that --- but Baucus, and I guess by extension Obama, was right about the individual mandate.
Edit: I see what you're saying now, if the NMS is in the cloud for some reason, the attacker could get the community string since it's sent clear text. Really glad one of the first things I did when I got my new job was to get us on snmp v3

Wouldn't the firewall be just as exposed to the internet? After all, that's what it's job is: to protect the internal network from the external. In your scenario the attacker would first have to hack the NMS to get the community string on the firewall running SNMP
It's not about being well-connected. As a company you can actually apply for a state-sanctioned VPN service that would be given the green light and won't be throttled even in the worst of times. If this wasn't the case, how do you think all international companies work in China?
It could also be "non-recurring expense".

Sometimes things have a "setup charge" that you have to pay once, but then don't have to pay again.
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Compulsion is not the modus operandi in the US. The belief is that if the employment marketplace values parental leave, it will be offered without being compelled by government force. If parental leave is critical, find an employer willing to provide it (or better yet, make money independently; America makes this easy relative to Europe).

"It's a free country" and all that. One's employer has no more obligation to continue to employ him/her than the employee has obligation to continue to work for the employer.
I set up a Hololens (developer edition) this week and I think most of these features are already in there... I joined it to Azure AD, setup a PIN login, and saw settings to enroll it in to device management (that I did not test). Did not see kiosk mode but this has historically been a standard Windows feature. Did not see bitlocker settings, maybe this is really new...
A lot of the developers have participated in key signing parties , and have keys with lots of history. Would be good if they could drop some signatures.
thanks for the suggestions!

how long did it take you to see changes with IF? I have been doing it maybe about 6 months already...

meanwhile, will go and read leangains.com :)
Uber isn't doing that well in terms of profits. It claims to be profitable in the US, but without audited GAAP numbers, that's questionable. (It's easy to be "profitable" when you get to decide what costs to count.)

Uber claims to make $0.19 per ride in the US. (Unaudited, of course) Average number of daily Uber trips is 1 million.[2] That's $69 million a year. Ongoing companies have a P/E ratio in the 10 to 15 range, so Uber is worth about $7bn to $10 bn as an operating company. Anything higher than that is anticipation of future growth. A huge amount of future growth.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-14/lyft-is-ga...
[2] http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/uber-statistics/
I like stackoverflow type of feedback, comments, vote up/down system. Not perfect, but a lot of thinking go into that part of the website design.

But not sure if those ideas for technical focus (with "right" A to the Q) website can be easily applied to more political website such as NPR.
I haven't been able to reliably/easily get a project to compile on Linux into a self contained executable similar to Go.

At one point this was advertised in blog posts as something that would be possible. Has this changed?

I think it's one of the killer features that help ease the burden of deployment for a lot of folks.
> If they start making money in a given city, a competitor can sweep in and take the city from them.

Uber uses their network effect to cut prices and force the competitor out. They have done this in a number of cities. No city has ever been "taken" from Uber (in the US at least).
What you're describing is therefore a failure of journalistic ethics. An important part of any set of professional ethics is not giving the consumer what they want, if what they want violates a standard of the profession; in this case, that means having a significant chance of being true.

On the other hand, that professional behavior has a difficult time competing with unprofessional behavior is unsurprising, as is that professional behavior is hard to maintain.
It definitely seems like a software thing because a hidden assumption in the article seems to be: if you build it for one person, you have to offer it to everyone. This makes sense for software where one customer alone will never pay for the investment of building the add-on.
I see you point about it being overly difficult to report vulnerabilities, especially legal threats, that seriously sucks. I guess I believe you have an obligation to make some effort to disclose, but if a project is just irresponsible and won't fix their shit, or will try to sue you, it's out of your hands.
And yet, the most dramtic improvements in healthcare outcomes (life expectency, mortality), came in the period before intensive medicine. Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth (2016) describes this in detail. Progress since 1970 has been particularly abysmal and almost totally due to increased access for the most under-served populations.

It turns out that there are very sharply diminishing returns to intensive medical care. And that getting the basics right -- pre-natal care, effective childbirth, well-mother-and-baby care, vaccinations, good nutrition, an environment clear of pollution and contamination (especially lead, mercury, asbestos, smoke, and miscellaneous hazards) has a tremendous effect on improving infant survival and adult capabilities in both physical and mental health.

The same precise services which lack of healthcare limit.

There are also specific interventions which can be hugely impressively. One doctor I know entered the profession after witnessing what a single dose of narcan could do to an ODing heroin junkie. (Mind, you've still got an addict to deal with after ripping them out of Death's Cold Hands, but you've got a live addict, not a dead one.) Wound care, reconstructive surgery, bonesetting, and treatments for at least some diseases and conditions are pretty amazing.

But people still eventually die, and putting of the inevitable is extremely expensive. The share of Medicare (and total) healthcare expenditures invoked in the last 12 months of life are quite high, though I've not the specific figures.

And the US healthcare industry, in cost for outcomes achieved, is horrendously inefficient. It remains unavailable for far, far too many people.
As a hack, I think you can set a custom 404.
Anybody intrieged by the idea of taking a train like overland voyage in one of these that wouldn't explode? The airship travel ideal has always facinated me.
What's the worst condition (if you don't mind saying) you've had where you had to use the Canadian system? Generally, socialized medicine works fine for routine care but badly for catastrophic (i.e. expensive) care.
Doesn't Science have a similar feature for articles published in it? A short, educated-layman-level summary of the meaning of the work?
Vigilance around binaries is a good thing anyway.

I hope though that this does not damage relations with the Chinese community, as singling them out without good cause is unjust.
The fastest (typical) human reaction is around 300ms

From what I've read it's more like 200-250ms, but hardware lag does bring the end-to-end closer to 300ms.
I cannot stand to use SC's iOS app. The experience is slow in many respects. Usually when I find hidden features in a design (like I often do with Apple's design) I find that it enhances the experience, while with SC it just bugs me. Like when I accidentally slip the song because I swiped too much.
New children usually aren't walking or talking by six months.

Providing for a family is very rewarding.
Why is it particularly worse than downloading a binary hosted anywhere else, upstream binaries being the standard way of obtaining software on Windows?

As for the virus checker, their program's raison d'etre is making registry changes. It's not difficult to imagine that being flagged by Windows Defender is unavoidable.
A nice reflection of modern Europe at the end. The German Super-manager of an Italian institution...

[Edit: Some people do not approve of the inconvenient truth, but are all too happy taking advantage of it.]
The fact that RSS appears to be dying is the best proof I have ever seen that demonstrates a secret cabal of lizard-people who control the world. How did it go from being so pervasive and useful to dying in so short a time? It can't all be laid at the feet of Google Reader and Facebook news.