skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're missing the entire advantage Amazon has in the situation: n items, one box.

When you buy three items from Amazon, they have the opportunity to put both items into a single box and have a much smaller last-mile cost[0]. With this FedEx program, each item will have its own box and maintain the per-item last-mile costs. Last Mile is the largest fraction of an e-commerce retailers costs after actual products.

It's a neat program, but Amazon still has a cost advantage.

[0] (Now, they don't always do that, but that's usually in order to make sure the items get to the customer on time, or maybe they're coming from very distant different warehouses)
Tens of thousands of people had their visas revoked. The only thing that mitigated it was the courts putting a stop to it quickly. Saying it only inconvenienced a hundred people is not only wrong, it wouldn't even be a defense of the order if it was right.
It's also likely that human-in-the-loop will stay around, possibly indefinitely in medicine. A human-in-the-loop is a huge safety thing for medicine, but it defeats the whole point of HFT.
The optics are just really bad. Apple could say "In the mean time we'll support Vulkan" and bam! there is a cross platform solution. Instead you say "We will generously let everyone implement our specifications, we hate to see everyone suffering so, but if everyone else works really hard to do what we say, things will be great!"
Because if someone decides to upvote of their own volition then I want it to count, and not be discounted because I linked them to it when they might have found it on their own. If that goes against the spirit of the rules then I can abstain in the future, but at the same time it's a disincentive to ever directly linking a thread.
All I know is that when a cat walks his paws up my leg, insistent that I grasp him under the armpits and lift him into my arms, and subsequently puts his paws over my shoulder and purrs at the top of his lungs once I indulge his wishes, he derives some form of succor from my having been there; and that is no small thing indeed!
Honestly fuck notifications
It's completely ridiculous for a service to offer 2FA with SMS and also password recovery via SMS to the same phone number

Why is this ridiculous? Isn't this the same thing that Gmail offers for your own account? If you lose your password, Gmail will only send the recovery info to your friend's phone?
The key is debt. If your debt is in US dollars and you are forced to pay in US dollars, then you need to have US dollars. If you don't have them, you have to trade what you have (labor, land, beanie babies) with someone who has US dollars and want what you have. Hyperconcentrate the dollars, get most people in debt, and maintain the power to collect debts. This will make the economy not work well for most people.

Student loans, house loans, car loans, credit cards. Here we are.
"Fanatical support" is a big part of their branding.
We expect DirectX 12 drivers to be more complete, more performant, and more likely to be available out of the box without a separate install. We expect Windows browsers will want to build on top of DirectX, not Vulkan.
But even in chrome, several tabs can share the same process, which means that information can be leaked, cross-tab.
You don't. I just moved a WP multisite from Rackspace Cloud to AWS. Load times down 50%. Cost down 90%. Hosting is not, and has never been, an easy business.
That's a hell of a strawman. No one claimed SHA-256 is insecure.
How is this on security? Vulkan API is built on being able to modify command buffers and pass parameters by directly writing to memory, rather than the client/server model of OpenGL. I could see that being an issue with the sandboxed model of the browser.

Disclaimer: haven't read the new Apple web 3D spec, just curious about others' opinions.
Private equality bought Rackspace out. Layoffs are part of that playbook. They basically pump cash in to grow sales, while cutting costs, so they can chop it up and sell it off for a multiple of what they paid for it.
c#?
Naive to think that any companies reasons for doing anything should be or is coming from the purest of motives.
Whenever I get upset about this, I have myself a run. ;)
A safe zone, most likely in a neighboring country would definitely be a pre-requisite.
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It would be nice to see the issue of privacy, especially in regards to data privacy, evolve beyond a black and white matter. Privacy is important it allows for a bubble of safety and security in our lives. On the other hand, there is real value and utility through data, but often at the expense of privacy.

I think that the trade-off between the utility of data and privacy can be explored in such a way that everyone benefits. Ensuring a balance of power in regards to privacy between individuals, government, and private entities is a worthwhile, but difficult, venture. Data is a good medium for this discussion because of its increasing value in an age where we're collecting more than we can use. Government and society can benefit from data driven policies and public datasets (ala data.gov). Individuals can regain control and benefit from a collective use of data. Corporations already hold and make profits on massive monopolies of user data, but often liability involved with private data preempts sharing.

I think these kinds of conversations will need to be tackled and absorbed by the wider audience before it can have a real impact. In any case, it will be interesting to see what direction privacy as an issue goes toward. Personally, I will be continuing to be more aware of the issue and use products that have privacy in mind.
Interesting idea, for a country with so many in real poverty it would be a good step forward. This is a country which had to build toilets to improve sanitation so their issue with a very established lower class is easily seen.

If all members of a house hold receive the benefit, set a minimum age so as not to encourage more births, then even that low proposed amount will add up in for a poor family. The new issue is to make sure those who provide goods and services in those areas don't exploit this new income unfairly
Rosling made his statements late September, early October 2015. This was about the same time December treaty was formally dissolved (not in practice though).

At this time all political parties, except Sweden democrats, was de facto running on a Green party migration policy, inherited from former prime minister Reinfeldt (Moderates), who made an unholy alliance between the Right and the Greens to block any political influence from the Sweden democrats.

True is that the Green party had previously criticized the policy of using foreign aid to fund immigration costs. However when they came into power fall 2014 they accepted it and made into law.

It was not until a year later the Moderates starting to shift away from that policy.

During this time in September 2015, current Prime minister, Löfven, had a some sort a political "jippo" (show/spectacle) as a tour around Sweden called "Sweden Together", with all the top government bosses, where they claimed Swedish culture does not exists at all and open border policy is the way to go. In a speech around the same time Prime minister Löfven stated that "My Europe does not build any walls". About one month later, in the middle of November, same prime minster Löfven introduced strict border controls.

Discussion panel with Hans Rosling where he tells his biggest challenge was to explain to people that the leader of the Sweden Democrats have been correct all along with regards to foreign aid. Because remember for each migrant/refugee coming to Sweden, aid is removed for a few thousands abroad because it was using the same funds. So both prime minister Reinfeldt and Löfven declarations of humanity was not true. It is always unpopular to declare that emperor is naked.

https://youtu.be/DF_VxARR-5A

So yes, It was unpopular at the time Rosling said it, especially giving such a controversial party as Sweden democrats recognition.
Especially as chips get faster, teams can afford opting towards a better developer experience to move faster and retain happier engineers. It isn't only developer experience, also developer velocity. That was the whole motivation behind React Native in the first place.
You can probably sideload FreeOTP (which is what I use, although I do install it from the play store).

A reasonably trustworthy APK download can be found on f-droid:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=freeotp&fdid...
I couldn't get Parinfer to work with Vim. There's a port but it's buggy.

But the Neovim port is great. Installation requires a little patience, but it works well.

In any case, one should read the Clojure style guide on GitHub [0] and get used to writing code in normal editing modes first. Then move on to Parinfer or Paredit once you feel the shape of the code and sense why it's like that.

[0]https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide
>>Some 9,000 people, about one-third of Goldman’s staff, are computer engineers.

Is that right, or is that just a confused journalist? Computer engineers? As in, hardware design so they can shave off nanoseconds here and there? Or do they just mean programmers of any kind here?
You are consistently ignoring the logic and reasoning I provide in my responses, and I'm not sure why.
What are your standards for including interviews on Indie Hackers though? Honestly, my criticisms are less of Sebastian than of you. He admits that his strategy is unlikely to be profitable in the long run, but what exactly is the merit of including stories about an amateur trader on a site about technical side projects?

I, and likely many others in this thread, have tried our hand at trading. I've had months where I generated amazing profits. I have "algorithms." Yet I definitely don't pretend any of this stuff is special or noteworthy—why would Sebastian's be?

A huge part of what's cool about Indie Hackers is that people are generally transparent and you can see their approach to roughly similar problems. There are plenty of sites (hundreds of them) where you can find people bragging about their trading strategies and bots. Why does Indie Hackers have to expand into them?

This is nothing like the SubmitHub interview. That had lots of great lessons in customer development, building a brand over the years, etc. Realistically the only lesson from this story is "get lucky."

> In fact, I enumerated some of them as asides in the interview itself, none of which would apply to your hypothetical trip to Vegas.

Why not? I'm sure I could come up with some trite lessons about how poker playing is applicable to business and startups. Heck, there's a whole cottage industry in doing so.

That doesn't mean I think a story about my poker playing would make a good Indie Hackers interview.

> money-making machine has succeeded (answer: obviously not), and ignoring the actual point of the interview

What, exactly is the point of the interview then? You could just as well cover random sites that have launched with 0 profit or revenue. Heck, if you're in that business, I've got a ton of side projects I'd love to share.

I'm trying not to be too critical here, as I genuinely like Indie Hackers. But you need to have some standards for what gets included. Everyone who manages to make money doing something shouldn't count.
Ask HN: Getting started with a API/Software as a Service business
Dear HN,

I had an idea for a API/Software as a Service website and I would like to give it a try.

Nothing really special, everyone can try a small number of free API calls, or buy an API key for getting additional API calls per month.

I already have the C++ code for the software I want to sell as a service, which has already been sold in the past in the good old way (I mean: user pays for a license). However, being an old school programmer my knowledge of web languages and web technologies is quite limited.

My question is: where do I start? Are there ready-to-use stacks I can use for my website? In particular regarding the payments, the management of API key, rate limiting and interfacing with the existing code.

Of course I tried Googling, but the landscape looks quite confusing to me...

I would be comfortable programming in Python, but I am using this project to learn something new, so even a language I don't know will be OK!
I'm fairly certain this is in the article:
For trading I recommend Kite, mainly for their stable Connect APIs and the low bandwidth. Their limitation is 3 requests per second, and this was more than enough for my new strategy. Getting solid historical financial data isn't cheap, and with so many people hitting the providers to scrape and download data, I don't blame them for limiting the offered information. Intrinio is a good provider for real-time stock quotes at very inexpensive prices. However, getting access to more in-depth data would always yield better results.
The Gita is your rolling robot porter
Nomad user here. No k8s experience. I have been using it for more than 6 months (docker container + short running jobs). If I can name the main features I like: deployment simplicity, responsive scheduling, disaster recovery and service discovery integration.
The poster is (may be) Italian, and working in Australia, if that makes you feel better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mastazi
Is inline css bad? According to woorank it is
I don't get what you are suggesting. Apple supporting Vulkan on macOS and iOS wouldn't do anything to expose a new GPU API to the web. They are totally orthogonal. We're expecting work on the new web API to be super collaborative, so your framing is uncharitable and incorrect.
> I understand your desire to have Vulkan on Apple platforms, but it's really a separate issue from the right target for WebGPU.

No, it's not a separate issue.

If Apple supported Vulcan, the simple act of proposing this new API as a standard would be laughed out of the room.

We can only speculate why Apple won't support Vulcan but I'm going to go with "Prefer a solution they designed themselves over one designed by other parties".

Just support Vulkan and let's abandon this silliness, shall we?
Betting on Wafer-Level Fan-Outs for 7nm and 10nm
"We're not complaining, we're explaining the lay of the land."

The "lay of the land" is that the rest of the world is adopting Vulkan, and therefore the right target for WebGPU is very obviously Vulkan. Even macOS and iOS can (theoretically) support it thanks to MoltenVK [0], and Vulkan is already available on Windows. Trying to wrap all three "major" native APIs is pointless when there's already one that works everywhere and does so reasonably well.

[0]: https://moltengl.com/moltenvk/
I'm not able to find any comparison numbers, I wonder if that's something they actually analyze.
+1 - but may have legal ramifications :-(

How about instead, "Who's Looking?"

Edit: or a "recommend me an FTE candidate who can do X" - make X very specific, only accept answers from people vi PM, or some system such that you can validate your cress for the recommendation/their skills without revealing who is looking...
> If [men] knew they could get a reliable contraceptive that could also be reversed I think it would be appealing to them.

You think? If it was truly reversible, I'd sign all three of my sons up for it, and myself. The risk to males from a pregnancy (at least in the United States) is insanely high, and all the power rests with women (to carry or not).

Anything that gives men control over when and who to have children with, I'm 100% in favor of.
You make it sound silly. But the "unexpected HTTP request" may in fact be a SYN flood (yes, that has happened), or looping some non-trivial request for an ad-hoc DoS. That is indeed the requesters "fault", even if there is clearly no intent and hopefully no legal ramifications.
| Meritocracy is still considered a core value and a great thing.

No it isn't. There is something called "Reservation" which is affirmative action designed to lift up exploited lower castes. It was also setup to reduce the domination of upper castes in white collar (and other) professions.

The results are far from ideal, though things get better each passing day in the younger generations. Upper castes believe merit based college and thus jobs have been stolen from them. All castes are able to circumvent merit with bribes & money.

| There's a lot less xenophobia

Yea, no ..Apart from the religion & caste issues, native Bangaloreans & Kannada are well known for despising & discriminating against "outsiders" from other parts of India for "ruining their city". If it were that legions of Chinese/Koreans/Arabs/Europeans etc were arriving in Bangalore for tech jobs, like they do in SF, there would be riots. Every major Indian city has seen some form of violence, protests against folks from other parts of India.
This is simple.

What proof do you have of his claims?
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"I think some of your frustrations might stem from your workflow. You really have to use the REPL to get the most out of Clojure development."

Are there any good HOWTO, tutorial or documents that explain how? (ahh "clojure repl" on youtube) what about text? Looks like I'll search. One hint as to the maturity of a language ecosystem, is official docs that show these kinds of things.
The vast majority of emergency medicine is not emergency medicine, but emergencies are among the most likely things to have a catastrophic impact at the individual level.

And this is handled by the high copay, high cap model proposed by RAND, Singapore and myself. You still have not identified any "fundamental economic problems" or misrepresentations of the behavior of the healthcare market.

Unless you're poor or chronically sick.

False - the group studied in the Oregon experiment was poor. Oregon explicitly studied a medicaid expansion. RAND included poor folks too - in fact, one conclusion you can data mine from RAND (if you are so inclined) is that low cost medical care increased certain health problems for poor folks.

(Of course, that result is just as shaky as all the other data mined results.)

You have made it abundantly clear time and again on HN that you do not believe in altruism...

When did I make this clear? Are you confusing my opposition to harmful or wasteful altruism as opposition to all altruism? You are confusing my criticism of bad implementations with opposition to solving the problem.

Concretely: I have no major objection to effective altruism - perhaps something like Singapore's model. I object to wasteful feel-good measures that don't have any measurable benefits, like Obamacare's medicaid expansion.

As for things like maintaining an excess supply of medical pros to handle crises, if that's necessary I don't think it should be provided via random inefficiency. It should be explicitly planned in.
Nah this is cool, man. We just keep convincing big companies and government to hire Accenture, SAP, Oracle consulting, IBM Global Services, Computer Associates, McKinsey, BCG, etc. etc.

They will happily destroy any gains in labor efficiency by hiring hundreds of people to sit in a room hacking enterprise strength (ie non-functioning) stuff to justify billion dollar fees.

It's scary how good your tech has to be to succeed in startup land and yet just how awful the tech is that people deal with at work on a day to day basis.

Anonymous has hacked big co, how to bring them to their knnees?!? "Install sharepoint and let the consultants bleed them dry."
58% of Americans support universal health care: http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-...
GitLab does have a plan to try and mitigate the bulk of pain generated from hosting lots of git repositories against a POSIX based filesystem by abstracting a layer of caching functionality and horizontal scaling. This project is called Gitaly[0] and is being tracked on GitLab.com

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly
While I have your attention - what can be done to improve the state of Vulkan and OpenGL on the mac - its the single biggest reason for me to ragequit the OSX platform every time I try to give it a shot.
As always, the cake is a lie.
If there really is excess demand for a kind of labor, then the labor can borrow enough to pay for it; it wouldn't make sense to blame an insufficient subsidy as a bottleneck.
So if it higher level than Vulkan where does it fit in with WebGL?

I mean can't you pretty much already use low level GPU tech like Vertex Buffers and Shaders already?
That will likely cut down on flight deck videos on youtube.
The inability of the interviewers to have an accurate idea of the candidate's ability after the interview is over is what I think is the worst thing about interviews.

It's especially bad when you have to jump through hoops (coding challenges or whatever) and afterwards, despite the effort, end up with a similarly uninformed opinion of the candidate's ability.
No, engineers are not paid well at Goldman
I agree. Their support is always really great. Was the battery causing the time to drift or something, so that the SSL stuff saw the wrong time & broke? Just wondering how a battery could mess that up!
Some evidence that cats and dogs do love (or some approximation thereof) their owners:

https://mic.com/articles/104474/brain-scans-reveal-what-dogs...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/its-finally-pr...
I've been telling friends and co-workers I think kubernetes has won the orchestration war. But even as I did so I wanted something simpler for my own purposes, and so was using fleet.

Luckily for me, I'd stuck with making all my units global and driving their deployment off of metadata. I think I'll just strip off the [X-fleet] section, and start deploying them straight to systemd with ansible.
While I agree that wrapping it in social stigma would help w/the numbers, it'd set a very bad precedent for the idea of basic income in general.
Early Mars didn’t have enough CO2 to keep water liquid, Curiosity finds
There are a couple issues with that article.

1. "For each country, they calculated how much a high earner on a salary of $400,000..."

That number is way higher than programmer salaries. Most programmers are high earners but not that high.

2. It assumes a constant salary amount in any country, but this isn't reality.

If someone makes $250k as a programmer in the US, it might equate to $100k–125k in another country. US tax rates are tiered (see "Marginal Tax Rate" at [1]), so someone that makes $250k pays more than double the taxes of $125k.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
I guess Iran is the only country with universal basic income already in place then!

the income is not much and you probably can't live of it without working, but it is universal!
Don't bother, they clearly don't get it.
What did the women's march accomplish? Any policy changes? Any social reform?

Frankly, it was rather absurd seeing posters of a woman in a hijab as a poster for freedom and equality considering the hijab is a tool of social oppression. In the Middle East women's rights groups protest against the hijab, not for it.

Not to mention it did get hijacked by groups with disparate agendas.

At the end of the day, it's already been forgotten and accomplished nothing.
I think you are wrong on that. Vulkan is a low-level native API, not a JavaScript API for the web. Lots of design work needs to be done.

In addition, even on platforms where there are unofficial Vulkan drivers (such as Windows), it's likely the natively available API will still have more complete support and better performance.

So either way, we need a cross-platform graphics API.

Let's focus this discussion on improving the web platform, not fighting battles about the underlying system APIs.
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