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Ask HN: What are the signs that company you work for will be successful?
I work for a well-funded Series C SaaS startup in the Bay. The pay is in the 50th percentile for my skills and experience. My hope is that the company will hit IPO in the 2-3 billion range in the future (3-4 yrs). The company just had a positive cash flow of around 6M, with revenue over 60M.

BUT, I fear that there will be churn in the coming years. It has already started. Not sure if our customers find the service valuable. The company has pains around delivering value to our customers.

My question is: What should I look for in the company that can tell me whether to stay for > 3 years (so I'm fully vested) or cut losses and move on to another company with higher pay?

* I understand the HN wisdom is never to rely on future growth of a company and instead, just take higher paying jobs. But there has to be data-points and factors that will indicate whether a company will be successful or not, right?
$1-2/year is probably not enough to run a sustainable business model around the software. Basic business overhead of taking and tracking and refunding payments alongside accounting and legal fees will consume a substantial proportion of revenue even with 10k or 20k customers.

That's in addition to supporting that number of customers with bug fixes and updates and newsletters and a website and such. These grow with number of users. If it's a business, it's better to charge real money because doing so will validate (or invalidate) the business quickly and provide the revenue for making it a real business.
I think the Goal Bounding Gate optimisation he talks about could help with both: it's still O(N²), but if N is limited to those gateway nodes that would cut down on costs tremendously. But that all depends on whether it's cheap to find those gateway nodes automatically.
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There's nothing radical about Trump's policies at all. In fact, he's hardly right of center on most things.

1) He's strongly in favor of keeping the welfare state and all the entitlement programs. Left loves it.

2) He wants to expand the military. Right loves it.

3) He's pushing a mixture of common right and left policies, including lower taxes and regulation, infrastructure spending. He's promoting American jobs / workers first (thus unions have applauded several of his efforts, such as killing the TPP), which used to be a left platform.

4) He wants to scrap the ACA, right loves it. But has talked about either expanding Medicare to all people as the solution, or kicking it down to the states to run their own ACA equivalent programs, both of which the left would be in favor of vs the worse conservative alternative of a total wipeout.

5) He's in favor of a strong border. This is something both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were supposedly in favor of. Bill Clinton talked openly about the need to stop illegal immigration because it was taking American jobs etc.

6) He ran on a platform of putting an end to the US proliferation of entanglement overseas, particularly when it comes to wars in the middle east. George W Bush ran on a platform not so different.

Radical? Where? There isn't anything even remotely radical about Trump other than his personality type. His policies are rehashes of decades of policies espoused by other Presidents.

Whether Trump won 44% or 47% or 50.1% of the popular has absolutely nothing to do with the deep state's response to him. The deep state operates entirely independent of the electorate.

None of the three Clinton runs for Presidency achieved over 50% for example. With only 43% of the popular vote in 1992, and an openly anti-military bias, Bill Clinton didn't have these kinds of problems with the deep state in his first term.
Most people think (like I did) that because they think a sugar crash is the same thing as hunger. Hunger doesn't feel anywhere near as bad. Once you're in ketosis, which is the 72 hour mark (give or take) of water-only fasting you actually feel great. And if you do a keto or paleo diet you won't feel bad in the first place.

My longest fast was 9.5 days and I felt great the whole time and lost a ton of weight amongst various other benefits.

Remember, humans used to fast all the time and it was just normal because either food was unavailable (there didn't used to be unlimited pop tarts for everyone) or for spiritual reasons. Both what we eat and when we eat were all invented in the last few hundred years for the most part (chicken was about 100 years ago, breakfast was 2-300 years ago depending when you count it). Most of these inventions have been a bad idea.

Come join us on /r/fasting and /r/keto on reddit, or read Dr. Fung's books on obesity and on fasting, or Gary Taubes various books, or Dr. Wahls books, or Prof. Seyfried's textbook.
I do like Kindle Paperwhite after switching over, but I do think the Nook I used before was better designed in terms of the hand weight/feel, the tactile buttons to turn pages on the bezel. One hand operation was much better on the Nook, whereas with the Kindle, awkward hand positions are needed to touch the specific screen spots for backward page turn and menu.
I had trouble watching the video on GDC (it kept breaking when changing chapters, for some reason), so for anyone else with the same problem, here's a Youtube Mirror:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFwxqN_nASM
Yep, because we all need more unskippable ads, the same 10 songs on infinite repeat and shock-jocks screaming about whatever.

If radio actually had some variation from that pattern, I'd support this. Instead, I'd suggest just dropping the radio tuner chip and using the space for something else that's actually useful.

The only reason they're in there in the first place is because the radio industry pitched a hissyfit and Congress decided some protectionism was in order.
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A somewhat more detailed paper (by the same authors): http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~dharabor/data/papers/harabor-g...
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I've seen many people get this excited about pencils. Does anyone else remember Milton Friedman's extended love song to the invisible hand and the pencil?
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CQRS and event sourcing is an approach where all data changes are versioned. You can re-create earlier states of the data by processing a portion of the event log.
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You'd have to be at a pretty high level for a future employer to do a public records search on you (not to be confused with a background check), thus the compensation you would receive for a retaliatory firing would likely be in the millions (or tens of millions) of dollars as it is often based on lost income and has a punitive component. You'd likely never have to work again.
If you could predict what you're asking you'd be the world's most successful VC funder. I think a better thing to do would be to have a few offers all the time. Be interviewing or building your network so that if you do lose your job you can find another one quickly. That and investing in yourself to be as good as you can be.
I rather disagree with that short fasting time. The only real hard day is the first one; so just doing two days is a 'bad deal' I find, you get most of the inconvenient (the first day), and very little in terms of benefits. By the second day you are no longer hungry anyway, so why stop?

Perhaps there's lots of research telling you otherwise, but in my case, if I switch my body and mindset into 'fast' mode, I do it fully. The reason I prefer fasting vs any other calories reducing diets is that it's /binary/ and I don't have to count silly calories.

I think a good 'short' fast is 3 days, and up to 5 in my case, simply because I can fit it into a working week and have a fantastic meal on the friday evening.

The other thing to note is that the 3 and 4th days (might just be me!) I get a 'mental high' that is quite interesting. Everything seems sharper for a while.

Of course this is just my opinion, trust the doctors, they've been telling us lies for 40 years about diet and nutrition -- I'm sure /this/ time around they know what they are doing ;-) [sorry for the sarcasm guys]
There are many non-quantum phenomena which can't be accurately predicted, like turbulence and the stock market. I've never understood why the argument that 'it'a unpredictable, and therefore must be quantum' only seems to be applied to the brain.
I have been hiring technical people for about 18 years. 15 years for my own business. I stopped with all the bullshit questions years ago. My own research into which approach to interviewing is the "best" turned out to be a tossup. You can spend a day, or even days to go through a gruelling interview schedule, and your success rate won't be significantly higher. We are not Google, we don't have their needs, and we don't have the resources. If I'm looking for a dev or ops person, and your CV matches the skills I am looking for, and I have a good feeling about how you present yourself on paper (decent cover letter, decent CV, etc.)you'll be invited for a formal interview, where we will discuss your CV (tell me a bit more about this job you list here, etc.) takes anywhere between 15 to 60 minutes. If there is a connection and a good vibe, your next interview will be informally, in the pub, with the rest of the team to see how you get on. This approach has netted me a higher percentage of succesful long term hires then any other approach. I trust that if you apply for a developer position, you will actually be able to cope. Your skillset will be determined during your probation period, which is something I make clear beforehand. Your probation is where we see how good your skills are.
Apologies - I got distracted....
And i just implemented A* yesterday...

JPS is great. I remembered it from a former talk a while ago.

From the little experience i have with pathfinding, it seems to be an interesting topic with many little details to be explored. Like smoothing a path, smoothing/tuning a path in regards to loss of "speed" when turning, avoiding dynamic obstacles like other "agents", "flocking" of groups, various different ways of representing a "map", and probably many more.
It's easy to construct hypothetical goals where slagging Putin would interfere.

For example, say Putin would like the US to get into bed with Syria and Russia to make it more difficult for the US to speak out or otherwise act against later Russian aggression towards neighbors.

Of course that is nothing more than a nice made up story, but why shouldn't the American people support finding out what is going on?
I've implemented a pretty naive solution, I guess there are better ways to do that.

You can it here https://github.com/idoco/intergram/blob/master/src/widget/wi...
Spending most of your time getting your followers to proclaim how you are the most buddha of all is indeed suspicious

This guy writes about his rating of various unconventional Buddhist groups

http://viewonbuddhism.org/controversy-controversial-teacher-...

"I would recommend serious caution when people are called "Living Buddhas". Such kind of title pretty much goes against all Buddhist ideas of modesty. Also when teachers promote practices for wealth and fame, or even promise 'instant enlightenment', it may be good to start asking some serious questions about the main purpose of their own 'Buddhist' practice."
Or if you're mexican, you just grab a tortilla and rip the meat out in an instant taco.
Or that Bush realized the folly of his foreign policy and dramatically changed it in the later part of his term after the shitshow in Iraq.
And thank you for completely ignoring my point, and continuing to trumpet your own. Now, will you admit that you are a propagandist who's here just to argue? Or will you actually start to have a real conversation with us?

That is: Do you see how your style closes off conversation? Do you see how it results in closed-minded people just yelling at each other? And, seeing that, will you drop that style and have a reasonable conversation with us? Or will you continue to dismiss what others say as "talking points" whenever we disagree with you?

As to your actual criticism of my post: I was in fact unaware of the larger context of Pelosi's quote. That fact does not make ACA any better.
While the lens would be lighter than a DSLR equivalent, I still can't bring myself to buy one for my Olympus set-up.

The reason I sold my Canon gear and went MFT was the size - it's almost pocketable and easily fits in a small backpack when travelling. Adding even a moderate telephoto ruins it for me.
Would a disguise at time of purchase not help reduce this risk?
Note that innocent until proven guilty is, largely speaking, something that only applies to Government interactions, like most rights - specifically because the Government can unilaterally do something, but the people need to organise in order to have any significant effect. Or, in other words, judging someone is probably fine since a significant chunk of society would have to come to the same judgement in order to effect any sort of punishment without doing something illegal themselves.

Additionally, innocent until proven guilty isn't even a thing in civil court - all outcomes are on the balance of probabilities. So we still wouldn't know what our Government has to say as to whether it happened or not, just that it more likely happened than not. Even if you have complete trust in the court system to make the right choices, you still have to make your own judgement as to whether or not you think it actually happened (since the court hasn't actually decided that), and then as to whether additional consumer action is necessary.

And this is making the assumption that Susan wants to take it to court, and go through that whole rather horrible process, and have all her dirty laundry dragged out in public for people to spend the next couple of years harassing her over. Uber, of course, being an amoral company with plenty of cash, will be fine whatever the result.
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Sadly the law is set up so that total negligence is okay. As long as you don't specifically know it's invalid, you can send out all the DMCAs you want.
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>> "including everyone actually means excluding some"

Just to be clear, do you mean "everyone" could not fit in the space, by being all inclusive that some would self exclude, etc.?
In south india, we do intermittent fasting i.e. eat in night and the till next afternoon 1 PM do not eat anything. This is on no moon day + another day for most people who follow. But there are people who do this for 2 to 3 days a week.
In a sense the JPS+ algorithm seems to be to be turning the grid into s kind of nav mesh and if you were to explicitly do this instead you might actually get a better and more general solution that's also easier to update in real time.

The boundary checking improvement would be simplified by dividing the map into islands divided by gates (per his closing remarks) limiting the damage to precalculated data from changes to the map (assuming they occur in one island at a time)
I disagree that that's the explanation in this case. I've definitely noticed the liberal bias in other comments, but this is just beating the dead horse of a conspiracy theory.

I downvoted because I spent hours looking into the related theory that Google was trying to influence the election by only showing positive autosuggestions about Clinton, only to conclude that the algorithm generally doesn't autosuggest negative things or allegations of crimes. (You can try with figures like OJ Simpson, Bill Cosby, etc.)

So, like the tired old discussions we have all the time (but Go doesn't have generics!, "if you're not the market, you're the product", etc), I downvoted since I don't think it was related to the discussion, particular interesting, or insightful.
The book assumes a base level of knowledge about programming in general, and some knowledge of how web applications work. However it does cover a lot of the basics - I've got a decade or so of experience in the field and probably skimmed over 75% of the book while it discussed concepts that are familiar to me.
It's on the roadmap, but we need to integrate with another provider to support them. Most major communications services that verify your number don't mind which country it's from, but we realise there are good use cases for having a number from a specific country.
Yep - note how I imply it does show autocomplete suggestions if I just type "George Soros" ;)

What are your (relevant) DDG settings? Country is set to "All Regions" and Safe Search is on for me, but changing either doesn't change anything for me.

https://duckduckgo.com/settings
Most license key activation systems can easily be run on a $20 VPS these days. There is literally no reason to not keep it running for 40+ years.
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I also think that the FE is great, but I think the K1000 is truly one of the best slr's ever made.
They would probably ask you to remove the disguise. You could pay a hobo to buy you the phone, though.
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How can a Brazilian organisation send a DMCA request in the first place? Unless I missed that DMCA has somehow been elevated to international law.
My theory, as a casual observer and not speaking from experience (aside from having been a 20-something white male), is going straight from college to founding a company with m/billions at stake has the tendency to breed and feed unhealthy perspectives. Not always, not inherently, and certainly not irreparably, but ostensibly more often than not for the SV unicorns.
I give stuff like that a pass. We're the "well, actually" capital of the Internet (or at least one of the "well, actually" major metros). I think we all just want to be able to participate in the discussion and are not very tactful about crowbarring our way into it.

I don't feel like I read a lot admonishment (which would take forms like "by not suing you're complicit in harm to other women" or "if your story was really credible it would involve a lawyer"). I do feel like I read a lot of "you know, you could also..." or "this is a good example of why...".
Godspeed man. I wish the regulatory landscape was more open to this kind of thing all over the country. The incumbent ISPs need some competition.
It's much more likely to be the British than the Russians.
> "And finally, keep in mind that after all this, Twitter can always kick you off for their own reasons."

The problem with

anonymous e-mail address +
burner phone +
always use TOR to access the account

is that this doesn't play out well in the medium term. This triggers various automatic "anti-abuse" measures on Twitters side. Those measures include: random prompt for re-verification of the phone number, which fails with the burner phone number used to create the account.

It's hard (if not impossible) to maintain such an account in the long run while protecting ones identity.
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Why are search engines getting involved in censorship?

Censorship is a strong and emotive word, and I think using it in cases like this devalues its significance. Modern search engines consider a huge number of factors, many of them subjectively chosen, when deciding what to present on their results pages. In general, they have no obligation to provide any specific service to any specific visitor.

In most contexts, actively helping someone to break the law is frowned upon, or even against the law in itself. The big online services have a very cosy deal legally speaking at the moment, getting away with a lot of things that might otherwise be legally suspect because of special safe harbour rules and the like, which in turn means they can make a great deal of money by doing things automatically without the kind of human intervention and risks that would otherwise apply. It is unlikely to be in their interests to push their luck, because it isn't inherently necessary to give them such a beneficial treatment, and few people other than their shareholders would shed a tear if the climate changed and their running costs went up dramatically as a result.

A more positive point is that people who complain about other restrictive measures, like DRM and the laws that make breaking it illegal, often claim that it would be more effective for content producers to offer better legal channels for accessing that content. Promoting legitimate, reliable sources of good quality content is surely in the interests of any search engine.

In short, it's entirely reasonable for a major corporate player like Google or Microsoft to steer clear of supporting illegal activities and to promote legal sources for material online.
The comment is implying things that aren't true. This is why it's low quality and downvoted. The fact that you don't know who Soros is doesn't change that.
Certainly.

Jon Bentley had an article on two string reversal algorithms with the same algorithmic complexity. On a very large string, one would finish almost immediately; the other was pessimal for paged virtual memory and wouldn't finish for hours.
Staying hydrated and getting enough sleep helps me.

Caffeine also helps boost mood and energy levels while suppressing hunger
That's pretty much like saying that everything is a quantum phenomenon. This is an example of a rather common mistake called 'reductionism'. But even reductionists are careful enough not to go too far - they do not call French Revolution a "quantum phenomenon", for example.
>Getting no feedback, not even a rejection, after an onsite.

This happens all the time even when you are senior (10+) years like me. It's maddening and I think one of the rudest things an org can do.
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Not sure where you are getting this from.

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Pixel peepers will find differences. But, for sharing photos on the web, a good superzoom will do well enough for most people.

The biggest differences are going to be low light conditions and controlling depth of field (portraits, etc). Also, motion (sports, wildlife), where the ability to easily focus manually ahead of time can make a huge difference.

Most of my photo-hobbyist friends (myself included) have moved away from DSLR to one of the mirrorless systems. I use MFT, and quite a few use Fuji X.