skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't say someone isn't Labour just because you personally disagree with their work. New Labour was still left-of-centre, even if it was closer than previous Labour institutions.

Left and right transcend economic class. The idea that the left is rooted in the working class is a complete fabrication.

Gordon Brown also harmed the NHS by the way. Considerably.
That they were bought by Atlassian fills me with dread because of precedents set by their other products. I use Trello (and pay for it) exactly because I don't want anything like Jira.
Yes. Running a boostrapped organization for 7 years now, I always wish we had priced higher. The few times where we've priced offerings too high, it was always easier coming down in cost rather than going up, and we learned a lot from those early customers who would pay a premium.
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I believe injury-related dental issues are covered by medical insurance. At least that was the impression I had from reading through my latest insurance policy from United Healthcare.
"I'm interested in your product, can you send me though a price sheet?"

No lies necessary.
Woah that's cool. So to recap: it's a sphere, that encompasses one color but all the different hues and pigments available of that specific color?

Pretty cool.
I think one of the most obvious and glaring reasons is also one of the simplest - my company uses Trello a fair bit, we have a lot of teams on it, tracking a lot of stuff. And we've never once paid a dime for it. Never even been asked to pay for it. Brought us plenty of value, would have paid, but we never hit a threshold where that was a thing. I don't even know where that threshold is or if there is one.
It actually didn't start with a prescription.. For me it started as casual use here and there and very quickly turned into self-medication. I've had issues with depression and anxiety for a long time and opiates were a really easy way of dealing with those problems. However I can't tell you how many people I knew who started using after being prescribed opioid painkillers.
I met my cofounder Alexander in university hostel. We lived in the same block but different rooms =)
Now we are building service for ecommerce
http://mydataprovider.com/
While I am personally totally going to try MJ once it gets legal I don't think I am going nowhere close to Heroine irrespective of its legality.
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We moved to Zendesk from Intercom for support. We still use Intercom, but just for product outreach and triggered messages.

We have two former Zendeskers on our team, which is part of the reason we made the switch. But also because Zendesk has things that Intercom doesn't/didn't have at the time, like a help desk.

You can also customize Zendesk with integrations pretty easily, such as by adding widgets[1]. Building and maintaining a Zendesk widget is a great developer experience.

[1] https://www.zendesk.com/embeddables/
From these links, main number seems to be "Nearly 10 million Americans, or 4.1 percent of the adult population, used prescription opioid painkillers for nonmedical reasons in 2012-2013". Numbers I've seen for marijuana were about 11.5% in a year, though that was for 2001.

So certainly higher usage for marijuana, but definitely not "many orders of magnitude"
I also highly recommend this piece by the same author:
http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/build_engine_internals.php
(skipping to page 2 which I think is more interesting)

The software renders of yore actually got me thinking about them in a modern context, how they could be extended, and in what ways they could compete with GPU-based algorithms on a per-cycle basis. I think there is still much area to be explored here, given we mostly stopped researching realtime software rendering as GPUs became dominant - I think there is a lot of unexplored area left.

Also one piece of software I think is severely underrated is Ken Silverman's Voxlap:
http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm

Released in 2002, it was way ahead of its time.
I'm just a little over a year out of school myself, so I'm far from an expert, but happy to share some things that come to mind.

I haven't had a chance to look through it in-depth yet, but this looks pretty interesting: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

As far as things that have had an important impact in my learning path, I do have a few Ruby books I really like (the key here is to get your hands dirty with code as you read along):
- https://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Under-Microscope-Illustrated-Int...
- https://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Fac...
- https://gumroad.com/l/rebuilding_rails

I think reading about (and looking at the code) for things you use and trying to understand how they work under the hood has been super useful: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

Having smart people around to learn from is extremely helpful too.

Happy to chat more if you'd like. Just drop me a line: connor[at]opendoor[dot]com
The threshold for overdose isn't really that low, and there is an easy and effective tool to reverse it (Narcan).

The real problem is impurity... people get used to stuff at a certain purity, and then are sold either a much purer batch or something laced with a strong synthetic opiod like Fentanyl.
After one of them told me "no kissing", I tried kissing him. He was not amused, but that was the extent of his reaction.
Actually, it's 7 papers co-published in Science simultaneously.

The others are:

Synthesis, debugging, and effects of synthetic chromosome consolidation: synVI and beyond:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4831

“Perfect” designer chromosome V and behavior of a ring derivative:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4704

Deep functional analysis of synII, a 770-kilobase synthetic yeast chromosome:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4791

Bug mapping and fitness testing of chemically synthesized chromosome X:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4706

Engineering the ribosomal DNA in a megabase synthetic chromosome:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf3981

3D organization of synthetic and scrambled chromosomes:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4597

Along with an introduction:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/1038

and perspective:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/1024
did you work on trello, or is this speculation?
When I was a physics major at UCI the abstract algebra course ended up being my favorite course. The prof was young, and a real hard ass. Apart from the usual, he forced us to memorize proofs and regurgitate them for tests, as well as come up with original proofs. That might sound draconian (it certainly did to me; none of my real analysis classes asked that of us) but it turned out to be really hard to do unless you understood the entire proof. And it also turns out that if you understand a proof, or a set of them, you can produce new ones.

Of course, almost everyone failed the course. One guy got an A, a couple of us got C's (I was one) and the rest got F's. Never been prouder of a C in my life.
That write-up by Joel is great as an intro to economics course in 15 minutes, but even after all the analysis he makes the very valid statement that it depends on the strategy of growth you have in mind. If you are trying to cash out right away, you don't care as much about longroots longevity / word-of-mouth / gradual-grow / customer feedback loops. If you are going for a long-term recurrent-returns kind of loop, then you want to go for what will be conducive to growth & also act psychologically well as a "price for a valuable thing/connection/pathway/service" Because if you sell me your awesome product too cheaply, although I will be appreciative, the average consumer will assume some sort of defectiveness. Thanks for that link, it is helpful when contemplating this stuff.
The problem is that they're leveraging a search advantage to force sites to change in a way that objectively ruins my experience by optimizing page load times over displaying the result URL I can click into. It's a search engine, not a cdn, and I resent their cutting out the results to serve the content they deem superior.
Shibboleth user? I can't even imagine how difficult that kind of problem is when you're working with other people's software.

* Go to some service A.

* Get redirected to SSO and authenticate.

* SSO confirms your identity and A issues you a session token.

* You log out using your SSO.

* Go back to A where you're still logged in with your session token.

At a certain point I would not be willing to commit to maintaining lots of patches to every product we host and just tell our users to close their browser.
Excellent questions. Do not anchor the interviewees.

But anchor yourself. You should certainly know the prices of your competitors (or the closest thing thereto).
> have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world.

Totally off-topic but sometimes I find it unnerving how hard it is to spend a week without any type of mobile device. People look at you like you're insane.
How isn't it? They can get the dental care already, the problem is that doing so will put them in debt. Giving them money cancels the debt, which solves the original "problem".

The only way it doesn't pay for dental care is if they don't buy dental care at all because they need something else more. But if they're correct to do that because the other things really are more important, what kind of idiots are we to think we should be finding a way to redirect the money back to dental care?

The only real solution then is to get them enough money that they can pay for the dental care and the more important things.
Yes, they have a big address space and announce all ips from every location: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-architecture-elimina...

Pretty much all major CDNs use anycast today for load balancing, rolling downtime and security/ddos protection. Http/tcp connections are usually short-lived, relatively cheap to setup (since it's an edge network anyway) and BGP route updates don't happen that often.

LinkedIn switched to anycast too after testing: https://engineering.linkedin.com/network-performance/tcp-ove...
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For customer communication... at AuthorityLabs we're using:

1) Intercom for chat and notifications

2) PagePilot (pagepilot.io) for the knowledgebase

3) G Suite for support@

4) Campaign Monitor for mass emails

Note: PagePilot is a new project of ours. Looking for beta testers :)
Personally speaking I was on hydromorphone (orally) for a shattered ankle, and just 72 hours of taking it (at 66% max dose) was enough. Dropping from 2 pills to 1 caused some withdrawal symptoms, and 1 to 0 definitely caused nausea and insomnia.

The surgeon nodded when he heard about this and said yep, that's expected. It's addictive over that short a timespan.
> That's ridiculous, every businesses wants to grow and make more money.

But not every person wants their business to grow.

"Feed me venture capital, Seymour..."
Well-why use the service if the company can snoop through it at will? Seems to defeat the purpose of having a private data store. All you need to do to see someone's data is work for customer support at amazon.
Review of Super 3D Noah's Ark, including quite a bit of history of Wisdom Tree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FKEg2__57c
Aren't most of these use cases already offered/handled by Amazon RDS? Maybe not transparent sharding - but otherwise everything else?
Excellent answer, thank you!
Do you want zombies? Because this is how you get zombies. ;-)
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I cannot agree with that. Taking $10m does not mean you plan on growing into a $1B business. I also disagree with the idea that we have to focus on the "investment perspective". The VCs made money. I can't care less that they didn't make as much as they wanted to.
I will say, believing in your skills as a way to manage fear is a dangerous path in climbing.

Your protection, not your skills, are what keeps most climbers alive and healthy.

Obviously skills are important, but far far more important is diligence with rope skills, carefully and frequently placing pro, checking and rechecking harnesses and anchors, putting knots in your ropes when rapping, and generally not getting complacent or lazy with these things.

But relying on just not falling is a great way to die by overconfidence (and yes, I'm saying that all free soloists are running on borrowed time and, frankly, are poor models to look to)...
That's another great point. If you're going to make money from long relationships based on recurring payments, it's good to know that it's extraordinarily difficult to raise prices on an existing customer. If you sell to large companies, you'll find they have entire departments dedicated to ensuring that never happens.
I'm with you. The annoying part is it is quite unobvious to find out how much karma you need for specific functions to open up.
I was a cofounder and became acquainted with the founder through a mutual friend.
I don't know if iOS does randomization of loading addresses, but if so, that'd be a disadvantage.

And well, in any case they need to maintain compatibility with current apps for who knows how many years.
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The only valid signal for willingness to pay is ACTUAL WILLINGNESS TO PAY. Ideally, you'd even collect (and discard) a credit card number. Asking people to take a survey gives inaccurate results
I don't think I'd vote for heroin to be legal, but I think we have to ask ourselves some questions: (1) is prohibition even effective? Spending on enforcement has grown steadily but the percentage of the population addicted has remained steady. Not clear that enforcement has any effect. (2) is criminal punishment more effective than mandatory / free treatment? Most of the evidence I've seen suggests otherwise.

I generally go for the person liberty argument, but heroin is a tough sell even to me because of how ridiculously addictive it is. But I see a lot of harm coming due to certain things being illegal, and a lot of harm coming from many of the things we prescribe because the alternatives have an irrational stigma. I've had some very passionate (i.e. rude) messages sent to me on Facebook because I support legalizing marijuana, and apparently this makes me equivalent to a serial child murderer because people might drive under the influence. Nevermind how bad drunk driving statistics are or how easy marijuana is to obtain anyway, or how some of these same people are on opiate pain killers 24/7
TIL people over 110 years old are called "supercentenarian".
Another major problem I have with password restrictions - how about you make sure your stupid password dialog is capable of accepting the passwords generated by password managers? How about you just test the 5 or 6 most common ones? I hate it when I accept the suggested password from Safari or 1password and the stupid site won't accept it because it used the wrong kind of special character, or didn't include enough capital letters, or worst of all - it's too long.

grrrrrr
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Alden in MA makes really great shoes and of course the 'indiana jones boot'.
> What about editing the postgresql.conf, pg_hba.conf, recovery.conf files, setting up archiving and doing the first base backup transfer? That's the actual hard part.

I talked about logical replication here... But the defaults for those are going to be a lot saner too in 10. We're not going to expose postgres to the world by default, so you'll have to change listen_address - but I think everything else would be a really bad deal security wise.

> setting up archiving

You don't really need that anymore in the more basic cases. Unless you want/need point-in-time recovery to older states, replication slots make that a lot easier.

> doing the first base backup transfer?

psql -h master "SELECT pg_create_physical_replication_slot('my_standby');
pg_basebackup --write-recovery-conf --slot my_standby -D targetdirectory

I'm not saying things are perfect, but they're clearly improving. And some of the complexity (e.g. not allowing remote connections by default) are pretty basic security vs. simplicity tradeoffs.
My cofounder is an old friend from high school.
Atlassian didn't become a billion dollar company without an enterprise sales force. They just built one. Being acquired is definitely a shorter path.
SEC Shoots Down Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Bid
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One way to view it, is that all other fields with the word "algebra" in them, are applications of Abstract Algebra. That includes Linear Algebra, Relational Algebra, and Boolean Algebra, which you might already be familiar with and know their relevance to CS.
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SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund [pdf]
I can recommend an inexpensive little book by Pinter, which is one of the most student-friendly abstract algebra books on the market.
>is "failure" all around?

It's definitely not failure all around.

>A $442 M fund size is big enough that returning even a 3x-4x overall, with any consistency, would be downright virtuosic.

A 3x return is 11.6%/year which isn't much more than Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway (9.6% last time I checked) -- given the increased risk of VC funds. BH stock also doesn't have overhead of 2/20 fees. Every institutional investor is different but many would look at safer investments if they are targeting ~11%.

If Sequoia, USV, etc are consistently returning 20+%, that's what the competitive levels among top VCs look like. Maybe it's unreasonable for LP's to expect returns like that from a VC fund but they do.
If you think no one's talking about fashion then you didn't read the essay well, nor my initial response to it:

> we need to look no further than our own codes of dress and the often constricting tyrannies of fashion.

Codes of dress, and tyrannies of fashion.

As I said, this is the most ridiculous argument. Of the many many women of the free countries that purposely dress against the norm, none are sent to jail, stoned to death, or whatever.

> you make disingenuous statements like "mandated by law"

Maybe I'm misinformed. I honestly believe the Taliban government imposed that all women had to wear a veil. Is that not the case?
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While on topic on Android game engines: are there any without additional .so libs? I'd like to make a simple 2d board game where high FPS doesn't matter.
Thanks! I look forward to reading about implementation details.

It does seem like documentation of Citus Cloud HA and disaster recovery behavior is a bit light, compared to e.g.

- http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concep...

- https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-ha

"In addition to continuous protection which is explained above, high availability is available if your application requires less exposure to downtime. We provision stand-bys if you select high availability at provisioning time. This can be for your primary node, or for your distributed nodes."
https://docs.citusdata.com/en/v6.1/cloud/features.html

Please let me know if I've missed any resources on this topic!
NIJ Levels
Sql when to use views, stored procedures, etc.
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That seems a bit surreal. I sometimes read free-marketers who speculate that certain people are intentionally making the US Private healthcare system worse in an attempt to get socialized medicine. That's the first time I've read a suggestion that socialized healthcare was intentionally being made worse to push a private option.

I dunno, maybe healthcare is just hard to get right, whether run publicly or privately. Maybe we still know very little about how to treat and fix the human body, but rapid progress in other areas of technology and the numerous developments we have made in healthcare lead us to think otherwise.
it's a wrong way of explaining because if you use that explanation with a creationist it strengthens their belief (i.e how can a gene has needs, we know god did it).
Tumblr is standing with Planned Parenthood
Delphi back in Top 10 is also worth noting :)
Good luck Waqas. Happy to see Pakistani startup at HN!
Bitcoin just went from a high of 1327.1926 to 995.9575 in the blink of an eye.

Wow.

Here is the actual SEC ruling.

https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/batsbzx/2017/34-80206.pdf

From the ruling....

> First, the exchange must have surveillance-sharing agreements with significant markets for trading the underlying commodity or derivatives on that commodity. And second, those markets must be regulated.
> Based on the record before it, the Commission believes that the significant markets for bitcoin are unregulated.

I'm not sure I entirely understand if they mean that Bitcoin itself must be regulated or just that the SEC needs to see that the major exchanges are regulated.

If its the former, then I think this is game over, if its the later then............hmmm I really don't know.

Can someone more knowledgeable inform me here?

EDIT Having gone through the ruling it looks like they have a few reservations.

1) Most of the bitcoin trading happens on unregulated markets

2) Most of the volume happends in China and not the us and is therefore hard to regulate.

3) The ETF is tied to the Winklevoss own Gemini exchange which has little volume and often inferior pricing to other more liquid exchanges.

4) They bring up the lack of a liquid futures market, though I'm not sure this is really a concern.

EDIT2

Rats, I've somehow confused myself into duplicating this comment across two threads:(
Ok so first off, rent in Tulsa is 12k at most for a full house.

Second off a lot of the high cost of living has nothing to do with solving hard problems, if it did the civil engineers would have solved the hard problem of fixing the housing market in SF. What you are essentially arguing is Tom Cruise 2.0 makes 6 million a film after a few years in the industry so therefor everyone else sucks which you can tell because they don't make 6 million. Being generous I would claim it's a survivorship bias.
Which doesn't matter because over the long run almost no funds beat the market average.
You probably have never seen a girl working in tech, period, given employment law. The women working in tech are generally over 18.
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The average fund minus fees does not beat the market. This does not mean "no funds have consistently beat the market"

However one of two things happens to funds that consistently beat the market. They either grow to the point where they stop beating the market, or they stop accepting new money. This means that any investor looking to put their money in one a super fund won't be able to, because it's too big, or won't take your money. However this second restriction does not apply if you are working there. Some of these funds give access to their employees.

The other option is that some funds give fee discounts to their own employees. So even if the fund doesn't beat the market minus fees, they beat the market sans fees.