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This was several years ago before we had the "growth hackers" lexicon.

One of our customers bought the entire company to get a hold of the core team + essentially continued the "30%" deal as a long term incentive as convertible equity.

Was a good run, and reinforces my post of if you can bring measurable / substantial value to large enterprise companies amazing things can happen.

Large enterprise have fun accounting terms like "capitalizing an acquisition", eg they don't buy you out of cash flow. And can even carry debt on the purchase / incentive programs etc that not only make you more valuable to them, but create incentives for them to buy smaller companies.

Happy to answer any more specific questions.
It's not about conscience, though. It's about you or at least many of your friends and family either burning or starving to death. That's the thing about MAD: It's mutual.
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In most cases when a company rejects you because of "culture fit", chances are there's something wrong with yourself. Not the other way around.

Companies are NOT out there to bring you in, waste several collective hours of their employees time who could be working otherwise, just to reject you. They WANT You to pass the interview.

If you don't pass the interview because they think you are not qualified, then that's something that can be fixed. You just need to study more and get more experience.

But if you don't pass because you're not a "culture fit", it means you probably came off as a difficult person to work with. And this article shows why.
Interesting. So the web crawling/page fetching component is a major value add to you as a developer?

Whereas the parsing is less of a value add because you prefer to code the parser yourself so that you have more control?

What about changing the parser and crawler as the websites changes?

What other pain points about scrapy do you have?
Now cut that hungry human's arm and legs, and it can at best only shout for food and wait for another human to 'plug' it in.

On the other hand, a Rhoomba can seek out power to stay alive, probably better than a 2 year old.
The number of bugs I encountered makes me question the security of the Health Plan Finder website and whether it should even be trusted with my personal information.

As a WA resident who used the site when it first opened, let me answer that quandary for you: no, you should not trust the site with your information. If for no other reason, because they'll mail you your password in plain text.

In addition to some of the most screwed password requirements I've ever seen, there was also an off-by-one error in their password code. Meaning it would take a (let's say) 21 char password, but would reject it when you tried to log in. Because the password input was limited to 20 chars (or maybe they just stored only 20 chars; remember, storing in plain text).

All of this is from when the site first went up, so maybe (hopefully) it's been fixed.

The absolute poor have always had coverage in America, simply because they cannot afford any doctors bills that are issued to them. Their debt is often written off by hospitals.

Ignore this person, they speak from their anus on topics outside their personal experience. It's not even worth rebutting.
Hey all, Madelynn here, community director at Fictiv and one of the folks on the Open-Source Motorcycle project.

Thanks for sharing this project and giving feedback, looks like the signup flow is causing some confusion, so we're in process of removing the need to enter your email to get access to the files.

I'm passionate about open source, as is our team, so we intended this project to be entirely open source and available to anyone to download, modify, and build upon the project. Documentation is still in the works, and I'm always looking for more folks to help out.

To remove vaporware concerns, you can download the files straight from here: http://bit.ly/2mU6l2y, and email me if you have any questions directly to me at madelynn@fictiv.com

If you want to talk motorcycles in general, I'm all ears there too. :)
Although you broke your promise about avoiding breaking changes. I know I know, it wasn't promise and wasn't about breaking changes, it was something else about something else.

"The attribute `export_macro` is currently unknown to the compiler" - what a surprise in beta 1.17.
Not sure of what asthma drug you're talking about specifically, but many medications that also changed the propellant have replacements with the same or lower cost. So actually you can blame the drug manufacturer for gouging on a simple reformulation.
Got it. I was under the impression that all messages were lazily indexed. After reading the article again it's pretty clear that's not the case. Thanks for the clarification.
Prosecutors know who they can bully unfairly and have the discretion to back down if they make a mistake. If what would fly in court were any real behavior influencer, they wouldn't bully people into plea deals that were unjust just because they can. Most people do not have access to competent council and prosecutors know it, and they know the fear of being found guilty will get even innocent people to accept a plea; if you don't have money, the justice system isn't for you.
Ask HN: Backing up/syncing files to the cloud?
I have about 300 gig of files on my hard drive and generate about 100/150 files or ~500MB of data every day. I've been looking, rather fruitlessly for a way to automatically back these up to the cloud (S3/Google Drive/OneDrive/B2 - anything). The caveat though, is that I'd prefer to delete some large files from my local after a while, but wouldn't want to wipe it off my cloud drive. I've been looking for ways to do this but I'm unable to find something that fits my workflow. Client side encryption is a good to have, although isn't a deal breaker.

I remember Bitcasa having something like a 'cloud drive' option where it selectively downloads the files you need when you need it. This is exactly what I need! Unfortunately they're not around anymore. Any ideas on how I can go about this?
She almost destroyed what was left Yahoo, right?
If anything, she should have been paid a negative salary.
Not to pick on the author too hard, as I like the cut of his giblets, but his hair seems awfully brown for a 50-something. My temples and beard are quite gray / grey.
There's a few unofficial HN web clients, here's some of the top results I found while searching "hackernews web client":

- https://angular2-hn.firebaseapp.com/news/1
- https://hack.ernews.info/
- https://mblur.com/hackernews/
- https://hn.premii.com/
- https://app.hackerwebapp.com/

If you're on Android and prefer Native apps, I highly recommend [Materialistic](
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic). It's available on both F-Droid and Google Play Store.
I suspect you were thinking of changing the number of shards, which can be an important part of rebalancing an index. Unfortunately, Elasticsearch can't do that.
>Mozilla vs XUL

What is this referring to (I know what Mozilla and XUL are, didn't know there was a tiff about it)?
Wow, "webmasters creating webpages" is something that I haven't heard for a very long time! I'm nostalgic.
I agree with the implication here, but (1) it doesn't actually rebut the proposition and (2) some significant fraction of websites crawled by Googlebot have signed up on Google's webmaster tools, which includes its own ToS that likely governs.
Dashbird is a tool for getting insights into your AWS Lambda functions. Our goal is to clearly visualise processes happening across your serverless stack. The platform provides alerting, logs and invocation data. This is all done automatically - without needing any changes to your codebase.
What animations? The link goes to a landing page encouraging the visitor to use a desktop browser instead…

> Mobile version is unavailable at the moment. To experience Animista try it on your desktop.

The text is unselectable on mobile as well.
No. Here are his predictions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwe...

Frankly, it perturbs me when people dump on others who have the courage to make predictions or misrepresent them. Don't get me wrong, I despise people who are consistently wrong with their predictions and have the audacity to pawn themselves off as a visionary.

Rather than dump on somebody else's predictions, I'd encourage other people to make their own and stake something on it. Put some skin in the same. Where do you think we'll be in 2029? Why?
Yep, you're absolutely right. In multitenant SaaS apps with extremely uneven distribution of traffic, it's pretty common for large customers to get their own dedicated DB servers.

> The advanced is to have a layer of queuing before the ingestion, where you can do magic with distribution rules, rate limiting and dropping peak traffic.

And batch loading – don't forget batching!
Is JPEG2000 with progressive/resolution-responsive transcoding still a thing or is HTML <picture> the way to go for responsive images (or maybe WepP)?
Just read On Lisp and find a primer on Scheme macros. Then if you're still interested read Let Over Lambda. Few languages do macros like lisp, so it's worth looking at the macros to understand a new concept. Besides that, though, I don't think lisp has anything world shaking.

Also if you happen to like what you see in macros, try also checking out parsing words from forth or factor.
Clickbait title; the whole thing only discusses psychology and no other field of study. Certainly not 'science' as a whole.
Interesting, I've never even heard of a brown onion. I thought the cheap standard onions were white, and I always buy yellow.

I'm even a gardener! (But I just buy whatever sets they have locally)
>But since the database engine touches every record in the database it "logically" follows that everybody was searched...

Not sure why "logically" is in quotes, because it is both technically and logically true that they were searched.

If it is illegal for a person to manually parse thru the private information (i.e. financial transactions, search history) of millions of innocent people, then why should it be legal when a person uses a more automated (and thus more dangerous) means to do so?
This sounds super interesting! Where can we learn more about your story? Do you have an email or Twitter to contact you?
Xplorer2 (or another TC clone) allow me to filter my folders under a shortcut. I have a set of custom filters for my tasks that directly show the files I need. Combine it with the other nifty power user actions in those Explorer replacements and I easily save an couple of hours a week. The dreadful wait when you see your colleagues having 10 explorers open finding your file to have a quick peek. Additional bonus points for the custom user actions to fire up different cmd shells in ConEmu under a shortcut, open the proper editor, open in your favorite diff tool without having to select etc.

Resharper (is that a tool?). No need to explain I guess. You use Visual studio, you get resharper. Can't live without it anymore.

The ability to write bash/powershell/your favorite script language. Everything I do more than twice turns into a script and is added as user action in my xplorer2 under a shortcut.

ShareX gif capture. My company has email attachment max sizes too small to send proper mp4 longer than 1 min. The gif capture has lower quality (sometimes Horrible) but is good enough for sharing bugs which require investigation before they can be submitted. Instead of having to type I capture the gif and send to our test engineers to turn into proper PR/ticket. Saves time writing it all out and makes me actually share random issues found during doing other stuff.

P.s. Try irvanfiew on Windows beats the bulk resize thing in OP.
Originally it came from considering the rate of change of technology. The rate of change of technology is generally considered to be increasing. Since the rate of change of technology seems to be increased by new technology, it is perhaps exponentially increasing. It's natural to ask: what is the maximum rate of change of technology? If that maximum is very high, then there may come a time when the change in technology that used to take years will take days, then hours, then just minutes, etc. The Singularity is the theoretical time that is asymptotic to the technology curve as the rate of change of technology tends to infinity. In less mathematical language, it is the day when hundreds of years of technology change occurs in hundreds of minutes - sometimes imagined as AI researchers working in time-accelerated virtual environments.
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Yup, we decided to start with the older Ducati Monster Gen 1 trellis frame because:

a) it's widely accessible (used on Ducati bikes made from 1993-2007). Our team is based in SF, which is a distribution point for Ducati, meaning there's a glut of old generations available to tear apart, but they're easily accessible everywhere.

b) the mounting points on the engine mean that you can swap out for multiple types of engines, depending on your preference (620, 800, and you could possibly wedge a 748 in there if you really wanted to...)

c) the frame allows easy customization of the CAD files, based on style preference - you can make it shorter for a Bobber, longer for a Cafe Racer, change the rake and trail angles, etc. to fit your needs.

One of the women on the team who inspired this project is a track racer and finds it difficult to find bikes that work for her shorter stature, so this was a great use case for the customization.
> what about when the last optical drive is manufactured? [...]

There are two types of digital archiving. One, which you're describing in this line of reasoning, is keeping a digital storage device in cold storage, booting up later, and trying to read the data. I agree that this has significant issues, as digital devices are physical devices, in addition to being digital ones, and not necessarily that reliable at that.

There is also digital archiving in the sense of understanding what the bits represent. I would argue that this sense of the phrase is actually more compelling, because fundamentally digital data is just a bag of bits. While this would be more effort than I'd go to personally, I'd expect any competent digital archivist to store their data in a ZFS-based disk array, SAN, or cloud service like S3, or ideally multiple of the above. (Or futures equivalents of these techniques.) Yes, any given service, technology, or device may come and go. But this is missing the point. The way you achieve continuity is by periodically refreshing the storage so that at any given point in time the data is stored in a modern (for the time) storage device.

There are still important issues to be solved, but the important ones are no longer questions of maintain physical devices, which is key. (E.g. the codec problem.)

The main situation in which this approach does not work out is if you're trying to do archeological-type recovery of a digital storage device that has not been actively maintained. Then you're back in scenario #1. But if we're asking about a situation where someone actively cares about preserving their own data, the situation is not nearly as bad as these arguments make out.
The over-reliance on google search is both a blessing and a curse for the web. Today, google IS basically the web, a centralized version of it.
But hasn't anyone eaten caramelized onions in a restaurant before? Or even seen a picture?

I would assume professional chefs (who are the contestants on these cooking shows I watch) would know better.

I swear, it feels like an onion conspiracy.
> I don't see what's alarming there. The guy is staying true to what he believes, or does not believe.

Hitler (hypothetically, not I recreated a I discussing whether or not this was his belief) genuinely believing Jews were a dangerous threat that could be dealt with by no means short of extermination does not reduce the degree to which his action on that belief would rightly be seen as alarming.

> If you recall, he said something along the lines of climate change being a Chinese fairy tale.

OTOH, I also remember his official campaign staff and unofficial campaign surrogates repeatedly saying that his statements on most policy issues should not be taken literally. A position that Co tinted to be uswd, in various forms, by his White House staff (e.g., in claiming that his statements explicitly referencing wiretapping are not literally about wiretapping but other activities.)

If one is alarmed at Trump's explicit statements, the response is "calm down, stop taking him literally".

If one is later alarmed that Trump acts in accord with such a statement, the response is "calm down, he's just doing what he explicitly said."

Aside from the obvious game being played here, doing what you previously said doesn't make an action less alarming, in much the same way that acting in accord with your own genuine (if unjustified) belief does not.
That was my original point. They are a tiny minority of Christians or Republicans or Americans or whatever outer group you like, not "many millions", and the only reason anybody gives them a platform at all is that it's so easy to knock down. Their only relevance is as a patsy to paint a much larger group with the color of their crazy.
> In most cases when a company rejects you because of "culture fit", chances are there's something wrong with yourself

Obviously. In Silicon Valley, Company knows best. /s
This is not necessarily true in garbage-collected languages.
There's a difference between the whole window and an element within the page. We have a single page app that still had scroll bars for subsections in the sidebar and quick frankly, it's embarrassing.
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Same here, I was a little freaked out.
Thanks for responding. Without knowing much about Ducatis, what are the engine models that are available for this? Didn't see any jump out at first scan of the files.

PS you'll want to change your README.txt to README.md for Github's markdown formatter to read it correctly.
There are companies "in the trough" who are contently spending tens of millions a year on AWS. It's hard to give generic advice for all situations-- as with so much else, context matters heavily.

Those marginal gains could potentially pay for a dozen engineers...
Show HN: Website for adding text to videos/gifs
I've personally experience that same feeling after closing my eyes for some time and losing my bearing. I didn't realize how important visual cues were to maintaining my internal dead reckoning, while I wasn't even moving!
I'm a frontend dev that recently took a stab at making a long-time dream project a reality. My goal was to make a website where people could take videos or gifs and add multiple captions to them. I have experience with React (I use it at work), but this project was my first exposure to much of the other stuff.

I know there are a bunch of meme / video editing tools out there already. Imgur, Giphy, and Streamable all have great interfaces that solve different problems really well. This was my attempt at making one that had a feature I felt was missing from what is out there (multiple, movable captions per video)

Features:

- able to edit any direct .mp4, .gif, or youtube/streamable/twitch link

- add multiple captions at different time points in a video
- move or resize text

- change color, fonts, and styling of text

- trim videos to smaller times

- export up to 1080p quality

- easily edit other people's past creations

After a few frustrating months and a bunch of iterations, I've come up with something I'm ready to show people. More importantly, I learned a ton and had a lot of fun doing it.

Feedback and constructive criticism are more than welcome (there are definitely a bunch of bugs still!). Also, UI/UX is a glaring weakness of mine so it would be really helpful for me to hear about any confusion or problems you have in using the editor or any suggestions to increase usability. Naturally, I'd love to answer questions about the site, the tech stack, or anything else.

Finally, if you have any feature requests feel free to leave a comment or let me know and I'll add it to a running list of things I want to do!

Here's the website:
https://www.supgif.com

Here's an example finished product
https://www.supgif.com/c/NIWlajWf/share

Here's a picture of what the editor looks like
http://i.imgur.com/de9hb3u.png
This got a lot of discussion a while ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11759741
DISCLAIMER: I'm an amateur when it comes to the philosophy and science of search engines.

I think a core problem is that what we determine to be "fact" [1] changes over time (as it rightly should). As such, no deterministic function can adequately represent fact, without having a bias.

Something that is "fact" today can be made invalidated tomorrow through many methods, scientific and otherwise. Of course, that does not change the importance of "fact" over time (i.e. at one time it was "fact" but it may no longer be).

I don't know how Google search algorithms inject randomness into search, but I believe that without enough randomness (and subsequent feedback) and testing, any such algorithm would be deficient. It's almost like you have to A/B test the "facts", in a way. And take into account time. And give each and every fact due consideration.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact
It's macro_export, not export_macro https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/40487

That said, regressions happen, which is why beta exists. If you find them, please file them!
It was pretty succinct compared to Side By Side [1] which IMO failed to achieve what your comment did, even with a 1h39m running time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_by_Side_(2012_film)
Great point, I'm checking out office now... I use to be a heavy excel user, but ever since arch, I've been stuck on gsheets

if this could run excel smoothly, it would be pretty amazing, I've been trying to find a solution but yet to find a good seamless one. Wine/virtualbox are both mediocre solutions atm.
Should have a (2016) on the title.
In my experience, you really need to work with designers who are willing to consider the technical impacts of design choices within the browser. You need to be able to say, this animation style causes strangeness and performance impacts... are their other designs that don't have the same technical needs and still achieve our product goals? The coder needs to be willing to understand the design constraints and the designer needs to be willing to understand the code constraints and both people need to take joy in finding solutions that tick every box.

If you have a "throw the designs over the wall" workflow, CSS will never work, you have to go to iOS or Unity or something like that where you have minute control over every detail. On some level, this becomes an identity issue... are you Mercedes, or Apple, who will marshal incredible resources to control every detail of a production, or are you a Craigslist, or Bikini Kill, who will sacrifice any and every technical consideration to maintain laser focus on a singular goal.

Put another way, are you the conqueror who flattens an entire ecosystem to build your perfect palace, or a craftsperson who takes a small amount of material each day, and makes something beautiful within the constraints?
Does it mean their baby will live without paperwork and no health insurance?
Narcissism aside, the feeling is more akin to the part of Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha where he finds himself walking alone through a pass in the Himalayas at night. Realizing for the first time he's completely alone, a tiny, tiny fleck in the maelstrom of the cosmos, his ego is obliterated. But he's also completely free.
so why exactly should i use this over cloudwatch?
This reminds me of my evil plan to ask a whiteboard question when they ask if I have any questions for them.
> "Update, June 2: My computer is back! Scroll to the bottom for an update."

The computer was gone for just under two weeks. Still really sucks, of course.