skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. I have a personal account and a business account but I'm glad I've never tried to pseudo-merge them. I just shared a folder from one account to the other for the one set of files I wanted to share.
Because that's where 10x growth might be. For every company that uses directly uses AWS, there are countless companies that don't get or need AWS directly but really need a CMS, CRM, VOIP, groupware, Helpdesk, Callcenter, etc. If anyone can build on top of Amazon's platform, it's Amazon.
If you have the opportunity to live to 65, take the million dollars.

Why--men die so dam young.

I probably shouldn't share this, but here goes. Years ago, I was Union Electrician in the Bay Area. A very good union. I believe the guys are making over $100hr. now. I was misserable though, for a lot of reasons.

I was planning on leaving, but couldn't leave the money.

One day, I happened to see the retirement fund details.

Retired electricians were collecting 3-4 months worth of monthly retirement. WTF?

I then verified that with a union teacher I knew. He said, "The wives collect 1/2 of the monthy check. The guys just--die when they retire." I thought at least the wives benefit from all that work.

I left, and never looked back. I never wanted to know if that figure was right.

A lot can be taken for this story.

Electricians years ago were big smokers, and big drinkers. They detested anything like healthy food. I have a real soft spot for electricians.

In the beginning, only the Irish would work with electricity. Guys were dying weekly. My father was an Irish Electrician, but died too early. And yes--I took on some of his bad habits.

You can also blame the deaths on retirement itself. So many older guys were their jobs. Thank god--that has changed--in some circles.

It's a game though. You might be the lucky guy who lives to 80?

Live to 80=(5000 X 12 X 15)=$900,000

Retire at 65=1 million.

Life begins today.

I just had two guys I know die exactly at 65. One was suprised he lived that long. He did enjoy his life. The other was always saying, "My dad lived until 95." He was always putting off good times. I just need my company to take off. I can't go river rafting with you guys. In January, he get heartburn. Goes to the doctor. Dies 12 days later.

If you have the opportunity to live to 65, take the million dollars.

Why--men die so dam young.
dropbox is a startup and investors invest in startups to generate outsized returns (with commensurate risk). outsized returns require outsized growth (specifically in free cash flows, but many proxy metrics are used to forecast free cash flows, aka future profits).

so the growth rate of a company is one of the biggest factors in its valuation, and higher valuation means more wealth generated for investors, including employee-shareholders.

in DCF (discounted cash flows, a fundamental valuation method), revenue growth rate is typically an estimated input, and the model is highly sensitive to it. the outputs of the model are the present value of future free cash flows, otherwise known as the valuation of the company.

(see the growth rate in the DCF sensitivity chart on this example of DCF analysis on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow#/media/Fi... )

higher growth rate => higher valuation, all other things being equal. investors are looking for the largest delta between initial valuation and final valuation they can get, and growth is one of the most reliable ways to achieve that.

companies that don't grow can generate nice returns for the current owners, but they don't generate outsized returns over time because as growth rate goes to zero, valuation becomes a constant, i.e., no delta in initial vs final valuation (all other things being equal).
In the paper (see Sci-Hub link comment elsewhere):

Philosophers and historians have long debated the extent to which the pragmatic success of a scientific theory determines how quickly it gains adherents, or its longevity (e.g., Kuhn [1970], Laudan [1977], and their many detractors).
You do worry about economy as a big crash might wipe out whoever is paying out the annuity.

You can probably also spend more windfall given 1M investment rather than 5k. With the annuity, you would be smart to reinvest any excess, but you also cannot overdraw if needed, e.g. for medical reasons. You would have to go for debt and lose money.
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I did something similar, unfortunately gritting my teeth... well, the dentist had to repair one of my teeth that cracked slightly.

Both figuratively and literally, be very careful how hard you grit your teeth. They (and you) can break.
Yes but parent's point was they could also sell something that works on top of DynamoDB. For example a Salesforce clone (not saying that's a good example just an example). Oracle sells their own DB as well as software that runs on top of the very same database.
I stopped using the service because they could not provide competitive pricing even in my very expensive zipcode (a nice neighborhood in Brooklyn

The competition in this field is just immense. I don't get how any of these companies are going to make any money—Munchery, Ando, CookUnity.us, Uber Eats, and others are all competing fiercely against each other for a relatively low-margin, high-elasticity of demand business. In some ways, Blue Apron, Hello Fresh, and the other box companies are also competitors.

Like you I've used the various discount codes at various times, but they're all too expensive to be worth using with any regularity.
Arq is a well-supported piece of commercial software. It's a one time $50 license, but works with a half dozen different cloud services. Another commenter mentioned the open source Duplicati, which sounds similar. I haven't looked into it, but probably would if I wasn't already set up with a decent solution.

Folks often end up with a tonne of excess space either on a paid Dropbox account, or Google Suite via their university or company. You can also get unlimited space on ACD for $60/a (some people on /r/datahoarder claim to have uploaded over a petabyte), and Glacier is quite affordable on a per GB basis. It's pretty easy to get reliable versioned encrypted cloud backups on different providers that run overnight without requiring a lot of attention from an end user.

The biggest gap I have left is that most of my photos are on iCloud and if you don't have space on your Mac to store local copies to back up to somewhere else, it's easy to end up with only one copy of vital data.
What? Siemens has a whole division working on PLM, including the high-end NX CAD system. No doubt the plan involves integrating Mentor's EDA with NX.
I'm going to interpret this as an accidental piece of satire. It is so shallow in its analysis, overlooks so much, and makes so many mistakes that it is absolutely devoid of worth if interpreted as a serious piece.
It isn't a new policy; as I've posted elsewhere in the thread, "moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved" is literally the first thing pg taught me about how to moderate HN. In fact he blurted it at me before I even had a chance to grab a chair.

I doubt these complaints pop up because of years ago, though. People just assume that's how it works whether it does that way or not, and confirmation bias does the rest, i.e. we notice the data points that match our assumptions much more than ones that don't. Plus it's fun to trade those with others who share the same view.
Dan has been the head moderator for years, and was a moderator long before it was public that he was. PG was more capricious with moderation than Dan was, but when Dan says Paul Graham believed not showing favoritism to YC was a priority of his, I believe him.

Say what you want about anybody else at YC, but Dan is one of the most trustworthy people in show business. If he says a story didn't get suppressed by the mods, bank on that.
Even when companies are insistent you can usually get away with "I'm not willing to give you the proprietary information about my previous employers salary ranges, but I can tell you that my target is $X."
Say if I wanted to set something up like this for my friends, family and myself to use. Which would be the best and most feature rich for multi user?

I would love the option to not log ANY of the traffic or DNS requests my friends/family initiate.
We've had a Kafka system in production for maybe 7 years that deals with this problem.

With our use case, we can have unpredictable spikes in volume—which we must consume. Those spikes can be an order of magnitude larger than our baseline average. We put Kafka topics between every stage of our processing pipeline and configure the various Kafka clusters to be

1) Huge. Seriously, way overkill.

2) Able to sustain triple the largest spike we've ever seen without expiring data (size-based expiry)

Since most of our processing stages are essentially consuming, transforming and publishing back to Kafka, we've written them to not ack a message until the result of that stage has been safely published to the next Kafka topic. We require acks from all in-sync replicas. Since the subscriber part of a processing stage doesn't ack until its producer side has received acks from all ISRs, we're pretty confident in our data fidelity. In fact we have other infrastructure that verifies that everything coming out of this Kafka chain is correct and full-fidelity, so we know for certain that this setup can withstand huge spikes in volume without any load shedding.

And then we run all of it redundantly in multiple AWS availability zones to just be sure.

If any stage in our processing pipeline cannot keep up with increased volume, that's fine—it'll catch up eventually because we know that our retention policies are sufficient. And since (almost) every stage is run redundantly, even if one instance somewhere does become slow (or goes down), the redundant pipeline will keep data flowing so we generally have no customer impact. In fact if that does happen but the system as a whole keeps up, we don't even consider it a pageable event. If a machine falls over at 3am but it's redundant cousin keeps up, we'll fix it the next day during business hours.

(Redundant pipelines are also great for deploys—take down an entire side while you redeploy and you've now got zero-downtime deployments)
With all the sarcasm, it's hard to tell how broad of a point you're trying to make. Do dispute the fact that Australia free-rides to a non-trivial extent on US medical R&D?
That is not what the FSF writes.
FWIW (and I realize what it's W is minimal), despite the shade I sometimes throw re: certain policies on HN, I think you guys do an excellent job of threading the needle with regards to YC-related companies.
> We really need to take a good hard look at globalism.

Or capitalism in a global economy.
Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)
>nor did it cost anything to clean //

Free time!? You're not getting that time back you know, perhaps it cost little; I gather from this you're not an experienced landlord.
So true, my family definitely thinks I work for Geek Squad
Is it really? Consider even one medical event, likelihood of which is high... Unless you have a sterling medical coverage you might get into medical debt or be unable to perform procedures.
I don't see any social media bar when using uBlock Origin.
how would you go about doing that...especially with FaaS (GCP / Azure / Firebase Functions for example).
Why do you presume that someone who made the public statement "I am a libertarian who has publicly supported Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in the past, and I plan on voting for Gary in this election as well" is a Trump supporter?
> Well, it's essentially multi-licensing without knowing what all the licenses are. It gives some power to the FSF to choose what the next license for your work will look like.

Sure, but the FSF's drafting process is open. Not to mention that if you don't like the drafts (or the final version) you can always restrict "or any later version" by saying "or any later version, except versions X, Y, Z". Sure, this'll mean your old code could be used under that license, but new code won't. By the way, the MPL (and CDDL) has the "or any later version" clause built into the license without an option -- by using MPL you are allowing Mozilla to relicense your code whenever they want.

> It's not asking for trouble to avoid relicensing until you can see the new license.

Until you find out that some of your contributors have passed away, and either:

a) Their copyright is in an estate, making it effectively impossible to get anything re-licensed.

b) Their copyright has passed to their next of kin, who might have no understanding of what the deceased's views on free software were and thus probably will do something like ask for money to relicense it (or just refuse outright).

Not to mention that if you're a large project, you're asking for trouble. In most cases, the only contact information you have about a person is their email address -- and since email addresses change all the time it's unlikely you'll be able to contact everyone. Mozilla went through a bunch of trouble trying to re-license all of their code because of problems like this.
How can an analog computer do logic?
That's a benefit of static typing that I haven't seen discussed before. Certainly got me interesting in looking more closely at Nim.
NDAs (aka confidentiality clauses) attached to settlements are extremely common - have you ever seen the phrase "settled for an undisclosed sum"? It's usually because of some sort of confidentiality clause. Here's some background on those, and why they're used:

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/gp_solo/2012/novembe...

Re: your house example, the NDA linked in the article don't go that far. IANAL, but it's actually pretty reasonable as far as I can tell. It basically says "I absolve AirBNB of any further responsibility, and I agree not to talk about this payout". That's it.

The AirBNB rep being asleep at the wheel is a real story and pretty lousy - however the NDA feels like a non-story to me.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0k9tVdZvR1NUEtFTDZQUTQxZlk...
Stock git explodes when dealing with binary files that are above a certain size or are changing frequently.
So forget about photo collections, shared Photoshop files, or any other non-text document formats.
The workarounds had a lot of pain points for a while (that maybe are fixed now in 2017, haven't explored that recently).
Only if they weren't white (See: Oregon Federal Wildlife Refuge office occupation).
Is voice-activated password a thing? I mean, I only saw that in sci-fi movies and never in real life.
I used EAI's analog computers when getting my EE bachelors degree. It was quite interesting, we even had a hybrid model that the professors were scratching their heads to make it work, but the purely analog was great to simulate integrals and such.
If you think open source/free software is full of complicated one-off licenses, check out proprietary software sometime!

The large majority of projects use MIT, GPLv2, GPLv3, Apache, or a common variant like LGPL or BSD. Older projects often use other licenses for historical reasons, and modules often use the same license as the core software.

Asking why everyone doesn't just use your favorite license is a good way to start a flame war. The MIT license doesn't address patents, and some people like copyleft.
Yes but mainly the executive parts. No doubt the UK government could be more democratic but however imperfect it is why would you want to layer something on top of it that is even less democratic?
Thanks for the link, it's fascinating. I'll see if I can download some data and play with it to get a feel for it. As for the water vapor condensation, thanks for pointing me into the relevant part of the report, I'll take a closer look. At first sight, I like it that they paid attention to this issue, and I don't like that they didn't pay enough attention (a statement of the type "this may be offset by that" sounds a bit too cavalier to me). But it's a start. Back to the data and the transparency. This is really, really positive, it should go a long way towards assuaging the discomfort of climate skeptics (like me).
> Remember, you're no longer a long term investor, you can't ride out ups and downs, you have to keep paying the bills during down periods, excaberating your losses

I don't know about you, but most people in my social circle intend to retire between 55-60 and that leaves 25-30 years of retirement, so definitely still in the long term investing range.

When I retire, I don't plan to adjust my investments until I get past 80.
Sure, just as it was for the 49ers. Your keyword there is "might". But there's a huge failure rate. It's the same statistics that VCs face. Amazon is in a place to sell premium products to nearly 100% of the market, at really low risk.
To quote your sibling comment:

>Probably because saying something is "financed" by demand is counter-intuitive.

Since Healthcare is in economic terms a superior good, people spend a larger share of income on it as their income rises. And because the US is such a large, wealthy market, demand is sufficient to to pay down R&D costs that other markets could no bear. It's still a shitty deal, but it makes perfect sense that it turned out this way. That's just hard to articulate to people who are not familiar with the industry or economics.
You need to upgrade to OpenVPN v 4.0 or greater.
Then investigate the option string below:

pull-filter ignore "dhcp-option DNS"
Really. I got 99 ubuntu bugs but Telegram ain't one.

Once in a while I got a blank screen opening Telegram, but closing it and open it again solves the problem.

Are you running OTA-15?
Where's the ARM64 port going? I see that it's been stalled for a few years.
If everything is case-by-case and determined by "eligibility," what is the purpose of the word Guarantee here, and funds released are subject to conditions having nothing to do with the actual rental (e.g. an NDA)?

Seems to me, using the words "Guarantee", "Trust" "Peace of Mind" is no different than the customer using the term "Bribe".

but maybe this is just situation where consumers need law degrees to fully understand what it is they are getting.

AirBNB relies on economies of scale, so the remediation process should be the same for everyone since the contract is more than likely the same too, and if it is not, then "Trust", "Guarantee", "Peace of mind" are the wrong words to being used to advertise the service.

The core reason Bribe is being used, is because AirBnB was withholding payment for something that they advertised as part of the service and would only release it in exchange for an NDA. That IS dishonest.
Some TLDR's.

Here's the twitter account in question :
https://twitter.com/projectexile7

Here's a tweet referencing a Breitbart story that was 'liked' back on 19th May 2016 :
https://mobile.twitter.com/ojoscriollos/status/7334081186761...

The Breitbart story itself :

"Will Dem Intimidations of FBI Director Comey Kill Hillary Investigation? | Dem leaders don't inspire confidence"

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/19/will-demo...

If it's really Comey, the fact he 'liked' this particular article suggests some pre-existing bias on his decision to break protocol and make public the new FBI investigations into Clinton's email server days before the election.

EDIT - about an hour after this post the twitter account was put into 'protected' mode, so tweets are not viewable.
It's been a bit, but I found the ergonomics and flexibility of Apollo to be miles ahead of Relay.

I also found it fairly straightforward to set up Server Side Rendering (SSR). My example is at https://github.com/rattrayalex/isomorphic-react-relay-router... if it helps anyone, though it's a year out of date.

EDIT: A more up-to-date example at https://github.com/rattrayalex/django-graphql-react-ssr/blob... – meant to open-source it as a simple SSR lib.
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While interesting, and anecdotally seems correct to me, does anyone here with a background in education and/or education technology have any pointers on actionable ways to use technology more effectively? This piece never seems to get to that point, other than strongly encouraging training for teachers (that they provide if you go with their solutions).
There is a difference between late middle age and deathbed. If it is a hackneyed cliche (and I wouldn't be surprised if it is), I would like to see evidence for it (first hand anecodotal evidence is sufficient, but from someone who is verifiably not you, but worked long hours, and is dying).
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Can you substantiate that?
... You wouldn't know, by looking at us in our sunglasses, our somber dark suits, and carrying our concealed pistols and compact machine guns ... that we were sitting in the privileged sanctum of the White House planning a clandestine baseball game. We weren't supposed to be planning one. Agent-in-Charge Doltmeer was opposed to it, but that only meant that we wouldn't let him play.

Without explanation, which frequently was how our lives progressed, someone put this flyer on the bulletin board at work:

First Annual Baseball Game between the CIA and the Secret Service
Date: July 14
Time: Classified
Location: Classified

It seemed juvenile and a little stupid, so most of us liked it immediately... Doltmeer didn't think any of it was funny.

"Who put this crap here?" he asked, as he looked at the flyer.

"I'll start an investigation immediately. Plus we'll need some uniforms and gloves," I said.

-- John Welter, Night of the Avenging Blowfish
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I'd be surprised if residential renter's insurance in the US, UK, or Canada covered things done during a daily sublet of the space without some special rider policy. This customer should be covered well enough by AirBNB's agreement, which apparently only with the help of The Observer is actually the case.
I was more thinking the concept of source code control than the specific, but used a specific since a specific file transfer program was mentioned. Some source code control programs handle binaries just fine.
Your 6% calculation would still leave your heirs with a $1M inheritance - that's the return you'd need to avoid touching your original capital. It's hard to find a decent investment portfolio that wouldn't be able to average 6% over 25-30 years, but even if you think that's optimistic you could make that $1m last 25 years with only a 4% return...
Wow, that's a somewhat strong way of putting it, but yes, I guess it would seem that way to a prof. hearing that (the original question from the student). And as an instructor on software topics myself (part-time), I guess I might think somewhat the same way, if that happened. Thankfully it rarely has happened with my students, the ones who actually join my courses, that is. There is of course the top of the funnel, in which there are many such people like the ones my uncle talked about.
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It is called "Damage control". Talk is cheap.

If you give money to a pro-trump group, you shouldn't be surprised if people call you a trump supporter: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/palmer-luckey-alt...
Steve Jobs said when his acquisition proposal was refused by Dropbox founders: it was a feature, not a product.

This is the sword of Damocles for Dropbox.
Fair point but do you think it would make any difference?
Another interesting way to exfiltrate data is via DNS. Few networks block DNS, so you can set up a protocol on your own DNS server to transfer data.

The bandwidth is pretty decent, too.
A data point and wishing for a few more does not give you a 'pretty reliable trend'. It does the opposite of giving you that.
Read up the comments on the telegram announcement post here on HN. From couple of years back, IIRC.

PS: on mobile. Could not.search.