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Launch HN: Sixty (YC S17) – Freelancer Marketplaces for SaaS Companies
Hi HN!

I’m David, one of the co-founders of Sixty (https://www.usesixty.com/partners). We're a fully-managed freelancer marketplace for SaaS companies. We give SaaS companies an experts.[domain].com that their users can go to for do-it-for-me help from specialist freelancers, whom we call "experts". We source, vet, and manage the experts. We’ve also built software to connect a user and an expert together via screenshare for on-demand sessions.

It's a common problem at SaaS companies that their users want more hands-on help than in-house support can provide, but it takes a userbase of around 1M people and an organic freelancer community to form around the software (think Google Certified Experts or Quickbooks Pro Advisors) before that can easily be provided.

We built Sixty to solve the problems we experienced during our time as Squarespace Specialists (Squarespace’s version of experts). With several years under our belt, we noticed 4 major problems around the concept of an ‘experts directory’:

1) Most SaaS users need a little bit of external help to derive the full value from more complex software – despite the software increasingly intended to be DIY. Users usually only need to get over a few small roadblocks to succeed.

2) The company’s goal of making software intuitive enough for anyone conflicts with the expert’s goal of making more money. Experts all have project minimums that presuppose them taking over the whole project.

3) Companies would need user bases of 100k+ before they would be able to even consider creating an experts community.

4) Building a community platform is fundamentally different than what SaaS companies were founded to do. It bloats the business model.

Our goal is to be a better solution in each of these 4 areas: 1) So users could get smaller scope work accomplished – helping them be more independent and successful on the platform. 2) So the experts can be a part of a better community with increased pay and more stability 3) SaaS companies with smaller user bases can take advantage of the improved activation and retention that expert communities bring, and 4) So SaaS companies can focus on what they do best – building great software.

We’d love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building with Sixty! And if you’re building a SaaS company or are particularly skilled at any startup or SMB software (Segment, Mixpanel, Zapier, Customer.io, Mailchimp, Weebly, etc.), we'd love to learn from you.
This reminds me of the first scene in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOqaD5tWB0
PlayStation Portable
There was $2,923,270,000 worth of ETH changing hands in the last 24 hours.
I wonder if this could be / has been applied to loot tables in video games in order to keep the player interested in playing.

I've designed a few loot tables and the Gambler's Fallacy is a criticism I often have to deal with when people don't understand why a given item hasn't dropped despite them having killed a mob enough times to statistically warrant it.
It's an industry working group to shape the direction of the Ethereum project, similar to a million working groups (ex Bluetooth) where companies are motivated to agree on and advance a technology.

Nothing about being in EEA says that company will use the public chain. Most of them will probably use private chains.

You presenting it as if it's possible for an open source project to recruit a long list of multinational corporations to sign on to collude on a pointless project just to make everyone involved look "cool" and get rich. If only.
Resources are not limited. It is plentiful, except that society sees the resource of human labor and love as only valuable when it is profitable.

If corporations found it profitable to ensure everybody was happy and living well, I can guarantee you that the vulnerable would be taken care of very well.

It is just a matter of perception. By graviating towards money and profit, we undermine the worth of all humans and hence you asking "would you be happy if all Medicare funding for the elderly was stripped away in favor of treating opioid addiction?".

Of course nobody would be happy! :)
> Which would be a statistically sound assumption.

This is a straw man. I haven't argued otherwise. You're making the same mistake that other of my respondents are making, which is to assume I'm claiming that the native Japanese are in some way doing something wrong by assuming I don't speak Japanese.

> That's not what would make me feel like a foreigner...

I'm sure you don't realize you're doing this, but I'm telling you how I and many other immigrants who have lived as ethnic minorities in a foreign country are led to feel like outsiders, and your response is to say that those feelings are invalid, and you wouldn't let it bother you, despite having (presumably) never experienced what we're talking about. You're taking a very inconsiderate side of this argument, not to mention incorrect.
reddit works much better if you unsubscribe from all the default subs, then subscribe to ones that interest you. Discovery is a bit harder but much of the reddit 'culture' is absent if you choose wisely.
I don't have an idea of how much it matters for which percentage of programs, but here are some anecdotes of what can happen when not caring about NaN and rounding.

We had a bug once which was really hard to track down. Turned out a simple lack of initialization of a variable in a simple piece of code for a running average: the programmer reasoned in the first iteration this number is going to be multiplied with 0.0 anyway, so no need to initialize it. However because there are many NaN representations, once in a while the uninitialized memory of the variable happened to represent NaN, and NaN * 0.0 is still NaN, and that would keep on propagating, oops.

Likewise for rounding: we had some code calculating pixel positions and sometimes stuff was one pixel off resulting in weird visual artefacts. Turns out that when feeding the (faulty) rounding algorithm with results of some floating point calculations wouldn't do the expected thing but round down instead of up or so. Oops.
I just got a Samsung G550T, which is just north of your stated price range (currently $120 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T-Mobile-Unlocked-Galaxy-Smar...) but does have Marshmallow.
Thanks! It's been 25 years since my last pharmacology class, the details are all getting a bit vague.
I think picking any one existing language would be too emotional for people.

I don't have the implementation details. But just to illustrate how doable it'd be, I'd suggest we take something neutral (like Esperanto) and every language start adding 20 Esperanto words to their language per year, with a plan to coalesce after 200 years.

40,000 shared words isn't a full language, but it's enough to make conversations and debates possible.
As a 'westerner' I'm only really familiar with 'western' style restroom use, but the signs seem to indicate that the restroom should be used in a western way.

I was aware of 'trench' style toilets existing, so the directions for south-east Asian languages make some sense.

I wasn't aware of the 'foot washing' practice though... that seems odd.
Instagram is a new, focused product. Essentially a new market.

Also, I said that tech markets tend to reach (quickly) a monopoly situations. But even if it's very fast, it does not mean it's instant. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr were all created in the same 10-year time span.
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Is the opioid crisis largely caused by prescription opioids getting people addicted?
So... if I were to meet you somewhere in the US and tell you "wow, the train is so slow here, in France the TGV goes at 300 km/h, here it's only X!", would that make you (or others) angry?
That is like saying "most of our customers use the drive thru, so we will COMPLETELY CLOSE our restaurant to foot traffic".

A hybrid approach is best, especially when this article is literally text and some photos.
But Trump voters != r/the_Donald. Calling one a cess pool doesn't imply calling the other also.
Covering the plane randomly but without clusters is actually quite useful in simulations. The "random" numbers that do that are often call "low-discrepancy sequence".
> when applying our own interpretation grid, see a presumption of guilt.

You're arguing that "presumption of guilt" is somehow contextually relative. It's not. If 99% of "trials" result in a conviction, there's an unequivocal presumption of guilt.
There are just as many if not more trump/hate subreddits. Some of them were always that way, some have been taken over.

Off the top of my head:

* /whiterights
* /uncensorednews
* /justiceserved
* /conspiracy
* /hillaryforprison
* /physicalremoval

Most of the time when you notice overt bigotry on reddit, the user frequents t_d or one of those subs, or the similar clones that are now all over reddit.
Another algorithm along these lines is the "shuffle bag" algorithm.
It feels like the crappy battery is a pretty serious flaw to an otherwise fantastic product. Since the energy requirements for something like the K750 are pretty modest, I wonder if they considered super capacitors instead of a traditional battery?
Oh, I really like this idea. I might go with a number greater than two though for the aesthetic reason that 25% of the time, you will select a song that has been played more recently than half of the playlist. With four, you'd be selecting something from the back half of the playlist more than 90% of the time.
I think the name for "help with housing" is income... otherwise we are just looking at the return of company towns.
This is exactly the opposite of what I experience; Chrome eats up 6GB of memory with a couple dozen tabs open, but I can have as many and more active in Firefox on 2GB (and over 1000 tabs open but inactive – leftovers from when tab groups were removed… that was a shame). Firefox just also feels faster in general.

I am using the developer edition instead of stable, though, and there have been a lot of somewhat recent improvements; maybe that accounts for the difference.
> Saying that it's nitpicky to include this in your list would be huge understatement, it's straight out ridiculous.

There's a bug report about it with lots of duplicates and 71 votes. I use Ctrl+W to close tabs, so losing work in other tabs is just one key away. For me, it isn't nitpicky.

> having a flashier UI would address and (potentially) attract more users.

You don't know that though. You think it will attract more users.

You'll need some kind of metric to know what people really want. "Gets often repeated in discussions" is one, "which bug reports get voted on" is another.
>or because they're not a group that can be profited from politically

They already are being profited from politically via the War on Drugs.
If that were true, then neither Trump nor Brexit would have happened. You could always claim that it is not true now but will be "in the future", but that claim is unfalsifiable.
I usually use Foobar2000 in "shuffle albums" mode. It's a good compromise IMO.
Archived copy, which works with JS disabled:

https://archive.is/n4r9C
Travelers just won back a bit of their privacy at the border
Reddit has always been a liberal echo chamber that thrives on self parody though...

I am not sure how the existence of these anti trump subs leads you to believe that views that r/the_donald is racist and hate filled are misinformed.

Also, I disagree with your last point since there are many altright subs, and r/conspiracy has become extremely pro Trump for some reason.
While incidental to the bigger point, I'd point out that I went and actually checked 8 banks in my country (which represents pretty much the whole banking sector afaik); every single one of them has an EV cert on landing page. Two of them (smaller ones) did not automatically upgrade my connection to https on landing page which bit tarnishes the result, but overall I'd say the situation is fairly good. Also all the names that appeared on address bars here were sensible/expected ones, which is not always the case.
That depends entirely on the implementation. There's no one rule for how developers should implement shuffle.

When I was writing my in car entertainment system (it's not as good as it sounds!) the first metric that was shuffled was the artist, followed by weightings for albums.
People switch because Chrome is a superior product, just like Internet Explorer was a superior product to Netscape at one time. That's not a concern. The concern is using market position to engage in anti-competitive behavior, like bundling.
While this is somewhat true for the image-spec (with some very notable exceptions where the semantics have deviated heavily), it's absolutely untrue for the runtime-spec. As one of the people who maintains the legacy of what Docker did before the OCI (libcontainer which is now part of runc), the interfaces and semantics are very significantly different.

Docker does use the OCI runtime-spec internally now (with plans to support the image-spec at some point), but that happened after the spec had become fairly stable.

The most important thing is not where the spec design came from, but that it's now being maintained by a community that will make sure you don't end up with fragmentation and lock-in.
Strange. Doesn't do anything special for me.
I am in favor of all four (EDIT: five, my bad). But none of those are related to the GP's comment.
Joins are typically a tiny intersection of 2 data sets. Multiply that by the number of web requests. Moreover, a query planner is far more optimized than the code you'd write on your web server.
If I recall correctly, I've seen examples of the shuttle code printed out in a large volume (or volumes), where the code is documented line by line. In a way it is a testament to the relative immutability of the code and maturity of the work. I find it to be highly impressive and also suffocating at the same time.

In my experience, a lack of software quality is frequently introduced as a result of hurried time lines and limited resource allocation for quality and reliability. In other words, it appears more of an organizational, project management, or business failure.
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1. Historical fallacy (just because things were a way in the past does not mean they will always be that way)

2. What if, like blockchain, we build a DNS model that is server agnostic? People are already working on this, if you think it's not possible you should learn more.

3. That's not valid logic.

4. That's not valid logic.

6. [There seems to be no 5?] Historical fallacy.
I have never heard about anyone that healed spontaneously from cancer just because of the will power to stand the pain.
I heard about lots of people that managed to overcome the withdrawal pains and stopped being addicted.
Your comparison is completely inaccurate.
I know how much better Chrome is yet i stick with Firefox all because of the idea of a free web.

It is slow. the ui sucks. it looks dated. it crashes far too often and eats up loads of mem. Don't blame Google for its ads, the problems are homegrown. Its sad to say this but i guess i will turn my back on it too if things dont change.
A lot of money is being spent on this, but the obvious solution--providing addicts with known, tested opiates and safe places to use--is illegal. Addicts are most certainly a group that can be profited off. We have entire industries that do that, sometimes exclusively: sugar, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, big pharma, etc. In fact, it's this intention of our laws to encourage such profiting off of the suffering and deaths of addicts that I think is the reason no one is really trying to fix much. The other reason is, likely, that this is a rather unfixable cultural problem stemming from poverty, loneliness, and other cultural factors.

Methadone clinics, rehabs and other places like that, however, do profit off of addicts' recovery and may even have genuine intentions of helping (it seems to vary from place to place). Those profits are minor compared to the profit off of addicts' misery and death, however, and their efforts are not usually talked about much in the press. Laws also hold back such institutions from providing good treatment and dehumanize the addicts trying to stay clean. In many places, addicts are treated horribly and made to suffer intentionally by the staff, often having to wait around sick for hours just to see a doctor before getting a dose of methadone even though they've been on the program for years. They are made to line up daily or weekly for a dose when a regular prescription would do just fine, even after they've been on methadone for years. At many of these clinics, it's a wonder that anyone stays clean. There is no professionalism. Doses are messed up when addicts travel and they are left without their methadone. Staff end up stealing either money or methadone. There is no accountability. Not all clinics lack compassion and treat addicts badly, but many do. It's no wonder these places try to fly under the radar while the good clinics and rehabs are too busy helping addicts to be in the press or make much noise. If cancer or heart patients were treated this way, you can bet your ass there'd be a national backlash, but our society has been conditioned to have no compassion for addicts. This is the result. It's ugly and nasty.
Coming from academia, these sort of papers would not pass any sort of double-bind peer review process. Where's the actual science? Where are the experiments?

It seems to be just a document describing the protocol of Filecoin, which is fine. The problem is that all these "whitepapers" coming from these cryptocurrency communities seem to be promoted as scientific papers, but in reality do not stand a chance in any science/academic-related setting.

I'd wish they'd give more attention towards the science, if there's any. Otherwise, hey, sure it's just a PDF on some site - but don't call them "papers".
For an opposing anecdote, I do not have this problem at all. Firefox is always snappy and uses less memory than Chrome on my Macbook.
You could always do that, dump the data to s3, and use Athena :-)

https://aws.amazon.com/athena/
Mozilla actually moved to Yahoo not because Google refused to renew their contract, but because Yahoo was flush with cash and desperate to gain any foothold at all in search engine share (which they did, briefly; a friend of mine at Google had the job of getting Firefox users to switch their default search back to Google). Yahoo just offered better terms than Google at the time.
Sure, I could definitely get a swarm set up quickly and run something trivial on it, but then I'll be back to the docs for secrets, stateful containers, volume mounts, cert management, instrumentation, health checks, load balancing etc.

My point about 'framework hopping' was that I try to get some value out of the time spent digging into a new tool/library/framework, rather than trying to use something new for each new project. Knowing the pitfalls, useful configs, edge cases, best plugins and so forth goes a long way towards being able to focus on what you're actually building. I'm not against early adoption and I am always learning new tools, but I do try to leverage the ones I have deep knowledge of.
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Yes, it's a HUGE issue. Maybe not in /programming yet, but pretty much any thread dealing with a controversial topic (say, the killings of African-american citizens by police in the US) will be plastered with overt bigotry and hatred.

It simply didn't used to be this way. The discussion used to be what I'd go to reddit for, now it's the part I avoid.
> If you are a top 10 site you won't need an EV, but if you are in a small business in a competitive market it could help.

This exact point is discussed and addressed in the article:

> What we're seeing here is that EVs are most frequently used by larger sites and as size declines, so does EV adoption. Now perhaps the commercial CAs are simply seeing this as a large addressable market for their product (which would bring us back to financial motives again), but clearly their view of who actually needs the cert the most is not consistent with those who are actually buying them.
True. I have first encountered this idea many years ago, with the Kong program [1].

"Unlike most digital signature programs, this one has no concept of "true names". It makes no attempt to determine that the Bob you are talking to is the "real" Bob. It merely ensures that it is the same Bob."

[1] http://echeque.com/Kong/Kong.htm
From what I have seen and read, they aren't solving problems that haven't already been solved, merely attempting to improve the security and efficiency of a solution. One example they have touted is their work with Maersk on tracking shipping containers and their contents in a tamper-proof fashion as well as providing a way to interact with that data. Will any of this really result in greater efficiency, interoperability and savings? Time will tell.
Thanks Michael! I'll let you know when you can delete/rename templates (should be soon).
on the other side of the coin, monster hunter players claim that the game actively avoids giving them items that they want in order to increase the (eventual) satisfaction. they call it the "desire sensor".

http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Monster_Hunter_Wiki:Mons...

the studio has denied the existence of any such mechanism.
Perhaps a solution would be if the verilog cpu project provided a few specific model numbers for each part (obviously, choosing ones that are commonly available and lesser cost), so that public contributors can work towards a common implementation for said part.
Consistent rounding behavior matters when you need reproducibility. For example, videogames often reproduce computations as part of their networking systems, and if different users have different rounding behavior, it'll break.
I know they're misinformed, because I look through there every now and then.

I'll ask the same thing I ask every time this topic comes up: Where's the hate? Link some. I see posts praising LGBTs, I see plenty of criticism of Islam (usually in relation to Islamists' poor treatment of LGBTs or worse),

but "hate"? Racism? No. That is hyperbole at best. Anytime I see overt racism, it's downvoted into the negatives. Given that my observation conflicts with the narrative, and that verifying it is trivial to check, I have to assume most people repeating it are just going on what they were told by friends or media, rather than their own observations.
what are you selling exactly? a company? a condo? developers? apps? how do you make 90k/year? what's your business model?

Not sure your message was clear enough.