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Abe is hiring engineers to fix commercial insurance
Position: Software Engineer in San Francisco

Companies spend $274bn every year on commercial insurance in the US. Abe is a modern insurance brokerage that leverages technology to better serve companies and make brokers more efficient.

We have $3mm in funding from top VCs, 6 brokers on the platform, and are scaling our engineering team to bring commercial insurance into the 21st century.

Our business is built on the idea that there are certain tasks that humans do really well and others that are better suited for computers. We supercharge our brokers so that they can focus on the highest-value work and use technology for everything else. This includes machine learning to structure PDF documents, Phantom.js scripts to pass data to insurance companies, and a beautiful customer dashboard.

If you’re interested in learning more, email our CTO at gordon@hiabe.com
Don't bother. You won't gain any meaningful security, and you'll be using the same error-prone, outmoded constructions. Even if you had built this application in perfect, error-proof Haskell, it would still be insecure because of the way you're using AES. Adopt a credible NaCL library.

Really though, if you're interested in crypto, I strongly urge you not to go the route of trying to build crypto applications. The crypto apps people really need are extremely hard to build safely.

A better place to start with crypto is to learn how to break it. The cryptopals challenges are programming intensive and don't have any prerequisites; or, check out LVH's Crypto 101.
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Here is an example: old wi-fi router firmware that you can't get updates for is vulnerable to problems discovered in the original algorithms, which are correctly implemented in that firmware.

Software can only be as correct and complete as its specification. If that is a moving target, oops!
There sure was a lot of "people use legacy for specific reasons" in there, but they don't mention what those reasons might be -- except for Linux support.

Kinda hard to fix the "last mile" when you don't know anything about the last mile.
Not a direct js dev so forgive my ignorance. How does this compare to moment.js [0]? Any feature differences?

[0] https://momentjs.com/
Do the employees get an extra $15k / child?
in response to feedback being requested

The post: It's great, adds a lot of value.

The calculator: Terrible idea. Might even add negative value or be counterproductive.

The post is appreciated for multiple reasons. Insights from investors are not overflowing the Internet. It’s a relatively small group, so it’s often very helpful when someone chooses to share their thinking. It also has value because it’s not just pulling back the curtain, or sharing facts, rather, it offers critical analysis of how to approach the question. Even if some of the analysis is wrong, it’s still valuable, in that it inspires further analysis and facilitates understanding of the mechanics.

However the calculator is a reductionist solution to a problem, that can be highly inconsistent from one situation to another. Paraphrasing: Please input the number of kids you have? Sounds like something a government office would come up with. How about a calculator to pick startups to fund? Well, some people do try to automate betting on companies for various needs, however they often have limited success, and it usually involves very complex modeling systems, rather than a google spreadsheet.

The net of it is, using a spreadsheet might be helpful to track and manipulate data inputs, but not to generate an actionable result to drive a nuanced decision. I'm wary even of using it as a starting point, given the risk of building additional reasoning on a flawed foundation. It would be a great tool to have. The problem is there are just too many subtleties to capture (known and unknown), and even then they would apply differently across the startup world's highly variable situations and contexts.

In some ways the question is typical of many other questions startups encounter: It's at least partially and possibly highly subjective, the number of potentially relevant factors makes it impractical to spend lots of time of each factor, and the available data points are imperfect and/or incomplete.

As AI slowly but steadily chips away at the list of things humans can do better, questions with these attributes might be the some of the very last to fall. And when they do, it will not be office productivity software that slays them.
I cannot even begin to explain how intensely I've been desiring this.
There's a page explaining this: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/faq/why.html
Yea, firebase is surprisingly useful and honestly can't live without it
XDCC original author here.
Nice to read this kind of stuff!
Implausible that it would have changed much. People went hunting for sperm whales in small wooden boats. Sperm whales are even bigger than Megalodon. Sure they're peaceful ordinarily, but when you start throwing harpoons into them, not so much.
> you can't execute a mediocre idea into a success

No, but great founders can realize this sooner, wasting less money and decide to either return what's left of the money or pivot.

Very few successful companies grew into their original vision - they changed along the way because they had great leadership (and luck).
I'd just like to point out that GP didn't directly present that attitude toward the content creators - just the host/provider, which is quite a different thing.
If I may, I should point out that it says "I’m a guest poster" at the top pof the post. The author is not actually neozeed, but rather me. I'm very grateful for the opportunity I was given.

Maybe I should've made the authorship clearer in my submission, though.
Is WebAssembly the new Java? I wouldn't be surprised to see standalone containers for running WebAssembly without needing all the trappings of a web browser.
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It’s a perfect storm. Kill net neutrality and then restrictions preventing local media monopolies.

People have been manipulated by their chosen media like no other time in history, and I can’t see where we go from here.

Enterprises will have the singular ability to control what vast swaths of the populace hears and believes. At best it’s a continuance of recent trends, and at worst the failure of the republic.
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For me the power is not to ‘write your frontend in c++’. It is to write performance critical pieces in c++ and have them run at near native speeds in the browser. Even better, reuse c++ components running on a boxed delivery in your cloud solution so you can share codebase between your cloud solutions and native solutions. Not sure how for we are yet, but that would be great.
So does uefi support multi boot or not?
LPT: You can still read the content without submitting your email by using your browser's "reader mode".
Help me understand; why would I use it for JS (not WebAssembly)? Haven't we seen ScriptSharp already trying to do it and fail miserably?
Never had random reboots or graphical artifacts on screen before on OSX but my iMac has been very unstable since the High Sierra update. I’m lucky I’m not using that machine for work or I would be raging on a daily basis.

I’m not an “Apple are doomed”-er but this is the poorest Apple OS release since the black screen of death that plagued iOS8.

You seem to generally get about 3 years of use from an iOS device before the CPU can’t really keep up with the OS updates. I couldn’t recommend upgrading an iPhone 6 to iOS 11 as my wife’s 6 Plus has basically become unusable.

Maybe part of the problem is that no-one in Cupertino will be using a 3-4 year old iPhone or a 2012 Mac on a daily basis?
> even going so far as to pay a nanny

I really like this idea as a way to expand access to startup opportunities.

Have any acceleartors/incubators experimented with offering child care?
I imagine that economies of scale could make that more economical than having X% of each investment go to child care with no coordination, even if it was just a group-rate contract with a local child care center.
Thanks. This link should be on the github page to be honest. For people like me who do not (always) click through if they don’t see an immediate need. Only now notice the url contains moment and this is part of moment.
Yes, UEFI supports multiboot.
AlphaGo Zero is really about the MCTS not neural nets.
Or, parent should put more trust in the world and their child. You don’t need to know what your kid does at all times.
Also as it's since been revealed, if you don't register within 90 days of accruing $100, Brave claims that money to devote to "user growth", iow, marketing for Brave itself. So it really is chucking money into a hole, even more than with those other options.
Agreed. I've been on the side of coming into roles where people were reluctant to let go at first and feeling reluctant to let go of responsibilities. It feels weird. The lego analogy seems to fit really well from my experience.
Because you target browsers where WebAssembly is not available. If the JS integration is any good, to avoid interopability overhead with JS and the page DOM.

Don't know ScriptSharp, I'm more thinking of emscripten as something to compare it to - which hasn't been exactly a failure, but leaves room for improvement.
If one says A and someone else says !A they can't both be right.
First heard about OpenAPS while listening to one of my favourite podcasts ("The Changelog").

https://changelog.com/podcast/261
Those numbers sounded crazy to me when I heard them, but I was pretty sure Musk wasn't lying either. I'm glad to have this explanation of how the few things we know contribute to the impressive results.
And now we're going to be pushing 4K over the air? I don't see that working out to well in practice.

ATSC 3.0 is rolling out as we speak in South Korea, in advance of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. I haven't seen any reports of how well it's working; as an enthusiastic antenna user, I'm dying to see how well it works over the air.
How does it compare to date-fns?
If you own an older MBP, you can pretty easily upgrade the SSD to bigger storage. I have a 2TB SSD in my 2012 MBP.

If you own a newer non-upgradable MBP, you can easily sell it and get an older model with almost the same features - but also upgradable - and maybe even make a few bucks.
Why would you not trust the rest of the world? The world is safer today than it was 10 years ago.
> Seems like massive incompetence from this user rather than Kaspersky doing anything malicious

Why not both?
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With WebM I see no reason to use actual GIF anymore. It is such a waste of bandwidth and processing power.
The Gitlab production data deletion event occurred unintentionally because the system was not designed to make it impossible. Looking at the Kaspersky situation the same way, the leaking of classified documents to Russia occurred because the system was not designed to make it impossible (i.e. by never creating these materials in the first place). GP isn't equating the facts of the events but instead drawing a contrast between the way we treat them.
Ask HN: Career change at 22
Hello,
I am currently 22 years old, studying Computer Science. I've been focusing on web development for almost ten years. I've built up a freelance business with active clients and also tried to work as a Front-end developer for a year in small digital agency.

After years I am not satisfied with web development and it doesn't make me happy. I can see really young, inexperienced people going into this business, things are changing really fast and there's no methodology, no "scientific" way to do it. I can say that web development is somehow punk business with many "script kids" involved.

The second thing I don't like about the job is lack of social contact. You spend big amount of time in front of a computer and when you want to be the best you have to spend even your free time alone. When you look at those best developers, they look kind of awkward, they don't have communication skills and I feel like this is not the way I want to go.

Also the third thing that bothers me is the fact that developers are becoming new blue-collar workes (see https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-collar-job/) since it's kind of easy to learn how to code. You also don't need any certification or license. I see that many IT students do have this blue-collar mentality. They dress badly, they swear alot, simply they look like people from lower social classes. This is what bothers me. When I was younger I really appriciated this "punk" side of the IT. Now I hate it.

What I am thinkin about is career change to medicine. I am interested in human body and would enjoy studying it. Also medicine as a field seems to be more mature and traditional.

Do some of you see it similarly or do you have different opinion? What do you think about it?
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I've migrated a lot of code from moment to date-fns because of moment's bulky size and vast, mutable API. Luxon seems to fix the API issue. date-fns is still great for simple operations, but I'll definitely consider this for new projects with nontrivial datetime handling.
Does this mean they're also looking to rip out 16bit real mode support entirely from their x86/x86_64 CPUs?
This isn't really a constructive comment. I don't think that my being at google or not affects my ability to judge how ethically sketchy another product is.
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That'd have roughly as many characters as a 338,000 word book... longer than The Brothers Karamazov (365,000) but shorter than Gone With The Wind (418,000).

Just over half the length of A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, and probably just as entertaining. Heyooo!
What would be the use case of this versus WebM ?
Does React with Mobx count as incremental? It only re-renders components when the data accessed by that component has changed.
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It's about time this happened! I spent the last decade using computers free of that BIOS crud (various Macs and now a Surface Pro), and all I can say is, "good riddance!"
UEFI is a great example of second system syndrome. In the BIOS world, more featured boot loaders were chained in early (think pxelinux, grub, *BSD loaders etc) so even though it was primitive it wasn't the typical UX. UEFI is almost trollingly bad, the worst amalgamation of low level firmware, boot loader UX, and OS->firmware runtime services I've seen when contrasted to OpenFirmware, uBoot, petitboot.

OpenFirmware was a much more elegant technology sitting around for the lifetime of modern x86 but intel had to be different.

I like the direction IBM is going with OpenPOWER.. petitboot/kexec by default https://sthbrx.github.io/blog/2016/05/13/tell-me-about-petit... although all the firmware sources are on github so you could do whatever the heck you want. It makes intel look positively oppressive.
I’m assuming they’re adding a trigger to the source table.
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paywall

Oh, I wouldn't label this a paywall as such, since the requested information is not challenged with verification of authenticity.

They aren't making you verify your email, before showing you the rest of the article, and this permits you to use "test@example.com" as the token acknowledgment of their solicitation.

This rates on par with a CAPTCHA to read the full article, since the user merely needs to adhere to the [a-z,A-Z,0-9]@[a-z,A-Z,0-9].[a-z,A-Z,0-9] regex, to dismiss, and providing a real email is an option, indicating that they're willing to accept junk data as part of their collection of subscribers, since mailing list email bounces aren't a disaster.

You only have to submit an email, not your email.
I would happily pay more for a computer that lacks support for this mode.
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The standard supports multiple bootloaders, but specific implementations may be locked down to a single one. Even on systems that support multiple bootloaders, it's pretty common to bypass the built-in menu in favor of a more configurable chainloader like GRUB or rEFInd.
If you want to do bussiness in Russia you will have to deal with organized crime and or the government which is very often the same people.
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You can say the same about every country. That's the nature of networks of power.

Or in other words, when you operate a business of considerable size you start being part of the inner circle.
> Some users blame UEFI or Secure Boot whenever something doesn’t work

and what else to blame?
I’ve had it up to here with pushy updates. Tragedy of the commons: every app thinks it’s important enough to update several times per week.

On any given day, at least one of Windows, Firefox, VSCode, or myriad other less important apps wants to update before it runs. Talk about pessimising app start times! App start time is now the time to download and reinstall!

Windows FCU silently borked 6 of my machines by steamrolling drivers I had carefully selected for stability and performance. Broke GPU and Wifi on 5 of those, and it took me half a day to figure out what changed. On my main dev machine, Windows Update got into an infinite loop of churning the disk 100% and never finishing. Every fix I tried did nothing, until finally I disabled all WU services.

So in resignation, I did install Ubuntu. And was quickly reminded why I don’t use it. Ironically, the productivity-killer there is also about updates: for any app I need to run properly, I have to update its whole lineage of dependencies, often manually, and work out which versions it likes.

So I’m reluctantly back to Windows. I’ve just changed all the update settings I can find to ask me or just leave me alone and let me get a little work done.
>Yes, paying one founder more than another can cause conflict. But it doesn't have to.

Well sure, I agree it doesn't have to. But as this thread has shown, it's a contentious issue demonstrated by:

(1) furious downvoting & upvoting of jacquesm parent comment,

(2) many comments in this thread from opposing sides debating it

(3) chapter from Zendesk founders' book discussing the uncomfortable tensions it caused

Therefore, saying "paying one founder more than another can cause conflict. But it doesn't have to." -- sounds somewhat naive. To be clear, I'm not saying _you_ are naive. It's that your sentence sounds like it brushes the human complexity under the rug. (We can also say "paying everyone equally also can cause conflict, but it doesn't have to." -- a kind of tautology that's true but doesn't really inform us.)

Also, it's important to stress the timeline of the startup:

It's one thing for the startup to not exist yet and the 3 founders are just sitting around a dining table and agree that 1 founder should get more salary because he has kids.

It's a very different situation when the startup is already up & running for a year and the 3 equally paid founders are living on cheap ramen to keep expenses low and make the struggling company survive. If at that point in the timeline, if one founder asks for more salary because his wife is pregnant, don't be surprised if the 2 other founders will react very negatively. It's human nature.

Recruiting a parent with existing kids to create a new startup is a different dynamic than increasing a partner's salary because they have a family after they've been working. The other founders may feel like they contributed the unspoken sacrifice of not having kids so subsidizing another person's family at a critical time can seem unfair.
I assume that if this was on the cards at all they would've done it earlier. Let's keep our fingers crossed though, it could make a big difference in the direction of technology (and thus the world) from here on out.
I live in Palo Alto making about $55k and live fairly comfortably; my actual living expenses are probably closer to $25k. It would be hard to have a family, but I get by just fine having roommates.
PLEASE use joda-js on Javascript: https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/

It's a port of the java8 date/time API, which is the most correct date-handling library there is.
Why is Lichess better than chess.com? I've used both and can't really say one is the "best".
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Actually I agree with you. That’s a good point. To clarify, the reason I like my approach is not because it’s comprehensive, but because it’s better than the traditional exposition for letting students build initial intuition. In my experience people dislike learning about complex numbers because the notation of z = a + bi feels arbitrary to them, and there’s not enough context in which to motivate them.

To your point, representing them as quotients of vectors is definitely better for overall understanding. But for a quick and dirty approach that still involves some theory for building intuition of why complex numbers exist and are useful, representing them as ordered pairs is better than what’s usually done, which is the introduction of complex numbers in computational courses instead of theoretical ones. Ordered pairs are extremely intuitive because they can be plotted on two axes, and topological reasoning in general is fairly intuitive in lower dimensions.

Were I not confined to a small comment I’d definitely go with your approach, though. I’m just optimizing for solving a student’s “what even is?” initial intimidation, not for really working with them comprehensively.
It can sync to any ES server. Linking to the import doc which expands on that - https://github.com/appbaseio/abc/blob/dev/docs/appbase/impor....
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lol, after a reread I concur.
If the documentation says it is a REST API, you could be justified in expecting all POST requests to be non-idempotent, and all other requests to be idempotent.

But it would still be reassuring to see this stated explicitly!
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"people use legacy for specific reasons" was for people like me. I have a note in our company wiki to disable UEFI because it broke our PXE deployments.

Now from this PDF I am forced to harness the power of Google to understand why.
> I’m assuming they’re adding a trigger to the source table.

Their video demo for SQL Server simply points the command line at a connection string, and it then says 2 item(s) indexed. There wasn't a way to pick specific tables.

That means if the trigger method is true, they're adding a trigger by default to every single table in the database. That would be a remarkably bad idea.
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Well, yes, lots of people has come across that fact. But the guys able to exploit it are market makers. They look for kinds of repeated patterns in the form of orders, stops, time of day... And they later trick on them until they stop working.
As you noticed, knowing you'll get someone to buy your thing at a relative price at some specific time and day can be very profitable.
Still, it's difficult to read something "worthwile" about this.
If I choose to not have kids to have a better carreer, why should I compensate for my co-founder?