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I find it hilarious that people offer up "Shelve the idea" as the most obvious response when AWS (or Microsoft or Google or Oracle or Twitter or Facebook or Yahoo or $OTHER_BIG_CO) launch something like their project. Why would you do that? Do you expect AWS to achieve 100% market dominance and leave literally 0 customers who might prefer your thing? Can you not see any way to segment the market and identify a segment where you can make your product a better fit? Or how about not trying to compete on product attributes at all, but rather compete on another basis like customer intimacy or service, etc? Or even compete simply by having a better sales process?

I'd say take a little time out, read The Discipline of Market Leaders, Mastering The Complex Sale, and Differentiate or Die and think about ways you can compete with them. IF your analyzes leaves you with the conclusion that the best thing to do is to drop your idea, then fine. But don't just randomly decide to drop it because AWS is going to be competing with you.

Also, just a random thought that I recently had, given that I'm in the exact same boat (trying to compete with stuff AWS is doing).. read up on the old "Embrace and Extend" idea. I think there may be a kernel of something there, in terms of using that to compete against larger players. It's a half-formed / half-baked thought right now, but it might be worth chewing on a bit.

If you're interested in continuing this discussion outside of HN, feel free to drop me an email. prhodes@fogbeam.com
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I agree, the website and the dashboard differ significantly in design quality. At times, the dashboard is also a little buggy (e.g. views don't update sometimes even if you've just updated an item).
The doctor chooses. In Canada, doctors can accept whoever they want and they'll only accept patients with good 'fit'. Everybody else is stuck going to a walk in clinic or the ER. How does it work in US? Do Doctors charge different rates for a checkup? I thought it was fairly opaque between the doctor and the insurance company?
Well, facebook has done tremendous good to saree/garment makers from India by removing the middlemen. For eg: some of the best handwoven saris/garments such as Kanchipuram sarees can be directly ordered by visiting their facebook pages. Such a boon to the handloom industry there.
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How long before we see crypto doggies, crypto magic swords and crypto spaceships?
That's drastically more expensive than hijacking 3 miners in 1 country. But doable, right now by state power like US. But still better than pow.
No. You beat them where they can't beat you (the PG way): you do stuff that's not scalable. Off the top of my head:

- Amazing customer support
- Price undercutting (at a loss) for your first N customers
- Free "softs" like monitoring, load-balancing, etc.
- Make it a managed service for your first N customers
- Urgently implement features requested by your first N customers
The software engineer who says your idea already exists
I always hear reInvent is terrible because the crowds and things inevitably go wrong at that scale.
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> We have a much bigger population than the US

1.5x bigger
ACA without the individual mandate means that the insurers can't make the exchanges work causing their collapse. One benefit for the insured of millions fewer insured is that it will aliviate the shortage of doctors and nurses, probably to near pre-ACA levels.
Point me there, I will research them. How do they solve energy distribution? It's not that china has the asics - it's that they have the electricity which dominates any PoW by design. So it's unfair for any PoW change even if you assume the security remains as high as on old alg.
Thanks again KC ! Inspiring stuff. Bookmarked your blog for future reading.
That's exactly what I was referring to. That page, while perfectly respectable, doesn't use fancy fonts, drop down menus, etc. which the original article highlighted.

My point is that Stripe's success was primarily driven by the excellent quality of their api and documentation, and not by fancy website design.

That success allowed them to subsequently devote the resources needed to produce the current incarnation of their website.
GopherCon in the USA is always great if you have any interest in Go.
that's not a precedent unless there was a court ruling based on it.
> "well, daddy, one other boy just had one and he got the ice cream, so I wanted to see if that would work"

Pretty advanced for a 2 year old.

With 2 year olds in general, and any discipline advice: YMMV for everyone because they are very unpredictable at that age.

Any "I did this with my 2 yr old" and "I got this result" causality should be taken with a pinch of salt.
This reminds me of the Oasis from the Ready Player One book, where digital currency used in a game gains value enough to replace the USD and other currencies as the standard.
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If you love code and have a sense of adventure, then this job is for you.

We work at a sustainable pace. Everyone is encouraged to work max 40 hours/week. We're remote-friendly and very async.

Your RESPONSIBILITIES will include building the product through iterative development, collaborating with other engineers, shipping early and often, improving our technology stack, planning upcoming features, smashing bugs and writing tests.

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Off-topic: a somewhat unknown fact about Stripe is that it started as /dev/payments.

Its former CTO explained how /dev/payments became Stripe: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name
Zeroing out a 4tb drive takes some time. Sometimes you might be in a hurry ;)
It’s a good story anyway. On the upside, the tiny sliver of my $20 investment that I printed out is worth low 4 figures. The downside is that I probably could have paid off my mortgage with the rest.
> Even so, don't complain that you can't live off of 100K.

I agree!
Yes, something went seriously wrong. When it became clear we had no idea how much longer it would take (because the app wasn't in a fully testable state so our bug counts were meaningless), we got asked to spend half a day re-estimating task and bug times. Which was time not spent fixing bugs or making the product testable, or even making the schedule predictable, because fixing blocker bugs for testing was the only way to do it.

At the end they required twice a day reporting meetings, the standup to say what you were doing, and an end of day status meeting to say what you did so it could be communicated to the exacs. Two more meetings where zero development gets done.

I am not really disagreeing with you. It's reasonable to do basic estimation in most projects. Usually marketing/management need to know when something can ship in order to plan the launch plan. So you figure out how long you need to be really confident the essentials will be finished, and use the nice-to-haves as padding that can be deferred if necessary to make the date.

But if you don't have to hit a specific date, say the product is already shipping and just needs regular constant improvement, just do it in fixed schedule sprints. Focus on the highest priorities every sprint, get as many done as possible during it, ship the new release, rinse and repeat. A well run sprint can be great because eschewing time estimates means more time spent actually building the product.
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>If health care was free, a problem arises. Everyone will think they're entitled to the best doctor. Who gets the best doctor?

Oversimplifying here, but how about setting a base line for free health care. And then if someone wants to get the 'best' doctor they can pay extra?
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I think the show has excellent character building which makes you invested in the show.

Giving them backstories, intertwining their relationships. There's no waste is this this show.

Dann who appears as a background character and brought in for one off jokes, I'm expecting them to elevate round out his character.

The reviewer validates same thoughts I have. Seth McFarlene weakens his own show being captain. The bet jokes are the ones not thrown in your face.

Sometimes the setup of the show feels forced, and they are playing star trek.

I'll take what I can get.
Ask HN: My Macbook has stopped functioning: Month 13 is out of bounds
So many of my apps have stopped functioning. I can't install any new software. Any advice? I'm completely dead in the water.

I dont see a fix :-(

https://imgur.com/a/BoabY

Edit: an article here: https://robservatory.com/month-13-is-out-of-bounds/

and a post here: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/88417

with a fix of setting your clock before Dec, which doesn't seem to work for me.
Awesome advice. Not sure about OP, but I think I'll be picking up some of those books ;)
Exactly. Add that to the long list of reasons for working hard to earn more money. It's not just about the bigger house and the faster car -- it's also to get treated by the best doctor.

The alternative mechanism amounts to "the best doctor goes to the person who has the most connections and somehow subjugated the most people." That's why elected officials in Congress get to the front of the line.
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>Without that trade barrier, pharmaceutical companies would charge roughly equivalent prices in the US and other countries.

You do know that many nations impose price controls on pharmaceutical products inside their own borders, right?
Used boats on Craigslist for sale
Let's check how sale used boats on craigslist and how to check boats for sale by owner. If you are in a business of selling boats, you have to keep in touch with the market all time. You are selling them by contact with dealers or brokers or directly to the public.
The "non-existence" of fonts which are possible in the classification system reminds me of a similar idea in domestic cats - a graph which compiled how markings are derived from genetic factors [1], and which then speculated on new kinds of cats which by all rights should exist.

It's interesting to consider that we can, through cultural progress, explore some space of ideas and then look back with a new kind of categorisation to see what we've missed. It's a strange put-down of the idea that innovation really means trying everything.

[1] https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&r...
Already read the first article. Didn't read the bloomberg article about the buyout provision, so my fault. Retracting the Verizon complaint.
The hassle of changing the connector is not worth the benefit of consolidating the protocols.
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Unfortunately, the title already was maxing out the character limit when I submitted.
> The big danger for future video essayists is that large websites have started moving away from the written word and towards video, which is completely unsustainable. Video is just too expensive and time-consuming to make.
(TAYLOR) Unfortunately, no matter how hard you try, nobody can cheat this triangle. And sooner or later, all of these large sites will bleed money, at which point some executive will say “We need to make our content both faster AND cheaper!”

I feel the field of video editing and clipping needs a solid dose of machine learning and other software magic. In the future, creators like Tony and Taylor will collect clips and start talking. And the software will edit, transition and even reorder clips to match what's being spoken and what's consistent with the style of the channel. Suddenly that 8 hours of editing per minute of video will go down to 8 minutes. So get on it Adobe: make editing great again!

PS: I fucking hate medium. How does shit like this even happen? https://imgur.com/UVdXKxk
Distribution deals won't give you the DVD (which is all Redbox really wants) for as cheap as $RETAIL less $DOWNLOAD, which is what RB is effectively paying
The key of mental health is on sports. by a software developer
I would like to start a conversation here about mental health, sports and what we can do as Software Developers to help
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Hey, they're the ones that designed the smart contracts. I think the fact that you can design a marketplace that allows someone to take a cut assures the success of smart contracts since people now have an economic incentive to design marketplaces.
Do you have example FB pages?
I'm from Rajasthan. It's strange watching blankets I'd reject for being "not good enough" being sold for 10-50x their rates outside the state
If you think putting sufficient distance between you and the car in front is vague, you are a poorly educated driver and most likely a dangerous one.

If you can't see 200 yards ahead, you should not be travelling at a speed which precludes you from stopping within 200 yards.

On a single lane uncongested road, there's no excuse for putting a reasonable (at least 3 second) gap between you and the vehicle in front.
No disrespect but the half grand price tag makes your creation very far from being a spiritual successor to the AlphaSmart.
Interesting, I'm not sure if it counts against one's ability to work, but it seems like it might, since it's a similar activity. And you're right that other activities can also yield helpful skills.

I agree that competency testing, especially project based, is better. The only reason I'd ask about their off time is to get a sense of what they like and better getting to know what kinds of projects they might gravitate to, given the choice.
It requires a change in thinking. I used to literally sort by 'Price: Low to High'. It took being burned a number of times for me to start thinking that maybe this approach isn't working.

Since then, I've been buying more expensive products and have been much happier with the quality
"One day when I was a junior medical student, a very important Boston surgeon visited the school and delivered a great treatise on a large number of patients who had undergone successful operations for vascular reconstruction. At the end of the lecture, a young student at the back of the room timidly asked, “Do you have any controls?” Well, the great surgeon drew himself up to his full height, hit the desk, and said, “Do you mean did I not operate on half of the patients?” The hall grew very quiet then. The voice at the back of the room very hesitantly replied, “Yes, that’s what I had in mind.” Then the visitor’s fist really came down as he thundered, “Of course not. That would have doomed half of them to their death.” God, it was quiet then, and one could scarcely hear the small voice ask, “Which half?”

—Dr. E. E. Peacock, Jr., University of Arizona College of Medicine;
I have a different hypothesis: easy money.

There's plenty of people out there with stockpiles of ethereum that they mined early on, or bought during the pre-sale in 2014. For them, it's just virtual tokens. It's not like they're using any hard-earned cash from the real world to buy virtual kitties.
> A sustainable interesting career doesn’t need a break.

That's absurd.
1. Indian exporters are not tech savvy

2. International shipping fees are exorbitant
Or stocks, gold, commodities, etc.
Well if you can't trust a Director of Blockchain, who can you trust?
This seems to be one of the more negative opinions. Its in the top 4 or 5 Star Trek series IMO. Individually, in my book, some of the episodes rank with the best Science Fiction. Everyone will have their own opinion but here is what I think the best episodes have been so far.

ep 4 - "If the Stars Should Appear"

ep 5 - "Pria"

ep 10 - "Firestorm"

ep 11 - "New Dimensions"
> entitled to the best doctor

The problem is "the best doctor" is essentially a lie. Modern medicine is mostly a huge fraud. Non of this hi tech crap even works when measured on the basis of lifespan.

Disease is overwhelmingly rooted in nutrition and lifestyle. This idea that doctors and their treatments matter is a big lie.

The USA blows a fifth of GDP on health care and it is obviously completely useless. Americans in practice live no longer than Mexicans or Cubans, who spend a tiny sum in comparison.

The most immediate political problem we face is starving the American medical racket out of existence. These crooks are bankrupting the country. The hospitals and doctors and "researchers" and pharma companies must be cut down to size. Starve them of a cent of federal revenue. Or prosecute them for their pervasive anti-trust violations. I don't care. Crushing the medical complex by any means available is literally the most important problem facing America. These crooks are literally stealing over a thousand dollars from every American household every month. It's unbelievable.
>This is not a flaw but it is rather by design.

Are you sure it isn't both? Designs can be flawed.
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You sound very judgmental.

Bring up kids is hard, what those “mothers” are doing is hard, physically exhausting work which often takes 18 hours a day. You know nothing of their personal circumstances but decide to judge them anyway. For me, it’s amazing that many full time care givers can hold it together as well as they do.
I was annoyed by all of Malloy's current references until I saw a fan theory he is a time traveller from the 21st century. Now I'm desperate for it to be true.
You might be better off using EC2 or similar. Do the work to configure everything once and package it as an AMI, then when you need your swarm, spin up as many instance as you need, render whatever needs rendered, and then turn off the instances. Should be reasonably cheap, and it'll let you decide on the speed vs cost tradeoff (i.e. more servers cost more, but will get your work done faster; fewer servers cost less, but will take longer). I don't think a rack full of hardware is a very good choice for this.
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> right of the back

I looked it up just to make sure I wasn't insane, it's "right off the bat" and it's a baseball idiom.
Store how? I was from a country that the money inflated 25% over a year, and the government made it extremely hard to send the money abroad.

In the US, it's not possible to open a bank account without a SSN. How do you get an SSN if you don't work in the US?
So I take it that this show gets better?

I watched the first episode and it came across as trying WAY too hard. Very patchy and uneven tone, and the best jokes weren’t the direct lines but the asides or concept jokes (like the super nice Orc, vs the Dog Humping)

Worth me watching a few more?
I lived very well on $100k in the DC area. It's all about budgeting.
Yeah, I really appreciated it as well.
> Substantial? I doubt it.

It must be, otherwise why would Apple even have a retail channel in France? I think the number would be closer to 50%. Keep in mind that iphones are purchased at all sorts of retailers apart from istores.
The CSS engine does not have a very modular boundary, because abstractions would kill the performance. It would not be very easy to use it in another browser.

However, lots of pieces of the CSS engine are modular and published as their own crates, like rust-cssparser, rust-selectors, etc.

Other Servo projects are more modular; WebRender in particular just has an IPC boundary with specific messages.

Servo layout would probably be more like CSS than WebRender in terms of modularity. So it's not perfect, but we're trying very hard!
Sigh. It's a bad sign because I never wanted to invest in bitcoin, even if it would mean enormous profit (not a fan of speculative profit). But, I just bought some. So what if other people equally skeptical and disinterested in profit should suddenly decide to buy in? Then all of us will unfortunately reap the profit of our own folly. :(

There's some solace knowing that I could just leave the BTC sitting in my "wallet" indefinitely, forever refusing to convert it into any other currency and refusing to spend it. Could serve well as a personal test to know how much I'm authentically morally opposed to speculative profit.
> Chavez / Maduro apologist

There is no "apologism" in the link you posted, which is actually pretty balanced. If anything, it shows how Corbyn's position on Venezuela has evolved. He does not support or apologise for Maduro.

> The former British Labour Party Mayor of London Ken Livingston

Actually Ken Livingstone won the mayoralty as independent; the Labour candidate was Frank Dobson, Livingstone had previously been expelled from the Labour Party. The Party only endorsed him for his second mandate, revoking his expulsion by popular demand. He is currently suspended from the party again, thanks to one of those silly media storms only political hacks care about.
Same here (2.5 kids raised).

The other important part - remeber to losen the boundaries as they continue growing up, so when they are 18-ish there is no difference between boundaries on and off.
I just read an article related to that the other day, it's a good read:

https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-...
They probably meant that its not an accidental flaw, and if its a flaw its aware of the shortcomings. In other words its a measured deciscion, not a rough edge which will be ironed out.

Unrelated, I really dislike comments like yours. Something about it seems very hostile to me.
Make it a standalone Emacs device with no keypress latency (the Alphasmart takes ages to display a new typed character on the screen) and you have a cult electronic gadget that will live for generations.
My impression of Stripe has always been colored by their design. Anytime I see Stripe on HN, I know the page I'll land on will be stunning to look at.

I'm not even a Stripe customer but I already have a favorable view of the company because of its design
GP is just meaning it's deliberately that way, not an oversight or other "flaw"
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My one complaint is the lack of plug sensing: if you unplug a cable modem and plug it back in, that typically does things like triggering a DHCP request, which doesn't happen when the cable modem is plugged into a switch port on a vlan.
Wait, so slow HDMI switch times are caused by DRM?
Eh. It's better at aping Star Trek than Discovery, but it's not Star Trek (and aping isn't what Discovery set out to do).

Personally I'm glad both exist. The Orville feels like a retro trip to an older time, and Discovery feels like a new take. Both worthwhile.

(though my personal theory is that Seth McFarlane wouldn't have made it a comedy if he has a choice, but it's the only way Fox would let him do the show)
On the flip side people regularly spend tends of thousands of dollars on mobile games. Terrible ones at that. People spend lots of money on stupid stuff.