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Ask HN: What does “language/market fit” mean exactly?
I've recently heard this term, with the explanation that it's "the story of what a company does and why it exists or needs to exist". Like product/market fit wrapped in a holistic narrative... or something like that.

Outside of a few articles dating back to 2015, I don't see a clear, agreed-upon definition for "language/market fit" which makes its utility seem rather dubious.

Is this term just a buzzword? Or is it something more?

Your thoughts would be appreciated.
> Polling was not great in the last election

Exit polls are different from opinion polls. The surveying techniques are entirely different, and in general exit polls are considered far more accurate than opinion polls -- because you're polling on a concrete question ("who did you vote for a few minutes ago") rather than a less concrete one ("who are you more likely to vote for").
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It's JSON storage so version control comes from the code rather than a schema or migrations. I'm happy with that.

Lock-in is a problem but it's true for any non-open service you integrate with. I've considered it and figured I'd rather have the features firebase offers than not. Plus I could actually swap to a CouchDB service like Cloudant really easily for my use case (sync'ing JSON structures between browser sessions).
Yup, not that.

I didn't need psychotherapy, and there was nothing it brought me closer too. I need help with organic depression.
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Since you appear to be an actual person working at amazon and there doesn't seem to be a way to report mass scams, I would appreciate if you could delete all items with the keywords "18650" and "9800" or "9900".

"18650" is a type of lithium battery and capacities above 4000 mah are technically impossible.

Usually the batteries with lower rated capacities are fake, too, but at least this would get rid of the most blatant scams.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Da...

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Da...

There are also many examples of fake power banks, but those have varying form factors, so you'd have to calculate the volume or check the weight to make sure it is technically impossible.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3...
Exit polls are very different from opinion polls, it doesn't make sense to conflate the two.
Blue line? Nope, it has a driver.
And what you don‘t mention is that that privacy extenson now also has more telemetry. Sad.
Those old Japanese sedans are good for far more than 280000 km if you keep up on maintenance yourself.

Yes, anecotes are not evidence, but this article is interesting. https://jalopnik.com/5885287/how-i-put-750000-miles-on-my-ho...

And besides, you can buy a car for 4k with a lot of miles. At that point it's like a dishrag. You use it to do your job until you need a new one. Blows up by the side of the road? Tell your customer that happened, buy AAA, and depending on how bad it is, you can fix it yourself after it gets towed home, or junk it and buy another.

Or am I missing something?
Immune-modulating medication maybe, but unless this is identified very early, they won't help. Once the beta cell destruction is complete, you are left without any. Even if the immune system stops attacking, at some point it no longer helps.
why do you need to provide photocopies to initiate DMCA takedowns? I thought one of the complaints about DMCA was that it was ridiculously easy to do to someone, but Amazon has made it difficult for you? I wonder if it would be easier for someone not selling through Amazon and thus not dependent on them.
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Nicely Put. I fully agree the power of SQL with Postgres is phenomenal. I would add that Postgres table returning functions are incredibly useful for getting around SQL annoyances such as verbosity and composability.
Because they automatically lateral join, they almost feel magical, enbling complex multiple combinations, without confusing deep nesting of sub queries or easier to follow but long winded and slower CTEs.
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I've used gun. It's really cool.
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Ibm global services, Accenture, computer associates, Oracle. See a company sign a big contact with them or their ilk, short that co. Their whole raison d'etre is to rip off old assholes in the c suite who can't find the on switch of the company or government money they're meant to be protecting.

Hiring these consulting firms should get you fired every single time. It's a wonderful indicator of total incompetence. Notice how they're all deep into Washington? Yeah. Makes me sick these companies exist.
You should watch The Expanse, a very good TV show.

Their ships accelerate at a comfortable level to generate gravity for half of the destination, and then "flip-and-burn" by accelerating in the opposite direction at the same comfortable level to generate gravity.
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Not quite sure how unbiased of a source the positive review is. Myriad is owned and fully controlled by Lime.

Anyway, I'm not quite sure what ESA will be able to do that Canonical couldn't. This whole app store idea for radio seems very farfetched.
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Its very different in different countries, even different states. Are you in the US, UK, Australia, or Canada? Very, very different circumstances than France, Germany, Austria, etc.

It is true that there are generalizations; but the statistics of abuse of pharmaceuticals cannot be denied, nor is it safe - at all - to ignore the commercialization of mental illness by multi-national pharmaceutical corporations. In Germany, pharmaceutical corporations use sales agents to directly promote and sell their wares to doctors: and this is perfectly legal. In the US, they use conferences and junkets. You cannot ignore these things, given that pharmaceuticals are demonstrably over-prescribed in the West. It is very naive to ignore the drugging of society by corporate interests.
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The problem with those are that they're more complicated (even when perfected) than current treatment. Immune modulation would require either suppressing the entire system (or very large chunks of it) which is done with some other diseases but generally has super high costs, as it leaves you quite vulnerable. Or you're targetting only the handful of cells responsible (my DM I knowledge is rusty but I'm guessing b-cells?) in which case you're on your way to solving a bunch of different diseases.

Stem cells has a similar issue, in that once you made new beta cells your immune system will just react to those.

Current treatment is quite alright. There's ground to be gained in earlier prediction and treatment, and a ton (this should excite people here on HN) in bettering the treatment method—create a proper feedback loop with insulin/glucose readers that automatically push out insulin when needed instead of a huge shot of it when you're guessing you'll need it.
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I am consistently surprised why this isn't a bigger deal giving the gravity of what is happening. I see news headlining all the time for very transient things but have yet to see an easily accessible version that I could hand my mother of why privacy is so important if anyone could show me one I would greatly appreciate it
Often, formalizing constraints as part of the table schema is not done because of the performance penalties of the checks required to enforce the constraints. I.e. every insert to the database would also have to check that the foreign key relation existed. Some databases have options to turn off the checking, but a lot of people have gotten in the habit of just not doing it. Furthermore, if you have data in multiple places (redis/cassandra/mysql/hive/etc) this just becomes impossible even if you wanted to.
Yes, "btrfs send" and "receive" exist for that purpose.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and so on. We don't know for sure there isn't life on Titan; we just haven't seen enough evidence yet.
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Thanks!

Firebase still has a ton of features we don't have, what would you say are the most important things for us to work on?
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What about pregnancy-related diabetes? Some textbooks have it as a 3rd independent type of diabetes.
Obviously it's irrelevant because men are never jerks to other men. /sarcasm
Huh? We want wildcards so that if you sign up example.com we can give you a certificate for example.com and *.example.com. This has nothing to do with SANs.
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That just means you got rejected..
Still, I can confirm from personal experience this is how the world works for many people.
Been in multiple companies that went bankrupt because the sales people showed this behavior.
We've had home-visit GPs in Australia for a few years now. There's multiple to choose from, and they're all covered by Medicare (so it's "free" to use).

It's super handy for us, having 2 people in our family with illnesses that require regular doctor visits (once or twice a month on average). If it's night time and we need the GP, we don't have to worry about waking up the baby, loading up the kids and nappy bags and everything we need into the car, etc.

We only go and visit our actual family GP if we need prescriptions renewed, or we want to talk to him about a bigger issue or general questions. Eg stuff that isn't urgent, so we don't waste the home-visit GP's time. Then again, the home-visit GPs have told us multiple times that they're happy to come out no matter how small the issue, and they prioritise/triage calls so you're never keeping a more urgent case waiting.
While I would generally agree with the idea, I think it's also important to see that people aren't always in the position to choose said open systems.

I presume most of the non-commercial projects posted on HN are started to scratch an itch of the autor, which might as well be that they're stuck with a closed system that sucks. Trying to improve that situation somewhat seems sensible to me.
It's interesting that on HN, some experience doesn't get rewarded, just because there's some rather opinionated language. The majority of voters are barely exposed to these kinds of overwhelming attacks, leaving practical analysis to be buried unless it's got some big company name drop to legitimize it.
This is the entire Internet we're talking about, of course there will be a few misconfigured servers. It's more surprising that there are only a thousand.
Coming from javascript, that doesn't sound all too bad!

> 13+null

13

> 13+undefined

NaN
haha touché! but i am but one man
I've just tried now some Rosetta code examples. Most of it had to be modified a bit to get compiled with this Nim version although. (adding types, change case of type names)

Used -d:release --opt:size, then strip, Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit. The binary sizes:

GTK2 example code: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/GUI_enabling/disabling_of_contro... - 35k

http client: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Ordered_words#Nim - 72k

http server: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Web_server#Nim - 121k

The binaries are dynamically linked only to the common standard C prog. dependencies on Linux: linux-vdso.so.1, libc.so.6, ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
(Except for the gtk2 example of course, which uses libdl to to pull in a large bunch of additional gtk dependencies too...)
Sure! I'm definitely interested! Thank you for doing that work. I was thinking about doing it myself, to be completely honest...
Please go on...
> Alcohol taxes are quite low in most states

The world is bigger than the USA!

Look at Norway, for example, which has high alcohol taxes and even runs a state monopoly for alcohol over a certain strength (ftom memory, ~4%
Really enjoy this post and the reactions of it. I also have been looking around on Amazon for small furniture and some other small products, but as a consumer, a great deal of research is needed to detect fakes or sub par products.

If you know what you want to buy, you are indeed best off buying directly from the product creators site and not get tempted by far cheaper alternatives amazon suggests... Birkenstock is a great example of this where it escalated https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/12/22/birkenstock-...
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I know it was a long comment but you could’ve at least tried reading a few more paragraphs. You would’ve come across this:

>The other thing is that we're offering to provide this service during our beta phase as a pay what you feel it's worth to you. You could choose to pay us nothing...we need to EARN whatever amount you choose to pay us. So we are 100% incentivized to be both ethical and effective during this process. Because if we're not, you're not going to recommend us to others and you're not going to pay us. And honestly, this business will be built and has been built almost exclusively on recommendations and word of mouth so that's a MAJOR incentive to us.
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Two common factors in a lot of these stories are "IBM GS" and "Oracle"...
Hi Brian, thanks a lot for kind words (and good to hear from you. It's been a while).
Some will allow dual citizenship, but place conditions that make it difficult to get more than one. E.g., German citizenship law allows dual citizenship if:

> If a child born to German parents acquires another citizenship at birth (e.g., based on place of birth [birth in jus-soli countries mostly of the Americas], or descent from one parent [one German parent and one foreign parent]).

In theory somebody could have two or three nationalities under that law (two parents and place of birth) but no more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551
"Getting a push alert any time there is an error helps us respond to issues as soon as they come up. "

Oh god no.

Maybe if this system is not expected to ever grow in complexity. Otherwise this will become a big source of frustration really soon. And even if it does not, it's very easy to get a flood of non-actionable alerts for a transient condition.

It would be better to collect error rates and alert on that. Also the other golden signals.
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You'd need to know the details. Perhaps the company had taken on debt during earlier rounds of funding, and was obliged to pay back the debt to those investors before there was any profit left for stockholders. So the company was bankrupt after paying back some or all of its debt.

Or perhaps the common stockholders are just getting screwed.

The suggestion to pursue legal advice is a good one.
I bet Uber is quaking at the thought of a $3.5 million fine.

They lose like 1000x that per year.
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I don't know where you live, but when I looked at for Colorado back in 2010, the state's Public Utility Commission regulations require cars to be 7 years old or less.
Ask HN: Is there a scope for mobile first applicant tracker?
Most of the offerings in the market today are purely web first and in most cases don't offer mobile user experience. Engaging candidate via email seems like too 90ish.

Can we not have a mobile first recruitment CRM aka applicant tracking solution that is mobile first ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16499376
I'm an expat. My politicians aren't local.

The two I've spoken to were also both knowledgeable and intelligent, so your rhetoric is glib but a little lacking in factual accuracy.
i dont think VC would be interested.
Just put $1 billion into a bank account for your lemonade stand and claim you started the newest Unicorn! ...
The "Learn more" link on https://gitcoin.co/about#jobs for the full stack developer position is broken.
In other words, the paper is currently less than worthless since it can easily mislead people. At this point, it is little more than an appeal to authority.
We really need to rethink the metasystems around these kinds of projects. A $1bn government payroll project is like the canonical "project that is guaranteed to suck" but realistically this extends pretty widely.

These custom software builds, built around specific corporations, with all the sales and account management and expectation planning and making sure that *when" this fails, it is the other party's fault....

We need to find better ways of doing this stuff.
Sorry that’s not something we’re currently able to offer.
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This just doesn't scale. Babylon Health here in London is using machine learning to do more of the triage in app. That's the only way to narrow the pipeline early with any form of scale.
And yet, despite massive immigration (from low income countries) for centuries, the US is one of the countries with highest salaries.
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The costs skyrocket if you’re not doing it right - otherwise it tends to be linear with request count. The nice thing, though, is that you don’t have to panic or do anything at any scale - it’ll just keep running along.

Once you hit high levels of traffic, instead of panicking and trying to add more servers and fixing DB structure, you do a cost benefit analysis and see what to do next. Either work on reducing your cost slope, or make it logarithmic by moving to regular servers.
Not really. I see things like leftpad and npm fails and CEOs mailing private keys they've stored from customers. I see the same lessons we have have to re-learn year after year.
Is there really any reason to believe that Btrfs has more risk of data loss than XFS or ZFS, at least on simple single or mirrored drives?

Honest question - my home box runs a Btrfs mirror on openSUSE.
I wholly disagree with your criticism of the middle. The original article points to the cause of failure which was dismissal of SMEs prior to deployment. Almost all projects of this size are doomed to complexity overload but that is surmountable, but loss of Product Owners and SMEs is not.
They are not worthless. They still protect the data from the user to the Cloudflare servers, and only Cloudflare keeps the private keys for them. Not sure how this would be made any safer by each domain having a separate certificate.

The main issue is that Cloudflare needs to have plain-text traffic to examine, which cannot be done with End-to-End encryption from the client to the origin server, in which case you would definitely need a separate certificate for each domain.
Yeah, sorry, I replied to the parent while thinking forward. I agree that in order for cryptos to succeed, merchants have to use them first. It is definitely not simple and we are far from it because it involves rendering the current system obsolete and a mental shift in how we think about money and governance. Eventually I expect governments to be affected, too.
May I ask which are you taking and for how long?

I had the best few weeks of my life when I started Parnate. Unfortunately the effect petered out, and upping the dosage wasn't an option.

The US is one of the few countries in the world where you can get adequate MAOI therapy, I think, which is unfortunate for the rest of the world.
The only thing I can get where I am now is Selegiline, and even that made the doctor uncomfortable.
Same as pricing at non scale. It’s per 100ms of execution time. Could do a large scale discount if you’re scaley enough.
So she was in position to make an introduction. She wasn't even on IBM's board, not like it was nepotism or something. Yes, having connections helps. There's many ways to get them (and if you're a startup taking VC, your investors likely can make those kinds of introductions). You still have to make a good impression once you're introduced.
Ironic that a post, I assume, promoting the tech of yore, is posted on a blog that I can only read when I enable all sorts of JavaScript. I don't meant that some parts don't work, I mean that the whole page is empty until I enable JS. No thanks.
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1. Rootkit issues cert and sends to hacker

I find this plan to be much much easier.