skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We tested Draftss (http://draftss.com) back in April 2018, and here we are today where we have successfully achieved $8,000 MRR by serving 100+ customers with 0 refunds till date. Draftss provides Graphic design & Landing Page UI/UX with code on a monthly subscription.

Initially, we built a minimal landing page with a decent portfolio (We had been running a design shop for more than 10 years and we had a good portfolio to show). We pushed the prototype website live within a week. To validate the idea we first published a Show IH post on IndieHackers and hurray! We received our first 4 customers. We had added the Experiment Plan at $29/per task thinking that our customer would want to try our services first and then opt for other superior plans although we didn’t saw any such behavior from our first few customers.

By then we were pretty sure that our productized service was filling a market gap. We tried reaching out to customers for feedback on our services who had previously tried design platforms like 99designs, Upwork, Fiverr, and were unhappy with the designer services. Each platform had their own issues. This was an important point where we considered adding many services and carved a path for future updates. We improvised our landing page, edited out our FAQ’s, added more designs to our portfolio, optimized images for faster load time, and many other UI changes to make the landing page more beautiful and crisp.
We re-launched our services on several listing websites and blogs. The traffic picked up and we were consistently getting users who were interested in our services.

While the visitors to our landing page were flowing in, we were eventually hunted on ProductHunt. Within a few minutes, we were bombarded with visitors on our website. We were sitting handling live chat for more than 18 hours straight, trying to initiate a conversation with as many visitors as possible. We believe live chat with visitors on the website is the most effective medium for getting quick and actionable feedback on your product. For a span of 3 days, We got around 1500+ visits out of which we were able to convert 11 paying customers.

We received tons of feedback from our visitors and customers. Using this feedback we keep on improving our services. Within the course of 10 months, we tried connecting with many communities to find a product-market fit. We helped these communities with our experience and made some good connections. We eventually created a product where we started providing FREE landing page UI/UX feedbacks to founders (http://draftss.com/getfeedback). We have helped hundreds of founders in improvising their landing pages and are now inclined to create more open source projects that shall help the community.
> At the previous firm, we had a market making desk that was very profitable

Are you saying, it was guaranteed to make money? I.E. the algorithm never failed, or never made losing trades? That seems insane, to always be able to make money even if it's fractions of a percent.
That's some Reynolds Pamphlet biz right there.
Is BouncyCastle affected?
An appendix.

A lot of good stuff has begun to happen in this regard. At least KiCad has a large and pretty decent quality collection of footprints; I think other tools are making similar efforts.

However, I wish they would make it easy to adjust these footprints or make derivatives of them, without having to essentially redraw them.

For a looong time I’ve wanted to apply geometric constraint solving to drawing footprints. This would allow for having a base footprint which defines the constraints and then parameter files could introduce the specific dimensions needed. I’ve been working on it at https://github.com/henrikh/footwork-ecad and the parts are there, but I’d love to collaborate on it with someone :-)
Simple (https://www.simple.com/) might be the closest to this in the US.

It doesn't have no fee foreign exchanges, no rounding up, but does basically everything else there.
Things you can do with that 10us advantage like frontrunning are parasitical, but why is a speed advantage itself a bad thing?

Surely waiting a day to act on the information isn't helpful. How about a minute? A few hundred ms, about the speed of a conscious awareness? Getting down to 10us seems like the logical conclusion of all this.

I think the more nuanced view was talked 3/4 of the way down: with algo trading, prices are based on the models not the fundamentals. And then you add in models of what the other guys are doing. And pretty soon you don't care where the price should be, you just care about computing in 10us where everyone else thinks it's going to be in 15us.

> Another fallacy in the lead-up to the financial crisis was the assumption that financial markets were so efficient that participants didn’t need to do the underlying work to figure out what the securities were actually worth. Because you could rely on the market to efficiently incorporate all available information about the bond. All you need to think about is the price that someone else is willing to buy it from you at or sell it to you at.... if they assume that the price of an instrument already reflects all of the information and analysis that you could possibly do—then they are vulnerable to that assumption being false.

That's now flash-crash territory.
I inherited a Symfony2 app and it was a bitch to deploy. It definitely had an asset pipeline.

php app/console cache:clear --env=prod --no-debug
php app/console assetic:dump
php app/console cache:warmup --env=prod --no-debug
chown -R apache:apache . # fix owner
chmod -R u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx app/cache # fix cache perms
apachectl restart # bounce Apache, otherwise it can throw segfaults
There was a time when hack was new and it was so much faster than php. PHP really got their act together (nothing like a little competetive pressure) and made the 7 series that ran at almost the same speed as hack. People are inertial and won't change unless they have too or something is significantly better.
80% might be a bit ambitious, but it's probably not that far off. How much money do you think is in the web industry relative to the more grounded industries you've worked in?
There is a culture of not giving a shit about projects that have already shipped. Nobody makes level 6+ fixing bugs.
> Each PHP file is an endpoint. As opposed to having routers in code or client side SPA routing.

> Intuitive, simple, powerful. Can be as easy as editing a php file in notepad and dropping it on a ftp server. Deployed.

This isn't really php specific, with cgi you can do that in any language, even compiled ones like c.

> Amazon lambda may have more in common with PHP in terms of discreet deployable units of functionality. What's old is new again.

Agreed. I must admit I'm guilty of this myself, there is a tendency to start with a framework when there are much simpler and quicker ways to get started, something the world seems to have largely forgotten.
> this is the correct way to handle such things.

Yes, with conditions.

Bezos himself writes, in the article we're discussing:

I asked him to prioritise protecting my time since I have other things I prefer to work on and to proceed with whatever budget he needed to pursue the facts in this matter. - emphasis mine.

And that:

On that point, numerous people have contacted our investigation team about their similar experiences with AMI, and how they needed to capitulate because, for example, their livelihoods were at stake.

Thus making it plain, simple, and obvious, that he recognises that having a net worth up around the US$137 billion[1] mark has it's perks.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

Edit: inconsequential grammar improvement
> Registration is denied.

I tried two different emails... looking forward to using your service!
> (Also, why is Jeff Bezos using Medium? He owns a newspaper.)

Failure to immediately understand why this is bad idea boggles my mind. Maybe this is how we ended up with Trump in the first place.
But everything sounds better with no dynamic range and the volume turned up to 11.

I also seek the original masters to avoid this, and often prefer the vinyl release as they seem to have mostly escaped this game. The technical limits of vinyl are a big help here.
The website is straight forward and no gimmicks. You need to do small budget ads around your area just to see how people react to this. You will get some feedback and you can tweak and change the things accordingly. I don't which mode of channel the people of Malawi are mostly on, like Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest, you need to figure it out.

Create stories around your product, just like how you posted in here because people believe stories and they hate direct selling. Don't ever talk about direct selling but always create content around it.

I just did a small analysis, looks like Malawi people mostly like Facebook and Pinterest (http://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats/all/malawi) and I suggest you to be on Pinterest too, I believe that visual content can do good for your website.
I also suggest you go to small marketplaces and ask people their suggestions about your product.

This product is for general public so go out there on the ground and get feedbacks. Also, take videos of people who give you good reviews, you might post them on your channel or website.

Hope this helps:)
Jeff Bezos on Peter Thiel: 'Seek revenge and you should dig two graves' (2016)
> Jeff earned half; precisely half, which would otherwise be zero without his wife's 20+ years of support.

No, Jeff's wife was not in the room making the business decisions that were needed to be made to amass their fortune.

Let's say she watched the kids and maintained the house with no help. That's a mighty contribution, but there are other stay at home spouses that do that too who would be entitled to far less in a separation solely because of the money their partner has made.

So why does she get billions and the average stay at home divorcee gets thousands? Was her contribution to the family a million times more valuable than the average stay at home spouse?

No, Jeff made the money and she's entitled to half. They both knew that going in and know that now. She didn't earn billions through parenting that was so much better than anyone else or create that much more value than the average spouse, but she is entitled to half by law.

To put it another way, if they had signed a prenup and he had paid her $1000/hr 24/7 for 30 years, she would have earned $262 million. Or about 250 times less than the ~$65 billion she could get.

Instead, she walks away with having made about $290k per hour every hour every day for the 25 years they were married. That's a lot of support.
You could ask them what made them decide to invest and where they see the company going. This should mostly be a fluff call but the answers might be interesting.
The obvious connection is to climate change and polar ice melt.
This particular desk wasn't perfect - it had its ups and downs (there were definitely days where money was lost). Overall though it was profitable.
Guess where Mr. Pecker is hosting!
https://twitter.com/ryanhuber/status/1093665718464327680
"Amazon billionaire says PayPal co-founder should ‘grow a thick skin’ rather than take reporters to court, and suggests dirtiest industries be banished to space"
Chinese blockbuster the Wandering Earth might be the best sci-fi movie of 2019
Says Stone.

Honestly, I find that this stuff is as romanticized as the Old South.
Is there somewhere reliable I can go to do this kind of research before I buy speakers and/or headphones in the future?
Black-Box Container Security Auditing
Kubernetes in the Wild
This may someday be adapted into "A Very American Scandal".
> If someone can come up with a distribution mechanism which solves the problem of helping the user discover All The Content minus the spammers, scammers and fake news, they will be able to deliver more relevant information than search or social media can today. Google being large actually gives them an in-built disadvantage here because no matter what algorithm they develop, it's going to be everyone's first priority to reverse engineer and game.

I wish there was a way to detect people attempting to game the algorithm, and just ban them indiscriminately. That's the only way. It probably requires AGI, though.

Just like the old saw, "you're not stuck in traffic, you're the traffic", if you're doing SEO beyond making your page lightweight and useful to people, you are a part of the problem.

It won't solve fake news issue; people could still make nice and fast sites full of lies. But at least low-effort "content marketing" spam would hopefully disappear, not to mention comment spam and all the other content that exists solely to push useless sites higher in SERPs.
Ask HN: How do I develop terse yet elegant written communication skill
I am amazed at some of the design docs by my co-workers here at Google. The docs have phenomenal word economy AND read beautifully. It is literally a joy to read such docs as one sentence leads me to a question which is answered soon in the next paragraphs. The sentences use the minimum yet precise words to deliver phenomenal information density. What are ways people develop this skill?

FYI English is my second language but I did grow up learning both. I'd say my formal English is on par (if not better) than the native speakers.
From the article:

> You’ve already got robo-advisors, which use algorithms to manage assets for retail investors. We’re also probably only a few years away from you being able to log into a brokerage account and run a sophisticated institutional-grade algorithm yourself.

> People tend to assume that the diffusion of these technologies is a good thing. I’m more ambivalent. I think it could be a big mistake to have the population at large play around with algorithms. Some people who are very good at it might benefit from having access to this broadened toolset. But most people will just end up paying too much or make bad decisions because they’re being given access to a technology that they aren’t equipped to do anything useful with. They can lose money with it, however.

Hobby away, friend, but when you start betting money you can't afford to lose, probably worth just turning that hobby into a resume sent to those folks running hadoop with the shortest fiber lines into the exchanges.
As a user, I am always glad for Apple protecting me from asshole developers.

There is still a lot to be done, but it would be much worse. Some bigger culprits, due to being bigger, still get away with their bullshit.

For example, Google apps uses/used an embedded web view for sign-in, which also signs you into their web search in Safari.

They share the sign-in in a way that even newly-installed apps can use; e.g. sign into YouTube, install Google Maps, and you will find yourself already signed into Google Maps when you open the app (in my case, for the first time on this device just now.)

This may be convenient, but feels creepy and intrusive as hell.

Facebook, Instagram etc. also continue to be major offenders for things like iPad UX guidelines.
What's the podcast pivot?
Smart Contract (in)Security
Hmm... I don't see anything in the docs implying that - Kinesis API docs say it's possible to ingest 1000 records or 1MB per shard per second. There's a 5/s limit on reads however but those deal with batches of records anyway.

We have one service running that consumes data to a Kinesis stream published as an API GW endpoint. Preprocessing is done in Lambda in batches of 100 records and the processed records get pushed to Firehose streams for batched loads to a Redshift cluster for analytics. So far we've been very happy with the solution - very little custom code, almost no ops required and it performs and scales well.
Headline is pretty misleading, the article is about a couple of books that say it is important to have liberal arts in Silicon Valley. If Silicon Valley actually wants liberal arts majors, they will pay them accordingly. Obviously that isn't the case right now.
iOS zero day exploit discovered by Project Zero team
“Heroku is not required to, and does not, collect your state’s sales or use tax. Purchases are not tax-exempt merely because a seller is not required to collect the tax. Your state’s law requires a purchaser to review untaxed purchases and, if any tax is owed, file a use tax return and pay any tax due.”

This is taken from a Heroku receipt. It seems to suggest taxes may be required but that the burden is on the consumer. If I’m understanding this correctly and Heroku can just avoid the mess of collecting taxes by adding a sentence to their receipts, why wouldn’t every company selling services online do this?
Node.js and hapi conference in Boston, USA
Which actually shows that European antitrust has some power. Facebook seems to be very aware that they can't get away (or at least pay more) with the same things in the EU as outside of it.

Obviously frustrating for non-EU citizens but the only thing helping here will be more GDPR-like laws across the globe. If enough nations enact regulation like this, it'll be cheaper for a company to follow it globally.
Mark Twain seemed to have the same troubles with German: "The Awful German Language" (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html)
You seem to not understand what this issue is about. It’s tech crunch’s fault. They did a terrible job of reporting on this issue.
That advice will probably get him fired. This will look like a fringe political issue to everyone else.
This is literally the best thing he could have done. Would love to hear more about other people who have been black-mailed too - perhaps there is something much larger afoot. Hell, if they are this bold about taking on Bezos, potentially the other black-mail-ees are some very influential big hitters (billionaires, politicians, etc).

As others have pointed out, the big story is that he's directly accusing them of political motivation (US and/or Saudi), with them threatening him almost confirming that this is correct. For them to show their hand so badly hints strongly towards some guilt. Digging further seems like the last thing they want, so I think it's what should be done.

Would just like to add - regardless of how embarrassing the photos may or may not be, any "news" agency that publishes them goes straight to the top of my shit list and hopefully everybody elses too. Would be good if there was some organized way to show solidarity against black mail of this kind.
Reading the comments bellow its really funny to hear all this bull about caps being there to protect the providers and their lack of capacity.

I have 300 mbit link for 50 USD and no caps.
I have full lte and 2TB downlink cap for 25 USD.

But we do have strong competition and it seems it was never about capacity. Its about who offers more. Its obvious that they can afford this since nobody is loosing money, and all of this on a very small and marginal market where isps purchsing power is small.

You are being bullshited to, dear Americans.
Design by Contract: Part One – LeadingAgile Field Notes
>"hacked" by either the US or Saudi government

You think the U.S./Saudi government can remotely grab pics from an iPhone?

Apple has disclosed lots of security info saying even they cannot do this. The iPhone/iOS wasn't built in that way.

I think the leak likely comes from someone close to Ms. Sanchez, or she fell victim to a phishing attack (or account recovery hack).
Beebug – A tool for checking exploitability
There is this company that had a grid power issue, batteries kicked in batteries running low, diesel generator show time, diesel generator doesn’t kick in.
people scramble to shutdown before the batteries run out.
So ITIL stuff happens and time to test it, guess what? diesel again doesn’t kick in (don’t recall the consequences thou)
A $10 gaming service would be great. Rewarding developers based on percentage of time in each game might be nice, or it might mean that (again) Fortnite gets all the money. Not sure what would happen. It may make more sense to reward developers for as long as games remain installed on the device.

I’m honestly astounded at how poorly Apple polices in-app purchases. You really don’t have to spend more than about 30 seconds to find games with hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of in-app purchases that are extremely obvious scams. There is simply no possible way one game could ever be worth as much money as these purchases could get. I am saddened to imagine people actually buying most of these “gem bag” things, probably multiple times, at ridiculous prices that approach a month’s rent.

And you keep hearing about all the new evil tricks that these scam artists learn. Ways to trick people into subscriptions. Apps that mysteriously start out free or really cheap and “evolve” into scams with purchases later, where functionality is “updated” to be hamstrung without the purchase. And on and on.

I am one of those developers that refuses to add in-app purchases because I think they’re basically garbage that make games unplayable. And guess what: my reward for having the audacity to set an up-front price is that I am absolutely certain I am selling way, way, way fewer units than even a single scam game does, and I make way, way less money. And to be honest, it is not economically feasible at all; I only put it out there because I want to. It could never be my full-time job, or even a part-time job.

Making a game “just to be fun”, as you say, can only be done by developers that have absolutely zero interest in making money on today’s App Stores.
Heh, well he's also a brilliant technologist. He just has other priorities now.
That low hanging fruit is not gone on the Linux kernel, for more info check Linux Kernel Summit 2018 and Linux New Zealand Conference 2019.
Increase the capacity of existing transmission and sub-transmission lines
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Jesus. Imagine being enough of a genius to actually write timing-safe code.
Quadrical AI (Gurgaon) is hiring Python developers in platform engineering role
A standard footprint might not make sense, but a standard format for distributing component pad placement definitely does. Most ECAD systems already have tools in place to generate proper landing pad offsets from footprint.

And you're right that one can never fully trust downloaded libraries, but a lot of the issues could be mitigated if manufacturers distributed their own files. TI does this for most of their devices and it's a big draw for a lazy designer like me.

I'm really surprised there isn't a better solution in the industry - building a library might not take as much time as the rest of electrical design work but it's still a large sink, to where many teams (even as small as 6 engineers or so) result to hiring a full time "librarian" to manage footprints and component libraries.
As a computer Science graduate with no experience doing images that section alone was worth getting the book for me. I plan on using at as encyclopaedia for future uses.

I am happy you had compatibility in mind as I am not super fussed on which operating system I use.

I would suggest adding a virtual desktop section as that has been the biggest gamechanger for me ( I use windows 10s with virtual desktop enhancer) I dont know any linux or mac equilivants though.
While manufacturer's may have very small deviations in their footprints, by and large almost every IC conforms to some kind of JEDEC compliant package. From there, IPC-7351B [1] has mathematical recommendations on footprints ranging from Class 1 (minimum required) to Class 3 A/B (ultra-reliable). Obviously those are just suggestions, but manufacturers have been aligning more and more with them. My daily ECAD/EDA tool is Altium, and I can't remember I had to manually make an IC footprint. I use their IPC Wizard[2] to make it all for me. As a bonus, I get a nice STEP model too with my export.

[1]: Can find it here http://shop.ipc.org/IPC-7351B-English-D or likely in PDF elsewhere.
[2]: https://www.altium.com/solution/pcb-footprint-library