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After two startups and a co-founder split, I have decided to try to go the other way this time. No (initial) funding, organic growth, first finding product-market fit and doing both technical and non-technical myself (one person shop) - I am non-technical but have a technical streak. I have done in the past a coding bootcamp (Fullstack in NY, highly recommended) but have not really coded since then (four years ago). Recently, I decided to dive back in and really enjoying the technical side of things. However, I realize it's not the most efficient way to building a product or company - but I believe that the issues investors and co-founders can create, besides the time to find and convince the right ones, if you have a knack for the technical, it might be the better and more peaceful choice - so far it is for me, let's see where I get to. Given that I had some foundation in coding (though limited practice) I felt diving into a few course before starting to build with the actual product was very beneficial. I especially enjoyed the courses by Wes Bos (worth every penny). I also spent a lot of time to explore what the right frameworks are. It's one thing to build something you can click through. It's another thing to build it in a way it can scale (including other developers coming in and continuing from where you left of). Choosing the right tech stack feels like a very important choice, the deeper I dig. I hope this is helpful. Good luck with your journey!
I left Stripe a little over 6 months ago to join an exciting startup with a number of my friends. What I miss most about working there is the culture of shipping. There are a number of 'shipped' email lists at Stripe where people can tout their accomplishments large and small. These lists are widely read and commented on, and folks put in a fair amount of effort making their "shipped" emails informative and entertaining.

That feeling you get when you finish a challenging project, write a great shipped email, and get a bunch of feedback from folks throughout the company is pretty amazing. Once I was invited to convert one of my shipped emails into a presentation for a company all-hands meeting. I had a less than a week to get it done, which was pretty hectic, but in the end it turned out great and it was perhaps my favorite memory of my time at Stripe.

I enjoy my current job, and those little dopamine hits I get from checking things off my list as well as the bigger ones from finishing projects, but now only my boss and some teammates notice when I finish something. One thing I learned about myself, is that I really do care about what other people think about my work.
They do. These boosters aren't very expensive, and doctors appointments for them aren't either. Dare I suggest that almost everyone is in reach of a medical office or free clinic that can provide them.
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> Which would definitely cause headaches, at least from dehydration.

In the summers, when I sweat a lot due to running and cycling, I dump that much salt into a bowl of soup. I don't have any ill effects. In fact, beefing up the salt intake wards off muscle cramps and lethargy.

Japan's allowance for daily salt intake for men sets an upper bound of 12 grams (salt, not sodium).

You have it backwards, by the way. MSG has a rather large molecular weight compared to NaCL. A given mass of MSG has less sodium than the same mass of salt. This is very easy to get in precise numbers: the molecular weight of MSG 169.111 g/mol is and of salt 58.44 g/mol. A mole of MSG has the same amount of sodium as a mole of salt: one weighs 169g. the other 54g: close to triple. Secondly, MSG is less dense than salt: the same mass of MSG takes 33% more space than a given mass of salt. This magnifies the difference. Basically if we have equal sized heaps of salt and MSG, the MSG has about 1/4 of the sodium compared to the salt.

In a restaurant, they can easily dump a teaspoon of MSG (about 4g) into your mapotofu or noodle soup or whatever. Manufactured products of good brands are going to be reasonable. Someone holding a shaker MSG over a pot isn't going to be that much. Not consistently so, day in, day out. Consider that some of the ingredients already have MSG (e.g. marinated or processed meats), then there is natural glutamate in some of it, and then they add some half teaspoon (about 2g) of MSG crystals. Things add up.
You don't need to automatically fix the disagreement. You just need to stop taking nose-down action and inform the human in charge .

Problem is, if you need to inform the human, you also need to train the human, which leads to extra costs.
I don't think HN is the place for judging people you've probably never met.
And how would you enforce that? Have everyone walk around with their immunization records and stop people randomly?
I think it's worse when you make a reservation, but it doesn't mean anything.

For example, my wife and I went to a PF Changs on a holiday. We had a reservation we scheduled at least a week ahead of time, but it meant nothing, we were put at the end of the queue. It wouldn't have made a difference if we never made the reservation at all.
For curious, several facts i noticed by running anaconda distributed shakti:

1) k7 implementation obviosly is completely different codebase from current kdb+. I ran the following query on kdb+ and k7

a1:1000000?1000000;b1:1000000?1000000;
\t select #a by b from (+`a`b!(a1;b1));

And difference seems to be in order of magnitude (k7 is 650 msec, kdb+ is 77 msec), also on k7, time increases for subsequent execution of same query ==> memory leak? Looks like it's very early stage.

2) null number (0N) and infinity are now represented as non-ascii symbols Ø and ∞, also parsed as such.

3) type operator (@) returns symbols (`i, `j) for ints and longs etc, was returning shorts before. Interesting how do we distinguish arrays/scalars now.

4) default numeric type (e.g. 12345) is now int, was long.

5) entering overflow numeric literal returns Ø, was throwing exception.

6) k in anaconda is not stripped 675K linux x64 executable, stripped is 220K, while kdb+ is 657K as sold.
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You grew up bilingual, though. For those of us speaking the same languages as our parents/community, we're not going to come even remotely close to fluency with a couple of low-level school courses.
For insurance, punishing an individual is improving risk modelling.
Insurance companies are also involved in promoting technologies that reduce the risk of claims, as that expands their addressable market by lowering prices without lowering profit.
I keep seeing accusations that Apple has a nefarious plan to make money through dongles, but if that were the case, wouldn't they have more proprietary connectors rather than less? The only dongle I have for my iPad Pro is one that allows HDMI output, and it's from Anker. And while I do have a USB-C to USB-A dongle from Apple for my MacBook Pro, in practice I rarely used it; I just used cables with the right connectors on both ends (e.g., USB-C to Mini USB), and none of those cables were from Apple except the USB-C to USB-C cable that came with it.
Maybe they will out of incompetence. "I wish I could give you an exemption, but the computer doesn't let me fill it in like that".
I have the original Nokia 3310, which is not being used right now. Daily driver is the reissue 3310 that came out a couple years ago. It's still a little too "modern" for my tastes but something I can live with. The great thing is that the battery lasts forever. Probably close to a few weeks. Well, I don't use it at all, so there's that.
> Programming languages on the other hand have been a much different experience, not nearly as difficult to pick up. I haven't considered exactly why it's so different until now.

Well, general purpose, procedural, imperative languages -- the first programming languages we typically learn -- are all essentially the same. In many ways, they're all re-imaginings of Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, ALGOL, BASIC and C. They're really different dialects that express ideas in basically the same ways. All languages that derive from this family work in essentially the same ways. Sure, they have different features, syntax, abstractions, paradigms, etc., but Python, Go, Rust, C#, Java and JavaScript are all essentially the same way of thinking and express things in nearly the same ways.

When you start to work with languages that increasingly deviate from that common general purpose, procedural, imperative paradigm, you start to see people struggle. That's when you're actually learning a different language. Established programmers have a notoriously difficult time picking up declared languages like SQL and XSLT, for example, and domain-specific languages like LaTeX can give others difficulty, while functional languages like Lisp seem to be either something you love or hate.
Essentially it is a way for the company to allow some variability in your income, in case of an especially good or, more typically, bad year, as well as hinder turnover by withholding a large portion of your compensation until after, typically, the last fiscal quarter of the year. It's discretionary of course so the company isn't on the hook for it and called a "bonus" as if they are paying you beyond what your work is worth. You generally will not have any insight into how your bonus is calculated nor will you be given any idea how to move that number in a positive direction. That was my experience with the bonus pools in the financial industry anyway.
> They said that corrupt and ignorant politicians have added unnecessary vaccines to the list of requirements, due to lobbying/collusion with pharma companies

FWIW, This is standard anti-vaxxer rhetoric in any country. You see stuff like this anywhere: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeS7VhVWsAABZOJ.jpg
Or you invest in making driving safer on average.
Here's the thing though: if we actively do something to stop carbon production, we will also be losing economic wellbeing. Developing nations will be hit harder by this cutback, too. The question is is the trade-off worth it, relative to other things we could be putting our time and attention to. According to this think tank (1), it doesn't pay out so well, compared to other goals.

1: https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/top-outcomes
Once you are in your seat, you can either relax or by relatively productive with your laptop+in-flight wifi.

I think that's only true if you fly first-class (domestic) or business class (or maybe premium economy) international.

In standard Economy I can't open my 15" laptop screen all the way, and when I try to use my keyboard, my elbows poke the person in the seat(s) next to me. So being productive while flying is not an option.

The economics don't support giving people adequate space, so reducing the time in flight is a big win for everyone.
> my understanding of these trackers is that they don't include GPS capabilities

A friend has one of these in her car and it literally has an LED labelled GPS. Which makes no sense because one of the arguments I heard they need GPS to get mileage and speed, which you can already get from OBD.
Some states that refused (i.e. failed) to set up their own health care exchanges because they did not want to comply with the ACA have Medicaid programs that do not cover low-income adults. If you were deprived of vaccines as a child then you should be allowed to visit the doctor and schedule a series of vaccinations to catch up without paying a copay. It seems wrong to federally ban something without a federal solution.

There may be ways to get vaccines without coverage that of which I am not aware. How would you even get someone to review your record without being in a network, though? OK, KS, MO, MS, TN, AL, GA, SC, NC, FL, VA, UT, ID, WY, ME, WI, NE and SD have no medicaid coverage for low-income adults [1]. That is probably not a complete list.

1. https://www.medicaid.gov/state-overviews/index.html
For more detail, look up the Five Star movement and comedian/populist hero Beppe Grillo: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/11/rise-of-italia...
I thought Dedukti has a small kernel. Although “small” may be a relative thing (relative to other dependently typed systems.
Exactly. I worked at Boeing for a couple years (on a different aircraft project, on software tools that would never fly on an aircraft), and my boss made it very clear that our job was not to make sure the airplane didn't crash. It was to make sure if anything went wrong, we had the proper paper trail.

As a software person, this led to some results that seemed rather counterintuitive.

Then again, this level of detachment seems necessary for complex systems. The chef at your favorite restaurant doesn't personally test all raw ingredients to ensure they're safe. They get them from a reputable source, and make sure they're stored and prepared properly when under the restaurant's care.

I suspect that this concept is foreign to much of the software world (and hopefully only temporarily) because our raw ingredients are so low quality, and there's no regulation or certification. Half the libraries I'm using (even first-party ones) have significant bugs that I have to work around. If instead of workarounds I just said "That bug you found is actually a bug in <library X>", my app would be completely unusable, and there's be no upstream pressure for these libraries to ever get fixed.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal changed the world, but it didn't change Facebook
I just want to point out (slightly off topic) that I love this web site design. Simple, clean, and light. Bravo.
I'm a physiologist, and definitely NOT an anti-vaxxer.

Two points:

1) What is the specific list of immunizations that are being mandated?

2) If immunizations are to be mandated, great, however the companies that produce them must also be mandated to be transparent in their research and development.

For example, they must be required by law to publish all studies on drug safety-- both positive, and negative results. That's currently not required, they're allowed to cherry-pick results!
So, 3rd behind military and NIH then?
A link in the article about getting a 3D-printed model of someone else's face makes me wonder how long before the Yellow-vests in France figure this out and print out a copy of Macron's face to use in their protests?
> no private certification of stables that lent horses to ensure animals were fit and free of issues of temperament that might cause them to throw a rider.

Probably because the culture of the time was that everyone knew horses were dangerous and if you borrowed a horse and it threw you, it was your fault, not the lender's.
I have Italian relatives and I've heard a lot of questionable conspiracy theories or urban legends out of them. Things like all corner grocery stores that are run by Asians are really property of the Chinese mafia, or that if you have moving air on your throat at night you'll get a sore throat.

Point is, take this kinds of conspiracy theories with a huge grain of salt. I would love to hear which required vaccinations are allegedly unnecessary.
I wish I could find the article - apparently there is one guy/group actually working on expanding the religious exemptions and has lobbied legislators in a bunch of states to file bills for it. So dumb that the legislators go along with it.

Edit: another dumb things are legislators looking to prohibit discriminating against unvacinated people. https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article2109815...
from nebraska. can confirm. entire towns have been evacuated due to flooding. only way to get around some of them currently is via airboat.
Isn’t everything?
That's quite neat, shifting from being passive to engaging actively with them, I like that, thank you.
While insurance is a different industry, the fact that tech companies continue to make decisions that play badly in the media spotlight suggests that 'bad headlines' isn't a huge deterrent in today's world.
> but the user accounts are (for now)

aren't? If so can you explain?
Son of teachers. I'm familiar with the issue at hand (there is basically no reason to homeschool in Italy unless you are in a cult or neglect your child heavily).
I've asked gift givers to instead give contributions towards my kids' college funds. They have too many toys as it is. But from their point of view I can understand not wanting to show up at a kids party empty handed. Compare that to the experience of watching a kid open up a present excitedly and play with it during the party. So I can see why givers prefer that option.
I'm in Seattle and the answer is 'It varies'. We have oncalls which can feel like working ~70 hrs/wk, and slower weeks where I'm only really in the office for 30 or so hours.

Usually I'm in office or checking in on stuff from home for about 45hrs/wk. A lot of my office time is spent in conversation or explaining things to juniors, getting coffee, dealing with inter-team communication issues, that sort of thing. Some (like now) is spent browsing the web, which I think of as keeping up with industry trends:)

If I wanted to 'take the next step' in my career, I'd likely have to lose some of my flexibility and have a more butt-in-seat approach. I think most of the management and principal engineers here at AWS are in the 50+ hour club.
Liability insurance, but doesn't pay if you are liable.
And? BBC is still spreading bulls*t.
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I find it interesting and also confusing how invested random people on the internet are about the outcome of vaccination (which could theoretically cause an issue for a small percentage of the population), as opposed to say climate-denial (which will undisputably cause a much bigger issue for the entire population)
6000x4000 px yes.
Not really, but I do try to use the gym at work sometimes since something is probably better than nothing. I made notable gains in cardio endurance that way.
We have something similar in the states but problem is there's a lot of exceptions people can claim, such as religious or "personal beliefs" - which pretty much makes it completely useless. They need to shut down those exemptions.
s/so/not/ I suppose?
Sprint is really bad outside cities too. Sprint and T-Mobile are the two worst operators if you're concerned about signal quality outside metro areas.
There seems to be glut of pro-vaccine news lately. Is it because a expert CDC witness came forward in 2019 to state that sometimes vaccines can cause autism?
Hmm, it looks like I got the pro and non-pro lines confused. Thank you for correcting me.
Then I'm sorry, but you're going to have to be more explicit about the point you were trying to make because I don't see it.

> You are probably not eating at the kinds of restaurants that are Tock's mainstay. In San Francisco, that's places like Atelier Crenn and Saison.

Atelier Crenn has two stars. Saison has three. (And I have in fact been to Saison.)

> The Publican or Zuni Cafe

Neither of these has a star and both of them use OpenTable, not Tock. I have not been to either one.

So I'm sorry, but I am utterly at a loss as to what point you were trying to make.
Thank you!

As a side-note, someone should make that link a bit more visible on the matrix.org site.
They should be more honest about their other funding sources. They accept advertising, but couch it as "underwriting".
Those weird scallops on the back of all recent vintage Boeing planes are for noise reduction.

I couldn't find a quote or number on how many decibels it reduces the engines, except a note that:

| The acoustic liners and chevrons are such effective noise suppressors that several hundred pounds of sound insulation may be eliminated from the fuselage.
Italian here: your friends are dumb.
Or the state, as happened in the case of California. There appears to be some abuse of medical exemptions but, for the most part, the California law requiring childhood vaccinations to attend school seems to be working and overall vaccinations are up. [1]

[1] https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20181127calif...
> Gift cards are also in this category since pure cash would actually be a better gift, and still just as soul-less and expected.

Chinese children get cash for New Year's. It doesn't hurt the mood of the holiday at all. I think what makes it work is the asymmetry -- children receive money from adults. In a symmetric exchange, exchanging cash is similar to doing nothing. In an asymmetric exchange, it's fine. (You see the same thing with Chinese weddings -- the couple receive money from the guests. I'm told that it can be hard to actually profit off the wedding, though.)

I'll also note that, as a white American, I usually received cash in the mail from aunts and uncles. This did not impair their relationship with me. I liked getting it.
Ask HN: Would you pay to acquire tenants?
For tenants who want to move to a different neighbourhood, but are tied up in long-term leases and high cancellation fees (e.g. two months rent)

If you were a landlord would you pay these cancellation fees to acquire tenants?

I am trying to understand if there is a market for such a service, because if there is then a tenant can "subscribe" to this service and have the freedom to move around without being tied up to long-term leases. The cost of this service is a slightly higher "subscription fee" instead of paying rent
What is the criteria to consider a language a derivative of some other language? Programming languages seem like they borrow so much from one another.
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Depending on what you want for PDF Annotation, Readdle's PDF Expert (as close to full-fledged Acrobat as you're likely to get on the iPad) or the intriguingly weird LiquidText are good options.

https://pdfexpert.com/ios
https://www.liquidtext.net
Brake fade probably. In stop and go traffic in a hot climate brakes can get slower to respond. The brake pedal feels mushy is the best way to describe it. I've never experienced complete failure in South Florida traffic but I do know they I have to press harder each subsequent time.
It would be nice if you utterly psychotic redditors could stick to your containment site.
what is currently occurring goes beyond just 'people living in a floodplain having to evacuate'.

The water is already flooding outside of the floodplains in a lot of cases here in Nebraska.

also, i'd venture to guess that a large percentage of the state is actually floodplains, due to the large amount of rivers/creeks we have.
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No it hasn't, stop the conspiracy talk.

It's easy to find the video and manifesto.

The shooter very obviously is trying to manipulate the media with a shock campaign. He blatantly admitted to this.

Websites are choosing to self censor, they don't want to encourage this type of behavior.
There is an even better incentive: make the parents accept liability for any medical costs caused by their unvaccinated children. Because their principles matter more than money, right?
AOC is mobbed like a celeb when in public and has received death threats online, yet you fault her for no longer taking the subway?

Regarding realistic trade-offs: I live in Seattle in a 1200 sq ft townhome. I commute 20-25 mins on public transit (where I read or otherwise zone out). For what I pay in rent, I could move to the suburbs and get a 2000 sq ft house. But that comes with a stressful 60 min commute in traffic and $15 a day for parking.
Re: complexity, read up on "semi-naïve evaluation" for the usual execution strategy, which basically involves keeping lists of newly-added tuples in each iteration of the fixpoint loop and only processing deltas related to those new additions. This, combined with good index inference for each relation (predicate), so that e.g. the node-neighbor lookup is O(log |V|), should result in efficient execution...
No one has an investment in Polio that they would lie to protect. There are no Measles lobbyists.