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Hello All,

I am about to launch a Productized Service in the Strategy & Digital Marketing space as the first step towards building a new Marketing eco-system around specific products and services. Have a look at https://temptly.co

The rationale for launching with this angle first is due to the fact that I require a steady flow of income which I will use to fund towards building out the big vision - I want to bootstrap up to a specific point.

The aim is to address the Marketing subject related inefficiencies of the current education system, Marketing recruitment and lastly the inefficiencies of the Ad/ Growth agency models. All the key problems that I will be addressing are in the Strategy, Marketing & Growth domains. At this stage there are 3 Business Units that I am building towards in a phased approach.

I am still building the narrative to clearly define the many aspects of the business which I firmly believe and hope will be a complete game-changer within the startup space.

Before proceeding to officially launching, I want this valuable community to share feedback on Phase 1 of the launch. Please visit https://temptly.co and provide feedback in terms of what more or less you would like to see. I am targeting SMEs across specific industries and hoping this will be able to help generate sufficient cash flow to fund the expansion of other areas of the startup.

Thanks!
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In my opinion: The risk is still acceptably low if you're a young, healthy person, but only if you're able to self-quarantine after the travel and avoid contact with anyone beyond the age of fifty or who has respiratory problems for the first month afterwards.

Follow guidelines, but use common sense. If we're in a situation where it's too risky for certain groups to travel, then it's also risky for travelers to interact with them.

Also keep in mind that, depending on the situation at the time and they length of your trip, you might not be able to return. Make sure nothing terrible will happen in that situation.
I don’t believe the interviewer wasn’t reasonable. I gathered as many requirements as I could and gathered as much info about my constraints as I could and thought up a solution on the spot. It wasn’t perfect and I was rushing through calculus that I would normally spend a lot of time validating.

The interviewer probably saw my use of technology as a cop-out and wanted to challenge it. When I told him why I chose it he probably just took it as unwillingness to change my position.

It is very possible that I poorly communicated the fact that my position was completely mutable.

EDIT: the magic datacenter was the interviewer removing that as a constraint. I did not indicate that _I_ had a magic datacenter and I kept challenging the limits of networking, which was handwaved away.
The sophistication of Roman plumbing technology is not that surprising.

The existence of "Valve Magazine" is slightly more so.
I think of solutions like Solid more like traditional filesystems. Many file formats exist for things like images, and yet there are lots of apps that work with these formats.
This is right on. FWIW, my anxiety went away almost completely a few weeks after I quit coffee.
the point is the headline and the tone. there is absolutely no empathy in it. you don't need to be for or against authoritarianism to spot that. and I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't frankly.
same thing happened to me on GoDaddy for multiple domains when I got a call from a client that their emails stopped working. All the zones were factory reset, and no backup of the zones apparently existed at GoDaddy. I was on the call with them for hours refusing to hang up until it was resolved or they would lose the remainder of my business. After 2.5 hours of no valid reason that multiple domains when back to default DNS values and no log of access to my account for moths, I let them go.

That's when I moved the couple of handfuls of domains I had left at GoDaddy over to Hover. It's more expensive, but the Hover interface is better, and I trust Hover (Tucows) more (well, I trust GoDaddy less).
There's more than one alternative.

Saying "X doesn't work" never necessarily implies that "Y does work", especially when options Z, A, B, and C still exist.
It seems similar in name only to Second System Effect, from Fred Brooks.

The challenge for your second sock is to accurately repeat your process of the first one. The challenge of the second system--where you reimplement something from scratch maybe--is to keep the scope limited but you are trying to depart from the mistakes of the first one.

https://adamo.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/the-second-system-eff...
Yes, but it doesn’t impact the tourists very much if they can’t travel there as someone who relies on travel for business or to meet their family.
Have you considered Route53 ?
I agree that real stored XSS is a serious issue. Here, they're using a MITM to get the XSS payload injected, and Paypal has closed it saying it's not "externally exploitable". It sure looks like self-XSS to me. I agree: a POC would clear this up.

All I'll say beyond that is that if they had doc'd a real stored XSS bug in Paypal, my assumption would be that they'd get a bounty for that. That they did not get a bounty for it suggests that it was invalid. Paypal does not have any incentive to stiff researchers on valid submissions; they have in fact the opposite incentive.
I can tell. Cloudflare has been a delight to use up to now and I'm grateful I'm getting this kind of support when I've only used your loss-leader services.
Arranged marriages sans coercion is not an arranged marriage anymore, I guess it's a normal marriage?

The whole thing with arranged marriages is that the people in the marriage doesn't actually chose who they marry.

What solatic is describing sounds nothing like a arranged marriage. You can always say no and move on, no one is forcing you anything.
It's a good question - and one that hopefully more and more people will start asking.

The problem with a forum (or any kind of announcement system) for this is that the people who want your skills most and who can afford it will be the loudest voices (or will pay for the loudest and most convincing voices to broadcast their job offerings).

It's possible to take another approach though - consider it like a search problem.

Start with the kinds of projects you'd like to work on, and then try to find the companies and projects that match those by searching HN's archives, GitHub projects, Google search.

I think people in general tend to get used to the existing career funnels (job search sites where you enter your profile; LinkedIn; or looking at big-name company job listings). There's a lot more out there though.
From Wikipedia:

> programs included both positive measures, such as encouraging individuals deemed particularly "fit" to reproduce, and negative measures, such as marriage prohibitions and forced sterilization of people deemed unfit for reproduction. [0]

Eugenics refers to an organized and systematic (top-down) approach to manipulating the genetics if a population. Obviously this is not good.

Competition and dating are good, I don't think anyone is arguing with that.

Confusing the two is like confusing capitalism and communism. Both systems affect the economy but in very different ways for very different reasons.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
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Its a hedge against SHTF scenario - full out crisis.

IF we look at history and dozens of cases of runaway inflation or currency crises (germany, argentina, russia default, venezuela etc) where currencies devalued fast in a short period of time - having physical gold (even 5-10% of the total portfolio) would have alleviated the pain.

people lost life savings... and will lose again, as history often rhymes again and again.
You need to host across several nodes in different geographic locations and data centers to resist network splits. Then you need some way to slowly roll out upgrades to your monitoring platform over time.
No, all your referrals getting rejected is a running joke at Google. Often they get rejected even without an interview. In my opinion it is a bit evil to refer people who are unlikely to pass the interview, I always warn everyone I refer about it.
Exactly this. Usually, they have a couple of guys who are really good in that team, along with lots of juniors who are there for billable hours.
It still seems weird to me. I should also add that my major city is the fast growing major city in the US at about 4% year over year for the last 20 years so traditional rules about ethic neighborhoods either don't apply or are relegated to very old and low prosperity neighborhoods far away. In this past decade alone my city has grown by about 30% and is racing to reach 1.2 million residents in the next twenty years nearly doubling in size from 20 years ago.
I don’t see why you would get downvoted for this. Your statement sounds reasonable to me.

I think you offended someone. HN really needs to show the flaggers username so there can be more checks and balances against this kind of emotional censoring.

As for the blog, the guy does sound self-indulgent but he still makes a reasonable point.
The "both people have to like" feature was on Hot-or-Not close to 15 years ago, Tinder didn't create it.
What isn't standardized about ARM that Apple moving their PC segment to ARM would fix? Every single cell phone on earth uses ARM pretty much already. It's unlikely that if Apple did move their desktop stuff to ARM that they wouldn't use some derivative (i.e. non-standard, effectively custom) ARM instruction set. They already do that with their phone processors.
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While this is definitely a problem developers face, many of the solutions in this article only apply to socks. HN, do you have any tips for completing personal projects when they stop being fun?
Appeal to emotion, which particularly doesn't make sense here since a lot of the people pushing back on that moral panic were people who themselves vape..

Another great moral panic that you want to look into is the War on Drugs. It has been decades, and some of the drugs are still in the early process of being unbanned/approved for medical research. Since you want to appeal to emotion so much, how do you feel about the scores of people that could have benefited from research on mushrooms, ketamine, etc. for depression?
I think there's an opportunity to build a dating app that treats dating as an assignment problem[0], rather than a browsing experience. Assume we have a heterosexual and monogamous dating pool of 50 men and 50 women. If they were to rank or rate each other some people will be objectively attractive, but there will also be subjective differences based on individual preferences. Using an algorithm it should be possible to come up with the best combination of couples that maximizes each male/female's subjective attractiveness to each other.

Of course an actual dating app would need to be a bit more complicated than this, but I do think there's the potential to build a something around this concept.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_problem
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> I’ve really strongly come to believe that…

I’ve come to believe really strongly that…
It's always a trade-off too. More money and status means more time-investment, more responsibility, more stress.
This is why you need name servers from 2 different companies and dns monitoring. It doesn't matter who your provider is. Errors happen and waiting half a week to fix it is insane.
This is straight-up blackmail.

Report an obviously invalid "security issue", and when the software developer asks for clarification you try to sell him an expensive consulting contract.

SEC Consult is generally considered to be serious, isn't it? Unfortunate that now my only mental connection to that company is "they are filthy blackmailers".
I think zero-sum was meant from a perspective of a fixed-resource being divvied up among more and more people. In that case each person gets a smaller and smaller theoretical share. Any exchange is locally fair but globally everybody is becoming worse and worse off. This is especially true if you disconnect the concept of living in your own home from the investment opportunity. I doubt many people are going "Sorry honey, we cannot afford a house now or probably ever, but hey that's fair because if we could afford it with so little money we'd be getting access to an unreasonably good performing investment and that wouldn't be fair to others." I think most (reasonable) renters would settle for significantly worse performing housing market in exchange for cheaper housing so that they could transition from renting to owning.
That's true. We don't know how was the interview, perhaps it was about implementing a distributed database from scratch, perhaps it was about storing as many personal data as you can.
Are you selling something or looking for advice in sales? What is the product?
This is valid for team paradigms— building a successful team requires understanding what is interesting to each candidate member and building the group where most product engineering falls under the different members’ ‘interesting’ slices
I think this article gives AI more credit than it demonstrates at present and simplifies the examples.

It's useful I expect for quick fixes/guidance like the loop example.

For example on improving performance - these days that often needs holistic architectural re-think - surely a creative process? The idea of optimizing involving a loop seems very distant from heterogeneous asynchronous behavior of modern hardware.

If AI really does start to solve in the more 'general' way not just a bit of object recognition here and there, won't software developers incorporate with it as part of process instead. Enabling even more sophisticated software to be written?

I think that is the key part of longevity to software development as a career. The compiler didn't remove the assembly programmer it simply enabled a whole new level of software complexity to be feasible.
There's alternatives to Cloudflare that offer affordable-but-not-free CDNs which has always felt less risky to me. I'd rather know I'm the customer instead of the product.
The common setups I've worked with are Docker instances for the automated CI tests and then running tests on your dev machine w/o a container.

If I had to do exploratory programming without a REPL I'd probably leverage my test environment to write small bits of code, step through them with a debugger, and then use the results to structure a larger program.
The downvote without a reply is a really unhealthy thing for a community especially one that only gives downvoting privileges to supposed long time contributors. I provided a perfectly reasonable counter example with a company that demonstrably has similar compensation to the FAANGs (check levels.fyi) without a crazy interview process.
Indians got wiped out by Smallpox, for instance.
Actually, nulls leak worse than optionals, because it's impossible to tell where nulls have leaked to (so you end up forgetting to filter out a null at a interface where you would have decided to filter out a maybe).
Can't say I am apart of it but doing it the way https://rayatheapp.com/ does make sense. Essentially, referrals from existing members. + looking a how many Instagram followers you have.
Acute organ failure, especially pulmonary failure (acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS) is the key mechanism for 2019-nCov's fatality. Significantly increased oxidative stress due to the rapid release of free radicals and cytokines etc. is the hallmark of ARDS which leads to cellular injury, organ failure and death. Early use of large dose antioxidants, especially vitamin C (VC), therefore, plays a key role in the management of these patients.

Dietary antioxidants (vitamin C and sulforaphane) were shown to reduce oxidative-stress-induced acute inflammatory lung injury in patients receiving mechanical ventilation [15]. Other antioxidants (curcumin) have also been shown to have promising anti-inflammatory potential in pneumonia
Self driving cars are not coming. Jobs are not being eliminated en masse. This is hyperventilation and is not borne out by history, facts, or reality. Don't fall for the scary AI nonsense.

https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-artificial-intelligence-scam...
programming productivity gets absolutely massive investment -- all of secret, proprietary, and open source.

They reason it seems otherwise is that software has infinite appetite for increased productivity, since there is minimal friction and energy cost commonly seen in almost every other endeavor. There are essentially two throttles on the exponential improvement in computing: (1) the speed of electromagnetic objects, and (2) the speed of humans to learn new things recently invented and use them to invent newer things.
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Elixir is pretty nice in that it cleans up some of the cruft from however many years ago.

Making it faster for certain things, as long as that doesn't hurt it in other ways, is always going to be a win.
I do a lot of work with a few of the big outfits, as we often get pulled in to help setup a software product that they resell to Fortune 500 companies as part of their package contracts.

I have never seen a case where they actually add value; it would always be much easier if we could just get directly connected with the end-customer.
My history? I haven't worked for a "large corp" since 1998. Our company works exclusively with startups.

When I say that Paypal has incentives not to ruthlessly deny bounties, I mean actual incentives, not "it feels good to do good" type stuff. Even if their reputation among bounty hunters is factored out: they literally have an incentive to pay bounties. That's the metric by which bounty programs are judged.
same here - loved Credit Karma and i am not a fan of Intuit whatsoever.
> These viruses don't originate in China by random chance

China (country), India and Africa (continent) each separately have > 1/6 of the World Population.

So, even if human disease came randomly, it would have a 50% chance of being from these 3 areas.

What is surprising is that the high population densities of the Philippines haven't correlated to disease.
> Taking direction or orders from a manager is only ever stressful if that manager doesn't take accountability for their decisions and directions.

This right here.

I will lead if you want. But then stop second guessing my decisions, and stop taking credit for my successes.

If you want to lead, fine. But then stop blaming me for failures, and admit when you screw up.

I am sick of being micromanaged and then blamed for when things go wrong.
I hear you, but their DDoS services are painful to the rest of the world and to people who want or need to use Tor, and others.

I'm talking about their rather political move to re-centralize DNS by shoehorning themselves in to Firefox via DoH, for instance. Their unwillingness to be transparent makes this all the more frightening. Add to that their blatant desire to make money at the cost of doing the right thing (and I'm talking about unambiguous things - is someone going to argue that freedom of speech allows people run a phishing site of your bank?), and you've got a scenario where once they reach critical mass, they will be exercising their position to the detriment of everyone who isn't paying them, similarly to how Gmail, through doing and not communicating, say "screw you" to many small email services.

When people who don't use large providers have email issues with Gmail, lots of people have knee-jerk reactions saying that everything should move to the big providers, that people and small businesses should not host their own email, and so on. This is NOT the way the Internet should work, and we should never allow Gmail to just arbitrarily do whatever they want, then accept it as the new normal.

If you have more than a dozen megabits of outgoing bandwidth, you can easily host a blog from your home network which can handle a front paging here. Just don't expect to dynamically generate a new copy of the site for every visitor, and if your bandwidth is tight, then host your images on a static server off of your network. Cloudflare is not necessary - perhaps it's easier, but it isn't necessarily best to blindly trust a company that wants to become a monopoly.
All major cities in the US have 50-70% of the population as renters. Let me deliver the news.
Part of me wonders whether dating is an education problem.

If we could make men* not be lemons, then maybe society as a whole would have better outcomes.

But how do you scale up "dating coaches"? (Would you even want to? People will pay easily pay four or five figures for such services right now.)

[* Gender is not binary, etc., but painting with broad strokes to make the example more concrete.]
Ah, true, it's been awhile.
I agree -- the tone of the article was cloak-and-daggers, which makes me think things are not what they seem they are. Unless we fully understand the exact set of issues, it is difficult to decide either way.

Sadly, this also undermines trust in the overall state of "security research", which most of the time, borders on being silly. :-/
The thing about knitting is that you can't avoid knitting that second sock. In technology, we can just build a machine that copies the first sock.

The problem we face is that it usually takes an order of magnitude more time to build that machine than to actually knit the second sock...
Take accountability, while also trying to understand the motive of being in chair at 8am.

Can manager be more flexible? Is it a support/coverage issue?

This manager may have different perspective that you are unaware of.
Yeah, if it's a boring problem I would probably get bored too, but I don't think the quality would go down. Naturally, repeating things makes you better each time. Refactor has it's place as well, it's basically rewriting smaller parts in different parts to transform something, you're writing those parts again and again when you continue to refactor for years.
> I can't deal with something like my blog post being frontpaged on HN if my website is hosted in my house, unless I have a good CDN.

IPFS can work as a CDN, at least for static content that users are willing to seed. This is especially relevant to the "blog post hits frontpage on HN" case. Of course, dynamic content is not quite as easy.
I welcome the reckoning honestly, I think there was a whole decade or more of this myth that tech startups just print money and that young, hip, techie folks were at the forefront of innovation. The reality was just that many, many idiots were flush with VC money, and that there was very little intelligent business going on.

Most startups I worked at seemed to care more about their slick office space and their culture than the bottom line, equating a successful round of funding with actual business success.

That being said, I won't deny that the well known tech companies did change culture dramatically (Netflix, Google, Amazon, AirBnb, Uber, Facebook, etc).

These days I really prefer the "bootstrapped" business scene. Companies that start small, and are forced to make revenues early on to stay afloat. Why the need to build 100 billion dollar businesses? What's wrong with 50 million dollar businesses? Rather than starting with some grand vision, why not start with the basics: I can create value in x way, and meet the needs of y market. From there it's all just managing finances, spending time wisely, and making tough trade-offs, the hallmarks of any business.
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