ademup

Hey this is fantastic! I don't care about the job interview part, but having the ability to see some of these algorithms implemented in my daily workhorse may help me improve as a programmer. So thanks!

I wish I could use the fallacious "No TRUE doctor would use The Times to inform medical decisions." Because it seems like it should be universally true. On the one hand I am glad this one is telling their truth, now I feel more informed. On the other, I am appalled and terrified that this may apply to a significant percentage of "true" doctors.

I am surrounded by people in the primarily private-pay Mental Health space because my (romantic) partner is a consultant in a tiny cottage industry. In my case, it's 100% "people you know". Dealing in PII suuuuuuucks because I constantly have an elevated anxiety about it. However, if it wasn't PII plus the people I know and met......then I probably wouldn't have the opportunity I have.

That said.....had I not done "this", then I probably would have done something more lucrative and "easy". I see non-PII opportunities everywhere, and (mostly) only hang around because what I do now pays the bills.

This article makes me truly appreciative that my product/service is not essientially a "commodity". Absolutely no disrespect intended for BackBlaze, as they have obviously gone the distance in adding value to their core "we store data" product.

That said, I generally find it easy to raise prices. Indeed, price discovery is "fun" in my tiny tiny niche. Basically, I just increase the price every time a new customer signs up. I honestly think this is completely fair to both past and new customers. Sign up early and you reap the benefits of lower cost. Sign up for a longer term and you keep those benefits.

It's a struggle with inflation, and I strongly appreciate the argument in accounting for it. It is so obviously real, yet customers seem to have an extremely hard time wrapping their heads around it.

VMRacks (now hipaavault.com). I'm not affiliated, just a completely satisfied customer. As to setting up the business, I would also recommend a HIPAA auditing/hand-holding company. I use Compliancy Group (https://compliancy-group.com).

I respectfully disagree. HN is very much about the -business- of tech. Telling us how you made your mousetrap is all well and good... Having us ask how many mice it has captured is absolutely relevant. Germane even.

This seems super complex to me. I am a single dev that runs a $30k\mo software based company off of PHP+MariaDB+bootstrap+jQuery+few other plugins. Hosted on a managed HIPPA setup. The firewall+app+DB servers run me about $550\month and I have excellent support. I spend effectively 100% of my time on business logic\ui and zero time keeping up to date on infrastructure (and learning it). Which means my customers benefit from me fixing problems and adding features. Kudos to what works for you....super great... And, for me at least...it is even more "boring" and awesome.

Great list. Would be awesome if the search terms were clickable. To be clear, I am lazy and do not "expect" them to be clickable, only that... Hey... Making computers easier is mostly what a lot of us do.

Very sparse on details. Artifacts in Texas also point to possibly 15500 years ago. A northern origin might put Idaho even earlier. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21436451)

That said, I'm always extra cautious with claims out of Idaho and Utah given the density of people with very high desire to find ancient civilization. Eg the ongoing search and occasional "Discovery" of Nephilim Giants.

"Certain areas within parts of the brain linked to attachment, nurturing, empathy and the ability to interpret and react appropriately to a baby’s behavior had more gray and white matter between 12 and 16 weeks than they did between two and four weeks."

For you father-programmers out there: did you notice any changes in your programming/work abilities around the 12-16 week mark?

"Calories in vs Calories" out is grossly and wrongly oversimplified to the point of likely being harmful. Consider this simple point: the Metabolic Energy of Almonds can vary by as much as 25% simply by the way they are processed. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2016/FO/C6FO0...

"Zen employs a dynamic predictor known as a hashed perceptron." When will Hollywood tap into this wealth of cool vocabulary?

Is this a gimmicky marketing term, or is it logical\descriptive\rational?

7/10 garbage??? Are you not receiving the items you ordered? Or are you ordering the lowest-priced items and expecting premium product?

We have two couples living in our house and receive 5-15 Amazon packages a week and have never had a single "OMG this is counterfeit/fake/literal garbage" moment. And all of us LOVE to complain about any opportunity that has a sliver of a chance at a discount. Meanwhile, I have read numerous HN accounts of "OMG, Amazon is always sending me counterfeit/fake stuff"

At this point, I'm honestly thinking there are troll(s) on HN bashing Amazon. Also, the returns are EASY, so... What gives? I hate that Amazon is TBTF and Bezos controls more resources than some Nations, but the facts for me are: Amazon delivers what I want very quickly at reasonable prices. They often have items that I literally cannot buy locally. I wish I could always support my local people, but often as not, Amazon does a better job with less friction.

Seriously? 7\10?? You buy 10 widgets and (want to) return 7 of them? I'm just going to say this now: you are either pulling numbers out of your ass (on a technical-loving web site) or you are outright lying.

"A type confusion vulnerability can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects due to issues in Array.pop. This can allow for an exploitable crash. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw."

I'm at a loss imagining how this might work, can anyone expound on this? How might this actually occur?

It appears to me that this may be an opportunity to harness the gut to intentionally deliver multi-stage options: perhaps relying on microbiome-consumption for timing and\or changing strategy mid-digestion?

To what would have been my great loss, I almost gave up on this article after reading the first three paragraphs. They set the stage for an agonizingly long article that would have made me work hard to glean meaningful insight. However, the rest of the article was somehow both consice enough for me to stay engaged, and descriptive enough for me to learn. (This is my humble plea to journalists to please forego this type of writing)

Oh wow, "full stack" is now not only unfashionable, but considered so ridiculous as to be laughable? "Cloud" I get, it has always been a nonsensical marketing term, but "full stack" at least has honest roots in the term LAMP.

I still provision my own Linux (VPS) servers, administer MariaDB on them and string it all together with PHP and sprinkle in non-trivial Javascrpt for UI and graphing. My company is profitable, customers are happy, and my software feeds 2 families well.

My methods are antiquated, sure, but if me telling people I'm a full stack developer is laughable/wrong, then I'm truly lost.

I emphatically disagree. If your job has high stress, then relaxing and checking out can pay huge dividends; up to and including the ability to maintain your high stress job. Additionally, for those of us who take more exploration-learning-bucket-list style vacations, the memories and knowledge offer more value the earlier in life you take them, as they contribute to lifelong education. Finally, the vacations provide networking opportunities, opening doors due to shared experiences leading to new friendships and possibly new jobs or clients.

Agreed, and it could be even better if they removed the 'scroll to top' button.

My junior thought: spending 3 days to optimize code to make the UI faster and use fewer resources will be appreciated by managers and users, so win-win.

My senior thought: spend 1 day to SOLVE the problem, and 5 minutes removing the code entirely.

Firefox has ~250M users as of about 9 months ago and $562M revenue for 2017.

I'd honestly pay $2 per month (12 times "my share") for a Firefox that completely disavows the ad model and produces a truly user-centric experience sans ads, fingerprinting, etc. However, given that over 95% of their revenue comes from Royalties, I don't see that turning around any time soon.

Not sure who is down voting you or why. Maybe because you (gasp) gave a recommendation on health insurance. Although I do not want to recommend anything to anyone, I will say that I DEEPLY REGRET the COBRA that I paid for and sincerely hope that folks will strongly consider that insurance != health.

The Walmart/Whole Foods analogy is so completely inappropriate to this topic that I would say it's "Not even wrong". The author placed it literally at the heart of their article (paragraph 5 of 10) and after positing it, concedes "Such a low-cost alternative does not exist for most of medical care." I wish I could say I "see what they were trying to do here" but honestly am too confused by it. Are they seriously trying to clarify basic economics? The prior paragraph was basically "People like having better options when they can afford them".

Don't get me started on them using the Mean(!!!) household GDP of $155,000. (just to clarify: using the mean here dramatically misrepresents the average American because the mean includes billionaires. the median for 2017 was $61,372)

Oh for sure. I see so many areas in the city where I reimagine as pedestrian only and basically weep inside for the lost opportunity.

I don't think it is so simple. Eg: people now taking extra trips because it is easy and cheap to do so. Eg: "I'll just Uber the 6 blocks to my next shopping spot" instead of walking. This happens in my friend group all the time. Plus people traveling to the city at all BECAUSE Uber makes intracity travel easy. Eg: I live in the East Bay and hate driving within the city, but am happy to be escorted around it on a whim but would have otherwise stayed more local.

Photography in the early 2000s. Made enough to level up my gear multiple times over. Renovated houses from 03-07. But now my money making side projects are programming-based.

I'm curious if this scales down well. The test was done on "One AWS c4.8xlarge with 36vCPU and 60GiB Memory". But could I run this on a tiny vps to index, search, catalog my million-odd documents?

Google's constant shifting finally lead us to abandon it in favor of Zoom. We used Google Hangouts, then Meet for 3 years. Finally switched to Zoom and happy. It always seems to be 5% better (our marketing guy always used it for external meetings).

Thank you for your response! As a Shark(tank investor), I would say "I'm Out, but truly, good luck on your endeavor!" :)

I admit; I don't read most articles. I prefer the HNer snippets like this. I generally find HN comments to be more cogent and provocative than most editorial nonsense. So, thank you parent, for choosing and posting a snippet which you considered worthy.

Although I'm happy you are actually doing /something/ about it, and the limited information in this comment seems like the project may have flaws. A robot needs more material than just recycled plastic (glass/metals? power source? processing? fasteners/glue/resin to stick it all together? Plastic-collection device?). Undoubtedly, there will be an addition of material to the ocean system. Will the all-in cost of adding the additional material offset the all-in cost of the amount of plastic reduction? What damage can these devices do when they malfunction? What environmental harm can happen when they break?

Is this even a good approach? What part of the problem does this tackle? It seems like the main problem is "How do we get the most plastic out of the ocean possible". The "Many Robots" idea seems to identify the least difficult of the problems, which is "What do we do with the material once it is collected". Indeed, I suspect 1,000 super durable metal robots made on land that have sufficient technology would be superior to 10,000 'recycled' bots. Indeed, 1 gargantuan vehicle cruising the ocean and pumping out giant plastic floating cubes would be even more efficient.

Then again, if you've made a robot that can collect micro plastics from the ocean and reproduce itself well enough such that its prodigy can do the same, then you've already won.