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throwaway3157··on Ask HN: Crude oil price-linked ETF?
Check out BNO. It may be what you're looking for
throwaway3157··on Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote
I've used Draw.io over screenshare successfully, when needed
throwaway3157··on What happens to your emails after you die
> login info and MFA devices in a lock-box for them to inherit.

This seems wise, but won't work unless the software allows multiple MFA devices. I need my MFA device & phones on me to access my accounts several times a day. My bank logs me out after a few minutes and requires MFA to get back in

throwaway3157··on How to sell to 20M software devs with amazing onboarding
> Full transparency, I worked with Algolia when I was a YC partner years ago. I also invested from my fund. But I've been meaning to do a sit-down discussion with this team for a while. We've funded a lot of API-first developer-focused businesses in the past: Easypost, Lob, Apollo GraphQL, and developer focused stuff like LogDNA and so some of this is wanting to point to things that work well. Interactivity in particular is really important to nail in first time experience. I'm also a customer of Algolia— I use it in all my software projects including Posthaven and Bookface at YC. I had to implement Lucene at Palantir and I used both Lucene and Thinking Sphinx when I ran engineering (and devops too) for my top 200 site Posterous. (In retrospect I should have hired a devops team... but that's another story.) And the contrast between running your own search at scale and having something work out of box with code that's ready to rock... I genuinely believe it's pretty magical.

You didn't answer OP's question, which was:

> This is an advertisement of Algolia. Isn't it?

Reflecting on your answer, you appear to be advertising for Algolia as well. It's a nice product, but the impression I get is that OP is right -- this post is an advertisement.

throwaway3157··on HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space
> was bummed that it was compiled from Haxe

Why do you need a "real" JS version? Is it that you want to be able to read/edit from a human-source, rather than a Haxe-compiled source (which I assume is less legible)?

throwaway3157··on “Just walk out” technology by Amazon
> When I've used to Amazon Go store,

My receipt was in the app shortly after (I walked about two blocks and checked). I think it took longer for an email to show up, but can't recall exactly

throwaway3157··on Robinhood goes down again, causing customers to miss out on another trading day
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22525494

On front-page, with more comments

throwaway3157··on Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day
> In the era of on demand computing, near limitless cloud resources

Should be pointed out that BoA decided to build their own "cloud"

throwaway3157··on River (Typography)
The caption of one of the article's images says "Czech proofreader's marks for a river". Does this mean that points were deducted for a student unintentionally creating a river? The article does not elaborate
throwaway3157··on [dead]
Dupe. On the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22525494
throwaway3157··on Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
For those unaware, this is common practice -- it a control that is working as intended. The trading was halted for 15 minutes
throwaway3157··on Beer Drinkers Guide to SAML
What do you mean here? Encoded in their API?

And If they don’t like JWT, why don’t they use something else?

throwaway3157··on Beer Drinkers Guide to SAML
I’m currently typing on a personal mobile device that is trusted by my software employer
throwaway3157··on Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
Who are the customers for such unreliable systems?
throwaway3157··on Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
> Can't be more than 2.5 because Backblaze B2 already gives you $5/TB/Mo.

Well it can be, if they have a lot of inefficiencies. Backblaze could have more experienced engineers who overcame these. I assure you, I can accidentally design a very expensive storage system as I’m not that smart ;)

throwaway3157··on Facebook sues Namecheap
I know some attorneys are on HN, so question: does Namecheap/Whoisguard have a legal obligation to reveal that requested info?
throwaway3157··on Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry?
> Bureaucracy is rarely as expensive as aggressive profiteering.

Have you seen the DoD and other gov entity contracting? Perhaps we can expect the same level of contracting that the DoD has today, outsourcing those expensive mistakes to others, for them to take the blame/fall/

I can see a situation where pharma bureaucrats refuse to approve or pursue things, because government mistakes are more unforgivable than business mistakes (where failure and experiments are often encouraged). I would expect more layers of approval/red-tape to develop as no-one wants to accept the blame of approving.

throwaway3157··on Coronavirus is mutating: Chinese scientists find a second strain of Covid-19
Is this fairly common / expected? The article makes this seem expected
throwaway3157··on Gov report bizarrely claims net neutrality repeal raised incomes $50B a year
> 5G is nothing but a big Trojan Horse.

What does this mean?

throwaway3157··on Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus
I use a website from a local private lender. It requires info about the kind of mortgage you want, the value of the property, your credit score, the zip code, etc. If you don't know where to look, you can start with Zillow's tool: https://www.zillow.com/mortgage-rates/
throwaway3157··on Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull Out, 30K Sign Petition
> Most fan-run conventions run on a barely-above-breakeven budget at the best of times.

Ya, I've had local races get cancelled due to weather, and they also have a no-refund policy. Much of the revenue has already been spent, so I understand.

throwaway3157··on Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus
Well, for starters it is against this site's guidelines

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

throwaway3157··on Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus
It looks like the rates actually went slightly up from a few days ago (though these depends on many variables, but I'm comparing to my local rate that I've been checking for weeks). Might change tomorrow based on today's news.
throwaway3157··on Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus
> The US is also moving into a demographic downturn, thanks to republican policies.

Please don't post partisan political comments without a source.

Edit: I appreciate the downvotes for kindly asking people to follow HackerNews' guidelines

throwaway3157··on The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present
Cool. When you evaluated all the alternatives, did you stash a pro/con list somewhere on a blog? I’d appreciate reading it
throwaway3157··on Postgres Explain Visualizer
I'm familiar with SQL, but not Postgres. Is there a good example plan/query that I can use to test this demo?
throwaway3157··on What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
Do you have a blog? I'd enjoy reading some of your tricks.

Also, how do you manage things when one of those banks decides to change the layout/format?

throwaway3157··on Remote access to production infrastructure (death to the VPN)
Hey Matt. I appreciate images in articles, but GIFs are very distracting while trying to read. May I suggest static images next time?
throwaway3157··on Procore IPO: S-1 Breakdown
Procore is a construction tech "unicorn".

A helpful analysis of the S-1 can be found here: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/construction-tech-unicorn-p...

The summary:

> It revealed both increased revenue and net loss in 2019. Specifically, the company’s revenue surged 55 percent in 2019 to $289.2 million compared with $186.4 million in 2018. At the same time, its net loss was up by 46.5 percent to $83.1 million in 2019 compared to $56.7 million in 2018.

throwaway3157··on Privacy critique of WhatsApp
> If you only knew the amount of criminals caught in Europe because of the perceived privacy of WhatsAPP.

Is there a high correlation between criminals and intelligence?

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