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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Yup. The remote worker visa application was simple enough (I'm self employed). I live in a nice apartment in Tartu for 800 euros, 40 for internet, 30-100 for utilities, 70ish for health insurance. I've got a gym, store and pizza p
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
The Hungarian algorithm. It solves the assignment problem (the optimal way to assign workers to tasks given their completion time of each task). The assignment problem looks hopelessly O(n!), but by some magic, the algorithm can solve it in
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Something to consider: Make it possible to create a nudge without signing up. I would even go as far as making the homepage the interface to setup a notification (with ample explanatory text). I think it's much more likely to catch on
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
A phrase constantly repeated in my anthropology class comes to mind: "to survive and reproduce". You have the survival part down, but you are missing the other half. I think anyone without kids is at high risk to feel empty as the
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I'm in a similar boat. But try as I might, I have yet to find a solution for the "I forgot the email address I registered with, and I am too nervous/confused/unimaginative to try my other email addresses, nor will I clic
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Gusto never responded. That is quite incriminating to me (you can't plea the 5th in the marketplace).
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I just emailed Gusto to find out if they are sharing data with Equifax. I did not see a way to opt out in the employer or employee interface.
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Do any UK people here know what the typical employer taxes are on payroll? US companies pay around 10% of the employee's salary in taxes (~8% for social security and some change for workers compensation, unemployment and whatever else
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Most bots don't bother setting cookies, or downloading CSS. Exploit this by including a dummy CSS file on your site that, on the backend, stores the visitor's IP in some kind of database, or sets a cookie. If you get multiple visi
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Unless something has changed, Adyen only works with businesses with payment volumes in the millions. They don't have a sign up form. It's a "Contact Us" kind of thing.
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
There's a cost to handling cash. It can get stolen by employees or robbers. It can leak away when giving incorrect change. There's a chance you get counterfeit bills. The bank charges you to deposit it. And most brick and mortar b
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
When a resource is cached, how do you know ahead of time how long to cache it for? If you set X-Accel-Expires to 5 minutes, but the resource is edited 3 minutes later, how do you evict the item from the nginx cache? You can figure out whe
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
When a non cached request comes in to the Python layer, I set a response header with that object's modified date. Lua intercepts that response header, and stores the modification date in a shared dictionary under that object's cac
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I run several SaaS apps on a single big OVH server. It handles 6 million non-cached requests per day. The backend stack is pretty basic: Django/Python, MySQL, redis (pub/sub) for websockets. But the secret sauce is OpenResty. I us
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Does anyone know why nginx used separate processes for workers, instead of threads? This post makes it sound like threads are the way to go, but presumably nginx had a reason for using processes back in the day.
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
A Costco mixed nut container. Eat the nuts, scrape off the label, and you've got something more useful than a typical packing cube. You can densely pack clothes in it, or use it as a catch all container for loose items. It's clear
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
You have to read the fine print, but generally they do. The coverage is limited to the time period you purchased it for, and they are unlikely to renew it if you get cancer. To work the system, you need to ensure you're covered until J
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
On behalf of HN (which I have no authority to speak for) please disregard that bizarre rant by our resident curmudgeon. If you really did all that in 2 hours, that's quite an accomplishment! But I think it's a little early for a S
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I moved away from Namecheap because they threaten to deactivate one of my domains within 24 hours after receiving a fabricated abuse complaint from a reputation management company. I saw from my logs that Namecheap did not even visit the pa
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I wonder if this person knows that you do not have to respond to a C&D or submit to its demands? If a party makes a frivolous demand like this, yes, they can file a lawsuit against you. But the chances of that happening are quite slim.
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Putting my dang hat on. Related: Tell HN: Stripe brought my business to a dead stop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21030633 - September 2019 Tell HN: Stripe shut down my 4-year business with no explanation - ht
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Why is revenue the prevailing number used for measuring a business? I see revenue cited almost universally these days, with no mention of profit. A hardware company that makes $100k in revenue (with no profit) is very different than a SaaS
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Go to indiehackers.com and find out what profitable businesses people have created. Make a competitor. The profit margins in SaaS are phenomenal so there is always room for new entrants. You can throw some keywords into the Google Keyword P
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I would never keep more than $250K in a bank. Many people (and even tellers at the bank) don't understand FDIC insurance ownership categories. You probably don't have as much insurance as you think. Bank failures do happen, and yo
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I used S3 a few years ago so this might not be as big of a problem now. But when I started using presigned POST requests to upload documents directly to S3 from the client, there were sporadic problems from the US military, some corporation
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
This is great! On minor thing: you should scroll to the top of the page when the next button is clicked. I found some not so terrible domains that are actually available: repofire.com - Sounds like one of those named security exploit websit
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Have you considered offering the employee a profit sharing arrangement instead? That would keep your S-Corp administration simpler and save you a lot of paperwork. I run a small SaaS myself, and would never consider adding a shareholder unl
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
OVH has DDoS protection, and using OpenResty as a WAF works well for me. I have a hundred(ish) lines of Lua code to handle attackers that get through OVH. I think most people could manage with a similar setup because most DDoS attacks a
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Small business here. I get hit with DDoS attacks (sometimes as large as 1 Gbps) frequently enough that I won't touch cloud services. I do use Backblaze and Wasabi for user uploads but I proxy them through Nginx (with local caching). My
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
That happened to me. After a few years, Google sent the money to some state agency. I filled out a form and submitted evidence that it was my money. Eventually I got a check in the mail from the bureaucrats. I was surprised it actually work

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