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ertand | 7 years ago | on: Doctors warn of alarming C-section 'epidemic'

Makes sense. As mentioned in the comments, there are different ways of inducing labor. I was referring to usage of pitocin or similar too early in the process, instead of gradually inducing the labor with other medications. We had success with just misoprostol during our labor, but the process was quite long.

ertand | 7 years ago | on: The Scooter Economy

I was hoping to get a more in-depth analysis of the 2-sided network effects of the scooter space. I'm having a hard time understanding the defensibility of these companies against each other. Habit doesn't seem to be enough to win the market. Exclusive contracts or leveraging regulations could be options but they don't feel strong enough either.

If it's not a winner takes all market and multiple players can coexist at the same time, then I don't understand the investment decision from the VC firms to value them so high so early. It feels like Uber/Lyft can easily get into this market and provide a better experience overall.

ertand | 7 years ago | on: Getting Started in Natural Language Processing

You could jointly train a NN to parse the sentence and tackle the NLP task you have at the same time, or instead of just using the tokens you could use a parser to add more features too.

edit: clarification

ertand | 7 years ago | on: Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic

Uber and Lyft are different than scooter services because they leverage the network affects by the availability of drivers and wait times. Scooters could race to cover more districts and provide high availability but this can easily be commoditized. Also, cities have limits on the number of total deployed scooters within a city.

If the scooter companies can get bought by Uber or Lyft, these ride sharing services could also take on the responsibility of distributing these scooters across the city and make them highly available. That would compliment their ride sharing service tho.

ertand | 7 years ago | on: Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-In Authentication

I think the main difference between the two is, IAP aims to replace VPN requirements for Enterprises. It only integrates with Google accounts and it seems to go hand in hand with GSuite. So they are more B2B oriented. We hide our staging servers behind IAP for instance.

Amazon's solution seems to integrate with a few other identity providers and gives the developers the tools to do authorization after authentication is done. It seems to position this more like a B2B2C. Although it feels like it already subsumes Google's IAP by doing so.

This is my understanding by reading the article on Amazon, I haven't actually used it.

ertand | 7 years ago | on: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

Google Duplex was a cool demo but those intents were quite well defined. There is a handful of form slots they are aiming to fill where they can enumerate all the entry points to a conversation as well as misinterpretations. I do agree that this is the direction we are going, however since Google Expert is a broad term tackling a much bigger search space, I'd expect it to work differently.

ertand | 8 years ago | on: Launch HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) – Cryptocurrency portfolio and tax manager

I think this is the best tracker I've seen. Congratulations on the launch!

Will the tax manager be the main part of your business or are you planning to monetize on different set of features? Will cryptocurrency tracking always be free?

How do you aggregate the cryptocurrency prices across exchanges? Do you only calculate it based on the exchanges you support?

ertand | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

Yup, as solotronics said.

On Chrome extensions, minor bugs (or minor bugs in the libraries you depend on) might end up having far worse consequences. Read/write access to only linkedin.com can still leak a decent amount of unwanted information in case there's an exploit.

ertand | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

Looks great. I love the styling.

As a general feedback: I'm a bit cautious about using third party Chrome extensions. I'm more OK with giving auth to my LinkedIn account. Maybe a server side option with headless chrome would be a good addition.

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