skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agree, and I'll extend it to finding cofounders through hackathons too. It's a huge ask for both parties, especially since you'll be financially and mentally be in each other's pockets the whole time.

You don't do that to someone you've just met. That's akin to proposing after a one night hookup on Tinder.
It's not totally off-the-mark. Having a pile of cash in your pocket does not automagically allow one to revolutionize a sector, just ask any VC.

But yes, it was a bit overblown.
It might be possible, but I don't think it would be practical. It's easy to forget how big the numbers are when dealing with water.

For example, all three Chunnel tunnels add up to less than 4500 acre-feet in volume.
It makes me wonder then about drugs like Modafinil.
I'd also point out that it can be more simple than that - what you've described is 100% arbitrage. However, perhaps someone simply buys several levels (sweeps) the BATS book. Assuming they didn't also take out ARCA and IWM and everywhere else, it then becomes a race to buy at those exchanges.

Sure that example won't give a risk-free profit, but getting good edge like that thousands of times a day will average out to a nearly guaranteed winning day.
"She doesn't produce a pretty, periodic
sound when she performs these behaviors,
like we do when we speak," Perlman says.
"But she can control her larynx enough to
produce a controlled grunting sound."

If the innumerable worlds within the billions of galaxies in our universe are indeed sprinkled with life, I can't help but feel my hypothesis reinforced that we must be within the top 0.01% of evolutionarily-developed planets. Gorillas themselves would have to be in the top 1%, maybe fish in the top 10%.

Of course, this doesn't discount the vaguely terrifying idea of a top 0.001%.
Isn't it strange, and not very efficient for
such a large number of very prosperous
companies to be located all in one area.

Once a cluster of companies has formed, employees think being anywhere else will make it harder to change jobs/advance their career, and employers think being anywhere else will make it harder to hire people.
You want to build vertically in an earthquake prone area?

You need to move a bit east, friend. There _is_ going to be an earthquake.
Has anyone determined which stages of sleep this occurs?
All of the "Startup" resources, like The Lean Startup, etc that aren't busy glorifying VCs or the SV model, are useful for these businesses.

The only difference between a "lifestyle" business and the "Silicon Valley" model is whether you are in control over your own destiny and focused on building a business, or whether you're selling out to people who want to increase your risk and their possible profits, with the expectation that you'll get a nice bonus in your acquihire.

In a way, YC and VCs have ruined startups, by making people think this SV model -- which is great for Facebook, google and yelp, but terrible for the billion other startups is the One True Way.
I think lots of people would enjoy serving on a jury if two things were fixed:

* You don't have to spend a full day in a courthouse doing nothing during the selection process

* The government guarantees you will continue receiving your normal income during the trial
Doubt it.

The separation is mostly distinct, at least to me. We mostly use imperial and in science class and such we use mostly metric.

The worst of both world I've seen was England.

They're mostly metric until you drive their car and then they decide to use mile per hour. That's pretty random...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_speed_limits_in_the_Unite...

While the article doesn't flat out say it but if you stare at the uk speed sign image and the comment below the image you will see they are in fact in MPH.

edit:

found an article about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_King...
For anyone interested in the talks from the recent RustCamp, the videos are now available: http://confreaks.tv/events/rustcamp2015
Without blindly claiming that Snowden was a staged act by the NSA and done on purpose to shake things up and ruffle feathers, it certainly is an interesting thought experiment to run if you love conspiracy theories. Imagine that was the case! Possible explanations for a false flag:

1.) Public needed to know where there money was going
2.) Not enough to know we're being watched. We need tangible evidence of surveillance apparatus
3.) Leaks designed to bolster the web and privacy; look how many people suddenly care about security
4.) NSA got tired of working in a black box and wanted to flaunt its power
5.) Other reasons?
I tried to find their reporting to the build up to iraq war - if they did it would be there. But I found nothing - seems like everything has been scrubbed from google :( On reuters / iraq in range 2003-2004 google finds nothing hosted on their domain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
Except for all those people who telecommute or hire teleciommuters.
Nice to see daemontools-inspired work on HN in the past few days. I've been using runit for years, and as other comments have said, it's just not something I ever have to worry about. When I look around at other solutions it seems like I'd be taking a huge step back (making things more complex with arguably less usefulness).

I've been meaning to do some blog posts about runit, as it seems like it sits on the back-burner in general. Does anyone know how actively it's maintained, or has it just reached such stability that it doesn't need much maintenance? It would neat to see it on github with some real docs and such.
The entrepreneur sub-reddit frequently has posts from guys who are starting or trying to start online lifestyle businesses. It's somewhat hit or miss. But if you check it every few days you can find some real gems. Some of the businesses really open your eyes to ways to make money online.

The narratives are much less about massively disruptive, world changing startups and much more about making a good living through mostly internet businesses.

https://www.reddit.com/r/entrepreneur
Hey you don't have to tell me twice! But it sounds like sleeping disorders might make that tough?
I have been trying to bootstrap a one man software shop for the last 2 years and recently released v2 of the software. How I usually explain it to my "work" friends is that the highs are higher and the lows are lower while trying to do everything yourself.
I would have jumped at the opportunity of having a cofounder for that reason, but never found the right people interested.
In that case Rust has exactly the same cross compilation story. You're lowering the bar for Go but not for Rust if you're making that comparison.
No serious venture is plausible to tackle alone. But every venture that YC has funded could be done with a single founder. There are other people in companies and they're called employees. You can get to demo day with one founder and employees.

How many YC companies have failed or split or reformed because the founders visions didn't align?
not the OP, but I met mine in grad school. We were working on different projects in a similar area. We really only decided to become cofounders after a year of graduating, because finishing one thesis and immediately hopping to another seemed like the fastest way to a burnout.
Please add "Having Jury Nullification Explained in Detail" to your list.
It's even more messed up with an adblocker.
You don't even know what is going on http://imgur.com/K9VvuWs
Fwiw, the US Government is pretty big. And it's not like we all get secret decoder rings and meet up once a year to figure out how to trick the public in the next year.

There's a lot of organizations with a lot of different goals.
That's true.

It's not always going to be the same from an advice standpoint but at worst you will have the accountability factor from somebody who's equally vested.
Per the comment there is some speculation on carbide. Something I don't think anyone has done is try to get a spectrum reading off the fireball. Typically various chemicals burn at different wavelengths so perhaps a hint of what was burning might be discernible by analyzing the spectra of the resulting light. What I don't know is how accurately a cell phone camera can reproduce that spectra, or if there is a mapping function from camera to spectra.
Avoiding anti-virus software altogether could make it pretty hard for any government to spy on you.
Most people do not have a background in security so this is anything but a 'duh' moment for them. The more news like this that makes it to the mainstream media, the more hopeful I am that regular folks will learn the state of security today.
Since the page renders terribly for me, here are all the videos the page links to:

I am Tech: Challenges - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg_ECYhptDo

I am Tech: Love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5EzYG-2fss

I am Tech: Advice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NqI-0u9sA

Hilary Stone @ Mixpanel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_STckadkcVQ

Jenny Finkel @ Mixpanel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2YaP4UfHY

Liz Clinkenbeard @ Github - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_tVT0dhEMU
To be clear, 18F is not be "skipping the procurement process" and has released their own Agile BPA which is great. Skipping the procurement process would be the sign of a bad workaround.

A critical part to fixing "the problem" is both creating vehicles for new kinds of companies to access government and reduce the overall risk of government officials purchasing from those companies.

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM / Accenture / Whatever" applies in government as well, but the appetite for risk can be even lower than in the private sector, with higher costs of entry.

Top-level butt-coverage from the White House / OSTP and another agency demonstrating that it is possible and creating the contract vehicles to get more agile / lean / innovative businesses in the door goes a long way to solving this problem.
All of these are great (really, not being smug) but FWIW neither TRPL nor the Rustonomicon address my needs (Rust by example is probably the closest). It may be related to the weird set of skills and needs I have but hey, I'll post about my experience anyway in case someone shares my POV. ;)

My background includes OS development (Windows COM), driver development (C for kernel mode driver and C for HW firmware development), web development (C#/ASP.NET and JavaScript - both in browser and Node.js), and most recently HW simulation using C++/SystemC. Mixed bag, I know. What I want to use Rust for is desktop app development. I could go C, but that's a lot of manual labor. I could go C# but I don't like paying cost of the runtime on desktop. I could go C++ but I don't like getting my soul crushed. I tested viability of Node (and Python, actually) for desktop apps but it just didn't fit my needs.

So I want to love Rust. And I kinda do. Initially I didn't like certain things (bits of syntax mostly) but I've learned to love them. The problem is: none of the resources tell me interesting stuff all the way through the system. I feel like knowledge could be laid out with all the details from "this is syntax" to "this is what happens" to "this is what you can/cannot do" to "this is why this happens" to "this is what this means to the compiler" to "this is what happens under the hood/in asm".

I'd also[1] love to have something that roughly maps rust to C and gives me clear explanation of pros/cons of various approaches. It wasn't immediately obvious to me if I can have static methods. Of whether it's important to have self mutable (or not) as a method param. Or how to organize structures now that I have to keep mutability in mind. I know this comes with time but I'd love a kick of sorts. :) Best ideas tend to come from reading existing pieces of code but rarely knows if author is worth mimicking. :S

Either way - I'm invested and I like what I'm seeing. Great work guys!

[1] or these could become one thing, dunno
My advice is to just try stuff and see what sticks. The space of unexplored business models is much larger than what's covered in the typical self-help places.
There is no key as such. The fob for my Hyundai never leaves my pocket. Just by standing next to the car, the unlock button on the door is enabled. So if I walk up and push the button, it unlocks. If I'm not around, the button does nothing.

So there's no discernible event from the fob, as far as I can see. It's just a "this is me" signal.
Depends heavily on what you need to provision, and whether you can select your provisioned environment based on what you want to support. Upstart is, at this point, effectively dead for any future distribution. However, if you want to support existing Ubuntu LTS distributions for the remainder of their lifetime, you'll need to handle it. Similarly, if you want to support the current rounds of enterprise distributions, you still need to support sysvinit. And if you have any non-Linux systems, you'll need to handle whatever they use as well.

On the other hand, if you can ensure that your production systems all run relatively recent Linux distributions, you can safely assume systemd. Which specific distributions you have in production will determine the oldest version of systemd you have to support; since new features get added regularly, you'll want to know the oldest version you can assume.

What are you trying to provision, and what requirements do you have?
> I was in California six months ago and was taken aback by the lack of worry.

Exactly. I was there in April. It was surreal to me how normal everything seemed to me. I do not think reality sets in until you run out, which has happened to some towns in the Central Valley.

Edit: also, the fact that some residential areas are not metered seems nuts: http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25303957/california-dr...
you should probably add "natively" to your quote. WINE makes those numbers far higher.
I use GNU dmd instead. Simple and very extensible with Scheme. I use it as PID 1 on 2 of my machines, but I use another instance of it as a user service manager on all of my machines. I've also been meaning to replace runit with dmd in Phusion's passenger-docker image to get something more hackable.

https://gnu.org/s/dmd
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but I saw the same thing in Palo Alto earlier this year. I walked through the neighborhood and twice saw hoses left on leaking water on the home's front walkway. That doesn't count the 10-20 sprinklers that were running mid-day.

I understand that personal use is nothing compared to agricultural use, but it's as if everyone will continue business as usual until all the water is gone, and then it feels like "shrug oh well guess we'll move".
I loved that service. Would be interesting to see how much it is going for. How many lines of code is it?
You could have walked around Wall St. in 2008-2012 and thought a recession never happened. You're not going to see 40 million people with rain catchers outside their homes if that's what you are expecting. The effects are much more insidious than that. It doesn't mean people aren't worrying or doing anything about it.
From Note #1, http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html :
"The biggest exits are the only ones that matter financially, and those are guaranteed in the sense that if a company becomes big enough, a market for its shares will inevitably arise. Since the remaining outcomes don't have a significant effect on returns, it's cool with us if the founders want to sell early for a small amount, or grow slowly and never sell (i.e. become a so-called lifestyle business), or even shut the company down."
One change that comes to mind that someone might see as trivial: "{}".format("foo") works in 2.7 and not in 2.6 (in 2.6 it must be "{0}".format("foo")).
How to get instance method's next-in-line parent class from `super()` in Python
Pretty sure it's illegal for federal entities to lobby Congress. The Anti-lobbying Act makes it pretty hard, anyway. But folks like you could lobby your reps and senators and attempt to get them to increase federal pay. This is a democracy, after all, and you are the constituent.
For an analogy you can look inside a car engine take it appart verify its components. But if you take a look inside the software and take it apart you are suddenly potentially breaking license agreements. This agreements violate free speech if you find something you may not tell others about it or risk getting sued.
Founders tend to have insider info on when a company is headed for death. Side projects are essentially an internal acknowledgement of that, but the "official" death of the company or the publicizing of the side project only takes place once the project has gained enough momentum that they know it's worth pursuing full-time. Mattermark/Refer.ly is a perfect example of that.
> Additionally the idea of "lifestyle" startups is well known in SV and the concept is also well known to be frowned upon by the VC's

You're confusing hacker news with "silicon valley". That's a mistake. And VCs are irrelevant, really, in this age of angels. Thank god they are going away, though of course they don't realize it yet.

VCs are the enemy. If you want to have a successful company, never deal with them, except at the very latest stages where you give them a bond like return in exchange for them getting to claim they invested in your company.

Angels are generally your friend, though.

Your thinking will be better off if you just don't think of the term "lifestyle" business. It's a pejorative used to manipulate you into wasting your life in service to someone else's narrative.

I'm not some kid with a keyboard- I've spent nearly 30 years in the trenches dealing with VCs and helping startups.
We business leaders know what to do. But do we have the will to do it? Are we willing to control the excessive greed so prevalent in our culture today and divert resources to better education and the creation of more opportunity?

I think we need to wrestle with the fact that the world has changed and education and credentialing are different things. Education and information can be made available to large numbers of people for very little money via the Internet. It doesn't get you a status-y sheepskin, but that doesn't always matter.

This new reality requires a new approach to sharing the wealth. I don't know what exactly that will look like, but I am confident that we need to hammer that out.

The fact that real wages have been flat for about four decades, while productivity has increased by 80 percent, shows that has not been happening. Before the early 1970s, wages and productivity were both rising. Now most gains from productivity go to shareholders, not employees.

This is a serious problem and needs to be clearly addressed.

There is a way to start. Government can provide tax incentives to business to pay more to employees making $80,000 or less. The program would exist for three to five years and then be evaluated for effectiveness.

I have my doubts that this is the way to address it.

Generally speaking, poverty solutions that start by trying to help 'poor' people are dead ends that do not work. A more oblique approach, that defines the problem in other terms, is usually more effective.
I sincerely cannot wait for those quantum dot spectrometers to arrive inside our cell phones [1].

Edit: these things could've saved lives, specifically the firefighters.

[1]: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/quantum-dot-spectrometer-smar...
Those who do the block trades are not generally HFTs
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Its possible that sleeping on your side allows the glymphatic pathway to clear waste more efficiently.

http://www.futurity.org/side-sleeping-brains-979872/
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While he shouldn't be absolved... he shouldn't be charged with war crimes or espionage in this case. There are many other things he could be charged with allowing for a reasonable defense.
You joke but people took this seriously:

http://www.ibtimes.com/octopus-made-better-world-cup-predict...
When I lived in Seattle, I once was late paying my rent (by mistake I put the check in the wrong box).

The landlord put a note on my door saying, I paraphrase, that I either pay or get kicked out in a few days.

Do you think that before kicking me out they should have given me $20k to ease the pain and suffering I would endure due to not having a place to live?

Are the rules for those people different?
Great link, I agree with the comment that if the carbide went off it could set off the ammonium nitrate. Basically a really really big car bomb at that point.
Holding breath and avoiding inhaling dust and flies possibly doesn't require as fine motor control as necessary for speech. In that light, the first paragraph of your comment can't refute the hypothesis without referencing some empirical results, so the second paragraph is absurdly confident.
Former neuroscientist here (though I did not work directly on Alzheimer's or sleep).

Anesthesia and sleep are different states, though there are some similarities. Here's a figure that illustrates what 'typical' EEG looks like in these various states: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162622/figure/F...

A smattering of other differences off the top of my head: you can feel pain when you're asleep, but not under anesthesia. It is possible to wake up a sleeping subject or patient with sounds or shaking, but not one under anesthesia. Also you'll feel refreshed after you sleep, but not after anesthesia.
You said this statement:

> men have struggles just the same

Was wildly incorrect. It is not.
What would be great would be if someone would take up UTF-8B again. I mentioned his death because otherwise you might think he lost interest in the project, but no, he lost interest in living.
a thief had to spend several minutes in a compromising pose near the car

A couple of weeks ago I saw someone using a slimjim, and I did nothing. I have never done anything in reaction to a car alarm. I'm not sure that thief's pose is sufficiently compromising.
Apple designer Marc Newson hates how modern cars look
You're making a good point- you never found the right person.

Alas, PG's essay has come to be takend as "you must have a cofounder or you aren't serious" with little attention paid to finding the right person.

The right person is damn hard to find.

And when "not having a co founder means nobody believed in you" (the converse of what he actually said) then any co founder becomes the right cofounder.

This is the problem with HN, and even YC to a lesser extent-it's become cargo cultism based on PGs essays, propagated by people who have little to no experience in Startups.
There are related learning benefits to sleeping, in particular for materials studied shortly before sleep.

http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/benefits...

http://www.psywww.com/intropsych/ch06_memory/studying_before...
video footage after explosion:

http://us.sinaimg.cn/001ZEXa6jx06UCsnbb15050401049TNs0k03.mp...
if you've had college level linear algebra, probability, calc before, there's lots of good review/reference materials

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mac...

https://www.metacademy.org/roadmaps/cjrd/level-up-your-ml

I think the Prob books by Sheldon Ross are good tho there's negative Amazon reviews, and the three LA texts by Axler, Strang and Insel/Friedberg/spence are worth buying (older editions for < $25 shd be good enough
My experience: because you can probably still do it better.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter are far from omnipotent. Want proof? Just look at Google's failed attempts to get into TV advertising or social networking. Or Facebook's attempts with Messenger. Or Twitter's... everything, really.

Also, consider, it's unlikely any of them would copy an idea until you've already made it a success, at which point network effects can work in your favour (again, Google's repeatedly aborted attempts in social networking are illustrative, here).

To summarize: they might try to copy you, but there's no reason to assume they'll succeed.
Ad Hoc and Nava are both awesome groups of people!