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> 1. Don't start a startup for the sake of starting a startup.

Seen that first hand happen. Someone at old work was enamored with "startup world". Read too much HN perhaps... Then came up with an idea for a startup. Right off the bat, could tell it was a forced idea. It was like they sat down and given a task of "come with an idea of a startup in 5 minutes" and they came up with one. It just seemed, well ... artificial. You can almost tell how they went about it in their head "Ok maybe Uber, but like for dogs. So they can go to a park play chase...". It was that kind of thing. However, the amazing thing is it didn't matter! They convinced management to spend money on him and his startup. I believe they are still bankrolling him and his idea 3 years later, while everyone there looked at each other with a look disbelief.

One can argue the startup is good enough, if you can convince some investor to invest in it. You don't need customers, a good idea, profitability, a market, etc etc. You need a dumber investor than you, who will bankroll you and you are done. After that you can always claim you were a CEO of a startup for the rest of your life, and do talks and presentations about it, put it on your resume and so on. It just feels good, you are part of something cool and exciting.
Yup. The site linked to even has a separate page called 'smell', with all kinds of filter mechanisms. Definitely not to remove the smell of your strawberry plants :p

Beyond that, the economics of vegetables and such prevent lighting like this from being profitable. Consider that most people leave their grow lights on for around 16 hours per day on a 100W setup that produces about 25 tomatoes a month for example, which puts you at about 2.5kg which costs locally here about $5. Now just the lights alone for 16 hours a day for a month would be more than $7 on a 15c per kwh price.

The economics aren't bad, you can make it cost about the same as in the store, a little less or a little more, the economics just aren't great and given there's a whole bunch of time and effort, you'd only do this for fun, not to save money. The exception is when growing a crop that isn't $2 per kg but $10 per gram which is pot, so it's no surprise that 9/10 guys probably use this to grow weed. Besides there are much more fun systems around that can look awesome in your house if you just want to grow some veggies mostly on the power of the sun and merely supplemented by grow lights (for a few hours, in certain stages, or in winter), all kinds of hydroponics stuff that's a lot of fun as a DIY project to automate fully without hiding it all in a bucket. There was a tiny hype some time ago (windowfarming n all), but most of the urban farming is still soil based I find.
I had the same sentiment. I eventually ditched the gui and went back to psql (the CLI) based on this advice: http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/13/How-I-Work-With-Pos...

The CLI is really really good for a CLI. Wagon is also good, my coworkers have been using it to pull data and like it a lot.

Overall love postgres, it's been 6 months (since starting a new job) and I'll never go back.
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I used to live in Berkeley and did the walk/BART/bus/carshare thing, and it was wonderful. I miss it a lot.
If you ever get the change, I highly recommend a visit to the canal. The scale is hard to comprehend. Watching container ships pass through is super satisfying from an engineering perspective.

My visit: http://theroadchoseme.com/the-panama-canal
A ballot box falling off the back of a truck is a voting system problem that us utterly unrelated to the "verifiable voting mechanism" problem. Talking about them in the same sentence this way obscures both problems.
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>Users can enter the destination before being picked up.

Interesting! Is this just to get a fare estimate? I don't think I ever noticed this feature in the app back when I used it.
Not really surprising since all of those languages (except maybe Vietnamese) derive the pronunciation of both words from Middle Chinese.
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> Somehow a group will find another group and marginalize them.

Precisely as demonstrated by this study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory#Robb...

More links:

http://www.damninteresting.com/not-your-average-summer-camp/

http://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
Transfer to truck/rail would also require a lot of seaport facilities which simply haven't been built in the area (it's designed as a canal, after all). You'd have to send the ships up to some container port on the Gulf of Mexico and ship them out via train to Los Angeles or someplace with capacity.
I made the opposite move about a year ago, and I think you have it right.

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During a shovel rush, sell shovel making machines. ;-)
I'll start with a copy&paste from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_identity_theory:

> A key assumption in social identity theory is that individuals are intrinsically motivated to achieve positive distinctiveness. That is, individuals “strive for a positive self-concept”.

Are you proud to be an American, where at least you'll know you're free? If so, are you a Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, or something else?

Are you proud to be Irish? A Son of Scandinavia? A Daughter of the American Revolution? Do you say it loud that you are black and proud?

Are you a Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or member in another religion? (You don't need to think it makes sense, only that you follow religious practices.)

Are you a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer? An Aggie? A Boomer Sooner? Proud alumni of Wossamotta U?

Are you a little monster? Juggalo? Parrothead? Deadhead? Belieber? Fanilow? Member of the KISS army?

A sporto, motorhead, geek, slut, blood, wastoid, dweeb, or dickhead?

Fan of any sports team?

Are you a runner? Cyclist? Swimmer? Triathlete? Dancer? Skier?

Trekkie? Trekker? SF fan? Con goer? Filker? Otaku?

Employee? True Blue employee of IBM? When you get cut, do you bleed in 6 colors? Are you an entrepreneur? Agileist? Extreme programmer? RAD programmer?

Citizen? Taxpayer? Loving parent? Faithful child?

While some of these are certainly facts - everyone is a child - identity comes into play when there are actions used to achieve what you consider to be a positive distinctiveness.

For possible examples: you are a Muslim so you fast for Ramadan. You wear the jersey of a favorite sports team. You have figurines from your favorite series on your desk. You fly the flag on independence day. You wear green on St. Patrick's Day. You are Catholic and get marked on the forehead for Ash Wednesday. You call your mother on her birthday because it's something a good child should do. You give money to beggars because it's what a good citizen with a bit of extra money should do. You ... well, you get the idea.

On the flip side, students may be required to run as part of P.E. class. They are "runners" in the sense that they are run, but they might not identify as a "runner" if they don't consider it a positive distinctiveness.

I see from your comments that you consider yourself to be a programmer. It's something you do in your free time. If you had the money to be financially independent, you would do more programming. You are on a discussion forum for "hackers".

Why should I believe that you don't identify as being a programmer?

Do you really not notice how identity issues pervade human culture?
Perhaps I'm initially too cynical about what appears at face value to be selfless philanthropy, but I won't consider these efforts to be anything but self-serving unless they're willing to share data about their successes / failures with other educational institutions and governments.
I think the factory-style production of prototypes is causing real effects in terms of the importance of design, just in order to not get brushed off.

There are just so many decent looking projects being posted to Product Hunt every day, and even traditionally crappy-looking mainstream sites like Paypal, GoDaddy, or ESPN actually look decent these days. I just can't imagine a successful new startup that doesn't have solid design people... Not just back end devs who 'have an eye for design', but devs who can fire up a vector tool and make custom graphics if they need it.
I bought three of them. I use two as monitors for my home camera system, I have 6 IP cams and use Blue Iris software as DVR and web streamer. I created a web app I loaded on the tablets and they show a rotating view of each camera for 4 seconds before switching to the next, and if there is motion on a camera it'll switch and stay on that camera until the motion stops. The tablets are set to never sleep, but I use an app to automatically dim the screen at night. I have one mounted to the wall in my room, and one mounted on the wall next to the font door. They are cheap enough that if they die after a year or three, I'll just order more up.
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Interesting question.

I would say that yes, startups (as a whole) are likely diluting their own markets. When a startup notices a real pain point and tries to solve it, but cannot make a sustainable business out of it, it shakes the customers' trust in trying an unproven company. This can have negative consequences.

Think of it this way: currently, people have faith in the 'startup brand'. A potential customer's internal monologue may be something like: "Oh a startup is trying to solve this problem that I have? They're probably doing something really innovative and they're inevitably going to build a successful company because of it." After the same customer gets burned a couple times by a new company shutting down, they're not going to be as likely to put their faith in the next new company that comes around the block. The 'startup brand' to them comes to mean a bunch of naive kids who will fail in the next year or so. Even if this company can do it better than before, it may not be worth the risk of frustration/headaches/delays that using the old startups' software has caused them in the past, so they choose to not try the new product. This makes user acquisition a lot harder, and I'd imagine that it would be a net negative (when compared to a scenario where the weak startups didn't try to start a company).
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They actually are coming up with crazy ways to indirectly obtain measurement without interference or at least less, but this is about the limits of my knowledge on the subject.
I would have changed the year and day capitalization, so that YYYY-MM-DD produces a standard ISO date.

Although, to be fair, strftime() also requires inconsistent capitalization for ISO dates.
There is a lot more to it than just chlorophyll absorption. I've been looking into this lately with regard to saltwater aquarium lighting, and it's pretty complicated stuff. Google "McCree curve" and "Photosynthetically active radiation" for (much) more.
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This is a concern. It could result in needing to either do the job of employees who leave myself, or need to train in temp staff. Either efforts could dilute the viability of spending sufficient time on M&A.
>Passengers and drivers rate each other and bad ones are removed from the system.

Never used Uber/Lyft, so maybe the answer would be obvious if I had, but...

What stops drivers from giving bad ratings based on race or destination? Likewise, what stops passengers from giving drivers bad ratings based on race or some other prejudice?
I have a large collection of post-rock and similar instrumental songs that I frequently listen to while working. Spotify has a great selection of songs on a curated playlist called "Deep Focus". Having something playing that I'm not going to focus on really helps me get in the zone and focus on what I need to get done.

Also, sometimes I'll listen to Coffitivity instead--times that I'm looking for some background noise but I'm tired of the usual playlists. It's a looped recording of various public places. Eventually you get to notice the loops, but its still pretty solid.
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Having grown up in the midwest where everything is a 10 - 20 minute drive, I absolutely love it here. It's literally life changing.
I have three of these, and they don't use the old Amazon tablet interface, they pretty much look like stock android.
It also suffers from the curse of dimensionality, making it weaker as the number of features increase.
Shouldn't a neural net with sufficient unit do that too?
Speaking from experience, The waits at magic mountain in the 80s ran upwards of an hour+, and that was prior to flash/front-of-line passes, so I don't think there is a correlation.
Well, just look at the symbols in his comment. 2 into 3, 4 or 5 is pretty easy looking, as is 1 into 10, 7 or 8. I'm sure you could probably spot more.
A bit of a late reply, but would you say banks are not important to the economy? Or capital markets? Those aren't tangible either. As a sillier example, consider online dating where theres not even an underlying product or service at all (well, no legal ones anyway). Actual tangible objects make up such a small portion of the economy these days. The labor required to grow corn or manufacture furniture or whatever is miniscule in comparison to the number of people those products serve.
What percentage of surgeries allow a patient to be awake during the procedure?
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I moved here from OK, and while traffic would also be my biggest complaint, you adapt to it like anything else. Like someone else posted, you get familiar with the flows -- for instance, northbound I5 is shit after 5pm, so I take side roads.

You gotta pay to live in paradise. I can be on the beach in 15 minutes. From an Oklahoman's perspective, I am basically on vacation year-round.
Yes I think it just happened this week. Definitely the same company:

"Famous was founded in 2011 and has raised over $31 million dollars from Insight Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners and a host of other leading venture capitalists in the Silicon Valley. It's headquarters are at 188 King Street, PH2 in San Francisco, CA.

The company was founded by Steve Newcomb who was best known for creating Powerset, which was bought by Microsoft and is now Microsoft Bing."
I've switched 100% to neovim. Is pretty nice! No real GUI though.
If everything else went to zero, sure. But if everything else went to absolute zero, there are bigger problems than running out of reserves in Cushings, right? Technically if all other input was completely unavailable, I imagine it would have to be some root cause which would probably make the oil in these tanks unmovable as well.

I've read the strategic reserves are more a political play, and a impressive engineering feat, but actually drawing them down doesn't provide nearly the economic value versus just the fact we have them.
This looks awesome! Are you able to use the jsonb data types through this?
This is a bit controversial, as it is very arguable that some of those groups that's charted to eliminate discrimination against those groups exists for the sake of their existence.

In many of those areas, there are so many inflow/outflow of population (perhaps a majority, especially younger demographics, not aware of even such notion existed in the area) from "buraku" areas really doesn't mean anything. So some argue what they are doing is reopening a closed issue.

That's doesn't mean these discriminations do not exist, but there seems to be a lot of conflict of interest in the way the issue is handled.
> "Oh no, you strike me as different."

Well, while in this case there was a very specific reason for her question/doubt -- I don't think it's entirely far-fetched to claim that that'd be the "wrong" answer with a lot of Japanese that didn't have any such "secret".

It's not clear how you phrased "different" - but as you probably know, "different" has a very negative connotation in Japanese in general. I'm suppose there are more positive ways to frame a similar sentiment ("No, I think you're special" - in this case that'd probably be taken as just as bad, though).

Either way, interesting anecdote. (FTR, of course there are lots of Japanese that would be more happy to be considered different, rather than conformist -- but I'd say that even today, that is much more rare in Japan than in eg. most of Europe, America (north and south) etc)
Holy crap almost $9 per kg, that's expensive!

Anyway it wouldn't be very cost effective but you can certainly save some money. Thing is, one tomato is about 200g total, if you eat that say 5 days a week, you're looking at about $0.50 a day. Even if you can cut that price in half by growing it yourself, you're saving $7.50 a month, and you'll surely easily spend more than 2 hours a month on setting things up, germinating seeds, harvesting etc. At say a quite modest (for HN) $30 salary per hour, you're throwing out the window 8x your savings in opportunity cost. So you'd only really do this if you enjoy it, or if you grow pot.

(for pot, you probably get 150g off of a single plant, and prices of $10 a gram are pretty typical. If you grow a plant every few months, it's probably worth your time in a world where it's legal, although in that world, prices come down pretty fast, too).

In short, growing pretty much anything at home can save you money if you value your opportunity cost at 0 (i.e. do it purely for fun). If you actually account for your opportunity cost, it's pretty terrible, industrialised farming is just way more efficient. If you enjoy it and have a garden, it can actually save you a few hundred bucks a year, much more than these buckets can (the economics of paying for artificial sunshine rather than using the sun we have makes no sense, nor does the investment in any of the material when you have soil, even just in pots if you have no garden), but you'll probably spend a few hours in the garden each weekend and so your hourly wage is beyond crap, you really just have to do it for fun and see the cost savings as a nice surprise. The buckets aren't cost effective, they're purely for weed, or for fun DIY projects, not for saving money. (they can save some money, again, if you don't put a value on your time, but not as well as simply using pots or a garden.)

For a quick idea about the cost. Big thing obviously is lighting. A lot of guys use 100W setups for 16-18 hours a day, at a 15c per kwh rate you're paying about $7.50 in electricity alone per month. So if you use that setup to grow enough so you can eat 1 tomato every single weekday from your bucket, all else being free, you're still saving just $17.50 or so in the shop, and spending $7.50 on lights. So your net benefit is $10 a month. Now imagine your neighbour offered you a job to build him a bucket (for free, with your own money), and pay you $10 a month to tend the tomato plant in his bucket, you'd say hell no, but those are really the economics (ignoring the fact you may think it's fun and do it even if it saves you no money at all). At a slightly bigger scale it can make sense but again, you'd really rather just have a small garden, plant multiple crops, not setup any electrical work or anything and pay no extra electricity. And at a huge scale it makes no sense whatsoever, i.e. if you do this to sell to other people, your production costs are waaaaay higher than a normal farm.
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Sweet! thank you. that's just what I wanted.
This reminds me of the Oklahoma ghost town that resulted from unregulated mining practices[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma
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> For example, the remapping you talk about isn't constant. It happens somewhat frequently, but reads and writes aren't constantly reordered.

the remapping I'm talking about happens when a sector goes bad. if sector 5 fails, it's remapped to the bit of disk set aside as spares, no? no secret there. but when my computer reads sector 1 through sector 10, my computer thinks it's reading sequentially... but really there's a big random seek right in the middle of it. By my understanding, that happens every time I go to read sector 5.

>Given how much the mechanical disk vendors are threatened by solid state technology, if there were a simple way to increase performance on drives, I'm sure they would provide it at this point. Even if they didn't do it for retail, their big customers would have access to it. I'm not aware of anything of the sort, so I doubt this is as big an issue as you claim.

The point here is that it's not simple, and it's not a conspiracy or anything... and a lot of this wouldn't be a win for computers running windows with a single disk, and the big customers do have access to this sort of thing; like I said, emc and netapp and the other big vendors have their own custom firmware.

My guess is that the vendors don't want to do anything that requires the user to run special software, and all the changes I'm talking about would end very badly for the user if they weren't running a filesystem/raid system that was built to handle that sort of thing.
Actually I thought the film had the better ending. A giant fish like monster that could be sold as an alien invasion is less plausible than a radiation signature that matches Dr. Manhattan.
No problem! Good luck with your projects! :D
Thanks Joel and Jeff for NerdAnswer, GeekAnswer, FirstBestAnswer etc Etc.
StackOverflow, for all its many faults, is an invaluable game changer.

However I would like to turn Joel and Jeff around and kick them swiftly in the pants for deciding that it was important to make the entire damn StackOverflow database available under some sort of sense that it was important to be "open".

Now the Internet is flooded with StackOverflow clones clogging up the search engines with duplicates of StackOverflow.

So now instead of being to use Google and StackOverflow in concert to hone down to the right answer, I have to fight my way through NerdAnswer.com, GeekAnswer.com, FirstBestAnswer.com etc etc all clones of StackOverflow and adding precisely nothing except noise.

So Joel and Jeff thanks for the most valuable resource ever in software development.

Equally the most flawed. Please bend over and prepare for the boot.
Thanks for that financing context, sad that Bloomberg forgot to add it.
Anything any rich person wants to do to improve education, I'm for it. The system is so broken for so many people that I welcome any attempt at reform. And the rich have the best chance of fighting the entrenched interests that prohibit improvements to education.
One-off private schools are never going to move the needle. Even Alt School only caters to folks who don't really need it. Is it really not possible for private industry to address public education? Perhaps "for profit" is just never going to work in education? Kipp?
Power7 has a kind of dynamic overclocking, see this pdf:
(it adjusts clock and voltage to maximize performance or save power):

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=http://www.cs.bing...

The paper does mention aging.. I suppose this circuit could compensate by boosting the voltage, but this would cause you to hit a power dissipation limit at lower performance, so I think the chip will indeed end up being slower over time.