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What do you mean by history of con games?

I guess it's possible to build large businesses like Google, Facebook, Uber, Apple etc without taking VC money but its a choice that these founders made that taking VC money helps them increase the odds that they will achieve thier goals.

What's wrong with that?

On the other hand- you have perfectly good businesses like Craigslist, ESRI, SAS, Zoho who did it without raising VC money. Nothing wrong with that either.

Just different choices made by the founders of these companies.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to transition from corporate job to self contractor?
Hi all,

I'm a Full-Stack web developer with 5+ years experience and am trying to transition into contract/consulting work. I've read alot of posts on this topic (and _all_ of patio11's blog) but am still struggling to come up with ways to find clients. My dilemma is that I don't want to price myself too low (I can find lots of projects for 20/hr or less), but I'm not sure how to get the larger jobs without doing this full-time.

Has anyone ever transitioned from the enterprise world into contracting successfully? Is it possible to do it over a period of time? (keep current job and moonlight freelance gigs). What did you do to get your initial clients?
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Smithsonian is pretty good. They don't do the maps and pullouts but they cover lots of similar ground (and are also a non-profit).
If it's flexible it's not going to support the roof in a rollover -- the windshield is a structural part of the occupant cage.
A relative win against people who aren't even in the proper frame of reference. It's the same as saying "you have a refrigerator, people in Africa don't even have that!" which isn't even a true statement to make these days. Extreme poverty is on the endangered list.

The frame of reference is in-country and between the country's peers. The worrying part of this frame is that relatively poor places like Latin America are catching up or have caught up already. We are losing ground.
Well...

> but it's hardly an expensive part of the process.

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

> Das Gesetz zur Beschleunigung der Rückholung radioaktiver Abfälle und der Stilllegung der Schachtanlage Asse II („Lex Asse“) wurde am 28. Februar 2013 durch den Bundestag beschlossen.[70] Die Kosten werden auf vier bis sechs Milliarden Euro geschätzt.[71] Sie sollen nicht durch die Betreiber, sondern durch den Bund getragen werden.

Translation:

> The "Nuclear Waste Retrieval Speed Up and Asse II mine closing law" was passed on February 28, 2013. The costs are expected to be between four and six billion Euro. They will be paid not by the owner, but by the federal government.

Germany built one. Turns out it wasn’t that safe. Now we have to dig up all the waste again, and put it back underground into a different mine. And this mine was our only hope, actually, because it was the only semi-stable unused salt mine left in Germany.

Now the government passed a tax "Brennelementsteuer" (Nuclear Fuel Tax) that means the owners of nuclear power plants have to pay parts, approx up to 20% of the costs for demolishing the plants, and still 0% of getting rid of the waste, this money will be gotten as a tax for using nuclear fuel.

And, with this tax, nuclear energy is now, even despite getting similar subsidies as renewables, more expensive than wind. Several large energy companies already sold their nuclear plants and switched over to wind; even the few plants in Germany that were still running after Fukushima are now not profitable anymore.
The only reason to have an ideology is to use it to produce solutions. You should be wary of solutions that are just too simple for the problem (irrespective of ideology,) or the rejection of solutions based solely on ideology.
1 and 3 were on their manifesto. Given that they have a majority it is only a matter of time before they achieve them.

P.S. as I understand it 3 if achieved means that they either have to pass new almost identical legislation compatible with the UN convention on human rights or the UK would be in breach of our UN commitments...
I’m definitely picturing Balmer quietly fuming, pacing a bit, staring at a Clippers logo and thinking “eye on the ball, Steve, eye on the ball”
I don't know about the forest being caused by climate as much as just technology. In US in New England we see the exact same thing in old pictures and new pictures.http://serc.carleton.edu/vignettes/collection/24682.html

"Imagine a time machine that could take you back 150 years. Open the door and look out at the slopes of Vermont, the Green Mountain State. In 1850, the slopes would be anything but green. Most would be barren, stripped of their trees, and trampled by grazing sheep."
So, "entire staff" seems to mean 2 people or perhaps 5:

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/lingua/editorial-board/

I hope that these two or five people have enough pull behind them to convince other editors to do the same.
>2. Ability to model other people as having really different mind-designs

I got recently very good lesson about this while learning about MBTI.[1] It's really not too scientifically rigorous model. But it shows you how some people could function in fundamentally different way than you. And there is people who subscribe to each of the 16 categories. The Big Five is more statistically valid. But it is lacking in the potential to explain world from different points of view.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
I work for Giant Swarm, a German startup. We are preparing to release our less opinionated container stack for public availability. Features include bare metal provisioning, flexible service discovery, user/org management tools, PaaS'ish interface for devs, and a nice CLI. We're now deploying this solution on-prem for large customers who were looking to run container technologies at scale, including Docker. If you are in operations and are interested, drop me a line @giantswarm.io. My username is the same same as here! If you are a developer, we have an alpha test going on and I'm happy to invite you to it.
I have recently come to the same conclusion. Right now I am trying to figure out the best way to do service discovery and load balancing. It would be really nice if I could just specify some swarm constraints and create a load balancer serving the containers that match those constraints.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like an easy solution exists yet, but once it does I'm all in with Swarm.
An PDF scan[1] shows that it's from the Vol. 11, No. 3 ("Spring 1966") issue of "Michigan's Occupational Health".

[1] http://www.michigan.gov/documents/lara/lara_miosha_moh_bulle...
I imagine a half billion dollars could change that, and in the process fix the problem you describe.
"Creating value" is everyone's job, not just the product manager's.

A software product is defined by its set of features, therefore a product manager's job should be to manage the feature set.
Microsoft is also a famous example of company that did not take VC money.
They won the 2006 Ig Nobel in chemistry!

CHEMISTRY: Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon of the University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rosselló of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, for their study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature."

REFERENCE: "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature," Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito, José Bon, and Carmen Rosselló, Journal of Food Science, vol. 64, no. 6, 1999, pp. 1038-41.

WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: The winners delivered their acceptance speech via video recording.

Source:http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/
AWS ECS is entirely proprietary. It's a whole different beast.
Abuse requires a power imbalance in favour of the abuser. That was not the case for Shanley's criticism.
I think DHH (and a lot of people) miss out on a lot of modestly growing startups that are doing relatively boring things because they don't hear about them. It's not that they don't exist. They just don't hear about them because they're relatively boring.

The vast majority of (moderately successful) startups I see friends and colleagues starting or working for are in this group. For every one friend I see go work for a company like Uber, I see 10 more working for a startup that builds software for expense reports or HR teams or insurance companies or old school cab companies. They will never be billion dollar companies, and they probably won't IPO, and they may be an acquisition target -- but that certainly isn't their end goal. They are gaining customers and growing relatively sustainably, making smart choices about when to (or not) take outside funding.
From a technical standpoint, BTC formed a nice base around $200-$250 over most of 2015. It was mostly quiet in the news, so it was an ideal time to invest. Now it is breaking out to the upside of that base. Sell when your neighbor tells you to invest in bitcoin.

There is a chance the price could go nuts (e.g. $1 million/BTC) - it could be a serious bubble, because of the technology behind it, and the implications it could have to the world.

"It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower." - William O'Neil
Does the IRS look into sales like this to ensure that the assets were sold for a reasonable price? It seems like that would be a pretty big loophole if not.
Are the blog posts still available?
>I suspect that the majority those truck drivers are farmers who make most of their money driving trucks commercially

It's even more simple than that - the long description is "Truck, delivery, and tractor drivers", a category it wouldn't take much imagination to stick a lot of agricultural employees in.
I don't think "error" was the right word.
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Just like how the British word Soccer took over in America. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/why...
I was trying to make the point that it's silly to argue "the money could be better spent on..." because there's no end or correct answer. You're response demonstrates that.

I certainly don't think we should cut funding to basic research. I'm happy that some very smart people are looking closely at this device because I do think there's something to be learned here even if it isn't in the field of physics.
Where did you get 25% from?
Ask HN: I made a SaaS prototype. What now?
Hi fellow HNers,

In the past few months, I've been spending a few hours a week to create a Twilio-based virtual phone number web app. I knew there was enough demand for this product since there are a host of similar companies out there, and one of them (Grasshopper) was recently acquired too. I was mainly interested in the technology so I picked a few features for an MVP and started coding.

I launched the app a couple of weeks ago, and bought some ads to see if it gets any attention. The landing page isn't optimized, and it looks rough at this time, so it didn't get any paying customers. As I was considering different ways of marketing it, I found the typical tasks too menial or daunting, and realized I don't have enough passion/drive to actually run the SaaS as a side business.

I even tried listing it on Flippa, hoping an interested folk might find it interesting and take over. It got some attention there, but since this service is in a low-margin commodity market and there were a couple of more mature similar websites, none of the prospects placed a bid.

Now, my question is what would you do if you were in my shoes? Do you think it's worth giving a shot? Should I open-source and write about it to get some technical credit out of it? Should I be looking for a partner that can run the business side while I further develop it?

Thanks!

PS: If you're curious, the website is www.phonjour.com. Please be gentle since everything is hosted on a single AWS micro instance!
> How does Bitcoin surge because it is not a stock?

There are lots of financial instruments that are traded on markets that are not stocks. Things like oil, cattle futures, and currencies are all exceedingly commonly market traded instruments.

When people are saying that Bitcoin is "surging" what they are saying is that the price is going up on a variety of markets where Bitcoin can be exchanged for USD.

It is comparable to when the Euro goes up in value in comparison to the Dollar.

Bitcoin is different than most currencies in that macro-economic factors largely drive the price differences in most headline currency prices. Bitcoin is still such a tiny market that minor fluctuations in a small set of speculative market participants can cause large price swings.
The tasks are different. A secretary back in the 70's and earlier was primarily a typist/dictation taker. An Admin Assistant is closer to a small office manager than a traditional secretary.
I'm getting approximately the same CPU & storage performance out of Azure's A0 machine w/Debian8, as from AWS t2.micro instance with spinning rust storage and Debian8 (both are cheapest offer available, and price is quite similar between them).

Network on Azure though is a totally wrecked thing:

- A0 instance is capped to a miserable 5 megabit/s uplink (downlink is fine);

- If you want TCP/UDP ports open, you need to open them one-by-one, going through a 2-page wizard with 8 fields in total to fill in for each port you are opening, and then waiting 15-20 seconds for each "change" to be applied. Good luck opening a 1024-port range for your SIP server;

- You can't open ICMP/GRE/IPSEC or any other custom protocol;

- There are ton of really weirdly configured network gear between your VM and the Internet - packet drops and private IPs in traceroute, etc...

- On a plus side, you can enable so called "direct server return" and you will get incoming packets with your public IP as a destination IP; a really nice feature sorely missing on AWS.
I think I know what you're trying to say, but it probably isn't true that abuse requires a power imbalance, unless "willingness to abuse" is itself a form of power, in which case the word doesn't mean much anymore.
Here's the google trends for cryptolocker:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=cryptolocker

Looks remarkably like the bitcoin price graph doesn't it?
It’s still there – in windows itself even!
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The rocks are fascinating to me for some reason.

Obviously they're not going to change over a mere 120 years, but the fact that you can see and touch the exact same spot as how many other thousands of people across the generations - that's the really interesting thing.
Looks like software devs are on track to become the truck drivers of the future?
Ledger is pretty good for the price tag it has. It is simlple yet effective. Trezor is a worthy mention since it can be used anywhere(even on an infected computer) whereas you need to setup the ledger on a secure host.
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Is theft from trucks on the move a real issue? Especially if you consider thousands of identical self-driving trucks on the road? Who would know which contain valuable cargo and which don't?
Anyone who wants to run Oracle on a supported version of Linux, that isn't 'unbreakable'.

If you want support from Oracle and you're not running on RHEL or Oracle's own offering, the answer usually is, "Get back to us when you can reproduce it on a supported flavor of Linux."
1) striking a deal with a partner, 2) tweaking an operational process, 3) improving a customer support script, etc etc etc.

Yes these tasks add value, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are, or should be, part of the Product Manager's job description. They may get done by Product Managers in some cases, but they could also be done by people in various other roles.
In the UK even if you do not watch TV at all (live or recorded) you have to pay the BBC Tax / TV license fee under certain circumstances.

Best known one is having a car with a live video feed (e.g. a reverse camera to the dashboard) -first ones were Range Rovers and other luxury cars but these features are now arriving within more "bread and butter" cars as well.

Still better than in Germany where they recently turned it into a per-household tax to be paid even if you don't watch any TV / broadcast at all.
Yes. Popping up a notification the first few times (or the first time after a few months of not using it) would be neat.
I've always hated this notion of being "gifted" and "successful". What does that ever mean? Everybody should have his/her own life to live and experience in full. Trying to force such an shallow and meaningless mainstream value on everybody is a totally terrible thing to do. Not to mention your view seems to indicate that being "special" means something innate, something "determined at birth", which is a horrible model to begin with.
Disclaimer: I don't know much about the subject, but I'll try to help.

Two graphs are isomorphic if they are "the same" graph, as in, if you renamed the edges, the graph would be the same.

For example, if you have the graphs:

G1: A -> B <-> C
G1: C -> B <-> A

The only difference between those graphs is the name of the vertices. If you rename them, you get exactly the same graph back.

The first example from the wikipedia page seems like a nice one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_isomorphism

While the two graphs look different, they are exactly the same.

Quasi-polynomial algorithms, as the name implies, are algorithms that are "almost-polynomial" (ie. slower than polynomial, but faster than exponential).
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Quasi-polynomi..., the worst case for a quasi-polynomial algorithm is 2^O(log (n)^c).
This is not equivalent to what I've stated, but thanks for strawmanning my point entirely. :)
Are the coupons stackable?

On that page I see: Download & Enter Promo "ProductHunt20" For $20 in Scoop Balance
Breitbart? this is not a junk science positive place is it? If I want this I will go to Drudge or just sniff my finger
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I didn't. And I can see others having the same issue.
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They're not supposed to be taking a stance, only reporting, that's the whole point.
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It depends on the (possibly implicit) model behind the advice. If the advice is "always take more vitamin C", the it's failing the SC Heuristic because it recognizes no downsides to vitamin C or when you would be taking too much; telling this to a scurvy sufferer is only correct by accident. It would fail to notice that eg too much can cause vitamin C poisoning or (if in the form of fruit juice) obesity or vomiting.

If the model says to take between X and Y units ("but I don't know what's causing the harms outside the range"), then it may be a shallow understanding but it's not failing the SCH, and it avoids a common failure mode.
It's the exact same company run by the exact same guy using the exact same branding. Search for "MMM Pays" on Youtube and you'll get thousands of videos people uploaded talking about how rich they got off the current scam.
Probably neither. I doubt the presence of a driver today is much of a deterrent to thieves. Most theft from trucks is by people working in the warehouse.

There's not much opportunity to steal stuff from a truck except when it's being loaded/unloaded. That doesn't change whether or not it's driverless. If you're planning on hijacking it enroute, then whether or not there's a driver makes little difference. cf, carjackers.
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Truck drivers... that's why the coming forth of automobile automation will be so disruptive!
Crowbar.
Right, but 100 years ago, those kids would just starve to death, rather than get state assistance.
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Great Scott, that site looks like it’s from 1985! https://www.google.com/cloudprint/gadget.html?user=0
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No it isn't.

Volume on Gemini is miniscule, less than 1% of the chinese exchanges.
Because they lack young people?

If the ageing workforce just keeps doing its thing, without a your person showing them the new stuff, the new stuff does not happen.

Simple demographics.
your perception of society's "decadence", whatever the hell that's supposed to mean, is your problem. i was trying to have a discussion here, but you're apparently deliberately misreading everything i write because you have some battle to fight against society... wow.

must be hard being so superior to everyone around you, huh? ;)
So "computer analyst" replaces Truck Driver in 2002 in Colorado, and then goes back to Truck Driver in 2004? Presumably this is census data, I see is the https://cps.ipums.org/cps/ IPUMS data set.

I'd be interested in figuring out ways to cross check that set. On the surface it looks like self driving trucks would throw most of the country out of work.
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If you work one job at minimum wage, you are likely not able to afford rent, food, and health care. Thus the implied "expectation" for working two jobs.
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Actually, he mentions that such startups don't need to tell their story like VC-funded startups do, to meet their recruitment goals, and so VC startups dominate the zeitgeist.
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I am in the process of creating a startup business with 2 partners.

Our ultimate goal is NOT to get rich, is NOT to be famous, is NOT to be valued billions of rubles.

We want to be free, we want to work on the projects that motivate us, we want to make our own decisions and decide when it's good to work and when it's not.

For me this is the most motivating part of this adventure. I can totally relate to this article and it even gives me hope in our way of doing things.
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What. A. Bombshell. Sorry for the low-content post; but it is no exaggeration to say that this "might be the theoretical computer science result of the decade". I'm dying to see how Babai managed to pull it off.
Last time I checked, the filesystem (HFS+) still supported resource forks, but in OS X they're neither necessary nor sufficient for their intended purpose. In classic Mac OS this was the only way to bundle parts of an application together and present them to the user as a single file. In OS X, that's done with plain old directories.
Well, Devil's Advocate, we didn't literally bomb our own infrastructure. That does confer a moral responsibility to replace it.
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