skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're just starting out, a low customer acquisition cost, preferably zero, and organic growth is key. A site like HN or Product Hunt may drive a one-time spike in traffic, but people Googling for a solution will drive new customers day after day, month after month, if you're actually solving a real problem. Don't worry about SEO too much, but I will say that the more specific your solution is the better you're likely to do. If you're simply introducing the 57th generic time tracking solution, you're going to have a though time. Time tracking for dentists (caveat: I have no idea if there's demand for that)? Now that is a clearly defined customer base, and you can probably think of numerous ways to reach them straight away.

Other things I've found helpful when starting out:

- Is there a subreddit that caters to your ideal customer? Be active and genuinely helpful in that community. Don't spam your SaaS, but if people express a problem that your service solves, tell them about it.

- Is there somewhere your target audience gathers? Think conferences, trade shows, meetup.com, etc.

Remember that being profitable always has two sides to it: You can bring in more revenue, or you can control your costs. Don't be that company with 17 employees, spending $100K to make $9K/mo. Strive to be a WhatsApp, with 55 employees making over a billion a year. If you have the technical chops, validate your SaaS at least to $10K/MRR with just a few persons or even by yourself. Then if you really want, use VC to step on the gas. Because that is what VC is: an accelerant, so be sure you're pointed in the right direction and not at a wall.
agreed - it is a huge sell for insurance companies.
Really? The Hacker News error page said CloudFlare could not be reached.
If you log into one of their shared hosts you'll see custom kernel, custom packages, etc.
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And some of which will be rapidly deprecated.
I think that if there were a clear outline at the beginning of articles, essays or blog posts like this I might waste less time trying to skim them for the point. I didn't read nearly enough of it to find the author's point but personally I've started skipping over content that doesn't present clear goals up front. If I want suspense, mystery and surprise endings I read fiction.

I would think that "Deep Reading" isn't something you can't do today that you could do yesterday but something that has to be prioritized. I never could find time for fiction in my life today like I could chew through books as a kid. I have to divide my attention now because I have taken on responsibilities outside myself. I simply cannot get lost in a book unless I've planned to get lost in a book that day.

I'm writing awfully different than usual today. Oh look my phone is blinking.
I think that's a bit simplified. In pharmaceuticals, the regulation is absolutely vital for the innovation loop, because it sets an objective standard for demonstrating progress. If you cut out all pharmaceutical regulation, you would get limited, biased trials 'proving' that a treatment worked, and then an even more massive marketing department behind it. There's a multibillion dollar industry in skincare, but are skin treatments any better now than they were 50 years ago? Nobody really knows, because large scale, long-term trials are expensive, and there is no regulatory requirement to rigorously demonstrate how well your product works.

Similarly, in chemicals regulation, an unregulated industry works towards the cheapest, most effective solution for their problem, but ignores the externalities. If the pesticide increases your yield, why would you care if it lowers the insect life which pollenates the crops for the neighbouring farms? The neighbouring farms aren't paying your bills. If your furniture treatment is cheaper than the alternative, who cares if it causes marginal damage to the health of the people using it over 20 years? In any case, it will be very difficult for anyone to tie any damage back to your product, so the reputation risk is limited. Again, the regulation is required to set a standard of progress - you don't just want innovation in cost and efficacy for the manufacturer, you want innovation relative to an objective standard which takes into account other impacts.

I do agree, though, that reducing cost for testing is also very important, to reduce the barrier to entry. Making testing too expensive also does damage. The EU actually had a clinical trials directive which proved to be too onerous, made the trials too expensive, and some measures had to be repealed. So it is a balancing act, but to me it's clear that both sides are important.
It's very common in distributed system to push problems between different levels and ignore them, instead of addressing them.
This sort of thing, taken to even greater extremes, could be an interesting match to Actor languages, with an actor mapped to a processor. The overhead would be likely be ridiculous, as most actors would be blocked most of the time.

However, if it is true that we are now able to put a lot more transistors on a chip than we can power, that might actually be a feature rather than a bug. Assuming that power management is awesome and these actor-processors consume little or no energy when blocked, the power/performance ratio for most application should be awesome.
Make is old and crufty, but it's still the best at what it does.

What I'd really love right now is a program which can look at a Go source tree and write make rules such that I don't have to run go build or go install unless dependencies have actually changed. It's really annoying to be pushing new images when nothing has actually changed.
I'm not talking about serverless, I'm talking about decentralised. The article is talking about decentralised. You're talking about decentralised, even.

But your platform is a centralised platform just like most other Web app platforms. It is not at all like what the article is discussing, contrary to your claim.

How would a Facebook or WordPress clone built on your platform be any more decentralised than regular old Facebook or WordPress?

In fact how would it address any of the questions raised?

Is your platform distributed and decentralised?

Is your platform easier for Joe public to publish websites on than wordpress and without a central service provider?

Does your platform prevent government snooping?

Does your platform prevent the accumulation of data in a single information silo?

Does it reinvent the Web, making it, as a whole, inherently less centralised than it already is?

Does it embed key moral principles into the fabric of the Web?

Does it unlock published Web content when copyright expires?

Can it verify financial transactions and authenticate data sources?

Can it do all of the above in a non-centralised way, resilient to network outages, and loss of resources at their original location, across the whole of the Web?

Because those are the things the article describes.

And that doesn't sound at all like your platform, which is another Web application stack, very much the opposite of what is suggested in the article on fact.
Scaling Riemann with RabbitMQ
Not sure about your first sentence.

I'm founder of the OpenCage geocoder, we'll gladly work with anyone large or small, we have clients doing millions of requests per day. We use OpenStreetMap but also other open geo data sets. https://geocoder.opencagedata.com
Uber's legal activities are still running. They're having a fair success from what I know.

Uber's illegal activities have been challenged in court and closed. The reason for the particular way it happened is mostly that the company tried to bully its way through regulation by ignoring it like it did in some US cities. The police then decided to search of french Uber executives' homes, and they came to their minds quite fast afterwards.
To market, I make comments on HackerNews mentioning it as an aside ;) Seriously, marketing is the hardest part for me. I feel like I have something worthwhile that has helped 1500+ people learn Trello, but marketing and self-promotion is not something that comes natural to me. I will say, my first sale happened by accident via the platform. I accidentally hit publish, and was surprised when I got my first sale before I even knew I was selling anything ;)

Since then, I've put on Google Analytics so I can see my traffic sources. The top referral sources are:

- Direct and Organic Search. I wish I could figure out how to understand those a bit more...

- A card on the official Trello Resources Board. I got up the nerve to "just ask" and they put me there.

- Some comments/articles on Lifehacker. I commented and link to the site, and they've referenced a few of my template boards (which link to the site).

- Reddit/HackerNews. I don't want to be spammy, but if it's relevant I will link to the site like what I did here.

- My own blog and trellodojo.info. I've had a longtime personal nerd-blog and am trying out trellodojo.info as a dedicated "niche site". I plan to do some other products out of there.

So, yes, their promotion does help, but I do see spikes when I actively market.
>I honestly don't know why someone would run Ubuntu on the server rather than Debian.

Having just had this discussion at work, I can give you a few reasons:

* Canonical's ecosystem, including direct support for OpenStack and some homegrown tooling around it like Juju. Also Landscape and MAAS.

* 5 years of support on LTS images

* Ubiquity, specifically the fact that Ubuntu has enough popularity (well beyond Debian's) that most of its issues are well known, and it has broad 3rd party support

* Paid support on the base image (it's not like CentOS/RHEL where you need an entirely different OS to get paid support, you can just buy Ubuntu support)

* PPAs (which is really just some tooling on top of a DEB repo, but it's still useful)

I'm not sure what you mean by "targeted at servers" when http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server exists.
You give me an example of a test that would realistically be written in a dynamic language then. I've been out of dynamic languages for so long that I've forgotten how to produce working code in them (seriously, I tried to write some Django because I used to be quite good at it and it seemed like a good fit for a specific problem, and I just wrote code that had stupid bugs everywhere).
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Wonder when we will see the day when an O'Reilly book is written by AI.

Could be a nice little loop if part of the creators of the AI that would accomplish this learned part of their craft from O'Reilly books.
As a relative newcomer to this approach, but becoming enthusiastic about its potential, I'd love to see your list.
French are well known for protecting their language use and jealously dismissing English popularity taking every opportunity to speak French where they can get away with it ;)
It's a pretty freaking cool game. Of course, it took a magical computer from space to run at the time. But thanks to the power of source code releases, you can download d1x-rebirth and the shareware version, and experience it for yourself.

By the way, my reccomended controls are: wasd for forward, backward, left, and right, q and e for roll, and mouse for pitch and yaw, with pitch invert on, to invert the default inversion.
Russia’s trampoline guy is now mocking US rocket engine makers
Curious if there are instructions because the context isn't obvious to me.
I thought that was an autotools joke. Make is simple.
Massive outage apparently takes down much of the internet for Europe
It's also important to note this repo hasn't been modified in over 4 years.
Tesla Model S can be used as a boat in a pinch, Elon Musk confirms
To paraphrase:

>>>> If your data gets silently corrupted and you keep backing up that corrupted data, eventually there won't be any backups left that have the original uncorrupted data.

>>> You shouldn't delete old backups!

>> Storage is too expensive to keep old backups forever.

> Backblaze! ... will delete backups after 30 days.

Yes. So 30 days after your file was corrupted, you will only have corrupted copies left.
You're doing a lot of things right but drop the free plan ASAP It's all the support and overhead of free customers with none of the financial upside. I presume you need to start generating proper revenue/profits from this site ASAP. The free plan will hinder that.

Adwords is indeed a waste of time and money, Facebook is too. I spent a lot more than you before I realised that, well done for working out it's a waste much sooner than I did! Bing is probably worth your attention.

Capterra will drive good leads initially but they'll fall off after a while. Keep an eye on your spend there and pull it if the conversions dry up. Get App always had too high a cost of entry for me to try.

Stop thinking the next feature you add to the app will grow your client base. There's a lot of shitty HR apps out there with excellent marketing making more money than you :)

Don't make the mistake of thinking that your app can be used in all countries and so why wouldn't we market to the US (or <insert other country here>)? I'll tell you why - there are a lot of large, incumbent and well funded HR apps in the US that you're going up against and you'll lose every time because you don't understand exactly what the US market want.

If you're based in Australia focus all of your attention in what Australian businesses want to see. You probably also need to decide what size of company gets the most value out of your app and go after them - same for industry vertical(s).

"A person who chases two rabbits catches neither".

Work out what rabbit to chase, stop chasing the others, go after that rabbit with all your marketing might. Shape your products roadmap off the back of what that one rabbit needs for you to capture it. Shape your USP off the back of this too. "ANNOUNCING A BEAUTIFUL, EASY TO USE, WEB BASED HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM." is far too generic to appeal to any one audience - so guess what, it appeals to nobody.

Source: I run a HR software app called http://www.staffsquared.com. I've been where you are. Good luck!
I'm more worried that OpenStreetMap is misspelled several times and the OSM license listed as CC-BY while it should be ODbL (http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).
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I think it's the other way around. You don't want to see that bootstrapping depends on the binary to be present on the node somehow and for some reason you think that solving bootstrapping makes sense even if it depends on another completely unsolved problem. It doesn't. You solve the first problem and only after that move on to the one that depends on this problem being solved.
As a rule every time a piece comes in the news about some place being "the next startup scene", it usually doesn't work out that way. It is usually driven by PR due to some tax advantage being put into law or local municipality providing grants or something like that.
Did you sell Blogabond? I think I first saw it/you back when Joel's BoS was still going strong.
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So each document is an API and the paid plans support multiple sheets/tabs per document?
The central Parisians seem quite content to suppress economic activity and job creation while the suburbs churn with joblessness, poverty and discontent.
Aha thanks! Yes I agree with you points here, not an ideal workload for a Cray system.
Digital Ocean does the same, it's even worse with DO because you run an old Kernel all the time.
If you have an EU nationality the paperwork (getting a SS number, a tax card, registered residence) will take maybe 3 hours of work once you have a signed contract. I've been through it and it's surprisingly agile.

I don't know about non-EU nationals, though I know people from the US and Canada who managed to get an EU nationality because of their grandparents and simply used that to avoid worrying about visas and all. That said, the companies will be very helpful if you need assistance with paperwork so you should be fine when it comes to it, though I doubt you'll need the help.

About the language, English will be fine for nearly any tech company.

That said, I'd also check out Berlin and Copenhagen; big startup scenes there.

Never worked in The Netherlands so I can't speak for Amsterdam, sorry.
Isn't code bloat "defined" as code that is unnecessary? If it's used, it's not unnecessary. In C# with generics, the JIT compiler will generate seperate code paths for List<int>, List<double>, List<string>, etc. in order to speed up execution. The only difference with C++ templates is that it affects the executable size and is done before hand instead of at runtime (or ngen time).
Really this should read, "Telia having problems in EU".

They are a big transit providing, clearly causing issues for quite a few services in all directions.

Some content providers use Telia to reach the Internet in part or full.

Some ISPs use Telia to reach the Internet or parts of it.
Jeez, I had no idea that MapQuest will kill their free access. Thanks so much for sharing.
Many problems are very latency tolerant. Unless you have an algorithm which is truly latency intolerant, I argue you are best served not investing in low-latency interconnect because it costs so much.

When I ran Exacycle, we distributed protein folding, protein design, drug discovery, telescope design, and other problems globally. We never had an issue with latency, because these problems all partition really well. People who claim supercomputers are "necessary" for these problems typically construct problems that are well-matched to supercomputers (for example, running molecular dynamics on huge proteins) but they tend not to have very high scientific value.

In my experience, partitioning to minimize communication has always increased my total scientific throughput, while programming to supercomputers has always reduced it.
Why is it bad if China wants to subsidize hardware for others?
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"Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." hahaha
a large percentage of his customers are french and many french do not speak english, in the same manner that many americans do not speak french. you do not want to alienate your core base.

he could use a comm officer who communicates in english and other languages though.
This linked website looks more cryptic, actually: http://tiltrue.info/home/
Here's an actual workflow I have worked on:

"I'm at 50.00000N, 15.00000E (a GPS coordinate). How do I get to the Foo Bar in Baz City (a text input or selection), by public transit (a choice of transport modes)?"

- Reverse geocode "bus stop or train stop or tram stop near 50 N, 15 E" - "there's a bus stop named Xyzzy at 50.0012 N, 15.0003 E"

- Geocode "Foo Bar, Baz City" - "51 N, 14 E"

- Reverse geocode "bus stop or train stop or tram stop near 51 N, 14 E" - "there's a train station named Baz City Central at 50.99998 N, 14.001 E"

(plus routing and scheduling on top of that - but that is beyond the scope of geocoding, which is one part of the toolchain)

Other example: "I'm at 50 N, 15 E; get me a list of restaurants around here" (optionally: non-smoking, currently open - not sure if Nominatim directly supports filtering like that)
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, convertibles are probably the way to go in near future. Though the current Surface lineup, both tablet and book, don't fit my requirements mainly due to the lack of Thunderbolt. I need a CUDA enabled graphic card to experiment with neural nets, trying to attach one to a tablet without Thuderbolt might prove futile at the moment. There are some convertibles coming out with Thunderbolt 3 right now, like Acer Switch and Dell XPS, though I'm not sure about their Core M. I guess I'll wait with upgrages until the specs for next Surface tablet become known.
There's something called the european blue card which is equivalent to a US green card, if you can get a job offer >€38,688 a year and you work in tech then the blue card entitles you to work anywhere in the Schengen area. You'd need to work for about 18 months in the first position and after 3 years you can apply for permanent residency.
The first step is talking to potential clients. It helps if you have something to show, but it's not necessary—you only need to grok the problem, and then keep an open mind, as there might be some things you haven't already thought of.

You keep working closely with that client, listening but more importantly, watching what he does. Then you find another and you try to fit that solution into their work flow. If that doesn't work, keep an open mind and tweak your product. Repeat as needed.

Regarding the customer acquisition channels, YMMV: whether you're selling B2B or B2C, your target is tech saavy or not, and even if a similar product is positioned or not. Next, you might need to check your competitors and their strategies, there might be a couple of clues there.

We have a side project[1] on a similar target group, which helps enterprises calculate a number that's not too easy to do by hand or with Excel. We get a couple hundred visits a day, and we have a small ad in there. It has given us some visits and some sign ups, but we might tweak that a little so we can contact them and offer a demo, which is something that has worked for us.

Also, we just launched a new home page[2] this month, I suggest you invest in your landings so they look good and professional (or whatever you want to communicate). We have also some automated mailings for potential clients, and it has brought us business, altough indirectly, because we have to demo our product.
We now are working on a video, as it might be easier to explain how it works.

1: https://isrmatic.com/

2: https://www.boxfactura.com/
ESSA and UDL sittin' in a tree
Here in Sweden it was quite bad for almost an hour (around 14:00 CEST), no way to access a bunch of documentation, Slack off, connection to AWS down, everything seems to be fine again since around 15:10 CEST.
I live in San Francisco, and I think these delivery services are great for all the things I do not enjoy buying: soap, paper towels, socks, bicycle pump. Having those things delivered gives me more time to peruse the cheese shop, the farmer's market, the butcher shop, and the bakery. Also sometimes, like holidays, I find I need some ingredient and it's better to have it delivered than to quiesce all my cooking activity, roundtrip to the store, and resume without breaking my timeline.
In agar.io you can shoot fungi at a big blob, which makes them explode into smaller blobs. You can potentially take down a much larger opponent that way.
Why, are you looking to make one yourself or are you hoping one already exists so you can use it? :)
Not be a CF apologist, but CloudFlare status shows their issues pretty honestly and openly. In contrast Akamai has frequent issues (usually isolated to a small area) and virtually never admits it unless you can PROVE it's them.
Could you share which 3 static analysis tools you use?

We found Coverity to be prohibitively expensive; but unfortunately there isn't any real alternative!
it's not proper english, but it is common real world vernacular.

'go big, or go home' being a very common phrase.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=go%20big%20o...