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Ask HN: How do you find your first beta users?
Hi! I'm working on a startup, and I want it to be used by a few dozens of users for some time before I'm ready to launch it to the public.

Can you give me some advice on how to find them?
I'm happy that we have EFF fighting on our side. But this looks like a war us consumers are losing...
Heh - showing my age here, but I remember using gas lighters (stolen from school heaters) to zap free game credits into Asteroids machines...
Codeship support might happen, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12697135

In the meantime, is there anything that we can improve in GitLab CI to make your switch possible?
This article is referring to solid food, to be fair
Cotard's Syndrome might help AI experts understand self-awareness
Would it disable an annoying car alarm?
I'm one of the few people that bounces between 70-95% soylent each month. I do the powder which is the cheapest option and it comes out to around $230/mo if it was my only source.

The average per person spending in the US is somewhere close to $300 per person if I recall correctly. Taking that into account with the time savings, and it's really quite cheap as a pure fuel source.
I've also fallen off a jetski at high speeds (~90km/h). The impact of the lifejacket trying to keep me above water broke a rib, but quite possibly saved my life.
What a life... you enjoy this?
So, serious question then, because I've honestly been looking for this as a Soylent alternative.

Do you have any pointers to a meal plan that would give me full daily nutrition for say, a time/effort expenditure of around 20 minutes a day in preparation?

Let's say I'm totally cool eating the same thing for any given meal each day (though I'd prefer different breakfast/lunch/dinner within same day), and let's say I'm fine buying appliances as long as the maintenance/cleanup is within that time period too. Money isn't a concern here within reason. Since you mention rice cookers and crock pots (and I also have an instant pot) I can also work with set-and-forget as long as I only have to pay attention for 20 minutes or so.

The draw of Soylent to me is that I basically have no clue how to feed myself within time allotted, so I eat like crap grazing on what amounts to snacks or ordering out. I know Soylent isn't great but it's better than what I do on my own.

I'd love to have a healthier alternative, but I also know from experience that unless I can find something dead easy like described, I won't build the habit.
Lots of people are still using Cordova (especially for enterprise apps) and in-app browser support is getting better all the time. There's a huge number of upsides to having a single codebase that works on Android, iOS and the web. Native will obviously give the best UX but comes at a high cost which you have to weigh up against other factors. There's a very vocal group online that will tell you hybrid apps are the worst thing ever but when you do a hybrid app well most people don't notice.
Forget AWS. Without Prime, Amazon Is Nothing
Does it matter? If once it runs out of ink, you have to throw away all those precision MEMS micro-ink-dispensing components, and buy them all over again, the the cost of "ink" is the cost of the cartridge.

It's like if I owned a car that, every time I wanted to refill the gas tank, I had to also replace the gas tank assembly, for $1,000. Then the cost of me getting "gas" is $1,020, while you pay just $20.
I suspect if the studios had to choose between people not watching a film at all and people using torrents, they'd probably want the torrents, particularly if they could document it for the companies paying for product placement.

Though obviously they'd much rather have you pay for it and watch it.
Oh yeah I do!

(From a distance. With a camera running...)

(It can't be much worse than all the times I've smashed LiPo batteries into the ground (or a tree or another quad) at 80+mph... They only _rarely_ "vigorously discharge" as a result of that. I'm pretty careful the next few times I recharge one after a particularly violent crash...)
$220 on groceries (not eating out or takeout) for one person is enough to buy good stuff. You could make your own protein/fiber bars, yogurt smoothies, slow cooked foods. A freezer and a slow cooker will free you.
How would the design need to be changed to make it possible to zap a phone from a distance of 1-10 meters?
There were, until very recently, some roads in Montana that didn't have any speed limit during the day. They provided at least a legal justification that there was a legitimate on-road use case for going more than 85MPH.

I believe Montana gave that up in the last few years, so there wouldn't be much of a case against putting an 85MPH governor in cars, except I guess against the possibility that some state might at some point raise their limit.

Some states (e.g. Texas) have been raising their speed limits, seemingly in keeping with the safety enhancements in cars, which is an interesting example of "risk compensation".
Very interesting list, thank you. I will have to read up on this subject in greater depth.
Cereal is expensive, and not a great thing to eat most of the time. Make your own breakfast bars, cookies, or muffins. They'll taste better because you can tailor them precisely to your tastes.
Yeah GDB it is. The C++ plugin is excellent from what I've seen and the debugging UI is very pleasant to work with.
> In short, Unicode will work just fine...

> Problems............all need to be in the forefront of a developer's mind when trying to build a multi-lingual site.

It will work. Just fine though? It sounds like way too much work!
I am as puzzled as you, especially if the taste is as bad as you say. There is one industry that has already been focusing on making "healthy" stuff taste good for the past decades: the fitness industry. Why not just go for a good old protein shake? Or a protein bar? It costs almost nothing (except maybe the protein bars, which are comparable in price to soylent ones) and are nutritious enough.
> It sounds like common sense, but many people have cookies and login information persisting for years at a time in their browsing sessions.

If it requires quite a bit of domain knowlege (almost everything in security does), it's not 'common sense'.
I track my car, so at least for sports cars they would need to find a way to remove that restriction when you're on a track.
My understanding is that they created a system of unrealistic expectations as far as accounts per customer, had managers from the top that pushed this on people and they got fired.

Then, in the case where employees started reporting that they were forced to do the activity to keep their jobs, nothing was done. This seems more like a lever that can be pulled here:

Prevent banks from having ineffective whistleblowing processes by mandating use of a FINRA whistleblowing program. The person in the top comment being fired would get protected by Finra for her future employability, and Wells Fargo and other banks would take whistleblowing far more seriously. I admit it sounds very simplistic, but is there something crucial I'm missing here? I can't see how one would file charges at the top executives for "incompetantly making an internal ethics line" and "setting too difficult sales goals, causing an unintended fraudulent effect".
This sounds very anecdotal -- can you direct me to some of the products you've researched? Maybe we can do a side by side comparison of ingredients
They did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
The Seattle area already has decided bus lanes (with non - bus right turns). Basically, at-grade transportation that interacts with traffic fails during the peak periods of travel, particularly at turning points, because of other traffic. During the off peak it would work well, but then you've failed to solve the commute problem

If you operate dedicated routes that have limited interaction with traffic you found achieve higher efficienct, but now people are being dropped off at what is functionally a bus stop and have to walk to work. This could actually work really well, except choke points like highway ramps will wreak havoc.

Building an entire extra set of lanes everywhere is prohibitively expensive, and even then is only feasible in the outlying areas

It's a very challenging problem in terms of space utilization and management, even if the technology magically worked in the best possible way. AV only solves some of it
> black residents in all-white neighborhoods will bring crime with them

Well, yes, this is unfortunately true.

http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac%3A112755

https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Survey-Analysis/Demograph...

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2779588?seq=1

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2004.0...

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

As I said, middle class flight was entirely rational.
Attaching cookies to third-party requests is the source of many issues. In a similar demonstration [0], I showed that browser-based timing attacks (which can probably be considered as wont-fix as well) can be used to extract more specific information from social networks (e.g. one's political preference based on who they're following).

[0]: https://labs.tom.vg/browser-based-timing-attacks/
"But it also has some downsides that we’re gonna have to figure out in terms of not eliminating jobs. It could increase inequality. It could suppress wages."

No doubt that advances in technology have always done away with jobs. We're almost to the point at which the biggest blue collar industry (truck drivers) is about to be wiped out by self driving trucks. What I'm concerned about is the government stifling innovation such as driverless trucks to retain those jobs, or some sort of regulation that stifles the technology's potential. What is the alternative?
I guess I was taking the "people who can afford " part of your comment as "it's for well off people" when it's actually a reduction in spending for many Americans.

It matches up with the "Low cost plan" from the USDA for 2014: https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/usda_food_plan...
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11185783
For me? I'm partial to cooking a lot of stuff at once and portioning it out, then freezing it. Pretty much anything with any kind of beans or lentils is easy to make in large quantities, tastes good and lasts a long time in the freezer. Rice cookers are a great multipurpose tool as well, and as a bonus they're great at making (and keeping) rice. Toss in the water and rice in the morning, come back to rice. Protein of your choice on a skillet or toaster oven, or nuke some of your stews, on the rice... boom.

I like (again this is my taste, yours of course may vary) oatmeal, coconut and fruit bars (the internet is full of good recipes for energy, protein, fiber, etc bars and snacks). They last a while in the fridge, and basically forever in the freezer. Another case of, "Make it when you have some time, and eat them for the rest of month or quarter".

Finally... sandwiches, salads, and soups. I also love granola with yogurt and honey, and eat that as my "I have some time to enjoy this" breakfast; only thing to cook is the granola, again once a month or so.
I was specifically referring to the part of that sentence regarding "centuries of failed experiments and feuds." Yes, you don't need to go through all the models, but many of what people with a lay knowledge of physics call failed models aren't really failed, they just apply in regimes that they could probe at the time in terms of theory and experiment. You might not have been referring to that.

And yes, there is no single mathematical model of the physical world that I am aware of. None.

One last thing that I should say that I probably didn't say clearly enough: from physics comes the mathematical models, not the other way around. Relativity didn't come out of newtonian mechanics, it came out of a change of the underlying physical model which then yield relativistic models that reduce to newtonian mechanics.
Yep, happened to me -- had a mortgage with WF, refinanced through a broker and had a mortgage at another bank, then 6 weeks later, got a notice saying that WF bought my mortgage, so I was back with WF.
It's easy enough to get free or cheap computers off craigslist. Don't need a modern one to see whats on a thumb drive.
It also means that you can infringe on all Facebook patents and instigate them into suing you. Then, because they are the instigator, you can sue them based on your patent portfolio. And not lose your license for using react.
To answer for myself personally, I don't eat it every meal. I tend to eat it for lunch on the weekends, if I don't have any particular lunch plans. It's cheap, reasonable-calorie and doesn't make me feel lethargic after eating it. In fact I feel pretty good after drinking one, usually.

The only reason I don't drink them more often is that it leaves me just slightly unsatisfied, and that dissatisfaction is distracting when i'm trying to concentrate on work.
I vividly remember riding a motorcycle next to a lake, when a lightning strike hit the lake maybe 20-30m from where I was. The bike's engine died briefly (maybe 0.5 or 1 sec) then came good again - I'm pretty sure it was the fairly simple electronics driving the ignition getting "zapped".

(This was a 1991-vintage bike - its modern enough that it uses hall sensors not points, but the electronics driving the ignition and the advance curves might even be analog instead of microcontroller-driven.)
> A control fraud will often obtain "investments that have no readily ascertainable market value", and then shop for appraisers that will assign unrealistically high values and auditing firms that will bless the fraudulent accounting statements.

A whole new way to think about startup acquisitions!
"This same pattern of explosive growth is happening in cities all over the world. In fact, Uber is now in 40 cities and 70 countries."

Um. Stopped reading at this point.
I've had the least trouble when using Apple's Objective-C (NSString), and Microsoft's C# - these two at least make you take conscious decisions when transcoding to bytes.
That says a lot about how spending $31,967.10 for every homeless person can amount to, well, no one seems to know.

"As Randy Shaw points out (in an article that has other problems, but gets this absolutely right), almost half the money that the Chron identifies as “homeless” spending is actually money spend on people who are in supportive housing. That’s housing money, not homeless money."

http://48hills.org/2016/02/16/five-myths-about-the-homeless-...
I can see how'd you'd draw that conclusion from what I wrote, sorry for the confusion. I just mean that your money can be better, um... eaten, not that it's some kind of expensive luxury.
From an article last month [1]:

> Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) owns nearly 470 million shares of Wells Fargo (WFC), a 9.5% stake. Buffett also personally owns a little more than 2 million shares in the bank. The combined value of that investment has dropped by nearly $1.5 billion since Friday.

I could see why he might be upset.

[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/14/investing/warren-buffett-ber...
As someone who has, in the past, lived on Soylent for months at a time when it was most convenient, I can vouch for your feeling.

Every "normal" meal I had while living off Soylent tasted amazing and in between great tasting meals I didn't have to stress about food if I didn't want to.

To me, Soylent is gaining control over a thing that gives me great anxiety, that thing being food. And having that control allows me to put even more effort into cooking great meals when I want to.
Physics is made much harder than it needs to be by the fact that physics pedagogy is generally terrible. Physics texts start by just throwing equations at you, telling you "This is how it is" with no background or foundation about how we know that this is the way it is, or what it means that this is the way it is. There are some very good popularizations out there (like David Mermin's "Boojums all the way through") but very little that bridges the gap between these and "real" physics books. One of the things on my to-do list is to write a book to try to fill this void, at least for quantum mechanics.
Netlify seems like an easy choice as it does everything you ask for and is $9 a month if the free version isn't enough. It couldn't really be much easier to deploy with it (push via Git or drag and drop in the browser).

For what it's worth, you can do redirects on GitHub Pages with HTML redirects:
https://help.github.com/articles/redirects-on-github-pages/

I'm with you on avoiding AWS for static sites as there are much easier options like the above.
If you could source that very accurate map that's available publicly I'd be very appreciative; I can only find the paper version for sale and don't want to pay $100 for something that will only arrive in a few weeks. The lines on the images that are being circulated are not accurate in the least, they are very rough estimates.
I'm more and more convinced that a UBI is the only way to deal with this problem, so the unemployed have a buffer to retrain to a new skillset.

Of course, replacing the current social safety net (food stamps, et. al.) with a UBI would likely result in the trimming of government bureaucratic jobs. Everything's a trade off.
Thanks for the free download! I've only read the first few pages so far, but it looks intriguing. I can really identify with your protagonist, who is skeptical of the latest technology trends. Hopefully, I'll have some time to read it this weekend.
Can't you just, like, go dedicated first ? Or better, start dedicated and turn up cloud every day at 6pm when your traffic is 10x (really, none explained how they can scale their db that fast(because you can't), only the app-tier, which is probably badly-designed to be that slow).
Project author here, just want to say thanks gattilorenz for sharing (was quite the pleasant surprise to see this on the front page!) and everyone for the feedback + fascinating projects, ideas, links etc. Really cool to see so much enthusiasm for speech+singing synthesis and Web Audio!
Despite all the gossip about Gawker/Trump support the media appears almost oblivious to what he is really saying, which is amazing because to me the Stagnation Hypothesis and its implications are far more explosive than anything else they've picked up on.
Link from site to marinetraffic site showing the ship and location:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:121...
Society has basically two choices: charity, or have the state confiscate by force. I prefer charity. ;-)
Give me the 100g of plastic explosives, and I could take out the megaphone without needing the copper wire. (Though it might be a bit rough on the megaphone operator. On the other hand, that copper wire is going to create some pretty nasty shrapnel...)
Here's how it works:

No wifi? Limited use (but still useful!). Make yourself a cool flashlight or something.

Wifi? The possibilities are limitless! They're basically tiny servers.

Even if it doesn't run Linux little wifi devices are loads of fun for making stuff like this:

https://youtu.be/Aakw0DQF6go
> Ah, so not beating your wife, as discussed in the paper, is privileged?

Avoiding conviction certainly is.
There is no evidence that the Russians are "tapping" or "sabotaging" undersea cables; the Americans and Israelis would also tap those cables, and I think it's far more likely the Russians are doing counter-espionage of taps on Turkish, Syrian and Lebanese cables, to win favour with their governments.
At this point, I'd take ANY reason for decreased use of antibiotics.

However, I would imagine having a 'heathy' cow and an abundance of milk would be more preferable to a dairy farmer than having a dead cow and just enough milk.
I love good food as well, both cooking and going to restaurants. But Soylent is fast and convenient for light meals. If I had a big lunch late in the day I might have it for dinner. But I definitely prefer "real" food for dinner with my loved ones. As for the taste, I think it's fine, kind of oatmealy, not oversweetened. If you don't like the flavor, fine, but that's your taste and not other peoples'.
> and pack a far more interesting macro profile than the Soylent ones.

What makes you say that?
Try a credit union. I would think it unlikely that they would sell your mortgage.
Quick note, they define Private Cloud as "Customer’s private cloud environment on a cloud provider" but that is not the definition I go by. Just a heads up while reading.

I would define Private Cloud as a non-bare metal solution on Prem in a traditional colo setting where hardware is owned by the company in question. Hybrid Cloud would be a Private Cloud and Public Cloud bridged in some way.
I would take a look at this argument done by Obama's main economist. He basically argues that UBI isn't actually that good because it doesn't shrink the gap as much as current systems (progressive taxes and the like). Plus it is a good read anyways because it is a much longer detailed analysis.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20...
Right. The encoding is just figuring out how many bits you need for a number and putting those bits in a template. With UTF-8 having four templates and UTF-16 having two.
TomTom also supply GPS for quite a few carmakers.
I wonder a lot about the role ones individual neurochemistry plays in these kinds of addiction. I've been on stimulants for ADD for years with almost no ill effects other than mildly suppressed appetite and trouble sleeping if I take it too late in the morning. I frequently will go for several days without it on vacations, and about once a year I stop taking it for at least a few weeks to kind of reset myself during the holidays. I can't recall ever having had anything like the authors experiences.

Similarly, despite many ill-advised attempts to prove otherwise in my younger days, I can't seem to develop addictions to substances like cigarettes. I can take them or leave them for any period of time.

However, certain kinds of games can become almost compulsive for me if I let myself play them... addiction is a strange beast.
> Mr. Stumpf won’t receive a severance package, the bank said
Then what are you in agreement with in Kernighan's assessment of Pascal? His assessment may have made sense 35 years ago but is out of date today.
AWS Elasticache now with Redis 3.2 support
> OBAMA: The way I’ve been thinking about the regulatory structure as AI emerges is that, early in a technology, a thousand flowers should bloom.

I gotta say, I thought he'd be more familiar with that metaphor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
In ‘Black Mirror,’ Sci-Fi That Feels Close to Home
I guess you would have the same opinion about "Schiit audio" (a brand to fleece audiophiles, and which does very well.) their site[1] reads "Yes, that is our name. Shih-tah. It's a proud German name, host to a long line of audio engineers who slaved away in crumbling Teutonic fortresses as lightning lashed the dark lands outside, working to perfect the best amplification devices in the world...

Or, well, no. Yep, Schiit is our name, and it's pronounced, well, like "hey man, that's some really good Schiit!" And now that we have your attention..."

Sorry. I believe "nomen est omen" and I personally believe that until they update their name they have it baked into their DNA to lie to, to mislead, and to create an awful dystopia. It is quite literally on the label.

Compare the origin of the term Ycombinator: [2]

We might disagree on this but I am going to maintain that when your name clearly embodies some ideal, however vaguely, it affects things.

Why are there no restaurants called Makesyapuke Diner? (or anything like it.)

They need to align their name with their positive vision. They've outgrown the joke.

[1] http://schiit.com

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93526/what-is-a-y-combina...