skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I founded Smooz (https://www.smooz.io), a Slack app to connect teams through shared channels. It was initially a small hack "for fun", but when Slack opened their Directory end of 2015 it was an opportunity to turn it into a "real app".

After launching in January last year, I saw a relatively significant level of interest from early users (relatively significant = much more than I had in all my previous side projects). 10-20 active early users are very good for the ego when you are usually met with polite indifference. I can't thank them enough.

After a bit from traction fro Product Hunt, I started monetize in May. After a few months, I have about 20 customers, for about 300€ /month revenue. I changed pricing in November (cheaper, but without free plan), and I start to see some promising growth.

Smooz being a side project, and the first one I take from idea to shipping to scaling issues, and from early users to actual customers, is an incredible success for me in itself, if only for the learning. Success on the financial side will be when I reach 1000€ / month (recurring, passive) with it.
Surely the burden is on the proof, not the counter?
Most anti-SAD lighting (your average full spectrum bulb not weird things like blue light beds) is not designed for high lumens like this but for broad-spectrum (avoiding spectral 'spikes'). Which should probably be beneficial on this issue
I really, Really, REALLY love my nano and can't wait for a USB-C version. Actually, that is one of the things that would make me not want a new MBP.
This. I've been building useful things too. But reaching out to and promoting them has been the challenge. Most of my ideas are in the consumer space though.
What did you do today to get closer to your goal?
Ask HN: Resources for systemising internal processes?
Hey folks,

I'm trying to systemise my business' internal processes for everything from customer support, to even something as basic as taking out the trash.

It feels like we're doing most things on an adhoc basis.

Do you have any books or resources you'd recommend on creating business systems for nearly everything?

Thanks in advance!
Per your quote, they _aspire_ to be similar to public transportation, they don't claim to be public transportation - it isn't premature for them to claim to be public transportation because they don't [claim to be].
How Trump Could Declare a Trade Emergency
Absolutely true. While I posted this because the bot is impressive, it can't be understated how important Internet Archive is, and how it provides a truly amazing service that many either don't know about at all, or take for granted.

If ever an internet-based organization deserved donations, TIA is very high on the list, right alongside Wikipedia itself, if not higher.
But no one could play because you can't create a Turing machine that provably halts, no?
Every client and every server can log everything in IRC. You don't do private chats in there.
Easy to use and not complex like others
Hi, I'm guesstimating 25'000 paying users? - Do you have a writeup on your marketing?
Misleading headline. According to uMatrix, the page still loads at least: cloudflare.com, disqus.com, fonts.googleapis.com, gravatar.com, gstatic.com, google-analytics.com.
Can I use it for audio streaming as well?
> they're active and loud.

So now our livelihood has resorted to a shouting match? Thanks but no thanks.

Voting is like praying, where if you pray with all your passion then god might listen. But there's also the saying pray for what you want, work for what you need.
My dad's been working on his startup thats gone nowhere for a decade now. Reading your comment just instantly and drastically shifted how I perceive the value of him doing that.
oh, i gotcha. i was thinking you were comparing running to biking
> > It's not lightweight -- the average script include I have right now is around 280k.

> You consider 280k script lightweight? Wow.

They do not. :P
The audience at CCC whistling the Jeopardy theme song during delays has been a thing for a loong time. They have a popular Hacker Jeopardy event late at night (now only every second year), where random delays can happen e.g. when the game UI crashes.
Is this profitable?
What's the business model, I can only see a donation button.
The argument I've read before regarding this is that configuration switch the user can set to permanently suppress this behaviour, malware can also set.
Mathematicians Create Entirely New Dive with 5 Twists and 1.5 Somersaults
TL;DR: If you take the price information out, the wine doesn't taste so special

http://www.wine-economics.org/aawe/wp-content/uploads/2012/1...
>The Federal Reserve has the authority to create money to redeem any US government security.

We're all aware. Whether the money is taken from the next generation or from the federal reserve is irrelevant. The point is that it's not yours until the government takes it from them and gives it to you.
Well that does not justify any of this trouble she caused, indeed, it only makes it worse. Even the fired person herself has finished their frienship with her.
It could be that we're not built for specular (tight-beam) intensity with lower intensity all around (ie, high contrast).
Thanks a lot mate!
A lot of companies I've never heard of have grandiose plans. Some are staffed with smart, motivated people. Some are Dunning-Kruger job programs.

When these folks have a vehicle, hardware to load upon it, and a launch window, I'll be far more interested.
This isn't on an airplane but I think it's similar to what you're suggesting: https://youtu.be/6Vjb_LqYOMw
Most pensions at least pretend to be equivalent to a retirement savings account. Defined contribution pensions are effectively a savings account, and defined benefit pensions pretend to be similar (but are usually not).

Defined benefit pensions are usually used for government roles and some large unions, where the unions can get large increases in total employee benefits without having the true cost show up on the organization's books. The union and employer generally agree to use unrealistic numbers for returns on investment (>=8%/yr).
I'm a bit of a monitor nut myself and I too am running 2xBDM4065UC. Actually I run the second one above the first one, mounted at an angle towards me, and with a lean-back, headrested, programmers chair. It's awesome. If you can get used to the i3 tiling window manager, it's even better IMO, but that's a taste that not everybody acquires.

Maybe the new 43 inch version is more matte but I have not seen it yet. Could not agree more that a 55 inch'er 10k resolution, would be my absolutely perfect display. With a low radius curve, and possibly curved vertically too (i.e. a rectangular sector of a sphere) though I am not holding my breath for that.
it's actually a really great way to understand your customer's needs, and your products actual (in the eyes of the user) deficiencies. I also use uservoice to help the highly-desired features/requests to "bubble up" but if a customer asks for something and it's an easy enhancement I go ahead and implement it. Likewise if the same problem is annoying a bunch of people, I need to either document a workaround or make it easier.
> In school, at the transition from terminals to micros, a friend of mine walked up to one of the new Commodore 6502 machines and entered a simple program in hex directly into the monitor program. For a while I had the common opcodes for the RCA 1802 memorized, due to working with a project board without an assembler (writing assembly on paper, then hand assembling into opcodes, then keying in the opcodes).

Ha ha, nice. Early on in my learning programming, I got a book about the Commodore 64. Written by a 16 year old (!) kid from the UK (IIRC), it had, in Commodore BASIC, the complete listing (using POKE statements :) of an assembler program for the C64. I typed the program into a C64 I had access to, over some days (making mistakes with the hex codes in the middle of the listing, a couple of times, and having to start the whole thing over), and finally ended up with a working assembler. Then wrote some 6502 assembly language C64 programs using the assembler, including for simple graphics.

>There's no returning to those days and I wouldn't if I could, but I can't help but think that I was lucky to have experienced that for the knowledge and perspective.

Agreed - and a lot more along the same lines, later on DOS and Unix too :)
I use the yubikey, and I wish it had a blinking LED while it was in the slot, to let me know that it was still there, and should not be.

The first week I had it, I left it inserted in the computer a number of times. Now I keep it on my keys so that I don't forget to remove it.

Now I
Congratulations on building something and launching as a single founder! Very nice! I'm in seattle and a founder as well - ping me if you'd like to connect and chat. I'm happy to help in any way that I can - details in profile.
A $10000 bottle of wine is more valuable than a $1000 bottle for the same reason a $100 bill is more valuable than a $10 bill: enough people believe it to be.
LOL, believe or not I was thinking of building a similar app (only for bitcoin), also FOSS, also simple drop-down from the menu bar with https://github.com/maxogden/menubar as base...

But my idea included react-stockcharts or react-sparklines... :P
Why not rephrase the question to "Just because taxis have to give this data, why should Uber?" or "Why traditionally do taxis have to give this data?" These types of situations are perfect for re-examination/re-justification. We should question the law in general and then question its equitable application. Unfortunately, it takes law applications like this to bring up the obvious need for re-justification.

I think this is the key take away from the article:

> Uber offered to give officials data on how long each trip lasted, without any location information. The regulator rejected this idea, in part because it appears to have more in mind than driver fatigue.
hey courtland, another big fan of indiehackers here. keep up the good work! Consider this suggestion as my form of paying it forward. ;)

Don't do book reviews and the value of your site is in the data. What you should do is, for every interview, add a question in the form of "what books do you read" or "what do you recommend people should read?". Then for every book listed, add an amazon affiliate link (don't forget to be transparent about this - honesty is the best policy!) so that it provides some revenue and diversifies your income.

Now here is the kicker -> Add every suggested book as a data point and collate it all into a table(s) as a separate page on indiehackers! You can use all sort of filters such as number of times suggested, genre based on founder types, etc. For the sort of audience you have, there will be very interested in the number of times a book has been suggested rather than the book review itself.

Hope that helps. If you need a sounding board and perhaps a hand, my email is in my profile.
That's pretty cool if the only closed source part is a USB-UART IC. Not much secret sauce there; I bet if you wanted to be pure you could implement that function on a second FE310 with software bit-banging.
I have dropped the blue to near zero in my work monitor's settings. I'm less distractible with the reduced blue light. Not sure why though.
IIRC one of the problems was github notifies you as soon as a comment is posted, potentially wasting your time if you go look before the comments are finalized. For example you may see a comment asking how something works, and waste time replying only to see the comment was since deleted because the reviewer figured it out.

I don't think the issues were really that serious, but the Go team likely saw no reason to change away from the tool they were comfortable with for a slightly worse tool that they would have to adapt to.
haha, I guess I also reinvented the wheel a few months later :)

http://www.phpied.com/oversharing-with-the-browsers-autofill...
The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free if the government can order any organization to publish their private information. The government is forcing socialism on the upside and capitalism on the downside.

Almost all information/research would serve a "public good" if it was converted from private to public. If the government forced an investment firm to reveal which companies they thought were the most undervalued in a market, many people would benefit from that knowledge. The question is, what right and what incentive structure promotes the generation of that knowledge. Theft is certainly not a structure that generates it long term.
You can get push notifications with server side irssi in tmux/screen and IrssiNotifier on Android.
Almost nobody was actually paying that rate; those high marginal tax rates only benefited the accountants who could figure out how not to pay, and the politicians who could show how how much money they were pretending to take from the rich.
Yubikeys support TOTP...

https://www.yubico.com/support/knowledge-base/categories/art...
What makes you think you're going to be able to secure your snowflake instance of Asana in a heterogenous environment better than they can where the costs of getting it wrong are the death of the company?
> Can't see the full paper, just the abstract

http://www.sciencedirect.com.sci-hub.ac/science/article/pii/...
> They aren't attempting deceit through their actions.

You don't think so? Isn't the whole point of this extension to try and trick advertisers into paying for non-existent user engagement?
That's the easy part, the hard part is ensuring the computer actually works fully. That's the value added part.
Congratulations for the project! It looks great (from the GIF demo) and it is certainly a project that adds value to the world!

Do you need any help on the marketing side?

I am no biz genius, but I have good experience as a generalist digital marketer and also with customer development. I think I can help you with the content side of SEO and contact with niche media to spread the word about the profile.

The 90s look and feel of the site is on purpose? If not, I can help with that too. I can do all of that respecting your goals and principles.

Email me (on profile) if you are interested.
You can use the toilets of any publicly available official building (city hall for instance, or a university).
A few years back I had a short interaction with Kenneth Reitz. I sent an email about some issue in requests and got a reply within a minute telling me that the issue had been fixed in a release published a few hours prior.

Considering how hugely popular requests is I imagine my message was just one of so many he answered on day to day basis and he did all this without really needing to do any of it.

I guess I understand how he and other people in similar situations get tired of it all after a while. For whatever its worth requests is an amazing project and has made my life easier in my personal and professional hacking.
The Demographics of Innovation in the US [pdf]
[I agree, let's solve the general problem].

Consider a not-famous person Em who writes posts. Most posts don't get enough views to be profitable anyway, but Em has ads in case one of their posts goes viral.

Viral posts are only successful while they're on the front page of HN, so Em can't wait until they have a successful post to get a sponsorship.

How can we enable Em to profit from their successful post without all the ad network code?

[Famous people can do sponsorship. Not famous people wouldn't make much money from ads anyway - maybe a hundred bucks a month. What about the sometimes famous?]
Instead of supplying a buffer to each read call itself, you can use something like a sync.Pool which will give metered and concurrency-safe access to a buffer: https://golang.org/pkg/sync/#Pool.
> I never wanted the ads. How is it any different than me manually clicking the ads myself because I don't like ad networks and want to see them lose revenue?

Scale and rapidity is the difference, in dollar terms, robo-clicking will cost them at least an order of magnitude more. I also don't think advertisers mind that you clicked on their ad in anger - as long as you saw it and it registered.
Right, I probably misread it. Sorry. The 150k version will be the lightweight.
I really can't make sense of this post. Perhaps you should re-read it and try to type it out in a more fluid manner.
That's interesting, because when working with UV light I could feel pain in my eyes, so the body does have some sort of defense mechanism.
What I don't understand about this theory, is, that you would then expect athletes of all sizes to die sooner... Certainly the heart of an athlete has gone a lifetime working harder than a non athlete... Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about the height/age correlation...
>Uber also tracks you before/after, even if you're not using the app.

You don't have to elect to have background tracking on. Undoubtedly, most users have elected to keep it on but there is the option to turn it off and just type in the pick up and drop off address.
Stop using redux. Try and use react independently. You'll realize redux is completely unneeded. In fact, even flux is unneeded.
After looking at this I just realized why maps showing airline routes always show arched lines.
It's kind of like watching a beloved elder recede into the fog of Alzheimer's. The retail market has changed so much over the past quarter century, and every step of the way their response has been too little, too late.
>> which is not trivial

but is something the browser already does, so it's no extra effort.
Apple phones support neither USB-C nor NFC, so for those it's a non-issue. Android phones (from the last few years onward) have NFC but also have USB-C, so why exactly would you need to have both?
The new GitHub changes allow you to group a set of comments into a "review" that then notifies the recipient all at once, along with letting you mark the PR as "approved" or "needs changes".
And yet the original point still stands, which is biometrics are terrible passwords. I still agree with this timeless article on biometrics (fingerprints for this article, but all biomentrics in general) are excellent usernames, but terrible passwords:

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
2700K CCT means that the light from the diode is being mostly absorbed and re-emitted by the yellow phosphor. The lamps people have trouble with are those with a CCT of 4000+K, which emit several times more short-wavelength light for the same perceived brightness.

Incandescent lamps are typically ~2500K CCT
Project Data, 0.5.2 released
what about redux? can you do away with Redux and if so what do people use instead?
Which class is Zedo in?
1. because the site is a 3D accumulation, you need to remove layers to access what's below

2. to apply laboratory tech, you're not going to bring an electron microscope or an NMR spectrometer down a pit

3. to keep the artefacts from spoiling further

4. because spoilage of the artefacts will speed up once they're uncovered and exposed to the elements

5. to avoid thefts and secreting of the artefacts in private collections

6. because the state would have to confiscate all dig sites rather than temporary make them off-limits, which people already react to quite badly (especially when the dig site is a construction site which is rather common, look up "rescue archaeology")
Many of my favorite websites from the old Internet were exactly this, and I think it's sort of a shame that I can no longer find sites like that with Google. For example, I once read a site about this person's journey for the perfect pizza dough. It was obviously a labor of love and he had tried tons of permutations and research into the topic. The site was very web 1.0, presumably doesn't have great SEO, but the guy had better, more in-depth information than anything in the first several pages of the Google search results.

ALL THE TIME when I'm researching topics, I'll think about how there is probably someone out there for whom it's their one true passion, and they have probably put up a little website on some corner of the Internet with more research and depth than 1000 well SEOd blog sites, but it's completely impossible to find.

Edit: I found the pizza website, it was halfway down the second page of google's search results. I only clicked it because it was the only one without a picture http://www.varasanos.com/pizzarecipe.htm
"If". I currently consider that an extraordinary claim, given the FSF's reason for existence and RMS's long publicly stated beliefs. Of course Rowe's claims are possible! It's just that they fly in the face of expectations given all the FSF's actions over the years.

Rowe herself says (https://libreboot.org/gnu/#leah-not-a-hero):

> The trans person who was fired, I had already lost as a friend, and was deeply upset at the time. I had started to say nasty things to this person, over a disagreement, which was also my fault. I thought that exposing the FSF for their discriminatory practises would redeem me and possibly make that person be my friend again.

She got in a fight with a friend, accused the FSF of misdeeds partly in hopes of winning that friend back, and outed a person who did not want to be outed. Between the parties involved and the circumstances, I'm inclined to give the FSF the benefit of the doubt. I am willing to be proven wrong! But until then, I see no reason whatsoever to believe those accusations.
No. But the good news is that Inferno is extremely API-compatible with React (deliberately so, and has an inferno-compat package to help further) so should it stick around and continue to be this much more performant than React, switching should be relatively easy.
Interesting. Can you contact me with your IP address at ben@ipinfo.io and I can look into what might be going on here?
Exactly that. It's how the machine announced itself at boot. You can see that right here:

https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/
I don't think it does trigger a change for exactly this reason. I tried to build a Material login page a couple years back, where the placeholder became the label when you typed. I couldn't get it to work with autofill, because I couldn't find a vector to detect when autofill had happened. Here's a related issue:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=352527
I wonder if that explains why women are on average longer lived than men - is it just the average height difference?
> RISC architecture is gonna change everything.

;D
I think that's pretty clever. Spent 15 min talking about it with coworkers today though, and IMO the challenge with something like this is identifying and specifically addressing the problems it would be trying to solve rather than boiling the ocean and hoping it does the "right thing".
> Also the words "burnt out" sounds like one those buzz words people come up to feel like more special snow flakes...

I dunno, based on his accomplishments and how much I rely on his work on a daily basis, I consider the OP to be a special snowflake if snowflakes exist.
Last spring we had a few developers leave from my student development team at my university and I had to do 30 hour weeks on top of school in order to finish our projects.

My summer internship was a much needed break but even now it's hard to go back to work.
I think you misunderstand. It's not that you can't get a pooled buffer in Go. The problem is that you don't know if/when you need that buffer without calling Read(), and the call to Read() requires a buffer that's ready to use.
I have never traveled coach in Emirates but have Singapore, ANA, Asiana multiple times. Are you saying Emirates coach class is significantly better than these leading airlines ? Have to try it then
When I was that age (I'm actually the same age as him) I would have been "strong on the cringe too"