skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I am not a Lawyer. This is not legal advice.

I've done this and wasted about 2K (Lawyer's fee, LLC Yearly fee, Bank account, credit card for purchases) only to spend 2 years on my startup idea and realize I couldn't properly monetize it. It was - and still is - a tech blog like TechCrunch and I'd built traffic all the way to 100K visitors a month, inbound links from BGR, MacRumors, TechCrunch etc and yet was making only about 100$ / month on ads and sponsors (circa 2010 - 2012). I could've explored other avenues, but I moved on to building Web apps and APIs.

Don't do it, especially if you are a 1-man startup. Waste of money. Build and validate your MVP and once you start generating revenues, then think about it. Even then, if you are a 1-man show, you can use a DBA (Doing Business As) for your Tax returns. If you are worried about getting "sued", get a Professional Liability Insurance for a lot less than incorporation fees and taxes. I found out that it's a bit challenging to get Professional Liability insurance for software devs, since most such insurance has traditionally been for old professions like Tax Consultant, Accountants and other such service providers.

Still not convinced? When Dennis Crowley created FourSquare and got crazy traction, he still hadn't incorporated. See: https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/founder-stories-crowley-fo...

> The company incorporated just so that it could get into iTunes. And when he raised his first $1.35 million angel round in 2009, Foursquare didn’t even have a bank account. He remembers (at the very end of this clip, around 6 minutes in) having to run to a Chase branch office in Manhattan, and telling the bank officer, “We need to set up a business account and we are going to wire in, like, a million dollars. Is that okay?”
Where are you getting milliseconds? Their results are right in line with what I'd expect, on the order of ~10-50 usecs.
Telstra is on our list of 6 most expensive networks: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world....

This will not be cheap.
Really? I'm ready to believe you. What's the URL I enter to get the Netflix viewing experience, in my browser, without a credit card?
Totally get that! I love making coffee too (guess that's why I'm a barista). Our goal is not to replace your existing coffee rituals but rather to offer an alternative that's better than other instants etc.
Well it's most a matter of Apple sherlocking features vs. shutting down because they want complete control over the user interaction model. As with most acquisitions, unless the team will continue to work on that app (and based on Sunrise, etc. even if they did), the existing version of Workflow will probably languish and the team's output probably won't surface to actual users for another couple of years.

It's mainly the idea that Apple doesn't want anybody else dictating how iOS should be used.
Thanks for pointing that out! Will fix it.
You're making my point for me.

Natural language is rife with ambiguities, contextual information, and implicit assumptions. It is a terrible method for precisely conveying instructions or expectations, even to equally intelligent peers. Making this work at all requires a whole specialised profession with its own elaborate procedures and complicated argot.

If you wandered into an IBM office and said, "I need a document storage system. Here's a blank check; make it happen!", do you think you would be happy with the outcome? Probably not. What changes when you tell this to a chatbot instead of a guy in a suit? Instead, you'd work with someone lawyer/programmer who knows how to spec out the solution in enough detail that the vendor/optimizer can't go "well, you said STORE the documents, but you never said anything about RETRIEVING them later!"
Apple actually has a surprisingly good track record with acquisitions. Off the top of my head:

NeXT -> OS X

LaLa -> iTunes Match

Siri -> Siri

My guess is that Apple saw a useful product that should be a part of the core of iOS.
What is it you're saying CDMs do? Maybe we're just talking past each other.
This is a bit like asking why bats never evolved the ability to spin webs.

Evolution strongly favors initial conditions, and doesn't tend to come up with major changes in bodyplans once something is established.
Ask HN: Can you use apache cache for templating engine?
For a while I built websites by copying the same files/folders into directories... seems pretty wasteful for example if every page uses the same layout.

Now it occurs to me I can echo out MySQL data that has the website itself in there as text. But even that is slow, I think it could be as long as 300ms, I should test it... I was looking at this briefly watching the network console tab in Chrome.

I am somewhat aware of templating engines like Twig. I know I'm working with ancient tech regarding LAMP.

I have not touched webpack/node yet.

I was just starting to read up on Apache's cache and I was wondering if this was a dead end/not the right way to go. I saw that you could load files something about "stale"...

My question doesn't really make sense because you still have to inject the content. My one attempt regarding PHP/MySQL echo was to concatenate the parts like: head-section + body/modular + close document. It works, though I have to see how fast/if it's better. It is better in not having redundant code.
> Do you remember newspapers?

Honestly? No.

They're that thing my dad would buy on the weekends, read one page of, and then we'd use it for potato peels, lining the floor when painting rooms, and stuff like that.

By the time I was old enough to even consider reading newspapers, they had devolved into clickbait sensationalist garbage. Designed primarily to find whatever boogeyman would make each newspaper's audience most likely to buy the issue. For left newspapers the top story was always about a businessman doing something bad, for right newspapers the top story was about how this or that nationality is threatening our economy. Sometimes both sides had the top story as this or that natural disaster or war that happened so far away that it's irrelevant.

At least the trashy magazines were always honest about being trashy. Their top story was this or that random celebrity doing some outrageous act that nobody cares about.

Honestly, the problem is tying remuneration to readership. The other problems are emergent.

Edit: the intro of this System of a Down video sums up my thoughts excellently --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vBGOrI6yBk
Thanks for the explanation and glad to hear that space is slowly moving towards metric.
I think a lot of companies would like you to believe that though, because the novelty of their product depends on it.
"I hear you no longer work for Apple; is that true?
A. Correct. I joined Apple in January of 1997, almost twenty years ago, because of my profound belief that “the power of the computer should reside in the hands of the one using it.” That credo remains my truth to this day. Recently, I was informed that my position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies was eliminated for business reasons. Consequently, I am no longer employed by Apple Inc. But, I still believe my credo to be as true today as ever."

Wow.
Templates in C++ are basically macros and can do a lot more as a result (and that comes with the usual costs, such as your code size potentially blowing up, getting in the way of separate compilation, and the problems with enforcing constraints on parameters; concepts have yet to make it into the language). It's totally different from languages where parametric polymorphism is part of the type system proper.
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I don't have any evidence to support this other than anecdotes, but I would bet there is a much larger group in the middle than you imply. Plenty of people (myself included) appreciate good coffee without being fanatical about it. If you can offer the same taste as pourover without the work, I think you can capture quite a significant portion of the market. But then again, I could be overestimating that based on my own biases.
Um, you need to think more deeply about this. Yes, you can switch a "thread" (says the guy who wrote a user level thread package) very, very quickly but that's meaningless. Unless your application is one where all it does is context switch and does no other work.

"Context" is more than just the registers. You could make an instruction that did the context switch in zero time and a real context switch will take much more than zero time. Because there is more context than just the registers.
If this is the sort of thing that keeps you awake at night: Nvidia has a $700 card (GTX1080ti) with 11G RAM and a GPU that is a slightly modified version of the GP102, which powers the more expensive Titan X.
Unless of course they axed it because they knew this was coming and want it to take its place
Thanks for the feedback! The price is that high because of the quality of coffee and process we use. My co-founder Josh wrote a blog post about it here: https://goo.gl/mYuxkt

Re: extraction - We've thought of that. With our current equipment it's not possible. I think the more realistic way would be to extract the coffee once and sell the spent grounds to another company for further extraction.
I suspect that the author is off by a few orders of magnitude on scale: they say tens of thousands of people, but that would be one-in-ten-thousand adults. None of us would've heard of it.

I would guess tens of millions have tried BDSM in some form (1-in-10), and millions engage in it regularly (1-in-100) in the US.
It checks that it wont overflow beforehand by making sure the length is >= 4 (and it's still faster).

And I'm not sure why you think inlining would result in the speed increase? I believe the compiler will inline it when the standard memcmp is used too.
Well I completely disagree that not being able to use the software at all is better than a degraded experience and I can remember at one point Linux users railing against exactly what you're now advocating.
But insects have a crazy variety of body plans precisely because their basic setup lends itself to a lot of diversity in a way that, say, our body plans do not. Something to do with having exoskeletons. Spiders seem a lot closer to insects in this way which (to me at least) begs the question..
Can you articulate what it is about Facebook that is a 'privacy nightmare'?
Tails is very security-concerned, if Noscript was shady they wouldn't have included it. So if you think they purposely included something that promotes malware, you are saying people should stay away from Tails.

I think you are trolling. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you worked for some organization that wants to keep people off Tor.

If you want to defend you post, then explain what people should do instead of using Tails.
Japanese company develops a solar cell with record-breaking 26%+ efficiency
The first dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere
How thoroughly do you figure that guy posting the question tested it compared to whatever QA process MS does for supported platforms?
If you want to see how this type of colour magic works in video form, the 8-bit guy does a GREAT video on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc

He shows all the interesting artifacting that makes these extra colours possible.
More likely the pollution issues we've had this year - most of those black cabs are diesel, whereas Uber (who in UK are always licenced private hire drivers) are usually driving the Toyota Prius hybrids.

Pollution was mentioned in the earlier story about these cabs being tested in extreme winter conditions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39121306
Yeah, the amount of plastic waste here would eliminate a lot of the kind of thinking buyers you might normally get. Hope you find a solution, and hope you sell in Netherlands!
I'm getting location based too. Which is always interesting as the ads are in Japanese, so I can't even read them.
Haven't been down to taraval yet - I live just a couple blocks from the lawton shop. Maybe tomorrow- I'm out of amaro gayo, so I could check out the new location.
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Steve Ballmer was in charge of Microsoft a little over three years ago. Do you think he's the only executive left over from the 90's?

It takes a long time for a company to recover from a toxic management team even after they are gone. Some never do.
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> Don't do it, especially if you are a 1-man startup. Waste of money. Especially in California. If you incorporate a single-member LLC, you don't really get an of the LLC protections, and on the other hand, you pay 800$ / year in LLC fees.

The minimum franchise tax for a corporation is the same as an LLC, and a single-shareholder corporation absolutely does get the protections (including limited liability) of the corporate form (provided the behavioral rules are followed), so if you are going to incorporate, you may want to actually incorporate, rather than do a single-member LLC.
At a company the size of MS that is not a CTO level decision by any stretch unless it is a broad-based 'all-in' or 'all-out' decision to steer the company at a high level. It's much lower than that and it almost certainly is based on an assessment of competing priorities.
Currently running gitlab over docker on a dedicated 8 core system with 32G of ram, it routinely uses 9G of that for barely 30 users. (it's the only thing running on that physical host)

So, keep that in mind.
No, that's not true. HN has lots of posts that are highly critical of the US government and also US corporations.

By the way, if you don't like liberalism (democracy plus free market economics) then what are you for?
Those tools weren't successful by Apple-sized metrics.
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>This is wrong.

This is wrong.

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clever use of the intersection of Celsius and Fahrenheit there! (-40 is the same in both scales)
The robustness and flexibility of a constraint solver (including limited symbolic capability) is what I enjoy the most when using systems like Inventor and SolidWorks, compared to say OpenSCAD. Compared to hard-coding dimensions, proper usage of constraints encode semantics and design intent (e.g. mating, clearance, symmetry) into the 3D model and makes it a lot easier to reason with.
I'm also trying to get over my stubbornness. I have mixed feelings with adopting every new technology that comes along seeing as many come out quite frequently. There's the learning curve/brief slow down in productivity like trying to learn Vim.

Still I'm starting to see the flaws in my ways especially with being inefficient/slow to deliver. Hence not being employed in this field full time. Anyway, I'll find out I guess. At the time I'm not deploying large scale or anything this is mostly for myself. I'm still based on a cheap single-core VPS with domain-mapping.
> If you’re like most busy students, you’re probably spending about 90% of your time on some combination of academics, athletics, extracurriculars, and social activities, leaving 10% for your side project. But for your side project to even have a chance of becoming a successful startup, you’ll have to flip that ratio and spend almost all of your time on your company.

I've got a high tolerance for risk. This seems crazy.
Apparently the companies making coffee for planes have (de)pressure chambers to conduct tastings.
This might be a trade secret, but how are you keeping the colloid solution coherent?

I'm kinda surprised you say that brewing the ristrettos are the hard parts. I know that centrifugal brewing is all the rage these days (as siphon, pour-over, and espresso were before), but it seems like automating espresso is a solved problem. Are there no industrial-scale burr grinders?

I think the biggest problem would be tamping and getting that to be consistent.

Is there anyone who needs industrial scale espresso?
Well. Look what happened when Apple refused to support Flash. Did Netflix all the sudden support HTML 5 H.264 video in the browser in a cross platform way? No. They wrote a proprietary app for iOS. Would more people have been served if Netflix could have had a standard that worked across all browsers that would have allowed Android users to use Netflix 9 months sooner?

Firefox users were already viewing Netflix with a Silverlight plug in. Would you rather be stuck with an MS solution or one with input from various companies.

As far as the music industry getting rid of DRM it had nothing to do with "carrot vs. sticks." The real history:

2003: itunes was introduced with DRMd music that only worked with the iPod.

late 2006: other companies tried to sell drmd music but since it didn't work with the iPod, none of them could gain traction.

Early 2007: the music industry asked Apple to license FairPlay. Apple refused. As an alternative, Jobs said that if the music industry would license their music without DRM, any music sold anywhere would be compatible with any player. His "Thoughts on Music" essay giving this alternative was widely publicized in 2007 (https://www.google.com/amp/readwrite.com/2007/02/06/steve_jo...) and was on the front page of Apple.com

The music industry wanted variable priced music, the ability to bundle songs, a cut of every iPod sold, and a deposit to insure against losses due to privacy. Apple refused all of those conditions.

To both decrease Apple's dominance in the market and to increase the competition, the music industry allowed all of Apple's competitors who would bow to their demands to offer DRM free music. Apple was only able to sell DRM free music by EMI and independent labels and they weren't allowed to sell music at all over cellular for the then new iPhone.

2008: Apple and the music industry came to terms and Apple started selling DRM free music.

The only reason the music industry allowed DRM free music was to decrease Apple's dominance.
I think there's some survivor bias in your list. I remember Apple acquired a public transit app (Embark, I think) and I'm not sure the fruits of that were ever known. Apple Maps has public transit features but it's a shadow of what that app provided.
as predicted after more tests. they where surprised about the ammount of damage initially.
I thought I knew basic algebra... I guess not. It definitely is not obvious to me.
Perhaps more efficient memory use is the answer instead. This article has mentioned most of the published techniques.

As for the 1080 Ti, a better option might be the P100, which can have up to 16GB.
I agree with you that our website needs a lot of work. We just hired our first software engineer to work on it and are currently working with a design agency to make it a lot better. All feedback much appreciated!
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Incidentally, this type of temporal dithering is how 18-bit LCDs can approximate 24-bit colour:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate_control
I'm not affiliated with VK moderators in any manner. It's their own business.

I know it's all about trust, but Marta doesn't have any tracking code, and never will. Trust is much more important that any statistics.
Really like the new one. Had a shot of the Gayo espresso and it was great.
After the Medium announcement in January, I've been very curious what their new direction would turn out to be. I'll be waiting to see how it plays out before judging, but this really is not what I was hoping for.

It seems clear that there is a new appetite for paying to support quality content that did not exist four months ago.

But I already pay for quality content that is curated by an editorial authority (The Washington Post, etc.).

I'm still looking for way to support good content that is too niche for mass-market consumption.

What I really want is a micropayments service that saves a record of every blog post I want to support. Then, at the end of the month, I can set my "subscription" budget and allocate it to the creator of each saved post based on the value I got from it and my desire to see the creator produce similar content.

Basically I want to:

1. support content I read
2. but not blow my monthly budget by paying a fixed price per piece
3. and not support clickbait junk just because I was linked to it and read it

So from a monthly a budget of $20, a couple really good posts might get $1 or $2. NYTimes CPM is $8 (or $0.008 per ad view) [2] so even $0.05 - $0.10 for an average article beats top-end ad revenues, except for sites with highly targeted audiences (assuming no one clicks the ads, which is almost entirely the case for certain audiences that might care about high quality content).

I think Flattr is supposed to work to be a little like this, but I couldn't even get it to accept my (American) credit card. Patreon is intended for larger recurring payments to creators. So as far as I know this doesn't already exists. But I really wish it did.

[1] https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/selfservice/help.html
Well, even in this case I doubt that you need to factor in the latest political scandal in the planet Zykonn-5. But even if you need to include every minute detail, it is still finite. IF the the totality of things that exist is infinite, infinity wins.

Of course it is also possible that we are alone in infinity, but that seems unlikely given what we know about evolutionary processes (perhaps even impossible given infinity, I'm not sure).
Thanks Ed! We're considering/exploring Amazon.
I'm forced to take coffee to keep up with my fellow developers, but I agree with you. I suspect that the world would be a calmer and happier (albeit slower moving) place without caffeine.
> As for the 1080 Ti, a better option might be the P100, which can have up to 16GB.

$4K or so, vs $700?
Super late answer but I hope you get it: yes, it is a good practice.

In "native apps" on desktops, all buttons look the same, so users know they're clickable because they've already learned it.

On the web however, every page looks different, so it is helpful to show the users you can click things by using the "hand" cursor.
Yeah Mozilla building a new rendering engine to compete worked out so well before....
I know lots of people who would pay for good instant coffee for a few weeks out of the year. I like to backpack and many people love their coffee and jump through hoops to get their fix in the backcountry. They would definitely be into good coffee that is portable and instant with just hot water.
Unless they know something I don't, I assume people recommending KeePassX are not Windows users.
That's without the trimmings. Add buns, cheese, bacon, sauce, etc. and you can easily hit 1000.
Yup - here: https://www.suddencoffee.com/?trial=true