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(author of the post, glad to see it is on HN!)

1. I'd do more research into each firm and partner. I think we could have been more tactical about who we talked to; in some cases it was obvious we didn't align with the investing thesis of the firm but this was our first time and we were so excited that anyone would talk to us that we took meetings that probably weren't as valuable to the VCs as they were to us. Also there's a million things in hindsight. Also this whole process is emotionally exhausting, so I'd prepare myself more for that aspect.

2. We're building our business - launching the product, selling it, getting to clearly defined revenue goals. The big thing we're doing now is making our key indicators obvious and tracking the heck out of them. We're really, really trying to stay focussed.
Spot on, I serioulsly don't understand people that are Java developers/front-end developers/technology X devs if you're not talking about you're currently working on, and instead treat that as their profession.

Anyone would think it to be ridiculous if a carpenter told you he only works with saws because he is a saw carpenter and that for other kinds of work you should see the plane or sander carpenter. To me saying you're an [insert tech here] developer sounds the same...
You jest, but your satirical examples are actually being floated for real. Exhibit A: let's ban cars because terrorists might use them to run over people.

https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=ht...
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Switzerland is part of the single market, the free movement area, and is subject to the European Court of Justice - three things that the Brexit bunch explicitly want to be without.
C, C++. Compilation can be multi threaded. Linking is inherently mono threaded. A number of optimizations flags are mono threaded (and take very long).

Python. Lint is mono threaded. The virtualenv setup is mono threaded (running requirements.txt).

Java. Mono threaded for package generation (jar files). Not sure about compilation and running tests. Most of Eclipse is mono threaded (last I used it) like indexing and rendering and auto completion.

Outside of that, opening any IDE, tool, application or browser is a mostly single threaded operation. The rendering of most GUI is also single threaded.
Spring cleaning is something funny to someone that comes from a country (Brazil) where people usually do a thorough cleaning on a weekly to daily basis (by themselves or hiring cleaning maids in the case of the upper classes).
Most of the Electron apps use multiple processes so you'll want to add up all their instances.
> As far as interfaces go

You missed this qualifier in the parent comment.
Thanks for your answer!

My "alternative name" for HN was in no way meant as a criticism of the community. I was just trying to demonstrate that the name "Hacker news" itself is designed to be more attractive than an anodyne description would be: "Hacker" being a term that conjures a certain image. I tried to contrast it with the most boring just-the-facts description I could think of, and no criticism of either the community nor you and the other moderator(s?) was implied in that characterisation.
Is there a Servo + WASM based alternative to Electron yet? Would it be more effective?
>Sine and cosine waves whose frequencies are multiples of a fundamental frequency, form an orthonormal basis w.r.t. the inner product given by integrating f(x)ĝ(x)dx over one period of the sine

This, by the way, was perhaps the most mindblowing thing I learned in my advanced linear algebra course. I had already learned about applied Fourier Transforms and the FFT, but seeing the same tools we had used to prove things about Cartesian bases could be applied to something so unexpected, with such powerful results, was incredible.
Yes, major extinction event. No doubt about it.

But killing off plants? Can you cite something for that?

It seems to me that preventing collapse of human civilization is the thing to focus on. It's what most people will care about, right? And it's far more likely than total global ecosystem collapse. I mean, we may see the first signs within a few years. The "end of all life on this planet" is something that humanity will never get near, because it'll be long gone before it happens.
> MSM

I don't believe you even care about credibility outside of your ideological bubble.

But, in case I am wrong, I'd recommend to avoid clichés that only have meaning for you. It is sloppy and lazy. This acronym is like crying out loud: "I'll just blurt out a standard canned answer devoid of any deep thinking or originality".
Isn't it weird that when it comes to desktop apps and particularly UI toolkits, we freak out when things don't match the OS style perfectly, but with applications on the web --- many of which are more UI-intensive than native apps --- we're constantly looking for the CSS Zen Garden?
Just sit there, hold the plane and wait until other passengers get fed up and start asking him to leave. Peer pressure like that could very well work.
Eh, no, if you want to get a FLOSS product comparable to IRCCloud, Quassel + Quassel-Webserver are more appropriate comparisons.

TheLounge and ircanywhere are missing a lot in comparison.
The French have been claiming the end of the City of London and Anglo-Saxon capitalism since the 16th century. Other than the outbreak of WWI, I can't think of a single example that had a material, long lasting effect on London as a center for global finance.

Yes, London is at an inflection point. Then again, so is the EU, traditional commercial banking and global finance in general. Brexit pales in comparison to these things.
I use a macmini for my dev work. Almost every time it freezes out of the blue the culprit was some html based "app" frequently with process nwjs using 100% of cpu and huge amounts of ram.

This includes chrome and electron based stuff
Would you get a warning before the SSD completely failed/was unusable?
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How to add a remote repository to your Git?
if you're working as an employee for someone else, it's not your passion. it's their business and your misplaced enthusiasm.
Math Nerds vs. Code Monkeys:Should Computer Science Classes Be More Practical?
VS Code is not an IDE in the classic sense of what IDE is - integrated development environment. It's a text editor with some debugging extensions. I don't think it is even comparable to Visual Studio at all.
What's in a name? The Japanese invented a new brand name, slapped it on the same car, and suddenly American consumers think it's luxury car. It's a textbook case of brand engineering and American consumers don't look any smarter for needing to be tricked like that.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13685343
I apologise for going OT but you are right. This is a culture creeping into HN. Unpopular (but well thought) views are sometimes (too frequently) being down voted because people don't like it. This behaviour shuts down robust discussion and creates a conformist culture where "we are all individuals" (ala Monty Python).

It is a fine line. Some postings cross the line, some are not value adding because they say nothing (eg. Me too). However, contrasting views (particularly well argued, potentially controversial views) are what really keeps HN so refreshing and thought provoking.

It may be time for the owners to open up a discussion on use of votes again.
Chrome was released as a beta the 2 September 2008. The first version of Spotify was released 7 October 2008, and the download size was around 5 MB. I know because I've using Spotify since it was invite-only, back in those days.

So according to you Spotify was able to build a full featured client using a beta technology in a month. Impressive.

Anyway, here's the version I'm speaking about, built by the people that developed uTorrent IIRC, by the way: http://static.filehorse.com/screenshots/mp3-and-audio/spotif...

Also even if the current version is not using Electron, it's still using Chrome, so the same argument applies.
At least if one crashes it wont bring down the Chrome stack.
To be fair to the "no exception" camp, they do see that there are multiple kinds of errors: they partition them into recoverable errors and unrecoverable errors.
>There are plenty of good reasons to get a high powered machines for web apps.

Having 100 chrome tabs open at once
Yes, Matrix has great momentum. It is somewhat sad that XMPP is falling behind. There is no technical reason, why Matrix should be superior, but they are winning.
Easy to do with e.g. postings to forums, including those about bitcoin...
On Venus, tectonics without the plates
I think DynamoDB is waning in it's already limlited popularity. It has some clever ideas, but is really hard to implement. The main selling point is price, but you kinda get what you pay for.
Why You Should Always Use Access Tokens to Secure an API
No, I don't care about most of those things. I don't know why you didn't believe me when I wrote it the first time :). "Caret behavior", I use a Mac 8 hours a day and I have no idea what option-arrow does.

That clipboard shortcuts work the same is the only one that I'm used to enough to be annoyed if it were done differently.

There's something about Mac fans that are very preoccupied with all of the details of how Macs work. I'm not criticizing that, you like what you like, but you shouldn't be surprised that I don't care about Spotlight indexing.
This is exactly what I do! I find it very simple and effective. I set mine for 60 minutes. It really helps focus. 60 minutes is about as long as I can focus without a break anyway.
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Now I'm imagining the children of the 16th century living in fear of... the Puckle!
IBM's Cloudant is pretty sweet. I used it last year to dev some apps I was working on using CouchDB and PouchDB. It saved me the hassle of installing CouchDB and gave me the chance to play with their APIs which have some pretty nice additional features.

https://cloudant.com

They give you $50 of service a month for free, which was way more than I ever approached.
And also on Windows, and even on DOS, before Windows.

Googling terms like "shareware" and its history (not the only model, there were, of course, outright paid products too), will show some stories, maybe not a lot, since some of this was before the web, so not archived. But will show enough to get an idea. Jim Button was a classic example, but there were many other indie devs (many of them one-man shows), who may not have made it so big, but made good money from desktop apps.

Google term: shareware jim button

Edited to add:

http://asp-software.org/www/history/the-origin-of-shareware/
Yep! And IFRAMES. Oh god, the horror.
I thought containers don't float anymore these days because of built in flood valves?
Let's be realistic. In max 20 years the UK will of course be in the EU single market again. My guess is that they will make similar deals with the EU like Switzerland and probably end up in EFTA. And that would be not a bad place to be.
If you really want to use PyQT you may try PySide which is LGPL licensed. I'm not sure whether it restricts commercial use.
Nice.

But I was hoping for something like Electron/Node.js with a different/smaller engine like Ducktape. There seems to be a Chakra version of Node.js so this should be possible in the future.

The only heavy weight in this constellation remains Chromium...
If you want to try screenwriting, Story Writer by Amazon is an excellent free-to-use service. Basic, yes, but after a couple years using it I can assert it does the trick. Perfect for those wanting to 'give writing a script a try' without forking over for the industry standard Final Draft.

https://storywriter.amazon.com/
You get to write plugins for it in Javascript. That seems to be the big thing about it. I've tried it, the hype is just fluff.
Blackberry released an excellent app[1] for Android phones that helps solve this.

Any option for iOS? Can someone recommend a good 4way privacy screen protector?

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/23/15038364/blackberry-privac...
The thing is that the whole debate is skewed. As a politician I want to capture the political capital, but I can't do it without providing solutions. I think the job automation is the major contributor to this, but no one is eager to talk about it. What can you say that would get you elected? Stop using technology? What kind of enforceable laws can you provide? In the current politics this problem is insolvable. Some industry jobs are definitely offshored, but no one wants to talk about the fact that, say, steel mills have become 100x more efficient per employee in the 70 years.

> tired of seeing industry jobs being "offshored"

This is really a complex one to solve. What are the solutions? If you impose the tariffs the poorest one will suffer the most - they spend the highest percentage of the income on "stuff". Less competition, higher prices. Trading will slow which will have further implications for the growth. Historically, countries that were trying to isolate themselves failed (19th century China, Brazil 50 years ago)
Despite many claims to the contrary (and the obvious fact that businesspeople run HN), this is a site for hackers, not businesspeople or corporate shills.

I'm on the hacker side of this culture war and didn't understand the term.
Do I get this correctly?

* climate change may lead to a "horrible catastrophe" of unknown substance with probability A

* this "horrible catastrophe" may lead to a nuclear war with probability B

* the nuclear war may lead to humanity's extinction with probability C

* you are claiming that A * B * C is very close to 1

If that's right, I call bullshit. There is a ton of potential triggers for nuclear war besides climate change, we didn't have one yet and I can't see why climate change should be the biggest concern in this regard. Moreover, nuclear war is hardly an existential threat to humanity and may even cool the planet a bit.
or bring your own ISO
I really hate Netscape & Sun for causing that confusion, and making Javascript look like Java on the surface, particularly as it obscured the prototypal model of JS and made anonymous functions clunky until the arrow functions of ES6. But it was good marketing.
The issue is that when you have analysts combing over your attack there are so many different ways information can be leaked that it's impossible to try and elude everything. To properly conceal your identity to prevent fingerprinting you'd have to rewrite all your malware from scratch every time using completely different techniques, and choose targets largely at random so your motives don't become obvious. So APT groups have to prioritize on what information you absolutely don't want to get out and go from there, and look at the trade offs involved. To conceal working hours you'd have to either make everyone work random hours (which wouldn't be very popular) or perform certain activities like domain registration on a random time delay (which you may not always want, some things really need humans on keyboards to monitor). So it's a lot of effort to conceal an attribute that, while telling, isn't actually enough to implicate you.
The articles alludes to it at the end: the "corpus" of scanned books is incredibly valuable to a big data company like google and gives them a real edge against other companies.
Ask HN: What Happened to the YC Startup School Podcast?
I've really enjoyed the series [1,2] so far, but it seems to be on break since 5/2016.

akharris, will there be a new season? Is it on indefinite hold?

Thanks!

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-school-radio/id992277217?mt=2

[2] https://soundcloud.com/akharris
What is Lounge missing compared to IRCCloud?
It's in the nightly releases, so it'll likely come to the stable train at next release.
You have to avoid ever mentioning abortion as an option, not just avoid providing them yourselves. There are tons of places that only offer contraception which are affected by this rule. There are organisations which don't even offer medical services but which support the availability of abortion, and they also lose funding under this rule.
Depends on the bow shape really. If its a newer one with a relatively squared up bow, you're kinda screwed since it's much harder ride over hard objects. If the bow is rather shallow you can just add a few layers of carbon and you'll have no problem riding over any objects with minimal damage. That said, you'll still probably screw up your keel.
Wow, that is kind of evil. I could understand if Slack kept, say, the last 20k or 50k and only showed the most recent 10k. For them to store all the messages indefinitely for all free servers means that they are incurring the same storage costs whether the server is free or paid. Are the bandwidth costs really that high to justify hiding all those messages (likely on the order of 100k or 1M for many servers) ?
At least you have SSO! Imagine what if you had different credentials to each of these services (even logins)! There are big companies that operate like that...
> finding specialist developers who know these dated technologies

It's crazy to think that developing something native on Desktop using the default stack of the operating system means using "dated technologies".
No, VGUI is not HTML.

Here's a fun one. Start Steam with `-dev` and hit F7. Widget factory VGUI edition!

Oh also, https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VGUI_Documentation
Wanting a place where every thread isn't derailed by low-effort jokes doesn't mean you're humorless. I mean, I like chocolate, but I don't want to only eat chocolate, and I'd be upset to find my computer screen smeared with chocolate.
Another one for your list: Nylas Mail.

We straight up would have not shipped it without Electron and the CPU it uses to sync is on-par with apps like Apple Mail & Thunderbird.
You're assuming the contents isn't buoyant. What happens if its a container full of polystyrene beads or something? :)
Tangentially, I don't get how developers on the one hand strive for private offices and no (physical) interruptions, but on the other want to communicate through chat channels.
Maybe these are different people altogether, and I'm just getting the wrong impression. But personally I prefer a little personal interaction over a long chat.
>Computing for ever. We use C to avoid writing assembly. Use Java to avoid writing C. Use Python to avoid writing Java.

Yeah, but until Electron and they like, we seldom shipped desktop apps in anything than C, C++, Delphi etc even after all those decades. Which are all as close to the metal as can be. And in fact C/C++ can be as fast, or even faster than hand-rolled assembly most of the time (with few exception), so the whole premise is moot.

The few Java desktop apps that were around, people used to hate as memory hogs.
SMS itself isn't all that secure.
Well then I guess I'm a bit lost. What exactly is being suggested here?

We seem to have established that, for 'many', there's no relationship between material wealth and spirituality (although the people replying to you appear to disagree, but I'm going with your notion). And I think the original post was suggesting that climate change is a consequence of a lack of spirituality.

If we take all the above as true, wouldn't this all logically suggest:

(a) We're doomed regardless of how many solar panels / wind farms we build, because the root cause (lack of spirituality) remains unaddressed; and

(b) To avoid being doomed, we should devote the bulk of our finite efforts and resources towards general public achievement of spiritual enlightenment? And only after this has been achieved, only then might we be able to stave of climate change?

Or is something else being suggested?

Just my opinion, but I'm not so certain that there's either (a) no relationship between 'spirituality' and material circumstances, or (b) that there's an inverse relationship, as is suggested below (i.e. poor people are more spiritual). I can't see how either of these propositions are self-evidently true. The latter is a nice thought, I guess ("oh, he said the meek! oh isn't that nice!"). It's a similar idea to that of the 'noble savage' I suppose.

Going with your notion (i.e. no relationship): I think catastrophic climate change would significantly diminish material resources, in practically every respect. Even 'empty space' will be in shorter supply, due to mass migrations towards relatively unaffected geographies. IMHO, these sorts of 'material privations' (and I don't mean your voluntary weekend fast, here) would bring out the worst, most desperate behaviour in most people, particularly if experienced en masse. I don't think these would be people freed from petty material concerns, and therefore able to pursue 'spirituality'. I suspect they'll instead be people doing whatever it is they need to do to increase the chances of their family's survival.

IMHO, the social dislocation caused by catastrophic climate change is one of the few things I could see leading to a violent breakdown of social order, or to the next global scale war. I tend to think these sorts of adversities would lead one away from spiritual enlightenment (unless dying counts as spiritual enlightenment).

Would you contend that people were generally more 'spiritual' during the Great Depression? Were they more spiritually enlightened during the world war that followed? Or does one thing have nothing to do with the other?
Doesn't work for YouTubers.
> but there's not a whole lot of movement on it. I think FreeNode has some v3 support.

That’s as wrong as you can get.

Networks with support, ranked by amount of supported features, are: InspIRCd Testnet, EsperNet, IRCCloud Teams, Snoonet, Rizon, IRCHighWay, freenode: http://ircv3.net/support/networks.html

Clients with support, ranked alphabetically, are:

Desktop: AdilIRC, BitchX, ChatZilla, Colloquy, Conspire, Hexchat, IceChat, Instantbird, Irssi, Konversation, KVIrc, LimeChat, mIRC, Mozilla Thunderbird, Quassel, Textual, WeeChat.

Web: IRCCLoud, Iris, Kiwi IRC, The Lounge, Mibbit, Quassel-Webserver

Mobile: AndChat, IRC for Android, AndroIRC, Colloquy, IRC7, IRCCloud, LimeChat, Palaver, Quasseldroid, YAAIC

Bouncers: Quassel, ZNC

Bots: Limnoria, Sopel, Moon Moon

http://ircv3.net/software/clients.html

And libraries are: cinch, Communi, irc-framework, Kitteh IRC Client Library, Net::Async::IRC, pydle, Rust irc, Warren, zIRC

That’s quite a whole lot of movement. That’s every project related to IRC
Thanks for all the advice. If I wasn't on mobile I'd try to respond to key/valid points. A lot of these are very real issues and it's going to be interesting discovering what are the limitations and bottleneck for a lot of these activities? Is there a viable, small-scale solution?

You mentioned harvesting and this is what I'm actually looking forward to most. Immigrant labor is getting more and more expensive, costly, and risky. Entry-level farm hands will always have a place, but we're going to see a lot of growth in automation equipment. I'm planning for it in my designs and once the costs reach near parity it'll basically be my solution and catalyst for scaling.
The water and electric companies are regulated as public utilities largely because they are considered natural monopolies -- that is there is typically only one water or electricity distribution infrastructure for a given community.

Twitter is not a natural monopoly, not a monopoly, and it's not even clear that it will remain the incumbent leading platform.
I completely agree with the content of your message, just wish you had used a word less derogatory than 'dorks'
You're wrong.

Both of your examples would violate Rule 21, H, 1, and therefore removal is allowed.

In the case under discussion, the passenger was not in breach of rule 21 for any of the listed reasons.
I get that 4 > 3, but it still surprises me that they made the 3 the coupe and the 4 the sedan.