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The main reason behind my question was that I have a form of Ideas Journal where I write either problems I see or possibilities of what can be created.

From time to time I read it and try to figure out if there is something truly valuable to pursue.

For sure setting up a signup page could be one way of doing that. And now that I re-read your comment I am thinking that I could make a script to automatically generate these kind of pages for my ideas.

This might be a good way to automatically test most of them.

I also take great inspiration from your examples.
I've been able to get Django to serve pages in less than .2ms (cached), 1-2ms (partially uncached) or about 5ms-10ms (fully uncached) with things like materialized views, streaming HTTP, HTTP/2, and a bunch of other techniques.

Are static pages still a necessity for speed?
I wrote my own because I don't like magic, reading a lot of documentation, and I hate templates. Using server side rendering with React is great! https://github.com/kentor/tiny-ssg
What does a Muslim majority population have to do with terrorism? I've lived in many Muslim majority neighbourhoods and the closest I've gotten to terrorism is watching it on the news. In fact there was far more terrorism (daily almost) on the news as i was growing up in Ireland. 'Christians' blowing the shit out of each other.

Practically all of the recent Muslim immigrants in Europe are running away from terrorists not becoming them. Fear of a Muslim majority is completely irrational.
Do they? They've had some epic disasters over the years. Their whole approach to product creation seems to be "throw mud at the wall and see what sticks".
We'll just have to agree to disagree, but one last point:

The first three are problems for doctors doing the prescribing, not Purdue.

I used to work in biotech, those three problems are exactly what pharma companies spend their time trying to solve. Writing a script is just the first step in the process. Insurance needs to agree to pay for it, pharmacies need to fill it and you don't want the FDA/DEA closing you down.
Well, the reality seems to be even worse.

Rather than taking 40mg at the end of the day, the drugs companies caution doctors to prescribe more medication initially rather than give any indication that the drug only lasts for 8 hours.

They care more about their approach to marketing, than the efficacy of the prescription schedule.

It's this that creates addicts: the extreme high of the unneeded extra initial dosage, followed by a lower low when the drug runs out.
Paywall bypass: https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-posts-708-million-loss-as-...
It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. You haven't associated the feeling of safety with the stimuli in this new environment. Which is good, because there could be threats you do not understand how to deal with yet.
Private hire cars are not a realistic alternative to Uber or taxis in most cases, since they generally have to be booked well in advance. In Australia, they're also significantly more expensive than taxis.
I've seen this joke before, but it wasn't about Africa. In Russia, a similar one was told in the 90s, except it went like so:

Yeltsin visits US on an official trip; Clinton is hosting. The banquet is lavish, and after gorging himself on delicacies, Yeltsin asks Clinton where the money for all that came from. Clinton gestures him to the window, and points at river, with bridge in the distance.

"See that bridge?"

"Yep."

"We budgeted 100 million dollars for it, but our innovative construction companies managed to complete it for 50 million. The rest of it went into our reception fund".

Next year, Clinton visits Russia. The banquet is even more lavish. Clinton asks Yeltsin the same question. They walk to the window, and Yeltsin gestures at the river.

"See that bridge?"

"Um... no?..."

"But we budgeted 100 million dollars for it. So..."

Which, I guess, also tells you a lot both about how US was perceived in Russia back then (I'm sure the notion that American contractors could do the work under budget is utterly unbelievable to most Americans; yet its believability is at the heart of this joke).
I wrote my own few years ago because I wanted to have search, comments, RSS etc. https://github.com/Harri/Spage
> People who are drug addicts

As an anecdata piece I know a guy who had nothing to do with drugs until he was able to get some easily and with less risk from Silk Road. Not every buyer was already an addict.
I imagine if they started at wildly different speeds it would still converge but the convergence would take longer.
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The Expanse is actually relatively accurate except for a couple scenes that were purposefully made inaccurate to aid the narrative, as admitted to and apologized for by the writers themselves on social media.
Dang, any idea why this went from #8 to #70-something in less than a minute?
I have pretty serious tinnitus, to the point where I actually need ambient noise of some sort to sleep (not quite to the level of leaving the TV on, but a fan or some traffic).

I don't think I could spend long in that chamber at all.
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Yes, I totally agree that the best investment of my time would be to talk with customers.

But maybe I am doing the process wrong. I read a lot about how to start by choosing a group and discovering their ideas.

Currently I have some kind of Idea Journal (actually a .md file in a cloud) where I write ideas, needs, problems, possibilities. It might not be the best way to do this.

I was looking for an easy way (from sitting on my desk) to filter them. Initially I get enthusiastic about all of them remembering the context where I wrote them and I think I am a type of person optimistic so I catch myself finding a lot of reasons why most of them are good.

So I read some books about startups, ideas, lean, ... and I got some questions to ask myself about them. This made the filtering process better.

The reason I asked this question was that I wanted to know also more practical examples of what do you - HN - do before taking the first actions (first investments of your time) in the project you want to build.
A lot of people back up to tape and never test the tapes, too. Doesn't mean bad practice should be expected.
That's like saying you shouldn't study statistics and probability because it won't be fun to go to the casino.
You have a right to disagree, but modern city planning experts tend to agree that parking minimums are bad policy that artificially subsidize personal autos.

Developers should put in exactly as much parking as their customers are willing to buy at market rate. Street parking should be paid, either by meter or though market-rate annual permit costs.

Forcing urban drivers to pay full price to have a private car is the only way we will push enough money into other modes of transportation to make them economically feasible.

https://medium.com/@ezheidtmann/minimum-parking-requirements...
Very interesting, thanks for writing it up.

Did you learn this approach through trial and error or were you following some teachings?
And none of them have the cultural cachet. Mission accomplished.
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Have you seen statuary depicting King Tutankhamun? He is obviously a black man.
Didn't read them yet. Thank you for suggestions.
Can you please confirm that the second book is this one
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I wonder if it has to do with exposure. I see Kyle(the creator) everywhere (conference speaking and twitter to be specific) and it seems like it is the introduction static site generation with React even thought renderToStaticMarkup is built into the ReactDOM library
She mentioned that users don't like having their data collected for advertising. Apparently you did a word search but didn't actually read the material.
I guess you did your benchmark on your localhost ?

Have you tried to do the same benchmark by hosting your app on the east coast (assuming you live on the west coast) ?

For me, google.com takes about 220ms to load.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456206 and marked it off-topic.
I guess the question is how much does running a server that is up all the time and hosting a Django project. Static is either free or pennies to post.
I think most of them are attending conferences/meetups.

Like I wrote above, currently I started with ideas and trying to see (from my desk) if there is a value in them before investing time.

Maybe it is not the right process and I should pick one idea and directly go and talk with customers. Probably I believe (or I am attached) too much on the things I wrote in my idea journal and I should find a way to look at them from different perspectives.
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Or Brexit where people voted as a sign of protest, not because they wanted it. People who voted for it were surprised it passed.

"The notion that many people who voted "Leave" in the EU referendum now regret their vote because they didn't think "Leave" would win or they didn't realise the consequences of leaving the Single Market would be so bad." [1]

I think many of the problems of representative democracy stem from the fact that people don't read the bills, and they dont check their representatives voting history. Direct democracy seems much worse in that regard.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-vote-regret-leave-marg...

Edit: added additional thought
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Nature has the best algorithms, don't it folks?

I have a question about a detail.

The rule is:

1. When you see a nearby neighbour flash, nudge your own clock forward.

2. That's it.

My question is -- when the fireflies are firing at the same time, they see each other flash, so they all nudge their clocks forward, correct?

Assuming they don't nudge their clocks forward at the same amount, they would fall out of sync, correct? But they stay in sync, so they must nudge forward at the same amount...is this right?

So my question is -- if everyone keeps nudging their clocks forward, why don't they keep speeding up? They do appear instead to continue flashing at the same steady rate.

Does this mean that there ought to be another detail in the rule, such as,

If you see a neighbour nearby flash, when you are not flashing, nudge your clock forward by a bit.

? Or is the perspective I just said missing something?
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Most laws have loopholes, just as most software has bugs. You try to anticipate them when you write the law, and you keep an eye on them and amend the law as necessary.
This might be a dumb question, but it looks like there are two cockpits on this plane. I imagine the plane is drive by wire, so it doesn't matter where you are on the plane. Why do they have two?

Extending my question further, why does this plane have a cockpit at all? Isn't this something you could remotely pilot, especially to mitigate the potential risk of being at 30k feet with thousands of kilos of RP-1 or similar?
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Not to absolve Purdue's responsibility in this, but I do think this exposes the fraud that is the US healthcare system.

First and foremost, it illustrates that drug regulation is basically a failure, and that the FDA and physicians cannot be trusted as sole authorities on drug safety. There needs to be more diversity of authority.

You say "unless doctors ran their own studies" as if it is not the responsibility of physicians to be thinking critically about scientific information about drugs, in terms of who is providing the information and how to respond as scientists. Your statement basically assumes that doctors are not competent to evaluate and conduct scientific research. Why shouldn't doctors run their own studies? Maybe not each physician, by why don't they as a group? Why doesn't a large hospital run a trial? A conglomerate? It's not that difficult given the magnitude of the consequences involved and the frequency of prescription.

It is the job of the medical community to be proactive participants in scientific process, especially when clinical consequences are on the line. That we've reached a point where we lay the responsibility of critical evaluation at the lap of the corporation says as much about the fault of the physicians and FDA as it does about the corporations.

It's kind of like saying that an individual who knows a child is being abused but goes out of their way to transport the kid day after day to the abuser without reporting it bears no responsibility because they weren't abusing the child themselves.

Anyone involved in the healthcare system knew that oxy was an addictive substance and there were rampant problems. The idea that someone with an MD shouldn't have a clue that increasing the dose would lead to greater problems is absurd--it's like claiming that a chemical engineer shouldn't understand that adding jet fuel to a fire wouldn't increase the blaze. Acting like physicians were innocent victims is a joke.

The corporations and physicians were both complicit. Either that, or they were incompetent. It can't be neither. The FDA and physician groups need to be dethroned from their perches.
Not everyone loves this approach, but putting Cloudflare in front of Github pages works great for getting easy SSL.
This is a huge deal. Depending on how deep the attackers got it could be considered a giant compromise of data at multiple companies. Imagine you had a single password that could let you into any app a company is using internally. Not only that but that single password could be used for any account. That's basically what it means when your identity provider is compromised. Not only that but it is really hard to tell if it was a legitimate login because the assertions are perfectly valid.

If I was a company I'd seriously reconsider outsourcing my identity provider.
Very cool! I've been considering going this direction with the videos once I've finished everything for the breadboard version. Modular PCBs would make it a lot easier to rearrange things to experiment with different architectures, which could be interesting.

But I've got a lot of other ideas too, so who knows...
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I help maintain Jus [0], an opinionated static site generator with a focus on simplicity. It has only two commands - jus build compiles your files into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; and jus serve spins up a local development server with live-reloading capabilities. There is no setup required, and jus understands a variety of input formats, including markdown, handlebars templates, sass, ES6 JavaScript with module imports.

One outstanding feature that I frequently use is that jus stores a bunch of metadata about the site in the global handlebars context. This means that things like filenames, data files, and per-page frontmatter are available in every template, making it easy to write dynamic lists or index pages.

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You say it like it's a bad thing to find ways to make your employer more profitable in the long term.

Adobe is not a non-profit organization. Profits are the sole reason of their existence.

If you think their products are too expensive, don't buy them. It's not like there's some human right saying that "everybody must be provided access to professionally grade design and publishing software".

PS: I'm not affiliated with Afobe in any way. Besides pdf readers I don't know of using any of their software anymore (not even flash, because I have the flash plugins disabled in my browsers)
Sorry, you're right, that was confusingly worded, I meant "the parent of your comment".
Is the price difference so much so that you would want to avoid scaling down CPUs or RAM even if you're not using the resources?
..which seems altogether too fitting.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
You're right and wrong.

The mistake those people make is focusing on the user and end result for the enterprise using it. The customer isn't either of these -- it's the exec.

Businesses make lots of emotional decisions... the continued, although diminished, existence of IBM is proof of that. It's just harder to divine whose emotions matter and what moves them. You also need the capital to survive that learning experience.
That's the story of Asus too, I think- they started as a supplier to Dell.
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California plumber's union officials are busy folks -- their other pissing match:

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/ff_waterless_urinal/
I would say Software as Experience is already here, and has been for a long time.

SaE is when, instead of buying online with a credit card, you are courted by attractive sales people and consultants, get wined and dined, receive beautiful reports to show your boss, get a nice pen and a bottle of wine perhaps, and participate in workshops facilitated by said attractive consultants. This makes you feel like an important person in charge of an important project.
No. What would prevent Uber from taking all 6% raising prices and giving drivers nothing extra?
I agree completely. The only recent movies that I can recall that got firearms handling even remotely correct were the two John Wick movies. Keanu Reeves went out and trained, and got good enough at 3-gun and similar shooting sports that he is actually competitive at the national level.
People can also say they don't like javascript and things built on top of that; React. And javascript is probably worse than magic.
I introduced it to my nephew when he was 12 and he succeded to create pretty efficient flying bombs. A kid can grasp the concepts involved at 10, they can surely have fun before but probably more by exploding rockets and messing around with kerbals.
I'm guessing they made it out of two of an existing plane design and that is just what you got. Or for balance, you wouldn't want them to differ much.
Code looks good. Name suggestion: Piccolo Mocha ? In the vein of "coffee names". :)

Size comparison: https://giphy.com/gifs/coffee-BTHT8XoPiRZmw
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They would all have to jump their clocks identically for that to work.
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Yeah, like all other rollouts the console rollout is gradual. Sorry about the confusion.
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All the major clouds already have API commands to convert a VM into a reusable image - so a simple startup script + this API command is all you need. Even better since you can script all this too.

If anything changes, update the startup script, then run this "make new base image" script and you're all set. Update VMs as needed. Really doesn't get much more complicated than that and using tools like ansible just to setup your VMs so you can run docker containers later is unnecessary.
They target individual users based on their browsing history. Scale doesn't matter.
See my reply (I was at dinner).
Hey Instagram, one thing: Stories need a way to filter out videos when on mobile, or at least prevent autoplay.

Also, it sucks that one can only send "story" pictures in DMs now, which delete after 24h and you can't even download them after you send them, in contrast to the old "photo" send mode, where the images stayed in the conversation and were visible online.
Altitude is much less important than velocity.* The extra altitude you'd get from launching from a top of a mountain would not be worth the expense of having to lug the rocket up there in the first place.

* https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Agree so much. However I want to add that motivation plays a factor here as well. I know too many people who think that once high school is over, reading is over. As someone who spends 1-2 hours per day reading, not counting software blogs, I am horrified by that attitude. And how many people goofed off in school? (I admit I did that a bit too much back then)

"the person without the parenting or cultural environment that promotes learning"

Exactly. I saw a program a few years ago in Milwaukee. Basically they assigned mentors to struggling schools to help the kids work through the problems that were distracting them. The results were solid double digit improvements in both the percentage of kids passing, and reducing the number of disciplinary incidents. I wish I could recall the name, I have searched for it before. This needs to be in every struggling school.
I'll add Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup to the list of games that might appeal to the type of person who reads HN. (It's a rouge-like, somewhat similar to NetHack, but with much less requirements on inane trivia than NetHack.)

(I will also add that Factorio, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, and OpenTTD, mentioned by sibling comments, are all excellent. Factorio was definitely worth the cost IMO. I think the only other long-term addiction I've had not mentioned here is Zandronum, a modern Doom port.)
Even better in 3D: http://david.li/fluid/
I did the same for a blog, except I went with a mak/sed/awk/pandoc combo and got lightning fast incremental builds. Previously I was hexo (listed in the article), it took longer to start than the current solution takes to finish. What made me drop hexo though was the breakages every time I tried to checkout and run on a different computer.
And google has phenomenal downsizing capabilities for the free unlimited storage. I backup my DSLR photos on Google Photos and I can print 5x8" without any noticeable loss in quality. Here are some examples a user posted to Reddit 2 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/37pfn5/ive_made_an...
> There is a difference being doing the same job for 20 years and being at the same place for 20 years.

This.
Sadly, GKE wraps GCE in a fairly manual manner. For each instance feature, they have to decide if and how they want to reflect that. I'll file a bug though!
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Super interesting insight, and fascinating walkthrough of the finance side..

However, you paint the whole thing as a corrupt failure. Hasn't smoking use dropped dramatically? Sure, lots of people got paid/power along the way, but we did make a large dent in the problem.
Indeed! It also isn't for people who have "javascript fatigue." And they can use any of the 10 in the list by the OP.
What are the long-term health insurance related issues if they find out you didn't follow the doctor's prescription?
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I feel the problem is that people are not using the correct metaphors. Everyone is a programmer; every time you ask someone to do something for you you are programming.

I direct one to the opening of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs to really learn what programming is:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-5.html...
I really would like to do Zazen in that room.
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