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I believe this list is missing what I consider to be the most important factor for success, an underlying strength that the most successful business I read on IndieHackers (and elsewhere) have that is systematically underestimated as a reason for success: previously acquired audience.

I believe audience is the most important currency in today's world, especially for digital products. Audience may be followers on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, etc. Audience may be an email list. Audience may be traditional networking (as if you are in a B2B niche business). If you do not have audience, you can buy one with ads (even so it is easier said than done); or you can borrow the audience from someone else, an influencer (I know there are ways to pay for influencer's audiences, but I do not believe it is very effective, to get some influencer to legitimately love your product and act as your referrer seems to me to be more effective, if harder). Or you can borrow the audience from something else, like HN, Reddit, PH.

All of the steps of launching and building a business, especially the very first ones are enormously easier if you have an audience. And enormously - some times impossibly - harder if you do not have one. This is derived from the adage that your first idea is always wrong. You have to learn everything by shipping early and talking to customers, but if you ship early to 20 eyeballs and talks to luckily one or two potential users, this feedback loop just doesn't count. But if you launch to thousands to eyeballs, even if you are making the mistake of no shipping early or not focused on talking to customers, you will receive unsolicited feedback from some of them.

And a previously built audience of people who trust you at a basic level will be much more responsive and engaged in rationalizing and vocalizing their opinions about your product. They will be "early adopters" type (hard to get that when you buy an audience). And they also will (likely) be people that are your target audience (hard to get that when you borrow an audience from HN and similar).

Some of the most impressive successful business in IndieHackers (according to my own criteria) are the ones who had years of building an audience. Through foruns, email lists, blogs.

A genuine audience is hard to plan ahead. Does not seem plausible to have the vision, the will, and the diligence to think about the industry/niche where I want to launch a business years ahead. So it is good to launch a business where you have genuine passion, somehow you will have the network (even so, not necessarily a large audience).

If you are in that position of having a large audience, seriously consider launching a business because you have a very big unfair advantage (and follow all the advice on this list). If you are not, pay a lot of attention on how to reach your target audience. It is a very tough problem to crack.
I work one hour a morning. W00t!
Fair enough, but most HD projectors are > 3000 lumens (and start at ~400 USD/Euro) which is generally sufficient in daylight.
Interesting. your comment uses Milos tactics exactly as you have written them, step by step, but never actually addresses his points but instead casually dismisses them with one sentence asserting that he is wrong.

You provide no counter point, but instead follow up With a tangential analysis of his technique instead of refuting his ideas or points.

> He's wrong about everything, and it's important to understand just how he pulls it off.

Why not address his points and his ideas if they are so dangerous and wrong? Why not debate the meat of his argument?
They used to say "Sex sells", but in 2017 it's "Sexism sells" (or "Diversity sells").

This is a perfectly well-written article with great content, but I don't know why the author has to bring up sexism etc.

If we didn't have "Alice and Bob" and instead had "Albert and Bob", the trolls would say "oh look at this there's no diversity! they are oppressing people by getting rid of female names from examples!".

But we DO have "Alice and Bob". Alice even comes BEFORE Bob. But look at how people make up sexism stories about how this is an "oppression", and Alice and Bob are a couple.

I have never thought of Alice and Bob as a couple. Maybe it's your sick mind who want to monetize sexism, that came up with that imagination.
Who do you consider to be your dream journalist / dream publication? For publicizing your launch it's very challenging to get the interest of outlets I mentioned elsewhere in this thread unless you have name-brand funders and / or an established track record. Here's an example of a new company that was able to get this kind of attention because it had these elements:
https://www.fastcompany.com/40439810/this-new-site-sells-foo...

If you don't have these then getting your dream journalist to cover your launch will depend very much on how compelling a story you're able to craft around your product and the impact it will have. Don't underestimate what you're doing but also be very critical about it. I like the simple question mentioned in the Backblaze piece:
>be really honest with yourself: if you weren’t involved, would you care?
Unfortunately, a future like that would even be preferable to what we will get, because that would be rejected by consumers.

Instead, they will squeeze outside media and tech companies behind the scenes and will stifle competition (and innovation) out of view of the consumer.
Ask HN: What to look for in an IT Company
What are some of the key components a small - medium sized corporation should be looking for in an IT company? (i.e. disaster recovery plan, remote back-ups, whatever)

I'm wondering what services are considered "essential", when looking for an IT company. We can pretend I'm building a checklist of must-haves, that the IT company in question would have to check all the boxes to be considered.

Or on the flipside, what are some red flags that your current IT company is... Not the best? (No word of a lie, IT Company X told someone at my workplace that their new computer's GTX 1050 has to be replaced by a lenovo on-board graphics to run multiple monitors...)

... "asking for a friend"
Even for web development it's useless for me. Today I had to install new package via composer, install new package via npm, do multiple gulp/grunt runs, regex trough 100k+ lines of log files, ssh multiple times to the server and build docker containers. And that's just average day at the office as PHP/JS dev / devops. Try to do that on iPad.
That's nice to hear. I'm trying https://github.com/olahol/melody in a smallish project right now, and it seems very promising.
You should always question assumptions. Especially when millions of dollars are being spent searching. Do you have the data, the calculation of this arc, and the review of this method or not?

Do you think its strange that all the debris has washed up on the opposite side of the Indian ocean to this arc?
We've been lucky to stay at the Glenelg Inn when the weather was perfect, blue skies and no wind, quite warm and the mountains still covered in snow higher up. Ideal conditions for exploring brochs and Munros!

Of course, it's always like that...... ;-)
It's a Bloomberg article, not an intro to astrodynamics. If you know the orbit you can figure out when it will decay relatively accurately.
Can a deep neural network compose music?
I think it does not work for the same reason Soviet-style government-planned economy does not work. The incentives of private persons and of government officials are unreconcilably different.
This has already existed in the form of Stack Overflow Enterprise [1]. One major difference is that the company I was at managed and maintained their instance of Stack Overflow (it involved a lot of work). I wonder what else is different (or maybe this is just a replacement for Enterprise?)

[1] https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/enterprise
It can be very helpful for complex deployments.

For example, if you want to deploy a distributed TensorFlow training on kubernetes with multiple parameter servers and task servers, it is a nightmare to do just with kubernetes yaml templates. Helm and it's go templating makes it much much easier.
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Tweeterino – A neat website to create Fake Tweet images with any Twitter user
That's just another example of pulling the ladder up behind you, once you reach safety. Happens in many domains (immigrations, most famously).
Actually I should rephrase thatand say, the way I make money, my profession, takes up 3 hours of my day, counting commute time. I can live off that money. The rest of the time I just do what I want, which is what I generally consider to be 'the work.'
Great screens can be find on laptops too.
I’m also a software dev who has been painfully dogfooding an iPad Pro 10.5 fulltime for development of CoCalc/SageMath for the last few weeks. I even opened (and fixed) a bunch of bugs in our site as a result: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/issues?utf8=&q=label%3...

I’ve been using iOS 11 beta3. Surprisingly, there actually exist some clear advantages over most laptops:

Physical Hardware Advantages over laptops (not over surface pro):

- More cameras (e.g., an extra 12MP camera on back); you can easily snap a picture or shoot video.

- The iPad 10.5 weighs 1 pound, which is way less than most notebooks; it is EXTREMELY portable.

- Portrait mode (i.e., rotate screen) with no keyboard, which is useful, e.g., for reading pages of technical documentation.

- No trackpad, so the keyboard/bottom takes up much less space, meaning you can fit easily in more places (e.g., cramped airplanes).

- The keyboard doesn’t get dust/crumbs under the keys, since they are sealed.

There are also some advantages over my other laptop, which is a 2.2 pound Macbook 12:

- The iPad has LTE, which works very well to provide internet without wifi.

- Surprisingly, the iPad 10.5 “SmartKeyboard” from Apple has a vastly better mechanical feel than the Macbook 12 (2016).

Of course, the real annoyance of the iPad is the software, because the hardware itself is very good, whereas the software is intentionally crippled for reasons of control/security/arrogance/vision. This is a much bigger can of worms...
Trump doesn't care about listening to anyone, least of all those who put him in office. Republicans in general don't either, or they wouldn't be cutting everyone's healthcare.
This is just a remote key/value store with a key that's so long that it looks like a hash?
I'm for free markets and competition but I have to agree with you here. Like the US interstate road system the fixed line broadband, especially the big fiber pipes, probably needs to be taken over by a quasi-federal program similar to the Post Office. There seems to be too much of a monopoly or oligarchy collusion taken place. Broadband is not improving with competition currently.
Somebody please explain this line from the post:

Radio waves travel at the speed of light 299 792 458 m/s.
Trump Just Fired America's Top Cyber Security Official
The high cost of free parking (7 minute video)
A Method of Estimating Plane Vulnerability Based on Damage of Survivors (1943) [pdf]
> If you have a notary anyway there are more efficient ways to go about things.

like trusting in bob: http://intheoreum.org/

be warned: this link contains humor.
If my phone is powered off can i be tracked?

What if i remove the battery?
What happened to John Carmack?
I recall that one of the LeoCAD-style brick based editors had an option to remove all the top and bottom connection features for export to .OBJ or similar, simplifying the shapes to boxes but reducing the poly count enormously.

Was that something LeoCAD could do or would I need to use a different tool for that? (This wasn't a general purpose hidden surface removal, it was just removing all of the parts of the bricks associated with ensuring physical connections)
I like it. Many epistemological systems crumble when subjected to their own analytical techniques. (This is a parlor trick they teach philosophy undergrads.) It's hard to do that when you start out by positing the incompleteness of your own knowledge.
AKA: the excuse that will be used by anyone who ever deleted a tweet that makes them look bad. FAKE TWEET!
When was this launched?
Hi Matthew, my rate is £400 a day, I'm a tech writer. Most contract developers I know are on a lot more than that. Double mostly. They do Java/Scala/Perl. That is probably just the niche I have been in though. My very first contract wasn't particularly high £260 a day, but you get known and you can charge more once you've got people who will vouch for you.

With regards the 9 months. I write code (Python), read (a lot), watch movies, relax, listen to music. The point for me is I have to do this. Many years ago (I'm 55 now) I got very, very depressed and considered suicide. I was totally and utterly burnt out due to never ending work.

I spend quite a lot of time in Philippines and Thailand - mostly for the diving. My partner and I are keen divers (she's a nurse - but only does contract work now too). I also like photography, hiking, camping, biking and so on. I am studying for mountain leader exams.

I read Hacker News too but rarely comment. Just today and yesterday. Probably today will be the last day!

p.s. I used to work with a guy who negotiated a four day week. He is still doing that to date as far as I know. You might be able to negotiate fewer days but it's not easy.
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The problem with utopias we know is that they're... boring. 'Eliezer wrote a lot of interesting things on the topic - [0][1].

> There doesn't exist a way that will satisfy everyone's wishes.

I disagree with that in terms of theoretical possibility. In practice, of course it's not possible now (or in nearby future). But in practice, our world is so, so far from a theoretical utopia that we still have a lot of space for improvements without causing too much disagreements. It's also true we can't satisfy everyone, because some people harbour desires inherently incompatible with desires of the rest of humanity - I'm thinking of various sociopathic tendencies - but they form but a very small minority, and frankly, their needs have to be accepted as not irreconcilable and ignored.

--

[0] - https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Fun_theory - a general summary of the post sequence.

[1] - https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Fun_Theory_Sequence - the actual posts.
Nice idea. Just that code is a universal language, english is not. Is there any way to handle multiple languages for a same recipe outside of forking? forking is one way to adresse this issue but there would not be any other value to the fork than translating a recipe.

Just asking
The screen real estate alone should be a good reason not to do that. I gather most people do js programming on a tablet. I would still need three windows side by side: the IDE, the UI rendered in a browser, and stackoverflow or some documentation. Having to switch all the time must be tiring.
It takes minimal energy to deorbit from LEO. By changing the shape of the orbit you spend some time in denser atmosphere which increases drag which quickly deorbits you. Controlled just means they start the processes at a specific time.
If Blockchains ran the world
A lot of us have tried this idea, me included two years ago. It seems like a logical idea, but there really isn't enough people looking for it.
On the contrary, the lack of human review is why both the Play Store and the Chrome Web Store (especially this one) are dumpster fires with rampant malware.

Automated tasks are not good at outsmarting humans. When you want to review a human's work for security, you need humans somewhere along the process.

Automation can help those humans do their jobs, but it's simply not a solution here.
> Or we can rethink our use of cars. I drive one about once per week. The rest of my transportation needs are neatly provided by electric light rail.

How do you deal with doing groceries ? I have to do groceries for 5 people, have to actually cook for them about 14x a week, at, let's say, 150gr of food per person per meal, at 50% waste to allow for actual cooking, so let's say 150gr * 14 * (1/(1-50%))= 5 kilogram, plus stuff to drink. Humans drink about 1.5 liter per day. So all in all, I need the ability to carry some 25-40kg easily. How do I do that using light rail ?

Note: going twice, by itself, increases the cost of groceries due to economies of scale. Going 5 times increases it by a lot, ignoring the lost time. Also, let's not pretend 12x1.5 liter bottles are easy to carry on light rail, even if it's just that and nothing else.

Also light rail, at least in Sydney and London (ie. the metro), only connects places that are ridiculously expensive to rent, and to top that off, light rail is only a little cheaper than a car compared to using a car by myself. With 5 people, they are ridiculously more expensive than using a car. Compared to using a nice secondhand car and traveling 30 times a week (20 of which are simply dropping the kids off at school), the price difference is so high that we cannot discuss using light rail for this.

So how can you claim that this is a solution ? When you're 20 and alone, perhaps. When you have a family, the financial difference is off the scale.

Come to think of it, once I turn 60 or so, is this still your suggestion ? Because then it'll be physically impossible for me to do it at all without a car, just for 2 people.

Personally, I think public transport is effectively a failure. The only function it has is to allow rich middle classers to travel in for their job from the suburbs, taking the car for part of the way. Aside from that it's useful for going out and the like, but it cannot reasonably be a primary mode of transportation.

If it were up to me, I'd tear down public transport entirely and replace it with "uber rail cars". Replace all tracks with normal road, reserved for a government-run fast automated-cars-only network that get called on request using an app, with ride sharing. As soon as possible, make that a network for automated call cars that can actually drive to supermarkets, jobs, ... and use the extensive right of way that we have on rail to have essentially a better highway system. No more stations. No more horrible overcrowded-and-ill-ventilated-and-source-of-countless-infections trains (guess what industry I work in).

> sugarcane ethanol, which has a pretty close to zero carbon footptint.

It also has a 1.05 or so ROEI (or, more likely, <1, when you count full cycle) and is a gimmick. We can probably support a 1905 economy on it. We cannot support the current economy on it.
I guess that's a double edged sword, right now it is harmless but who knows where FB can take it
They listen to their base. They can't afford to lose the base. It's the outreach to moderates that only happens during campaigns.

For what it's worth, they aren't actually cutting health care. There's a reason they can't get a repeal through even though they control both houses of congress and have a rubber stamp waiting in the white house.
Both radio waves and light are just differing frequencies of Electromagnetic Radiation.
I am not in this industry so I am curious, what has been implemented if anything to prevent losing another plane is such a manner? have there been any general changes to requirements for airliners or crews?
Students from Stanford, Berkley and other universities (Notre Dame, Illinois, Columbia, Yale, Texas Woman’s Uni, Alaska, Colorado Boulder, Minnesota, UCLA, Michigan, Chicago, Georgetown), as well as students from Boston, Harvard college, are using Sheetsu to learn how to talk with APIs and use them on the front-end.

Folks from Code for America were using it for very simple CMS to show dates of some events.

Guys from GeneralUI are using this for a quick solution for prototyping and have forms up and ready without setting up middlewares, servers, etc.

A customer from imgur is using this for some user research process (getting feedback).

Basically, most of them are using this in places where marketing or UX meets IT. Or there's no budget for IT to be involved, and they need to setup something on their own. We are trying to get all of those awesome use cases and make stories and blog posts from there. We are really amazed by some of them, what people can build if they need to.
Mill has no register file, and is essentially a bypass network internally. That bypass network has a source X sink complexity (not N^2 because the number of sources need not match the number of sinks). You are right that the cross product is a limit on Mill scaling. Our internal work gives us some confidence that we can handle 30-wide issue with tolerable clock impact; beyond that is unclear, and indeed we may hit other constraints that preclude going further; memory bandwidth is a likely issue.
It's been done to death already. No one really seems to want this, even though it's awesome branching recipes.
Isn't PV a primary market for silicon? Sure looks like it:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polysilicon_prices_h...

(the price drop is mostly a result of pretty big increases in production)
Ask HN: What is your experience in getting H-1B visa without higher education?
I am looking at emigrating to the US and work as a software engineer there, mainly due to that it would be interesting to live in the US in combination with the insane salaries.

I've worked professionally as a software engineer for almost a decade, my problem is that I do not have any higher education.

What is your experience in getting a H-1B visa without higher education? References from previous jobs will be stellar and I can probably tackle most computer science heavy interviews even though I do not have a formal education.
I though the README.md and project stars was there for that precise reason. Am I wrong ?
The most Apple thing ever is that they called it a "journal" and not a "blog."
iPhone Snapchat hack to upload from camera roll without white border in story
Because it blurs the line between a web page and the browser chrome. Any web page that attempts to look like the browser should be considered malware.
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When you turn on a lightbulb, the light coming from the bulb travels at the speed of light, which is 299,792,458 meters per second. Radio waves also travel at this same speed, since it is also light.
I have only tested with GNOME Files. James Lu tested other file managers, see here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868705#msg...

Quote:

* Add Enhances: caja, tumbler (>= 0.1.92~), nautilus, nemo
These are some of the many file managers/thumbnailer programs that support
desktop thumbnailers like exe-thumbnailer, and I have verified (at some
point) that all of these work.
i smell an ICO
Alacritty has an interesting reason for tearing:

* https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/598
Haha, I've read 4 books on writing by famous authors but have written 0 books.

I think I enjoy reading about writing more than actual writing.
Reminds me of my 300/1200 baud days, when you couldn't live without it.
Best source for me understanding block chain at least a bit was here: http://johnmathews.eu/blockchain-introduction.html
It's not even good for web development since you usually need the a separate window for debugging/console output/network monitoring.
haha - yeah! I'd be happy to send you some pics and some of my writings about the place, but I don't know how to do that! Sorry! It is a different world!
Even better than that, it has fooled the tabloid "The Sun" into writting a news article about a fake tweet as if it were real:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3959675/rob-kardashian...
Showing how inaccurate tabloid news can be.
The original fake tweet: https://tweeterino.com/robkardashian/status/21786
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