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I haven't seen this advice in this thread yet, but there is a path other than selling or raising VC. It's focusing and growing your revenue until you get through this crunch.

We've been in a similar situation before, that we managed to grow our way out of. It is possible to get through this, keep growing your business, and do it all on your own terms.

To resolve the short-term feeling of being overwhelmed, here are a few ideas:

* Try to get more $$ upfront by converting customers to annual plans, or raising implementation fees.

* Defer some customers until your team is larger (or they pay more).

* List out what you're working on, and ruthlessly trim anything non-essential.

* Contract out what you can.

* Raise some angel or friends and family $$.

I don't know what your revenue is, but I'd guess a few hundred k ARR. In the medium term, if you can grow 5-10% a month, you'll double or triple your revenue in a year. This will give you a lot more optionality in the long term:

* You can just keep bootstrapping forever if you want.

* If you raise, you'll get much better terms with more revenue.

* If you sell, you'll get a higher price.

Of course, this depends on having solid growth channels, and a reasonably sized market.

Taking the time out now to chase VC funding when it's not there will hurt your ability to grow in the short and medium term. If you focus on growing revenue instead, you'll increase your chances at VC funding or a sale in the long term.

I'm happy to chat more if you want -- email is in my profile.
Sure, I guess in the 10,000 foot view those look like source code :). But there's no fundamental reason you can't have libraries for platform X merely present on a platform Y system, it's just inconvenient today. That's the point I'm really trying to get at.
Dynamic libraries are also made of data. See also my response to coldtea here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310255
Minimum cost for a filled prescription ($10 for one generic valium for instance) and/or processing fee per order in addition for the cost per pill for the staff's attention and handling.
Prometheus lacks charm, whereas Alien/s both have it in spades. Think about the group scenes in either Alien or Aliens - I can probably reel off a few classic lines from the banter right now. Does the same go for Prometheus? No - it just doesn't have the originality or charm.
I work for Pivotal as an engineer.

Red Hat was my first distro, back in '97. I'm grateful.

I wasn't around for the discussion about why Cloud Foundry originally standardised on Ubuntu, but if you're Red Hat, you're hardly going to bet on that. Red Hat's lifeblood is RHEL, anything which threatens it is existential.

And PaaSes threaten RHEL, unless Red Hat controls their own.

Red Hat deserve credit for making a big bet on Kubernetes so early on, when the picture was by no means clear. It's definitely put them well in the hunt against us as k8s picked up momentum. I think Openshift 3 plays to their historical strength, which is in packaging upstream and supporting or feeding back to the upstream.

The article mentions Kubo. We're adding PKS (based on Kubo), jointly developed with Google (Kubernetes, Kubo) and VMWare (Harbor, NSX).

In Labs, from the balanced product team up to the C-suite, we can transform the way you build software. A lot of companies come to us to learn how to thrive in the world of disruption.

So it would've been downright silly not to spot one happening to us and ... uh ... pivot.

(Disclaimer: Nothing in my comments should be seen as official comment by someone who decides anything of any consequence. Not forward-looking. Consult your lawyer, doctor, dentist and gardner before taking this comment as medication.)
As a Pixel owner I must say it's camera is very good. I used iPhones for a long time due to security features. Pixel's camera and reasonable hardware security lured me away. Pixel has no pure equivalent to Secure Enclave, but it is good enough. The HDR+ on it is great.
Worse apis and permissions, because there is no way to recover from bugs in your code.

Unless you hard-fork.
Right, the same people telling you it's going to $100K are the ones saying this is a digital currency that should be spent. Well, I sure ain't about to spend $100K to buy 2 MacBook Pros.
I am super interested to see how the SUSE stemcell and rootfs work turns out, now that SUSE is contributing to Cloud Foundry.
Same can be said of every technology.

Besides, what's interesting is that it has survived major bugs, again and again. Doesn't that say something? Seems quite resilient to me.
I had a company that was profitable, growing, and paying the bills. I had plans to grow it to super huge. I also remember wondering why people wouldn't invest, or lend money to, my business, even though it was doing quite well. One day, someone offered to buy me out, and I honestly hadn't expected that. I sold my stake for way less than I had expected to get at some future date, but don't regret it for a second. I used that money to switch careers, and even though I'm an employee now, I don't have any regrets about selling out.
Exactly. Whenever a friend tells me he is thinking of daytrading from home, I seriously tell him to go to Vegas instead. At least there, you know you're at about a 2-5% disadvantage depending on what game you play. In the market you're very likely disadvantaged much more than that.

Plus your laptop won't spit out free Coronas.
So your whole family will live in a studio
will not have medical insurance
Never eat out
etc.
He's still going to maintain a voting majority, just the normal way.
Ah, I hadn't thought of that. You still couldn't double-spend on the network, but you could double-spend the offline IOUs :)
Can you? I would think common law would take precedence over taxi regulations.
Because an unspecified parent grant is most likely an implied patent grant, and especially for FOSS there is a very strong case since your are explicitly permitted to study, modify, and use any part of the code.
My HP work laptop has the home key next to a smaller backspace. Very frustrating.
> Antibiotic resistant bacteria is not a "prediction" of evolutionary theory/model that distinguishes it from any other model.

Really? What other models make this prediction?

> Nor is this feature of the bacteria a definitive example of evolution as such.

Why not? It's change in the genes of a population in response to selection pressure, that increases its fitness under that selection pressure.

> I was and had no problems with the evolutionary model/theory until I started seeing the major dissonance between the experimental results being obtained and the interpretations that the evolutionary biologists were making on those results.

Can you give some specific examples? From actual peer-reviewed literature, not pop science presentations? I agree that in their pop science books, articles, etc., evolutionists say all kinds of things that they would never get away with in an actual peer-reviewed paper (Dawkins is a particularly egregious offender in this regard). But pop science is not actual science, and you can't judge the actual science by its pop science presentations. The same thing happens in every field. I see pop science presentations of physics all the time, even by Nobel Prize winning physicists, that are full of misstatements and misrepresentations that would never pass in a peer-reviewed paper. But that doesn't make the physics itself wrong.

> There is a potential model (actually the merging of two models) that could merge the strong force, electromagnetic and gravity into a single consistent electromagnetic model.

Do you have a reference?
I think the angle about how they don't get trolled is super interesting. It's like they have more troll antibodies than the hardest core 4chan user because they're one group (at least in San Francisco) that is openly reviled and people actually have the guts to troll in real life.
Make drugs legal. Impose a 15% tax on each sale with all money devoted to rehabbing addicts. Problem solved.
That's the trade-off all right. A lot of the extra time that you spend packing your own stuff is looking at every single thing and deciding whether you really want to move it, or sell it or trash it instead. It's a lot faster to just pack everything without having to think about that. Having all of the boxes of the right types and all of the packing paper that you need at hand helps too.

But then, yeah, you do end up with a lot of stuff you don't need if you aren't forced to prune like this ever so often.
I'm not a cybercrime expert, but AFAIK once the fraudulent ACH goes through it's a matter of cashing out the money (to literal cash or resalable goods) before the ACH is inevitably reverted. This leaves the recipient account with a negative balance so it can basically only be used once.
Thanks for that clarification. I interpreted that paragraph to be somewhat contradictory (“we like this but we’re moving away from it because it’s not our job to convince people it’s fine”). Your interpretation makes more sense and provides better color to it.
There are rough edges to be worked out before we arrive at solidly productionised systems, but I believe Red Hat and Docker are both heading in that direction.

Mind you, ask yourself: why do you need it?

If it's for apps, isn't the point of these platforms to not need to care about individual instances?

If it's for data, don't you have an existing way to manage HA or parallelism?
Exactly. All the young researchers that didn’t follow the herd never got funding and never got tenure.

When I was an academic I tried to follow a middle path. 75% herd following (more accurately arbitrage exploitation taking advantage that certain fields lag others so applying something old from one field is seen as cutting edge in another), 25% high risk. I would have loved to have spent more time on the high risk activities, but it is just too risky.

We really, really, really, really need to change the way science is funded. Not more funding, smarter funding. We get exactly the results we should expect from the totally stupid way science is funded.

/s I have a totally novel idea - how about we use science to determine how science funding should be allocated. /s
Fascinating, I didn’t realize it could become an existential problem for them. Thanks!
In the real world no matter what you make if you call it “Apple” anything someone will probably come after you and say that they are eventually going to get into this business and offer you some type of settlement.
You can very easily avoid this by opening two bank accounts in the same bank and using online interface to transfer just as much as you need into your working account. Don't write or even create checks for the secondary account and don't disclose the account number to anyone for any reason.
Well, for starters:

- That it has Unix and its tools underneath

- That app guis look consistently good on it (although I will admit that Windows has caught up to Mac OS X in this regard)

- That I don't have to worry about catching viruses as easily when browsing the Internet. Yes, I know there are viruses for Mac, but I've not come across them. Not the same with Windows. In fact, I made the switch after catching a nasty one using Windows Vista and losing more than half of my stuff.

- A corollary is not having to use Antivirus on a Mac

- That even though Macs have little in terms of specs, that the OS doesn't fucking lag something fierce. Last Windows I used, Windows 8, was still a memory hog for a machine having twice the RAM as my Mac. It was a work machine, not a personal machine.

And Most importantly, that I don't have to worry about maintaining the machine for all the aforementioned reasons and that I just get stuff done.
It seems like people never get tired of not reading the PATENTS file. “Wildly aggressive?” Please. The agreement explicitly forbids Facebook from revoking your patent grant if they are the aggressor. Without the agreement (i.e. just BSD) Facebook is free to sue you for patent infringement. They add a file that says they can’t do that unless you sue them first and suddenly people are out for blood. Salem 2.0.
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The idea is that it kills 99% of them, and then your immune system is up to the task of killing the remaining 1%.
> given that they censor the chats in real time

I've never used WeChat, that's interesting to me. How does the real-time censorship work exactly? If I attempt to discuss the Tiananmen Square massacre, would that chat message be instantly 'deleted' after sent (in however much time it takes for them to screen the message that is), something akin to that?
This actually happened to Ethereum. They ended up forking the blockchain to Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.
>How does Bitcoin work offline?

Depends on the stage of evolution of Bitcoin you're in.

Early Stage: two parties can still trade transactions offline but there's a risk of being double spent against (not completely trustless but not fully trusted).

Second early stage option is: A solution that attempts to prove that private keys to the bitcoin hasn't even been accessed before: https://opendime.com/

Late Stage: Assume Lightning Network connectivity. Since the payment channels in the LN prevent you from double spending coins (attempting to assign UTXO to a different party than your counter party), all you really need to do is issue a channel update and issue a preimage to a hash time locked contract HTLC
It existing and being available for those who truly need decentralized money. It's a bit like saying the success of Tor is when X% of the internet's traffic is over Tor. No, the value of Tor comes from just existing and working when it is needed. Likewise Bitcoin provides something very different from fiat money, and success for bitcoin is retaining those properties and availability as needed.
Perception is an issue. I had a non-unionized coworker claim that union dues were high when I suggested unionizing. When I told her what I payed, she was stunned at how low they are. People often miss the point that unions are about more than exerting power. They also much more efficient at representing workers. (Organizations benefit from that as well, but they are far more concerned with the average worker gaining negotiating power.)
min() and max() are actually super useful beyond handling the iPhone X safe areas, here's a Tweet with some examples of other ways to use it: https://twitter.com/iamvdo/status/910074435159420928

In brief, it lets you replace the "CSS locks" pattern which is a super awkward way to apply clamping to a flexible size. min()/max() makes it much easier.
Dangerous is relative. In the US you have roughly 60 days after a statement is received to escalate fraudulent transfers out of your account. If you file a complaint within this timeframe, your money will be returned. The problem of course is that if because that money was taken you miss your mortgage payment or car payment or student loan payment there could be associated fees from those lenders which you would be out. For businesses I think this timeframe may be as short as three days from the fraudulent transaction so in those cases it's a real problem.

Generally I recommend having two bank accounts, one which is rarely used other than for deposits and functions as a backup in the event your primary account is compromised. I also recommend not using a debit card and instead get the financial discipline to just pay off credit card balances each month and then use credit-cards for as much as you can from banks not tied to either your primary or backup checking account.
Of course they would.

Would an individual considering whether to buy/use a drug actually evaluate the involvement of a cartel in their decision? I doubt it.

I suspect demand for drugs is largely independent of their legal status. Legalization would not open the floodgates to reservoirs of potential users previously held back by law.
This brings me back. What would really complete the experience is a collection of random tracks from different Metallica albums (downloaded off Napster of course).
> but just impossible to pay 100x less to someone in-house who could add a couple of features into existing in-house software on a weekend.

They don't spend more money for fun. They do it because they've had experiences of many on-a-weekend projects become critical-path nightmares.

Owning your own bespoke platform is a giant money hole. The arguments in favour of doing so are plug interchangeable with "let's write our own operating system kernel / database / programming language / HTTP server / CPU architecture / web framework".

I also think it's a bit rude to assume that Red Hat has hundreds of brilliant engineers just phoning it in. I work for Pivotal and we are flat. out. every. day. writing this stuff, because it turns out that this stuff is a lot harder than it looks from the outside.

And the reason it looks easier is because we did the hard work for you.
Ah, the muh roads, argument.
I use it almost everyday to buy stuff. Today I bought a Sonos speaker, some baby food and a chair. Also I hoard it.

Why did you think that?
Anyone know what the Royalty allocation system of Spotify is?
I wondered if a voluntary fee, paid with ISP access as a kind of insurance policy against kids illegally downloading music and movies (possibly software and books too), would bring more in for artists then what Spotify bring in. Lady Gaga only received. Report: Spotify Paid Lady Gaga $167 for 1 million plays. Spotify's royalty allocation seems not very transparent as to how the royalties get divvied, but hey, I guess the Labels signed up to it so everyone's happy. Cool. oh yea, Radio 1 in the UK pay loads of money for plays, I can't figure out if Spotify is disruptive to Radio, or just a total waste of time for everyone, especially artists and labels. I guess Li Ka Shing being an investor rather then a non profit driven backer similar to PPL and PRS could be an issue, as well as the private investors profiting out of its recent $13bn valuation. I don't think in the USA the RIAA are worth that much, but Larry Kerzwil might disagree. But hey they're a trade organisation so maybe aren't as motivated by profit margins and sky high valuations as private investors.
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The truly amazing thing is that one can say that with a straight face (and not be wrong).

The notion that one could take a device that costs a few bucks and replicate a significant percentage of the capability (at least in terms of results, though not in terms of the creative process) that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and required a whole team to maintain and operate it effectively continues to be ridiculous to me.

As an old-timer who studied and worked in tape-based analog audio recording studios and at a pre-digital television station (barely, I was there when the digital machines moved in, just before I quit), this utter transformation of all of the audiovisual industries within my lifetime has been nothing short of incredible. I've watched it happen, and my mind still boggles at what can be done "in the box", even on modest hardware, today vs. 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Every decade sees an order of magnitude drop in price and order of magnitude increase in capability, at least for the non-physical aspects of the job (cameras, microphones, lenses, speakers, monitors, lights, instruments, room treatment for absorption/diffusion, etc. still cost a lot and probably always will, though even many those things have dropped in price precipitously due to the steadily improving quality of low-end products...once upon a time, a $50 microphone was a joke, today you can make a pretty decent recording with a $50 MXL or similar).
I prefer two separate institutions for one reason: things like the Equifax breach. If someone attempts to impersonate you at your bank they could gain access to both accounts. If you have a 'silent' account somewhere else, they'd need to do account recovery at that location as well. The odds of that happening tends to be much lower.
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Then this whole article should be flagged and we should have never seen 'Why Wages Aren't Growing'.

It's not a political article; it's stalking about the state of our society. If we cannot talk about the state of our society and the petrodollar here on HN then HN is censoring the truth.
> Checkpoint-restore of processes (CRIU) is a fairly cool technology that is quite unique to Linux

DragonFlyBSD has had process checkpointing for more than 10 years.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=checkpoint&...

While the functionality is admittedly & unfortunately quite limited, there are no technological reasons this couldn't have been furthered in the meantime given sufficient funding/dev time, etc.
The problem with jvm in the browser is that:

1. Java applets aren't automatically run, you have to click an 'run' button

2. Java can't interact with DOM

JS is built on top of the DOM, and it runs automatically on page load. All JAVAWS has access to is a given section of screen. Honestly, I wish it happens, but I doubt it does. I think chrome would want WASM to succeed and to make everything compile to it because it's a platform they have a significant amount of control over. Which is a damn shame because the JVM is pretty much the best vm out there, and it makes more sense to support it than to try to play catch-up with another VM.
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VR for connecting real world spaces across distances, so well to the point that our brains cannot distinguish the "V" part of it, to me has the most value.
+1 on the quality sleep.
if you wake up with dry mouth or drool regularly, you're mouth breathing during sleep which is commonly a warning sign of sleep apnea, which causes loads of problems, especially mental health probs.
Red Hat have done a lot of the productionising and packaging and got it running at a lot of companies.

I don't fully agree that Red Hat has more ownership of the success of Kubernetes, though. They may have been necessary, but by no means sufficient. The aura of Google has probably had far more importance in the momentum to date.
This bit made me laugh:

"Over the past year and a half, Facebook's business has performed well and the value of our stock has grown to the point that I can fully fund our philanthropy and retain voting control of Facebook for 20 years or more,"

I don't think we will be needing Facebook to stay in touch with our friends in 20 years time, by then it should be as anachronistic as the Yellow Pages are today.
I think it's pretty clear that part 1 was Stephenson's "how would modern humanity really react to an apocalyptic scenario?" answer, and part 2 was his "I wanna write about theoretical orbital megastructures and epigenetics in a near-future sci-fi epic!" statement. The fact that the two parts go together as well as they do is, I think, impressive.