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Hiii!

I just released a fledgling 1.0 of Index- a personal productivity platform that gives you a dashboard for the world of digital content.

You use browser and mobile share extensions to save and #tag anything from anywhere. Then you can use the web, mobile, or desktop clients to search, rearrange, and share the content you've saved. You can also use (and develop!) /commands to access and manipulate external services. The idea is its an evil genius control panel, but for nice people.

More about the build: This is 3 people (and a part time contractor)'s work over 2 months in preparation for launch at Disrupt. Was the most physically and emotionally damaging thing I've done in my life, but also the most rewarding. Truly. If you're curious about tech, from back to front: MongoDB, Redis, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Node microservices wrapped in Docker, Swift, Java, React/Redux and Electron on the clients. Tons of services providers for management- love paying subscriptions for my problems to be someone else's job.

Worked as an engineer in popular startups my whole adult life while collecting knowledge, but I'm a first time CEO (CTO too I guess..?). Still feels funny to say. We've been bootstrapped off contract income from my previous agency (and my former savings account) and have been approached by enough investors that taking a seed round and putting 110% of our time into Index could be a wise decision.

I will treasure any advice from people who have been here before, or have feedback about the company and product. Thanks for looking.
>(NOTE: I am not a gopher) I thought godep was that? It's marked as suitable for production now, and I think official as of their next release.

I didn't realize they were working on solving this, that's fantastic. Hopefully it can gain traction.
http://archive.darpa.mil/cybergrandchallenge/
You can see how off the trace can be here: https://i.imgur.com/eHJI8FH.jpg . You could probably do some smoothing to help fit some of this to a street but I've been on runs where I zig zag down streets just to add distance or to do hills.
Except pickup beds are now 5'6" instead of 8', which makes this less comfortable
I may just be a super-cynical ad-tech exile, but I see this as a path to getting shown more ridiculously well-targeted ads based on the places and stores I've been in. Beacons haven't taken off and I'm glad they haven't. I'd really prefer a GPS in my phone with a similar granularity to the one I have now. Google's notifications that I should review places I've been are creepy enough.
Dicamba is horrible stuff. The drift is a serious issue and is only going to get worse. Obviously Monsanto is gonna cry fowl here and act like they aren’t to blame – but the fact of the matter is that they are a giant in a small pool of seed and chemical companies. Farmers are stuck using this stuff if they want to keep their yields up. Unfortunately the surrounding ecosystem will suffer and the vicious cycle towards the mono crop continues.

All of this stems from our insane deep-rooted dependence on corn and soybeans.
They do mention consumers "worry about the safety of tap water after the high-profile contamination in Flint", so I am guessing people are a bit unwilling to take someone's word on "perfectly potable water" without seeing the proof. Or rather, it's "perfectly potable" until oops, the past few years.

When I was in Stockholm I remember seeing some sort of artsy indicator of water/air quality that runs 24/7 right on the public boardwalk. We need something similar in every town - a constant feed of water quality and ppm measurements, perhaps with a bit of crowdsourcing thrown in, similar to what Wunderground does with weather.
Water should have a cost when it is scarce, but water isn't scarce in Michigan. It should be free. Complaining about bottling water in Michigan is like complaining about a company compressing air.

The idea that public rights shouldn't be sold on the private market is lunacy. Nestle selling me a S. Pelagrino bottle doesn't impact an African kid getting water even a little bit. It's like arguing we should ban farming because nobody should starve.

edit:should be nearly free
Huh? What is your bar for "done growing". Because the rest of the normal publicly traded market doesn't grow revenue at 50+ percent a year. The average for the S&P 500 is something more like 3-4 percent revenue growth per year.

From data in the MongoDB S-1:

2016 yoy revenue growth: 58%
2017 yoy revenue growth: 55%

MongoDB is part of the same thesis as something like Twilio -- they IPO'ed over a year ago with the same belief around differentiating via developer-centric customer acquisition. Twilio is still putting up ~70% yoy growth.
But the reason people believe bottled water is better for them is because of companies like Nestle which created and marketed that idea to consumers.
The restrictions are just from the manufacturer and can be disabled on request. We have to do this for our high-altitude balloon experiment.
For Neanderthals, Growing Big Brains Took More Time
The multipath in urban environments probably limits the accuracy, unfortunately.
For runs it's mostly just for fun. I use Strava so it has sections they identify along your run that they rank you against your friends and strangers. I do end up running very similar routes most of the time.

I mostly find the GPS invaluable in hiking. It can be a great thing to have on the top of a mountain in the winter with low visibility. If you get up to a summit and the weather turns, you can have the watch send you back down the way you came. Nice and safe.
It's almost as though using a phone whose operating system is created and maintained by an advertising company isn't the best idea if you want to keep things like your location private.
Oh man, I loved REAMDE. It was just a fun book to read. It was absolutely absurd with how much was going on, but I loved reading it.
> A credit report could be stored in an encrypted form so that it could be thawed only with a key held or managed by the consumer.

This is a nice idea. In practice the keys would have to be accessible via some kind of password to make them usable to ordinary people. And then those passwords would need to be re-settable via email or phone. There are security issues with that I guess, but we'd probably be better-off than we are now.
Paying nearly nothing for water is not as bad as paying effectively nothing for labor. You shouldn't be buying products made by slavers.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/01...
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Wow, the battery is crazy low capacity. Wonder if battery life will really be longer as claimed in real usage?
I've been. It is a truly impressive feat of human engineering and very fun to explore. It is sad that politics prevent people from visiting it now.
The reason they’re called California is merely because of the romantic image the name has in Europe though.

The concept car looks nice but the iconic design is completely lost here.
Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web works
OK, we've changed the article's headline to a phrase used by the book's author.
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I don't know if the software distribution on this will be anything like the beagle bone black , but if it is, be careful plugging into a public network! Besides the default password, arbitrary programs may be executed via a web client. At least new versions of the beagle bone software distribution no longer allow remote root login without password...
I tried to sign up for an account there as well. Process and verification were just garbage. Never worked with a dozen tries, different IDs, etc. Wouldn't recommend.
If you want something lighter to use text files as tables you could try TextQL: https://github.com/dinedal/textql.
> They do mention consumers "worry about the safety of tap water after the high-profile contamination in Flint", so I am guessing people are a bit unwilling to take someone's word on "perfectly potable water" without seeing the proof.

This. I only drink bottled water. I just have very hard times trusting water which has been flowing in pipes. It may be irrational, but we're talking about a substance we drink every day. It's tough to overcome irrational fears about it.
While you may have valid points, your tone is aggressive, emotional, and unproductive.

> people who's ideas feel repressive or too far out there either learn to monitor their own extreme ideas or they are shunned. That's how a civil society works.

This can be taken too far, however. Complete suppression of nonpopular views can maintain an unproductive status quo, and may lead to authoritarianism.
agreed. In fact we should be celebrating water bottlers for providing utility for humans by transferring water from where it is plentiful to where it is actually scare, in an easily consumable container.
The facts are scattered throughout the article but here's one of the more shocking:
"In San Bernardino, Calif., Nestlé has long paid the U.S. Forest Service an annual rate of $524 to extract about 30 million gallons, even during droughts".
This article completely fails to address the main issue: conflating identity and authentication. If credit reports required some sort of attestation of secret knowledge in order to apply for things the issue would be dramatically lessened. A social security number should be no more damaging to know than someone's email address.
Yep, I benchmarked it myself, JSONB column type in PostgreSQL worked faster for me than same data in MongoDB (both reads and writes).
The water in your bottles comes from somewhere, and it's almost never the mountain springs that bottlers want you to believe. In many cases, it is from municipal water supplies (i.e. it flows through pipes).
I guess the paper is trying to help with the misconception that a lot of what occurred in Tulipmania is relatable to modern-day financial bubble crashes where a lot of the general public suddenly lose jobs and money or how a lot of perception was influenced by Calvinists condemning materialistic pursuits, whereas in the actual event of the Tulip fever, it likely only affected the rich and not your ordinary 1600s general public.
Well, this Postgres release introduces automatic partitioning; in Oracle, it has been available for like 20 years.

Also, some shops are heavily invested in PL/SQL code.

The price of migration may far outweigh the license savings.
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For fast prototyping, it's pretty hard to beat a NodeJS stack. A lot of modern web dev are one-man-shows. When you're just one developer doing frontend and backend, you don't really have time to care about database migrations or designing schemas. You really just want to duct tape enough pieces together to get your app out the door.

Caring about schema design, database migration, or even code correctness doesn't really help with this. Mongo in comparison has no learning curve, crazy number of pre-integrated libraries, and works well enough at low scale. This might sound like cancer to corporate devs but the tradeoff does make sense for individuals/demos/startups.

A illustrative case study: https://medium.com/unboxd/how-i-built-an-app-with-500-000-us...
> You don't see your paycheck getting bigger, but your total compensation (if you get employer sponsored health insurance) has risen.

This is wrong. While the majority of people haven't been seeing an increase in wages, the upper-middle class has[1]. Workers don't see things like "total compensation" when it all goes to insurance premiums. If the lower classes continue to experience a declining quality of life while the upper classes live opulently, there will come a time of destabilization. Don't you understand this? Shouldn't we try to avoid that?

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/news/economy/upper-middle-cl...
Seconded, this is a pretty important feature for some use cases
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A lot of tap water is simply terrible. I've lived in a few places now in Chicago and the water hasn't been drinkable without running it through a Brita filter. First place I was in the water was white.
Ok, but why would you do that? Either just vendor it in the new project (copy-paste a directory) or download it to your gopath and import that. The nice thing is that you don't have to change the import when you decide to vendor.
What? Shudders...
San Francisco Bay Area tap water is safe to drink and is held to a lot higher safety standard than bottled water. Also the source of most bottled-water is no different than the source for tap. Bottled-water is often priced at a 2000%+ markup.

http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=447

https://www.quora.com/Is-San-Francisco-city-tap-water-safe-t...
Nothing at all: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm
Somewhere I've heard a cool idea that sleep might be the "default" state of the living organisms. Most of the time you want to rest and conserve energy, so sleeping is just how we are, it's waking up to get food and procreate is the "strange" thing we do.

No idea if this makes sense scientifically, but it's fun to think about.

Or maybe animals that walk around during the time when there's no light just get themselves into trouble more often and end up dying out of the gene pool. Might as well shut down during the dangerous time and use it for repair.
Civilian GPS signals used to have intentional error added, but that was ended in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...
For what it's worth, all operators have a legal obligation to gather these data (at least in the U.S. and Canada) officially for emergency services purposes.
Now, if it was in an easily consumable container, that would be something to celebrate.

Probably not possible, chemically. But imagine if you could package water and some food calories together and ship it.
I never have believed the whole "internet shills" thing on any side of any argument, and I would need some hard, hard evidence to change my mind.
Yeah - I didn't trust anyone with all my data to give it back to me. Anonymity was another concern. The delete user setting is also something I provided just to illustrate I wasn't kidding. And then open-source was the last thing since otherwise, how can you tell if someone is just bullshitting you with saying they care about anonymity? (Aka everyone in the supplement industry!)

1. Zero. The goal is to maybe do it but provide a recommendation engine based off of X class of medicine/supplements have worked for you, and you fall into a bucket of Y people that respond to X, then recommend based off of that. (So simple machine learning clustering). I'm not going into that until I hit a minimum of a certain threshold of users (which maybe never, not willing to compromise). I care much more about information leakage and making sure that IF I do this, it's incredibly well-thought out. The last thing I want to recommend is microdosing/modafinil/research chemicals just because X% of users are using it. Nothing against them, just safety and privacy are always going to come before cool features. I've given a bit of thought into this, and I could write for pages on what a proper analytics engine should look like. I'll spare you the snore :)

2. YES. I haven't made the iOS or Android app yet. (but React was specifically chosen for this reason). Right now it's super mobile friendly for entering in data. I use it on my tablet and phone about 30-40 times a day. Yeah. I try a lot of supplements ... It's a weird thing. For charts and stuff, it's mediocre for mobile.

3. Yes! FitBit integration is done and works really well with sleep data. Next on the vendor list is Garmin. The problem with HealthKit is the SDK isn't as export-friendly (I understand why Apple is paranoid), so it's harder for me to move data from there, into the analytics engine and back.

4. Don't have a definite answer just yet. It actually will come in the next few months, but at the time being - people are coming in generally knowing exactly what they're taking. I'd also like something that just goes HEY, WHAT YOU'RE TAKING INTERFERES WITH Y! I also want to bring in decay effects, ie. if you start consuming caffeine at this hour and showing decay effects.

There's a lot here that I'm super passionate about, but work's been super crazy so it's all a balancing act of what do I add.

Sorry for the GitHub link changing, but before it was right at the bottom (where it now says demo), but when I showed it to a friend he was like "you understand that everyone thinks that's the signup button is 100% of the time right?" So I had a lot of people clicking on the page, clicking onto GitHub and then disappearing.

Love the questions!
Debian and derivatives have it in repos by default. Please don't make claims like those.
> This is really something more languages should strive for.

Most languages these days obviate cross-compilation in the first place by being interpreted. Of the languages that remain, the natively-compiled ones, most haven't gone to Go's lengths of writing a custom libc, which is emphatically not recommended for both Windows and Mac (the syscall interfaces aren't stable, and this has broken Go code in the past: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16272 ). And gc, the primary Go compiler and the one with out-of-the-box cross-compilation, supports relatively few platforms (I count 11, whereas rustc looks like it supports 50-70 platforms). You can use gccgo to get more platforms, but AFAICT gccgo's cross-compilation story isn't nearly as nice: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GccgoCrossCompilation .

For Rust, cross-compilation looks like this:

1. Install the libc for the target system, and, if necessary, a compatible linker.

2. Run `rustup target add foo` where "foo" is one of the target triples on https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html

3. Add the target triple to your Cargo.toml.

Which isn't too shabby. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/japaric/rust-cross
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Is there not also a health risk from consuming water that's been bottled in plastic?
Previous Discussion from this morning: "Aaron Hernandez Found to Have Severe C.T.E" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307014
I can second this method, I use docker to generate my frozen requirements though. This allows you to get a frozen set of requirements from a clean environment without the random stuff that can be installed locally.

https://gist.github.com/kbrownlees/80c1a16aa226e5d52677e011b...
It also tastes like crap. In Vancouver the tap water tastes as good as bottled. The only thing better is fresh from a mountain creek.
I have friends that were in Turkey recently and they also mentioned its not as risky as it seems. Alternate-point: Decline in tourism hurts average people the most. Many people's live in regions especially like Cappadocia depend on the tourism industry. Enabling the people to enable their own prosperity may be another way to see it.
> And Joel Osteen is a tool and a fraud.

And this makes him "not a christian"? This is a 'no true Scotsman' argument. If you're going to provide a litany of 'good things', then you shouldn't gloss over the 'bad things' either. Osteen isn't the only minister out there that's fleecing his flock.

And what about the largest christian denomination, a powerful organisation which has a long history of covering up pedophiles in its ranks? Using its political clout to prevent government investigations? And even ignoring the pedophile issue, the standard doctrine of that denomination is making people feel guilty about their actions. 'Original Sin' is one of the most disgusting core components of any major religion; that you owe an unpayable debt from even before you take your first breath, and that you are sinful and should feel guilty about it if you don't constantly try to absolve that debt throughout your life.

And as mikeash says, there's plenty of christian morality forced into our laws. Here in Australia, we've just wasted $120M on a stupid national plebiscite on same-sex marriage (that's non-binding!) because it was forced through by conservative christian powerbrokers - despite long and consistent public support around 70% on the issue. There have only been two plebiscites before here, once for conscription in WWI, and once for the national anthem in the 70s, both of which were nation-defining things. The only reason why this is happening for same-sex marriage is christian morality trying to further force its way into our laws.

Yes, christians do good. Good christians do good. Good people do good. Bad christians do bad. The mafia is a classic example; plenty religious, plenty bad. Fact of the matter is that the proportion of christians helping out in those disaster zones is a miniscule proportion of total christians - if you're going to dismiss the Osteens of the world as being non-representative, why should we also not dismiss christian efforts in disaster zones?
Vendoring is based on the VCS, so it vendors all packages (and "sub-packages") at once.
Be careful, let's not forget the lesson of Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust. It's more accurate to say that compilation is a function that takes two arguments: the source code, and the compiler itself; this is how trusting-trust attacks propagate despite total absence from the source code.
Modernism, Heal Thyself
Or phrased another way: Consumers are willing to pay billions for nearly free tap water in bottle form. Why? Beats me.
The bottled water is just somewhere else's tap water.
I don't really hear anyone talking about this often, but is it possible that there is systemic deflation across the economy as a result of efficiencies and prices falling in the digital age? As companies get squeezed on price due to more efficient competitors and high tech alternatives to their products, they have less money to pass onto workers. When profits are fat, companies can afford to pay workers a lot.

This would explain why the inflation rate has been much lower than some people (like the Federal Reserve) had expected.
While I agree with your general point: the original post is mostly attacking lazy cut-and-paste journalism at the "quality" publishers. Channel 4 is not really junk outfit, and nor is The Independent which (according to the original post) repeated the claims, as did the New York Times.
Facebook owns thousands of patents and thus far, has not been aggressive with them. They have only been used defensively.
No it can't currently. There has been some discussion on how to do that for pg 11 though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_water_bottle
> Probably not possible, chemically

https://www.fastcompany.com/40403025/this-edible-water-bottl...
Parallel index scan is going to be huge for me, I’ve got a table with 80 million rows I have to constantly dig through, indexes help a lot but when they get so stinking big being limited to one thread really hampers performance.
Click bait pattern 101: Claim something is completely different than everybody thought then write that it mainly was as everyone thought with some minor variations.
Hey, didn't you know? It's 2017, and we can't display pictures and text without a sandboxed virtual machine running thousands of dynamics queries.
I guess it couldn't be worse than no key, even if most people's passwords are terrible and poorly handled.

But presumably the credit agencies would need the key as well, to enable those resets and so they can add to the records, which probably negates much of the benefit.