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It's a good question. I received some advice about this young-- and it wasn't about startups, it was about careers generally. If you don't know what you want to do, but you know the general area, proximity is your solution. Get as close as you can, and watch carefully. The example cited was Cornelius Vanderbilt. He sailed goods around and dabbled in ship building for decades before he got into the railroad and steamship business that built his empire. He became deeply familiar with the skills and problem space: market economics, securitization, transportation, cost competition, steam engines. Eventually, he became the first person to use a limited liability corporation to accumulate private wealth by offering services that transported goods and people, at brutally competitive prices.

Go work in something that interests you, and watch for opportunities. Uber and Flexport are proving that Vanderbilt was right, and transportation is still sexy. For myself, I like finance. There's plenty of room in healthcare, especially senior care, education, security... I think for the best ideas, you have to know something. The lightning bolt out of the clear blue sky to twenty-year-olds with no life or work experience is probably played out.
'...great votes/population ratio'

Can you elaborate on that?
Unfortunately in the real world people are shortsighted and focus on immediate concerns like development velocity and performance at the expense of long-term concerns like latent vulnerabilities. Managers and developers who make these decisions today aren't going to still accountable when a critical bug is discovered in deployed code ten years later.
Who does that? Who uses guard rails like that? Accountants.
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Right, I was hoping this new Xcode 9.1 feature could improve upon that for Objective-C as well. Perhaps capturing a copy of the stack when the exception is raised, so it open the main editor window on the appropriate source line where that exception was raised.
I think you meant $0.0014 per play...
I can see how that would be popular but it's wrong.

You can take that same reasoning and say we should build web projects in C or assembly because any defects are our own fault.

Let's be honest. That's bollocks. It's just the same old "real programmers use X" line. I'm sure there's an XKCD that parodies it.

Sure we need more discipline. Who doesn't? Yet that discipline is far better spent on doing what the compiler can't. It makes no sense doing what a computer can do unless it's really necessary. That's why we're programmers after all, right?
People don't like to say it because they're afraid of sounding lazy, but you should do whichever is easier. Is building one of them going to be easier than the other? Is marketing/selling one of them going to be easier? Does one of the ideas require raising money?

Building a sustainable business is hard enough in and of itself. If you can avoid having to woo investors, or dealing with Chinese factories, or months long sales cycles, do it.

In addition, this will force you to think realistically about the skills and deficiencies on your founding team.
I'm currently building something that goes somewhat in that direction. Shoot me a mail, and I'll get back to you :)
There are some pretty solid approaches over on my SO question (particularly the lldb Python script—been using this one for years.) https://stackoverflow.com/q/14370632/798224
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Fair enough - thanks for all the hard work on searchengineland, great site!
Here's my issue: as a software engineer in the Bay Area that spends most of my day coding and then commuting for two hours, I am having this exact problem of watching and listening. Maybe I don't interact much with my environment, but nothing seems to jump out at me that could potentially resemble an idea.

I have had some ideas in the past that would have solved one of my problems, but they are very rare.
I think this is the best description.

Steve Martin and Mel Brooks still have their audience today. I think that kind of humor is timeless, just out of fashion; I think it will always have its audience, but it's almost surprising that it was mainstream at some point.

In the same vein, you won't see "dad jokes" going away any time ever.
This is probably something games are still exploring as a medium, but I think designers are finding ways to show humour with game mechanics. An example might be a funny setting in Halo's Forge mode, or something crazy resulting from random elements in the new Zelda, or messing up in Surgeon Simulator. The interactivity makes the comedy personal in a special way, and I don't think books or film can quite repeat that.

I'll admit that older games don't quite have that je ne sais pas though. It seems like a thing we're more keen on nowadays, especially with stuff like streaming or roguelike elements coming back into vogue.
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I used Steve Blank's formula he described in "The Startup Owner's Manual". Steve is a legend and the process works. I spent 12 months working on a variety of startup ideas, testing them in the market, pivoting and moving on to the next one. Eventually we found one that got traction (paying customers). Two years later, we just closed $13M in series A funding and have dozens of happy customers.

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Leading-Busin...
Three six packs is not really a whole lot of drinking for a month, and given lack of running water it could just as easily be a way to keep a beverage around that's probably cheaper than soft drinks. It's also the kind of thing that you can offer to a friend without saying "hang on let me go get the hose from my brother's house."

And I'm pretty sure the "Slim Jim" mentioned are room temperature shelf stable sausage sticks, individually packaged and probably handy for someone possibly with no refrigeration.
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I was there a year prior in the fall of 07. I rarely smoked, at most 1 - 3 a day and usually just when controlling - sometimes I didn't cause I hate the after smell.

Glad you were able to quit! Aside from health, the money certainly adds up.
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From my point of view, these people like to pack heavy. My pack weight would be half of that.
"Mode confusion is a feature, not a bug." Just one reason why vim is the most overrated POS of all time.
Well, that's not the _only_ reason. ;-)
These days I think of apps, then try and work backwards into a *startup that could grow out of it (and have the vision for x10 growth).

For example, an app for tracking expenses vs income => business owners tracking expenses => expenses in a business => selling tight integration into a POS (where the income happens) => startup about POS systems that integrate into your slick app (and yeah that exists)
Similar practices (marking with stones in yards or under car tires) are currently being reported in the Bay Area via Nextdoor.
I'm not on their team but the answer is rather self-evident.

There are 100x mobile developers than desktop developers which is why there's so much more investment in mobile tools than desktop tools.

Also, this is Google-led project and Google doesn't write desktop apps (modulo few exceptions like Chrome). As every team, they have more work than they can manage, so they have to prioritize things that are important to them.
So, why would anybody want a call center in WV if bandwidth and minimum wage are more expensive than Florida, for instance?

...and all employees would pay state income tax
I find it a nice-looking book too, which is unsurprisingly expected for its nature.
Unsure, but doesn't the 'Customize' option give you exactly the ability to customize button placement?
Think of something that you need solved for you and others might need.
>Those "speakers" are not meant to be a primary sound source

What the manufacturer means doesn't matter, the real-life use does, and there they are often the primary sound source (if only by the virtue of being the only option available when one doesn't have their headphones handy, or, even more often, wants to share sound with someone).

>I have heard some phones from HTC that sounded MUCH better than NS10.

Maaaaybe. Now try something that's not a flagship, but what 98% of the people have.
That's a good point. I grew up poor as fuck, and there's a huge set of rules which incentivize poverty. For instance, if the family makes more than a certain amount, you lose health care.

So you wind up in a situation where you're basically discouraged from working.

I remember going to the dentist when I turned 18, and I was stunned to see the bill. I'd never seen a medical bill in my entire life.
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Hardly, the right fawns over the military and LEOs.

Most right wingers you would talk to (IRL - not on the internet that skews libertarian) are interested in cost effectiveness. Some of them say the current levels of 'quality' are alright and we should find ways to reduce the costs. Others say that we're spending enough but not getting good enough results.

I'd be fine with spending a lot more in welfare if the results were better. However, I would disagree with many left-wingers on what good results are. I think left wingers' ideal welfare state would be like a magical feeding trough, my ideal welfare state is one that invests in people so they can the State and humanity to the best of their abilities - if they stop serving the State and humanity, I think that merits less investment. A person who helps the less fortunate is more deserving of welfare than someone who plays WOW full time because they like crushing noobs.

I have no tolerance for young men who play video games in their parent's basement. If they have a disease, I'd chip in to help treat them. If they're just lazy, then that's on the parents who enable them. I'd also be concerned about pretending their personal failures are medical problems - which is one of the reasons I'm mostly opposed to SSI/SSD.

For people with gumption, we should try to find a way to make them productive. My pet proposal is to give these people priority for government jobs. DMV clerks can't such much more, we could at least give it to someone who's down on their luck. For people without gumption, I think we should put them on a nice beach and make sure they have food and access to basic health care.
Respectfully I disagree with your assessments.

Abolishing money does not need to exist only in a commune format; currency is a mode of exchange that exists because there is a natural scarcity of resources. Currency allows us all a medium to acquire what we want; usually as a result of personal investment of some source.

Star Trek, while imaginary, is a technological utopia and I would argue that we are not that far off from the beginning of that type of society. Since we're on HN i'll assume you're familiar with Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns and the consistent and predictable exponential tech growth. As we make advances in energy, nanotech, robotics, and genetics the problems that plague society today won't be relevant to the people of tomorrow. If we aren't working towards Utopian society as a collective then the fault is ours, because working towards anything else is just a failure of imagination.

Of course this assumes the political will and foresight to address the challenges and growing pains that come along with the transition.
This argument is patently false. As soon as you give them the power to censor speech, we stop choosing the government - They choose themselves, by deciding what we can and cannot say, who we can and cannot hear from, who gets to even announce their candidacy. See https://youtu.be/c1HdCIW2Xtk - We're not China, but they're not even using their official power to censor, just misusing their official power to look the other way while their unofficial power censors. This is why we need adversarial politics - And why even trolls must be protected speech, because they serve as a canary in the coal mine about what you're not allowed to say.
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I started my career hacking Common Lisp (Allegro CL), these days I do Clojure, among other things.

That comic by Dr. Barski tears me up every time! Just to test, I went and read the comic again and I cried, again!

I have met Dr. Barski personally at a Clojure conference many years ago and I still remember him as an extremely kind and knowledgeable person.

Thank you for the Land of Lisp, Dr. Barski! Some day, we will be able to assemble our guilds and beat the Insectoids for good. Until then,long live language du jour!
> if we the programmers had actual decision power in the managerial hierarchy. Which we don't.

Only at dysfunctional organizations. Organizations without developers in the managerial hierarchy are almost universally incapable of developing software effectively.
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I worked with a guy who Leisure Suit Larry was based off of, appearance wise. His name was Nick Medici (sp?) and he actually was a really nice, gracious guy, but looked exactly like LSL. He told us stories of the Sierra days and the husband/wife that ran it. He also cooked really tasty food for us!
The real shame in the article is that rent of $300 per month is being charged on an unimproved 10x20 shed, which you can buy for under $5k almost anywhere in rural and suburban areas.

Who set up that deal? How did they get a certificate of occupancy without a toilet?
I will never buy another Dell after using a m3800 for a couple of years. Suspend stopped working after a couple of weeks. I've had to replace the fans twice. The trackpad stopped working correctly (but that was because the battery started to bloat). The worst part was that the screen started to get horizontal lines that would never go away. Sometimes bios text would get burned into the display. It has been sitting as a paper weight on my desk for months. I actually painfully switched back to an older 2011 macbook air.
That's a neat example (the first one) but it's using compile time constants in the type check, which is not as impressive. You could write a similar macro in Clojure that does that.
Maybe I missed something, but it seems like measuring the winner based on average time of the first couple of samples is significantly flawed. This is equivalent to me putting you in front of a keyboard with a normal layout, and then a layout where the keys are scrambled and asking me to type a sentence, and then measuring success by average WPM on all attempts. ... ofCOURSE i'm going to be slower on the different layouts regardless on my first, second, third, maybe even hundredth use. But 2 months down the road the benefits may start rolling in.

It seems to be that a better way to measure results would be to create an Android only app (iOS doesn't support swapping primary dialer). and getting participants to use your dialer for a couple months, once you notice a new baseline per user compare results between the various treatments.

Tl;dr unless I missed something! these results aren't going to prove anything, other than familiarity rules.

All that aside -- I LOVE this! In the spirit of experimenting and trying to improve on a very old concept, and creating an app to whip up some quick results, very, very cool!
At least with AWS you get placement groups, which can help a lot. With Softlayer we saw entirely too much packet loss on a regular basis, and they try to upsell you on things to "fix" it.
Because they have no clue what the problem is..
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> Instead, we should have a central vulnerability repository that is open-source, standardized, public, and transparent. This repository should vet vulnerability reports before contacting the software owner prior to disclosure.

There are plenty of those. Generally, they take a cut of the bounty.
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PG's advice is not try to think of startup ideas, but start noticing problems around you. It's hard being creative on demand and so that advice makes sense. Like I said below, I am having the problem of noticing problems, not even startup ideas. Maybe we are so used to the status quo? Should I question anything accepted as a common sense in the industry?
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I started working on a Hacker News interface for Steemit a while back.
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I expect that makes it easier to maintain
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>Why don't you actually recreate the snippet of code up there.

I've never coded in React or Vue but after spending 15 mins reading https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/render-function.html here's a pure JS re-creation in Vue for you (fiddle here: https://jsfiddle.net/0wr6xskh/):

<div id="app"></div>

const MyHeader = Vue.component('MyHeader', {
render: function (createElement) {
return createElement('h1', this.text)
},
props: {
text: {
type: String,
required: true
}
}
});

new Vue({
el: '#app',
render: function (createElement) {
return createElement('div',[
createElement(MyHeader, {
props: {
text: ''+new Date()
}
})
])}
});

The above could be expressed more succinctly in JSX (I just can't be bothered reading up on the syntax since, as mentioned, I've never written anything in it and consequently don't know it). More info on Vue's JSX support here: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/render-function.html#JSX
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> It's very surprising to me that person-to-person text communication is divided into two completely different and incompatible types of service: short latency (~20 sec, "email") and very short latency (~1 sec, "instant messaging").

Email, for network connected machines with delivery direct into the recipients inbox (this is how SMTP works if both sides are network connected and online, and in fact was how SMTP was designed to work for connected systems) is also sub 1 sec delivery latency (at least for normal sized emails, 2G of attached photos will take a moment to ship over).

20 seconds for delivery of email (ignoring intermittently disconnected systems, which email still supports) is only because most email clients work in a polling pull mode from a central server, and the polling delay in the client is what adds the apparent latency. It is a result of how most clients are designed, not an inherent built in latency of the system.
That's what I was thinking of as well.
I think it’s a little absurd that we would make the leap to machine super-intelligence without going through the step of machine low or medium intelligence.

If I could write, I’d write a companion story to this called “Omega-1, the artificial super intelligence that wasn’t really that good at things”. They try to have it write mini-AIs to solve MT problems, but it’s slow and inaccurate. They have it write and produce TV shows, but they’re bland and poorly received. They have it make video games but the controls make no sense and they aren’t fun. They have it make trading strategies and it loses all the money.

They ask it to build a smarter version of itself, but it sees no way forward that’s fundamentally better because it lacks comprehension of what it would mean to be “smarter” - it can add more memory or more computing power, but without changing the way that it stores and indexes the information, it can’t make something that can solve problems that it can’t.

Eventually Omega team gives up, publishes the results, but doesn’t have the heart to shut down Omega-1, a machine that passes the Turing Test but isn’t really that good at things.
It looks the implementation was a significant investment. They built a language-agnostic refactoring engine into Clang and open-sourced it http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2017-June/054286.htm...
This year I experimented focusing on partner first - I went through a list of good friends and bug them one by one with a different idea, tried to motivate them, and see which one kept the work going. So far I have 4 projects that survived (meaning are still worth investing time) out of a 10th or more.

I'm not interested in building a new startup now, though, that's why I did this specific experiment.

Experiments aside, in general I think you should focus on problems and how quickly you can get the first $ with your idea/solution.

So you list 10 ideas, you look at the core problem each tries to solve, think if you like to work on that problem/space (not the current solution, because you may change solution down the road), try to figure out who could pay you first, and estimate how quickly you can get something working which is worth your first users to pay for.
Clearly, it did not work for myspace.
People will always want more. It's just the way we are.

Consider the state of the poor in the US today. It is far, far better by any measure than the state of the poor in medieval times, Roman times, etc. Yet the conventional opinion is it is not remotely good enough.

By today's standards, the Star Trek universe is a utopia. But by the standards of the inhabitants of that universe, they may regard the state of their poor in crisis terms.
What do you mean by "cheat" here? Is it "cheating" to no longer write the kind of tests that type systems render obsolete? Because that's the main difference between programming in a language with a strong static type system and one without.
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Good point. The loop's upper-bound check differs.

Thanks!
> Strong anti-monopoly laws which break up Google and Facebook would solve the problem, yes?

While we do strongly need a revamp of our anti-monopoly laws, I don't think that really solves the problem.

The core problem as I see it is that people's goto approach for combating objectionable ideas is veering towards shaming, ostracizing, and censoring rather than reason, discussion and facts.
Tell us right now. We'll give you feedback. Don't worry about the competition: anything big enough worth pursuing is not going to be hurt by writing a few sentences online.
Nah, $6+ if you buy in the right place. $300+ for 5-digits

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Government as a proxy for corporations. Even the "bastion of liberal democracy" the European Union (taking over from the USA) is run by lobbyists. Secret meetings to force TTIP, ministries of transports lobbying to keep lax emission testing rules so car manufacturers can cheat, the guy who was president of the tax haven of Luxembourg being president of the European Commission.

Seems like we're returning to feudalism with the little people being serfs, while in the palaces the 1% enjoy their riches. Terror in Europe (and the export of fighters from that continent to the middle east) is borne out of little people not seeing any future and being easily influenced by talk of joining some "great" cause of Jihad...
I do! https://redfern.me/humans.txt

It should really be human.txt...
Thank you for posting all of these.

I am well off by most standards, and though I've made quite a few good decisions, there is no doubt that luck played, by far, the biggest part.

The one positive thing I have to say to you is this: I hear you, and quite a few others hear you too, though we may well be a minority. We know that the foolish, smug attitudes displayed by many are largely attributes of genetic and environmental history.

The only advise I can give you is straightforward: life will always be surprising, often in bad, but sometimes in good ways. It's virtually impossible to know what's coming up. So hang in there, if only to play the entire game that is, though unknown, before you.