skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'd worked several jobs in all kinds of food; I had capital from my grandfather's estate"

This sounds like a few of my friends, minus the capital. In fact, it sounds like a fantasy every guy has probably had, at least once in their life; ohh to have that feeling of walking into a place like you own the joint.

I wonder if the very high failure rate in the restaurant biz has anything to do with this. Food is something everyone knows, and seems to be a common fallback job for those without better prospects. When one of those people happens upon a windfall of cash, it’s probably natural to think “I’m gunna open up my own restaurant” - it’s perhaps something they have been daydreaming about whenever their manager gives them any shit. Or maybe they see some inefficiency and think “if i owned this place, I would do X different”. It’s not clear that’s what happened here, and I do give this guy some credit for his earnest attempt at due dillegence, but I wonder if things would have been different for someone who could start an article with... "I had 10 years experience managing restaurants of a similar niche, and was backed by professional investors." At least the management part I think is key.

All that said, I hope the best for this guy. He just gained some very expensive but invaluable experience, and I’m not sure this type of experience can be gained any other way.

Also, for the interested...

Street view of Renard's "Hot Corner"
https://goo.gl/1YSjpj

Yelp page
https://www.yelp.com/biz/renard-portland

Best inside photo I could find
https://i.imgur.com/a5LD2cN.jpg
How does a stop sign increase trafic
“Making the world a better place” is simply the cheapest marketing gag you can get. And in a way, they did make the world a better place—it's just for a select group of founders and investors only.
When physicists say "baryonic matter" that's more or less just shorthand for "atomic matter".

Atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Between the 3 types of particles the mass of the protons and neutrons outweighs that of the electrons by about 3 orders of magnitude, almost all of the mass is in the nuclear particles. And those particles are baryons, they are, in fact, the lightest baryons, each made up of 3 quarks. Only the proton and anti-proton baryons are stable in isolation, but in nuclei protons plus neutrons can be stable together and anti-protons plus anti-neutrons can also be stable together.
And we even get to tell others they are doing it wrong!
But, unless you found a niche or have a really strong brand, ten other competitors can pop up at any time, using the same cloud infrastructure you do and undercut your prices. The worst case is that GoogleMicrosoftOracleAdobe will just put a small team together and outcompete you in no-time. It's almost unfair, how Software wins...
they don't just want to get a lot of data, they want representative data. they're afraid that, even if many/most people opt in, if the sort of person who opts in is different from the sort of person who doesn't, and has different usage patterns, the data will be skewed.
You should be able to access them directly today by hovering over the navigation item on the left for issues and selecting board there.

Or do you mean as a landing page for the project (I see a comment below here that clearly indicates that, will follow up on this, there)?
> How does this “kill the product for healthcare, finance and defence sectors”? This is part of the SDK tooling, it should not installed or run in the deployment evnvironment.

This will also be installed in places like the build server that may have extra permissions into the production environment. Often the firewall between production and development won't be as great as you think and all software has to be compliant because the developers will be dealing with real private data.

> If teletmetry is bad, running “dotnet restore” to download code from the internet is worse

"dotnet restore" could be hitting a local repository only, which is much more common in these environments.

> If having telemetry in the development environment is bad too, then so was the “Visual Studio Customer Experience Program”.

Typically it would be disabled, but things slip through the cracks, no matter how many precautions there are, which is why off by default is important.

Aside from that, it kills trust. The developers don't even understand that this is a privacy violation and refuse to fix it, so when the next thing on the slippery slope comes along I don't expect them to appreciate the ramifications of it. Will compiler error codes be considered telemetry? How about exceptions? How about code metrics? I can't trust the dotnetcore developers to respect privacy.
The data partner program at Priori Data – FAQ
I traveled in a similar way and sometimes thought about what you just described. But the reality was totally the opposite and I ended up doing a full year in two intervals.

Some of the best experiences of my life!
People love to scroll. Don't annoy them by using fixed headers: http://zichy.de/public/siufh.html.
Fake “Avast Internet Security” Impersonates Security Software on Google Play
So as landing page? That is an interesting idea. I've created an issue. Would love to get your thoughts there: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38954
Twitter is working on a 'save for later' bookmarking system
Coding is the biggest Golden Hammer of all
> A journalist once told me about visiting another very famous Hollywood producer—you’d know the name—who exhibited for my friend his collection of photographs of famous female actresses—you’d know their names, too—performing sexual acts for his private viewing. As with Weinstein, this man’s chief thrill was humiliation, and the more famous the target the more roundly it was savored: Even her, a big star—these people will do anything to land a role; they’re so awful, they’ll even do it for me.

So, name and shame. Otherwise, aren't both you and the journalist you're referencing just as culpable as all the other journalists you are pointing the finger at for protecteing Weinstein all this time?
There is absolutely nothing stopping history repeating itself with GitHub.
Apparently not... The abstract mentions only “taking into account sentence lengths and stratifying our analysis by race”.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/09/26/1701544114.shor...
I think work is the big issue with this sort of lifestyle (leaving aside children, as others have mentioned). Many remote gigs still want a daily standup, a weekly sprint retrospective and planning session, etc, and none of that really works if you're truly nomadic and can't really guarantee where you are or how good your Internet connexion is at any given time.

The article talks about the flexibility of his lifestyle: "instead of following a fixed plan, I get inspired by random ideas: When the waves are great, I go surfing. When it’s chill and fresh, I work. When it’s hot, I go for a swim." ... which sounds lovely, but I can't see how that works with a full-time job, to be honest.

There are, of course, freelance jobs you can do where you have a task to do and a deadline and (hopefully) not too much real-time conversation required... but it may be hard to get enough of that work to support yourself.
This telemetry is tracking the `dotnet` commands used (i.e, how the CLI tool is used).
after not renting a house for a decade he could afford a boat? cool
To hazard a guess: a supportive angel investor who wasn't deeply involved in the day-to-day and gave a considered thumbs up to the early plans that were a bit more grounded in concept yet totally untethered from the real-world costs?

I mean... a decade working at the airport is not a decade spent building airports. Even a successful floor manager at a restaurant could be miles away from the issues of ownership and entrepreneurship.

Plus, and we all see this in young devs, it can be haaaaard to sprinkle sense into someone in love with an idea.
Show HN: BotEngine – chatbots for LiveChat
That's not it. We can figure out what the mass makeup of the Universe is through various independent means, and those are also independent of direct observation. Those lines of evidence tell us the Universe is a 69:26:5 split between dark energy, dark matter, and ordinary atomic (baryonic) matter. None of that has changed.

However, we've only been able to actually detect much less than that 5% contribution of the atomic matter in the Universe, meaning that we expect there's a lot more ordinary matter out there that we can't see. This research indicates that a big chunk of that missing ordinary matter is in the form of huge warm gas clouds on galactic scales.
Why Trello failed to build a $1B business
Google Play Services is THE creepware. It's essentially a MITM on most of your phone's live status information.
Regexone – Interactive Exercises to Learn Regex
WiFi mesh networks can be hacked to detect your breathing
How best to control the flow of service calls between microservices – Part One
There are many "mid-sized European cities" that have better education than London. Most of Estonia is an obvious example. And a city of 250k people is still large enough in my book to allow for a large enough pool for networking.
You didn't set the MIME type correctly on the server. I know for a fact that you can serve .mobileconfig files to Safari iOS, which will open them as config files if the mimetype is set correctly.

I'm sorry but the idea of using email servers for file exchange, in 2017, is ridiculous.
How seriously taken are theories that posit the existence of extra spatial dimensions as an explanation for dark matter? E.g. dark matter could be "ordinary" matter but separated from our 3 spatial dimensions by a discrete spatial dimension or dimensions.
If you can convince an employer to let you work remotely and maybe let you fly in for monthly meetings you could move to a satellite city that has cheaper rent
"... don't even have to calculate your margins."

This is the thing that so boggles everyone in "normal" business. They can't understand how I make any financial plans or decisions like investing resources in new capabilities or hiring consultants. I've got stable, long-term customers on annual maintenance contracts. Draw down substantially slower than it fills up. Done.

It's trivially easy IFF you can control yourself. I want to stay in business, so I do.

Bookkeeping is a similar non-event. Pay for everything on one separate credit card and blip the CSV of the annual statement to my accountant. Done.

Edit > Reading through the comments here reminds me of the hyper-importance of finding a viable niche, then occupying, preserving and defending it (_barriers to entry_), plus the high value of: a) "good" versus "wacko" clientele, b) loyal repeat customers that you can move to auto-renewing maintenance contracts, and d) frugality.
Here is a presentation[1] of one of the maximum security prisons in Norway. If you treat people better you will have lower rates of reincarceration[2]. In essence, they are trying to create "good neighbors" out of the prisoners.

And we are certainly not a homogeneous society that many use as an argument that this would not work elsewhere.

In my city, Drammen, a bit outside of Oslo, about 1/3 of the population are not native Norwegians and there are over 100 nationalities here. My daughters school has over 30 nationalities. (And I don't think this is a bad thing)

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB037gVIpJc

[2]http://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-...
I feel like there's a middle ground though between spending lots of money raising kids in a London penthouse, and raising them in a van.
At least they haven't gone down the UK route where kids a rigidly prepared for the multiple tests and GCSE /A levels.

There was a recent scandal where half way through A levels (final two years of high Scholl) if you where not predicted to get a B you got kicked out to protect the schools ranking.
The project is a number of years old now. The cost of construction projects tend to increase by 15% per year in western countries.
Fixed costs vs. variable. Man it's insane. I was just talking to a friend about what it takes to run his high end construction company. He does very well and has 20 some odd years in the biz. The amount of work and plate spining. Literally having to take physical possession of sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars of materials and move and assemble them. Even with insurance, an accident quickly followed by a second could destroy the whole business because of a premium hike.

I can test ideas with zero risk and inventory and make that a mediation to build out my business. Pivoting, changing, blending operations. I'm not as successful as he is by any means, but I can't imagine myself having to shoulder that burden to get where I want to go.

Dude maintains a fleet of trucks. Physically, like with the wrenches.
the only way to find a "long term partner" is to start a business, sex and children is no longer a partnership thing.
Know Thy Futurist
He said he moved to a mid sized city with 250000 people — I expect that most European cities of that size have decent public schools. Even a lot of small cities often have a good school. And even if that‘s not the case, in most places your kids can just take the bus to a school in the next city.
Modern yachts basically sail themselves on an autopilot. If weather is not rough you can do whatever you want, as long as you still keep looking around from time to time
Sounds like an opportunity to educate them (before the city inspectors show up, at least)

Though, yeah, depending on the area I don't expect adherence (or enforcement) to be much effective, which doesn't seem to be the case for where this restaurant was located though
Upgrading a managed database plan in Cloud Foundry
I bought a van, converted it into a camper with a surf board, and did a loop around Australia.

It was an amazing experience, and you learn a lot about people, culture, and yourself. One of the things I realized is that life always offers you options to complain about: I think the greatest inconveniences and discomforts of our ancestors of 200 years past have now been solved, but then taken for granted. We just adjust, become jaded and move on to new things to feel uncomfortable, complain about, and fear.

The experience was about making a story in my life that was more than just going back and forth between the same office, restaurants, etc. Getting out of my comfort zone and going on an adventure and exploring what is out there.

In winter, you head north; in summer, south. The weather is great. You meet nice people, and rude. Generous and benevelont, but also some rotten and even dastardly. There's no escaping the realities of our world; but what can maybe be done for ourselves is to try to escape our human nature to be spoiled with what we have, go outside our comfort zones and on the adventures we dream of. At minimum, it at least offers a lot of perspective.

But while all of this said is fair, to be honest: without the hedonism aspect--if I didn't so much enjoy surfing, the outdoors, and meeting new people--I would have quit such a long trip.

TL;DR if you have a good reason to believe you would enjoy it, being uncomfortable might not be a reason to avoid it.
just as intended, this is business, not some societal good doing.
After having done this sort of lifestyle myself.. I've realized it can be GREAT for finding a quiet place you can really go deep and concentrate. I'd say it's better to keep the job & have a mobile office like this set up so you can disappear to the forest or lake for a week at a time to get serious work done.

You need the job & others around to stay in touch with the pace of what is happening and to keep up your friendships. And then having a quiet place to go, surrounded by nature is also vital.
Which city did you settle in?
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Is it true that the article is written by Taleb? Where do you get the information?
how about if I use this on my laptop?
you have to home school to be on budget, otherwise they come home from school wanting new things. which also means your partner cannot have a full time job or has to work remote too.

you could start a remote business and make the hours longer allowing for kid related interruptions.
Have a look at http://www.fortgeblasen.at/english.htm, this couple did just that.
Cameradar: a tool to attack CCTV cameras
Crowd funded, then crowd sourced security updates? Really?

I think it is a noble effort with zero chance of success, its like Linux on the desktop, but with the further complication of expecting people to pay $$$ for out of date hardware, with what will no doubt be terrible software, with no apps users actually want to use....
manchester council house. if you have children you'll get the house.
My First year of Elixir
> ... cementing their own power.

Of course. That's basic systems theory. And one reason why checks and balances are not just romantic crap but really necessary. The deregulation hype is the real romantic crap.
Th most interesting thing for me about i.MX is not 4K video or Vulkan. Quite the opposite. It is the chip powering my Kobo and, I suspect, Kindles.

An e-ink phone with a 3 day battery life! But being a hacker phone, as long as performance isn't too shabby when docked to a regular 3D accelerated LED monitor with Wayland desktop would be a nice balance.
Release Notes and Other Great Ways to Communicate Product Updates
This seemed like a plausible fear when I first started 10 years ago. People have indeed cloned both of my rent-paying products over the years (possibly helped by the fact that I've released step-by-step instructions for building one of them).

But then, as you say, software is easy to write. Businesses are less easy to duplicate.

Is the kid who saw your Show HN and cloned your thing "in a weekend" going to stick out the years of work it will take to build a business off of it? Is Google really going to decide to focus on executing in the "Hook Twilio into a Calendar Scheduler and have it automatically robocall people so they remember to be home when the plumber arrives" space so that they can smoosh your little $10k MRR business?

I hear your fear expressed a lot from people cautioning against building software businesses. But I'm skeptical that we should really be scared of it.
Aviation, Private Aviation.

Most systems are legacy and haven't moved forward because of so much regulation. Once you've moved past that user adoption is hard because most of the industry hasn't seen tech before so it's manual work.
Hey! I'm the author of that article. I respect your opinion and I totally agree that van life is not for everyone. However it's seems funny that I've never experienced one of your concerns:

> I would totally hate the lack of space and comfort.

I have 12 square meters and my bed is super comfortable. Most of the time I'm outside. Works perfect for me.

> I'd sleep really poorly at night when it's super hot in summer and cold in winter.

That's the whole thing about a van: If it's too hot in the mainland, you drive to the beach where you always have a chill breeze. In the winter you drive down south where it's warm. I actually feel bad for the people who have to stay in cities when it's hot and humid in the summer or freezing cold in the winter.

> I'd hate it to have to look for a good internet to work.

In Europe the 4G network coverage is amazing. Within the last five months I had less issues with my connectivity than some of my co-workers using a cable internet.

> I'd miss my friends all the time.

Yes, I do miss my friends. I guess this is a valid concern. But sometimes I meet my friends when they are on vacation nearby and for Christmas I will fly back to my hometown to see family and friends.

> I'd dislike having to socialize with random van neighbors every time I want to not dine alone.

I guess that's personal taste. It's very easy to socialize with travelers: they invite your for dinner right away. Sometimes you even don't have to approach them actively. I've also spent a couple of weeks with the same people and we had dinner together every evening. Once you life in a van you often meet people who do the same. So basically you have friends near by.
Reverse engineering a Gameboy ROM with radare2
A Breakdown on SoftBank's Godzilla-Sized Vision Fund
I agree, if you make telemetry opt-in, you might as well not even try doing telemetry in the first place.

However I think the way to disable it is a bit user hostile, maybe a prompt when run interactively for the first time and a env var for when running in automated environment.
Koolhydraatarm dieet ontbijt met eiwitten, vetten en trage koolhydraten
How are they not competing in a crowded market?
What makes you think London is at the forefront of educational standards?

(I'm originally from London, and I also live in a smaller European city).
This is just a strong reaction- Ill put it down to the top comment being a late night / drunk comment or some such. I know that majority of commentors here at least try to be considerate
Surely Multipart is a more standard way to achieve this?
Well this was confusing. I wouldn't consider my monitor to be particularly large or high res (Apple 27, 2560 x 1440) and I didn't have to scroll to see the 'Yes they do' message
> competition for ... spouse

> In particular, finding your long-term partner can be a huge struggle in a big city in times of Tinder where nobody is committed anymore

You're projecting here -- the article never mentioned anything related to a partner. Also, wait what? COMPETITION for a spouse? If you look at your desired gender that way, I think it might actually do you good to live as a nomad for a while.

"Nobody is committed anymore" -- change your social circles. Go attend local events related to your work and hobby. Go hold a lecture somewhere and have drinks with a few of the studens.

You can do a heckload of things to change your environment even without moving away from the city. You sound bitter, you need to work on some change in your life.
> additional effort of keeping it well updated and working

I don't know what you're talking about.

Almost every 5 years I get a new laptop, install Debian on it and it gets updated just fine forever.

And I customize it to the bone.
Because, as the engineer says, this filtering should be done at the network level, not with a TCP wrapper, a leaky userspace abstraction. systemd does this at the network level, with kernel APIs.
the article is so long and poetic that I drank an entire bottle of wine while reading it. also "Kingpin" is a bit of an exagerration
Talk to them?
As someone from the UK, this is surprising. In the UK the worst schools are generally in cities, and much better in smaller towns.
Awesome thanks I'll checkout Leanpub :)
Hey everyone! I'm the author of that article. I just started the blog and still have a ton of things to write about. I like all the (critical) feedback. That inspires me for further blog posts. Thanks for reading!
> if you don't use an ORM, you'll invent one yourself...only poorly.

My favourite SQL library is Clojure's HugSQL, which avoids this issue by letting you write SQL in .sql files and then generating functions for you that execute these queries. https://www.hugsql.org/