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I'm Sed and I'm addicted to adding more features to my startup.

This article talks to my heart. I have been working on my startup for 7 years now. For all these years, I have been adding more and more features, changing the product direction twice and still not knowing if we have something valuable.

I want to start marketing right now and stop adding more features!

P.S. Anyone interested in helping me? I am willing to split the profits for the lifespan of a user if you can help me acquire new paying users!
I’m more of a consequentialist; I consider a larger philanthropist who cares about public attribution to be more admirable than someone who is a smaller philanthropist but doesn’t care about public attribution. Personally, I would absolutely like to have my name on something if I were to donate tens or hundreds of millions of dollars towards it.

In my opinion the intention or ego of a philanthropist is approximately negligible when it comes to their charity and donations. If a billionaire wants to solve a problem out of a sense of personal grandiosity, or in a vain attempt at figurative immortality: so be it. At least they have the capability to do something good and are actually following through with it. In a vague sense there might be more nobility in anonymous charity, but nobility doesn’t contribute real resources to a problem.

Phrased another way: if a billionaire donates $100M to a charity and a pauper donates $1 to the same charity, but the billionaire requires his name to be affiliated, which of the two is doing more “good”? If you believe the answer is the poorer person, your axioms are fundamentally incompatible with consequentialism, because you’re incorporating selflessness into your definition of good. But if you believe that the billionaire is doing more good in this example despite his vanity, you’re a consequentialist - as they say, we’ve established terms, and now we’re just haggling.
Thanks for the Milton Glaser link, it's beautiful and informative.
Fascinating to see the upbringing that could have enabled Susan Fowler to speak up. Don't miss the kicker in the ending.
I gather you've never heard the term "breed like rabbits".

Rabbits can have up to 1,000 offspring in their life.
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I can hate both the player and the game, thanks.

Especially a game that the players have a hand in rigging in their favour as hard as they can.
But these are replacing vast swaths of what used to be single family single or two story buildings with yards. I've lived in Seattle my whole life and I've seen it change a lot, but the rate of change has definitely skyrocketed. Everywhere I go I find myself walking through "only" 3-6 story urban ravines where 5 years ago I saw sky. It definitely changes the character of the place. And it's not like the downtown core isn't blowing up also.
Huge fan of Home Assistant — I'm currently using it with a Broadlink RM3 Mini to control the media setup at a hackerspace.

Thanks everyone for your hard work!
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Bound to happen, to say the least.
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> you start with the premise that it's literally impossible that they are correct.

I'm going to let you drift here, because you're continuing to respond to strawman interpretations of me rather than what I actually said and I'm not interested in the game of shifting goalposts.
Yeah, it's not like advertising has any effect on consumer desire.

Or, more optimistically, sometimes people dont know that they wanted something until it was given to them.
> The evidence (however preliminary) was the fact that nearly all of Pro Publica’s cited rulings were in favor of conservatives.

I'd still call that opinion, not evidence. A conservative might say those rulings were in favor of reason, not partisan. See, an alternate opinion.
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My all time favorite is Storemapper

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/storemapper

Here's Why

> But I built the first version of Storemapper from nothing to live-and-accepting-payments in one 30-hour flight

He launched his MVP within 3 days.

> I charged for Storemapper from the beginning (just $5/month) and gradually raised prices and added plan tiers over time. The first 5 customers came from just emailing every client I ever had about Storemapper.

Instantly validated MVP by charging from the beginning, and by getting PAYING customers from Day 1.

> I never put any money into Storemapper. It was cashflow positive the entire time, mostly because I stacked my SaaS business on top of a lot of other SaaS products that typically had a free or very cheap starting tier, so costs grew linearly with revenue

Most of all, this. Didn't sink money into the idea hoping it would click. Instead, saw a need, built the MVP in 3 days, launched it, started charging from day 1, and got paying customers from day 1.
> Correct, but it is more verbose and ugly to not use JSX

I don't agree with that. I tend to prefer hyperscript to JSX (for personal projects) and I think it looks perfectly fine.

> I guess the argument is you shouldn't be compiling things on the clients browser.

How's that an argument at all?
I made one in Javascript a long time ago :) http://renderer.ivank.net/

After some time you can get this: http://renderer.ivank.net/balls.jpg :)

Edit: I am glad you like it! I also made this fully-GPU renderer (actually, it is a game): http://powerstones.ivank.net/
Totally agreed with this. Faces have further to go. We're not out of the uncanny valley yet.

We're also unable to create emergent materials right now, because we don't right now (and may never) have the horsepower to do molecular-level simulation to find out how light interacts with the surface. For similar reasons, breaking something open like an egg, a log, or slicing open flesh is never going to yield truly emergent results. To some degree, they'll always have to be artistically approximated on a case-by-case basis. Those approximations may have increasingly sophisticated interactions as time goes on, but I am reasonably confident they'll never truly simulate things at the molecular level.
Ick! This reinforces my belief that direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs should be illegal.
This is awesome. I can't seem to under why most blockchains insist on using leveldb as their transactional data store. In fact, the bitcoin devs have admitted some of the attacks are specifically targeted towards the non ACID nature of leveldb.

It would be so much better to use postgresql as the data store. But it seems there is a natural aversion to non-embedded databases.
You could build a home assistant to respond to something after a button press.

Alexa records everything after the wake word. You can see it in the alexa app.
I thought that it was going to log transactions to a blockchain, as a sabotage-resistant backup strategy.
That does add a lot of redundant noise on each line, though. I would write this particular case as normal tuples which I would then turn into Keys in a separate step:

keys = [Key(*tuple) for tuple in keys]

Another possibility is to keep the Key constructor on each line, but to get rid of the keyword arguments, which are not mandatory:

>>> Key('a', 'b', 'c', 'd')
Key(modifier='a', key='b', function='c', argument='d')
Ironically, /dev/mem has been disabled to counter malware, otherwise you could do

dd if=/dev/mem of=~/mem.img

to obtain an image dump which may contain the decryption key.
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I think a lot of it has to do with people missing the point of Redux, but feeling peer pressured into using it "because its what the cool kids do".

I've seen people use Redux and then make a single action, "SET_STATE_AT_KEY" or something, with a signature in the form: { type: SET_STATE_AT_KEY, payload: { key: 'someKey', value: 'someValue' } just so they can use 1 single action and 1 single reducer everywhere (ok, they usually have a second one to push into an array).

People who don't believe Redux is the right solution for them just need to look at the 6 millions totally-not-redux solutions (MobX, Relay, whatever) instead of using "Redux-but-not-quite". They'll be much happier.
I don't know why @gras's comment in this thread is marked as dead, but I agree with them.

Reposting the question from the comment:

> Doesn't fat make food more satisfying, making you feel fulfilled sooner?
Sufficiently magic scientists are dreamy.
I did, thank you.

Again, I can't delete it, and I stand by having fun every once and awhile. I however apologize again if I was simply detracting.
Semantic Scholar is a better way to search through scientific papers
Ignoring design in MVPs is design itself
this would be another great talk.. consider! :)
This is really cool. I'm interested in checking out Common Lisp coming from Clojure, but I really like Clojure's syntax. A macro-heavy library that could recreate the syntax would be awesome, although I'm sure I couldn't collaborate with anyone at that point.
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Having contributed to a number of projects via github, this is not true at all. I have had prs closed within minutes with curt replies. That is not how you “help newer devs through a PR process.” In another case this happened for a very clear bug. I’m cool with making amendments but maintainers do not seem open to that often, feeling more content to close things because they see the fix as a “hack”. Compared to other projects HASS is one of the worst I have dealt with, sorry to say.
It is nearly everywhere. New Zealand, USA and Brazil allow it.
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Reasonable satisfied user here. I love python and even contributed support for one particular device to a component library.

But my plan for the next free weekend is to look into Node-RED and a fully MQTT based system. I feel like that's the way to mix and match different frontends, automations, components etc.
"When you're pairing, you will work on real code, for a real problem."

Do you pay them at least minimum wage for this real work that benefits your company, as required by federal law?
Can apps/services hook into that?
Yep, unfortunate naming...
I'm going to chip in with a random example, a sweet though perhaps flawed design for a tactile interface. The structure of it reminds me of a product type (i.e. an algebraic data type).

It's a final project by a recent RCA graduate: http://leibal.com/products/indent/
If they're arriving in a city that's already unbearably expensive, and it up doing normal life things (coupling, planning for kids), they might end up leaving back to either that Rust Belt city, that might have a 'revitalized' downtown (microbrewery, craft coffee shop, pricey ice cream place) or two one of the burgeoning smaller cities that has better amenities than the Rust Belt one (Portland, Austin).

Then there are forgotten cities, that have good employment and affordable housing, but aren't as sexy such as Minneapolis, Raleigh-Durham, maybe even Chicago.

I'm currently in LA and the exodus is real. It sucks for people that grew up here since the wages aren't great in most jobs, housing is out of reach, and they want to be around their family.
The sentiment on the street is to keep pushing forward and declare independence. The opposition to this rule is huge (there has been a new huge demostration today).

If this happens civil disobedience will grow.

There won't be a civil war (we are peaceful people and have no guns), but we won't obey what comes from Madrid.
No, naming it after yourself cheapens it, dead or alive. Someone else has to do it.
Its possible to run firefox with fewer privileges so that the only thing it could delete are your recent downloads.
Personally I'd like to see an experimental mode in Quantum/Servo with an RPC interface to render directly to the display list, possibly with an intermediary like a vector of VDOM operations.
My body is pretty beat up and should probably be treated as toxic, hazardous, or medical waste (or all three).

I don't want to be buried, burned, or donated. I'd prefer something like dipping into molten steel (or lava) like in Terminator 2, for everyone's safety.

If fungi can mitigate, neutralize all the bad stuff in my body, I'd be okay with that.
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Good, we can't allow the dissolution of nations.
> "Yeah, I'm guilty of running FireFox as root."

Noooooooooooooo!
For people interested in the tech stack:

Backend is Python 3 with asyncio. Source: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
- License: Apache 2

Frontend is a PWA powered by Polymer 2
Source: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer - License: Apache 2 - Demo: https://home-assistant.io/demo/
One of the best things of HA is the Emulated Hue Bridge. It allows you the mapping of any kind of Hardware on the corresponding Hue Device. It basically translates e.g. MQTT to Hue. This nicely allowed it to me to integrate my custom built devices in my Home Automation and control them with Amazons Echo Dot.
Do you think any other State would allow one of its major sources of income go away like that?

I really hope Catalonia makes it.
He has good and true advice: If you approach challenges with tenacity, always be curious to learn, and be open and thoughtful with your team, you too can be an early employee at the next FB and become a billionaire.
That's a remarkable effect. How much sugar were you consuming before you altered your diet? What were the main sources of sugar in your diet?
This thing seems to be mostly an interface for other home automation devices. In the demo, it doesn't directly control anything important. It's not like there are motor control relays connected to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO ports.

A big question is how this fails. It needs to fail into some safe condition. Raspberry Pi machines have a full Linux and no stall timer, so they can end up crashed or hung. If this thing turns devices on and is relied on to turn them off, that's a problem.
English is my third language, and I'm studying a fourth. This has made me keenly aware of the effort it takes to be a polyglot. One of the languages I speak is spoken by only three million people, and it can't disappear fast enough as far as I'm concerned. Language should not be conflated with culture.
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Obligatory "the beatings will continue until morale improves".
According to a poll from a Catalan newspaper [0] released yesterday, 68% of Catalans prefer regional elections versus an unilateral independence declaration.

[0] http://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20171020/encuesta-cat...
I liked the MagSafe, too, but I like the USB Type-C ports better. Only one cable for a docking station (instead of two), and it (in theory) works for non-Apple docks/chargers (and non-Mac laptops in turn can use Apple docks/chargers).

USB 3.1 over a MagSafe-like reversible connector would be ideal.
When written in base 10, anyway :)

I suppose an extra challenge would be to find values which are truncatable primes in more than one base at once... Hmmm.
It's not exactly like that doesn't happen under our current system.
Since when applying the law is escalating?

All European Union leaders support the rule according a higher law.
Please be aware how figured are paid and rated. They're micromanaged nowadays like they work at Arby's. If you come to the ER and later come back for the same reason, the doctor not only doesn't get paid for the second visit, they get dinged from insurance and from the hospital. They're highly incentivized to get you in and out.
I'd be interested in how this compares to one optimized by Numba.
Assuming there's a group of people who more or less agree to be separate from some larger group, it's hard to think of legitimate reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to secede. Their forefathers having signed an agreement is hardly a convincing reason to hold them in a union they no longer like. Neither are issues of the current political situation ("it would destabilize the region...").

There's still hard questions, though. How do we split the national debt? What about various government assets? Who has a choice about what nation to join? And so on.

All hard questions, but none of them seems to undermine the idea that people should be allowed to decide to be separate.
I think the US would let California secede.
It is not a question of "good" it is a question of my admiration of the donor. On my organizations drives, I completely supported the naming campaigns because I accepted the view that some donors generosity is tied to their naming. I am happy that those named people chose to support a cause that I care about. But I always instructed staff members to honour the small donor as much as the large - it might be as much of a percentage of their net worth in both cases. And I will always have respect for the donors of large amounts who do not need to be named.
Perdue Pharma, the producer of Oxy, is basically making half of its customers into drug addicts by lying about "12-hours" of "effective" pain relief.

The LA Times ran an investigation into Perdue Pharma's claim[1] and the article is incredibly disturbing. This is the killer quote:

> "More than half of long-term OxyContin users are on doses that public health officials consider dangerously high, according to an analysis of nationwide prescription data conducted for The Times."

Perdue Pharma has been lying about the 12-hour pain relief effect for decades. They wanted to dominate the 12-hour pain relief market. Whenever a doctor prescribed for a smaller interval of time, Perdue screamed bloody murder and sought to "refocus" doctors at all cost on the "12-hour rule" to ensure the drug stays in the 12-hour market share. To "refocus" doctors, Perdue Pharma tells doctors to prescribe stronger doses, rather than more frequent ones, and this leads to serious problems with reliance.

[1]: http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
Why not? Let them fork, iterate and improve. They have a strong identity and economy, so they must be doing something right. Maybe being tied to a monolith even hinders their progress? (Just ideas for thought.)
>The unexpectedly forceful moves by Mr. Rajoy

That’s not true. Catalan leaders were given a few days to make it clear whether they had declared the independence or not, because after their joke referendum, they were intentionally vague about what they were going to do. Puigdemont dodged the question again so this is it.

They said they want to negotiate with the central government. In my opinion this is simply racketeering, they want a better deal with taxes. This must not stand.

Nothing of this would have happened if secessionists wouldn't have had full access to the education and the media of that region since forever. They have been blasting propaganda por decades. Of course this was bound to happen. I work in the media and I know there's no way to get a grant for your small paper/radio station if you don't align with their values.

There's a widespread sentiment that Spain "is robbing them". But the truth is that this is just redistributing wealth; many regions of Spain give money and others take. That's how the economy works everywhere.
The interesting question is what level of brutality the EU is willing to accept before intervening.
They could staff up before announcing the changes, though.
Man discovered alien egg on his property, or so he thought
And yet, behavioural biology tells us that the development of the pre-frontal cortex is heavily influenced by genetics, epigenetics, and early-years experiences. The PFC appears to influence things like rates of risk-taking behaviour, addiction, and ability to choose long-term rewards... Of course, we wouldn't want to pass the buck of choice back to societal influences.

Not that I know anything, I've just watched and read Robert Sapolsky's material.
Good luck using an Assistant where you have to press the button before you can use it.

Major reason why these Assistants are successful is operating them hands-free.
Of all the ways a person, especially a rich one, can stroke their ego, philanthropy is probably one of the better ones.

IMO "Ego" should not be considered a bad word. We all have one, and we all enjoy stroking it. It's human. For some reason we have a hard time acknowledging that.
>Since when applying the law is escalating?

When it is escalating.
I like LA b/c no one gives a crap since everyone is from somewhere else and the city just absorbs you.

My home state of N Carolina has a lot of people move down for more affordable housing and decent jobs from up north. The city of Cary (near Raleigh) is casually joked about as the Central Area for Relocated Yankees.

No one really cares outside of joking about their poor tastes in sports teams.
Can someone explain what this is for or could be used for? It seems like it allows you to store, process, and verify the blockchain inside postgres, right?
Thanks for your reply, that gives me something to take action for as currently I consume a lot of sugar in my day to day live.
I’ve been to Barcelona quite often. People are nice and friendly. One time though when I was out eating dinner with a Spanish friend from Madrid something strange happened: the waiter told her she could not order in Spanish, she needed to speak Catalan, which was totally weird since we ordered in Spanish right before she ordered. But our Spanish was of course quite bad with a foreign accent, he was ok with that. We thought that was quite rude and impolite and ended up dining somewhere else.

I definitely don’t know enough to judge the whole thing. However, from what I know, as a European, the secession movement bewilders me. It strangely feels very un-European. How can we unite the continent if we start separating countries? Can we not all just get along together and not care so much about the details of our passport? Which problem is independence solving?
That street must be Sesame Street.

Seriously now. The catalan goverment is acting illegally, against Spanish and Catalan law. What do you expect? The Spanish government must apply the law.
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Thank you for your reply, definitely interested in this. Going on further investigation!
Sure, but the Google platform is still in the cloud.
Everyone on Earth has a petty identity. If we allow secession just so every self-identifying group can 'rule' themselves then we encourage those petty identities when we should be discouraging them and instead encouraging universal humanism.
Language and culture should not be conflated. A farmer in New Zealand, a surfer in Hawaii, a professor in New York and an oil rigger in Alberta all speak the same language but have vastly different cultures.

As for lost nuances, loan words are constantly adopted when people find them valuable enough to them, so nothing important needs to be lost.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15490598
Sorry maybe it's going above my head. Is this sarcasm or there's some context?
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Home Assistant supports sensors and switches using GPIO pins (if you're running on a Pi, obviously)

https://home-assistant.io/components/rpi_gpio/

Home Assistant is indeed an "aggregator" for a lot of different home automation devices. Personally, I find it very useful to have my Nest, my ZWave devices, various ESP8266 "things" (garage door controller, temp/humidity sensors, my doorbell, etc), along with my Chromecasts, and the home/away status of my wife and I all rolled into one state machine (plus a lot of "general" information... the time, sunrise/sunset timing, current weather in my area, traffic conditions, etc).

Having all that information in one place means those various components can be controlled intelligently, based on all the available information, rather than just the small island each of them would be on their own.

A Pi is totally optional, BTW. You can run HA on pretty much anything that runs Python3.
Interesting, I wonder if you can set that up as a marketplace connecting successful marketers to recurring revenue.