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Well I (and my family) was hugely financially impacted, as a result of my own choices, but I also had the best few years of my professional life. I made big mistakes, but I don't really have big regrets, if that makes sense, aside from losing angel investments and scaring my wife. I hope to do it again some day.

There are some great resources here and in books, but I can't think of anything I wish I'd have read earlier, and nothing I know of that would have changed my course. It might be out there, but I haven't read it yet. ;)

My team wasn't balanced enough, and we underestimated how much marketing we'd need. We were conflicted about raising VC money, so we wasted time dithering. We didn't figure out the right business strategy and our market until it was too late. All the books say to pay attention to this stuff, but none can really tell you how to do it in your case.

Great books I read include "Early Exits", "The Startup Owner's Manual", "Lean Startup", "Pitch Anything". I think I learned more about startups reading HN than in those books, but it's all good stuff. Seek out a wide variety of conflicting advice, find the best team, and go for it! ;)
It was initially difficult to understand the motivation because the first half of the post failed to establish "the problem" clearly. I hard to read the entire thing before I had some idea who this was written for and regarding.

The second half clarified most of this but I think the article could do with some revision.

Under any URL-ish scheme, including any simplifications suggested here, nontechnical users will be unlikely to do anything except clicking and copy/pasting. So it really doesn't matter at all to them what the actual text string's structure is. It seems like maybe the article is trying to suggest "advanced" users would benefit from a better system.

Notice that in the screenshots posted, each browser varies somewhat in how it displays the current location. Regardless of the syntax used in a URL-ish string, the browsers can certainly improve the display of this important information.

What about something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/PTs55Tl.png

Where you only show "nonstandard" portions if they are present, and they can be given special coloring to help alert the user.

When the user interacts with that portion of the UI, they can paste in a URL like normal, just when it is displayed, the parsed version can be shown instead to help them see clearly what they are looking at.
Self-operating shuttle bus crashes after Las Vegas launch
I'm more inclined to interpret that as an observation on the opportunity of upward mobility in the US rather than an appeal to mimic Venezuela.

And as for capitalism, the core of it mandates a perfect information symmetry and rational actors, of which the latter is dependant on the former, and the former has never been actualised. The US (or any country really) doesn't have a fair capitalist market, nor does it need defending.
Ok thanks :- ) (If there's any particular feature/benefit you're especially interested in, it'd be interested to know. Or if something seems missing.)
It's funny in light of all the "cars are freedom!" posts in the Bob Luntz post that is also up on the front page, but we DO effectively have a state-level ID system in the form of driver's licences.
> > Why? I love my local baker, but for brand name items, I'm going to order online.

> really? even for things like bikes, sporting goods, clothes, running shoes, ... I could go on.

I have personally ordered all of these online, although there are some types of clothes that I don't like ordering online.

> And the thing is: you'd still be ordering online, just not from amazon. if you order directly from brands and the brand can inform you that there is a local shop that has it within miles, why not get it there?

Because I have to schedule a trip to the location. To me, this is like asking: "why not travel to the post office to pick up your mail?" Well, because instead the item can be delivered to my door step.

> why waste the resources of having to have it shipped (long distance) only to potentially have to ship it back?

In both cases, the item is traveling the same distance from manufacturer to my door step. It is more efficient to ship the item from the warehouse directly to my door step vs. first shipping it to some random location miles from my door step. The only difference is whose resources are used to ship the item the last few miles: my vehicle or a UPS truck. I guarantee the UPS truck is dozens of times more efficient.

With Amazon Prime (90 million US subscribers) shipping and most returns are free, so I'm paying twice if I use my vehicle to pick something up from a store. The current Amazon return process (explicitly to take this argument off the table): box arrives at door step, open box, try out item, take out preprinted return sticker, put return sticker on box, put box on door step, let Amazon know to pick it up. It is no effort. This is rare enough that the efficiency impact is minimal, although possibly less rare for clothes. The situation may change if returns become full fare.

> BOPIS ... is a solid option when there is limited stock

This is a super rare situation for me, but I agree that BOPIS is superior in this situation.

> best buy and home depot are killing with this right now

I'm quite surprised by this, is there a good article about this around?
Oh wow. I didn't realize that some browsers accept straight hex or decimal representations of IP addresses.

It does seem a bit silly to have two orthogonal directory structures smooshed together in a single format, especially with different nesting directions. In a way, URIs are a sort of serialization of the application layer packet headers.

I'm curious what a redesigned "address" could look like when optimized for user-friendliness.
No loans/outside funding was available.

>I contacted the banks to apply for a business loan, but I didn’t qualify. I looked into a few angel investor groups, but it turned out that they didn’t “do” restaurants. I even considered Dragons’ Den. As it turns out, no one invests in first-time restaurateurs, no matter how mind-blowing they think their cooking is.
I don’t think Tesla did this simply to be edgy, dangerous or different. They did this to prepare people for a world without drivers.

This car was designed for the riding experience

One thing I've seen in certain very successful companies, is a pattern of proactively preparing the customers for the future. Apple, Amazon, and Tesla all exhibit this pattern. Microsoft has also tried to do this, though I'd say that Microsoft has erred on the side of annoying people too much while doing so. Come to think of it, Apple has erred on this side as well lately.

Most companies just react to customer demands. Certain companies actually have the foresight to lead what the customer will demand in the future.
>The biggest proof is the identity document, which is not trivial to forge.

But it's usually trivial to purchase a forgery.
Thank the gods for Reader mode
> Could he have gotten a small business loan?

Not without a ton of experience running profitable restaurants.
There must be a fairly good margin on auto-as-a-service else this guy wouldn’t be hocking it.

I just hope they crash less than my smartphone...or smart tv...or smart refrigerator... or...
I want to spend money, but just reaching for the CC starts giving me the hives. Buyer's Premorse, regret for things not yet occurred. Why does everything suck?
... Model S and Model X don't have keys, either. You're 5 years late making this complaint.
full lifecycle studies are constantly being done on all power sources, the idea of factoring in the entire process has almost always been there.

Solar energy being a great solution to power generation is backed by a lot of research, as well as a good economic situation. It's not just a bandwagon.
Not showing complete URLs and de-emphasizing URLs are not good ideas. Safari's way of doing things is terrible. Chrome hides the HTTP and chops off trailing slashes. Firefox puts the <title> text before the URLs in the completion dropdown now and it's easier for malicious sites to trick users that way.

The URL is not https://www.tesla.com it's https://www.tesla.com/.

Instead of treating users like they are stupid, educate them. Show them the entire URL and teach them how the WWW works. People are going to encounter URLs anyway (when pasted), so trying to hide their structure is just going to keep making things worse.
> At work, I had trouble concentrating on spreadsheets and instead found myself scribbling menus on graph paper

Funnily enough, if he wanted to be successful, spreadsheets could've been the key to his success. He would've known his Cost of Goods Sold, he would've known his staffing costs, his rent, and how much money he had and could spend.
Agreed, I can't make sense of the comment, I did the same as you and will make the same deal with the poster.
Why not just use a message bus? Push new data into bus. Things listen for that. Push reply on bus. Things listen for that. Update as necessary.
The thing about autonomous cars that concerns me is that, if they do become mandatory, your ability to travel at all will be mediated by whatever corporation wrote the software and runs the servers. What if they're all hosted with AWS and there's an outage?

Even if you still own your own car, if that's a Google car, you won't go anywhere without Google knowing. And what happens if your account gets shut down?

Free software autonomous cars, anyone?
Your birth is when you become a human and your identity is created.

What would be a more ultimate root of trust than the memorial of your birth, held securely by a trusted authority?
Sitting in traffic, following the same route one follows every day with hundreds of other commuters hardly seems like freedom to me.
I wonder if some suffer from the same mistake people doing entrepreneur IT do. I fix computers at home, how hard can it be? I cook at home, how hard can it be?
The VS Code October release is out, this is one you do not want to miss
Here’s Mario Kart, as played by a neural network
Yes, it would be good to add that to the title
Just the fact it's Bram Cohen behind this is enough to get me excited.

Watching https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyBlockchain/videos/200606982... I love when he talks about the off by one error in Bitcoin's difficulty reset calculation and how almost all other blockchains have mindlessly copied this :)
I like instacart but its frontend needs a lot of work. Until amazon fresh exists where I live it is nice to have around.
I feel like this guy lifted the thoughts from my head and wrote them on his blog. I agree 110% on everything here.
'technical enough' << I think managers (of projects, people and products) have a huge responsibility to avoid the 'technical scale' trap that inevitably come up either explicitly or implicitly. It is an easy trap to fall into as the too-technical team member who is rattling off technical details as solutions in meetings is perceived as reducing the risk of the project when they may just be limiting it. Managers (or whoever is running the meeting) need to watch for this as it blocks others from participating.
Shall we insert Robert Heinlein's rant about the automobile[1]?

> Despite the name “automobile” these vehicles had no autocontrol circuits; control, such as it was, was exercised second by second for hours on end by a human being peering out through a small pane of dirty silica glass, and judging unassisted and often disastrously his own motion and those of other objects. In almost all cases the operator had no notion of the kinetic energy stored in his missile and could not have written the basic equation. Newton’s Laws of Motion were to him mysteries as profound as the meaning of the universe. Nevertheless millions of these mechanical jokes swarmed over our home planet, dodging each other by inches or failing to dodge.

[1] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/162796/looking-for...
Only for cohorts or larger groups. Individual deserters and smaller groups were simply all executed.
If twitter wasn't retarded, they absolutely could have hosted small scraps of key value data for exactly this scenario. No extra cloud provider needed.
Ah, then sorry for the flip reply. I look in on Reddit's r/bitcoin from time to time but there can be a low signal to noise ratio. I guess I follow the journalists Kyle Torpey (who has an email newsletter), Aaron van Wirdum of Bitcoin Magazine and other outlets, and Paul Vigna of WSJ. Adam Back, Jameson Lopp, Peter Todd, Pierre Rochard, and Pieter Wuille are good community members and Twitter follows.
>why does a keyboard even need its own software?

Setting macros and controlling lights (each key has an RGB light hidden under it).
People have had their email accounts from Google locked and years' worth of email and contacts about to be deleted based on unrelated social media postings.

E.g. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian university professor, as well as an Indian American statistics professor whose name escapes me, but whose account was only reinstated after complaining on HN and other sites.

I'm pointing out that the ability to control people's transportation is a way to exercise control over them. In am extreme case, one could prohibit travel to any but approved locations or even cities.

In USSR for instance, internal passports were needed to travel between cities and in some cases, you couldn't travel to certain cities without official approval.

Think of how a rich gated community could have only a small whitelist of approved people, with no one else even being able to input that destination.

(Also, Anita Sarkeesian works for Twitter btw)
Whenever this issue comes up, your type of retort predictably comes up. I think first you have to consider where and how cars are used in the majority and rural areas while important don't come close to matching the typical car usage pattern.

I am sure when this world comes to pass many exceptions will be added to accommodate rural areas but rural areas are not going to be the reason we won't get to this future.
Sure he is. He just has flaws like anyone. Einstein treated women badly.
Life isn't fair. We're all born into different means and of course more money allows for more optionality. The "poor kids" have to work harder to save up their money to get their chance, but that's completely possible and is the majority of those who start companies.

This article is the typical BS that assumes "entrepreneurs" only do SV startups or want a big exit. The actual reality is that there are millions of small businesses out there, full of hard working entrepreneurs who saved and sacrificed, and are perfectly happy growing modestly and providing for their family. That's the prize that many chase, and many do end up winning.
I actually have a crazy conspiracy theory that the reason they swap certain items is because there is a secondary means of profit where Instacart makes money through companies paying them to “suggest” certain products. I’ve had multiple occasions now where they’ve said they couldn’t find an item that I knew was in stock, and in mass quantities. I’ve had common brands of milk swapped out for expensive shit like Atlanta Cream Top (which ended up being tasty). I have no hard proof, but I suspect.
That refers to the card, not the number.

For some discussion of the history of this, see this old Straight Dope column: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/141/why-does-my-old...

PS: did you typo the year? Social security numbers were first assigned in 1935, and social security cards were first issued in 1936.
But you can get a glimpse of a better naming future by trying out Safari.

First, we can remove parts of the URL we don’t need or which exacerbate our problems.

I'll be the first to comment and say this: No, no, NO!!!

Hiding information from users is never a good thing! All it does is make then even less aware or likely to learn, and that only perpetuates the vicious cycle of ignorance and vulnerability to being tricked.

Incidentally, I was recently forced to use Safari briefly, and absolutely hated the opaqueness --- imagine many tabs all with the same only-hostname in the address bar --- the constant feeling of "where am I, really?" made it very unpleasant and disorienting.

There is plenty of good discussion on this topic here several years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677898
The steering wheel controls on Model S can control the fan.

I've noticed that passengers don't seem to have any problem using the touch screen.
Why not base it on the actual product and skills/experience of the founders, like they claim they do?

Palmer Luckey would have trouble getting funded with his VR headset in his hands, based on his background. VCs would sooner fund anyone that went to the same school they did.
Sure, but that doesn't make it an invalid criticism of Tesla's design choices. Plus, every component in the Model 3 is far more centered around budgetary concerns and will simply be driven by far more people, so this problem is entirely likely to be worse on the 3 than previous vehicles. Any other car at this price point (or really most any other car) would have some physical key, and it's not automatically a reason to hail the car as visionary design.
Hummmm no?

Germany might have such a system thought.
Err, because they don’t have a monopoly on GPUs and nvidia direly needs competition?

EDIT: also if it is discrete gpus and not further integrated ones, I imagine it’s harder to leverage the dominance in the cpu space to push the gpu. (Harder, not assigning any general difficulty to doing that.) Hell, this could even be monopoly protection depending on how they position it—“we can’t be a monopoly because you can use it with an AMD chip!”
This sounds like a lot of startups, insufficient market research, poor cost management, chasing hip trends...
> so I doled out $3,000 to hire a lawyer to oversee my incorporation. He later told me that I could have done it myself online for a couple hundred bucks.

This guy is so raw that he is even missing basic stuff.

> We can barely afford the place, but I wanted my daughters to have their own rooms

And he doesn't learn.
This is like Dennis Ritchie talking about compilers.
New Zealand is a bit funny because people don't (or didn't) want a national identity system. There was public concern when photo drivers licenses were introduced because they might become a de-facto national ID card.

The privacy commissioner (that's a thing) had this to say:
"the proposal to oblige drivers to carry the licence at all times while driving would mean, in effect, ... provide ideal conditions for government agencies, police officers, retailers and other businesses, to ask for the card as standard identification in a variety of dealings unrelated to road safety." https://privacy.org.nz/news-and-publications/reports-to-parl...
I was under the impression the open source AMD drivers were quality, if slower than the proprietary nvidia ones.
I didn't realize that some browsers accept straight hex or decimal representations of IP addresses.

Not just browsers but a lot of other things that want a hostname in either DNS or IP format will accept the same thing, because they all use this function to parse it:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/ine...
Infrastructure can change quickly. In Boston it looks like it took us about 40 years to move from a streetcar dominated system to an auto dominated one. And that was with two intervening world wars.
I've gotten non-Tesla rental cars that didn't have a physical key, so there's that.
That is strange, for some reason I was under the impression that all browsers natively support sqlite. I even installed a Chrome extension when I wanted a gui to browse sqlite db's. I am disappointed to hear this.
How does that story support your comment at all? Early employees are still employees and get paid for their time, they are nowhere near the risk level of the founders.
maybe start with a food truck? seems like a less risky way of getting into the business. if you are successful and make a name for yourself, you could parley that into a restaurant.
When I test-drove the Model S, sitting there just made me ponder how texting and driving can be illegal, while giant iPad-like touch screens in cars are not.

Aren't they the same thing, in effect? I don't want to have to risk my life or anyone else's just so I can adjust the volume or temperature controls when I could have done that safely via a physical knob without averting my eyes.
I know almost nothing about the restaurant business and I haven't even read the article, and my first reaction was still that this number must be missing a zero.

I recall stumbling across the franchise agreement for a frozen yogurt place once. They wanted proof that you were able to invest something like $400,000 in the venture, and that's a way simpler setup.
I'd hardly call 4th and Rose "high-end" though. That was kind of my point. Even the periphery, fringe places are coming up to SF levels.
You can send wire transfers online in the US with most banks FWIW.
Those examples are for getting a phone or electricity connection. For a loan, you would have to give bank statements, income tax return proofs etc. And if that is not sufficient, you need to get your property apprised by "authorized" valuators!
And if the squatter had reserved your home to which you'd asserted rights through an informal but generations-long local accepted social arrangement, via some new app you don't have, and a distant home and residence government agency?
Taking the GPU unit independent was never going to happen. The entire point of the ATI acquisition was to create the APUs that AMD has made for years, as well as get ahold of that great gaming market profit.
I’m pretty sure that ACH is only a USA thing.
I don’t think so. Intel has world leading fab capabilities. Once they shrink the process, perf per watt ratio should improve quite a bit. It will be a really hard slog for everybody else to roll out 7nm and beyond.
SSN are NOT an identity mechanism or infrastructure to facilitate business.

> SSN are NOT an identity mechanism

You purposely misquoted them to make your point. That's pretty lame.
Are you positive? I believe there are other high end vehicles that don't have one, but in my experience even fobs that look like they can't possibly contain a physical key have one hidden inside somehow. Even if it can't start the car it can at least open a door.
How in the world does the fact that it is an ID number in the Social Security system mean that it's meant to be used as an identity mechanism by businesses?
A couple of years ago I accidentally filed my tax return with a typo in the SSN. I was stunned to find that the IRS accepted it. It took months to fix.
For the record, this does not include National Security Letters.
@DHH thoughts on selling your startup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY&feature=youtu.be...
Bank: Here is $100 from your account, Joe.

...

Joe: Hi bank, where's my $100?

FTFY

Bank: Here is $100 from thin air, Joe.

..

Joe: Hi bank, why is there an IOU for $100?
> I would add that some kids may naturally have a better arm, so success is not solely correlated with number of tries you can afford.

This is the opposite of what he's saying.
We consider life inherently interesting.

An ant is objectively an inferior lifeform compared to us. Smaller, weaker, less intelligent.

But there are still human beings that dedicate their life to study them. And we find unique and interesting features in them. I don't think this would be different if a more developed life form would study.

Supposing, that this life form still has some curiosity left. But if they lived so long that everything is boring to them, it's not our fault that they wouldn't find us interesting. :-)
As far as I know, the only browser that shows real URLs is Firefox, and you have to visit about:config and set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false in order to see them. Hiding how URLs work is a terrible trend.

Users should be educated, not treated like they are stupid.