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The fact that this comment was written by "stanfordkid" is almost too ironic to believe.

At first, you take aim at the "victim" mindset -- a mis-characterization of the analogy of the OP. However, you then go on to even concede that the perpetuators of this mindset may even hold well-founded "complaints."

Of course people from all backgrounds try to become entrepreneurs, engineers, artists and whatever else. Nevertheless, it's clear that people from some backgrounds face more difficulties than others -- that's all. The fact that merely pointing out this fact gets you slapped with a "victim" label is hilarious. Of course people from all backgrounds should continue to work hard and pursue their goals -- but as a society, we should also strive to lower un-equal barriers where possible.

Your comment is just a mess of generalizations and grand-standing. You're losing faith in this country because you've seen a "victim" mindset emerge in the past two months on hacker news -- a pretty niche website in the American demographic -- even while recognizing that the grievances contributing to this mindset may be legitimate. Forgive me if I don't take your loss of faith seriously. Furthermore, I have to say, if anyone is victim-baiting here, it's clearly yourself.
The thing is that you can sell a good product without VC money, even it's a high-capital product.
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This Ask HN was very timely for me. I just launched my first OS project -- a python based replacement for subscription management services such as Chargebee or Chargify.

I am looking for contributors -- if you are interested in this space, please contact me.

https://github.com/michael-stajer/stripe-subscription-scaffo...
Can you not collapse them at all or do you mean that they uncollapse after a refresh?

The latter might have to do with HN storing this collapse-state in a Cookie/localstorage/similar and Firefox Focus throwing these sorts of things semi-regularly away to protect privacy.

It does not throw away the login-Cookie, so I'm not entirely sure how it works. They might even have a whitelist or (in this case erroneous) blacklist for it.
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I googled subway franchise, found http://www.franchisedirect.com/directory/subway/ufoc/915/

Low end estimate is $150k required up front, and high end of $320k. However, in that low end - $85k estimate for leasehold improvements. $15k for initial subway franchise fee.

Local sandwich shop opened up a few years back and... while I don't know all the numbers, he didn't put in $200k up front. I suspect it may have been more like $40-$50k, between initial lease, equipment, stock, etc. Small town, passing traffic, little competition, he's done well enough that he's expanding - doubling his size and moving a bit up the street. He's also a very pragmatic guy, and the sandwich biz has been in his family for a couple generations, so I have to think they're at least moderately profitable.
Agreed, the tone was arrogant and annoying.
What's your point? Others can raise money more easily than you can, due to some ambiguous idea that investors prefer these other people from Stanford? No one that is going to build a successful company should care about that. Because you're 10x better than the competition. The lack of an inherited advantage isn't going to make the difference between success and failure for you.
My experience with Instacart for Whole Foods delivery has been pretty bad overall. Too many items were consistently being marked as not available / not found by the shopper. Once, up to a third of my cart or almost 10 items. When you assembly your list and click "buy", you expect to get what you ordered, not for a third of your order to be missing come dinner time. I'm afraid Instacart won't ever be able to deliver a great experience as long as they have shoppers walking the aisles instead of direct back-of-store integrations and real time inventory.

The substitutions offered are also frequently terrible, and always without fail for more expensive items. Sometimes ridiculously so. And I'm pretty sure the shopper sometimes just doesn't want to buy some of the stuff I've ordered, like watermelons or water, that I know is available in the store.

Overall, I've found FreshDirect to offer a much more reliable service with good pricing and selection as well. They seem more professional in all regards. I also look forward to seeing what Amazon / Whole Foods come up with together, but I don't think the Instacart shopper model is something I'm interested in using again, it just seems like a fundamentally inefficient model.
I think they did hint at it, to quote "combine that with the general level of misogyny and sexism in the tech industry"; but only they know. If they didn't - good!

> We (HN) largely work in tech. It (the industry) has a problem.

No, it's a social problem. Tech industry per se has nothing to do with it. I can see many social problems (and worse ones, let's be real) unrelated to tech that we can and should talk about and not pretend they don't exist.

I mean, look at it from the other side - we shouldn't ignore a social problem because it isn't an issue in tech - for example, homelessness.
sibling comments gave a much better explanation, but if you want to boil it down I think of it as python pretending to be PHP.
There are overt examples like Radio Free Europe etc. But I would argue the entire Hollywood industry is to a large degree intertwined with propaganda and US government has ways to inject its ideas into content being produced in big movies. If you are more cynical, also media such as NYT or WaPo could be considered propaganda similar to Russia Today or some other state propaganda outlets of foreign countries (just in case of NYT it is not overt and directly funded by government).
See for example this story about Jeremy Clarkson.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm

He published his bank account details (and how to find his address) and dared people to withdraw funds from it. Which people did.
All startups start small, but not all small businesses are startups. Startups are characterized by fast growth cycles and usually are intended to end in getting acquired or sold.

Bakeries and such don't fall under this description, usually.
YMMV of course, but when we used the fonts CDN a very large proportion of Chinese users could not access our website intermittently.
all lies. hacker news is one of the greatest reasons why i have learned so much about the world and all of its possibilities. news, good or bad, is worth learning about. swallow your pride and learn of all the truths in this world, be humble and overcome all obstacles with applied science and always be true to thine self.
I'm taking (off topic) issue with the notion that Starbucks is not particularly high quality. Before Starbucks the options for coffee were almost universally limited to weak or burnt and stale bland Columbian beans. Starbucks is excellent at consistency (that was in the manual actually; I worked as a Starbucks barista for a year after college), to the extent that they replaced their skilled/training-required espresso machines with push button devices, but that does not diminish the overall more-than-acceptable quality.
An old report on Hawala: http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2123/stories/200411190...
Hope you're coming to the local meetup this weekend. Btw, were you lucky enough to get tickets for the yearly Casper retreat?
Huh, I'm more surprised that most other animals can't do this...
Do you mean like the Ferry Building in SF? If so, then I guess so! Although that may not be specifically what OP was picturing. May have been picturing something where each restaurant had their own dining area.
Interesting question.

What makes you think anything should be fair?
Because life and the rules of the universe are not a human creation. Fairness is a human concept, in which we decide what that means, and it tends to vary decade to decade and culture to culture. Also worth noting, rules are not necessarily fairness (lots of animals in nature have automatic instinctual systems or rules of how they exist, without a consciously thought-out system of defined fairness).

It's a matter of the order of things. Life can't be fair by default because it's not subservient to fairness, it's the other way around. The concept of fairness derives from existence, it doesn't come before it. It takes a great effort to create and sustain large systems of fairness as entropy is constantly acting to undermine our efforts and destroy us (while we simultaneously deal with irrationality, chaos, scarcity, injury, etc etc). On this planet, only humans expend such immense energy attempting to accomplish elaborate systems of fairness, while trying to strive toward even greater fairness (learning from and applying, attempting to improve over time; our charitable systems for example have radically improved over the last few hundred years).

When a dolphin murders a porpoise for fun, or a troop of chimps raids another territory and murders competing chimps, is it fair? Fairness has no role to play, because it's a human concept. Humanity is still subservient to the greater rules and limitations of the universe, which means our best efforts at applying fairness can inherently never be perfect or ideal. Just the fact that we act against an erosion by entropy at all times guarantees that outcome (to say nothing of the inefficiency thrown into the equation by routine imperfect human judgment).
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The title is misleading.

I clicked on it, thinking it was some kind of homebrew/OSS development on iPhone but it first goes into excruciating details about Apple financials before arriving at the "fork".

The "fork", as per my understanding, being the new logic and battery design.
This is a clickbait title. It didn’t crash, it stopped when it detected a truck pulling out in front of it; the truck didn’t stop and grazed the front bumper. (The truck’s driver was cited.)
Our events are a mess of text that is processed with some convoluted parser to build several cross-reference indexes. At least it allows to piece together events from the same request, etc. But the point is that it’s at best 1% of all the work being done, and it’s not the key problem solved by the system.

Parsing a stack frame would be actually in the same ballpark. Yes, processing it would involve maybe a ~100 index lookups to match stack frames to the source etc, but see below.

Gigabytes of debug symbols? Such as fitting all in a 1/10 of RAM of a typical server you mean? As a hash table, or heck even a trie so you could do range query as well.

Same about a source map. It’s not THAT hard to build a largish lookup table entirely in RAM. Especially if its the MAIN POINT of your business.

I’m curious about that non-linear problem with JSON source map. Could you elaborate?

Also you don’t need to cross-reference symbols/events across your customers. The lookup is thus limited to a shard of that client which I’d dare say won’t contain gigabytes of debug symbols.
Indeed. The original poster was saying something more akin some kids getting more shots at the target or able to buy more than 1 dart and try to hit the bullseye many times.
> Companies use it to inflate the topline (revenue) figures.

So, correct me if I am wrong, this implies Instacart is inflating the topline figures?
Still, requiring criminals to buy forged IDs is much more friction than not even asking for ID, as happens in the US.
Yes, this is what I meant but better stated.
> I think he is justified in being annoyed by amateurs asking for help then arguing/ignoring his advice.

Anyone who is an expert in their field should feel justified in being annoyed by people asking for help then ignoring or arguing with said help. Happens to me on a regular-enough basis that I can usually predict how a request for help is going to turn out. Not alway, but often enough.
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Disparities in fairness create opportunities for one group to advance their short-term interests at the long-term expense of another group.

Unfortunately, education levels in the general population are not yet at a level where the majority of groups are able to routinely identify threats to their long-term interests caused by optimising for short-term gains.
I like to visit local neighborhood restaurants to give these places hope because I hate seeing another retail location taken up by a franchise or worse of all - banks which are just basically dead space. To digress - they just opened another WF near me so there are now five total. Each is essentially a huge empty building with a huge empty parking lot. It's like the city decided they didn't want any useful commerce happening in this area and zoned it entirely for banks. Sad.

Meanwhile within walking distance there are like two restaurants and a coffee shop and I count myself lucky I even have that and visit all of them at frequently because I so treasure them. Even if their food isn't that amazing they at least somewhat contribute to the community of their surroundings.
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most of the time i read a story like this, the infamous statistic of 90 to 80 percent new establishments failing is referenced, and then the person goes on to explain how they barged into the business like a belligerent, drunken bull in a china shop. this guy did zero research. zero thought was put into the costs involved. i am frankly amazed that this guy made it as far as he did. i remember the last time a story like this was posted, the guy got fooled into paying to renovate the building he was renting. i have a feeling that most of these restaurants fail because they are started by complete idiots.
Yes, I've noticed this a lot with Android projects too. Recently I looked at a project that openly bragged about using: RxJava 2/AutoDispose, Conductor, AutoValue, Glide, ThreetenABP, Inspector, PSync, Chuck, Scalpel, Stetho, Room, Firebase, Butter Knife

Look, not all of those things are bad but jesus fucking christ, what happened to exercising restraint and good judgement with introducing dependencies in to your projects? Dependencies are a LIABILITY and for something to be introduced it has to be worth it, not just provide some minor syntactical convenience (like Butter Knife, etc.)
Entrepreneurs start businesses. A small fraction of those businesses are SV startups, but the vast majority are not - so this article talking about "entrepreneurs" doesn't apply to the vast majority of them, has no sources for what it claims, and is thus rather useless.
> It's so rare to see people brag about being reckless, irresonsible, and wasteful of resources they cannot afford to waste.

I hate being sardonic, but we are on hacker news.
Generally agree with the article, but of course I have my disagreements. Specifically:

> I consider Auto Layout one of the top 5, maybe top 3 technologies to ever come out of Apple. It’s beautiful, easy to work with and there’s nothing I can’t do with it.

It's not beautiful, nor easy to work with, nor does it work for every scenario.

I am going to say something heretical: I have given up on auto layout and I find "manual" layout much easier. But that's because I rely on "one cool trick"[1]: Do not lay out views using an x-y cursor. Instead, slice up the bounds of the view being layed out using `CGRect.divide()`... So simple. If you're using manual layout but not using `CGRect.divide()`, I urge you to give it a shot it will change your life.

Of course maybe everyone does it that way and I'm the only person who thinks it's a life-changer. :)

[1] Side note: I learned this trick from a technical interview at EA games years ago... The best interviews are those where you leave knowing more than when you went in, even if you don't get the job.
You're right and that part of the point. State or Market is not the factor here. This old opposition is a false dichotomy / semantic slip. Control/Opacity are more important.
And if it's not corporate structure, maybe it's a boat.

More power to him.
It's almost like, if you need your data to remain private, you shouldn't send it to someone else's computer.
Plenty of us dorks complain about Stallman's worldview and philosophy. I won't complain about the contributions he's made to computing, or even the world in general, but striking it lucky doesn't make you philosophically pure.
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AMD GPUs also need firmware unfortunately.
> What makes you think anything should be fair?

Because it helps the human race maximize their collective potential. Imagine how many Einsteins we've had over the millennia, there may have been hundreds/thousands of them but they never had the chance to shine because they were born a serf or a slave.

It doesn't have to be 100% fair, but being somewhat egalitarian produces better results for everyone on the economic scale.
Okay, then. Could you give me a few pointers on how to submit (a bugzilla ticket I suppose) ?

Found out the troubleshooting and health report menus in the mean time.
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In that case it's completely subjective and up to the individual to make the call, although founders still have to shoulder more "risk" to create the opportunity for an early employee to even consider as a choice.
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Our public schools are designed to make people work jobs, not take risks.

And who's going to these schools? The rich?

If you look at who's an entrepreneur where there is no public education, you will see plenty of poor people. They haven't been trained to sit, obey and avoid risk.

I think the entrepreneur is the natural state of man. What is hunting and gathering if not a hustle?

For that matter, what is every wild animal doing? Exploiting every opportunity that comes along or waiting for some to tell them what to do?
"this should be solely their problem" - from a legal standpoint, it is. The only reason it "isn't" is because the credit bureaus suck and don't move fast enough. I'm generally not in favor of using regulation as a blunt hammer, but I think a regulation that makes total sense is to strongly punish anything resembling a credit reporting agency (credit bureau or otherwise) that can't demonstrate RESULTS (not effort) in remediating errors related to ID theft.

The FCRA put a lot of measures in place to RESPOND to consumer complaints, but they don't work well and only matter when the consumer decides to complain and is willing to put the time in to do so. That's not enough - if a CRA can't demonstrate success, they should either not be allowed to exist or they should be de-certified. CRA's that can't meet that standard could still exist as businesses, but the shouldn't get the government protected oligopolistic designation they get now.
Yes, but they don’t run the whole thing on a single laptop do they?

Roughly speaking you take what a laptop can do and a multiply it by 1000x to estimate what a cloud service could easily do.
(It’s just an estimate, the reality is not working like that, I KNOW)

Do not take it as Nginx and webpages example, it’s indeed a poor analogy.

I can’t remember the right number for e.g. ElasticSearch fuzzy search across 10m documents of out hand so I’d pick the simpler less relevant number.

Actually fuzzy full text search across 10m documents is at least in the range of 100s/sec on a laptop. Meaning that they have resources to do at least e.g. 100k-500k/s full text searches across gigabytes of symbols.

I bet their queries are simpler then that though (not fuzzy nor full text). It’s debug symbols after all not a natural text.
Thank you so much. we just moved to an 1132 sqft little bigger office last week :)
How often that does even happen? Many people just get a router (w/modem) in the mail which they just connect to with their devices. No software is being installed.
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I'm pretty clueless about what would actually work. I'm from Scandinavia where we have a welfare system that could allow you not to work. It wouldn't be a nice life because you wouldn't be allowed to own any fortune worth more than a cheap laptop at any point in your life, so no bricks and mortar or car or nice vacations or anything like that, but you could.

Typically people who end up without jobs tend to waste away though. They start drinking, doing drugs and committing crime, largely because they are bored.

You see something similar in young people who drop out of the educational system. These are people with all the options open too, yet they struggle to fit in.

If we create a society without jobs for everyone we also need to give everyone something to do, and I don't think we can expect them to do things on their own.

That's not what worries me in the now though, I'm only worriered about the inequality of wealth because you can't have a stable and free society if the inequality grows too large.
They added contravariant functions in 2.6 using the compiler flag --strictFunctionTypes as described in this PR https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/18654
It's a misquote if you parse the original statement as "NOT an ((identity mechanism or infrastructure) to facilitate business)" That would be removing important qualifiers.

It's not a misquote if you parse the original statement as "NOT ((an identity mechanism) or (infrastructure to facilitate business))". It's perfectly fine to simplify "Not A or B" into "Not A" when your argument is "Yes A".

In the context of godzilla82's wording, I think the latter interpretation is more likely, making it not a misquote. Even if that's mistaken, I doubt it was an intentional misquote.
which acces does it have? is it a tty to minix with root login? or did intel at least protected it for whichever is the agency that requested that with a "zero day" local privileged escalation? ;)
> at least he did something.

I mean no offense, because I do sorta appreciate what you're going for, but this is almost the most philosophically, semantically, and most sillily empty sentence that exists.

Everyone does something. People who do 'nothing' do something. We only praise people whom succeed publicly or fail publicly. Even then, we only praise the people who fail when we ideologically align with them. We don't praise people who go out there and try to start a hate group, nor the ones who succeed.

Trying isn't really something that should count to other people. I won't say it shouldn't count to the person who tried it; self-esteem is a very personal thing. Failure shouldn't necessarily be a bad thing personally either, but let's not pretend that it's usually a good thing. The vast majority of failures are just failures. Starting a bead store in 2017 isn't a good idea, and we shouldn't congratulate my mother-in-law for doing it and wasting 30k in investments, nor should we congratulate her investors.

Edit:

Also, can anyone tell me if I should have used 'who' or 'whom' here? I don't 'think' it's the direct object, but I will defer to someone else:

'We don't praise people who go out there and try to start a hate group'
There is actually something like this in Pittsburgh: http://www.smallmangalley.org. Although it's more of a restaurant incubator than just a space to cook.
They’re on par with laptop discrete GPU’s with a low power envelope. The sort that would fit into a Macbook Pro. The 1050 uses 70w.
The main reason I never liked filling out surveys is not because their websites didn't work well (but of course that was true too). It was because they were usually pointless. Surveys are always gamed by management. Positive results were used by management to pat themselves on the back, and would affirm that nothing needed to be changed. Negative results would be ignored by management, and therefore nothing needed to be changed.
Maybe I'm just old and cynical.