skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you clarify what you mean by "prices are consistently reasonable"? We do try to publish precisely what business model we are operating with pretty prominently on our storefront (e.g., if we have price parity with the store, or have a markup).

(engineer @ Instacart)
While I agree deeply, it's kinda hard to get the right sort of experience without just jumping in. Owning and running a restaurant is very different from working at one, right? Same with software; I worked in software for a couple of decades before trying to start my own, and while it did help me with the writing software part, it didn't help me with the running the business and marketing and pitching parts. If anything, one of the most important things I learned by trying is that I waited too long to try -- there's a ton of valuable experience you get by trying which can increase your chances of success. This goes right to your point, but I guess I'm just adding the caveat that you have to learn the ropes of restaurant management, as opposed to cooking or waiting tables or washing dishes. It has recently become very clear to me what the stark difference is between a product and a business...
But it is already then and most probably with ever connected world that will be the solution. I don't think he is aware of NFC or any form of "Pay" applications out there right now.
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I think I'm guilty of this.
Here in Houston most of the major petchems have satellite offices in the suburbs (often multiple) to support their workers.
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Seems like this was his life's dream to do, and he got to do it. So, I'm not sure it was entirely a bust. But certainly it was a very expensive dream to follow. And how many really ambitious people fail and fail again, before finally succeeding at something? It is a common story. Not that failure is any guarantee of success.
Yep, we would likely have the equivalent of a DUNS number instead, controlled by some private company spamming you on a regular basis.
A few thoughts on CSRankings.org
One basic reason is that immigrants often find it easier to open a business than interview for jobs. It's hard to answer the question "tell me about yourself" in a culturally relevant way when you are still learning the basics of your new non-native language. Opening a business requires a nominal amount of money in fees and filling out a form. Living off of your savings while trying to impress people who don't seem to be hiring you gets unattractive pretty fast, so if you're gonna work hard, you may as well do it for yourself.
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I think his behaviour is already well described by Carl Jung. His world view is skewed by mythology (like movies and hero worship) instead of by rational thought.
I'm surprised there isn't a big WeWork for restaurant start-ups. A large space converted into numerous kitchens, that can be rented for relatively inexpensively (no large upfront cost to buy equipment or the building, no large initial lease, etc). The WeKitchen owner would have its own inventory of kitchen equipment that could be rented and moved as needed, to facilitate a lot of various types of kitchen arrangements.

The idea would be strip as much cost out of the initial part as possible for the start-up (given their odds of early failure are ~97%). Most of them would still fail, the WeKitchen business would get paid their upfront monthly (or quarterly) fees as the restaurants come and go (and there's a perpetual supply of people wanting to try restaurant businesses, this would increase that supply by lowering the cost / risk; it could also accelerate experimentation). It could also enable a lot of other types of food businesses, such as tilt-up bakeries, rather than only restaurant-style.

The overall system would focus on orders to go, aligning with the increasing rise of food delivery services.
to be fair, what do you think the purchasing company wants out of the deal? Acquisitions are generally structured as a) acquisition of key talent, b) acquisition of customers, c) acquisition of technology/IP, d) efficiencies from cutting duplicative functions (accounting, HR, etc).

I'm not so sure that there needs to be some sort of greater altruism at play here?
CNBC [1] says there are 10.8 millionaires in the U.S. alone. 13 seems a little low for the total worldwide count.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/a-record-number-of-americans...
I think #1 is the most realistic. Intel does some very significant work with Numpy as it is with MKL. #2 seems like dark voodoo magic that'd be neat, but pretty much impossible.
We maintain MFCard an easy to integrate payment UI for iOS.

To gain the initial momentum we did following:

- Sharing with local community meetups

- Sharing with CocoaPods & other component websites

- Sharing with Top Github repository who maintain 'Awesome Lists'
We call that NSNotificationCenter around here.
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Every so often one of these articles comes out about someone's dream restaurant or coffee shop that failed and I'm starting to think that maybe there are lots of just soft, naive people out there who just got by in life checking off the boxes and being responsible enough to get an easy office job (they're usually decent at writing a dramatic article though). Unless you get lucky making anything stick in the real world is very hard. Having succeeded and failed in business before most days I can't believe how easy my office job is.
With relatively little academic rigor required for such a role, can we trust the results that data scientists are putting out, on average?
Yes. It's the voters' fault so I don't have sympathy for them. If they did their research instead of being so sure that their favourite party is better than the evil enemy party then they could make intelligent decisions that benefit themselves.
There's no shared secret between just the bank and you.

Therefore the bank can't establish that it was you, who leaked the secret. (Because it's easy to leak SSN, it could have been any random company you did business with. Or the SocSecAdmin.)

And even if your shared secret was used to withdraw, there's still a chance of the bank leaking it.

So usually the shared secret's hash is stored.

This works pretty well.

Around here banks ask you to give your PIN for identification, or you have to present your ID, and they compare it with what they have on file. (So trust on first use is still important.) Sure, it's probably not hard to fake these plastic cards, but that's a rather serious crime, and then the bank can pull the security cam footage, etc...

Of course, requiring confirmation on an SMS even when you do in person banking might make sense.
I 100% believe you, but just for entertainment value, assuming the posting was public and recent -- any chance you have a link to the posting that you can share with us? I need a good laugh today.
There is also nylonase, or the nylon eating bacteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
Bet on closer to $200,000, with room for $250,000.
Which makes the changes to the rules surrounding personal bankruptcy in 2005 even more ominous, especially when it comes to big ticket items such as student loans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_an...
60% of the country has less than $1000 in savings [1]. Thus I am richer than 60% of the U.S. and I'm pretty broke.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings...
As author of a WIP static(-ish) site generator myself, I'm curious why this one enforces/uses a specific stylesbeet?
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You have an ID card with a photo on it. They're normally renewed every 10 years. For credit cards you must also show income data.
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Yeah, we need to stop seeing touch screens as "futuristic". They're a way to save money, replacing a purpose-built physical interface with a one-size-fits-all screen which can be manufactured at scale and programmed cheaply. Some things (e.g. cell phones) wouldn't be possible to make if they included purpose-built physical components for everything you might want to do with them, but in general, touch screens are worse than the interfaces they replace. This article on the subject is a good read: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
Last time I tried this you couldn't import libraries.
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I'm surprised certain groups haven't started labeling/marketing this as socialism.
In plaintext, this is the donald trump of malware.
This is true, but separate from the real problem at hand. I can't lament the general natural patterns of new markets maturing, but I can lament ABI being the one to buy these breweries when they're trying to cover for the dramatic quality loss by buying review websites.
It's only a problem when the tax man wants to claim a piece of the income...
Nice! what you describe is basically a standard sales process. You will very often be ignored, and people will not reply to you - don't get it personal. Read more about cold emailing and sales. It's a complex process, but essential for bootstrapping entrepreneurship.

> I really need a community to discuss these ideas.

there are local pitch events (at least in the silicon valley) where you can practice or sites like HN.
And the airline industry?
"If a single enzyme is responsible for this chemical process, its reproduction on a large scale using biotechnological methods should be achievable." It seems like the intent is to find the mechanism of action and transfer it to a microbe. Could be super useful in oceans and other places that micro plastics are common.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read that. Original Android didn't go far enough, then RxJava and clean architecture went way too far. Fortunately the new architecture components like LiveData and ViewModel coupled with kotlin (especially coroutines, wow where have those been all my life) are simple to use and understand while providing the right level of abstraction. Android development has become really nice lately.
Not much different from some tech startup founders I’ve encountered.
A decade ago 16:10 was the size we were heading towards, plenty if not most screens were 16:10 for a brief while when we got rid of 4:3. That also transitioned through 14:9 for TV that would work on both screen sizes, it took a while to settle on 16:9 and for everyone to complain about laptops with silly shaped screens.

Imaginably when this project started the instrumentation that evolved into the touch screen was on a 16:10 display, still the common size on Android tablets and sometimes in super high resolution. Or in low resolution - 1680 x 1050 is a size for monitors albeit not so common now.

You don't have to work with computers too long to know that 16:10 is better than 16:9 except for with televisions and dedicated video players. I would expect that given the market for screens and availability that Tesla would go for the correct size, i.e. 16:10, to show full screen video plus some UI buttons.

I am hearing you regarding Figma and also I agree with you on 'myopic vision of UI design where only the screen matters'. It is not how design works.
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How is it entitled to be cross about a company failing at their sole purpose for existance? They can’t do what they’re supposed to do.
Or hire some dumbshits to be the sacrificial firings.
I had the same reaction. I was looking at investing in franchises and they range from initial cash investments if $400k to $600k for one restaurant. And, like you hint at, these are behemoths that have networks of fine-tuned resources. Also, this information is astonishingly easy to find, so getting the gist of what opening a restaurant costs is stupidly simple.

For example Dairy Queen requires:

Investment Range: $779,675 – $1,729,160
Liquid Capital Requirement: $400,000
Net Worth Requirement: $750,000

https://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/Company/Franchise-With-Us/S...
Reminds me of this story (sadly similar)

http://www.wweek.com/restaurants/2016/09/30/heres-what-happe...
Hard as it is to read it, I am glad that he wrote the article.

His journey is a cautionary tale on how difficult it is to start a new business (including tech startups). There's so much work to be done and a lot of them are non-glamorous.
Any particular work by Jung you’re thinking of?
Certainly national IDs are a feature of totalitarian regimes, but I don't see how they necessarily lead to one. Plenty of free societies in the world have national IDs and live quite democratically.
I think your second point is the most pertinent. I recall hearing about this subject a while back.

Frankly, I wonder why (besides the loud sound of the Sunchip bags[0]) that cellulose and other bioplastics aren't utilized more—at least for common and commonly-dispensed items like beer-can rings, food wrappers, and other short-term packaging.

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[0] https://vimeo.com/9664621
Yes people start restaurants with their own money -- almost all restaurants are people taking personal risk, even franchise chains like Subway and McDonalds! And yes I started my business with (mostly) my own money. Your ideas of business risk vs personal are adorable but wrong. I don't mean that as insult, just gentle correction. Bank business loans are not separable from personal risk, they are usually completely backed by personal collateral, and people who's restaurants are funded by the bank and fail are getting wiped out every day. You're absolutely right -- it's a nightmare. The only people not risking their own money are startups that get angel/venture/grant funding, and loads of them are still personally invested too. Venture groups almost never fund new restaurants, because restaurants are way too risky, and they're way harder to scale than software.
Lots of car fobs are just wireless transponders to authorize the remote start now, it's how those hacks to steal a BMW with a laptop work. But those fobs usually still have a real key inside.
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Any opinion on Nem ?

Built from scratch, proof of importance, featureful (contracts, notary, supports currencies creation, fast..)

It’s well tested in the banking sector...

Chia announce sounds like : « hi, I’m another sh*tcoin with lots of big money from the crypto bubble »
Conversation looks like this:

A: X is true.

B: Please provide proof.

A: Here is metric using averaging over large populations.

B: Using averages over large populations is hiding important details about X.

A: How else we could compare large populations?! We must use globals averages!

B: Averages have the effect of very small number of very bad instances distort the result of large population which would have much better results, thus making it appear bad results are much more common than they are actually are. We know specifically this is the case for the question we are discussing.

A: Well, that's how averages work, nothing can be done about it.

Don't you think something is missing here?
Amazed to see jacquesm's comment. I knew he was an old member, but it seems he's been active right from the get-go.
Every single successful entrepreneur in the food industry that I know, and most of the unsuccessful ones as well, work their asses off. I know this because I have worked in the food industry at every single level, from farming to sales to prep to cooking to event planning / catering to waiting tables to washing dishes. And for the most part, not established businesses but startups, where it is very easy to keep a close eye on the business decisions of the founders.

I've seen a lot of different people fill those shoes. Their roles aren't symbolic, and it is an impressively grand delusion for a founder of any business to think as such. They are supposed to set an example for everyone else.

Only one of my bosses could not understand this, and his business has sunk millions without turning a profit because, initially, he was lazy and would blame every problem on his workers, the industry, the weather, etc. instead of his own laziness and lack of planning skills. He didn't seek to eliminate his problems, he relished in them because they let him feel like things were out of his control.

The rest of them worked themselves to the bone to provide good service and a good product. They took responsibility for all decisions and gave at least some thought before making stupid, risky decisions.

Literally the first thing you do when creating a brick and mortar establishment is research the area and find where the most profitable location will be. This guy fucked up from day one, choosing laziness over rational thought, and then denies responsibility for it. This is downright pitiful and he deserves to lose every penny that he did.
"Problems like this are endemic to zero-sum schemes like stack ranking."

Stack ranking is nothing more than a more aggressive form of regular hiring promotion and advancement.

Moreover, it's just as likely that female managers prefer females.

There's nothing inherently sexist about 'stack ranking' - rather, possible sexism is derived during performance reviews - which are commonplace.
Without commentary these slides are entirely unhelpful. Someone would have to agree with you already and have a head start on the purpose this presentation in order to understand what is going on here.

Care to elaborate?
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I live in Bangalore, I shop with push cart vendors, buy medicines from the round corner the medical shop. I(my family) buys rice/wheat/eggs/whatever from a shop from a guy who lives a few homes up our lane(We have been doing so from 20-25 years).

I buy clothes from the main road, from the vendor who keeps 'Pick any shirt for 250/-'. Recently I bought a fidget spinner for my nephew from a hawker. I eat out at near the Idly shop near my home where a grandma cooks breakfast, with her son, and bajji and bonda snacks in the evening.

None of these guys accept cards or PayTM. And that is how most of the Bangalore is and how it works.

Bangalore has a lot of this tech crowd, who live in pockets in areas around IT parks and thinks that how the whole universe looks.
What's the point of that? If you're an employee with stock options you aren't going to see a dime of the profits. You need an IPO or acquisition to make all those extra overtime stock options pay off.
immigrants have enormous advantages over 'rich kids'. for one, citizens are more likely to follow the law. you never noticed you dont pay sales tax in china town if you pay with cash? ever notice kids working the shops? do you think sales tax is the only tax they are ducking out on?
many times i seen 10 year olds working the register unsupervised. i kind of respect that, but also how could you compete with that as a business owner?

my one friend, her kid is super smart. but only top 1%, so to get into the good school she failed at the lottery. her nanny's kid appears impoverished because her husband works an all cash business and made it in based on income. our system is slanted against us in many ways, especially if we try to climb higher than lower middle class.
Congrats on your startup.

I had a question - From my personal experience the difference between a normal feedback (someone asking you directly) vs an employee survey are framing and scope.

For example, questions asking feedback on "leadership". Most people, specially freshman, care about feedback on the guys they are reporting to - it can be a lead, manager, director etc.

But the surveys tend to gauge all levels - project leads, managers and then company executives. So they put in questions like -

do you feel you get timely feedback?
do you feel people are held accountable?
do you feel you understand company vision?

etc.

Everyone attributes these to different people in management but then the HR tells them otherwise. This causes a lot of people to be disillusioned by the surveys from the time they start the careers.

How do you tackle this issue in your product?
"Uber seems to be full of bad ideas,"

I don't know. They've basically changed the world, made a 60 billion dollar company quickly, and become a brand synonymous with a service.

That's very special.

Just as I think they probably have used some slightly underhanded things on their way there, I significantly doubt anything they're doing is considerably more sketchy than other companies.

As the article states: 1/3 of F100 companies use stack ranking - so how can we possibly call them out for it. Moreover, that someone 'says they are sexist' does not make them sexist.
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Of course, those that lack money do so because they choose to spend it. You can see this when people with household incomes of $30k, $40k, $50k, and $60k are all living paycheck to paycheck.
> With tech consulting, you might be working 4-6 hours a day

... huh? Which tech company is this?
Anvil of Stars is my favorite book in this genre. It can be read without reading the prequel.

Gateway by Frederic Pohl is also a great brush-with-aliens book although technically not first contact.
But that's not the case, since salaries are significantly less variable than stock comp.

For high paying jobs, salary is 50-80% of total comp. For lower paying ones, it's 95+%, which is what the salary surveys show.

So comparing salary only, you strongly bias against top paying positions since salaries make up a smaller portion of the compensation for those positions.
Notice how the solutions proposed to solve "identity theft" tend to be things that make it harder for the individual to engage in financial activity. Not make the credit agencies or financial institutions get their act together, but force the individuals to engage jump through more hoops to manage their own money.
> National ID is the first step to https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza

A national ID is by no means required for something like this. If businesses wanted to, they could already identify us uniquely enough to pool all their information and be able to do something like that.
Dependency injection is surprisingly easy with Swift since you can implement it with protocol extensions. You don't need a framework or anything:

http://www.danielhall.io/a-swift-y-approach-to-dependency-in...
Thanks for putting some concrete numbers behind my vague recollection!
Although at this stage it's less about sales and more about understanding your potential customers and what problem do they have. That's why I would recommend starting side business project by talking to customers first, understand what problem they have - what jobs they need to be done, and then actually coding
Lol. Same here, I stopped reading after a while as it was pissing me off. How can someone be so dumb and explain it in excruciating detail. You brought up good points, there's a ton more. For ex. $3000 spent on lawyer to register a company, who later told him he could do it online for a couple hundred! This kind of information is just a few Google searches away these days.
Apologies, offtopic: wait, Coda.io only uncloaked less than a month ago and you've already left??