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I am constantly thinking about the question: What is the future tech entrepreneur's lemonade stand?

It would have to be something typical and low-skill so a young entrepreneur can build it and learn the hard lessons about running a business, but it needs some special defense to avoid being out-innovated by an Amazon or Google. The Facebook example as a toy is perfect - the platform was able to thrive by being hyper-localized, and offering its own personality and levity.

It seems to me like the founders of the future are coding games today.
I kinda feel like this is already a thing.
How can you get your tech recruiters to stop sending candidates who can't code?
There is also the very real danger of investing in things just because they look toyish in an attempt to follow the pattern. it doesnt always pay out.
The cloud is awesome. It's infinitely more efficient than dealing with Dell and HP.
To me, #5 is calling out developers that write sloppy, thoughtless and obviously inefficient code and then claim premature optimization when someone comments on the quality of that code.
Such a wonderful story, and one I hope we all get a chance to relate to at some point in our lives. His last descriptions of the sky and how heaven might look reminded me of this part from a poem by Jacques Prevet:

Our Father who art in heaven
Stay there
And we'll stay here on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty

Full poem:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/667126-pater-noster-our-fat...
"Never consider the product when writing code. Product should adapt to code, not the other way around"
Ask HN: What is the career trajectory like of Program Manager after DARPA stint?
Hello everyone,

We all know DARPA is one awesome organization that is pushing the boundaries of technology & engineering, and to achieve this, it relies on Program Managers who are hungry for opportunities to test limits and are at the top of their fields.

So my question is, what do Program Managers, after serving their 5 year term with DARPA, normally do? Do they set up their own business revolving around the technlogy they helped foster whilst at DARPA, or do they create a career path of their own?

I'm very curious to know this. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. It would be GREAT if some former/ current Program Manager with DARPA answers this & offers his first hand insights & perspectives.

Thanks in advance :)
And who can forget the offices were once ovens for Nabisco.
I'd be surprised if we are truly more childish than historical periods. Indeed, just going off of naive views of life expectancy, we used to spend more of our living time as children.

Now, leisure time has certainly increased. To an extent. We now have to spend far less time preparing food/clothing/etc. At least, for the average person. Upper classed people probably had more leisure time in the past, since they had other people to do this work for them.

I saw a number recently on how much less time people spend doing laundry. It is impressive.
Jax and Pensacola are both Navy... more likely it would be Tyndall AFB, or Homestead
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Even over a lifetime of trying, the probability remains pretty low. This is why articles like this emphasize that the more realistic was is via savings; lots of folks fail to save because they believe they're going to "hit it big" on the next deal / job / inheritance / lottery ticket, but it's usually just going to result in failing to save enough because you've over-estimated your future income.

It's also a convenient way to justify not saving enough.

I've watched fairly successful business owners make this mistake many times - they were making 400K or 500K (in some cases, millions) a year off a business, but not saving anything because they still expected it to grow a lot larger. If it fails to grow, then end up either broke or in debt.

It's inherent to entrepreneurs that they believe in the big future payoff more than average, but that's also a big blind spot for financial planning.
Scientific American has more gee-whiz details: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stronger-than-ste...

(I'm totally unqualified to parse between the articles' potential uninformed optimism and fellow commenters' skepticisms)
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If they think it's the government's fault, that's not necessarily a barrier to agreement on a course of action. If there's a law that can pass that libertarians can call "deregulation" I could potentially get behind it so long as it has the desired effect.

For instance, it's my understanding that laws exist which protect the big three credit authorities. What are those laws, and what the prospects for changing them?
I'd be interested in citations saying personal responsibility has declined. More likely that your exposure to everyone else's responsibility has increased.
An important source of loss in smaller engines is viscosity. Proportionally, more of the working fluid is in contact with the internal surfaces, more of it is inside the boundary layer, which is the only place where viscosity matters.

For a large engine, your boundary layer goes up as the area (square), and the contained goes up as the volume (cube). (The growth of the boundary layer goes up as something like the square root.) It's one of the few places in rocket science where the square-cube law helps provide a useful result, despite the insistence of many a misguided layperson. Even here, it may be something like a 2.5-cube law.
Mining ore, processing metal is difficult and energy intensive and produces waste tailings. Steel doesn't grow on trees while wood does. It is unclear from my reading whether or not the process in the article produces a lot of waste, or if the chem bath they use can be recycled in-situ, but the reduced ecological cost of material acquisition alone makes this idea worth pursuing.
Annually that was "only" 13% which is still great but not 160%-great.
> Which is why I personally dont even consider it.

So, assuming you're a man (bear with me if you aren't): are you so open-minded and rational that you do consider female clothes in your shopping too? Do you look at women's watches and glasses too? Do you often wear pink?

Here is my guess: you don't. You may think you're completely disconnected from the social cues inherent in clothing/accessories, that you consider clothes as purely functional. But chances are, in practice, you really don't. Signalling your gender "to all and sundry" as you put it, is one of the major non-verbal cues that clothes provide. It's part of those "random pre-designated styles" and is taught from a young age, and understood by everyone. Your tastes reflect that, whether you consciously acknowledge it or not.

You don't see men in robes, for example, in modern western cultures, whatever their potential comfort/utility/beauty, they simply are not considered for men in day-to-day life. Even though, there were periods and cultures where they were perfectly fine for men to wear.
Duplicate of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16334241
I think you're greatly overestimating the average person's knowledge of climate change and CO2 levels. I also don't believe that, even if awareness was completely spread, we should give up on keeping that information in the public mind and minuscule attention span.
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I don't think the court ended up considering the main point, which is that Apple had no evidence that H2F's units specifically were fake.
Standard Oil actually did start out as a toy. They provided oil to burn in lamps. At the time most people thought that was a somewhat silly gimmick and a fad that would quickly pass. Oil in general was seen as something neat but not essential for years. But just like facebook, many people soon came around to the idea and it took over the world.

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. covers this all in incredible detail, if it is something that interests you.
Ask: Small PC to Build Test-Cluster at Home?
Hello HN.

I would love to build a test cluster as a playground for OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, you name it.

Anyone out there with a nice idea which hardware to use? IntelNuc? Zotac AIO? Anyone with experience out there?
I find a quiet spot whenever I need to shout into my phone (which is practically never).

The office where I currently work has a big open plan, with some partitions between different teams if they want to, but also small enclosed offices for people who need privacy and big sound-blocking chairs for private talks or phone calls. It works quite well.
Yep, I suspected as much. Was just jealous of some nurses I know where their job interviews consist of:

Is your license up to date? Are you an ax-murderer? Can you start Monday?
Why? DST already changes quite a bit over the world[1]. Russia stopped observing it in 2011-4, for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_countr...
> Yet.

Wishful thinking doesn't have a place in discussions on the technical merits of a technology.

It's like everyone is stating that the bugati veyron is the best car ever made and your only cobtribution to the discussion is making claims on how your flying car is way better.
>I'm glad this is happening, although I'm more excited for the day when they start very obviously marking password input fields as "NOT SECURE" when they are used on HTTP sites.

Mozilla already does this with Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/insecure-password-warni...
Toy analogy mostly makes sense for online media where attention is valuable. If a “toy” is loved/used by tons of people, then it has their attention, and this attention can be monetized. Most likely through the usual advertising surface that it presents.
*Obviously, I meant antidote, not anecdote
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I grew up in Abilene. I figure west is "out" because it gets sparser and dustier. Abilene is 3 hours from everything. I hadn't heard the east is "over" thing but I guess it makes sense.
I am glad, but it also pisses me off.

Computer goes out of sync with some kind of cache server, welcome to HSTS errors and not able to surf to any site with cached content there.

Visit customers that have self signed certificates on their guest network, hello LTE to be able to do anything.
Is there anything in Julia yet or planned, that would allow to specify that "implementations" (in some sense) of an abstract type must provide certain method implementations, which would be checked before any attempt to call a missing function at run time (such as just after all definitions have been read maybe)? I realize that this issue can be thorny under multiple dispatch so maybe no solution is practical. But this is one thing from traditional single-dispatch statically typed OO languages that I really miss.
Is the book actually called "non violent communication"?
Required maintenance for a simple, static http site: none.

Required maintenance for a simple, static https site: configure let’s encrypt and keep the cron job running.

Big difference? Not for some, but it sure is something that offers very little value for very many site owners. Even the top 100 sites are only at 80% https by default, and they do it for a living!
> I used to work at Google NYC

Where do you work now?
Not one who is 'prominently against cryptocurrencie' in general but most have clear preferences and dislikes. The field is super wide.
Beware you may have a harder time getting a mortgage if you plan to use the home with tenants, even owner-occupied.

When refinancing our place (which we don't rent out) there was a lot of back and forth over this subject when I merely asked if it was possible - the bank got spooked. (We have excellent credit and can easily pay 3-4x the monthly costs fwiw.)

Eventually we convinced them we had no intention to proceed with renters (because we didn't it was just a question), but I imagine it would have changed the financials pretty drastically if we had actually intended on pursuing it. I don't know if a refinance versus original purchase made it different.
"wealthy landowners" is also a key phrase; they're the first (and for awhile, the only) people with a vote in democracies.

I'm not disagreeing that this is New Boss vs Old Boss. I'm disagreeing that Old Boss needs empowerment.

An interesting example is comparing Venice, CA to the "classic" gentrification: In Venice, most of the people responsible for the local culture (aka, why tech wants to be here) also own their homes; thus, as the property values rose dramatically, they benefitted. Contrast with "typical" gentrification, which just screws renters.

Hence why I'm on you about landowners versus "locals". There's a difference, and it's significant.
I have lived in Texas my entire life. Currently in Dallas. Have traveled extensively in the US and abroad.

In fact, I'm going down to Austin this weekend.
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PagerDuty releases analytics service that measures the health of employees
> I work in the Food Network office in CM.

Doing something software/tech related?
Yeah, the most important feature to me it's that I know exactly what they are trying to warn me about, they don't start screaming at me immediately and I know if one is going bad because the app tells me. Overall I love the experience, they are damn pricy though. If they could figure out a way to get them around $60 they would sell them like hotcakes.
"Conquered".
Do you feel the same way about the F-35 and its contractors?
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AH, but how many of those less technical people use more than one platform? Most likely they are using Windows. Possibly MacOS. Very unlikely Linux. So giving them something that looks entirely different from all the other apps they are used to, and what integrates well with the system isn't necessarily the best.

Discord seems to be a nice app (never used it, though) but it has the exact same generic look of, say, Microsoft Teams (another Electron app). Nice, but I would not say that it has any better interface than even classic Skype. Much better than the new monstrosity that is Skype 8, but then Skype 87 also drops proper native interface.

Of course you can get native application to look like nothing else quite easily, but by default they at least agree with the host OS conventions, which is a good thing IMHO.
I call bullshit. The economy has run on toys ever since we figured out how to grow food with machines.
Hum, that is not what the article says. It says that organic parts of the car, like tyres, may not last longer than a year.

Citation: "radiation will split ... from the leather seats to the rubber tires to the paints to — given a long enough time span — perhaps even the carbon fiber body to discolor, flake, and splinter away into space.

... Carroll said, ...

"Those organics, in that environment, I wouldn't give them a year," he said.

...

The sturdy carbon-fiber parts would likely be the last to go, he said, over a much longer span of time.

...

Richard Sachleben, ..., largely agreed with Carroll's assessment in an email to Live Science — though he did suggest it would likely still be somewhat recognizable, at least after a million years."
Is the proposal to make it optional? I was in favor, now I'm not sure sure; that sounds worse than keeping everyone on it.
> I don't know what's going to happen for us.

Who is us?
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I do. It is something called Pseudo Foreign Dialect [1], iirc. I basically have accent in every language I speak including native.

As an immigrant in the US, I don't find this affects me much. A lot of people just assume this is my accent, though some wonder why my accent is not same as others from my native country.

Growing up in my country, it was a bit rough, people including grownups & teachers loved to point out that I sounded funny. Sometimes, it was worse. I can guess it would have impacted my confidence & career significantly if I was professional back home.

I love it that people are more polite in the West especially in the US. Sometimes people have difficulty understanding me and they are very apologetic about it.

I try to speak slower and louder in business especially on phone. I might slightly exaggerate pronunciations. And if I see confused look on a listener's face, I would pre-emptively apologize for my accent and repeat or spell out the word. I find this is better for conversation than being defensive about my accent.

I have fear of public speaking but I am slowly working to overcome it. If I have to do presentation, I just slow down a lot, take a lot of breaks in between sentences to let audience process a new strange accent. Usually, my presentations are with my coworkers, so they are used to my accent.

If I was in sales or public facing position than it might have impacted me more. I am lucky to be a programmer.

Also I worked with someone stutter a lot. Everyone was super nice, and they would let him finish talking. If arguments started and he didn't get a chance to say much, my manager would step in and ask him direct question if he had anything to add.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysprosody
I was referring to the directory the grand-parent referred to. Of course there is source in other places.
Right, but the time zone might not have the same offset in the future, they're not interchangeable.
Depends on how much a Falcon Heavy launch will really cost at the end, but right now the nominal fee seems to be around 70M€ for Falcon Heavy and around 150M€ for Ariane 5.
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Maybe its abstract art
"we cannot retrieve the item referred to in section #.#.#.# in the timeframe specified in section #.#.#.#, please follow previously agreed upon contingency plan #.#.#.#"?
I had planned to integrate Pocket.. I don't know why I forgot about it.

Note though that:

1. There's a built in "reader" equivalent to pocket/readability. I actually open-sourced this module [1]. It uses MercuryApi (the successor of Readability) [2]

2. it's possible to bookmark articles: this action saves them even for offline reading (you have to open/load the articles at least once though).

Concerning your last idea, I find it difficult to integrate it in the current UI without overwhelming it. Maybe if I add an option (as it was suggested in another comment) to choose between a "detailed" and a "dense" list, then I'll think to this feature.

Anyway, thank you for your detailed feedback!

[1] https://github.com/tsucres/SwiftyMercuryReady

[2] https://mercury.postlight.com/web-parser/
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Alex Hutchinson, #251.
They are, that doesn't mean you should expect them to hit that target.

Musk doesn't seem to set timelines with the expectation that they will be attained. They are always best case, but development never is.
F-35 costs have come way down (~80M each for the latest signed contracts, if I recall, definitely below 100M), largely because we are building so so many of them, and tests seem to suggest it is an excellent plane (like the Red Flag tests of last year).
>If adding 1.5k employees and a new building is "largely ruining Boulder" in your eyes you should see a doctor.

Put some effort into understanding perspectives before resorting to derision. Bringing thousands of highly paid employees into a smaller city is often not good for many who already lives there unless they own property. The majority of the new jobs will not go to existing residents, rents will increase, restaurants will get more expensive, traffic will get worse, and everything will get more crowded.

For rich city-dwellers, the above might sound like nothing, but for people who seek smaller cities it will suck because it quickly erodes the character of the city.
Show HN: OpenFaaS 0.7 released with Swarm and Kubernetes
I've heard the toy analogy with the iPhone or Facebook before. When you look at the front page of YC, most of the successful companies are either 1) Enterprise (Dropbox) or 2) Consumer Facing (Instacart, Airbnb, etc.)

It's actually quite rare, Aaron, that they end up like Twitch or Reddit but I get your point.
> Chelsea Market is an amazing place with great offerings of food etc.

It really isn't. It's a tourist trap, especially with the completion of the High Line. The food isn't good and it's overpriced to take advantage of the tourists.

> As long as this transaction does not ruin the ecosystem of CM then New Yorkers are OK with this transaction.

Like new yorkers' opinions matters in manhattan. The only thing that matters in manhattan are billionaires - whether they be from california, israel, russia, china or anywhere else.
http://rvirding.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-o...
How has it ever been a problem? Create a new account on a new server, post a message on your old account "hey I'm moving to <url of new account>".
Conversations are usually only a day or two old before going stale, who cares whether or not toots from a year ago are linked to your account.
What I gain over facebook: no ads, not being tracked across the internet via 'like' buttons, not contributing to a massive dataset exclusively available to potentially evil corporation, and interacting with interesting strangers.
Change it to F-18 to inspire better funding from GOP?

And move 17 blocks west to F&35?
Common misconception. The wargames effectively suffered a bug that caused the US fleet ships to be easily destroyed.
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314629
Funny to see his name, I had him for IHUM back in...2005?
It's true that pressure vessels in principle don't care about scale when it concerns mass per unit volume (at a constant pressure). But a combustion chamber's thrust is (to zeroth order) proportional to cross sectional area, not volume.

The combustion chamber only needs to be a certain length (L star) to achieve efficient combustion. Any longer and you're just adding mass with no benefit. But there are practical limits to shape of the combustion chamber. You can't have it too squat or it loses structural efficiency. Thus, above a certain size, you're better off from a mass efficiency standpoint with having a bunch of smaller combustion chambers than one big huge one.

And this is true even more for the nozzle. You can use a much shorter, and thus lighter, nozzle if you have a smaller engine. For the same expansion ratio, therefore, clustering a bunch of smaller engines is more mass efficient than a single big engine.

(But if you go REALlY small, you have minimum gauge issues and you lose thermal and combustion efficiency.)
> and it unlocks performance improvements

I thought https added performance overhead, where does it improve it?
A server is not a site.
Given that hosts are receiving C&D notices, it is yellow journalism to say 'without anyone knowing it.'
The thing is to know when your child (or you for that matter) have the Flu and not just a Cold.
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When my wife and I first moved out here, we rented a master bath/master bed starting in January, we hard our son in July, and moved out in January. So it is an option, just not one a lot of people want to take. Then again, my wife and I want to be retired in <15 years so we are making decisions others would not.