skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that the only observation being made here is that in the absence of any financial or meaningful social proof for your business, you're not going to get funded as a first-timer. There are marginal bits of financial and social proof that privileged people start with, sure, but who does that surprise? That's true of every competition in society.

The answer isn't to call out "the lie" (I mean, the market for funding is pretty dishonest, but calling it out isn't especially productive). It's to recognize how the modern startup financing market works and plan accordingly.

1. Apply to reputable accelerators as a hail-mary.

2. Execute a plan that works without external funding and accumulates the proof you need for financing.

3. Repeat until accumulated proof suffices for talking to investors directly (by which point you may be on the Mailchimp trajectory anyways and won't care anymore).

The role of VCs as gatekeepers is, I think, pretty overrated, and gets more overrated every year.
I'm glad you liked it. I wanted to write down all the information I wish I had a year ago before I started writing the book.
This is true. I usually stretch my strings after putting new ones on to try to minimize the effect of stretching, though. Helps stay in tune when you bend a lot. Remove old strings, put new strings on, tune new strings up to pitch, stretch them by pulling them a few inches off the fretboard and moving them side to side like you're doing a bend, marvel at how flat your just-tuned strings now are, and then retune to pitch.

For maximum tuning stability, I also put locking tuners on my guitars and lubricate all of the parts where the string touches. This includes the nut, the saddle, and any string trees.

I use a humorous product called Big Bends Nut Sauce but I've heard graphite from a pencil works as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Bends-Nutsauce-Guitar-Lubricant/d...
The real tension is that if you go out and focus on signing paid customers instead of growing at all cost (literally maxing out your credit cards), you'll be less attractive to many VCs.

They'll say you're a "mom-and-pop business" and not one that can achieve venture scale. Basically, they want to write big checks to companies that are swinging for the parking lot (not just the fences) — not companies that want to take as small a check as will get them to break-even.
Nestle Bets $7B on Starbucks to Revive Coffee Sales
Unless I'm missing something from the context, the comment broke at least three: the one against calling names in arguments (e.g. "leech"), the guideline about civility (by going into personal attack), and this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The author of this article should read 'Vanity Fair' by Thackeray. It crystallizes the argument they're trying to make.
Good article. And of course the obligatory Glomar[1] response from the Navy when asked for comment—“we can neither confirm nor deny.” That legal phrase has an interesting undersea pedigree as well.[2]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response

[2]: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/18/549535352/...
What's that logical fallacy where you take what someone said, twist it into something completely different and more extreme and then defeat that extreme argument? Strawman?

What he said was "Another thing investors like" is when the investor himself puts his own money into the startup.

Well that's a no-brainer. If I were an investor, I would definitely say putting your money where your mouth is, is a positive signal. I'd specifically avoid wealthy founders who don't pony up - seems like a strong negative signal if they themselves don't want to take a risk on it!

He later says "So, unless you come from money, attended a prestigious university in the States or sold your previous startups for a lot of money, you should assume that you’re never going to raise early-stage capital." Given the statistics that he quoted, that's sound advice. The odds are strongly against you, so unless you check all the boxes that VCs look for, you're effort is likely better spent elsewhere. If you can get that hockey-stick growth going, it doesn't matter what boxes you tick or not, now you're speaking their language and have things on your terms. It's smarter to do the stackoverflow thing and take the company as far as you can before seeking investment. At the least, you'll raise much more, with less time investment, and less equity expended.
All of the things you described as improvements are more complexity and layers of indirection. Kubernetes may be an attempt to improve on Borg but adding on a bunch of features and plugin architectures to solve more use cases isn't necessarily an improvement.
It was self-deprecating humor aimed at acknowledging that all parents are pretty sure their children are the smartest humans to have ever walked the earth.

At least that was my reading and it gave me a chuckle.
I think this is just false. If you pitch a VC on a business that grows in a nice linear line to tens of millions of dollars in revenue, they're going to turn you down no matter what your go-to-market is, because the math of a venture capital firm simply doesn't work unless the few winners win so spectacularly that the gains swamp the losses from the losers who make up the majority. You have to commit to shoot the moon to get them interested, but you don't have to start the business so committed.

But nothing stops you from building a stable business and then using it as a platform for a shoot-the-moon pitch.
Believing in climate change but not behaving sustainably
More information: https://medium.com/flutter-io/flutter-beta-3-7d88125245dc
I'll second this; he is a fantastic teacher. I had the incredibly fortunate opportunity of learning from Brent in my undergrad at Hendrix, where he currently teaches.

There are other comments here that praise his patience with regard to teaching these topics to a child. I can say without a doubt he maintains the same patience with all of his students - not just his children. If you ever have the opportunity to learn from Brent (be from a course, blog, or talk), I would highly encourage it.

I'm glad to see a post of his making its rounds on HN.
The point isn't that speed limits need to change, it's that it is incumbent upon the driver to slow down if environmental conditions prevent them from traveling safely at the speed limit.
Townhall is a well-known conservative website. Are you surprised they are running articles arguing for conservative points? Or do you think those headlines are outside the bounds of reasonable discourse?
I think if you don't have real signals for investors to focus on, they'll look for tea leaves to read.
Tunneling to a v6 provider.
European Court of Justice ruling confirmed that IP address can be considered personally identifiable information if a party can lawfully obtain information linking it to a natural person
Final scene, General Motors Futurama, 1939 World's Fair.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/1cRoaPLvQx0?t=1237
> Talking about IQ among ethinicities is verboten on the left.

That's because it's an irrelevant classification.

> It’s also axiomatic on the left that all cultures are equally effective at raising successful, healthy children. The German study suggests that culture matters, which counters this axiom.

Assume you would do these tests on Irish Americans in the mid-1900s, or Italian Americans in the late 1900s, and compare to other groupings of people. Assuming similar results:

Would you say the results say anything about Irish or Italian blood or Irish or Italian culture being less intelligent?

Or would you say that the results could be rooted in something closer to economic standing or housing area or a number of other factors?
How you could spend a year or two studying the history of ideas and come out with such a flippant attitude is beyond me. We wouldn't have germ theory in the first place if it weren't for the ideologies that made scientific advancement possible.

I stand by my original advice that more study would be beneficial.
I wish they would, it's the first thing I do to new guitars along with installing strap locks and a slightly thicker set of strings.

I usually use the Fender branded ones because I'm usually putting them in Fender guitars. I've heard good things about Gotoh, Schaller, Planet Waves, Hipshot, and Grover. I'm pretty sure the Fenders are actually just rebrands of one of those manufacturers.

edit: For anyone curious, it seems that Fender American Deluxe's used to come with them and the new American Elite series that replaced the Deluxe's still come with them. I guess they want to keep it as a differentiating feature for their most expensive "modern" guitars. None of their reissue vintage styled guitars come with them, I suppose for authenticity.

You can even buy a $12,000 private stock PRS and it won't come with locking tuners.

edit 2: I've now noticed that the tuners you link to are "Gotoh style" tuners and not actually made by Gotoh. I don't think I would use any tuners made by a name brand I'm not familiar with, locking or not, because they tend to be noticeably lower quality than the bigger brands. There are exceptions, of course.
Hey Steve.
Where does YouTube censoring all videos with gun-assembly instructions fit into a culture where gun ownership is legally a human right? Is it considered justified because a certain portion of the population believes gun ownership shouldn't be a human right? If it is socially acceptable (ie. not specifically discussing "legal" or "good for business") to remove some kind of content because people don't agree with one part of the U.S. Constitution, what's to prevent the same logic from blocking other type of videos relating to human rights (such as videos promoting data privacy via VPN usage - because you know, child pornographers and terrorists do that)?

The slippery slope fallacy isn't really a fallacy.
Functional programming? What he's describing is machine learning! :)
I may be completely ignorant but, is it weird that the biggest retailer in India has an English name?
You didn't understand my comment. I'm not saying that someone who has nothing is better off. I was entirely responding to a 1st-world experience.

I'm saying that the OP is probably better off for having to develop drive to get that computer working than he would have been having it handed to him.

Long after that computer, drive and self-modification is still serving him.
Reminds me of Neal Stephenson's _The_Diamond_Age_. Great book!
I think that's why having one company/group/government trying to filter that correctly for everyone as a bad solution. Different groups will have different standards, and a "one-size-fits-worst" solution seems inevitable.
ß is also a digraph (ligatur) of ss, confused with sz, hence its name "esszett".

> script and alphabet

I don't think there is a notable distinction. But sure enough, the ancient Greeks used several alphabets, some different letters ... and different forms for equal letters, which therefore cannot be called the same letters.
Its not a surprise if you research their price structure. Essentially they charge very small amounts every second or minute to accumulate through the month. It can sometimes be a difficult thing to calculate up front, but they aren't hiding anything from you. Its just not broken down by the month, and unfortunately its not all in one place..
As long as it's just flagging people and not arresting/harassing them, I don't think the error rate matters that much.

Even a system that says "there's a 10% chance this guy is a wanted criminal" seems useful.
If stricter enforcement of jaywalking laws is required for self-driving cars to work, you can already forget about those cars in almost all other countries where jaywalking laws don't even exist and certainly won't be accepted in the future.
Companies are taking a risk by investing- so if they find people who come from top schools, and who already have gained initial seed funding and completed work, then that lowers risk. My point still stands.
Ron Paul has predicted it pretty consistently for about ~25 years at least and as far as I'm aware the mises institute has agreed with him all of that time. He is probably the most high profile Austrian adherent that I know of and mises the most high profile think tank dedicated to it.

I'd be interested in hearing about all of these academic Austrians who have argued that they are both to be full of shit.
Looks really cool, the design is very well thought out!

I couldn't figure out what the premium options were or how to subscribe to them, though. Is it possible I'm on a previous version (1.0)?
I think the “big lie” the article is talking about is that venture funding is largely meritocratic rather than largely class/pedigree based:

> unless you come from money, attended a prestigious university in the States or sold your previous startups for a lot of money, you should assume that you’re never going to raise early-stage capital.

Not sure where the author got the idea that it’s meritocratic, but that’s what’s printed.
This is what concerns me the most. If Walmart does to India what it did in US, it will destroy the lives of a lot of people in India. Also, India should try to be self sufficient as much as possible. Instead, we seem to be letting in foreign companies more and more killing any chance of an organic growth environment for Indian companies. Considering that Americans do not want Indian companies to sell their products in US (IT companies), it becomes even more surprising that our government would let such things to happen.
And the legacy of those days continues with the USS Jimmy Carter... very interesting things that boat's "multi-mission platform" can achieve. :-)

https://warisboring.com/secretive-u-s-navy-submarine-went-on...
Google launches Flutter Beta 3, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK
Generic Advice for Writing a Thesis
Will also $ for a registration code.
Agreed, because what else do they have to go on. Best focus on getting those real signals as strong as you can. Then go talk to VCs. In my opinion VC should have nothing to do with starting a company and everything to do with accelerating the growth of a proven startup. Angel investment is a little different and has a definite role to play in allowing people to get the company to the point where it can demonstrate some traction.
I guess we worked at different Fortune 500 companies. What I see are companies adding complexity to their web infrastructure where none needs to exist.

A vanishingly small number of use cases require 100's of nodes, and the accompanying orchestration. Stack Overflow runs a top 25 website on 9 webservers, and most of those are just redundancy. Nothing Ansible/Bash or Powershell/MSDeploy can't solve in orders of magnitude less time. And debugging/diagnosing problems is much easier.
> When goldfish are placed in a bowl, he explains, they at least try to escape by boldly jumping out,

I don't think jumping out of a fishbowl is a particularly smart move...

> whereas dolphins that have been captured in nets won't even think of jumping to freedom.

What?!
Tell him to stop being such a child and join the real world. Or become a venture capitalist.
Snap Inc. again shows why it should not have become a public company
At least they're no longer pretending the car didn't see her. Perhaps they have no choice.
I applaud you, I just don't like it, so I'll compromise - I'm only judging my own looks :)
k8s is not complex. You basically can spin up a cluster in no time on CoreOS via pxe/ipxe. You do not even need all these fancy stuff around k8s. You only need to ssh into your machine to start bootkube (on a single machine) or later to update the kubelet (can be done with ansible). Everything else can be managed via kubectl.
How could I argue that university admissions are fair and objective, while simultaneously arguing that certain races are discriminated against in the admissions process?
Don't:
* Say you're working for a real company, solving real problems for real world users.

uhh, no shit? haha.
That's cool! And reminds me I'd like to see something like http://wry.me/hacking/moirexmas.html on a real Christmas tree.
Well, traditionally, they would die before turning 40 /s
"All diodes can be light-emitting - once"
There's no way 'object in road' can even get close to the amount of variant situations you find yourself in during urban driving.

Freeway driving is pretty straight and forward. If you can't keep from running into a stationary object, you probably can't drive in the city either.
> It does though because it is the only solution and the fact that is costs too much is the main reason it isn't done already.

More spending is not the only solution. And cost is not the only reason we're not doing more. Despite my suggestions to increase fines, the people making and enforcing traffic laws are not out to make a profit, and they are sensitive to the costs to drivers.

Where I live, the state lawmakers mandated raising speed limits in opposition to the Highway Patrol's safety recommendation for lower speed limits and increased enforcement. The speeding laws and their enforcement are lax here because of politicians, regardless of the known safety consequences, and not because of costs.

> That isn't my job and it isn't a pressing political issue in most places.

This is a thread about car safety that we both chose to participate in. I would hope that in doing so, all participants might be willing to offer constructive ideas and not just criticism.

@Rotdhizon offered an idea, as did I. Since you suggest mine won't work, it's fair game to ask you for alternatives, isn't it?

FWIW, in my mind some kinds of "increased enforcement" don't involve punitive measures. "NSC estimates traffic fatalities in New York fell 3 percent last year and have dropped 15 percent over the last two years. Safety advocates say the decline may be due to New York City's push to eliminate traffic deaths by lowering speed limits, adding bike lanes and more pedestrian shelters." https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/traffic-deaths-edge-lower-bu...

Establishing spaces for peds & bikes is something that factors into the existing costs, and doesn't necessarily mean any more spending at all. The increased safety means that the state gets back some money that was spent on emergency services. Lowering speed limits doesn't cost anything.
And that is how a programmer is born.
The Checks API is available for all GitHub Apps (the next-generation of GitHub integrations, see: https://developer.github.com/apps/), not just apps on the Marketplace. That said, I'm not aware of a Jenkins plugin that acts as a GitHub App (yet).
The problem isn't the inaccuracy, it's that people will inevitably treat it as far more accurate than it is.
I remember never having any system with Windows 9x stay up long enough to even come close to the required uptime to test the veracity of this bug report. We tried with a machine which didn't do anything at all but even that one crashed by itself in a week or two, probably due to some network traffic it didn't like. In that time I worked as editor in chief for some IT-related magazines so we had a lab full of machines to test and got invited to all the press conferences - including the one mentioned here with Gates and the Stones. I still think the later part of that Stones' song they used were a better fit than the 'You can start me up' line:

You make a grown man cry,
You make a grown man cry
Mesosphere raises $125M Series D
Honestly, it sounds like the ship have done gone sailed. If it's as dire as you indicate (which I have no reason to not believe), sounds like you need a lawyer.

It's also my belief that 50-50 partnerships turn out like this more than they don't. I've made a point to never get into a partnership. Sure, I'll work for someone else, or I'll have someone work for me. But 50-50 means there's no good resolution on opposing business decisions.

But my critique doesn't really help you after it's done. Check the contract. See if there's a buy-out option, or offer to sell your interest. Regardless, you're bringing in a big gun.
Making an interesting-and-wrong comment is not obviously better than making an uninteresting-and-correct comment unless you're here purely to be entertained. To me, the uninteresting-and-correct comment is much more valuable.
"preparing our equity crowdfunding campaign. Yep, we’ll raise money directly from our users" - Unfortunately, crowdfunding is also probably a lie, by your definition. Here is a different concept, how about charge your users for your product?
Android and iOS, yes, but also THE official toolkit for making apps for Fuchsia, the project which will replace Android in a few years. Expect Google to highlight all of the companies who have started shipping Flutter apps and to highlight why developers would want to drop traditional Java/Kotlin development and move to Flutter because not only will your apps work today on Android, but they will run tomorrow on Fuchsia.
Unfortunately this comment doesn't contain enough substance to prevent a landslide of nationalistic bickering. All: don't do that on this site, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A distracted driver has the option to tell the police they were distracted. Or are you of the opinion that since the woman was dead it didn't matter anymore?
Have you candidly told him any of this?

In your position, it sounds like you two need to have a serious talk about what both of you consider your role to be and about where the company is going. Find a free block of time and figure out where you two go from here, you’re both adults and can and should be discussing these feelings and issues.
I worked on an aircraft which flies with the GTF. Just FYI, that’s a poor example to cite in support of your point. The GTF was set aside for many years due to expected higher fuel costs not materializing for a good while. It took some major impetus to get the program going again.
Huh, that's the first time I've heard of unschooling, it seems like a really cool concept. If you don't mind me asking, where do you live and what are the laws like around unschooling there? How are people's reactions?
If the relationship is beyond repair:
Make it clear that either one of you leaves an active role with the company or the entire company dies.
Your cofounder may not be aware of the severity of the situation.
You likely read that, but the story was that some exec cited it as an idea. It was reported as factual and actual, and that's how it will be remembered.

My telling you won't matter, as eventually one or both of us will forget, and the lie lives on.