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I really liked this blog post from Leo Polovets for measuring the overall risk of a startup.[0]

Maybe in the same vein you could do it for cofounders? De-risk yourself by picking a cofounder that you know well and will be helpful. It's definitely not perfect but maybe this will help...

If you pick someone that you know well, you'll be a better judge of whether you'll have work conflicts later. I'm not a fan of working on a project together to test your chemistry. It's still a big gamble if you do that. People are too nice.

Your cofounder judgment ability:

- random person

- acquaintance

- previous co-worker

- friend

- family

You could draw up the major roles that you'll need to take on for the early stage part of the startup (UX, sales, engineering, design, marketing, management, fund raising, etc.). When picking a partner try to optimize for filling as many of the roles as possible. It helps if they have a different background but I think proven skills are more important.

Cofounder skill balance:

- they're me and we do all the same stuff

- same skills but different background

- they know some other skills but together there are still many gaps

- together you cover most skill gaps and have different backgrounds

- they know enough of what you don't that together you'll cover all the skill gaps

From the roles you laid out, how much experience do they have with each? Add up the points 1-5 for each job to get an idea of how likely they are to be good at their tasks.

Cofounder job experience:

- never done work like this before

- worked a bit in the industry but not this role

- worked in this role in a different industry

- worked in this role in this industry

- excelled previously working in this industry doing this job (really know the ropes)

Take these three criteria and weight them properly for a clunky formula that sorta helps with cofounder picking, e.g.
5 * chemistry + 3 * skills + (total_experience / # jobs)

non-starters:

- can't do it full time

- squabble over equity or other founding stuff

- don't want to do work (after you agree on tasks)

- talk past each other often/can't work together

I'd second what other people in this thread have said about reading The Founder's Dilemma. It's well worth the time if you haven't read it.

[0] https://codingvc.com/how-to-de-risk-a-startup/
Yep, couldn't stand it longer. Says something about how bad working for Musk is.
His been working on this one since August and back in August he have a rought 9 month estimstes.. it seems he is going to miss it by a month. Honestly Elon musk always missed but he also always delivers.
I mean that the distinction between main and restricted and between universe and multiverse is licensing. It's a 2x2 matrix:

supported only community
free main universe
non-FOSS restricted multiverse
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Right, but 100W/hr is very different from 800wHr.
Considering the QC on the Model 3 has been extremely subpar, being the "fastest cold ramp in auto production history" really just makes Tesla look like the prime example of why you don't do a fast cold ramp.

If Musk had been willing to wait one more year to begin commercial production, the Model 3 could have been amazing. Instead, it's a 90s era Kia with a body and a better-looking body.
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Pretty much every time I’ve tried to say anything negative about Musk someone comes along and tries to sell me a line about him not caring about money. Then I ask why he keeps demanding so much of it, and they claim he wants to live on Mars. Cult indeed.

There’s faith that big rockets somehow are the missing link to living on Mars. Otherwise reasonable people hang up their skepticism in favor of ignoring the evidence that Musk craves money and power, in favor of believing that he has a master plan to save the world. It’s infuriating, and ironically in a few years they’ll be the first screaming bloody murder when he fails to live up to their impossible dreams. Of course by then he’ll have enough money that he won’t need to care, and rockets working LEO rather than Mars.

I guess it’s easier praying that a billionaire has a vision to save us from ourselves without us having to make any sacrifices, than it is to do the hard work of saving ourselves.
I’ve said previously he’s the least worst billionaire. If power, status, and wealth are side effects of positive influence on a global scale, why should that be discouraged?

We are all flawed characters, some more than others. Yet, we all have our parts to play. I can appreciate his positive influences while admitting he’s probably terrible to work for and has a diasterous personal life.
Working on porting code with time units that are totally unspecified. Sometimes it's seconds, ms, 1/256th of a second or HH:MM:SS.

Just shoot me.
27 years and the heroin epidemic has broadened to poor White people
The article mentions "on-demand food delivery" at least twice. What other kind of food delivery is there? Is there a startup that will bring you food while you're asleep, or after you just finished eating?
Yeah, true. The best way towards safe food and drugs certainly is by relying on the expertise of the average customer to figure out what's dnagerous and what is not. Who is better equipped to judge the biological long-term effects of some mislabeled, contaminated food than your average customer?
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The theory is that MoviePass can strong arm theater chains once they have a sizable audience, right? I don't see what's stopping another from stepping into the same space. Where's the moat?
Such real-world concerns can and should be modeled using types.

Your comment reminded me of taint mode in Perl. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Taint-mode
The entire cookie law seems pointless, by the way. It does nothing but annoys people with useless pop-ups. Every website uses cookies (and more) and everybody knows this. Concerned users just install extensions that remove them automatically.
Besides fit and finish, multiple sources have showered praise on the quality of the skateboard (battery, power components, motor, suspension, etc). Fit and finish will improve, and major issues can be corrected in the field post delivery.

Tesla didn’t have a year to wait. That’s why you sell to fanatics and those passionate first. Early adopters are more forgiving. I’ll worry if quality isn’t high after the preorders are cleared out.
That story brought tears to my eyes.
Yes, that's part of why Debian uses PGP keys for package uploads and insists that your key is signed by other Debian developers and not simply anyone in the web of trust. (I am aware of one Debian developer who contributes / is known to the community by a pseudonym, but I'm told that a few other senior people in Debian know this person's legal name for this exact reason.)
Did they openly state that as their goal? Because all Li-on batteries in the world can power the US for about an hour.

EDIT: Can anyone of the downvoters please explain what I said wrong? Are we expecting a ten thousandfold increase in battery production? Or are they not going to use batteries like they would in cars?
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There is/was a programming language called Wake that used this idea. The supposed domain is down right now, so this documentation source code is the best reference I can find in a few minutes: https://github.com/MichaelRFairhurst/wake-compiler-docs/blob...
Counterpoints: Tobacco. Cocaine. Morphine. Heroin. Laudanum. Alcohol. Car seatbelts. Leaded gasoline, paint, and glassware. Mercury (in hats, as a toy). Radon (in water), X-rays (for shoe fitting!), and Uranium (dentures).
Here's alankay1 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alankay1 ) presenting the Alto OS as part of his tribute to Ted Nelson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw
I feel like you are unintentionally making the very point of this article: the Luddites weren't simply "entitled" to their craft, they were entitled to their ability to feed their children and exist in their society. Which I think every human being is very much entitled to. Furthermore, the article specifically insists that they weren't against all technology but instead this particular technology and its use and impact on their society (lower wages etc...).

When you say "You don’t get to hold the rest of society hostage...", this just sounds like another way of calling anyone who disagrees with your thesis a Luddite, and to end the conversation. Who said the "rest of society" agrees with you in the first place?
The moat is network effects + revenue sharing with theaters.

If that happens, how is a second business going to overcome MoviePass (who would then have the additional revenue streams)?

If it's a risky play to do first, then it's even riskier to do second.
I see it now in the embrace of nationalism, geopolitics, and war as a tool by current leaders in the U.S. and elsewhere. The people who knew most about war, the survivors of WWII, build the international order, established the UN, and did other things explicitly to prevent war from ever happening again.

The fools of today think they know better. One thing that particularly concerned the leaders post-WWII was that the next war, after more technological advances, would cause unimaginable levels of devastation to humanity. Remember they had seen WWI exceed what anyone imagined, then WWII exceed WWI. Imagine a major war with all the technological advancement since 1945 devoted to killing and destruction.
I don't know why each episode is supposed to be so expensive. I assume they overspend on the wrong types of VFX.

As for Westworld: though the cast is large and costly, the actual shots themselves can be done relatively cheaply since they don't need VFX for most of them.
I only watch about 1-2 new movies a year at best. Their service charges $10/mo. I'd rather just pay $15 one-time to watch a movie, like when I see it in a theater. It's a good idea, but I think they need to tweak their business model a bit if they want to bring in people like me that don't want to spend hundreds of dollars a year to watch garbage movies full of mutant CG gorillas punching each other.
Agreed.

I'm actively trying to replace GCC+binutils for llvm based tools in Android (and further, at Google). Currently working through some issues for the kernel, more so llvm's assembler and linker than Clang.
The larger standard library of languages like Java is indeed a big benefit -- I think I see more where you're coming from now. Haskell does not have a large standard library like other languages, but people usually build on one or two libraries in a given problem space to avoid duplication (checking to see if someone has a lib you can use instead of writing one yourself is pretty natural). In my experience, it's been rare to find two libraries that need to interoperate that defined two different classes for URLs (for example) -- but you're absolutely right, it could be a problem.

The problem would be solved if Haskell were to adopt a large standard library, but I still don't see this as a problem with types, this is more a language/community issue.

Speaking more concretely, I'd consider understanding the types flowing in and out of a function/abstraction that you got from a library table stakes for writing good code. IMO it's rare that you can just import a library, write strictly glue code (without thinking about the concepts) that magically solves all your problems.

For example, lets say you needed to parse a ISO 8601 date string (and it isn't in your standard library) -- in that kind of case you can just pull down a library and run one function and be done. Usually though, you'll need to at least understand the functions inputs (unless the function is defined for every kind of input you could give it), and understand the output...
I thought Jony was off designing the spaceship and left his underlings to design the products the past couple years. Apple made a point of saying he's back now.
We liked it, too, especially because we're working parents. Their delivery was excellent, timely, and let you know if they were late.
Let's be real, Tesla exists to make (or attempt to make) Elon Musk very very wealthy. He isn't hiding that fact, his recent compensation deal demonstrates exactly how he is treating the company like a "lottery ticket"-esque stock option play.
I’m bullish on HMNY and moviepass. A few things many people overlook, this article included -

1/ MoviePass does not reimburse 100% of the ticket price to all theaters. In at least 1,000 theaters they are getting $3 back or 25% of concessions. This number will continue to increase as moviepass proves they can drive demand.

2/ HMNY literally specializes in packaging and selling data. I think it’s a mistake to treat them as if they don’t know what they’re doing.

3/ There are not a lot of options to deploy performance marketing dollars for movies. Instead, most of the spend goes towards broad-reach, hard to track, media. They can offer studios a way to spend marketing that is not only trackable, but measurably incremental. I cannot overstate how juicy that sounds to a person in charge of spending an $X0,00,000 marketing budget.

I feel confident they can get to $5-$10 per subscriber per month in revenue on the backend. If they can hit that, maintain solid churn numbers, and manage fraud, they will have a very healthy subscription business on their hands.
Yes... I’m sure they can. It’s primarily a choice. And let’s not pretend that we’re talking about the underprivileged. Coal miners often make more than college graduates.

Often those fighting the hardest are doing so because they have a sweet deal. The people who are actually poor are more flexible... already working several jobs, or taking night classes to do better.

In the end it’s entightlement plain and simple.
Sadly, donating blood is not always so easy, especially if you're an LGBT person.
Musk is tied up with all kinds of government contracts and subsidies that he uses Barnum-esque celebrity tactics to win.

I find it amusing that his fans reach for these “law of the jungle, apex predator” metaphors to describe him. He’s like the villain of an Ayn Rand novel who has somehow passed himself off as John Galt.
The issue with movie pass is it's too easy to do the math to see if the service is worth it.

Something like Netflix or Spotify is harder to fully quantify.
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I'm glad he landed at Google, doing super cool stuff with Tensorflow+Swift.
Your entitled to feed your children... but your not entitled to force the rest of us to support your way of life to do so. The rest of us need to respond to the times and adapt. No one gets to say my job should always exist. Unless ever person can have the same guarantee, then crafts people and coal miners need to adapt like the rest of us.
Yes... I’m sure they can. It’s primarily a choice. And let’s not pretend that we’re talking about the underprivileged. Coal miners often make more than college graduates.

Working harder too, and in a single very specialized field. So you take that away, what skills do they have? What choices are they free to make?

Often those fighting the hardest are doing so because they have a sweet deal.

The sweet deal of working deep underground on a coal face, in dirty, dangerous conditions? Uh huh. Besides you’re proving their point, when people out there just shrug and say “fuck ‘em, not my problem,” who wouldn’t fight? They don’t owe you anything either.

Not to mention that your “average salary” bit is deceptive. The average salary for a coal miner is around $65,000, while the average salary for a recent college grad with a bachelor’s is $50,000. Obviously that includes everything from engineering to expressive dance, and there is no definite ceiling. A coal miner is stuck on the low end, period, and painting them as privelaged... on HN... is pathetic.
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Despite the predictable down-votes, I wanted to say that I greatly enjoyed that interview.
Setup and install is the least of your issues when running something like nomad/k8s in production. The part that matters more, is what's it like to babysit it, and keep it running.

I agree people are running k8s HA in production, but there is a reason those people are dedicated k8s engineers. It's because it's a giant pain the ass to keep it running. Hence what I mean when I say it's "operationally complex".

Most people using GKE don't actually operate the k8s cluster, they let GKE run it for them. They just use it.

Using k8s and using nomad are similar from a developer perspective. Operationally they are night and day different.

Anyways, I suggest you go play with both systems, and try them out, put some non-important stuff in production under both of them.
There is often an I love {Scala|Rust|Erland} post showing an simple type issue and claiming that using a bunch of new syntax would somehow fix it.

<rant>

1. I want a minimum of typed syntax for safety. For example, remember Hungarian Notation? My linter barfs if I try "icCart = ipMyProduct" because of the semantic type issue.

2. I want a full set of primitives. For example, counts (c) are 0 or above, not infinite, can do arithmetic) while ids (i) are positive, not infinite, cannot do arithmetic, cannot assign constant). I want optionals; I want clearer error handling; I want fully declared I/O instead of manual error handling; I want better.

3. I want tallies of how often simple types are confused before changing languages to fix. My type confusions are complicated nested collections or variant records.

</rant>

Typing is a means for correct programming, not an end in itself.
Ah yes, the elusive development unicorn.
I live in New York, and the other day I was queuing at an AMC when I overheard a young lady talking to her friend in amazement: "Wait, you DON'T have a MoviePass??!!" And indeed it seems that two thirds of the customers in front of me used one to buy their ticket. Granted this is a very skewed sample - the theatre has reserved seating and those paying out of pocket probably bought online in advance. But still, in a market where a matinee ticket costs $15 - $17, if you watch movies it'd be silly NOT to get MoviePass. Surely, MoviePass has transformed how people go to the movies here.

I know the company will probably fold sooner or later, but I surely will miss it when it happens, and sincerely hope that the subscription model can live on.
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Original comment wasn't a "Stalin's not so bad" comment.

It was a "let's not chalk it all up to socialism" comment. Not even a fan of socialism--just think that line of discussion misses the point.

Homicidal maniacs have seized the reins under almost every known economic arrangement.
Scheduled food delivery, at a specific time weekly, usually you get multiple days' worth of food at a time.
That's funny, the Tesla fans keep hating on Bloomberg. Could it be that everyone who writes critical pieces on their financials are hostiles?
If you like this, you're probably also going to like Haskell/OCaml/Ada/F#/Coq (ML family of languages?):

I'll leave links for Haskell since the only one of those I've tried and liked personally:

https://www.haskell.org/

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

IMO Haskell is the type system you wanted Java to have, with even more strictness. While it's possible to write unsafe haskell, just about everything you will read, and the language itself encourages you to push as many worries as you can to be solved by the type system.

If that doesn't get you excited, there's actually a saying that is mostly true in my experience writing Haskell -- "If it compiles, it works"(tm).

Also Haskell on the JVM if you want to dip your toes in:

- https://eta-lang.org/

- https://github.com/Frege/frege

[EDIT] - If you try to learn haskell you'll inevitably run into the M word which rhymes with Gonad. The best guide I've ever read is @ http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...

BTW, be ye warned: when you start understanding/getting cozy with the concepts introduced by Haskell you'll wish they were everywhere, and they're not. Languages without proper union types will look dumb to you, easy function composition/points free style will be a daily desire, and monadic composition of a bunch of functions will be frustratingly absent/ugly in other languages, not doing errors-as-values will look ironically error-prone.

[EDIT 2] - More relevant to the actual post, how you would do this in Haskell is using the `type` keyword (type aliasing, e.g. `type Email = String`) or the `newtype` keyword, which creates a new type that is basically identical (what the article talks about). Here's some discussion on newtype:

- http://degoes.net/articles/newtypes-suck (this article is good, it describes the premise, promise, shortcomings, and workarounds, forgive the clickbaity title)

- https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4jnwjg/why_use_new...
As someone who normally doesn't have the self-talk module running, I was amazed to learn that most people have it running all the time. I only use the module when writing, otherwise my consciousness is normally non-verbal.

I suspect it is related, but when I read I don't hear the words unless I deliberately choose to read the text in my head, otherwise my process is written word -> concept.
Down 75% in less than year. Looks like time is running short.
>Of course, we know that today the Luddites are not viewed particularly kindly

On the contrary, it is technology and progress that are viewed with scepticism -- watch almost any recent sci-fi movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX-K63pVPTM
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There is close to 0 percentage this company survives. The stock has fallen 40% each day for past few days. AMC head says they don't discount tickets and average moviepass holder watches 3 movies a month paying average $12 per ticket. They burn 21M a month and less than that in the bank. Plus they took money from many consumers for annual passes which will get them sued for fraud.
I'm using the type annotations from `typing` in a Python 3.5 project I'm working on, but only as a form of documentation. Unfortunately mypy doesn't work for me – the project heavily uses a namedtuple-style sum type library, and I haven't found a way to make the types it generates work with mypy.

(iirc mypy has builtin support for namedtuple, but doesn't really support other types generated at runtime)
For me, this triggered a very strong "fight or flight" reaction. And, when you are in that state -- when I am -- there is simply no access to higher-level cognitive functions and memory. They are simply "not there"

An exercise that can help when anxiety like this hits is practicing some mindfulness. Instead of sitting there in a loop thinking about how terrible the thing causing your anxiety is and how you just want it to go away, try to observe the feelings of anxiety like you're a scientist studying it instead. Where in the body are the sensations located, what kind of sensations are they, etc. Really try to focus on the sensations of anxiety as opposed to what is triggering it. The goal isn't to fix the anxiety or make it go away, just observe it and let it pass on its own. Practicing a body scan meditation daily would likely help you prepare for your next bout of anxiety (try this one https://youtu.be/_DTmGtznab4). Do this enough times and hopefully that pattern that is triggering your anxiety won't have as much of a hold on you. I've heard CBT for anxiety is also useful, though haven't tried it myself. Good luck!