skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
startupsfromthebottom.com looks interesting! Do you come up with the ideas yourself, or what does your process look like?

What you describe (building a landing page or an MVP) is how most people do it. I would start even before that, since you should try to spend no more time than necessary on something that you don't even know is actually viable.

However, you obviously need to find out if potential customers are excited about your idea. In my experience, the following validation process works best:

* Write down a) the problem you're trying to solve and b) your solution. It's tempting to skip this step, but a lot of ideas may sound awesome while they're in your head, however that might change once you transform it from an abstract thought into 2–3 sentences. Try to be as succinct as possible while still capturing the core of your value proposition.

* Create a questionnaire based on your idea. Make sure to ask questions that are actually predictive of whether your idea might take off, such as "How often are you facing this problem" rather than "Have you ever faced this problem". Use a tool like SurveyMonkey or Typeform to put your survey online.

* Identify people in your target audience. This is hard. Don't simply email the survey link to your friends - because of something called "Interviewer bias", your friends & family will rate your ideas more favorably than an idea coming from some other anonymous source. Also, it's highly likely that your friends aren't actually in your target audience.

I run IdeaCheck.io[0], where we generate a questionnaire based on your idea and use a panel of respondents to gather direct feedback from your actual target audience. You can read more about IdeaCheck in my Indie Hackers interview[1].

[0] https://ideacheck.io

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/ideacheck-io
Yeah, don't rub your eyes.
BTW, you'll need a Nerd Font for the icons to work: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
Fellow redux-abandoner here, be sure to check out Apollo client v2 and it’s various middleware options like link-state and link-rest, those in essential let you pull in data via graphql and REST-api and manage it via in memory store (just like redux store).

Also the subscription via websocket story there is really sweet, you basically get real-time update for nothing ;)

In short, just as John stated, it’s a huge boost of productivity on both front and backend, we verified it ruthlessly and love it.
I've updated it to a better frame-rate now
In grad school, my university let us choose our own email aliases. So I had nick@utk.edu and nick@tennessee.edu for a while. That was pretty nice. And since there was no limit on aliases, I also grabbed admin@utk.edu. That one backfired because I started getting some official looking things I probably shouldn't have, so I released that address back into the pool.
As you understand more of the details of a complex system, it becomes harder for you to, off the cuff, answer seemingly simple questions to the best of your knowledge.
Really great write up and I’m a huge fan of Citus (and love the fact that they released it as an open source extension)

However for your particular use case (you have one compound lookup key that never changes and a price associated with it) wouldn’t it be simpler and faster to put everything in a KV store like Redis or even consider using something like FoundationDB?
When C-Cube Microsystems was acquired by LSI Logic, we all got to keep our e-mail addresses. Early C-Cube employees had first/last name initials as addresses. I ended up with re@lsil.com, which is a pretty sweet e-mail address.

Later, when Abhi Talwalker became CEO, all e-mail addresses were changed to firstname.lastname@lsil.com. My manager was pretty unhappy because his last name was Van Den Crommenacker.
Going to a psychologist for my anxiety. Learning to manage and control it before it becomes panic has been just awesome. It’s just been two months and I’m already hopeful.
Walking home every day. It's about an hour or so, vs my 20 mins on public transport, but it's become a good time of meditative reflection and has provided me with some fitness benefits. It's also time I'd otherwise spend just reading the internet or playing a videogame anyway.

Also, trying to meal prep a large number of the same dish to avoid buying lunches during the week and thus spending a large amount of money needlessly. I don't mind eating the same thing for several days, though to avoid that you'd just need to prep 2 or 3 meals of smaller size. It doubles as an effective way to portion control too, since I can use containers of a specific size. It also means that many nights of the week I get home from my walk and just toss one in the microwave or oven to reheat and don't end up eating any later than normal.

Edit: Both of the above have helped me maintain my post-glandular-fever weight loss of about 14kg, which has left me feeling significantly healthier than I was previously. Occasionally I blow out with a weekend of debauchery involving way too much alcohol and unhealthy food, but the walking then chips that back down and gives me motivation to limit said blowouts as I now have a quantifiable amount of effort that it equates to.
Eritrea is really, really missing out by not currently having a registrar for their ccTLD.
Put on the shelf my iPhone and bought Nokia 150. Productivity is skyrocketing! I still use iPhone, but only couple days a month.
switching my phone screen to gray scale tremendously helps me keep away from constantly checking twitter/instagram/facebook/quora updates
Is Google then guilty of treason for exposing user's data to the makers of QQ Browser?
Me and my previous co-founder founded a startup with both of us having no experience. It was a very bad decision for the company, but extremely valuable for our personal growth. It also allowed us to skip the biggest parts of the usual career ladder.

It's certainly not the best route for everyone, but definitely one worth considering.
> What do you give kids other than water?!?

Lots of kids in England drink squash (maybe called cordial elsewhere?). It's sometimes referred to as juice, but it's much less sugary than actual fruit juice. Is that not a thing elsewhere?
You don't need a firstname@ for that to happen.

I have back from the nineties firstnamelastname@hotmail.com of my pretty common Northern European name. I get all sorts of private emails intended for other people.
worded slightly differently, "adding 1+ people to your family who don't work will decrease your disposable income"
There's a great writeup on this -- I may have even seen it here [1]. On average house prices tend to keep up with inflation and trail the market across the US. In specific markets that may not be true, then there's all your expenses. Ultimately, it depends on your personal situation if you should buy or rent, and the New York Times has a great calculator [2].

tl;dr: It's not always the smart choice to buy. Or to rent.

[1] https://affordanything.com/is-renting-better-than-buying-sho...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
What does team think about this?
I second your choice. I actually read just one page from that book and often bring it to mind. Each of us needs to eat a frog every day, sometimes multiple frogs. You need to do it anyway, so better get down to it and have it done. The subsequent feeling is really worth it. And, because the biggest procrastination bloc are removed in this way, everything goes more smoothly.

Eat that frog, folks!
Yes, I mostly agree.

There's one nuance that I've been thinking about lately that I haven't seen anyone ever point out before, which is that high volatility will make options worth more than they are on paper.

Here's a thought experiment: imagine that there are two employers on the market. One will always pay 200k/yr guaranteed and you can choose to work for them at any time for this wage. The other pays 100k/yr plus one Coconut per year, and Coconuts are currently worth 100k each. So far these are equivalent monetarily. But now let's add the stipulation that after one year, the price of coconuts has a 50% chance of going to 0 and a 50% chance of going to 200k each. Which would you choose?

The expected value of each of these job offers is still equivalent (after 4 years of working at each, you'll have 800k in expectation). But you should definitely take the second one. Why? Because after one year, if coconuts drop to 0, you can just quit and join the first company. Then you have a 50% chance of 100 + 200 + 200 + 200 (coconuts to 0) and a 50% chance of 300 + 300 + 300 + 300 (coconuts to 200) which comes out to 950k, which is better than sticking with either company alone.

This thought experiment fascinates me because it clearly shows the extra value that up-front stock grants have. The point is that you have some protection from downsides in the form of switching jobs, but no similar cap on the upsides, and the higher the volatility of the stock the more value this provides.

I'm not sure what the numbers look like when you view them through this lens, but it does mean that an equity grant of 2% of a 6M company should trade off for more than 30k/yr.
Did you look at the privileges you gave the Uber app when you installed it on the phone?
Do you know why there are so many separate things bundled under a single flag? Would it take much effort to add sub-flags for entirely separate anti-fingerprinting features?
Perhaps things like reflection, the clr, and how the clr implementation interacts with the os.
All this constant talk of AI and singularities and whatnot.

Reality check: Our machines do not yet accurately manage simple reading tasks.
Show HN: Postkit – Effortlessly create API endpoints in your browser
Ditto. I now try not to binge on pasta or whatnot, and I find that I don't get that same carb-full grim satisfaction afterwards, but I also don't then feel bloated and heavy either.
Also "free updates for life" usually means free updates for several years and then "new product" is released with entirely new pricing and "old product" is deprecated. New and old here being a different revisions of the same thing.
Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S. Power
Yahoo Messenger is shutting down
I read about this a while ago. There was mentioned that this Void may be to to make the Grand Gallery more stable by putting less weight on it.
Social Media Marketing Stretergy
Fmr. FCC Commissioner on Net Neutrality: The Rules Aren't Going Away via FOX BIZ
Maybe solvable problems... but where would these vehicles be parked? How would positioning work since there's no GPS underground? And how to move vehicles from surface to tunnels?
A few years ago I added a featuregg to the site I worked on at the time, where it would reject correcthorsebatterystaple as a password with an error message acknowledging their impeccable taste and a link to a relevant xkcd.

At some point they made a number and a special character a requirement in the password and the code was either stripped (or still sat there and never triggered). The irony isn't entirely lost on me.
I work in 1.x in my day to day and agree with you - I wouldn't recommend starting new projects with 1.x as it's starting to feel its age now. Performance is a major concern unless you are savvy with how you write your code.

I really like what Vue is doing as sort of an intermediate between Angular 1.x and the new world of frontend
So they say that users could import their Facebook contacts onto their Firefox OS phones and that information wasn't shared with Mozilla, but what about the "adaptive app search"[1] on Firefox OS? That was implemented by querying a third-party service, "Everything.me", run by a different company.

Did that service get access to contacts? (Aside from the implicit access by way of your contact searches from the system search bar presumably being sent to them as app searches.)

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zwf0VMVDI
> Another: Incrementally cleaning/organizing my condo.

Please could you explain this a little more? I’m the sort of person who lets the mess build up to a critical mass, and I’d love to have a better system.
I'm not really interested in arguing about these numbers, it's not really relevant to my point. I was basing this off of https://www.teamblind.com/article/google-engineer---total-co... where 250-350 includes the majority of L4 and L5 engineers. Based on this your numbers look off by one level or so, at least for Google. But again, I don't think this is very important for my point.
I think it is even simpler than that. According to wiki, life expectancy in USA is roughly 80 years. If the children are had at roughly 25-30 years, by the time property is inherited, children are 50-55 - age when they are expected to have grown their own children, not the best age to start a family. Under the same assumptions, grandchildren are 20-30, therefore at a good age to inherit the property. Yet, if we factor in fertility rate of 1.8, that's 3.25 grandchildren on average or 30% stake at the inheritance. More like mortgage deposit, rather than a place to live.

For an average person it is not reasonable to expect to inherit a property during age of settling down when that is most needed.
Just look at the advertising and lobbying spending of sugar industry to gauge their power over population's discretionary spending.Also, bulk of their marketing spend is during cartoon programming of kids, "catch'em young"!

They successfully shifted blame from sugar to fat as cause of modern lifestyle diseases for last two decades. Would highly recommend the book "Case against Sugar" by Gary Taubes discussed amply here[0] and here[1].

Also recommend the documentary "Super Size Me"[2] a revealing take on workings of fast food industry.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480733

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15521882

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgcc_ZZnAgM
Yoga. It's the only time in the day where my brain is not in overdrive. Also, as a 36-year old with a sedentary lifestyle it's surprising/horrifying how stiff I've become. I'm just following the beginner movies on youtube and I go to the occasional class, so it's not stressful.
Crooks used multi-stage attacks aimed at Russian Service Centers
Low birth rates also correlate with a tendency to see women and men competing against each other, instead of complementing their roles. Where women acquired male roles, birth rates drop. You can observe this behavior both between and within countries.
Yeah its not up yet but curious to here your use cases, right now im sending api keys one ppl at a time. Thanks

Its literally a vnc. Fully customizable, programmable, browsable. The idea is to release impactful javascript libraries on js.fo that will aid in web data acquisition, and other machine learning based solutions.

Id be curious to hear suggestions, lately ive been possessed by machine learning that i began neglecting sleep and food to quench this giant knowledge void that lingered for years...

Ive finally seen the light and i can say ML and AI is the shit! I mean its so fun to learn and watch. I actually watch neural network topics on youtube to relax.....even linear algebra i used to fear i enjoy....its amazing to be a part of this movement but more importantly the magic we can accomplish!

http://js.fo
Last year I went a month avoiding any food or drink that contained added sugar.

Health benefits aside (I was also exercising a lot more and drinking less, so I can't comment on specific benefits), it was incredibly hard.

It wasn't the sugar cravings that were hard. I didn't get them at all, I didn't miss sweet food or sugar one bit. The hard part was actually finding food that didn't contain added sugar.

I was basically relegated to preparing all my food from scratch. Practically anything in a packet contained sugar. Even the most innocuous things would contain it. Obviously some things only contain low amounts and that's normal (e.g. cured meats), but I couldn't eat most bread, any sauces, the vast majority of pre-prepared meals (except for "paleo" meals), or any spice mixes. Even bottled mayonnaise contains sugar!

It made trying to find a snack incredibly difficult, I basically had to eat carrots and hummus.

At least whisky contains no added sugar (caramel colouring wasn't counted as sugar, in this case).
Exactly!

>Don’t “do your taxes”. Just change the label to “gather finance documents”

Finance documents? What finance documents? Which ones? How would I know without having started on my taxes? Wherever did I put them? They're all over the place. This is hopeless. Maybe tomorrow.
Good times. You could even have 5. A coworker snagged michael@ though.
Walking the stairs instead of taking the elevator (living at 6 floor). Not as much exercice as I should do but still >0.
Stopped thinking about trying to be the best and just doing the best I can.

Sounds simple but it was quite an issue for me. I was putting a tremendous pressure on myself and others, causing me anxiety and sadness.

Just doing the best I can and being happy. There's more life beyond work and perfection is just a falacy.
I do something to similar, although using a mobile app (Google Keep), and write down EVERYTHING. For me, probably the biggest benefit of doing so was freeing my brain. I no longer have to worry about naturally remembering things, and it makes my life a lot less stressful. It also provides me more time and brain power to think about what actually matters to me.

Nowdays, if a thought pops in my head while I'm laying down in bed, I'll just get up for a second and write it down. Feels so good.

This article https://hamberg.no/gtd/ articulates the idea pretty well:

> When your system and your trust in your system is in place, your subconsciousness will stop keeping track of all the things you need to do and stop constantly reminding you. This reduces stress and frees up precious brain time to more productive thinking—maybe it even saves real time so that you have more time for ballet lessons, painting classes, and roller-blading.
Turn off all notifications on smart-phone, every single notification which pops up, a led blinks, a "notification" appears, if its not emergency from my wife - this has to be blocked.

Side effect, no need to check my phone, there is nothing there anymore.

Feeds like reddit, HN, email, all settings and username is only on work-laptop with its own instance of browser - browsing these feeds on any other web-browser means my settings, username etc is gone and instead of seeing my subreddits, being able to comment, being able to login to email, that just cant be done. Now feeds are an activity only enjoyable at work.
They are not equivalent scenarios, which the article explains. The JS one is about asynchronous isolation context while the java one is just a evaluation bug.
With all due respect to John Resig $39 does not get you the full book.

$39
"Upon completion
The full book in ebook and HTML formats"

$89
"Extra chapters:
Server-side rendering
Offline data and mutations
Serverless
Stripe integration"

Rather misleading then.

Also there should be a dead tree option (even though content gets outdated fast).
Personally I'd pay $49 for a printed full book on GraphQL by John Resig.
There is also https://postmarketos.org/ for the adventurous :)
Working out! With a 7 minute app. I started in Nov.

+ People notice the difference.

+ It's a good way to cope with bad times.

+ You feel accomplished afterwards.

+ It's a perfect start of the day.

+ If you're dating and she is watching, it's a turn on.

+ You can go on for longer.

+ It's good for your confidence.

+ Other people who are working on themselves can be interesting people to meet.

+ It's good for your health.

+ It's nice for other people to look at the results. Similar to a nice painting some people like to see muscles.
I find the only real status symbol is a three-letter email name, though only if you're on a big provider or some other big email system.

For company mail just use something unique, nobody cares.
I would argue that there are very few people whose P rate is actually zero. AKA someone who has never done a good dead in their lives. I don't believe there are enough Karma Sinks to outnumber the Karma Sources and propagators.

Even at very small P values, while yes the propagation time is longer, loops will still appear. Now the question is what is the average P value, and how many good deeds must one do to realistically see a Loop within their lifetime. The answer is that the likelihood of small loops is fairly high even with low P-Rates assuming someone performs say 1 good deed per day.
This is everything but simple for most ppl, including me. I haven't achieved that entirely yet.
"Make X great again" was once a neutral phrase, and has now been misappropriated and politicized. I say - let's make it neutral again! And kudos to Prof. Lager for doing just that.
I write code for a living, but for the most part it's not that interesting, so I've developed a habit of writing the code I want to write every day as well. I get in to my office ~30 minutes early and work on things I find interesting, plus I do an hour or so on weekends. I've been doing it for more than a year now and it's got me back to really enjoying the process of making software. Plus I've learnt a ton of stuff I wouldn't have had any opportunity to use in work projects.

I'm learning GLSL and signed distance fields at the moment. It's fun.
What's really great about these open ai papers is that they release the source code as well. How many papers I've read where people have tried to reproduce results and failed and you're left wondering if they screwed up the implementation somehow or maybe didn't initialise something "just right". This is a huge amount of time wasted for no reason at all. It really should become a standard requirement that you at the very least just release your code.

Another excellent example I came across recently (it also happens to be about unsupervised pretraining and transfer learning) https://github.com/bfelbo/DeepMoji

It's an absolute joy working with such papers and I suspect one of the best ways to get people to actually pay attention to your work in an era of Arxiv Sanity Preserver.
My problem is that I have a huge amount of these nodes. It becomes harder and harder to focus solely on one of these
That sounds awesome. I'm currently working with Emacs + Evil mode, but there's a couple of things I'm not thrilled with. Sublime with a NeoVim backend sounds like it could work great. I'll check it out!
I think this strategy can backfire on some people: if you think someone might have messaged you or tagged you in any of 5 different apps you might just cycle through actually opening them.
Writing down what I want to accomplish for the day (errands, etc.) helped with my anxiety and stress. I usually do it before I go to bed, or in the morning.
I started using a stand-up desk at home and standing on a "wobble cushion" on one leg.

This is only anecdotal, but I feel it helped me getting a grip on my weak ankles and knees, my key pain points when running.