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Ask HN: What should I do before I quit my job to start my own company?
Hi HN - I'm 6-8 weeks out from quitting my job to start my own company (a SaaS platform). I've been planning this for a few months, but wanted to get advice on anything else I should be considering... thanks!

Finances:

- I currently work at a large unicorn. I'm waiting to close a secondary market transaction to cash out most of my shares

- I've saved ~15k to cover 4 months of living expenses in my current situation (more if I leave SF and go somewhere cheaper, which is also part of the plan)

New company prep:

- I can't work directly on my idea at work, but I've been teaching myself Python and Django so I can build an MVP during nights & weekends

- I started working on a pitch deck (just to share the idea and force myself to be able to explain it concisely); I stopped on this to actually work on the product

- Reading about fundraising and the mechanics of actually getting a start-up off the ground

Personal:

- Networking and getting input on the idea. I've kinda tapped this out (for now) so waiting to have something more substantive on the product side before going back to the same people

- Interviewing for other jobs to get a feel for my market value (been at my current job a long time...)
This will be nice until they take it away...
If at any point in ones life you’ve made over $300k, I doubt $40k a year would feel like anything other than relative poverty - not that that’s a terrible thing. It’s plenty of money except if you’re used to vacations to Europe in 4 star hotels, nice gym and golf memberships, cars, etc.
I blame all the crappy cable mfgs for that one myself. It's impossible to tell a good cable capable of fast charging vs one that just says it is short of testing with your devices and knowing what to look for on screen regarding fast charging.

I've recently just stuck to overpaying for google/apple chargers and cables to keep it easier on myself. Been burned too many times.
History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.

They will not make the same mistakes again but different ones (not sure if I would even call it mistakes. In the end the Fed can't do much in a world of outrageous debt). Our whole economy is not set up to be stable. We push until things blow up, deal with the consequences, and then we start pushing again.
The problem is Fed has learnt its lesson. However, China/ Japan/Europe have learnt nothing and are sitting on their own set of unique problems and these countries will be the likely cause of next recession.
Sorry, I am not going into endless debates. It is waste of my time. Check documentation, read about it and technology is here for 19 years. I dont care what anyone useses. I have just stated what the most reliable technology for compartmentization is. Docker and kata are in IT time since yesterday and there are lots of dragons still hiding. Same goes for integration with ZFS (part of freebsd since 6 April 2007).
That's where the money is, they won't stay a big publisher if they ignore it.
Generally you could do something like `select(identifier).parentNode` ? pseudo language because I'm tired
Median household income is $60k in the US. So, $40k for 1 person is probably enough.
I operated something like this around 2005 in a big hotel building (~400 bedrooms and various offices) with a dinky internet connection and no wifi yet (very thick walls, up in the mountains, limited budgets...).

So I built a dial-up pool on an internal number (this place had its own PBX with ~500 phone lines) hooked to a Debian box, served by a bunch of USR Courier modems. Good times :)
> “We’ve spent the last two and a half years building an amazing team, launching our first unmanned service, working with incredible partners and creating technology to fundamentally improve our daily lives,” Nuro co-founder Dave Ferguson said in a statement.

Is anyone else getting really tired of hearing this kind of rhetoric? This is a company that, if successful in its mission, is going to help eliminate a whole bunch of jobs (delivery drivers, auxiliary grocery chain workers, etc). Yes, it's gonna provide a cool upside - I can have robots deliver my toilet paper to me without having to leave the comfort of my home! But do we really need to describe that as "fundamentally improving our daily lives"?
A related mystery: what's stopping greedy practitioners from using the cheap device but still charging the old price increasing their margins even more?
Unless that $1M is stuffed under your mattress, you likely have some income from is. Even sitting in a CD at 2% you'll be pulling in $20k/year - that's not "no income".

What I think you mean is you don't have steady W2 income from an employer.
And Smells Like Teen Spirit is a lot less relevant today than it was even 10 years ago while lots of bands from the 70s and 80s seem to have an increasing relevance (c.f. people in this thread talking about kids listening to Steely Dan and Duran Duran).

It's been years since I've heard anyone listen to or talk about Nirvana, Pearl Jam...
How can I best make money off this coming recession?
With the WHO recommending rescheduling, maybe research can finally happen at a normal pace.
Put enough money into those startups and they can lobby to ban human drivers and make AI drivers mandatory. That would solve so many problems!
It would show an actual predictive power of such prognoses.

Contrary to your assertion, I don’t necessarily see a clear signal in the stock market (which only loosely correlates with the economy) or other economic indicators. Job growth is still somewhat strong, for example. And many a temporary flattening of indicators have given way to another run.

Of course as day follows night, recession has followed expansion. But the cycle just isn’t as regular as the 24h day, or the 12 months that make a year.

Just as we have become better at predicting the weather or the path of hurricanes, economists have become better, but not perfect, at predicting, and even softening the blow of, recessions.

OP was merely asking if news archives could be used for a sort of crowdsourced signal, a valid and interesting question. Google trends might also be interesting to look at, although I haven’t heard much of their flu prognosis in recent years.
I did, multiple times. I have lots of savings so my tolerance for frustration is lower than people who are living paycheck to paycheck.
What about tabs? SPA can make tabs troublesome. If I can't open a site in tabs it is broken to me.
definitely going ryzen for my next desktop CPU.
When Computers Stopped Being Human
Nonsense. If the device returns "success" then everything was persisted. If it returns an error, then some/all of it was not persisted. There is no way for you to determine whether it is some or all or which. The only safe action for a user is to assume all of it failed.

And by the way, there are devices out there that lie, and claim the data is successfully persisted even though it only made it into a volatile cache.
My expenses are about $150K a year.

Fixed costs per month:

* $5K mortgage

* $1.2K health insurance

* $300 life and disability insurance

* $800 utilities

* $2K home services: nanny, sitter, cleaner

* $800 school / preschool and kids activities

* $2K groceries, essentials, etc

I have a family, two small kids (4 and 2), and live a comfortable life in Seattle. I could obviously adjust my standard of living, move somewhere cheaper, etc, but I didn't want my family to have to change anything from this experiment I'm doing with my life.
Until you're bored of it. It's the same kind of handcuffs as freelancing.
Eventual Consistency Today: Limitations, Extensions, and Beyond
>Growing families better than letting Muslim immigrants in, says prime minister

No wonder the EU is so pissed at him :')
Good content, but dear god, how can you be someone who writes articles about CSS and have a website this ugly? Those colors are making my eyes bleed.
I didn't get any value out of the 'gamification' element. Would have preferred to have not logged in.
What? Your hurricane example is not the same at all. No one is saying that predictions of a recession in the media are the cause of the recession.

The OP is just asking if there is a way to predict the likelihood of a recession by using media reports. The answer could very well be no, but it is nothing like saying that google searches for hurricanes cause storms.

The correct analogy is that it would be like searching for media reports of incoming hurricanes in order to tell if there was a hurricane coming. I imagine that method would work well for telling if a hurricane is coming (though it would be more straight forward to just look at the weather report)!

I have a feeling this method wouldn't work well for predicting a recession though.
I am a little afraid of that. This is probably the dream of all rent-seekers. Have mandatory, IP protected tech that's mandatory to use.
Absolutely. Graphics get gamers. The lesson learned by Nintendo with the Wii’s prev-gen graphics has not been forgotten by the games industry. When crispy photorealistic graphics set the standard, you either have to expensively match the industry or go cartoonish to smooth over the rough edges.

The golden era of gaming was during the PS2. Not only did it have unprecedented market penetration, but the hardware was both advanced enough to make decent 3D games while not being so powerful that a few deep-pocketed studios could make stunning graphics that blew the completion out of the water.

Those days are long gone. On one end of the spectrum you have the indie market, which uses retro designs to make up for the lack of asset designers (think Rogue Legacy or Shovel Knight), or you have the massive AAA developers that dominate ad-spaces.

Anything in between (~PS2 graphics) isn’t taken seriously. So it’s either indie or AAA. No middle ground anymore.
Life insurance scams work best in times where people are starving.
If It Ain't TypeScript It Ain't Sexy
weekly put options. (http://www.cboe.com/products/weeklys-options)
I don't really know if it's rose colored glasses but as a lifelong gamer it really sucks to see gaming as an industry become more and more focused around ROI rather than shipping quality games.

Isn't this the way of all media? What are movie franchise sequels but a way of reducing risk? That's just focus around ROI. Isn't this happening to news media? Everything devolves towards classical behaviorism and lower levels of psychology. Clickbait, outrage, and variable schedule of reward. Shiny, pretty pictures.

If we take the analogy farther, isn't the hope in alternative media? This is how it always worked in the past.
> Who would trade static typing with fast prototyping any time.

These need not be at odds. Many ML languges like F# or OCAML, by use of type inference, get you type safety without having to type a bunch of stuff and sacrifice faster prototyping. And certainly in F# there is a history of having productive tooling that lets you prototype easily. Simply writing some F# code in an F# script in an IDE, hitting alt+Enter, and letting it execute in an interactive shell is hugely productive for exploratory tasks. And features like Type Providers build out types for an arbitrary data set that let you guarantee your code is actually correct for the data.

What I've mentioned isn't without its flaws, and eventually someone is going to reach head-scratching problems just as they would in any other environment. I don't think there's an objective way to measure productivity across a wide range of professionals, but I do believe that some subset of them would prefer static types for their work. This is backed by conversations with some of them about problems they encounter.
Bad logic. The presence of a plausible hypothesis doesn't prove causality! This mistake is like 80% of bad science. How many times are we going to repeat it?

The counterfactual I provided is just an obvious example of the fallacy. The real meat of the argument was in that post too -- it's far more likely (Occam and all) that people are predicting recessions because every dummy can see that a recession is likely following the end of an expansion than that there is some kind of magical effect on public thinking.

This is just politics. You don't want your favored entity to get blamed for a recession, so you find a way to make that recession the "fault" of your political enemies. But no, growth cycles are cycles for a reason, and we don't need "fault" to describe what happens.
Most of my ski/hiker/climber bum friends are broke.
If your dockerd is exposed without something like mutual TLS auth, RCE is a feature! Some little container breakout is irrelevant (I’m sure you know, but others might be confused)
Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development
The issue is not the compound itself, it's the impurities in the packaged substance. You don't know what possibly-toxic impurities or allergens might be present in a tube of hardware store adhesive, since they probably don't affect the glue's ability to do its intended job.
> This may be a mean thing to say, but basically I think SPA's are massively overused, because developers want to demonstrate that they can do them.

Unfortunately this is another side effect of the broken hiring process in IT. Recruiters are scanning resumes for the hottest buzzwords, hiring managers want people who have experience with whatever is currently hyped, so developers naturally steer towards those technologies.

So a developer may even be aware it doesn't quite make sense to use a single page architecture, but they know that if they have it on their resume it'll help them make more money at the next job.

It's a whole maladaptive signaling phenomenon that arises out of organizations overvaluing the wrong things in hiring.
I think the parent comment is correct. Things were really bleak in the 90s due to Clear Channel and other consolidation. I'd say pop music doesn't mean the same thing now as it did in the 20th century so it's hard to compare it. There's a lot of variety now but not many shared experiences.
Managing investments in 200 companies is a lot of work though.
Well, this is the widely accepted definition of anti-semitism [1]. As long as you don't do anything on the list you should be OK.

[1] https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/working-definition-anti...
> “So it's more like, "why would we hire an expert like you if we won't actually get the value we're paying for?"”

But hiring them into a position where they are automatically subject to pre-existing political barriers guarantees you won’t get value out of them.

Giving them autonomy means you could possibly benefit from their value-add.
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might have been just to avoid letting that particular skill set and experience go to a competitor. the value of that competitor getting that person was more valuable than amazon keeping him/her.
Save cash now. Wait until the recession forces other people sell their investments. Buy those investments at a discount.
From a business sense the shift is unsurprising. Yet how they handled the reveal was a seismic PR disaster that could have been avoided. You don't announce a new product designed for the casual crowd (and by extension, the start of a shift toward focusing on said market) at a convention mostly attended (and closely watched online) by the hardcore crowd. Blizzard would have been wise to fire their PR firm after this.
It's really easy to throw the baby out with the bathwater in this conversation as well.

A more interactive Javascript-heavy UI can improve a lot of aspects of even websites we consider to be a server-side-rendered gold standard like a forum or message board.

For example, look at the right-sidebar scrubber on Flarum that lets you quickly scroll to arbitrary parts of a long forum thread: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/17745-flarum-0-1-0-beta-8-relea...

Or look at how clicking a submission on Reddit's new UI opens it in a floating modal window so that you don't lose track of where you are when you click out of it. It makes opening submissions feel cheaper/faster to me where, in the old UI, I tended to open everything up in a new tab.

There's a more thoughtful consideration that needs to be had here than just "webapp or website?" Else you're back to cargo-culting.
Useful until it’s deprecated. If you need permanence/long term support, use Office and Microsoft’s tooling (instead of Google products).
My team has had luck rendering an SVG from the graph and sending it to a browser. It works well for about 10k vertices and edges. Above that scale we use datashader, and we're investigating a potential to move to QGIS. We tried Gephi a few years ago and it had trouble at these scales.
Such terrible UX on that site. I had to switch to reader mode on Firefox before I could read comfortably
People get addicted to the power that resources bring. Buying things because you like them, eating whatever you want whenever you want (and not having to travel for it), the ability to follow whims and flu around the world.

The problem there is you’re just responding to whims, and everything will start to feel the same.
It's not a bad analogy, it's an alternate explanation of how you could see the same effect without any causal relationship between recession sentiment and actual recession.

Another example are quack cures: unusual cures are tried when people are at their sickest, then people improve, and they credit the improvement to the cure. Almost everybody who is very sick gets better, though, and the rest are too dead to denounce the cure as fake.
The U.S. did lower interest rates in response to the Great Recession. I don't think anybody, including Krugman, claims they didn't do so?
Yo, you wanna chillout with flinging the accusations? Every single one of your comments in this whole thread is either bullheaded negative or a subtle suggestion that Next.js is some marketing conspiracy without its own merit.

If you don't like Next or don't see its usefulness thats fine, but 30,000 stars on Github and pretty varied list[1] of companies seems to suggest that some people do find it useful.

I am not affiliated with Zeit or Next.js in any particular way. Just a happy user of Next and appreciative of all the hard work put into it.

[1] https://nextjs.org/showcase/
In what ways is the industry monopolistic? I can think of a couple of cases (e.g. EA and the football license), but not many.
is there a word for this misstep or bias or whatever it would be called? When you make an un-credentialed analysis/criticism of another entity's action when that entity specializes in and is ostensible optimized for that action? I see this on HN all the time, it's quite tiresome.
I think they meant the business has no base.

Capital helps. It won't make you profitable though.
You had to go back 60 years. You didn't even mention Fast Track. You are ignoring device, test, and implant categories.
The VP/DE ratio just reflects how likely it is to have that level of impact. A VP is typically not just "a great manager", they drive the product vision and ensure you're building the right things. A great engineer can produce similar impact but it's a lot less likely.

> if you actually want to have a chance of moving up to those levels of pay, you had better go into people management

Your own strengths and weaknesses as an individual are are much more important part of this decision than the baseline probabilities of becoming a DE or VP.
I think the main issue is that there is no real semantics when incrementing the major version and no word about deprecation.

And BTW, in case of Java since 9, it's the opposite, each new version is a major version.
You are reading it wrong. There was lots of room to lower rates in response to the 2008 crisis because the rates weren’t low before the recession.

After they were lowered to almost the zero bound there was not much else to do.

This one around, they are already low before the recession hits. The situation is not the same, hence the Fed has less wiggle room.

And thanks to the tax cuts, and a deficit nearing $1 trillion in a boom economy, there will be less wiggle room for fiscal stimulus vs tax cuts or spending as well, because the deficit will skyrocket if government revenues fall in a recession.

Krugman is being consistent and logical here.
For those of us who work in Docs on a daily basis, it sure does.
Yep -- at https://github.com/graphistry/pygraphistry, we started by making millions of nodes/edges interactive. If you use notebooks, can signup on our site and get going. The trick is we connect GPUs in the browser to GPUs in the cloud, and encapsulate it enough that you can stick to writing standard SQL/pandas/etc.

We've been curious about server-side static tile rendering for larger graphs, but has been on the back-burner. (We already connect to GPUs on the server, so not rocket science.) Currently, we're actively increasing how much can be ingested + computed on, such as for finding influencers, communities & rings, etc. However, visualizing that hasn't been an operational priority for our users. More useful to generate the communities, and then either inspect individual ones, or see how communities stitch together: quickly run out of pixels otherwise due to too many edges. Likewise, we're building connectors to gigascale-petascale graph DBs: titan, janus, aws neptune, tigergraph, spark graphx, etc.

We still are interested, but more for when we start supporting geographic maps: you can see that is the primary use for datashader. Also, because data art is fun :)
The best thing I ever did for the family budget is work out a plan ahead of time for windfall money. Odds are OP will never make this much money again. Spending like this is the new normal is how rock stars and athletes end up broke at 40. You have to get out ahead of it.

Since OP has a million saved I’m going to assume they had a similar plan in place. But. $150k a year with young kids (they haven’t begun to get expensive yet) in Seattle is pretty high. Getting that down is a good deal of effort that will distract from running the business.
I’m kinda annoyed there’s no PPA for this, but I suspect they won’t bother shipping this in the standard repo until there’s a stable ABI
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I think autonomous drivers as amazing as they help the economy of cars to go from gas to electric much faster. I just hate air pollution as I'm feeling its toxic effects on my body much heavier than other people.

On the other hand I'm sceptical that any company can compete with Waymo's experience or Tesla's amount of data.

Tesla's business model of giving away sensors for free gave it an enormous advantage in acquiring data (which is crucial for deep learning ).
I believe that if you're in an environment where users don't have (and can't gain) root inside the container, you're also fine, and if that's your theoretical policy, getting to the point where you 100% enforce that might also be easier than patching.
“Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.”
Looks like lots of comments here are negative. I hope it doesn't deter you or get you down. It's tough to leave a high paying job to pursue something different and I wish you all the best.

It's interesting timing to quit now. If you have 45 years to work, why not work a few more years to have a much longer runway?

Safe withdrawal rate now is $40k...if you did 3 more years to and saved $2 mill, that's a double of your safe withdrawal rate to $80k. You're doing 40 hours a week on a good team...

Also I saw you put your health insurance is $1.2k per month...Amazon's health insurance../sucks?
If people don't want to use SemVer because they don't like incrementing the major component then that's a fundamental flaw. There's no point in it if it's not being used.

There's already a few examples of people's attitudes in sibling comments.

> Perhaps you could have worded that better?

That's a bit snide.
I've come across the ORT (ORS in other countries) problem in the US. They're often hard to find, and incredibly overpriced. In the past, many pharmacies simply did not carry them. I was sometimes told to buy Gatorade instead.