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Show HN: Airdyme.io – A Community Project to Map Global VC Ecosystem
Hello HN,

Over the years of launching and pitching multiple startup ideas to VCs, my co-founder and I encountered quire a few problematic issues:

1) Where to find the right investors for our business
2) How to verify their legitimacy
3) Where to learn about their process, stats like industry preference and cheque size, and outstanding fund capacity
4) Finally, how to get introduced to this particular VC or Angel investor.

What followed was realization that entrepreneurs that meet these same investors would probably be best equipped to answer these questions.
More importantly, their recently acquired knowledge would be extremely beneficial to other entrepreneurs who are embarking on the same path.

Without further ado, introducing Airdyme - a place where real founders exchange information about investors they meet.

Here is a demo link: http://bit.ly/hn-launch

It’s a simple excel sheet at this point, but is aiming to be a starting point for entrepreneurs to discover smart money investors for their business ideas – investors that would understand the problem, love the product, respect the founding team.

We are hoping that this will also become a place where founders can find smart-money investors, share information about them with other entrepreneurs, and in the process, create a community that helps one-another keep their entrepreneurial dream alive.

I think it has some potential. What do you guys think?
One Man’s Junk Is Another Man’s Museum – Museum of Everyday Life
Spending time with his family and probably reading.
Any answer to "why squaring?" that doesn't reference the usual Euclidean distance, even if indirectly via, say, the Pythagorean theorem, seems to be missing an obvious avenue of (if I may coin an awful word) intuitive-isation.
Hi Domenic! First: I'm outside the edit window for the original post, but in hindsight it reads as more of an ad hominem than intended. My apologies.

I don't mean to malign the technical aspects of KV Storage, nor WICG / TPAC / TC39 / etc. collaboration, but rather the specific positioning of KV Storage in the article. There's no acknowledgement of collaboration nor explanation of where this proposal sits in the standards process. In fact, it gives the opposite impression:

- "the first one we're planning to ship"

- "do we have to wait until all browsers support built-in module [...] no!"

- "you can actually deploy your changes today!"

- "Chrome 74+ users won't have to pay any extra download cost"

That reads a lot like an Intent to Ship and counseling developers to begin relying on it, which feels wholly inappropriate given that the entire notion of having built-in modules at all is still a Stage 1 proposal.

Similarly, I do not believe any vendor should claim an in-house implementation of their own proposal as being inherently part of "the Web." It may very well end up that way, but can we at least wait until the proposal hits Stage 3 before using that kind of language?
Seems unethical for people benefiting from something to externalize the cost of security, expecting bug hunters to work with no benefits. I could lean toward selling security fixes if it was commercial software. Not sure about free/open yet. If something like Tor, I'd rather we make exceptions regardless of general philosophy just to keep majority of people safe. Especially the kind of folks that help us out with their sacrifices.

Most software isn't like that. My current preference is going back to highly-permissive, shared-source licenses by public-benefit companies whose charters and contracts don't let them screw people in at least all the ways we know about. Perpetual, free licenses w/ no or optional support for non-commercial or small business. Cost goes up with scale from there maybe with enterprise features sold separately. Anything not a competitive advantage, esp building blocks or platform stuff, might get open-sourced. Anyone licensed can modify the software and distribute that to other licensees. Might make exception for features or code in new version so they can't skip payment with backport. Maintains most of benefits of OSS with less risk of proprietary or hybrid licensing.

Charging for security fixes could be a simple way of motivating folks to pay for improvements to the software. A preferred model that's harder to build is using methods that make nearly vulnerability-free software with a warranty against specific types of defects or at specific, defect rates. Cleanroom shops and Praxis Correct-by-Construction did that with an upfront premium applied with defect rate in warranty fixed at supplier's cost. So, still thinking on specifics of all of that or potential integrations.
The fact that a critical software (MCAS) is installed and not disclosed to the pilots is significant blow to their reputation.
Was the linear-no-threshold model not basically disproven by a study on people who lived in buildings built with steel scavenged from the ruins of Hiroshima or Nagasaki and therefore in an environment with elevated radioactive background levels. They showed lower incidence of cancer if I remember correctly?
Look at the response. The original comment is BS
Wealthy parents bribed college coaches and insiders at testing centers
Clicking through to the other blog posts, it becomes apparent the the author plays fast and loose with the word "open", to their benefit. They "opened up" by providing gratis licenses to some of their software. They don't call it "open source", but the phrase "open source" is also scattered around the articles, so that "open" benefits by proximal association.

They're free to license their software however they want; I don't use it so I really don't care. But it really rankles when someone extols the virtues of open source and waxes rhetoric about how open they are, and yet the software they offer is proprietary by default. They "double down on open", but the open source distribution is opt-in.

I cannot help but feel that the articles are deliberately constructed to mislead. That's a serious accusation and I wish I could be more charitable in how I interpret them but the terminology is so consistent that it cannot be an accident -- gratis-but-proprietary is always "open", libre is never just "open" but always "open source".

Technically correct isn't enough. No-one's explicitly staked "open" as being the same as "open source". But in the context of this conversation "open" is an obvious contraction of "open source" and to use the obvious contraction to mean something diametrically opposed is not reasonable or ok; especially when "source available" is widely understood. The same thing was attempted with the Commons License.

The intent behind words is important. Persuasive oratory is fine but using those tactics to mislead does not engender trust, especially when the beneficiary is the one speaking and not the audience.
Donating a building is a payment to the university. The university then gets to decide to admit your child in return. It may not be meritocratic, but it's not corrupt (except perhaps insofar as by pretending the exchange is a donation, the university and donor manage to cheat the taxman). The donor is simply paying the university to provide a service that they have every right to offer for money. It also benefits other students, which is why the universities take the deals in the first place.

In this case, we're talking about bribery of specific employees to act against the interests of their employer. That's simply corruption.

They might be equally non-meritocratic, but they're definitely not equally dishonest or equally socially harmful.
The same post-it works for Paul Krugman.
Google's monopoly on search is entirely because it is the best search product by far.

However, as search becomes increasingly important in our lives, and as past search data becomes more important to ranking algorithms, Google might be at a point where no company ever stands a chance to compete with it.

By using Google, you make it better. It's already the best, and it already captures 85%+ of searches. How is anyone ever going to compete?

Bing even offered to pay people money to use its search engine for a while, and still it got hardly any traction.

I don't think Facebook's and Google's monopolies are too concerning other than the impact they have on online advertising. Google basically made CPC ads 10x more expensive like 10 years ago, and ever since, that's been the price of a click.

Facebook having a monopoly on social advertising clearly had no interest in starting a price war with Google to win ad dollars. They compete in separate spaces. They can each charge a premium.
I think we could do a better job opening markets to products that we don't have here, like cheeses from around the world.

I do hate when people use others as pawns in their arguments though. Are you a single mother unable to afford milk? Inevitably when it comes to talking about economics, the poor/single mothers/etc are always trotted out on stage as reason we need to cut taxes/change the way we do business.
> Interesting! Out of curiosity, how integrated were the Japanese students into Peruvian society?

100% integrated, considered themselves Peruvian, couldn't tell the difference without looking at them. The immigration was decades if not a century before I grew up.
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Also, a bribe goes into one person's pocket.

Buying a basketball team and hiring a coach in order to win is legal. Paying one player to lose a game is not legal.
You can make and distribute your own app on Android and totally bypass Google Play already.

Also - having a security policy is different than taking a 30% cut of all commercial activity on the platform.
Thanks Claudio for the enlightening comment. It's true and I'm feeling a bit like this myself, going over lots of business ideas daily for the past month or so made me realize the same thing and this is why I've started doing some research into what makes an idea more likely to succeed (or not). I don't want to discourage anyone from the process of creation because the act of creation is inherently human and through all this aggregated creative effort we are progressing and improving little by little and this is how, in my opinion, the site should be used, to improve upon existing ideas little by little. On the other side, knowing that there are a lot of creative people out there spreading their ideas should give one more courage to do the same, this is another thing that I realized. I'm thinking of myself as an insignificant little spec of dust in the galaxy and this thought actually gives me courage. We are condemned to be creative, we are condemned to try and fail again and again and succeed some times, we are condemned to progress.
Bitrise (YC W17) just acquired infrastructure monitoring company Outlyer
Never ever heard of your description of RedHat and why it would be a good reason to use them.

10-15 years ago i tried Red Hat / Fedora and it wasn't great. I than also tried debian and it just worked and was easy to use.

Now, i'm not looking for support much. I prefer the base stability of debian/ubuntu. Haven't looked into RedHat a long time and i also don't see any big reason for it.
I mean, yeah it makes them less profound. Individual identity is not entirely defined by place of employment. I'd imagine the vast majority of people see their employer as the means to pay bills rather than a political entity whose goals they explicitly support.
Yup, which is how much of the world still lives. Spotty internet access at best
If you have an Alexa you really need to try playing Jeopardy on it. The Jeopardy Alexa skill and Akinator skill are fairly quick casual games that are very worthwhile.
Personally, I think that HTML5 itself is a great example of how the web is going wrong.
Anybody who can catch the link in transit can get the file. Emailing these links with the decryption key right in the fragment is going to allow any party in between the sender and the receiver to fetch the file. (If the file is set to only allow downloading once, the receiver can at least let the sender know that it got intercepted.)

So you have to send the link through some previously-negotiated secure channel. At that point, why not just send the file through that channel? Is it because signal/whatsapp/etc don't allow large files or because the interface is cumbersome?
I wonder if Plenty of Fish has a larger or smaller database of breed ready females.
> So like the rest of the news?

mmm... fake equivalence
Whether Zero Hedge is trustworthy or not is a far less important question than whether Facebook is trustworthy.

Even people who want someone to censor social media should be concerned about who the censor is.
My experience is that it is much more a matter of architecture.

This is a lock free key value store in a single file - it doesn't have the network protocol, but any threads dealing with the network IO could use it without doing anything differently.

https://github.com/LiveAsynchronousVisualizedArchitecture/si...
Because "real programmers" only use vim/emacs and a bunch of UNIX text-based tools :p
It's the free plan where you get 2GB or whatever, depending on when you joined and any freebies you got through referrals and/or contests.
Types versus Tests: Two approaches for writing correct software
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investigations-college-admis...
Has a list of people and indictments/etc that have been filed so far.
According to the documents https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5766243-College-Admi... (page 78), giving huge donations are "institutional advancement", it costs 10 times as much, is not a guarantee, and will get second looks.
Yeah... just like the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Freedom House. The current chairman is the US ambassador to Russia.
So you think it should be illegal for Walmart, Kroger, Walgreens and Costco to allow a company to rent shelf space, and allow that other company to keep the capital on its books until its sold, and to allow the retailer to act as a payment processor?

Whos books the capital sits on while its in a warehouse is absolutely the most arbitrary distinction in all of this. Amazon provides warehouse space, and the product provider takes the risk of unsold product. Its a fair trade that allows exposure companies wouldnt otherwise get, unless they convinced amazon to BUY their stock.

If anything is anti competitive, its walmart/apple etc forcing companies to drastically ramp up production, and then leaving them high and dry unless they accept low ball offers. It's exactly what Apple did to GT Advanced Technologies (forced a furnace company to turn into a manufacturing company, a deal they "couldnt refuse", and when they backed out / failed to deliver the company ended up ~90% smaller.)
So back in 1999 people thought that Microsoft would be dominant forever - how did that work out?

Every company I named was once dominant. Even Spotify came out of nowhere and made the once dominance iTunes Music Store basically irrelevant without government intervention.

It wasn’t government intervention that caused the once The Beleaguered Computer Company that was about to be crushed by MS what it is today.
Germany grounded them too, now.
They tried to do that with Persona, but imho they did not push enough for its adoption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona
He means the worst case scenario when the attacker knows the key. In which case it's trivial indeed.
Travis CI git clone over http is borked as a result. https://www.traviscistatus.com/
The Alexa's timeline is likely much longer and deeper than a lot of the commentators here are aware of. Specifically, the lives of disabled people have been greatly enhanced with the Echo-dot specifically. The vision impaired/blind community has been very receptive to voice command tech [0][1]. Though these devices are not the commercial hit that many expect them to be, any nod towards the disabled community is greatly appreciated.

Personally, I think that the challenges that disabled people face are great for all people. Thinking through all the permutations that real people with disabilities face opens up tech to new ways of interaction and design. The canonical example is the little ramp on the street corner, where the side walk and street interface. It was designed for wheelchairs originally, but the elderly, bicyclists, delivery men with trolleys, and all manner of people use them as an improvement in their lives.

If Amazon focused on the disabled and their use cases for the Echo-dot, I think that they would find many other applications that enhance all of our lives. It may not be an 'essential' thing for the fully-abled, at least not consciously, but the enhancements are enjoyed by all and well worth the costs. Perhaps tech that focuses on the hearing impaired (the number one disability in the world), or the voice impaired, or amputees, may help all of us lead richer and fuller lives.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDcvqfwOxOE

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/358338/why-amazons-alexa-is-life-...
I think OP means that weren't wealthy enough to make a large public donation through the appropriate channels and instead resorted to bribery.

Their legal bills could easily surpass the amount of money exchanged to get their kids into these schools.
You have a poor understanding of stats if you think 2 is always a small sample size. In the case of theoretically rare events 1 event can be exceedingly significant.
Austria also closed the airspace for 737 max planes, while not the largest country in Europe together with France and Germany that adds quite a bit of extra detour coming from Norway.
When it comes to databases, either 1) listening on localhost by default or 2) requiring a non-obvious password would seem to strike a decent balance between security and usability.

But MongoDB is web scale! Nobody is going to run it on localhost only! So the default (until 2.6) was to listen on all interfaces by default. AFAIK Elasticsearch still listens on all interfaces by default. Does this choice make life any easier for the developer who is just beginning to learn how to use it? I dunno, most of my development work takes place on localhost. I probably won't even notice if a newly installed database only listens on localhost.
Everyone here is talking about helping “future competitors”. How can you compete with free?
> why don't they disable 3rd party cookies by default like Apple does?

Its interesting you bring this up because of all the browsers ONLY Apple does that and the level of headache that gave me recently suggests part of the reason why. Fundamentally it breaks the default implementation of ASP.NET session state which when combined with first-pass implementations of OAuth results in infinite authentication loops when hosting other sites in IFRAMEs.

Maybe that's part of the reason why?
And contrary to the article, it is possible to change their style!
Tune – Experimental Google Extension
>mmm... fake equivalence

Could you provide me some links showing Zero hedge is different?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
What Deep Generative Neural Networks Will Bring to Smartphones
Wasabi – Run Sandboxed Go Servers with WebAssembly
I don't think will is required for people to not be pieces of shit, that doesn't make sense. You can learn the information "keeping slaves is bad, because it hurts people" but the concept of will does not fit into that equation. Or are you just trying to say that you would have slaves if willpower didn't exist?
There are a few around...I use File Explorer which can actually start an FTP server from my phone (iPhone) that my PC can connect to over LAN. It also can be a client to a remote FTP/file share.
there is https://snapdrop.net/ but it didnt work for me
I wonder if that is too far on the "creepy scale". Everyone probably knows that Amazon has a full record of everything they have asked their Alexa, but I am not sure it is smart to repeatedly remind people of this.
I wonder how many of those people rallying against a standard library ever had to support a legacy codebase where all the design decisions were made by someone else. Doesn't sound like they have that kind of experience at all.

Funny thing is, eventually Google will decide that they do need a standard library and all those freedom fighters will do a 180 flip in terms of what they support. This already happened so many times in the community. (Classes being the most notorious example. I'm not saying Google was behind them, but there was a definite 180 flip on whether classes were needed.)

Maybe this is the first step towards Google establishing a standard library.
Fedora has come a long way in the past 10-15 years. It's a very stable GNOME workstation distro that tends to use bleeding-edge stuff. They also have some neat ideas (like Silverblue) that are fun to play around with.

I've also found dnf/yum to be overall nicer to use than apt, the history feature is especially useful too.
I still see 850/10 and 425/5. EDIT: OK, it seems to have been a cache issue as extremelearning supposed.
> I've managed to find workarounds for everything except 1Password

I haven't personally used it, but I've seen Bitwarden being highly recommended here. It's free and open source. It has a free option (with an account on bitwarden.com), a paid hosting option (with an account on bitwarden.com) and also a self-hosting option.
Winner takes all (preferential attachment) is just math. This new trouble is because the internet has resulted in fewer, larger markets.

Markets would need to become more fragmented or more fluid to mitigate winner takes all. I don't have any notions on what to do about that.
It should be obvious I disagree in scoring Cliqz, Pocket and Mr. Robot as security issues. Of course, many if not most security issues are in the subset of privacy issues as well, but surely you see the difference between not wanting others to know what web pages you've visited and not wanting your bank account emptied by a criminal?

And when it comes to security, not hazarding my bank accounts and credit cards beyond what's unavoidable in doing business on the net, Google is massively more trustworthy than Mozilla. If for no other reason than Mozilla having entered its corporate endgame.

Firefox is not fit for purpose for any of my use cases, although I've still have a copy of Waterfox that I can move to my new Linux installation with a abandoned but adequate session manager for one use case. Maybe Mozilla will fix those two dozen plus bugs and feature requirements for a good session manager before no one cares anymore and I'll continue using that line of browsers if/when Waterfox becomes unsustainable.

There is absolutely nothing you can say that will make me use a program that doesn't work for me, and Firefox does not work for me except for the most casual of browsing.
>The plane changed modes and nobody realized it

This claim is directly contradicted by the cockpit transcript in the official accident report:

https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/annexe.01...

At 2 h 10 min 22,1, the co-pilot notes that the plane is in alternate law.
That sounds fine but my point still stands.

Even with tax reassessment after a loan they've come out way ahead. The strategy isn't unique to California.
Why can't a poor kid from Oakland, or wherever, watch the classes online and self-study, and pay a nominal fee to exam?

In other words, is the concept of creating barriers to entry, limiting competition, not unreasonable? In any market, economists say that is anticompetitive, and should even be illegal.

Are people paying for education? Or for epaulets?

So let's talk about this "materially improving things for other students" in an honest context of what this is.
Or, as the case with the US, we import skilled immigrants.

Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Sergei Brin, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jensen Huang, Andrew Viterbi, Stephen Wolfram, among others, seem like pretty good gets for the US.
Forging test scores and athletic records seems materially different from a large public donation to the school.