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Ask HN: How should founders name their startup?
My team is closing a seed round from a prominent blockchain entity. This entity wants us to develop a suite of dapps using their smart contracts. NFTs, DeFi and gaming all are on the table. If an idea finds product-market fit, we'll spin it off and dig deep.

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Currently, us cofounders are brainstorming names (and web addresses) for our startup. Most name suggestions are neutral. E.g. blockchaindevs.io (and the like). Then there are a few suggestions that are specific. E.g. ones that contain the term `NFT` in them. Such as nftdapps.com, nftbits.io, etc.

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My cofounders prefer neutral names. After all, we don't intend to solely build NFT dapps.

However, I feel we should commit to `NFT` in the name. Why? Because I feel such a name helps us at this early stage. It won't be a huge difference maker. But it could marginally help with getting press. Might make investors/potential hires/potential customers marginally more curious, etc. Thus maybe it's worth a shot.

I do understand that with great vision+product, even mundane names become well-known. I'm not denying that. It is just a name. We don’t need to over-optimize it. But our company will never discuss the name again. So it is worth brainstorming for a few days. Then we'll forget about it and move on.

Can experienced founders on HN weigh in? What philosophy have you guys followed when naming your companies? And what do you think about my reasoning for potentially having NFT in our name?

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NOTE: NFTs can (and will) crash. Or something new will overshadow them. So committing to NFT in the name is risky. But my reasoning is: this is a branding exercise. It does not necessarily have to affect the freedom we have over our the product roadmap. Yes, we would need rebranding if the markets totally tank in 6 months. But conversely, if the stars align, the name might have helped the cause more than a generic or neutral name.
Could be. But it’s probably not the same audience as the wilderness/survival/woodworking audience!
> The biggest mistake we make is building the wrong thing

I don't think talking to users can fix that. If you have the wrong vision about the product, you probably will talk to the 'wrong users' too. You’re not in the market the users think you’re in — you’re in the market you believe you’re in.

That approach will also lead you to very incremental solutions or even make you run around in circles achieving nothing. It lowers the cost of failure (downside), but also the potential impact of success (upside).
This is why I did choose and stick to coolplayer at the time (before I converted to Linux) : no install, so light, so fast, and it had everything I needed. I loved it when I could find such an elegant a versatile app. I don't need to get "more" every 6-12 months.

I learned that every time you gain something, you also loose something without realizing it, because you take it for granted.
https://l.sr.ht/XhOm.png

If you actually want people to read your content, then don't put it on Medium. Not to mention that it's bloated as hell, requires JavaScript, burns batteries on mobile devices, and is full of loathesome spyware software.
In Michigan everything is corrupted by 100 years of letting elites run the government which here means the auto concerns. The car barons own the salt mine and they heap it out generously to the roadways because they know it destroys the autos forcing the slave class to buy more autos.
Blog author here, indeed I like NixOS, but I don't have the time to generate an entire nix file for a working desktop. I have some friends that do it and that's great, but there's no "Get you 90% there" installation option afaict. I just don't have the time for that.

That being said I use nix on my systems, just as a package manager to some existing boxes.
I have two virtual (US) numbers - one through Twilio (which I've enable short-code receive support for), and one on Google Voice.

Both have failed to receive 2-factor messages from providers over the years. Very occasionally the Google Voice number is blocked explicitly by the provider as a VOIP number. It's just not a reliable 100% replacement for "real" SMS in my experience.

Google Voice is close to acceptable as a replacement, and it's my primary 2-factor number when it works, but it's not 100% for reasons outside of my control.
I hear ya. It's definitely a fascinating question, and it's just such a /big/ problem. My dad's a food scientist, and he'd tell me about Norman Borlaug, underscoring that the reason he became a food scientist is because in his opinion, by far, the largest contributors to alleviating human suffering in modern times have been people who help solve the food problem.

On that note, is nutrition accessibility something that's priority on a short-term to medium-term basis on your strategic roadmap? I have no idea how something like this would work and integrate into programs like SNAP et al, but I can only imagine that once this technology matures a bit, it could seriously impact nutrition for at risk populations which are the ones who are most vulnerable to the vicious cycle of malnutrition anyways.
This is a cute solution but I feel like the exposition makes it more mysterious seeming then necessary. If you have n%15, that's enough to do FizzBuzz on it's own, without having to take a fourth power. It's just then you need to map n%15=3,6,9,12 to "Fizz" instead of just 6. Taking the fourth power simplifies things because 3^4, 6^4, 9^4 and 12^4 all equal 6 (mod 15). And similarly for the multiples of 5. Though this explanation doesn't generalize as well.
I completely understand why FAANG-type companies (and all their imitators) want young kids, right out of school.

Young folks learn rote (they just spent a whole bunch of years at school, doing exactly that), and adapt to it quickly, even if they don't fully understand the context or goals, so they are more likely to follow direction and process; especially if you can gamify the process.

Me, I like to know why, and to "play the tape through to the end." I'm also apt to say stuff like "Are you sure that you want to do that? You know it's likely to give you a race condition, if you use a different device. Might be worth it to consider a different approach.", and whatnot.

That kind of pisses in the punch bowl.
> Running out over the pavement to the cars in the street?

You seem sceptical? I've seen exactly that in a street near me, to a motor vehicle being charged up. They used a cable protector, this kind of device: https://www.kingfisherdirect.co.uk/traffic-line-hose-and-cab...

However, more permanent infrastructure would be buried below the paving. This already happens, BTW. Cities need infrastructure, that's just the fact of it. 21st century infrastructure will include fast internet and vehicle charging.
I’m trying to run a Postgres instance on a basic vps instance with a single vcpu and 8gb of ram! And I’ll need to erase and reload all 150 GB every two weeks..
There's nothing magical about a language that says that a tail-call will reuse the same frame/record/instance. It's only magical and unreliable when it's not in the language spec.
Is there anything in this bundle that people here recommend reading?
I call BS.

Any solar cell mounted on a roof of a car is going to be much more expensive and less efficient than a cell that can be mounted on a roof of a house.

Want to put a solar cell? Why not put it on your house instead? You can put as much of the cell as you can without the downsides of having it on your car. It will work for you even when you have your car parked in a garage.

With inclined roof the cell is going to be much more efficient than a car roof cell that has to be level.

Has anyone thought about parking the car in shade or garages? Now you have to park in a sunny place for a small increase in efficiency.

Here in eastern/northern Europe, the maximum values are normally unattainable throughout the year (at least here in Europe).

And no, the solar on a car is not going to prevent you from having to charge it, you still need to charge it, just a little less so it will not eliminate you having to have some place to charge it and fiddling with cables and chargers.
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SMS is not at all secure. My first out-of-uni programming job was working on SMS value-add services for mobile networks (mostly anti-spam, anti-fraud, anti-spoofing type stuff and roam steering, but also parental controls and other stuff). It was crazy what weird things we could bend the network to. Obviously, our services ran on the network itself, so had more access than a typical end user, but the protocols have zero built in security, everything on the network was totally open, spoofing is trivial (we could detect much of it with our software, but definitely not all -- mostly all we could do was consistency checks, but if you carefully crafted a fake packet, there's nothing we could do). As others have stated, the over-the-air encryption is often.. not good.. so getting access SMS like we had seems very possible. And since its not end-to-end encrypted, a bad actor within the network could also trivially access messages (we could! we even intercepted some of our own messages for testing, it would have been a simple regex to read other people's messages).

This was ~15 years ago, but I doubt much has changed.
If you tell a doctor that you had a bad reaction in the past, he or she will check a data sheet and assume you're insane or exaggerating.

There's some corruption going on in the data, perhaps? There are so many anecdotes from this class of drug, they cease to become 'just anecdotal.'
That means it will stay around longer, thus will be a hazard longer. Allowing things to de-orbit and burn up on re-entry is a safety feature.
The author also publicly mocked them and forced their hand in changing 7 years old code. They didn't even mention this $10k reward in their PR issue.
I store mine at the tire changing place down the road.
Cool. But I feel that this is mostly comparing random number generators. Their C++ code uses xorshift, while their Julia code use Mersenne twistors, for example.
It will ease my job
That's not a tail recursive call.
And you are under appreciating the myriad ways differences can express themselves in nature. We share 50% of the same DNA as a banana, and we're 98.8% the same as a chimpanzee.

Spurious examples aside, the pandemic has highlighted ethnic differences in reactions to both pathogen and vaccine.

And from personal experience in the field, seemingly "random" confounding factors can have drastic effects - supposedly safe gadolinium based contrast agents caused NSF if you happened to have bad kidneys.

Aggregation occludes all nuance, essentially by definition.

Decisions that are correct for the aggregate can often be wrong for the individual.

But I guess that kind of thinking is why the pandemic has been such a crapshoot in the first place.
> You should trust the system and the process.

I don't know which system and process you mean specifically, but I don't think that the system of approval under the FDA in the United States generally deserves our admiration or support.

The current opioid crisis is a great case study in the tragedy of trust, profit, and death.

As a scientifically literate society, we can do much better.
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For remotely any service requiring configuration (database, search index, language runtime, cache, etc.) across a team of 3-4+, it would behoove the team to maintain a common containerized setup in which to develop. Otherwise, you end up with package/dependency fragmentation, and the classic “works on my machine” problems.

There’s absolutely no shame in a minimal environment for production, but let’s not be so bold as to make developers deal with the mess that usually results in local dev environments.
The mRNA is the instruction that the body follows to produce the viral proteins that lead to an immune response. If the mRNA in a batch of vaccine degrades more than they have allowed for in the treatment protocol, it may not work.

(This is one of the reasons they have very specific handling rules and throw out vaccine that is improperly handled)
I'm not quite sure how you can make the relationship to content creators either an issue or a rationale for anything.

Software building has always been for a purpose, whether scientific, engineering, publishing, trading. The value creators need tools and software is that tool.

Whether individuals are rewarded in the same way or the same amount is not because of FAANG. While large, they are by no means the majority of the economy.

Everyone needs software now. This pandemic shows the value of that, as well as of the research it empowered, the education it enabled, the community it connected.
Refined petroleum products will certainly not be niche within a decade. So much of global transportation simply can't swap out ICE with electric now, or in many cases ever. Huge swaths of the globe lack the electrical grid infrastructure to entertain even small moves in that direction. And huge numbers of drivers in countries with adequate infrastructure can't plug in at home due to living in apartment complexes, urban street parking, etc. Electric transport is a great growth area but it will not make gasoline niche any time soon.

More likely the decreasing cost of electric transportation options will have downward competitive price pressure on gasoline.
Soo... where do I get some?
I never minded the boilerplate. Pushing buttons on a keyboard never slowed me down very much, especially compared to finding and fixing bugs or even writing gratuitous test cases to guard against type errors. If I could only press a few buttons per minute or if I could write many test cases per minute I might feel differently.
I have made OpenBSD based devices like routers that just work for years without failure. It is kind of funny to me hearing this guy complaining about managing bare metal Linux. Maybe I am missing something but I would say (1) find a configuration that does what you need it to do and don't update unless necessary (2) make important file systems read only (3) clone to flash.
I assume it is a lot easier in the US. Here in Norway it is still possible as well though, there was a media showcase about it a few years ago. But that is mostly due to lack of security measures by the telco (we have a national auth method that could be used).
I have doubts. The reason why rasterizers are so good by now — games been pushing fillrate, triangles count, texture samplers performance and quality for more than a decade.

Looking forward, I’d rather expect practical 2D renderers using the tech made for modern games. Mesh shaders, raytracing, deep learning, and even smaller features like sparse textures. These are the areas where hardware vendors are putting their transistors and research budgets.

None of the features you mentioned is impossible with rasterizers. Hardware MSAA mostly takes care about conflation artifacts, gamma is doable with higher-precision render targets (e.g. Windows requires FP32 support since D3D 11.0).
How many rows are we talking about? In the end once I started using dblink to load via redshift after some preprocessing the loads were reasonable, and indexing too. But I’m looking at full data refreshes every two weeks and a tight budget (30 bucks a month) so am constrained on solutions. Suggestions welcome!
Why there is so many appreciate 1-line comments from newcomers? Website is slow and the idea is not any revolutionary. Maybe it is because I have never need to share my postal address.
Yeah honestly, it's a shame that every one of these services (whatsapp, signal, telegram, ...) dont operate on a protocol like smtp. Its completely unnecessary to recreate a chat protocol every time it gets implemented. Here we are though, and exactly the thing you are expecting is happening, several competitors that don't interact with each other so even if I want to delete WhatsApp, I still keep it to reach family and friends elsewhere.
This...

> Building Log Cabin like our Forefathers

Is literally in the title of the video.

And this is in the description:

> Build my own traditional off grid log cabin by hand from the materials of the Swedish wilderness.

Did their Forefathers really use diesel tractors and cement gathered by hand from the Swedish wilderness?
False. They're absolutely given as a drug of first resort, all the time, in many places of the world. Happened to me.

In the US, in the early 2000s there was an anthrax terrorism scare where they tried giving thousands of people Cipro pre emptively.
Yep, but usually exact delivery dtaes are part of the individual purchase rders. Penalties and so on are part of the contract so. And there the EU - AZ contract is so vague, no company would buy anything else than office supplies with similar terms. One example is "best-effort", what ever that means. And that AZ is redeemed of any consequences for late deliveries if the EU ordered more than initially contracted and AZ has to increase capacities for these orders. And that seems to be exactly what happened.

And with AZ being, I could imagine, pretty pissed at the EU (and memeber states) right now, I think that doesn't really help neither.
You can minimize the bureaucracy, erasing it completely is not the only option.
A vast majority of laws are not enforced, especially not consistently.
In the northeast US I think they typically use a mix of both sand and salt.
colechristensen wrote:

> This is how a whole lot of people seek out happiness, by being "right" in their social circles, especially in a way that shows them as superior to large groups

And apparently they do this instinctively, without reflecting about it or understanding what they're doing (they do it also when it gives a silly impression, at least on me). It's hardwired in the brain I'd think

mikem170:

> Risk assessment isn't one of our stong suits, either

Long ago, in a hunter gatherer tribe, almost everything bad that you ever got to hear about, could happen to you too? So there was no need for the brain to get good at risk assessment -- just assuming that everything was "deadly dangerous" made sense, evolutionary?

Doesn't scale up well, with news from the whole planet
Perhaps this segmentation has some contractual clauses that effectively bans companies from buying gaming cards to mine with? They're not enforceable everywhere in the world, but if it covers a big chunk of the cryptomining world then that's probably good enough. That way they can charge a premium for mining cards.
Newer phones have a second virtual e-SIM slot. Very handy when you're travelling. You set up your normal number on the e-SIM, and then you buy a data-only phyiscal SIM at the airport.
The tire store, same place everyone else stores theirs.
> You should trust the system and the process.

If I'm supposed to be ok with small risks, why aren't any of the pharmaceuticals ok with the small risk that they've made a mistake and should be held liable?

Why did they seek indemnity if there's no chance the vaccine could risk my health?

I don't oppose the vaccine but this has never sat right with me.
Got burned there for sure! Speed is one thing but the cost is outrageous for io heavy apps! Anyways I moved to lightsail which doesn’t have io costs paradoxically so while io is slow at least the cost is predictable!
Using a TPM with GnuPG 2.3
Voip.ms
The investment is being done on a SAFE with a $100M valuation cap, not a $100M valuation with equity grants. That means theoretically Gumroad could never have a qualifying event by selling, going public, or raising a properly priced round by accredited investors. And therefore, investors never get an ROI. Dividends also require actual equity, not promissory notes. I’d imagine even if all investors did convert, paying dividends would be a non-starter given their company size and the number of investors.

Using a SEAL or the Indie.VC V3 terms seems more inline with how they want to run the company because it includes an instrument for investors to get an ROI with a payback clause if you choose never to sell.

I’d imagine there will be almost no pressure to sell because to my knowledge, no past employees or current contractors have equity, nor do they have outside institutional investors that want a return for LPs. I’d be curious to hear what the board structure is for oversight as well around important topics like salary comp, potential acquisitions, etc. There isn’t much stopping the founder or a group of people from pulling out all the profits for themselves or just paying outsized salaries.

Anyways, not dunking on it and just stating how some of the structures work from what I understand. The Gumroad story is an interesting one and I appreciate how they publicly share the experiments about how they’re running too. Will be interesting to follow over the years.

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It is definitly easier than configuring any GNU/Linux distribution.
Heh, you seem to have a quite imposing vocabulary of pejorative terms but let me say that you cannot be like that to others and expect them to react decently and favourably towards you.
Besides all of the other reasons this is a terrible product, it's name is also way too close to that of the defunct Toyota offshoot "Scion".
My experience has been extremely the opposite. It's likely the language you tried it with has a poor type system
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I would be fine if they stopped salting. Here in Michigan we are on top of one of the worlds largest reserves of salt and I believe it has led to over-use. It completely obliterates the metal on your vehicle.

It’s definitely time for an alternative solution, no pun intended.
"man mmv" tells it all.
I have been using OpenBSD laptops for years. Everything I need works. My configuration is very lean and very fast even on an older machine. Thinkpads (older at least) are 100% hardware supported in my experience. Only thing I can think of that is not supported is hot swapping ultrabay drives. I am not sure if that is supported on Windows since I have not used Windows.
I want to ask what do you see that impressive about things like this, really. This guy got bored one day and somehow decided to fell a bunch of trees older than him to somehow not even finish the walls in one year?

And sorry but I am not able to find confirmation about him doing this in his own land which makes the whole situation a bit more awkward.
I’d love a parable of how using SMS as part of a layered security verification is somehow unacceptably vulnerable.

The article gives plenty of examples. Here they are as links:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a37epb/t-mobile-alert-victim...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xyezmn/we-were-warned-about-...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/mg7bd4/how-a-hacker-can-take...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-1...

The latest is the most severe, in summary - a gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages.

So if you insert SMS 2FA in your security chain as a fallback authentication method, you're leaving it wide open to exploits and none of your other 2FA security like TOTP or tokens matters, because the attacker can just take over a customer/admin account using the SMS authentication to prove they are the user concerned then change those methods. In some cases you'll require an email as well, and in some you'll manage to send an email to that old email address before it can be changed, but many places don't, particularly mobile apps tend to rely on the phone number, and most people don't monitor every email address 24/7, so lots of damage can be done in a short period.

SMS really needs to be fixed and it's really debatable whether it adds security or subtracts security in the meantime, even in a layered approach.
I always wondered why this wasn't referenced in the Fallout games (at least, from what I can tell).