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Ask HN: MVP - How to handle the emotional roller-coaster ride?
Hi HN,
A few months ago I asked around 2,000 potential customers (B2C) if they would pay for this one product. Turned out that they hated the product in every way possible. I was really having problems with how harsh people declined.
Now fast forward to today. I have offered a new product to five potential customers (B2B) and even without me talking about money they offered to pay right away. Those five have been the first five I ever talked to about this product.
Now I am being realisitc, the market for my product isn't large. At the same time I am so excited that this thing will turn into a product with paying customers! Right now I can't eat, sleep or do anything that is not related to the product.
How do you handle such situations? Does it get less emotional after a few rides?
I have succesfully run Xen on 2 of their root servers for 3-4 years (with 5 to 8 virtual machines on each), ending this episode only recently (not because of technical difficulties). There were some occasional problems with Xen itself (some virtual machines went to zombie state from time to time - I hope Xen is more reliable nowadays), but nothing in connection to a hosting provider.
The reason it's harder is because it deals with device specifics as well as type of memory and mapping, queues, workgroup size.. etc.. This framework might be cute but all it really is doing is what compiler vectorizes have done for ages.
Actually, we get everything delivered pretty quick...another plus side of being a tiny country. Also, its really damn hot...
Trust or not, I'm still writing code today for the 95% of people that are running Windows and Office. The irony is that the code interfaces to PGP/GPG...
Correlation is definitely not causation...
Haha Good question!! He's smiling now!!
This confused me when I was learning Haskell as well. The way I understand it is that regex-base defines a base-line interface -- such as the context-aware =~ function -- that all of the other packages implement, which is why they're known as 'backends' (e.g. regex-tdfa, regex-pcre, etc.).

In newer versions of GHC (> 6.6), the backends re-export this interface so that you just need to import the backend. regex-tdfa is the backend that I've used myself, mainly because I saw it used in other packages (Hakyll).

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Regular_expressions#regex...
and an utopia
This is an example of "hacking".

This site's name is?
How to Sleep Well?
Interesting how the "TRE" (entity responsible for the voting process) keeps stating the system is safe.
I can confirm this. Im running many servers with all kind of hosters since the 90s and the only one that had a Harddisk go haywire was the one Server I had with Hetzner.
Radio is like an ad service for the music industry, where you listen to demo tracks and hopefully buy the full album. Rdio and Spotify give you full access to the end product for virtually nothing. It has totally screwed up the perceived value of albums.
In the face of ideology there is little to discuss...
Actually, why nobody mention anything about Intel and Cisco? I would image it would be much more effective to build backdoor to network appliances if you want to spy someone.
Thom Yorke pulls albums from Spotify
I don't remember last time I used bill's products.
I'm not sure I see why you'd want separate columns for X, Y, etc. Why not have one margin, and use it for theorems, definitions, etc?
A thing that does bother me, and signifies the extent to which what you say is true is that "talking" to the authors of these papers nearly always delivers those good insights within a few minutes that you would not get after spending an hour on the paper they wrote.

This. A thousand times this.

I'm not talking about technical language - there are often (if not constantly) times when technical language is required to convey a precise meaning within the context of a paper. All I'm talking about here is the use of complexity where it's not required. It's a comment on the quality of writing.
Building an API with Go at Microco.sm
Following the naming pattern, the title would be more like "County of C" ;-).
You mean this guy?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tatsuo%20Horiuchi&um=1&tbm=i...
There's a business opportunity. Rent-a-shopper. Anonymize your purchases by having another person do your shopping. Pick up your purchases at a rent-a-shopper pick up point near you.

I wonder what percentage of the population cares about being profiled though. Less than 5%?

It's a niche business opportunity.
This is the most well reasoned argument i heard - and reflect my sentiments perfectly. Its not that i am too afraid the NSA can read my email or listen to my phone convo, but that they can coerce, "lawfully", the ISP/telco to do things against my wishes, and keep it secret from me.

These gag orders are the kind of things that creep into society and they are the first weapon against would-be activists that's perceived to be against the corporate interest (or the interest of the elite). It doesn't take much for chilling effect to set in. Fight it now, or it will be too late when it has the power to threaten the laymen.
I don't think that would effect his chances. All of our latest presidents have admitted or have been proven to do illegal drugs of some sort. Not to mention that the U.S. government has done some crazy things with drugs, especially LSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

http://www.cracked.com/blog/five-fun-facts-about-the-cia-and...
http://nodecopter.com/ (no affiliation, but sounds like what you want :-) )
As some other people said (while, unfortunately, missed the whole point of the exercise said), this is completely impractical and the altogether the wrong technology to actually _do_ this sort of thing in production. It's really just meant to push boundaries and be a demo of what can be done in CSS (at least I hope that's the intent).

If you're going to tackle the "autogenerate" problem, it's probably a lot more interesting to do so in SVG or something of that ilk.
Don't you want to tell us about your product?
Nice try, left brain. But the right brain helps much more in emotional connections.
http://www.xamarin.com compiles C# to native apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
Nothing wrong. But i guess DOM manipulation can be painfull sometimes. But if you are going to develop a web app you'll have to use the dom.
Codeanywhere raises $600,000 to boost its ‘Google Docs for developers’ service
There are two problems with this:

1) There's not good broad support for 3D views in PDFs; I imagine it won't work on most things other than Adobe Reader. What does it fallback on if it doesn't work? etc. And in any case, it's a corruption of what the PDF document format was "meant" to be, which is a document format guaranteed to display the same on all devices.

2) The 3D data isn't useful. It's raw information, rather than the metadata. If I'm looking at a 3D view of a crystal, I may want to export it to manipulate the structure myself or use it in my own simulations, so I want to know what atoms are there and information about boundary conditions, symmetry and the like. I specifically don't want a list of vertices and edges that, say, make up the individual spheres that represent the atoms.
Curious as to why Amazon isn't on that list then? Perhaps it's true that Bezos has more in common with Jobs.
Your best bet on Android is to download the source and use that as your documentation.
> Android is terribly documented and very messy to develop on.

I keep hearing this FUD, but I have no idea where it's coming from. I've never had any problems with the Android documentation. The most annoying part of Android development is probably Eclipse, but I'd rather have a resource intensive IDE that's cross platform than one that only runs on OS X.

In fact, the Android platform has some amazing opportunities for those who are willing to look past the mainstream views on it. Because it's ignored by so many companies/developers, all you have to do is pick an iOS app that is popular and clone it - you are pretty much guaranteed to get lots of users.
Even the repealing of Citizens United as a Constitutional Amendment is having hard enough traction. With such low trust level in Congress (which means Congress is the most anti-citizens as ever), this is not a proper environment for introducing a Constitutional Amendment, anyway. Can you imagine what this "rogue" Congress would try to introduce in it (that's if they even accept to pass it).

Also, it's not needed. Why the hell can't we get the same type of strict restrictions for e-mail and online chat as for snail mail? Why?!

Those privacy laws for mail were not made based on the medium - paper - they were based on the principle of private communications. So why doesn't that apply to e-mail, too? The government is quick to say that copyright infringement online is just like stealing a car. So why isn't infringing on e-mail privacy just like infringing on snail mail privacy? And why doesn't e-mail get the same laws protecting it? That's what people need to ask their own representatives in Congress.
How a group of game developers beat the odds to create the Kenyan game industry
Someone once said that music is the only thing that you consume before purchasing.
Well, I'd be a bit skeptical: "the device could effectively and accurately, from long range, detect the presence and location of various types of explosives, drugs, ivory, and other substances"
Yep. That japanese guy.
Suppose I run a company based in France employing 100 people and selling goods by mail order. All my operations are in France, so clearly I should pay my taxes in France.

I don't think anyone would have a problem with that. The problem is running your operations in France, supplying to customers in the UK, but declaring all of your profits in The Democratic People's Republic of South West Nowhere (corporation tax rate: 0.075%) where your corporate headquarters (head count: 1 lawyer (PT), 1 accountant, 3 board members who also sit on the board of 97 other businesses run by that lawyer and that accountant) is based.
Crockford has some very interesting things to say about it:

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/10/20/video-crockford-domtheory...
Having worked in support for a long time, yes. If you set too low a bar on ease of access for support, people will call you for imagined problems that could have been sorted if they spent all of 5-10 seconds thinking about it. Support is expensive. It's certainly a necessity, unless you have unimaginable resources, but you need to temper access to it. This goes double if your target audience is the general public rather than a niche market.

One classic mistake I've seen made time and time again by all sorts of companies is to think that support is free or cheap. It really isn't. It's a product unto itself.
True, but if the network traffic between you and, say Office 365, is encrypted, the NSA would need to decrypt that. It'd be so much easier if Microsoft just handed over the actual, unencrypted, files. I can easily imagine the NSA login screen for Microsoft's PRISM interface with a "Yes, I have a proper court order" checkbox under the password field.
Apple reportedly signs Samsung for next-gen iPhone chips
The Guest Book Problem
unfortunately, the inertia is too big for any single organization to stop. If you have a business selling software, it would be borderline insane to not target windows as a platform. You may target others, but you _must_ target windows, or basically, get no business. If, or when your resources are limited, you only target windows.

So the problem is perpetuated - windows is the only platform that is basically guarenteed to have a market. So as a user of software, you'd stick to windows, and as a maker of software, you'd stick to making software for windows. Other platform is almost an afterthought. Unless web based software radically changes (i need to unzip a file - what web based software will do that for me?), this will not change.
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/legal/agb

Sections 6 and 7
I'd be more interested in the content of the tasks. Development methodology is fairly meaningless unless you understand the scope of the problems people are solving.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%...
Yes - especially when you recall that projects like OpenBSD have previously [0] been accused of having backdoors in its IPsec stack, as an example.

[0] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2
Show HN: PouchDB - The JavaScript database that syncs
The mistake, perhaps, is that people (us) are trying to shoe horn an application into a Document object model - its in the name for christ sakes! Document! Not application object model!
Why would I trust the rent-a-shopper pick-up point? They might be tracking me as well. Once started, paranoia goes all the way.
The fact that it is available for everyone to inspect means it can be peer reviewed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review

That doesn't mean you're supposed to review it or that it is reviewed at all, but it is a requirement for the open source development model.

About the Linux kernel, see this example: http://kernelnewbies.org/UpstreamMerge

From Quality control section: "Some of the world's best developers will be going over your source code with a fine comb. This may be embarrassing for a few days or weeks, but in the end the code tends to work better and be more easily maintained. In some cases the upstream developers have made network and storage drivers 30% faster, making the hardware more attractive to customers."
First i checked, corporation outside of the USA.

Check.
So potentially legit ^^
Sikorsky Prize Claimed: Human Powered Helicopter
I just put up this website, its ugly but working on the content, in particular I want it very easy to understand wtf it is and get started, would love to hear your feedback.
Putting aside the point that it's open source, most distributions don't ship it. Ubuntu / SuSE use AppArmor.

RedHat / Fedora ship with SELinux.
Does it matter? With the first product users could win money, travels, cosmetics and other prizes for solving knowledge based puzzles.
The B2B product saves time by automating specific QA work flows when testing mobile apps/ xbox/playstation/wii games.
I found out that Spotify library is very poor. There's lot's of good artists missing - I'm not talking about this new artists like Wiz Kahlifa and all that junk. From Reggae, through Punk, Trip Hop, Hip-Hop, Drum and bass, Funk, Soul, Blues, Rock and not only, I find that Last FM is better! Plus, I can just use it in my browser.
I thought you were joking about the number plates thing, but it's true (and apparently legal) ...

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/27/mystery-solved-why-st...

This reminds me of a friend of mine who proxies all his web traffic through something which strips user agents and referrers. It's very easy for me to tell when he visits my website, because the logs show "-" for each of these fields.
Forrester: $2.1 Trillion for 2013 IT Spending. U.S. & Software Lead the Charge
The list was about joining PRISM, it doesn't say anything about backdoors in mobile phones. They may very well be present in all iPhone generations.
I actually moved from linux to freebsd, because I was lazy.

Main selling point is: no matter what you tweak, it _will_ work and it will work as you expected it to.
I don't think its irrelevant to the morality of a public servent when the people prioritize one thing over another and he acts accordingly.
It's a cliche, but I find a quote from William Wallace really helps in this sort of situation. (I work in filmmaking and internet marketing, two industries with fairly significant peaks and troughs.)

The quote in question: "This too shall pass.". Equally useful in good or bad situations.
Nokia started out as a tyre manufacturer:

http://www.nokiantyres.com/history-in-brief

1898 The Finnish Rubber Works is founded

1904 Factory set up in the town of Nokia

1967 Nokia Corporation established - Rubber, Cable and Paper Divisions

2003 Nokia's ownership in Nokian Tyres ended; Bridgestone Europe NV/SA became the largest shareholder
> Hacker news will up-vote bad articles that insinuate some kind of profundity? lol.

Has it come to this? Oh no, please say it aint so.

Why cant we move to hyperboria? Or can we?
Space for all: Small, cheap satellites may one day do your bidding
The moment you're trading in another country

The difficulty is in defining what "trading in another country" actually means.

If you sell a physical product, there are some unambiguous facts that can be considered: where was the product made, where did its components come from, where was it delivered, that kind of thing.

If you're selling information, say an e-book or an MP3 download, things are slightly more ambiguous.

If you're providing services of some kind, things get much more complicated, as anyone who has to deal with VAT in Europe can testify. There is a concept of the "place of supply", and trying to come up with a standard way of determining that place of supply that is both practical and reasonably fair to all concerned is still a work in progress.

And that is just for sales taxes/VAT, where the parties involved tend to be obvious (someone paid money, and someone received it). With multinational business structures, where you might have revenues and expenses in many jurisdictions and somehow you have to decide how to balance everything up and declare profits, there's an entire extra layer of ambiguity to contend with.
Hulu parents scrap sale, inject US$750 million
Some time ago I wrote why Yii is much better than CodeIgniter:

http://www.backwardcompatible.net/123-7-reasons-why-yii-fram...
"Objective-C and Java rule 2013 since web apps are not as pleasant to use on mobile."

Or with some MVVM, Xamarin and some C# or F#... write once, compile for all mobile platforms. Never having to once touch the nastiness of Obj-C or Java.
Ah yes, well - OK I'd be thinking, given recent history, Windows Phone would be high on my list of most likely to be evil, but in the back of my mind is always, its the carrier that holds the cards there. But u have a point I had not considered - the mobile arena. What one would you consider the lesser evil?
Here is a video about the Euclid software. This service makes the Wifi tracking even scarier because it can track across different stores, then they probably sell that data. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4W1GIRHC_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86DxCqfHjY

Here is a way to opt-out of this particular service. https://signup.euclidelements.com/optout

It seems like it would be trivial to tie in the location tracking with the products someone purchases and if you are using a rewards card (like most grocery stores have) then the store has all of your information tied to your MAC address.

It's not just stores, any place could have these systems set up. Malls, airports, stadiums, schools, or even your workplace.

Is it possible to obscure or modify a phones wifi strength when not connected to a network to prevent this tracking?
Paralyzed artist paints with mind alone
It very much depends on the website.

Some websites will be best running Adsense. Seriously. I know a guy who, at its peak, was running a website making 5 figures a month off Adsense.

Many websites will work well with affiliate marketing - find a product that your audience wants that has an affiliate program (where you're paid commission for either selling it or generating leads) and recommend that to your audience.

Others are obvious fits for a designed product, or an email list, or upsell to consultancy, or - the list goes on.

There's no one-size-fits-all solution, I'm afraid.

It also depends on the person running the website. Do you like doing A/B tests and have a gift for selling? Affiliate marketing may be the way forward. Are you a fantastic writer? Ebooks, my friend, ebooks. Do you love interacting with your community, have a skill for building huge traffic, but hate selling? Adsense.
Not just the DOM, HTTP as well. We're shoehorning state into a stateless system, and inventing new crap like WebSockets to overcome limitations of a system designed for document retrieval. The web has turned into the biggest hack ever.
All the includes are insane as well. Run Noscript or any other JS blocker and visit a few big sites and you'll see that you end up running JS from half the Internet.

I'm joking of course, but some sites have dozens of includes from other sites, advertisers, CDNs, etc.
Russian Space Center in Kazakhstan Counts Down Its Days of Glory
>If authors wanted to draw using code, why not improving skills with something proper, and the best thing I know is SVG, period

I would imagine the OP could quite easily do this using SVG - he didn't - he chose the hard and interesting route - for fun and because he could. If you ask me projects like this improve skills - mainly solving a problem - even if the 'problem' is subjective.
I, too, would appreciate an invitation. Apropos of this thread, it would be great if lobste.rs could support collapsing subtrees of comments.
I agree 100% on this: Only use your bed for sleeping
Refrain from using your bed to watch TV, pay bills, do work or reading. So when you go to bed your body knows it is time to sleep. Sex is the only exception.
Correct me if I'm missing something, but why exactly are you using 2.0.0-rc2, when there is 2.0.0-p247 available?

I'd suggest doing

rbenv install 2.0.0-p247

rbenv global 2.0.0-p247

Also, it's openssl, not open-ssl, (just in case someone couldn't complete the step) i.e.

brew install openssl
We also had very bad luck with hard drives at Hetzner. Even the replacement disks we got after one gave up had 25000+ hours of spinning time according to SMART.
Why I won't speak at women-only events
The Invisible Nightmare
I'm not sure if this is only for paying customers but Spotify does have webui too (https://play.spotify.com/).
This is at once a brilliant and useless post. The brilliance is that of course you should provide something that people need that is risk averse, and using the analogy of making tires during the transitional period of wagon to automobile works well. The uselessness is both that everyone cannot make tires, literally or figuratively, and it is very difficult to know what the modern day "tire" is. Is it long lasting, high output energy source? Is it an internet-independent lifestyle-enhancer? Does it make me more energetic without unwanted side-effects or risk to my long-term health?
I disagree; the criticism isn't about the term itself, it's that the term isn't readily explained on the site.

If, as explained, the term is widely understood by the target market, then this criticism is invalid (but caused by the poster not knowing the target market). If the criticism was valid, and the target market didn't understand the term, then the site owner knows that he/she should add an explanation.

The actual definition is sort-of irrelevant.
His allegations are easily disprovable or provable.

Every eletronic ballot in Brazil prints the vote count for each candidate before leaving the voting room. Several copies of this report are printed, every citizen may ask for each and political parties often do it. I do it for the ballot I vote.

However, he claims to tamper the results after that, during the data consolidation process, when data from every ballot is summed. So, to prove him right, it is only a matter of checking if the ends meet.

Apparently, they meet. No political party has ever contested the results based on this difference.

Not to say Brazilian voting system is infallible - there are many problem with it. But this is not one.
This was on the frontpage just 13 hours ago...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6042442
No, I can tell you from experience, you'll know when your postings aren't suitable. They end up on page 20+ in no time at all.

It's definitely not the volume of posts that puts them there.
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