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Ask HN: Pre-selling for a Doughnut Start-Up
I'm interested in starting up a shop that sells home-made doughnuts and coffee. I want to pre-sell the concept to the community to quantify sales before we commit. Here are my thoughts:

1. Make the doughnuts at home and set up a website that takes delivery orders. (I'm worried about the legality of distributing a product made in an uninspected kitchen)

2. Make the doughnuts and sell them on campus. (I'm currently going to school here. We could donate profits to a student group.)

What are your thoughts? How can we pre-sell for food product?
What if the parents chose to send the kid to Russian-language school?

In any case, you have a point that if someone WANTED to integrate into Latvian society, they could. What I'm questioning is the desire.

Having immigrated to US and adapted to that society, I'd have to say that moving "back" to the country where you already speak the language and identify with the society is quite a bit easier than to fully integrate into something you are not used to. It's all in the will of a person and the economic incentives to do so. For me in the US, I had the resolve and very strong financial against to be had if I followed through.

If you take Switzerland as an example, their extremely high citizenship requirements are well supported by the high standard of living and long term benefits. Unfortunately, Latvia, together with the rest of the Baltic states does not yet have such a strong position. I suspect when it does, such complaints will end, as people will be happy to do the work for the reward.
He was a sales guy :-)
Author here. Great suggestions, however I'm not interested in measuring performance in the conventional page-load sense, but instead the impact of running typical developer tasks in a VM, namely app boot time and tests.
Can you explain the difference between a web page editor and word processor? (this isn't meant as criticism; I'd just like to understand your perspective, as I personally view them as being in the same category)
I don't know if they'll pull off the desktop integration, but meanwhile can you recommend a phone I can put into a dock and work on as a desktop PC. That seems pretty new and bold to me.
“When all your engines stop, the flight is over”
It made me sad reading it. I've met folks like the character portrayed, idling along because they can, never improving anything. Eventually they will get dismissed, and after being so may find that they are completely dysfunctional having forgotten the habits needed to get things done, and perhaps developed habits that work against them. Unemployed, hungry, and often homeless they turn to drugs or alcohol and slowly circle the drain. There was an interview with somebody who could have been this character on the CBS evening news when they were doing a story about the long term unemployed. He hadn't been employed in over 3 years and had no transferable skills from his old job and in the past three years had not developed any new skills. So very very sad.

It is one thing to build up enough savings such that you can live off the 4% annual draw down stipend like MMM advocates, and then wasting your time. It is something else completely to be depending on someone else to pay you a salary.
Don’t burn your tongue to check a hot coffee, trust Brando
any job that can be replaced by a computer or robot, will be. Be the one who makes that happen, or be the one it happens to.
Coward seems to be in the bag of words people reach for when trying to say someone is really, really bad.
Some of the comments on Salon are just sad. A death is a death. Whether it's 900 or 2, drone strikes that kill innocent civilians are unacceptable. Trying to justify it by saying that there is only a small death toll number is inhumane. We can not say are objective is to protect innocent life and then take innocent life. Giving precedent to American life makes us and NATO forces seem like evil pretentious bastards. We constantly create enemies with these tactics. If your mother, brother, sister, etc.. was killed during one of these attacks, it makes it easier for you to join an extremist group to bring down the countries that had anything to do with their deaths.

From my readings, it seems that a lot of these group's efforts are a lot less religious motivated and more revenge motivated now of days, hence the increase in extremist groups post 9/11. The US foreign policy since President Truman has set precedent on innocent American life and those of our allies. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I think all of this boils down to three words a woman from Brooklyn, NY famously said best in a popular Pop-culture rap song "Money, Power, Respect". In that order as well.

War is money, so keeping an enemy is important. If the US ended its War on Terrorism today, there would be no other organization, faction or nation willing to step up to be Public Enemy #1. Sure we have those that could be considered (Iran and North Korea) but they tremble in a NY minute if chosen to take up the title. A defense budget pumps trillions into the US economy; which creates return for shareholders, jobs, tax revenue (personal income), and enforces the US Foreign Policy of democracy everywhere. More spending, more borrowing; which has been the trend of the US in the past decade.

Power and respect are essential to America's continued dominance as a super-force and leader amongst nations. We take a different stand on power than other rich nations. We concentrate on using our power for evil instead on good by focusing on fear. We attempt to bully with the fear of us stepping into a foreign situation; which has been manipulated over time and thru history to seem that are presence brings a win for us or our allies.

Respect gives others faith to continue to believe in the US; which means continued belief in the US dollar. Any lack of faith in the US dollar means lack of investing; which then turns into countries like China trying to salvaged what money they have left on their US bonds and other securities; which do not allow them to hit maturity. We then pay out what we owe; which will be nothing because that is what we have. The results are a depression because our debt is now our currency to the world and that is deflation.

Just my thoughts, first time I typed them out or shared for anyone to hear other than the audience I gather when talking about tech, startups, student load debt, sports or politics. Sorry about no data or sources, I just got into the zone typing but this comes from my research as an undergrad and somewhat grad student.
What's better than freedom of speech?
'ps' :)
It's okay, just do it tomorrow.
I take it that you haven't been in the position of having to enter the US as a visitor? You might be required to prove you have enough money to cover your stay just to get a tourist visa (or even a transit one).

For a permanent visa, requiring $10k savings is pretty reasonable. If you've been working as a programmer or engineer in the developed world, you should be able to save that much in 1 year, give or take a few months. If you're in an emergent country, 2 years or so.
It's probably because Firefox does not support many presentation attributes as well as proper font antialiasing for the text and tspan SVG tags. It looks like they did create their own text layout engine with support for flowing around arbitrary shapes.

I'm curious how well this works, since emulating native text capabilities (just think RTL vs LTR) requires an insane amount of Javascript and the performance is pretty terrible for texts longer than a few hundred words. If they got this right, it must be a masterpiece of Javascript code. Google recently introduced their own text layout capabilities in Google Docs (also SVG based) and it's pretty buggy beyond simple text. Just to highlight the complexity of the issue, they used to render text into SVG on the server until recently.

It's one of the reasons we had to use foreignObject with pure HTML inside for Moqups instead, although it prevents us from supporting IE at all, including IE 11. We can at least target Webkit/Blink & Gecko this way.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG_in_Firefox
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-shapes-1-20130620/
> 538 is awash with numbers but the algorithms used to generate them are the very definition of "eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients".

I agree. I much prefer the (simpler) work of Sam Wang from the Princeton Election Consortium (http://election.princeton.edu/) who did release MATLAB code of his work and his data sources so you could do it yourself. Somehow, Nate Silver got all the media attention though.
Web::Scraper is a really good one for perl. (http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Web-Scraper-0.37/lib/Web/Sc...).
Journalist James Risen ordered to testify in CIA leaker trial
What is a "premature + asymmetric effort to capture value" and how is it "counterproductive", and to whom, and how does it relate to bootstrapping at the expense of the "time and teamwork" towards which the rest of the "startup community" is "heavily skewed"?
iWork for iCloud which is a part of iCloud.com. I'm strictly speaking of the website for iCloud. It's awful. It takes a long time to load and is stuck with a clunky user-interface that mimics iOS/OS X. It doesn't look right and it doesn't feel right. Apple needs to hire people who know how to design a web application.
There's another explanation to go with this one:

Suppose all objects have an 'energy', whatever that is, given by a vector sum of two components: P and M. Now every object may be distinguished by the distribution among those components: if, for a given norm, the energy is all in P, we say it is spacelike, it's energy is all in the space component. If it's in M then it's timelike.

So for us massive timelike objects at rest, E=M (in natural units) and for spacelike objects, E=P. Then it becomes clear that, since the mass is an instrinsic property of objects, any given object with M>0 cannot be spacelike: the energy vector will always have a time component, and likewise light cannot be timelike. You can however increase the spacelike component of the object and make it approach spacelikeness, measured by, for instance, the angle teta=arctg(P/M) with diminishing returns for each unit of energy (if you visualize it, you'll se at the start the return is linear -- teta ~ P/M and then it becomes very hard).

So the explanation above is telling in the sense that if you could be spacelike things would be weird, but doesn't reveal why you can't have massive spacelike objects -- namely, because we have a finite supply of energy.
I've heard a few similar stories, here's one about an engineer who was 'too senior' to lay off when an office closed:

They wound up with nearly zero responsibilities. Same as this story, they were relocated to a remote office and never assigned a new manager.

Once a month, they received an email from someone on the QA team with updated i18n strings for the latest software update. Their sole duty was to append the strings, commit, and verify the build wasn't broken. They replied to QA with a single word: "Done!", and that was all they did.

In their free time (as I recall) they made mobile games and about three years in, the company went into Chapter 11 and seeing the writing on the wall, they turned in their resignation... to whom, I don't know.
My first Mac. 50 months and counting.
The "lazy pirate pattern" was added to the Guide a while back. It explains how to deal with this robustly.

http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Client-Side-Reliability-La...
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He was definitely good at corporate politics. A great skill to have, since it makes him employable and buys him time in whatever company he'd work to learn the stuff he'd eventually need to do
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+1 on sticking to DEALER/ROUTER on top of a green-thread system like gevent. This is how zerorpc works [1], and it is the backbone of the dotCloud platform.

Also note that most of the time PUB/SUB and PUSH/PULL are not a good idea either. The same results can be usually be achieved by returning a stream on top of ROUTER/DEALER (this is what zerorpc does). The performance gains of custom topologies are great in theory, but in a typical modern web or mobile stack, they are not worth the extra effort and lack of flexibility. The single best change we made to dotCloud's architecture was move away from custom topologies and stick to DEALER/ROUTER.

[1] http://github.com/dotcloud/zerorpc-python
Enthralling read. That was 11 years ago. I wonder if he stuck around to see the 2008 recession and somehow miraculously made it through. If not he would have had a huge redundancy pay out given his tenure.
Give the fuss you kicked up about meanpath earlier I'm not sure you can really claim "one-of-a-kind" here...

That said it looks good and the demo seems to work now, good job!

Just out of curiosity what's the UA of your crawler? Curious to see if it's hit any of my sites.
Your assertion remains to be seen.
There are still significant downsides to submitting prior art to the PTO that also existed when bountyquest was around.

The main serious issues are still the same, in fact:

1. If you submit prior art pre-grant, that's basically that. You don't get to argue about it, only the examiner does. If the patent issues, you've now lost a possibly valuable reference if the examiner didn't use it well enough.

2. If you challenge in any of the post-grant proceedings, you'll be estopped from suing on anything you raised or could have raised.
I've only ever experienced that with 'new' people to venture capital. Basically bringing a short term view to a long term game. Fortunately the ones I've met who have done that have not stayed in the game long (I don't know if the partners ask them to leave or they just stop getting deals, but I've not met anyone who has 'lasted' with that sort of approach).
> You know what killed Occupy? Occupy! No goal, no purpose, just "we hate the bankers and we hate the gub'mint!". Well, take a number, guys, you can get in line with practically the whole rest of the country.

I never argued for supporting Occupy. The problems isn't about occupy, the problem is that FBI and their corporate partners thought they are dangerous enough to label them as "domestic terrorists". Think about it. A bunch of people without a goal, disorganized, non-violent, and they bothered to label them as terrorist. Good Lord. What if they were more organized. What would those watching them be doing? Assassinating them with drones.

> The technology used to spread the message has changed, but the message has always been available. It's just that no one actually cares.

It is a mater of degrees. There used to be zines and meetings and what not. Getting a hold of a publisher, printing on dead trees, distributed that is a lot of effort than just posting a blog. So saying alternative media was there and it is there now. Is true. But it was never in the same quantity and availability. The latency was much higher as well. There aren't dark and white colors only. Only radicals vs authoritarians. People are on the continuum and drift across it. Availability of information is that makes that easier. One can become more informed or go further into conspiracy theory fantasy world. But overall it is a very positive development.

> Why does everyone blame the evil MSM? Fox News was started because the MSM was 'too liberal'.

There is nothing to blame there. They are simply following their incentives. Fox News, MSM and all others are large corporations in the business to make money (largely from advertising). They are not in the business of informing the public. They would operate according to basic incentives. This is very well described and researched in Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent work. The work is not new but it is still very valuable to read and very actual.
Or just navigate to settings and start a ringtone playing. Sell it with a tinge of embarrassment and they wouldn't know any better.
Agreed but he's using his free time to play Snake? Its one thing when people use this sort of position to build a new business or develop new skills, its sad when they let that time go to waste. As you get older you realize you're never getting that time back, ever. And even though you feel the same way you did when you were 20 you can't reset the clock.
It does, locally.
No no, that stuff is illegal.
http is a bad protocol for internal services due to arbitrary length text headers with big parsing overhead and lack of multiplexing of packets per connection by default. Even FastCGI is much better choice.

Erlang's messaging protocol, Protocol Buffers, Msgpack and other carefully serializing solutions trying to reduce parsing and communication overheads.

ZeroMQ seems like natural choice for the core of so-called messaging middleware, because, well, it's what it was designed for.)

And, of course, avoiding JVM leads to great reduction of resource wasting.
Agree. I've been at this for a long time and never needed anything in this capacity. Not once.
I didn't say I didn't think it had any impact on society. I said I doubted it had an impact on "it"; "it" being how young adult males and females are perceived in society today with a view to self-reliance and independence.
Histogram so far:

http://quickhist.onloop.net/monit=75,supervisord=107,daemoni...
I think it's from Jeff Atwood, but I can't find the exact source. It is also rather true for Samsung Galaxy and iPhones. First memorable Windows "for everyone" is 3.1 and the list goes on and on.
In Amsterdam there is a famously strong one, best in Europe (while nothing compared to the Valley). Berlin is also a nice place in this respect, i know a few guys in Eastern Europe who worked in startups there. Berlin is a very unusual city because while being a capital of one of topmost tech countries in the world, it enjoys cheap rent and cost of living/doing business (because it's not overcrowded yet, legacy of the separation era, quite opposite to say, London).
Nah, that's a rookie mistake. You don't want to be the guy caught doing that when a real call comes in.
Working with a ton of investors -- both angel and VC -- does not the private phone call make.
Geiser is a great tool for working with Scheme, and the author jao (José A Ortega Ruiz) is a genuinely good guy. His old blog at

http://programming-musings.org

is full of Scheme goodness, and he has another site devoted to Emacs hacks at

http://emacs.wordpress.com
may anyone explain why earth is shining like a star?
is it reflecting the sun beam?

and why no stars on the background?
And yet here you are wasting time on HN.
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Seeing as digg reader just go "only view unread" and "mark as unread" [1] it's pretty much feature complete for me. I found theoldreader has a bit more "information density" but maybe one day digg will make a compact mode like gmail

[1] http://blog.digg.com/post/55816621304/digg-reader-view-only-...
Imperial to Metric system conversion error - Gimli Glider
How do you hack something without discovering a vulnerability? Assuming that there are no known vulnerabilities.
Can't. I just penciled in some time to catch up on baseball scores.
> there is no reason you can't buy 30 year bonds and sell them later.

Except, there are no guarantees the price you get on the sale of those bonds will be the same as the price you initially payed.

The possibilities are you might get your money back, you might make money or you might lose money on that sale.

Edit: In fact as can be seen by the graph below the yield on 30 Year T-Bonds is going up, indicating the price of the bond is falling (as the price moves inversly to the yield).

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/30_year

NOTE: See the 6m curve from link above
You forgot one:

sysv init!

All of my systems' processes are managed by it and have been for at least two decades.

Occasionally I do these periodic tasks as well, which are handled by a thing called "cron".

Yes this is sarcasm. There is a lot of wheel-reinventing done these days which is entirely unnecessary if you consider the long-forgotten "Unix philosophy".
I won't suggest that asymmetric effort to capture value might not be counterproductive in some instances, but let's not suggest that founders view their interactions with professional investors through rose-colored glasses either.

As for bootstrapping: sadly, lots of young and inexperienced entrepreneurs underestimate how much money they'll need to execute. That's not a control issue; that's a starting-a-business-when-you-have-no-business-starting-a-business issue.

Finally, the word "big" is too subjective to have any real meaning here. If you told a group of first-time entrepreneurs that they could own 100% of a highly-profitable multi-million dollar a year business, most would probably tell you that's "big enough." And even though many of them fly under the radar, there are a countless number of those businesses in and out of the tech world.
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True. There are very few places in the world where you can go without local language. It is a pleasure to see how this improves over years, pace of the change is dramatic, but we are far from there as far as Central and Eastern Europe is concerned.
Side note: that's a wonderful page, but I think it would benefit greatly from using something like Mozilla persona instead of Google account.
Circus is still pretty new and rough around the edges, so I haven't totally moved away from supervisord yet. My foray there is mostly exploratory, trying to get used to it and its quirks before really diving into a comparison between the two.

That said, the ability to manage sockets sounds very interesting, hopefully simplifying my stack even more (my current use case is in getting the most performance out of a small VPS, so removing things from the stack would hopefully clear up RAM for actual web workers). I've been running a small site using nginx->circus->chaussette->django and it's faster (and was simpler to configure) than my standard nginx->supervisord->uwsgi->django deployment.

Also, supervisord isn't without its issues, and one of them is managing processes at scale (see https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/26, that bug is 2 years in the making). Circus at least claims they intend to support thousands (via http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.2/rationale/) so I'd be interested in seeing what they bring to the table on that front.
probably referring to mass shootings.
Had the opposite experience - no change in loading speeds when our ~600K visitor / month site switched to CloudFlare in March of this year, but we soon started experiencing long website downtimes where our server was running fine but CloudFlare was not serving our site, despite paying $200 a month for "always online", which the site clearly was not. All IPs were whitelisted with our host and everything else CloudFlare recommended; all CloudFlare would do was examine the site after it had come back online (following hours of downtime) and say, "Everything looks fine to us!"

We finally left, after months of this, and have had no problems with downtime since. I really wanted CloudFlare to work - I was really excited about it when I signed us up. But at least for a bigger site with heavier traffic that relies on being up as much as possible, I can't say I'd recommend it until it straightens out its downtime issues (especially when paying for "always online").
Article says judgement was delivered by jury. This gives whole another angle to East Texas thing. Let's say you are town. Your major business is lawsuits, specifically, lawsuits from patent trolls. You are able to pay your bills because all these trolls descend in to your town feeling lucky and throw all these money to keep tour town prospered. How much jury selected from this town would be inclined to give judgments in plaintiff's favor?