skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Option 3: Start a business with a business model that allows you to generate revenue in month 1. It sounds like you're using the funding as a cushion to protect you from having to build a profitable business RIGHT NOW. See this article http://swombat.com/2011/12/8/investment-cushion-springboard

With option 1, you're still going to be broke, but in a year's time, or whenever your money runs out and you realise you still don't have a business that makes money.

Nothing focuses the mind on finding revenues like being broke and needing to make the rent.

(I've been there. I was broke when I started my second business. We raised funding. Three years later when we ran out, I was still broke. I am fairly convinced that if we had raised no money we would have been much more likely to succeed, since it would have forced us into tangible, serious discussions with our potential clients immediately, and forced us to learn to sell right away)
Explains why I didn't make it possible for users to play their comments before posting !!
Hearing your voice is the weirdest thing that could happen to you :)
If you want to be a hundred-thousandaire, take the highest paying programming job in SV or on Wall Street. 100% success rate.

Also, 37Signals. They're bootstrapped and definitely outliers but DHH does well enough out of it to race Porsches and commission Pagani to make him a custom Zonda. The sticker price for a production Zonda ran between $1-2MM depending on model.
NO BECAUSE IT'S USEFUL.

(also doesn't that little green light with no meaning bug you?)
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Thanks, we are really careful about developing a strong code with a good cover. We use coverage, a really nice tool. And our stack includes buildbot and pylint too.
I tried this on my amex to see what would happen. Normally you can submit a dispute online. This time I just got a message saying to call customer service.
Just be grateful. I don't think anyone here wants anything for trivial corrections, the fact that you posted an interesting article is more than enough fish for us to eat.
Another option is to post a ranting and crying video to Youtube to get special treatment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxiwu4MaJs (Warning: Strong language)
When you buy shares you send the signal the company is doing the right thing. It says you support the company and its business practices and, ultimately, enables the company to continue them. If everybody refuses to buy their shares, their stock will plummet and prompt changes.

As for my electronics (and consumables), yes, I try to avoid manufacturers and brands that are associated with poor working practices. Nice try attacking me to try to disprove my argument against the Gates foundation.
Sorry to be negative, but I didn't find any real predictions here, just statements about what is happening now, each followed by "...and I think that will continue in 2014."
Nothing focuses the mind on finding revenues like being broke and needing to make the rent.

True. That's why I found an angel. It's easier than build a business. One step at a time.
Except that where possible, I use this as an opportunity to meet interesting people. And it's not a question of people wanting anything in return for such corrections, it's more, for me, the point that I'm delighted when someone will interact with and actually help to improve the material.

You might be right, but I still find it very very odd.
Sad, but true.

ReText README file clearly states "ReText is written in Python language and works on Linux and other
POSIX-compatible platforms." I expect this to work wherever Python and Qt run, maybe even Cygwin.
For extra craziness: you can extend the list argument to list all (finite) programs that produce increasing but bounded sequences. We'll call this the computable numbers. The transcendental number described in the article is computable.

But as I've just mentioned, the computable numbers are still countable. This really hurts my head. There's an uncountable set of numbers that aren't expressible in any closed form whatsoever.

Continuous numbers get weirder the harder you look at them.
To nitpick somewhat, at least in the case of the US-EU safe harbor protection, it meant that certified providers were to provide the same protection to European data as it would have in the EU under the relevant EU directive, it doesn't have anything to do with location of the servers. The certification, however, is a complete joke since companies can self-assess and register themselves as safe harbor compliant.
I completely disagree about "Nothing focuses the mind on finding revenues like being broke and needing to make the rent." I know that a lot of people out there believe in this "desperation leads to solution" mantra. But I don't. I work much better and I am much more focused when I don't have to worry about bills.

I started to sell my product from month 1, but wasn't able to generate revenue from month 1. I have a SaaS for restaurants, the sales cycle is longer than a month, no restaurant (around here) close deals at the end of the year - this I learned from experience, but also from successfull and experienced entrepreneurs from the same market; also advised by these successful founders I am offering a 3-month free trial for the first clients. The advice actually was "you will only charge after the 10th client, you need social proof first of all, so give your product for free and then charge after the 10th early-adopter."

So, there is no way I can be profitable before March or April. Ok, maybe I am no sales wizard, maybe I am not good enough on this founder thing. But the point for me is, I am broke, and I already started my company, and I can't make it profitable. As I can't choose option 3 "go back in time and found another business" and I am not ready to quit this business, I will take funding.
I can't comment on CMB because it doesn't work here in India.

As for Tinder, the big difference is that it's primarily proximity based. While this works fine in the West, the realities in the East is completely different.

I'm a bit ashamed to say this, but the caste system is wired into every Indian at some level or the other. This means that certain schools, professions and ultimately people are perceived as being "above" others.

So, for example, it would be a big NO to connect a bartender with a journalist just because they happen to be in the same proximity. Or a pizza delivery guy to a law student for that matter. I went to college in the US and knew a bartender who dated a journalist, as well as a pizza guy who dated a law student. In the twenty odd years I've lived in India though, I have never come across such a thing.

The reality simply is society in the West functions differently from the East. A mutual friend being the core of your experience (as opposed to proximity) goes a long way in connecting people who belong to a similar social class/status and maintaining the quality of data.

There are a bunch of other things that significantly differentiate Krush from Tinder. Give Krush a try for a few days and you'll figure them out :) But thanks for your comment!
Wow, I didn't know about this, but its awesome. Thanks for the link!
Selling your soul somewhat.
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If you want to be a hundred-thousandaire, take the highest paying programming job in SV or on Wall Street. 100% success rate.

Except that doesn't work, because your living costs go up massively, and you also spend a huge chunk of it on taxes... see the beginning of http://swombat.com/2013/7/24/embrace-desire-money for some thoughts on this.
"Nothing focuses the mind on finding revenues..."

So I spent months attempting to chase revenue (i.e. looking for the next thing that might make money now ...) instead of building the business I wanted.
> it's not just the US doing it

Oh, so it's ok then.
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Ask HN: Is there a model for a healthy, long-term API policy
The APIs of companies like Twitter and Facebook seem to have a history of complaints from developers as they constantly change to the detriment of devs and the benefit of the company. There seems to be a cycle of openness at the start to encourage growth and then after some time the company with the API starts to make it more strict and tightens how devs can use it.

With all the lessons over the past few years, is there a model now for an API which can better maintain a good dev relationship without really hampering the company with the API?
When you do an dev unlock, it erases all data so you can't dual boot, it's all or nothing. The unlock method is awkward, and every single time you ever boot again, you have to click past a scary looking warning.

And people were complaining about UEFI secure boot in Windows 8, where all you needed to do was turn a checkbox off with the mouse in the BIOS settings.
One consideration is how much control you give away when you take funding. If you retain control of your board, and generally take beneficial terms on the funding, it doesn't have to change the way you run a bootstrap business. Case in point: 37signals.

There are money other examples too. I know a very popular business that is successful, VC funded and will likely not have an exit because the founders retain control and they don't want to do that. There are other options (dividends, secondary markets) that can give liquidity.
So, there is no way I can be profitable before March or April. Not with this business, for sure. If you have a business idea that requires many months or years to get off the ground, and you don't have the resources to sustain yourself during that period, though, I'd argue the idea is out of your reach: http://swombat.com/2012/1/19/idea-reach-cofounder-myth

In your position, I would pick a different business idea.
That's probably something that the PC clone vendors of the early Windows era (1990-95) would have loved to do, but they just didn't have the software competence.

Developing a new shell for Windows was technically possible, but must have seemed like an outlandish prospect to companies like Compaq or Dell. ("Where are we going to hire a bunch of C developers who know GUIs and can do a better job at this than Microsoft? Forget about it.")

Some companies did go there -- for instance, HP had an advanced Windows shell called NewWave [0], but I don't think they ever built PCs specifically for it.

Today, the situation is very different. The executives at any old phone maker will look at Android and say: "That's just Java, isn't it? We have plenty of people who know Java. Hell, there's a school down the road where they train 100 Java developers every year. Let's do it! We can be a software company too, just like Apple!"

And of course we know how that turns out. But it will take a long time until the executives at all those LGs and HTCs will recognize that their organization sucks at software, because it's not a software organization at its core. (Nokia spent tens of billions of dollars on Symbian and MeeGo until they finally got this lesson, and they ended up selling the phones to a software company.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_NewWave
Isn't the new Mac Pro built in the USA? It seems like it would be even less expensive if it was built in China.
What's so exciting about running a browser on a artificially locked down and crippled OS where you're forced to upload everything to the cloud where you have minimal control over your data, instead of running it on Linux or even OS X or Windows?
Incorrect, or at least misleading, depending on your terms of reference.

Fact check: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16477990
They are just targeting the 95% of developers.
Predictable. This will make Silicon Valley into Detroit, and my job. Thank you corrupt congress w/ your 10% approval.
On the subject of Snapchat - does anyone really believe that they don't permanently retain a copy of the images on their server?
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>Also, I wish people would stop conflating "religious" functional programming with pragmatically expressing algorithms as compositions of functions.

Yes, me too. And that type of functional programming is very popular and very succesfull. Every programmer uses it often, when they touch SQL, jQuery, LINQ, etc.

>I don't think you and I really disagree much on the big picture.

I love functional programming.

But i consider languages like Haskell and their derivates to do a lot of harm to the reputation of functional programming. Lazy evaluation and the whole pretending math == computation. It's borderline harmfull to the development of a programmer to even be exposed to it. The last thing you want a programmer to believe, is that there is some intrinsic order of execution that is magically correct and optimal, and can easily be derived. There isn't. The correct order of execution is not even objective (in a GUI one would trade throughput for lower latency, for example), so the notion we can just skip that whole part, and have the 'compiler take care of it' seems damaging to me. Languages that allow you to specifiy these things manually are considered ugly mutations of some kind of pure math. Sinners. That we need return to one true god, which is "pure" math, mascerading as a term rewriter and bible full of fine print, and a zero tolerance on maintaining global state. Yuck.
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Agreed. Pay stubs may end up with 6 digits, but your take home and utility of that pay is on par with someone who makes $50-60k in many other places.
You can open the .zip and replace the keys or clockworkmod which cyanogenmod uses allows it to copy from recovery by ignoring the fact keys are different from platform. I guess since they just provide binaries and not source, and google makes money when you use their apps and provide them data they don't care that other projects have GAPPs for dl
Denmark is one of the NSA's '9-Eyes'
Please don't pipe the output of find into xargs. Use the -exec flag instead.
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From my experience, being desparate pushes you extra, true. But you hit a wall, since you've just spent a lot of your time chasing urgent and important instead of not urgent and important, which is preferable long-term strategy.

I could make a house building analogy here probably.
I am particularly annoyed at the "everyone is doing it" excuse. Everyone may want to be rolling with ten carrier battle groups in their navy, each equipped with an air wing capable of air-superiority, but only one country actually spends the kind of money to make that real.

Every government might have control freaks in it who WANT to implement pervasive surveillance. But most places don't have the budget for it.
Problem there is you have to list all finite terminating programs that produce increasing bu bounded sequences. Then you start to have to worry about being really, really careful in your definitions. See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967954

That's a classic "paradox" being created by having insufficient care in the definitions.

But yes, most (in a technical sense) reals can't be described or computed, and yes, the reals get more and more weird the harder you look at them. In some sense you never really understand them, you just get used to them.

Mostly.
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Are you saying you know this for a fact or are you speculating a benign explanation without any genuine knowledge of this particular case (by referring to the keep calm t-shirts which are unrelated and irrelevant to this situation) ?

edit: Plus I've never heard of "rape" being a diagnosed medical condition - why would that be in a list of conditions ? I find your 'explanation' quite troubling.
I doubt they want to store underage titpics.
German was(/still-is) the biggest community in USA:

"They comprise about 50 million people, making them the largest ancestry group ahead of Irish Americans, African Americans and English Americans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American
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The title of the article should be:

- Investment decreases Expected Return [1]

More money won't increase the risk of your business failing, it will simply decrease your share of the profits if your business succeeds.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_return
Teaching Shakespeare should only happen with students who are already literate. This discussion is about people who are learning to read.
Thanks for taking the time to articulate this :) I just responded to lun4r about why the proximity-based model doesn't work in the East.

We're not sure if there is evidence that "big data" style network graph analysis of people's social circles works. But what we do know is that a lot of relationships materialize between friends of friends offline.

Having said that, we used that as the germ of an idea for Krush. We have some way to go before the algorithms are satisfactorily refined, but hopefully Krush will be "the evidence" that you're talking about.

Stay tuned!! :)
Science with short-term commercially exploitable goals might.
Other than downvoting and flagging, HN does not provide users with editorial powers. While there are moderators who can edit headlines, they are selected by Y-Combinator [the company].

The amount of gamification is minimal and has actually been reduced in the last couple of years when individual comment scores were hidden from public view. This is because, unlike Reddit, HN is not the end product. It is a marketing tool for Y-Combinator [the program], and to some degree a data stream useful for evaluating and filtering some of the applications into it.

To put it into perspective, historically, PG has been very much hands on to the point of rebooting the server, troubleshooting errors, and, of course, writing the code.

Let karma be its own reward, and to the degree you choose to pursue it let it drive you toward better writing things of interest to hackers.
In his current position you would advise towards starting over with different business idea from scratch. One that would generate money from day one and need zero money to start.

Yeah.. I'd say take the funding.
> it's entirely possible not everybody else is doing it.

Only to the extent that intelligence has been outsourced to the US, at least in the West.

http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9-eyes.761...

Outsourcing some defense and intelligence makes sense because the West is united and why waste money on redundant systems. The real problem is that America is not a superpower it is a hyper power. As Bill Gates said recently:

"Nation-state competition is not zero-sum competition. It was not good for the world for the United States to be so far ahead, for 5 percent of the global population to generate 30 percent of the economic activity and 60 percent of the scientific R&D."

But we don't want the world to catch up by the US slowing down but by the world speeding up, that way progress is more rapid.
i was going to say the same thing. hahah
I don't know how easy it is to minimise taxes by being a contractor in the US but assuming you can do so, gross circa $300k/year on Wall Street, and live frugally (including apartment not in Manhattan, or even NYC), you should definitely be able to save at least $100k in a couple years. Granted you're temporarily reducing your quality of life, but arguably you're doing that with a startup anyway. The point is I think it's possible, not that I think it's something I would want to do myself.
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Mine is a bit bigger resultion for new year ;)

http://iamprogrammer.net/gag/4
Read the comment before responding. Neil is being held as a "black highly intelligent role model". What is your source of confusion.
I don't generally disagree that first-time founders should think carefully before raising venture capital, but the example used to back up this statement is misguided on two counts.

1. It implies that your VC partner(s) can decide to sell your company without your wish. For the size of business mentioned here, this is unlikely. E.g. Even after we raise our next round (Series B), an acquisition can't happen without the founders' concent.

2. 2x liquidation preferences are not standard these days. I don't know anyone who's raised on more than 1x.

I think the author has a relatively refreshingly fair view on raising capital vs. bootstrapping, but the misunderstandings I've highlighted are typical. For any aspiring entrepreneur, I can't more strongly recommend you do your homework before deciding that raising venture capital is not for you.
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Other ideas (all pure speculation):

* A desire to protect Google's relationship with the big-name phone manufacturers: maybe the big players have hinted that Google getting too helpful to the small Chinese firms would tend to cool them on Android

* Concern that the Chinese manufacturers might accept Google's technical help, then refuse to implement all of the G-suite or otherwise violate the terms of the certification. With Google's weakened position in China it might not be able to get effective redress

* A specific form of the above: concern that Chinese-brand phones will contain trapdoors to allow clandestine Chinese government access to your Gmail etc. Google can't prevent this from happening on Chinese phones with "unofficial" G-suite access, but at least it can disclaim responsibility, never having certified the device
Edward Snowden is wrong: His mission has not been accomplished.
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I find the refresh of the preview very slow, and I miss the latex math expressions. But great job!!
Um, what?

There are two well-known arguments from Cantor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor's_first_uncountability_p...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor's_diagonal_argument

Describing the sequence at the end as something that seems like it should converge is a bit unconvincing -- it's a sequence explicitly defined not to land on an algebraic number. So the argument is that if you assume you can always pick an interval that doesn't contain a specified algebraic you won't land on an algebraic. This is hardly surprising and kind of presupposes the result.

And why divide the interval into thirds? This seems to be a result of confusing a different Cantor proof (that the measure of the rationals/algebraics in [0,1] is zero, which involves dividing things into thirds) with the first proof. If we accept the argument at all I don't see how it requires three intervals at each step. At most one interval can contain the posited nth algebraic, so you've always got the other interval.

So it's like a mixture of two badly remembered proofs :-)
> The site(s) you're downloading it from are committing copyright violations and are subject to a DMCA takedown.

Yes, that is technically true. But in practice, it's not like Google just haven't noticed yet and are likely to take them down any day now: the current situation (cyanogenmod ships without gapps, but google won't prevent goo.im hosting them or cyanogenmod linking to goo.im) was worked out in 2009 after that C&D, and Google seems to have been fine with it for the last 4 years - they even let goo.im have an app in the play store - even if, officially, they still reserve their right to assert their copyright in the future.

(The wording of the license for gapps now specifies that the licence is scoped to the device[1], so an end-user who installs gapps (e.g. from goo.im) on cyanogenmod is not committing copyright infringement if their phone came with gapps (i.e. not kindles etc.))

[1] "..licensed to handset manufacturers shipping devices", http://source.android.com/faqs.html