skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To substantiate that, if the only thing you got from the interview was the mindset for dealing with customers who are not ready to purchase ("Let's go over this: they are in a car dealership..."), it is worth it.

Next time I have a call with a purchasing officer for the County of Springfield (not actually my last call) I'm going to say "Remember, Patrick, nobody ever sent an email to the CEO of an appointment reminder company just because they were feeling lonely and wanted someone to talk to."
It's a very good piece of radio, and it's a compelling account of how selling works in the real world but I disagree with the tweet that it's the best podcast you'll ever hear about selling software.

Selling your own software is mostly a distance selling arrangement with little or no agents. So, for example, you can't easily let the customer think they've negotiated a great deal and then get your manager to turn the deal down and counter-offer yourself. You'd look pretty stupid. Also, you probably won't set yourself ridiculous targets which are driven by the desire to smooth out the supply side and grow the business. Software doesn't work that way.

Selling software face-to-face might be a lot similar. But that might be the same as just plain old selling.
the irony, T-Mobile was fine on that front until the CEO started to boast the they would 'change the mobile landscape with a the no-network'

Not that they were better in any way... I remember buying the first nexus, they actually had "verizon, AT&T, unlocked" then you read the unlocked fine print "only works with t-mobile frequencies"... so you were basically buying a phone that only worked with t-mobile 3G but without the subsidies. well technically you weren't tied to a contract, yet.
> course of a week

I think it was a month (129 was their monthly quota). But the amazing stuff comes from the last couple of days. Damn, that was tense...
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That was so intense... I was stressed from the very beginning.

There's a lot to be said for a stable paycheck.

Personally, I only buy used cars and pay cash. But if I didn't, I know that I'd be buying my car at the end of the month...

If you listen to this, don't forget to to look at the photo gallery. I waited till after I'd finished listening to look at it, I think that worked out well.
Helpful animations on how locks work: http://toool.us/deviant/

Good presentation on types of locks and approaches to picking: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Deviant_O...

And a guy who knows a ton about picking: http://deviating.net/lockpicking/slides.html
This is just a silly project I've been messing with the last few days to prepare for some other "just-for-fun" projects I have coming up. Rather than have to write backends for the passwd, group, and shadow databases, now I can just throw up a quick HTTP server and write the backend in any language I want, rather than just C.

It's been years since I've messed with C so I know this code is sloppy, though I'd love any feedback.
> if the only thing you got...

Damn, here I was getting ready to put balloons all over my web site.
I would have to guess it has to do with the lack of parking, which is likely the same reason why the rideshare services are appealing in the first place.
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and that's why he was paid the $$BIGBUCKS
^ This is why companies have to let a person cash vacation hours out. For some people, their life is defined by this singular facet of existence, which, if that is how they want to live their lives (and it doesn't come at the cost of their mental/physical health and therefore reduce productivity), god bless.

But, I hope you're not also suggesting that everyone else adhere to that standard. Because many of us appreciate time with friends, family and the like as much as time working. For those people, who very well may love their jobs as well, vacations are the necessary balancing point allowing the other parts of their lives to share some of the daylight hours.
Do plants think?
On the other hand, the prosecutor will often take their views into account when deciding how to conduct his activity and, especially, what charges to press, what bargains to offer and what stance to adopt during the trial. Making a stand in court becomes far more difficult when both victims insist that whatever damage was done was easily repaired and of little consequence to their well-being. MIT's ambiguous -- at best -- position in this case fueled a great deal of the moral abuses of the prosecution.
I have done Network Engineering work through a small consulting firm billing out at the rates I mentioned (oh and I burnt out there big time btw) and on my own as an iOS developer as well. It's not for everyone and you have to understand that the work is not as much about the tech as it is customer service and keeping your clients happy. Go find someone who wants something built and has money to pay you to do it. Explain to them the time commitment you are able to provide them.

As for the the unsustainable culture you are building together with your founders :) One of the more successful people I know built a company working for days a week. I know full well the temptation to work insane hours all the time but the problem with that is when you really need to put in a large number of hours as happens from time to time there is nothing left in the tank.
I thought the same.

In my opinion, the article should have been edited down to about 10-20 great ideas. I liked the idea for a competitor watch service, I think it's much better than the one for 'Myspace 2.'
Plus, "we went through this before" seems to miss the whole point. As if it's not a VERY bad thing. As if we shouldn't be upset about it. As if 5-10 years of shitty life (or however long this is gonna last) is trivial; like we're all going to live forever or something.
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When you buy a 60-750k product, your time is free. The same goes if you are selling a 60-750k product.

It's the difference between buying a coffee, and buying a house. You wouldn't buy or sell a house without spending a bit of time on it.

And it's even better value for the vendors (and some customers), because their marginal costs are very low. They can offer a discount to some buyers, and give high prices to less cost sensitive ones.
I agree, I think we really need someone who will try to make something new and gain small % of the markets so that ios/android will also have to start innovating something cool again. That said, I've personally been burned before by the n900 and N9 which were pretty much "dead on arrival", so I'm a bit reluctant to just buy the Jolla device. Even though the company behind the device is totally different.

I think I'll have to give my iphone5 to my mom and in return take her N9 and install the Sailfish OS to it, just to get the feel of the OS in daily use.
> There's another side to this: a heavy tax burden. With all the income tax, property tax, VAT (21%) and ridiculous gas prices (about $6.60 per gallon) life isn't exactly cheap here.

Any comparison with the US reminds me just how much value I'm getting in exchange for my tax. I pay it gladly. We still have a functional middle class.
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> you'll need to scale by building a warehouse in every new city

That didn't stop the existing players who are successful now, when they were first growing. Remember that a warehouse can start small and simple with maybe $1,000/mo of rent at small scale & non-prime location.

> you are also competing against free

Yep, this seems like the main problem. I think the solution is to find additional ways to add value.

For example, one thing that is very frustrating when you have to receive a package that requires a signature is that the major carriers all REFUSE to call your phone to tell you when they have arrived. So if you don't hear the doorbell ring, or if the person can't get in to your apartment building, it's a missed delivery and you're out of luck. Luna could seize this opportunity by being the one last-mile service that WILL happily call your phone when they arrive.
If you've worked on online software you might have some appreciation of the masses of unseen services that are essential for running the system. All web apps, except in the early days, are icebergs. Payments, analytics, control panels, monitoring, deployment etc. -- there is just a huge amount of stuff that goes on that the user typically doesn't see.
It humanizes car dealers and translates their specific life lessons into generalized experiences the listener can internalize.

It discusses the life of a a Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep new and used sales shop through shadowed interviews of almost the entire staff. It discusses the lives and approach to work of the sales managers and many of the sales people, as well as the struggles and realities of how much a dealership actually makes, the pressures from the manufacturers, and how hard they work to both provide a fair price to customers and a life for their families.
I think this article missed a point. It is not a battle between "Yes, if" and "No, because" - each has its own place and each should be used with care.

The first stage of innovation should use "Yes, if" approach. This is similar to brainstorming session, where negativity should be kept to minimum. This mentality lets people find ways around the obstacles.

When the idea is ready for evaluation, it should be evaluated in light of resource constraints and similar. In this phase "No, because" approach should be used to identify all possible downsides. If the answer is "No", the idea can be either retired or returned to brainstorming session, until it is ready for re-evaluation.

So it is not a question of Yes/No, it is a question of appropriate answer in appropriate moment.
> Don't probe for details on this anecdote, please, as it is brought to you by the letters N, D, and A and the number $LOTS.

Then don't tell us the story. You signed an NDA.

You've created a persuasive, socially powerful HN persona (and I'm sure your consulting income thanks you for it), but at what cost? To gain authority you need to make claims for it and back it up with evidence, otherwise nobody cares. So bragging comes with the territory. To keep up your reputation you are forced to write phrases like "Fortune 500" or "7 figures." No problem.

I'm not criticizing you for it. I'm curious. You obviously made a personal choice to engage in personal branding, so why'd you do it? Does it feel liberating to be so open? Or does it feel tiresome, like you're trapped on a treadmill powering your reputation?
Random, non-target-customer opinion: The slider is nice. However, it's not obvious how the venue size it selects (and the corresponding pricing tiers) affect the service offered. For example, what happens if I'm dishonest?

It seems like you're trying to tier the pricing based on a customer attribute (their venue size) rather than actual customer usage (ie their interest in value-added features, increased quota for certain features, etc). It seems hard to enforce, and also harder to upsell (ie if I'm a smaller fry, I'm never going to buy your premium plan). But I'm quite a bit out of my league here..
I find it frustrating when people often discuss experience with 'intermittent fasting' without describing exactly what they mean. The term ranges over lots of approaches. I've seen it used to describe just 8 hours (perhaps every/most days) without food, to a full day or couple of days without food (perhaps every other day or once per week or two), to other things, as is the case here.

Fortunately, clicking through to another article in the series (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25498742) gives more details about what was tested here:

The food, during the [5-consecutive-day] period of the restricted diet, was designed to be highly nutritious. It consisted of plant-based soups, kale chips, a nutty bar, a herbal tea and an energy drink. The total number of calories, in five days, was about 2,500 - a little more than the average person consumes in one day. No additional food was allowed. For the rest of the month we were allowed a normal diet. The regime was repeated three times, followed by a control period, when we could eat anything.
"Physicists and computer scientists have long speculated about whether the NSA’s efforts are more advanced than those of the best civilian labs. Although the full extent of the agency’s research remains unknown, ___the documents provided by Snowden suggest that the NSA is no closer to success than others in the scientific community.___"

Nothing to see here but false outrage and surprise, move along.
Do you not consider this[0] evidence of them sabotaging cryptography systems?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944118
I actually think this should be a monthly or at least recurring thread. I'm sure a lot of people have ideas that they don't have time to pursue and that they wouldn't mind sharing. In any case this makes for interesting discussion.
Come on. We're supposed to doubt the merits of this entire article about Twitter's philosophy and general large-organization engineering practices because someone outside can't imagine how so many people fill their day? Because maybe a thing which we can't hope to gain an accurate perspective of indicates they're doing everything wrong?

This reminds me of the story of a walk from SF to LA illustrating why software estimates are always so wrong:

http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software...

Instead shouldn't we just evaluate the content on its own merits?
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Thanks for building this, and welcome to HN BlueMatt! If you can edit the headline, you might want to prefix with 'Show HN'.

I'm curious what does the altcoin use for peer discovery? Do you get code for a DNS seed too?

There was an interesting discussion on bitcoin-dev mailing list the last couple days about whether it makes sense to enable merge-mining on new altcoins. It's far from settled, but it's another idea for a feature you would want to toggle.... Also the scrypt difficulty parameters! OK, at some point this is just 'cheating', right? :-)

BTW, I think if you know Bitcoin enough to want to create an altcoin, you would trust Matt Corallo / BlueMatt enough to know your 0.01 BTC is safe.

EDIT: Wow, look at them go: http://coingen.io/status.html
I don't know what PTO means, but I'm assuming it's unpaid. If so, I disagree. When I work less, I expect to get paid less. But when I work more, I also expect to get paid more. There's no such thing as unpaid extra hours, and I reserve the right to refuse working extra when I've got private obligations.

If they do demand unpaid work, and for some weird reason I agree to that, then the door is definitely open for paid non-work. Whatever the deal is, it works both ways.
They probably make awesome unit test scripts.
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Part of the point is the emasculated nature of the modern American man. That said - I agree - anyone looking to read Thurber should skip his fiction and go right to "My Life and Hard Times" his absolutely hilarious autobiography about life growing up in Ohio around the turn of the century:

http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/rvolzer/files/My%20Life%20an...

The stories in it are much better than anything he wrote as fiction. University Days is wonderful. All of them are wonderful!
I think this was a very bad article with several issues what's a fact and what is not. For example:

"But the reality of why socialism or communism don’t work is precisely because as human beings we’re fundamentally motivated by power and greed and thus those that set out to form perfect societies end up just controlling the resources and people for their own personal benefits."

I wonder where the author got that information which I concieve as plain wrong. No sources for that information were given. Humans aren't motivated by greed or money and I think it's possible to set up a society were it doesn't exist.
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Other than in matters of spelling (which belongs to the realm of written language and is thus outside the scope of usual discussions about language and cognition), Noah Webster did not introduce any significant differences in American English in terms of grammatical categories, syntax, etc.

Any influence he might have had was in matters of diction in the sense of vocabulary and stylistic choices. If Webster's educational materials were intended to be secular, they achieved this by choosing expressions that avoid religious references, for example, not by changing the building blocks of the language to make secular thoughts easier to express. The relationship between diction and cognition may be an interesting topic in itself, but it's not what we mean when we usually discuss language and cognition, where we are concerned with the structural aspects of the language itself, e.g. its tense or pronoun system, not the stylistic choice of what we express with it.
During the company christmas dinner, I ssh'd in to our monitoring server to disable alerts for a server that had been decommissioned (someone forgot to disable the alerts after shutting the server down before we left the office).

Ssh on the phone is cumbersome but indispensable for me - it means I have fewer reasons to lug laptops around or find myself suddenly looking for a computer I can borrow. I'm using Android, and there at least it can be made fairly bearable with things like Hackers Keyboard which gives you an onscreen keyboard more suitable for the command line.
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Shallow neural networks as good as Deep Neural Networks
Source: http://www.datatau.com/item?id=761
I think you're overestimating how hard athletes push the boundary of what they're capable of during training: professional athletes are very careful not to overtrain, as that inevitably leads to injury.

That said, I'm not sure we're completely disagreeing, perhaps it's more semantics than anything else... but my definition of intensity also includes a time factor - and a professional athlete has loads of rest time available, something a lot of (most?) tech workers don't seem to have.

There are some sample times here (no guarantees of accuracy, but they seem in line with what I've read previously in interviews), the highest seems to be about 40hrs/week:

http://www.timeout.com/london/events/fitness-tips-from-olymp...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080908091244AA...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130115143443AA...
> "Let's go over this: they are in a car dealership..."

Yet another reason why physically going to a dealership seriously weakens your negotiation position as a buyer. Mail, phone or fax multiple dealerships and do not enter one before getting a good offer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_insolvency_law#U...

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_while_insolvent
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I am not American and I will second this. A lot of American policies and operating procedures tends to get pushed onto other democracies since 'that is the way we do things at home'. Your horrible patents system is one of them. If the US tightens up their regulations on citizen surveillance and privacy, the citizens of other democracies DO get a boost.
I don't think we're even close to really understanding how the body works here.

I'm not obese, but I gain weight from eating a little more, very easily. Last summer, I followed a Keto ("ultra low carb, high fat, medium protein") diet for about 4 months. After the first week of feeling terrible, a well-known side effect, I felt perfectly fine. It felt like I was binge eating, I limited what I could eat and just went mad eating it. Any time I was remotely hungry, grab an approved snack. A big plate of bacon and eggs for breakfast, Chipotle for lunch, and a hefty meal for dinner.

I never went hungry, and as someone who likes food, it felt more like a treat than a diet. Colleagues thought I was trying to gain weight, and my girlfriend thought I'd gone mad with hunger. But the fat melted off. I didn't walk into a gym in those 3 months, and dropped 2-3lbs a week (starting ~250 at 6"3'), every single week.

I'm not saying it's perfect, or even viable for everybody -- it's not cheap, it's awkward to eat with friends, and the first week or two can be hell. Despite what people have been told, fat won't make you fat, and Keto has been shown over and over to reduce the risk factors for heart disease, 'cure' diabetics, and provide huge body transformations.

For anyone interested, /r/keto is a reasonably mature community, and can provide a lot more information.
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most skilled laborers START at $50K and go up from there

"At GenMet, the starting pay is $10 an hour. Those with an associate degree can make $15, which can rise to $18 an hour after several years of good performance."

40 hours a week for 52 weeks a year on 10 an hour comes out to 20888 dollars. That's a lot less than 50000.

Got a degree and been there for several years? 40 hours a week for 52 weeks a year on 18 an hour comes to 37440. That's a lot less than 50000.
8h without food wouldn't be intermittent fasting unless everyone does it when sleeping.

There is one diet type quite popular right now in fitness called Leangains which calls for about 16h of fasting and a 8h eating window (granted that you can reduce the eating window if you feel like it).

Some people even reduce the eating window to just one meal (warrior diet).