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I noticed in the second post how the MEPU was developed by Sundstrand - the same company that made calculators in the 70s. (I, as a vintage calculator collector, actually have one.) On HN we hear about pivots all the time, typically not too drastic, but imagine going from manufacturing MEPUs for the Concorde to manufacturing calculators!
Not that I have heaps of experience to base this on, but here's my general thoughts on a good strategy:

while(0 == ideas.good_ideas.count ||
FAIL == start_company(&ideas, &experience)) {

// no ideas, or failed startup
while(THRESHOLD > experience.why_failed.confidence ||
0 == ideas.good_ideas.count) {

// no ideas, and/or not sure why startup failed
work_in_leadership_for_young_but_successful_company(&experience, &ideas);
}
}

// would be interested to read more articles on
// what goes here
end_game();

I think employment for the sake of being a better entrepreneur is a great strategy, but only if you can find the right role, and only if you approach it with the correct frame of mind.
Oh, I'm not blaming git. I take full blame but still have a hard time rationalizing the headache.
Why you don't need long, complex passwords
Associations don't imply causations. We don't know if gingivitis causes heart disease, nor do we know if heart disease causes gingivitis. Or maybe each has a minimal direct effect on the other (I'd never say none at all).

Likely, individuals that have/do things that prevent gingivitis, like affording a dentist, also have/do things that prevent heart disease, like affording blood pressure medications.
> Not only is Perl 6 pretty much unusable in practice today

I don't think that's true anymore, and for some subset of people, hasn't been true for a while now. If you consider performance the big blocker, that's getting better all the time[1],and is close to being competitive with Perl 5 ins some areas.

[1]: http://jnthn.net/papers/2014-yapceu-performance.pdf -- Start at slide 76 for performance graphs
Yes, you are correct. I'm just not facing the inevitable apparently.
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> drink a glass or two of red wine a day

The red wine thing is bullshit, as mentioned in the article. Wine and beer actually have problematic amounts of estrogen. If you're going to drink, quality clear spirits are best.

If there's anything special about red wine it's probably the small dose of salicylate. Might as well just take a baby aspirin if you buy into that.

I don't buy the idea that alcohol itself is particularly biologically medicinal; I think the benefits are entirely by way of psycho-social well being. At a simple biological level alcohol, at even pretty high amounts, is merely benign. That said, problems like fatty liver disease appear to be often be the result of the interaction between alcohol metabolism and stored polyunsaturated fats. So if you're going to drink a lot, eat a low PUFA diet.
> In fact, the evidence that abstinence from alcohol is a cause of heart disease and early death is irrefutable

I'm sorry, but the author drastically overstates the certainty of our current knowledge. Every single piece of evidence he marshals is a study, not an experiment, so who knows what the confounding factors are. And even worse, the studies necessarily depend on self-reported alcohol consumption, which, as any doctor knows, is basically just a bunch of lies.

There's a huge history of scientific consensuses being wrong, particularly surrounding health in the last 30 years. I think we should be cautious about jumping to conclusions of what these studies actually mean. That he calls his hypothesis "irrefutable" is downright appalling.
And who decides which kids are smart and deserve the Gates-style education? Should schools start segregating kids' education according to measured intelligence levels, perhaps?
Plenty of alcoholics don't drink every day. It's a question of compulsive and uncontrolled drinking not simply the frequency of drinking. A collage student may destroy their health and social life though binge drinking while not being able to afford drinking every day.
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IPv6 will get rid of that nasty NAT, fortunately, and we can go back to true p2p transfers.
Rat experiments show that adding a small amount of alcohol to their drinking water makes them live longer. The reason is thought to be the alcohol helps kill off undesirable gut bacteria, which produce LPS endotoxins. Rats on antibiotics also live longer for the same reason.

I don't think gingivitis is caused by bacteria per se. Cavities and gingivitis manifest as a consequence of lousy overall health and problems such as mineral deficiencies, not a lack of listerine. The phrase "look a gift horse in the mouth" exists because lousy teeth indicate a bunch of other health problems. It's not about horse oral hygiene.
A whole pile of the studies are observational and not placebo-controlled, nor randomized.

Therefore, other factors beyond the consumption itself can't be ruled out, such as differences in education, religious beliefs, non-religious beliefs, open-mindedness, etc.

Trying to answer the question of why alcohol clinically has the effects that it does is a hard battle. The molecule has wide-ranging effects, it doesn't by any means hit any particular receptor. It goes wherever water goes in the body and disrupts every cell membrane in the body, among other effects.

And that's if the health benefits have anything to do with the clinical effects at all.
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Was it just me, or at least on the first page, there wasn't much here of substance? Felt very click-baity.

The grain of truth is that of course, complexity requirements can be outdated advice given social engineering (particularly password reset) and password reuse. But I would draw a line at not caring how passwords are stored. And ultimately, attackers go for the weakest link they can perceive. The first company to suggest that, like libraries, PIN numbers with default values are good enough, will be the first to have random, brute force attacks against them succeed. Unless you change the game entirely, such as by requiring two-factor authentication, a random password is still required to protect from unauthorized account access and I don't see that advice changing anytime soon. It's even easier now that such random characters can be generated by apps and browsers. Of course, such password stores might in turn be the next targets, but malware has yet to make a large dent in iOS, as far as I can tell. Let's hope we're a long way off from fake cell towers...
They were cool. That processor is fairly maligned in my experience but it had some solid ideas. I built a CPU in an FPGA that used a construction similar to a cache line to hold registers as an experiment once. The one line (64 bytes) was 'reserved' for 16 registers (8 GP, 4 index, and 4 process specific (SP, PC, STATUS, MODE)), a context switch reloaded the registers as it reloaded the cache. That made context switching a bit faster than a full on push/pop stream but not as fast as having dedicated register banks ala SPARC.

These last two posts by Colin though really got me thinking about the who push for a 'trusted computing base' that folks had back in the 90s. Basically the same argument was used then to justify specific hardware as part of the system for implementing the crypto bits. At the time I thought it was overkill but I can see now how such a system can contain implementation faults into more detectable domains.
Being a cigarette smoker was observed to reduce risk of PD. This study does not tell us if it's the smoking itself that's causing this, or some other trait of cigarette smokers because the studies weren't randomized.
Hard to trust company that didn't changed their C dates in footer...
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Too bad it's AT&T syntax, which is pretty incompatible with the majority of x86 reference material out there (including Intel's own manuals)... something like fasm/nasm would probably be much better in a *nix enviroment. This gives some of the reasons why: http://x86asm.net/articles/what-i-dislike-about-gas/

It's also an odd order for that book to defer binary/hex and data representation until far beyond other more complex/higher-level material. The fact that the code listings have a "compiler-generated" feel to it, complete with redundant instructions, suggests that this isn't a great way to learn Asm; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8248172 for a more detailed explanation.
Did it negatively impact their digestion at all (killing the useful gut flora)? Did they have chronic 'beer shits?'
I would guess that you would find significant mental health benefits, as well.
The abysmal performance of the C64 floppy disk was due to a bug, but management went ahead and decided to ship it anyway. It was supposed to be 10x faster, thus the 3rd party ROM replacements.
I don't think you've been stupid. You were patient and gave some of your time to support someone else. If nobody did that, or if we called people "stupid" for doing that, we'd be living in a pretty lousy world. In this case it didn't work out for you, but next time maybe it will. I hope you don't adapt to this experience by becoming a trust-no-one paranoid.
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Gonna throw http://beatrixapp.com into the ring :) *

better UI than Hootsuite and it helps suggest more types of content such as images, texts etc.

But if you don't think Hootsuite is worth $10 a month, then you probably won't think Beatrix is worth $20 a month. I think the target market for these tools is more like people who need to use them for their jobs. Where $20 to $100 a month doesn't matter as long as it's creating concrete value.

Selling directly to small businesses is a harder sell, I think. The ROI from social media is not as immediate as say, something like advertising or an email newsletter - so it's more difficult to demonstrate value in a short time (e.g. a free trial period).

*disclosure: I'm the founder!
As every one else said, but I will add a couple of notes.

ADD is part of who I am its just not very compatible with current work environments. I don't like to feel drugged all the time and I know that i'm ok with out being medicated.

I have developed sufficient coping skills as an adult to enable me to choose when I need to be medicated and when I don't.
Not sure about Hootsuite, but I really like Buffer. I spend an hour every Sunday night scheduling shares for the next week. It works out well for my use case.
imho there's a lot of froth in the market. this has created a bunch of 1-st gen AI companies in SF with speculative business models who want data-scientists to essentially work miracles & find needles in haystack.

If someone had told me you could datamine electrical consumption from smart meters, figure out when the customer is running his washer-dryer, and ask the customer to reschedule his laundry routine for a slightly smaller bill so the utility company gets a smoother duty cycle throughout the day, and there was a business model in that, I'd be flabbergasted. And yet, it exists!

This grocery startup that employs essentially portfolio management theory to optimize cost given calorie consumption is not entirely fiction either.

There's a company that datamines historical MLS data joined with facebook data & predicts which customers are potential home buyers because they are having a "life-event" ( usually birth of kid, so need extra room ) & realtors cold-call these potential home buyers.

There's an airline that datamines flight paths of every pilot on its payroll ( essentially (x,y,z,t) coordinates at time t) and flags the dangerous/risky pilots ie. the pilot who is prone to choose those flight paths that bring him very close to another airline, thus creating potential collisions between the airplanes.

I've seen demos of all of the above & more. We live in very, very interesting times!
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I see this all the time with the startup founders I work with. It's a version of the IKEA effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect).

Many founders (myself included) find it difficult to scrap an idea they have created and are emotionally attached to, even after seeing strong evidence to the contrary.

I often wonder if YC has seen better results from teams that were accepted without an idea (granted, it's likely a much smaller sample size to work from). I wonder if that somehow makes them less susceptible to this tendency for founders to place a disproportionately high value on the quality of their idea(s), allowing them to focus more broadly on markets and identifying real problems to solve.
Haha, yeah... in the early '90s I was late to the airport flying out of Berlin (to Edinburgh), arriving like 10 minutes before the scheduled time... I ran like nuts to the gate, and although they were clearly furious with me, and I got a ... very personal (but fast) ... security examination, and they still let me on the plane!! [Luckily I had no baggage to check.]

That was admittedly pretty ridiculous, but they were generally a bit lax back then. I thought it was actually rather odd because there had been a number of incidents, like Lockerbie, and the gulf war was a thing, and people actually were sort of worried about airplane terrorism. Not worried enough I guess...
Yeah, I feel his conclusion was that the idea was bad by itself and blame people to be nice with him. But, maybe, it was the execution which was bad. Like crappy recipes with crappy ingredients and a poor experience.
waving goodbye to my 82 HN points with this one

Dude, you're obsessed with being a founder, more than you have vision/plan/reason/skill to actually be one. You have all of the lingo right, all of the right words, hell, your post here even knows how to speak to why you failed in a voice that will get the rest of this community to read it. Your company name even had an "r" at the end with a missing vowel!

Reading your article, like many others before me, I was annoyed at first but thought, you know, maybe this is just another young wantrepenuer who needed to learn for himself...

Then I saw this response. "I will address your comments in a blog post". Really? Look at the great posters/founders that come in here and respond to comments. They do so comment by comment, to the point where sometimes I wonder how they've got the time and then remember how much I cared when I was trying to do my own thing and know I'd have done the same. Do you really think we're all waiting with baited breath to see your next blog post? Think it'll get upvoted too? Not likely. Something cool with security/lisp/new tech x/can't believe someone just did y/PG's thoughts on life/3D 2048 MMORPG will drown it in seconds.

I'm not saying to quit, you're terrible, or anything like that. Just start being real, stop thinking about your presence, funding, seeding round 22, or whatever, and get to building something actually awesome, and you'll have the startup ecosystem banging your door down. The rest just makes you look hungry to be something you're not.
That makes me think of the 1986 vintage Mac SE sitting on one of my tables, more as a decoration than anything. It's new enough that it's almost sorta kinda possible to get it on the internet, yet also old enough that it's somewhere between an adventure and a PITA to do so, and pretty challenging to do anything vaguely useful with it once you do.

I don't know as much about the nitty gritty details as I'd like, but it's damn cool that I can now write 1 line of Ruby that fires off a query at a web server somewhere, gets a JSON reply, parses it into a Hash, and delivers it back to me, doing roughly a kazillion hugely complex things along the way. It lets us all spend a lot more time building things that are useful to customers instead of scrounging around with bits, fun as that can be sometimes.
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I'm looking for a new apartment right now, and freelancing with a partner at the same time.

While looking, I noticed a lot of the nicer buildings/complexes have common areas that could potentially be used as a coworking space during the day.

Since I'm working with a partner, we'd either need to get a coworking membership ($600/mo for free floating space), work out of a coffee shop, or out of my apartment common area. Would it make sense for me to spend an extra $300-500/mo on a nicer apartment with a common area that we can work out of, or get a cheaper place and do one of the other options? (I would plan to have the extra $$ reimbursed by the company).

Has anyone tried to work out of an apartment common area? Have you had problems? I figure if there's a event/party planned, we can always go to my apartment or a nearby coffee shop to work for the day.
Thanks for taking an interest.

I would say that we're most comparable to Lucene, given that we're a library not a server. But, we're also very much not a port of Lucene to go. That already exists, and someone has posted that link elsewhere in this thread. I've worked a fair amount with Elasticsearch, so a lot of the higher level API is inspired by it. And thats one of the biggest differences between Bleve and Lucene today. Lucene is pretty low-level. The bleve top-level API works a lot more like Elasticsearch (specifically there is a mapping, its serialized and stored in the index). There is a lower level that looks more like Lucene (everything is just documents and fields), and the top-level API builds on top of that.

That is I would say the primary goal of Bleve, to be a great text indexing and search library for Go.

Next you asked about a REST interface. Bleve ships with HTTP handlers in a sub-package. These are completely optional, you can use Bleve without them, or you could write your own if you don't like these. There is a not-quite-done-yet example app that uses these to make it look a lot like a single-node Elasticsearch. But, its just an example app, I have no immediate plans to try to turn this into a production app.

Regarding scaling beyond a single embedded instance... Obviously there is a lot of interest in this area. The way I'm looking at this right now is that this is simply a layer above Bleve, much as Elasticsearch/Solr provide this as a layer above Lucene. There are a few enhancements we could add to streamline this, like allowing the Searches to operate across multiple indexes.

My hope is that lots of apps spring up around Bleve. Maybe someone wires up the HTTP handlers and Raft and makes an Elasticsearch clone. Maybe people will do something I don't expect. Will we go there? Not right now, we've got our hands full. But if we do, it will be in a separate project, built on top of Bleve.
Nice video, good job!
My family uses a service called Green Bean delivery. They deliver fruits, vegetables, and herbs. I don't think they deliver meats yet. We were a little worried that we wouldn't be selecting the fruits and vegetables ourselves but they have excellent quality control. We've never been disappointed with a delivery.

The thing is, they do it right. Once they get the orders, they go directly to the farms and get exactly what they need for delivery each day. That way they never have to deal with spoilage. And they can be picky about the product they buy and later deliver to their customers. And to top it all off, they offer free delivery and are still usually cheaper than shopping at the grocery store. I believe this is profitable for them because they don't have to deal with spoilage.
Well, there are countless successful products that don't "solve a problem". What problem do Call of Duty or League of Legends solve? What "problem" would the hypothetical iWatch solve?

In other words, solving problems is great and all, but you can also make a great product that people just enjoy using, and let it grow organically.

Of course, you could argue that any good product does solve a problem. But my point is that despite what everybody says, the problem doesn't always have to be the starting point.
An entrepreneur in New Zealand created such a service in March 2013. It's now worth $27m and is expanding into Australia.

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When you ask if something "is worth" it, it really depends on your business and what kind of value you expect to gain from it. Unless you're talking about personal use, it's hard to believe any service is not worth at least $9.99 to a business unless it's providing negative value.

What do you actually hope to gain from using Hootsuite and how do you want it to help your business?

I'm a developer for HubSpot's Social Inbox and I think our tool is fantastic in helping you schedule/publish content, monitor social media activity relevant to your business, and interact with people interested in your company. If you're searching for other marketing tools as well, I'd suggest taking a look at HubSpot, especially since it integrates well with the rest of HubSpot's products.
Now if only this linked to EPUBs instead of Wiley/Amazon/etc, that'd be really convenient :)
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Not Swift, but definitely related and well presented: you might want to check out Jessica McKellar's PyCon2014 talk on "Building and breaking a Python sandbox": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_syMmRkoU
Are you familiar with JetBrains MPS?

http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

It sounds very much like what he is describing.
As far as I'm concerned, this thread should be about the fact the government and health care professionals are lying to us about the facts because they think they know best.

Whether the advice is best for society or not doesn't matter, they are lying to you. This concerns me a lot.
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I'm pretty familiar with "complex network related topics" - and I think this is the most interesting IPv6 related post on HN in 2+ years (there may have been others that got by me).

I"m curious - are you someone with "large scale IPv6 deployment experience?" - in particularly, how would you have approached their issues regarding MLD snooping and TCAM exhaustion?
It's obvious that hosting a free-speech service in America (and at a .com) is simply impossible. People are so deadly afraid of lawyers, nobody really has balls anymore.
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I was thinking the same thing. It sounds like they just did a really good job of rooting out the people that were bad at the work and keeping the ones that were good around. In government I would be skeptical that they actually promote or fire people based on how good they are at the job.
The problem with those "connected" results is that alcohol is very popular so a large fraction of any group has consummed alcohol recently. This is yet another example of the divergence of causation and correlation.

If it is actually responsible for preventable deaths, why are they not being prevented? Because they are probably very, very hard to actually prevent. Even prohibition did little to reduce death rates and we already arrest 1.5 million people in the US each year for driving under the influence. What would work? I suggest the prevention of these deaths will have little to do with alcohol and more to do with healthcare and perhaps automobile design.
Expanding on this could be useful.