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Ask HN: Can we brainstorm a better way to find a co-founder?
I haven’t seen a great solution to this problem - have you? Many thought leaders have weighed in from Drew Houston who summarizes the dilemma well (http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-good-technical-co-founders) to Jason Freedman who gives great advice from the perspective of a non-technical person (http://humbledmba.com/please-please-please-stop-asking-how-to-find). The reality is that entrepreneurs come from a range of backgrounds across all sectors and finding someone you know well, trust, and is fully committed launching a biz (especially an unproven concept) is really hard. The advice many people offer is to use your network, go to meetups, and try online tools like http://founderdating.com. I have tried this, but frankly it’s not a quick process unless you are willing to pick someone you barely know (this works sometimes a la Kevin Rose).

So what’s the solution? My process is to put myself around the “type” of people I need to meet (this could be technical, a specific skill, etc). For me, I want to meet a CTO. However, instead of rushing the process I am simply looking to meet people as determined to build a company as myself. If they are technical or non-technical it doesn’t matter, but I believe opportunities will come from simply getting to know like-minded people. In the meantime I am following this approach:
1) Learning to code (at least the basics)
2) Do as much as possible to validate your idea (talk to customers/users, presell, etc)
3) Find a technical adviser that you trust (help with finding the right person)
4) Paying someone to prototype ($1-5K isn’t a lot to test a business)
5) Get to know potential Co-Founders

What do you think of this approach? Would a private facebook group an interesting ice-breaker to show what you are working on, get feedback, and make friendships - with the goal of helping and getting to people rather than solely finding a co-founder. If so, I made this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/842762052466224/. What's your solution to this problem? I am open to any and all ideas.
Not even "reasonably." You can file for bankruptcy and have it granted - only student loans, however, are unable to be discharged in the process.
No pain no gain. I don't think people realize how bad typing can be.

http://markmcb.com/2014/10/13/severe-hand-rsi-pain-and-recov...

http://24ways.org/2014/dont-push-through-the-pain/

http://www.looknohands.me
Science involves the application of the scientific method. Take academic research, for example. Engineering may involve the scientific method, but it isn't required to validate that scientific knowledge was used. Scientific knowledge could be an algorithm for autonomous environment mapping. Implementing that in an autonomous car and ensuring system functionality in the many possible environments it might end up in, that is certainly a feat of engineering.
Agreed, let's just hope that THIS generation (millenials) need to understand the outcome of applying for a loan much more than the former.
Better source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06815 or http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27633-gadgets-powered-... . None of the sources seem to want to give the key number, which is amount of power harvested by distance, although in section 8 of the original paper it says 2.3mA/5V at 5-7cm distance from the router.
YAML seems more preferable, since it would be far more readable when STDOUT is the shell.

Oh, and JSON is a functional subset of YAML, so you'd still be able to output as JSON and a YAML parser will read it.
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I found twitter-text useful for linkifying URLs in a chat application (not related to Twitter) that I built a couple of years ago.

The URL extraction functions are quite robust and handled the task well. This library has use cases beyond just parsing Twitter tweets.
Interesting -- another discussion of this incident was at the top spot of HN some 30 mins ago, and was flagkilled.

Is it that we're not interested in discussing it, or only interested in discussing it if certain people / viewpoints are not allowed?
> It is somewhat ironic that PowerShell is more true to the principle of "do one thing and do it well" than the Unix shells.

It's not particularly surprising that a system designed a long time after the original is more consistent (I wonder how the Plan 9 shell fares in this regard?).
Is there a term for this kind of "journalism?" I've heard it described before as being journalism for journalists or that the journalists have to fill a certain amount of space, so simple articles become wordy and tedious.

I see it all the time and hate it, but don't know how to describe it.
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The "No Voice, Free Exit" response: Hopefully right next to each other, dutifully segregated with freedom of movement maintained between each.

Edit: Now, certain of the neo-reactos are hyper-cautious about the effects of entryism, which the above scenario would seem powerless to prevent, but so long as public displays of political identification have no effect on the actual behavior of the governors in the NVFE world the only thing for agent provocateurs to enter would be social circles, whose burden of maintaining memetic purity under fire would not be substantially different from the present, with even less down-stream stakes (as the strengthening or dissolution of such societies would not change sovereign policy).
Pretty sure that the concensus is that the author of that submission is insane and trying to read his screed as something coming from a mentally healthy person is a waste of time.
I don't think this is a fair comparison. You changed the business model from v1 to v2, by moving from a one time payment for unlimited articles to a pay-per-article approach.

A more suitable change would be to offer the app for free, with 10 free articles and 1 per day, and offer a one time purchase of 1.99 to lift the limits entirely, turning it into the equivalent of v1.

The way you did it is you changed it so that the act of sending an article cost money, instead of paying a small one time fee and sending as many articles as you wanted.
It's refreshing to see the occasional reminder, such as yours, that our situation in America is unusually bad.

> How is this system supposed to work well? It seems to be clearly designed to make money, not to educate people, which doesn't seem like a good way to enhance and maintain your society.

It does work well, for certain interests. But it's the same for almost any important financial concern in America. Taxes, utilities, medical care, retirement funding, most of our important systems are intentionally structured to fatten the wallets of powerful interests at the expense of maintaining society. And it's only getting worse, as the trade deals currently under negotiation clearly demonstrate.
Please don't trivialise Esperanto by referring to the century-old "sixteen rules myth," this is harmful to people with a starting interest in the language.

The PMEG has many chapters: http://bertilow.com/pmeg/detala_enhavo.html
I wonder - suppose someone Alex Miller agreed with, but who also caused controversy, was met with opposition by folks who disliked her.

For example, suppose a bunch of gamergate types were to complain about Brianna Wu giving a purely technical talk about pathfinding and AI. Would all the folks who are so quick to defend Strangeloop also defend it in this case?

Somehow I doubt it.
I'm curious why can't buss s run in tunnels? Is it simply a problem of air quality because of emissions? I wonder if this could be solved by using hybrid diesel electric buses that run off of overhead electrical wiring in tunnels, but an onboard diesel-electric prime mover above ground.
> I had to remove some interconnections, because there were some cycles.

Because git doesn't allow cycles? Then as cool as this is (and it's very cool), perhaps this isn't an appropriate tool for this purpose.

Or might the natural, human-built cycles be expressable as subrepositories?
I believe this was the apex: http://www.lingscars.com/
Read it as a non insane person, found it a little rough around the edges but still a perfectly valid and relevant collection of statements. It's a sad world, one where anything that steps out a little bit of the approved "think here" zone is automatically flag killed.
Yes. Get in line, cog!

Isn't this statement the exact opposite of the "follow your dreams!" mentality usually espoused on HN?

We canonize those few that are lucky and successful and hold them up as examples, but if you follow their example and fail, well, "personal responsibility" and all.

After all, your life would have been easier if you had just gotten in line.
At least once a week since I was 5 until I was 18, I was told that if I didn't want a job flipping burgers at mcdonalds, I had to go to university.

It was strongly implied that jobs like plumbers and electricians were for stupid people who would end up poor.

That was what I was told, my entire childhood. At what point do we start talking about indoctrination during this conversation? Because I think we should.
I agree that submission was more than a little out there, but it's strange how little impact this event has had on HN, given the subject matter. Maybe this submission will break through.
Kicking people from your tech conference because they were racist outside of it hands veto power to whoever determines what racism is and when something is 'too racist'. The same goes for the other beyond-the-pale isms like sexism, fascism, etc.

I commented on a flagged post on why this is an issue for me personally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9674958
Fixed, thanks!

Didn't realise it wouldn't line-break!
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Because if you're already having difficulty financially, moving you and your family internationally is cheap/affordable?
Atlanta has "hot lanes" where the prices increase and decrease with the flow of traffic.
And its not even a matter of expecting not-yet-adults to make good decisions. They are raised in a system that teaches them that college debt is good debt and then they graduate and are courted by predatory lenders to take out way more loans than they should for their school loans with no guarantees that they will come out and get a decent job in their field. Schools should be more on the hook for that debt if they breeze someone through a program that they are not a good fit for or that has no job prospects.
facebook already supports gif, is this for uploaded photos?
Yeah I posted this because I felt HN people are smart enough to question and discuss this decision without being told to do so by some goofy conservative blog. (N.B.: I didn't and would never flag that other submission, because goofy conservatives don't bother me and the actual topic was interesting, but I understand that tastes differ so I'm not surprised that others flagged it.)
You jest, but conferences are inherently cultural. That’s why people go: To meet people, to be part of a cultural experience. In this century, the technical content can be distributed far more efficiently over the Internet.

And tech is already fractured along left and right lines. Some people are hard-line libertarians who believe that businesses should be able to hire and fire whomever they please for whatever reason they please, right down to celebrating the fact that Elon Musk wouldn’t hire someone who used the expression “shoot hoops.”

Others deeply believe that tech is an opportunity to right social injustices, to give opportunities to those who were previously shut out, and to bring the world closer together.

Whatever you or I believe about this particular decision, it is clearly consistent with the trend towards things like codes of conduct. And the reaction is clearly consistent with the reaction to things like codes of conduct.
> perhaps this isn't an appropriate tool for this purpose

Would Mercurial be more appropriate, or do you think DVCS are simply not an ideal way of mapping metro lines?
I think this is one reason why you don't get an engineering degree in Germany, after completing computer science studies. It is more seen as math or physics, just a natural science.
The previous submission was #1 on the front page for a few minutes before it was flag killed.

It wasn't overtly racist or filled with profanity; perhaps some people just wanted to silence it.
Sorry, but yuck!

Must politics divide everything in our lives? That sounds like a horrible world to live in.
I've read a lot of extreme things from both the left and right, and seen a lot of "insane screeds", but this wasn't one of them: https://improprietaryinfluence.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/a-st...
I agree entirely with that, and find myself confused why you tell me that.

Obviously you think my post is a personal attack, yet i do not understand why.

Unless you care to hear them, i'll spare you the details, but i assure you i only intended to pointed something out that the person dearly needs to hear, in the hopes that it might lead them to introspection; not to attack them.
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> The efficiency stems from having little to zero synchronization cost for readers in a read-mostly workload or workload that just isn't update-intensive.

That's the advantage of any copy-on-write concurrency mechanism. The "magic" of RCU (unless you define any copy-on-write algorithm as RCU) is the indifference of the algorithm complexity to the number of threads involved -- only the number of cores. I am not aware of userspace algorithms that display this property, but I may be wrong about that.

> All the blocking schemes are magnitudes more efficient but the trade-off is that it isn't generally applicable.

But that's where things get tricky. Magnitudes more efficient how? Total throughput? Maximum latency? I can certainly believe the latter but I doubt the former. Hazard-pointer techniques basically are how modern GCs work, with the difference of when the scans are triggered.
If anyone from basho is here, the link[0] at the end of this article leads to a 404. I guess it might've been moved to this[1].

[0]: http://basho.com/technology/why-use-riak/
[1]: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/theory/why-riak/
If I am the CEO of a company, and I listen to people before making my own decision, am I “handing them veto power?”

I think this is Alex Miller’s decision.
disassembling on old systems like this, while still a feat, is not as hard as people often think I find, because the assembly practically is the source code
Something is wrong if we've reached a point where only the very rich (or the very poor) can go to a nice school. And something is wrong if only certain fields of education are valued enough to cover their costs. Economic theory says that the cost of education in the less valued fields should drop, but the easy access to loans for the study of anything, which can never reasonably be paid off, prevents that from happening. Depending on which side you're on, this is a feature, not a bug.
I would predict that doing so would become a political issue, since educating young people could have a negative impact on corporate bottom lines. The less experienced and educated, the easier to take advantage of.
Frankly, I imagine because of all of this just sounds like "inside baseball" to anyone not into the minutiae of the latest Twitter/tumblr craze.
Doesn't the API already expose these as fields? https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/show/%3A...
HTTP is the protocol, all HTTP needs to go over TLS anyway.
It's funny because he definitely saw this coming.

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09/technol...
Making a website like that takes maybe ten minutes. There's no way a designer can make a living from the markup on that.
The object model of git is described as a directed acyclic graph, thus by definition, it has no cycles, which wouldn't make sense for a version control system anyway.

That said, this is most likely just meant as a fun visualization, because the visualization does look like a railway map.
YAML may look quite simple on the outside, but the specification of it is surprisingly complicated.
Ask HN: Looking for a service that will POST received emails to a URL
I'm looking for a service where I can programmatically create new email accounts and have all emails sent to those addresses posted to an API. I think some people would call this an email webhook. It needs to support sending attachments as well.

Does HN have any recommendations?
I have it synced to my things, which is why I can't rely on only my browser storing passwords to sites, I also need a UI where I can see those passwords.
This assumes we won't find a viable alternative. I really like Interstellar for this reason -- I can see us sending x ships to x planetary systems with the understanding that all but one of those ships will likely perish for a greater good.

I think the other reason we want to be on multiple planets is less about climate change, but cataclysmic shocks (asteroid impact, nuclear war, etc.) -- if we're on multiple planets, we have a greater chance of surviving a cataclysmic shock to one planet.

Your point on climate change is great, though -- you're right that if we can terraform Mars or the Moon, we have the technology to fix whatever climate issues are happening on Earth! Funny that this doesn't come up more.
The repeated kills of previous threads on this topic illustrate the problem goes much deeper than Strangeloop. HN itself has long been policed by left wing stormtroopers eliminating anything they disagree with.

I used to believe it could be saved but now I generally believe that the era of technology having a place for iconoclastic freethinkers is long over.
When any end user can easily add the functionality you are referring to, for free, to an operating system you can buy, pre-installed on a 7" tablet with an SSD, Quadcore x86 CPU and HDMI out, for less than £70... I think you might be making a flawed comparison.

How exactly does one freely and easily add (reasonably expected) functionality to OS X? Due to how much escalation was required, even Apple themselves thought it should work.
I think the git file structure technically supports cycles, you just need to break sha-1 to do it.

I don't think the tooling is made for it either.
(Trouble on) Triton, by Samuel Delaney. I read a lot of sf in my early teens (in the late 70s), all the classic space-ship stuff, this was one of the first that in a very real way brushed all that aside and exposed more about individual values, by following a protagonist who really wasn't admirable. If you aren't just looking to excite yourself about the amazing possibilities of science and advantage, it's highly recommended.
Not that interesting. For people who are curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9674643

Here's an excerpt from that rambling, incomprehensible post:

> But, from our point of view here, all these people believing, like everyone around them, that sovereignty must be concentrated and tightly defined, that nobody should have influence over government who wasn’t officially part of government, and the rest of it would be neoreactionaries. Similarly, today, with the exception of a few points of economics, the ideas that almost everyone in communion with Harvard University believes are communist ideas, and would have been labelled as such even fifty years ago.

OK, not everyone can find the time to read "The Elements of Style" but then this comes up:

> Why was Adria Richards lying? Because that’s her job. As some guy wrote, “It’s a mistake to think these people have opinions. They have careers.” Her career was to go around technology events, and fuck them up in the name of women’s access. Why? Whatever is the point of that? The point of that is to create a line of control from political activists to industry. Because of Adria Richards, and the many like her before and since, everyone in the technology industry knows that they cannot afford to upset far-left activists. They only succeeded in this, though, because people like Alex Miller believed their lies—that these misdemeanours against political correctness, such as making similar jokes to those aired in Superbowl commercials, are responsible for a 5:1 male–female ratio or whatever in technology...

I literally can't make any sense of that, except it involves Adria Richards, and why the fuck is she even relevant to this? I'll admit, that previously submitted (and rightfully flagkilled) post was the first I had read about this Strangeloop thing, by merit of it somehow reaching #1 on HN...and after having read the current OP, I'm much more inclined to give benefit of the doubt to Curtis Yarvin. The previous submission did nothing except make me think that Yarvin was backed by rabid anti-SJWers.
App stores should try charging people $100/year after the first year an app is in the store.

Or the reverse, pay $100 to pull your app from the store after its first year.
Instantly made me think of this quote from Eurotrip:

Jamie:
It's a traveler's money belt. Frommer's says if you have one of these, no-one can rob you of anything.

Scott:
Except your dignity.
As someone who would also like this sort of app, I can do this completely free with Pocket on my Kobo reader. I don't know why anyone would pay for this service.
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Almost certainly not, but that is the way of people. That's a separate question from whether they are right or wrong though. I distinctly don't like the way things are going and believe me I have no sympathy for the political views of Curtis, but the talk isn't about that. If Brianna Wu could actually deliver a technical talk, I say let her. If he wanted to talk about neoreaction there are other places he can go to.
Perhaps the standard on HN is that there be a high-quality post and high-quality discussion, and that therefore, it could be that one particular post gets flagkilled, but not another when the community/mods want to discuss an issue but dislike giving eyeballs to a low-quality post.

Or they all get flagkilled regardless of content if the community/mods do not want the issue discussed here, even if a particular post is well-reasoned and well-written.
We're now going to have to deal with more outrage-as-a-weapon-to-silence-opponents. I wonder how the outraged would feel if it was, say, religious conservatives getting so upset that the organizers de-invited LGBT speakers.
A couple counterexamples from civil engineering:
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-7-line-extension-stil...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_C_%28Rome_Metro%29
It'll be his decision next time too. And now that the Red Guards know he'll succumb to even the slightest bit of pressure, there will certainly be a next time.