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Do you have plans to open source any of the work? Would love to use this for a course/training platform.

Read the fine print. It's not a FDIC-insured account.

It's a crypto yield account that downplays the fact that it's crypto.

Do with that knowledge what you want.

Depending on the size of your team, and whether you just need to "check a box" and say you do it, versus you're actually worried about employee mistakes re: cybersecurity (e.g. you have a big and varied enough team where training is geniunely important), it's pretty easy to design this yourself.

Write up or copy a few page doc outlining security best practices, then require every employee to read & sign an acknowledgement that they've read it. Now every employee has gone through security training.

Instead, I highly recommend https://github.com/casey/just .

Add these two lines to the top to use node executables and load the dotenv:

``` set dotenv-load := true export PATH := "./node_modules/.bin:" + env_var('PATH') ```

There's a good chance 115k TC is significantly less than what you could be getting.

I'm currently building a network of domain expert mentors, where companies can connect with experts for advising their existing team to solve business problems. Think of it like very low commitment consulting. It might be a great way to get a better feel for industry (and the salary you can command) before making a hard commitment.

If that sounds interesting, shoot me an email. My email is <my username> at gmail dot com.

Three easy lessons:

1. Don't use MongoDB.

2. Don't use high level ORMs. Stay (reasonably) close to SQL. And yes, it should be SQL. Almost certainly Postgres.

3. Especially don't use Mongoid.

The personal MBA is probably the best resource for solid foundation of all business topics relevant to entrepreneurship.

"Laws of Human Nature" by Robert Greene (ironically, also the author of 48 laws of power, which is often criticized for advocating machiavellianism) is an extremely powerful book.

It has two chapters that are especially relevant for you: "Chapter 2: Transform self-love into empathy: The law of narcissism", which might be self-evident in its value from the title, and "Chapter 4: Determine the strength of people's character: The law of compulsive behavior", which discusses toxic personality types, how to avoid them, and what to do in case you notice those patterns in your own behavior. I think you'll find both of those chapters extremely illuminating.

The whole book is worth checking out too. And a relationship with a good executive coach or therapist works wonders too!

Wanna email me your resume (email in profile)? We're tackling an underserved part of the consumer finance world, backed by top VCs and still early stage.

Could I get your contact information to chat with you more about government contracting? It's a space I'm doing a lot of research in, and very curious to learn more about!

Build a better mousetrap, and you'll learn how to build a better mousetrap. You need to market it (or partner with someone who will) if you want to make money.

1. Get some kind of market validation before you build. Get commitments from paying customers (or even pre-payment), or directly see them paying for a near-identical offering, and have a competitive advantage to deliver it more cheaply.

2. Do an inventory exercise of why these projects have failed. Doing a quick run-through, it looks like you didn't do marketing or user research for any of these projects. If making a side business still excites you, make sure you do these steps before going to build any future side business.

3. I know nothing about landscaping, but as an outsider, Bloom looks a promising product. Go talk to customers!

3. If the marketing side of things doesn't interest you, but you still want to make side money, reach out to me, my email is <hn username> at gmail. My background is pure engineering, but I have friends who are looking for technical co-founders and have ideas that I could use more technical talent on.

This is amazing!

I helped found www.onesalon.org , and from that have experience building global community. Happy to chat if you'd like. Username at gmail dot com

Do your sales before building it. Who would buy it? Make a powerpoint or pen&paper mockup, get feedback from potential customers. Build a landing page, track conversion to a 'Buy Now' button.

For more info, check out 4H work week, Lean Startup, or http://firstround.com/review/90-of-feedback-is-crap-how-to-f...

Reminds me of the writeup a few days ago about Google's machine emotional intelligence for email suggested replys - except Clara is doing it (and more) with a team the fraction of the size.

The business solution here is very clever. As an engineer, my instinct is to fully automate any system. Clara is a great example where the most effective answer is getting the 90% solution, then going the last mile with humans to bring it up to 99% (making that up) accuracy, with most of the same savings. Imagine similar solutions for customer support (especially over website chat bars. Some systems like this already exist.)

Email me kespindler at gmail. I have relevant work that you'd be interested to hear about.

Going to put a shameless plug here for the python awk replacement I made.

github.com/kespindler/puffin

Instead of learning a new language and new syntax, just use python!

good for you to have the courage to say this. seriously, it takes guts to do so. feel free to pm if you wanna chat, just recently graduated college myself and have been on both sides of this coin.

edit: realize don't think there is pming here. i'm my username at gmail on e-mail.

You can do Gaussian filter in 2 passes: first along X, then along Y. Then you only grow linearly in size, rather than quadratically. This change should also improve your cache hits.

Hopefully others pick up on this fact, but this article must have been written circa-2000. The Canadian dollar hasn't been as low as .69 (mentioned in article) since at least late-2003, as far back as yahoo/google finance go. The latest references are 1999.

I'm also going to disagree with what the author says. I go to an ivy-league school, and there are two things that make all the difference: the caliber of students, and the atmosphere of hard work. Of course there are smart people at every school, as Author writes in describing Honors programs. But the concentration is just incredibly high at Ivys. Any random person you run into or work with is most likely brilliant in some way or other.

Atmosphere of hard work - Being surrounded by many high-achievers, you just can't help but push yourself to work harder, achieve more, etc. As long as you're in touch with yourself to avoid burnout, I love this atmosphere because it pushes me to accomplish more than I would were I surrounded by a bunch of people who just want to drink all day every day (of course there are those students, but they're in the minority.)

That's not to say an Ivy is always worth it. Rather, I think you can't make a blanket statement about whether it's appropriate or not. For some it will be, for some it won't be.