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They do something like this with a couple thousand lines of code and failing tests.

I had the same tic-tac-toe q, I felt that the instructions were pretty clear: “Accomplish this one thing, as simple as possible, then generalize to actually work.” To me it felt like I was getting specs to write a class and that’s what I did.

I had a pretty great experience and would recommend TripleByte.

Loved that video. I miss having PG be a very vocal and frequent voice of YC.

There was a question about the financial risk of launching early - PG's answer was really good, but it seemed pretty clear to me: Launching early costs less time and money. So you should launch something that works, as soon as possible with the minimum number of people required to build something useful (probably 2-4 people). Beyond that, you make your "vision" meet reality, where you can do magical things like learn from users/customers, which is basically priceless.

> Like most people, I sometimes go through periods of a week or two where I just have no motivation to do anything (I suspect it may have something to do with nutrition).

As a fellow vegetarian, I tend to increase fruit intake & do early morning workouts or yoga when I feel like this. Give that a try @sama

Quick correction: "where we stand to adapt our offering to be within the limits of the law." should be "where we stand to adapt our offering to be within the limits of the law if it is determined to not already be within said limits."

We stopped selling after our last run of USBs & for the reasons outlined above.

> I wouldn't recommend using this for non-trivial amounts of money for hopefully obvious reasons

Hey Tom! Guy from the article here. First off, thanks for Metabase. I'm a big fan & recommend it often.

Second, you're absolutely right. We have been capping people at $1500 purchases per month unless they were willing to provide identification & an understanding of the risks associated with our service.

> Nor would I recommend the founders continue to run it unless they've consulted a lawyer and are aware they're likely running a money transmitter business. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Casascius_physical_bitcoins#Suspe....

Casascius very simply shut down, some of our counsel thinks we have legal basis to not be a money transmitter while other legal counsel believes we may be. We're currently working through that to understand how and where we stand to adapt our offering to be within the limits of the law.

> Accepting credit cards as payment for cryptocurrency is also a risky proposition, to say the least.

Agreed. Mutual trust has been required, we're working on something better than that now :D

> Err.. aren't these guys going to run into regulatory problems? You need a license to sell this in the US.

We've had some conversations with our legal team at Cooley & some conversations with outside counsel at Goodwin Procter. They have not been able to reach consensus on whether we fall within regulatory oversight. Until then, we're not going to be selling anymore in the United States. It comes down to whether this is art or a collectible or not. We're working on it & have stopped sales for the time being. :)

> Not to mention selling crypto with credit cards is a great way to go broke unless you own the keys like Coinbase does.

This is a fair point, there is actually trust on both sides of the relationship here - we're trusting that our customers will not chargeback & they're trusting us not to steal their keys.

> Also, why would you trust the keys they are sending you? Having someone else generate a wallet for you then sending it to you via a USB key sounds very very bad.

We originally thought so as well. When we sold a bunch we were surprised & started talking to our customers. It turns out, they don't want to go through the hassle of finding a wallet creator, disconnecting their computer from the internet, generating a wallet, writing down private keys or mnemonics & securing them.

You can think of this kind of how car dealerships don't run their own mail servers anymore or pizza places don't run their own instance of a bind DNS server. They want the convenience of not having to worry about it.

We're currently working hard on a v2 that makes it a bit more secure while maintaining usability.

> I don't get this.

We really didn't either, but the people that have trusted us with their money helped us understand this: Everyone who is working on cryptocurrency projects is suffering from the curse of knowledge [1] - most of them don't care about the end user.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

https://www.screenr.com/ USED to be great for this.

There is also apparently https://screencast-o-matic.com/

This left me with a lot of questions, it could definitely use more explanations between code examples. I had to do a lot of "reading between the lines".

I've been reading https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-deep-learning and have been liking it better than this tutorial.

What is your best email address?

Do you need a degree to do that? Or can you test your way in?

Hello Anu! How would you recommend selling these metrics to people focused on things like app downloads or user signups? Essentially, how would you recommend advocating for adopting these metrics?

Is the link broken? Not working on my phone.

This was my question as well. Metabase is continuously getting better - why would one divest themselves from metabase for this? What are the primary advantages?

I can only express my gratitude, thank you Kenneth!

Cool! Been a fan ever since you started posting to the HN FB group!

I wrote my own version of this if anyone is interested in seeing how I implemented this: https://github.com/allynalford/investor_day

The relevant part is here: https://github.com/allynalford/investor_day/blob/master/app/...

THANKS FOR THE COLLAPSES!!! :')

@igorgue - it definitely works. Me & my spouse are very happy with the results of the service thus far :)

My wife also used SimpleCitizen, you can pay for a lawyer to green-light your paperwork before you file it. That's what we did.

Congrats @paul - big fan of everything I've seen from you.

I'm a paying customer of about a dozen SaaS services. I'm also working on my own service. I'd use this before ProductHunt if and only if, it had better products on the homepage.

Basically, if the curation is good, I'll be there looking for improvements to my "stack".

This looks really awesome. Can you lock columns or rows to prevent people from changing them?

This girl was really onto something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyrFWbGiGOc

@dhotson - please be sure to auction this site for art basel :)

Many many thanks in advance to anyone who answers:

I've futzed around with ML docs (dataquest, random articles, first 3 weeks of andrew ng course on coursera) & what I don't get about this (http://tensorflow.org/tutorials/mnist/beginners/index.md) is how to actually make a prediction / classification on something that is not "test" data. Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to "use" a model once I have it validated, like we do at the end of that tutorial?

Does anyone know who nickb is?