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>It seems you define successful startup as companies who IPOed, became household brands

No, I'm not the one fixated on famous IPO'd companies. I'm interpreting the question the HN poster asked and making an assumption of what the questioner had in his mind for "successful startup" to motivate why he would ask it.

Sure, it's possible for a "successful startup" to mean a sole-proprietor who wrote a niche vertical software that he hardly spends time in. He's just living off of maintenance renewals from enterprise customers. However, if the OP thought of this as a "successful startup", it wouldn't have motivated the question to be asked.

I may be wrong but I look at what motivated phrases like "successful startup" and "give up your life". Well, he's on HN. It seemed my interpretation was very reasonable.

> but here's a founder who rather works 4 days a week than 5

I don't think DHH is a "founder" in the sense that many HN readers are thinking. He was the key guy for Basecamp code and was hired by founders. I believe he was later given "partner" status at 37signals. He's definitely has high net worth like a "founder" so maybe that's the confusing part.

>(I didn't downvote your post BTW if that was a concern)

I don't mind the negative imaginary points but I do like some dialogue and discussion. I appreciate your and everyone else's response.
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I think those numbers are not right. To give all Americans 7K, you may need $2T. That is half of the the total budget of the federal government.
and \n as the universal line ending? http://utf8everywhere.org/#faq.crlf
It looks like all collections store void pointers. I don't see any abstractions to help with pointer lifetimes, which remains the main problem I encounter when trying to write large programs in C that dynamically allocate memory.
There are already commercial products that use NN and other ML techniques to classify and block malware, click fraud etc. - Cisco has one. It's certainly a valid and viable approach, even in the face of determined opposition.
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You can't just assume that this is just a result of market forces. Microsoft have been going out of their way to persuade customers that their product is just as worthless as every other disposable thing they buy. Millions of customers are prepared to pay a premium price to do simple basic things (like accounts on excel), and they are treated like a marketing opportunity for an annoying app store.

Windows has an amazing library of software that could be pre-installed for free on new machines. Maybe people would have paid a premium for an OS with "batteries included".
UPI story: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/03/12/Scientists-develo...
So, at the wake for my friend's family you are going to give a history lesson on big bad privacy-invading government; "freedom isn't free" or something. I have a hunch that won't play well. (Yes, the idea that our government will do horrific things down the line is abstract to most people. It's fitting a pattern of past behavior by bad governments to our current scenario. Most people don't actually believe that our government is engaging in world-criminal or war-crime behavior that needs to be stopped. The idea that it will turn on its own citizens is pretty far-fetched to them.)

We've probably gone on long enough in this thread, but my feeling is that if you want to get people to fear their government more than the terrorists, you have to make it as personal to them as the fear of terrorism already is. Until somebody can do that well we are all just preaching to the choir here.

And in order to have that conversation, we have to be ready to ask the other, uncomfortable one that I've been posing: "What is X such that privacy invasion is acceptable?" One planeload of people per decade? Per year?

We can ask it with a slightly different thought experiment. "OK the NSA surveillance data allowed us to thwart 5 plots last year; probably saved 200 lives. Turn it off, it's not worth it in the long run." If we replace 200 by X, what is X such that you, President pdonis, let the NSA program survive? How about President dhimes? President ady_ppp or President jkestner? I'm not asking for answers here, but just to consider this as a very real question faced by people who have to make these decisions, and that a whole lot of people would say X = 0 when it comes time to make that decision. I think Obama might be one of those.

NB I'm actually in pretty good agreement with you on the privacy debate, but I think that concrete questions like these need to be discussed.
It's graded vesting, I've always seen it at 5 years (20%/year). It seems they do 20% after the first year then 1/48th afterward monthly (which is nice).

Legally they can do up to 6 years.
COAD?
My uncle and heroin: ‘What surprises me most – you have no teeth’
Anybody else thinks that the future depicted in "Ready Player One" is probably going to be our real future???
After the initial period of adaptation, I found it actually increased productivity. Perhaps it was just preventing already-established bad habits that arise from having the internet constantly available.
Hmm I was actually thinking 0.03% was high for the role and position of the company.

Startup equity has always been tiny. Even for critical engineer hires 1-10. Engineers in general are poor negotiators and, in my experience, the employee pool is preserved for later executive hires that are brought in to bring the company and product into the fold of the industry trying to be disrupted.
>a divorce, without a legal marriage.

eh. I'd say the Lonsdale/Clougherty fiasco fits in that category (esp since it was thrown out), but the $40m settlement makes me think this wasnt just a "divorce." You know why? Because people, ESPECIALLY rich dudes, reaaaaaally hate giving away any money in divorce.

Read the PDF. This was no marriage. If these allegations are true, Goguen is a pretty fucked up dude.
That doesn't make sense to me. Even if the objective function is win probability, it's used to order all potential moves. Thus given a menu of bad options, it should choose the least-bad one, not start choosing at random.

I think there's something more subtle going on.
This reminds me of 7 minute abs:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2di69FmhE
Once you have built something more valuable than the triangle on the coast, either Sudan or Egypt may say "oh hey, yeah, the other party totally owns the triangle, Bir Tawil is ours". So there's still political risk there.
Would be nice to have parallel structures like "Intel threading building blocks" provides.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading_Building_Blocks

I recommend this book to understand such structures:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14788830-structured-para...
Yes, Hal Daume is referring to the issue I brought up. I'm not interpreting his comments as referring to issues with training the model jointly - he's referring to exactly what I'm describing - never having even seen the expert make a mistake. The only solution is to generate trajectories more intelligently (which is in line with Daume's comments).
Which one of these are you using for VoIP on your computer?
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The app is free. What do they make money from, do they have ads?
i had an open pandora, and loved it.
can't wait for the pyra.
I think it's important that they are talking about lines not line-segments. By definition, lines extend to infinity in both directions. But I agree, the wording is still confusing. I would have worded it more like "if three lines pass through the same point and the edge of a circle, then the point is the center of the circle and the lines lie along the radii of the circle."
Any suggestions of a good base country? My company is registered in London but if this goes through I can see the argument for changing that.
> Better to just install an extension that blocks twitter/facebook etc, than completely cripple your ability to search for technical information as you need it.

With godoc, man pages, info pages, a local copy of the Common Lisp Hyperspec and Usenet, what more does one need?
I've had syntax highlighting enabled in Vim for many years without really thinking about it. I just recently started to learn a new programming language (Go) and that got me thinking about the effects of syntax highlighting. I felt that colours would distract me from efficiently learning the syntax of the language so I turned it off for a while, now I'm never going back.

(I really do like having another color on just comments though, code > comments. Separating them makes a big difference when reading source code for me.)

Ended up having to create a Vim color scheme to get what I wanted: https://github.com/ggustafsson/Static-Color-Scheme
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Who are "they"? If we are talking about the government, they should leave alone both the time and my working hours. Workers and employers should agree on working hours that are convenient to workers and reduce electricity bills of employers. All that government regulation of working hours, minimum wage and timezones are for wartime or socialism.
I really don't get this. What's their advantage over using this over... well, anything else?

They seem like a complete copy of Signal to me: they're a centralized service with open source clients that promises end-to-end encrypted communication. I see no difference between them. It's like re-inventing the wheel. Honestly, I don't see a single reason why I should use this.
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Or the opposite effect. It's at least plausible that with the sort of minimal basic income levels that are worth theorizing about as a practical matter (say, $8K/yr), you're going to have people willing to work that job for $10K or whatever to get them up to a level where they can afford some minimal level of "luxuries." It's been at leas theorized that a UBI scheme would end up being a subsidy for low-wage employers.
Agreed, it also depends on what you're trying to do. If you have time to read and comprehend each and every line of code then that's obviously ideal, but time is the most precious resource we have. I find properly implemented syntax highlighting provides a "visual outline" of the code which I can use like a table of contents or index. This allows me to save time and focus for the segments of code that require my full attention. Sure it makes things more "jumpy" and sometimes I have to backtrack to get context, but I find it makes the overall process much more time-efficient.

I'd also point out turning off highlighting may produce a false perception if the color scheme you're switching from is mediocre or worse (as most of them are in my experience). To a starving man McDonalds tastes like heaven. Properly implemented syntax highlighting shouldn't be distracting in the first place. If you're using syntax highlighting and have trouble reading code line-by-line then that's just a sign you need a better color scheme IMO. I switched from some random theme I found online to solarized-dark a couple of years ago and found it made the reading experience much smoother.

At any rate I'm glad he's found something that makes his programming more productive and enjoyable, but I would avoid categorizing it as objectively better, as the author tries to do.
Recruiter here. You raise a good point: I think this takes the need for compensation transparency to an extreme.

However, I strongly support this concept overall. Often, I see the offer letter essentially presented as a formality once the basics are agreed upon. The candidate has completed the interview process, decided his/her non-financial interests in the opportunity, and received that "personal" positive reinforcement from the hiring manager & team. At this point: sure, the offer letter can include a personalized message to start, but ultimately it's for the candidate to review the hard facts: compensation, benefits, disclosures, etc.

I applaud this, but I'm cynical and think it would require an overhaul of the entire system regarding compensation transparency. The status quo offer letter simply benefits the company, and it's hard to justify changing course when only a tiny minority of companies are following suit. If this trend took off, then the threat of a competitive disadvantage come offer time would be a worthwhile motivator. I hope it happens someday.
> As to this particular case, I don't believe that the US government is particularly interested in using copyright to prevent stuff from getting published.

There is a fair argument to be made that the companies who induce the government to enact excessive copyright terms do want exactly that, because competition with more public domain works would reduce the margins on works still under copyright (supply and demand).

It also allows those companies to more effectively censor unflattering parts of their own history, e.g. Disney's Song of the South.
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OTOH your data is still being sent to the USA for snooping and spying.
I just threw up a little in my mouth at the thought. Probably still tastes better than the bill brew you're suggesting :-)
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I think the solution to this is not to legally enforce debt collection of Basic Income, so it's impossible to be forced into poverty by debt.

IMO the core purpose of Basic Income is to provide a baseline standard of living, so this solution fits well with that ideal.

This would, however, increase the risk to creditors across the board (since the worst penalty for defaulting is living on Basic Income) but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
Does Signal do video now?
What I've once read is that the advantages for syntax highlighting are biggest for beginners (in general or in that programming language). This seems logical when looking at what syntax highlighting does: colouring differently according to the token type. Beginners might have more problems finding the borders of what belongs together and what kind of token something is.

If we compare this with classical text, we won't have any typographic help for the inner structures of sentences, maybe simply because colouring different types of words differently was quite hard. Typography there is used for the outer structure. Mostly vertical space is used to separate paragraphs. This is also used in programming. However making headlines bigger and use a different type isn't used in programming. Programming uses indentation instead. It is pretty obvious that it's this way because of the limitations of the medium in the beginning. Also it's not as easy as classifying tokens.
The guilt when you do take a break is definitely one of the hardest things to get past. Very hard to truly unplug even if you've stepped away from your computer to go out with friends.
Let's agree OP's question left too much room for interpretation. The spectrum of solo entrepreneur to typical HN team to older medium size companies (some which call themselves startup but probably shouldn't) is too large. OP should have added a couple of sentences to clarify.

I've worked crazy hours for multiple startups, it paid off, and will do again. I don't want to give the image though it's the best way. Lots of friends (startup employee) burnt out over the years and their extra hours made no difference because the business success was determine by something outside their control.
Getting drunk is part of the point. There's no gain in pretending it's not.
There is an important issue missing in the article (beyond the warning notice): the occlusion. The modification of the dental structure requires a whole functional analysis that goes beyond the teeth.

Anyway, the future is promising and the issues could be solved taking into account all the factors.
IBM Watson Speech to Text Service Demo
On ratio between radii
My theory, as way out there as it might seem, is that there is hardly any interest for actual encryption. GPG's unique maintain was struggling to make ends meet until last year when he made it in the news.

I have yet to find someone, even among the "privacy aware" people to chat on Facebook using Pidgin's OTR plugin.
Timers and time management in the Linux kernel, Part 5
Off-topic: we (the human species) have built an AI that can master the game of Go, but we don't yet have the intelligence to publish charts correctly on the web. That blur of a JPG is half a megabyte!
For the curious, a coffee-table book, a cookbook, and a memoir:

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Eating-Bugs-Science-Insects/dp/098...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Eat-Bug-Cookbook-Revised/dp/160774...

http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Adventure-Eating-Insects-Planet...
There's also this:
http://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip

(I'm not affiliated iwth the product)
Ah, wow this is awesome. It'd be really handy to have something that small but still have an entirely functional environment booted up.
I have created a website where i pay people 0.01$ for a like that they get
The difference is that it's impossible to make a perfectly secure vault (correct me if I'm wrong). But... physics.

You can encrypt something that will need hypothetical quantum computers / processing until the heat death of the universe to decrypt without the key.
I have a new (purchased Dec '15) XPS 15. And despite having dual booted about 10-15 different PCs and laptops (mostly Dell and HP) have thus far have had zero success getting Ubuntu on my new box. I suspect it has to do with two internal hard drives, but I've sort of given up at this point (I bricked the first box, and Dell sent me a new one) and relegate this otherwise very nice laptop to the accounting department to run Quickbooks and Office.
I'm both, but offer a couple of productized design services. I'm actually right now in the process to figure out if if I'm able to replicate the same model for some dev services. Curious to find out.
C'mon now.

Ok, this $35 computer may not be for everyone, but that doesn't mean the whole project is deeply flawed. The RaspberryPi foundation provides real value for millions.
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So, are you saying that people never make decisions that they later regret?
The unintended privacy consequences of using Cloudflare’s HTTPS
What's needed to realize Wilson's vision is an institution that glues allocated land together and networks with other land trusts towards the half-earth goal. The land wouldn't always need to be contiguous, though connecting corridors would be a priority. There's various living park models that could form an unbrella and provide limited use for tourism and other non-invasive uses. You'd want to engage in land swaps and raise money from wealthy donors to support the foundation. I can imagine there'd be support from the valley and others in the form of technical support and gifting towards a goal like this. If anyone's interested in discussing starting this as a YC nonprofit, I setup a slack channel at halfearth.slack.com . Just email me at patrick.carolan@gmail.com for an invite.
It's because your jaw will change shape when there is a void an it can affect other teeth in the row. Also if you remove a tooth on the lower jaw, the corresponding tooth above on the upper jaw can start to travel downwards in the absence of a bite.
Total Solar Eclipse Seen from 1M Miles Away
They made the same or more crop, but the market value of crops dropped through the floor during the green revolution and made it require way more scale to make a profit off agriculture.

So they would have needed a much greater quantity of crop yield to make the same relative income, and most family farms were not big enough to support it (and the farmers didn't have the savings to afford equipment).
So I suppose the fact that the opponent is a computer program should not be factored into the reaction to Sedol's win at all.

I hope your reductionist explanation is not accurate because it would imply that we are already so highly conditioned to machines and to AI that this match is thought to be no different from a match between two humans.
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Realistically speaking, people simply don't see Windows prices anymore, it's been bundled by OEMs for such a long time. The premium you speak of is what people pay for Office add-on options at checkout, which are still insanely popular. I don't think you can squeeze much more out of that. They will actually have to shave functionality out, to enable more "apps" add-ons, the challenge being a streamlined interface to that (e.g. If you try to burn a cd, get a popup prompting to enable the feature via some app and so on).

Where Windows can technically and commercially grow is as a base "cloud OS" that is easier to launch and manage than current incumbents Ubuntu / RedHat. They have a lot of work to do to get there though.
Would you please elaborate more in layman's terms?
Has this library been stress tested? I am interested in using this library for a spaceflight application, but reliability is paramount in our situation.
While I can't speak to the successful part, I'm just over two years into my current project and haven't launched nor applied to YC yet.

If I had more money I'd definitely maintain way more of a life than I do now while continuing to work on my startup. Granted, I didn't really have much of a life prior anyways (remote job coupled with high expenses), so maybe that makes it easier since I'm used to it.

The timescale might seem crazy, but it's incredible what time does for your ideation and strategy. When I first started, my plan was basically a mid-sized SaaS business. Over the years both internal and external forces evolved that into a methodical blueprint for a company on the order of Magic Leap. Six months in I figured out trying to charge money for the product was probably suicide. Six months after that came the start of a radical shift to a far more ambitious plan that built off the original in a very natural way. Had I artificially constrained myself to a fixed time window, or otherwise quit, I'd have never discovered any of that.

The whole thing is very much like an obsession, something that occupies virtually all of your idle thought. Kind of like a nagging splinter in your mind's eye where you can see precisely what you want, the only challenge being to make it manifest.

Taking a fat paycheck as a software developer and everything that comes with it has always been tempting, especially with hindsight—but I know that the second I do it will be the end of my project. Giving up on that would be unbearable, worse than death—at least until I've seen it through regardless of the outcome.

Melodramatic narrative aside, to answer the OP's question—no, I don't think you must have no life to do a startup, and it's even preferable that you have one. For most people, the reality is just that time or financial constraints conspire to ensure that they don't.
Nice! Glad to know you're using and liking it :)
Hardly equivalent to the Pyra.
Not sure about the "past accomplishments" part. I usually feel more drawn to old games I never finished.