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Ask HN: Regular job after establishing own company, but still running it?
TL;DR:

I've seen a lot of talk about creating a startup while still employed, but what about the other way around -- getting a regular job while still running your startup?

Longer version:

I have a novel idea that various people from an established industry seem to like. Around Q2 2018 I'd be able to incorporate and start working on the product in ~20h/week capacity. In Q4 2018 I hope to start a job in one of the Big 4.

I know it's ill-advised, but am interested in other peoples' stories, if they have done similar things.

Of course, I know I wouldn't be able to put in full time into the startup. What "role" would formally best describe my position in the startup in that case? Board member? Just a founder? CTO? Part-time employee? Totally irrelevant?

If relevant, the startup would be incorporated in the EU, and the "real" job would hopefully be in the US, depending on the visa lottery.
I've been thinking for a long time about the question of why production rules and logic programming are less popular than they are, and one of them is much like what you point out: if the parts of your program form a graph that is assembled by the runtime/compiler, each node (roughly a line of code in a normal programming language) has to be annotated with enough information to find the nodes it connects with -- much of which is implicit in the structure of a normal sequential program.
With exceptions in small areas, Arizona is Mountain Standard Time all year
It's less necessary now that you have browser sync but I still use pinboard.in (basically a delicious-type site) to save bookmarks along with some comments.
Yes! I'll be interested to see the reaction to it. Having to carry it around and clip it to things feels a little unwieldy, and no audio is an odd restriction, but the idea of smartly detecting clips worth keeping is absolutely fascinating. And the whole thing shows exactly the kind of parent-focused design Snapchat obviously doesn't do.
You make it sound like "more choosy" is a bad thing. Aren't all the big technology companies choosy about who they'll hire?

The numbers given the essay suggest that Sweden's employment rate is not unusually low, so is your comment really a meaningful basis for making a policy decision?

When it's easy to fire people, it's also easy to fire people for personally motivated reasons, rather than reasons which are good for the company.

For example, the boss might want to fire someone to bring in a family member. Nepotism isn't illegal. But the union contract helps prevent these sorts of (non-business related) firings.

People tend to work better when they aren't worried about being fired for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their job.
Google didn’t organise the world’s information. The world did a lot of the work
God damn it. These fucking wearable pieces of shit need to stand on their own. They can’t be unrepairable, expensive, tethered pieces of shit that die when the battery refuses to charge.

No one wants garbage that only works with one website, and no one wants to pay for an uncontrollable device with a mind of its own.

If you have a free service on the internet, millions or perhaps even billions may clamour to use it. If you’re giving stuff out for free, people will happily try it out, if they have the option to throw it in the trash without consequence.

Make people pay for something? It better do what they want, when they want it, or you might have some pissed off people on your hands.
What about the Google front page?

(And Wikipedia?)
It's not xenophobic, it's reality. There are large numbers of wealthy+ Chinese who basically want to own something the Chinese government can't take away on a whim. Can't say I blame them.

Because China is big and we are little this has a disproportionately large effect on our house prices - which makes them look like a good investment etc. etc.
I agree 100% with this.

So if what you're saying here is that in Haskell that this choice is mine, that I can always completely avoid having to choose static verification if I so choose (ie, I can get it a la carte), then that is just plain awesome. Is that what you are saying?
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Actually, that's the great part about what we are doing: it is all built on Ethereum, so there is no centralized database, and the users are generally pseudonymous! OK, you might then say "isn't that just a decentralized database?", but in addition to a form of "probabilistic micropayments" that ends up shrouding most of the participants, we are also working on integrating other techniques to make the payments fully anonymous (and have brought on a team of advisors which includes a professor of cryptography who specializes in this area).
Another example I've been wondering about lately... Could Mercer and Renaissance potentially be using data from Cambridge Analytica (he is a partial owner) to identify market opportunities or even make markets?
Shame I can only upvote this once.
If you're only using a "stable whitelist" of websites on the internet then you're not the target audience
"Obviously the smart and qualified ones are going to move abroad to get a good qualify of life"

Chinese emigration into the US is about 75 thousand a year https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_St... . It is not clear how many of that are skill based. So in your view how many of the 600 million worthy ones are "smart and qualified"? Not to say China doesn't have a brain drain problem, but quantity at a certain level is a quality in itself.
There's nothing more depressive to me then waking up in the morning and it's both cold and pitch dark outside. So, unlike so many people in this thread, I happen to like the DST.
This post is an excellent example of someone who doesn't understand how different people can have different preferences and constraints than the ones they face.
If I understand your question correctly, and you are looking at "how do we do hole punching and NAT traversal without a way to get your canonical external IP address", in addition to techniques that don't require that kind of functionality (such as modern routers with UPnP port forwarding support), other nodes on the network can run something analogous to ICE servers (we have yet to decide if it should literally be STUN or if we need to integrate it into the security model), so all you will need is the address and public key of another node (which you will need anyway in order to connect to the network).
What are some of the best data recovery tools/softwares?
In short:

Getting people to spend their free time is relatively easy.

Getting people to spend their hard earned cash is very (very) difficult.

You'd think this would be obvious already :)
For AI and ML I got maybe 60% relevant stuff, but also stuff about Hurricane Sandy, Trump, etc.
I find Apple's extreme secrecy off-putting. I wouldn't want to work at a place where there is such limitations about what you can discuss with your coworkers, let alone your friends and family. But that's how things work at Apple. It's unbelievable that an Apple employee would let their child have a hands-on with an unreleased product and film it. If he didn't realize that is a fireable offense, well, that in itself is a fireable offense.
I've bought multiple copies of the same item from Amazon. Sometimes it's been groceries but not always.

I've bought books for myself then bought them again as gifts for someone else. I bet a lot of people who bought Switch games for themselves will buy more copies as holiday presents.
We deal with this almost every week, as in, we get into systems by searching through email:password leaks and use them.

There are a number of mitigating controls that can be applied here. Most will hamper usability, some will not.

There is a “simple” solution. Enforce 2FA. If not at the login, then before “dangerous” actions (transfer funds , change password , buy X/Y/Z )
If they could tell you when did you see this person in the past and recognize from your contacts, and if it didn't "sync to cloud" or that crap, I'd buy three just for gifting.

Unfortunately, it's just not realistic right now, I think. The Spectacles battery life lasts less than 30 minutes of recording, and they don't even have a screen.
Also as far as I remember Windows doesn't distinguish between capital and lower case letter in file paths
Most jobs in our industry (or any other) do not require "top talent". If a company needs to implement a CRUD app, they're not going to be able to attract (or afford) someone who is capable of designing the next-generation web browser or inventing new AI algorithms. So there's lots of room for people with average skills who can cooperate with their co-workers to get the day-to-day work done.

Even in legendary companies like Google, most of the software development work that goes on is pretty mundane, e.g., writing some tiny piece of a huge system that's being worked on by dozens of other developers.
Chit chat isn't just for parties. Meeting new people is often enjoyable, though more fun if they're agreeable instead of complaining.
Well, some people are born here so they don't need to move countries.

And there isn't a "point" of NZ. We're a large island in the South Pacific - we have huge problems with poverty, family violence, and (I believe) the worst teenage suicide rate in the OECD.
the percussion mode is really cool. it would be awesome if it could work with something like finger tapping (something like TableDrum).
> but PM2.5 under 300 isn't that bad.

That's 300μg/m3.

A 5 μg/m3 increase in estimated annual mean PM2.5 was associated with a 13% increased risk of coronary events...

http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.f7412

The city where I live has PM10 over a 100 on bad days during the winter, and I try to avoid opening the windows if at all possible (I have an air filter, but it's annoyingly loud). Note that smaller particles are more dangerous - PM10 are relatively big. PM2.5 isn't even measured by most weather stations here.

You can easily smell PM10 concentrations over 60 or so.
Article title: "PostgreSQL Domain Integrity In Depth"
So the business plan is to become the oligarchs of the new network?
The real fix is to start behaving like a large city and put rail out to the suburbs.
True. But Apple is the proverbial outlier. They are also a perfect example of:

Making it look easy...is very very hard.

It's to easy to be seduced by (it looks) easy. But Snap won't be the last, will they :)
Ask HN: Password Manager (2017)
A handful of years ago I finally started using a pwd manager. Time passed and I am a bit unhappy about how they handle security and what they consider "secure".

This is a very discussed theme and there are plenty of options.

My main idea is to gather what are the best options currently and as a bonus if they fulfill a some requirements like: open source, browser extension, other easy to use solutions to fill browser forms, support integration with 2f apps,..

Let me know in the comments what you think is the best solution at the moment.
They are specified in the definition of the operators. Define a new operator '%' that concatenates two numbers together and then show me how in Haskell you would do:

myfun x y = x ^ 2 % 2 * y * x - y ^ 2
Also, make sure that there is a clickable home page link easily visible in any email you send, whether promotional or merely informative. Even places like Amazon and eBay get this wrong in some contexts.
There are two parts to this:

a) How to user graphical constructions (we call them parts) outside of the main framework? We currently work on ways to "snapshot" them in a way that they include all their dependencies. So not just the object (graph) state but really all code dependencies. es6 modules are a big help here since they allow to trace dependencies statically. This is work in progress and we will post updates about this.

The state right now is that you can the HTML view of morphs into web pages, e.g. see [2]

b) Several parts of the system can be used standalone, e.g. you can enable support for Lively tooling in node.js processes or arbitrary webpages. See https://lively-next.org/worlds/lively-2-webpage for a bookmarklet that loads the lively.vm [1] and lively-system-interface on a arbitrary web page: https://imgur.com/a/2foGR. This allows you to then use the workspaces, system browser, inspectors, etc. on remote targets.

[1] https://livelykernel.github.io/lively.vm/

[2] https://lively-next.org/worlds/lively.next%20website
Honestly, I hate ads, and on a visceral level I dislike them on Amazon. HOWEVER... I haven't noticed them doing any harm to the experience, they're easy to identify, and therefore to avoid. I wish they weren't there, and worry about future conflicts of interest, but for the time being the behavior is acceptable.

If Amazon doesn't compromise the UX, including privacy, with ads, then I think most of us will live with it.
did they make it wear a niqab?
Toward a (smoking) high performance tensor library in Nim
Daemon is a great series with interesting tech ideas. That's exactly what i hoped we could be moving towards when i got google glass. Still waiting for something capable.
This comment depresses me. It just sounds like everyone had no experience and just threw their hands up and said fuck it.
Hacking Chrome’s Payment Request Api into PayPal’s Iframe Buttons
Misdirected Narcissism. Never forget who's the star.
When are they doing ICO!?
In terms of watch prices it is far from highly priced. I don't know anyone that would considering it "rich people" jewelry. I've had my Apple Watch for several weeks now and its usefulness has made it worth every penny. I especially love having cellular service and not having to take my phone with me everywhere I go.
> a software engineer thinking of moving to nz for a job has now found that he might never be able to purchase a home.

No, they can't purchase an existing home. You can always build a new one.
I'm going to assume that if you take 10 times longer to respond to this than it took me to respond to you, then my "orders of magnitude" claim has been proven.

(...friendly joke, of course.)
It seems intended to be more anonymous and decentralized than Tor, and safer thanks to the strength of numbers, but their whitepaper is diseharteningly incomplete and disingenuous, particularly about problems that are shared with Tor.

For example:

"The distribution of Entry Nodes is a difficult topic. If oppressive governments are able to access this list,
they will block user’s abilities to access the list."

Or simply, you know, go after whoever runs entry nodes. Or run their own entry nodes and, even if they can't compromise the network, trace the evil cypherpunks who want to use encryption.

Unfortunately, some practical and political problems cannot be solved with improved cryptography.
I mean, a lot of us felt this way, but yeah, I think you are the first to articulate it.

What they actually wanted was something more like the cop drones in the new Blade Runner that hover about and take video in near silence. There are quite a few kickstarters that claim they can do this, but the drones are loud. This generates attention on the drone, not the corporate-shill. Err, sorry, snap-fluencer, my bad. Also, the battery life is terrible and I can see airspace getting crowded at homecoming in the multi-use-room.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sqdr/hexo-your-autonomo...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airdog/airdog-worlds-fi...
I don't understand this trend in tech, making a " for dummies" version of every tool. Was cURL too difficult for the author? They shouldn't be involved in tech if something like cURL seems too complex for them.
FWIW, if you look at Tor, Facebook now runs a hidden service that allows people to access Facebook's website. This is essentially the same thing as someone having provided a number of exit nodes that will only route to Facebook. The problem, though, is that this requires the client and maybe even the website to be modified to use the .onion URLs for all accesses back to the site (at least, any absolute URL on the site back to the site will cause a problem). I will personally contend that it is worth it to allow Facebook to do this, or to allow anyone to do this for any website, in order to get more people using the network for everything, as the more users you can get using the service to do normal traffic the more easily you can hide everyone.

This is particularly noticeable given that in some countries, such as the United States where I live, simply accessing the Tor website to download Tor will end up flagging you for further monitoring. If Tor had only as many users and exit nodes as it does right now, but additionally had, for example, a billion people in China accessing Wikipedia through exit nodes that refused to go anywhere but Wikipedia, that makes a world of difference. As it stands, people are actually actively discouraged and even shamed for using Tor to access random websites or ones that use a lot of bandwidth, as that means that they are using (or even "abusing") a limited amount of donated bandwidth that somehow needs to be reserved for those who "really need it" (and thereby, will be targeted just for that).

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d73yd7/how-the-ns...
The FAQ says you can break through the Great Firewall of China. I believe that you can in some limited way now by flying under the radar, but I absolutely do not believe you could maintain that ability if this became widely used and targeted specifically by the authorities. What would you do if they started really cracking down on Orchid?
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Some people like to know there's 'twist' ending and the thrill is figuring out who did it. I avoided spoilers for Blade Runner 2049; Harrison Ford was in it and if you've seen the first movie that's all you need know!
Can you elaborate on the compartmentalization? Want the code base accessible to all engineers? Or is that not what you're referring to?
Instead of "babysitting" your compiler, you're "babysitting" your application at runtime - I fail to see the difference.
That is a very broad question that I keep looking back to and thinking "I'll answer other questions and get back to this one ;P", but I'm thinking maybe I should simply refer you to the almost 50-page whitepaper on our website. I am here to answer any questions you might still have (and I totally believe you will, as that whitepaper is a draft)!

https://orchidprotocol.com/whitepaper.pdf
I am a big fan of the green energy show 'Fully Charged':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaC1qgXaRvE

According to recent episodes things are looking very good for China and the electric car. The clever thing is how the Western car companies are not really needed, the joint ventures that they imposed on foreign marques doesn't apply with electric cars, here the Chinese government wan the whole pie, all made in China.

I think that China will be able to get rid of ICE cars as quick as they first obtained them, in part because the build quality of a lot of them wasn't that good to start with and also because there are people that can remember a time before these filthy machines came along. It is not like the West where only one's great-grandmother can remember the horse and cart, everyone else has only known car pollution.
KeepassXC with sync to dropbox or even better to keybase.io KBFS. There is Chrome and Firefox extension. Shameless plug I'm working on new kind of extension https://github.com/mauron85/keepassxc-browser. There is alpha release already, but missing many features. My goal is to make it work in major browser and also with NativeClient version of KeePassXC https://github.com/varjolintu/keepassxc.
After I got the spectacles here were the reactions I got, from people in the 21-35 demographic:

First, wow I had no idea these existed

Second, where can I get them

Third, (months later) lost interest

Snapchat should have just had a buy now button in the app. Instead they tried to do some guerrilla marketing thing. If you have a captive audience of tens of millions of people, you don't need to create buzz around your product. Either you made something people want or you didn't. Me personally, they hurt my face. So I wore them about twice.
I was myself a fairly dedicated emacs user and what I like so much about the Lively UI is that you a) get all the programmability and customizability that you have e.g. with elisp (all the stuff on the screen can be programmed, keybindings, windows, everything down to the characters in texts) while b) get a user interface that is way more powerful than simple text. It's easy to embed images and interactive objects into normal texts allowing things to be more interactive to use. It's easy to plot and visualize data (interactively, not just a static screen), e.g. see the plotly morph in the partsbin. There is a sketch morph in the PartsBin as well, allowing you to sketch and take handwritten notes, I use this in combination with Astropad. Etc.

All that stuff makes the environment much more convenient to use for general content creation, not just programming.
This is quite good.

It is really about the presence of multiple Intel x86 CPUs on a single motherboard each running its own "kernel", but where the user only controls one of these kernels, and what control the user's kernel has over the hardware is easily subverted by the others.

SMM - can disable
UEFI - can replace
ME - can remove components
ISH - not discussed
IE - not discussed

The crunched binary for intramfs is written in Go and yet only 5.9MB. No systemd. Everything, even init scripts, is written in Go.
A decentralized social network  for Ethereum enthusiasts
Whitepaper abstract says you use "A blockchain-based stochastic payment mechanism with transaction costs on the order of a packet". But how is such a blockchain transaction scalable to the entire internet when considering that it does a transaction for every packet? (pretend you're talking to someone who won't read the article).
My old super in LA did this for a while too, before becoming a super. Much of the high-end 'catering' is done in apartments all over LA. I liked him a lot, but never asked about what the health inspector thought of the 3 cats.
Hopefully not! Ideally token allocations are fair and do not skew ownership towards any individual or entity while still providing good incentives (we're still working on figuring out what good allocations look like)
Thanks, will be fixed!
How is the route decided? If it uses a centralized server for that, then wouldn't it be easy to block that.
I’d heard of them, didn’t even know they were out yet and today I find they’ve already failed. Ho hum.