skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put it on CodeCanyon if you want. There's a lot of similar software there that get a lot of sales.

Also make sure you have paperwork in place that gives you right of IP. Given that the past IP was owned by your company, this is not merely a handshake and email.
> including Sleeper

Sleeper rolled by on TV a year ago or so. It was far, far worse than I remember it being :-(
You'd actually be surprised that most at home daycare providers choose that profession. Most typically have their own child and decide to also take in a few other children to make extra money. I ran a startup in this field and worked with many dayhome providers. Some do it as their career, some do it for a few years while their children are young and they would like to stay home and be with them.
Why 'unicorn' companies don't appreciate the 'organic, non-fast foot, non-money-burning' way to do marketing? (e.g. word of mouth)

Why are them so keen on using investors' money to bump up 'sales' as further investment into 'cash flow'?
Why are their primary goal be money-making?
I empathize with the concern. My mindblown moment in fretting over this was a realization inspired by social physics research and complexity science:

Just enforce a shape of the social fabric instead of worrying about specific content within that social fabric. Maintain edge quotas, not information quotas. We have tons of research on what are "healthier" shapes of network topology than what we've built.
That's fine for the software they wrote. But there's a LOT we sysads do outside of that area.

Have you seen a webapp go off the rails? There's millions of weird fail-conditions. Can they learn what to monitor, at what frequency?

Security... 'Principle of least privilege' is at odds with "make it work". I've seen devs assume the database server has commodity connection to the internet. They never asked if it did or didn't. And I've fought with them on the dev AD stack with an attempt in keeping the GPOs in line with production. But it's just 'too hard'.

And I've seen devs go 'just spin up some more machines'. But unlike yesteryear where we provisioned hardware for cost for X years, aws/azure/gce "allows" devs to have a direct unlimited budget tied to the company. We sysads learned responsibilities, and how to budget, and how to requisition. Someone pressing a button on a dashboard, or writing a script doesn't. You'd be surprised just how angsty the C levels are with this cloud computing and developers with near-free reign.
These cities have the companies where people want to work at. They also pay handsomely. Seattle, for instance, is expensive, sure - but a grad a couple years after college can be making $200K easy in Seattle vs maybe just north of $100K in a place like OKC for a more senior role.

I would recommend techies go work at one of these big tech companies, at least for several years and save up for your future. Then move to the Midwest if your goal is to live in a suburb in a several thousand square foot home.
Agreed. As a kid, I once picked a gaming name that was unbeknownst to me a Dutch word. So many other kids would join and start speaking what I presume to be Dutch, and when I said I'm American they'd have a laugh and speak in perfect English.
The real costs of testing are clearly nonzero.

If they were zero, the testing would already be done.
I've always thought b-trees should be the starting "default" for everything, because their speed is far more consistent, you get extra features, and you don't have to make decisions in advance about allocating extra memory or worry whether the keys aren't well-distributed enough that you'll get horrible collisions. And how often do the extra few lookups for a tree materially affect the speed of your software?

Hash tables to me aren't a go-to -- they're an optimization I reach for only when I have a real performance reason where I have to use them, and my data is highly predictable so I have confidence how to set them up. But honestly, that just doesn't happen that often. I swear, I think I've used Bloom filters more often than hash tables in my life.
A closed-door meeting shows farmers are waking up on climate change
You can set the IDFA on iOS to all 0's in Settings. See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223 under "Opt Out of Targeted Advertising" (at the end).
> "There is now a near-consensus – at least among those who are not completely steeped in social-media propaganda – that the current public sphere does not serve us well."

Anyone who doesn't agree with my conclusion obviously shouldn't be listened to because they're part of the problem.

I don't know how you can un-ironically say "We need to stop handing off responsibility for maintaining public space to corporations and algorithms – and give it back to human beings. We may need to slow down, but we’ve created democracies out of chaos before. [...]" while arguing for more institutional gate-keeping. The, mostly, free discourse we have on the internet today is more democratic than it was prior to the Gutenberg revolution or the rise of radio. The author just doesn't like the results so they insist we need to go back to the older simpler way where the aristocracy gets to decide what ideas are acceptable because they know better than the common man what's good for him.
The problem is eventually this or something like this will probably catch on, and then sponsors will pressure YouTube into creating a system to provide metrics on who watches certain parts of videos. It doesn't sound that hard to do on a technical level, and I believe this is already available to creators in some way. Way less work than automagically detecting copyrighted audio and video, which they already do with Content ID.
My own experience with these types of things is that the software is not worth much at best and most likely worthless overall.

Software without a market and customers already using it is basically worthless. If you were in a hot market and had clients a competitive startup might offer some decent money but it’d be mostly for the customer list.

One time that software can hold value is when you have a unique patent or have invented something that is truly new and revolutionary. Think scientific software algorithms or long standing problems where your code can be integrated quickly and solve a problem that isn’t something people can easily replicate with just some time.

For the most part the sounds of your code is that other people could replicate it fairly readily with just some time. I am not criticizing anything, just saying it doesn’t sound like you invented anything truly new. More like you guys put things together in a way to solve a problem which likely had value to people but not enough for the software to hold substantial value without a market and user base.

You can of course try and maybe you’ll get lucky. But I’d likely say you’d have better luck carving out a library or a complete product and open source it. Then sell consulting services around it and maybe host it etc.

The costs are sunk, your best bet is trying to use the software as leverage, not trying to sell it outright. At least that’s been my experience when I had companies fail before we had real traction. I did have one offer for like $5k on software we spent ~600k developing. I held the code and integrated parts into other projects that went on to make me money.

Good luck, and maybe you can prove my experience isn’t true today.
This actually seems like it would be somewhat ideal for many web servers, where in a large number of cases the only interesting things going on are in response to events.
No need to thank me, was your idea!
Wait... what!? Why would this person get a percentage in someone else's next thing? I agree this OP isn't getting much out of this, but it doesn't seem like there was anything more to get. I don't understand why they should get a part of a completely separate thing their ex-cofounder is doing.
I have put quite a lot of thought into that in fact
It's a bit of a labor of love to be quite honest. I call it Project Regression,and I've been spending many of my adult years filling out my understandings of the technologies and infrastructures that make modern life possible, why they were developed, why in the order they were, and what would need to be retained and elucidated to a human being to allow that development to be able to bootstrap from nothing within a lifetime.

And yes, I get annoyed every time someone ends up trying to pull a piece of that structure out without making clear they've thought through all the consequences. Something I'm not confident many do, but I've spent my life doing, because I've not run into anyone else who could be bothered to.

My very existence as a thinking, contributing member of society is predicated on the smooth operation of modern infrastructure, so I do get rather aggressive when people start advocating for sweeping change without showing that they've done all the work. Unrealistic expectations on the rate of infrastructure upgrades and propogation gets us nowhere.

I've not even got a financial stake in any company in particular's outcome; and I've been sitting through saga after saga of waste, moral grandstanding, outright lies, negligent corporate behavior, and a complete bloody breakdown in any semblance of sanity in the world as I recognize it.

I wish I had your optimism; or was still naive enough to be able to stoke the fires of my own. This bloody year has just bloody obliterated it though.

Ya know. I'm sorry. Forget I said anything. I'm in a bit of a bad headspace at the moment; and I just don't seem like I can keep things coherent enough to meaningfully contribute anymore right now. Ended up rewriting this about 5 times, and still not able to articulate anything I'm really satisfied with.
Want a better ratio? Eat at asian places. Its incredibly hard to get well cooked vegetables at anything other than a fine dining restaurant (or hot food bar at a whole foods), but every asian place is gonna have some really good ratios.
Got it. I was thinking that for bigger groups, it might be hard for members to keep track of who got deleted when and by whom, so it might be easier for a deleted user to slip back in without attracting notice.

Your point that the deleted user and the server can collude to add a rando to the group seems like a bigger deal, since it would be harder to catch.

To make the same point more critically, if the members need to constantly recheck the mapping of group name to membership list (to stop server cheating), then the scheme might not be buying much.
What is the key difference of transputers and GPUs / vector processors?

Is PS3 with several Cells somehow reminiscent of a transputer?
Huh, this got me thinking.

How about you just give a UUID to everything in the schema?

The technical challenge with generated scripts (that you could edit by hand, but that just means that you now don't have an automated system) is that they don't understand changes at a deep enough level - they lack the context to see that a table or column has been renamed because they have no understanding of identity.

So - just give them identity.

Schema at commit 20b1ea23

03496418-e44c-42a6-a6a4-6563b7ae7bfb users
25233812-9a95-4bc3-893e-6accb935fa49 name
2f4c79c3-81b6-42d4-8379-ce5f0ed8ef62 address
83fc34c8-56c7-49d4-94d0-150cd76204bc password

Schema at commit c0d07562

03496418-e44c-42a6-a6a4-6563b7ae7bfb users
89482484-8205-40ad-a73b-a1bb988dc1d9 firstname
25233812-9a95-4bc3-893e-6accb935fa49 lastname
2f4c79c3-81b6-42d4-8379-ce5f0ed8ef62 address
c9f0d35d-439e-488c-a6d5-7a144c54335c address2
83fc34c8-56c7-49d4-94d0-150cd76204bc password

Now you could diff these two:

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
03496418-e44c-42a6-a6a4-6563b7ae7bfb users
- 25233812-9a95-4bc3-893e-6accb935fa49 name
+ 89482484-8205-40ad-a73b-a1bb988dc1d9 firstname
+ 25233812-9a95-4bc3-893e-6accb935fa49 lastname
2f4c79c3-81b6-42d4-8379-ce5f0ed8ef62 address
+ c9f0d35d-439e-488c-a6d5-7a144c54335c address2
83fc34c8-56c7-49d4-94d0-150cd76204bc password

and every line of the diff has the necessary information to decide what operation you intended.
Boston Market is a classic example here. They make a big deal about offering vegetables, but all their vegetables taste to me like they've had corn syrup poured over them. Which they probably have.
Your experience sounds lovely. I think you may have misinterpreted my frustration with the standard experience and expectation of stay at home parenting as advocating for widespread use of daycare. I do think that option is a little closer to normalcy, but I also think it is still not very close. I suppose it depends on how it is done. Your experience sounds even better to me. I do not know exactly what a healthy experience would look like in this society, but I expect there are people who have figured it out on a small scale. I am pleased to hear this appears to be the case. I wish your community every success and hope your lifestyle spreads. The commonly accepted narrative of what we as parents are supposed to be doing, at least the one presented to me, is something I find very unreasonable.

To be completely clear, I am not criticizing parents who stay at home to raise their children. I am criticizing a society which expects them to do it alone. I am not advocating daycare as a panacea. I am saying any communal support at all represents a step away from the insanity. It sounds like your local community does not have the expectation that stay at home parents should naturally be superheroes. Please take over the world. :)
On the other hand, if you have a ton of roommates, the chances you have the same schedule is quite low.
Given the right circumstances there could be a lucrative market for used underwear. Not mine, but someone’s. Does the same analogy apply to codebases? Probably.
I’d describe Moore’s law drying up within the next decade as a 40% likelihood, and it would really hurt a lot of products and companies.

For example, this might be the last video game console generation.
But if users were trending towards either side then the number of users in the middle would presumably be diminishing, driving up prices to target them even more.

Your scenario just seems to single out one particular example where more information can reduce spending on one group, while increasing it on another.
That is why I use ad blockers, though. I don't care about the tracking, generally; I care about seeing ads. This is why most people use them. There's nothing wrong with not wanting to see ads.
You probably won’t need to know about Descartes specifically. However, making persuasive arguments and writing clearly are parts of many jobs, and liberal arts classes are excellent training for those skills.
Ah, the curse of not enough significant figures.
This is a very interesting perspective. The evident benefit of async helps us see a world/civilization where indeed computing is pervasive to a much, much deeper/higher degree.

Positive note: it could certainly help take silicon-based electronics further in a resource-starved world; it could/should also simply be part of the paradigm of the next thing if it comes soon enough — photo-hype, buzz-ristors, whatever tech wins.

(Thanks for an uplifting glimpse at the "TO DO" list of humanity, and one more spark of interest as a programmer!)
As a co-founder, you accept the risk that if your company fails, you get nothing, and you might not get compensated for your time. That's just how startups work. High risk, high reward.

Therefore it's ridiculous to say OP deserves a % of revenue/profit/equity of their co-founders next venture. There's no legal or ethical basis for negotiating this.
> My co-founder recently decided to shut the company down, focusing on what he/she does best rather than being reliant on tech/design loops by making our amazing designer create a Shopify site that he/she can manage him/herself.

It sounds like your co-founder is trying to fire you and leave you with the code, which is not needed because it can be done with Shopify now.

> Should I contact these startups? Anything I should do first, legally wise?

Don't sign anything regarding the breakup of your company. Consider your founding documents very carefully. What do you own according to these documents?

The breakup of a company is a negotiation. Maybe not a very pleasant one, but potentially every bit as important as the founding negotiation.

You will probably want to run your question by a lawyer.
I used to do this, but security isn't really good enough, and it's not a great idea to tempt break ins.
It costs $500/yr to run an LLC (Incorporation/renewal fee, registered agent, and a P.O. Box), unless you have no assets and don’t plan to have any assets in the next 2 years then I would strongly recommend incorporating before you have any sort of liability.

All it takes is one oops at a client to have a $1m judgement hanging over your head. LLC (in your state, don’t get fancy) sooner than later. Business insurance is typically another $500-800/yr for software startups, but I wouldn’t recommend that until you have something to protect (like money in the bank)
Then you have a legitimate claim. Unfortunately, it sounds like you are an unsecured creditor, thus you can get in line at the bankruptcy hearing (metaphorically speaking) but you are going to be second to last in line after the secured creditors, employee wages, taxes, etc thus are not likely to see anything.
I've been on a few Delta flights that had working wifi from gate to gate.
Go find ten random people who were adults in the 1980s and ask them if they wished carter would have gotten a second term or that Mondale Ferraro could have won in 84. Then come back and let me know if any of the could stop laughing hysterically to even answer the question.
Pseudojah
It doesn't seem like there are any customers? And it definitely doesn't seem like their cofounder "gets" the customers... if the site is being shut down and the code is being given away, then there aren't really customers anymore. And nothing said above makes me think there are any customers or revenue currently.
It can close the parasite lifecycle loop when it's used for agriculture, so it's best avoided for growing stuff that's going to reenter the foodchain.

The defector from North Korea who was in the news a couple of years ago was found to be full of parasitic worms when he was operated on, apparently because NK is using nightsoil to fertilise crops.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/04/health/north-korea-defect...
> Are there too many people who get in to Ivy League schools just to party? Sure. But fixing that problem—which I agree is worth fixing—need not involve burning higher education to the ground and depriving those who are actually going to get use out of it.

Within Ivy League schools there are a ton of (very bright!) kids who get a degree just to have a credential they use to punch their ticket at a bank or consulting shop. And outside the Ivy League there are tons of kids who get a degree, spend a lot of time partying, to get a job they could have done without the degree. All told, probably a majority of people who get a degree today don’t need one. (Back when we sent a man to the moon only 10% of Americans had a college degree. It probably never needs to get higher than that.)

There is a place for public funding of college. We need engineers, doctors, even writers and journalists. And we need to address the plight of people from disadvantaged backgrounds. But I suspect you could get most of the economic benefits with a targeted system that gave out full ride scholarships based on merit, need, and plan of study, instead of making college into grades 13-16 as we have today.
Do you think that's true when it comes to Amazon's recommendations, which I'm assuming are largely based on activity on Amazon itself? My adblockers don't keep Amazon from tracking things I do on their site while logged in, nor from showing me product recommendations.
Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, to name just two, are outstanding when cooked this way.
This is not an issue I have ever experienced. I can’t get reliable coverage in my office but planes on the ground seem to be fine (mostly Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, Des Moines). Maybe it affect some airports more than others.
Norwegian Air's in-flight entertainment systems (screen on the back of the seat in front of you) are modified/custom Android tablets. When you open the flight tracker you can see the regular Android buttons at the bottom and pull down to see the notification area (which has been modified to contain no content). Didn't find a way out of their sandbox, maybe next time I'll bring a male-male usb cable and see if I can get in with adb..
Working fine for me on Firefox 70.0.1 w/ ublock, noscript, privacy badger and a bunch of other privacy extensions enabled.
Code is like musturbation you daydream and there is code.

Ideas are worthless, it’s your place in the social graph that determines your fate.

Your failure will result in your joining of us wanderers. Study the memory allocation patterns and see the matrix multiplicative. That is what we see.

Forgo the women for they want not us. We are worthless among them for we are worthless among men.

Look to springer and Smirnoff

The math books and the chemicals.
At 1/4th the information density and when your screen is 1/3rd full of ads. Its absolutely awful. I use desktop view on old reddit even on mobile, and when they take that away I will stop using it entirely.
On the extreme end, if you live in the countryside you can replace GPS entirely using celestial navigation/star tracking. This is commonly used for rockets and satellites but right now if you own a truck or pickup you can easily go completely off-grid by mounting a lens on the rooftop.
E.g.
http://nova.astrometry.net/

For implementing the system on an embedded device e.g. toy drone, raspberry pi etc., the main data structure you want is a k-d tree together with some sort of evergreen star chart (it doesn't have to be extremely evergreen, current astronomy libraries can easily predict orbits for a couple decades without significant skew/deviation unless you are are aiming for centimeter level geolocation accuracy).

For the hardware you can either use existing consumer-grade stuff followed by a ton of image processing with ML as suggested above or you can use a industrial grade tracker which easily exceeds 4 figures.

https://blog.satsearch.co/2019-11-26-star-trackers-the-cutti...

It's a pretty fun weekend project. Here are some links to get started:

https://github.com/mrhooray/kdtree-rs
https://github.com/astronexus/HYG-Database/blob/master/READM...

Instead of jacking up your truck, add celestial nav to it. Nothing screams freedom and independence more than cutting dependency on state-funded satellite systems. Caveats: needs more signal processing during daytime, fallback to inertia navigation when it is cloudy.
Not a bad article, though from 2016.

SO much has happened since then.

Libra and Calibra are about to go live and Cambridge Analytica stuff was insane too.

THE GREAT HACK, awesome doc.

I'm about to delet my FB, WhatsApp, Insta and G mail for good.
Gut feelings: 1) software isn't likely worth anything 2) use the experience as a resume builder 3) I'm surprised by so many people thinking this isn't a common exit at dissolving the company.

That said, maybe worth contacting these other startups. I double they'd pay for the existing source code to just launch. But, it might make you a good hire you for them.
If Intel were given a container ship full of a gold and a mandate to redo the basic underpinnings of computation, and given a ten year alternative timeline, I'd wager they'd be about 30% faster than an equivalent Intel that maintained the status quo.

Honestly I think we're more held up by programming languages that make concurrent programming hard than by the underlying architecture. It's not that hard to compile an existing C++ or Java codebase to a new ISA. It's hard to rewrite it in a language that scales well to thousands of threads. And that language doesn't even exist. The closest we have is whatever Nvidia is calling C++ on CUDA and that sucks.