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We've done polls here on HN before of where people work. A significant percentage of the HN community work for companies that are not startups.

Sometimes even just reading on HN about people who are succeeding (or persisting) with their side projects or about successful startup founders or failed startup founders is enough to release the tension (momentarily) - to jump from a certain 9 to 5 reality to very real world of a real start-up.

The ability to leave your job at 5pm is very much a benefit, one that 99% of startups will never offer.

That being said, you will never become wealthy[1] without ownership of something that produces income. That will almost never happen at a BigCo. My mom had multiple patents - for which she got a nice lucite paperweight [2]

[1] My definition of wealthy == How long you can maintain your current, preferred lifestyle without working. This means building a semi-passive/semi-active income from your own products. Binging on consulting income isn't the same. Yes, you can adjust your preferred lifestyle to meet median cash flows.

[2] Example from the "Corporate & IP Recognition Company" (LOL)

http://aztecawards.com/clear-lucite-silver-plate-sq12.html
His answer is:

'If the system changes, then it produces a different set of results'

I could use my godlike powers to create a true democracy, a dictatorship or a theocracy. Different people would raise to the top in each case.

Pointing to the people who have risen to the top for any one of those and saying 'if you changed the system, none of those people would be there' is simply a trivial truism, it is not an argument for not changing the system.
I have to say, I'm more a metal-head than anything... about 90% of the time, I want Metallica, Iron Maiden, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Testament, Slayer, Mötley Crüe, Queensryche, Dimmu Borgir, Cinderella, Exodus, Incantation, Nuclear Assault, Overkill, Megadeth, Finntroll, Gamma Ray, Kamelot, Stratovarius, etc. playing...

But the other part of the time, I freely admit to having a soft-spot for gangsta rap, especially Dr. Dre, Eminem, 50 Cent, Tupac, Obie Trice, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A., etc. There is definitely an attitude present in that music that is very motivational in it's way. Like the article says... there's a lot of focus on hard-work, on success, on achievement, etc. Something like "Till I Collapse"[1] by Eminem gets me as fired up as anything.

Then again, that's not to take anything away from a song like "Keep Your Eye on the Money" [2] by Mötley Crüe, either. \m/

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUwXJODauxs

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kGOCcjPqnY
This one I'm working on currently. I'm trying to find the sites that deal with unsigned artists / smaller artists to try to get some advertising space. Thanks for verifying this was a good choice.
It depends on the financial stability of the company in question. If the company, large or small, isn't making a healthy profit, your job is at risk.
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> You could be biking across Canada by Tuesday and $1500 later if you wanted to.

No. He needs to practice riding and get in better shape for a month or three first. But he can start doing that tomorrow.

Don't go riding cross country without some practice first, some fitness, and some knowledge of things like patching a flat tire.
have you tried yoga? Especially Bikram Yoga. I find that this amazing practice can fix almost anything physically and mentally.
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Ask HN: what's up with HN and Lisp?
[edit: formatting]

I was browsing through HN this morning and came across the Lisp-at-JPL submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2212211). There were about 3 other Lisp stories on the same page... And a question came to mind: putting aside PG and HN-being-written-in-Lisp, what's the deal with Hackers News and Lisp?

I'm curious about the actual status of Lisp (and Clojure) among HNers. I aspire to use Clojure, but I have not yet done so and am wondering if I oughta do a small project in it. The submissions on HN suggest I should do so. So:

* Do you use Lisp/Clojure?
* On core projects at work? On utilities or side projects at work?
*On serious personal projects? On small personal projects?

* Do you aspire to or want to use Lisp/Clojure? Why?
* Learn something new?
* See if you experience some of that wonderfulness
that everyone talks about?

* Do you know others who are serious Lispers?
* Are you reading HN and assuming that there are
lots of serious Lispers out there? (I am.)

* Is Lisp really seeing the kind of interest and
usage suggested by the submissions?
* Is HN groupthinking about Lisp?
I think you're already on the right way with classical music, long walks, reading books, etc. (except for the Internet addiction). I guess if you keep on doing things you like you will recover. All the best to you.
Price is about 20% higher than the per-person cost of our first office in Chicago's Monadnock building, but our office didn't have the amenities. Is this roughly what co-working spaces cost nationwide?
"Kids want to play this and they will throw the from EVERYWHERE and BOOM you have to buy another 600 dollar phone."

Bullshit. Grow a backbone and just tell the little brat "No, get a job and buy it yourself this time."
Financial disclosures might backfire if you are setting them up as a potential acquirer. And you are setting them up as a potential acquirer, right?
I didn't even read this article, too much effort. I don't have perfect eyesight and am too lazy to look for the usability bookmarklet (its bookmarked somewhere.. but...)
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Ahhhh. Thanks!
William Pierce, who wrote "The Turner Diaries", a fictional book about a race war which inspired Timothy McVeigh, was a white nationalist. Here's some wikipedia pages to start with, you could read "The Turner Diaries", but even despite it's awful politics, it's a terrible book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Luther_Pierce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_(United_State...
Overall this is a great article, one of the best I've seen on HN for a while. One part struck me though:

_It’s nice to work for a good company with a good environment and a fun team, but at the end of the day it’s not worth leaving tens of thousands of dollars on the table just to stay there._

I dunno, spending 8+ hours a day in a bad environment with a soul sucking team is pretty bad. How will tens of thousands of dollars make up for that? By letting you buy a really big screen TV and sound system?
Take 2 weeks off. Do nothing. Meditate. Breathe. Plant Flowers. Take long, exceptionally pointless walks -- if you find yourself thinking about anything, stop, and look up at the clouds till you recover.
The one thing the Khan academy and other such resources is the inspiration, personal engagement, guidance and other things that teachers and tutors do. Granted for some people these things have little bearing on their learning I think that for the majority of students they can make all the difference. No doubt people here have found their interest in a subject at school or college diminished due to a bad teacher or vice-versa
This is not new. IIRC they were forced to show the answers by Google, as an extension of the "Don't show Googlebot things you don't show regular visitors" rule.
You could simply install Ubuntu on a MacBook, but if you want something separate check out the HP Envy line.
What service is behind this frontend?
Ask HN: Multi-lingual website question
I am currently developing a website which is going to be multi-lingual and translated by native people.

The question is:

Should I have just one domain name with all languages, example:
http://example.com/en
http://example.com/es

or

http://example.com (english)
http://example.es (spanish)

There is going to be a total of around 6-9 languages.

Thank You.
You can't figure out what to do during your sabbatical, because you're burned out and completely unmotivated and you won't be able to find it out until it changes. So the solution is to do nothing 'meaningful' for a while. Don't think about projects, PhD, start ups or anything. Just take a break and do nothing tat resembles work.

Starting wit traveling is a very good option. This is also what I did. Go to a totally different place. A different (non-western) culture. Not to help or work, just to be there. A lot of people go to South-East Asia. I did that too and loved it. My thinking and problems were reduced to what to eat, where to eat, where to sleep and what to see next.

You can do this for months. Then you may start to miss your work, you may start to have ideas again. You'll probably miss thinking and you will find out what to do during the rest of the leave.
> As an autodidact ... if there is a curriculum, it's not obvious.

Shouldn't you be used to not having a curriculum (and indeed be thriving) if you're really an autodidact?

The structure seems obvious to me. Videos are put in sequences by subject, with pre-requisites coming first. In his physics and finance sequences he frequently calls out a potential video you should watch first to better understand the current concept, otherwise if you know it then it will just trigger the memory anyway. My value from Khan Academy has been from looking at the videos, seeing which ones I already know, and watching the ones I don't know or need review on. I don't need any curriculum; my curriculum is whatever I want or need to learn at the time.

Maybe you want to call the organization of categories unorganized, but if you watch the videos in order of the mega-sequences it's pretty straightforward that it's a similar path you'd find in a textbook. (You don't read chapters of things you already know do you?)

I'll agree with you that Clippy is the future for self-learning. First we need general AI though. (Although Google's simple search is pretty good right now.)
can you motivate yourself to finish something small? say something that will take you one week? if nothing comes to mind, can you say wake up at 6am everyday for a week? or walk 2 miles everyday for a week? or cook for yourself, as best you can, "interesting" dinners? just for a week.

after that week is over, maybe report back?

i would not make any life changing decisions just now.
Chances are better that the large company is making a healthy profit though. To be sure, this is not true all the time (look at yahoo). However, I think it's fair to say that in general, your job is more secure at a big company than it will be at a small company.
then you will be thrilled to learn that the "spoon fed development environment" is C/C++ with avr-glibc!
Sure, but job safety is another issue. The argument in question was that you have a more stable environment in a large company regarding the topics you are working on. In my opinion, this isn't the case. Think of the engineers working on Google Wave or discontinued Sun technologies.
And I'd love to see them try the same thing with Java.
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There has been a bunch of research on use of delicious tags in particular. See for instance:
http://heymann.stanford.edu/improvewebsearch.html

If I recall correctly, Yahoo tested using this data a few years ago and found the signals not to be as useful as others they used at the time.

Of course, Bing and Google have been working to include more social signals in rankings:
http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bi...
That had more to do with limited computing power and putting things on a stack in the right order than it had to do with grammar.
My startup isn't accepting VC and we're not looking for an exit. If we get funding, it'll be for one of our (many) products, but never the company itself. It is imperative that we maintain 100% autonomy, even if it means risking our very survival.

As for why, it is because the work we're doing (a particular style of video game) is unproven in the market, and we need to be able to take substantial risks, again and again, where we stand to lose a lot of money. We can't afford to have any external interests guiding these decisions. We're doing this work for love of the work, so an exit would be ridiculous.
Please look at JSON Template. http://code.google.com/p/json-template/

It solves ALL of these problems. It has {.or}, the dot notation, and searches up the stack of contexts for variables.

I haven't been working on it for awhile, mostly because it does the job, but the codebase is small and easily hackable.

EDIT: It also compiles the templates and lets you change the delimiters! And has support for several other languages.
"Stability" in the quote doesn't refer to job security, but being able to work on a project long enough to accomplish results. The point that projects get canceled or changed all the time in large companies is entirely valid.
From the undertone of your post, I assume you are not funded. This may be a good time to talk to some angels and get the financial and professional backing that'll put the minds of enterprise customers at ease with your service.

If you don't want to go through that route, and your software can run in a private cloud, then I suggest you offer them a non-hosted version. Giving them your source code is a no no unless you are planning to open-source everything.

In addition, let them know that they'll have to pay for upgrades. Having said that, make sure you price it properly to make the extra hassle worth it.
Do you have a wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend? Are you tied down to anything? Do you have money to travel? I'm going to assume you're a single male between the age of 25 and 35.

Correct on all counts -- nothing tying me down, and my rainy day fund can keep me fed, clothed, and sheltered for years.

I actually get a decent amount of exercise -- minimum 40 minutes per day, I'd estimate. It certainly has plenty of benefits, but the energy seems to evaporate once I get down in front of my keyboard again.

I definitely can go out and change things, but I think my mindset is holding me back. It's almost like I would be doing with the expectation that this would "fix" me, and that anything short of that would be a waste.

Yes, yes, I know I'll regret the things I didn't do. But I fear that I'm setting myself up for failure this way with unrealistic expectations.
Is this an article about how search sucks? Or is it an article about how Google can only do 50 things right instead of 500?

Google /= search, it's just one engine. No need to throw all your eggs in one basket.
I wonder if Khan Academy takes in external videos (other wise making something functional with google sites is fine with me but wouldn't get nearly as much traction). I have 10min long videos explaining Digital electronics basics. My tech went one step backwards from khan, I just used pen-paper and one webcame. :) Looking into getting my videos reviewed by them, otherwise my deadline would be.... April 1st. (just thought that up now, but people say its good to have a deadline).
Do you use Lisp/Clojure? On core projects at work? On utilities or side projects at work? On serious personal projects? On small personal projects?

Not yet. I've only recently started making a concerted effort to learn Clojure; so I haven't written any "production" Lisp yet.

Do you aspire to or want to use Lisp/Clojure? Why? Learn something new? See if you experience some of that wonderfulness that everyone talks about?

Yes, and for all of the reasons you mention. I've been hearing about how incredible and productive Lisp is, so I want to find out first-hand if it really lives up to the hype or not. If it does, then maybe using Lisp (via Clojure) could actually represent a real competitive advantage.

Do you know others who are serious Lispers? Are you reading HN and assuming that there are lots of serious Lispers out there? (I am.)

I really don't know anybody personally who I would call a "serious Lisper." But I do know some other people who have gotten on the Clojure bandwagon and are learning Clojure.

Is Lisp really seeing the kind of interest and usage suggested by the submissions? Or is HN groupthinking about Lisp?

Who knows?
Unstated? Maybe you don't watch the news enough to see how much time politicians devote to proclaiming America the greatest nation on earth in every possible respect...
A lot of the comments here are actually pretty disturbing to me. As if the general population assumes that Apple should be the caretakers of how customer's use their own phones, and that the general population isn't capable enough to make their own decisions regarding their own property. Very 1984 vibe to it.
Nokia CEO Elop Denies Being 'Trojan Horse' for Microsoft
The Arduino Documentary is worth watching. http://vimeo.com/18539129

The talked with the initial developers about the how the project came to be and what their goals were.
The few coworking spaces I know about in downtown Phoenix cost more than this. ($300 - $350 per month)
I'm sure the KDE project would absorb as many people from Qt as possible. But who is going to pay them? Which distros a) still use KDE exclusively and b) have the resources to pay for a number of Qt refugees?
I've tried that [before], but with multiple parameters, I simply got zero results. I then enclosed the site:foo OR site:bar within parentheses, leaving the rest of the query outside parentheses. Whichever site:foo came first would be matched, but only it appeared to be matched. Subsequent site:bar, etc. parameters did not produce any matches in the results.

I'll have a look at your links, in a minute -- probably should have done that first.

EDIT: Well, your second link sure works. I wonder what I was doing wrong. When I saw someone else('s or s') comments online to the effect that it didn't work, I assumed that was why my own experience failed.

I'm in serious need of some coffee, at the moment. Thanks for correcting my mis-impression; I look forward to straightening it out in my mind and taking advantage of this feature.
> The ability to leave your job at 5pm is very much a benefit, one that 99% of startups will never offer.

And one can also argue that 99% of startups aren't worth working for. It's incredible how many startups are out there that are doing things wrong. The most important part of working for a startup is choosing the right one (ie, one that won't confuse productivity and butt in seat time).
It was on twitter, but here you go:

https://sites.google.com/site/mvenzke/Home/spambot-analysis
Anyone can write a protocol though. That's the easy bit.

They failed to create a killer product.
I guess since I wrote the quote you're referencing, it's my duty to defend it...

In the case I had in mind when I wrote that, I used a small portion of those extra tens of thousands of dollars to take 5 months off and work on my surfing in Australia. The rest I kept in reserve to ensure that I could take a few unpaid months off every year since.

As you say, money can't buy happiness. But it can be exchanged directly for free time, which I tend to value quite highly.
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I think it depends on your product/company. If you have a product like tumblr or twitter, it is OK if you just use .com. Otherwise if your domain name is a company like Microsoft or Ford, I would recommend to go with country-specific TLDs.
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If you peruse a typical conference proceedings or journal issue, "low end theorems/experiments" in the sense of slogging away on incremental work is almost all of what scientists do. The big stuff is pretty unusual.
I'm always suspicious of founders that want an exit. Am I really to believe they think they're doing their life's work and trying to save the world if they want to be done with it in a few years? Do they really think of it as their baby if they'd happily sell it and never see it again?

If I was a V.C., I would dismiss any founder that answered the "what is your exit strategy?" question with anything other than a middle finger. A good V.C. would see it as the V.C.'s job to convince the founder to sell at the right time.
True and largely accepted as rational even for things such as life insurance (suicide and death in "high risk" activities e.g. skydiving, piloting experimental aircraft, etc. often excluded).

When it comes to health insurance, though, people seem to have this unreasonable expectation that they should be allowed to be obese, not exercise, and have a poor diet, and then have their diabetes, kidney failure, and heart disease fully paid for while paying the same rates as everyone else, or even paying no premium at all (e.g. government provided health insurance).
I see what you mean. However, I'm not sure they are a natural acquirer. Whilst our service (an ad management tool) provides a critical function in their value chain, it provides the same benefits across multiple industries. It's kinda like how one might need a car but one wouldn't go out to buy a auto manufacturer.
I didn't read through. I live in Europe. I gave up after 2 sentences. Want to know what's in Europe? Plains and traditions.

Damn...
Recessions hit and large companies downsize...
The site will be focused on specific countries, how can I put it example; the finish language of the site will be for the Finish (Finland). Same goes for other languages and countries.

What worries me is that it would be a bit of a hassle to manage all the domains...
Apparently the Nokia CEO holds over $3M in Microsoft stock. In addition to this obvious conflict of interest, EU is going to be interested in this attempt to make a Finnish corp dependent on a US corp.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nokia-CEO-Elop-Denies-Being-si...
EFF Finds Evidence Of Over 40,000 Intelligence Violations By The FBI
That's why I quit my job at a big corporation (not a classic IT behemoth, though) and will start working at a startup in two weeks.

The code there sucked - and most coders did, too.
it's funny because I bet this is how the Eugenics Wars/World War III started in Star Trek.
The argument was that you would probably work on something "long enough to accomplish something", and that's true. I mean, the Google Wave team did accomplish something. That isn't always true at a startup. Many times, you get hired to work on something that you never complete because you're constantly diverted to go put out fires elsewhere.
On the contrary, I think the decompiled output highlights the difference between C and assembly, because it looks nothing like typical C code.
I've read that studies suggest that the golden age is typically located 10 years before you were born.
At $300 you're better off finding 1-2 other people and renting a small office together. Leasing an office is really not a big deal.
I have little doubt in my mind that William Pierce was a racist. He makes it pretty evident. I'm not even going to argue for his case, let's put it that way. He is named as the "principle ideologue for the white nationalist movement" but he was the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization. The article doesn't mention that he himself was ever part of the white nationalist movement. To me that doesn't necessarily mean that all members of this "movement" identify themselves as racists, but after doing some reading it's clear that they at least have a history of racist groups claiming white nationalism for their misdeeds.

I think I've got an idea now of at least the bigger picture. Thanks for the links and the background information.
Tenure is meant to ensure that scientists have the freedom to work on topics that management deems worthless, but which may not be. Not to mention that people don't even get tenure until they are nearly 40 these days. It's not the problem.