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Sorry to be so blunt, but you are not a very good founder/entrepreneur.

One of your major responsibilities is to your cofounders; it has been said many times that starting a start-up is like being married to your cofounders. We wouldn't hesitate to condemn a husband who was so negligent towards his own health that he left a widow with unpaid bills behind; under that same logic, no one who makes an idol out of, as you call it, "the all out pursuit for your dream" and is negligent towards their health can be considered a responsible teammate/businessman.
Inane trivia alert.. Ryan was at the helm of Node.js 2009-2012. The original JRuby creator, Jan Arne Petersen, was at the helm 2001-2004.
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WU TANG HAHA I GET IT
I've been working on a startup and on a day job for the past 8 months. In the past month or 2, I've experienced a couple of fevers, and beginning to get anxiety/panic attacks, and feeling sore all over from sitting all day at work + home. A few months ago, I had a severe panic attack on the train, where it felt like my brain cells were fighting each other. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

I think I'm very close to reaching a breaking point, and am not sure how long this can last. But the thing is.. I know I will feel miserable if I have to work at a day job for the rest of my life, so that makes me want to work even HARDER at my own gig so that that never happens.

It's a truly vicious cycle.. I work harder, get less sleep, become more grouchy/irritated at work, which makes me motivated work even HARDER when I get home.. which makes more sleepy at work, more irritated.. repeat...
+1 for disambiguating haskell98 and GHC haskell
I found something more interesting in his post: that Google has maybe been regarded still as a startup, even though they are far, far from it. "Don't be evil" seems like a motto that would guide a startup; it's hard for me to imagine any company of Google's size and position seriously trying to follow such a screed.

The end of his post is perfectly salient: let's reserve our enthusiasm and defesnes and cheerleading for actual startups, which no longer include Google.
I wouldn't trust everything you see on PandoDaily if I were you.

You're never going to find any large organization that satisfies all of your wishes, even a non-profit has internal political struggles.

But on a relative scale of evilness, which big companies would you want to work for? For example, Apple (Doesn't trust employees, has them work on fake products, super-compartmentalized secrecy on campus, has agents spying on people to stop leaks, abusive douche-bag boss (Jobs) of shitting on people when the demo doesn't meet expectations, squeezing all partners for every last nickle, super-controlled closed proprietary ecosystem, on and on)? Apple sounds like a place to work on amazing products, but shitty otherwise.

Google made a mistake by coining "Don't be evil", because they are held to a much much higher standard now than any other company because of it. The smallest change or transgression is hyper-analyzed by a cadre of people just waiting, sometimes wishing, to find a mis-step, anything they can run to the blogosphere with and claim "See! Evil!"

Basic cynicism in people seems to relish those who preach superior ethics to fail. A guy who talks about "Don't cheat on your wife" will be scrutinized much more than someone who doesn't. And if he is seen in public having a business dinner with an attractive lady, of course the stories will be "See! Mr White Knight is unfaithful!"
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> I'm also not sure I like the idea of using BusyBox as a backdoor to examine the rest of a product's source code. I didn't realize that was a condition of the GPL, but it makes me glad I've switched most of my projects over to the BSD and ISC licenses.

This is based on one interpretation of the GPL: That if you violate the license, you lose the license to that software forever, including new versions of it, until you get explicit permission from the author. The SFC then made a condition of granting permission to BusyBox, that the violator come into compliance regarding all other GPLed projects.

But that interpretation is not a legal fact. Another interpretation - which seems much more reasonable to me, and was certainly the intention I had when I released GPL code myself - is that you lose the license when you violate it. But as the GPL states, you get a license when you download a new version of the software anyhow, so the problem goes away - unless you violate the GPL again. In other words, if you violate the GPL, you have no license to the code, but once you comply with it, you are fine.

The former interpretation always struck me as bizarre: If you lost the license when you violated the GPL, surely you lost that license to that particular software. But how can that prevent you from getting a new license to a new version of the software? How are those connected? Or how about a new version of the software that was rewritten from scratch, and has no code shared with the one you were temporarily in violation from? Is the mere name enough? How about forks of the project? If any of this were what the GPL originally intended, you would think it would have been specified in some way. The much more reasonable interpretation is the second one: You lose the license to the concrete software you were given a license to before. Download a new version, get a new license. Stop violating the license, and you are ok.
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I've been to some resorts in Mexico. I don't know if these are the kinds you're talking about, but they're basically the US confined within large walls to keep the natives out (unless they're working there). If I go to Germany, I expect to see a German resort. If I go to France, I expect to see a French resort. When I go to Mexico, I don't expect to see a US resort on a cheap plot of beach-front property.

Are there true Mexican resorts I should visit?
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Where is a two day delay for delivery "fail". There is no incompatibility with agile planning. You don’t go on vacation every time a job runs, you work on another project.
>I think it's interesting that anti-Google posts are reflexively upvoted. Ten years ago that would have been Microsoft.

Ten years ago? How about now? The hate for Microsoft around here is so bad that winsupersite.com (the premier inside and latest Microsoft related news site) is completely banned from even submitting to HN, probably because of excessive flagging by haters [1]. Google hate is nothing compared to that.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3408883
I guess?

It has a pretty small font size and for any modern monitor slides to the left and only takes up 50% or less of the page size.

Meh...
I really wish they didn't link the w3schools at the bottom under resources. They are a spammy, and often incorrect, resource for learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. MDN has better docs, no ads, and no trying to sell you dubious "certifications."
"we believe that several important inaccuracies and misleading information remained in the story that was published on January 26."

"The narrative you present is an inaccurate picture of the work we have done with Apple, of the role Apple played in the worker hotline project, and of BSR’s views of Apple."
> Google believes that without new kinds of input (i.e. social signals) it will not be able to stay ahead of SEO spam and the like over the long haul

Assuming you're right, I am very curious as to what research led them to believe that social signals would be that much more beneficial for search results.

My own experience with what's on my social dashboards (facebook, google+, and the like) is that it's at best useful for discovery (HN is really good at it and sometimes there are a few gems in the others) but most of the time it's noisy and mediocre content, and more to the point: it's an ecosystem that values popularity above everything else.

I'm not trying to sound like a hipster here, and I understand that SEO is also about having your content show as popular in the search engine rankings. But except for communities like HN, most social streams are not regulated by any means.

My main concern with SPYW is that I don't want to start having to curate my social graph in order to avoid getting articles from theOnion when I make a query about foreign politics.
You're already past your breaking point, what do you think those symptoms are for? If it's a typical startup, you're going to get screwed in any event, so you might as well start looking to get a better job now.
Hacker News too slow? Is it time for HN to switch to a different platform?
It seems as if the HN infrastructure hasn't been updated in a long time and is really slow for submitting or commenting on stories. Is is time to switch HN to a different platform?
I don't think it's the opposite—there are many who "can" who can't teach. (I say this based in part on seven years of taking physics courses at Harvard and Caltech. Trust me: some of the most brilliant physicists absolutely suck in the classroom.) That said, Jim and Joe are clearly exceptional in both respects—guys who can do, and who definitely can teach as well.
Do you have actual evidence Sony is violating (or intends to violate) the GPL with respect to non-busybox code? Or are you just speculating?

Let me put this another way: Do you think the developers behind editline wrote it because they wanted to violate the GPL? Or did they write it for some other reason?

Personally, I read the Sony post very differently. It sounds to me Sony, in part because of the aggressive stance SFC takes with busybox GPL violations, isn't happy with the business costs of using busybox (e.g. concerns among chip vendors and suppliers). They could easily be wrong in their assessment of the business costs (e.g. concerns from chip vendors and suppliers should not be taken seriously), but given that assessment, it seems to me that writing a busybox replacement is a reasonable response.
Rtm made one that we're now testing.

If you look at the numbers though, there were several times in the past when HN was slower than it is now.
For personal email, I've been happy with fastmail.fm so far, although their spam filtering doesn't seem to be as good as gmail's.
I do something similar for my customers via Roundcube/SpamAssassin. With a little bit of effort, you can get SpamAssassin to store its Bayes statistics in MySQL, and then you can have a "mark as not spam" and "mark as spam" function in Roundcube which ties back to sa-learn which will update the per-user Bayes data in MySQL.

Getting it to work right was a little fiddly though.
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Everybody here is complaining about the money thing but I'm just bothered that the "platform" seems to be paradoxically...not programmable enough.
I mean, there's been a lot of criticism about codeacademy's populist ambitions lately, and the core of them to me is that you can't bridge regular johny's knowledge to programming knowledge by just presenting them with an esoteric text adventure in a javascript command line. People can't be so easily compelled to play text adventures nowadays, especially if the game commands don't relate at all to their everyday language and experience.
I think in order to produce succesful learning experiences for noobs, which is what they seem to be aspiring to (I mean, maybe Mayor Bloomberg has a hacker soul, who knows), you have to give them a real inmediate need for it. Like - when Myspace forced everybody to learn to get under the hood to customize their profiles. Myspace created more programming literacy among non-coders than I think Codeacademy ever could if it remained like this!
They have to offer fundamentally different ways of giving lessons if they really want to get there, other than command line games. Someone out there mentioned ifttt.com being a better way to learn about programming basics and getting people interested in the possibilities. I can think of a few others.

As I said I have not looked too much into what their lesson framework looks like, but if they offer a choice between js, ruby and python...that's already too narrow. If """we""" want to educate the general population about programming, it has to be way broader than that, and the framework that supports such education has to be more programmable
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Chip vendors and suppliers could have concerns even if they are not violating the GPL. For instance, they may believe their modules contain important trade secrets. Given that, they might not want anyone they haven't approved to review the modules period.
Focusing on my health has been my best productivity boost.

For a few months, I didn't exercise and ate lots of cheap, unhealthy food, thinking that I was too busy and could work more with that stuff. The result? Great progress with work and horribly diminishing productivity. My overall output increased but I got far less done every hour. And I felt like shit all the time.

So last week I started to eat healthy foods and exercise. Nothing fancy - I just stick to simple meals that I know are good for me, so it doesn't consume extra time. And I keep workouts to 20 minutes every other day (not much at all).

It's worked wonders. I have far more energy now and have been getting 20-30% more done per day, probably at higher quality.
Like I mentioned, the US has some pretty anti-Latin American bias. Everything shown in the media is either Sandals Resorts, Caribbean Cruise Lines, or jungles and warlords. People all around the world only know what they're taught or what they've seen first hand. Not many Americans have seen Latin America first-hand.

I have been to Panama, came in on a boat from Mexico. The advice I received in the port was to not set foot in the port in the first place and avoid law enforcement even if I got into trouble. Of course I received the same warning on the trip back to Mexico, so...

Like the whole system or not, America and their buddies do a pretty decent job of keeping street thugs to a minimum.
I wouldn't say that jumping ship to Bing would be a bad thing, but I would want the alternatives to be of a wider variety then just "Google or Microsoft."
Ask HN: Any ideas on how to invest $1000, startup, ideas, stocks etc.
I researching how best to invest $1000, I come from a tech background and I'm hoping to get some ideas.
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Business gateway.... which one?
Hello, i just developed my online business, like every one in business area i want to sell, but, what business gateway (european)for merchants choose ? I am having a bad time to choose a gateway to work in europe. Any advice ?
Regards.
Cite? (besides a wiki page that can be interpreted different ways)
3. It's never a bug in the compiler (except when it is).
Not exactly difficult. A chemist with a mass spec could prove it in 5 minutes.
Proving willful noncompliance with the dmca is a whole different league of problem.
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I, too, refuse to give Sony my money. And I tell my family and friends why. Slowly, it's sinking in.

P.S. For a multitude of reasons. E.g. attempting to rootkit my computer using a legally purchased CD.
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You should go to the gym a few times a week. A couple of months ago, I went back to the gym for the first time in six months. The next morning, a lot of my background stress disappeared.
When a single company has a record of almost everything I do online I have to hold them to a much higher standard than other companies. Arguments about Google's intentions tend to swing to the emotional because the nature of their business requires that we trust them indefinitely. And the way they've handled a handful of these issues recently signals to me that they're feeling more and more comfortable straining that trust if it suits their agenda.

So the increasing frequency of these posts is, I think, barometer of the growing, gut-feeling discomfort among the geek community.
Perhaps you don't remember that Apple went through a near-death experience in the mid-1990s? They came within months of bankruptcy. Apple needed all the customer loyalty it could get to survive the 1990s, and all the old-time Mac users remember those days a little too well.

Meanwhile, Google is indeed doing fine, but it also hasn't been sorely tested.
Health insurance doesn't normally cover dental work. Dental plans are generally a separate offering, and typically aren't a good deal for younger people who take decent care of their teeth. Even Medicare doesn't pay for dental work.
A brilliant explanation of copyright in a judgement about Neil Gaiman
As a thought experiment, it's funny to think about what GPL enforcement could have done with SOPA, had it passed. Especially if software/firmware updates were distributed via the web.

On the one hand Sony is pushing for SOPA, but on the other hand Sony is violating the GPL. They could end up actively pushing through legislation that ends up significantly harming their bottom line.
Are the snippets collected into a public area?
I think that "Studing Anti-Design Patterns" is a great name for a band... =)
Ask HN: What Blog Topics Get the Most Popularity
I just created my blog hacking4noobs.info and I was just sitting here wondering if there are any special topics I can blog about to get popular. So HN what are those special topics?
That sounds just silly. Here in Finland, we can actually choose to either use free public dental care, or go to a more expensive private doctor and pay the difference.

Dental care is essential. Even if you don't have pain, constant inflammation can cause you all sorts of problems.
Another plus for Canon:

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
I list a plan of action before starting anything.

It helps me form the solution in my head, but also it helps me when I switch contexts: re-reading the list of things to do puts me back into my thought process.
ArchLinux doesn't have package signing, so patching sudo isn't going to get you much.
Healthcare is a scarce resource. You can hardly legislate it into existence. All "universal" healthcare does is trade price for waiting in line.
I don't believe Google is intentionally being evil, but they are definitely behaving a lot like the company they coined the phrase because of.

In the 90s Microsoft was using it's huge installed user base advantage to push it's less popular and new-to-the-game browser on a group of people, while also keeping out the competition with some unfair ways.

This seems identical to how Google is using it's position as leader of search to push it's late to the game and less popular social network onto it's users, while keeping out the competition.
So an analogy would be that Pirate Steve wants to put the entire criterion collection (http://www.criterion.com/library) on the pirate bay. However, he knows that Fox is really litigious about their movies, so he replaces all of their movies with garage remakes (like "Be Kind, Rewind") so that he can safely pirate the rest of the movies since the other motion picture studios are lazy.

Is my analogy correct at all? Essentially Sony wants to be able to pirate (that's what it's called when you're redistributing things that are copywritten), so they're removing the only project that actually litigates against them?
HN could just crack down on all the blogs rewording someone else's article, that'd cut down on duplicate stories.

Rewrites via x via y via z aka most of AOL's properties and the many blogs that copy their business model should get killed. It might even encourage some of them to write some original content for a change.
This happened to me as well. If I had to do it all over again, I would have started pushing to Heroku from the start.
The reward of creation for me is the act of creation itself and the giving of my creation to others to build upon. It is an interaction, not a transaction.

I prefer not to consume your copyrighted work. The nature of copyright is such that it becomes abusive. If you are the creative type whose bread depends on your ability to restrict others from copying or modifying your work, you inevitably become abusive.

I encourage the kind of positive creation that breaks out of or transcends such a system.
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I don't think you read the article. It is only saying that there are two things you need to know in jest. If you looked at the article, you'd see that many fields, such as CS, have more than one set of "two things" that you need to know.
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I find myself agreeing with the last sentence. Gut reaction, but it seems to be a "something doesn't smell right" moment for Google.

(Whether or not such reaction belongs on HN? I don't know; for all the rational thinking in this group, intuition still seems to play a pretty strong role.)
Either the article is completely wrong about GPA or I must be an outlier. I barely had a 3.0 in college and got multiple internships at "Major" companies.
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What language is this? Java?? j/k ;) A nice and concise guide that every beginner should get a hold off! In this case, the simpler, the better.
and off-by-one errors
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
This exact scenario happened to me a few years back. I had just jumped onto a team in the middle of an enormous shift in product and put the nagging, on-and-off pain on the back burner with some aspirin and made a dentist's appointment a few days out.

After I woke up on Wednesday with the worst headache of my life looking just like that first photo, I went to my oral surgeon, who sent me in for emergency surgery immediately. I spent a night in the ICU and three days recovering. He explained that I had developed a serious abscess that had spilled into my palate and threatened to close my windpipe completely, and that if I hadn't come in I probably wouldn't have made it to the weekend.

It was an extremely sobering look at my priorities and good luck. I was young, and health insurance hadn't been a priority - had I been bootstrapping or freelancing instead of a part of a team with the good sense to get a group health insurance policy, I might have dug myself into about $40,000 in debt, or worse - hesitated to go to the doctor's for even longer.

Don't fuck around with your health. I dodged a bullet. It's tempting to push these responsibilities off like any other, but like other commentors said, it runs directly contrary to your duty to be healthy and present for your team. Dead entrepreneurs make no products.
Ask HN: What questions about applying to YC do you want answered? (S11 alum)
Hey guys,

I'm Jason and cofounder of Ridejoy (YC S11).

I'm pulling together a semi-comprehensive guide to applying to YC. There are already some good resources out there but it's a little scattered and I just want to make something

Got about 11 pgs of notes typed up so far, but want to get input from HN. What are your top questions about applying / submit a strong app?

More info on this project + a few quick questions here: http://jasonyshen.wufoo.com/forms/help-me-write-a-guide-to-applying-to-y-combinator/
Statistics:

Central Limit Theorem

Law of Large Numbers.
And that is exactly what this post is requesting that they do. It is making it clear that this is an option and asking that they do it.
Just as a side note, someone wrote a JavaScript-backed JPEG 2000 decompressor: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/1068/files