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Wow, well I doubt many of us can give the best advice because your situation is so specific. Not every company is going to be doing kanban type stuff. If you hate this I'm not sure teaching HS math or programming is going to be a quick fix to your problem.

Perhaps looking for a new position while remaining your employed is a good idea. If you go work at a non-startup, you may be able to earn a better salary and have a less hectic workload and you can focus on yourself, via counseling or whatever, for awhile until you feel like you can jump back into a startup.
Even if they can't read, traffic analysis is perhaps more automated, widespread and computationally cheap than communications content interpretation based surveillance that people worry about.

Pick your battles.
Not at all. Erlang isn't useful for modern parallel computing as we know it, which is usually done as some kind of SIMD program; say MapReduce or GPGPU using something like CUDA. The benefit doesn't just come from operating on data all at once, but these systems (or the programmer) also do a lot of work to optimize the I/O and cache characteristics of the computation.

Actor architectures are only useful for task parallelism which no one really knows how to get much out of; definitely not the close-to-linear performance benefits we can get from data parallelism. Task parallelism is much better for when you have to do multiple things at once (more efficient concurrency), not for when you want to make a sequential task faster.

Maybe this will help

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2011/07/erlangs-parallel...

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2726661
I'm surprised to read this. I mean - I agree - I just didn't think some other people would actually write it.

You're right all the way, IMO. And that's sad.
The only thing that I still can't get my head around is Gnome 3's message and notification tray. Gnome 3.0 was released in Oct 2011 and software developers have showed no interest in Gnome's message tray. Most software still don't support or even care about it. In spite of this reality Gnome developers have refused to make any changes to their ideology of system icons and notification. TopIcon extension that puts system tray back to where it belonged has made Gnome useful for me.
Don't be afraid.

Subsist. Accept that you may need to prolong the status quo for a period of time.

Conquer your vision, (i.e., accept its limitations and buy into what the CEO wants, or learn how to demonstrate value via Dale Carnegie or Ray Dalio's methodologies) or plan your exit strategy. With specifics.

Or alternatively, you could conquer yourself. But probably not in the environment you're in.

If you need someone to talk to, email me for my number. kqtgtq3pk at hushmail dot com. Tell me as much of your story in as few words as possible so I know it's you.

I'll be asleep in a few hours for around nine hours because it's late here. Good luck, my heart is with you.
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How do we get into the beta? Market Loco could totally use this.
They are very easy to use on the mac — shift-option-minus.
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Since DARPA can't take equity in companies, it doesn't really matter. Its a donation in that the department will get nothing in return. Its an investment in that it will ideally make America a better place. Think of everything DARPA does as both a donation and an investment.
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If you're in Bay Area, it (well, some pieces of it) is on display in Computer History Museum - http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/artifac...
That's an interesting idea! The major point I would make is that it isn't clear why you want to work at SpaceX - the only point that alludes to it is that you want to work there because "Mastering space is one of the toughest challenges this generation will work on, and I want to be a part of that challenge from the beginning by working for one of the first private companies to tackle it"

Secondly - I'm not quite sure what you want to do at SpaceX; you haven't really defined your value to the company. If you want some further points email: seb [at] xtextx [dot] com. I used to work as a recruiter.
We can get high performance coupled with safer ways to deal with locks. You don't need to be afraid of locks so much as find something that handles them well along with whatever else you need. In Ada there exist "protected" objects and types, a protect object being either a singleton or an instantiation of a protected type. Protected types are one way to synchronize threads and provide access control to data safely. There are protected entries with queues, protected functions which can only read the data being protected and protected procedures which while having the ability to write to protected data are guaranteed to only be allowed access one at a time. There's plenty of great features of the built-in tasking to go along with protected objects like selective entries, time delayed aborts and a ton of other stuff. Ada really hits the mark for locking. If you don't want locks, but still want synchronization, there's also the Ada rendezvous. Good stuff and even more robust with the new 2012 standard.
Sometimes I think startups make an effort to re-invent everything. If you want a successful email program then you have to go and copy the mailings (as in made of paper) you get from charities. Those are the best to study and follow. Pay attention to the language, the composition of the offer, the colors each page has (due to the purpose of each page), the layout, and how most include a little gift to get you to open it.

Now, the other day I noticed a little detail in the emails I would get from Firefly (Dan Shipper's startup). The from line said "Team". I emailed Dan and told him to change it to someone's name. He promptly did. But why? People relate to other people. Little details like these are what nudge people towards opening emails. Be very, very conscious about details. That's how you get engagement. The details.

Oh, and answer the damn emails. I hate replying with a question, only to be ignored because some idiot forgot to forward the mail to the general inbox.
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The internet is a surveilance and policy nightmare.

It may be difficult to ban if it's running JavaScript in the browser and using simple http. I'm not an expert in WebRTC, but I wouldn't dismiss this out of hand.
OpenGL ES 2.0 is still the safest bet, as it is what most mobile devices support. Though devices with GLES 3.0 are appearing, driver support is still subpar. I agree it may be time to look at bumping the API level.
Google directions APIs offer biking routes, so on the backend we figure out the time it takes to get to the destination. Unfortunately the Google maps app APIs doesn't support biking directions yet just driving/walking/public transport so for now driving makes the most sense.

If there's a biking app you usually use we'd be happy to integrate with it
I know how you feel. Txt me when you need an ear. We'll hang out, get drunk. 415-810-4267.
I love Veronica Mars and I can honestly say I'm more excited about that than anything I've ever seen on kickstarter. You wanna know why? Because it's a known entity, I know what I'm paying for, I know I'll enjoy it. I have no idea how I would even start to evaluate the worth of products (or science grants, in this case) when they don't exist yet, their applications and benefits are not entirely clear, etc. I have no expertise in most fields, so I would much rather let someone who knows what they're doing hand out (my!) grant money.

EDIT: For example, I'm all for research for breast cancer, but there's already a LOT of money out there for that. How on earth do I figure out whether my money will do any good? I can't exactly read the literature and have an understanding of the subject without many months of research and getting up to speed in, uhh, biology as related to the spread of breast cancer. My sister's getting her PhD in biology and I know enough to know I know nothing.
This is exactly the point. The government has repeatedly used the legal fiction of the United States being "at war" to dramatically expand its punitive authority, despite the fact that the "war" is an open-ended, amorphous legal fiction. That's why it is so dangerous to dismiss some extraordinary assertion of power because it only applies "in wartime"; it's always wartime, even when it's not.
Thanks, we'll see if we can make it happen for the next release.

I don't know if you noticed, but we show you a history of your recent searches, so that could be a quicker way to get your favorite route.
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They agreed not to do something, and to me and many others, we don't think it was in violation of the rules they agreed to.

Naturally this would vary from person-to-person. My opinion on the offensiveness (or lack of) is certainly relevant. That's what happens when you have vague, ambiguous terms of service that require emotions for a decision. Every person who heard the comment could have interpreted it differently.

Judging the words coming out of peoples mouths is hard, especially when you don't understand the jargon or the industry.
Same with IE. But works with FF.
The key is to pick the correct battle.
Awesome. I'll try to better communicate why SpaceX is the company I want to work for. Specifying where I see myself working and adding value is a great idea, thanks sfrechtling.
Ah, got it. Yeah, I think if the B+$ symbol was given the same modern treatment shown in the original post, I would like it.
Glad ya like it ;)
the PHP devs I know really seem to embody a culture obsessed with 'shipping' that I'm not sure can be matched, and I'm really a big fan of it for that, in spite of PHP's huge wackyness.
Technically, ASCII characters are Unicode characters.
I fear that three.js will be more or less obsolete with the rise of emscripten/asm.js which allows basically any 3D Engine there is to Run inside the browser.
There is still some work todo in regards to quicker deployment but i wouldnt invest heavily in pure JS based engines right now as there will be tremendous leaps in this space (eg Unreal Engine3) in the coming months.

That being said, this is an awesome Tool!
I know exactly what I would do in your situation.

Tell the CEO you need to go to Thailand for 8 weeks to chill out. Avoid quitting so that you can keep your Visa. Strongly consider going to your primary care physician (cheaper than a psychiatrist) and get on an anti-depressant. (This will hard to do at the same time as leaving a country as your doctor will likely not give you a two month prescription to start.) Bring your GF with you to Thailand for some of the time unless you are comfortable traveling alone. The travel experience may be enough to get you out of your rut, but I would get on an anti-depressant as well. Also exercise. Twice a week is enough.

Ignore anybody who tells you to "deal with it" or "subsist". There is more to life than your first startup. Learning to cope with depression is a lifelong process and isn't solved by just sucking it up. Also depression is not really a unique and beautiful snowflake of a disease. A change of scenery and anti-depressants will work 90% of the time.
You're probably looking at $500 a month for the Thai beach situation, but yes it's good deal!
I hope no one is deluded into thinking that, because there is a journal called "Psychological Science", that therefore psychology is a science. It isn't. If all science required was a word, then Christian Science would be a science also.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/11/final-repo...

Quote: "In their exhaustive final report about the fraud affair that rocked social psychology last year, three investigative panels today collectively find fault with the field itself. They paint an image of a "sloppy" research culture in which some scientists don't understand the essentials of statistics, journal-selected article reviewers encourage researchers to leave unwelcome data out of their papers, and even the most prestigious journals print results that are obviously too good to be true."
I did. And he said build it! We did, and employees have commented that they like the daily visibility in to company metrics they previously knew very little about.
Watch this video, it's about the history of the founders of Airbnb, sometimes I feel like you do right now, and found "inspiration" in histories like that.

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

I also run a half-marathon or marathon each month, that helps a lot.

Keep on.
only if log(n) > 7. Otherwise, subitization gives constant time reading of the magnitude of n.
> which is just annoying

I got that. I'm asking, why?

The decision to use generics or not has nothing to do with purity. It's about trade offs. If a decent balance can be struck with special privileged functions built into the language, I don't see how that is intrinsically bad.
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Get that weed out of your system. Marijauana isn't the devil, but it can have a very significant impact on your mental state and perception of the world.

Avoid all drugs and alcohol for a month, so your mind can adjust, and then sit down and talk this shit through with at least two smart people you trust to have your best interests in mind.
They won't be needing their fiat anyway. :P
This. I work for a low bullshit company that is always looking to hire people and has sponsored visas. Don't assume that your company represents every company.
You've completely missed my point. I wasn't claiming that Go did anything to stop you from sharing memory. I was claiming that its concurrency model is CSP, not shared memory.

> (This is a bug in the spec, but will not be fixed before Go 2 because Go 1.0 is frozen.)

Could you kindly link me, please?
Sometimes disruption is enough to achieve a goal, I would definitely not discount domestics.
Nothing much to add except, well, wow. You've clearly put a ton of work into making this great and fast. Random directions you could take this: level editor, interior design room layout, pop-up-book creator etc. The key is to get the UI right, which is a Hard Thing when it comes to translating 2D movements into 3D space.
That's a bug, report it. Chrome makes an effort to queue the tab-loads gracefully.
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Wouldn't it just be a DOS since it's one cut?
I don't mean to come off as _extraordinarily_ abrasive, though I do mean to convey my sentiment strongly. I do not think that overlooking the actual content of what somebody says in the name of "thinking positive" is good, or healthy, or itself positive at all.

When somebody says the equivalent of "X group of people have Y attribute", they are making a category distinction. This is what the person I originally responded to said. Yet the person explicitly stated that (s)he did not segregate. That is a contradiction.

I get what OP was probably trying to say, but (s)he emphatically did not say that. I see it all the time on HN and elsewhere: trying to fight one form of category-based discrimination (e.g. misogyny) with another form of category-based discrimination (e.g. misandry). As though this leads to some sort of mystic equilibrium where poof! all discrimination disappears. If human history can teach us anything it's that this equilibrium never happens. So maybe instead of allowing sloppy categorization and overlooking it in the name of staying positive, we should admit when we draw faulty distinctions and take pains to not make draw in the future.
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Just want to be clear, I am not the developer behind this. I found this and was looking for discussion on HN about it because it was quite impressive. I wasn't able to find it by searching so I submitted it in hopes that it would take me to the past article (that is how the url duplicate detection code used to work), but instead it created a new story.
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Snap out of that filter bubble, programming community != hacker news and hacker news != programming community.

Upvotes for scandal outrages don't mean we've all become grumpy.
It's not that hard when patients are suffering and the treatment works. Fecal transplants are already being done for other disorders, and patients are demanding it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/health/disgusting-maybe-bu...
That is exactly why I told him that it is perfectly fine and legit to do that. I didn't mean to sound anything else, if at all you heard so. Though it was not clear whether he actually meant a squatter or a hoarder.
There is certainly a symbiotic effect. And I agree, I need to be empathetic to the person I am interacting with, and, as a result of that empathy, change how I present myself. But these are all things I need to do.

I'm not sure we are actually saying anything different. I just don't think that, in the end, I have any control over somebody else. I can influence. I can change my behavior. But the way they are ultimately going to react is, effectively, completely out of my control.
> ... Can End World Poverty Ten Times Over

Yes, for thirty seconds. When are people going to realize that using money to end poverty is a fantasy? The conventional way to try to end poverty is to give people money -- but when people get money, they have more children. There isn't enough money in the world to begin to approach people's enthusiasm for creating poor, starving children.

But there really is a way to end poverty, and it has nothing to do with money. It consists of:

1. Education.

2. The right to reproductive self-determination.

That's right -- the two things Third World dictators dislike the most.
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We noticed that, and it's actually an encouraging sign. If YC reached the limit case where we had all the best new startups, that's what it would feel like: there would be so many good ones that it would be hard to pick the best.
I have developed a couple of unity based browsergames and i can Tell from experience that you loose a sibstantial amount of users at the plugin installation, especially for games that target a more casual market. Unity compiling to asm.js would be huge!
Do phones and other mobile devices have the capability to measure barometric pressure? If so, that's awesome and I need to harness that.
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At my previous company we used speedyspots.com. Quick turnaround, great quality, no complaints.
"Our grandfathers knew about fault tolerance"

Just our grandfathers, and not our grandparents as a whole?
Thanks for the link. This is mind-blowing:

The software was written by The Rand Corporation and the System Development Corporation (SDC) and employed about 20% of the world’s programmers at the peak of the project.
Numpy uses Lapack, no?

With vectorization and compiler optimizations* I doubt pure Python, well CPython running pure Python, would match Fortran and some C open source solvers that are the state of art like Lapack for dense matrices and superlu or plastix for sparse ones. It's not much because of the language, but mainly because python has more overhead than C or Fortran.

Maybe as you said python can work well in solving a single linear system using GPU. I worked with this before GPUs came to be used for that, so I can't comment on this one.

* Generally compilers optimize mathematical expressions unless they involve complicated pointer arithmetic, this is why Fortran is still used in this area, Fortran does not have this feature.
I think this is a great example (well, counter-example) of how screwed up nutritional research has been. We spent the last 30 years trying to shoe-horn the low-fat-low-cholesterol-is-everything, when we had no idea how the body works.

It is great to see research like this happening. I've followed nutrition for a long time as I've dealt with chronic weight problems, and things have gotten much more interesting (read: less parroting of the "party line" and more new research) in the last 5-8 years.

It's unfortunate that so much time was lost, because it takes 10-15 years to go from mice to people. Now if we could only get some experiments with decent controls, so we can actually learn something.
Not this bad but I have had situations where I want to quit everything, I was questioning everything I intend to do.

Why not take a long-ish no-work break. Leave everything for a while. Go somewhere - Thailand for a month or meditate in the Ashrams of Dharamsala[1], or the Osho Ashram[2] in Pune, India.

I'm sure your co-founder (CEO) will understand.
After your break, go back - refreshed and ready to get back to work or be able to take a decision on what you'd do next.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharamsala

2. http://www.osho.com/
I think it's interesting that people who make games often don't think of their players as basically a giant parallel computer. You're essentially sending a puzzle off to hundreds, thousands, or millions of 'cores' that will through a combination of brute force, intelligence, and a complicated but large network of communication, come to an optimal solution in a time span you as an individual probably can't even comprehend. They will not only solve your puzzle, but they will solve for how to solve it and then spread that knowledge.

Thus I found it hilarious when Blizzard thought it would take people months to completely finish Diablo 3. Real time? A week or two.
I really don't understand arguments like this - the problem is that some people have digestive systems that are "too" efficient, and so the "solution" is to cripple their ability to properly absorb nutrients. It seems rather wasteful.
what do i do in it. i just see the xyz grid. can i make a model or import an obj file?
I could tell you exactly what to do (find yourself a good therapist, cut out the weed, and get an anti-depressant prescription) but instead I'll ask: what would you choose if you were taking a ten- or twenty-year perspective on your decision?
This is awesome. Do you rev-share with the clients? Any plans to monetize this?
> because I have huge troubles with authority and policies and rules etc.
Are you 15? You sound tremendously immature.
I wouldn't invest in JS.
Given the time period in question, I think it's quite likely that all the people working on this project were men.