skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To not comment on the rest, since it's highly dependent on your personal situation:

"I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now."

This is a very dangerous way to think about it. This is your life you're investing here.

Perhaps to break it down to oversimplified but still valuable math:

(probability of success)*(personal outcome) = expected outcome

If you think they have a 10% chance of succeeding, but if they do they'll be legitimately worth $10M of which you'll get 30%, then the expectation value is $300k.

Do that calculation based on the numbers that you personally feel are correct. Compare to what you'd be making doing something else. Take into account that you've already worked on it for a year and a half, which is probably at least worth $100k. More since you may never get it.

If the project can't even meet that minimal standard for being worth your time, then you're unlikely to even make what you deserve for your time, much less receive a reward commensurate with your risk.
Thanks! The energy in the rooms during these meetups is palpable.. like the next big thing is coming.
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I did no such thing. I said mine is. Don't put words in my mouth, please.
No, but I take very few actions to prevent doxing. Figuring out my real information wouldn't require too much effort.
you said three things that I think are core to the issue.

1) You don't believe in the business model. Is that fixable? Are your co-founders similarly doubtful?

2) "I think my co-founders are idiots." If you actually believe that, quit. Right now.

3) "I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now." You should Google "sunk cost fallacy". If you buy stock in a company and it starts to tank, you should evaluate whether that stock with this new information is still the BEST place for your money. MANY investors don't do this-- instead, they get emotional and refuse to take a loss on a stock, hoping against hope that it'll bounce back. They should be saying, "with the information I have now, would I recommend that a friend buy the stock right now?". How much time you've invested should have NO BEARING on what you choose to do moving forward.

For your happiness, wealth, or whatever other goals you have, is this company the best way to be spending your time? If you could pretend that you weren't working with these guys and they approached you to be a co-founder RIGHT NOW, would you take the gig?
Pseudonymity is exactly right.
Go definitely has the feel of being the next big thing, and the real deal in terms of performance and use. Excited to make it to the next meet up!
Apples to Oranges, how so, if you don't mind me asking? What about HBase makes it different from RedShift/Greenplum/Oracle?
Go seems really to be taking off. It's impressive to see that you can write something in a systems language as easily as you can in Python. I doubt I'll be writing any greenfields C++ apps ever again.
Anecdotal evidence--which seems to me quite in the spirit of the item. Umpty-bump years ago, I worked on a crew that mostly Anglo (as they say in the US west/southwest), with one Black guy. In the latter's presence, one of my fellow Anglos, after a beer or two was big on racial brotherhood and how we can all drink or get high together.

Not long after we drove past a small onion field with a Chicano crew harvesting it, and Mr. Brotherhood said "I don't care what you say, that isn't white man's work."

If not before that, certainly since, I've taken expressions of good will pretty lightly.

[edit: capitalized "Black" since "Anglo" was.]
You're being downvoted but I can definitely see where you're coming from. In the case of the OP, those two family member seem to actually exploit him pretty heavily, or at least they're not placing any actual value on him. I think a case could be made that non-technical co-founders are often prone to this kind of behavior, while the technical founder is slaving away and being called "just our IT guy". For most online startups, tech is actually an integral part of the execution, not something tedious that needs to be tacked on by some exchangeable and exploitable programmer.

I remember when we founded our first startup, it was three guys: the programmer (me), the business guy (a friend of mine), and our "account man" (an acquaintance of ours) - all equal shareholders. Shortly after founding, there was a discussion about having company cars. The two business guys wanted BMWs, and I was to get some cheap Japanese mini car. When I asked how they came to that idea, they explained that I was only the programmer and I could get by with basically nothing, whereas they insisted they needed BMWs for their role in the company. They also said, and I kid you not, that they were from wealthy families and I was not, so it seemed reasonable to them that everybody needed to keep their rightful place. Needless to say, I shot this down and shortly afterwards, the account guy left. It was for the best. Who knows what would have happened if I had let them get away with this.

Self-entitled, hypocritical, non-technical entrepreneurs. There are probably a lot of good people with non-technical qualifications out there, but it's easy to suddenly find yourself working with the bad ones.
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I should clarify, I don't mean secure from all angles. In terms of security I don't want a company looking through my chat logs, and I don't want someone who be able to see what I'm saying via a wifi sniffer.
The US govt is ok with Bitcoin: the Department of Treasury's FinCEN published guidance tacitly approving Bitcoin. This legal action is purely about MtGox who unlawfully did not register as an MSB.

So you believe everything the government tells you? Because we all know that no government agency or agent has ever distorted or misrepresented the truth, ever.

There is already a completely anonymous store-of-value allowing a underground economies: plain old face-to-face USD cash transactions. Ever seen drug lords busted with stacks of USD bills?

True, but irrelevant in this context. Bitcoin and USD aren't the same thing. Try crossing the border carrying large sums of physical USD bills sometime. Bitcoins, OTOH, can be exchanged digitally. Not even close to being in the same ballpark.

The US govt is ok with transactions in a currency they don't control: it is perfectly legal to pay, for example, in Iranian rial on the US territory, if the seller and buyer agree to use this currency.

Again, this is irrelevant, as using Iranian rial is even less convenient than using USD, at least in the US.

You seem to be some sort of tinfoil-kind-of-guy who thinks the government is out there to "stop Bitcoin".

Please refrain from personal attacks, this is not Reddit. I trust our government about half as far as I can throw it, but that doesn't make me a "tinfoil guy". It makes me somebody who has at least a passing familiarity with history and who can use a little logic, reason and inference here and there. That's all.

I'm not claiming there's some big, grand, X-Files like conspiracy going on here... but to ignore the fact that the US Government has many reasons to try to quietly put the screws to bitcoins seems unreasonable to me.
In the allocator I wrote (see the Stremflow heading: http://www.scott-a-s.com/projects/), I used both a free-list and the buddy algorithm.

The free-list was for small object allocations; it maintained free-lists of different sizes. (Say, the 8 byte free list, the 16 byte free list, the 32 byte free list, etc.) However, I obtained the memory for these lists from a page manager, and that page manager used the buddy system. The relationship here is that the small-object part of the allocation obtained its memory from the page allocator; the page allocator obtained its memory from the operating system. This system allowed me to have the benefits of a free-list (good cache behavior for small objects allocated and used together), but low overall fragmentation and good reuse of the free lists.

Full details are in our paper: http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/ismm06.pdf I have portions of a draft of a more detailed explanation that I never got around to finishing and publishing.
I'd say that is pretty impressive.
> Why put a 'contact me' link instead of just listing the email address? I hate when I click 'contact me' and my native mail app opens. Nobody uses thunderbird mail, apple's Mail is okay I guess, and Outlook is just...no. Type out the stupid address and let me choose how I send it.

Ummm... top right is a "contact me" mailto link.

> If you have a text-heavy site, please pick something softer than a stark white background. My eyes. They burn. If you're taking suggestions, I vote gray.

What. The background this was written on was pure white.
I'm curious as to who you work for. Your post history seems to show that you respond to specific types of posts, and you're regularly downvoted to oblivion here.

Forgive me for the Ad Hominem.

As to your comment, a proper court was convened, and the process was correct. An excessive show of force was used, not for Dotcom particularly, but as a message/deterrent done in good faith to show others interested in going down this same path (of running an encrypted file locker, I guess). This is fully in accordance with all Commonwealth law systems, NZ included. I don't think anyone is making the argument that the NZ police were doing anything more than marching to the orders given to them (and ultimately supervised) by the US. None of the police on the scene were ever charged or reprimanded for any wrongdoing in the Dotcom Case. Why? Because they were just doing their job on a special day. They've all had terrorism training, and they were about to assist in the apprehension of an international terrorist (you know, like Assange, and Neij).

Now, with this in mind, why did a public official resign due to this fully lawful raid? because the people demanded that he did. The people were unhappy, and wanted someone to take responsibility for this massive screw-up. When that happened, someone resigned. This means that NZ's government still listens to (and fears) its people, and that might hold true for the rest of the Commonwealth as well. Could you imagine if the US government actually listened to its people? Could you imagine if the US citizens actually cared?
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Nope, because I have occasionally gotten drunk, and quit HN due to some reason that seemed perfectly valid at the time. A few weeks later, I forget why I was upset, and join again with a new account because I quit with a scorched earth approach.
As an ex-Microsoftie, I'm really happy Skype is doing this. Instant messages are one of the best ways to spread bad things to other people's computers by getting them to click on things. This is going to protect a lot of people.
I want that ruler on my desk right now. Decent digital drawing interfaces are few and far between, and I can see tools like these transforming the way I approach digital asset building.
And if you take the next obvious step (chargeback on credit card, item received was not as described) some automated system will kill off your entire Google Play account. Effectively holding all the apps you've purchased as hostages.
That's sort of my point. As a society, our technical capabilities have outpaced our moral frameworks. The solution is not to go back to a god-fearing agrarian society, however, it's upgrading our moral compass which is in dire need of an adjustment anyway.
The research on mothering style may be highly predictive, but unless I'm missing something, it isn't actionable or "useful."
I might argue some of the finer points of your assertions, but in general I believe you are correct. The existing investor community in Chicago did not make their money in tech startups, and therefore are more apprehensive to invest pre-revenue and at what have become industry standard terms.

Ultimately I think people like Andrew staying, investing and leading the way is what we need to make that transition to the next level.
Nice product but would you mind sharing the reasons why you abandoned it?

Bing image search used to have a nearly identical feature but the flow was different. You would start with a keyword search for images, and could refine your search by drawing on a pixel grid in the colours of your choice. I personally got a kick out of drawing things like drawing a yellow sunset setting in the left over a blue ocean and having image search results contain that.

Sadly bing appears to have removed that very very hidden feature. Perhaps for technical reasons similar to yours (if any?)?
Also, listen to The Upside of Quitting on the Freakonomics podcast.
But if you think about it, you're probably going to need to work with them for a long while if you stay. So it's not the best idea to stay any longer if you don't respect your team.
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I think he may be referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5_Flight_501#Launch_fai...
I think that's simply a misunderstanding of what "systems language" means. It does not mean "go write an operating system", even though that's an application that comes to mind because of C.

From the top of golang.org: "Go is an open source programming environment that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software." That's a pretty general statement. Follow on with this one from [1]: "Go is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language." They're pretty clear that they want to have their cake and eat it too, regarding the benefits of these language classes.

For more color on Go's origins, focus, and design, I highly recommend the "Go at Google" talk by Rob Pike, available as video [2] or an edited article version [3].

[1] http://golang.org/doc/faq#creating_a_new_language

[2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Go-Google

[3] http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
I want things in chronological order so I can tell if I have missed any post. But that doesn't mean I need to read every post. I do want to be able to decide for myself from the list what I view as a "top story". So I have them sort by date. and when I've scrolled back to something I know I've seen then I don't need to keep scrolling back. When things are random, I get stuff I've already seen mixed in with new stuff. That is not a very good user experience IMO.
I've been around these kind of situations. What started as a hackathon project, where we had 1 bizdev, 1 health tech related person (non-coder/technical) and me, the programmer. There were a few flaws in the plan, both conceptual and technical needed to actually turn the concept into viable product. It seemed like raising VC funding was the "goal" more than creating a MVP for beta-launch and customer feedback.

My best advice is to be direct, and take care of yourself personally, especially physical and mental health.
I've been in this situation before, also with my first startup. Bailing was the one of the best decisions I've ever made and gave me the emotional strength to evaluate who I want to keep in my circle of friends/professional network.

After I left I got a regular job with regular pay to get myself level financially and emotionally. After another year or so of that, I'm at a startup again. This time, with much more success.

I'd cut the cord and get out.
I work for the committee against internet hippies.
It's useful to parents.
No web browser can do this stuff today, but libraries like Polymer are trying to bridge the gap between today's browsers and the way they may look in the future.

We should probably stop calling them "web browsers" at this point. We've basically re-implemented the idea of an Operating System in the browser, so we now have a full-fledged OS like Linux, BSD, Plan9, OS/2, Minix or whatever, being used to host a "poor man's OS" which is recreating most of what the base OS does!

To say "things have gone very wrong" is a dramatic understatement in many ways. I still think we messed up by migrating away from the mobile-code approach for apps. But I largely blame Sun for that, as they screwed the pooch by shipping the Consumer JRE about 7 years too late, ignoring needed features for doing desktop and interactive apps (like modern audio and video codecs, etc.) and didn't stay on top of JRE security. Now, Java, which was probably the best "mobile code" platform that ever got mainstream traction, is basically dead as a client platform. :-(

Browsers are great for doing what they were designed to do: Browsing hypermedia. But to shoehorn "remote application delivery" into the browser seems like a step sideways (at best) to me. We're layering hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks now, to try and recreate the "app" experience inside the browser. This strikes me as sub-optimal.
I guess I’ll never get to that novel
Can't have enough of them I guess, but there is already a newsletter named 'PHP Weekly'. Confusing. http://phpweekly.info/
I.e. Gmail (web and app clients), polling Rackspace Mail (sending/receiving), sitting behind Barracuda Email Security Service (spam filtering & anti-malware), synced to GMVault (archive/backup)? The only problem is the limited number of options for some of those pieces. SMTP/POP/IMAP enable all the the mixing and matching you want.
There's an old joke a computer salesmen once told me:

Q: What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman?

A: The used car salesman knows when he's lying.
That was my thought also. I'm hesitant to sign up unless I can see examples of what I'll be getting in my inbox. So.. thanks for adding that :)
Check out fancyketchup's sibling comment to yours, which shows far more knowledge than I have. Short version: infrared.
Where is the justice in overbreeding and asking rich to pay for it? You think this is moral?

God says...

12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought
forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust
out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for
themselves any victual.

12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty
years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of
the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing
them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be
observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

----

Mexicans forced back to Mexico.

I'm in the CIA -- it costs money for me to have a job.
I like it alot but even simple queries are hideously complex. It doesn't need to be this hard. The ReThink developers are exceptionally helpful but goodness. Try to do a search returning all items where an array contains a value. In simpledb it's just select * where field='value', even if field is an array. In RethinkDB I had to ask for developer help and ended up writing a deep, sophisticated query. Querying has to be dramatically more simple.
I mentioned this before in another comment on HN. There was a Business Insider article on this matter. It is unfortunate this is not well known.
Q: What's the difference between a classical computer salesman and a quantum computer salesman?
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Really fabulous work. If this works on an iPhone and has a nice iphonetouch.png icon, I'm gonna pin it and use it daily.
Because bad parents will become more nurturing after reading an article?
Seems like the consensus is to quit.
I believe the google apps administrator has the ability to set whether new features should be enabled instantly, or delayed.
It depends on the community. If other members are using pseudonyms, then I generally think it's a good idea to follow suit.
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What sorts of answers have you gotten so far? Have they mostly been valid concerns, or are a lot of mobile developers misinformed when it comes to Android?
Fuck you Business Insider! I will look at your content even if I have to disable the page style.
This has come up before. To ban short comments would be to ban a sizable amount of Paul Graham's own comments.
Being a researcher myself, I can only guess the answer must be "long-term funding"? :)
Doesn't mean there weren't any.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15550861/nssortdescriptor...

I find random differences far too often.
Fun fact: I posted this 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709231, also around the same time (hour) as you. Mine didn't have "By Google" in it though since I was not sure about that.

I'm not bothered so much by reposts though I wonder if that was a factor too, attaching brand names
You just summed up my reaction to this as well. Except I'd probably word my opinion a bit more strongly. I'm really, really, not a fan of this particular redesign.
We're actually working on adding commands to ReQL to make queries a lot simpler. (It turns out that just a few commands that are very easy for us to implement can make enormous difference)

If you can, would you mind giving examples of things you'd like to do that are hard? We'd love to make it easy, and we think we've got most common things covered in the next release, but if there's something specific you have in mind we'd really appreciate it.
I'm with you on that. If all blocks in a row were the same height, then a left-right-left scan would be just fine even at 3 or 4 columns. But this is not a left-right-left scan. It is a jaggy left-right-down-left-up-left-down. I never got past that enough with Pinterest to even try to find value in that site. I tolerate it on Facebook but really dislike it. If it had been like that when I first thought of joining Facebook, I may not have even bothered (at least until I was socially shamed for not having a Facebook). And now G+ has it. Oh well. I'll never get my money back for any of these service so they can keep moving my cheese I'll keep bitching about it. ;)
No.

Banning the single word comment "This." or any close variation thereof would improve quality, though.
These are the kind of studies that make me think social-psychology is just a psuedo-science. If you want to understand human-nature, read Shakespeare over Freud. If you want to influence people, read Dale Carnegie over B.F. Skinner.

I'll gladly eat crow if this study results in a 6% increase in loving relationships or a 5% decrease in alcoholism...