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Awesome thanks! Also, if I mark a task as blocked and then throw it in the backlog the task is no longer red.

Am I just doing it wrong or is this a bug?
The first thing you should do is essentially read her what you've typed here. It sounds like your relationship would benefit a great deal from some openness. She isn't going to react to this badly.

And in my experience with women, a little bit of time goes a long way if you do it right. Surprise her with flowers. Take her on a picnic. These things don't take much time but give her something to brag about to her lady friends.

You'd be surprised how just a few hours a week can convert a downward spiral relationship into a flourishing one.
Ask your self: what would you rather have a) a fulfilling relationship and perhaps sexual intimacy or b) the possibility of wealth and riches?

You can't buy a and there is no guarantee of b.

Edit: After thinking about it a little more, the chances are if you are reading this, you are already filthy rich-- meaning you are probably in the top 1%. We often evaluate our "richness" by evaluating our selves with those who have more than us. Stated differently, we evaluate ourselves "up" instead of "down". The reality is that 99% of the rest of the world has less access to opportunity, education, resources, even food.
First, you should be talking to her, not us. You need to come up with an idea of what you are expecting to do with your life first, but if you want a relationship to last, it's going to be all about compromise.

You're trying to decide what's most appropriate for both of you, and what kind of balance you are willing to strike.

Will either of you be happy with you working 60 hours during the week, and trying to make the most of the remaining time with her? Is there a realistic balancing point that should work for both you?

Is it a matter of taking one or two nights a week, scheduling the time with her, and making it top priority no matter what comes up with work? If not, how much time would work? Does it still leave you time to recharge to keep it sustainable?

Most importantly, how does the idea of setting time aside from the start-up to dedicate it to your girl friend sound to you? If you aren't looking forward to it, then you probably already know what you need to know ... you just need to admit it to yourself.

I wish you luck in making the right choices, as you're asking about life changing decisions.
Though I agree with the statement above, it also depends on how much customization you will need to do, or what sort of modules you will need to add.

The Drupal architecture may be a bit of overkill for what you are looking to do. I've done a very little bit of work on both, and Joomla is easier to understand, and therefore simpler to work with for smaller customized code pieces.

So, if Joomla meets your requirements with it's core install (or with only a few add ons), I'd go Joomla.
If you need more extensibility, then go Drupal.
No more IPOs or (lately) acquisitions, lots of funds failing to return principal, and yet those VCs still making money. Sounds like a broken model to me.

Maybe this does point to a broader problem? Isn't this the kind of shenanigans that led to the current downturn?
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Unless you've never made relationship choices that you later regret, I think asking for advice is a valid and important thing to do.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Brothers, had a similar half-baked idea:

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As for the idea, my family and i have become more health-conscious in recent years, going to the gym and tracking our weight. It becomes fun over time to talk about these things. Simply weighing yourself doesn't make much of a game, though, so we decided to build games around it that mesh with the concept.
"

Those games were packaged together and sold as Wii Fit. Considering 20 million copies have been sold worldwide (8+ million in the US), I'd say you're idea could have legs.
You can always find another girlfriend. You have only one or two legitimate shots at a successful startup.
Responding to the two points above:

- It sounds like most people in the zone wanted to fight, they just didn't want people to use the professor's specific tactics, which is eminently reasonable, since the professor's tactics were so powerful as to make fighting no fun.

- The game designers do not make the rules in a multiplayer game. They provide an environment, and they might have rules in mind when they do it, but the players make the rules and define their own limits and conditions for victory and defeat. To say that you're playing "by the rules" because what you're doing is possible in the game is absurd. It's akin to beating people up on the street and insisting that you're not doing anything wrong since you aren't breaking the laws of physics, and God has not struck you down with lightning. In both instances, you will suffer the consequences for your antisocial actions.
I'm not with either side. One key thing about MMOs is that people are an integral part of the system. We can't just disregard them and pretend that only the rules written in source code are valid, especially when the ultimate goal is to provide a social entertainment environment.

I generally consider any form of disruption bad since it's just plain bad manners. But with that being said, I don't think that mob rules are good for a community either. I was a member of a game forum a while back that had interesting off-topic sections (art, news, etc), but the forum would often become a dramafest and focus solely on, say, in-forum "punishment" for in-game cheaters, effectively making all the interesting sections dry up.

I have this (rather informal) theory that rules of majority are usually driven by the xkcd.org/386 effect, i.e. in the collective mind, the members are defending a good cause (whether it really is a good cause or not is another story). One could argue that maybe the lone rebel is right, but if the definitions of "right" are subjective to begin with, then does it make sense to take sides?
Couldn't you solve that with a bit more structure? Like plan some evenings with your gf, or plan a holiday together? Or find a more demanding job for your gf.
I recently read Paul Bucheit's chapter in Founders at Work. I believe AdSense and Gmail were ideas he knocked out in an evening or otherwise in addition to his regular duties. They were not products at that point, of course. But there was enough there that, instead of theoretically defending the idea that the ideas could work in principle, he simply demonstrated them working in reality. No one could argue, then, that those ideas were impractical, and that laid the groundwork for making them into real products.

I think those are good examples of "do it in a weekend" type projects. Prove something can be done, before worrying about making a real product out of it.

(Of course, having all of Google's infrastructure at your disposal is nice for implementing some ideas in a weekend or less. We do have AppEngine, though.)
"Is this directory of things on the internet a feature, or a product and the basis of a company?"

I would think that anyone, and certainly the Yahoos, at the time, would have said "This is the basis of a company," because there were hard copies of the web being printed every year.
Uptown is right on the money.

It's like marriage - people say that you'll know when you know. If you're not sure if you know, then you don't know.
Same. If you do go the startup route, why not involve her? If she spends all her time on the startup, and you spend all your time on the startup, you get the best of both worlds.
Not enough information here.

How important is the startup to you? Is it a lifelong dream of yours to have and run your own business doing what you love or is it just a vehicle for you to cash out on your talents at a young age?

How about your relationship? Do you live together? (That can be helpful, but it can also lead to distractions and high levels of non-quality time together.) If not, how often do you see each other? What is your girlfriend's life like? Does she have outside interests and projects, or just a day job and you? How much attention does she need from you? How do the two of you communicate? How difficult would it be for you to get another girlfriend? How much does this one share in your dreams and ambitions for yourself?

I don't expect you to spill your guts on this stuff, but you have to get a lot more personal than this if you want any confident answers. But, it's important to consider these things.

In general terms, though, any life decision that commits you to more than a day job and a little bit of outside activity is something you definitely need to communicate with your partner about, if you value them and the relationship. This includes having children, joining the Navy, taking night classes, or founding a startup.
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> Years ago, we could dig into the Resume Boilerplate grab-bag and pull out a phrase to fill out a sentence or bullet point on our resume.

This looks like a lie to fill out the article. When were buzzwords ever seen as a good thing?
I'm surprised only one person's mentioned the French lessons . Can't you give those up and spend that time with her? That way you're making a sacrifice without compromising your startup. Win-win. Unless your goals in life are to speak French and get rich.

Alternatively, get her involved? Does she want to support you in your quest for wealth? Can you get her interested? One mistake I made with an ex was to not tell him what I was doing with my startup and starting to snap at him whenever he asked questions about what was going on; mostly this was due to fear of admitting failure to him later.

My main advice - and this is coming from someone who's been a hacker's girlfriend, y'unnerstand - is talk to her.

[edit in reply to edit] Well, if she's been involved and is walking away, doesn't that tell you something?
It was an odd read. At first it starts out with the DeSantis story and him whining about how he and AIG FP were made out as the scapegoat. Then it goes on for four pages on how AIG FP loved the $$ they were making so just turned a blind eye to any risk or analysis.

I don't buy the excuse that the one boss is the villain just because he was an overbearing asshole.
Warning: you do this at the detriment of your ability to be creative, have insights, and go new directions. I'm not suggesting they're horrible in all situations, but keep that in mind.

If you are using amphetamines please see this article by Jonah Lehrer, editor of Seed Magazine: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/04/cognitive_enhancement...
Perhaps you should ask what you would want if she were the one with a job, a startup and side activities and you were the one feeling neglected? Things may also be easier for you in the long run if you can honestly figure out what roles each of you has in the relationship. One other thing to consider if you want children is that biologically speaking you're better off starting a family when you're young. Speaking from experience I can say that if you do decide to go that route the demands on both of you will be much greater.
See Kawasaki's opposite rule

Do you have a reference for this? As of this writing, the first Google hit for "Kawasaki's opposite rule" is the parent comment. :-)
> "No, the game designer gets to enforce the rules."

Is that an edict handed down from on high? The majority has the power to enforce rules (they can impose social consequences on rule-breakers) and they usually have a good deal of wisdom about what rules are worth enforcing. They clearly do enforce them, and who says they shouldn't?
Also: Fiat money is based on faith in the country that backs it, and that faith is based in large part on the economic state of the country. It's a tautology.
I just saw Food Inc. Fits with the article.

http://www.foodincmovie.com/
HN Idea: Hover over vote arrows
Sometimes I accidentally click the wrong arrow, voting up when I meant down or down when I meant up.

If there was a hover over the arrows it would be clearer which I was currently pointing at. They are so little any bit of help will go a long way.

Additionally, you could add a title="vote up" or title="vote down" so that when the mouse rests above it, a tooltip will appear and let you know what you are about to do.
Management fees are a necessary component of an investment fund, unless you want to allow only independently wealthy investment advisors to launch new funds. That's fine for Marc Andreesen and Fred Wilson, but I'd like to think we don't want to push young, hungry VCs out of the business. 2% isn't the right number after a certain size (Does it cost twice as much to run a $200m fund as a $100m fund? No!), but some level of fees makes sense.

We need smarter LPs, not a whole new model. There's always going to be brain-dead money that will invest under whatever fee structure is prevalent. Until they stop plowing money into $200m+ funds without asking "Why do you need all those management fees?", VCs will keep lining up to take their money.

Smart LPs can drive incremental changes like pushing management fees down on large funds. And that's all the OP is asking for, really; not scrapping the VC model.
aherm consider referring these folks to Uncle Raffi's spelling, style, grammar, and misused word detection for bloggers-- http://www.afterthedeadline.com I'm here to help!
The critical path is getting people to pay (repeatedly) for this thing.
You're 25. Realize that whatever you decide is a representation of this period in your life and does not necessarily reflect how your life is going to be lived until you die.

Allow yourself to make mistakes and take chances. If you go after the girl, maybe it won't lead to anything. But it doesn't mean you've squandered your chances at success. If you succeed (or fail) at your startup, it doesn't mean you're going to die alone.

Think hard about your gut intuition. Deep down inside you probably know what's right, and you just need a little encouragement.
I agree. I guess my main point was that an app like that could spread like a virus if placed in the right hands within a tight community like a college dorm. At the same time, it seems a little anal/nerdy to take a picture of an item before you hand it off. "Yeah you can borrow that, one sec though, let me take a picture of it and document that you were the one who borrowed it." It needs to be as simple and effortless as possible.
Definitions of right are not subjective. That's moral relativism. It's just hard to find what right, but the majority isn't necessarily right.
You should probably be discussing this with your girlfriend, not random hackers.
In the meantime, why don't you involve her more in your other stuff? She could come to French classes with you, for a start.
I've seen this debate come up many times, and I think people are trying to make a distinction that doesn't always exist. Sure we can always point at something and say it's an outlier (thanks to Gladwell), but if we thought about it, we could rattle off 100s of companies which could really be considered 'features'.

The author's examples are pretty horrible, but consider...
Xobni is an extension to outlook, and yet they have built a solid business from this.

Flickr's photo sharing was a feature of a game they were developing before they turned it into a stand-alone business.

Blue-Ray, Dolby, THX can all be considered 'features' as they are not a product in themselves, but an improvement of an existing product.
Gracenote & AMG metadata services.

I suspect many of these were originally thought of as features before a business model was discovered for them.
You generalize about every investment model, but can you name vehicles where the '2 and 20' fee structure is standard?

It's really only hedge funds and VC funds.

But the real problem with the '2 and 20' (especially in a bad economic climate) is that VCs have less incentive to care about how their portfolio actually performs.
Because there's two types of information: control information and process information.

When I'm scanning code, lots of time I don't care about the control, I'm looking for what process takes place. Likewise, sometimes I'm just interested in control and could care less about process.

Braces-stand-alone lets me focus on each of these at a time. Especially if you get into an unusual control situation, perhaps with nested conditions, braces-stand-alone lets you isolate various control paths and change and test them.

It's not the end of the world or anything. As long as you understand the superiority of my position, of course (grin)
Your "Company" page sends mixed signals. On one hand, you've obviously poured your hearts and souls into this, a big plus. OTOH, a husband and wife appearing as "President & Chief Technical Officer" and "Director of Operations" just seems a little weird to me.

This page could work for a team of 4 or 5 people with impressive backgrounds and interchangable skills, but it just shows your underwear. What if something happens to him? What if something happens to her? What if something happens to "them"?

In a strange way, the Company page is a lot like a butcher shop. We all know that, on the internet, a small company can look like a big company, but we really don't want to see what goes on behind the scenes.

Is there some way you can display your strengths on this page without revealing your weaknesses?
But it wasn't PvP. The professor took advantage of the invincible NPCs at the ends of the area to kill the other players.

If he had simply been a bully, picking on weaker players, the situation would have been different. The professor was exploiting a loophole in the structure of the game provoke a reaction from other players.
Ask HN: What sort of online career options does a mathematics expert has?
I am a mathematician by nature. My current profession involves research in a very narrow field.

I was wondering if I can make some money by taking some online projects.

Are there any good places for me ?
It's not that i disagree that work/life balance isn't a serious issue, and a worthwhile topic of discussion, but why do people keep posting these threads in this sort of manner?

Asking advice of strangers without any suitable knowledge of you or your significant other, or your relationship is not going to result in good advice, if one is genuinely unsure of where life is leading.

In fact, most of the threads started in this manner, contain so little information that one can do little but caricature the participants. If you seriously want relationship advice, there are relationship/marriage councilors, if you think it's worth sorting out.

Advice is also particularly pointless, again lacking any proper context for relating to the situation at hand.

So i'm left wondering why these threads are started. Are these attempts at trolling? Flame bait? Is it an attempt to get something down on paper, to clarify the author's own thoughts on the subject (in which case, why post it to Hacker News)?

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As to the respondents, how on earth are you making the judgement that he should or shouldn't leave his girlfriend, given a total lack of knowledge regarding his startup? How can you possibly engage in a responsible cost-benefit analysis (even if it's not really quantifiable anyway), without receiving more than a 215 word description?
By not reading mentalfloss.
That's actually as-designed. If you block a story, it means you can't move it... so if you move it, the app figures you fixed what was wrong. :)
CSS sprites are stupid. So stupid, in fact, that I refuse to use them. It wouldn't be such a big deal, I suppose, if IE6 supported proper transparency. But as it stands, I still cannot, in 2009, safely use a 24-bit PNG for my CSS sprites.

If anything like this is ever standardized, which seems unlikely, and implemented in all the major browsers, which seems even more unlikely, MAYBE in 30 years we can use it in production.

But as far as fantasies go, it's one of the cooler ones!
Michael Lewis always does a good job. He seemed to deliver a "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" type presentation.
in my country you need to provide identification (that is logged) to buy a sim card that way
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how is this different from basecamp?
There is no "vs". Think '+', it's not easy, but who ever said it would be?

Try to get her involved. Startup is as personal as it gets to life aspirations and she should see it. If not, you might not be for each other. You shouldn't ever make such choices.

btw. I am in absolutely same situation, and I got her involved as much as possible. Don't ever assume she will be as interested in the startup as you are, but give a lot of praise and credit.
That's even hackier than using a sprite.
You're right; the title was horrible. Thanks to whoever changed it.

No bait intended. Thought it might spur some discussion. I learn a great deal from anything crypto-related on HN.
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The girlfriend will be gone in a few years anyways. The sad part is, chances are the startup will be gone too. So... think about what do you wish you had been doing a few years from now.

Myself, I've gone with the work. I never regretted it, but then I knew she wasn't the girl for me. What I remember most powerfully was how unpleasant was the feeling that she made me choose. Maybe i'm a romantic guy, but I believe a the right girl would pack you a healthy lunch and encourage you, not make you feel guilty you do what you love.
All you need is curl, pdflatex with pdfpages, and fresh dir.

curl -O http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/pdf/ssch[00-27].pdf &&
pdflatex -jobname ssch-all-in-one "\documentclass{article}\usepackage{pdfpages}\begin{document}\includepdfmerge{$(for x in ssch??.pdf; do echo -n $x, -, ; done)}\end{document}"
No i think there should be some distinction between a wellness task and other ones.

The system for example should be able to see that you're unoccupied andd have a couple of hours free today; then suggest you some things based on stuff like weather, mood(?).
Or if you've always made relationship choices that you later regret.
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Recommendations for becoming a data scientist? Sounds like a wonderful job.

What books would be on the required reading lists? What is the best set of tools to learn and know?

An alternative approach: how much of this could be automated and delivered as a web application/service? Provide easy ways for people to parse and upload their data, algorithms to run with good descriptions and recommendations for lay people, and well designed visualization tools for presenting the output of the data. This would be a very valuable service, but would take a broad range of knowledge and expertise to implement well (experts in the CS, Statistics, and Visualization fields as described in the article).
> These "rules" are a little too shallow to be very useful.

Not so! The are pithy, handy, and can be printed onto a small notecard.
This does not mean you can rely on Gmail now. Remember the recent downtimes. I use Gmail only as a secondary tool, relying on my own domain for business email and using another free email service.
I've actually signed up my first beta customer, which will be a big step towards an actual product. We use the product for our business, but n+1 is challenging. I'm doing it though. I want those 500 customers and the freedom to work on my own IP.