skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes. Except, with his leaving, and assuming all the important people, etc went with him, what would the remaining co-founder have left to be competing with?

Then what resources would the remaining co-founder have to go through the US court system?

Lastly, leaving and re-starting doesn't have to mean the exact same product.

I know what you are saying, but Im pretty sure it could be side stepped with some creative thinking.
The title is misleading, the transfer only used Ripple as a medium of exchange and didn't use the Ripple currency XPR (called Ripples)

Ripple is currency agnostic.
I'm writing OCaml now. I'm being messy and creative all over the place, sketching out ideas, and simply not trying to compile them until I think it'll work. I do this precisely because OCaml maps naturally onto how I think about the problems I'm working on right now. It's pseudocode until I run make, at which point the computer is running very useful checks on my reasoning.

The "inflexible approach to solving problems" you refer to has, as far as I can tell, nothing at all to do with "machines", except perhaps in an exceptionally abstract sense, in the form of virtual machines designed for thinking about. On the other hand, problem solving doesn't get much more flexible than raw assembly. My point stands.

I think the early adoption of imperative languages was more due to pragmatism than elegance[0]; at first, you had to stay close to the machine to get anything done, at first because that's all that existed (Fortran beat Lisp into existence by a year) and then for performance. Remember, Fortran was still basically a shortcut for assembly, while Lisp started as a purely mathematical abstraction, designed expressly for thinking about, that some goofball wrote an interpreter for.

[0] This principle is still clearly in force today. We wouldn't bother with C++ and JVM languages and Unix so much if pragmatism wasn't paramount.

I'm using Fortran as my example of an early imperative language. There might have been earlier ones (maybe a version of COBOL?), but since they were imperative it doesn't materially affect my point.
IOS crushed Android yesterday
If you find your experience completely ruined by frame rates ever dropping below 60fps, you're going to find most of the newest games kind of a bummer.
If you're going to call it "Is Ruby Fast Yet", you should really be comparing Ruby implementations to implementations of other programming languages. Asked this way, I believe the answer to the question is a definite "no".

As a small example, I benchmarked a real Scala web app running on worse hardware (a 1GB Linux VM) at over 650 requests/s. There was no degradation in load at this rate of requests, but it was 10x the load we saw in production so I stopped there. The benchmark of Rails here goes to ~120 requests/s.
Firefox OS SDK is built with Gecko in mind, while Ubuntu is using Webkit for the Webview(QtWebkit/Oxide).
> "There are some obvious reasons for this, such as UPS’ decision to let its workers take Christmas day off."

Good for them. I respect that a lot more than them being able to deliver every single package on Christmas Eve.
This article seems overly optimistic. SEOs can now add spam links to competitor sites to negatively affect their pagerank.
Palo Also is comparatively good for its area, but bicycling's modal share among commute options even there is quite low, hovering around 10%. Partly that's because many people who live in Palo Alto work elsewhere, and vice versa. In other cities on the peninsula it doesn't even crack 5%; nearly everyone who lives or works in Santa Clara or Sunnyvale drives, for example (biking's modal share is <2%). Mountain View is somewhere in between, at ~6%.

Those numbers aren't inconsistent with it being possible to bike in those cities, but they suggest that people in practice don't. Here's a map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/8007583135/

Infrastructurally, it's quite noticeable as well. The Valley doesn't feel like a bike- or pedstrian-friendly place, but like a place criss-crossed by huge roads, giant parking lots, and not only interstates and state freeways, but county expressways, something I've rarely seen elsewhere (apparently the Peninsula opted out of BART and took the money that would've been spent there, to build abominations like the San Tomas and Lawrence expressways, instead). I remember walking from Mountain View Caltrain to the Microsoft campus on La Avenida once for a SuperHappyDevHouse, and it clearly did not seem like a route anyone ever expected a pedestrian to walk on.
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> "All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them." -Mark Twain

Of course someone already built your idea. You'll find 30 versions of it just be searching for suitable domain names. Take advantage of that. Your first 30 iterations and pivots are done before you even started!

If you go beyond the Yes/No of instantdomainsearch.com and actually look at what's hosted on the unavailable domain names. Click around the website. Become a customer. This is more useful "market research" than blasting out hundreds of SurveyMonkey surveys or asking people if they'd use your product!
that actually fits with their pompous "YOLO" attitude
I much more sympathize with UPS workers who got Christmas day off than some shmuck who ordered his package late. Better plan next year.

There is a saying I like 'failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine'.

[Edited the saying, as I remembered it clearer)
The amount of new currencies is... hilarious?
Soon we'll need a new software category on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_categories
That's a great question. I think the only thing you can do is address who your competition is, even if they're only tangentially related. I usually follow a pattern of "X competitor is doing Y, which helps our target customer solve A and B need but not C and D".

I think it's worth finding the closest competitor no matter how far away they are, even just to signal that you've done the research.
The use of the word "agent" has a very specific meaning within the context of government employment. It denotes a certain level of accountability and vetting that indicates that the person serves as a representative of the government within the duties they are assigned.

For example, the FBI has "special agents".

A little research goes a long way and this article doesn't even have a byline. Blogger or journalist? Who can tell anymore.
Wikipedia is not a primary source.

And he doesn't get to define his relationship with the CIA unilaterally.
Marketing strategy i think
I always felt Disqus was trying to solve the issue of comment spam.
Compare Scotland with another 5-million strong European country with similar oil reserves which retained independence - Norway - and try and say that with a straight face. Norway is far far richer, with a huge oil fund and more developed economy. Scotland's oil was used to fund thatcherism and inflict industrial damage upon Scotland.

And by the way - Ireland had home rule prior to its independence and also elected MPs and had the vote, on the same terms as the rest of the UK, prior to its independence.
It is truly amazing how fucked up our system is. If they actually believed you "deserved" 99 years, then bargaining down to 6 months suggests that all they really care about is artificially inflating and maintaining their "conviction" rate and not actually, you know, justice or something. Thank you for sharing your experiences, I rarely get the opportunity to discuss things like this. Best of luck to you going forward!
Unless you're against all software patents on principle, I don't see an argument here for why patenting this feature deserves scorn.

If you aren't against software patents, you don't realize that any patent can more or less creep into any semi-related field ultimately producing something like a totalitarian regime where anyone producing any application will need multiple licenses.

And so, if you have already sworn allegiance to our future insect overlords, then indeed, no patent will receive scorn though they all will still deserve it.
Depending on the market, 20-30 hours seems really low for thorough market research. Often times, when a market is super crowded, that means that there is a great opportunity because there really isn't a winner. Doing thorough research on tens or hundreds of companies, especially in opaque markets can be a big waste of time compared to focusing on what you are doing that is working.

Referencing AngelList and CrunchBase leads me to believe that this article is applying only to startups that compete with other startups but it is ignoring the bigger opportunity of changing existing markets.
Are web fonts fast yet?
Danny Sullivan and Rand Fishkin just don't know how to do any kind of SEO beyond link building. Kelly Clay at Forbes wrote a much better article about how SEO has changed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/11/19/seo-isnt-de...

The spammers have more tricks than they used to, and aren't telling most of the SEO's how to game the system, but Spam is actually easier because Google is weeding out the people who don't have the time or ability to do Page Construction spam.
I recently discovered http://www.cockos.com/licecap/ which lets me take screen captures and save them as gifs. Definitely helpful when trying to capture CSS animation bugs.
Thanks for that guys. I had no idea this was actually referencing a movie.
The article actually does discuss Robinson's non-standard analysis, but it's a shame it does not deal with smooth infinitesimal analysis and intuitionism.
Objective-C gets a bad wrap.
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If you did your research seriously, i believe sharing the results(indirect competitors) and maybe the process(keywords searched, etc) could help build trust .
I have to wonder if the same happened when we figured out the printing press, minting gold/silver, etc...

If you'll remember in the early American Colonies, [every colony had its own currency](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency).
Agile in 2013 was all about scaling up
How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates
Going by a literal dictionary interpretation of the word anarchism/anarchist would be what I see as a superficial interpretation.
Thank you, got it.

In that case I just think it's a wrong choice of words. My understanding is that privilege is that few are born with (see this humorous commercial from the UK about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0hFnOGnq4). This usage turns it on its head - uses the word privilege to describe what majority have but a minority do not.

Ie I'd say being born the son of a billionaire is privilege - but having a dentist for a dad (even one who can pay for your college education) is not.
I decided to start
Indeed, self-promotion is an obvious byproduct of democracy and bottom-up economy, where the population at large chooses winners (through voting or market force$) , instead a top-down command economy where everyine is rated by fixed measures, or a caste society where privilege is hereditary and no one gets promoted or demoted, so no one needs to impress anyone else.
Not a big GPL fan, but why would that matter in this case...plugins?
I agree, the amount of time you spend can really vary. If you're going after a space with major incumbents, it should be much longer, because you really need to drill into the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of your competitors.

I reference CrunchBase and AngelList not because it's only startup-startup competition, but it's a great place to look for new entrants that you often won't find through Google alone. If there are major incumbents in your space, you should find them with that initial google search.
Do you share workstations with your co-workers or do significant amounts of pair programming?

I'm not sure why my work environment should be optimized for a <1% use case.
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Indeed, and the constructable numbers are studied as a subset of the reals, as are the algebraics, and the computables. You can make a choice as to the domain of discourse. If you like, feel free to restrict it to the computables (or the constructables).

Then apply the diagonal argument. Take the computable numbers between 0 and 1, including 0, not including 1. These are countable, so we can write them in a list, taking a mapping k from the natural numbers: { 1, 2, 3, 4, ... } to the set of computable numbers in [0,1).

Now let's construct a new number. In the first decimal place we put 1 if the first decimal place of k(1) is 0, and 0 otherwise. In the second place we put 1 if the second decimal place of k(2) is 0, and 0 otherwise. And so on.

This results in a number that's not on the list, and is between 0 and 1. So it must, by our assumption, not be computable.

Things become tricky.

So there's a choice to be made, and most mainstream mathematicians have decided to talk about, use, study, and otherwise accept the existence of the real numbers because it's convenient.

Feel free to choose otherwise.
I think it's better to mention the tangential ones than to omit them because it shows that you've really thought through the competitive landscape.

Competition is also not a bad thing. If there are a few startups vying for attention in a certain space, it means there's obviously value there. You have to prove to investors and customers that you're going to do it better and ultimately win the lion share of the space.
It's how we avoid cult of personality and the fallacy of argument from authority.
I think it's fair though to spend 20-30 hours deeply analyzing the competition. What was their go-to market, their pricing structures, key focus, team size/background, economics, channels, partnerships, stated reasons for failing, what were they hiring for, etc. etc. Those all holistically give you a great view into lots of learning.
Oracle has been acting that way for 30 years...
What gave you the impression that it's a problem of training and pay? Parole officers are doing their jobs as they are trained. The system, run by "tough on crime" politicians, prosecutors and cops, is geared towards having as little sympathy as possible.
You misunderstand the intended purpose of the article. You're not supposed to see these anecdotes of prison experiences and morals and interpret them as lessons that you should have learned and didn't. The point is to spread understanding, to offer a glimpse into the minds of those who have experienced prison, especially those whose previous lives were so different from life behind bars.

You're right, directly confronting the perpetrator rather than seeking help from the authorities is often inappropriate in "normal life", but the point is that prison changes people. Before prison, the convict would choose to respond to a conflict as would you and I you and I, and believed that was "correct". But prison changed him in that respect so completely that he recognizes that he changed and fully believes that it's for the better.
I disagree.

I've worked for the government. We all understand the difference between employee/officer/agent/contractor.

For one thing, there are different rules and regulations. You are legally responsible as an agent in a way you aren't as an officer. Same for employee vs contractor.

The CIA is not the same thing you see in the movies. Don't get your information from Hollywood.
Yes. But it's frustrating that Facebook has an automute that decides that original content from my close relatives is something to be muted while some tedious repost from a pal is something that I want to see.

And it feels like there's no point setting any settings when the [sort: most recent / top stories] drop down randomly reverts back to top stories.
I'm currently working on a project that employs this concept; we use Rails for the heavy lifting, registration, payments, etc (lots of complex stuff), and we use Wordpress to allow our client to easily create beautiful things.

The truth of the matter is that making a rails app that covers the flexibility that Wordpress allows (including things like Yoast's seo plugin, for instance) is just infeasible in Rails. The newest update to Wordpress is also quite beautiful.

I've been building on Rails and Wordpress for a while now, and have yet to see a full featured solution to flexible content management that equals or surpasses WP. I have yet to see something that makes data transformation and api creation as easy as rails does. (These are gross overstatements, but the point is that the two tools are very different in key ways, and can be used to complement each other if those differences are respected.)
I suspect you are talking about formal formulations of abstract geometry. That's not what we're talking about here. Here we are talking about lines as being sets of points in the plane that satisfy an equation of the form ax+by=c. Solutions (x,y) of that are said to be a line, although they themselves are points.

You can deal instead with Euclid's axiomatization of geometry, and there "line" is an abstract thing defined by two points. Different animal, although seldom explained clearly by teachers, who often themselves don't really understand what's going on. (Although some do, and don't get the chance to explore these things because of the pressure of the curriculum, and students who don't care, but need to pass.)

All too often people get confused about this and are told to shut up by their teacher, whereas in fact the student has had an insight, and demonstrated deeper understanding.
Yeah, I don't understand most of the responses. I hope that the responses are either from people that:

a) Don't think that he's saying "here's advice for life" (and if they do, don't realize that this is advice for how to respond to crimes against you)

b) Are scoping his advice to "while in prison, and because you're stuck there with violent morons anyway, don't make yourself a target"

c) Are out of their depth and/or don't realize that criminals are willing to resort to violence over even being told to not yell on a crowded subway. Further, don't realize that even short fistfights can result in serious consequences to both parties.

d) Just have no idea how the world really works and see things from this weird rose-tint of (based on responses to me) "minorities will get often get arrested for reporting crimes, so they shouldn't report them" and don't really understand that "don't snitch" just results in higher crime rates in affected areas due to inadequate police spending.

I'm in Brooklyn too and I've witnessed some pretty aggressive fights over petty (non-criminal) bullshit. Why give a shit if a criminal respects you? I get that within jail, it's more important, but how is the system supposed to improve?
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I use vim for writing code, and the IDE for a couple tasks like running the simulator.
I apologize in advance, but since nobody else seems to have taken the initiative I will opt for being the ass_ole in this situation.

Before you go to the board (you ethically should) let ascertain a few things.

Are you sure he's an overrate person or is it just that you don't see the value in his input?

Some where in the thread you mentioned:

> It's going to get real messy, especially since he holds all money, bank, passwords info

Some credit needs to go to an individual who has taken ownership for responsibility of finances, considering the amount of onus that falls on the need to maintain finances optimally for a start-up, this can also be really stressful. If he has mismanaged finances, that's another story.

If he has not mismanaged the finances and has taken ownership/charge of these affairs you need to reflect on why you did not opt to share the burden.

Some people don't like managing finances, nothing wrong with that, but they do need people who'd do it for them, even better if there is a mutual need to succeed. Anyone can be the best money manager in hindsight.

> the 3 employees we have today respect him a lot especially since he's an expert

Respect is very important. Sure, the article says that the Overrated person can establish themselves as an expert, but believing this without a doubt also means that you don't trust the judgement of your first three employees.

Not saying you're wrong, but there is a possibility that you need to delve a little deeper on why they think your co-founder is an "expert".

> following those rules in the article

Not all rules apply all the time. Also these are not really rules but situational observations.

> The only problem I see here is that he has more rapport with them (the board).

Was he instrumental in helping you raise funds? Could you have raised the funds with a 100% surety without him if you were a single founder? Would this rapport help keep the faith of the stakeholders in the prospect of your success?

Maintaining and managing peoples belief in an idea or the people executing an idea is no easy task. Are you sure he has a zero percent contribution in any of these? And again are you sure you could have achieved a 100% of past results without him?

> He actually threatens the company's success if I ever try to "sneak a move" on him

Why would you try to sneak a move past anyone who has as much to loose as you, or even if it was a fraction thereof?

How does he threaten the company?

Does he threaten to leave? If you want him to leave, this solves your problem. But, if his leaving threatens the company, you should probably reconsider firing him.
Maybe this would be cool:

x! <- m 2

Sort of like a strictness annotation. In think it would be a compatible language change, since only identifiers can currently appear left of a <-
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It could be, but there's a very important caveat. The HDMI output from many computers with HDMI and Displayport/Thunderbolt are limited to 1920x1280 over the HDMI output.

If you look on eBay for QHD (2560x1440) monitors, the ones that include a Displayport input are about $100 more than the ones with only HDMI, because they can be used by so many more computers.
Ah, yes, the linear reward to effort fallacy.
You're mostly correct.

The CIA doesn't have "agents", it has "officers". And they are mainly involved with recruiting and running sources of information, mainly foreign.
I downloaded the 10.0-RC3 ISO and spent the day spinning up multiple vm images using Vmware Fusion. My primary goal was a tour of different desktop environments, but I decided to create and build out a separate VM for each. I used the "open-vm-tools" package to improve integration with vmware, because their tools (reasonably enough) don't yet support 10.0.

I never experienced any difficulties with any of the the vm images. I used the "pkgng" packaging system for 99% of the software I installed, and built a couple of things from ports.

In my tests I was evaluating FreeBSD 10.0 as a developer's workstation. Chromium, Firefox, vim, git, VLC, ruby, gem, rake, etc - everything installed painlessly and worked as expected.

BTW, my preferred desktop environment is now XFCE (1) plus slim (2). I've been a happy KDE user for years, but I realized that I don't use 90% of what KDE gives me. Speaking for myself, XFCE does everything I need.

(1) http://www.xfce.org
(2) http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/slim
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Meanwhile Yandex is trying to move past ranking based on incoming links. Coming soon: search results with zero ranking weight of any links (on commercially heavy queries, anyway).

http://www.seroundtable.com/yandex-links-17786.html
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I was in a similar position with my first company, but waited too long because we were such close friends. I view failing to fire him as my biggest mistake/failing as CEO of my first co.

If you want to talk, drop me a line here and we can hop on the phone. I have a strong opinion on this topic: http://mattmireles.com/contact/