skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk to your accelerator and your other investors (assuming they're typical startup investors), they'll have seen plenty of other startups fail and will be able to give you advice how to handle the situation.

They'll also know which of their other startups are hiring and should be able to setup introductions to help you and your employees get accelerated interviews, etc. to help with the transition.
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"Every new idea or piece of feedback about your start-up has immense value and it's up to the founder(s) to prioritize these ideas and suggestions and utilize them."

The author seems to be in the fortunate position of never having suffered from feedback overload.

In my experience, anyone is willing to give feedback when asked for it, and most of that feedback will be wrong and/or conflicting with the advice of others and/or inapplicable to the situation at hand.

As a founder, it is your privilege and your duty to free yourself from the opinions of others and blaze your own trail.
When San Francisco's Tech Sector Meets Homelessness, It's Not Always A Disaster
There are much easier ways to make 6-figures than playing the startup lottery. (I mean, unless perhaps we are considering multi-billion dollar businesses that happen to be located in California to be "startups").
I don't have any particular advice to give, but, assuming nothing improper happened here, if you gave it your best, there is nothing wrong with failure. Failure is part of the system. Your investors and employees realize that startups are a risky venture. There are plenty of jobs out there and your employees will land on their feet.

I have nothing but respect for startup founders who did their best and came up short. I hope that the experience you've gained serves you well throughout your career and one day you can look back and appreciate the experience. Good luck going forward.
Reflections on Free Will
Wearables decades ago were generally big computer bricks on your waist or otherwise strapped to your body, then a separate display up at your head, and often a separate input in your hand like a Twiddler chorded keyboard. They did tend to range in power and capabilities up to matching laptops of the day, though.
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There are also other problems than atmosphere.

http://eu.mio.com/en_gb/global-positioning-system_gps-accura...
I'm also not so sure about the "non-JS coders" part. As a proficient Javascript programmer, I absolutely love CoffeeScript. I even recommand it to learn the good parts of JS when you are completely unfamiliar with it.
I think there is a lot more than synctactic sugar to Coffeescript. It makes obscur or verbose JS patterns really easy to use.
My code generally compiles down to up to twice as much JS code. Yes the compiler outputs somewhat verbose JS, but I can't deny the speed and ease I've gain with it. And it is only my first professional project using it.
> Lots of LLCs turn themselves into S Corps, because (a) there's an old sketchy tax dodge about self-employment/FICA tax you can do as an S

Interesting. Got a pointer to details on that?
...the PC powersave feature used more power than it saved, that year.

I think you're underestimating the number of PCs in use "that year", but even so, accounting doesn't work like that. Microsoft don't implement features for the sake of the total world power supply, but rather for the benefit of their customers. For the vast majority of PC owners, powersave is a (slightly) valuable feature. For at least one owner at least one time, it was a (very) undesirable feature. Which set of customers made Bill G a billionaire, and which is a rounding error?
That just sounds like an argument from idealism. Writing software is all about tradeoffs, and not supporting non-Linux systems is one tradeoff that systemd makes, for a good reason.

In this case, close integration with the kernel is required to be able to produce the features envisioned.

You might perhaps find some instances where systemd components are needlessly interrelated, but the claim that it isn't modular is mostly a myth.
Why wouldn't writing a better JS framework improve the world? Jquery helped a lot of people get into web development, got them jobs, inspired them to enjoy programming and maybe life itself, helped the economy, helped make websites exist that directly and indirectly help people, etc.

There is no reason anyone should be ashamed of doing what they love (unless of course, it's genuinely shameful). Yes, some things are more noble than others, and some things help people more directly, but the world needs a complete diversity of interests to be wholly "good". We shouldn't just rank all tasks from most to least noble, pick the most noble one, and pursue that solely.
>Why do you care?

You know, some personality types cannot help but be concerned with how they're perceived by others. They're hardwired that way. It's the classic misunderstanding between extraverts and introverts.
Yes, but what about those of us that enjoy playing NetHack?
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the core of what writing is really about–sharing ideas, naturally

This sentence might not be true. Writing is partly about sharing ideas and partly about discovering them. In an essay at least, most of the ideas reveal themselves after you start writing. And half of those you start with turn out to be wrong. So you want to keep writing until you bump onto the right ones. It's figuring out the truth you're after. Sharing something untrue isn't as valuable.

If you had a writing tool good at getting you to share and one good at getting you to write, the latter could be a better tool.

That's not to say Svbtle does a bad job at getting you to write. But the distinction is important enough for any writing tool to consider.
Probably Carnegie-Mellon, a University in Pennsylvania that has an excellent (top 10 in US) engineering program.
MongoHQ releases two-factor authentication and account security auditing.
EY is still just as involved as he was before, no? Vassar having left probably helps with the crackpot perception (I do not personally have an opinion on the matter, I just know that that's the impression he gives many folks). But given that you used the plural "crackpots", I'm wondering if perhaps there were other folks you think MIRI is better off without? No need to name names, just curious.

(I agree about Luke, he's a great public face.)
I agree this is a big problem. I've had cases where I'm still reviewing stuff but the person whose code was under review just fixed my first few comments and then submitted it while I was still writing the rest.

I know this is partially a process problem, but having batched emails would certainly help make it more obvious.

Google's reitveld is a bit of a mess but at least it gets this part right.
He's made a turnaround perhaps greater than Rockefeller or Carnegie from probably being well over the line of ethical behavior in business, to an immense force for good in charity. It's pretty amazing.

Warren Buffett, on the other hand, seems to have gotten rich through being basically fair but brilliant (and of course lucky, and hard working), and is making huge charitable contributions as well (both before pledging his wealth to the Gates Foundation and after).
Thanks! Any good war vids you'd recommend for a total outsider?
Yeah, I'll attend too, since there is few tech meeting in SoCal. Hope I can learn some interested things and meet some programmer here :)
Neither a six figure salary nor a sports car require winning the startup lottery or overwork. Nor do sports cars require six figure salaries: case-in-point, a good condition used Honda S2000 can be had for under $10,000 if not under $5,000 these days.

Nor are startups lottery tickets: people tend to overvalue equity at early startups, but tend to undervalue it at mature and well established ones (the equity percentage may be smaller, but the chance of that equity becoming liquid and appreciating is higher).
It's not as bad as you think. You're alive. You have your health (hopefully). Tomorrow you'll most likely be alive and still have your health. This is the starting point.

Those that love you came along for the ride. If you tried as hard as you could, and you took this gamble with their blessing, you do not owe them an apology -- although it wouldn't hurt to give one. They'll still love you and you'll still be making decisions together.

Debt is bad, but they don't throw you in jail for being in debt, at least in the states. Do some studying on dealing with creditors. It's a game like any other game, and it helps if you know the rules. Plenty of folks in debt who are living happy and fulfilled lives. It's not the end of the world.

As to whether you'll be viewed as a failure or not, this depends on your peers and your culture. I suggest you hang out with people who view this as a badge of honor. Life sucks enough without having friends who stomp on you while you're down.

Family is another matter. Can't pick your family. But you can set some ground rules for interacting with them. If you need money from them, be prepared to do things you wouldn't normally do. After all, it's only fair to let them drive a bit if you're needing their help.

It's nothing but a thing. It can be hugely disasterous, or it can be a slight bump in the road. The difference is all between your ears, inside your head. You get to decide how to view this part of your life -- great adventure continues or yet another failure. I suggest you choose wisely.
In addition to Thomas being right about employee wages being able to "pierce the veil" in many states, they're the people most at risk in this situation, so you owe it to them to make sure they're taken care of. It's the one circumstance where I would backstop a company problem with personal funds. (If your company was also behind on e.g. rent or hosting, on the other hand, that risk was priced into contractual terms, like Thomas said. I'd generally prefer to make vendors whole where possible but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.)

With regards to your own situation: you're in the best hiring market in the history of ever. Reach out to your incubator's network and you'll have attractive job offers starting as early as you can accept them. That isn't the whole of the solution set: Big Daddy G and the rest of the tech industry are hiring like mad, too, and they are also throwing around signing bonuses large enough to cover your last few months of salary nonpayment.

P.S. to other HNers: "And then we didn't pay ourselves salary" strikes me as something I hear from a lot of failed funded startups which magnifies the personal financial risk of doing them significantly without meaningfully increasing the chance you'll pull things through. I'd strongly consider not doing that, again, unless the alternative is missing payroll for your other employees.
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And just out of curiodity, how are you getting on with ML?
Getting my sh*t together: 5 new weekly habits
Clearly, I know some people you don't know.
A little tweak that got me in the habit of using things like 5j and 6dd: :set relativenumber.

It numbers your current line as 0, and counts up and down from there. It makes it very easy to see that you need to delete the next 5 lines, or move up 10 lines without doing any math.

As for your mouse comment, I don't think you can compare the speed with which an experienced vim user gets their cursor where they want it to the catastrophic cache miss of removing your hand from the comfort of the home row, grabbing the mouse, moving it where you want, clicking it, and moving your hand back to the keyboard. The mere thought makes me shudder :)
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Delaminated Dreamliner sounds like a Fedora or Ubuntu release codename.
Ask HN: You're building a new house. What tech features would you want in it?
For example... closet with a server rack, automated locks on all doors, etc...
It's not that simple, guys.
A more detailed map updated few hours ago https://pp.vk.me/c424218/v424218475/a161/yp73T93Y_l0.jpg
Do people even really consider Uber to be a tech company? I assumed that we all just were interested in them because they aim to solve a problem that many of us experience in cities, because they are disruptive and we dig disruptive startups.

Sort of like why HN is interested in Tesla. Technology is certainly involved there, but I don't think of them as a "tech startup". Tesla hires mostly non-CS engineers I imagine, and I suspect Uber mostly hires drivers.
I think it's absolutely a hot space. I know a good number of people who work for Pebble and love their product, however I personally put that particular device aside once I got a Google Glass.

I have something in the works for Pebble coming very soon, however I actually launched GlassTesla last year. http://glasstesla.com There are currently ~200 folks who happen to have both Google Glass and a Tesla Model S using the app.
yeah, my thoughts echo what most other people said: just keep your eyes wide open and observant so you can use this experience for next time! e.g. keep a journal and write stuff down so you remember...

I was at a code review recently with several people who had clearly never been through a major failure such as a start up going under (i've been through several...) and the difference in our viewpoints was apparent to me. This is valuable experience you're getting.
RMS is not "a dick". He is misunderstood by cretins. There is a difference.
Note that just giving the money to the homeless, rather than policing their spending of it, turns out to actually work:

https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...

Policing the spending is an antipattern, originating in cognitive and social biases. It is the opposite of an effective solution. Making this known efficiency a selling point is likely to be less than optimal in dealing with the actual problem.
I see that they price in terms of events/month.

Is there a limit as to how big an "event" can be? Is there a limit to how long they hold onto it?
Google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Oq8_jkw...
Agreed. It's about priorities, if he values his family more than the comfort/luxury/whatever-it-may-be of self-employment then you do what you have to do; not saying it would be easy.
FWIW, it looks like if you hover over a post's title, the date appears to the far left of it. But as a consumer, I don't really like it when software/sites make me discover on my own how to use it, particularly when they deviate from the norm.
This might be a little bit meta, but for my start up we interpreted "make something people want" as make something that takes advantage of the behaviors people exhibit whether or not they explicitly say they want it or not. We get tonnes of feedback/complaints (that are very emotionally charged) about what we are doing every week that we don't respond to, but despite that, we keep growing.

I wish I could figure out how to turn this into a win(us)-(lose)them, into a win-win (because there could be an upside, like building a movement), but what people are demanding is in direct conflict of their behaviors (and our growth) so there little actualized incentive on our part except for maybe trying to exacerbate the issues more with a new feature in order to get more growth.
I think there are many better reasons than those to base your decision on what to use or not to use. To each their own, of course, but it would take a really strong, personal dislike of someone for that dislike to prevent me from using quality products (not saying that MS's products are or aren't quality). And not knowing any of the people involved personally, I can't really form such a strong personal judgment.
So, if the police confiscates your car after finding you DUI/closes a hotel because it has been repeatedly found to operate a child pornogrpahy ring/locks up somebody who uses his gun to kill people, that's an attack on car driving in general/on the general idea of running a hotel/on the right to bear arms? I see that more nuanced.
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Nice… I had been using '__', but it seems like this will allow you to use it multiple times in a parameter list.
"What seems more likely to me is the genesis of an entirely new genre, possibly synthesizing traits from both movies and games, but fundamentally not the same as either."

Not unlike the way film itself started ~1895 as a cheap emulation of stage plays, relying on familiar theatrical devices while exploring and developing its own core of language, conventions, and techniques. By 1915 it had come into its own and we called it cinema.
Interesting,

Having done a small amount of machine learning, I can see how the advice here is "true". And by "true", I mean appropriate for the way that machine learning exists and operates in present-day space. Algorithms are difficult, temperamental and requires expert "tuning".

The sequence seems to be:

- First you learn the formal theory, the math and statistics.

- Then you learn the "squinting", the ad-hoc rules for how to apply which algorithm.

- Then implement the thing

This works better than just starting your editor and piecing code. However, I would claim that this doesn't actually work well in the sense that this is kind of where AI/ML have bogged down. I mean, there are only 5 main approaches, 20 main algorithms and whatever subsidiaries and random stuff. They don't work great and the only progress is incremental (though there is progress and throwing more computer power around at the same time enhances - while masking the low amount of conceptual progress).

What's lacking is any modularity in combining algorithms. The power of ordinary programming is, essentially, using function calls to put together what you want. ML doesn't do that and for all the magic, that makes it weak and fragile - when one magic algorithm doesn't work well, rather than improving it, it really is better, at present, in the interest of getting stuff done, to start with a different magic algorithm. This is true, I'm a realistic in the sense of accepting the present but an idealist in the sense of saying "that kind of sucks, we should be able to fix problems, not surrender and regroup".

Yes, I'm happy to denigrate the good and proper in my question for the best. But I'm an idealist, I suppose it's a matter of taste.
Interesting. I know 3 people with Pebbles and have one myself, and none of us have had any problems of the sort. At one point my charging cable broke, probably due to my transporting it rolled up, but that's it.
Almost the description of any unix to date. Is not as if exist a single unix, ever. And OSX bastard?
This reminds me of the "My Startup has 30 Days to Live Blog": http://mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com/
I thought part of the problem with LLCs was a state issue?
I've been feeling the same way lately

In western NY looking to move south - Atlanta maybe.
Luckily, I have a nice enough computer to alt-tab and play some Dota 2.
Lotus web framework for Ruby is making a new module open source every month
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You can never be sure who or what is viewing your messages (wink wink NSA) or what they’re going to do with them if they should get them. Tinfoil-SMS is an encrypted messaging application so your texts don’t fall into the wrong hands. Tinfoil-SMS uses 256 bit ECC public keys as well as a unique signed key exchange to prevent any “man-in-the-middle” attacks.

I am one of the developers of Tinfoil-SMS, we have just released a new BETA version on the Google Play Store and are looking for individuals who are interested in providing translations, testing the app, and providing feedback to help fix bugs and make the app more stable and secure.

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- Public key signing scheme using shared secrets to prevent “man-in-the-middle” attacks

- AES-256 block cipher in CTR mode

- SHA-256 message HMAC

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Setting up PHP-FastCGI and nginx? Don’t trust the tutorials.
I think gold's real utility is that it's useful for things other than currency: jewelry, electronics, alloys, etc...
Some Rubidium clocks require very little power (700mW or less). This makes them ideal for under water applications where short term accuracy isn't an issue because the SONAR data transmission is going to be a mess anyway, and they provide much better long term stability than a crystal oscillator.
Xero is great. It integrates well with stripe. They're also a full-featured accounting app (more so than Freshbooks which is only invoicing and expense tracking, and they charge as much as Xero).

http://xero.com
I would like to clarify my comment as some people has misinterpreted what I actually meant. I think Svbtle is great, but at the same time, how is it any different to that of other blog platforms that tout themselves as having a clean interface for writing content? We have Medium, Ghost, Tumblr and even Quora. The competitive edge that Svbtle had was its exclusivity, an edge they've now lost by opening it up.

I wasn't attacking Dustin Curtis, I don't know him, I know of him and I have no problem with him whatsoever. I think people are too quick when it comes to interpreting the intent of someone else's words. But that's understandable as gauging intent of words without the voice can be very difficult and easy to misinterpret, especially on the Internet and a site like Hacker News.

What I meant by elitist was a blogging platform that only allowed people that Dustin or whoever else hand-picked and determined were good enough to be allowed to use and publish on the Svbtle platform is in my opinion quite an elitist thing to do. "I think you're good enough to use my website" it's like a tech company like Apple choosing who gets to use their products and who doesn't based on how they look or where they live.

At the same time, it's Dustin's right to choose who uses Svbtle, it was a unique take on blogging when it made its debut and its his darling. I won't judge him for it, but I standby my choice of words calling his approach an elitist attitude. That's just my opinion, don't hate on me for it.

I haven't used Svbtle long enough to form a substantial opinion as I already use Medium and am active on Quora, but what I've seen is quite nice. The interface is great, I've always been a fan of the overall aesthetic of the site from day one. I've got nothing bad to say about it. It's just another blogging platform to me, a well-built one.

However, I don't think Svbtle has any competitive edge left to compete with other established players in the competitive blogging platform niche. It's an overdone thing, even Ghost has failed to live up to its own hype as a blogging platform because people are used to the likes of Wordpress and don't want to use something new and unknown. Perhaps if Svbtle were to open source itself like Wordpress they might be able to compete in the space.

I believe my comment was mostly fair, I am sorry if I offended anyone, but honesty is the best policy. If I called Dustin Curtis a fat elitist slob then maybe all of the disdain in the comments beneath me would be warranted.