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Just because Uber wants to disrupt the Taxi industry does not mean that they have any obligation or ability to also fight malaria, human trafficking, stop world hunger and terrorism, or house the homeless.

By all means, it would be ideal if the people getting rich would devote some of their wealth and, after retirement, perhaps some of their time, to tackling these problems. Bill Gates has been doing great work advocating this sort of philanthropy and we should all encourage that.

Uber isn't a charity though, their mission statement isn't fighting these problems. If they want to make corporate donations to charities, that is fantastic, but they are not a charity themselves. Expecting solutions from them to these problems is unfair.
Google Aiming For First AI Robots
About 18 months ago I was laid off from an executive position at a company I'd been with about 5 years. At the same time, I was trying to bootstrap a business on the side, I'm the sole breadwinner in our household, three little kids, and I had a house that was underwater that we couldn't sell due in large part to all the foreclosures in the area that were the competition. To make it worse, we had moved to a very remote, rural area for family reasons, so had two houses to cover, and zero job possibilities anywhere in the area. Eighteen months later, that side project has folded (which I'm ok with), the other house is sold, and I'm doing well consulting (and with minimal travel). Will your story 18 months from now be rosy and happy? I don't know, but I suspect if you are the kind that would take the risk to start up a business, you are the kind that will hustle to do whatever it takes to first reach a point of survival and then the road back to thriving.
How you deal with the process and its fallout will be a defining moment for you as a person. Be upfront, be honest, and don't worry to much. Life goes on. You're in the best place and time there ever existed to fail and move on.

The best advice I can give you is that the sky will clear the moment you absolve yourself of the responsibilities. You'll be a free, earning man again. Things will only look up, and very quickly the ideas will start flowing again.

Take your wife for a talk. Explain to her how it's going to be, and that you'll be looking for a job the moment you've turned off the lights. You will have some peace, comfort and certainty soon that will allow you to think clearly, and later on, establish a learning process of everything you've gone through.

Someone around these parts said that the most difficult part of being an entrepreneur is managing your own psychology. It's time you get a hold on yours and own the situation.

Good luck!
I am a little bit out of touch regarding the who's who in the web publishing business but this reminds me of Six Apart. Are the svbtle guys planning to release their Typepad code in the future for anyone wishing to install it on their own servers ?
"Ostracizing" is a pretty strong word here.
I haven't run any numbers (great analysis by the way). Other sources I can think of:

-conversion from other currency holdings (LTC, BTC), which some people have openly said they did

-recent run up / down of the value caused a lot of people who were previously holding to buy / sell (started around the time of the big news push with the Jamaican bobsled team fundraiser, right now it is dropping)

-general interest, people buying some amount to hold for the first time. i have had friends making their first crypto purchase in doge recently, who don't understand the technology and probably shouldn't (due to the news i think and not wanting to miss out on bitcoin 2.0)

-Chinese investors getting in / out? i think i saw a graph of cny to doge being a major part of the transactions

personally, i haven't looked into it that seriously because i haven't invested seriously. i put time in (especially for the site content), but all my coins are mined from an existing gaming computer. my total doge USD value is ~$50, which is probably lower than what people would expect of the dogecointutorial creator. my doge mining actually started because I wanted to cheaply explore how cryptocurrencies worked. then the tutorial site actually started when i was testing out aws / github pages for landing page hosting. originally i just had some sort of dogecoin index placeholder but found myself jumping around / searching for info as i learned about doge and cryptocurrencies...so i started my own guide. if you do more research, do share it!
Hey guys I worked on Conceal, AMA
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There are lots of good comments here, and as the writer, I do appreciate all of them.

One element of this story, which was hard to really spend the time on, is the public's difference in perception regarding disruption of other technology companies, compared to its perception of industrial and service based industries. The public doesn't seem to care when a company like Intel takes on a company like Fairchild Semiconductor. Part of the issue is a lack of technical sophistication, so it is difficult to separate competitors based on their products. The more important reason, though, is that technology devouring technology is easily understood as progress. 500 engineers lost their job at one firm, but a new firm is hiring 500.

Now take a look at the service disrupters like AirBnB, Uber, etc. First, unlike technical disruption, the public understands the businesses here very well. It's a hotel. It's a taxi. It's a laundromat. Second, there is a distinct feel that these new companies are not playing by the rules, whatever those rules might be (it doesn't help that these companies publicly flaunt the rules either). Third, and most importantly, there is far more perception of the people losing their jobs, rather than the gain these companies are making in terms of labor flexibility.

There are plenty of greenfield companies out there (Nest, DeepMind, Climate Corporation are acquisitions in the last month that come to mind). But the region is not exclusively doing that kind of progress anymore, and so we shouldn't be surprised when people aren't immediately positive about the changes taking place anymore.
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1.) I hope you are over playing the despair part, but if you really feel that every sucks then you should speak a professional to help give you perspective. Seriously, your mental health matters.

2.) Create a list of everything you need to do, then start to work through it.

a.) Have a conversation with your wife. Inform her about what's happening, what issues you're facing, and ask her about her thoughts. Get on the same page, that way there are two of you working through this. What's her game plan? She'll likely have some action items that should go onto your list.

Get your emotions out, but then move on. I've been doing the startup thing for 14+ years and married for 8+. I cannot emphasize enough that you should not overburden your spouse. She's got a lot on her plate now, so get your emotions out once (if you're into that), then stay upbeat.

b.) Schedule a meeting with your investors. Have a set agenda, use a PowerPoint (or other presentation software) that outlines your current status, etc. Also, show that you are a professional by showing them you have a plan/budget/timeline to shutdown the business.

Your investors are professionals. They know that a large percent of early startups fail. What they will want from your is professionalism.

Also, ask for their input. What do they need you to do?

c.) Legal: Speak with your attorney (this can also be before #b). Get their input on your legal checklist.

You must shutdown the business correctly. Your attorney will be a big asset. Keep your meeting with them professional and focused. Don't waste time on emotions in this meeting.

d.) Schedule a team meeting and speak with your employees. Help them transition if you can. If you're overwhelmed, which it sounds like, then tell them you'll be happy to give glowing references. This is easy and will require minimal work on your part while keeping the relationship alive.

As with #a, don't overburden your employees with your emotions. Sorry, but complaints flow up, not down. They will have their own pressures, and your job as a manager is to help assuage their fears and help them see that everything will be ok.

e.) It sounds like you don't have kids. Yah! Seriously, grab a beer. This is so much easier without kids.

f.) Fill-in this list with input from everyone above plus your co-founders.

g.)It's only Tuesday. Get moving and this done before the weekend.

3.) Debt: To any first time founders, please allocate budget to shutting down a business. Experience matters here, and it's best practice to know your shutdown costs, to budget for them, and to have the professionalism to shut the business down when you have just enough money to close up shop. You should pay debts, invoices that are due, employee salaries, legal fees to shutdown, etc.

To the OP, create a list of assets/liabilities. If you can sell assets to pay for liabilities then do it. Be cool about who you owe money to. If these are other small businesses / startups, then try to make your debt whole.
Why are Super Bowl Commercials So Expensive? (Game Theory)
It could be done as a desktop application or a browser extension. Reduce the password burden to one password and then generate keys for a PKI based on that (and maybe some other data to make it less guessable) If you sign up for something using this imaginary extension it would simply send your browser a token encrypted with your public key and your browser would decrypt it and would redirect to whatever.com/welcome/<gianttokenhere>. This would put the burden on the user not to accidentally trash their extension and lose their keys, but you could do key-reset the same way that we currently do with password resets.
...the copy bugged me in the way a lot of products focused on the Apple core audience do. It's impressed with itself...

Definitely! Having just got back from watching the X Games, the comparison that springs to mind is that this sort of thing bugs me the way any opinion column published in any Aspen CO newspaper bugs me. "When I think about how perceptive and fortunate I am to have chosen to live in such a wonderful community..."
I thought he was more well-known!

His most famous short story was probably "The Gift of the Magi" but I quoted "The Green Door".

http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/ohenry/the4m15.htm
This is something very productive. After so many years of googling on the web to find product's review on different sites, finally there is a company bringing all professionals on the same platform to help review and get advise on security products.

This is really helpful for IT Pros, Mobile Security and etc.
Girls are better than Boys..
if you want a good laugh.
The spaghetti in PHP is the problem. If you are writing a small script that needs to run on the web, PHP is a good way to do it on some cheap shared host.

The problem people who are PHP devs themselves have mentioned is the sheer difficulty of managing massive amounts of PHP code. It's just hard to read and follow.

Try reading through the code in a Django app, and it will make sense to you.

I came from a PHP background and I can honestly tell you (with no amount of sounding like a fanboi) that I think I finally understand the merits of a well-written language like Python.
I'm a web developer so diving into pebble dev was my first time writing C.

That said, I've really enjoyed it. The SDK is excellent and hacking apps on a watch is terribly fun.

Here are some of the apps I've made so far:

https://github.com/MilesOkeefe/freedom-clock

https://github.com/MilesOkeefe/magic8
mac address changer, or else you're broadcasting to every other wifi enabled device the machine you're using. I'd say a laptop that has a physical switch to disengage the antenna, but I have no idea if those actually work.
Music is actually much much much smaller than people realize. It's given as much importance as movies, but I don't even think it's 1/10 the size of movies.
Other than hand-delivered letters and face-to-face conversation in a secluded space, but then again, how can you trust the person you're communicating with to keep those communiques private?

Argh...paranoia...all consuming!
We run all our webhook invocations through our own product (a proxy that allows you to inspect any API call) which gives us this protection and gives us full logging to boot.
Why does it default to SF? This is really irksome :(
Most realistic answer. Much better response to the question of how can Apple execute the product better than others than gushing about Apple's marketing team.
Because of iOS and App Store restrictions, the new Pebble Store is necessary for getting 2.0 applications to work on the iPhone. The iOS Pebble app actually bundles the JavaScript-side of every Pebble store application to get around the platform restrictions.

On Android, this hack isn't necessary and users aren't missing out on much because they can use the store on the web and install whatever they want. So there is much less reason to work on the Android app right now.
For problem 1, I use this extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octosplit/mnkacica... It's not quite the side-by-side diff that I want (like Meld http://meldmerge.org/) but it does help.
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Alan Kay is a gold mine of quotable material.
Theta squad was the best squad.
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They're keeping emotions out of their startup, like guilt due to plagiarism.
I've been there. I shut down my YC startup about 3 1/2 years ago. It was covered in the press more than my launch was! Shutting down was a huge weight off my mind - we weren't successful and nothing was going to make it so.

You raised money and have employees. Worry about the employees. Get them new jobs in great startups by actively going through your network and making sure they get new jobs that they'll love with teams they'll enjoy.

Dont' worry about the investors. They've lost money before. If you raised from non-professionals, then you may have to apologize. Mean it.

Tell your wife, obviously. You probably don't need to worry about money too much - now you can take a low-stress job at high pay and get back what you lost doing the startup.

Also, please feel free to reach out: paul@circleci.com
I did some more calculations here: https://www.quora.com/Dogecoin/Where-is-the-currently-massiv...

Notably, the volume across all exchanges today is 562,124,614 doge, which is about $786,974, and mining accounts for another ~$1,000,000/day (500000 * 60 * 24 * $0.0014).

2x each of those to account for transactions into/out of mining pools and exchanges, and it's still only a few million dollars (plus a lot of trading never touches the blockchain)
Most of the posts on medium are so poorly written or blatantly false I just avoid the whole domain now. So in my eyes they have a lot of work to do to fix their branding.
I haven't used it myself but I've heard great things and it closely matches your request: "Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection" by Dr. John E. Sarno (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0446557684)
Sounds like you want something closer to Gerrit, where you can do line-by-line code reviews on an entire commit along with an overall comment, and the whole thing goes out as one mail.
My understanding (I have seen this stated before on HN, but don't have a source at the moment), is that there is currently more manufacturing in America than ever before. It is just of the more mechanized sort, it does not require nearly as many unskilled or low-skilled laborers as it once did.
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China's Internet vigilantes and the 'human flesh search engine'
Thanks for the heads up! That's been fixed.
Thanks. I will work on putting more info on the pages.

Funny you mrention /r/programming. One link I shared made it to the top of that subreddit. Shared it here and it got nothing. I think it may have been auto-deleted for some reason.
If given the choice between two options, ceteris paribus, I'd choose the one without the Twitter account restriction as well.
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Just got an email from a google recruiter saying they are interested in me. What is the best way to land this job?
Most tech companies you have never heard of. The public has never read a single news article or angry blog post about most of them. The majority of tech companies is certainly not making the rest of us look bad, they aren't making us look anything.
Good pieces of advice. Thanks for writing.
If you're encrypting the data, you're encrypting it with some sort of key, which itself has to be stored on the device. Is that code sample using an Android library to get some secret key that is only accessible to the app in which it was generated, and no other app?
Thanks for the comment. "Winning" is in my blood. I have to win or I won't be happy. So that is going to be a difficult one for me. lol...
Would you ever consider coming for some period of time to program with some of the Hacker School-ers?
Come out to https://next-step-growth.eventbrite.com

Literally the best place to chat with people about this topic.
Ask: Such synchronous clocks possible?

Special and general relativity steam-roll over synched digit accuracy, at introducing any object's mass, any object's displacement.

Not gain or lose over five billion years?

How many digits this time?

Tides, quakes, rain on the roof, defeat the possibility of unbounded synched accuracy.
OT: The page was very hard to read on my iPhone. Black text on a dark blue background with light blue headers does not make for the best reading experience.

I never knew of Martin until today but his untimely death was tragic and I am sure many people miss him.
Not really techy but, inspired by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-iFJ3ncIDo, I've always thought it would be interesting to suspend beds, tables and storage to the ceiling and then have a (rope+pullyy) system to only put the furniture in a room that you are actually using; freeing up the other space to walk/work/lie down. Plus it's probably real easy to keep clean.
Perhaps you are right. I will work on it and understand this better. Thanks for the feedback!
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In the past I've done what you've described and then asked for a refund to my credit card. Within minutes they processed the refund. Can't fault them for that.
At the top of your payment priority list: Remit to the U.S. Treasury the required withholding for employees' federal income-tax and Social Security / Medicare tax. The IRS will come for your house if you don't.
Here's one of the most important lessons I've learned about startup life:

There is a fundamental difference between being poor and being broke.

Being broke implies you don't have enough cash or expected cash flow to cover your debt - but it doesn't mean you haven't accumulated wealth. Being poor means you neither have cash nor wealth. The OP is simply broke, but not poor.

Knowledge from failing a business is (IMHO) one of the greatest, if not the greatest, ways to accumulate intelligence in business. That is extremely valuable.
This looks nice, but ISTM it would be most useful when used in concert with other facilities. For example, does FB have any preferred tool/method for managing keys in this environment? I've never done any Android coding, but I hear that lots of people screw up this part...

EDIT: whoops, I didn't see jffry's question before; apparently this occurs to many people.
Conceal ships with a default Keychain implementation which stores the key in SharedPreferences in the internal storage. You can totally customize this.
I don't think that would be saying the same thing. His point wasn't just that restricted access meant it couldn't become popular, but that it left a bad taste in people's mouths so it might not take off even now. So his acerbic (not hostile) tone was kind of pertinent to what he wanted to say.
This WAS THE LAST STRAW!!!

I DELETED FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New Frames and Shades for Google Glass
It's probably embarrassing to admit but I read the title and wondered if Barometer was an Uber competitor and some driver had gone postal. It did not quite fit the meaning but it was the best I could do till I read the bug.

but the whole embedded market seems like this now - everything just the wrong side of reliable and abstractions an impossibility. maybe I am just too new to the area.
There's a lot to like in this, but the intro is gimmicky. "Why are diamonds more expensive than water?" is a classic question for super early economics lessons, but not really appropriate for the more complicated piece that this is.
I think it's pretty obvious at this point that Satoshi Nakamoto is just Gavin Andresen's pseudonym. Is there anything wrong with that assumption?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Andresen

https://github.com/gavinandresen

https://twitter.com/gavinandresen

https://plus.google.com/117494054859918211010
Conceal ships with a default Keychain implementation which stores the key in SharedPreferences in the internal storage. You can totally customize this if you want to store this in a DB or somewhere else.

We realize that most apps already have their own implementation of caches and we'd rather look at this as a library that helps extend the app specific storage into external storage without letting other apps read this data.
See your accountant for advice on this point.

Disclaimer: I am not an accountant, nor is my business set up as an S corp.

The way it works is this: you form an S corp, and as the owner you pay yourself dividends rather than straight income. That way you aren't taxed at normal income tax rates but instead at the capital gains rate. At the same time, because you are now an employee of the S corp you personally only pay half the social security tax, rather than the whole bit as you would as the owner of the LLC paying both the employer and employee portions (of course the corporation is still obligated to pay the employer contribution).

Accountants are of different minds on this, depending on their own taste for risk. The important question in an audit is being able to defend that the business is more than just you, IE: the income is legitimate dividends from the success of the business, and not just regular employment income masquerading as dividends. Again, consult an accountant - they really are worth the cost.
Can't you turn off emails but still have GitHub notifications on the website?
I think we agree if a reasonably idiomatic style gives the necessary performance then it should be pursued, not dismissed.
I agree with what you write, what I disagree with is this above:

> It sucks that most people don't really care about performance any more. It sucks when people causally dismiss people who do care about performance with arguments like "premature optimization" and so on.

"Why? Really. To my mind it's good" etc etc

I also disagree with the "most of us" and "more interesting" angle, also exhibited here:
https://xkcd.com/409/

I think a dismissive attitude to performance is a poor attitude, I'm not saying that high level tools should not be used.
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And if you or anyone else wants another sound board, I'm here as well (SF or Palo Alto) - mbesto@gmail (I can relate 100% to the OP's struggles)
I agree that reinventing solutions to problems is definitely in the domain of the hacker.

When learning a new skill, however, you should understand what the common approach is before re-discovering the work of others. The article is about how to be more efficient in learning machine learning, not how to be a hacker.

It's akin to why (imho) better musicians learn to play other peoples styles before developing their own.