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Ask HN: Depressed – To 'Start Up' or Not ,Help 
Hello,

I am currently working in a big firm as a programmer. I am frustrated and depressed about the work I do. All I do is to work with a bunch of people who have zero idea about the business. We basically just do coding to satisfy the test cases !!

I personally think i can do better than this. I am a passive observer of start up space since many years. I am familiar with PHP (Symfony Framework),JS, Handling Servers: VPS,AWS, etc and have a dream product idea but the only thing that is making me not to quit this job and 'start up' is the fear of failure.

My fears are primarily due to :

1 ) My dream product is having a bunch of big competitions and is targeted towards developers/Project managers (Ex: Basecamp/Atlassian/IBM Rational Suites etc).Even though I am okay when it comes to development, I cant sell especially not in these kind of targeted developers group :(

2 ) I have never worked in a complex Symfony PHP Application which I have to work on if i pursue my product idea.

3 ) Even though I have friends in real life but when it comes to my Startup idea , I am all alone. I have read and seen repeatedly that a sole founder startup is doomed in most of the cases.

4 ) Going back to my job is very difficult if I fail as we have large number of aspirants for the job and a break in career is a black mark in my country.<p>But Money is not much of a issue as i have saved chunk of my salary. So i can Survive for next 1-2 years.

Continued in comment below ..https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7190984
Here are a couple of uses cases off the top of my head. This is by no means comprehensive.

* The ability to issue shares in your company/startup and have them be traded from Day 1. Unlike BTCT/BitFunder/Havelock, Counterparty is a P2P protocol and cannot be shut down by regulatory agencies. Kind of like BitTorrent.

* The ability to trade XCP for Bitcoin and vice versa without relying on any fallible counterparty. There is no centralized exchange to steal money from you or fail like MtGox. There is no escrow required to trade with peers because Counterparty guarantees atomicity of transactions.

* The ability to place a variety of different bets. Currently the protocol has support for simple contracts-for-difference (CFDs) and binary Equal/NotEqual bets. Why is this useful? You could for example hedge your exchange rate risk completely by being short a XCP/USD contract. This allows you to hold your wealth in cryptocurrency but have no exchange rate risk. Another use case is sports betting. There was a friendly bet on the Super Bowl, for example.
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please stop putting words in my mouth: I never said it's not nice to have, I said I don't think it adds much value, and that I believe that it's dangerously misleading.

I've been part of running a large IRC network for more than a decade: I have seen tens of thousands of users fall for various scams, get their passwords stolen, hand their passwords out willingly, connect through 'free bouncers' that perform operations as them, get DDoS'ed, install 'pingbooster.exe', you name it.

I wouldn't call them stupid, just mostly unaware or naive, and ultimately if we are going to attempt to protect their communications them we need to take their behaviour into account.

There are also operational concerns with deploying TLS: OpenSSL is up there in the top 10 list of 'software with the most security vulnerabilities', and if our servers get hacked our users really aren't any better off.

We have a some plans (inspired by Chrome's architecture) to work around this huge issue (restarting a webserver has no impact, but you can't do this with an ircd), but it all takes time and we're volunteers.

Ultimately I am a pragmatist, I will do things that I think are necessary and that I believe can work.
This is really cool-- but I get so many "Submission timed out" errors that I can't even do a problem...
No, no technical issues :-)
I wonder if publishing these metrics would go a long way to solving the problem. I know I'd must prefer to sign up with an ISP that doesn't throttle traffic I care about. I guess the big problem with that idea is that in many areas of North America there is very little competition in the ISP marketplace.

If the government was going to do something, I'd prefer it concentrate on increasing competition. Ideally, every home should have at least two or three options for high speed network access.
Exactly, not defending Russia, but in France too there is a dominant negative biais on how these Olympics are reported in the medias so far.
Continued..

So far I have tried these :

1) Wake up early in morning/ Late nyt to work/learn on the product to produce a MVP.

2) Try to learn more in weekends or go to nearby startup meetup's.

3) Created a plan for the firm and document features/high level design.

4) Try to think positive.

I have found that its very difficult to work/learn after the frustrating office work. Even though I can make time in weekends but most of the time I just cant concentrate.

I tried a lot but seems like unless you have proper state of Mind you cant do good coding. So creating a MVP is not possible :(

Have you come across this kind of phase where you know you are stuck but cant get out from that due to fear of what happens next ?

Please advise me regarding this.
I think the easy solution here would be to adjust your wording a little on the landing page to tell me I'm signing up to hear more information and be informed when it launches - not that I'm signing up to "get started". You have saved my email I gave you so you can keep me updated right? That's not clear in your text either but you really should be doing it and letting people know that you are.

In terms of feedback, well I tried to sign up so I guess that tells you I liked it a lot, can you elaborate on how far along it actually is? Are the various screenshots current development status or are they just mockups at the moment? Your blog only has one post and it just shows a photo of a laptop on this landing page. I'm not a big fan of the tagline, it seems really convoluted - reusable checklists for teams is much closer to what it should be I think. Also I spotted a small typo, "Create beautiful and simple checklists that is easy to maintain and...", is should be are. :)

You should put a sign up button under each of the package options too, and use your analytics to see where people sign up. But really, most importantly, your website tells me your product is ready to get started with, I tried and now I don't know where in the process of being built it is. I really suggest clearing it up. :)
I believe you can teach anyone with an IQ over 100 to be proficient at anything, if they have enough time and interest.
Yes. Berkeley in particular was a hotspot of 1960s hippiedom and later hackerdom (there's a reason it's BSD Unix).

Read about Stewart Brand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand

He was influential in the hippie counterculture, and later one of the early online communities, The WELL ("Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link").

More here: http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415_chap4.html
Last time I tried it it ran an old version of Firefox (version 3.something) but if you downloaded Firefox stable it would not even install. I think having a working web browser should be the most important point of the project. Overall I'm a supporter of the idea.
If this were truly a concern, the trivial solution is to have tiered pricing which steps up the price of water after the "essential" quantity has been dispensed. This could be implemented as a yearly rebate.
That's true, it does depend on the company type, LLC, Sole Proprietorship, etc. Thanks for pointing that out as I completely forgot about the pros and cons that comes with each.
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Does it? I don't see what sort of changes fracking has had on our foreign policy? I cannot think of a SINGLE foreign policy that has changed now that we've begun fracking.
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Heh, you're the first person I meet who advocates dropping the parens around the sizeof argument in any situation. That does look terribly alien to me.
I'm not much of an economist but isn't NASA's budget a drop in the bucket compared to what the United States spent on maintaining and improving its Navy fleet in 2009? Some quick checks of the Wikipedia pages for both budgets show that US military spending dwarfs NASA spending. I'm curious why this article seems to think that NASA is "too expensive," and needs to justify such a cost.

The European aristocracy fueled explorations far and wide, killed many more people, and now a large percentage of humans travel around the world daily. If we sent more people to space far and wide would it not follow the same pattern if something eventually came of it? I'm not sure that anyone knew the early explorers would come back with boats filled with gold and precious resources but perhaps we will come back with ships filled with rare elements, minerals and gasses.

I found this article to be rather pessimistic. I realize that military spending is a necessity so long as our geo-political situation continues to remain unstable. However it seems to my uneducated view of the subject that the US could cut a good fraction of its military spending, continue to dominate in conventional warfare and reduce the cost of space exploration greatly in the long term.

Maybe someone who knows more about it can enlighten me. I, like many, get wide-eyed when I think of space and dream, hopelessly, of one day experiencing it for myself.
Things like best practices become more important the larger the team. Are you suggesting the project would have been more successful if they had been less concerned about code organization and unit testing (or whatever you mean by "best practices")?
Does anyone know why or where the negative bias comes from?
Since this is affiliated with a government agency and aimed at the general public, my main concern is that the material will be completely insubstantial.
The article says far more water is being used by agriculture. Probably not a good idea to have agriculture, which consumes vast amounts of water, in regions where there are water shortages. Alternatively, the nation does need lower cost oil and gas and the fracking should be encouraged.
When Amazon competes with itself the software side tends to lose. In my experience the Kindle App has been lackluster, which is surprising considering Amazon's development of the kindle and assumed book-loving internal culture (maybe that's not there anymore?). Stanza is good but was bought by Amazon and (again, from what I saw) nothing was done with it.

Prime Video is great on iOS but has a very very odd lack of presence on Android, despite being available on the Kindle Fire.

Kindle HD/HDX devices are unable to install apps from the Google Play store without rooting or other technical workarounds.

My point with these is that there appears to be a history of Amazon acting in favor of their own platforms and applying a strategy that encourages users to "buy in" to more Amazon.

Amazon's video game digital delivery service has proven to be price-competitive with Steam, but downloading games directly from Amazon is a bare-bones affair.

If Amazon wants to own more of the living room I'm guessing that:

- They will want to get out of the business of being a Steam key reseller if they have their own console

- Seeing as they've acquired a game developer it's plausible they produce content that is available only in the Amazon app store and not Google play. Over time this may become Amazon-console exclusive as well.

- Prime Video will continue to be offered on other platforms but will get less attention over time in favor of adding features to a Amazon-console version of Prime Video (I am honestly surprised that the iOS version is so good)

As far as pricing and ads, I would expect to see a dashboard with heavy tie ins to Prime Video and Amazon's App Store. Maybe even allow purchasing of merchandise related to the media you're consuming (just watched Transformers? Buy a t-shirt or play the video game now!). I'd like to see a price less than $300 - a Kindle HDX 7" 64GB Wifi is $300, if you omit the screen and battery and add more storage (I don't know the cogs of those things) you might be able to stay under that.
Were you hoping someone would be proud of your snark while missing the point?
Very nicely put, and describes the difference between people who can excel in a corporate environment (resourceful, adaptive, survivalists) and the risk takers that go out to build stuff just because they feel it needs to be built.
I got the idea from python and I use repeating double quotes ( " ) or chevrons ( > ) to demarcate the quoted text without spoiling the quotes within the text. It just feels cleaner in a way.
Let me get this straight: sending a man to the moon was an obvious waste of money?
A bit late to the party, but this seems relevant:

"[W]hy do we have an <img> element? Why not an <icon> element? Or an <include> element? Why not a hyperlink with an include attribute, or some combination of rel values? Why an <img> element? Quite simply, because Marc Andreessen shipped one, and shipping code wins."

http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html
Nice tutorial! I like project euler, but there's a point after the first bunch of problems when you need to learn more about math (such as the chinese remainder theorem), than you need to learn about the language. That's great and all, but I think there are other resources to continue your progression with the language.

If you still like the project euler format, maybe try exercism.io
I'd rather use their resources now, and save ours for later ;)
[...] safely launch and drop a nuclear warhead into the other party's major cities, [...]

For those not aware, the Saturn launch vehicle series was the first to not explicitly be based on missile technology. The Redstone, Atlas, and Titan series were primarily developed for launching ballistic missiles and then adapted for scientific purposes.

The Shuttle too, was intended for DoD launches, and was used for a few of them.
Who says residential uses have to follow that trend?

Residential use (outside of public works) is typically trivial, so could stay with its existing model.

Industrial use in contrast is much different so is a more interesting thing to model.
I agree with your thought about properly updated device. I simply don't believe that more than 5% of people (making up a number) have all of their devices properly updated, so this type of report is a fair warning to all.
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The lack of positive news?
No offence, that's a somewhat classical rant of a French who left 5 years ago ;) Actually France is changing. Regulation is becoming easier to deal with, people are more and more entrepreneurs-friendly, etc. This very article proves it.
I agree with you concerning the waste of talent in SSII but that too is evolving. Give France some time!
I thought it was clear that those attacks are happening ever since LulzSec was taken down by embedding operative wannabe on IRC.
this video is full of FUD..

that being said, it is trivial for a nation state to do automatic JS injection to the DOM using carrier grade MITM packet manipulation on any user-agent or cookies with en_us locale strings leaving a particular telecom provider. We now know this is standard practice even by western countries to foreigners.

Standard level of paranoia should apply if your concerned about privacy regardless if your in Sochi or Starbucks cafe in Cleveland.
I don't know what fish is. Is it this?

http://ultrx.net/doc/fish/
>>I highly doubt that a properly updated device being used to browse legitimate websites will be "hacked within minutes" as this sensationalized report claims.

I can think of a number of ways to accomplish this just from your vague description. Some of them aren't even technical. Never let your imagination limit you to what "can be," it's a false horizon.
I agree rags, especially liberal-outraging-stoking ones like the Atlantic trump up the details to scare everyone into anxiety for control and profit.

And I would totally buy the explanation of drunk dumbass. The only thing that suggests something more sinister is that the attack was preceded by someone entering a vault and cutting telephone wires.

That suggests to me more of a "probing" to see just how secure these facilities are. With that in mind, it might not be an actual terrorist cell, but some big agency testing out the response of others. Speculation, but it makes sense for the FBI to look deeper into this.
weren't they payed with tax money to build the infrastructure?
Alternatively, people who have trouble being motivated by something boring are diagnosed with ADHD. But no, let's instead use the explanation which is very complicated and sounds big but is hard to falsify.
They're also doing a kickstarter for Thorium Core:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cl...

"Thorium Core is an attempt to build a commercial operating system and cloud services platform, based on ReactOS, which is an Open Source implementation of the NT architecture seen in modern versions of Windows."
There is a top paid, and a top grossing, overall and by category, on both iTunes and the Play Store. I don't know what the metric for "top paid" is (though comparing downloads/ratings and price/IAP, it, too, seems to be by gross and not counts, or some combination of the two), but top grossing would very much benefit from this scheme.
I wish ISPs business where completely out of the content business.

Slowing competing content could be justified as a "fiduciary duty", yet it's much simpler than that: Gatekeepers and highwaymen, extracting private taxes on content they did not create.
Thorough debunking: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1x2t3j/all_visitors_...
Fair enough, but if you aren't worried about energy you shouldn't be very worried about water.
"Are you one of those people without emotions? It's OK, I was too for a long time."

Haha. Healthy people have emotions for reasons. If you don't introspect about why you are happy, sad, content, enraged, or depressed, you will have less information about how well you are living your life according to your own standards.

"It's much more central than anything about "achieving" your goals."

It's not clear to me how something could be more central than goals, so I don't think we're using the term "goal" in the same way.

"You have to be more well-rounded than just focusing on your goals."

Why would you want to be well-rounded?

That answer you just thought of? It's a goal.
Yes, NASA is pitifully small, even measured as a slice of the non-defense, discretionary spending pie. That doesn't stop politicians from focusing on it, however...
The pretentiousness of HN amazes me. It's incorrect syntax, mind you; Python isn't English.
I really like the idea of ReactOS in concept, so I'd pitch in if their Kickstarter wasn't so blatantly what I didn't want. Cloud services? Come on.
It is always possible that one wants to have done something, but does not wish to actually be doing it. So one has difficulty starting, and if one starts one has difficulty following through, but one still keeps trying to start. Or, better yet, starts doing other things which don't really cause forward progress but which seem like they might eventually - like reading motivation books
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Isn't there two paid top lists? Grossing; based on how much it earned, and regular, just based on popularity with the requirement that its a paid app.
There is gridcoin [1], but it is just using standard mining software for litecoin, then checking to see if you're running the BIONC program, and giving you extra credit. I believe that the minute it gets popular, people will fake running the BIONC software. We need something where the proof of work is intimately tied to the actual BIONC calculations.

[1] http://www.gridcoin.us/
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The official explanation is that a few people complained to Apple that they'd been "tricked" by the app. (Because somehow, paying $9.99 for a glowing gem is a more rational purchase.)

There was nothing technically deceptive about the app or its marketing. It was banned largely out of what I presume was a "broken window theory" approach to store curation: let stupid apps live, and more stupid apps will show up. I am not sure if I agree with the call that was made, but I understand the rationale behind it.
I was virtually in tears watching "Hunted" on UK Channel 4 last night. There's a great many things to love about Russia, but as a obvious data point I would be entirely scared to set foot in that country if I were LGBT.
Permanently expanding the human race into space is "an obvious waste of money"? I think you need to justify that.
You just need to look at history a little to see where the bias comes from. The Cold War lives on.
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When I was about 15 our teacher was supposed to give a 30 min class on programming but knew nothing about it so I stood up and taught a bit along the lines of

10 INPUT "Name",N$
20 FOR X=1 to 10
30 PRINT N$;" is an idiot"
40 NEXT

which was quite a hit with my fellow teens. Sophisticated stuff eh?
AFAIK, it'll try to copy it all. However, the practice is to separate content in a number of folders and sync only certain folders on certain devices. Slightly different approach than Dropbox, but works OK.
The idea of something being truly random bothers me because it goes against cause and effect. An effect happened without a cause. It violates laws of conservation, entropy, determinism, and a lot of other things.
If you control the communications network it would be simple to substitute a file within a non-encrypted session.
Avoiding any televised segment that NBC...hell, any of the 3 major broadcast networks should be a rule of thumb for anyone. They're always filled with dumbed-down, sensationalist horseshit riddled with out-of-context soundbytes and talking heads. Wouldn't be a stretch to call it a variant of modern day yellow journalism.
>Apple swung the ban hammer.

Does this mean the developers got to keep their money or not?
I'd say it most likely has to do with the history of US and Russia relations painting perceptions of Russia. But I've definitely noticed a fairly deliberate effort from some sources to paint the absolute worst picture of Sochi.

For example there was a popular Reddit thread in which one person was publicizing lots of pictures of the trashiest, roughest, most under construction areas of the city. Another Reddit poster claiming to actually live there followed up with a response full of his own pictures of nice areas criticizing the OP for cherry picking specific pictures to make Sochi look bad.

But frankly between the stray dog killings, the seemingly rough state of hotels as publicized by Olympic journalists, this hacking scare, and Russia's vehemently anti LGBT policies there is a lot to criticize about Russia and not as much for the social and news media to praise.
Is there any interest in a Chrome plugin that would passively report anonymized download speed for things like YouTube or Amazon? I can imagine that kind of info would be useful.
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