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Ask HN: how you successfully quit your full-time job?
So you just managed to quit your full-time job to focus entirely on that project, business or idea. You have had no regrets so far. The question is how did you manage?

1. My story (why I need to learn from you)

I am employed and I get a monthly salary less than $500 and my contract has no other benefits such as gratuity, health, education or anything. Meanwhile I am able to make on average $600 monthly on small web designing projects (thanks to WordPress)despite spending a lot of time at work.

2. My challenge

For the past few months I have been having sleepless nights thinking its time to quit my job and focus on building a small business around my part-time web designing projects. I have tried to do both (full-time job and part-time business) and its not working for me.

3. Your Advice
Just a little background the paper itself doesn't provide:

The 3-d modeling and rotation is building on the work Yaniv did as part of Face.com (face recognition startup), which was acquired by Facebook.com. Studied here: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html

Also Marc'Aurelio was just hired away from Google and is a deep learning expert.
Crazy. It's 49€ in France
This is cool, I'll be sharing it with a bunch of people. But you might want to share the demo link https://www.useslate.com/use so that people instantly try it out. Not so much explanation on that page to make them bite though.
If you like jazz, check out "Brink of Time." It's a CD of jazz (well, more like acid jazz) remixes of Chrono Trigger's music. It was composed by the original composer, Yasunori Mitsuda. There are some tracks I'm not that fond of, but overall it's a great listen.
Besides Kickstarter, there is a company that is very successfully doing this in the tabletop role-playing game industry. The patron model is viable, as long as you diversify your patrons. It's not really all that different from the freelance coder lifestyle.
Let's file that under paranoia since we're in no position to impose our "values" on the rest of the galaxy. ;)
Wow, that's great. In France and Germany it's 49€
Liechtenstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
I once heard a definition that you are not really competent in a foreign language until you're able to solve crosswords in it. This principle is obviously tongue-in-cheek, but there's much truth to it in my opinion.
that's not really the point of a slideshow though.

if you're trying to sell a pig, no amount of lipstick is going to disguise the fact that you are trying to sell a pig.
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My native language is Polish too. I wouldn't be 100% sure that this guy is a fake. Polish is indeed a hard language - pronunciation is tricky and there is a lot of conjugation struggle to get through (even names are changing suffixes dependently on context).

What I think happens on the video is that the guy has a list of different phrases/words (prepared for this particular situation) and maybe some pronunciation notes. That's ok, I would do exactly the same. You just cannot memorize all the necessary core words in one hour but you can use them easily if you have a reference material (plus you keep the conversation going and practice more).

He does standard mispronunciations that every non-native Polish speaker does at the beginning. However, you can hear that when the lady replies in Polish, there is nothing to indicate that he actually understood what she said. He gets the questions after she gives him some hints in English. If he was preparing just for an hour for this skype call it is certainly an excellent starting point.
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They shouldn't even have a profit margin, they pay no tax inside the UK.
I actually live in Nottingham, UK.

Here there's dev meetups, Second Wednesday, Notts Tuesday and probably more regular events I don't even know about.

I've talked and worked with a lot of developers round here now as well as interviewed with a fair few companies and done their technical tests and talked to their lead developers.

A lot of them write better code than I've seen in the github repos of Californian 'rockstars'. And yes, there's plenty of bad code too, out-dated practices, people asking me if I know VB.Net. And yes one of the companies I worked at (oh so briefly) had terrible code.

No different from the Californian mecca I imagine. Do you think that only good developers go to SV. There's no magic forcefield keeping bad developers out of California. In fact because SV is so desperate you might even argue they probably have a lower average standard.

There's plenty of shipping, successful products coming out of this city and successful IT Teams working for other industries. And bad ones.
While it's not a recent game (1999), a PC game that has an incredibly deep and philosophical story is Planescape: Torment. You can get it off of GOG; there's also a spiritual successor in the works.
A very small one.
Does this have to do with the size of the country? 2 day shipments have to be easier to do within Italy than the continental United States.
Thank you for posting that. I can now use my mouse wheel on my mac to scroll through documents in vim.

I can also SSH into a Linux box from my mac and the mouse wheel works in the same way.
Yeah I know. We've tried to talk to some and have them on as contractors, but some did not want that (since that would have caused issues for them). Plus being from Europe, we really like to give our employees health care, vacation and all the nice benefits of an employee ;-)
I can't understand the idea of paying for shipping (whether it's annual or per-shipment) when there's an option to get it for free. If I decided I couldn't wait a few extra days to get the things I order, I feel I'd be crossing a line of giving in too much to consumerism. Taking away impulse buying is one of the better things about shopping online.

And the streaming services combined don't match what I get with cable, so I found Prime hard to justify at the previous price point.
Thanks for the primary source. Can't wait for the rehashed news story from the conglomerate media.
For a heavy amazon user such as myself, not much difference. Still very happy to continue using amazon. The math is simple. We probably have 5-10 shipments on average a month coming in. Most of it is for our kids (newborn/1 year) and includes subscriptions for milk, diapers etc. Just recently, my wife added another subscription for stuff like toilet paper, napkins. Without amazon prime, you might end up paying $3-5 on average. So that's almost $30-50 per month. So over a year, you might pay almost $500 in shipping if you use amazon like we do. So really a no-brainer. Not to mention the super fast shipping (many times next day) and hassle free returns for the most part.

I hate driving to a store just to buy household items that require no brain or thought process. Actually wait, I lied. I have even bought my TV, computer desk on amazon recently. So our visit to the "stores" is now pretty much limited to grocery. If I could, would buy everything online. Thanks Amazon Prime, you have a long term member. Please continue to do the great things that you do. Really waiting for the amazon grocery delivery service /fanboy

EDIT: I got curious and checked my last 6 months order history [0]. We had 73 orders in just last 6 months. For entire 2013, we had 85 orders.

[0] http://imgur.com/5IvQtQG
€14.95 in Spain http://www.amazon.es/gp/prime
Heh, my employment agreement gives me a lot of freedom to do "whatever" since I negotiated that initially due to some ongoing contracting support I needed to provide.

I've always viewed the blog->consulting path as sort of an underwear gnomes problem.
Step 1: Blog about X
Step 2: ???
Step 3: PROFIT!(consult!)

The time and knowledge necessary to successfully build a web audience are non-trivial when you lack a pre-existing public persona or a measurable marketing budget.
Now this is being denied:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-13/malaysia-airlines-mh37...

The same happened with the reports of the radar capturing it drastically off-course. First it looked like a sure thing, and then it was eventually completely denied. Perhaps that's just a symptom of such an intensely-analyzed ongoing news story, though.

I do feel a bit sorry for the Malaysian government. They don't get to control what the media prints, but are expected to immediately confirm/deny everything (difficult with the volume of reports they are likely dealing with!), and to some extent get chastised when the media prints stuff that later gets busted.
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I live in Poland. There's a lot of Mormon missionaries coming here, mostly Americans (but not exclusively). I have to say that I am very impressed by their command of Polish. As far as I know, they only attend a 3 months course prior to leaving their home country. And they're really fluent. Motivation?
Give me a break. Think about what you are saying and how and to who you are saying it.
As SpikeGronim mentioned, they are operating at a very small profit. Investors are starting to get wary about it so they need to do something to increase those numbers.

Financial Info.
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&fstype=ii&ei=...
I don't have any relevant experience, but I would recommend accumulating a sum of money which will let you live while looking for free-lance for about 6 month.
I feel for the guy, I wouldn't wish his position on anybody. But reading that list, I can't help but think he needs to learn how to sacrifice a bit.

I get that he wants to take care of his finances and spend time with his family. But everything that he listed can be done for 1/5th of the cost. Get cremated, travel by bus, put everybody up in a 1 bed motel room, etc.
I've been paying for Prime for a couple years (and will continue at $99/year), but I couldn't care less about the video. If there were a shipping-only Prime for $79, I wouldn't think twice about dropping the video.
Incredibly, it's 49 EUR (41 GBP) in Germany -- that's after the price hike/LoveFilm inclusion. Half that amount for students.

Still not worth it for me, everything I buy from Amazon tends to be eligible for free shipping anyway. And as far as I know their streaming service doesn't stock videos in their native languages, so it's practically worthless to me.
Google Webmaster Tools' "Fetch as googlebot" feature is useful in debugging these problems.

See http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/fetch-as-googlebot-tool-hacked...
Seems like it's in-line with inflation actually. At least according to the site I just checked.

And for someone like me, even $100 a year is a deal as I order from Amazon a LOT.
Incidentally, I have a friend who learned English as a third language exactly this way, playing WoW. He obtained the CAE this way.
I wish more people saw this guy for the snake oil salesman he really is (edit: Ferriss that is).
The quality of this service is hit and miss. Sometimes they use a reliable carrier like UPS, other times they send things via USPS so they can be stolen. With this price increase, and their inability (I've asked multiple times) to determine what carrier they will ship with and ship with a reliable carrier, this has become a liability now that I wish I had not renewed. It's amazing to me that Amazon would ship anything of value with such an unreliable carrier as USPS.
No incorporation was extremely easy and fast.

Its afterwards when the fun begins especially if you are in IT where Revenue might not know how to tax you and you need get a written judgement (So they don't accuse you of not paying taxes).

For example I would love to start a bitcoin related business but afraid of what decision they might make (according to newspaper last week they are still deciding)

Overall starting business here is not too bad, its growing and expanding that is hard, and misconception that Ireland is low tax, it is not nor is it a cheap place to live. Everytime i hear americans complain about sales taxes I say you seen nothing yet :D
Pretty much same here and from what I hear, others feel the same.
> Instead of donating to this guy I'd prefer to advocate for a free health system and a system that doesn't fuck up a family that has had enough bad luck to see its father die.

It doesn't appear that health care costs are a major issue in this scenario. Even with universal healthcare, a dead breadwinner is going to significantly impact a family's financial situation.
Actually I would far rather be a Physics PhD, but academia does not accomodate my mental illness of Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder in the way self-employed Software Consulting does:

=== http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

I regard the Computer Industry as much the same kind of Den of Iniquity as Iesu regarded the Money Changer-Infested Temple.

Really I would rather have nothing to do with computers but I must pay the rent somehow.

All I ever wanted was to create something of real lasting value that I would leave behind after I'm gone.

When I attended the Portland Startup Weekend a couple years ago, some Cute Young Thang pitched an iOS App that would help her make new friends by hooking up with nearby strangers who were running that same App.

I can really see how a sexual predator would really get into that.

Some other guy pitched an App that would help him try out new kinds of beer.

I was at the time easily twice the age of everyone else in attendance, even the Startup Weekend Staff. They were all wearing blue jeans, t-shirts and sneakers, I was wearing a medium grey pinstripe suite, a pale blue polka-dot tie and black leather dress shoes.

I was very tired as I had not slept in days so I was unable to give my full pitch as I had rehearsed it, but more or less:

"Why are you even in this business? What are you going to leave behind for your loved ones when you're gone?"

"Will any of the code you write this weekend still be in use ten thousand years from now?"

I pitched my proposal for an automated free website critique tool, that enable most web designers to fix the most common mistakes, but meant to make some coin through paid, more in-depth critiques as well as web design, website operation and SEO consulting.

I have known very well that I have been in the wrong line of work for over twenty years yet I cannot seem to find my way out.

I may know how to get out of coding now though but it remains to be seen.
Some of us toil away in the mines using Java EE (and even Glassfish in production, in my case) but read HN because we dream of a better life.
Everyone keeps saying this. Where can you spend 10-20 bucks a month and get 100-200k coverage? I pay way more than that for like 50k coverage and I got the plane when I was 23.
Node’s new leader explains why version 0.12 will blow developers’ minds
Spot on ;-)
Thank you for posting this.

It is sad that we all think we are entitled to a piece of the earth for eternity. Not only is it a huge waste of money but a huge waste of land. If everyone who ever lived had a marked grave reserved for them forever, there would be no land left for the people who are living right now.

It is the ultimate sense of entitlement.

By the way caskets cost like 5 grand or something too. I was there when we were picking one out for my grandma I think that was the price of hers and it was on the cheaper side. My grandma pre bought her plot, but it still cost 10 grand to do a funeral that really wasn't elaborate or anything, mainly the basic stuff. If it were up to just me, things would have been different.
I'm considering whether it's worth it. I thought that, for orders over $25, shipping was free anyway. With the amount of ordering you do, wouldn't there be little advantage to having Prime, especially if you tried to aggregate your items?
Many times next day is right. Amazon has no reservations with speed. Even if you say 2-day, it might be there the next day.
Slightly offtopic: I live in a city in Brazil whose heritage is basically german so I know a lot of people trying to learn german here. A particular friend of mine used to work for an IT german company and went to Germany a couple of times and he said every time he tried to speak their language they'd frown at him or feel like "conversation's not flowing" and switch to english. Other friends living in Germany (Stuttgart, Munich, Berlin) and also in Switzerland (Zurich) said the same happens to them with some frequency. I never heard about it happening with other languages or in other countries, so why is that? Any germans out there care to comment on this?

Edit: just to make it clear, this is purely out of linguistic curiosity
He only picked up bits and pieces. A Polish native speaker myself, I think it's entirely believable.

Creating an impression of language fluency out of a very limited set of words and phrases is a talent in its own right.

It certainly has an element of deception to it :) but he can still be legit in the sense that you mean.

Polish pronunciation is notoriously difficult, but once you can make yourself understood, pronunciation is of secondary importance. There's a lot of people with a near-native command of foreign language with accent as thick as mud.
But with far fewer people living there.
Yeah, I can't quite figure that out. Is their kindle business really so valuable that they are willing to cannibalize their media services?

Just doesn't seem to make sense to race for device adoption in a world where everybody else seems to be racing for broader platform adoption.

I guess I've never been all that impressed with their offering in this area though, especially video, so maybe they're simply recognizing that it isn't as valuable.
I walked 113 miles (182 km) of the South West Coast Path in Cornwall, England. That took "only" 9 days, but it was enough that when I arrived in a decent-size town after a week of walking, I felt a sort of vertigo simply from being around so many people, shops, and all the rest. A week spent just walking (and eating full English breakfast every single day) was enough to feel something really different.

I highly recommend ultra-long walks, and the South West Coast Path (600 miles and two months to do the whole thing). There's nothing quite like it.
HercuLeS high-level synthesis overview
HercuLeS is an extensible HLS environment that allows pluggable analyses and optimizations. It can be used for push-button synthesis from ANSI C and other source languages to custom hardware.

HercuLeS confronts shortcomings and omissions of current HLS flows such as the lack of extensibility, the use of opaque intermediate representations (IRs), and vendor- and technology-dependent HDL code generation. In contrast to rival HLS tools, HercuLeS uses open specifications throughout the HLS process. It exposes both its bit-accurate, typed-assembly IR named NAC (N-Address Code) and a low-level Graphviz-based IR for third-party interfacing of new frontends, analyses and optimizations.

I am the sole developer of HercuLeS so AMA :)
Efficient way to search a stream for a string?
This has nothing, or very little, to do with healthcare costs. This guy has a lot of debt that he took out before the cancer.
For most cases the underlying architecture doesn't really matter. "As useful as a simulator" is also quite a high standard for Android, seeing as there is no simulator available.
HercuLeS HLS manual
The HercuLeS HLS manual, automatically generated from the corresponding RestructuredText source.
I take it you live in a city. I'm guessing because I've learned that even educated city-folk really have no fucking clue what goes on a mere 15 miles out of their city limits.

You could--today, right now, right this very minute--probably get somewhere in less than an hour where people are farming in the countryside, biking around, etc. You could get out there and see it and be back in time for lunch.

I live in one of the most expensive, overpopulated regions of the United States, and taking an hour drive west--with most of that hour being dealing with traffic just to get past the first 10 miles--and be in gorgeous, rural countryside with hills and trees and beautiful fields and streams and animals everywhere.

Or I could even stay home. I could walk down one of the hundreds of streets I've never walked down before. And it will most likely be a veritable smorgasbord of new experiences.

Just because you've parked your butt in one place for a while doesn't mean you know everything about it. Geography is a dense place.
It certainly makes you confident that insurance company will take care of everything when you die. But are you really sure? Did you check the fine print? What if your death is 'because of age' or 'because riding a bicycle is a dangerous activity'?
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If I decided I couldn't wait a few extra days to get the things I order, I feel I'd be crossing a line of giving in too much to consumerism.

What about when, you know, you need something urgently? Last time I took a long trip I ordered a backup battery for my cellphone three days before I left. It was either use Amazon Prime or go to a store and pay twice as much.
Yep I do some work on the MSX 2 and help with games and applications on it. It's great stuff and I really like the look and feel of the real machines (although the actual development, or at least most of it is much easier on emulators because of the many many reboots when coding in asm).
Turn of a century.
On Google’s Future. Part 1
And this is why Li-ion batteries are no longer allowed in checked bags.
How about token startup: all English speakers, cloud based businesses, sass, no inventory, both business owners US citizens?
https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/life/term-life

(For example)

The numbers are particular for a young woman in Illinois, but it won't be egregiously higher for young men.
Based on language classes I've taken very few students have decent study methods and the teaching methods are very archaic. The pace kept is glacial.
And god forbid, the 180% registration tax on vehicles (basicly any type of vehicle becomes twice as expensive)

PS. Electric vehicles are an exception, making the Tesla very cheap in terms of premium cars (think Mercedes-Benz S class, BMW 7-series)
No, we were just hoping to prevent creeps like facebook from using it to tailor advertising.
Still worth it to me. The quick free shipping is great and the streaming educational kid's tv is a godsend. Plus for a family there are considerably more packages coming down (tools, toys, etc.).

Seems like they crunched the numbers and realized that if $79 was worthwhile, $99 would be too. Those who wouldn't find $99 worthwhile probably wouldn't be using it anyway.

Still do think customers should be grandfathered when at all possible.
In Germany it used to be less and was only just increased - due to the addition of the media services (Prime Instant Video or whatever it is called).

I'd guess that Italy doesn't offer access to that so far, so the price difference isn't thaaaaat big.
I highly recommend long hikes/walks as a method of realigning yourself (and improving health).

For my father's 60th birthday, we hiked the 270 miles of the Long Trail. It was a grueling experience at first, but one of the best things I've ever done. We became much closer afterwards, and I lost about 40 lbs.
The secret to holding your breath for 20 minutes
Yes, but it had an 8088, not an 8080.
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This feels like advertising.
¥3,900 (38 USD) in Japan, with free same-day delivery (of many items) and no media content included.