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Tell HN: I want out
A few months ago I quit my job to pursue the "bohemian" life style. After reading blog post after blog post of programmers leaving their day jobs and travelling, the idea slowly took over my mind until one day I just did it.

Originally I started my company with a very close friend, and it was great. We decided we can't be cold calling all day and getting contracts, so we brought a business guy.

It's been three months now, we have employees, many clients, and my phone is going off with texts every 5 seconds.

I have never felt so much anxiety in my life. This is the direct opposite of what my goal was. I don't want employees. Or a company. At all.

If I leave, everyone will hate me. I was the one that painted the vision, the direction, did most of the work. I just want to earn decent money and be able to do what I want to do whenever during the day.

I honestly thought I was super tough and I can take this on. I actually really just want to kill myself. I so

Right now I'm working 14 hour days and everyone gets mad when someone tries to leave while the others are working. There is no FREEDOM. The whole point of this venture WAS FREEDOM. Beers at 2pm? Sure! Not "um we have 8 pages left to design for tomorrow, nobody is going anywhere" says one of the developers. This attitude, day in, day out. Always something to do, always due tomorrow. I don't have the spine to delay my clients or deliver anything less than perfect and it's breaking me. My developers don't want to do anything besides work, which I mean is fucking great, but this is the flip side.

I can't ditch my clients, my business partners, my friends, my employees. I don't know how to get out. I so furiously pitched my friends to start this company, I brought them ALL into this. I hired everyone, I convinced them to jump ship from their jobs and work with me. If I bail now, every word I said, anything I did, will mean nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

On August 28, 1992, the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's verdict and ruled that Accolade's decompilation of the Sega software constituted fair use. The court's written opinion followed on October 20 and noted that the use of the software was non-exploitative, despite being commercial,and that the trademark infringement, being required by the TMSS for a Genesis game to run on the system, was inadvertently triggered by a fair use act and the fault of Sega for causing false labeling.
For enough money, I'm willing to bet anyone will "suck it up"
Now I think you don't understand quantum computing as well as you claim. The standard model of quantum computing uses complex numbers, but it is well known that you can do everything with just real numbers instead. See exercise 10.4-10.5 of Arora-Barak [1]. The key insight in quantum computing is not that complex numbers are required, but that the invariant across computation is the 2-norm of a vector (as opposed to the 1-norm, as in the classic stochastic model of randomized computation).

Further, the standard quantum model of computation is probabilistic in the sense that you "compute" something if your program outputs the right answer with probability at least 2/3. But 2/3 is not special, you just need it to be some probability bounded away from 1/2, in the sense that it can't get closer and closer to 1/2 as the input size grows.

So it's certainly plausible that you could take advantage of this to reduce the precision enough to get to the size bound Lipton mentioned, especially if, as implied, you had the might of a hundred Google engineers working on it. And the guy is so freaking smart and experienced in theoretical computer science that chances are he thought of all this and considered it not interesting enough to spell out for the people who will say "well actually."

[1]: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/complexity/
This is an interesting move for China, and more than simply because it could put an airstrip on the new island eventually. International law treats islands differently from mere rocks and shoals.

By creating a new island, China could plausibly create a new bubble of Chinese sovereignty where none previously existed to help with the rest of its claims in the South China Sea.

It's all a very aggressive kind of diplomacy, something which the Chinese themselves liken back to American "Monroe Doctrine" activities in the Caribbean during the mid to late 19th century. I hope it doesn't take the Chinese as long America did to figure out that regional hegemony can be more effectively achieved by not trying to redraw lines of sovereignty and thereby inflaming nationalism.
Q: What's wrong with this picture? A: Everything
It's probably incorrect to assume there's a single group with a single explanation on the subject.

There are groups that will argue that dating methods assume that we know initial conditions and assume that certain parameters are constants when they may just be drifting more slowly that we can notice over the 100 years or so that we've been able to measure them.

On the other hand, one of my fraternity brothers got religious his senior year, moved into a kosher living space, finished his Physics degree from MIT, and then went to a yeshiva in Israel. Last I heard, he was a rabbi in the Boston suburbs. I think he believed the Universe is billions of years old, but he did tell me that there are some rabbis that will tell you that when God created the first trees that first week, if you drilled into trees, you would find hundreds of rings as if they had been hundreds of years old, and likewise for isotope distributions in rocks, etc. This is much harder to argue against because it makes not falsifiable claims, but fortunately, it's also much less dangerous... it doesn't deny science's ability to forecast the future or contradict our best understanding of how the world currently works.
FWIW, when I do the same in a chrome incognito window, all of the results are ruby (the language) related. But us seeing two different sets of results may make the problem worse, not better :)
How to Fix 3194 error? This method worked for me
Why young white straight guys?

Honest question. Is this an issue at conferences?
That's a good point, and I agree. The situation I'm thinking of is something like, say, you have an object or type called a "Tire". It has width, diameter, weight, price, tread depth, compound, etc. As you work with Tires in your program, you frequently end up having to compare their widths. So you overload the ">" operator to return true if one Tire has greater width than another. Your code ends up festooned with these comparisons.

Flash forward one year, you're long gone, and new developers on your team are left wondering which aspect of a Tire is used in comparisons with ">". Everything works, but it's easy to see how the ambiguity could lead to subtle submarine bugs; incorrect developer assumptions about the behavior of ">" may produce mostly -- coincidentally -- working code.
I am not sure why you are being downvoted, as the author himself first says:

The best research in social psychology is as well-supported as anything in physics or biology, and much more intuitively comprehensible.

And then he follows it up with:

Social psychology experiments in the laboratory tend to throw up spectacular mind-boggling effects. Many of these fail to replicate and are later discredited. The ones that do replicate are not always generalizable – sometimes an even slightly different situation will remove the effect or create exactly the opposite effect. The effects that remain robust in the laboratory may be too short-lasting or too specific to have any importance in real life. And the ones that do matter in real life may respond unpredictably or even paradoxically to attempts to control them.
In corporate software, perhaps. I'm not going to ditch python-ldap just because an ad on a search page had… I don't even know who would advertise on that kind of page. Software consulting maybe? Outsourcing?
Most organizations don't need the top 20% talent to solve their problems to make a profit.
That is of course a perfectly valid question and I'm sorry that you got down-voted for asking it. Indeed it was founded by Microsoft technology enthusiasts (Spolsky et.al.) and implemented with Microsoft technology stack. Possibly for these reasons it was (initially) populated heavily with .NET related questions.
Stow can handle multiple directories in one go. For my powerline config:

vim-powerlinefonts
├── .config
│ └── fontconfig
│ └── conf.d
│ └── 10-powerline-symbols.conf
└── .local
└── share
└── fonts
└── PowerlineSymbols.otf

I just do "stow vim-powerlinefonts" and it creates the directories and symlinks as needed.

For your cp example I would have to do "cp -sr ..." twice and also think about missing directories in the tree, and possibly create them.
My challenge is that in my lab there are so many things that are 'calling' that staying focused is a serious challenge and I end up 'puttering' as my wife calls it. For pure software projects taking just enough to get your programming done to an otherwise pristine environment does wonders (I take a notebook with me camping where I am not distracted).

Hiding things also helps, things in the visual field that you have to work on or are interesting are literal distractions.
That also describes presence at trade shows and conferences.

Quite often those are useless and costly in time and money. Yet companies do it because if they don't and the competitors do then everyone will ask "How come so and so wasn't at the show? Are they have financial issues?" and so on.

So companies spend money on booths and talks without getting much back except to stave off the appearance that something might be wrong.
Just like the comment it was replying to.
Most of the comments here about pickup/dropoff accuracy and large buildings suffer from the same logical flaw: "often" is not the same as "never".

With comprehensive data set of literally 173 million trips, even if we limit ourselves to precise locations in front of small buildings and residences -- let's say it's a paltry 5% -- that's still 8 million trips.

That's more than enough to invade the privacy of a very large number of people.

And that's just the low hanging fruit. With geolocation data you don't always need precise location accuracy or small buildings to see identifying patterns. Don't forget that time is also a very useful factor, and often precise to the minute. E.g. trips departing after 1am within a half-block radius of the only bar in that radius are more likely than not to be patrons. And trips arriving at an apartment building at at particular time may be relatively rare, making it easy to look up the single trip that matches it.

Thus, a neighbor or roommate who saw someone arrive and noted the time (or had a security camera) might be able to deduce the bar that they visited, address or block of the person they're dating, whether they were actually where they said they were... That's one of a zillion scenarios. Precise address-to-address trips are just the low hanging fruit.
I've just finished writing "High Performance Python" for O'Reilly (due August), we have a chapter on Lessons from the Field and one chap talks about his successful many-machine roll out of a complex production system using PyPy for a 2* overall speed gain. We also cover Numba, Cython, profiling, numpy etc - all the topics you'd expect.
This is what I was referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck

http://blog.jessitron.com/2013/04/property-based-testing-wha...
Interesting approach, I can see this being of great use, I will definitely take a closer look. also, nice video- especially the soccer references.
I usually try to go during a scene I've seen online (for example, XMen:DoFP had the airplane scene that was available online well before the movie came out)
Of course they can be, but that's not what we're talking about here. Please read the ancestor comments.
I works very well. In fact, Microsoft has full embraced it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh850437.aspx
If you're familiar with the Harry Potterverse, NEWTS are modeled on O Levels. Perhaps a bit like US Advanced Placement courses and tests, but much more institutionalized, and I gather they're part of how the U.K. university system can get away with 3 year bachelor's degrees.

I once worked with a Jamaican who'd earned several O Levels (Caribbean counties had their own versions of them modeled on the British system), he was very smart and productive (and like many other good EEs had his own MOSIS chip to flash).

Hearing someone got 5 O Levels immediately causes my talent antennae to twitch ^_^, and I'm not surprised he picked up FORTRAN easily (then again, I found it very easy to learn starting a couple of years earlier than walshemj, and I'll bet with quite a bit less mathematical maturity, just Algebra I and Geometry, with concurrent Algebra II, but all taught by very good to excellent teachers).
First Glimpse Inside Halsey Minor’s New Payments Platform Bitreserve
Last I used it, they pushed an update that completely broke the app, because the performance was so bad. I loved it before, but the ratings suggest it's still bricked, so let someone buy the app, before you do.
...almost no room for ambiguity and subtle, invisible side effects. What you see is what you get. [emphasis mine]

The key word there is "almost." C does have lots of undefined behaviors.
Please elaborate; I would like to know more about this incident.
Denver's tax on web and app development draws ire from software execs
Here on HN, we would rather fully understand and rationally discuss the publishers claims rather than taking their conclusion as final word solely based on the Forbes name.
Thats what we do. We give HR a spec, they handle talking to recruiters etc.

We get a stack of CVs. We break them into a pile that sound OK and we give each a telephone interview.

If the telephone interview sounds good we send them a scenario that should take a couple of hours, we have a few tailored for different specialities. If we get a good sample back from them we move onto face to face.

Face to face tends to be about an hour with a couple of senior developers and a more management type.

Seems to work well so far.
It's unfortunate that, as a person interested in puzzles, I've seen almost all of the common tests for rationality, lack of bias, etc., etc. So I have little to no way to assess whether I would pass these tests, because, for example, I first saw the "A bat and ball together cost $1.10. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?" puzzle when I was in grade school.

Has anyone published research-level assessments that I didn't see decades ago?
It trades it for the problem: convince people to pair program.
The simple answer is, have them sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement). That protects your idea.

But, again, if you can't afford to enforce it, then there's not a lot of point in doing the paperwork. And, many developers (and designers) won't sign NDAs just for discussions.

In reality, most freelance developers have more work than they can handle, and pick and choose their projects, and aren't going to steal anyone's idea because then they have to program without getting paid, and it would ruin their professional reputation.

But, if you can't afford to pay market rates to reputable developers, then you're looking for a co-founder to pay in equity or profit sharing. Again, now you're back to trust and respect.

If your idea is so simple that a skilled but unscrupulous developer could go off and immediately clone it and make all the money you were going make, then your idea wasn't very original, and there will be lots of other competitors in the market in a few days anyway.

Your goal, with doing all that research up front, before you ever talk to a developer, is to understand exactly how unique your app will be, and impress the developer that not only is the idea a good one, but working with you, with all your experience and knowledge, is the best way to develop it.
Can I combine data from multiple profiles in one report? That would be huge for people like me with multiple products/domains.
Agreed, as a go-to guy in the office, I often feel the same way.

One thing I've noticed is that even if people don't actually interrupt me, the expectation that they might at any minute prevents me from fully concentrating on the task. Having some sign to indicate that for the next, say, 30m I
should not be interrupted, and having people respect that, would probably help significantly.

On the other hand, the fact that people are constantly needing me is partially my fault, since there's stuff I could empower them to do by themselves with a little automation.
I think they do a good job via product placement in movies and shows. Sometimes they are in "historic" or period pieces. I mean the ones create today by portraying historical periods. Sometimes there is what seems like a deliberate advertising or showing off someone lighting up. Sometimes it is cool villains so it works on a more subtle level "Oh see we are only show bad guys smoking, so we are dissuading young people to smoke".
I have CFRD (Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes) and even if I make it through an entire movie, I'm usually just toughing it out, really not enjoying the movie.
Lets Make a Metrics Beacon
> Note that the little-o means strictly less, whereas big-O means less than or equal to.

Aaahhh! Please don't say that when you're clarifying a technical point about theory!

Besides, it's explicitly stated in that article that "more powerful" is to be interpreted as P != BQP.
to get proper perspective, be sure to read all of their articles
You unplugged from the Matrix. But the reality is the matrix isn't that bad. Good luck.
The sound and tactile feedback from my model-m and my instant flow CD (the lne I always listen to) is combined into a unbelivable nice feeling when I lift my fingers from the keybord after 45 minutes of coding.

The ahhhhh is like no else.
Google has never given you all 18 million or whatever results that it says it has for a term. If you look at just mars (no quotes), it says (for me, not signed in) there are 211,000,000 results, but the results only go to page 26 with the same kind of message:

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 260 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."

even though obviously there are more results that aren't "very similar" to the 260 that have been displayed.

The assumption has always been that people don't keep clicking through tens of pages of results...they refine their search terms.
The thing with big brand advertising is that they aren't trying to gain new customers. They're cementing their place in existing industry.

Coca Cola pretty much captured as much market as possible. Yet they still advertise to refresh their image.

"Even a great brand needs investment and caring to maintain its relevance and vitality." - Jobs
"Rationality" is overrated. Our lives are not pure economics, thank goodness. A purely rational person would likely not experience any joy or love. But if they were capable of doing so, they wouldn't opt to pursue those things because they would need to spend time doing research into each economic decision they made.
Hey buddy,

What you need is a long vacation. I would recommend you to find the right sub-ordinates/partners to take your place for the time being and plan a 2-3 week trip to a place where you can relax. :)

The whole point of building a company is that different people can do what they are best at and solve a problem. All members of an organization are a cogs in the wheel. They all need to move together to get things done smoothly. Being an entrepreneur has a lot of pressure but when you already have a company set up, with employees, with business people etc, you should focus on building strategies. Delegate more, hire the right people, apply the right management techniques which suit your work culture. It's all about having the right people under you so that you can just lead the company in the right direction.

Trust me, a vacation will have a big influence on you right now and give you a different perspective too :)

Take care and don't take any rash decisions.

- Sumeet
Sounds like the machine is running mostly on it's own now, have you taken a single day or week off yet? It might give you serious relief to step back for a few days and see if it's still there when you come back.

The job at hand isn't killing you, the anxiety is (probably)
A post on Death, Taxes and the FIFA World Cup
Couldn't help but be reminded of Sonata Arctica's song I Want Out.
I'm not sure hyperbolic discounting is all that irrational.

Example from Wikipedia illustrating hyperbolic discounting: "For instance: "Would you prefer a dollar today or three dollars tomorrow?" or "Would you prefer a dollar in one year or three dollars in one year and one day?" For certain range of offerings, a significant fraction of subjects will take the lesser amount today, but will gladly wait one extra day in a year in order to receive the higher amount instead."

To me, the biggest risk is the counterparty risk that you'll never see the other person again. I myself would take $1 today from someone I've never met over $3 tomorrow, because I'm quite skeptical they'd even show up. Of course, the chance a person shows back up 365 vs. 366 days from now is pretty much identical, so I'd take the $3.
Most people are not consequentialists, but most people feel implicitly uncomfortable making moral arguments on non-consequentialist grounds. “Stop what you’re doing, it disgusts and offends me” is less noble than “stop what you’re doing, it will hurt people who can’t stand up for themselves”.

I hear "arguments" like this all the time against data-mining public information and crowd sourcing and making it open on our site (and through an API) through our feedback and they make me chuckle seeing how they had to engage and co-opt a multitude of psychological/behavioral theories not drafted by themselves to say such things. Even more funnier is when the things they are protesting has been done in "private" for a very long time. Kind of reminds me of how the whole Snowden thing plays out on HN and in the general culture at large, despite the mumblings of such since the very beginning… quite amusing to say the least…
[Note: this is a repost from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927077. The original set off the voting ring detector and was demoted]

I came across about Torch in this FB comment [1] by Yann LeCun:

I have moved to Torch7. My NYU lab uses Torch7, Facebook AI
Research uses Torch7, DeepMind and other folks at Google use
Torch7.

Apparently it is used in many deep learning labs. I think that in Toronto they mostly used Matlab and Python, does anybody know if this is still true?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152077631217143?...
Manipulating JSONB data in Postgres 9.4 by abusing key uniqueness
Your privilege depends on your context. You may be privileged in some contexts and not in others.
I was having trouble with the headphones not being a clear enough signal so I took a 3'x4' black foam posterboard and made a cubicle door. It caused a stir but mostly just in the people who liked to come by and ask me if I'd opened the cat gif they'd just emailed. Having the door closed is a nice clear signal and so far it's worked fine, for exactly your reasons. I can now trust that I won't be interrupted and I can relax to focus.
Text programs and design programs are already so different it's never a problem.

I'd equate it more to using your mouse for everything in photoshop or spending the time to learn that V selects the arrow key, and G selects the paint bucket.

Once you learn vim commands it's more a problem of using regular text fields (like the one I'm commenting in now). Right now I really want to use Vim key commands, and have to tell myself to Shift-left to get to the beginning of this line.