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Personally, I'm a freelancer.

Don't ignore the public sector. Not everything is as bad as working for Raytheon on war industry projects, or working for Health and Human Services on disease industry projects. My experience has been: the more local, the better. There are some municipal IT departments that are trying to do good work and support open standards at the same time, in a realistic environment. I think it's a burgeoning area where more young people could turn their attention.

There are a lot of small manufacturers across the country (don't believe what you've heard, it's only gigantocorp manufacturing that is dead in America, and that's more because gigantocorps are on the way out than anything to do with manufacturing) that have very good, results-based attitudes to work. My current client is one such place. They essentially give me free reign over their project.

But ultimately, I think a person can do good work in any environment. Though you probably want to stay out of the boiler-rooms of anything that is closely ran by someone with an MBA. When you hear them start to talk about "our employees are our greatest asset", then you know they doth protest too much. Why would you want to be considered an "asset" anyway, which is by definition owned property? Stick to places that are pragmatic, open, and honest.
Employment laws between the US and EU are vastly different and firing the OP may not be a readily available option to the founders.
I was waiting for when he was going to put in some clear examples about what he was talking about. It's easy to say, "This sucks, we need to do better!" when you don't really lay out specific examples.
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This site shouldn't really be called "call to speakers" but "call to attenders". Only last 3 conferences on the list have still open call for papers/speakers. From the other last one closed in July. The deadline counts down to the conference not call for papers deadline. The site itself doesn't really provide any useful information for submitters. You have to dig it all up yourself - I'm wondering beside giving a list of conferences (in pretty near future, cause conferences in March that are last on the site will be closing call for papers pretty soon) - what is the value added?
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Aside from the option math: how did the company obtain seed funding when, as you put it, the product is half-baked and has zero revenue?

Or has that changed in the last 1.5 years?
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It's totally unreasonable, even as a starting offer. These guys just signaled that they are not serious people.
Ask HN: How do you like my PHP side projects?
Hello HN,

As a developer, I have a few PHP side projects:

1. PHPippo, which I recently released on GitHub, is a PHP preprocessor and a PHP source micro-optimizer (the only free one I know of). PHPippo will soon gain version targeting, allowing users, say, to develop on latest PHP and deploy on PHP 5.2, with PHPippo altering/stripping away incompatible code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861616

2. a PHP anti-badbot class, which will block traffic from most scrapers, harvesters, etc., ensuring crawlers abide by your robots.txt policies, exploiting a number of culprits to discern legitimate users and crawlers from bad ones, taking action by logging, forbidding requests, or even banning originating IP(s). (IPv6 compatible).

3. a (multi-platform) PHP+MySQL customizable desktop activity monitor which monitors time spent within each application, possibly identifying the single files being edited, URLs visited, and automatically taking snapshots of unidentified windows. By saving data to a database, it enables tracking habits and usage patterns. I envisioned this tool for personal use; however, it could be deployed to monitor employees in a centralized manner, though this might be illegal in many countries.

4. (perhaps too complex) a PHP opaque data storage layer for sessions/user data on top of a database; designed to only make user data available to legitimate owners, which share them (or part) (via public/private key encryption) with authorized personnel only. Think of it as a database layer which, in case of breach, still protects your data, emails, credit card numbers, etc. from harvesting, while still allowing users to register, validate their email addresses, forget their passwords, and do whatever required with their user accounts (via a set of API).

So, which project(s) would you prioritize? What should I do next? I would even be willing to sell them.
Acknowledged.

However, at least I'm not doing anything to inflate the story.
Replace "design" with "startups".

He is describing the culture of creating business's whose real purpose is to attract VC funding with the goal of finding an 'exit'.
This is not strictly true. Early investors usually have pro-rata rights.
They sound like real scumbags if they think your 4 is equal to their 4.
> That's not true -- you have an ethernet/network capable device; not an internet capable device -- nowhere on the box does it say "Plug this directly into the open public network in front of your firewall or inside a DMZ.

It pretty much does exactly that. It's marketed and designed for you to open ports directly to it for its various first-party packages, like PhotoStation, CloudStation, WebDAV, etc. I think it's reasonable to expect that those packages, which are major selling points for this system, should be reasonable capable of working on the public Internet.
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He shouldn't be giving up any of his shares. At all. He should be demanding more options. In all likelihood - he's the reason the business exists. They would have nothing without him.
"If you're providing a service so poorly that nationalization seems like a good alternative, then your business probably deserves to be nationalized."

That deserves to be on a tee shirt. See also, health insurance, the financial system in general, and Government Motors.
The problem is that there isn't competition. Nationalizing will not solve that problem.
Thanks for clarifying. I understand that it‘s a bit on the light side, and I will at the very least consider changing it to something more visible.

Ah, Reddit. Of course. Will do. ;)

Thanks!
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I work for AgileBits, the makers of 1Password.

You are not alone in requesting less clutter in the notification drawer. This is a popular request that we have received from a number of our customers.

We pride ourselves in considering all feedback from our customers and I'm happy to say that we've made improvements in this area. In our upcoming 4.1 update, successful sync notifications will be automatically cleared from the notification drawer.

We are planning to release the 4.1 update on August 19th. Feel free to read our blog post for additional details: http://blog.agilebits.com/2014/07/26/1password-4-for-android...
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By asking "did it work?", I think zz1 is asking if dismissing the nap room idea resulted in people not staying longer.
Anyone in your office put together a spreadsheet? Then they are a designer. Anyone else send out a mail shot to some customer base? Then they are a designer. Design is not sexy. It is interesting, but it's not sexy.
> Unfortunately the standards commity dropped the ball on this one because they are unable to act fast enough.

These are features which changed semantics and syntax multiple times over the course of their standardisation, it's not like standards guys were slow because they found it fun

> If the tags had been standalized then we would be using them.

Webkit browsers have all supported unprefixed box-sizing since the release of Safari Mobile 5.1 in March 2012. 2 years later… https://github.com/search?l=CSS&o=desc&q=-webkit-box-sizing&...
You point out one example where it's somewhat separate and I can point out many where it's not. I can also point out numerous massive security flaws, utterly unused code, the obviously unprepared .DS_Store shit, and code which attempts to load missing libraries and SQL inserts when it's blatantly billed as "no database required"

This isn't some arbitrary work-in-progress "Show HN" project. It's being released and advertised as a fully working product which is quite the polar opposite, absolutely filled with security holes and should be approached with serious hesitation before someone were to actually utilize it.

I'd also argue every single one of my criticisms is incredible valid and hardly hyperbolic.
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+1

In fact I bet the other parties have done the same already.
I am amazed this wasn't funded by DARPA.
How exactly is the mobile web biased towards iOS? I've rarely (if ever) had to use a vendor prefix when developing for mobile. I am using Bootstrap, so maybe they're doing those for me.
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I am just worried that they are picking up part of information from camera mic. Maybe camera mic output is not totally independent from the video sensor, and is encoded in the final video.
Yes. This is down to lazy, short-sighted developers, and it makes me insanely irritated.

It's ridiculously easy to make sure you include all appropriate browser-specific and generic prefixes for almost all experimental CSS features. If you use something like Compass, it's even done for you, totally transparently.

Lazy developers ruin it for everybody, again. What a surprise.
As a guest of a lodging establishment, particularly a supposedly nice one that is hosting a wedding, I expect and demand a high level of service. A hotel defines a service business.

The fact that the guests eventually received ice is irrelevant. There is no excuse for a reasonable & customary request in a hotel would be met with a rude response, period. If I want to sit in my room and drink 24x7, that's my problem, not the hotelier.

I've stayed in many hotels, and have actually run into exactly this problem. In fact, it was at a $40 Hamton Inn awhile back. The guy said "No problem, our ice machine is broken, but give us a few minutes and we'll get you squared away."
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They put the camera behind soundproof glass for one of their tests.
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I have just downloaded and started using the "app" 10 minutes ago. It sounds like an app I have been searching for for a long time. After downloading I checked the codebase, as I usually do with every open source project I consider using - I have to agree to the other users: The code is really messy. I would suggest you to rewrite the whole app using an object oriented approach and dividing between HTML- and PHP-Code. Probably you can make use of something like Twig[1]. Do not create a file for every function of your system: Create a class for every object like "Dashboard", "Project" and "Node", then write an API to make their methods accessible from your apps javascript parts.

After checking out the code and realizing that it might have just been written by a beginner, I "installed" it locally: From a users point of view I have to say it is exactly what I need. I am able to post small snippets (called "nodes") to a project (kind of a category/idea). Thats all. Drag & Drop works - awesome. The design is simple but really neat! However to make this system perfect for me it needs to implement multi-user functionality, where I can chat with my friends about our current projects.

I think I would give this project another try, when you were able to refactor the whole code basis and add multi-user functionality.

Good luck anyways.

PS: This post lead me to create a HN account.

[1] http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
No, You Can't Manufacture That Like Apple Does
I know of multiple startups where the acquisition price was exactly the price necessary -- down to four significant digits -- to pay off the VC companies that made up 3 of the 5 sitting board seats.

I myself exercised a (small!) amount in a company that got acquired and my shares all went to $0 because other shareholders got preferential treatment. (This company earlier made a point of the fact that there were no investors with preferential treatment, but either lied about that or somewhere along the line they got desperate and gave preferential treatment. In either case, the stakes were too small to bother suing.) At least I could claim a capital loss.
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Just thought I'd pop in a point out that fines in a contract are perfectly enforceable in the U.S. Liquidated damages provisions are not. A $500 fine per negative review doesn't reflect the hotel's actual or liquidated damages in any way, so the provision would pass muster in court.

For example, penalties for late payments of bills are examples of contractual fines that have been upheld by the courts many times.

Whether or not the fines at issue here are bad business practice depends on how you feel about the justification for the fines.
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Ask HN: I am Burnt
I am working on my second startup and totally burned, cannot take anything any more , my personal life is in doldrums because of this. Invested every penny in my startup and it is not generating any revenue, more than that, I am burned and do not feel like doing anything in my life . If any entrepreneur out there been through the same situation , can help me get my passion of work and think positively? I feel like I am fit for nothing ;(.
If you are affiliated with Synology you should disclose that.

I see that your account is only 19 hours old.
Good for you.

One question though: did your spouse cheating on you have anything to do with you working that much for the last 4 years? How did the relationship even last that long? How much time did you spend together and how many nice things did you do together?

I'm asking because the relationship I'm in would probably suffer a lot if I worked 80 hour weeks for two weeks in a row, let alone 4 years. I'm wondering how other people's relationships look from the inside.
Unfortunately it all depends on his bargaining position right now. It might feel good for the rest of us for him to take one for the team and stand up for his rights, but it could lead to him having a worse outcome if those rights are beyond his bargaining position.
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That query means nothing. Most of those results include the non-prefixed version as well. The prefixed one is there for backwards compatibility.
This is a product of over-design. Stay with me.

What happens is that designers (and product managers) stress over minute details instead of seeing the bigger picture. So developers spend an obscene amount of time fixing iOS and Galaxy specific bugs that don't degrade the overall experience but instead aren't pixel-perfect.

And as a result most other devices simply aren't tested. And instead of allowing those devices to see the site (warts and all) they resort to a whitelist of devices that can see the (QA verified) mobile site while everyone else gets either a basic mobile html site or the desktop.
It was the latter
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I think this looks like a really great event. I'm buying a ticket this week!
"Get a tribe" is some of the best advice that can be had.

I think many people have this misconception that humans have "evolved" with technology, but in reality we're not that different than our plain-dwelling ancestors.

Sure we have better medicine and more gadgets, but we still have a strong, subconscious social desire to belong to a group of like-minded humans.

If you don't have a tribe, it's a good idea to find one.
You're getting voted down by people who assume that your experience can't possibly be real because it isn't their experience, but I feel the same as you.

There are dozens of us!
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I agree, automated graders with thorough test suites are really great.

Would you mind me contacting you for some feedback/thoughts on a product I'm working on? I think you could help me out since the product has got something to do with programming textbooks, and you prefer textbooks to MOOCs (& have tried both.)

Is the email provided on logicmason yours?
Its the difference between the airplane flight reservation model and the taxi reservation model.

Taxi model = you call and a on call guy is dispatched and if they're busy its first come first serve.

Airline model = you call and make a reservation onto an overbooked quota slot next week. Staffing is "optimized" next week to an acceptable level, to a monopoly, of overbooking and predicted failure.

People expect/demand the taxi model and don't understand the inherent results of the airline model.

The system is operating as designed. They just don't like the design.

The telecom hicap / biz side operated under the taxi model but residential telecom and cable has always operated under the airline reservation model as far as I know. I know from personal experience that both natgas and water and electricity operate under the taxi model, so its not something inherently impossible about visiting people's homes.

I wonder if anyone's ever tried the taxi model for residential services? Or if its a startup opportunity?
> Why do you blame developers?

Because the fault lies with them and no one else, no matter how in denial you are.

> The fault lies with the standards community for not standardizing much faster (at most a week after the second browser has support for that feature)

That doesn't even make sense, standards work is not "you shipped some random unspecified and mostly broken pile of shit and some other bloke was convinced to half-implement something which kinda looks similar if you squint so let's just call it standandard :shipit:"
The subtitle of the article is "Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass."
> Now when I go to Walgreens they say to me after any transaction "be well." Seriously? Like I believe the cashier ringing up my candy and soda purchase personally cares about my well being and health? Or that it is adding anything of value to the transaction?

Its a corporate slogan with tie-ins to Walgreen's marketing and branding. Like most aspects of branding, its not designed to operate at the level of rational thought and analysis at all. Its more like the use of corporate colors and logos on retail employees uniforms, but in auditory rather than visual form.
>You point out one example where it's somewhat separate and I can point out many where it's not.

That's great. You SAID "zero". And you pointed out zero examples to defend your statement. I pointed out one example that completely invalidates your statement, which is all that is needed. Because 1>0. Here, let me help. "Your application doesn't do a good job of separating business logic and presentation." Was that hard? I didn't say anything hyperbolic, I didn't recommend downvotes or call his application "WTF" in that statement. It WAS NOT HARD.

>I can also point out numerous massive security flaws, utterly unused code, the obviously unprepared .DS_Store shit, and code which attempts to load missing libraries and SQL inserts when it's blatantly billed as "no database required"

Did you do that, or did you try and insult the author? I see others in this thread pointing out specific issues that will help the author. You can't do that? Or is the author not worthy of your help, but somehow IS worthy of the time you spent to insult the author's project?

>I'd also argue every single one of my criticisms is incredible valid and hardly hyperbolic.

Sorry, but if you say "zero" and it's not true, that's hyperbole. It's either hyperbole or it's not, there's no such thing as "hardly hyperbolic." You exaggerated and you knew it was an exaggeration, OR you thought you were making a true statement. Either way, wrong.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyperbole

My point is you are not offering anyone anything. Who do you help by insulting the author? The author? Or do you think you're protecting the world from bad software?

BTW, here's the rule I think you're violating:

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

One could argue I'm breaking the same rule in arguing with you, though...
Two others:

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup

https://github.com/jigish/slate

I use slate because it's very configurable. Not what some people will be looking for, though.

At work, on Linux, I use quicktile.

https://github.com/ssokolow/quicktile
>I think Amazon has the right idea with the "Was this review helpful to you?" buttons

Doubtful. "Was this review helpful to you?" is actually the "I disagree with this review" button in practice.

Amazon reviews are so crappy. There is tons of reviews that say JUST "I haven't used this product/read this book yet." plus any number of stars.
Is it possible to do meta analysis on review sites - effectively "people with your tastes liked this hotel / restaurant" ?

I would think that getting e-receipts working will destroy yelp as well.
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I like that you ask for username and password at the very end, after user had demoed the product.

Best of luck you're competing with (Qualaroo) Hiten Shah and crew.
Reminds me a little of "Dual Photography" as presented at Siggraph in 2005. All the data you need to construct a new view is available if you know where and how to look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_tpq5ejFQ
And my point went entirely over your head. If someone finds the business policies reprehensible and wants it to be made known, they have a damned right to let it be known. One doesn't just have to purchase a product or service to be allowed to comment.
Because the American Federal System handles health care AND borders so well. rolls eyes

As a healthy Veteran, I can say I'm glad I haven't had to dip into my benefits...
Twisted? Yes. Fun, and a good intro on introducing your own hacks to your Sonos system? Even more so.
Looking at some of the bus routes confirms something I've suspected about MUNI for a long time: most of the "delays" happen at the beginning of the route. I've watched bus drivers sit there for 10+ minutes past the departure time on many occasions, and there appears to be no penalty for the behavior.

I don't know if the drivers are taking a mandated minimum break, waiting in response to orders from dispatch, or just being lazy, but when I see lots of long delays at the top/bottom of every single line on these graphs, it really drives home the source of the problem. I find it difficult to believe that buses leaving at 5AM are encountering enough traffic to cause 15 minute delays immediately upon departure.
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Let's say you raise $10m in preferred rounds and proceed for a few years, but it's not working. You eventually find a buyer that will acquire/acqui-hire your company for $5m.

That $5m is not split evenly, it's distributed to the highest priority share classes first (after potentially paying off certain debts, notes, etc). So your Seed, Series A, etc will get paid out of the $5m – nothing is left for common.

Common is the last to earn money, and options are part of the common class.
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