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Easiest solution of all, don't have a co-founder only employees. My work experience is software engineer and software development management. Having started my own company, I find I really enjoy handling the business side of things, forming the company, the paperwork, market research, designing logos, product vision etc etc. I really dread and despise any actual code development I have to do. Writing code is mentally draining, handling the business side of things is fun and energizing. From personal experience, if you are writing the code, you are working harder.

If you must absolutely have a co-founder, then I would find someone else who is technical. Their skillset should complement yours, i.e. if you are a GUI developer they should be a backend developer. Of course finding a developer who is serious is another matter. Most people talk big when it's just an idea, and they are fantasizing about the success like one does with a lottery ticket. It's quite another thing when you have to keep at it, like I have alone for almost 2 years.
This complex and tragic event supports my own view
Your suggestion here is that users do know when open-source crypto fails? They manifestly, obviously do not.

It turns out, the kinds of people who are qualified to detect when open-source crypto fails tend also to have the means of detecting failures in closed-source crypto.

The problem with discussions about closed-source crypto is that a whole giant cohort of participants mythologize closed-source code. They imbue it with all sorts of magic powers and handwave away arguments by suggesting that the code is itself unknowable. But nobody who really works in my industry engages with code that way. Nothing Microsoft ships is unknowable. No company on Earth is more scrupulously and aggressively reverse engineered than Microsoft's.

Unfortunately, there's lag in learning about crypto failures in Microsoft's code, and it's the exact same lag as we experience for open-source software. It comes of people not actually understanding a fucking thing about how crypto actually works, and it's a problem not just for generalist engineers but for software security experts as well.

Hence: cryptopals.com.
My advice still holds, and yes, it is also completely reasonable.

You found a terrible co-founder. A terrible co-founder, business or otherwise, will generate terrible outcomes.

One thing that is very important to understand is that a great business co-founder is as rare (if not rarer) than a great technical co-founder. If you happen to find someone like that, having an attitude that they won't do any work, and they won't "do much meaningful work", will not endear them to you.

If they're a great business co-founder, they will have nearly unlimited options, much like great technical co-founders. They might also have great market knowledge, plenty of inside connections, and experience on what to do, and how to do it. And as you brought it up, experience on how to get to product market fit. All of which is invaluable. Further, and please don't take this the wrong way, but their experience in connecting with and evaluating people might have prevented you from choosing the clearly incompetent person that you ended up selecting.
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Glad you think so! Thanks for your submissions!
I'm still pretty into it, although I'm refereeing now on the national tournament series. Its far too expensive and time consuming to travel all around the country and play these events plus practicing each weekend (it's very competitive now, gone are the days of drinking at night and playing hungover). So reffing still allows me to travel to these events and see all of my friends still in the sport (now mostly other ref's or working in the industry at various companies). Plus I get to travel around the country with a group of good friends and still come home with a couple bucks, or at the very least a free vacation!

The big American league now is the Paintball Sports Promotion (PSP) league, the flagship being 5v5 Race-To-7 format. Think very fast paced games and the first one to win 7 times wins the match.

I believe that the NPPL is taking a hiatus for a year, if they come back at all, they've barely been able to stay afloat for a while now. From what I've heard it's been due to poor financial decision making on the leagues behalf.

As far as the markers go, most of them are now based off of the Matrix or Intimidator designs from your link, with a couple using the Hollowpoint design (at least in the tournament series). They've also begun limiting the Rate of Fire in the PSP, being 10.2 shots per second in the professional divisions to remove any advantages of higher prices markers.

All in all its still a pretty cool sport. I've met tons of great people through it, and many life-long friends. Hopefully it gets back to where it used to be in the early 00's, it's definitely been growing the last few years after the hit it took around 2008.
Some other info:

500-600 users online at any given time, about 1000 total global users.

User base is highly global, with lots in China, etc. There's a lot of people using this to collaborate globally.

Paying customers are all consulting outfits with distributed teams. I can see this being compelling there. But there's only a couple of them.

Current development iteration is focusing on better OS integration, a bit of other polish elements, and fixing some very minor networking issues reported by a few users. On Windows networks now show up (in the dev branch) as "real" networks, and it shows the popup allowing you to select their role and firewall designation as home, work, or public. On Mac I'm working on making networks show up in System Preferences as real networks there as well.
What's the point of getting all complicated... eat the right portions of the right food at the right times....Exercise...Stay consistent...That's really all you need. Problem with most people is paralysis through analysis.
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Are you sure you have to open the site through a link from a search? In my experience, just opening the link directly in a private browsing window is enough to give me access.
Show HN: Help buyers decide – Sentiment analysis of Roku 3 and Chromecast
Vision: Once your vision is clear -- one is more likely to execute decisions about strategies, markets, finances, etc...
Mostly this. In ASP.NET/C# you're probably looking at using the built in HttpClient lib [0] and an html parser lib like HTMLAgilityPack [1]. I've used this combo in the past and am happy with it.

[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.http...
[1] http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/
Thanks for the submissions and feedback, getting a lot of great responses. Trying our best to keep up. Thanks for your patience and keep 'em coming!
This looks neat!

It looks like there is a good amount of config for handling different providers. Have you check out OAuth.io and its opensource core oauthd?:

https://github.com/oauth-io/oauthd

https://github.com/oauth-io/oauth-js

It's a simple node app and js sdk that lets you handle providers in a standardized way.

I created a ruby omniauth strategy that simplifies multiple provider support on the backend. A similar approach could be applied to any language:

https://github.com/jgrowl/omniauth-oauthio
Hey, lead dev of learntomod here.
I have spent many, many hours using Computer Craft, it was one of our inspirations for building our product. I'm glad to see it's still in wide use.
> Another small example that exists since KDE 2 maybe: you get a clipboard with history. How one may live without it?

There is a tool called glipper on the GNOME side that does this. I don't know how it fared in the GNOME 3 / Unity conversion though. I do remember that at one point it only needed a systray + GTK, but then they made it dependent on some GNOME stuff so I couldn't use it in a more stripped-down environment (e.g. xmonad + alternate systray).
Shameless plug for yet another site with curated tech talks: http://www.aula.io

Also: https://github.com/hnrc/aula
> The problem is that Scala generates very big jar files, which is why the only couple of Scala Android applications I've ever seen are toy apps.

Yes, it's the same problem why compiling Scala to JavaScript is impossible ... oh wait!

In both cases the standard library overhead is a few dozens of kB! The horror!

That's why nobody is using Scala.js or Scala-on-Android for anything serious ... oh wait!

That's already happening.
> Taxi service doesn't allow you to easily share your car and hotels don't allow you to easily share your flat.

Sharing your car or home (whether the latter is rented or owned) is very easy without apps and people have been doing it for just about as long as cars and homes have existed. What the apps facilitate is making money from arms-length rentals to strangers. This may be a form of sharing, but even if so its a fairly specific one with its own name, its just that using an accurate and specific label rather than a misleadingly general one doesn't make as good marketing copy -- "sharing" sounds warm and friendly and positive, "rental" not so much.
Here's another perspective: what if I only pitch one person but they're the perfect fit for our business and have the right connections. They say "yes." Meanwhile you've been busting your butt pitching more than a dozen people, working 10 hours a day six days a week, and setting into your definition of, "working hard." You don't land a single investor. Who is more valuable to the business?

There's innumerable scenarios we can concoct but I think the point is that there's no industrial-labor model for quantifying "effort" in a knowledge-based business.

As a software developer my value increases exponentially beyond the menial tasks I face at my job as I learn to curate good ideas, cultivate processes for generating new ones, and avoiding bad ideas. Any attempt to quantify my value based on lines of code, number of repository commits, or any other indicator is essentially meaningless without context. I may only make a single commit after a couple of weeks that changes two files and less than a dozen lines of code... but the network effects of the efficiency I just introduced allows to process N^k more data points per second which may pad your bonus with a couple of extra zeroes in the next quarter.

So I would recommend:

1. Learn how to value people differently. They bring more to the table than just a warm body.

2. Model the contractual obligations and profit sharing based on the core values of the business. Does working 1 hour have a directly positive impact on profits of some constant (or near-constant) amount? Split profits on hours worked. Is it more ephemeral based on the experience and qualities of the individual? Split it based on responsibility and risk (as a rule of thumb).
Out of curiosity, have you successfully worked with business co-founders on equal footing, with a written scorecard, reviewed weekly?

This seems like the business equivalent of judging performance based on lines of code written.
Wildcards are under $100 at Namecheap, and in most cases a business that can't afford $100/year probably doesn't need a dozen subdomains and can go with the $7/year for www.
Ask HN: Shadow at a startup for a day
Hi guys, I'm 21, learning to code, and interesting in working at a startup. I'll be attending Fullstack Academy (S12) starting September 15th, but I'm taking a trip out to SF this Wednesday for 5 days (7/20-7/25).

I want to get a feel for what work at a startup is like. Would anyone who works at a startup mind if I shadowed them for a day? Or does anyone know anyone who they think would be interested? I'm not sure if I'm good enough to be useful, but if I could be of any use I'd love to write some code for you! (I've been teaching myself to code on and off for the past year and a half or so. I'd classify my skills as a strong beginner/weak intermediate developer. I know HTML, CSS, JS/jQuery, Ruby and Rails. I built a few sites before - https://github.com/adamzerner?tab=repositories.

Edit: I'm also considering moving to SF after Fullstack. There's a lot of good tech companies there, and I really like the culture. So I also want to get a feel for what it'd be like living in SF. I've visited before and have done all the touristy things, but I want to get a feel for what it'd be like living there. I was thinking of visiting a hacker house and some co-working spaces, but don't know what else would be useful. Any ideas?

Thanks!
Some years ago I really enjoyed this book:

Programming Game AI by Example
http://www.ai-junkie.com/books/toc_pgaibe.html
Thank you. That's a very interesting way to think about it, and I hadn't considered that before.

I apologize for making so many comments in this submission. I feel pretty terrible about it, because the number of comments are higher than the number of upvotes, which has pushed your submission off of the front page. I didn't realize it was happening until too late. But more than that, in retrospect, I should have behaved differently altogether, which would've resulted in fewer comments. Sorry.
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Thirded, scrolling is out of control, and every click appends something to the browser history so the back button sucks.
Sorry about that! We'll get that fixed right away.
Converts regular links to native iOS app URL schemes
i had one of those too, it was super fun! my favorite was a clip fed pistol that was really fun, but totally innefective :P

one of my friends who will remain unnamed wanted to play "Force power paintball" one weekend camping, he grabbed a stick and wanted to "test out his force powers" deflecting a paintball. let's just say he's no jedi...
Algorithmia’s vision of a marketplace for algorithms gets $2.4M
Hi HN! I'm posting this today because the book is half off today. The target market is bootcamp students and undergrads looking for an easier introduction to algorithms. I've seen a positive reaction to it so far!

The half off code is dotd081814au at www.manning.com/bhargava.
Check his comments, you'll find a healthy dose of (2).
Maybe it's a (row,column) metaphor.
Unfortunately, you need to have a Gmail account to get all the various automated hotel/car/flight reservation and parcel tracking notification stuff.

It would be nice if there was an API into Google Now (or even a Tripit-style email to selectively forward to) to insert such events, for those who can't use or choose not to use Gmail.
Just FYI, this is a freely downloadable book:

http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/mature-optimization.pdf
A weird thing about this article is the way it's all "ewww, Unity, that's for tablets, gross."

One of the things I like about Unity on the desktop is how keyboard-oriented it is. Features like the Dash and the HUD are specifically aimed at exposing functionality without requiring you to take your hands off the keyboard in order to push a mouse around. Which is appealing, at least to me. But whatever it is, it definitely is not tablet-oriented.

It's true that Canonical's vision for Unity is that it will eventually scale up and down beyond desktop/laptop displays, but they have absolutely not taken the Windows 8 approach of starting with a touch UI and then jamming it onto machines where it doesn't fit. Instead they've come up with a core set of metaphors (the Dash, scopes, etc.) and then looked for ways to present them appropriately on different platforms, which seems much more sensible.
Working with the NDK and Android Studio
Aphex Twin just announced his new album, SYRO, on the Deep Web
Health Network Hacked (4.5M patients)
Soundcloud sadly does not work (anymore) with the latest release on OSX. This is already fixed in the latest nightly http://download.tomahawk-player.org/nightly/mac/Tomahawk-lat... We hope to release a new version with all the fixes soon.
I suspect this kind of janitor work is why I gravitate toward python. Even in a nice, controlled environment like kaggle, it's remarkable how much string/text manipulation you have to do just to get a basic benchmark or cram stuff into a random forest - and that's where the data has already been put into a text file (in my case, a csv) for you. My guess is that it would take 10 times more data munging to get that file produced in the first place. Python has good libraries and is very good for all that data munging.

Trying to outsource this stuff is appealing, I suppose, but that has turned out in my life to surprisingly difficult as well. I once worked with a supply planning division of a manufacturing organization to try to reduce inventory by anticipating when orders would come in, so I got access to the sales database. It appeared that there was a large spike in orders later in the quarter, and that we were carrying inventory unnecessarily. Actually, as we discovered during a pilot, sales people who got new orders from the same customer later in the quarter would just delete and re-enter an entire order rather than doing small updates, which they found to be a hassle (this was quite a while ago, when these systems weren't as easy to use).

These attempts to section off and outsource the "low value" work often just make things worse. It's just too unpredictable.
Custom Type Systems for Clang
FWIW, most if not all of the web stuff is on GitHub: https://github.com/mozilla

mozilla.org: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

crash-stats: https://github.com/mozilla/socorro

marketplace: https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni

geolocation: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea

support: https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune

MDN: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma
It seems like a nice start. Who will do the security review?
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Yeah, Professor Sharpless. I took Organic II from him, he was indeed "very nice and extremely bright" (I had no doubt he'd get a Nobel in due course, as he did), and I too am not surprised. Here's Wikipedia on Click chemistry, which says he coined the phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_chemistry

Anecdote: he dipped some absorbent paper in safrole and had us pass them around and smell them, and in the middle of this said something to the effect, "Oh, BTW, this is officially carcinogenic, but it's not truly dangerous, I wouldn't have you smelling it if it was". As a former fan of root beer before the FDA forced it's removal I appreciated that. As the son of a Cajun mother I'm really glad filé powder contains doesn't contain it, banning it would be even more criminal.
I attended Bitmaker Labs' 7th Web Development Intensive cohort (June 2014–August 2014) in Toronto.

I walked in knowing AngularJS and a basic level of Ruby/Rails (self-taught for both), whereas most of my classmates had either gone through the prework (very basic HTML, CSS, JS and Ruby) or were computer science grads (worked with Java, maybe C). I was ahead of the curb going in.

And that was the way things stayed. I stayed ahead because although the coursework was not designed for my level of knowledge, it helped a lot with filling in the holes of my knowledge. Also, the exposure and immersion and the side projects I did by myself led to many more 'a-ha' moments.

As for the instructors, all of them were super helpful, but they might not be very approachable early-on (the first 2 weeks or so). Depending on the kind of student you are, you'll either spend the majority of your time with the instructor learning or troubleshooting.

I echo @notjustanymike's thoughts: Bootcamp learning is only skin deep. If you go in with a lot of background knowledge you'll deepen your knowledge. If you wait a couple of months afterwards you'll deepen your knowledge. Really try to get a sense of how things work.

During the bootcamp I landed a fun gig at a local startup. Part time, not that good of a pay ($15/hour). I wasn't in the market for a job, but had I been I definitely could have gotten into the $60-$75k in Toronto.

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know.
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Maybe you don't need a cofounder.
No, I meant what I wrote. Your inability to understand context is not a sign of intelligence or education (especially when the context is from your own post).

Oh, and lighten up. Did you not think it was funny that you made a grammatical error in a post deriding others' education?
I would never recommend this arbitrary and excessively exclusionary diet plan to anyone.

* It does not mention quantity. You will get fat if you eat too many sweet potatoes or too much beef, yet it gives off the impression that you can eat as much of these foods as you want and "get shredded".

* It is void of sources of healthy plant fats and protein, such as avocados, almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds and sunflower seeds.

* Why does fowl get subdivided (turkey vs chicken) but fish does not? There are vast varieties of fish that provide different levels of good nutrients (Vit D, Omega 3s) and bad ones (mercury). Among the best fish to eat should be further subdivided (for example, Pacific sockeye salmon has significantly more omega 3 than atlantic salmon)...and really those that have the lowest concentrations of mercury (salmon and sardines are the best bang for the buck in terms of low mercury, high omega 3 and high vitamin D).

* Plenty of other excellent foods are simply neglected for no reason at all. These foods include: bok choy, swiss chard and collard greens, which are extremely high in B vitamins and potassium. Others, such as beef liver and other organ meats, are exceptionally high in nutrients, but aren't mentioned either.

* Perhaps worst of all, some of these foods cannot be eaten blindly, whether because of allergies, intolerances or just aren't that nutritionally excellent. Protein powder is a convenience product and not natural food, can be difficult for people with lactose intolerance, and is often loaded with sugars and fillers, depending on the brand and type of protein. Again, some fish are high in mercury and should be consumed few and far between. Corn is the most over-produced and over-consumed carbohydrate on the planet, and if we didn't notice from yesterday's HN post, "100% whole grain cereal" is among the most nutritionally void foods ever created.

My best guess is that this list was hastily made without any of these important considerations, and should be flagged.
A Gentle Introduction To Generators In Python
I see no clock at this time: http://worldclock.tofumatt.com/