skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'they specialize in non-standards'

I think you have the nub of it here. I first learned to loathe Adobe almost 20 years ago, with Acrobat for X11. Every other X11 program would spawn a new process and a new window when you typed "program ... &" in your xterm, but "acroread ... &" would talk to the One True Acroread Ur-process instead. This, of course, caused all sorts of unpleasant and non-standard behavior when opening and closing PDF files. Not to mention that the interface was a bloated nightmare compared to xdvi and ghostview.

Then they bought Macromedia and Flash, with its ability to create non-standard horrors on the web. It was like watching the formation of a black hole of abusive software, and I still wait for AOL and RealPlayer to be sucked in by Adobe's evil gravitational pull.
I find the Pomodoro Technique helps me focus on one task at a time... even finishing the tasks I would rather procrastinate on. Give it a try for a week or a day. Vitamin-R is a great mac app for this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Don't even try communicating with a group of 100 of these so called people; surely three of them will found a religion based on misunderstanding your point, especially if you are the OP.
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I'm trying to stay away from drugs. Coffee is already too strong for me.
I'm assuming we're not talking about SHA1 hashes here (which would be trivial to get around), but image matching hashes (probably something like http://phash.org/) which are much more fuzzy. If that is the case then collisions will be far more common.
Wow, now that's interesting :)

By the way, believe it or not, I do work as a programmer (in Poland), and my first name does indeed start with K :) Not the last name though, so I feel safe.

While the serial killer theory could boil down to a statistical oddity, it reminded me of this novel by Lem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Investigation
A big part of the index advantage is that fees are so much lower than an actively managed fund. Does 500 Startups have a similar fee advantage?
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Sieg X2 is a milling machine. Square column, adjustable gibs, R8 spindle. It's more capable and rigid (but not as nicely finished) than the Sherline.
I went through the same thing at a start-up I founded (with others). It ran for 10 years and I never jockeyed for a management position. I just stayed a developer. In the end the fact that I was a founder who played a giant role in building the company meant nothing. I got sucked into one of many layoffs. No severance. Just back vacation pay and a fake tone of regret from the new engineering manager who made the call. The other founders had already left years before me and went on to even bigger and better things. I stayed because it was comfortable, but I regret not leaving years sooner.

I would guess most people there don't even know who you are, right? They might even know, but they probably don't get it because what you did in the past doesn't matter. Your company is becoming more corporatized and in that environment all that matters is your title. Since now it's likely just "developer" or "senior dev" or something, you're just another scrub with a good backstory.

If I were you I'd update my CV to reflect the contributions you made then start working your network to find the next thing.
I feel like we are in a golden age of PC gaming right now.

Genres completely abandoned by AAA developers ages ago are seeing a resurgence thanks to crowdsourcing. Space sims have been all but dead since Freelancer in 2003 but now there are several to play and look forward to.

Formerly obscure genres like roguelikes are seeing mainstream success thanks to high quality "roguelike-like" games like FTL.

Hell, even the impenetrable Dwarf Fortress brings in enough money from donations to support future development.
Nice idea,

It could make a nice companion app for the site actually.
I think many people are still surprised to learn about the competency of teens (and early adults?) when it comes to being able to make and build some cool things that are more advanced, by which I mean write code.

Source: Am 17, but won't usually harp about it online.
But Thomas ... I still don't understand the attack that you say can be made against DNSSEC-signed domains. Here's what I see, if I have a .COM domain:

1. I sign my domains and generate a DS record.

2. I upload the DS record to my registrar who passes the DS record up to the .COM registry.

Now, when someone does DNSSEC validation on my DNS records, they wind up doing this process:

1. Going through the DNS process to get my DNS records as well as the DNSKEY and RRSIGs.

2. Following the chain of DS records up to the .COM registry and on up to the root of DNS... being able to validate along the way the integrity of the records.

Where do world governments get to interfere here?

If a govt were able to manipulate the TLD registry the best they could do would be to point my domain to some other name servers that weren't mine... is THAT the attack you see? I seriously would like to understand.
Here's an alternative version featuring random questions: http://www.fallinloveapp.com
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Not a new idea:

http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html
I always go back to the Pomodoro Technique, or at least a variant of it:

I set-up a 30 minutes timer. I start working. If I get disturbed I reset the timer.

It's magical but it asks for a lot of mental efforts and willpower. Even to launch that timer now that I know that it will work. Coffee is more like cheating.
Duck duck go has you covered though.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15000+THB+in+EUR&ia=currency
I'm a middle-school CS teacher; the woodshop teacher and I have been collaborating on using a Shakeoko at our school. It works great!

http://burks.girlsms.org/maker/?p=115
Foobar – code editor for learning how to code
This has been very much my experience. With paid products I had a Google representative actually on the phone and then following up after to make sure I was set. That payment part is key, and not unexpected given the HUGE number of unpaid people using their service.
That's obvious, but I would hope the psychologists purportedly studying this topic thought of that when they designed their experiment.
Yes, and for those who may not know, Perelman is to date the only mathematician to have rejected the Fields Medal. (Aside: I was at the Madrid congress when this was announced in 2006. Pretty shocking, if not completely unexpected.) So, I think we are dealing with a pretty clear outlier here.
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Also remember - any dewar itself, improperly handled, can be a bomb! One professor I worked for hammered this concept into us when we started work in his lab.

Yet my PhD adviser did not. Sometime after I graduated, one of my fellow grad students blew up a dewar!! (Luckily no one got hurt).

He obtained an old dewar from another lab, and went through the usual cool-down procedure - evacuate the Outer Vacuum Chamber, fill the LN2 shroud, then pre-cool the main bath with LN2. Stupidly he did not notice there were no pressure relief safety valves!!! (Not only should you verify these exist, but you should also verify they work by slightly pressurizing the dewar.) He put in a bunch of LN2, capped it, and left for the weekend. When he came back, the dewar had exploded, pretty much along the weld seams, strewing the metal body and super-insulation all over the lab.

The first professor I mentioned above made sure we understood all valves and release valves. And also noted that if opened for too long while full with LHe, it's possible ice could form in the dewar neck, below the safety relief valves. Always kept me on my toes while working with LHe (well, that and the fact that LHe burns way worse the LN2 if it makes accidental skin contact).
Not enough good is being said about Cooking Issues and Dave Arnold in the comments on HN.

If you don't know the podcast, then you've got about 160 hours of catching up to do. Dave is a better hacker than you.
As employee #2 he should be talking to (presumably, his friend), the CEO, regardless of who his manager technically is.
Along those lines: people's handles could be more memorable but still random. Maybe something like the github repository name recommender. "Oh, great, another post from ice-badger-weasel-fox, I love those!"
My goal posts is not to vilify Comcast as a company in bed with government, but to find an explanation to why there is a near-monopoly. If a company has poor service, bad quality, and high prices, there should be competitors that are willing to earn revenue by competing with better service, better quality and lower prices. This is basic theory of the market, and as it goes, only government intervention allows for a monopoly in that environment.

So what is it. No person willing to fund a company in Baltimore? No investors willing to spend the same price as Comcast, or less if a smart founder can out-perform the past production cost?

If you can explain the monopoly without invoking government intervention, I am all ears.
Stuff like this always makes me so mad:
http://i.imgur.com/lFfYh2N.png

I'll provide the alt text for that image: "Please view with Chrome, Firefox, or Safari" and the background image is an Android web view, and also a Link Bubble that opened after the first popup happened.

I can assure you, having visited their crummy website, that the content was not so magical that anyone else should bother opening Chrome.
What? No it isn't. They're talking about given names, for one thing. For another, unless I missed it, they aren't positing a reason for this; they are simply saying which given names have more people in a given profession than would be expected based on averages.
Perhaps what you refer to as "feeling" is a maximized game theoretic outcome, or a component thereof.
All I see here is positives. Congratulations on building a startup.

Never been in your situation so my suggestions may not be appropriate. From the order you specified the tasks I think for you Technical Strategy aspect ranks highly. I think it gave you great challenges and satisfaction. If that's true then I suppose a role would be that of a CTO given that one of the founder is not playing that role.

Here is Fred Wilson's take on CTO vs VP of Engineering.
http://avc.com/2011/10/vp-engineering-vs-cto/
My local makerspace has one, though I've not tried it myself. IIRC it's using a custom bracket (3d printed) to hold our dremel, but is otherwise should be standard.

The one problem I remember seeing was when somebody's laptop was running it and went to sleep and they weren't able to get it to resume the job when it woke up. Maybe there's a way to do it, but just making sure your computer is set to stay awake avoids the issue entirely.
NEEO – The Thinking Remote
The other comments are solid, and this is one of those questions whose answer probably won't help much in solving your problem (due to its nature, not for a lack of good answers). However, I can offer you some time and insight if you want a technical person in the ML/NLP domain to bounce your ideas off of before you get too far into it. Contact information is on my profile, if you so wish.
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As a technical founder I actually face the issue on the other side, which is how to keep those that have been around for 5+ years challenged and motivated. Here are a few things I've learned that might help with perspective:

1. You shouldn't be afraid to ask for what you want. As a founder, it's tough to always know what goes on in everyone's mind. I try as much as I can but when I'm a part of the conversation I will be able to help much more than just being looped in after a conclusion is reached.

Every good developer wants to be challenged. Some want to stay on the technical side, others grow into managers, and some like to blend the two.
Talk to the ceo/founders and let them know how you feel. I'm sure they appreciate what you've done so far and will be happy to figure out the future.

2. You're at a very unique position where not only do you know how the entire system works but you also know how it's supposed to work. This gives you the ability to contribute to any of the different roles you mentioned in a really meaningful capacity.

One of the comments said something about not being good at those. I mostly disagree with that on principle. Just because you don't have the training doesn't mean you won't be an awesome manager. Some companies actually don't hire managers but rather promote. I believe LinkedIn is one of those companies, and they do it because they want those the manager will oversee to really trust the manager. That's something that, as a developer, you can do when you've seen the person's work.

3. The skills needed to get something off the ground are somewhat different from those needed to take it to "the next level". It doesn't mean you can't have both, but it is a question you should ask yourself. Do you like the rush and the excitement of creating something new? Or do you like the joy of seeing a large system run smoothly at super scale with time to sleep? Or both.
Do we have to write comments here as though we're writing the final draft of a math textbook? What's meant is clear enough.
Judges & juries really, really hate reasoning like that.
people defending ad blockers tend to say this, but that's not true. As much effort in advertisement is about validating your product as it is about selling it. No one buys a BMW from an online ad, but yet here it is! http://i.imgur.com/QCDc2gl.png

Well it's not there to sell cars so much as it is to say to the public "BMW are valid cars"

So just having the advertisement get seen is what's important to them. At least that's my understanding. Evaluate the argument for yourself: http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/14y695/el...

It's also another reason I filter ad's. I'm afraid they will manipulate the way I think.
You're totally right and that's exactly what we want to address!

Sex toys are no longer taboo things -- they sell vibrators at drug stores in the US now, and sex toy shops have transformed from sleazy, look-both-ways places to sex-positive, clean, and couples-friendly boutiques.

We're hoping both to launch our toy, but launch an open-source platform as well. I know of at least one manufacturer awaiting our campaign results for integration of our electronics in to their toys.
Why software “containers” won't be bad news for programmers
Good call, I like it!
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Looks like the site is down now? Archive.org link for it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141224143931/http://norvig.com...
What Has Us Interested at Homebrew
Your website is a 7 dollar template. I think its called React. http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB0K176S9
Elon Musk is speaking right now
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I don't think anybody claims that higher education in the US is a meritocracy.

When people on HN talk about the meritocracy as though it is something that exists, they are talking about it in the tech industry, not in the education system that precedes it.
we did, but the performance wasn't good enough for playing.
even modern games played better than older ones.
Ah, GoogleUpdate... Trying out Chrome gave me the unfortunate opportunity to learn about launchctl(1), Apple's version of cron(8). I haven't used Apple software on Windows in awhile, or vice versa, but I bet both are similarly awful. I didn't know about the Firefox addon, but that's a clever little extra bit of evil.
> I'm really interested in hearing more about what drives people to sign up for such an extreme experience.

Since nobody else is biting...people arrive to the Buddhist scene (and in particular retreats and such) for any number of reasons. Most have some type of thorn in their side they're trying to take care of. Some people who attend are people in their twenties who are traveling and trying out new experiences, some have an unexpected amount of free time after losing a job, getting divorced, or just "life happening." Maybe the kids left for college. Maybe they're deep into recovering from addiction and trying to understand themselves and why the addiction happened in the first place. Some people have a daily practice and they use their vacation time to go on retreat and become better people. Some are there as a rite of passage, or for social status back home where "doing a Vipassana" may be a badge of pride. Some people are essentially homeless and move from one Dharma center to the next without any real sense of direction.

At the places where you're allowed to talk to the other people you find it's quite an eclectic mix, everything from overworked executives to homeless musicians.
No, I haven't talked to many recruiters recently. Where do you find them usually?
"Worthless" in what sense? If we want to know something in particular, maybe, but perhaps knowing that people who have a certain job tend to be older is of interest? Some jobs seem to have entirely female names in the chart; is the fact that women are apparently significantly overrepresented in those fields also "worthless?"
I don't date.
Wolfram Alpha parses queries like "how old is [name]" and renders the age distribution, e.g. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+old+is+jane
I don't get this at all. Where does GP say anything suggesting Google either should be or is absolved of wrongdoing? Did you perhaps reply to the wrong comment?
As a mathematician, I was all ready to be dismayed by or dismissive of the article, as with almost all popular discussion of mathematics (and particularly so with the reams of nonsense which have been written in the past about "the golden ratio"), but I was pleasantly surprised to find it reasonably well written and interesting. Hoorah!

[I do wish it hadn't linked at the end to this twaddle about the golden ratio governing women's peak fertility through their uterus dimensions...]
Is the source for the 6809 available anywhere?
Linus Torvalds: Apple's HFS+ is probably the worst file system ever
Does that matter? That you take such a dim, cynical view of human relationships is what saddens me.
Sure, but I think this is just normal as a company grows.

When the company is tiny, you have a ton of hats. As the company grows, those hats become too big for you to wear all of them, and so you ("they") hire some people to take some of those hats from you.

As a developer, if you don't have clear aspirations toward management, usually you go nowhere: your influence erodes until you end up "just another developer", regardless of your tenure in the company.

If you do want to keep doing development, then you need to push management (early on) to create a technical track that's parallel to the management track. There should be technical positions (that come with no direct reports) that are at the same level (both prestige and pay) as manager, director, VP, etc. They need to be well defined, and it should be clear how it's expected that a developer will progress to those levels.

So what I'm saying is that I don't think the OP's real problem is that he has fewer roles, but just that, as the company has grown, he's remained a "leaf node" in the org chart, which just gets deeper as time goes on. If you think about the management hierarchy as your own hierarchy, that's just naturally going to happen. If you have parallel tracks, it stings a bit less.

Or, the OP is basically just built to work at small companies, and he should plan on joining a company when it's small, and then hopping to another small company when it gets too large. That's a perfectly valid strategy, too.
Hey, thanks for the excellent writeup.

I enjoyed and totally endorse the content of your blog post, but I did find the title / intro a bit misleading. Exactly-once is pretty much always what people want: it's the easiest model for most folks to reason about, especially when they're new to the whole distributed-systems thing. (If exactly-once delivery was easy, you certainly wouldn't find people going out of their way to build systems that dropped or duplicated messages.) Of course, you might not need exactly-once delivery to get what you want -- which is good, because like you say, that's a hard / impossible problem to solve in general.

It feels to me like people in the stream processing universe have taken that message a bit too much to heart -- things like the 'lambda architecture' treat stream processing as "too hard to get right" and relegate it to approximate, disposable calculations only. My post was partly an effort to push back on this; as a community, I don't think we should give up without a fight.
I fucking hate you guys. We're both crying now.

This game sucks.
It's all speeds & feeds. Even if you use a drill press you can replace the bottom bearing (better still, use a few stacked ones) and reduce the load for your final pass and you can get surprisingly accurate workpieces out of a relatively cheap setup. Not everything has to be made to 0.0001".

If you're going to work wood then you should be fine. For light metal it will work too (aluminum) with some slop, for steel it probably won't work unless you go real slow.

In the end the mechanics are not the biggest part of the outlay, but if you're going for cheap every little bit helps.

The Sieg is a bit better than a drill press (not much though, I'll give you that).
If they really mean the internet, I just dont see how the bitcoin blockchain can exist without the Internet. It's not a way to transmit information without IP (or an equivalent protocol)

If they mean the Web, well, there already is something working that solve the same problems, it's call Freenet and near to no one use it (at least "normal" people. Cryptoanarchists and techies don't count)

The biggest problem with the blockchain is that every (at least veryfing) node need a full copy of it. Storing data in it mean duplicating it for every node, and it has enormous costs. Try storing 1GB of data (for example, a movie) in it...
Is the product an editable PDF, that I then fill in for each year I use it?
Depending on your diet and sodium tolerance, broth can be a good alternative to coffee. I'm on a ketogenic diet (high fat, moderate protein, very-low carbs), so I have a few extra mg of sodium to play with, but I've tried stretches of replacing morning coffee with hot chicken broth and it is exactly as pleasant, without the caffeine ups and downs.
Black Box Architecture
It's mentioned in "Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive"[1], which despite the title, is a really interesting book. The Freakonomics blog quotes it here:

http://freakonomics.com/2009/04/24/yes-part-ii/

referencing this paper "Why Susie Sells Seashells by the Seashore: Implicit Egotism and Life Decisions"
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/susie.pd...

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Scientifically-Proven-Ways-Persuas...
Don't forget: they're "almost always" not the lead investor. They specifically will only look at companies with an existing investor.

When I asked, Khailee Ng told me they used that as a filter (presumably instead of "only warm intros" and/or associates binning thousands of cold pitches). I thought it was a neat idea, especially since the industry does this unofficially anyway (http://paulgraham.com/fr.html - "Avoid investors who don't lead" - obviously 500 Startups is an exception thanks to their brand and network).
looks like there is a PHP intruction.

TABER: PHP	;REMEMBER IF SPC OR TAB FUNCTION.
JSR	GTBYTC	;GET VALUE INTO ACCX.
CMPI	41
BNE	SNERR4

also it appears right in the middle

FRETMP: STWD	INDEX	;GET LENGTH FOR LATER.
JSR	FRETMS	;FREE UP THE TEMPORARY DESC.
PHP	;SAVE CODES.
LDYI	0	;PREP TO GET STUFF.
LDADY	INDEX	;GET COUNT AND

http://www.obelisk.demon.co.uk/6502/reference.html#PHP
it looks to me that google has run out of ideas.
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