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So...a JS interface to a server that creates native views. I don't get it, what is all the hype about? You've got an extra layer and level of abstraction (read: complexity) in your pipeline. I don't see how you can abstract away the idioms of a platform - they're native. 'Write once, run everywhere' has failed time and time again. So marketing changed its tune to 'Learn once, run everywhere' and now people are gushing how HUGE this is?
Do you speak Spanish??
One thing I have noticed from reading reviews and comments about the show is that there is little consensus about which episodes are the best. Many people (I being one of them), actually think episode 2, "Fifteen Million Merits" is the series best.

Personally, I love every episode, and I even think the "The Waldo Moment," which is by far the messiest episode, made some important points about the dangers of bad and lazy criticism.

This AV Club review of seasons 1 and 2 (http://www.avclub.com/review/black-mirror-is-a-brilliant-cal...), which contains fewer spoilers than the episodic reviews, really captures the goal and the value of the series as a whole (see: its title.)

I'd say some other things but want to refrain from spoiling anything. While I usually hate it when people care too much about spoilers (as you note, a work should still stand up upon re-watch), this show at some points relies on the viewer's lack of knowledge to create a tone/mood/point.

EDIT: Grammar.
I'd be really curious to hear your story. Clearly you're still reading HN once in a while. Are you doing your own projects? How much time do you spend on the computer vs other stuff? Was your burn out the computer itself or just doing stuff on it you didn't want to do for other people?

I quit 19 months ago and have been traveling and goofing off since. I can't say it's made me any happier. I spent 9 months last year working on my own project which was kind of fun but also kind of not fun.

Looking back over my life so far what I think I need is (a) more balance as in stuff not computing and (b) partners as in when I am computing I don't want to be alone. I want to collaborate with a few people at the same location I really like working with on something we all want to do. I'm not sure how to get from where I am to that though except to go to meetups, hackathons, etc and hope I meet some guys before I run out of money and need a job again.

not sure if any of that helps the OP.
I don't disagree, however if this hasn't been the idea, it's going to be a hard sell now.

If the plan was "hey, let's build this mvp and meanwhile I'll do x, y, and z marketing materials, and then we'll get out and sell!" and OP agreed, well--that's where he's at.

Saying "well I'm not working until you get 10 customers" at this point is not okay.

In the future, OP: take this very good advice.
I was in a similar situation working 12+ hours all the damn week, no paid OT. They gave me no expectation of downtime. Which was where I started to lose hope. I eventually reached a point where I quit on the spot. No resignation. No notice, after my 17th consecutive panic attack and manic call to my father, who knew I was in pain.

It took me at least three weeks to totally process where I was. Being with my family helped even if they didn't understand the technical background of things.

Sometimes you have to take the nuclear option.
Maybe this should be another Ask-HN question...
How do you escape the rat race?

What are the logistics?
Cost of living?
Taxes?
Immigration?
etc...
Reading your post, I couldn't help but think of the web usability classic "Don't Make Me Think".

We've been working for over a decade to make computer use as mindless, er, easy as possible.
Is your background more tech or more finance?
About $10-15K/year.
> Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico

I'm absolutely shocked at how good the google street view coverage is of that entire city/area.
My advice is keep working on it. But work as much as you can even if its for a couple of hours per weekend. You'll eventually finish it. I've seen a lot of projects get done that way. Also, don't damage your health because you need to have a clear and healthy mind to successfully build and run a startup! If you think you're over doing it, take time off and get back to it later. Just don't give up ;)
It's pretty awesome regardless, nice job.
The last sentence sounds familiar to me: I built a fully-functional MVP over a few hundred hours. My partner, a family member, was going to sell it. I picked the niche because it's not very SEO-friendly and so he, being completely non-technical, had something to contribute.

He made ~6 sales in 1 month, never lifted a finger in the ~14 months since.

The app has run smoothly with virtually zero intervention on my part, so that was a win, at least. We have a couple of customers remaining.

At least you got out early, I guess?
(Using a throwaway account for this...)

I got burnt out a Big Company. The politics, idiocy and short-sightedness finally got to me. I felt sick, couldn't get up in the morning at all. One day, I decided to just quit. They didn't believe me at first; but I insisted. So they had to let me go.

I had some money saved up (I am a saver, so that helps). Been out of work for more than a year; living in SF and just playing with whatever catches my fancy. Docker, Hadoop, ML, Go, etc. etc. I attend interesting meetups; go to talks, etc. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

In a few months I'll probably go back to work, but this past year has been the best year of my (adult) life.
Laex makes a valid point.

I would suggest you stop and take a day off before you get fully burnt out.

There is no sense in spending all this time and energy on a product you haven't even validated especially before you've launched.

You could spend years making the "perfect product" without ever knowing if the product is something someone will purchase. Or you could ship a minimum viable product and test whether your product is something someone will purchase.

Eric Ries talks about the minimum viable product in his book "The Lean Startup", which I would highly recommend. I think it would help you and your marketing partner get some much needed context to your situation.

Good luck!
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This is my approach to managing a full-time job and being the technical co-founder of a SaaS product.

I spent 8 months working non-stop (12-14 hour days, 7 days a week). It was extremely challenging and I came very close to burning out, but it paid off in the end.

After we hit MVP and had 10 paying customers, I made a very conscious decision to move towards a long-term effort.

Today, I feel much more confident about my ability to continue doing what I'm doing long term.

Talk to your co-founders, but remember that at the end of the day it's up to you to look out for yourself.
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One can keep digging to understand if it is worth all your efforts. But neither you or your team can be 100% sure about it. Thats why SteveJ said, you cannot connect dots looking forward.

I do meditation and it has done wonders for me. You should give a try.

http://www.ishafoundation.org/Ishakriya/Learn-online

-NJ
Are you telling me that the EU was against raising the retirement age for public servants? Or against firing them by the hundred thousands? Or reducing the pension for some of them? Or maybe stopping the pensions at most a year or three after people have died?

Are you telling me that only 5% of the Greek voters were against these things? Are you telling me that only 5% of the Greek voters are on the far left? Really?

Do you always lie this shamelessly?
I’m not in the field but this looks like a good overview to me. Thank you for sharing this!
A poem can mean whatever any reader wants it to. In math objective truth matters.
More on the presentation of data, but I like Stephen Few's work...
What does "bad with time" mean?

Are you working 70 hours/week on the project? Or work + project?

Either way, definitely stop what you're doing. Work less.

Also, "it hasn't felt like a partnership at all" -- is that to say he's not working on the project? I'd cease the partnership. I was in this situation recently, with a family member whom I trust. If they can't motivate themselves to work on it now, in its infancy, I can assure you they won't find the motivation later.

If you like the idea, "buy them out" or strike out on your own.
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Just four vague pieces of info can identify you, and your credit card
https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence combined with https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad
Music departments tend to be expensive in terms of faculty, sine most of their time is spent in private lessons. If an oboe studio has 10 students, that's essentially 10 hours a week in lessons alone. In that same 10 hours, an English professor might teach 60 students (if you figure 15 students/class with 2 hours MWF and a different 30 students Tue./Thu.). Those are numbers for a small school; at larger universities an English professor might lecture to 300 students a week in 10 hours, but that oboe professor is still seeing just 10 students.
> I am self taught my CS skills are not as solid as other developers

There are a lot of, like, regular companies in a lot of regular, not silicon valley cities, that hire regular developers working on boring software products for a very good salary. You'll very likely get a raise out of this. Don't freak out, work on your open source thing for a couple weeks while you set up five interviews. Once you have an offer you can step back and relax, and decide what you want to do.
One of the nice-but-sometimes-annoying things about the Stalker series was that the world was very grey, and lots of choices weren't even obviously choices at the time.

In Call of Pripyat, for example, how you treat a few characters in chance encounters can drastically change the late-game, and completely change the endings. Also, the choices aren't usually "Eat baby or save world", they're more "Do you help this guy, or this guy? We have only vaguely hinted what they're up to, so choose carefully."

Fallout 2 and Arcanum had some really well-done morality gameplay as well.
Getting a few false positives but it was a pretty quick hack
Not GP, but I moved to Costa Rica for a few months in 2013.

Depending where you go, you can get away with very little to no English.

I was in a (tiny) surfing town, Playa Grande. It gets a lot of foreign surfers, and so all the locals speak English. Many ex-pats live there year-round. Nearby is Tamarindo, very similar there, and a much bigger town.

I can order food and ask for directions and have basic conversations in spanish, if they slow down for me--but I found speaking spanish was always just for fun, and virtually never a necessity.
What does spivak have to do with Math 55? Math 55 assumes students can write a tolerable prose proof, it doesn't teach any particular style. Unless it changed in recent years.
Dividend vs. Deficit based thinking
The parent's suggestion would work if accessing the server by IP address directly, rather than DNS lookup. Assuming that the integrity of the data has been verified by the transport, I don't see the downside to the server providing the fingerprint in the HTML.
> Why don't all the databases come with such beautiful web interfaces?

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8pwdcYCIAA4xUC.jpg
Marketers usually won't understand what it takes to build a tech product. So, you need to make them understand that writing code requires solving complex problems and it takes time. Even the best programmers can't build shit overnight!

In fact you are the Rockstar of the project and it should stay that way (not taking credit away from your marketer partner).
You guys should talk this over drinks. Without the right camaraderie no startup has ever succeeded.

PS: I am not a programmer
Try TokuMX (MongoDB on steroids with ACID transactions) http://www.tokutek.com/tokumx-for-mongodb/
Sorry to here about what happened, but when one door closes another will open!

We're hiring senior/mid JS developers (Angular specifically) out in sunny San Francisco. If you want to relocate please send an email to Zak.Brown [at] target.com

Don't worry, the position is for a tech company recently bought by Target and not actually Target itself.

If relocating isn't your thing, I would always recommend freelancing, as JS is in demand. Be your own boss, you owe it to yourself to at least try it.
Words are less precise, so they can be used to approximate ideas we don't clearly understand.
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>Yeah, at the most successful football schools.

And it's the successful (at pulliung NCAA TV money) football schools that have coaches with million dollar contracts.

It's a nice bait and switch you constructed. A "trick play" if you will.
Redis is surprisingly difficult to run well. I think most early providers just weren't very sophisticated. The Elasticsearch providers are mostly a new generation.
The parent's "solution" assumes the browser is reading the markup and connecting directly to the SSH server.

As I've said, this is a fucking horrible idea from a security stand point.

This whole concept is bonkers given that client side certs already exist and already work, but if you have some reason to connect to SSH from a browser session (i.e. lets say you were providing a remote dev shell), a plain hyperlink that hands of the connection to the system's default "ssh" handler (i.e. a terminal app of some kind) is still the best solution here.

Let the SSH client worry about SSH keys. Let the browser worry about HTTP and HTML.
I know this is going to sound ridiculous and maybe this is the wrong topic. I'm at a spot where I wish there was a closer to turn key framework for my project.

I wrote 3 interdependent web servers, have them running on all the same virtual machine on digital ocean with varnish. Now I need to upgrade ubuntu and I don't want them to go down. So, apparently I need at least 3 machines if not more. One to run varnish or something similar, to direct to the other 2. Some way to bleed people over to one of the 2 machines. Once everyone is on one machine I can upgrade the unused machine. After that I can bleed them all back and then upgrade the other.

Is this too small a niche? Is the answer I should have used "google cloud"? It just seems like each step is so much work. I certainly learned a lot (vagrant, ansible, and other stuff) although all of that knowledge will be probably obsolete before I need to do this again.

Is there something I should have looked at? Sandstorm seems one level down. Like it's more like a replacement for the old lamp/cpanel isps.
Your link is about a 2013 budget surplus and not 2014. The reason eurostat did those adjustment was too eliminate one off expenditures that would not continue. And they didn't continue in 2014.
Ask HN: i'm not chasing my passion and feel like a failure
i work for a company planning to ipo. i haven't fully vested yet (60%)

i hate my job. i'm not reaching my full potential and every day i hate going into work.

i want to start my own company. execution plan is already set out. product is being built on the side but will need my full attention to flourish. plus, it makes me feel alive.

tldr; i want to quit but am too big of a pussy to make the leap and if i leave now, money will be left on the table (and i'll be missing out on the action that comes along with ipo'ing). #goldenhandcuffs
Well, actually you do. Only work to work with one, is to install it (or have it installed already).

You might argue that that's a "compiler" that you install, but:

a) a programming language is a purely theoritical concept without a compiler

b) for some languages language+compiler is one and the same. Either they don't have a spec, or there's only one compiler. Swift is such a case.
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Which will unfortunately prevent yourself from running sudo in the future, at least on Ubuntu. /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0.
If its not-negotiable, then get over it, and use a language that meets your requirements.
Any plans to work with Tokulek(http://www.tokutek.com) and use fractal trees for indexing?
White Bear , S2E2 was as good as I could imagine a modern version of the Twilight Zone can be. Blurring modern day life, SciFi, surrealism, entertainment, and 4th wall breaking oddities.
Out of curiosity, how do you start a game on Cordial Minuet? At first glance it appears to just be a bunch of gibberish on a landing page.
Note that style of Pyhton uses block/strict IO (not streaming/lazy) which makes it rather inefficient if any part of he process exits early (due to error or because the user only wanted the first line of output). Most common command line programs (and simple Haskell programs) are streaming not block.
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I work for fortune 300 non tech company (despite their NASDAQ listing). Our pension program has been frozen - no new employees can join and years of service no longer accrue additional benefit. There has not been a 401k match in four years, the continuing education program ended with the merger 10 years ago. And the healthcare is marginally better than Obamacare. And raises. Last year they were 0.75%.

A startup looks better and better.
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Unix has

find . -exec grep $pattern {} \;

but `grep -r` is easier to write.
A fair amount of people commute daily from Tianjin to Beijing, so I think it is a fair comparison.

The commute (train) takes about 1 hour (per direction, so 2 hours per day), and is good for people with offices/homes near the terminating station, but not so good for people that need an additional 1-2 subway rides to their office.

One hour commute times are pretty typical for largish modern Chinese cities.
Hey Thanks for posting - I'm thinking of doing the same in Costa Rica from Dallas,TX for a bit. What would a decent house to rent go for in the area?
Not at the moment, but we're on it -- see https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3579.
You could trivially have a wrapper program that added that to every script file before calling runhaskell.
For me this goes doubly so when I happen to be walking somewhere (in NYC) and see a cab driving past with its light lit - I might have normally walked the 15 blocks, but since there a cab right there, and its available right now.... its almost like an impulse-buy on the transportation.
You don't fix MongoDB and all its data destroying habits (as documented by aphyr and a dozen blog posts) by replacing the index.

It's rotten from the core, poorly designed on every layer, and has caused many companies great grief.

I wouldn't touch it or any of it's descendants with a 10 foot pole.
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> most of the problem is your own thoughts reinforcing themselves

This has often helped me in dire situations when you need some validation on the choices you've made.
Who cares? Let them figure it out for themselves for once, self control is only learned through binging and gorging on the sweet stuff until it hurts.

I loopholed my way out of school in grade 7, and for two years after that, I did nothing but watch anime, the crudest and sickest misogynist anime you could lay your eyes on; you would assume I learned nothing from that, but you'd be wrong.

Turns out that if you watch enough anime, you start picking up Japanese whether you like it or not. That binge taught me a skill that helped me, in addition to the computational skills required to pirate so much anime on mere ADSL, get a first job at 17, with income competitive to that of both of my legal guardians, and every last one of my contemporaries.

No matter how much you think they're just loitering around with no aim, they have passions, and soon they'll have developed pre-frontal cortices that can bring them closer to what they love.

It won't have anything to do with your strict prohibition of everything they enjoy. What will save them is those precious daylight hours they spend truant from your mind-numbing institutions.
I use these units frequently when measuring quantities of bytes for which there's a significant difference between the power of ten and the corresponding power of two. I like that these units are unambiguous.

From what I've seen, very few of my colleagues know about this distinction and understand how to use these.
I have been building a app store/site for indie apps/games in the past few months, I am hoping that a smaller community would give indie developers greater outreach.
Isaiah Berlin, "A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli" (1971) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1971/nov/04/a-speci...

> If you object to the political methods recommended because they seem to you morally detestable, if you refuse to embark upon them because they are, to use Ritter’s word, erschreckend, too frightening, Machiavelli has no answer, no argument. In that case you are perfectly entitled to lead a morally good life, be a private citizen (or a monk), seek some corner of your own. But, in that event, you must not make yourself responsible for the lives of others or expect good fortune; in a material sense you must expect to be ignored or destroyed.

> In other words you can opt out of the public world, but in that case he has nothing to say to you, for it is to the public world and to the men in it that he addresses himself.

> Once you embark on a plan for the transformation of a society you must carry it through no matter at what cost: to fumble, to retreat, to be overcome by scruples is to betray your chosen cause. To be a physician is to be a professional, ready to burn, to cauterize, to amputate; if that is what the disease requires, then to stop halfway because of personal qualms, or some rule unrelated to your art and its technique, is a sign of muddle and weakness, and will always give you the worst of both worlds. And there are at least two worlds: each of them has much, indeed everything, to be said for it; but they are two and not one. One must learn to choose between them and, having chosen, not look back.

> There is more than one world, and more than one set of virtues: confusion between them is disastrous. One of the chief illusions caused by ignoring this is the Platonic-Hebraic-Christian view that virtuous rulers create virtuous men. This, according to Machiavelli, is not true. Generosity is a virtue, but not in princes. A generous prince will ruin the citizens by taxing them too heavily, a mean prince (and Machiavelli does not say that meanness is a good quality in private men) will save the purses of the citizens and so add to public welfare. A kind ruler—and kindness is a virtue—may let intriguers and stronger characters dominate him, and so cause chaos and corruption.
Rediscovering Koblitz (inventor of ECC ) two decades later ?!
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The English colloquialisms "a couple" or "a few" are generally accepted to mean 1 < x < 5.
This page has some info on the differences between the regular edition and Pro. https://www.google.com/work/mapsearth/products/earthpro.html
If you have a decent paying job and are supporting yourself, I don't see that as a failure. We all dream of going out and making our own startup, but in reality it doesn't work out for everyone. Sometimes it is safer to keep working at your not so great job until you have more room to work on your own stuff.
A Dark Room is actually a counter example of this. It more or less mainlines you, but makes a point of it. You cannot reverse it. Yet, I was glad to find out that I was not the only one to try.
Generally speaking Swift is not available anywhere except Apple's proprietary platforms. [1]

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/242952/can-sw...
You're doing it now by posting! I think in some ways most engineers are a little introverted. Sometimes you just have to muster up the energy to start a conversation. Find people you're comfortable with and go from there.
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