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Hey man, I'm around your age and I can really relate to what you're going through. I'm glad you posted here and I hope you've read the other great comments in the thread. There's a lot of good advice here.

One of the hardest tasks to do in life is to kill a dream, but don't forget that you have the power to create NEW dreams for yourself and pursue those. This dream may be over, but you are free to pursue anything now!

Right now it sounds like you need to hit the 'pause' button on this startup and look after your most immediate needs - a hungry, homeless developer is going to have a much harder time building anything than a developer with enough money to eat.

If building startups is your passion - try your best to get yourself in a position (like your partner) where you aren't reliant on your startup for your rent and food - then having a startup fail won't bring you down with it.

Best of luck to you from this point forward - the only place you can go is up from here :) Wishing you all the best!
> ... Jedi as celibate defenders of justice makes far more sense

Agreed. People (at least human people) are strongly hardwired to see to the well being of close kindred, specially their own offspring. Trying to renounce to wordly affairs and commit to a goal and an ideal that is greater than yourself while trying to raise a normal family would be insane.

On the other hand, there is no reason to think that a whole family/clan cannot be formally committed to such goals and ideals. So, I think the new taboo should be that Jedis can only marry other Jedis. And the consequences of one member of your particular family unit going Sith may be catastrophic.
its considered acceptable for a candidate when called for an interview to ask about the required dress code. I did this many times and worked well.

You don't know who will be present at the interview, e.g. it could be upper management and therefore you should dress accordingly. Asking beforehand also helps make sure you don't overdress which could make you feel uncomfortable during the interview and have a negative impact.
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From: Rolf Bjaanes <rolf@gitorious.org>

Subject: Gitorious.org is dead, long live Gitorious.org

Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:14:46 +0000

Hi cnst,

I’m Rolf Bjaanes, CEO of Gitorious, and you are receiving this email because you have a user on gitorious.org.

As you may know, Gitorious was acquired by GitLab [1] about a month ago, and we announced that Gitorious.org would be shutting down at the end of May, 2015.

After the announcement we talked to the Archive Team [2] about how to preserve Gitorious.org and its data for the future. A member of the Archive Team graciously offered to host gitorious.org as a read-only archive on Gitorious.org and GitLab agreed to allow to use the Gitorious.org domain name for this.

This is a huge benefit to anyone depending on gitorious.org as repositories will remain available at the same location. Cloning and fetching will continue to work as well. Projects you may depend on will stay around even if it isn’t moved to GitLab.

In order to build the archive we need to make Gitorious.org read-only prior to the shutdown date. This ensures that no new data is coming in while we are migrating. Pushing changes and creating new repositories will therefore stop working from the 15th of May, 2015.

…

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/

[2] http://archiveteam.org/

…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138419

https://gitlab.com/snippets/4413
Make it so I can put a scaled down/specialized version of Linux on it once it is otherwise outdated and I can still get more life from it.
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Interesting, I hadn't heard anything about that case (and it's very obviously rubbish!).
> So, If my knowledge were expanded I would think NoSQL is an equally valid option, and not a worse one?

For some things NoSQL would be a better option. For most things SQL remains the better option.

> I hesitate to do any more expansion because of this panel held in 2014 [0] asking weather we are in a big data bubble, and probably answering "yes", but I wasn't there.

We were in a dot-com bubble around 97-2000, maybe the internet is a bad idea also?

> Can you also have SQL and be NoSQL?

By definition, no. But some NoSQL databases do support an alternative to SQL with some of SQL's properties (e.g. JSON-like syntax).
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When I bought my first "nice" bike a few years ago, the guy wheeled it out to me and said, "This is a vehicle, so ride it like a vehicle. Yes, even at stop signs." Then he warned me about Escalades.
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1. You have not failed in life
2. The tone of the post seems like you have emotionally accepted that your current endeavor has failed and you are looking for external validation - but lets keep that aside for a moment -- Are you getting pull from customers about what you are building ? Is it growing at say >10% monthly rate? If not and your energy is running out .. Take a deep breath be pragmatic and think where do you want to leave an impact

It could be in the current area or another one and it is for you to decide. Hope this helps
I don't consider them to be much of an influence.

If you can gain something from the course, take it for the knowledge. Don't expect it to make much difference with most employers.

Some legacy businesses may place more weight on certifications and courses, but I always look for relevant experience and demonstrated skills over pretty much anything on paper.

If you are strictly trying to make an impression on hiring managers, your time would be better spent creating a project or becoming involved with an open-source project that would allow you to demonstrate your skills and gain relevant experience with that domain.
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Obligatory link to the xkcd that had this figured out a while ago:

http://xkcd.com/413/
> Wear a helmet. They not only save you from dangerous environmental situations, but they save you from yourself.

Given the CPSC test procedure for bicycle helmets, I seriously doubt it:

http://www.helmets.org/cpscstd.htm

>> 1203.15 Positional stability test

Test that the helmet doesn't roll off when a 8.8 lb weight in a guided free fall from a distance of 2 feet strikes the helmet.

>> 1203.16 Dynamic strength of retention system test

Uses the same weight and guided free fall distance.

>> 1203.17 Impact attenuation test

>> (b)(3) A guided free fall of the helmet on a weighted headform from a minimum height of 6.56 ft onto a flat anvil and a guided free fall of the helmet on a weighted headform from a minumum height of 3.94 ft onto a hemispherical and curbstone anvils

Regarding the last test procedure, that would be like testing the helmet on an adult male of average height, where, while standing, suddenly suffered a stroke and fell over. It certainly wouldn't protect you in a crash at speed or with a motor vehicle.

If you want real head protection while riding a bicycle, then you need to wear a motorcycle helmet (preferably one that meets the Snell standard).
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The problem with combating climate change is not money, but the science having been turned into a political football by right-wing activists.
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And it almost certainly would not have been spent on those things even if the missions were cancelled.

It's like getting angry at software companies because they're not spending all their profits on solving climate change. The existence of a problem doesn't mean that the entirety of society and technological progress must pause until it's solved.
Most modern styles of animal farming just use more water (per kg or kcal of resulting human food), especially those that are growing human-edible crops like corn and soy in order to feed them to farm animals.
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I'm sure there are use cases where both RethinkDB and Postgresql can equally provide a solution to some problem, but is it fair to compare them so blindly where one has ACID guarantees and the other one does not?
"These are the reasons she cited: 1) I 'looked more like I was about to go clubbing than to an interview.' 2) I 'had a huge run in my tights' 3) I was late."

I'm going to make a giant leap of faith here and suggest that the person who denied her the job was probably a female.

I simply cannot envision a guy telling a girl he wasn't going to hire her because of a run in her tights.
You don't need to do fourier transforms to do this. You can do it yourself and it is quite fun actually. It has been 13 years since I last did it but here is how you start:

1. Have a set of interesting graphs. sin(x), tan(x), log(x), e^x, 1/x, polynomials, hyperbola, sqrt(x)

2. Learn the effects of replacing x with f(x) -> sin(f(x)), log(f(x)), e^f(x). This is IMHO the most fun part. How will sin(1/x) look like? How will log(mod(sqrt(x))) look like?

3. Have a set of 'tricks'. What is the difference between sin(x) and sin(x) - A (ans. it moves the whole graph downward on y-scale). How to create mirror? (ans. take modulus). How to enlarge a graph? (ans. multiply with a constant).

4. Tackle the actual problem, edge by edge.
So you are against all other forms of basic research as well? You don't think we should have built the LHC either?
The people working at those stores are really just a random smattering of warm bodies to fill a position. It appears you ran into the type of person who wants to play macho man from a limited knowledge set - don't take it personally. Go back the next day and a different person might [know exactly where the bits are, pass you off to someone else in the store, not know what a screwdriver is, or be curious about what you're fixing and recommend a different place you can actually obtain them]. Companies wanted replaceable minimum wage workers and that's what they got.
That's a reasonable assessment and I agree.
My top 5:-

Dog Day Afternoon, Clue, Murder By death, Fearless Vampire killers and Down By Law.

As is usually the case with me, next time someone creates a similar thread the list will be totally different :)
Or they could take that same amount of money away from things that aren't furthering knowledge of the universe and research that leads to new advancements that historically have had a rather impressive impact on the technology available to the average person.

You know like from military minded funding, hell that amount would barely make an impact there. Especially since more efficient safer nuclear power, which continued research into nuclear battery construction could potentially contribute to, could itself help provide a source of power to help slow climate change.
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And then connecting it with this email reveals the damning evidence: https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/49813

Publicly they were individual donations. This shows the intent of the group to donate a sum of $50k along with detailing how they were going break their donation up to skirt the law.

They deliberately structured their donations to sidestep the $5k limitation to campaigns they're subject to.
I have to say, this is a very impressive and refreshing state of affairs!

Compare it to identi.ca, which one day decided to completely remove everyone’s accounts, even without being acquired!

P.S. Gitorious at one point was the official place for the unofficial FreeBSD repository and many clones.
I tried to use it to switch to Emacs, and was disappointed like each time I try to switch to Emacs.

Among the problems and warts:

- The Spacemacs doc is on their repo, not in Emacs! (except if you manually fire a buffer with SPC f f ~/.emacs.d/doc/DOCUMENTATION.md)

- Emacs has an interactive interface for editing configuration variables. You will arrive to this interface from the Emacs doc, but it does not have Spacemacs-like keybindings and I'm not even sure it's supposed to work with Spacemacs

- I could not find the doc for ex/vim commands. I suspect there is no equivalent to ":h :foo"

- In vim, it is possible from any mode to get back to the normal mode by typing 'ESC'. In Emacs, C-g aborts a keybinding. However those two are not unified by Spacemacs.

- I use vim with several buffers. However launching "emacsclient -t foo.txt bar.txt" will open them sequentially, and I can not use :n / :N to go back and forth.

- The fact that there are several interactive interfaces for switching buffers and/or opening files is confusing. Typing a file-name in helm-mini creates a "fundamental" buffer that is not a file. I lost some work because of this.

If there were just one or two of these warts and inconveniences, I would get use to them or fix them, but right now there are a little too much. That said, the premise is really attractive, so I can only hope these problems will get fixed over the years so that I can go back to it someday.
This concept of "drop everything and study only the most 'important' areas" is misguided. Research doesn't work that way.

There are already an enormous number of talent scientists studying climate change, how would putting nuclear battery scientists on this project help? Are climate scientists short on resources? Better yet are they short on resources because NASA wants to produce nuclear batteries.

Finally there is the concept of cross pollination and random discovery. For example, CERN scientists invented the modern cell phone touch screen, super conductivity was discovered by accident, methods developed by materials scientists to study liquids is used in robotics. You kill off this kind of creativity and random advancement as you narrow the scope of scientists.
You took the words right out of my mouth. =) Just a couple points to add:

- Move somewhere with sane and/or regulated PTO policies[1]. This is a huge plus in the EU. In Germany, I get about 34 days paid vacation days per year (including federal holidays), and that's even considered a bit low by German standards. It's enough for me to seriously consider never working full-time in the US again. And don't get me started on so-called "unlimited" vacation policies in the US. (As a corollary, if I ever do work as a normal employee in the US again, a proper vacation policy will be on my list of must-haves.)

- As much as I love trains, flying is usually quite a bit cheaper for most of the places that I want to travel to in and around Europe. Long-distance bus lines (think Greyhound) are also extremely cheap now that the market's been deregulated.

- The main disadvantage (and one that people should take into serious consideration before moving overseas) of course is that I'm so far away from family. Even with so much vacation time, it's pretty difficult both financially and logistically to make it home more than once per year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_empl...
One thing that I think the HN crowd will appreciate:

* Patent Grant: Many of you had concerns and questions around the PATENTS file. We pushed a new version of the grant[1].

The updated PATENTS file is https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/PATENTS.

I still think it's ridiculous that people thought the previous PATENTS file was a Trojan horse with nefarious intent, but it's nice to see them making their intention unambiguous.

[1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1639473982937255/updating-ou...
What do you mean by "original"? Sounds like you're not referring to Peter Jackson's version. Can you be more specific?
Except it wasn't mongodb that did that. People had the same knock against MySQL with MyISAM.
I'm sure this epiphany now has you wear a helmet in your car, where risk of life-threatening head-trauma is significantly higher than when riding a bicycle?
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Probably just a large sugary beverage having its revenge on Mike Bloomberg.

http://www.businessinsider.com/reason-for-the-global-bloombe...

But if you want to cripple the financial system, Bloomberg's a good single point of failure to attack. That and Seamless, which also had a hiccup today.
React Native has a really low barrier for entry, it's easy to knock something together quickly though it's not ready for certain kinds of more complex apps yet IMO. The community is putting out new components and plugins quickly though, which is encouraging.
I had absolutely no idea that there were previously such restrictions. Registering as an arms dealer to export an algorithm?! Astonishing.
There is some opposition to using nuclear material on space missions, since space travel isn't safe. The biggest fear would be a rocket blowing up at some perfect point in the launch to end up spreading plutonium-238 over a wide area.

I don't think that fear is in the end warranted, but as fears of such things go, it is more justified than many.
Doesn't Plutonium-238 occurs naturally along the Thorium decay chain? I believe that it's fairly easy (relatively speaking) to capture 238 from the Thorium nuclear reactor process.

A Thorium-based nuclear reactor prototype has already been successfully run for years at Oakridge National Laboratory- seeing the value of Plutonium-238, it might justify the cost of building a full grade Pu238-extraction nuclear reactor.
The original paper graphs devices on a chip: 1 (1960), 8 (1962) and 32 (1965).
Since then its become a meme for exponential computer capacity growth.
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If you read a follow up email here: https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/49813

You will be aware of the damning evidence. They intended to donate $50k. They are subject to a $5k donation limitation. They are deliberately skirting the law.
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Indeed. Unfortunately, HN doesn't allow users to edit links once they are submitted. :-(
Of course they love fair use, i.e. it's fair for them to charge for every single use.
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Wikileaks has been like this for a while
Well, the K520 is a single AIB with two discrete GPUs on it, each being a GK104 with 4GB (which seems to match the spec of the K5000). A g2.2x instance has a single GPU - ie half a K520 - assigned to it.

Your claim surprised me enough to stand an instance up and take a look for myself. Sure enough, they report having 4 K520 devices.
I like that once you insert the tip into the head of the screw, the screw will stay snug on the driver until you pull it out. You can load a screw on and then with the screwdriver place it anywhere you want it with only one hand!
I don't completely (or even mostly!) agree with the author's politics or culture views.

That said, there is a still a lot here that resonates with me and, I suspect, with others.

Tech is a pretty derpy industry.
We must buy different bit sets. I go through a lot of dewalt bit sets in all shapes and sizes of plastic yellow boxes and I have never seen a security torx bit included. What bit sets do you purchase?
> "An LLC is pretty often abused for fraud"

Do you have any stats on "legit" LLCs vs. "fraud" LLCs? I would imagine that the VAST majority of LLCs are started by honest people just looking to create something new. There will always be social hackers in all fields of human endeavor looking to exploit loopholes for personal gain, but my assumption is that they are a small minority.

It seems like the benefits of LLCs to a society would outweigh the negatives.
Billboards are advertisements. Wikileaks is more akin to a giant warehouse full of junk that 95% is useless but you can sift through if you so choose.
It's true, MS cares more about back-compat than nearly anybody else. I was thinking there more of the "they'll use our platform whether they like it or not, because where else are they gonna go?" attitude that led to debacles like the Long IE6 Winter.
I'm the opposite. I've done about 2.5 months of React Native now. I'm pretty certain React Native is what you want to roll with. Anything you can do in Objective-C can be done in React Native (since you can create Native modules anywhere RN falls short). You could see MAJOR improvement in development time. I'm not a mobile developer and I tried writing a mobile app a while back - I'm completely useless. With React Native, I've made huge strides in developing a fairly complex app with a completely custom look and feel. I'm sure if I had stuck to native coding I'd either never finish, or this app would take me an order of magnitude more time to complete.

If you want an example of how awesome React Native is, go check out Apple's example app "AVCam" then take a look at the example code for my react-native-camera module on GitHub.
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I guess you are right. It wouldn't make sense to make a rocket that can withstand vertical AND horizontal forces. That would be like launching a brick I guess.

Thanks for the pointer.
I believe the upcoming .NET Native applies only to Windows Store apps, not to Windows Desktop apps, which I find it is a pity.
Is there a desktop equivalent to this? 'Cuz I'm usually at my desk when I'm using git, not my phone, and that'd be really handy. :)
Addison lee had 4500 drivers at their time of sale. I don't think the number of uber drivers is disclosed, but it is at least 162,000 active drivers as of this past December: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/22/n...
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This is very good addition. Thanks a lot.
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Thanks for posting. I just joined!

Oddly, I was searching for React Meetup groups just a couple weeks ago and the group didn't show up. (From San Francisco, search for "React"). I see that you were Founded Mar 15, 2015. I wonder if I just missed it or Meetup takes a while to index new groups.

Anyways, looking forward to the Meetups!
Indeed. I have hope that people are starting to realise it.

A lot of people would dismiss it as a conspiracy theory, it's certainly not as elaborate as that: it is merely human nature doing the worst that it possibly can. These people genuinely believe that they are in the right. That's the most progress I have made: I'm still uncertain as to how to re-educate them.
There's nothing wrong with that attire. In fact, it's not worth commenting on further. The interviewers have a poor understanding of the state of the industry, if that was the actual reasoning (which is doubtful).
>> just that the reasons to not use it aren't rationally assigned.

What's irrational about not wanting to store your personal wealth in a currency where the value fluctuates constantly, many times by multiple percentages points in a single day?

If you don't keep a wallet with some BTC in it, then what good is it? If you're just using it as a means to transfer dollars around, you're definitely in a niche market -- and it could be argued that the rational one is the guy staying the hell away from BTC.
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If the NSA were to go around shouting "look look you're insecure!! Get more secure!" Then yes I would support it. It doesn't do that though.
It might ease your mind knowing that your lisp mention made me mirror the webpages. Maybe if you read it beforehand you'd write a different comment, and I'd never read it myself.
I have a handy little computer repair set made by Tekton[1]. All its Torx bits are security ones. (note they call them "Star" and "Tamper Star" for trademark reasons I suppose)

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