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If your career starts out as a developer, there are going to be things you have to work on that you find no excitement in (gross generalisation of course, but true for the overwhelming majority of developers I'd say).

It wasn't until I got tasked with writing something I had no interest in as part of a recruitment process that I realised programming would always be a hobby for me, not a profession.

The sooner one realises that, the better I'd say!
Sounds like you got some nice material for a blog post about the subject?
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Yes, this is basically artificial pareidolia. The interesting thing is that this technique would work on any kind of similarly structured neural net.
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It's an odd situation because there are very few hotel rooms in manhattan beach to begin with.
I understood what you said, I just didn't know that there were tools in existence that are as good as or better than tarsnap at the archiving part which allow you to specify the storage location.

Edit: I used 'specify the storage location' very loosely. I.e., I realise it could mean simply piping the archive data to yet another program in the shell.
Keep your important business logic server side if it needs be protected. No serious web business lets their propriety magic happen client side, obfuscated or not.
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Sorry, it was just Twitter, A/B testing the change. I've heard about A/B testing, but I never thought I'd be in one. Hard to tell if something is actually getting changed.
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This sort of 'illness' should be supported, rather than treated.
I'm really curious about this. There are places like say Balboa Island and Newport Beach that have had hundreds of vacation rentals since I was a kid in the 1970s. The same is true of Venice Beach in LA. I would have assumed the same was true of Manhattan Beach in LA as well. Yet apparently those will all be banned soon.

In fact you can just go on the waybackmachine and look at craigslist listing from 10+ years ago and see there were short term rentals happening. I suppose those were technically illegal.

Maybe it was just a matter of amount. Before AirBnB there were less of them or less people using them?
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Will current law work? Disney won't be punished because it's just outsourcing some business. Tata won't be punished because Tata didn't displace American workers in Tata company (all from H-1 I guess?). So company avoid punishment anyway?
Request for startup: Neural Network on demand artist.

E.g. SaaS that takes your images and use neural network transformations. Can you make a portrait of my that I look like king.
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Mostly these tools would expect a local storage location and you'd schedule scp/rsync/whatever to copy to the destination of your choice.
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At last JavaScript is enjoyable and doesn't completely suck.
Yay!!! Choices, choices, choices. The future is bright and full of opportunities.
> But OP has expressed suicidal ideation and that is always something that requires help...

He is looking for help from people here. And you are sending him away to a doctor? He ask here, because he think he can find people here who can identify with him, who have faced similar situation and he wants to hear how they came on top of such situations. He is looking for motivation and encouragement from like minded people. But people just shrug off and say "Nah man, you are just depressed, just go see a doctor".
I understand that some people are genuinely concerned. But I think they are missing the point. I think OP should be getting more responses like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9736526..
VRBO also before airbnb.

Coronado CA also has a 30day minimum.
This is important because that could mean the beginning of the end of JavaScript.

But also it means the end of the native apps. Apparently Microsoft and Google are playing hard against Apple.
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On a side note, I wonder if one day, 5G, or 6G even, will allow us to have Complete Wireless Broadband. No more Last Mile Wired connection. No longer need G.Fast or VDSL2. Just Wireless connection that gives you 100Mbps ( Real world ) with unlimited data.
what a rant. Spring has many many useful stuff going on boosting production (dependency injection? easy integration testing?). Just because your learning curve is steep doesn't mean that a product is bad. XML configuration is in the past you can do everything annotation based. If you don't like annotations maybe you don't like Java? If your problem is with Java GO get another language ;)
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I am struggling to find the difference between jspm and npm + webpack or npm + grunt/gulp + browserify. Is it just conventions around ES6?
> I feel like eating a bullet would make the world a better place.

Thoughts like this are always a significant cause for concern. If you found a mole that was raised and had changed shape you would see a doctor. If you found a lump on a testicle you would see a doctor. This is similar.

Your treatment options should be a broad package:

1) change the situation

2) give you the tools and skills needed to change the situation

3) support you while you're getting those skils and making those changes

(2) here is not just about your software skills, or your interview skills. It should include some stuff about how to recieve criticism (take what's useful; ignore the rest).

I often push Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. That might be a good idea, but you have some complex interdependant stuff going on and CBT is more effective if you just concentrate on one thing.

There are other therapies that may help, but they're harder to find. DBT is well known and might be useful.

You make several reference to your perception of your programming skill. You describe bug hunting as low skill. Try to frame that as specialist skill, that helps you avoid mistakes in your own code. Do you program in your own time?
ofcourse and they won't. Companies never pay the initial fine...
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Ask HN: My lawyer has asked for 5% equity. Is that fair?
I'm about to launch our site for my funded startup.

I've worked with a senior lawyer on a previous project. Now he's asking for 5% and $1k per month retainer. We need some facilitation in negotiating with the investor, shareholder agreement, founder agreement, site terms, site privacy policy, single contract for all suppliers. He's also offered to give off the cuff thoughts on matters as they arise. We don't need per-supplier or per-client contracts.

He's indicated he's open to a lower %. What's fair? What do other startups give and what do they get in return?
They do? I imagine they already have a way to block shows with sex. So if you're past that and can see the show at all, it seems moot.

Also, all these things are "good ideas", but can you imagine going to your boss and saying. "I have three-9s of the cases covered, and for the vast majority we simply refuse to show slides and almost nobody notices ... But ... I need another six months of tweaking the facial detection to get to four-9s before we ship it. To make sure nobody seems a funny face when they pause the video."

Have you considered what the expected revenue differential between the two systems is (with and without funny-face detection) and have you compared that to the cost of the time spent in a meeting discussing it, let alone the work to implement it, and then to the opportunity cost of not doing other stuff?

These comments about potential difficulties are bike-shedding in action. Nobody has anything to add so they add nothing. I'm sure we could all imagine cases where there were complex restrictions, and that'd be totally cool if these was an article about rule-engines. But it's not.
This introduction is both dated and timeless at the same time. Sigh. Part of me wishes I was back in school.
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The entire idea of valuation is to indeed capture the value of current and future profits- it's just that the value of future profits is reduced in proportion to how far away they are.

Investors lose the value of the money invested for the amount of time that it is invested in exchange for future rewards, which are discounted the further out they are.

I don't know where those numbers came from.
This is the kind of stuff that you just can't let happen if you're Dropbox. There have to be people in the company that read tech news regularly.
Worst case you issue a statement that the release will be delayed indefinitely (or won't happen) due to the integration of Hackpad after the acquisition etc.

Just not answering, not answering mail etc. is the worst thing you can do.
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I've barely given it any thought, but one approach would just be to modify the try! macro to dump a backtrace to stderr when an Err is encountered in debug mode. The backtrace itself could be generated the same way that they're generated for C++.
There are seven billion people and maybe 200 'powers'. What's the chance any, let alone yours is doing the exact thing, in the exact way, that you prioritize highest?

Also, agitation is what we call speech we don't like. If we do, it's lobbying, or raising awareness, etc.

The test of a society is if speech is allowed (not forbidden) even if the powers-that-be consider it agitation.
"The team notes that the idea here is not to replace JavaScript, by the way, but to allow many more languages to be compiled for the Web."

Yeah, good luck with that. Ta ta Javascript :-)
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My exact pain points with Tcl are:
(1) No types at all, everything is a string. If strings are all you have to deal with that may be enough but it gets hairy fast for everything else.
(2) Dynamic scoping rules and `uplevel` & Co. Do I really have to say anything about that?
> the perception of constant "war".

It's not a perception though. Short-term trading opportunities are zero-sum. To win trades you either must undercut your competitor by trading for less edge, or beat him to realizing the opportunity by either predicting better or getting faster, usually some combination of all those. All of that means effectively working your ass off to take food off another man's table before he takes it from yours. That probably happened less in the pit days because there was a camaraderie between the locals facing off against paper. Nowadays I never see the guy I'm trying to beat into the queue. We aren't going out for beers. It's just business.

I'd say being successful in this business feels less like war and more like riding a bear. You never get to rest and there's a constant fear that someone, somewhere is hungrier and smarter than you are, plus the bear might snap and eat you.

>Traders are generally hired for the trading strategies they have been exposed to and the potential value within. There are very few individuals who create new and successful ideas.

The better firms tend to hire people out of school and train them up so they can do novel research. It's a smarter long-term play. I agree that few people are up to the task, even the best and brightest. It does amuse me that some guy a couple blocks away probably runs a super similar model with a different cool code-name and we battle each other for years in Sisyphean fashion. I'll never even know his name. A zipless fuck.

I don't like the author's characterization of HFTs as "parasites." Someone can be a middle-man and still add value. Market users don't need to trade with HFT dealers. They can easily work their own orders or wait around in a block trading facility hoping to find a natural match instead. For most of them, it's a bad trade-off. Even though the HFTs make money on average, trading with them costs less than becoming an expert in market microstructure, finding good hedges, facing non-execution risk, etc. CarMax makes money when they buy/sell your car in the same way, but it's usually more convenient or cheaper than doing it yourself.

In a way, HFT is like insurance in that they only provide a valuable service when they lose, but overall people prefer paying for certainty. Almost every winning trade I make is one where two natural counter parties could have found one another had they waited a short period of time or were in the right place/product, but I lose on a huge % of trades as well. If HFTs weren't in a competitive environment or if one firm had a clairvoyant pricing model, this would be problematic but unfortunately for me, that's not the case.
My thought exactly. Depression is a serious illness that can kill.

It is hard to give advice on the OP's professional situation (do you underestimate your ability? do you need a better way to learn? should you be looking at different talents and try a different career? no idea), but the way OP responds to his situation is very concerning.

If you do suffer from depression or some other psychological condition, it's entirely possible that that's the very thing that's holding you back. Talk to some experts, and deal with that. It might solve a lot of your problems.
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Maybe I don't understand the legals fully. My experience comes from being on the hiring side. Our HR department were very keen that we kept detailed notes so that the decision not to hire could be justified in the case of a tribunal or suing situation. For what it's worth, it did make me question my motives and felt that it ensured I gave every candidate a fair shot.
Cookpad from Japan?

https://speakerdeck.com/a_matsuda/the-recipe-for-the-worlds-...

50 million unique user / month
15,000 Req/Sec

I posted this awhile ago but didn't pulled much attention

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9161220
While I think this is beautiful, conceptually, I really am a bit terrified of the potential of this in reverse (the neural network for processing/understanding an image). With Google releasing their 'Photos' app, this network is about to get a direct pipeline for machine learning imagery to accelerate everything – my main fear would be the potential for this technology to be employed by weaponized drones able to scan a scene (with, eventually, incredibly high resolution cameras and microphones that far surpass human capability) and identify every single object/person in realtime (also at a rate that humans are incapable of).

Of course, there is great utility to be had as well, it just scares me to think about what could be done with this technology, in a mature form, if used for violent purposes.
I've never heard to lawyers take equity for their services - is this common?
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Strange, it seems like that would be a clear case in favor of them being employees.
Try something like this?

http://www.appacademy.io/#p-home

JavaScript/Ruby are very employable skills and there's no shortage of places that need them. If you have the time, I'd give it a try since there's nothing to lose (you don't pay them if you don't get a job).
Chrome went to a release every 5 weeks, Firefox stayed on a 6 week cycle.
Depends What are you getting out of it?
A top law firm took 0.25% pre-funding with no retainer in a previous startup I launched, and with that they agreed to delay all bills until a funding event so they took on risk for that price. His ask is way too high and it would in my opinion be irresponsible for you to commit 5% + 12k/year as a retainer.
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I wouldn't give more than 2% personally
Is it a standalone tool or a web based offering?
5% equity is high and unusual for a lawyer.
The term "UX choreograpy" is good, but "functional animations" seems easier to sell to clients if you're a UX designer

There has been several blogs about UX mentioning Disney lately. This one is the best so far.
That comic doesn't hold if all the major parties support the new standard.
If you do go this way, don't forget registering your trade mark and employment contracts.

If he will be available for a certain number of hours per month during the time that he is a shareholder, that could be quite valuable.
No. Don't do it. He is asking for money - which shortens your runway AND a significant chunk of equity. In other words, he is extracting money from the business and asking for equity for the privilege of doing so.

The items you listed are not worth having a lawyer at all.

Look on places like docstoc for standard boilerplate agreements that will work just fine.

Look at wordpress.com's TOS https://en.wordpress.com/tos/ which they have made available under CC license.

If you really feel like you need a lawyer to draft a document or two. Pay for it with cash and get it free and clear.

Ask yourself this: Which is more valuable, a lawyer which will not build the business or a sales person or a marketing person or.. or a developer.

A lawyer is the least valuable profession to bring on board. An accountant would be better. But a lawyer for standard legal agreements, examples of which are freely available? No.

But if you feel inclined to pass out money foolishly let me know; I could use some.
Ask how much he wants per month with no equity. If you give him equity, you have a strong incentive not fire him. Well, that sucks if down the road you want to fire him. Also, retainers usually cover billing by the hour and are not paid as a salary. There's more than one red flag here.
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> Wonder why is harder with a type system

A type system doesn't make it harder, it makes it pointless: when you have a good type system sum types[0] are a safer and all around better solution.

[0] possibly, in some cases, polymorphic variants https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/variants.html#polymorp...
No, this is lunacy. Unless he's also providing a serious discount.

If the lawyer is also going to be an advisor, a typical advisor grant is 0.1% - 2% (depending on stage of company). Even then it would vest over typically 2 years.

I would find a new lawyer. As in, I wouldn't trust this lawyer, since he asked for this.
It's quite common for a banker to have a % success fee tied to raising a round of funding. Retainers are also quite common during these proceedings. You have to way the options of taking him on as a shareholder vs. paying him an up front % for the success of raising a round with his help (if he's involved with this).

5% equity does sound like a lot, but then again it might be cheaper in the long run if you get a solid contract stipulating exactly what services (hours per month/for how long..) this will include. Beware of the 'I'll help you out every now and then" type of agreements.
These terms seem absurd to me. 1k/month retainer for a startup alone seems awfully high. 5% equity is absurd. Get a new lawyer. If in SF, there are some great tech lawyers who won't rip you off.
0 is fair. Pay him with money.
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I was under the impression most top law firms would defer all bills for free.
I'm starting to come around to sama's way of thinking on AI. This stuff is going to be scary powerful in 5-10 years. And it will continue to get more powerful at an exponential rate.
Brendan Eich deserves big respect for his help with WebAssembly. Thank you!
And, of course, thanks to all involved.

WebAssembly also can be new JVM for desktop apps and widgets.
Unless you are getting into a business that would require constant specialist legal/compliance consultancy, and assuming it is for regular start-up type legal advice along the lines of what you've listed, that's absolutely outrageous - stay clear of the shyster.

A good way to think about may be this: if you were to raise an angel round of $100,000, how much of a stake would you be selling: is that in proportion to what the lawyer is asking for?

When answering that question, I would also keep in mind: (1) is the lawyer's advice going to open up as much opportunity value as the angel coming on board ($1 != $1), and how much of a stake it would indirectly cost you if you were to simply raise an angel round and pay the lawyer money instead (which shouldn't be a huge amount; the kind of work you cited sounds like junior level work not much more than tailoring off the shelf agreements).
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Just find a different lawyer. How are you even gonna sell this to the shareholder?
really? even on a frozen object?

Remember I have said const PLUS Object.freeze() Both are needed to get the true immutable effect.
To reassure yourself that this is true, there's a dollar amount he's asking for here. If your company has $1m valuation, that amount is $50k. So he's asking for $50k as a signing bonus, in an arrangement in which he'll give you maybe 50 hours of advice over the year. In addition to fees. (And your valuation is likely higher, in which case his "fee" is too).

Run, dont walk, away from this dude.

Also, I heard advice somewhere to never ever give equity to vendors.
The psychologist profession has a gender equality of 80% female to 20% male. Shouldn't HN encourage diversity and hire a male psychologist instead of furthering the gender stereotype that male are not welcome in that profession?
In the case of South Africa, taxi owners tend to own fleets of vehicles, rather than a single vehicle being shared.