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Startup vs Girlfriend | michaelawill: The first thing you should do is essentially read her what you've typed here. It sounds like your relationship would benefit a great deal from some openness. She isn't going to react to this badly.And in my experience with women, a little bit of time goes a long way if you do it right. Surprise her with f... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | drsnyder: Ask your self: what would you rather have a) a fulfilling relationship and perhaps sexual intimacy or b) the possibility of wealth and riches?You can't buy a and there is no guarantee of b.Edit: After thinking about it a little more, the chances are if you are reading this, you are already filthy rich-- meani... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | lief79: First, you should be talking to her, not us. You need to come up with an idea of what you are expecting to do with your life first, but if you want a relationship to last, it's going to be all about compromise.You're trying to decide what's most appropriate for both of you, and what kind of balance you are will... |
What do you think of this startup idea? | bigsassy: Sounds like a good idea to me. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Brothers, had a similar half-baked idea:"
As for the idea, my family and i have become more health-conscious in recent years, going to the gym and tracking our weight. It becomes fun over time to talk about these things. Simply weighing ... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | mangoleaf: You can always find another girlfriend. You have only one or two legitimate shots at a successful startup. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | Tichy: Couldn't you solve that with a bit more structure? Like plan some evenings with your gf, or plan a holiday together? Or find a more demanding job for your gf. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | philwelch: Not enough information here.How important is the startup to you? Is it a lifelong dream of yours to have and run your own business doing what you love or is it just a vehicle for you to cash out on your talents at a young age?How about your relationship? Do you live together? (That can be helpful, but it can... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | jlees: I'm surprised only one person's mentioned the French lessons . Can't you give those up and spend that time with her? That way you're making a sacrifice without compromising your startup. Win-win. Unless your goals in life are to speak French and get rich.Alternatively, get her involved? Does she want to support ... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | bayareaguy: Perhaps you should ask what you would want if she were the one with a job, a startup and side activities and you were the one feeling neglected? Things may also be easier for you in the long run if you can honestly figure out what roles each of you has in the relationship. One other thing to consider if y... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | physcab: You're 25. Realize that whatever you decide is a representation of this period in your life and does not necessarily reflect how your life is going to be lived until you die.Allow yourself to make mistakes and take chances. If you go after the girl, maybe it won't lead to anything. But it doesn't mean you'v... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | dflock: You should probably be discussing this with your girlfriend, not random hackers.
In the meantime, why don't you involve her more in your other stuff? She could come to French classes with you, for a start. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | knowtheory: It's not that i disagree that work/life balance isn't a serious issue, and a worthwhile topic of discussion, but why do people keep posting these threads in this sort of manner?Asking advice of strangers without any suitable knowledge of you or your significant other, or your relationship is not going to re... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | dejan: There is no "vs". Think '+', it's not easy, but who ever said it would be?Try to get her involved. Startup is as personal as it gets to life aspirations and she should see it. If not, you might not be for each other. You shouldn't ever make such choices.btw. I am in absolutely same situation, and I got her invol... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | radu_floricica: The girlfriend will be gone in a few years anyways. The sad part is, chances are the startup will be gone too. So... think about what do you wish you had been doing a few years from now.Myself, I've gone with the work. I never regretted it, but then I knew she wasn't the girl for me. What I remember mos... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | edw519: I'm in the exact same boat. My thoughts...If you "really love her", then you already oughta know what's most important. (Most important, not the only thing.)Her "expectations" are not really expectations. They are cries for help. Listen.Some of the things we have done:- We take French lessons together and s... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | spoiledtechie: I am in the exact same situation man. I am also 25 with a halftime start up and a GF to boot.I chose both GF and the startup. I just made them equal priorities.You must ask you self is the startup thing something you would be cool with over love, friendships and anything else?One of my MAIN goals in li... |
What do you think of this startup idea? | jmonegro: I actually thought of this, though without the stats. Small stuff, through Twitter (and thus, SMS). |
Startup vs Girlfriend | raffi: I was in a similar situations sans French lessons. My girlfriend wanted more than I was able to give. Eventually I decided to break things off, since she wasn't happy and we had a different life paths--it seemed the respectful thing to do.I'll give you some straight forward practical advice about this situatio... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | aberman: Kevin Rose of Digg spent his last $6,000 (which him and his gf were saving to buy a house together) on Digg. A few weeks later his gf broke up with him. A few months later, he was on the cover of business week. I think he is a hero, but for what it's worth, he has been known to say that he will never put busin... |
What websites do you regularly visit? | sidmitra: - Oursignal.com (Every hour or so for quick check on new links)- HN (For discussions mainly)- Google Reader (For the rest of them)- Alltop.com- Friendfeed.comI use IMAP for all my mail on Opera, so don't have to keep that tab open all the time. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | eintnohick: Although I can't necessarily give you advice, I can tell you that I am going through a very similar situation right now - working full time on a start-up and live with my girlfriend. I am also 25. Sometimes, it is real hard balancing a relationship and start-up life but I have been able to do it because, al... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | vinutheraj: if (P(success of startup) * (worth of startup success to you ) > P(success with gf) * (worth of gf to you)) {
goto startup; }
else {
goto gf;
}
The values that you put on the probabilities and the worth of the things are entirely upto you, we are noone to decide that! |
Startup vs Girlfriend | jjs: Both your startup and your relationship have a high chance of failure. Better play it safe and concentrate on the French lessons. ;)On a more serious note, drop the French lessons, and use that time to pay attention to your girlfriend.However, beware that some relationships are "high-maintenance" in terms of time... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | acangiano: In my opinion, you have made the common mistake of overloading yourself. Start claiming back some of your time.> I have a day job, I also have a halftime startup. I also have french lessons at saturdays.What's more important to you, speaking French or having a successful, long term relationship with your gir... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | marcusbooster: Girls and business ideas come and go all the time, but the good ones rarely come at all.What's the chance this one will be better than the next? (for both) |
Startup vs Girlfriend | richieb: Take couple of days off and take her to Paris. Demonstrate your knowledge of French.... :-) |
Startup vs Girlfriend | charlesju: That sucks. I have the opposite problem. I'm in a startup and I find myself with too much free time and my girlfriend with too little.I think it's all about time management. You can find time to spend with your girlfriend if you are more productive with the time you spend doing your startup work. Or perhaps ... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | johnbender: Money and success are transient. A companion will always be there for you. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | inc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etl9kkIGaHo |
Startup vs Girlfriend | philwelch: On the edit, you're making it sound like the startup is your project that she is "involved" in. That's not right--either you, her, and cofounder #3 (presumably) all have a startup together, or you have a startup and you tried to rope her into working for you. She probably feels resentful that she can't get y... |
What's wrong with note taking applications? | bayareaguy: For quick notes I use a clean little OSX desktop app called Notational Velocity[1]. The only thing I would want in a dedicated note taker that it doesn't do is sync over the internet.1- http://notational.net |
Startup vs Girlfriend | fifteen3: Dude. Be honest. Its over. You aren't looking for answer on what to do. You already have it. You want to know if your indifference to her is poor form or if you are still a human.She wanted to know if you thought she was more important than your career. If you would give everything up for her. All women want ... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | Matti: "Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer her full, undivided presence.Admit to yourself tha... |
What are you afraid of? | ErrantX: Im scared of spiders. Less so now (simply through will power) but anything beyond a house spider will give me chills (and I cant look at tarantulas on screen). No other bugs though: which seems illogical to me.I also get that clutching, tight-chested thing when I think about my death (in the old-age future rat... |
What are you afraid of? | access_denied: What if I come into a situation where I have to choose between 'going with the flow' or staying a decent person, and I know if I stay up for the good they will kill me or worse torture me? Will I be strong enough? And if yes: what a life.These days you can easily get picked by the CIA for some stupid r... |
What sort of online career options does a mathematics expert has? | rms: The biggest money is still probably in finance. I don't think that can be done by contracting online; you need to go to Wall Street or another country's financial center. |
What websites do you regularly visit? | vijayr: readwriteweb.comthisisindexed.cominfosthetics.comincomediary.com |
Feedback on our beta justin.tv redesign | ujjwalg: First of all I want to say that I have used justin.tv a lot during the NBA season. It was awesome, so thanks to you guys.Secondly, I like the redesign which IMO is much better than the previous one because of a few reasons:1) Bigger screen are devoted to video which is why people use the website
2) Of course l... |
What sort of online career options does a mathematics expert has? | TallGuyShort: Statistics is extremely relevant to the web (especially the Wb 2.0), and businesses in general. Services like web analytics, localized services, etc... are becoming more important. |
What are you afraid of? | gaius: Dying alone. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | billybob: A good relationship requires that you're more committed to the other person than to business.Only you can decide whether you want to be that committed to this person. |
What are you afraid of? | vaksel: spiders, centipedes and pretty much most bugs bigger than an ant, had trouble killing them even with a paper towel. Hell used to get afraid looking at them in pictures.To overcome it, I built a "weapon" to kill them with. Pretty much took one of those post office poster rolls, and attached some paper towels to ... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | ErrantX: The quitting the startup thing might be her last clutch attempt to try and get you to notice what she wants. though it seems you've already identified them and have decided the startup is more important?Usually I would say stick with the girl. But you know what it might be best to let ambition win. I'm betting... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | TheNational22: Do you love her. Really think about it. Not in some abstract sense, there is no love formula, that's why school don't offer it as a class. If you love her, you'll know the answer. |
What are you afraid of? | khafra: I really hate confrontations, to the point where it might be called fear.For instance, a friend of my neighbor was considering buying my old 240sx. It's got a JDM RB20 but doesn't start, so I let him take it to a mechanic to diagnose it and complete our negotiation with more information.After a few regular sta... |
What are you afraid of? | DanielBMarkham: The number 13 |
What are you afraid of? | darkxanthos: I'm afraid of socializing. I'm in the process of social skydiving to over come it and I'm blogging about it publicly to keep me honest and motivated.This is the blog in case you want more info:
http://socialskydivingwithjustin.posterous.com/ |
What websites do you regularly visit? | rozim: http://newmogul.com/ |
Startup vs Girlfriend | roc: It's never so cut-and-dried as 'her or the startup' or 'being rich or being with her'.Talk to her, find out what she needs emotionally. Maybe its a couple hours a few times a week. Maybe it's a weekly date-night and one weekend a month.If you're both reasonable people who want a future together, I suspect the st... |
What are you afraid of? | Mintz: I'm afraid of not having enough money in my savings account should I need to use it. I'm a college student with a part time job, and I have some money in savings, but if my car's transmission went out, I'm hosed. I have no idea how I would fix my car and keep paying for rent/utilities/food without going into deb... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | cjoh: I've been in your shoes. It is difficult.The problem is that you're making it an either or decision. Good relationships are good, functional partnerships and you should build your relationship as a good functional partnership early on.What's that mean? It means she ought to be on your team professionally-- it mea... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | xenophanes: If she loves you, she should want you to do what makes you happy. Demanding you do things you don't want to, and give up your career, is totally unreasonable.Relationships only work when both people have a life, and have interests. Otherwise you have two people and nothing to do once the drama dies down. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | geuis: I know this comment is pretty late since this popped up, but I had this exact experience before.I lost the girl, and in the end the startup didn't go anywhere for other reasons.This woman was the love of my life and we were together for almost 8 years. The last year we were together, I started putting a lot of t... |
Please (re)review my startup - CrowdMind.com | satyajit: Totally love the fact that, you have enabled login with yahoo/google/facebook/openID - that pretty much covers 99% of the people!
Overall great site... though somewhat Hunch'ish! |
Please (re)review my startup - CrowdMind.com | satyajit: Moreover I like the name 'crowdmind' too - good for branding! Its not direct, rather evocative, still kinda gives you an idea about the service! |
Startup vs Girlfriend | Mankhool: The moment she became part of your business you crossed a line - the relationship / business partner line. |
What are you afraid of? | Femur: Death.
Walking up to a girl and asking her out.
Failure.
That the economy will get worse.
New social situations.
Spiders.I've recognized each fear and I know how to handle myself to confront those fears. They don't dominate me, but they are still present.I am an Oracle DBA. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | rabble: Look, startups are death to relationships. Just let it go. Once you have time to have some balence in your life, you can search for a realationship. As it is you'll always be putting her second which is shit for everybody. |
Equity Splits | Travis: 10% isn't unreasonable for what you described. You'll learn a lot from them by being involved, it sounds like. And again, it's a long shot as with any startup.My startup has offered 2% pre-dilution to a coder who will put ~200 hours into a project that already has about 800 hours on it. So he's putting in ar... |
What kind of fresh ideas does advertising need? | Mankhool: I want advertisers (especially the national/global brands that are already well known by most consumers) to start simply underwriting beauty in exchange for my time. I might not use Bing very often, but I go there every morning to see the image. I've emailed them to say I want to see the metadata on the image... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | maggie: I'm curious as to what you end up choosing. Please let us know. |
Review My App (Simple Group Chat) | elcron: Doesn't work for me in chrome. Although, I'm running the alpha for linux so that might have something to do with it. Has anybody tried it with chrome on windows? |
Review my app - SimpleStats.net | ashleyw: Clickables:Example account: http://simplestats.net/user/alanedwardes/Homepage: http://simplestats.net/ |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | Mankhool: I'm new to HN and coming to it straight through YC, it is what I expected - all about startups. Please keep it that way. |
What are you afraid of? | baguasquirrel: No one's going to think my startup idea is useful after I put out the proto. |
Review my app - SimpleStats.net | Ionic_Walrus: I like the no javascript tracking. Im struggling with Quantserve (to track our iphone app usage) - which, although supports the no javascript tracking, doesn't clearly work.The site looks neat and simple - the graph is quite nice. Congratulations. |
Review my app - SimpleStats.net | Salvatore: When I click the buttons: * Public Statistics * Per-Visitor Drill Down * Track Multiple Sites * Live Website Stats * Track Visitors without JavaScript - the entire site shakes. I'm using Mozilla Firefox if it's any help. |
What are you afraid of? | amohr: Too late to edit, but I realized I should be prepared to provide a comparably personal answer to such a personal question, and I've done so on my blog, if you're interested: http://mohrslaws.blogspot.com/2009/07/fear.html |
Startup vs Girlfriend | joshhart: Get on a polyphasic sleep cycle. Work 16 hours a day and still spend 4 with her. Everyone wins! |
Review my app - SimpleStats.net | tdoggette: On the front page, I tried to click on the screenshot (the one to the left of "Public Statistics") and was dismayed when I discovered I could not make it bigger.The copy under "Track Visitors without Javascript" (is that lowercase w correct?) is unprofessional-sounding and unclear: What exactly is the differ... |
What sort of tweets annoy you? | jdowdell: Some of above Twitter problems bum me out too. But a different problem is a tweet you can't figure out on its own -- where you have to click a hidden link, or pull up someone else's conversation to figure out what the first message is saying. Before hitting "send", please read it back, see if it might make se... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | curio: I don't know what you should do, and I don't necessarily think there is one right answer for everything in this position. I do know that almost every successful entrepreneurship I've talked to has a story about a failed relationships because of the sacrifices they made for their company. You've gotta weigh the... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | Andys: This could be your last chance to have a good attempt at doing a startup. If you really want to do it, now is the time, before you end up marrying her and having kids. After that it is too late, so decide now if you want to commit more time to her or your startup. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | billclerico: there are plenty of fish in the sea |
What kind of index is Google using here? | crux_: Something like this?- Regular expression searching on compressed text, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=967612 |
Startup vs Girlfriend | jroos1: You already have all the info and answers you need, you're just looking for support so you don't feel as much responsibility making a decision. You're the one working on the startup and only you know what it means to you. You are the one in your relationship and only you know what that means to you. If you are... |
What kind of index is Google using here? | drcode: Is your question "How do you create an index that allows regexes?"In that case, I'd like to know the answer to the question, as well. |
What kind of index is Google using here? | wooster: AFAIK, Google Code Search was written by Russ Cox, who also wrote this: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.htmlMy guess, back when I was doing code search at Apple, was that he was actually scanning all the docs with his fast regexp, which would be do-able with the number of machines at his disposal + the ex... |
What kind of index is Google using here? | simonw: I've always wanted to know that. |
What kind of fresh ideas does advertising need? | swellular: Working for a digital advertising agency, I've seen both sides of the coin. On the one hand, you experience a little disdain for ads. If you don't start off by analyzing them (what are they trying to accomplish? who is the audience? why is this relevant?) you generally ignore them with a pinch of disgust.Jac... |
What sort of tweets annoy you? | swellular: 1 Too many tweets
2 Tweets that are too salesy
3 Tweets about "the twittersphere," "twitterans," and "OMFG you tweeple are soo amazing" |
What kind of index is Google using here? | mtrimpe: It might be possible to adapt a regex state machine to use an AVL TDAWG ( http://www.ssp.isee.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~inenaga/papers/tcs-terna... ) |
What kind of index is Google using here? | johngunderman: I am 100% postulating here, but this is what seems most likely to me:Google is known for MapReduce. It seems like it would make regex searches manageable when put in such an algorithm. All Google would have to do would be to take whatever key system they use for their big-tables and use MapReduce to expa... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | arthole: you are making this harder then it is. do you live together? and is this really a conversation about marriage and babies and you just aren't reading between the lines?#1 follow your dreams. don't compromise that because it compromises yourself and that will never make you happy.#2 drop the french lessons and... |
What kind of index is Google using here? | miracle: Easynews also has a global search where you can search through all the newsgroup posts with a regular expression (> 150 days).You might ask them? They are certainly not as secrective as google is ;) |
Startup vs Girlfriend | IsaacSchlueter: You're 25. Your life is, and should be, all about you and your dreams right now. If you're going to have a healthy relationship with a quality person who will add to your life, it needs to be worth the price. It sounds like she isn't.Your ideas about wealth are correct. More to the point, working ha... |
What kind of index is Google using here? | tlrobinson: This is off-topic, but I just realized Google Code Search is great for seeing where code you open source ends up. Came across a few things I had no idea were using my code. Kinda cool. |
What kind of index is Google using here? | robk: IIRC, this was a rather high-compute-cost project inside of Google, far more so than other search projects. Obviously it was a favorite though of the eng decision makers, so was well cared for resource-wise. |
What kind of index is Google using here? | pmorici: This presentation talks about using N-grams to make an regex searchable indexhttp://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/forschung/gebiete/wbi/tea... |
Bay Area .Net Devs - Stigma on .Net | sarvesh: .Net isn't the most terrible framework but it comes with a lot of baggage and some technical problems that would deter startups from using it.On the web development side ASP.Net is really hard compared to other frameworks out there. Until ASP.Net MVC, there wasn't a quick and easy method to implement URL rewri... |
What kind of index is Google using here? | mc: I'd (probably) consider building and searching an index of ASTs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree).Not only would it allow searching with regexp, but it could allow more sophisticated search queries like "Search all my Ruby code for blocks that rescue StandardError and are not followed by an ensure... |
Help us sell servers to raise money for our startup. (Radisys and Dell) | jusob: All the http://www.radisys.com/... links give a 404 |
Bay Area .Net Devs - Stigma on .Net | makecheck: I think you're better off with the portable skill set. It introduces you to the non-Microsoft way of doing things, which in my experience is usually for the best.What are some examples of unique/better/amazing things that .NET does? And what could make it worth requiring Windows to use?If it's just yet-ano... |
What kind of index is Google using here? | fizx: Reverse Aho-Corasick matching.Basically, you store all of your searchable text in a suffix tree. You then do a depth-first search of the tree for matching strings.http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mfc/cs120/papers/ptrees.pdfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aho-Corasick_algorithmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_tree |
Does the Following Service Exist | kolya3: You can crowdsource QA through uTest.com |
Does the Following Service Exist | Travis: I've seen people discuss on HN how they've used Amazon MechTurk to do this as well. I believe their conclusion was that they weren't particularly happy with it.Realistically, if you're looking for tech compatibility, you may need to do it yourself. It's not as bad as it seems, but you do have to test 3-6 brow... |
Standard employment agreement for startups? | andrewljohnson: It really depends on your funding situation and corporate structure, but we incorporated a c-corp and we decided not to have employees (not even the founders). We had all workers sign agreements to assign IP to the company, we created restricted stock purchase agreements, and consulting agreements.The c... |
Bay Area .Net Devs - Stigma on .Net | felixmar: I don't live in the Bay area, but i think Microsoft's problem concerning startups is that they haven't created many exciting platforms for some time. Take for example the activity around iPhone and Android. Apple creates more roadblocks for developers than Microsoft ever did and Java is not the most interesti... |
What are you afraid of? | aaroneous: A lot of fellow arachnophobes on HN - interesante.Mine: Spiders, settling, not achieving the goals I make for myself. |
Boston Startup Community? | aberman: Open Coffee. I think it is every Wednesday morning at Andala Cafe in Cambridge. It was started by Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital and Nabeel Hyatt of Conduit labs. I think somebody created a meetup for it.Some weeks are better than others, but there is usually a good crowd (although, I have not been there since M... |
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