skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar age and situation but have started a couple of companies before. I spent some time thinking about ideas last week to keep the mind fresh. At first none of the ideas seemed worth anything, many "also rans".

Then I started to think about all the things that are broken at my current company or which are frustrating and why. Within a few hours I had a dozen solid ideas that could be more broadly applied.

If I wanted to start a company again at this stage (not ready for another couple of years at least) I would rank these ideas by ones I could start on the side at first, or which justified leaving my job. The ideas that could be started in my situation and met my passion + other factors I felt important would be the one I would actually work on.

In the meantime I'm saving my pennies, learning as much as possible and having a blast.
FYI google maps in china is wrong because the chinese government wont let them fix it. You need special licenses and permission to display updated and corrected maps which the chinese government refuses to grant to google because google refuses to censor. If google updates the maps without permission the chinese government will just block their service entirely and issue fines to them. All maps are considered state secrets by the chinese government even simple road maps
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This was a Xen T-shirt around 2013-2014 (http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Swag#Hall_of_Fam...) but it seems to be missing from the xen.org store unfortunately (http://www.cafepress.com/xen_org)

It seems simple enough, though. Make your own!
Tradewars 2002 never caught my attention but I spent plenty of time playing Land of Devastation:

http://www.smbaker.com/games/land-of-devastation-classic

I still have a graph paper notebook with carefully laid out map of the world, with blank spaces that still need filling in. I dreamed of getting the GTERM client to 'properly' play the game.
I agree on your risk management, but even when I mention something such as power outages, flooding, or riots/violence(due to the previous), and that it's better to be prepared and not need it than need it and be prepared, I'm still taken as crazy even though I mention a valid scenario(flooding has been increasing here and power outages more common). Then again, all my friends are a little more on the blind eye/ignorant side.
I think you mean gperftools and not gperf, which is a hash generaor.
I'll curious - how do people manage to spend or otherwise liquidate these ill gotten Bitcoins? I've heard that mixing services are not particularly effective, so how are they not found by deanonynization efforts?
I didn't say otherwise.
>I can also imagine CSS compiler targets for these types of things, if they don't exist already.

This is a bit of a stretch. CSS is not turing complete in the traditional sense and is only suitable for a narrow range of "programs".
Maybe basic income for citizens only?
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Works for me on OS X Chrome. Move cursor to underneath the game area (you'll probably lose in the process); move upwards onto the white box.
Reminder that HTML5 started without an official W3C stamp of approval. (Hell, it started with the W3C membership voting against any further work on HTML, thus the formation of the WHATWG.)
I can't seem to find the name of nature of the drug in question, does anyone know it? I ask because full CB1 agonists are already known to be problematic, but none of the articles mention anything other than endocannabinoid
This is taking the objective of taxes to an extreme: redistribution of resources from the wealthiest to the poorest.

From wikipedia: "Governments also use taxes to fund welfare and public services. These services can include education systems, health care systems, pensions for the elderly, unemployment benefits, and public transportation. Energy, water and waste management systems are also common public utilities."
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"A nation's tax system is often a reflection of its communal values and the values of those in current political power. "
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax#Purposes_and_effects

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The problem with all this is that there _are_ legitimate medical uses for both of the substances you list. Methamphetamine is a proven and effective treatment for people suffering from severe attention deficits and concentration-related disorders. It's also an effective treatment for people suffering from severe obesity. Opiates are the most effective treatment out there for pain management.

These are legitimate medical concerns that need to be addressed. I'm sure we can agree on that, just as well as we can agree that today's solution doesn't work. The rational course of action is to set policy that doesn't unnecessarily increase the incidence rates of addiction, while also extending our personal liberties to a place where they ought to be. I am in favor of full legalization, because addicts tend to have a problematic history before drug abuse becomes their main challenge. Changing the laws won't change that natural fact. But changing the laws may, as pointed out in another poster's Penn Jilette quote, remove the needless suffering of millions of people throughout the world - perhaps even billions. It would end the cartel violence, the ruthless murdering, the poverty, and the ruined lives that are caused by the War on Drugs every day.
This is probably one of the #1 reasons why I refuse to use Outlook. Don't get me wrong, Postbox and Mail.app are also abysmal.
Part of finding great problems to solve is cultivating a sense of taste for a process/product/service/thing, so you can say, "[x] is a hack and could be done a lot better."

To develop that sense of taste you have to go deep (usually) into the thing.

Using the Henry Ford example, he went deep into engineering and gasoline powered engines.

Maybe people did want faster horses, maybe the limitations of horse-based transportation was a huge problem of the day... Either way Ford was able to say:

1) Horses are a hack and transportation could be done better
2) Cars are the answer but current manufacturing practices are a hack and could be done better
3) Employer-employee relationships are a hack -- turnover is way too high and must be done better. Profit sharing and high wages for factory workers are the way.
I do say that email isn't such a good example anymore. Medical records would be a better example. But such tokens would be included in DRM protected addresses, and their circumvention harder to deny. (Tokens by themselves are deniable.)
I think I agree that it's the localness of the BBSes that made them so special for me. When I was in middle school, the BBSes were my social group. The games were a fun way to waste some time, uploading games for credits in bytes you could download, but the conversations were the best part. I went to BBS parties and hung out with the people-behind-the-handles in real life. It was always such a shock to see how someone differed from the way you imagined them to look. When I got to college, the BBS scene instantly created a whole new set of friends for me. I don't know how I would have gotten to know people in that strange place without it.

Then the internet came. Suddenly, all by favorite BBS boards were synchronizing their posts with other BBSes across the country. Our little conversations of 5-10 people suddenly exploded into hundreds. It was too much. My posts got lost--or worse, I once got the notice of some sysadmin in another state who didn't like my politics or my language and demanded my local sysadmin deactivate my account. I fled to some other locals-only BBSes, but things were dying. Then Gopher, WWW, and Usenet came along and the BBSes vanished as everyone rushed to build web sites and post comments for all the world to see.

I telnetted into the cavebbs.homeip.net and it was a nice brief bit of nostalgia. I'm not sure if this is something we can recapture, but I hope it gets a bit of historical footnote somewhere.
So how do you avoid the situation I flagged where nobody gives any "real" feedback because they don't want to put a target on their back?

The small issues you are trying to prevent from becoming bigger ones are still likely in my mind to be the sorts of things you wouldn't want to put your name on because they'd come across as petty (because they are small at the time), or critical of the manager (again, putting a target on your back).

Personally, if I were a random employee I'd never put any sort of feedback like that in a system that wasn't anonymous--the risk of creating an overly negative perception of myself or putting a target on my back just doesn't seem worth it.

And if this is feedback to a manager from their team, aren't the things that might turn into witch-hunts exactly the sort of issues they need to be aware of? Typically those sorts of things are founded in some level of truth, no?

How will you convince employees that this is a "safe" tool for them to use?
https://nylas.com/n1 is pretty nice, but can be buggy since it's still so new and under heavy development.
I agree with the point, too, but statements like this are not conducive to good discussion and are not the kind of thing I look forward to reading on HN:

> The responses are fanboy trash in a "using my serious voice" wrapper"
True, lots of great ideas look like bad ideas at first (again, pg). But there's things that look bad because they're bizarre (hey, let's rent out bedrooms!), and things that look bad because they're trivial (hey, let's help people find the nearest bar!).

The good bizarre ones could wipe out an existing industry. That's what makes them interesting.
Answering questions here:

https://twitter.com/pixeljetstream/status/687777707741032448
> Most startups fail, and I think a lot of that is because a lot of startups are really stupid.

Nailed it. Part of the issue is, starting without enough exposure to worthwhile problems. When you hear about success stories of Tinder / Facebook / Snapchat, all you want to make is the next "social" app which is almost in all cases is a lottery but try working with people outside your circle / industry, and you will so tons of unsolved problems with people ready to pay a lot for even a little solution that adds business value.
I remember the Dungeon Master copy protection. Its weakness was that if the game was even only partially cracked, you'd still have some time to advance the game before the copy protection kicked in and it crashed or killed you so we got pretty far by sheer stamina. Luckily we as kids had a lot of time available for waiting the game to load over and over again. And it _was_ that good of a game even in retrospect.

I also successfully managed to pirate an original Chaos Strikes Back disks by repeatedly copying the data with a (pirated) synchronisation dongle and the Cyclone software. It required several attempts to get the fuzzy sectors correct because I was using a pre-used disk. This technique and the recommendation to use completely blank disks would have been mentioned in the manual of Cyclone but I wasn't aware of it... Since I'd also pirated the software! I was also unaware of the fuzzy bits themselves, so it was just a bit of luck.

Anyway, CSB wasn't as exciting experience as its predecessor. Boring maze-like transforming levels, hard monsters (in the sense that they took a lot of time, not skill to eradicate), little of anything new, etc. Disappointing after all that effort ;)
> there was no killer feature that GitLab had

This really is the crux of the argument and for the GitLab guys is really what they should think hard about.
In my opinion this fragmentation is a good thing. Monopoly is a terrible thing, especially in the hands of a private company.
But if they are making more money overall being a crappier online store, they are only doing you a disservice, whereas their shareholders would be happy.
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How do you have one without the other?
when you talk to your users, ask them if they've shown this to their friends. If they haven't ask them why they haven't. If they have ask them why their friends didn't like it. I would also recommend sending out a NPS survey to all your users
Basic income would become a part of the whole picture, for sure. But take Norway as an example: 5 million people and around a trillion dollars in sovereign wealth, which could yield ~ $8k per person (man, woman, and child) per year in perpetuity. All Norwegian citizens now own a share of ''Norway Inc'' as their birthright and receive a healthy dividend. Now 5 million people - that isn't a lot, and it's easy to imagine that over a generation, at least another 5 million immigrants would be interested in migrating. Now we're at 10 million people and our benefit is cut in half. If we're Norwegians, does the entitlement to basic income make us a little more defensive and nationalistic than we otherwise would be? It seems that, while many forces in Europe for decades have successfully pushed towards more open borders and more flexible immigration policies (ultimately spurring GDP growth), the transition to a basic income economy (if it occurs before the developing world catches up to the west) could act as a strong headwind in the other direction.
Krugman channelling his inner Piketty.

They're not wrong though. The greatest growth did come when there was the least inequality, and the gilded age wasn't exactly a time of phenomenal economic growth...
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Actually the US Dollar is inflationary, which means those who hoard US Dollars lose out in the long term. You lose approximately 2% to 3% depending on how well the Fed actually hits its benchmarks.

BTC on the other hand is inflationary, due to the (artificial) cap of 21 Million BTC.

In any case, inflationary vs deflationary is a moot point. Too much of either side is bad. The important part is price consistency, which everyone can agree is relatively fair. 2% to 3% inflation (loss of value) is much more consistent than anything that BTC has accomplished... with wild swings of 100% to 1000% on some years.

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I'm intrigued by DOGEcoin, explicitly because it adopts an inflationary model with infinite supply. I think that sort of model is more fair in the long term, and certainly more fun.
Basic income wouldn't pay out to everybody: the obvious example is that it wouldn't be paid to people in country on tourist visas. Full citizens obviously would get it. Where to draw the line between those two determines how generous you want to be.

Most immigrants / refugees I know would be happy not receiving benefits such as basic income as long their children get all the benefits and opportunities that natives do.
Your scenario is not very common, at least in the West. (Even more so in Europe because we have higher population density, so a whole region getting "lost" to the national government would be really extraordinary).
Let's talk instead of real cases, ok? Marauders and Warlords were really a big problem during Katrina Hurricane? Was New York able to survive Sandy only because Frank Castle was patrolling the streets?

In comments below you cite Kosovo. I think that in cases like that there was already plenty of social unrest so if a city was cut off from the powergrid or the main roads I can imagine that someone would have tried to get the upper hand.
Something similar could also happen in some areas of Mexico, where the government presence is already pretty weak.

I can see how a veteran or ex-serviceman could always be very handy in a natural disaster, but that would be because they are able to lead, to follow orders, have plenty of practical skills and are trained to be self-sufficient. But the actual combat training or experience - nevermind the weapons - is not necessarily the most important thing to have when you are hit by a flood or a earthquake or a tsunami.
Cats have not been domesticated. They merely tolerate our insistence on feeding and sheltering them.
The author of the post had projects in SourceForge, also listed in Freshmeat.

But they were not hubs at the GitHub level, contributing to Open Source was fragmented.
This is really less useful of an example than say, medical records. With AD RMS I can ensure every document floating through an organization is protected with RMS, allowing only users with the proper permission access to the document. If someone tries to be sneaky and exfiltrate PHI out of the network it is useless, since nobody outside of the organization can open the file even if they have it. I can also revoke access to specific individuals or groups of people, so even if they had access at one point they can't use it any more.

DRM for documents is more about preventing sensitive data from escaping than it is securing communications between parties. The analog loophole always exists, mind you, so it still only makes life more difficult - but it does prevent mass transmission to a large extent.
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> OSS Projects that have begun in the Github era have a much higher probability of having an approachable contribution workflow.

This is essentially an empty statement, because it has no backing. Would the claim stand up under scrutiny? How would you go about measuring it to see for yourself?
>I don't know, have you tried to buy plane tickets with a credit card? It takes me a solid half hour every time

Funny, because the times I have used Bitcoin it has taken a solid hour, or more, for the payment to 'complete' due to the confirmations required. This for pathetic, tiny payments (like $10 or so), When using a card for airline tickets, for thousands, it takes seconds.
I think the fear is that it will disproportionately attract people who are a net drag on society. People being born into a society will show a wide range of personality types and can be molded further by society into what it needs, but people who move to a country specifically for a basic income might tend to be pathological cases.
> Spending energy to secure and operate a payment system is hardly a waste.

That's not the question. The question is if more energy is being spent than is necessary to achieve the goals of a well-secured, well-operated a payment system, and I think there are very strong reasons to believe the answer is yes. (Among many other things, Ripple and Stellar are existence proofs of being able to get something with comparable security and much lower energy usage.)

> Furthermore, all energy expended mining is eventually transformed into heat, and the most profitable miners will be those who have put this heat to good use.

what

> While this is an ideal, the economics of mining are such that miners individually strive toward it.

And it is equally valid to say that the economics of cloud computing are that cloud hosts should individually strive towards it, too, but is AWS so much as keeping a single pizza warm?

Is there any previous case in human history where "Negative externalities could be turned into profitable positive externalities with cleverness" has worked?
I think your perspective is exactly right. Most of the articles you see on HN are about pre-clinical work (not done in humans). This is so early in the development time that the chance of the technology failing is huge.

Keep in mind that for drugs that actually enter human trials, the success rate is typically less than 5%.
EME commoditizes DRM, for better or worse. Like you said, a EME lowers the pain to adopt DRM. With a standard EME API and CENC (Common Encryption), services can easily support multiple DRM backends or switch DRM backends. I worry that increased competition between DRM providers will lead to an arms race of stronger DRM tech.
Pacifying the public through "bread and circuses"[1] has been a goal of governments for at least 2000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Wow, I thought I was the only person alive who still remembered this. Tile-based MMO on a BBS... even if I ran into another player only about once a month. The gambling system was nicely exploitable, too :)
Literally the only sensible discussion of Bitcoin on Reddit is /r/buttcoin.
Isn't it the same today for Finland? They have extensive social benefits already, and this plan is mostly just a restructuring of the current wealth redistribution schemes in place. I assume you only give BI benefits to full residents.
Correct, at the high-inequality side (India) you have chaiwallas.
I'm getting an "Application Error" when I try to visit.
A lot of people have a more ignorant outlook. In the winter I always keep some water, body warmers, salt, blanket, and some other basic supplies(utility knife, lighter, whistle, flashlight, etc) in the trunk of my car because a group of friend and I tend to go hiking in the back country a lot with little to no cell service and sometimes it can snow out of nowhere. This is some basic covering your own ass stuff, but I'm look at like I'm crazy. If the car gets breaks down or it starts snowing when we're a few hours out and come back to a snowed in car or icy steep roads, I'd rather have everything I need to either hang in the car and wait it out until the next day or make a few mile hike to a house we saw down the mountain or access road.
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That isn't a problem if it's only available to citizens of the country which introduces it. (It's sometimes called Citizen's Income.) It's usually intended to replace benefits so it would act as a disincentive to would-be migrants.
> 1. Never use Google Maps in China; Google Maps in China are just hilariously wrong and out of date and will get you lost. Even if Google Maps wasn't blocked you wouldn't want use it in China. Apple Maps is the best English language solution, it's accurate and up to date; that or Baidu Maps if you read Chinese.

I'm an Android user. I just spent 10 weeks in Shanghai from early October to mid December. I can read some amount of Chinese but simply not enough to use Baidu Maps for all my navigation needs.

I found Google Maps (via Express VPN) to be perfectly fine in Shanghai. The public transportation suggestions and times were completely off, but locating a given address (my main use case in Shanghai) and using walking directions was never an issue.

In Shanghai you use Uber/Didi Kuaidi/Taxi or the Metro as opposed to driving yourself. As long as you can use Google Maps to look up the Pinyin spelling of the next major intersection so that you can pronounce that to a Taxi driver you are good to go. :)

Interestingly enough when roaming for free on T-Mobile (at 2G speeds) I was able to access Google Maps and most foreign internet services without the need of a VPN.
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>C is a very small and elegant language that never lies to you.

I've liked:

http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.php

..and...

https://www.google.com/search?q=expert+c+programming+deep+c+...