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> even when everything is going right

How do you know this if you're having "intermittent moments of anxiety and depression"? It's none of my business, but you sound troubled.

Emotions being broken is a different issue, but the article was about "normal" people.

Emotions are a physical reaction to your circumstances. You don't have to react to your emotions, but to second guess how you feel without second guessing your physical circumstances is the chronic modern illness that get's you into deep shit.

> ignore our biases

You don't ignore them. You adjust for them.

"Oh, I didn't have to be angry. Sorry about that! I lost my cool for a second."

That's what our brains are for.
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> This sounds like pure marketing drivel. Just take a look at video games and the disparity of consoles being (largely) locked around 30 fps and PC that can reach 100+ fps. While a higher framerate can give the appearance of smoother gameplay -- which is disputed beyond a certain threshold -- it never makes it "unsettling" or more realistic.

That's not the best analogy. Video games inherently don't look realistic (currently). 3000 fps of rendered Mickey the Mouse isn't going to make him suddenly look like live-action. He will only ever be a collection of polygons and textures. Live-action movies, however, use reality as a source. Fiddling with FPS can't add more realism to reality, it only can maintain or obscure it.

Ironically, that's why HFR makes many films actually look worse IMO. Ever watch a behind the scenes of a film and think, those sets look so obviously fake and those costumes look like bad cosplay? With HFR, all those painted sets and lighting tricks they use become apparent for what they actually are. Whereas before you were watching a film, now you are obviously watching actors on a set. Mission successful (or failure, depending on the perspective), realism achieved, you are now sitting on the set in the director's seat, viewing it as he saw it, instead of watching the film from the audiences' eyes. IMO, until filmmakers can get their sets/costumes to look realistic without post processing and lighting, HFR won't help. But judging from the topic of this film, the material lends itself well to HFR.
It sounds to me like the point is that the market could be much larger if the transaction value were clear to consumers.

In the current app store, with the methods that consumers are used to spending money on their phones, for whatever reasons, it's not.

It's like when you'll easily spend $30 on drinks on a Friday night, but suffer a shitty note-taking system for years when you could have many of your problems fixed for $5 one time just because you don't know the possible transaction exists.
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The TPP is Obama cashing out of his presidency. Notice that he's been the prime force behind the deal but he's not been front and centre in promoting the deal. That's because he knows this deal represents corporate interests that are not particularly well aligned with citizen's interests.

TPP is really just a warmed over version of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), which was the last big push corporations made to further their interests and just like that agreement the TPP will flounder in the court of public opinion. Obama though will have paid off favours he accrued during his presidency to corporate interests by making this half hearted attempt to make it happen.

In the end it's all good. Obama pays his bills and the TPP ends up in the trash where it belongs.
re manager writing code: It should be mandatory - least you become one of the 'non-technical' managers that seem to revel in just how far they've gotten from the day to day. You need to intimately understand your team's workflow, the dev environment, the build system, the deploy process. You need to know whether 'switching to X' is a good idea. You need to quickly surmise whether "building y" is a hard or easy problem.

If your SDLC makes it 'unrealistic' for you to find an hour or two to complete even a small point story then you already have suspect a pipeline.
There are two reasons why I think simpler binary packing libraries like CBOR, MsgPack, or BSON can't really match what Protobuf gives you:

- Assistance with schema evolution and versioning is one of the best parts about using Protobuf in an API. It is really like the best parts of XML and XML Schema (validation, documentation, interoperability) without any of the bloat.

- Working with code generation can be a pain to get working initially, but is very friendly when actually using real objects in code. There is no need to think about any representation on-the-wire... everything 'just works'. There is no need to ensure you don't accidentally serialize fields in the wrong order, or worry about encodings, etc.

Also, there is a binary decoder included with protoc that can print a debug decoding of any protobuf binary message, including integer tags for different fields. Wouldn't you have pretty much the same problems with dissection and debugging on-the-wire in CBOR?

It is really quite pleasant to use Protobuf for an API, I can see why Google is opinionated in including it as the only option with gRPC.
Selling treasury bonds doesn't mean the government is 'borrowing' anything; they're a hand-out to savers. It's the difference between interest bearing and non-interest bearing U.S. liabilities (checking vs savings account).

The real 'problem' if anything is that trade deficits mean that net government spending has to fill the void in domestic demand lost through the foreign surplus (else the domestic private sector must necessarily go into deficit).
Still waiting for the blockbuster case where the all-seeing-eye saved the day? At some level this is being sold to the public. Are we getting what we paid for?

This technology should be nothing if not incredibly useful. The potential of abuse is so bad because it's so damn useful. So, if it's inevitable that it's going to be created, and inevitable that it's going to be abuse, can we at least try to ensure we use it for good as much as possible?
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Who says it's not already being abused? We don't know how the system is secured, and it's staffed by entry-level temp workers hired by a private company with apparently no oversight.
It is interesting to me how someone who is so knowledgable about Apple could make such basic mistakes about his own app strategy. Lots of people make apps that are not popular but Gruber is someone who has seen them all come and go and yet he built something that was just not compelling.
> drone defense

The security world is very interested. Put an explosive on a drone and you've made a guided missile, a technology formerly reserved for militaries. How do you protect your troops, your field headquarters, or in peaceful scenarios, an event or a VIP such as the President?
> Ultimately, what we should have done once we had versions of the app for both Mac and iOS is switch to a subscription model. Make the apps free downloads on all platforms, and charge somewhere around $15/year for sync accounts. That’s where the industry is going.

I'm not sure how realistic it is to expect users to pay a subscription fee for productivity apps like this. There's been a ton of backlash whenever developers, even small ones, announce subscription pricing (see 1Password[1] and Pushbullet[2]). I get the impression users are starting to feel nickel and dimed every time one of the apps they use switches over to a subscription model and they start looking for alternatives instead of being willing to pay the subscription cost. Simultaneously, obviously maintaining a sync service has a recurring cost and there needs to be a way for the developer to cover those costs, otherwise you end up in this situation where you simply have to shut down.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4vziyr/1password_lau...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3t5mrb/pushbullet_...
Agreed! JIT's are interesting but we use Cython in production to build Userify Enterprise (SSH key management) (self-hosted distributable). It works incredibly well and we are thrilled with the result. (We do require a bunch of third party pip installs rather than wrap them into the binary.) This was partly because one thing that we had trouble with was lots of imports, especially for (ironically) compiled C libraries. It's a lot easier and probably safer to just give a user a script of installs (or a requires manifest.) Someday soon we'll probably even make it installable via pip and bring things full circle. (We're exploring a free five server version.)

Userify's architecture is probably a bit unusual. It's distributed as a single binary that uses an external redis server for locking and stores data in either S3 or a local filesystem (NFS, EBS, iSCSI, etc.) When it first launches, it automatically installs any missing python prereqs (if pip is available) and explodes out a web server static file repo in case you want to front-end it with nginx (etc) and then starts up multiple web servers (HTTPS, HTTP, alternative ports, etc). We've found Python to work extremely well for all of this. We've looked at a few other languages that we think fit our core requirements (incl lua, scala, and haskell) but Python works pretty much perfectly for this use case, we can scale it horizontally using Redis as a synchronization mechanism, and the GIL hasn't caused any problems for us because we just add more processes as needed. Cython is really fantastic and 'just works'.

Things aren't perfect.. we're still on Python 2.x, but we're going to be moving forward as soon as all of the third-party libraries we rely on move to 3.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that many of the startups from Day 1 and Day 2 are well beyond the "seed" stage that YC claims to target? I get that YC is a perfect program to prepare a company for raising significant investment, so it makes perfect sense for the startups to join even at a later stage. Also derisks YCs investment on the standard terms (i.e. 7% of a later-stage company for 120k$ is a better deal than 7% for 120k$ at an entirely unproven company).

Example: Ohmygreen claims it's a logistics company (which implies CapEx unless they rent, which eats margins) and already has 800k MRR. Doesn't quite fit my definition of "seed" stage.
I think it was already the case that the content shown in the search result had to be viewable on the site. This link seems to be more about annoyances?
Nice! It's great that we still have a runnable record of Debian's past.

One thing I'm interested in, is if we can get the Debian 0.91 userland running on a recent kernel. With Linus's attention to preserving backwards compatibility, I wonder what, if any, changes are needed to make this work.
Most anyone with something to sell will claim it is the cure for what ails you.
What? All of my fellowships/assistantships as a PhD student have always been considered taxable income.
At the university I was working on a project to do parsing of gene relationships from literature. And yeah remember the inconsistencies. Also genes have funny names there is a SHH (Sonic Hedgehog), a DICER1 (which cuts something RNA or DNA I forgot), and a bunch of other silly ones.

Ultimately though coming from the world of algorithms and nicely organized data, it was frustrating how disorganized the nomenclature seemed.
Is there really a market for a note-taking app, that cost $20 on the desktop?

That sounds quite difficult to market and sell, when there are many alternatives, like Evernote, or OneNote that are close to free.
My health insurance had a list of people in the network but yeah. For a therapist you both need to be on the same page so you need to see who you click with. i saw one that just made me feel worst about my self. I just stopped going and tried someone different,eventually gave up on therapists... Psychiatrist is a little easier since they're all legit doctors, mds,or I got lucky. Although people like to talk about how mental health related drugs are over prescribed so i guess there's enough crappy ones. they're their to prescribe and make sure you don't get worse. its a simpler relationship, like the doctor you see when your leg breaks or a dentist.
There are worse barriers to entry for a search engine! DMCA take-downs... Right to be forgotten... click history...
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Simple Pickup is in Y Combinator. Nice!
> Solid educational system

My impression is the opposite, but maybe I'm misinformed ?
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I think what we could use is a sort of spam filter for comments. Where each comment is either classified as positive or negative. Next some researcher can probably tell us the optimal rate between positive and negative comments for your mental health/self esteem. This way you can get a "rebalanced" feed that is fit for human consumption. This also reduces the risk of "going into defensive mode" and ignoring bad comments.
They have a kickstarter-like system and take a cut of the legal fees, it looks like.
"As the user of large websites I don't care". Are you sure ? Do you want your OK Cupid or LinkedIn profile to be crossposted on another website without your knowledge.
Don't forget that the genomics folks also renamed a whole bunch of genes a few years ago so now there are two different names for the same thing floating around!
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This is a good question, and, as a YC founder presenting today, I can give an answer.

"Seed" has shifted. In the early days of YC, you came in with an idea and tried to build something people want. Note that it is called "Demo Day", because you would literally demo your product.

Today, it's just so much easier to start a company. You can try out an idea in a weekend, so the 3-month program of YC is focused on growth. As you said, they are preparing companies to raise seed capital, and the bar for that has risen considerably.
Keeping in mind, when Vesper was originally released, Notes was pretty kludgey, but it was dramatically improved. So, I halfways agree with you - Vesper became less compelling after Notes got it's major rework.

I still use Vesper as my preferred "really quick" note/scratchpad taking client, even though I'm an Evernote Plus subscriber, and basically run my entire life off that App.

I think that's the major problem for Vesper - the top end of note-taking is owned by tools like OneNote/Evernote, and Vesper was never going to be able to compete in that market. People are happy to pay $30-$60/year for a world class, secure, multi-platform note taking app, but probably not willing to pay that much for a scratch-pad note taking app, when the built in one is free, and syncs well across platforms.
Maybe you want to target the most profitable demographic?
Well, it's a hard problem.
Looking at the data, could you come up with a way to learn control more quickly?

Ie, given a series of pixel intensities, could you send commands to each motor to get them to grasp something?
The marshal format used by pyc files is explicitly documented[1] to be unsafe, just a fast way to cache the compiled byte code to a .pyc file next to the .py source file. The Python VM is not a sandbox so there has been no need for an untrusted bytecode format.

[1] see big red warning box at https://docs.python.org/3/library/marshal.html
Atom is too good to have this comment be the top one on the article - alas I can't delete it.

It looks like I was wrong about the community contribution. They mentioned it elsewhere: the maintainers of the module I was happened to both be on paternity leave. I suspect they didn't mention it here because they didn't want it to seem like an excuse, but of course people should be able to take paternity leave without worrying about some errant comment on HN giving them a bad day.

Also, the response was excellent: https://github.com/atom/tree-view/pull/913

As soon as they came back it was resolved quickly, my PR got a review, and another one was accepted. All in all, I'm feeling much better about the community part of Atom, and thoroughly sorry for raising a fuss!
People often say 'the discoverability [in the App Store] is horrible', which, I believe is inexact wording, but largely results in the outcome you raise.

It's not so much discoverability as in 'stumbling upon an arbitrary app', but more of learning about what that app does, and why it's something you want.

Once you learn about a solution to a problem you may not even realize you had, you'll be a lot more likely to make a purchase. This is why app makers jump to be featured in compilations like 'top 5 note taking apps for iOS'; other options are word-of-mouth, bundling, or being promoted somehow out-of-band.
This is the first official build, but the release page is currently pretty light on details.

For now there a bit more information on the roadmap page: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap#12
Does cheerio account for single page apps? In any case thanks for the tutorial!

Anyways I added your stuff here along with other data mining resource:

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At least in science/engineering: not really. Faculty positions are saturated, only one in three PhDs will get hired as an assistant professor, let alone receive tenure. One could argue that the number of graduate students is hugely inflated, since they're such cheap labor.
Well, in many states a restaurant doesn't have to pay minimum wage as long as tips make up the difference. And it certainly is legal to charge restaurant employees for food (it's common to give a discount, and/or offer some items for free).

Granted, McDonald's employees aren't tipped, and unless somebody eats an incredible amount, their food bill won't cut into their paycheck all that much, so McDonald's isn't able to really lower its labor cost all that much. But you could see something similar to the hypothetical at a much classier restaurant.
> since the only alternative path is streets that are full of traffic lights and already quite jammed

Well, you can't fit more car into an already jammed street, so maybe fewer people will cross the center if it is much harder to do so?
"The English alphabet has only 26 letters, which most kids can master with little difficulty. But we are adults now, why limit ourselves to the 26?"

Less is more. Why waste time learning 2k pictograms (Just for the standard stuff, there's over 50k in total) when you can achieve the same thing with less?
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I'm wondering the exact same thing. And also, I am wondering if all these companies that are clearly later than seed stage get the exact same offer of 7% for 120k. Is there somewhere in YC terms that says that is the only deal they offer to new companies, or are we to assume they potentially are recieving more diversified deals?
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Stuff like this is why I try to avoid apps that operate their own syncing services. If Vesper had used some kind of file format you could just keep in your Dropbox, and used that for syncing, all the developers would need to do is stop paying for the proprietary font in order to have zero operating costs.

Obviously you can't avoid all problems this way (Apple and Google and Dropbox sometimes change their APIs, or discontinue them, e.g. Google Reader), but it goes a long way to building confidence that even if the company fails, people can continue to use the app.
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I believe Texas used to grant in state tuition to anyone with funded scholarships over a certain amount. I don't know about your wife's car but that could be the reason why she's in state?
120 is the least common multiple of 24 and 30 (NTSC rounded to nearest integer). Perhaps this is a method to capture enough source material to generate all popular framerates.
Having a custom sync server and a custom font are both surprising decisions to me. I suppose they both have to do with a certain design quality they wanted with the app.

I'm not that familiar with the features of the app, but the reason I question the former is that the Day One journaling app has had a great sync model that uses Dropbox from the get-go. No custom server needed. For simple notes, it seems trivial to be able to piggyback on an existing file service like that. (I do note that their comments mention wanting to use iCloud but it not having everything they needed.) For fun, I'm writing my own task management app and I made sure to avoid my own cloud service just because I know I didn't want to pay or maintain it.

The custom font decision is also interesting. They must've been fairly certain of their profitability level to go down that route.
Evernote does well, because it offers ongoing value for that subscription fee. That's the key - are you offering a lot of value? If so, then subscription fees are fine. If not, then you feel like you are being nickle and dimed. Other obvious candidates (some of which don't charge) for valuable subscription are Economist, NYT, WSJ, gmail, whatsapp.

And then there is that third class of App, the ones where subscriptions don't offer much value, but honestly, we use the apps so often, we're happy to pay to support them (Overcast, Tweetbot, MyFitnessPal are ones I would put in this class)
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Did deutsche bank bundled those subprime loans? Why are you faulting those banks?
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You still are intelligent. You still can be liked by your teams. The way you feel is just clouding the way you see yourself right now.

When you go for interviews people often dont see your potential. They often dont want to take a gamble on you turning the boat around soon enough for their liking. Very often people pick up on how you feel about yourself and use it to form an opinion of you. One that often agrees with how you feel about yourself. The good thing about this is things change when you take control of your feelings and change. The situation is more in your hands than you realise. You have control.

The biggest thing you need right now is time. With time your feelings change and you see yourself differently. You will be able to remember the postive times and show yourself you are still capable. Dont give up if things don't change in a week or a month or several months. The improvements are so small that it is hard to notice every day. However as the months pass, the change adds up and you notice it.

I know it feels like leaving the current job is the only option. But unemployment can make you feel bad, even worse. That is something you need to avoid. What I did was find a differnet job that gives headspace to think and keeps the bills mostly paid.
If you think that you will attract enough new customers that you will make more money under a subscription model than a traditional paid model, there is no reason to keep the existing users happy -- if they leave, they have already paid you all they were ever willing to pay, so you aren't missing out on any money from them. (If they aren't willing to pay for a subscription, they probably wouldn't have paid a one-time fee for the next version of the product either. These are the kind of people who buy once and don't upgrade.) Even if they switch to a competitor's product, it's not like you lost any money you would have gotten from them.
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In vast swaths of the US electricity is used for climate control on a 24/7 basis, and in these locations it is often the largest single energy usage point in the home or office building.
Microsoft used to have the policy that you had to write code unless you supervised over 100 people. Do they still do that?