skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly this is a very strange metric for me. It doesn't account for things like the frothy conditions of 2011 - 2014 where people were raising money like crazy.

It doesn't speak to trends where investors were actively looking to nourish alternatives to YC since there was a perceived monopoly on investor mindshare at YC.

It doesn't explain what the series A cumulation means for investors, nor startups, nor the incubators themselves.

If this article is for investors, wouldn't it better to understand and compare the total valuations of startups from each accelerator (by batch would be best.)

If this is for startups, wouldn't it be best to compare percent of batch that went on to raise series A?

edit: I don't mean to suggest that the data isn't interesting. But given the extremely human nature of startup investing, I think it's worth speaking to qualitative factors when trying to bring insight.
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366517.
It speaks volumes about human psychology. The fact that sometimes all it takes is a catchy name to build a company from nothing that has not one single innovation.

Just look at one of the most hilarious examples: "meundies.com" It has a cute little name that people like, so it's gaining traction. Is there anything innovative or good about the product or business model? Nope. The catchy name is all.
"Continuing" implies that it was there in the first place, and I don't believe that to be the case. Between

- The telemetry,

- Spying on kids by default (https://boingboing.net/2015/08/10/windows-10.html - I helped my kid disable this on his new Christmas laptop), and

- The "share your Wi-Fi passwords with your friends" feature

I just don't have any confidence that Microsoft isn't analyzing everything I do and sharing all my metadata with anyone who wants it. Say what you will about macOS and Linux, but at least with those I'm the customer and not the product.
I think Guns & Roses would take exception with being grouped with glam metal. Their debut and grunge marked the end of glam metal.
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See, for me that is a problem.

If a country truly wants to commit to tax payed healthcare for all, needs to provide it for its free citizens, not its worker drones.

Its a problem of any Statist system that if the state does something, all the externalizes associated with it, are costs to the state. That typical solution is for the state to internalize/control these externalizes. Without some system to figure out what is to much, you are on a slippery slop.

That's the exact point Hayek made in the 'Road to Serfdom'. Not every state intervention will automatically mean that you slide into dictatorship, but rather he argued that if you logically respond to each problem with the natural solution of intervention you will end up in dictatorship. You need some higher level of thinking about the problem otherwise you have a problem.

His next 2 two books attempted then about how to design a system of law and governance that effectively balances the needs of individual freedom and state intervention. I don't think he was fully successful, but they are good books either way.
Thanks for these great questions!

1. Before Simple Habit, I was actually a power user of some of other meditation apps so the benefit of a multi-teacher platform is something I stumbled upon personally. Being able to explore different voices, styles, and techniques helps users experiment with what really resonates with them. We’ve found that our users like the diversity and will often (if not always) engage with content from different teachers on the app.

2. Situation-specific meditations make it easy for users to integrate mindful moments all throughout their day. At Simple Habit, we believe that meditation helps people do more throughout their day, be more resilient, and engage more with life. Situation-specific, meditations make the benefits directly applicable to whatever they might be doing, whether they’re heading into a meeting, about to give a presentation, or going through a conflict.

3. Yes! Part of our mission is to help meditation teachers monetize on their impact and hard work.

4. We primarily vet teachers based on reputable training/credentials (many of our teachers were trained through Google’s Search Inside Yourself program and/or top universities), and the quality of their teaching experience. We’re aiming to create a high quality platform comprised of the most respected teachers in the space.
Why would that be? Self-driving cars should want to stay on the road in all cases.

The edge of the road is soft, not well marked, contains rocks and nails and housepets. The road proper is hard, well-marked, and vehicles should want to stay there always.

Of course this will occasionally result in inconvenience for other drivers as vehicle 1 has been stationary for 25 minutes now as it applies a mandatory software service pack. But, oh well. That is THEIR problem. It's obviously maximal for MY vehicle to stay on the road at all times.
I've personally seen them on the road at twilight (which is rush hour, by nature), during lunch time, and in pouring rain. They don't do highways yet, because most of the test vehicles are limited to 25mph for safety reasons (which is infuriating when you're stuck behind them in a 35mph zone). They do get plenty of practice at stop & go though.
if there are pickpockets a station will warn. it happens sometimes but not always.
Well, no battery test truly represents real world, so I don't think it's a big deal.

The same testing methodology in the past gave the "Recommended" badge for Macbook Pros. Why should we question the methodology only when it produces a result that people don't like?

-- edit, just noticed the article I posted this comment on got merged with another by the moderators, so it's a dupe within the overall thread.
Set up a dynamic web using HTML only (no JavaScript)
For those who want a very in depth tour of all metal genres, with example songs, check this website out: http://mapofmetal.com/#/home
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author here..

all I can say regarding building businesses on keyword descriptive domains.. it just makes everything easier..

Easier to communicate your biz. Easier to get your foot in the door somewhere. Easier for introductions. Easier for consumers to remember your name (https://blog.nuts.com/were-going-nuts-dot-com/). Just easier all around. All those things added together can directly impact sales..
"Voice of the Soul"
Built something very similar for the web using widgets back in 2006-7, along the time twitter was taking off. iPhones were just coming on the scene and there was no app ecosystem yet so we built one of the most advanced flash widgets ever. It worked amazingly well, but we just couldn't get the traction needed at the time. Overall, i think the timing was off. I've seen many similar ideas over the years ,but yours is the closest to our original. I have years of thinking about this type of service under my belt so if you want to chat about some of the ideas we implemented beyond what you have now, let me know.
A relative of mine has been battling depression for decades. After this person retired, they had a noticeable improvement in mood and energy within months, and around two years later had started a new exercise regime, begun doing low-paying but enjoyable work again for the sheer joy of it, gotten involved in local government, and quit medication with the help of their doctor.

It's not clear what "independent of external factors" really means, but in this case quitting the job seems to have worked. It wasn't that the job was bad in the sense of prestige, but rather that the job was a massive stressor in physical and emotional ways.

Now, everyone is an individual, but I'd hate to see someone else spend decades fighting depression without access to every weapon they can use.
I had (still have) the maxed out 17" MacBook "lapzilla" but loved it for the power and really need a big screen to get real work done (coding/gamedev/data etc). I am now usually surrounded by 3 27" screens, if the laptop is just for demos and meetings probably could be smaller but if I have to work on it for any amount of time it needs to be a big screen.

I would still dig a pro 17" thicker and more powerful MacBook.
I too find that really creepy. Yet at the same time it seems inevitable. After all, is it really so different than going to amazon.com and seeing a front page tailored to your purchasing habits? Or even different from an employee recognizing you and asking if you are back to buy the widget you were asking about last time?
Voice of the soul!
If you can determine a way to intercept the pre-encrypted "telemetry" data, then we'd have the ability to verify Microsoft's claims about what they are transmitting. At the moment, we only have Microsoft's claims, and they are unverifiable.
metal is an incredibly varied genre

At one point when I was young, and hence rather an idiot in some ways, I used to think this was just for metal (and of course I considered all other music utter crap). Later I found out not only metal is varied (d'uh) and everytime I think I've heard all styles in some genre or subgenre of music I find something which doesn't really seem to resemble anything else, then look it up just to find out someone gave the style a name already, or labelled it as a mix of some other styles. E.g. these days I'm (re)discovering the more underground electronic hardcore scene and even there it's amazing how many variety there can be with what is basically the same kickdrum and bassline which started the whole thing all over again.

I don't think I'd be able to distinguish Black Metal from Death Metal.

depends, compare Dimmu Borgir's Enthrone Darkness Triumphant with Death's The Sound Of Perseverance or so, should give you an idea
Good for him. I believe he's gonna make tremendous contributions whether or not he's at Apple.

Now that without all the restrictions from Apple, he might be free to achieve even more.
Have a bunch of good domains in my portfolio and this article is just crap.

Content is king, and always will be.

Also, even his first example is inadequate, I would actually have chosen the Spanish sounding website, when going to Spain.
Dutch trains become 100% wind-powered
I guess I implied it in my comment, but I'll explicitly say it here:

> I did not search for, manually install, or otherwise fiddle with drivers for any of my current 3 personal machines.

I have done so many times in the past, but not for these three[1].

This is particularly true for the System76 which not only had drivers pre-installed and the repository configured, but also had no issues out of the box...or ever in my case.

Dell had the drivers installed and the repo pre-configured...but out of the box there were some bugs in various drivers at release...but again for me it was a matter of waiting for a fix and just doing a regular `apt-get` update process...none of the typical online support forum crawling I typically am used to.

Don't get me wrong, there are many other things that might dissuade you from going the Linux route, but driver headaches of old are largely gone, especially if you get a laptop/desktop with OEM support.

[1] Aside for the aforementioned `update` and `upgrade` combination using the `apt-get` packaging system...but the relevant repositories were already configured (or configured automatically as is the case for custom build).
New Georgia Chamber plan focuses on rural communities
IIRC, the sites that are visited during the test are off a CR server used specifically for the tests, not the Internet at large.
Very cool! Super stoked about this.
Read Apples statement to TechCrunch in the article.
IBM is selling enterprise Apple support, them claiming that the TCO is lower is like a car salesman telling you the TCO of their specific brand of vehicle is lower. Take it with a huge grain of salt. IBM has a vested interest in pushing Mac enterprise adoption.
An article I tend to share when folks consider longer or too descriptive domain names:

https://blog.nuts.com/were-going-nuts-dot-com/
> Quick question, when was the last time you did it?

Gentoo was circa 2005 and Ubuntu was circa 2012. I spent months trying to make it work, but it was too much. Software ran slower, installing package updates was like playing Minesweeper and worst of all, I had to use Wine. A friend of mine tried it as recently as 2014, then gave up as expected.

> Currently I have three full time Linux boxes:

I'm glad it works for you. Maybe you have more experience with Linux than I? Or maybe more patience? Or time? Or maybe I'm wrong? Regardless, for my multiple attempts over the course of months trying to make it work, I couldn't stand it. I'm sure others can and I would encourage them to try, at the very least just for the experience.

> Let's face it, this MBP just highlights the fact that its target market is not developers or power users.

That may be your opinion. Time will tell if its a trend. Given the way things stand today, I don't really see it being the case, at least in the short term. I'm waiting for the next release.
US military tests swarm of mini-drones launched from jets
This is one of the best app landing pages I've seen in a long time. Though I have to admit I haven't even watched the video at the top, the rest of the page gets straight to the point clearly explaining and demonstrating the app, and the comics at the end are wonderful.

Also, I can't believe I haven't seen this social network idea executed before. Seems at least like one worth exploring.
Realistically, how do you even do a sting operation of that sort of thing?
(Note: VS Entreprise is $6000 away. I see a market for cheaper code visualisation tools...)
> You're always making more data, it never stops.

Well, in one year of monitoring your PC, I've seen your tax returns, documents/photos, countless correspondence samples, countless voice samples, internet browsing history and online spending habits. I've identified everyone you regularly communicate with, a list of locations you regularly visit, and what your career path is. What is year two going to reveal? "Bought a new lawn mower"? "Finally joined a gym"?
The thing with apple laptops is that they always combined great specs with great looks, which used to be rare. I've been using thinkpads for a number of years now. They're solid machines with good hardware, but they're ugly. I still am very happy with my t460p. Great screen, great keyboard, top of the line specs (with ram expandable to 32gb!), and compact 14" form factor. But yeah ... ugly.

People who care about how it looks won't be getting thinkpads, but dell's xps 13, or lenovo's yoga line.
I always thought that GnR was a bit of a divergence from so called "hair metal", sure some of the guys had that big hair that was practically a uniform, but they had a different feel than your stereotypical hair metal bands like Warrant or Ratt. Hair metal had the glitz and glamour of rich rockers partying to excess, but Guns and Roses just had more sleeze. In reading Motley Crue's The Dirt and Nikki Sixx's Herion Diaries, they really sold that image a bit for me in that, while they got along well with each other on tour and partied together, there was a bit more of a dirty aspect.
> I've been specific. even in the last post, I say I re-iterate that I don't believe there is singular feminism, and here you are using 'feminism' unqualified. Respond to the things I've said above, maybe quote them, and I can respond; you keep asking me to respond to your own summaries.

Because the author of the post doesn't specify! She talks about teaching her child about feminism, and you assume that is somehow bad.

> I've said why I think it is wrong.

No, you have not. You talked around it disputing definitions. Again, you are claiming you've been specific, but you are not. Yes, obviously feminism, like most things, means different things to different people - that doesn't somehow make rejecting it generally (which is the only way you have even hinted at the artcile not being a hit piece, even if you later refute the idea) reasonable.

> No, I've explained. misrepresentation, and focus are different.

That article is misleading, it misrepresents the article it is talking about - that's not focus.
Ask HN: Leaving a senior sales position?
I've been working as an architect for a large technology company for a little over a year -- or rather, I was snookered into working as an "architect" while actually doing post-sales (and some pre-sales) stuff.

I managed to avoid focusing solely on solutions from my employer and managed to get some fun out of the job, but day-to-day work is dreary, crammed with endless meetings, presentations, and visiting customers to peddle stuff they quite likely don't need.

It's destroying me, blunting my tech skills and has become really depressive of late, but due to this career turn (and age, and having stopped development for a year) I am now apparently unable to find jobs as a "proper" systems architect or team leader (which is what I was before).

Any advice on how best to turn this around besides sticking to a regimen of submitting applications and doing more networking?
It's particularly uncomfortable now that Steam has some... risqué game titles out there. I'm surprised there isn't at least more options on Steam to mark certain titles as private.
> I think that, on balance, actually creating a data format that represents the state and "coding" using that plus state machines is actually a more robust and useful way to accomplish the same thing.

Manually coding up a "state machine" is kind of reinventing the Lua interpreter, no?
The point is that there's no clear causation in either direction, and certainly not in even a significant minority of cases (let alone all or even a majority). We just don't know nearly enough about how the brain works to be able to chalk up something as complex as major depressive disorder to "your brain's inflamed; take some Aleve".

In fact, the DSM definition of major depressive disorder/episode (or at least this summary thereof (I unfortunately don't have a copy of any DSM version on hand): http://www.mental-health-today.com/dep/dsm.htm ) explicitly excludes cases where the symptoms are caused by some other physical case:

"Note: Do note include symptoms that are clearly due to a general medical condition, or mood-incongruent delusions or hallucinations."

I would think brain inflammation would count as a "general medical condition" in this context, though whether or not "clearly" is applicable is admittedly very unlikely. Regardless, the DSM seems to maintain a distinction between "depression symptoms caused by some other disorder, whether psychological or physical" v. "only exhibiting symptoms of one or more major depressive episode(s)". In the former case, yeah, totally work on fixing that inflammation with lifestyle changes or whatever. In the latter case, it ain't really that simple.
Yeah that's a good point. I was referring more the general idea of enforcing style by parsing the code and reconstructing the source from the AST though. This is a better method than the linter approach that you get with eslint for example.
While it's not an IDE, if you want to tackle a million line code of an existing package and want to insert a tiny feature, I highly recommend Coati.io. It's a must.
Scientists Found a Drug That Can Regrow Teeth
> letting Lenovo have ATAP along with the rest of the company, where it might've had a chance.

Who says Lenovo wanted ATAP, or would have given it a chance? And Google bought Motorola almost 5 years ago. If you don't call that a chance, I don't know what is.
Death Metal example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTK0MbOobQ

More riff-y, generally very technical, driving rhythms.

Black Metal example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPyOhP1GTRQ

More atmospheric, less driving or pulsing, higher pitched chords or notes tremolo picked.
With recent successes in specific games (Go, arcade games), I'd love to see a resurgence of interest in "General Game Playing" research, i.e., the idea that an AI is given a description of a game and learns how to play it.

Doing a search shows that it's a subject that is still being taught, but I rarely see recent articles about it.
i mean do employees really want to deal with work stuff via text message too? We have email, calendars, various video and chat messaging apps, old fashion face-to-face communication, etc.

I'm pretty sure employees want to feel less on call, not to mention keep their one last silo of personal communication free from yet another greedy overlord.
You're not wrong. We don't know that the commenter has read that Lattner wrote he'll continue to be involved and wondered if he will in fact continue to be involved once Swift no longer becomes his main activity. Whether we like or not, it will have a smaller mind share than it did when it was his main priority and his job revolved around it.
Dah, that's nothing. We have models that we built specifically to determine the best way to train other models. After 2 years of tweaking these models, we learned that the best way to optimize our learning was to build new models that train these models for determining how to train our other models.
No, no, no. Individual's can't afford that much privacy.
If I'm the government, I'm going to make sure they have to be better than humans with self driving co-pilot.

You also can't compare deaths per million miles if the self driving cars don't operate in dangerous conditions. You'd have to compare apple miles to apple miles and orange miles to orange miles. A lot of people die in car wrecks in bad conditions.

A car that only kills .5 people per million miles, but doesn't work in the rain, snow, dark, whatever, likely isn't safer than a person.
It would have made sense to divide up Death Metal into subgenres. Doom metal/stoner metal is the most interesting thing I've come across in recent years.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pcfW9pP8XQ&t=10m58s
This has been done and thought of before. I'll go over why you don't see anyone using it. :)

Now obviously the "2 seconds" would need to be tweaked to be slower. Throttling my internet to 'GPRS' in Chrome results in the site thinking I'm using an ad blocker (for this demonstration, I disabled it). It took 2.10s before my browser tried to download adv.css which resulted in me being flagged for using an ad blocker.

You'll want to serve your site to users quickly or you'll raise your bounce rate (and possibly get less ad impressions as a result). But now you're looking at a 3s~ delay just to serve an image. Imagine if you had a site, more images, some javascript, etc? Would users even attempt to browse your site if every page load took 3-5 seconds to read the content because you were waiting to serve content while detecting if they are using an ad blocker?

If AdBlockers hurt you so much that having a 3-5s delay to serve your website is a realistic alternative you're better off shutting up shop or dealing with the fact your site is simply not profitable.
There's also the Metal Evolution tree[0]

[0] - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/18/3b/19/183b...
Yeah, I've always been slightly uncomfortable with the level of tracking in Steam as well. Mostly the notifications to friends when I start and stop playing a game, but the total hours count as well.

I guess I take partial solace in the fact that my number of hours played is almost always wildly inaccurate because I have a habit of (sometimes accidentally, sometimes intentionally) letting my PC sit idle for long stretches of time with a game still running. Steam doesn't track for activity within the game, just that it's open.
> The only SipHash security you get is seed hiding. Once you got it, it's insecure.

Isn't that the case for every cryptographic primitive? I mean, that's sort of the point of private keys, yes? Once you have the key, you can decrypt AES ciphertext, create signatures with RSA, and forge valid MAC tags.

Not sure what point you're making here.