skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Start of realization that who I am is not the internal dialog and procession of thoughts. This one is hard to explain. I think I am certain things due to my thoughts; that's just my thoughts though.

This one for me is huge. You are not your thoughts. Took a really long time to understand.. it's almost like I am two people, the one who is thinking and the one who observes the thinking. Helps me distance my emotions and reflect on them in a more rational way (not obsess over mistakes, or worry too much about the future).
https://www.reactos.org/node/785 - additional info
The "plugin" that you linked is for the older version of TiddlyWiki (it's called TiddlyWiki Classic now).

There is a plugin for the modern TiddlyWiki (IIRC it's full name is TiddlyWiki5) called GSD5 (GSD is for "Getting Stuff Done"): http://gsd5.tiddlyspot.com/ .

I've never used TW Classic and original mGSD, but GSD5 is "heavily inspired by mGSD" and on first glance they look alike a lot.

And, anyway, TiddlyWiki5 with GSD5 rocks.
Libfmsynth: a C library which implements an FM synthesizer
AFAIK: No, the "infection" rules are like those of GPL (modifications of the code, or code that links to it), the difference is in with whom you have to share the source code. With the GPL, you only have to share it with those that you give a copy of the software -> if you run it on your servers only, you don't have to give out any source. The Affero GPL modifies this to cover this exact scenario: everyone using the software directly or over a network connection now has a right to the source code. The license does not "jump" over the network connection to the code of applications connecting to it.

See also https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#AGPL
On Trump Backlash, Lyft Passes Uber in US Downloads for the First Time Ever
Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
Free chlorine will indeed break down over time, but an hour in the fridge probably won't be sufficient - the half life of free chlorine in water is much longer than an hour! (In sunlight or UV, however, it'll break down much faster).

Secondly, Chloramine is now often used instead (or in addition to) free chlorine. Chloramine is more stable and won't break down by putting it in the fridge.

And the potential health issue isn't so much with chlorine itself anyway, but with other chemical products that can be formed by reactions with chlorine, possibly before the water even reaches your tap.
Nonetheless, people in Flint didn't have drinkable water for years. If the agency is so toothless with a highly politicized case like this, you can only imagine how toothless it is when it comes to the less publicized cases. So don't tell me how awesome the EPA currently is. Maybe it could, in fact, benefit from a swift kick in the ass.
1) Stewart Butterfield is Canadian

2) His grandfather immigrated to Canada from Poland (not the USA)

3) "NBC News"
"Bachelor's of Science in Air Conditioning & Plumbing" that would be thermofluids very useful if you want to work for a f1 team aerospace nuclear etc :-)
I love Dropbox Paper. The way I explain it is:

It's like Google Docs if it was designed today instead of a decade ago.

My team uses it instead of Google Docs for Feature Specs, Meeting Notes, etc.
No, you only have user-definable type constructors that happen to be monads if you jump to a metalanguage. (Whatever formal or informal system you use to reason about C# code.) Inside C#, you don't even have the means to assert that they are monads, let alone take advantage of the fact that they are monads.
They are referring to Algebra I.
Sam Dicker was the programmer for the sound on Defender. He went on to work on the sound for the Amiga computer.
The Pandora [1] is a few years old at this point. I had one for a short while and wasn't too impressed. There will be an update called the Pyra [2] coming later this year.

[1] https://www.openpandora.org/index.html

[2] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
What you're describing is called "Delayed sleep phase disorder" and in some cases, like yours, it can be managed. However this depends on the severity so just remember not to judge someone who has tried and failed to align themselves with society's clock.[0]

You were able to align yourself using a couple of techniques, but missed out on some of the most potent which include

1. Melatonin

2. Blue light therapy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder

[0]Here's a relevant quote from Wikipedia "Depending on the severity, the symptoms can be managed to a greater or lesser degree, but no cure is known."
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome

Seems increasingly common with our modern lifestyle.

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/delayed-sleep-...
I discovered this to my dismay when building a simple cutoff switch for my fish tank's pump. The pump would turn off/on, water would back flow into the reservoir, turning the pump back on. The pump cycling then caused waves to hit the float switch. It would cycle on/off at about 1-2 Hz.

This was built before Arduino's and Raspberry Pi's were around (and the environment is humid), so I devised a fairly simple mechanical solution of just enclosing the float switch inside a pipe that had a small hole in the bottom. The water level inside the pipe would change slower than the real level, providing the needed hysteresis.
Dalek Relaxation Tape

https://youtu.be/e59guruVL4o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522044
It's also about using public money to fund for-profit diploma mills.
Mentioning lack of dreams is on point. As a student I would do at least 1-2 all nighters (~36+ hours without sleep) a week. In the rest of the week I would probably be partying. In hindsight, it was pretty stupid as I was incredibly inefficient at everything, my health was poor and I was cognizant that my mood would get depressive the more sleep deprived I got.

One of my benchmarks of my tiredness, and conversely how rested I was, was if I was having dreams. When I was exhausted, sleep would be pure black abyss and the time between sleep and awakening could have been the blink of an eye for all I knew. When I was sleeping reasonably (~6.5+ hours) I would start to dream again after a few days.

I take things a bit easier now, it's much easier to resist distractions like Facebook or the news when I'm rested than when I'm extremely exhausted.

Heavens knows what happens during parenthood and you simply have no choice, presumably there must be some psychological instinct that takes over...
Unfortunately, it never loads for me. Just shows the loading bar animation over and over.
competitive football teams are a profit center. non-competitive football teams are money losers.
exactly what I was thinking
Crickets.
The only accusation (if you choose to call it that) that I'm aware of is the initial comment by 'castis upthread. I don't believe you're part of the spam brigade. A comment like "we can't be sure" when there's pretty clear evidence of what happened doesn't add anything meaningful to conversation. It's tough enough addressing abuse on HN without suggesting, even possibly in jest, that we shouldn't do so.

This all goes back to the initial comment: if a member suspects there's abuse going on, contact a mod, and let them sort it out. The rest of this is just noise.

Edit to add: Even if it weren't spam in the sense of advertisement for sashido.io, but only a joke, it's still abuse of HN.
I'm a founder of a company that had "mid-success" (a few times over).

I mostly agree with this article and when I see companies in my former market raising $100M+ rounds I always cringe.

> But as a general rule, the longer you delude your investors here, the worse shape you’ll be in.

This is true, but the real problem is not deluding your investors but deluding yourself. It's often necessary to have unreasonable optimism to overcome every hurdles along the way. Knowing when that optimism crosses the line can be difficult especially in the bubble of fundraising.

> Very often I’ve seen cases where founders know in their hearts they have an airplane but are able to convince good investors it might still be a spaceship. This really causes a lot of heartache, and often precludes your opportunity for a good acquisition later.

The point about over-raising limiting future options really resonates. It's one of the saddest things that can happen: all of the hard work has been done to build a viable business, but in the rush to get there too much money was raised, so the the cap table has gotten to the point where any reasonable exit will yield the founders and employees almost nothing. So frustrating.

> Let’s define a “really good airplane” as a company that has profitability within reach and is on track to be worth $100 million with several more years of hard work.

Here's the thing. Airplanes can get much bigger than $100M, they just take longer to get there. They have to fight their way there and rarely get the spotlight. That's just the way some markets are, no matter how great the product, no matter how smart the team. It's a shame when founders build a real company but destroy the value of its equity by trying to make it something that it's not.
That's another problem I have with the current H1B visa system: the workers are almost literally slaves. It is so close to indentured servitude that I'm not sure if it isn't the same thing as indentured servitude. I've worked at multinational tech companies and I've worked at regional enterprises and everywhere in between and unfailingly, the H1B employees have four people in a two bedroom apartment all sharing a 1987 Toyota Camry. They work 17 hour days for less money than their coworkers, and if they complain, they're deported and banned from the country.

That's not fair. If your skillset is so important that American companies will bring you across the ocean from your home country to work for them, you should be a god to them. You should be the most valuable employee they have. They hired Joe because he was the best candidate that applied to their local ad. They hand-picked Prakesh and brought him all the way to California from his home in India because no one is better than Prakesh.

The best way to make that happen? Pay them more.
Robert O'Callahan said that, but then he left. I wish he had not said it, and so do many other heavy hitters who are or were at Mozilla.

It makes Firefox sound like a pity-f$#k, or a sin tax. At worst, a feel-good gesture that has unintended consequences.

If you like Firefox, use it! If you like Brave, either for the speed and safety of our 3rd party ad/tracker blocking that's on by default; or for the post-browser, user-data-sovereignty economics we're building to sustain; then use Brave. If you like Vivaldi, use it. And so on.

But don't make a cult out of one particular browser. Open source is not an issue. FYI, Brave is all open source.
Trump’s facile claim that his refugee policy is similar to Obama’s in 2011
Still no .ignore list :(
Microsoft working with Washington State on suit against Trump immigration order
Anybody have any advice for those who are actually aiming to build a perfectly serviceable airplane, preferably with a reliable-enough autopilot? Articles containing such advice are also welcome.
Not experienced, but (1) unless tomatoes feature prominently in a recipe, the details of their flavour won't have that much impact, (2) for any expensive protected-origin kind of stuff, there's a chance somebody just took the plain stuff and relabelled it.
It's not clear. Supposedly yes as long as it's a separate component (like using RethinkDB from another process), but not if it's linked into the same executable. Then again, some people disagree with the FSF on that regarding, saying that simply linking isn't enough to make it a derived work.

I'm not sure any of this has been well tested in court.
Ask HN: Why is law stuff seemingly against normal people?
This scary jargon that I don't understand, ever try to read through some of these documents, some of these wordings or phrases sound so vague. It just sucks... I remember hearing about a law-AI thing.... I wonder how that is coming along.
He contributed $1.25 million, IIRC. Finance is a little strong. I'm sure the campaign cost many times that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/technology/peter-thiel-do...
Yes, we are using for some APIs at https://fastsalas.com .

- Azure hosted
- BizSpark supported
- .netCORE still on our beta environment, but we can say its mature enough to go to prod.
or a thou :-)
I'd say philosophically, which is the root of science. The observation, while perhaps may not be provable, makes perfect sense to start a series of long and interesting discussions.
I didn't intend to suggest that activated carbon filters will remove fluoride (as you say, reverse osmosis is needed for that).

They will remove chlorine/chloramine, and some of their products, however.
Note: posting this not so much out of politics but out of interest in our somewhat outdated telephone systems, and details about how constituent messages are actually processed. The same story could have been written during the SOPA blackout.
> you don't even have the means to assert that they are monads, let alone take advantage of the fact that they are monads.

Yes, you can.

Here's an example from version 2.0 of lang-ext (which is WIP and will be released soon) [1]:

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/type-classes/Lan...
A bit of advice to authors: define acronyms when you first use them. DDD is defined the link text locally, on HN, but not at the site. CQRS & CRUD are also not defined. I'm familiar with CRUD, but not CQRS. DDD, lacking context, I was initially thinking the graphical front-end for gdb.
Yeah, and that's what everyone is complaining about and what I think is the single biggest thing to kill the Fitbit. They wanted to lock people in to their ecosystem so that people would want to buy only Fitbit products to have them all work together but, instead, people tended to start with a Fitbit and then move on to other products that actually worked together with the other products they already bought or planned to buy.
Can you provide an useful case for that? I'm struggling to find an example.
Banning H1B doesn't mean more local hiring.

The best scenario for U.S.: Hiring only locals

The worst scenario for U.S.: Offshore outsourcing

The base scenario for U.S.: Hiring H1Bs

If H1B is banned or becomes effectively useless, many companies will go for the worst scenario. Even now, big tech companies have been investing on their offshore dev centers. H1Bs pay taxes and spend their money here.
I assume you are referring to Jesus' "parable of the talents". If so, it is dealing with money, not skills. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_(weight)
Intercom supporting Muslims in tech looking to relocate out of the USA
agree very so much. I responded to another answer where someone's comment was questioned as being poetic or metaphorical and not scientific. :)
TL;DR: There's too many T.L.A.'s pulled out of A.S.S.'s and sometimes, a bit of context to disambiguate is helpful.
To add on, I've been interested in Vinay Gupta's approach to meditation, which he recently codified/packaged with some other folks into an app: http://cuttingmachinery.org

It basically revolves around an hour of meditation, but switches from mantra, to open awareness, to feeling negative emotions in 10 minute intervals. I'm probably not going to say this correctly, but I believe the intent is to get beyond just the ability to feel calm but have a better awareness of things (how we interact in the world, our emotions, how much it really matters, etc.) in our lives. There's also a multi-part podcast interview of him (which led to the app) starting at http://futurethinkers.org/enlightenment-vinay-gupta/
There's nothing you can do on a logical level. Your only hope is an emotional appeal that resonates.
Fuck building a $100M. Can you build a $10M or just a $1M company? Just do that (first).

I read somewhere - first get comfortable, then get rich (or change the world). This insane focus on the wrong metric (valuation/size of your company) is going to hurt nearly every first-time founder, which I presume most of you will be.

Once in a while, you do hit the jackpot, but let it happen to you, let it come to you as you make progress and hit bigger and better milestones. Pretty sure even Zuck, Gates, Jobs, or you-name-it-unicorn-founder had no fucking clue that theirs would be the unicorn company.
That's why I got out of animation software. Either they're in development, and their credit card transactions bounce, or they're in production and they want a new feature yesterday.
Some might find the New Yorker article, "Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich"[1], that the Outside Online article extensively quotes, a more interesting read.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-f...
I'm not sure how illuminating that really is. I mean I'm sure that is what some people think when accusing others of virtue signalling, but I'm fairly certain others are basically saying "hey look, here's another privileged wealthy white tech guy who mostly lives in neighborhoods filled with similar people, and went to school with similar people, and runs entire companies filled with similar people, and is mostly friends with similar people, and benefits enormously from a system that affords him privilege while doing very little to confront those aspects of societal privilege, but yeah, look how totally not racist he is since he sent out a tweet saying racism is bad".

I also take issue with the idea that "expressing opposition to racism" really counts as "opposition". Talk is cheap, particularly if you're rich and privileged, and even more so if you're rich, privileged, and your talk is uncontroversial. Opposing racism requires every day actions, some of them difficult or uncomfortable, not self congratulatory tweets and blog posts. And especially not self congratulatory tweets and blog posts from CEOs or venture capitalists.
Rebuilding, Testing and Documenting Self-Made Wi-Fi Antennas
You could remove 75%+ of the developers there with no loss to productivity anyway.
That just shows that the result of specializing the monad laws to one specific type constructor, holds. But the monad laws themselves are inexpressible in a general form.

If you can't even postulate a theory (the monad signature and its equational laws), it doesn't make sense to talk about what models of the theory exist (concrete instances).
Thanks for the link to Boyle. I happen to think he is led astray by conflating policy and a more dogmatic approach to goods economics than is warranted but he is not here to defend his point of view. You too fall into this trap as well with this very succinct summary:

"However, it is a fundamental economic principle that the cost of a good will approach the marginal cost of production."

This is fundamental to the economics of goods but it clearly doesn't hold for information. When I started researching this topic in 1995 it was exactly because I was stuck in that same discontinuity of understanding. Why were people paying for a CD that had a copy of an operating system they could download for free? A goods economist would, like you state, observe that the supply of such CD's was essentially infinite or at least very high, and the marginal cost of producing one very very low, so how could they maintain a market price that was probably 20x their marginal production cost? That price has a component that is clearly not described by classic economics, what was it? In that same store the cost of blank CDRs was pummelled relentlessly by the reduction in marginal production cost. From over $10/CDR disk when things started down to about $0.43/CDR. Why are they pummeled into the ground and not the Linux Distro of the week CDRs?

I started pulling on that thread a long time ago and haven't stopped. Starting with the question, "What gives information value?" Using what I've learned over the years it has helped me understand and analyze things like what does Google sell really? or Why do non-DRMed artistic products make more money than DRMed ones? Or why did CD sales fall faster after Napster shut down? Can you price awareness? Why did "Its a wonderful Life" enjoy greater success after its Copyright lapsed? Etc.
you're right. I should've went with 9-4 vs. 8-4. 10-4 is pretty generous, I personally never encountered a company with core hours officially starting after 9. That's not to say that I haven't encountered individuals showing up around 10 on a regular basis :)
StackOverflow.com [1]

I'm not certain I'd still call them a "startup" but they have been very open about their large use of .NET and the advantages it brings to bear.

[1] http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-arc...

Edit: More .NET information / usage.

[2] http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-har...

[3] http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/05/03/stack-overflow-how-we-...
They'll succeed at banning WiFi and other things if we don't obstruct this nonsense. Hell, they'll succeed at banning refrigeration if they have their way.
​Facebook wants to kill account recovery security questions
Is there an Android app that you use, or do you just use the web edit?
A negentropy pill; the holy grail, the philosopher's stone
Sort of. I have an autoimmune disease affecting my thyroid. When the thyroid is in hyper mode, I tend to get anxiety and panic attacks. Meditation has helped me a lot with those if the flareup is not severe.

Because the result of meditating can be less stress overall. And stress is known to "aggravate" the immune system. It might lead to better wellbeing when talking about autoimmune diseases. But they do progress slowly so other factors could also be at play here.

Unfortunately, not much is known about autoimmune diseases. There are a few theories(strong immune system, weak immune system, virus, contaminants..) but nothing conclusive yet. I try to stick to published and peer reviewed research when looking up information rather than mommy bloggers but not much is known for these diseases.

Overall, I'd say introducing meditation as a frequent practice has been a positive thing in my life. Whether or not it helps with any chronic disease.
I have the same wish: A service that provides a large list of available, short, human-esque .com domain names. I wouldn't mind paying and spending hours combing over it to find ones I liked. Someone did this a few years ago and I snagged a couple neat ones including a 5 letter .com.

Anyway as for actual advice, I've built more than a handful of projects and startups at this point. The recurring theme in every project was that I'd start with something completely nonsensical to use as the name. If your cofounder likes grilled cheese sandwiches, call your project GCS or grilled cheese or whatever, including your github repo. Getting the domain has never been step 1 in anything I've ever built including my current business.

There's weeks worth of work to do before the .com is needed. In the meantime what I do is keep an Evernote of words and phrases that pertain to the industry or what my service will likely do. While we had several product hypotheses, our business model was 95% likely to end up doing some form of data sifting on behalf of customers. So I would think about words that have to do with searching or finding things and kept a log of them:

- Hound (as in the dog)

- Seek/Seeker

- Scout

- Scope

- Vision

Along with general words I liked from a linguistic standpoint: "Labs", "IQ", "Mighty", etc.

When I looked for an available .com, I mixed combinations in my word list: "ScoutIQ", "MightyScope", "HoundLabs", etc. until I found one that I liked and was available: MightyScout - and I reserved it immediately.

But to this day our Slack channel, Github repo, etc. still use the original, nonsense name :)
Just please don't use IE unless its unavoidable
Sorry, apparently I didn't include the critical fact that she worked 100% remote.

Updated my original comment.