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Simple Habit is hiring a second engineer
Simple Habit (YC W2017) is Netflix for mindfulness & meditations. We are a platform that brings great meditations created by the best teachers in the world to all of our meditators. Meditations are designed for a variety of situations and moods including meditation before a meeting, and meditation for engineers.

We've launched less than a year ago, but we're already one of the top grossing health & fitness apps on the AppStore. We're a team of 4 (CEO, CTO, engineer, designer). We have a unique opportunity to build the next big consumer brand, with backing from YCombinator, NEA, as well as prominent investors in Silicon Valley.

We're looking for a Full-Stack Engineer (aka Macgyver). As our #2 engineer, you’d come to work on product and architecture all over the stack. We expect you to own the parts of product you’re working on, taking smart risks to shape a coherent user narrative throughout Simple Habit’s products! If you’re willing to challenge yourself daily, pick up new technologies and reuse tried and true methods, come work with us.

We’re using Swift for iOS, Kotlin on Android, and React on our web app. Our backend is built on Heroku/NodeJS/Express as well as some Python3.

We want outstanding people who love their craft to join our core team and shape our product and company. If you're interested in helping people live resilient lives through mindfulness, please reach out to yunha@simplehabit.com with your resume or linkedin!

Read more about us here:
YC invests in Simple Habit: https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/15/simple-habit-launches-out-...

Business Insider names Simple Habit as one of the Best 27 Startups from 2016: http://www.businessinsider.com/top-27-startups-launched-in-2...
To be that pedant, Newbury is in Berkshire, although Hampshire is very close by.
Fighting spam can become a full-time job. More popular options either just take care of most of this (Disqus) or have plug-ins to help (WordPress).

For sufficiently motivated adversaries, even a custom UI isn't enough of a roadblock.
You are burning a lot of coal for no energy if you spend an hour a day starting and an hour a day stopping a plant.
Yes. Google and Facebook who pioneered NoSQL with BigTable, HBase, Cassandra etc have no idea about relational databases. Likewise all of the enterprise companies who have spent tens of millions on relational EDW systems and are adopting NoSQL in droves also don't understand what they are doing.

But thankfully we have some no-name developer to save us from all of these mistakes. No use cases for NoSQL. Give us a break.
> They don't profit from what is created at the client

Palantir does indirectly profit from what's created at the client, by reselling the code created at one client to other clients later.
No: it targets all fossil fuels used for electricity generation. Coal just has far higher CO2 emissions (and far higher particulate emissions, though that's not actually relevant to this: it's based purely on tons of CO2 emitted) than almost anything else.
Your take makes it sound like "we had this awesome idea! but we tested it and we were wrong." I have no idea if you're correct, but that is indeed how science should work.
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No I mean small shuttles like buses that start vertically and transport people short distances across a city for example.
That is interesting; I've been to Australia once in my life, year before last. I went from Brisbane to Roma, and by the time I got to Roma the only non-Caucasian faces I saw were serving me food. I was told (but have no other information, so this could of course be completely wrong) that their contracts and immigration status effectively tied them to their service job, hundreds of miles inland where the only other people like them were in a similar subservient situation, and that the people owning their contracts very much had that kind of power over them.

This is pure anecdote, of course.
On Louisiana Public Broadcasting last night they played this documentary about traditional coastal restoration techniques:

https://vimeo.com/212104220
Going public does mean that your company is obliged to maximise shareholder profit, rather than achieve whatever goals the founders envisioned.
Yes, but a fraudulent act of publishing, not that the experiments themselves were necessarily fraudulent. I was responding to someone who was thinking there had to be something the authors were covering up rather than the more likely case that they were just lazy and unethical.
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It's a Pavlovian response, really. If I see the word WinAmp, that is what I hear in my head.
Nice observation!

I don't know if Disqus requests so much tracking. Currently, I am setting up a personal blog and looking for a comment system for it. There are two choices: Disqus and Twitter. Why? Disqus is free and easy to put it to whatever blog platforms you use and Twitter is free too, I think many people have it. After reading this, I think GitHub is not a good place to give a comment because somebody who doesn't have account must register first. I am talking about "non-developer" reader.

Does anybody here use Twitter as a blog comment system? I would like to know your experience since some of people usually use it for their blog.
Highlight and google search? There are already addons that highlight words and provide the definition aka Google Dictionary
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> The fact that insurance needs to be subsidized has more to do with the extreme possibilities--one bad accident and the insurer is broke. Insurers exclude terrorism and war for the same reason. And for the same reason the government effectively subsidizes those risks by giving aid after such events.

The government should also discourage terrorism and war when possible.
>The point of peer review isn't primarily about finding fraud, which is rare.

Rare? Scientific misconduct is rampant. It seems like theres a new professor every day being caught out on retraction watch.
Time and time again I keep coming back to the same conclusion - anyone who has the desire can learn to code. I would say that 95% of people have enough innate logic to write code, they just need to be taught to express it formally.
Are you talking from your own experience here, I can't see the sort of person who can take initiative to complete a programming project or start a business being able to come to a position where they can't find something productive to do?
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You can use hosted posrgres or mysql with app engine!
There's one more and one much bigger: we need to scale our database horizontally and it's bastard cousin, we need the cloud to scale. Truth is, most applications are fine with a single box (OK, two because of HA but the second is just a hot spare). Remember https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546

> Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.

Today it costs less than $600 a month to rent a 256GB dedicated box w/ 2x450GB NVMe disks and a 10 gbit private connection. And, of course, there are ways to go higher but it's very likely it'll be a bit more expensive per terabyte RAM but you'd be surprised (or not) at just how many problems actually fit in a quarter terabyte of RAM.
There are plenty of blog posts there in the wild about people adopting one hyped technology and after much pain migrating to another one that was a better match for their problems. If you don't know anyone in that situation first hand maybe you didn't change enough jobs or you are very lucky, because I assure you that it is quite easy to know someone with this kind of experience.
> It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though.

This needs to be in the marketing of your website!

It sounds like you're focusing on programmers, and I think they'll get the nostalgia of "remember the days when every byte mattered?" With the 1TB drive in my laptop I don't actually care about app size, but I love that you have a 1MB text editor in the days of Electron-based hipster minimalist text editors that are over 400MB.

The story in your release notes about resisting adding a hi-res Vista icon because you thought 260KB for an icon was obscene, that story is both hilarious and awesome :)

It looks like this is mostly just a fun project for you, but as a potential user I'd love to see more screenshots, an EXE installer option instead of .zip, and a big download button on the front page so I don't have to dig through the site to find how to download.

But most of all, I think it's hilarious/awesome to see a text editor with a "Frames Per Second" meter! :)
I read that as the GP suggesting that the ETS was the 'poorly designed policy'.
Even if you put a CAPTCHA in there?
If you go through that one, give Calculus by Spivak a try. Interesting book and starts off with a bit more of the fundamentals.

How to solve it by Polya - an awesome book. Read these to learn not just mathematical problem solving but in general. I don't think I've read a book quite like this before. The idea of a process and tools for problem solving is awesome.

How to prove it - a great book. I felt after reading through this I had a much better understanding of how proof works. I also had a better understanding of how mathematicians go from scratch work and proof to the proofs they finally present. There's a lot more that goes behind them and will help you understand those proofs by giving you the tools to do the scratch work behind them yourself. I had tried to learn proof techniques from a few other sources, including Jeremy Kun's awesome primers.

"Conceptual mathematics" - did a very good job in helping me make more progress with category theory. I tried a few different books and an online series. Flicking between those and this book, I started to understand much better.

The Little Schemer - the one that finally opened the key to recursion, closures and functional programming. I had tried attacking this using a few other books, including SICP but TLS helped a tonne in the final clicking.

Thinking in Type - great book that taught me quite a bit about typography. It showed me how important typography is to design.

You can draw in 30 days - sounds very SAMS but actually​ the progress I made in 1 day is testimony to the book's bold claim. You won't be Da Vinci but you will have functional drawing and sketching skills if you go through this.

It's important to note my process in finding these books. I think much of the groundwork and mental priming before working through most of the above helped a lot.

A tend to get interested in a topic and then seek out good books in that field. If the book doesn't make much sense or is very dense, I keep at it for a day or so. I then seek out similar books and repeat the process until a little jump forward.

Unfortunately in around 1 to 2 weeks, I've lost interest and I repeat the same thing on a different topic.

I probably have a tonne more but they're spread across many subjects so it's difficult to consolidate. Feel free to email me if you want recommendations for a particular subject.
> "Do you like making me into the landlord?"

Is 'landlord' a dirty word with connotations in the US? Why's it such a big deal for him to say he's the landlord? Obviously he's the landlord.
Yes it's likely that I'm over-thinking this...

It does not feel good enough since it would be ~opening new tabs and~ make me go through a lot more effort than necessary, and it feels like I would be overwhelmed and give up eventually. If there is something that would make "understanding articles as easy as possible" then that would be amazing. I'll probably end up developing this myself...

Edit: was incorrect about opening new tabs
I don't think I learned much Big O until about my junior year. Maybe some vague mentions sooner.
Is it "because he loved it" or is it because his identity is so tied up in being a butcher, doing useful work, that he can't cope with no longer identifying in that way?

For my retired father it's very much the latter, I feel, he works for free doing similar work to what he did before retirement.
If you have a bluish LED, you can make it warmer by blocking some of the blue light. But this hurts the efficiency.
Seems to solution is to replace reactors with newer better saver ones.
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Prospective association between tobacco smoking and death by suicide [pdf]
Not all humans, many seem to want to have someone to tell them what to do.
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Interesting, Domains like connect.facebook.net or rc.rlcdn.com don't show up in the Chromium network connection list, even in an anonymous session (so that all extensions are disabled).

Found this: https://blog.disqus.com/protecting-users-privacy-on-disqus My browser didn't send a DNT header with the request though. The blogpost seems to be a bit of a joke when comparing it to the list of trackers reported by pingdom.

I'll definitely look for a Disqus replacement :)
A friend of mine, Carlos Fonseca, wrote a fantastic Spanish novel (also translated to English) inspired by Grothendieck's life. [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Coronel-Lagrimas-Spanish-Narrativas-H...
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Is there a good alternative to Disqus? I'd like something that's hosted for me, but also isn't as intrusive and maybe a bit cleaner.
I wonder what the effects on other animals will be. Maybe this is the thing thats killing the honeybees.

Ok probably not, but if humans can be out of whack from this, I wonder what other creatures will start to lose sleep - or will nocturnal animals sleep in all night?
Numbers?

Tip: When evaluating a work, adjust the compensation for hours worked and don't be tricked by the shares that will never IPO.
With IBM's huge investment in better support for little-endian PPC (in hardware, in software development toolchains, and in software itself) it seems likely that many PPC users are going to slowly move away from little-endian. I can imagine some embedded uses, e.g. in network hardware, may well stick with big-endian because it fundamentally makes sense there, but I imagine it's going to become increasingly obscure.
I mean most people can make an alert box. Most people can't design and build a decent sized application. I have never met a good programmer not in the top 25% or so of the intelligence range. So at best that limits us to 1/4 people.
Well, with Webassembly en route, there is a future where we can use whatever language we like if the can target WebAsm.

Currently​, there is only support for manual memory management but there are plans to expand with GC.

There is certainly a horizon for expansion. We are already seeing this with languages that compile to JS. Perhaps WebAsm will provide the substrate for better engineered languages and code.
> I don't think microservices, react, functional programming or no sql are examples of 'hype'; I think those are good engineering decisions (depending on the problem domain).

> I mean, I get what the article is saying, yeah yeah, avoid the hype, don't drink the 'webscale' cool-aid...

I feel like you're shooting right past the author's point here. What he's saying is that hype, as in the shared excitement, obscures the actual tradeoffs involved in adopting the new technology, and makes it harder to make good engineering decisions.

I'd like to add that it also obscures the available alternatives - simple and straightforward ways to configure / extend existing technologies to have the same behavior / features as that shiny new thing.

And it's not even about what you know ahead of time. I was actually thinking about this earlier today: I often recognize some of the tradeoffs of adopting a new tech early on, but my judgement still often ends up clouded by enthusiasm.

A common pattern of rationalization I often have goes like this:

"Sure this old thing can be used to do the same as this new thing by using functions X,Y,Z, but this new thing lets you do it with just one function. I mean sure, I could write that function myself in about 10 lines, and I only need to do this once for each project, but this is just easier."

I'm not saying that this reasoning is wrong, only that it is biased.

Tradeoffs of a technology, and therefore knowing in which problem domain they are most appropriate, consist of both pros and cons.

The problem with hype isn't that the technology being hyped is not excellent in its own way, the problem is that (psychologically) hype leads us to ignore the cons, to rationalize them away - and this means we're not really fairly considering the tradeoffs.

The author isn't saying that microservices, react, Elixir, NoSQL, etc don't have upsides, but only that (if we are not extra careful) we might not be considering the tradeoffs and alternatives as pragmatically as we think we do.
I think the actual argument is the converse: "We had this awesome idea! We tested it and we were right!" (In this context "violations" are the desired experimental result.)

It rests on whether bi-locality is an empirically interesting property. And as it turns out there are some well-cited theoretical physics papers on the interest in this property for quantum networks [1], so it is likely that I am not the right audience for this press release, and a physicist might find this significantly more interesting.

[1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=bilocality+bell%27s+ine...
Oh, so now we're beating strawmen again. Nice!
They didn't say the technology itself was poor, but that people have misused it.

>we have some no-name developer to save us from all of these mistakes.

Both rude and fallacious. Do you presume that every employee at a successful firm is a wunderkind? Do you actually know the level of talent of every HN poster?
We know that people with mental illness smoke a lot more than other people - they smoke more often and they smoke more deeply.

But, even when correcting for people with depressive symptoms or mental illness the effect was still there.

It seems that there might be a causal link between smoking and death by suicide.
Limiting a comment's length to 140 characters sounds pretty shitty, especially if your content will be content suited for longer in-depth replies.
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What if your development team is made up of mediocre programmers? What works for the most talented programmers isn't necessarily going to work for your team.

In my experience the choice of the right tech is primarily a business decision rather than a technical one. By that I mean it should be based on a number of factors external to the technology. Once you have clearly identified the business problem you are trying to solve, you have to think of the solution in terms of risk. For example, what is the up-front development risk? What are the maintenance risks?

Every project exists within a certain environment with its own set of constraints. Picking the right solution means understanding these and doing so from the point of view of the business.

If you understand the risks and constraints, and you put the needs of your end-users, the systems administrators, the testers, and the business first you will rarely go off-track.
Not sure where to go from there. You've precluded the possibility that regions and good design should exist at the same time in the same file.

Where does the absolutism in the tech industry come from? We are a bunch of individuals who have individual experience and then try to form a view of the world that satisfies our experiences. What about the experiences you haven't had or conceived of? We are constantly rewriting the rules in our head to fit the new experiences we have every day to make sure we are right all of the time. Surely, our current world views are not complete or we would have no room to grow.

Still, I'll take your comment under advisement in case my classes are big, poorly designed non-Tries.
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>...until employers start asking you to work on every buzzword of the month.

This is absurd. Do you do everything your boss tells you to?

It's incredible that some employers survive long enough to chase the next fads, which only proves my point.
That country has not existed since 1992! Or is there some point I am missing?
These are perfect examples of cargo cult and your comment confirms it.
Just because some successful company adopts a technology it doesn't mean that it suits your needs.
You could have completely different problems and adopting those solutions can be in the very best case useless and in all the other cases harmful.
You need to adopt a solution because it fits your problem, not because "the most successful companies in the world" are using it.
It's always a good thing to know that these technologies exists and what are they used for, but jumping on the hype wagon without understanding deeply the original problem that they solve, how the solution works, and most importantly if it applies to your use case trying it with some representative, real work in your project, it is a sure recipe for failure.
"dirty"? I don't think so. To me it connotes a certain distance at which the relationship is maintained. Similar to having lunch with a co-worker (who happens to be the CEO) versus having lunch with the CEO.

When you use business titles, it's a business relationship. When you don't, it's easier to be friendly acquaintances or even outright friends.
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If they base their decisions on things like that you've got a bigger problem there...
That's like thinking crime is rampant given that every time you look at a tabloid newspaper there's a story about some robbery or murder. You have to do the math and realize that even if every story is true they still are very rare occurrences given the number of people in the community (physical or scientific)
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Reeeealy? How long would you like to sit in a room with a natural gas furnace whose exhaust is not vented outside?

No particulates != no pollution.
even if it would take 10 more seconds, I would still go for HTTPS for sure. Would you buy a new pc on a website without https? good luck buddy.

And who hosts servers in Australia? (lovely country, but a bit far from the rest of the world no?). At least do the benchmark with servers/users from USA/EU (and possibly Asia if you have enough visitors from there).

This title/post is clearly meant to create a rage post and get visibility. Shame...
Nice and addictive. Would be nice with a personal scoreboard.
Its strange to say that we 'did nothing'. We did a hole lot, the replacement of coal in many places in favor of nuclear, gas, solar wind is decently something. It was mostly not done because of global warming, but it still happened.

One to two generations is a long time.

I have listen to interviews with storm experts and it seems that they are not quite so sure about is then you. That said, it seems that compared to the world economy and what some people suggest, the damage from storms seems quite low.
I'd be interested to know what the effects on bugs, and animals that feed on bugs, will be.

Will the new lights attract more bugs? Will animals that feed on bugs be attracted to them?
Your example doesn't make sense. If you believe drugs should be illegal but you use them then you would be a hypocrite. If you believe drugs should be legal and you sell them (in private or public) or even use them then you are not being hypocritical. If you sell then privately but not publically you're not being hypocritical either.
My fundamental problem with this is that the steps he outlines are identical to the steps involved in successful adoption of game-changing technology, until we hit the "It's too late" phase. Indeed, whilst sometimes a technology just plain isn't ready for prime time, sometimes it's just the wrong tool for the job.