skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People become addicted for psychological reasons and because of hopelessness. Those reasons need to be addressed by counseling.

Of course when talking about a society dealing with drugs in a liberal fashion one quickly ends up imagining utopias where people don't have reasons to escape their sad reality. Thinking about better worlds is not a bad thing at all - it's just painful realizing how faaaaar away we are from it.
Line cutting has always been annoying, even infuriating, for me.

Thank you for the data point! I spent 5 years in Chengdu, China and (full comment elsewhere in the thread) found it fairly easy to crystallize a line out of chaos. The only explanation I can think of is that many people feel similarly to you!

Fairness may be instinctual: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/07/is...
Great read. Question, since Wistia took capital from private equity (Accel-KKR). These guys typically invest in equity-like instruments. Is there PIK (payment-in-kind) on the debt or does it have equity like upside? PIK debt can have ~7-15% interest where maybe half or all of the interest accrues in the form of more debt which in turn has PIK. Accel-KKR might be looking at a nice ~12% return (IRR) with relatively low risk. Note: figures above are made up.
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It is not that neutrinos are not interacting with other matter, but that we cannot observe the interactions. The vast majority of neutrinos spend their lives speeding off in a particular direction (from which they started). Only a very, very, very tiny percentage of neutrinos manage to collide with anything and produce a reaction which can then be detected.

The way this detector works is that is essentially a gigantic swimming pool of water and periodically there will be an interaction someplace in it which produces a tiny flash of light/radiation which we can then observe. If we could somehow 'see' through the earth or sun, we could observe these same interactions at a much larger scale.
Bioarchaeologists exhume newly discovered historical unmarked cemetary in Texas
Article doesn't talk about what they're doing to mitigate the problem. Well, except tell the reader to change their passwords. So are online retailers just hoping the problem goes away?
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> Don’t people trust ether and Ethereum in part because they trust you? In a sense, there’s this Russian tradition of holy men who come along — Dostoyevsky’s Alyosha, Prince Myshkin — like a non-evil Rasputin...

> ...I try to make myself maximally accessible in a bunch of ways, try to bring different people in different communities together, perform a kind of social coordination function, which is probably, from an economist’s point of view, similar to some aspects of management, but without the aspects of management that evoke images of centralized control in all those different things...

Question dodge level 9000.
Hey, I'm an "old people" by some standards ;-) How about just saying, "people who are still new to computers" or the like. Don't have to mention age. My rule of thumb is to be PC unless there's a good reason not to. Politeness should be the default. Experience tells me Dale Carnegie is right about effective groups far more often than Yosemite Sam's approach. (The President is a Sammer.)
That's exciting to hear!

1. Yes, definitely.

2. No, it doesn't have to be established yet. In fact, we're working with Stripe Atlas, who will help you incorporate and set up your company bank account.

3. Depending on your idea, we'd likely encourage you to launch _something_ during the program. But if you're auditing, you're on your own timeline.
Ask HN: Changing typing habits as an adult
I'm 29 years old and have been programming professionally for years and typing with my bizarre made up style since I was a child. I don't have speed problems as much as I have accuracy problems which can be very annoying when I'm trying to code quickly.

I worry about trying a new typing style getting in the way of my day to day productivity though, especially when I'm under a bit of pressure.
Anyone have luck changing their typing habits? Did you just dive into a new style (like language immersion) and come out a few days later a better typer? Or did you practice nights and weekends and then make the switchover?
Handy for internal tools, but unfortunately a pretty weak choice for most things public facing.
So you're saying this is an attack on open source licenses that have conditions on them?
20% would still be in millions. Those many of users would have little bit less choice.
This is an interview between one of the most important economists and most important computer scientists alive today.

Even if you disagree with my assessment (and I'm sure many on HN will be more than happy to do so) I think you will find at least some interesting tidbits in this podcast that will make it worth your time to listen.
ty sir. year search on the todo list
PMCs wouldn't be able to operate in China in the first place. Private Bodyguard/Security services have only been allowed by the govt. since 2010. Chinese govt. won't allow a lot of armed private Chinese groups wandering around. Like aside from there might being some kind of armed rebellion, I think most Chinese people are wary of warlords because those tend to pop up now and then in Chinese history.
I generally like games like that to some extent but I still found the original version of NMS mind numbingly dull. I think the problem is that they decided that they would just let the Random Number God decide everything through the procedural generation and they thought that gameplay would organically happen on its own.

Except it doesn't work that way, the procedural generation engine in the game obviously has too few assets too many constraints to really come up with original planets and biomes, after a few couple of planets everything looks the same and plays the same. You don't have anything worthwhile to do and nothing to look forward to. You don't feel like you're progressing, you don't feel like you can meaningfully interact with the universe.

Since then they've added base building and now multiplayer though, so that probably helps with these issues but I firmly believe that there's something fundamentally broken about NMS, it looks like it's a tech demo before somebody decided to actually implement a game with it.
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According to the article, he made a some of his pledges after the change to the Terms of Service.

I can imagine that if they tried to get a refund somewhat close to the change, a judge could be convinced to allow the refund under the old ToS.
Very interested. How much about one's idea must be disclosed? Is there any protection for secret sauce?
Lots of bla bla bla and only one image! Now I feel cheated, that was clickbait!
Take the course because the investment is minimal and it might work for you.

I ended up wrapping up the idea I was working on. I've gone back to consultancy, still toying with other ideas looking for something else to try.

Did it help? Not really. My sticking point seemed to be that I was selling (or not as was more the issue) b2b software mostly geared to massive companies. As my mentor succinctly pointed out it's a hard game to get into because other businesses start by looking for the cloud of logos of other companies who use your software. That was the start, middle and end of his advice for me - and a fair summary of the impass I'd reached.

I've been left thinking b2b procurement is probably an area that could do with shaking up but I don't have any answers there - not surprising given I couldn't crack it at all.

Much of the course advice felt irrelevant to the actual problem I had with getting things going. But if you're targeting consumers or smaller companies, have some traction, are generally spinning a lot more plates with your business, want to move to the US and get into YC proper, it's probably far more relevant.
In my case (having gone Perl [1991] -> Ruby [~2003] -> Python [2014] — with some Tcl during the Perl phase), the surrounding ecosystem was the decisive factor. There are tons of machine learning tools based on Python.

Another possible factor is that the irregular syntax and noisy punctuation of Perl started bothering me, so if that's what you dislike, Python makes more sense precisely because Ruby is lexically a bit closer to Perl.

I think many mistakes were made during Perl 6 development, but ultimately, I decided that the problem was not the Perl team not delivering the language I wanted, but that I wanted Perl to be a language it never was, never was meant to be, and never will be. So nowadays, I'm pretty happy with Python, except when I write a literal one-liner in Perl.
I think the reference is to media reports. Perhaps it would be better phrased as All that is reported is bad things. (Which is still an overgeneralization of course, but more accurate.)

Hans Rosling says we are instinctually inclined to watch for danger (aka bad news) than for safety. Ha. Makes me ask when was the last time someone pointed out a safe thing. "Watch out, that pizza in the fridge is still good."

Edit: Source for Hans Rosling: the book "Factfulness" (highly recommended—it is really a meta-discussion of how do you talk about good news with people)
If a company creates damages exceeding billions of dollars, it's quite obvious that they should receive penalty worth billions of dollars.

That's basic proportionality.
https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.org/issues/11
I can't seem to recall where I first read this, but I am confident I've read it in multiple articles and books (I have a keen interest in this topic due to serious personal sleep issues).

But I seem to stand corrected[1]. Thanks for your comment.

1. http://time.com/5288704/can-you-catch-up-on-sleep/
I don't have a source for this, but at some point I read a paper which indicated that for languages with a lower information density per syllable, people speak faster, and vice versa, so on average all humans communicate the same amount of information per second.
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Intentional sleep deprivation is being investigated as a cure for depression, and is a known tripper for mania and hypomania (which are associated with increased creativity).
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The only way I see this problem going away is when regular retailers start supporting software and hardware two factor authenticators.

I use Google Authenticator on any website that supports it and it does not impact the customer experience at all and it really improves security.
I am so grateful for this. As a non-Java person, using the Groovy pipelines was incredibly painful to incrementally fix on the server. Nothing like pushing 20 commits in a row and forcing a build, only to find each time that an odd syntax error.
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Really nice to see this, 10 years ago I designed a chording system with 5 bits, distributing the difficult to use combination to less frequently used characters (like in the Dvorak keyboard layout). Was there any though given to this aspect?
This has to do with affiliate schemes. Payouts for them are quite solid.

Clickfraud people, I think, count on the the fact that for huge e-retailers, it takes months to take action, and they can cashout affiliate payouts faster then they react.
> A web browser isn't an essential part of a desktop OS

That's so 1997. I would argue that a desktop OS isn't essential to my web browser. All I want my phone or my desktop computer for is to browse the web (not me but that's true for the vast majority of people). All this nonsense that comes with the OS is peripheral. Not essential. The only thing my phone or desktop needs to do is turn on, connect to the web, and download facebook.com and any other website I want. That's it. That's essential. Network card: essential. Web browser: essential. Any so-called computer without a network card is as good as a brick to me.
Indeed. Even the lyrics read (in Korean) like a parody of Cake's "Short Skirt Long Jacket".
> He lost because of a forced arbitration clause.

Just to be clear, that doesn't mean he wouldn't have lost otherwise, or that forced arbitration wouldn't have worked in his favor. If forced arbitration wasn't a consideration, he might still have lost.
As I do not have autism, I cannot relate to your viewpoint. It is possible that psychology is not going to help you - but it did help me and has helped many people, so I wouldn't be so dismissive of it. My advice for you after days of going back and forth on here: you should try being a bit more open minded. I've met a lot of smart people who are right about a ton of things related to their area of expertise who think that this competency carries over to other areas where they are less knowledgeable. It's best to avoid being one of those people.
I submitted this anyhow I do not think business skills is something I really need, mentorship is nice but I have great mentors locally, but the issue I face right now is mostly lack of technical knowledge, so this startup school might be irrelevant to me in all honesty

I have an idea I wish to persue because it solves an actual problem I face everyday and by building it it would make a lot of other goals I have much easier to obtain.

I am mostly just interested in the case studies of how other startups do things. Mostly curiosity about how YC
Nice! Will do.
Android is free to license. Google makes money from the Android users who then use Search, Gmail, Maps etc. since they are bundled with the phone.
I doubt that. Play store and maps are important. Having a specific browser and search, on top of hangouts, google+, slides, photos... not so important.
You’re right, those two projects are successful at compiling AOSP.

Trying to get the xda builds and LinageOS working properly is subjectively speak—difficult and heavily device dependent.

I’m not sure about x86 images, but arm are heavily device dependent.

Would love be proved wrong. I’m looking for android images actively.
> i would like to see a third Player on the Market

Tizen? Windows Phone?
Great people, great interview :)

The big bubble will come with tokenization of securities then, with distributed ownership of all this stuff, the liquidity of essentially all assets will go exponential (for a short time).

Vitalik is just thinking that through and sees that once stuff like every single loaf of bread can be tokenized with an RFID tag the price will be able to float, in times of high demand, the price of a loaf will rise, and say, late Sunday nights, loaf prices will drop and anyone will be able to see it in real time.
You can check their funding amounts here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

They're still making 40k-70k per day
> The US hit them with artillery from a MEC position, and then fixed-wing and AH-64 CAS ran train on them for four hours. The US and Russia initially denied any direct US on Russia contact

The whole thing is fascinating. If true - and several sources from both sides confirmed it - the US military killed dozens of Russian combatants in a battle not seen even during the cold war.
Hey Deepak, this is really well written and has some great points! Keep it up.
Context:

https://www.petful.com/pet-health/ira-glass-dog-piney/
It's far more than affiliate schemes. Credential stuffing attacks result in account takeovers for many different types of companies and the value that can be extracted is different for each business.
You do understand that nobody, including politicians and FF users want to remove Chrome, Edge or Safari?

You do understand that doing that would probably cost those companies (and everyone else) a lot more?

We only want a level playing field. Giving companies a real fine is just a way to make sure the board and the shareholders actually gets the message ;-)
How do you wake up when you need to, if the amount of sleep you need varies? I have the opposite approach, by waking up at the same time every day, my body makes me sleepy at the appropriate time (which varies by day). Once I get into a rhythm, I wake up on my own, slightly before the alarm goes off.
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So. Much. Orange.
I still have to fight this occasionally. :| In one instance, I ended up just telling the antivirus software at a company to flag Chrome as a virus and block it from executing. Software installation requiring admin rights is by design, and circumventing it is unethical as heck.
How would you prefer such a control handle both textual input of date, but also support a visual "pop-up" calendar widget for those who want it? Is the main problem the lack of standard conventions and consistency for the selecting input method, or is it having no known textual input option?

Our organization is interested in improving our accessibility without sacrificing the convenience of modern GUI widgets, and finding it really tricky and expensive to get both. We are not made of cash, and the problem frustrates everyone.
They just mean apps that use Google play services will be broken. I don't think that's unreasonable. it seems you want it both ways, you want the ability to remove or disable Google play services, without losing access to them.
Hi Adora, congrats and thank you (and YC) for putting this in the world!

I have a doubt about the target audience for this initiative.

Is it the same target of YC, i.e., companies/teams with the potential to become a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more?

Or there is a chance for companies of more humble ambitions, a "indiehackers/bootstrapping/microconf style" company to be accepted?

Thanks!
America’s electoral system gives the Republicans advantages over Democrats
I... can't.... Half of me recoils in horror at the impracticality, but the other half of me has a good enough armchair sense for the practicality of a high fuel ratio antimatter rocket, so I can't say you're wrong :P
One wonders if the unintended consequence of this ruling is to further diminish competition in the smartphone space down to Apple and Google.

Google is clearly getting in to the smartphone manufacturing business with Pixel phones and their acquihire of HTC engineers.

Outside of HN, most consumers want the integrated experience offered by Apple and the default Google apps. You see this with Samsung - where consumers like the hardware but are not super keen on Samsung Apps.

The easiest way to get that integrated experience is to buy an Apple or Google device.
Strange birthing metaphor but I suppose it works.
Conversations With Tyler is a podcast I greatly look forward to - I have learned quite a bit from people I might not have paid much attention to going about my typical hi-tech lifestyle, and for that I feel enriched and am thankful.
Why do you care? ideas are worth little. Implementation matters most!

Last week I talked with a competitor. I detailed my plans for the next 6 months. It commits me to follow them, and may incite discussion.

There is almost 0 risk they can match the features or my timeline. I am quite productive, and there is no secret sauce. Just complexity, and interdependance. Can't have a baby in 1 month with 9 mothers. And should they do, I will be happy to copy the unique features they add.

The disclosure opened some talks however. I am ready to sell consulting or some specific parts they need to do their product, and that have not much of an impact in mine.
I'm getting my nature fix right now. I found visiting the park once a day does wonders for my sense of well being.
Here is a random simulation of a Jupiter like planet being tidally disrupted, hope it will do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX6LTEbBIpw
Sleep deprivation is linked to an increase in dopamine. I know this because I researched why I was able to concentrate better on nights with poor sleep compared to nights with great sleep.

Oddly enough, for people with ADHD, a poor sleeping schedule might actually help (in the short term) with concentration issues!
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I have to think there must be at least one disabled person that could benefit from a keyboard which did not force you to move your arm - and could work with 5 fingers.
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I tracked my sleep using a FitBit for two years and I don't think I learned anything.

How did you measure happiness and productivity and how did you correlate that to your sleep?
I've never used a flat matrix keyboard like the Ergodox or Typematrix, but I've been using a Kinesis Advantage2 for a few months which combines the rectilinear layout with cup-shaped "key wells" and a rather distinctive staggering of depth that keeps each key relatively closer to the fingers pressing them as compared with other designs. I'm not sure I'd want to use the key pattern with a flat board, because it's still not something I'm completely sold on, but I think it works well enough with the concave design. I really like the idea of symmetrical designs in general.
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Pillars of Eternity was very successful.
and yet I still cannot uninstall facebook from samsung phones.
My dad had an Agenda which had a 5-key chorded keyboard[1]. It was quite cool, you could actually type in your pocket to an extent.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=4
If one were purely nihilistic, sleep-deprivation compromises judgement, creativity, reaction-time, stress-resilience, adds to oxidative stress and reduced net productivity. It may seem like a good idea for anyone under 25, but it’s unsustainable... source: undergrad 3x all-nighters a week. Don’t do as I did, it might even cause neurological damage that can’t be assayed or quantified in vivo yet.
While the title touched me, less did the article itself.

I thought it would be more about working conditions which at least for me and with control and checks everywhere in place leaves less and less space for humans to err, favouring perfectionists.
Still have to do that to build the thing in the first place. I do not understand at all how every CI solution out there makes it entirely impossible to trivially test a pipeline. Here we are building something whose entire point is that it can run wherever, but the one place it can't run is my local machine? It's like they are doing it out of spite.
Interesting project; not entirely surprising that sleep deficit increases possibility of low happiness, but doesn't force it.

Definitely correlates with my happiness levels being much more all over the map in the last 6mths of running an involuntary sleep deficit due to a shoulder injury that impairs sleep (&worse the week after the surgery).

I've also noticed a definite thinking deficit as this wears on, and am thinking of doing a tracking project.

Rather than just going by subjective 'feel like I'm (not) thinking well', does anyone know of a good site that has a deep library of correlated mind test questions such that one could take repeated tests but not encounter repeat questions?
I’d like to read a more mathematically detailed analysis of the two-time pad.
Sleep apnea? Under age 16?
Cruise definitely had a strong whiff of dot com about it - all talk, little substance, ridiculous exit price...clueless bigco exec buyers...
I don't know, I have 106 installed on my iPhone. I know a lot of people who are packrats and install way more. I could see 50 per user.