skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sleep" -- indeed. There's something more to it though, than just the sleep itself. There's a lot to be said for giving yourself a break from the (self-imposed) mental demands and deadlines and stress.

For context: I've been working on bootstrapping a startup for a couple of years now. About 6 months ago, I stepped down to a part-time position at my regular job, to free up more time for the startup. That, to me, was the beginning of "the big push". I decided to sell-out and give everything I could possibly give, mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, etc., for at least 6 months, to see how far we could get.[1]

That period culminated with a series of product demos to some pretty important potential customers over the last week of November and the first week of December.

In the lead-up to that, I was routinely working 16+ hour days, and had no idea of a "day off"... Saturdays and Sundays were looked at as cool because "they're more time to work on the startup".

Needless to say, by the end of all that, I was feeling pretty run down. So I have chosen to take the rest of December as "relax time". No, I'm not going to quit working, but it means that for the entire month, I am not working under any deadlines. And I'm going to spend a lot of time reading research papers, doing exploratory stuff, reading books, catching up on my "to read later" bookmarks, etc., along with watching a few movies and catching up on TV.

After only 3-4 days of that, I already feel markedly better. Just waking up knowing that I'm not "under the gun" to get something or other done by some deadline, and not having to worry about prepping for a demo or a meeting of some sort, makes everything feel different.

So yeah, part of it is allowing myself to get 8 (or more) hours of sleep consistently, but the escape from the stress is significant in its own regard - or at least it subjectively feels like it is.

So the point of all this? I guess I'd say "find a way to make a period of time when you can cut yourself some slack". Even if it's not an outright vacation, just a month with no deadlines and no meetings, or something to let yourself recharge mentally.

[1]:
Aside: For anyone wondering "well, how did it all work out?" the answer is: "TBD". We didn't close any deals, but we made a ton of progress on the product front, and got our foot in the door at two S&P 500 firms and at least one other company you've probably heard of. And I like our odds of landing some kind of deal with at least two of the three. Of course, nothing is guaranteed, but we are poised to enter 2014 with some good stuff going on
If Pogs end up a mainstream payment option alongside sandwiches mom makes and candy bars, then there is no bubble right now. If not...
As a small business owner who sells a physical good, statements like this scare the hell out of me. You have no idea the kind of monopolization and losses of freedom implementing ideas like this would entail. Cars are democratic. They are a cheap, scaleable way of solving the problem of transportation. Kill cars, and you will destroy a lot of entrepreneurship in things that really matter. You will also be hurting those that start with the least most of all.
Is there a release date established?

I don't freelance anymore but when I was paying my bills with client work the biggest hold up was always waiting for feedback or deliverables. When juggling 2-3 small projects at a time, a hold up in one will grind the others to a halt.

This seems like a simple system to put in place and enforce accountability.
>> You can think of a stock option as a Future.

You probably shouldn't, as they are distinct terms. A futures contract obliges you to make the transaction on the specified transaction date, whereas an option gives you the option to do so.
I'd totally run my 280x at full tilt if I could mine for pogs.
If you want to see another example of prosecutorial overreach, you should read up on Bond v. United States, which was recently argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. Bond was charged with violating chemical weapons treaties for using chemicals to kill her husband's mistress' lawn (amongst other things).
Hmnn I was surprised at the lack of consideration for specialization -- if someone has spent time to get a PhD in a part of computer science that just doesn't have real-world profitability, it's pretty clear that it's going to be hard to find a job in the market.

Also, I think the very male-driven culture of China was also not discussed enough -- along with effects of new-found freedom found with less glass ceilings.

But definitely a good read -- I don't think I have come in contact with this "matching-down" dynamic as a possible explanation before
As someone broadly in political agreement with much on the left I never understand the obsession with rolling in Islamophobia with these things. At the end of the day religious movements are broadly intolerant, aboslutist and objectionable in nature. It's not a bad thing to fear the increase in power of religious totalitarians. They have a lot in common with many of the others you want to attack.

Even the most mainstream of Islamic voices tend to espouse positions on women's rights, sexual identity and tolerance which would be pilloried and decried if they came from our typical WASPy overlords.
Incorrect. If you have self-driving cars, the entire flow of traffic could be much more efficient, virtually eliminating traffic jams.

You could drive at the speed limit with a lot smaller distance between cars, etc, packing in a greater density of people without sacrificing speed.
One of the defining traits of a bubble is that it continues to exist partly because people convinced there is a bubble are unwilling to bet on when it will burst. "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".
(BTC and pre-IPO tech companies also have the added advantage of being impossible to short)

But here's a testable hypothesis for you: ten years from now a Bitcoin will not be convertible into more than $10, if it's reliably convertible into currency at all.
This situation is a result of two things:

* Businesses want to get spending in before the end of the year for tax & budget reasons.

* Customs surrounding holiday giving and charity, with disposable income from holiday bonuses.

So this is the best time of year for donation drives & matching programs.
I wonder if I would age faster or slower in the universe rewritten in Go?
I lived car-dependent in Atlanta, without a car in Chicago and New York, and am car-dependent again in Wilmington, DE. The burden of carrying things never matched the hassle of circling around somewhere looking for a parking spot.

Indeed, living in the New York City suburbs with a baby and no car (but on a train line) was way more convenient than living in Wilmington with a car. Running down the block to the store and shoving some items in the stroller basket is infinitely easier than putting the baby in a car seat, folding the stroller into the trunk, driving 12 miles to the strip mall, taking the baby out of the car seat, unfolding the stroller out of the trunk, putting the baby back in the car seat, folding the stroller into the trunk, driving 12 miles back from the strip mall, then finally taking the baby back out of the car seat and unfolding the stroller out of the trunk.

It's as inconvenient and frustrating as it sounds.

People have preferences, sure, but I'm sick of subsidizing suburbanization with my tax dollars. The public sector spends about $150 billion per year building and maintaining highways: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/120x.... That's not counting local roads and streets. Nobody blinks an eye at that. But they freak out that Amtrak has been given $13 billion in federal subsidies in the 40 years since 1972.

And don't get me started on the tax breaks for mortgages that disproportionately benefits suburbanites, etc. My wife and I have no problem with how much taxes we pay, but it drives us crazy that my parents pay a substantially lower rate despite making more money because they can deduct fully deduct the interest on their $1 million mortgage for their suburban McMansion. Meanwhile, my wife and I are phased out of student loan and childcare deductions despite making less money.
Oh, good lord. The definition uses max, but I was thinking of min. Face palm.
Most people (and voters) don't even know how many Senators their state has

Trick question. Every state has the same number of Senators - 2.
I have tubes of mint condition pogs back at home. Some of them were ads for movies like Jurassic Park. I wonder if they'll ever be worth anything... I wonder if I could trade them for bitcoin?
Normally, .edu sites are for educational institutions only. Academia.edu is different, it got grandfathered in.
> Cars are usually much faster, provide much better shelter from the weather...

If only there was such a thing as a car that you could call on-demand, make use of when you wanted it, and then got rid of it when you were done.

Even better, what about one that comes with a driver?

A crazy idea, I know.

If you live in the right neighborhood, a car is a nuisance. I can go somewhere and just walk right in. I don't have to spend time finding a parking spot, paying for parking, dealing with parking tickets, and all that related nuisance. Having owned a car, I found it shapes your decisions a lot. Things are only convenient if they're convenient to get to in a car.

Considering how much money I'm not spending on a car, a cab is a bargain. If I need more than that, rent a van by the hour.
It is really amazing how much suburbanites like to let other people pay the price for their choices.
I have lived in both car-dependent and transit-based places, and can see advantages to both. Given that the advantages of transit are commonly discussed these days, I thought I'd give some of the advantages of cars.

(1) Cars don't have schedules. You can just jump in your car and go any time of day or night. Cars also don't stop running at 2am, while most transit systems do.

(2) Cars permit sprawl. Sprawl has been bashed to hell and back for some justifiable reasons, but it has one big advantage: it breaks the backs of real estate markets. Sprawling car-dependent regions are much safer from the real estate hyperinflation that plagues cities that are either transit-based or geographically constrained. Bubbles of local real estate inflation surround transit hot spots, creating a two-tier society in which ease of transportation is exponentially (not linearly, as with cars) correlated to income. The poor get loooooong bus->train commutes while the wealthy get fast train->train commutes.

(3) Cars can haul stuff, which gets increasingly important when you have children. Pretty much everything about the suburbs seems idiotic until you have kids, then it seems reasonable.

I can't stress #2 enough. Compare the Los Angeles metro area to the San Francisco bay. The former is a largely car-based sprawling metropolis, while the latter is partly transit-based and also geographically constrained (which for the market does the same thing as transit-dependence). In the LA metro area there are many neighborhoods where poor and working class people can afford to live. In the Bay Area you're spending $3000/month for a crack den. Everyone but professionals and the rich are completely priced out of all but the absolute worst neighborhoods, or are pushed out to the fringes with the longest commutes.

It's funny that transit is often cited as good from an equality point of view as it gives everyone access to mobility without requiring car ownership, but the real estate inflation that it engenders negates this IMHO.
Walking + a cart.
Planning to launch late January 2014
Why = Edward Bernays. Manipulation of public opinion. Turning two opposed groups in to supporting your agenda without either admitting it. This is not an accident, but a practiced and studied science.

The American right represented something totally different in the 1990s. So much so that when September 11th occurred, for a brief moment some speculated it could be right-wing terrorists.

The George W Bush administration through propaganda was able to transform those that had just years earlier been strongly anti-interventionist in to supporting interventionism. The same group that rallied for years on shrinking the government was suddenly applauding the addition of new federal agencies. The final term was capped off by a massive government redistribution of $1 trillion of wealth.

The exact same thing happened when Barack Obama was elected President. The left was so neutralized it appeared to have never existed.

Where to start? Target astro-turfing. Fake political organizations such as the elusive tea party and Barack Obama's Organizing For Action. These groups hijack causes for the purpose of gaining and holding political power. Voter mind share and physical effort are utilized as an engine that supports a fire hose of new laws and a highly profitable revolving door capitalism.
I'd love this feature!
I might be wrong, but I think the VLC devs have to incorporate this using the Chromecast api's? Anyone with the knowledge care to enlighten us?

EDIT: Seems like the API only works for Android, iOS and Chrome https://developers.google.com/cast/reference/
> Not sure if they bought it, or the founder was sitting on it for years.

My understanding was that it was purchased by an LLC, and then the control of the LLC was sold.

Ahhh yes: http://www.quora.com/How-did-Academia.edu-get-the-.edu-domai...
The same in Stockholm, a lot of beggars from Eastern European countries (mostly Romania and Bulgaria I think).
And zipcar.
Ask HN: Should I drop out of school?
I'm currently 14 years old and in the US equivalent of High School. I've worked on multiple projects (both startup related as well as on open source projects) over the past few years. Personally, I feel that the education system is incredibly flawed in relation to the mindset it forces students into along with the lack of interesting/relevant subjects (e.g. Why not learn how to file tax returns instead of analysing a Shakespeare composition which is of no benefit to anyone, including the teacher?). All the pressure is focused on exams and compels students to think that exams are the most important thing in life and that without a certification of some sort, you're a "nobody". I've done multiple internships primarily at startup companies, so other than the lack of an ample amount of educational information, my resumé is fairly respectable. I really don't enjoy school (although I enjoy the social aspect a lot as well as the sporting aspect) and I am contemplating dropping out once I am elgible (next year) and doing things that are much more interesting and relevant to life in general.

My question is: will potential employers laugh at me due to my lack of inferable knowledge and should I wait the extra 4 years before I can graduate and go to college or should I take the risk and try to get a position at a company without any formal certification?
Giovanni, give me a shout at yuri@aerofs.com -- sharing folders/files through a link is on our roadmap
I think a better alternative for 2 would be congestion pricing for downtown areas. An across the board registration hike would be regressive, and disproportionately affect the rural poor.
Taxis in general don't fully turk the concept, at least not in areas without reliable taxi volume. It's reasonable as long as you can rely on the taxi to show up within a decent amount of time of requesting it or expect to see one in passing in a short amount of time.

Uber et al. have done a lot to help with this in my experience, but I've had many times where I'm in a location that taxis aren't typically in the immediate vicinity. Calling the cab company has often led to lots of waiting, not knowing when the car will get there, with cars sometimes never showing up at all. Knowing that the car is definitely coming to you (whether it's a self driving car, Uber, or any other service that tracks the vehicle's location) help remove that uncertainty and definitely makes it an acceptable option in more areas.

That reliability and knowledge justify the extra cost for taking Uber (or requesting a self driving car some day) to me, more than the comfort or style of a town car compared to a cab.
Guess which port the original Doom ran on
Well, now since we have gone that way... It's "cue", not "queue"
Someone wants to invest in my startup. Now what?
I work as a network engineer but have been working on a project for the better part of this year. I showed the demo to my employers, with whom I am very close, and they loved it enough that they want to invest. We agreed on a number for what my partner and I need to operate for about 6 months, they told me a percentage of the business they want... but now what?

I haven't formed my business entity yet and that is first priority, from what I've read. I know there innumerable blogs and articles written about starting a startup, but can anyone give me any tips that I might not pickup quickly on my own or anything I might overlook?
I don't think Bitcoins are a fad. I think bitcoins are the first of 'designed currencies'.

Bitcoins have certain advantages (and disadvantages) that emerge based on the design characteristics of the Bitcoin system. They are hard to forge, they are hard to steal (at least if you plan on spending them), and they are easy to transfer (among other things).

These are valuable characteristics. These characteristics (among others) differentiate bitcoins from traditional currency and make them very well suited for certain types of transactions. They also have characteristics that make them less than ideal for other types of transactions...transactions that the parties don't want logged, for example.

The currencies we have right now, (more or less accidents of history rather than based on designs with defined goals) government backed notes and precious commodities, have their own advantages and disadvantages, too.

Now that we have a counterpoint, I have a feeling we will see more currencies designed around different principles and goals. MintChip, the Canadian government backed cryptocurrency, will be interesting to watch since it will be a blend of traditional currencies and cryptocurrencies. What niche will it fill in the market? It is all very exciting.
If you're interested in this topic, Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking and Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City are both worth reading. The former explains how "free" parking isn't really free and how it distorts a lot of behavior, and the latter is about what cities are good for and how to build healthy cities in general.

Personally, I wonder why people would want to own a car if they can avoid it: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/why-would-you-want... , but that may be a minority viewpoint.
Maybe I'm just a huge data nerd, but this article made me really excited.
>Foucault is SmallTalk. Tangentially inspirational, but mostly useless in modern practice.

I don't think you can categorize a philosopher/historian in such crude terms. For one, this pressuposes that there's some "modern practice" of history, which makes it incompatible or difficult for practical reasons to use Foucault's theory anymore. That's not the case in the least -- modern academic discourse in such matters refers to Foucault all the time.

(And even if the comparison was apt, I'd still take SmallTalk over, say, Java that replaced it, any time of day).

>That's your counter-argument?

No, his counter-argument is a lucid essay, of which you extracted, out of context (and cut in half), a small, non characteristic, phrase that you find troubling. Might as well extract some oneliner from type theory full of heavy math notation to "prove" that Haskell is impossible to learn.

In fact, the paragraph the excerpt belongs to is crystal clear, wether you agree with it's contents or not.

What he says in that part is that in older societies (those based on disclipline), a person moved from one place of instilling discipline to the other (from school, to army service, to vocational education, to the factory, etc). In contrast to that, in modern societies, all those distinct places and stages have been merged (the school is also like a prison, the workplace is also like the army, etc).
That betrays the basic attitude of these anti-car folks. It's not the cars, but the freedom to live where you want that they detest.
I like the Primary Constructor shorthand update. C# (and the CLR) is a great language. It has always been more verbose that I preferred. Its nice to see that updates that reduce the LOC count.
So, the naive way I'm reading this might reduce to this lie-to-children analogy:

"You have a 2D layout of memory cells on a RAM chip (strings), which store the representation of a 3D universe. From within our 3D universe, we can tell that we're actually stored on a 2D medium by the way we see the effects of interactions between things in our 3D world that are distant in 3D, but stored on 'neighboring' memory-cells."

Anyone who knows enough about this to tell me how far off-base I am?
That doesn't preclude someone from not knowing that there are two.
It may not be unreasonable if the overhead to rent is high. It's coming down, though I have no idea what ranges are "too high" or where things currently stand relative to that.
It's going to be a real downer when we find out the universe is actually one gigantic one-dimensional Turing machine.
The published schedules are always "best-case" scenarios, since FreeBSD developers look at these to know how long they have to get work into the tree. There is always the anticipation that schedules will slip as issues arise, so I'd guess January 9th for the announcement rather than the 2nd.

(But that's fine -- we do .0 releases somewhere in the November-February time period, and early January falls right in the middle of the range.)
I love buses. Gives me a chance to read, when I would otherwise be stuck driving.
What an odd metric. By that description, one singular app that you spend most of your time in it would meet that criteria, but to read it, it sounds like there's a whole slew of issues.
Thanks Kirill! Great to have Scoutzie on Rainforest.
Ah right, the ol' shell-company trick. If you buy control of an LLC without dissolving or merging it, that's not a "transfer" of the assets owned by the LLC. Useful for .edu domains; also useful for avoiding re-assessment of California real property under Proposition 13, among many other convenient uses.
Yes, they are. The fundamental problem of Bitcoin is the massive number that were accumulated when they were cheap. It's a problem more-so than any of the technical problems that have been discovered to date or even a moral preference for derivatives that permit greater anonymity.

The problem with Bitcoin being a major currency is that the early miners have accumulated large portions of the total share of Bitcoin wealth. That's a fundamental problem that does not exist with fiat currency like money, and while many consider it an asset that Bitcoin's inflation is highly regulated, very few individuals would be comfortable with the idea that certain individuals would own billions or trillions of USD worth of them in the future. And that is what will happen if Bitcoin maintains its upward trajectory in value and more and more people use Bitcoins as a form of wealth.

What banks would feel vastly more comfortable with would be certain technological abuses of the Bitcoin protocol to make it a substitute for real money. For example, using the transactions to create cryptographic, trusted proofs of USD transfers with negligible amounts of BTC actually involved.

Yes, Bitcoins are the New Pogs, and some folks early on bought out the first few production runs of them hoping that people would eventually replace currency with their New Pogs. That notion should be deeply disconcerting to anyone who invests in BTC (either in mining or with money) because at some point those people that have a large portion of the total amount of BTC that can ever exist might decide to cash out or abuse the market.
that's exactly what I am trying to do, thanks