skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great post. I wonder whether organizations like YC might consider offering compensation for seeing a therapist during and after their batch, and even perhaps going as far as recommending a particular local therapist.

I've experienced depression while running a startup, and seeing a therapist was immensely helpful. A therapist who regularly sees founders as clients would have a stronger-than-usual feedback loop on what sorts of advice and recommendations can help.

Edit: While I think the advice of talking to other founders about depression is really excellent for those who have that option, I think back to when I've experienced depression and wonder whether it would have helped. Specifically I'm not sure I was even in a state to be able to act upon that advice. Generally my sense of self-worth was so deflated that it was very difficult to discuss it with anyone, and particularly anyone who I wasn't close friends with. Beyond my co-founders, few of my close friends were entrepreneurs.
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"in tech" is a very large spectrum of industries, positions and earning power.

A programmer at the age of 30 is probably not on a decline, but will definitely not see any major pay bump in the future;
A consultant is probably just at the beginning of a consulting career;
A mid-level manager has probably just established a foothold in the corporate pyramid, and there is a long way up;
A founder is probably hoping for (more)success in the future;
The CEO of Facebook may be at his peak now, but he probably doesn't care.
Seems like a weak reason to call it an MMO. I would say this is true for most projects, unless I'm missing something
I don't think it is as simple as learning that you can talk about it - you have to learn who to talk about it too. Not everyone wants to hear that things are not working quite as planned - most people would rather just hear "Great!"
In the case of Ultimate Bet it turned out that it was an inside job, but the individuals involved didn't necessarily share in the long term profits of the company, so they were able to benefit personally to the tune of millions, while most of the negative effects landed on the company rather than themselves.

Thankfully in at least two other poker companies (hint: the largest one and its sister company) it was made impossible to see someone's hole cards before the hand is over, which is what allowed the cheaters at Ultimate Bet to perpetrate their con.

It's my pretty firm belief that when it seems like an entity is throwing away a pretty obvious economic self-interest, there's probably just a misunderstanding of where the economic self interest lies in the parties involved.
This is definitely true. I don't think I burn bridges(and the statement on linkedin isn't "no recruiters pls" it's more like "I am happily employed"). I don't angrily reply or anything.

Also sure I wouldn't like it if people said I was harassing them with my resume, but I wouldn't be. These people send the same posts over and over to the same people(who, by their linkedin are clearly employed).

I have no idea if they're good at recruiting, I just don't want another job.
>Your claim here is based on the utterly false dichotomy that says that helping someone's self image (cutting their hair) and improving their emotional state (saying nice things to them) are not useful.

I do think they're useful, it's just that a universal wage would be better. The useful/useless thing was just hyperbole. Sorry.

>As prices tend towards zero, it's no longer conspicuous consumption.

Then you get servants and an entourage. Point still stands.
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That's really nice of you to offer but...who are you? The About Me section on your site is just blank.

http://sbala.org/about-me/
Same here. Email in profile. Located in SF and Palo Alto.

(sometimes it helps to mention backgrounds so people can relate. I'm on my 3rd-ish startup, failed twice, digital nomad, 29 years old from the midwest, lived in London, NYC, Philly, and Germany, gf is also doing a startup but in the hardware space, I console her a lot on startup life)
Probably the standard is to maintain the ecosystem, currently there are many species that will go extinct, the ecosystem is out of balance.

Our understanding of travel through space is limited by our understanding of the universe, a century ago nobody believed that we will land on the moon.

A few centuries ago we used horsemen to send messages, now we use radio waves, maybe also radio is something primitive to advanced civilizations, who knows what we will discover, quantum entanglement for example looks promising.
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The app Secret seems to be a big vent for this feeling. I regularly see people posting about their own companies and feeling overwhelmed. The replies are always supportive and typically several are along the lines of being in the same boat.
I think Tim Caswell has created a Firefox OS version of Tedit, but it's not submitted to Marketplace yet. https://tedit.creationix.com/

He's already submitted a git browser: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/git-browser
Another good resource is the classic "Feeling Good" [1], which describes basic cognitive behavioral therapy in a self-help format. It's old but good and has been validated in clinical trials.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0380810336?pc_redir=1402628516...
"Evil? Probably. Very effective? Hell yeah."

This is why everyone hates us.
I just turned 31 last week. Life has been getting better every year. Work is more fulfilling, my skills are improving, my social life is good, and I'm finding new hobbies and pursuits to explore and learn.

What I notice in what you write is that you're always comparing yourself to others. Yes, I have friends and acquaintances who are more successful, in terms of money, responsibility, and prestige. I'm happy for them. After the initial envious thought passes, it doesn't make me feel worse-off.

A quote I like: "If you define your self-worth in comparison to other people, you're building your house on sand."
The thing I love about Lua is that I can integrate it into my existing ecosystem.

Note though it does lack some syntactical sugar, and arguments not passed are silently 'nil', so it is not strictly superior.
I don't want to argue that graph theory is more important (though I could list which topics I think it's more important than). Rather I want to argue that, partially because primary and secondary school educators don't have so many years of preconceptions about the right way to teach the subject, it can do a better job building the underlying skills we want to teach students in teaching them math. We don't teach math because we want students to know facts (the correct answer to "What's the derivative of arccsc(x^2)?" is almost always "who cares?").

I certainly don't think that basic graph theory should be reserved for "advanced students." This second grade experiment shows that it's accessible to everyone.
It's fantastic to see this game finally get recognized. Amir is a great developer and it has been a lot of fun to watch the game progress over the past few months.

He's maintained a developer blog throughout the process. It's a really interesting read: http://amirrajan.net/a-dark-room/

I first learned of A Dark Room when Amir presented it to the local Dallas Ruby group. His presentation on development in RubyMotion is worth a read as well: http://amirrajan.net/12k-lines-of-RM/
Western union will often take over 5% of a transfer through fees and extremely greedy exchange rates. A BitCoin transfer on the other hand is virtually free.

IMHO there will be a high overlap between people using a lending startup and Bitcoin users, as both are modern bank alternatives.

In my humble experience exchanging Bitcoins for cash was hard a couple of years ago, but not today. All my geek friends and colleagues use it.
> Does the FCC even have the authority to regulate net neutrality?

It depends on how the FCC classifies the ISPs. If the FCC classifies the ISPs as a common carrier, then yes that will basically force them to honor net neutrality. Due to <politics>, the FCC has been reticent to classify the ISPs as common carriers (instead classifying them as infomation services), but it has tried to regulate them as a common carrier in some ways (but not in all ways), ie net neutrality.

Recently verizon took the fcc to court over this and the gist of the court's ruling was 'The FCC has the power to enforce net neutrality on the ISPs iff it designates the ISPs as common carriers.'

> An effective net neutrality policy could even harm our economy, if its a rule that nobody else needs to play by.

An effective net neutrality rule could just as easily bolster our economy if no one else decides to play by that rule. What makes you think that net neutrality isn't a competitive advantage?

> If we want access to a free internet, we need to figure out how to democratize the infrastructure.

It's hard to democratize the infrastructure because it is so expensive to keep and maintain, short of nationalizing it like the interstate system, though based on the previous paragraph I don't think that's what you meant.
The "easiest" solution requires some learning. The netstat(1) command on
unix-based systems (including MacOS 10+) and possibly also ms-windows
can report the number of BYTES passing through a network interface. On
most implementations the '-b' switch is used to show BYTES and the '-I
ifacename' switch is used to define what interface you want to monitor.
Since this only gives you one count of the bytes, you also want to use
the "wait" switch, typically '-w #" so the command continuously runs
every "#" seconds.

$ netstat -bI tun0 -w 8

The reason to use a wait time of 8 seconds is the values you'll see will
be roughly equivalent to BITS per second for the given 8 second
period (1 byte is 8 bits). Since most networking throughput is measured
in bits per second, this makes your life easy. Also, using a wait time
of 8 seconds avoids putting mostly pointless load on your system while
giving you a fairly solid average throughput value.

This method is very flexible. For example, if you're running one or more
VPN tunnels, you can monitor each tunnel individually, as well as the
underlying uplink connection. You just need to use the same command with
different '-I' interface names.

Additionally, unlike the inaccurate download speed values presented by
web browsers and similar applications, this is measuring the raw data
passing through the interface (i.e. with packet overhead), rather than
measuring how fast a file is being transfered (without packet overhead).

I just leave it running in a tmux window on my firewall so with just a
glance I can always see what the connection is doing.
Can someone provide insight on life after a failed startup, in terms of career prospects? Often depression can make you feel as if you're failing on all fronts, that nothing will get better in the foreseeable future. Most of the time that really isn't true. You're often stuck in a temporary rut that your mind drastically exaggerates. But for a founder who's going through a dark time and whose startup ultimately fails, is it easy to pick yourself up again? Can you realistically transition into a more stable job where you'll have more energy to improve your life? I've heard from quite a few that the years spent on a failed startup do not improve your career options, and for a founder that may find themselves depressed running a company, I can't imagine such poor prospects lending any hope.
Everyone, if it was enforced by law as the only available conditions.
I've been to some really dark places and back. If anyone needs to talk, shoot me an e-mail -- slava@rethinkdb.com. I'll buy you coffee, listen, and try to help you find a better place.
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That 10% seems rather unlikely. Are you sure that isn't just of restaurants that take online bookings, not of restaurants that take bookings? In much of the world, the vast majority of restaurants that will take reservations do so via telephone, and OpenTable has 0% of that very large market, which would make it pretty much impossible for their overall market share to hit 10%. Even in much of Europe: for example, nearly every tavern in Greece (tens of thousands of them) will reserve tables via telephone, but very few of them have any kind of online presence.
I'm eagerly waiting for Scientific, but there's no word on when to expect it that I know of
You can do this in J; nobody does. It would probably be more approachable to many people to write:

mean =: sum reduce div size

Than:

mean =: +/ % #

But less of your program fits on the screen at once, so you don’t have as broad a view. Then again, people who haven’t used an APL dialect won’t know what they’re missing anyway.
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I guess it's the thought that counts, but that's not a resource with a lot of depth.

My wife keeps saying she should organize a Startup Wives reality show, but I think we'd have to manufacture a lot of the drama.
I'm saying they drive up page views in ways that are independent of the value those things provide to their users.

I'm not against increasing revenue. I'm against scanning my contacts list without my permission so they can invite my friends. What value does this provide to me? None. What value does it provide to them? A ton because if even a small percentage of my contacts signs up then LinkedIn has just increased page views and thus, revenue.
I notice you bring up the exact arguments that the piece addresses explicitly, yet you do not acknowledge this one way or another.

But the meta-reason is: if someone thinks they can get away with it, why wouldn't they do it? With that presumption you could even argue it's the rational choice. If you do it subtly, there's plenty of room for doubt. Furthermore, there are enough people who're invested for ideological reasons that, in the absence of strong evidence, all most people will hear is a lot of he-said, she-said.

More to the point, factor in any monetary investment in the scheme -- the prospect of collapse should a critical mass reach the same conclusion, for instance -- and the people who've invested have an incentive to stay the course. That incentive to maintain a good reputation cuts both ways. Reputation is a matter of popular perception.
If you use 20 bytes for the city name and 6 bytes for the GPS coordinate (no need to be too precise in a case like this) you can fit 880 city names in a file that size. The program could then search the file to see which city was closest. There are only about 300 cities in the world with more than a million residents, so use the remaining 580 slots to fill in all the gaps with sensible names, and you might have something workable. It'd especially work if you added "Area" at the end, as in "Denver, Colorado Area".
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>to reduce mining variance there you must use hosted mining

Why should people [miners] be able to reduce variance at all? That's not a necessary feature of the system, and it doesn't seem like a goal worth pursuing. Security is paramount; mining variance is "first-world-problems".

>say if GHash.io decides to steal a bunch of coins from their miners

It seems far more likely that GHash would try to be sneaky about theft, rather than overt. This would allow them to keep getting away with it (that "long term revenue stream").

I know this sounds sort of unlikely, but consider e.g. GHash functionality to identify and subtly interfere with the operation of automated tools (e.g. ZeroCoin) that make lots of bitcoin transactions. The less likely that human eyes will see a transaction, the easier it will probably be to subvert.
Does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#Cardinal_payo... work? They have a sketch derivation.
Okay, you didn't try to use it to explain anything. I guess what I meant to say was that I think inhibition is a bogus thing to measure. By purporting to measure it, you implicitly make the assumption that inhibition is an independent input into behavior and can be isolated.

Children don't have much insight into their own decision-making or the words to explain themselves, so, seeing only behavioral outcomes, you could convince yourself that perhaps it's simple, like an electric circuit with a relay. The relay is inhibition; impulses send current; when the current flows, behavior happens. The merit of this model is that it's simple and has quantities that are measurable. You can do the candy experiment, and derive numbers that, you claim, measure inhibition. You find a correlation with a variable later in life, and it makes a neat graph.

The problem is that it's pretty obvious that human behavior is many orders of magnitude more complex than a circuit, and it's probably pretty easy to invent fictitious quantities that are measurable and take supposed measurements that look quite convincing.
Google says it's an x11 app? I prefer something that works on random ssh connections and is more "inline" to the current command context
No. It's not good for that at all. Depression is a monster. It eats relationships for breakfast. Friends who have not had depression will not understand it. There will be almost nothing they can do to help, but they'll want to help and find it a very frustrating experience. In the long run, those relationships will be very difficult to maintain.

Hyperbole and a Half has what I think is the best "layman" explanation for what depression is really like: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...
There is absolutely no economic law that says the value of labor has to be greater than minimum wage, or even livable. Yes there is theoretically an infinite demand for labor, and unemployed people can always find some really low demand job or work for even less than the machines. But that isn't optimal for them. Goods might get cheaper, but not by much. The limiting factor isn't labor costs, we already have vastly automated a lot of industries and outsourced others to ridiculously low wage countries.
There are a lot of books out there for really applied and really theoretical versions. I personally prefer the CS perspective, which spends a lot of time on problems about graphs (finding matchings, covers, cliques, flows, traversals satisfying certain properties). A good overview text is Bondy & Murty[1]. This text sort of straddles theory and practice in that you get lots of topological intuition (like Euler characteristic), and lots of algorithms and applications. One thing that's conspicuously missing is a treatment of random graphs, which is a huge topic both in theory and in applications. I do like that the book covers some basic Ramsey theory, as this is one of the most popular topics in combinatorics and it gives you a good flavor of what's going on in modern research there.

[1]: http://www.maths.lse.ac.uk/Personal/jozef/LTCC/Graph_Theory_...
Get the creative juices flowing and forget reality show.
I've found it super helpful to surround myself by other entrepreneurs (they "get it" more easily). With the best ones, we can both speak with our guards down, and be open about our vulnerabilities.

I don't have data on this, but I actually believe you increase your odds of success by being open about your insecurities. Among other things, it helps you form connections that are more human.

If anyone in SF would like to talk through stuff, my email is in my profile. I've seen my share of lows, and been helped by other entrepreneurs. Would like to pass it forward.
Restaurants do prix-fixe menus all the time.
Has CentOS made the switch to MariaDB with 7? (I'm assuming so, since CentOS 7 is based on RHEL 7, correct?)
Don't buy audiobooks on iTunes. Seriously, don't. It's a waste of time.
"Audiobooks are currently a one-time only download from the store, so they won't show in the Purchased tab"
You might also checkout http://www.startupsanonymo.us/. Two great guys, also founders who have been there and who just listen, for free and offer some feedback.

Great project, way too little exposure for them though.
MDMA was patented in 1912. Does dopamine count as chemically-induced bliss?
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For people who want to see where this goes without spending half a day clicking there is a chrome extension that makes this game "easier".
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That is what LING (formerly erlang-on-xen) is here for: http://erlangonxen.org
Network splits and many other multi machine distributed computing problems aren't addressed well by Erlang because it was designed mostly for distributed computing within a single machine (that might have several CPUs and/or blades).
What implications could this have for other "always listening" devices (current and future), and their ability to respond to voice commands originating from media sources?
"Tangential but for peeps who're in their late 20's and early 30's in tech,
do you feel like we have peaked and now are in the decline?"

I'm 32 and don't feel I've peaked yet, but there's still much I'd like to achieve and also I enjoy keep learning myself new things.

Every year I watch the QuakeCon keynote of John Carmack and to me he's a reminder that I don't have to reach my peak until I choose to :)
I second, "Feeling Good" is great.

BTW, there is another book by the same author(David Burns) -- "When Panic Attacks" [1]. It is focused on anxiety, not depression, but these two conditions often go hand in hand.

[1] http://amzn.com/076792083X
It's in Bitcoin community's, and GHash's, economic interest that no miner exceeds 50%

But GHash does exceed 50%, right now.
I would hope so, Comcast isn't providing transit services.
Ha what a moron I am. The funniest part is that I was ranting on #python about the need for a tui only version of that.

ps: even funnier, someone just posted a personal project doing just that.
Am I qualified to chime in? We just shut down today after 4.5 years. ;)

This is very true, and unfortunate. It makes it easy to feel like everyone is being successful except you. I realized this a couple years ago and, when talking to other founders, I just stopped sugar coating things about my situation. I would tell them about our struggles, what was going on, and its affect on me. I don't think I've ever been brought to tears as many times as this year. It is super painful, but lying about it is bad for all involved. You can't get the support you need, nor provide proper support to others.

I can definitely vouch for the dark days. I feel fortunate to be an eternal optimist who knows these things are temporary, but the startup lows are about as low as they come. On top of that, you have things like breakups, family emergencies and other tragedies that are already hard enough to deal with when you are not nursing a struggling company. When those things hit at the same time, it can feel impossible to do anything.

Seriously, as a founder, find a few people you can really confide in and do so. And, don't be afraid to say things aren't going well. You never know what people can do to help. On that note, though today isn't the best day for me to cheer up others, I'm available to chat for any founder going through dark days. joey@earbits.com
http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Life-Surviving-Relationship-En...

Book written by Brad Feld and Amy (his spouse)
wtf is that? yes, depression is bad, but YC should compensate treatment? Entrepreneurship is hard, everyone says that. So you should either expect to deal with consequences or not even get started. What kinda entrepreneur will graduate from YC if they have to be kinder-gardened?
Everyone?

http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/oneyoungworld/2014/06/05/sout...
Glorious, I was about to start a similar thing (in python though). Time to play with your toy.

ps: I'd add a readline/inputrc alias for '| tmenu '