skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “It’s so stupid that these people play the startup lottery. What idiots. They should just consult.” or “Startups need to stop glorifying young workers that can work all day and night”

No-one quite says that working hard is stupid (well, except the few misguided ones we should all ignore anyway). What people go tsk, tsk, tsk at is working really hard and giving up responsibilities at home, not being with you family, even forgoing the biological imperative to reproduce (or delaying it -- usually not a good idea, again biologically speaking), giving up your mental/physical health for a dream that is realistically very remote, etc.

The other big thing is, alas, it is a lottery. We guide our nephews toward a different direction that has a greater promise of economic security: be a neurosurgeon (and well, even if they don't become neurosurgeons, we hope they'll become at least primary care doctors :)). I mean, What is YC's acceptance rate at this point? Like 10%? And I bet the people applying are more able than other hopeful entrepreneurs who don't happen to apply to YC, so the success rate for the average entrepreneur is pretty bad.
“The Email I Sent Steve That Kicked Off Reddit”
Looks likes you and Omkarnath has decided to post on show hn everyday :P

Fairly good idea, I think it would be better if one could just post links of products directly and app would extract images etc.
If you are interested, there is an entire subreddit dedicated to this: http://www.reddit.com/r/edc
Three dogs, at a party, on a boat, at night :)

One has a banjo.
He carries all that crap but not a flashlight?
The NEC P462 46" is on Amazon for ~$2k. Plus you still need speakers. That seems like quite a bit to spend on a 46" tv.
Should the goal of the US be to emulate happy, stable, wealthy, smaller economies but arguably more egalitarian northern European democracies?

Or rather, should we chase China in a race to the bottom? Lower corporate taxes, longer working hours, reduced environmental protections, with the goal of creating a fabulously wealthy klepto-capitalist ruling class? How dare people criticize kids burning the candle at both ends to make other people billions of dollars, China is beating us!
Sam Ramiji Takes Lead at the Open-Source Cloud Foundry Foundation
The Startup Shirt
Bill Browder on 'Red Notice', Death Threats from the Kremlin (audio)
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Certainly working really hard without an expectation of being compensated it (either with equity or cash) is dumb. I've argued a lot that startups should give employees more equity, and I think that's shifting. Also, most startups I'm aware of, at least in the bay area, pay large salaries at this point.
> People generally have to buy energy (oil) in our currency, which adds a great deal of support (though we’ve already seen the very beginnings of the PetroYuan).

Can someone explain why using USD as a medium of exchange supports the USD? I can see this effect insofar as central banks will hold a trade-weighted basket of currencies and having more trade in USD will increase that share of the basket. Other than this effect, is there (an) other(s)?
I figured it was costing the NHS much more than that, but I did not know they were covering so much. Thanks for the information.

The issue of what insurers actually pay versus what the uninsured are expected to pay is a tangential hot button issue for me, especially since I started treatment for my sleep disorders.
HTTPS on Nginx: From Zero to A+ (Part 2) – Ciphersuites and Performance
Carrying it might not be illegal, but using it starts to get dicey. Unless you're using it on a lock to a room where you're entitled to access (your home, for example), you're setting yourself for a lot of hassles. More so in foreign countries. I see no possible upside of carrying this with him and many possible downsides.
> There’s no sneering, no sarcasm, and no self-deprecation. Everyone is just sort of floating along in an earnest tranquility. As if each anecdote about “that cool loft I found on Airbnb” contained some deep spiritual significance beyond my grasp.

This is what I hate the most! Everyone here is so positive. It's like a cult. Any post containing an ounce of negativity is downvoted. Anything that strays from the party line of "technology will solve everything, and we are changing the world" is shunned. And whether this attitude comes from techno-utopians or from eager beaver entrepreneurs, it's toxic to our industry. It makes us ignore the social impact of our inventions. It keeps us narrowly focused on technological solutions when the problem isn't technological. And worst of all, it gives everyone a huge ego. Learn to laugh at yourself, accept that your crappy web app isn't changing the world, and remember that the homeless guy you passed on your way to work is a person like you (who just lacked the opportunities you did).
I wouldn't say that the Ubuntu Phone is one of the nicer looking phones available to date, but I think there is something to be said about the demand of a product that already has a limited market. By that I mean that Ubuntu isn't a household name and subsequently they've capitalized on the smaller potential user base.

With the success of the OnePlus One, Xiaomi, Blu, Oppo, etc. and with this rise of the Ubuntu Phone, I think a major paradigm shift is underway in the mobile space.
Peter Molyneux forgot whom? The God.
So if the markets are all efficient then how did they get the pile of money?
> I have never met anyone who truly likes windows. They tolerate it. They are used to it. But they never say "Yes, I am happy with this new version. The upgrade sure made my life easier!"

Plenty of people felt that way about the Vista to Windows 7 upgrade. (fewer felt that way about the 7 to 8 transition)
Smart phone plus credit card covers 99% of eventualities in the first world.
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I appreciate all of the feedback and will be incorporating a lot of it.

what did you mean by a wc replacement?

>You're not an expert - if you are, you'd not be looking for entry level positions, and you likely wouldn't be a hobbyist. You'd probably have a history of consulting in your expert field.

Seriously, everyone is failing on comprehension on that one sentence. I'm an expert in my field looking to pivot to another. Expert SYSTEMS engineer. I'm changing the sentence to prevent future misreads.
"Businessman Bill Browder knew a thing or two about how to make millions in Vladimir Putin's Russia. But even he didn't know just how brutal the price of business could be amongst the Kremlin's cronies. Bill Browder recounts the brutal tale of his own lawyer's torture and death and his quest to bring justice to bear on the new Russian bear.

"The 2013 trial of Sergei Magnitsky in Russia was such an example of the theatre of the absurd, that it's since been turned into theatre itself.

"Mr. Magnitsky, a lawyer who worked for a Western businessman, was imprisoned by Russian authorities - and was tortured to death. Only then - after his demise - was he put on trial.

"The co-defendant in that trial is still very much alive today. He's businessman Bill Browder, and Sergei Magnitsky was his lawyer.

"The story is all told in his new book, 'Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice.'"
> While some forms of obesity have been linked to physical health and or genetic factors, even if you discount that the remaining research has suggested it is a mental health disorder not that dissimilar from e.g. alcoholism, exercise addiction, sex addiction, drug addiction, smoking, and so on.

The research on alcohol, drug, and other addictions seems to indicate that they are physical health disorders -- often with substantial genetic contributions -- and, in fact, the entire idea of separate "mental health disorders" and "physical health disorders" relies on mind being somehow not a product of the physical state of the body, which, while it certainly connects to beliefs of many popular religions (e.g., concerning the soul), doesn't appear to have any scientific basis at all.
You are just vastly oversimplifying a complex issue. It's like telling a drug addict to stop after 2 beers. Or teliing black kids to study more for school. How about telling people to stop having kids out of wedlock. Simple, just don't to it! SOLVED!Debt issues? Just make more than you spend.

Just eat less, conservation of energy man. Science YO! argument is essentially the abstinence solution for STDs.

Normal people aren't a healthy weight because they sit there and resist hunger all day. Their body keeps it in check.

Finding out why obese people don't keep their diet in check would be a huge help in fighting obesity.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure for a lot people poor impulse control is part of it, but it clearly isn't the whole story.
Depression, Inside-Out
Phone, keys, wallet. Keep it simple.
That one thing you learned over the years is a false dichotomy. There are no As and Bs. Most people value something. They just value different things than you.
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From my perspective, Sam's essays have really been improving in quality.

Some of his early ones felt like they were searching for a voice and/or trying to force the essay before it was fully incubated.

This one feels like a breakthrough. Well written, interesting premise, explores the topic in a meandering but targeted way.
"whether or not it’s possible for one country to remain as powerful as another with four times as many people"

I don't understand why one country whether it's the US, china or otherwise has to dominate the world.Assuming that shitty tradeoffs are made to get there, I wish there was a world country of some sort that dominated in the near future. Otherwise it seems to me like there are going to be many sony like episodes that just do more harm than good.
Speaking from personal experience, the atmosphere in the U.S. is a lot better than in China, in terms of the recognition of importance and respect to science and technology fields as well as scientists and engineers. I feel an implicit discrimination towards engineers in Chinese culture in the sense that "you are regarded successful if you hold a management position and live a (perceived) decent lifestyle, but not if you get your hands dirty, tinkering around stuff and being managed." when I worked in China. In Chinese college, the "elite majors" including cooperation and government management usually have the highest bar of admission.
How did Node.js solve compilation problems on Windows? Doesn't Node.js suffer from the same problems? Do they provide a devkit that includes a compiler or something?
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There's even a subreddit for it.

http://reddit.com/r/edc
And lots of videos on YouTube, a sub-reddit, etc. These folks tend to be a bit on the... Odd side I suppose, but hey; I used to fall asleep watching them show off all the crap they carry around, so what does that make me?
Calling it a lottery is silly. I know some people who would have close to a 100% chance of getting into YC if they applied. I know other people who would have close to a 0% chance.

It's not random.
This post isn't particularly well thought out or argued, but special mention must go to footnote [2] for being self serving nonsense. While those complainers do exist and are wrong about some aspects of the situation they are quite right to criticise the exploitative start up ecosystem.
So the points didn't affect me so much. The article is engaging and novel; I was quoting pieces to a friend as I read it.
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The main fallacy in that article is that USA is important because innovation. The conservative solution proposed by the author is to go back to an hypothetical golden age "that encourages investment, welcomes immigrants, rewards risk-taking, hard work, and radical thinking, and minimizes impediments to doing new things", like the good old times before.

My question is: what are you talking about? The "social" America of the '50s and '60s? The America of the technological boom of the 90s?

America is even more innovative today than decades before. More risks are taken today than before (the crisis of 2008 is also proof of that).

Are you sure that lack of innovation is the problem? Do you think that china is getting bigger and bolder because more risk taking? LOL no. They are conservative and fatalistic and hierarchical as ever.

I think that the American disease should be explained in another way.
There are violent sociopaths, and then there's most of the prison population. Most of them are just people who made a mistake and didn't have any guard rails in their life to keep them on the straight and narrow before they became adults. Most of them would be very possible to rehabilitate but that's just not how the US looks at crime. Our approach, no matter what we call it, is "lock them up and throw away the key".

One could say (with the reduction in violent crime since the 70's) that this works. If that's true and it isn't the result of abortion being legalized (not my theory, don't hate me) then we could keep doing it. Could we as a society do better? I think the answer is yes. I think there's a moral imperative to.

So the question is, how might we reduce violent crime and increase the acceptance of social norms within high risk groups?
From a moral standpoint in the USA the international megacorp will say "Oh, your health is worth anything to you? Hmm. Howabout everything you got minus $1" Like a semi-kind mugger. Its not a free market. Pay up or die, sucka!

In the UK the .gov will fight for you instead of the corporation so you pay a fair price. The UK gov is under no life and death pressure to pay up or die, and they have regulators who are educated and understand the market. It is a much free-er market than the USA market.

Arguably what he's coughing up in hotel fees and surcharges and taxes and hotel prop tax is Exactly how a visitor should be paying for medical care, so on an individual level he's moral and ethical.

Not getting screwed over when someone else gets screwed over does not imply some kind of survivors guilt is ethical.
i took your suggestion nearly verbatim. thanks.
The US could easily remain the world's only superpower if it was ruthlessly focused on doing that. Actually it would have been easier 40-50 years ago. The opportunity is fading away.

Interestingly, the US often behaves as if it wants to control the world. So either this is a misperception, and the leaders of the US don't want to control the world (and they're spectacularly bad at public relations), or they're spectacularly bad at implementing their plan.

With all the advantages the US enjoyed last century it would have been possible. Maybe actual control of the world territorially is unnecessary, and some group is content to control the world financially. Or maybe the people implementing whatever plan have some perspective that make whatever they're doing make sense to them.

I wonder if that perspective is actually good for the US (it probably is not meant to be, other than for the elite). Perhaps they're using a flawed model that will seem painfully obvious later. I'm guessing it is something like the banking crisis. Some guys are following a flawed model that they think should work, and other guys are looking out for themselves, and eventually the whole thing will fall apart.
> you'll want to replace them with code written in the native language

Probably not true for Javascript (and other scripted languages) - matching regex uses native and highly optimized regex lib, which will usually be orders of magnitude faster than implementing this in the language.
Equity is a fraction of a dollar bill attached to a line extending from a fishing pole.

Reel 'em in.
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There are definitely some real issues surrounding what we can do for psychiatric conditions, but there are no easy answers.

Regarding 'self medicating', I'd say that it's more like palliative care. That is, it makes people feel better to some degree, but does not treat (and may actually worsen) underlying conditions.

While I can certainly understand the attraction of palliative care, I wish there was more that we could do for the underlying issues.
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Most of the comments on this post seem to have that exact attitude.
From tomorrow's headlines: "WordPress Creator Mugged In Mission Taqueria, Blames Hacker News"
This may be the case, but it's the exception to the rule and shouldn't be used by every person overweight who just give up on discipline because they think it's useless.
I think the smartphone light probably counts but I'm with you on carrying a compact CREE-powered flashlight. Also, he's missing a small folding knife.
I don't know figures, but I imagine Kaiser represents more than 35 million people (the approx population of Canada). Shouldn't they be able to negotiate the same price?
I always carry around a TL-MR3020 (openwrt) with a wireless adapter on the USB port. You never know when you need to hop a network. It's so small it does not really make a difference on the backpack.
My initial reaction was similar: "Wow, I must be a minimalist!"
It is a small percentage of the tech industry. But it's a good percentage of startups. A good percentage of yCombinator companies. A good percentage of what we discuss on Hacker News.
Enjoyed Matt's appearance on Tim Ferriss's podcast earlier this week where he covered related things (most used apps, daily tips and tricks, etc.) - http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/02/09/matt-mullenweg/
His phone has a flashlight built-in.
I would like to share my very positive experience with private Mexican health care.

A family member got in a kayaking accident. They were in severe pain (mostly from their chest area).

We had a concierge doctor drive out to our remote hotel. He did a basic checkup, gave us some pain meds, and called ahead to the nearest private hospital. $100

We drove about an hour and a half to the hospital. A doctor was waiting at the door for us. She was with us for the whole two hours we were there. We got 2 x-rays and an ultrasound. We also got more pain meds at the pharmacy. $150

It was the best medical service I've ever experienced in my life. I would be very happy if U.S. medical care was the same as Mexican medical care.

I realize I never checked up on this: how is the Mexican private medical system regulated? I remember we did very little paperwork, and it seemed like there was much less red tape than at US hospitals.
Have you considered exploring opportunities that unite the two? For example, in recent years, high frequency trading (HFT's) have been big business, as well as the meteoric rise of automated investment services (AIS).

Betterment, Wealthfront, SigFig, even RobinHood... all are companies that bring tech into the financial industry.
Remember that this is in an interview context-- everyone is on their best behavior and it's a little fake.
I think a better title might be: I Missed the Obamacare Open-Enrollment Deadline, So I Fly to Britain for My Medication.

There are exceptions to the open-enrollment deadline. The author is not completely clear on his situation, but two exceptions may apply: gaining "status" (i.e. permission to work, or permanent residency) or moving to a new area. Either will allow you 30 days to apply through the insurance marketplace. It would be interesting to know if neither of these applied, or if even Obamacare-subsidized insurance wouldn't cover the drug he needs.

The fact that prescription drugs are more expensive in the US than anywhere else is not news to me, at least...
Researcher publishes 10M passwords, usernames amid FBI raid
> I think history is a lot more interesting and makes a lot more sense when you finally realize that people in the past were just as aware and smart as us, as opposed to the bumbling idiots we often assume them to be.

I think the present is a lot more depressing, but makes a lot more sense, when you finally realize that people today are just as much bumbling idiots as those in the past, as opposed to the aware and smart people we often assume ourselves to be.
Can you provide any support for this statement? I don't believe population directly correlates with the size of your economy. I only ask because if America is going to remain relevant, its citizens need to stop making shit up as they go.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP...
I think you're looking at the trees, and you should step back and look at the forest.

The fraction of CEOs that are women is dramatically smaller than the fraction of the population that are women. There is no qualitative explanation as to why that should be true. So long as that remains true, it's worth looking into why it is true. The relative performance of the group is fair game for investigation.
>My explanation is that this is simply what happens in a low-growth, zero-sum environment.

Or perhaps it's due to globalization. There are other cultures in the world that don't value working very hard at the expense of other things in life. Perhaps it's sometimes good to listen to the arguments at look at values from other cultures. For example, working hard might not maximize the well-being of a person.

Now that the internet is widely used more and more people in the United States are exposed to other cultures around the world. Especially Europe, which includes many countries that have a reasonable standard of living, yet work slightly less.
When a project has questionable or poisonous leadership, it's technically wise to steer clear.
That's why I suggested making the brains of the smart TV separable - in other words, somewhat similar to the current situation, but with tighter integration between the TV display, speakers, and ports and the box. Samsung seems to be doing something like that:

http://www.samsung.com/us/2013-smart-evolution/

It being Samsung, the hardware upgrade was apparently offered after a single year and completely redid the UI, but there's no reason the same principle can't be executed competently.
Perhaps this is how our global creativity works. Perhaps we need to generate tons and tons of garbage, for the occasional diamond stone to pop out.

Perhaps I'm wrong.
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Great responses, and from reading them I realized I should have qualified as "a good or high quality display." Which many responders assumed, and there's some good direction to explore here.
Maybe he has a hobby of picking locks (that he owns) for fun... except I don't see a lock in his bag.
Does Work Really Work?
I look forward to the day where nationalism is seen as an anachronism. I know this probably wasn't the primary message of this post and that YC has funded a number of non US startups but if you swap US and China in this post, I wonder what kind of reception it would get.
Alternate representations of regexes aren't necessarily a crutch to avoid learning the normal syntax. S-expressions in particular could be useful for runtime manipulation or generation of patterns without the bother of string mangling. (I can't think of a reason to do so off-hand, but it's a nifty capability.)
Linux-based mobile manipulation bot due soon
Among other things I do the dishes :)
Except windows still aren't supposed to pop up out of the blue. If you didn't expect a window to appear (especially a window offering actions), it's most likely malware. Again, having a feel for that comes from experience.
"Textbook Zuckercore". I love the wit.
I carry half of that when I travel, much less every day. I don't need to put Batman's tactical belt and the WHO's civilization bootstrap kit in my pockets and backpack.
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