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Do you usually access your problem app though spotlight? If so, you could try creating a space icon linked to your problem app and give the space icon a name that will cause it to appear above your problem app in spotlight results, then sea
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> That's the sort of app I'd pay for. Good new! You can! We use Stripe. I'm sure our conversion rate is a lot lower than if we were in the app store. But it's still possible for people who love it to help us keep wor
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We just finished making an app for people looking to use apps less and in a more intentional way. http://YouJustNeedSpace.com We had to launch it as a web app because Apple said an app that encourages you to use other apps or yo
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Show HN: Space – the breathing room you need from the apps you hate to love(youjustneedspace.com)
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I think that if you could get the problem statement as concise as "Need a device that can reach X rpms and can only be made of Y and Z and must cost less than N" then the battle is won. Another example of this kind of innovation t
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I finished my PhD in neuroEconomics. I learned that I don't want to spend the rest of my life writing (most rejected) grant applications, so I left academia and founded a startup.
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A new motorcycle brand springs from a computer(economist.com)
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Is the basic idea that there are cameras everywhere and they watch and record everything you touch? Now I can't stop thinking about the behavioral analytics. Can they get rough pupil dilation data? I'm sure they can get facial exp
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Yes! In addition to some of the awesome answers already posted here I wanted to mention how important the schedule of reinforcement is habit formation. If you're building a product, optimizing when and how it rewards users can double y
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SF Muni payments offline after ransomware hits 2,100 systems, demands 100BTC(theregister.co.uk)
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Monitoring and optimizing human behavior is what I do for a living so . . . I'm going to do more of the same.
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Medical Illness Predict Trump-Ward Swings(economist.com)
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Specifically: The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.
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I'm not sure that scientists need to be super objective for science to work. The history of science is so littered with grudges, feuds, and grit in spite of evidence that it's hard to see the ground of objective rationality th
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> whilst keeping the precise, mechanical and quantitative spirit of science alive It's not obvious to me that measuring scientists or research quality has anything to do with the "spirit of science." Just because science i
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I think it's more helpful to blame the incentives and the individual actors. Nature isn't malicious or powerful enough to break science all on it's own. It didn't write the rules, it just plays by them. ie Hate the game,
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If the news feed were just a reveres chronological list of everything your friends posted, then I'd agree with you -- facebook would be just a medium. But they filter and sort it. I would actually like to have a knob or a switch I coul
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. That's a good reason to have the mortgage interest deduction. The real reason is that home owners vote, and promising them money is a good way to get
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Can you share a link that concisely demonstrates Thiel's bigotry?
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I agree that regulations should be simpler, but this sounds like a bad way to achieve that. Are "regulations" strictly countable? It sounds like trying to minimize the number of lines (or characters) in a code base. Fewer lines (o
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Either that or a custom alerts system.
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Anyone who wants to call "self control" a myth needs to explain why some people are good at Go/No-Go but others aren't. Control for whatever you want, your still going to find some people perform better on impulse contro
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I'd love to see a e-sport league where the teams are AI human hybrids (Centaur teams). We know that AI human hybrid teams are great at chess [1], and I'd love to see rts games played by 'Centaur' teams. In the same way
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Secrets of Silicon Valley Intrigue Revealed in Colin Powell's Hacked Emails(fastcompany.com)
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Amazon Is Opening Grocery Stores So You Don’t Have to Shop in Them(wired.com)
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It's hard to fake an IAT. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/education.html
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I find the scenario in 'Avogadro Corp' pretty reasonable.
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This drives me crazy. It seems like the worst sort of sophomoric "philosophizing." Adults do not worry about weather or not to "pull the lever." They worry about better fencing and signage to keep people off of tracks. T
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> Tourism/adventure companies That is legal in Antartica. It's just really expensive and there aren't a lot of people who want to do it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-17/whit
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That doesn't answer the question of why there would be thousand of people on Mars willing to pay exorbitant prices for stuff. What is the "gold" in this analogy?

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