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by yaseer 5y ago
This isn't an 'intervention'. These are individuals choosing to make a change in their habits. It's for that person to decide whether changing their habits is a positive goal to pursue.
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Very cool! It's a very human problem in a huge, growing market. It's also a market where introducing efficiencies can really help under-developed economies more effectively than aid [1] Best of luck to you guys, I'll be foll
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The Startup section could hypothetically be limited to the shorter blurbs you mentioned. Also, deciding what should make a full 'Show HN' is extra work for yourself. Solving that by measuring real interest is presumably the on
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I hope the experiment works! It's likely you have thought of this and decided against, but curious to hear your reasoning. Why would this this not work similar to the 'Show' section? i.e. a dedicated page for YC startups. Int
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Agree with this. Back in ~2007 when the exchange rate was ~$2 London salaries seemed competitive. I remember travelling to the US and everything seemed cheap. In a post-Brexit ~$1.3 exchange rate, travelling to NY was painful.
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Axiom.ai (YC W21) is hiring an automation developer (remote)(ycombinator.com)
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>A fund that just backs raw R&D ... with no referrals or exit history ... only evals the tech on merit Define 'merit'. From the perspective of an investor, merit is commercial potential. Small traction in a large market sho
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by yaseer 5y ago
It's definitely true highly processed foods correlate with poor health outcomes. This correlation is mainly because ultra-processed foods often contain added sugars, excess sodium, and unhealthy fats (source: https://www.hsp
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That's true, I just picked penicillin and salt intentionally as they both can be synthesised in a lab and in nature
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> they're usually far from natural (tons of chemicals) I really object to marketing use of the word 'natural' and 'chemicals'. I don't mean to single you out - these concepts are widespread in marketing. Ple
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This is the logical culmination of a process the community has been benefitting from for a while with your work behind the scenes. Great to see it evolve to a place on HN software!
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Prostitution is generally framed as intrinsically bad, like drug use. Reality is more nuanced. Under regulation, drugs and prostitution are not intrinsically bad things.
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In my former research I was interested in automated theorem proving (constructing a variant of the lambda calculus from which we can run genetic algorithms). Also, my gamer tag is maxwells_demon, similar to your HN name. Unfortunately, the
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by yaseer 6y ago
Exactly. The idea we can jump from 40, to another arbitrary number for everyone, seems misguided to me.
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If I were making socks in a factory, the more hours I put in, the more socks will be output (to a limit). If I were a creative, composing music, the relationship is not so linear. Your creative output may significantly benefit from more tim
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by yaseer 6y ago
I know little of finance, so let me see if I've understood correctly... Finley's software automates the generation of debt capital reports. These reports are a regulatory requirement. It's really hard because: A) there's
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by yaseer 6y ago
I'm sorry you had that experience - I would hope it's an outlier. We're on the same W21 cohort as OP. I remember when we started, they hammered home frugality as a key trait of successful founders. One founder talk stood out
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by yaseer 6y ago
> As a lone wolf programmer, I avoid talking to people I've built things solo with my PhD (dropped out), and collaboratively in a startup. The biggest mistake we make is building the wrong thing. We need to talk to people, whether i
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by yaseer 6y ago
> It’s extremely uncommon, lodash notwithstanding, for JS code to have a dense set of regex partials full of Unicode escapes, even with modern build tools. It’s a lot more common for malicious scripts. A very good point, I hadn't lo
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I agree. It appears the algorithms are crude by Google's standards. If I were a determined malicious actor, bypassing a crude algorithm seems like a low bar to clear. In contrast, if I knew a human were reviewing things, and if perhaps
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by yaseer 6y ago
We have been in this position ourselves - I really do empathise and live with the same fear. The removal process ought not be automated, unless it's a serious violation that can be detected algorithmically with high confidence. The alg
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A single developer who put in 7000 hours before he made a cent. It was a hobby project he was passionate about. He thankfully now makes a comfortable living from it. It's one of my favourite indie-hacker-style stories, as the hacker wa
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by yaseer 6y ago
HN changed the trajectory of our company entirely, after the community found it interesting. The story is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327717 There are a lot of influential people on HN. I have seen companie
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by yaseer 6y ago
This is really neat! I'll have to look at this in more depth, you've got some traction on that github. We've gone brute force, and actually just built a chrome RDP to a containerised browser in your local geography. It's
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Thanks for the kind words! We think our value prop is better suited to automating a business process, like order fulfilment (and other processes in e-commerce). There are definitely better scrapers out there than axiom, particularly LinkedI
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So what I'm suggesting is slightly different. This outputs a series of clicks and keyboard events. It doesn't handle the logic necessary for most JS-heavy web-apps. Scraping an infinite scroll is a good example. A naive algorithm
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We're entirely browser focused. The SAP support is through startup investment, like YC, we were part of SAP.io Berlin: https://sap.io/portfolio/
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We probably couldn't help with white labelling, no. But 'admin dashboards' are certainly very similar to our reporting use case. Basically, people scrape data from various websites into Google sheets. Either locally, or on a
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Thanks! no-coders familiar with Zapier like yourself, tend to find it easy. Lots of people don't though, and we're working hard on that.
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Ah yes, I get the gist - I didn't explain the rationale well! Creating that toy environment on a single page would result in us engineering something totally new, just for demo purposes. It's easier to just virtualise everything l

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