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Location: London UK Remote : Yes Are you building a complicated technical product that is difficult to explain to customers? Are you reaching the stage where it’s becoming necessar…

Something I think could help people in these situations but doesn't have much popular support - over-the-counter antidepressants. It's telling that the author was able to check out…

More interesting would be to rank citizenship by price. For example, you can directly get Maltese citizenship for $150k. Indirectly you can get a green card for $500k. Maybe someon…

I live in Europe and something similar happened to one of my friends. Abuses of power are everywhere.

My intuition – proof by contradiction means we have to use one step that inverts the set of values for which the statement is true – so whether we need a contradiction step depends…

Remember lots of these things come down to luck. Resume looks more impressive than me, and I did get one of those internships. Just keep trying and don't take it personally.

Here's a recent anecdote: A company in London had developed a seriously impressive, breakthrough technology. When they went to meet European VCs, they wanted a business plan, reven…

Rouge Paradise Planet | VR Gaming | London, UK and San Francisco, CA Very early stage. Computer graphics, vision or Unity engineers. sp668@cam.ac.uk

I think the reason NYTimes columnists sound so stupid is this: to become a NYTimes columnist, you need to impress a whole string of gatekeepers, professors, editors etc. The bigges…

L-theanine has been a miracle drug for me. Took away a lot of my depression/energy issues.

This reads like a parody of what grad students think.

Anecdata here - as a teen, I had depression. I would take ibuprofen a few times a day when it got really bad, it helped a lot. It would lift my mood from dulled, paralysing ruminat…

I'm curious - why are there constantly posts about depression on HN? Is there something about the programmer/startup lifestyle thats more accepting of depressed people?

http://avc.com/2014/03/the-bubble-question/ Fred Wilson explains it pretty well here.

It has always seemed to me that a main payoff of many open source/ Wikipedia editors is intellectual authority. Other commentators have mentioned the hostile atmosphere on Wikipedi…