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Ask HN: I'm 40 this year, and mentally damaged – any words of wisdom?

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Ask HN: I'm 40 this year, and mentally damaged – any words of wisdom?

I read comments and stories here most days, occasionally comment on or submit things, and hold HN in high regard for the variety and quality of discourse. I'm 40 this year and as a milestone birthday it has me ruminating on how to steer my life in the coming few years. At 20, I was a technical support manager with 20+ staff. At 25, I was travelling the world as a technical trainer and event speaker. At 30, I was self-employed with a good income from podcasting. At 35, I was divorced and had to start from scratch. For nearly 5 years, things in my life have been a lot harder to do achieve than they should be. At 40, I'm at a crossroads with a metaphorical blank canvas. I want to be more content with life at 45, 50 and 60. My job (technical consultant, proactive and reactive) keeps the roof over my head, but I'm not jumping out of bed in the morning to do it. My motivation is at an ebb. I don't exercise enough, but I'm starting over with that. I've started interm

Punctuation Restoration With Recurrent Neural Networks

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Punctuation Restoration With Recurrent Neural Networks

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Elon Musk in new rant at Thai cave rescuer

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Why We Need Web 3.0

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Why We Need Web 3.0

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Aviation’s Largest Piston Engine (2016)

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Steve Blank: Is the Lean Startup Dead?

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Steve Blank: Is the Lean Startup Dead?

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EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services

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MTNT: Machine Translation of Noisy Text

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MTNT: Machine Translation of Noisy Text

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EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services

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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

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Kullback-Leibler divergence

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Show HN: Nodebook – Minimalist Node REPL with Web UI

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Show HN: Vim-which-key: Vim port of emacs-which-key

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Female, minority students took AP computer science in record numbers

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What is the Kullback-Leibler divergence?

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Show HN: Nodebook – Minimalist Node REPL with Web UI

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How the clownfish earned its stripes

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Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade

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Show HN: Vim-which-key: Vim port of emacs-which-key

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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

Article URL: https://hbr.org/2018/09/the-1-office-perk-natural-light Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17916582 Points: 96 # Comments: 63 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2MLiUvR via

Nigeria's Tizeti (YC W17) concluded a $3 million Series A funding round

Article URL: https://www.iafrikan.com/2018/09/05/tizeti-venture-capital-vc-startup-telecommunications/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17916553 Points: 12 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LZkPHV via

Desperate for Data Scientists

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Researchers Used Sonar Signal from Smartphone Speaker to Steal Unlock Passwords

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Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/04/first-eight-bird-extinctions-of-the-21st-century-confirmed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915740 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Cs2ST1 via

How the clownfish earned its stripes

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The Tools I Use to Write Books

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Desperate for Data Scientists

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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

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Nigeria's Tizeti (YC W17) concluded a $3 million Series A funding round

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Researchers Used Sonar Signal from Smartphone Speaker to Steal Unlock Passwords

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PunyForth programming language for the ESP8266

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Zarb: The Bedouin answer to barbecue

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Google automatically sharing geotagged photos from Photos to Maps

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Skyscrapers, trains and roads: How Addis Ababa came to look like a Chinese city

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Skyscrapers, trains and roads: How Addis Ababa came to look like a Chinese city

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Google automatically sharing geotagged photos from Photos to Maps

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Data visualisation, from 1987 to today

Article URL: https://medium.economist.com/data-visualisation-from-1987-to-today-65d0609c6017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913374 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PiMXYB via

To Grok a Mockingbird

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Data visualisation, from 1987 to today

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How true hackers write JavaScript

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New best story on Hacker News: Terry Davis has died

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New best story on Hacker News: Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack

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New best story on Hacker News: Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions

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How true hackers write JavaScript

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LINE Launches Its First Cryptocurrency 'LINK'

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Your Web App Is Bloated

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How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently without generics

Article URL: https://dave.cheney.net/2018/05/29/how-the-go-runtime-implements-maps-efficiently-without-generics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915371 Points: 15 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2kyQeW8 via

Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-fitbits-150-billion-hours-heart-data-reveals-secrets-human-health-133124215.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914982 Points: 15 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PIbxDe via

How to Make a Big Decision

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‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/us/politics/government-access-encrypted-data.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914935 Points: 68 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NO9sV0 via

Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/blood-testing-firm-theranos-to-dissolve-1536115130 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914731 Points: 221 # Comments: 97 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LXL69B via

“Prestudy”: Learning Chinese Through Reading

Article URL: http://www.kerrickstaley.com/2018/09/04/chinese-prestudy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914723 Points: 73 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2MKJLYW via

YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/youtube-and-netflix-throttled-by-carriers-research-finds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914691 Points: 33 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Q2c8Qd via

Broken Genius – the case of William Shockley (2013)

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Sitzfleisch: The German concept to get more work done

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180903-to-have-sitzfleisch---its-a-professional-compliment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914634 Points: 46 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CggErA via

Benchmarking C++ Sets

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The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993)

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Show HN: AgentMaps – Turn maps into living societies

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Ask HN: What methods and tools can I use to decrease my app churn?

About three weeks ago I launched my app as a solo dev and without any marketing or buzz I've been able to convert paid subscribers and sell products. I know its an app with a viable market, and has potential. However I have a high churn rate (install/uninstall ratio) of about 70-80% that I know I could improve. Just to put into perspective I am getting an average of 150 installs/day and about 115 uninstalls. So I gain about 20-30 users/day and of those I am getting 3-5 free 3 day trial signups. Currently my app has a couple of issues with a few crashes a day which I am working to resolve but I don't think that is the culprit. My design is decent, it performs decently and its not too convoluted. I use google analytics to track events but they are more of a way to report how much activity my app gets rather than reports on how people feel about my app. I have about 500 active users and about 1,300 accounts. I used mail chimp to retrieve feedback about two weeks ago when I had a

Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department

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Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes “My Struggle”

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Mass Transit Optimization for Buses: The Depot Problem

Article URL: https://www.optibus.com/mass-transit-optimization-for-buses-the-depot-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17911661 Points: 85 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Cjphld via

Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

Article URL: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/microsoft-azure-suffers-outage-after-cooling-issue/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17910916 Points: 174 # Comments: 76 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2wGwLsm via

A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016)

Article URL: http://pzemtsov.github.io/2016/11/06/bug-story-alignment-on-x86.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17910851 Points: 114 # Comments: 60 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2fuRYwY via

How to Make a Big Decision

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How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently without generics

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Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve

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“Prestudy”: Learning Chinese Through Reading

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LINE Launches Its First Cryptocurrency 'LINK'

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Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department

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Your Web App Is Bloated

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‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data

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Sitzfleisch: The German concept to get more work done

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Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack

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Secessio plebis

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Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data

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UPDuino: a $9.99 FPGA

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YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers

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Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes “My Struggle”

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The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993)

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Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squiggles

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Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue

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Broken Genius – the case of William Shockley (2013)

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Benchmarking C++ Sets

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Using the Large Hadron Collider to Search for Dark Matter (2017)

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What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails

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“Stateless” sync using version vectors

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Show HN: AgentMaps – Turn maps into living societies

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Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016

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Ask HN: What methods and tools can I use to decrease my app churn?

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A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016)

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Mass Transit Optimization for Buses: The Depot Problem

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The Diplomatic Couriers Who Deliver America's Secret Mail

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