skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah you can purchase solar/wind from your utility provider usually at a huge premium, that combined with usually less efficient power infrastructure, single rate meters, and apartments which tend to be less energy efficient than private houses means that you either need to be quite well off or very dedicated to pay it.

Yes renewables should be installed where feasible, but actually feasible not feasible because it's cool, good PR, or under the current tax credits efficient. Small installations are costly, you spend quite a bit of energy in installing individual setups, and maintaining them in terms of efficiency you are better off centralizing your efforts if you really care about the environmental foot print.
If anyone from Pandora is reading this:

* Form a partnership with Uber -- allow me to see venues with events happening on my uber map and allow me to click one button to buy a ride to the venue and a ticket at the same time!

* For the love of god -- please update the Pandora Home Screen on the website app when listening to music so that the album art and the artist title are BIG and viewable from across the room! Look at how lame this layout is: http://i.imgur.com/QEciRIj.jpg

Look at how small the album art/artist is and ALL that wasted screen real estate.... I mean the album art is the smallest visual element in that entire UI!!!
Ditto - would love to hear how he went from Loopt to that kind of wealth!
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Quick suggestion; grab ShareX and make some .webm's showcasing Relax for your landing page. Much more accessible than learning how it all works. People want to see results.
I was surprised at the $10 millions number at first, but a quick thought process clear it out for me: it's very easy to see that a few of YC founders will be (or already are) billionaires. Is it really a surprised that the head honcho of YC might be worth in the hundred millions range?
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hopefully now this means I won't keep hearing the same songs over and over on pandora... oh wait, already cancelled my membership

edit: the truth hurts. I used and paid for pandora one for many years but the fact is they play the same songs over and over regardless of what station I'm on. switched to slacker radio, then rdio more recently and found it to be much better. best of luck to pandora though.
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Funny. I mentally translated the headline to "What does it feel like to have never felt an emotion?" I think this means that I have no clue what it's like...
The most densely populated part of Montréal is Côte-des-Neiges, at around 7500 people/sq. km. (edit: to be comparable to the examples in the article, that's around 19500 people/sq. mi.) Typical street:

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/C%C3%B4te-Des-Neiges%E2%80%...

I must admit that at rush hour, the walking traffic on Côte-des-Neiges road can be a bit overwhelming, but it's mostly fine the rest of the day.
>People actually supporting the idea that government should mandate vaccination of children in some circumstances

Which, in fact, proposed laws--including the one passed in California--do not do. Yes. There are significant consequences to not vaccinating children (where there is no medical necessity) but it's not mandatory under any circumstances.

By and large, vaccination proponents recognize that the key is to hit certain vaccination percentages for herd immunity reasons. At least in some areas of the country (e.g. Marin County), allowing personal belief opt-outs without consequence do not achieve those percentages. The assumption is that requiring vaccination to attend public schools (absent medical reasons to opt-out) will reduce the number of children who do not get vaccinated.
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If only there were a way to check the accuracy of a long article by scrutinizing it in only a few spots...
As a counterpoint to the comments about how very dense cities are unlivable, I'd like to offer the example of Paris. I think many people will agree that it's a really nice first-world city, with great culture, transportation, no sanitation troubles, etc (as opposed to Dhaka, which many take issue with).

Well, that's a city with 55000 per square mile inside city limits. Some of the suburbs (the richer ones, mind you) even have up to 65-69000 per sqmi. Dhaka has about 50000. Of course, a lot of suburbs are less dense than this, but those tend to be the impoverished & forsaken ones you definitely don't want to live in.

High density does not necessarily mean Manhattan or Hong Kong, in fact, closely built, dual use 7-story buildings with offices & shops & restaurants on the ground floor are a more balanced and less costly way to achieve it. And it offers a real opportunity to finally get rid of the cars, something that will be impossible to achieve in low-density cities because those could not support decent public transportation.
Indeed, taste is subjective but I'm a fan of brutalism when it's done well and The Barbican (is ime) done well, it's better then the cheap 60's towerblocks they threw up in the 60's in terms of actually creating a please space to be at any rate.
check out rdio.com, they are crushing pandora in their app design imo
>many people I've talked to that prefer the high density lifestyle have a hard time grasping that there are those of us that genuinely do not.

Personal preferences for this kind of thing vary wildly. When my wife and I moved from suburban Memphis, TN to urban Seattle, WA, my Mother-in-law was convinced that we were making an awful decision that would make us miserable and fill us with regret. She actually broke down crying about how much she worries about us moving somewhere so dangerous, loud, and cramped.

My in-laws live in rural Mississippi in a 4,000sqft home where they cannot see any of their neighbors' houses. They have to drive 20 minutes to get to the nearest store.

It really baffled them to see my wife and I eating up the city life and talking about how much we love our 650sqft apartment. They couldn't believe that we valued the convenience of having a grocery store across the street given that we had to look at it every day from our room.

I wouldn't want to live in rural Mississippi as much as they wouldn't want to live in urban Seattle. We're more at an understanding with each other, but it really sheds some light on how people's preferences can differ, and how those differences could lead to disagreements when cities change in population (like jumping from 50k to 120k).
The section about "Underwater Options" is describing what would happen assuming a Participating Liquidation Preference. It's a little misleading, because the vast majority of liquidation preferences nowadays are non-participating. It's an important distinction.

A 1x non-participating preference means that before anyone is paid out, the investors get their money back. The remainder, if any, is distributed pro-rata to other stockholders. For example, if the investors had put in $25M and owned 50% and the exit was for $30M, the investors would get $25M and the last $5M would be split between founders and employees.

A 1x participating preference is much worse. It means that the investors are paid back first, and then still participate in the payout according to their ownership percentage. In the same example as above ($25M in, $30M exit, 50% ownership), the investors take their $25M back, then the last $5M is split between the founders and employees and investors. Thus, the investors get a full $27.5M and the common stock holders see their payout decrease by another 50% vs a non-participating preference.
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Amazing.

Person A: "Certain conversations are sometimes hard for me to deal with, and trigger warnings are good and helpful for me."

Person B: "I agree, and I think that you're even kind of a jerk if you don't provide such warnings."

Delusional outrage addicts: "YOU GUYS WANT TO BAN WORDS"
Reddit's Seattle thread on this article pointed out that Istanbul has the kind of density talked about in this article, at least in some neighborhoods. This picture[1] was linked as a representative example, not too different from Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood (that Amazon has essentially remodeled in the past few years).

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/3nqu2s/there_is_no...

1: http://imgur.com/uCM6iiZ
This doesn't make sense to me. Tech for people does indeed need people, otherwise you just test it in the company/lab's back yard.
Now, what would be really interesting is if they created a city called BETA, which you could sign up to live in for a year, obviously after also signing a clutch of no-sue clauses and safety disclaimers. I think they'd find 35000 willing participarnts for that.
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That's correct. The Powerbook 100.
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GTA is comprised of Miami natives, Julio Mejia and Matt Toth, who pride themselves on being genre-eradicating tastemakers within the industry. Formed after a happenstance introduction on Facebook, the duo’s first production together began garnering the attention of EDM heavyweights such as Laidback Luke, Diplo, A-trak and countless others. Since their inception, GTA’s development has been constant across all genres in electronic music and now sees them breaking into all spaces of dance, hip-hop and pop music. In 2013, GTA was asked to provide direct support for Rihanna on her 5-month Diamonds World Tour for the European, Australian, Asian and African portions, playing over 60 shows on 5 continents and captivating hundreds of thousands of fans. Seizing the momentum, they were selected to open on the UK Greater Than Tour with dance music titans Tiesto and Calvin Harris later that same year. The duo has also performed at some of the most iconic U.S. festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Ultra Music Festival and Electric Daisy Carnival, to name a few. Most recently, GTA released their EP DTG(Death To Genres) Vol. 1; and earlier this year dropped collabs with Flosstradamus, Lil Jon & Martin Solveig, respectively.
I'm not sure if you're serious or not. I think the connection that was being made is that, if you evaluate usage based purely on time, Pandora may have a ton of time in use. But, much (or at least some) of that time may be people who've left it to stream for hours after they've left.
I don't know Bangladesh well, but the Indian megacities are generally far more pleasant than the rural areas. Mumbai is a wonderful place to live. Density does make life better.

Admittedly, some megacities are poor, but it's hardly fair to compare a Bangladeshi megacity to a city in a wealthy town.

...and I am actively looking for jobs in areas lower than 50k (hard to do in technical fields).

So it's not actually intolerable - in fact, you prefer it compared to all the other opportunities. Your revealed preferences suggest that having a tech job (a product of density) is more important than other concerns.
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Can this work with Arq?
To answer your first question,
1. they can move much faster than academic research. More money in basic research isn't going to fix the antiquated process in which academics live. It's also not going to help researchers learn how to budget properly, or learn to manage people. So that alone is a value add. A 1% increase in gov spending simply adds money without fixing a problem that currently exists....not really going to make a difference in my opinion(PhD research scientist)
It's not necessarily the 'brokenness' of the system that forces people out but the consequence of producing PhDs faster than new positions are being created. "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here". No one expects that all high school students will become high school teachers. Why should it be the same for PhDs?

A lot of what is wrong with the academic system is this expectation, which is bewilderingly prevalent in both the student and faculty bodies despite abundant evidence of arithmetic skills. Faculty are often quite unaware of what happens outside their building, and students are, well, students and absorb a lot of the mindset of their role models. So there becomes a glut of post-post-docs applying for a scant few professorship, which makes getting hired and then getting tenure ultracompetitive and stressful--so many people want the jobs that the administration can ask just about anything out of them, including pretty unrealistic expectations, bad working conditions (80 hr/weeks for 75 k/yr in the sciences at many good schools) and so forth. The conditions of tenure-track professorships (when professors are still young enough to be most creative and energetic, and are still skeptical of their fields' dogma) are poorly suited to creativity and focus, so their grad students are tasked with the actual science while the professors become managers.

This isn't to say that academia is actually 'broken'. If my coffeemaker is broken, it doesn't make coffee. Academia is still making the things it is supposed to, but never in the amounts or quantities or prices that everybody wants (as it turns out everybody's wants are wildly divergent). So for this and other off-topic reasons, it's not exactly broken but definitely not optimal.

I'm of the opinion that a more optimal academy would do more to prepare grad students to find their own path, be it in academia, industry, or elsewhere. Sort of like what the US liberal arts education is supposed to be, but at a higher level and with the requisite specialization as is fitting a PhD. The critical, analytical, creative, scholarly, and technical skills that grad school can (and often does) bestow or hone are a great fit for a variety of pursuits, including entrepreneurial ones. But there is little guidance here, in part because the faculty themselves have little idea how to go about doing anything but what they do 80 hours a week.

I left the academic track after a post-doc to become an independent researcher (doing funded and unfunded research as well as R&D consulting) and it's been really surprising to see how many professors think it's an unworkable idea. Not an idea that many people try and flame out, but one so unthinkably scary that no one has seen anybody try. Which smelled like an opportunity to me, and still does...
> Yeah you can purchase solar/wind from your utility provider usually at a huge premium, that combined with usually less efficient power infrastructure, single rate meters, and apartments which tend to be less energy efficient than private houses means that you either need to be quite well off or very dedicated to pay it.

It's only about 2-4 cents more per kwh to get 100% renewables. I don't find that to be a "huge premium", nor do you need to be "well to do" to afford that. If we properly priced the cost of coal and other dirty fuels into their per kwh costs, renewables would win by default.

> Yes renewables should be installed where feasible, but actually feasible not feasible because it's cool, good PR, or under the current tax credits efficient. Small installations are costly, you spend quite a bit of energy in installing individual setups, and maintaining them in terms of efficiency you are better off centralizing your efforts if you really care about the environmental foot print.

We'll agree to disagree! I'm not worried, as tax credits will be around for another 14-15 months, at which point solar and wind will be even cheaper than they are now.
To my mind as a Londoner the coolest places to live here are towers. But that's because the modern ones are being built as luxury accommodation. The '60s tower blocks were built to be cheap - and it showed, and coloured the reputation of anything built in that shape.
Aye :)
It's a function of both. Pack enough people into a small enough area and the support + infrastructure gets really, really expensive.

There are many stupidities in the original piece, but one significant one is the apparent lack of understanding that cities have to be supported by political, financial and physical infrastructures which extend far outside the geographic boundaries.

The effective footprints of London, NY, and HK stretch across the world. So you can make an argument for effective economic and ecological density being very much lower than the density you get from a naive division of population by immediate area.

When the effective density is much more constrained, you don't just get financial poverty, you get somewhere that's a shitty place to live in many different ways.

And when there's no political understanding of what an effective footprint is, you get disasters like the California drought - which is largely the result of to appreciate that water is a limited resource that comes from elsewhere, and has to flow into an area before anyone can use it.
If a container has its own IP address, I think it can be considered its own device on the network, regardless of the details.
He was stating that history as a unique series of distinguishable events would be superseded by an interminable river of incremental activity with no real purpose;no empires being built or demolished, no great ideologies locking horns. Post-history would just be people tinkering at systems because there's nothing else to do.
This was more of the case when they first started doing it. More recently its devolved into actually being hate speech in accordance to poe's law. You really only see it on /b/ though.
Every time I explain my experience in academia to VCs or those in business, they don't believe me. "It can't be that bad!" It is. I've worked at 3 of the top schools in the world and it's a total mess as the OP mentioned. It's also a mess that hurts everyone, so I'm happy to see this type of initiative.
This is an amazing idea!
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I'm not sure I agree with this about Amazon, but some of it may just be strategy opinion differences. Apple and Google both have higher capitalizations, but more importantly they operate at growing profits as opposed to a loss. Google's share price is also substantially higher than Amazon's.

Bezos has definitely made some good decisions, but I think attributing too much to one person (correct or incorrect) is a bit of a problem. Either the company fails without that person, or the perception is that the company can't succeed without that person.

Regardless, my personal opinion on Amazon's overall retail strategy and execution is honestly pretty bad.
Hmm. Specifying an incorrect validator to change a rendering mode in a specific set of browsers feels... well pretty nasty. It feels like the "old days".
Yep, and I believe this is what caused /r/BadFattyNoDonut to get banned after it was allowed to exist for about a month after FPH was banned. They loved to play innocent and say "oh, we're not FPH, we don't harass people", and it only took a month for them to get caught in that lie.
It seems like the sort of activity where machine learning might be a good approach to automation, i.e. where a computer could produce output like that of a typographer.
It's actually possible to LaTeX as fast as someone is narrating math symbols. Definitely not as fast as writing on a whiteboard, but on the same par as typing English.
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So is SPICE an actual data warehouse or is it more a query engine such as Presto, Hive or Spark?
>$10m isn't really very much in the scheme of research. NIH alone funds to order of $25bil a year in science research

Sure, but the NIH is funding near to 50,000 competitive grants a year. Some googling online gives median/average grant size at $300k/$350k. Even $25bil over 50,000 projects is $500k a project a year. An academic institution will take 50% or more straight off the top, so you're looking closer to $150k to $250k a year.

$10 million is a lot of money. Science can be expensive but that $10 million can last a long time.
I'd really like to see an app/extension/browser that just lets me search my history by the content of every page I've ever visited. I feel like I'd find that more useful than bookmarking. If I could add tags and/or an "important mark" to the pages that seems like it would be enough for me as far as bookmarks go and far more useful
I've got pressurized natural gas lines into my basement and running to my hot water heater, to my furnace, and to my stove. These appliances actually release and burn that gas, sometimes only a foot or two away from me.

It's kind of crazy, if you think about it. I barely know a thing about how these work and why they are safe. I just pay professionals to show up and install or maintain the things--and that happens very rarely. No one has looked at my stove or water heater since the home inspection years ago.

My point is, there are seemingly risky technologies all around us, which we ignore out of familiarity. I'm not going to buy the very first Tesla battery--I'm not an early adopter in general--but I see no reason to reject lithium-ion battery technology entirely. I mean, I press a small lithium-ion battery directly against my head on a regular basis, with only a thin sheet of glass to protect me.
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Pretty much my default weather up now, way more accurate than the rest
and I am actively looking for jobs in areas lower than 50k (hard to do in technical fields).

There are multiple 15-25k population suburbs on the south/southwest side of Portland, Or, with a commute in the 30-45 minute range. Tualitin, Wilsonville, Canby, Sherwood, etc.

There is a lot of farm land, acreage available between Portland and Salem. It's certainly not Billings, but there are tech jobs available in Portland (New Relic), Beaverton, Hillsboro (Intel), Wilsonville (Xerox/Flir). Then there are a lot of SMBs all over.
Well, like I said, I'd have never known about it if other people hadn't told me. I can't speak to what Reddit "should" do; in _my_ niche area, Reddit works just fine the way it is.

If they were to start "doing something about it", it'd likely not affect me in the least.
This was an atrocious behavior on James's part. This is a clear example of why people don't like helping others these days.

Since he - James didn't provide you with the data used, it is plagiarism.
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So ... inclusivity via nobody talking about themselves or their background?

("We will never ship a product without bugs, there will always be bugs somewhere." OK, so which bugs are we going to fix? Well thats a judgement about how serious the bugs are. And people affected by different bugs will give different judegments there.)
can you list some off the top of your head? At work right now, but im too interested to wait to get home.