skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is awesome. Amen.
A big problem is the timing in regard to the value that YC offers your for your equity.

We found out that having left an accelerator program, it is difficult take a potential deal with YC, as the cost of further dilution has to go with potential higher valuations in SF.

In fact, apply for YC first. If you don't get in, but have a respectable accelerator program and network, consider moving on and push it. Many roads lead to Rome.
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I'm not teaching people to do art like mine--I'm teaching them representational art as a whole. The fundamentals of those skills can be used to take your work in just about any direction you'd like. If someone doesn't want to do representational art, well they probably wouldn't sign up in the first place.

I'm not sure if you have much experience with the course, but I talk for hours during it on how to develop your own personal aesthetic and point of view in your work.

I am a huge proponent in individualistic art. The last thing I want to see is a bunch of people painting like me. Hell, I don't want that if only for the reason that I don't need the competition.

But doing master studies, basic drawing studies, plein air work, self portraits, photo studies, etc. will not sap the "individualism" out of someone's work. It'll just improve their technical competence.

Just a few thoughts. :)
people ... understand that there's clearly something going wrong with the world

something is terribly wrong

This feeling of impending catastrophe, especially when prompted by signals as imperceptible to a human being as average change of 1.33 degrees Celsius (on land) on the average of the 20th century temperatures, to me is an indication of that kind of paranoia or panic that feeds on tiny when not completely imaginary cues.

This is not to say that I don't believe climate change is real; just that I think that the debate would be more rational and productive if people relied on scientific data and stopped using personal feelings, anecdotes and questionable reports to support their position.
Not the OP, but I've stumbled upon this wiki page before, and I just wanted to thank you for writing it all up.

Not only was it interesting, but the fact that you're open and transparent enough to document WHY certain things like this are blocked, is a huge bonus in using uBlock (which is already an essential tool IMO). Thanks.
I'm interested to know how they're interfacing with the Adobe apps. I hooked up trackballs to Levels in Photoshop using the official "Connection SDK" a couple of years ago and the latency felt terrible, as far as I could tell due to Photoshop's response time. Hopefully something has improved there in the interim... http://lewisinthelandofmachines.tumblr.com/post/60137039416/...

Seems a shame there isn't a standard for mapping hardware to generic UI controls, the way MIDI is ubiquitous in audio production. All video apps support control surfaces of some kind but Avid/Tangent/Filmlight/Davinci/Lightworks panels all use their own closed protocols and I'm not aware of any of them having been reverse-engineered :(
That doesn't answer the question.
> the only clean at scale power solution for peak load is nuclear power

Nuclear is fantastic for base load, but peak load? Steam bypassing costs as much as generating electricity does, but with nobody wanting to pay for power they didn't use. Technically a good solution, but falls apart economically.
What is expensive is replacing all the current energy infrastructure. Even if you went out and just re-built coal power stations and oil refineries it would cost trillions. We sometimes forget in first world countries that a lot of the reason we are so wealthy is because we have an enormous stock of physical capital paid for over the centuries.
Per unit GDP is a better metric. Carbon is produced from production not from people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_...

By that metric China is among the worst in the world and India isn't far behind.
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Here's the actual study, sadly not linked to in the article: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150645
> I spent the past 2 months working on a website that hopefully solves this problem.

What’s the relationship between this page and the page I tried in 2011?
Please provide a source to validate your numbers.
Sorry I meant base load.
Yup,a huge amount to of my artist friends are on it. Honestly it sounds like the best option - you take the "whales" who are hyper engaged with your content and have them fund it. If the new york times had a system where you could get benefits, no ads, and some exclusive access or perhaps editorial votes for a relatively high monthly fee I'll bet they'd get a LOT of takers.
I agree. And the fact that you need to store the energy during night and winter is not a big deal for technology either. We have been dealing with a similar problem with food supply since agriculture. I think it looks so unfeasible, because today people don't even recognize when we have a winter - that's how well we have solved the problem.
I'm recently come to US and currently live in (rented) apartments where gas stove with pilot light is used. 24x7 small fire inside stove turns gas into heat and CO2 with water. I was very surprised - it is waste of energy. I never seen pilot light before (in other countries).
Earth can only gain energy through stuff coming from space (solar radiation), but it can gain heat by converting energy stored in other forms.
It depends on the situation.

If your new business plan is encumbered by associations with the previous "pivot" (usually: because you share code with it), then starting fresh is problematic.

But if it's not, if the only thing that's the same with the previous pivot is the team, and iff you haven't worked on the new business plan using resources from the previous investors, then "pivoting" gives your previous investors equity in a business they had nothing to do with starting.

If you were (a) about to run out of money anyways after giving it an honest shot or (b) returning money back to the investors, there's nothing wrong with dissolving old-co and starting new-co with a clean cap table.
If we can go mostly electric for our transportation, as you suggest, that means we have cheap and plentiful battery storage. If we can easily store power, there's not much advantage for using nuclear power over wind and solar.
Awesome. I have told this story a few times, but never thought of that. Thanks!
Here you go [1]. If you don't want to read the whole thing, a relevant part: "News media is tightly entwined with the attention economy. Newspapers try to capture people’s attentions through headlines. TV and radio stations try to entice people to not change the channel. And, indeed, there is a long history of news media leveraging fear to grab attention, often with a reputational cost."

[1] http://www.poynter.org/2012/fear-undermines-an-informed-citi...
"Reliable" is obviously a spectrum, and nothing beats a thermometer. However, there are multiple independent reconstructions of temperatures over the past 2000 years using a variety of proxy sources, from rings in trees to coral growth to bores in Antarctic ice [0]. They provide sufficient evidence that the IPCC thinks it's "likely" (a technical term) that temperatures are higher than anytime in the past thousand years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large-scale_temperatur...
It might also be that the hottest day were much less warm than in the previous years, but with less cool days.
The people making these predictions do not have the power to extract taxes. The people who do have the power to extract taxes (Congress) are ignoring the predictions.
The UK produced significant coal until the early 1980s and the significant reduction in output then was for political rather than geological reasons.
Have to recommend this, especially Konstantin Batygins piece has great narrative.
The people who won't buy after the advert "wouldn't have bought it anyways"
Why can't the postal treaties be something more sane like:

"Find the amount charged to domestic senders to go from the incoming drop-off point to the destination. Got it? Okay, if the foreign post drops it there, they get charged that amount."

Then, everyone gets charged the same, and you can't overcharge foreigners without also screwing your own people. Plus, foreigners get cheaper postage as they drop it closer to the final destination.
With breeder reactors, the Uranium should last much longer. I read somewhere that you get approximately 100 times as much energy out of the same amount of Uranium when you use a breeder reactor, and don't throw the fission byproducts.

So assuming we have 20 years of (currently discovered) Uranium, breeder reactors should make that last a theoretical 2000 years at current energy consumption levels.
Is it an anecdote, when every ice mass on the planet is melting/has melted? When 400 century old ice in Siberia is all gone in a matter of a few years? When the million-year-old Antarctic ice shelf is undergoing runaway melting because of seawater rushing in underneath because the margins have melted away?

The planet is undergoing irreversible change as we speak. The only 'imaginary' thinking is the denial that continues despite the overwhelming accumulation of data.
That makes sense.

But then all else equal: if you're a possible YC pick-up at the margins of being accepted, so they have a choice of accepting you or someone with similar prospects but without the baggage, it would be irrational of them to pick you up.

It gets fuzzier the less marginal you are relative to all the other companies that want to be in the next YC batch, of course.
This is very interesting. It combines a number of older ideas. Even the core idea behind their service, IIRC, existed in commercial products and academic research at various times. The security model looks like how MILS Architecture systems were describes for servers combined with capability work. I also like that they've heard of and use PowerBox's. :)

Worth watching or following up on later maybe.
My wife lost her job as a result of this strategy and it still burns. Valeant killed a really fantastic small local (Raleigh) pharma (Salix) just to jack up the prices and remarket using their Philidor partner to absorb an unreasonably large inventory to puff up the sales numbers.

I hope they go under. Actually, I hope they're acquired at firesale prices by a much better pharma which then lays off all the Valeant execs responsible for bizdev, finance & global leadership.
The reality of microservices, is that we are all forced to use them whether or not the local app is a monolith. Any app dependent on a 3rd party library (analytics, database, webhook) is typically subject to the article's listed network issues. I've seen the issue in 3rd party libraries from each of these categories. So if our app is already architected to defend against errors in 3rd party libs, it's not much of a stretch to apply the same techniques to a couple local microservices.

As another commenter mentioned, Netflix designed Hystrix to guard against this specific scenario. There are important lessons here regardless of our local app design.
I think that's the wrong interpretation by quite a ways. No hunter cut a tongue out to injure an animal so it would die (the purpose of the trunk thrusts). Nobody gets close enough to cut a tongue out without the animal being dead already.
Okay, it is wikipedia, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor

"Adherents claim that with seawater uranium extraction, there would be enough fuel for breeder reactors to satisfy our energy needs for 5 billion years at 1983's total energy consumption rate, thus making nuclear energy effectively a renewable energy."
You're definitely scared. It's also a El Nino year, it might be that the weather patterns in your region have been altered by this periodic oscillation. By the way, where do you live?
> Currently we have about 200 years of uranium available for economical extraction.

I responded to your claim previously[0]:

> In that 200 years a whole lot more uranium will become available for economical extraction, exactly the same as what happened with oil and natural gas.

Do you have reason to believe this will not happen?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10623187
Does your browser block JavaScript? Because your claims of protecting users from tracking are baseless without that.
There's a proposed roadmap for much of the world here:

http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Count...
This is very interesting. Could you give a little more details on how you accomplish this? How do you serialize unstructured Mongo data into MS SQL? Does this system break down when front-end people change the data structures in Mongo? I'm not familiar with Meteor but maybe you could explain in broad strokes
Of course its eaten! That is the sole butcher mark mentioned in the article. Thus my original comment.
Not that much, actually: http://www.techinsider.io/map-shows-solar-panels-to-power-th...

It certainly seems more feasible than some feeble attempt to cover the Earth with a reflective surface as a geoengineering measure to counteract global warming.
AliExpress is losing money on such sales. But why bother, then?

It has to be this. I work at an E-commerce company. We often do the math on just exactly which items make a profit for us vs which don't. It's not always obvious until you really dig into the exact costs of handling the items. I believe Alibaba has a lot of 3rd party resellers, it's possible they haven't done the math themselves.
Blendle is NOT micropayments. I looked at Blendle the other day when someone posted about it. Blendle wants you to pay 25 cents for an article and then, after reading about it, think and decide if it was worth the money or if you want a refund.

First, micropayments are less than a penny (the "micro" part). Anything 25 cents is just a payment.

Second, 25 cents means I can quickly bump into my monthly/yearly maximums and have to start cutting back on my reading each month and year end. I don't want to go each October-December without being able to read the web just because I overspent on marginal articles earlier in the year.

The model that will work (for me anyway) is one like Netflix. I pay essentially a yearly fee and can consume as much as I want. Bingeing, if you will, when I desire. But only if, again like Netflix, a significant portion of the web is included. If I have to pay for five or six subscriptions it's a no-go because it gets too expensive.
Well the US government is at fault here to make such a big deal out of data from a single year. That really tells you there is more politics at play here than Science.
Wouldn't it be super weird for the leading accelerator to start formally rating its competitors? There's a difference between having good data and being in a position to help people by publishing it.
Thanks, I'll read up on some of the citations listed on that page, looks like a great resource for the information I was looking for.
Similarly, there is good evidence that the Ho Chunk (Native American, upper midwest) story of Red Horn has been preserved via oral tradition (aka "folk tales") for over 3000 years: http://www.ontarioarchaeology.on.ca/Resources/Publications/o...
Global population is concentrated near the equator and near the coast, both great conditions for solar and wind.
I've had no trouble making components re-usable and flexible; if all externally visible parameters are passed in as props, there are no problems.

This is but one of many reasons why having all externally visible parameters be props is a good idea in React, so you should probably do it whether or not you want your components to be reusable.
The Earth's heat budget over geological time is 50% radiogenic..
Debt collection agencies have not legal right/power to collect debts under the FDCPA. All someone has to do (if they are savvy enough to know this) is send you a cease and desist. Virtually every debt collection agency out there knows this and simply ignores the c&D until the victim, er, target gets a lawyer. But in doing so, they incur statutory fines of $1,000 per incident in many cases.

Are you simply going after the people who don't know they don't owe you money because they don't have a contractual relationship with you?
Insolvency screws another bank out of that money no matter what legally binding acknowledgements you have, and you won't be able to recover much from suing because, well, they don't have enough to pay.

They are rare, but not that rare, especially whenever the economic cycle again and again reaches some hard times. for example http://www.statista.com/statistics/276231/bank-insolvencies-... lists a few hundred insolvent institutions just in the last dozen years.
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> In quantities of hundreds of thousands or millions

Sorry, I do not know anyone who buys millions of high performance NIC cards. Maybe 1 or 2 supercomputer labs in the world? And with that in mind, I am not sure the price break a company will provide to someone buying a million $500 network cards is super important to me?

> That adds up to a significant number, even if it's "only" 10%-20% per server, and you're probably overestimating the cost of the rest of the server since large companies are able to get steep discounts on almost everything in the quantities they buy in.

Nope, I definitely knew what the whole server cost.
> The problem that hyperloop solves is high speed travel without gross pollution, something that no other solution has offered yet.

Do you have figures or estimates on that?

How much energy does hyperloop use to decompress the entire tunnel, run the air locks, and move the trains? And are we assuming a perfect seal on every joint or are micro-leaks estimated in (e.g. due to weathering and wear)?

On a related note how does one maintain hyperloop? For example segment joint restoration, do you take the entire tunnel offline?
In a previous life, back in the pre-CCD days I worked at an observatory searching for new asteroids. Used to be the way it was done you would point a telescope at the part of the sky directly opposite the sun (min r^4 so best chance of detection), expose a photographic plate, and repeat a few hours later. Develop the plates, mount them in a blink comparator [1] and scan manually, flipping back and forth between the plates for ~3 hours to look for anything that moved. Exclude false positives like plate blemishes (aka Eastman-Kodak Objects) or dust grains. If you see something, and it is smeared indicating motion during the exposure, mark it as a possible candidate. Revisit the same patch of sky the next night, search again. Use the datapoints to extrapolate forward, check again a couple of weeks later. If you haven't lost it (which frequently happened if it was at the limit of visibility), extrapolate back to the previous opposition (~4 years for a main belt asteroid) and search the archives for a match. If you get one, then extrapolate further back and check all previous oppositions. If you get a match on three separate oppositions, congratulations, you have a discovery.

Vastly different now - a single observation can net large numbers of asteroids and sensitivity is so much better. Still the search for this potential new planet is definitely going to be daunting given the distance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_comparator
You talk about how smart everyone here is but you offer no data for your assertion. You mention the el nino being the cause but some might argue that climate change lead to a a bigger el nino. You have evidence showing that there is no link?
Making those shiny new batteries is an extremely dirty and polluting process. Again peopld ignore what they dont see.
> The only hope we have is to develop the world to the point that people can afford the luxury of caring about the future beyond the next 48 hours. Only then will we be able to transition to anything more sustainable

This condition still exists in the "developed" first world. We haven't gotten off the treadmill.

Artificially stimulating the economy into the unnatural state of inflation made sense when we had a scarcity of food and physical goods. Now it's just extremely wasteful, from both individual and global perspectives.
Minor Chords?
His price target for Valeant is zero.
I usually question conventional wisdom and was stuck on the part of co2 being the root cause of recent global warming based on the co2 lag but this helped me clear it up a bit -> http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature-interme...
This is very awesome!

Is anyone aware of something like this being available for commenting services like Disqus which are used on blogs? It would be nice to manage replies through Slack, as a lot of time is already spent there.
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This plan seems to ignore the growth curves of renewables.

By the time any nuclear power expansion plan gets into place exponential growth in photovoltaics and other renewable technologies will have taken over.

Nuclear power would have been a great idea, if we had started at least 10 or 20 years ago. It is unfortunate "environmentalists" did such a disservice to the environment, but we're long past the point of Nuclear being a viable solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics
>This is in the Bay Area Peninsula.

Or any other wealthy area.

>Also lord forbid you sit in your car while Mexican, very suspicious circumstances!!

Only on weekends, the help doesn't come on weekends...
Source: I one of the elected tech-reps on the The Faster Payment Task Force,a Fed-chartered initiative to create a real-time improved bank transfer system, like the one in the UK. I also work at Dwolla, a payment platform that has exclusively focused on modernizing the backend ACH system for over 5 years, as well as created our own real-time system for banks (See: FiSync).

There's a lot of good, and bad, information here. It's all impossible to tackle, so I'm going to point to the good things the US has going for it. (Worth getting other Fed Fast members and doing an AMA? Let me know):

1) As many mentioned, Same-Day ACH is coming (slowly but surely). Although not real-time, it will be a helpful stopgap as more real-time systems come online at financial institutions (see: #3). Combined with new Payment API Platforms, like Dwolla, many of us are enabling meaningful access and adding flexibility to an otherwise outdated platform. This will position platforms to take advantage of these new timeframes when they start arriving late 2016 and 2017.
2) The major ACH operators, The Federal Reserve and the bank-owned The Clearing House, are both making significant investments in their tech stack to enable real-time capabilities (The Fed just inked a $17M deal with IBM to update their software and capabilities, and TCH signed a deal with UK Faster Payments Provider, VocaLink).
3) The Faster Payment Task Force is an unprecedented market-led initiative, which despite all odds, that actually making meaningful progress on aligning the criteria and expectations for an interoperable real-time system. This is HUGE. Imagine cramming +300 lifelong competitors, embattled legal adversaries, entrenched interests, and long-standing rivalries in one room to debate the future of a trillion dollar landscape. Now imagine them to agreeing to create a better system. And I'm not just talking about improvements in speed, but better security, flexibility, and capabilities that could enable the next wave of commerce. Keep your eyes on https://fedpaymentsimprovement.org/, big news is coming in the next few weeks.
By 200 years we will probably have fusion working anyway. Problem mostly solved.
What if it's like airlines, where the full-fare and business class passengers subsidize the economy class? Maybe for every 3 cent button, someone is paying more than the marginal cost for their shipping, so it all evens out in the end?