skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are not strengthened by having things handed to us, but by challenges.

Who is "we"? People in wealthy families? This analysis seems to ignore a large part of the population, even within first-world countries.

Poor people have more than enough "challenges". Well, those aren't really "challenges", these are burdens that keep them down and unhealthy. Those people will not be strengthened by more of those "challenges". But they would be strengthened if they received a stable income (through whatever measure, basic income is just one possibiliy).

Having to count every cent, worring about the next day rather than the next year ... this all is a huge sink of brain power, and a motivation killer as well. Increasing those people's lives to "couch potatoes" would be a huge step forward, because only then they will have the time and energy to become bored, and then to engage in creative activities, volunteering, problem solving, etc.

If you give them just callenges without freeing them from their huge daily burdens, nothing will happen.
I don't think outages at GitHub are very frequent

And yet, some of the entitlement around this outage is incredible. It's as though a community's want to see Github online, is far more relevant than the lack of SLAs and thousand dollar service fees.
Judging from the name, I'd guess they're targeting rural areas. Rural land is dirt cheap, and it's not uncommon for even very poor families to have a decent plot that's been in the family for generations; but if there's a house on it at all, it's decrepit and crumbling.

This is the same group that Habitat for Humanity serves, for example. My mother helped build a Habitat house in Belize a while back; the land was a tiny scrap of muddy landfill in the middle of a slum, but the family owned it free and clear.

(These areas don't generally have apartments available at all. The economics don't support it.)
Funding of early Irish startups decline but software companies see VC cash rise
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Have a free plan.
For most users in the US, they won't see a difference in speed. However when I lived with 100down/up internet, there was a huge speed difference between Drive and DropBox. Drive was like 4x faster.
Here is the source:
https://vimeo.com/153916885#t=240s

more videos about the event:
http://hyperloop.tamu.edu/media-kit/
America is big.

Things are spread out in most cities and towns. When living in the city, one gets value in exchange for giving up the privacy of owning your own home and land. And, it is not realistic for people who are poor, or even middle class, to own a home in a major metropolis, and so they often do live in an apartment or townhome (a mini-house that shares walls with one or more other townhomes...somewhere between a condominium and a real house). I would accept that kind of lifestyle if living in a densely populated city. I wouldn't if living in most mid-sized cities in the US...but, housing is still expensive. A tiny house on a plot of land fits the bill perfectly for me. I don't need more living space than an apartment provides, I just need more space than having neighbors on the other side of the wall provides. I also want a garden.

Americans who grew up in rural areas have an even more extreme view of how much space is the right amount than I do (I grew up in the suburbs, and still hate apartments).

Also, I want to own where I live, by the time I get close to retirement age (which I'm still a few decades away from, but it's part of the usual retirement plans for most Americans, and they start working on it during middle age).
Ludwik Fleck's "Genesis and development of a scientific fact" goes very much in the line of looking at science as a gradual progress, with many failed attempts. written by winners. (Written pre-WW2; it served as an inspiration for Khun.) Its most eye-opening example is the history of [the concept/knowledge/science/... of] syphilis, from ancient to modern times.
PDF (of print from 1979): http://www.evolocus.com/Textbooks/Fleck1979.pdf
UK housebuilding companies are sitting on (by various estimates) 400,000-600,000 plots of land which have planning permission, but they haven't built on. That's about 3 years' worth of new houses. The reason is to hold up prices, and because (with "ever-rising" prices) if they build in the future they will make more profit.

There are problems in the planning system, certainly, but at the moment we need an undeveloped land tax to stop this behaviour.

Sources:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/30/revealed-hous... http://www.local.gov.uk/media-releases/-/journal_content/56/...
If you're interested in knowing why, it's because mortgages are sold as securities these days (and have been since before the Big Collapse). If your mortgage is significantly not like the other mortgages, it can't be bundled and sold into the pool of other securitized mortgages. That means your lender has to carry the note itself and the overwhelming majority of lenders--banks and brokers--don't do that.

The other problem: banks need a property that, if foreclosed upon, can be sold to recoup their investment. A friend of mine is having this exact problem. He has a house that could withstand a bomb being dropped on it but it is built to his preferences and the banks he has visited to inquire about refinancing have all said that a sale would be difficult. Too risky to use as collateral since they can't be relatively certain of recovering against loss.

What you're looking for is a "portfolio loan," where the financial institution keeps your loan on its own books. Some credit unions do this (mine does) in situations like yours. The interest will be commensurate with the credit union's guess of how easy your property will be to resell (both in the opinion of the underwriter and of the outside, independent appraiser) to pay for the risk but it can be done.
Yeah, there's no way I'm clicking on this clickbait title.
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I would be scared to buy a house that uses non-standard construction methods. Not because I don't trust the plans, but because even with cookie cutter houses, the construction people mess up a lot of things and you really have to pay an additional person to check the construction. Trying to get construction companies to build a house using novel techniques and do it without major errors is, I imagine, quite an undertaking.
It falls down to the value of your proposal, eg:

Land: $25,000
Resale at $20,000 to $30,000

Tiny House: $25,000
Resale at -$5000* to $35,000

Normal House: $100,000
Resale at: $75,000 to $125,000

* Next owners may want it removed

A $50,000 loan doesn't make sense / is too risky.

I know the above is grossly over simplified, and there's hundreds to thousands of factors going into a risk / valuation but currently banks aren't equipped to handle tiny homes, not to mention the market for them isn't as big yet to justify it.
That loan situation sounds incredibly frustrating. The banks are like, "come on man, it's cool, borrow more money from us," because that's in their interest ... but if you don't wanna play by their rules, then you get shot down.

Sorry to hear it -- both "sorry" in the sense that I wish it hadn't happened to you, and sorry because I myself have had pipe dreams of buying my own land and building on it, so here is some evidence against that being possible.
> German Chancellor Angela Merkel [..] who holds
> a doctorate in physics, personally pressed the button
> at Wednesday's launch of an experiment they hope
> will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered
> a clean and safe form of nuclear power.
I think we're running out of good names for things, especially since Spark uses Snappy (compression) itself.

It is time to build a tool on top of SnappyData called Spark.
you're right it is better, although still pretty awful.
I get 401
You should probably freeze some eggs/sperm before you start messing up your genome. If you end up with some weird illness, at least your children won't get it.
The articles says "Originally, the project aimed for a house that would cost $20,000 in total, including construction, though they now believe that more money may be needed to provide a living wage for builders."

So more than 20k.

Plus land. How much does the land cost?
I guess the biggest difference is that, in European soccer (especially in lovely England), the clubs are vastly more powerful than the leagues and governing bodies of the sport. In the NFL, NBA etc, the opposite seems to be the case - the teams are more like suppliers to the league.

Both systems, to put it mildly, have their warts.
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I'd probably do more useful things if I didn't have to work. The work I do currently doesn't really benefit anyone, except my employer.
> Nature is perhaps the most prestigious and respected academic journal in existence...

Maybe the first, certainly not the second.

There's an unfortunate correlation between sloppy science and popular journals that's been shown again and again. Nature is one of the journals with the highest rates of retractions[1]. Thinking "it's been published in Nature, it must be good science" is certainly not reasonable in any way.

[1] http://iai.asm.org/content/79/10/3855/F1.expansion.html
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In what way is LDAP related to this project?

(We run Spark in production and don't have the issues you are seeing at all)
The guys from the team from Delft told me there would be a shockwave which the pods can easily resist and after about 30 seconds the tube is pressurized and the passengers can escape. The idea is that there will be hatches every [n] meters to allow an exit from the tube if needed.

The rest are all good questions
Postgres?
UK: we had big problems with 'system build' council housing in the UK in 1960s and early 1970s. Google 'Bison' and 'Ronan Point' for background.

I'd hope that we have (all) learned a bit about pre-manufactured sections and assembly since then and perhaps pre-manufactured units with quality control/JIT manufacturing techniques would be better than the current bricks on site based construction.

UK: the problem would be the land to build on anywhere near population centres and utilities by the way...
What do you expect him to do? The fear of being extradited to the USA and sentenced to death or locked up forever for Wikileaks-related things is quite reasonable. What would you do?

Wikileaks has so far fulfilled its purpose really well. No similar organization comes close. That is what gives it legitimacy.

(Besides: the case against him is weird. He's denying the allegations, and he's not been convicted yet. Did you even consider that he may me innocent?)
I think the biggest bit of positive news in this fascinating study is mentioned just in passing...that the treated mice "developed Cancer later".

In a lot of Aging related research tinkering, very often there are steep costs to improving life-spans - increased rates of Cancer. See anytime you mess with the reason a Cell lives or dies due to ageing, you are risking higher Cancer rates.
The fact that this treatment both improves life-spans and "delays cancer" is indeed very promising.
Now hopefully the transmission pathways hold true in Humans...
Killing lots of cells at once is a recipe for trouble. Your body's clean up mechanisms are overwhelmed and you die, basically.
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previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027038
Rent does not build wealth. Rent is the act of transferring wealth from the poor to the rich. Rent is, essentially, theft from society itself, it leaves everyone poorer when most people rent.

Rent in America today is identical to the serfs of old.

The post-WW2 thing the Government did with getting everyone mortgages so they would be home owners that caused the eventual economic collapse 10 years ago? They had the right idea, but the wrong execution.

Instead of making everyone homeowners, make everyone fiscally responsible so that getting a mortgage wouldn't be hard for them in the first place.

I don't entirely blame them though: building Freddy and Fannie was magnitudes easier than fixing the broken parts of American society and (lack of) education.

This is one of the large reasons why I'm supporting Bernie, he actually has spoken in depth about how to fix the underlying bullshit that keeps so many Americans renters instead of being homeowners and building their personal wealth.

It has been proven in at least one study that financial stress causes a measurable drop in IQ: literally, being poor makes you stupid. We need less stupid people, to put it frankly.

Edit: Don't downvote. Reply with your counter-viewpoint. HN isn't Reddit.

Edit 2: Bernie said it better than me: http://imgur.com/gallery/DaHIv
Does anyone have experience how TensorFlow work on Raspberry pi? I have an idea for a simple robot-car that's learns itself how to drive and and transport sensitive things (say, full glass of water). Would it put too much heavy load operations on Raspi 2?
Has Twitter's Gamble on Dorsey Paid Off?
Has anyone analyzed the MCMC version?

while not sorted:
swap(a[rand(n)], a[rand(n)])
Elon Musk personally cancels order of blogger who complained about poor service
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11031518
The fact is that auto-pilot cars, as you describe them, won't be nearly as revolutionary as self-diriving cars. The latter would allow people to put to good use the time to commute to work; they would improve car-sharing to the point that people would not need a personal car and parking could become a problem of the past; they would allow you to get back home safely after some drinks; eventually people would not need to learn to drive at all. The mere augmentation of human drivers, as useful as it would be, would not change much in our habits
Do I understand correctly that they haven't actually fused anything yet, just verified that the stellarator can power up without immediately exploding?

What's special about the Wendelstein 7-X? I know stellarators as a concept aren't new. Is this a significant result, or is it just a handy opportunity for a media event?
Air bearings require a fairly tight tolerance as to the design of the tube for the entire run no? So I don't think it's a given magnets could be more costly if it means you use more expensive track materials but not a high precision construction.

Any with air bearings or magnets both being a passive track on-going costs might favor the one geological events disrupt less.
What percentage of those would be helped by VC investment?

The vast majority of tech companies are better off staying small and being normal companies.
That's actually a third party site, that uses the National Grid's SOAP(!) API for the data.
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11025852
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> most people don't recognize opportunities because they come disguised as hard work

true words
They say it's nicer than my house, but apart from the price I don't see anything nice about it. Honestly it looks really bad.

$20,000 is impressively cheap, but like with the iphone making smartphones popular or the Tesla making electric cars popular, I think smartly built houses aren't gonna take off until their design and specs are top notch.
I really hope housing becomes a key electoral issue for the next government. The current housing crisis in the UK is impoverishing an entire generation.
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> The reason is to hold up prices...

Not just this but also because they still need capital to finance the construction process. Borrowing short term is a model that works for them when demand is high - they don't want to be sat holding empty properties after all.

Longer term finance, allowing houses to be built for rental, is one solution that's slowly gaining traction with pension funds and the like.

Of course, as you say, the status quo suits the major housebuilders just fine so there is a lot of inertia when it comes to adopting new and innovative business models.
I would love to see a version where you could draw Bézier curves!
Gulf war 1 was 25 years ago, and that marked the last US conflict without ubiquitous precision guided weapons. That's probably right around the time the A-10 went obsolete.

In Syria... well, we could have used just about anything, from the AC-130 to the gun on the F-16. Fuel trucks are a pretty soft target.
Thanks for the explanation, and it mirrors the explanation I got from the loan officer at my credit union.

On this point:

"What you're looking for is a "portfolio loan," where the financial institution keeps your loan on its own books. Some credit unions do this (mine does) in situations like yours. The interest will be commensurate with the credit union's guess of how easy your property will be to resell (both in the opinion of the underwriter and of the outside, independent appraiser) to pay for the risk but it can be done."

It was the credit union that said, "We could maybe get you a loan on the land if you can put 50% down." The bank I've been using for 20 years flat out said "no way, we only do land loans for businesses for new construction, and they have to have a plan and funding lined up to complete the construction".

It all seems vaguely rotten and corrupt, to me...but, well, I don't know the motivation for it. I'll just keep saving, and pay cash. Or maybe I'll buy land where it's cheaper. Maybe I won't always value living within biking distance of a city with good live music as highly as I do now.
Yeah exactly - both that square roots are good for smoothing but more so that a it's trial and error thing. When I started out after dropping out of grad school I was working on search algorithms and a bunch of my coworkers had a background in informational retrieval and I did not, and I was kind of thinking about it in the wrong way. I was thinking about it like it was a math puzzle and if I just thought really hard it would all make sense.

So one day I was stumped in how to make this signal useful and Amit suggested, hey why don't you take the square root. I was like, why a square root, it doesn't make much sense, nothing is getting squared ever, and he went up to the whiteboard and just drew a square-root-ish-wiggle-arc-shape and said look you just want something that looks like this. Square root, log, whatever.

I was like, oh... am I allowed to write code that doesn't make any sense? I thought I wasn't supposed to do that. And he was just like, well, just don't worry about it, you are overthinking it, you can take all the square roots you want, multiply by 2 if it helps, add 5, whatever, just make things work and we can make it make sense later.

At that point I realized that real world software engineering was much different than research had been, and also that this was going to be way more fun.
>>> Dropbox signed up 13 large companies with more than 1,000 users each

So let's say the average employee count is 2k and they negotiated to pay $100/user/year. 13 * 2000 * 100 = $2.6M. Even if we double the average employee count and assume they pay standard $150/yr, it's $7.8M.

Assuming that business offering is their strongest bet to get as strong as some investors might like (i.e. justify the valuation), how many of these do you need to justify $10B valuation? And how big is the market?

I am not sure that it all adds up.
But given that trains stop periodically, and we know how to build rapid-recharge energy storage devices, that might not be a problem
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wut?? Azure is about 30-50% more expensive than AWS or GCN. I look around every time I have a new client, look for yourself.

I think they've just won favor of startups recently because they've been subsidizing their cloud costs. If theres one thing Microsoft has, its business savvy.
Half the tutorial is about how to set up virtualEnv and other config.

This is why I hate developing in python. I will just wait for go and node.js to come up with their own APIs for tensor flow.
The reason that the US has cheap electricity is that our natural gas is incredibly inexpensive. That being said, yeah offshore wind power is very expensive, and probably not the best choice.
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There's an open source link so you can download it from there?
I think it may helpful to decompose the permutation into circles, and create an equation system of time left from different states.
"Land: $25,000 Resale at $20,000 to $30,000"

I think you're assuming I was trying to get a loan to build the house. The loan was for the land itself, and I planned to self-fund the house construction. So, I was looking at property that cost around $75k, and was hoping to get a loan for $50k of that (with $25k down). The tiny house was not at all part of the equation on the loan (except in the sense that had I been planning to put a big house on the land and was contracting a home builder to do it, the bank might have treated it more like a regular house and been willing to loan me money).

But, yes, part of the problem is that land has much less predictable resale value than houses, and that was the usual answer I got when being told, "No".
The article says that the 7X won't ever produce energy. Over the course of the following years they will try to leave it on for longer and longer period of time.

SO yes, they kept it on for less then a second, nothing exploded and future looks quite brigth i would say
"Fortune favors the prepared mind." - derived as to still be relevant (I personally think) from Pasteur's "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
GCN and AWS both have very easy drop in Docker support. I'm not sure how it could get any easier.
He used his Rocket Internet expertise to build his own startup
you could get it running on a raspberry pi. it's quick to run image recognition and so forth. it's training it initially that takes a lot of computing resources.
Besides not being very reassuring, its quite expensive. People on HN always want to believe its affordable, I don't get it. Like you can go to the site and see that it's quite an expensive cloud service.
It's not luck... if you have ever worked at Google, you know there are tons of smart people there, especially in search quality.

If you don't know your stuff, and constantly learn more, they're not going to respect you. No luck about it. You can't even "luck" into a manager position, let alone VP of search.
We have like 5 of these in the office. They have like 20 ports on them. I have no idea what the majority of them do. I assume most of them are some specialized binary data transport that I've never used or seen, though I have some weird half memory of similar ports on an early 90s IBM PC.
W7X is special as it is more performant than previous stellarators. For fusion devices, you hope to produce more energy than the energy you have to inject to heat the plasma for fusion to happen.

Yesterday's event was not much about science, but rather about engineering. Building that machine was a gigantic work.
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They have a free tier 2.

AWS actually has a pretty decent free tier for an entire year.
7X may produce energy, but it is not planned (AFAIK) to produce electricity from it.
7X is a scientifical machine, not an industrial one.
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This is ridiculous.

Free SSL certificates have existed for a long time. And there is a lot of churn at the free end, driven by Let's Encrypt. I'd be shocked if there aren't new —more convenient— domain level options provided by web hosts in the very near future.

Maintaining a SSL certificate is only as important as maintaining the actual hosting.