skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Green Party then?

The London Cycling Campaign should be more informed than I am, since I left London last year: http://lcc.org.uk/articles/sadiq-and-zac-wobbly-cycling-why-...
Ask HN: What have you learned from postmortems of your projects?
Curious coincidence? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315774
How Google Makes Sure It (Almost) Never Goes Down
Wow, that's madness. You've definitely found a great market to modernize.

How big is this market?
Link below explains it better. I'm sure it's as complicated as the IRS can make it, and I'm sure there are situations where some of your income is double-taxed, but for most people, you choose either a tax credit in the amount of foreign taxes paid, or you get to exclude 100k of your income right off the bat.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-us-citizens-livi...
Wow, the color difference stuff is fascinating. How on earth do they measure the space of perceptual difference?
Someone really ought to start patenting every awesome piece of technology that we love from sci-fi, then license them for free to anyone who can actually use them.

Maybe we could get a kickstarter going for it! I say we start with battlemechs and work our way down from there.
Very interesting and very clearly explained for someone with no clue about these matters like me. I'd love to read a part two! :)
It has at least been suggested in the "Donald Duck cartoon raising a ship" patent:

http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/

At the very least, it strikes a serious blow against the novelty aspect.
I believe your calculation of the healthcare cost for such a couple is something like 10x too high.
Hm, now wait for what could happen next:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11255160
This request comes up regularly, the last time two weeks ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11355038

Summary: most users agree, some wrote browser plugin, some are willing to pay for a solution. It's up to the admins to find time to implement the feature.
Right, so now we just have to wait until someone else with a Model S figures it out and actually posts code.
How about a standard translator that takes generally accepted conversions of more complex language constructs into simpler language?

How about a thing that changes less well known words and puts in easier words?
I want my time back, plus compensation for the tremendous let down.
How does it scale?
He knew exactly what he was doing.
I was lead here by deceptive means. Pizza for life is code for heaven. I am sad now.
What I mean is that I highly doubt a move to single-payer would involve an instant salary bump equal to the company's expenses to keep me in a health plan.
The community self-regulates who connects with who like any other social network/community. When you first logon you can explore/search for collabs and musicians and you will quickly identify people you'd like to connect with. If you are somewhat active the first few days you will quickly develop relationships with the type of people you are looking to connect.

Another important aspect is that the collaboration happens asynchronously. A lot of the frustration with forming bands is the synchronous nature of it. (1) all have to be together at the same time in the same place (which we know is very hard to do since people have their own schedules/priorities) and (2) all musicians have to actually perform perfectly in sync at once - any minimal screw up by just one of the band members and you have to start over. It's very frustrating. Asynchronicity solves those 2 problems.

For revenue, we have a freemium model, users subscribe to Bandhub Pro and get additional features.
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SimplyGuest offers fully-furnished shared accommodation for working professionals. These accommodation are completely managed. SimplyGuest will pay all the house-bills and provide maid services. In short, SimplyGuest will manage the house for its tenants. Tenant sourcing, verification, house-repairs, maid services are taken care by us. We provide a high-speed WiFi connection, a DTH subscription and a cooking gas connection (with unlimited gas supply).

This has been a hairy problem from both sides of the business, house owners and tenants. But we are on the right track to solve the problem. We have found early success in key problem areas.

We are a bootstrapped, profitable startup. We are in business for 11 months now.

__This is an India-centric submission.__
The first example comparing the differing fully saturated hues for the same value is what led me to creating my own color-picker. It takes in RGB hex and spits out the equivalent Munsell value and vice versa. I can edit in a human-understandable format and switch it back to standard Hex.

Let's take a dark purple, that's too light: 573F63
The tool converts it in place to 5P 3/4, then we just modify the value (second term) to 5P 1/4 and convert back to hex (#291333). All we have changed is the brightness, Hue and Chroma have stayed constant.

Hex values are horrible to work with, they contain no understandable info. 10Y 8/6 is going to be complementary to 10PB 8/6, without going outside equidistant chroma levels and having matching value.

Check out the demo in the readme.

Edit: https://github.com/germ/munsellScript/
As mentioned in the article:

> surprisingly few studies of this format have produced supporting evidence for learning styles; far more evidence (such as this study) runs counter to the myth.

There's been a number of meta-analysis done (e.g. [1]), and they overwhelmingly conclude that there's just no support for learning styles. So, it's a myth until proven otherwise. See also Willingham's book based on his research [2], and his FAQ here which links to more research [3].

[1]: https://www.indwes.edu/cli/research/meta-analysis-summary---...

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-Students-Like-School/dp/04705...

[3]: http://www.danielwillingham.com/learning-styles-faq.html
Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
Like... um.... what, exactly? People could take control of their own vehicles and exercise the privileges that ought to come with ownership?

The ability to jailbreak a Tesla is the only thing that might make me interested in owning one.
We've put a ton of work into HN's anti-gaming software. There's no piece of code we've worked harder on. We also have a ton of experience looking at voting data. That's one advantage of keeping this process close to how HN normally works: that software and experience will apply here.

That's definitely not to say that there won't be new forms of gaming that we haven't seen before and don't know how to combat. It's a risk. We can mitigate that risk by emphasizing the quality of discussion in the threads. Experience has taught that genuine community interest is pretty recognizable. If a post gets lots of upvotes, but little community interest, or the interest doesn't seem genuine, HN users will notice, as will we. That should provide a measure of self-correction, and beyond that, we'll see what happens. If you think you notice fakery, hn@ycombinator.com is the place to let us know.
I was learning it and I could manage to understand some phrases. There are many "neologisms" for everyday items though, requires some thinking.
There was something about this recently where someone connected in to their Tesla. Then their phone rang and it was Tesla engineers telling them to stop. Did you get a phone call?
Small note: I recommend the search query to include quotes "Apply HN"
There are other things to consider, like losing all your unsaved work when Windows decides to run updates and reboot without your consent (I'm assuming they haven't reversed course on this, it's happened to me numerous times although I'm not on the Insider preview program. )
No. For zero downtime deployments on AWS with blue/green deployments behind EIPs & ELBs, we at Boxfuse (https://boxfuse.com) offer a very easy solution for both Node.js and JVM apps based on immutable infrastructure.
If he's talking about getting root on that big screen in the middle, it's been done before:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/let-the-hacking-begi...

However, the guy who did it before told everyone exactly how he did it, without any "secret script sorry :^)".
#2 is there in some forms, but #5 is surprisingly absent!
I call BS.

One does not simply construct a mechanical calculator!

Give the original engineer a little credit.
Strange question - Is there a reason it is still done this way? Are there entrenched distributors and commissioned sales reps that are incentivized to keep things the same way?

Many wholesale & distributor businesses seem to operate this way, but the reason is rarely due to lack of available technology solutions... Just a thought worth thinking about.
I didn't downvote you, but I think you need to do some self-directed reading.

The GAO is widely credited from all sides for its standout analysis and data gathering, independent of partisan affiliation or regulatory capture. Its methods are quite rigorous and indeed, if you read the report that I linked in my previous comment, you would see how some of the GAO's investigatory successes have come from comparing agency self-reports against independent audits.

As I said before also, nobody disputes that waste and fraud are bad and should be stopped. But the problem is not nearly as widespread as generally believed - and that is the problem, because it elevates an minor issue to an outsized status at the expense of other, larger issues.
Love the idea, we are sold https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441183
You can't blame that on the "management" boogey man. It's unreasonable to expect managers to predict future customer requirements. If they guess right it's probably due to luck and not repeatable. Agile best practices of having product owners in close touch with customers, and getting frequent customer feedback through continuous delivery, can mitigate this problem but not prevent it. Software evolves and grows over time; that's the nature of the beast. In some cases it can make sense to go back and remove functionality that's no longer needed but that's tough to justify when you have limited engineering capacity and customers are offering to pay you actual money for specific new features.
I feel like we've been down this road before. If some may recall, the federal government setup a giant loan program for alt energy companies. Many went bust taking a lot of money with them. I worry if the investment dollars are going to Just Another Solar Company, or is it demonstrated, proven technology that has potential?
What does a Bandhub user satisfaction story look like? How do you measure it?
I agree. I hope it helps win back some of the "MBPs are better because Bash" crowd.
That's really awesome idea and I can't wait to see what kinds of cool applications come through.
I've found Kill Sticky [1] to be an incredibly useful bookmarket lately. It finds any DOM element with "position: fixed" and deletes it. Wish I didn't need to use it so often, but here we are.

Sometimes for annoying popups covering content, sometimes for the sidebar of brightly colored floating social widgets, sometimes just the enormous fixed banner that continues to waste screen real estate after you've scrolled down.

I use it a lot on my laptop and haven't tried JS bookmarklets in mobile browsers, but I'd hope that they work by now?

[1] https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
Bernie Sanders Was Right to Oppose the Panama Free Trade Agreement
Growing small groups is an interesting idea. How will you match them? Although the faq says not on interests, you still need to decide who to put into which group if there are too many people in an area, just random?
If you just "fill groups" on after the other, you'd actually implicitly match on "early adopterness"
GiveCampus (YC S15) helped schools raise $10M+ in its first year
What are the most common use cases for Jam so far? What are some others you'd like to grow?
Yeah, I agree with you. A good rollout would use bare-metal base hardware and scalable on-demand instances that can be auto-spawned and auto-decommissioned in the cloud.

However, I agree that the node.js generation is coming up believing that cloud is implicitly superior. Really I think this is a reaction to the fact that they don't know anything about system administration, either software or hardware, and they're trying to cover that up by claiming that anyone who uses real hardware is behind the times (in fact, they've even taken it to the extreme that anyone who uses a real server-side language is behind the times). It'd be great if we had more understanding of the marketing and political efforts in the tech world and had an entity that tried to counteract some of these fads before they got out of control. node.js itself would be a good target for such an entity.
http://ngrok.com - is pretty good for that, if the person you're sharing it with is available.
since I was (for some reason) wanting more details, https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2015/08/07/hacking-a-tesla/ is something I came across
Drais in LV had $250k bottles opening weekend in 2014
Hi there, is it possible to post/apply for more than one idea?
Would this solution do much of the same thing you are looking to create https://www.handshake.com/ ?
It's very high. We are not doing anything scientific around it but talk to the users constantly and I can tell you they are very very happy. The phrase "changed my life" is recurrent.
Hell of an assumption there.

How many Windows sys admins are there in the world what percentage of them do you know?
But I'd rather be at the mall than mow my yard. I pay someone to do that. I'd rather be at the mall than work on my own plumbing. I pay someone else to do that.

The key point is that at some level I'd rather be at the mall that work as a software developer, but I'm really good at that so that's what I do instead of goofing off at the mall all day. We should do what we are most productive at, in this way we contribute the most to society (see Comparative Advantage in any economics text).

The military does a tough job. That most of us don't want to do it isn't being hypocritical. It's just the truth that I'm a better software developer than solider.

Now, when I was of an age that I was eligible to be in the military, one often had no choice about it. You were simply told by the government that you had to take years out of your life and perhaps lose you life killing people that most of us saw little point of fighting. Fortunately, my number wasn't picked. Not all of my friends were so fortunate. In that time, we all bore some collective guilt for sending young men off to die against their will to for our politics.
> they will be able to learn better using visualizations

This claim sticks out to me. Have you validated it? How do you know that people will actually be able to learn better or faster? Are you sure that's what's missing from this market?
Facebook ceased to be cool once enough of its original userbase started having babies, thus compelling their parents and other older relatives to join. :)
You can actually try XKCD's editor at https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/
It is ubuntu....

#!/bin/bash
sudo su
There were two epiphanies hidden in this comment. HN is good for one or two every once in a while, but for me personally, this struck gold. Thanks!!
For the latter, a dictionary?
Do you think Microsoft will listen to us privacy-aware people and add a permanent kill-switch for all cortana/telemetry related traffic? Serious question, because somehow I doubt they will backpedal on this sweet sweet data source.

I won't be installing Windows 10 before this happens, but I also realize that at some point they will stop providing Windows 8 security updates.
Thanks for reminding me that ESR used to be a reasonable person. I mean this in all seriousness, I had forgotten.
Maybe limiting votes to people who have been registered X amount of days or have X amount of karma would help solve this issue with votes?
Ah good so I can ask a question: is there a way to turn off forced updates and reboots (reverting back to how it used to be when it would just nag you but never actually invoke the update automatically)?
This is brilliant and immediately reminded me of "wisdom of the crowd" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOucwX7Z1HU (start at 2:00 if TLDW).

Basically average crowd > individuals. 160 people guess # of jelly beans in a jar. Few are close, but averaging all the guesses leads to 4 away from actual.

Would be fascinating if applied to this as well...
Hydro is 6% of US electricity supply and is already used as built in storage.

Pumped storage is vastly better than batteries. Also the variance between median days and calm days for wind is far less extreme than generally assumed. PV solar also provides power in cloudy weather.

Anyway the US can get to ~99.99% from ~30% oversupply and ~6 hours of grid storage which is vastly less than many people assume.

PS: Cloudy calm days over large areas are fairly rare. Heavy clouds are generally associated with weather and increased wind. EX: Hurricane incoming, solar down wind UP.
Maybe it's just me but the text inside the tooltip looks fuzzy, rest of the text looks crisp.
On chrome 49, windows 7.
> Like Instagram

Which is also Facebook.

Then they'll be on Oculus (the OASIS from Ready Player One), also Facebook.

That will continue, Facebook is bigger than just Facebook now.
Agreed. Some people think that big words are good. Me, I think good writing should be like good code; short and easy to understand.
Apply HN: PAGS: Programming homework evaulation services
Creating and grading programming assignments are pain. We aim to help teachers to create programming assignments with ease and give students repeatable web based environment to code their assignments. So, we reduce the technical difficulties that arise and increase the interaction efficiency between student and teacher, and let them focus on learning instead.

https://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr
>to catch someone who is guilty is very difficult. Difficult to the degree that it should require video and/or photographic evidence of the perp at the computer looking at the images.

That would be very easy to fake too.
How will you target people who are more-or-less well served by linkedin?

> Ex direct stream to github projects blog articles about your work

The vast majority of people won't have this, what's the value for those people?

How will you make money?
Yes. There's no downtime whatsoever because you don't overwrite or take down anything. Your architecture is immutable.

You manage "upgrades" by changing pointers (aliases and DNS). We'll be exploring this in upcoming posts.
Ding ding ding! Free money usually makes people happier than no free money. I exclusively use Lyft, and talk to my drivers all the time. They also say Lyft riders are better than Uber riders. Not sure if free money plays into that, but I guess so.
I'm no lawyer but I'm sure someone could make that case. The torrent peer swarms don't like that though, and I think most clients tend to penalize that behavior (leeching).
Do distributors currently have software that you can tie into to get up-to-date stock and prices?

Are there any legal hurdles with scaling this across state lines?
You guys need to diversify and try to solve hard problems that have slow paybacks. Sure making the next twitter is cool, but how about funding a startup that makes does cheap inpatient monitoring,ordering,labs,diagnosis, drug interaction, of patients at hospitals? There are huge players in that space:Epic,Cerner, etc but if you look the sheer amount of $ a hospital is willing to spend on EMR systems...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Speechwriter Left to Head Up Communications at SpaceX
Based Mr. Money Mustache. Finding that blog completely changed how I view money.
In the context of mobile, "baseband" colloquially refers to everything "below" the application processor (I guess technically stopping at the RF mixer). The physical layer protocol is carried out in the digital domain by the "baseband processor", which is also running code that takes care of the higher level session protocols.

So yes, this generally includes all bits of protocol below the simplistic IP and AT-command based session interface that's exported.

(My idea for "SIM proxying": The link between a SIM and the baseband processor is a simple serial link. So as long as latency requirements could be met, this serial link could be tunneled over IP, allowing one to rent a SIM card that wasn't actually in their possession).
Apply HN: QueueIn – Peer to Peer Ticket Marketplace for Music Fans
queueIn ( queuein.co ) is a peer to peer ticket marketplace for music fans, provides buyers the opportunity to find tickets to sold-out events at a reasonable price, and allow sellers to make the same amount of profit or more without having to mark up the price.

www.queuein.co
Thanks to you (and everyone else) for the clarification. That's my single biggest need from a TextExpander replacement.
I mentioned this from the early days of HN, and it's in the guidelines: "don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation." is a great rule for most people. Imagine yourself saying your comment to someone you don't know. Does it sound ok?
Fixed! Sorry about that. We exceeded all quotas. All emails should be going out smoothly :)
Secrets of the Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveal Financial Meltdown
No. They're not. It's the way how we as a society pay for common things.
The success of GitHub's shell, native versions of Python and Perl, plus MSYS and warty Cygwin prove that there's demand. This is a better solution for many of those cases.

Giving more people access to common code and frequently-updated, open-source utilities -- how can you find fault with it?
You would've been a gem in the 1920s shaking an angry fist at how many oil companies were going bust and how fortunes were being squandered digging wells that produced nothing.

That whole oil thing is just a fad! Why can't people be happy with coal?
The technique is working quite well for Donald Trump: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/15/ho...

> Some of his answers last only a few seconds, some are slightly longer, but almost all consist of simple sentences, grammatically and conceptually, and most of them withhold their most important word or phrase until the very end. Trump’s sentences end with a pop, and he seems to know instinctively where to put the emphasis in each one.
Thank you Dang.
And I think that's really the messaging that needs to have some PR light shed upon. Facebook has access to the meta and contact data (confirmation, Moxie?). For all the hoopla over WhatsApp E2E crypto, users shouldn't forget that they may be handing over phone number, contact data and other meta to the largest ad-tech platform with a real name policy.
Have you talked directly to distributors (or even their salespeople) to ask why they haven't done this? What are their concerns?
I'm not able to find it now, but a few years ago I read about an idea to have a massive solar plant grid in the SW of America. It would transmit to the rest of the country. Every so often there would be storage plants.

On good days the plants would compress air into man made caves. After the cave reached a certain pressure, the generator would distribute energy as a pass through. If there were bad generation days out SW, the compressed gas would spin turbines at the plant. I believe that each plant was to have 3-5 days worth of common load production. After that, I think there were fallback generators like gas.

The reason I bring this up, is that battery/storage can be more than what we normally think about. In the case of the caves, there are several states that have natural formations. Investment in this idea, or others could reap great returns for the future.
Thanks!! We intend to have a vendor discovery page where you can invite vendors to bid on your wedding. Hard to plan beyond the phase 1, but we'll see how it evolves! Love for you to sign up for a free consultation or fill out our wedding brief!
How do you write extensions for Edge? I haven't seen any documentation about that.