skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right ... I know many of my wife's friend's making minimum payments. I said no way .. we're paying the loan off first. I won't mention the amount but man, we could have bought a fleet of boats for that (think about what the average med student accrues in debt).
We're a long way from seeing whether there's any profit in this. The odds are surely against it, because they usually are. If something dramatic comes of this I'm sure YC will think seriously about how to structure it, but we can wait until we have that good problem.

In the meantime the community gets the same thing we do, which is the satisfaction of giving it a try and seeing what happens. That's much in keeping with the values of this site, i.e. gratifying curiosity.
Can you elaborate on the femtocell vector and mitigation strategies?
Why would your potential customers choose your platform over others before you have the fancy A.I DNA?
Java, Basic, Pascal, C++ -- you're not exactly listing very good platforms in the first place. Python's a bit better but still seems antiquated, like Go.

Try Haskell or an ML. Heck, even C# isn't that bad these days.

JavaScript's just a minefield of pitfalls. To be fair, it was designed in 10 days, and progress on it has been slow to say the least. (Hence the silly crap like having a "left-pad" thing as a 3rd party "module" instead of part of a proper stdlib.)

Other stuff like using "function" as the lambda identifier just make me shake my head. Or not having integers. Just poor decisions all around.
Bullies will be bullies. Unless you stand up to them, they'll roll right over you.
> Busses are a lot more flexible in terms of routing - normal gasoline busses can be rerouted at will, and the cost of changing routes for electric busses (like the ones in Seattle) are much lower than street cars, where you basically have to lay new track. Essentially, there's a lot less buy-in with busses which can be good for expanding transit where you aren't sure about.

On the other hand, that difficulty in changing routes with trains, subways, and street cars means it is much less likely that a route will be shut down completely if ridership falls off. I could at least consider moving to be near a subway or train stop and then giving up my car.

With a bus no way am I giving up my car. The risk is too high that some bean counter will decide that ridership could be improved by 5% of they shut down my route and replaced it with a new one a mile away, and then I'd be screwed.

I think to really make a transit system be widely used there has to be a long term commitment to (1) keeping certain routes open, and (2) running at certain times on those routes, no matter how low ridership falls.
That sounds quite reasonable actually. A degree can be a good investment. The right degree from MIT will open a lot of doors .
Have you tried Vivado? Xilinx ISE is hands down terrible, but supposedly Vivado was "500 man-years of engineering effort" [1]. Unfortunately, vendor lock-in means I can't try Altera's tools for my boards, but Vivado's high level synthesis is really cool. It generates a hardware design from a given C program, and then let's you tune the generated verilog [2].

[1]: http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20120501-bigdeal

[2]: http://xillybus.com/tutorials/vivado-hls-c-fpga-howto-1
I recommend also reading "The Most Misread Poem in America":

Most readers consider “The Road Not Taken” to be a paean to triumphant
self-assertion (“I took the one less traveled by”), but the literal meaning
of the poem’s own lines seems completely at odds with this interpretation.
The poem’s speaker … has already admitted that the two paths “equally lay /
In leaves” and “the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.” So
the road he will later call less traveled is actually the road equally traveled.
The two roads are interchangeable.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misre...
"I enjoy programming in Haskell, but it's hard for employers to locate good Haskell programmers and so there is some extra hiring risk if you agree to bring Haskell into your family of tools."

@p4wnc6 what are you using Haskell for?
Financial literacy is not enough. Lenders are always going to have more knowledge about their own financial products and the ability of the borrower to make payments. For example, in the subprime mortgage crisis, borrowers were blamed for recklessly borrowing money. This makes no sense. Who is more reckless, 1) a working class borrower with little financial literacy taking a loan, or 2) a multibillion dollar, multinational bank with extensive financial knowledge giving that loan to the borrower? It's the same situation with student loans. Don't blame the students, blame the banks.
It will cost that much per resident over 30 years. The actual per-year cost is a good deal smaller. A better comparison to the annual debt would be per capita annual transit spending vs per capita annual national budget deficit (not total debt).
If you want to go back to subsistence farming, sure. The world is filled with places like that. Don't forget that your machinery is largely designed and built in urban environments. Don't forget that your serious medical care comes from urban environments. And, most importantly, don't forget that your customers largely come from urban environments. If the cities went away, so do your clients and your manufacturing and transportation sources. So, back to subsistence living for you...

I grew up in the city and spent summers on my uncle's farm and have seen both sides. Gods, I am tired of this fucking stupid rural vs urban debate. They need each other, and can't exist in a modern world without each other. Move to the countryside and I hear stereotypes about how shit the people in the city are. Move back to the city and hear stereotypes about how shit the people in the country are. Both sets of stereotypes are largely wrong. Likewise, the people whose jobs straddle both urban and rural environments are not the people who use these stereotypes.
> There is nothing in the urban, built environment that is as terrible aesthetically and functionally as some big lumbering bus bonking its way through the city (and usually belching black smoke as it goes).

I'm pretty sure the NYC subway in the 80s could give it a run for its money:

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+subway+80s&espv=2&b...

I agree totally that buses have a negative stigma, some of which is rightly deserved.
Sounds like something I would use!

Few questions that came to mind for me:
- What's the incentive on the advisor to offer the add-on service? Is it to eventually increase AUM and encourage more 401k savings from the users? Would be curious to learn if there are any numbers around this or users taking loans out, etc

- What does the platform look like? White-labeled self-hosted? What does an integration look like for the advisor

- What would be the general distribution plan and target market for getting advisors on board?
I think with that proposal that you're rerouting the money for two years, but keep the same fundamental economic problem of buyers trying to be efficient at selecting what asset to purchase when they only do it a very few times in their life.

Let's put it this way: I give to $5 to go buy a coffee for (and or some other drink if you're not a coffee drinker) - chances are you'll decent value on that cup of coffee. Now, I give you $5M and say go buy a yacht. And oh, no longer than a three hour tour and you have to live on the yacht for the next thirty years... What are the chances that you'll get good value on that yacht? And if the yacht industry is flooded with buyers in your position - what is the chance that the industry will be particularly efficient at providing value to their customers?
Isn't mere possession illegal in the US? If so then the jury returned the correct verdict. If we don't like it then we have to fix the law.
People with the means of fully funding their kids' private educations (even if they've "saved up") don't tend to have student loan defaults by definition, so I don't see how that's even relevant. If even a plurality of parents in America could afford to do that, we'd live in a different world.
Panama Papers reveal London as centre of 'spider's web'
Do you realize that ours is one of the few jobs that can be conducted entirely remotely? Perhaps the remote-work train is destined to derail at some point in the future, but at the moment it's totally possible to find work that lets you live anywhere there's available internet.
An Introduction to the ConceptNet Vector Ensemble
Vivado is miles ahead of Quartus, especially for beginners. Altera's tools have a very steep learning curve for beginners to hardware.
Apply HN: 8Yet? – Social in old fashioned way, i.e. face2face
Problem: Online social networks have killed people's ability to have deep, meaningful conversations. People value quantity over quality, speed over depth. We talk in emojis, LOLs, likes, shares because that's fast and easy. Teenage girls get up in the morning and reply dozens of snapchats without even reading the content. Fear of missing out has driven us spending hours everyday catching up with all the social feeds. At the end of the day, we're still left with an empty feeling that we're ever more isolated than ever. When I go out with my wife for dinner, we ran out of things to say in a few minutes. The silence is unbearable and we desperately reached out to our phones as our savior. Voice, the way we communicate to each other for hundreds of years, is facing distinction.

Solution: Actually I don't have a solution. Changing people's behavior is the hardest thing in the world. But I figure we can take baby steps toward fixing the problem by having a tool that allows you to meet up with different people nearby for lunch to practice small talks and regain your ability to talk like it's 1995. You can practice the same joke over and over with different audience until you nailed it. Then you can go home and impress your partner.

Product URL: https://goo.gl/41DhCI
I've had one of my package names transferred away from me with no warning, presumably after some period of inactivity. Npm as a repository seems to have gone totally insane, and I don't think I'll be publishing there anymore. I'll recommend people install my modules from a tag in the repo.
If I still lived in Seattle and had the choice between

a) Functional transit for a one time payment of $15 grand and then chump change for train fare for the rest of my life

and

b) Buying, fueling, insuring, maintaining, and driving a car at a vastly greater cost (probably around 10 grand per year all-in) for the rest of my life

I would pick A) every time. It's not even a contest, I would pick A) at twice the price. Hell, it would probably be economically rational to pick A) at 5x the price.
tl;dr music industry want's to kill safe harbor for service providers because you know, internetz is not fair.

You can tell they really want to be able to flag uploaded content as something they own. So important in fact that they are now introducing a service where you can upload what was uploaded to your system and they'll tell you it's ok or or not...wait, no, no. they did not do that, anyone know why??
clickable URL: https://goo.gl/41DhCI
https://github.com/deercoder/0-PhD/blob/master/NOTES/0-DL-tu...
I've been wanting to try it, but for some reason Xilinx refuses to offer support for the Spartan-6. They only offer support for their expensive chips.
This particular point has always been a bit funny to me.

I mean, sure, there are super racist areas in the south. I grew up and lived in mostly rural Alabama for the first 20+ years of my life, and there were some rural areas that were just as terrible as people imagine (cross burnings, open Klan meetings, etc, though that was starting to die down in the last 10 years or so I lived there).

That said, a lot of cities in the south are 30% - 50% black (sometimes more), and people who live in those cities, generally speaking, coexist and interact with many black and white people on a continual basis. It'd be kind of hard to do that and be super racists to the level people imagine the south to be.
Fingers crossed; that might get be about to get better when the new 520 bridge opens, since it has an HOV lane for the busses. The busses won't be stuck in traffic with everyone else and it might even cause more people to take them.
Product Hunt currently does books and podcasts, but that part of that community is considerably smaller than the rest of the site.

How will you attract the first readers and authors to your platform?

How will you ensure a high standard of quality, both in submissions and in discussion?
The other difference is that a tram can weigh many times more than a bus, because weight doesn't cause a loss of efficiency, due to the way rails work. And this makes the tram much more stable and long lasting.
It's the same company - jetbrain.

I think PHPstorm, webstorm, etc are forks of intellij
I'd imagine so. Due to SRE becoming such a buzz-word title with many companies doing this so differently, it has increased the difficulty of hiring.
Sensor pixels and display pixels also aren’t little squares, and treating them as such (whether for font rendering, photo capture, rendering line drawings, or any other purpose) is pretty much always worse than treating pixels as a discrete approximation of a continuous image. Unfortunately 2D approximation is inherently more complex than 1D approximation, so you inevitably get some artifacts even when you do fancy computationally expensive math, and the choice is about which type of artifacts to privilege.

If you want to get really fancy, you could base all your calculations on the precise region (with a kinda fuzzy boundary) where light is collected by a sensor pixel or emitted by a display pixel, but the advantage over pretending the pixel is a jinc function or whatever [cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombrero_function] is going to be marginal.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what the premium content will be, its something I would like to talk more to authors about and test a variety of things as the platform develops.

Imagine that you were reading Game of Thrones, you might consider paying a dollar to read an extra chapter about the Iron Islands. Perhaps a short story of a Greyjoy adventure.

We would be different to Amazon simply because the structure is very different. Most of our content will be free. Our focus will be on building a fanbase for the author, and selling those fans special privileges.

I've been a game developer for many years. I worked for about 10 years on AAA games like Bioshock for Irrational Games and 2K, but about 5 years ago I went indie. I have 2 web games online right now. Neptune's Pride and Blight of the Immortals, both are large web apps with lots of moving parts like payment integrations.
www.ironhelmet.com

I think the core technology would be a web app, but we would bundle it as a native app where that makes sense (mobile).

I'm not 100% sure how easy it is to push content to a users kindle directly (which would be ideal), but putting text in an open format and emailing it to them is very easy. I only read on my Kindle these days, and I think one of the core challenges would be to work out how to make it easy for users to spend money with us when they are sitting on the couch with a kindle, not sitting at their PC.
Parking lots aren't pedestrian friendly. You have to keep your head on a swivel and look at all parked cars (in case they're about to start moving) and all approaches (in case of cars already in motion) to ensure that you're not about to get run over. It's mentally fatiguing. Other posters have addressed the crime issue. Walking down a sidewalk is a way better and safer experience as a pedestrian than walking through a parking lot.
I suspect the same will happen to all the p2p lending startups soon
Maybe it should be the 1000 least ambiguous words.
In many ways, it's true.

Educational outcomes are far worse in the South. Teachers make less, schools are funded more poorly, especially for poor folk.
I could have sworn this has already been posted. Ah, yes, it mearly changed hosts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10768440

Also, the author of this book, Ian Goodfellow, is now working at OpenAI:

https://openai.com/blog/team-plus-plus/
I worry for all the unmaintained but still available gems.
>> If you get a full ride scholarship, the $50k/yr is all yours. Would that work? I'm assuming for some it would.

Bitter personal experience taught me using extrinsic motivation destroys intrinsic motivation.

The kid will get that scholarship to pocket the $50k/yr. But then the kid won't be motivated to do much more than that afterwards. Now all he or she's thinking is how fast they can spend the $50k.
People don't necessarily have to be "on" Facebook for Facebook to collect data about their user. Many apps connect to Facebook. So they can collect data even when people are not using Facebook. The more people use Facebook connected services, the more data Facebook collects about users. Which means better ads for the users & better data for businesses.
Sorry to hear that. There will be other things to participate in in the future and hopefully you'll be able to join some of those.
LiveJournal is so low class, the author should've picked a nice middle-class platform like Medium to publish this
Thanks for the responses. True, that's what happens in all of those situations, but in the YC Fellowship you call out that they're for people "very early in the process". So the tradeoffs may be different.
haha thanks.
Seattle might be a good candidate for electric-assist bicycles. Those are more expensive, though, so you have to be sure they'll be used before buying them.
Evil mile
I ingest mountains of fiction (and dabble in writing), and have also worked in the (Free-to-play) game industry.

- How will you ensure quality from authors?

- How will you get your first authors, and first readers?

- How will you help authors deliver 'premium content'? Authors typically think of a story as a complete whole, rather than as sets of experience you can add to.
Even if the development of autonomous vehicles eventually reaches the level you're hoping it will, and none of the obstacles which might prevent the realization of your vision actually occur, induced demand means that any reduction in the level of congestion will be temporary.

Anyway, you're suggesting that we could get a 2x or 3x improvement in 20-30 years by completely overhauling all of our transportation infrastructure: but we can get a 10x improvement in the same span of time at a lower cost with less risk using proven technology.

I'm happy to see people proceed with research on autonomous cars, and can certainly see the value of an Uber/Lyft type service using robot drivers, but it would be a mistake to sit and wait for speculative technology research to maybe solve the problem when we can for sure solve the problem if we just get going with what we already have.

What's the worst that can happen, we end up with lots of good options? Robot cars might make cabbies obsolete, and it is likely that they will change the way we use other transportation technologies, assuming they work the way people are hoping they will, but they won't make light rail obsolete any more than the invention of the jet engine made the automobile obsolete.
I don't know if this is a stupid question, but could one design a very basic LISP machine on a FPGA? how about a diminutive JVM?
1,157,407 requests per second.
Yes it will. The way the organizer is laid out is by trip decision.
So initial research, orientation etc, for eg, falls into a "Basics" bucket that provides you the best information to get a sense of the place.

The initial iteration isn't geared towards giving you the answer (need a lot of data to make this happen) vs presenting you with the best & most relevant resources to help you arrive at the answer that best answers your questions

So in terms of finding hotels, as in your example, the tool wouldn't currently do it, but would give you the best resources to help you figure that out as quickly as possible.

Re: users. This is clearly one of the biggest challenges with travel startups given the 1-3 times a year use for most.

We've been testing a community passionate about travel and we're extremely encouraged by the results from the last couple of months in bringing people back almost daily (either to submit content, engage with it or just consume). Bottom line they're coming back for a reason other than to plan travel. But by coming back, we're staying top of mind as the place they discovered these great travel resources so that when they're ready to plan a trip we're likely going to be the place they do it. We're also working on something that ties this community more tightly into the platform down the line so the entire journey from initial discovery through planning is seamless.

We haven't pulled any of the levers that allow for content sharing content or referral mechanisms etc as yet that will serve to bring others to this community, which will serve as the top of the funnel, on an ongoing basis.
It is interesting however I feel it is best to wait for your platform to mature. I lack environments to test your product and refuse to use this with anything sensitive. Configuring SSL/TLS is a minuscule process taking only a few minutes, vital for security, that has been neglected. I'll keep your product in mind until these rudimentary basics have been addressed.

Thanks, Josh.
Needs more usb-c ;)
Only for the striving and nouveau riche. Real rich people don't talk about money.
That has long been the romantic ideal, but it no longer matches the reality in a hypercompetitive, filter-laden job market and economy:

https://hbr.org/2015/10/firms-are-wasting-millions-recruitin...

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21640316-children-ric...

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21646985-americ...
ummm... not really.

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