skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also really enjoying this. Feels like virtual office hours.

I would say it is pretty similar to Mint.com but with a few differences. Our budget module is more like YNAB in philosophy. Our software is designed towards the 401(k) industry for use by advisors (and giving them a dashboard with metrics to provide to plan sponsors) and will have their name and logo on every interaction with the plan and participant. We will eventually tie-in with both the service desk software used by advisors as well as the recordkeeping software (thus proving a new/alternative front end for the participant to interact with their plan and make investment changes and process rollovers).

I think companies have started paying more attention to their employee benefits and making sure that their employees actually benefit from them. Plus, with the Department of Labor starting to give lip service to financial wellness the industry publications that plan sponsors read have started talking about it as well.

Fees have gone way down in my fourteen years in the industry. When I started out it seemed like most advisors were commissioned based but that really started to change about eight to ten years ago. Competition has increased. Mutual fund fees have gone down and low-cost index fund usage has gone up. And maybe most of all, much more attention is being paid to fees in the press so participants are looking at their statements and asking the questions they should be asking to their benefits managers.

I meant to mention this in the post but instead of competing with advisors, like the other startups are doing, we are partnering with the advisors so we can hopefully leverage their existing books of business. I anticipate that we will both be rolled out to existing clients as well as be a feature they list when doing proposals to prospects.
> Ability to monitor multiple folders and automatically add torrents

I don't think this is a bad idea, but that's definitely a feature for v2.

2) Ability to run as a headless service/daemon with a thin management UI like Deluge/Transmission/Hadouken/etc
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This isn't exactly what you're asking for, but you might appreciate webtorrent-cli: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-cli which works entirely from the command line.
I am going to be very sad if Maciej does anything that keeps him from writing prose as much as he wants to.
/EDIT/

Would love to know why I was downvoted for pointing out what seem to be very real differences in the circumstances and asking for some backup in the form of data as to why this will lead to the disaster that the parent stated without supporting facts.

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I'm not sure they are equatable.

- Don't pay your mortgage, lose your house. This partly caused some of the panic that made a lot of people try to sell when they couldn't make payments. Don't pay your student loans...give back your knowledge? If I recall correctly declaring bankruptcy won't get rid of these loans, but it isn't like people are on the streets.

- A big factor in the mortgage crisis was how these bad loans were packaged into all number of convoluted and intentionally misleading securities products, and then dumped on the public markets where they became a large part of the portfolios of Main St. and Wall St. investors. Are there similar securities products around college loans, and is there data that suggests that repayment issues with them could have anywhere near the same impact?

I'm genuinely curious for some data on this. It ultimately looks like the ones left holding the bag would be the government (not good, but they have more flexibility in how they deal with things that doesn't necessarily tank the economy) and other loan institutions/banks. I don't think anyone will shed a tear if the banks get hurt as long as it doesn't cripple the economy, which again, it doesn't sound like it would.
Is it possible that your friends are actually right? How did you gain this ability they lack, to detect precisely who is upper-middle class?

You say class isn't about money, and I suppose it shouldn't be. Maybe they think class is about something even worse than money and they don't want any part of it.

> Whenever I've talked to my upper-middle class friends about what social class they belong to, they are completely clueless. They don't know they belong to it, they don't know others don't, and they completely subscribe to the "we're all just regular middle class" mentality.
Some RethinkDB merch like that would be awesome!
My humble opinion, this is a license play. You don't want to get into manufacturing catheter's. Leave that to Bard et al and let them implement your process.
The return on investment on an MIT degree and a sports car is pretty different.

If you graduate MIT with a decent degree in a wanted field you are going in the right direction.
Cue this recent hit from Baton Rouge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqbXQa05Z6c
"being able to read a newspaper" is a typical goal for pre-fluency language acquisition. In most languages I'm aware of the number of words required to do that is something around 1500-3000.
Yea Plus Loans are the worst at 8% interest a year. Do I invest in index funds that average 7-8% or pay down student loans that guarantee you're relieving 8% interest a year. It's very disheartening to see one losing $1k/mo purely to interest. But also a big motivation to just make more money yearly.
Sounds neat!

What's the performance tradeoff, if any?

How far along development is it? Beta? Production ready?
Seconded. LuaJIT FFI is just awesome. Check out the motivating examples: http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html

BTW, does anyone have recent benchmarks comparing LuaJIT against new versions of the Javascript JITs?
>While looking in to buying a house I was told but multiple realtors to avoid certain areas because they are "too black."

Besides racism, that's also a way to say "too poor/downtrodden/crime ridden".

To which, they would indeed have a point (statistics wise), although that of course is caused by the systemic injustice and lack of opportunities against blacks for centuries.

Also notice how people still say the exact same thing about "white trash" places in the North (and South), and nobody seems to mind, because while the US got more tolerant about race, they still don't give a rats arse about classism and social exclusion based on being poor and not a "success".
I am afraid you are wrong there. It’s a myth that the reason we have public funding of higher education is to help people get nice jobs.

We have public funding of higher education because a better educated populace is a better democracy and a better public.

It's an intrinsic value.

See also: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/08/colleges_are_full_of_it_behi...
I* am curious about your growth.

Did signup conversion change when you switched from one-time fee to recurring?

Do you have any current weird channels for user acquisition? I mean, besides those last few del.icio.us users...

*as a Pinboard customer

P.S. For anyone who hasn't seen, Pinboard's Twitter account is pretty amusing startup satire.

https://twitter.com/Pinboard
Or, you know, lots of kids can't find work that pays for shelter, food, clothes, transport, and interest on six figures. Despite being young and dumb, and told by most everyone that the only way they'd get such a job would be to, you know, take out those six figure loans.

The post-2008 recovery has been a very poor recovery as far as jobs are concerned. Add in that wages for the less than six figure jobs have been stagnant since most of these people have been alive, and, well, there you are.

Perhaps coming up with an educational system that doesn't indenture students to banks (who have zero risk on their loans - talk about lack of skin in the game!), and doesn't increase in price at a multiple of the inflation rate might be a good idea?

I've noticed that nearly everyone whose reaction to 'the kids these days' on things like this went to school when going to school was actually affordable by the non-wealthy.
OMG, verilator where have you been all my life? This makes a HUGE difference. Thanks for the pointer.

EDIT: I should point out that I just tested it on some heavy workloads. One simulation that took 93.8 s only took 1.4 s with verilator.
Hey Anton, don't know if you remember me, we met in a hardware meetup in Berlin some time ago (Diego, drones). :-)

To your question, one example:
- detecting anomalies in production lines of industries: we are talking with a potential client that needs to monitor the down-time in their plastic recycling machines. Using the input generated by different sensors, it's possible to detect failures and restart the machines if something fails in the process.

other applications:
- monitoring store's product stock in real-time to optimize the restocking process.
- energy saving in buildings, industries, homes.
- security and health monitoring.
- and of course, home automation by providing affordable hardware.
Thank you. We know that not everyone will want to add sentimental messages, which is why we're working on a variety of Seedling themes. For example:

Q&A: Choose from a list of questions to answer ("How did you meet Bob? What was your first impression?")

Dance Off: Record a 5 second video of yourself dancing. All videos combined and set to selected dance track.

Growers can also take a photo or upload an image if they prefer.

People connect and deepen relationships in all kinds of ways, and we want Seedling to support whatever that looks like for them. I have a buddy that would really like a Seedling where everyone adds a photo of their cat, and another that's really into zombies. How cool would it be if all his friends put on zombie makeup and added a video? Not super sentimental, but it would mean a lot to him.

We want to build a flexible platform and then get out of the way so that people can connect in the ways they feel most comfortable.
Absolutely. I'm just asking because in certain jurisdictions seeding (illegal content) will lead to huge fines, and not mentioning this on the homepage might lead people to believe that they can safely use this software. This is especially worrying since "streaming" is oftentimes understood as a read-only operation which cannot be pursued by law enforcement.
Here is an interesting comment on reddit in response to someone asking how they could profit from a mass student loan default scenario:

You bring up a really interesting point, my buddies and I have been mulling this over.

Three important distinctions between student loans and mortgages:

Mortgages are backed by an underlying asset (the house) for which there is a liquid market and transparent price discovery, so it's easy to determine when the borrower's position is insolvent (i.e.; loan balance > home value; negative equity)

For many student loans, the Federal government assumes the risk of default; also, Sallie Mae dominates the secondary market, and shorting them entails political risk (you're betting against a bailout)

While painful, defaulting on a mortgage is a realistic option for borrowers: declare bankruptcy, give up the house keys to the bank, have shitty credit for 7 years, and you're out from under it; by contrast, student loans survive bankruptcy (and the principal keeps growing)

Student loans are far more insidious precisely because it is difficult for the market to take a natural short position and put downward pressure on prices. What would a bubble 'pop' look like? For housing, the slow-down/decline in home prices simultaneously bankrupted hundreds of thousands of over-leveraged owners.

It's hard to imagine a scenario where a significant portion of student loan borrowers simultaneously stop paying, and even if they did the loan owner can chase them through bankruptcy and garnish their wages. That looks like a recipe for a long, slow, toxic drag on the economy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/3y39x2/just_saw_th...
You steal the knowledge back of course.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20578712-chimpanzee
I mean a "Suggest HN" people can vote for with no obligation to Apply (nor for YC to do something, like a Show HN).
If banks can 'pay back' their TARP loans with bad debts, students ought to be able to 'pay back' their student loans with promise of future earnings excess of minimum wage, that was supposed to be enabled by taking on a degree.
idk man I think quite the contrary. I think real self is never depicted online because of the "celerity" status people seek...thus the importance of privacy.
SREs are very hard to hire, speaking from experience. At Google SRE directors and VPs will often cherry-pick promising candidates from the mainline SWE hiring pipeline and give them a "hero call" to convert them to SREs. SREs at Google are also paid more, controlling for level and performance, as a way to hire and retain.
Wondering if it would help at all if the parents saved up enough for each kid to fully fund their private college, and then when the kid hits high school tell them - when you graduate, you'll get $50k/yr towards your college. If you go to a private school it will cover it, but not leave much. If you go to a good public school, the extra $20k/yr is yours. If you get a full ride scholarship, the $50k/yr is all yours. Would that work? I'm assuming for some it would.
Here's the full link: http://blog.madhukaraphatak.com/introduction-to-flink-for-sp...
I think it depends on the bus. If you look at buses of travel companies, or buses which takes people to casinoes - they are much more comfortable, with cushy seats, decent suspension, reasonable seat design, etc.

And it shows.
Needs more hashes
> But now, I have no idea what I would do without it.

I use it every day. It's hard to believe that in 2016 neither Chrome nor Safari has support for bookmark tags... my favorite feature of Pinboard.
Thank you for the questions!

I can answer both your questions at once. We are limited to polymer materials. HOWEVER, certain plastics have reactions that MAY have toxin issues. PVC catheters were phased out because new materials were developed that have better bio-compatibility. We can texture the PVC catheters and achieve similar results as what we've already seen.

*Polyethelene is a common material for catheters, and while we can texture it the material forces us to add heat to the equation. Removing heat is a critical step that we removed cause it's time intensive. WORST case scenario, our method with heat is still cheaper and faster then current nanotexturing methods.
Good questions!

We use standard and well proven simulation techniques that have existed since the first half of the 20th century. We are however also verifying mesh convergence on each compute job, as well as verifying the output of the solver.

Topology optimization is inherently very computationally intensive by nature, though thanks to advances in computing that's becoming less of an issue.

A big component of topology optimization is the application of solution constraints. Users simply choose their manufacturing process, and then the software will mark all solutions that can't be manufactured by that process as invalid. So for example, when optimizing an injection molded part with a 2-piece mold, the optimizer will throw out any solutions which feature overhangs or internal cavities.

We're planning on riding the current buzz surrounding AI and automation in general. We plan to launch a social media campaign highlighting the effectiveness of topology optimization by comparing the performance of parts designed by our software versus those designed by a human competitor. Once we gain our initial userbase, growth should be straightforward once our business partners prove the advantage of using our software in industry.
The Official Definitions of Seed, Series A, and Series B Rounds
You say they "don't seem" to have experienced attacks. I'm assuming then you haven't asked them directly what kind of negative experiences they have had?

Try it out!
There is a big one, called FOX.
Since this is a distributed database, there are a few questions I have:

1. How does it handle network failures where the nodes have a mixed ability to communicate to each other? (Server A can talk to B, but not C. C can talk to B but not A)

2. How does it manage hosts with widely differing clocks?

If these haven't been developed/tested yet, how do you plan on solving those issues?
> Culturally, as an Eastern-educated Wisconsinite who was born in the South, I sometimes think I fit in better in your area than down here in the Bay Area proper.

My parents probably agree with your assessment of the area, as they both grew up in rural Wisconsin (Wabeno/Lakeview), and settled here close to forty years ago.

> it means I had the article open in a tab for months with the intent of submitting to HN at some appropriate time

I have the opposite problem, as I get a far larger proportion of my reading from HN than from external sources, and I've been thinking I need to fix that lately.

I knew my tab-bookmark prooblem was really bad when I had two separate tabs for Fogus best things and stuff lists for separate years, and each tab was started when they were first submitted. :/ (of course, this example is mitigated by the fact that a list such as that is not something that can, nor should, be consumed quickly).
I hate it. I hate it so much. I think if we spent $50,000,000,000 on infrastructure to support autonomous vehicles it would both be better and we'd see returns sooner. Light rail is expensive to build, slow to build, more expensive to maintain, and completely inflexible as needs of the city change.

I will vote no in the fall. And I'll encourage my friends to do so. This makes me a minority in Seattle but I'm ok with that.

Some additional food for thought: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-do...
This is some of the most clear, easy to following writing I've seen when talking about graphics programming. The illustrations are excellent too - good stuff!
Depends upon the university, if it is publicly funded or not. Tuition for private universities ranges from $1000-$10000 per year. Public universities - Less than $1000 per year, in many cases no tuition.
OT/pro-tip: the trick to reply when the reply button is gone is to click the timestamp and reply on the item's page instead.
I'm assuming you mean stents and artificial heart valve type implants. The short answer is no, however we have identified those implants and want to research applications on them when we have the resources to do so.

If you mean something else can you clarify?

Thank you for the question!
Might have run on a Windows NT variant. That was sort-of supposed to be a microkernel.
If you wanted to do evil, the NSA has already showed the ability to use the "quantum intercept" (return a response before the initial server does).

No need to even have the power of proxy if they are using bare http.
We will have HTTPS for all services when the beta goes live. Currently, we are just adding people to the waiting list via the website so we didn't feel it was a high priority compared to working on features. However, you have given us something to think about. Thanks for the feedback!
We will have HTTPS for all services when the beta goes live. Currently, we are just adding people to the waiting list via the website so we didn't feel it was a high priority compare to working on features. However, you have given us something to think about. Thanks for the feedback!
Food wise maybe.

But do you think your medicine, qualified doctors, medical equipment, internet, computers you use, movies and tv series you watch, trucks you drive and tons of other things besides grow on trees?

(Not to mention farming subsidies)
Leonard Fenton has spent the last 20 years restoring this mansion in Los Angeles
Not true. Being gay doesn't mess with anyone. Still dangerous for you in Russia.
AGPL is real show-stopper for serious adoption, IMO.
Very nice! Should we publicly apply uf we have already filled a yc application for this batch?
Thank you so much!

I don't have direct competitive benchmarks but it reads and writes at around 620k/qps.

It's in alpha right now at about 80% of completion.
I wonder how they celebrated ;)
It's true in isolation, but on the whole I consider skepticism to be much more useful and constructive than cynicism. Skepticism is being mindful of one's assumptions, whereas cynicism is just the opposite of optimism. Alternately, skepticism vs. cynicism is "don't assume anything" vs. "assume everything sucks". The former is actively trying to avoid cognitive bias, but the latter is embracing one bias to counteract another one.
Let's not let different characterizations get in the way of our common understandings...

The local architects would follow the leading architects from their industry, but lumping it into "mass media" was probably a bad characterization. I'd describe it as as a kind of communication-based centralization, regardless of whether specifically enabled by periodicals, telegraph, train, etc.

You could accomplish the same thing with a more-local architect at the town or city level, but would the smaller gains pay off?
(1) It is not very well established, but there is evidence supporting it[1]. The problem is EEGs previously were tens of thousands of dollars. We intend to do a study as soon as we have any sort of funding, and we already have people willing to participate, a facility, and a University of Illinois professor advising us [2].

(2) We plan to initially target therapists/psychologists as a way to monitor patients remotely. We will also sell direct-to-customer, and possibly connect them to a therapist/psychologist remotely, or they can use our software without the therapists (this is a less likely route, but we are already receiving emails about it).

Believe it or not, the adoption barrier isn't that high, because people are already trying things such as yoga, meditation, therapy, etc. This is essentially the same form of treatment, just in a different medium. We already have people signed up to pay for our trial, and have people email us regularly.

With a study to back it up, we believe we should have customers. However, we don't know if we wish to go this route. The end goal is to use the therapists initially and eventually automate the entire mental health pipeline.

[1] http://synaptitude.me/blog/literature-overview-of-using-neur...

[2] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Eut-aii72ch7nySpB_oGDLiJx_X...
Don't miss the reading list feature in Pinboard :)

Though I use Instapaper myself, I'd consider using it more in Pinboard if there were support for a parse webpages into plain text service.
Ah, I see. Thanks.

Yeah, I'm probably sleeping in a weird position. I have a history of doing that.
This is one of the best filters to screen for wife material!
Agreed but they act as middleware - security should be top priority.
> JavaScript is actually an incredibly flexible and effective language.

My problem with people who say such things is that they almost always have been saying the same thing for many years, while the language itself did several 180° turns and backflips.

"Classes are stupid, we don't need them!"
"Look, we have fake classes in ES6!"
"Asynchronous code is awesome!"
"Asynchronous code is horrible!"
"Prototype mutation is awesome and powerful!"
"Everything should be functional and immutable!"

If someone considers the current direction of JavaScript good, then they should have considered several previous directions absolutely idiotic. If, however, they are simply oblivious to the incessant flip-flopping of the "mainstream" JavaScript, their opinion about quality of any language is worth very little.
The benefits are to keep analytics on all upstream API calls. If you encounter a problem, with Brightwork you will quickly see if the problem is in your code or an upstream API that stopped responding or has increased latency.
This depends though. Did you live "all over the midwest" or in a specific state? The very same things people pointed they don't say, could be prevalent in a nearby state.
No, RethinkDB doesn't have disk encryption. The new encryption features in this release all relate to data on the wire.
Code let lottery vendor predict winning numbers, police say