skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One nice advantage of wind and solar farms is that they can be added incrementally. Maybe you would need just as many millions of investment in infrustructure to get the same output capacity but you can start with 1/10 of the required capital, set it up and have it online and keep adding as you go.
Not to mention numerous migrations over the Bering, one of the most resent, the Inuit migration, happened around the same time as the Norse explorations.
Some thoughts/advice: IMHO, what Linkedin really misses is a good community. I know there are different groups on there but my impression is that they are of really low quality and the UI/UX is really lacking. I never find it worthwhile to try discussing anything on Linkedin. As it is today, LI seems to be used primarily by recruiters and they are ”merely” middlemen. A ”Linkedin killer” should place the customer (i.e. the people it wants to help being successful) in the front seat. A replacement for Linkedin need to find incentives for professionals to visit the site no only for the purpose of applying to a job. How else would you make the ”gainfully employed” visit your site and participate? Keep in mind that most people are not constantly looking for new jobs, so if that’s the only purpose of the site some users will visit too infrequently to build a good community feeling. Personally, I would love to have a good forum for discussing topics related to working in the tech/IT fields. (E.g. salary negotation, how to collaborate successfully within a company, career advancement, etc.) HN fills this need to some extent, but it’s mostly focused on ”news” articles. Reddit’s subreddits are generally either too silent or to noisy. Anyone trying to build a community today would probably be well served by studying the principles behind HN and the UI of Discourse(.org). Creating a real ”Facebook for professionals” would not be easy, but could really be a hit if it’s done right.
What is the Internet supposed to be mean? Because if the FB site for your community center is able to reach more community members through FB than on their own that's kind of awesome. A free service is making your community a better place!
@dang: Apologies if this has been said elsewhere, and hopefully it doesn't get lost in the noise.

If upvotes are the most important metric, then vote counts should be hidden to viewers at least prior to their voting. This prevents the situation we have here with news articles where an initial small/fast scurry of upvotes is the only way to capture the attention of the larger audience. In this situation the first few votes likely have far more influence than they should.
Scrum is awful, but this short video at least has everything you need to know
Mental illness is different because in many cases, the people in question are do not possess the faculties required to live normally, decently, or (in rare cases, peacefully) in society. They often end up in jail. A proud person's only choice here is institutionalization of some sort. The alternative is the status quo: the able suffer injuries to their own rights, the mentally ill suffer indignities they had no hand in creating, and the able end up paying just as much to keep them in jail anyway.

In a sense, I think the reason someone is poor is more important than the fact that they're poor at some given moment in time. I believe that a just system concerns itself with making it possible for those who desire more wealth and are able to earn it to do so, no matter what their present level of wealth is. For the remaining handful of people that don't fit into that category (and don't suffer from a grave mental illness)? Hey, no one is stopping you from helping them.
Very cool announce!

Do you think running webtorrent under Duktape could work (with appropriate network APIs) ?
Squarespace is apparently pretty popular for small websites and it's not especially expensive--but it's not free and I appreciate that the difference between free and $10-20/month is a big difference for a community group or other small non-commercial organization/individual that just wants a page up on the Web.
Delightfully Orwellian.
Would water and sewage services actually be cut off in the event of inability to pay? Seems like a potential health hazard for neighbours &c.

UK: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/water/water-suppl...
>>what's stopping you

As I say, there's not many ideas that seem inspiring, and as you rightly point out, I'm committed to my own foolish ideas.
Show HN: Custom User Story Cards
"Apply HN: Apply HN voting bots as a service"
Your post does not disagree with the person you're replying to. You don't need to "dress up" your comments. If you just don't say anything you wouldn't say in person, to a person you've just met, you're probably okay.
Homeland Security Dept. Struggles to Hire Staff to Combat Cyberattacks
My concern is that the relationship between time to create content and financial reward will dissuade people from adopting your platform.
Huawei unveils P9 and P9 Plus phones with Leica-engineered dual cameras
One of the best talks I've ever seen was Aaron Swartz talking about how Victory Kit used multi-armed bandits to optimize political action: https://github.com/victorykit/whiplash
Actually, I think .1% might be right. .00001% is much, much richer than you are probably thinking.

99.9th percentile US net worth is about 30 million: http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2015/files/20...

Arbitrarily assuming a 5% return on that, that's 1.5 million dollars a year, which is about $5K per day.

Go out to the club with a few of your .1% friends, and you are right in the $25K per table ballpark while still staying within budget.
Indeed. The main idea behind Snapchat was the the parents cannot monitor what you send.
Man this is great. And very true. There are almost no programmers good enough to write their own rules at a large company.
sorry you have been downvoted. i completely agree with you. i find this to be a truly misguided project.

edit: i see that some are saying it's a joke. Poe's Law [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
"Also the variance between median days and calm days for wind is far less extreme than generally assumed."

Actually, the variance is worse than assumed by enthusiasts. Here's today's output from wind, hour by hour, for the entire CAISO area, which is about 400 miles across and covers most of California.[1] Today was a bad day; about 10x variation between peak wind and minimum wind. 5:1 is typical; a good day is 2:1.

You can also see similar data for PJM, which covers the Northeastern US.[2] Today's wind variation is about 2:1.

There's a myth that, with enough transmission distance, fluctuations in wind will average out. The two largest power grids in the US aren't seeing that. Maybe for the whole planet, but not for any area one can reasonably interconnect.

[1] http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/DailyRenewablesWatch...
[2] https://dataviewer.pjm.com/dataviewer/pages/public/windpower...
PDF is only open until Microsoft says they'll include it in MS Office-- then Adobe threatens lawsuits over it. http://betanews.com/2006/06/02/microsoft-to-drop-pdf-support...

(Sorry, not really relevant, I just had to comment on how "open" PDF is.)
This 112-year-old company is making enormous tables for the Apple Campus 2
It's entirely about tax avoidance, thats the whole point of using a Delaware Corp and why they're so popular.

The fact they're standard is irrelevant to the parent's claim. They're only standard because nobody wants to voluntarily pay extra state taxes. And for some reason it's both legal and generally socially acceptable to have a corporation that has its office and effectively does its business in another state be legally based in Delaware to avoid state tax.

Edit - adding link to 2012 NYT article :
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/business/how-delaware-t...
> `now` doesn't seem to be using shrinkwrap

They aren't? I haven't tried a deployment, but was hoping/assuming they'd upload a shrinkwrap along with everything else and that it would drive the install as per usual.

> I’m still not 100% if I get what they are doing or not.

I think their angle is to lower barriers to entry close to zero for cloud deployments, and thus drain a shallow ocean. "Shallow" in the sense that there are devs who are interested, but maybe not interested enough to buy into terminology like "dynos" or "cartridges" or "lambdas". "Ocean" in the sense that there are (supposedly) quite a few of these people.
I have the same experience in Seattle
As I understood it, the way they formulated the ruling says that it only becomes a problem when it reaches "commercial proportion", or "commercial value". According to the ruling it would be illegal for Facebook to do a similar database, the difference here being that Facebook is not creating such a database, and afaik no single Facebook user has attempted it either.

However I'm interested in what the case is with Google Ingress and their effort to make public art etc. more accessible through a smartphone-game using GPS and images.

Furthermore, yes, this is all madness.
While you do have a point, I don't think there is a single first-world country where it is legal. That means that everyone in power, everywhere, agrees on this at least to some degree, meaning that it probably won't change any time soon.
Like every attempt at generative music I've heard so far:

Intellectually interesting... but musically unlistenable.
Any way this could be done with Microsoft Azure as well?
He has the best words!
This actually sounds pretty good. While most freelancers really shouldn't charge by the hour, this could be a good solution to a real problem.
Apply HN: PlanitWide – A network marketplace for planning travel
Our travel planning platform provides a purpose-built organizer for “careful planners” to research and plan their trip. This organizer comes pre-populated with information to research every aspect of a trip. Users can also gain assistance from our community of pro and semi-pro specialists who have targeted expertise and local relationships.

We think that an effective travel market-network has to cater to four key aspects as part of an integrated workflow:
1. Dreaming: The inspiration/desire
2. Planning: The research
3. Buying: Booking and itinerary creation
4. Consuming: Everything done on the trip and then shared

For this to happen, certain conditions needed to exist. Over several decades, one or more of these conditions has been made possible (ie., the internet and smartphones) with some materializing only recently (ie., collaborative economy, niche communities)

Now that these conditions finally exist, a travel market-network can become a reality. What’s needed is a community-driven platform that bridges the information sources to the consumer by offering a systematic research and planning method. This is what will bring the Dream-Plan-Buy-Consume aspects of travel together to be catered to effectively by this market-network.

Status: We used a prototype to validate the “single player” utility of the product before we moved on to the network effect pieces. We are currently revamping the user experience based on feedback.
ARGGHHHHH! Poor zrebak!

http://imgur.com/dc4Ek81
Currently migrating from a users-as-a-service startup to rethinkdb. So far query language has been intuitive (need to query via the length of a nested array? Got it) and rethink community on StackOverflow etc has been solid. Another thumbs up.
It's a delicate question. There's an irresistible temptation to spend lavishly once you pass the $40 psychological milestone. I don't want to make the same mistake YCombinator made.
I use it. It's a nice place to follow news organizations and argue with complete strangers in the comment sections of the articles they post. Discussions seem to be less quarrelsome, YMMV. The communities are nice for following hobbyist interests. I don't use it at all for following friends or family.
I first started using C# professionally in 2003, after starting out with the betas. I helped implement some key .NET support for the Delphi compiler when I worked at Borland.

I'm quite familiar with the evolution since then too. For example, back in 2006, I advocated implementing a CPS transformation to make better use of async code in .NET:

http://blog.barrkel.com/2006/07/fun-with-asynchronous-method...

It only took 7 years for async methods to come out, but they're there now; and I understand their utility in no small part because I was one of the people asking for them.
Sure thing!

Video 1: Sity Intro Promo Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQW-HVymtg&feature=youtu.be

Video 2: Sity App Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3zNsAg0ctI

Sorry if the video production value is not that high. We are currently focused on the launch and getting paying customers. Once we are a bit more established we will have some better videos for you.

If you have any questions or would like to try it out feel free to sign up and reach out dana@sity.io
It's different in New York and San Francisco. Here it is much less common to drive for both. Lyft drivers and passengers tend to be younger, and are more likely to be talkative.

In New York I really couldn't tell any difference.
I kind of want to take this at face-value and say how great it is that they're making visually-impaired viewers a priority.
Have a friend with tattoos everywhere; his recent remarks about a local yacht club had a layer of loath attached. It's as if he despises my 1) access and 2) ability to stroll around (no visible tattoos). He grew up inland, I didn't. His mom thinks money is bad, my family doesn't. The difference in the details make all the difference !
So we can all write like potheads think!

Before downvoting me, and you will, do consider that I have zero scientific evidence for the above sarcastic comment; however, anecdotally speaking, all long-term pot smokers that I happen to know seem to speak with 1000 common words, or less.
What’s your plan to reaching profitability? Have you run any ”pilot groups” and how did they get along?
So when they decided back in 1979 to remove instead of replace the faulty safety valve whose absence caused the leak, was no one aware that a leak could lead to two weeks of blackouts in LA?

Which is worse, that they knew and didn't replace the valve anyway, or that no one knew?
Poor people are actually great early adopters in this case because they have the highest marginal propensity to consume (i.e. what money they get, they're more likely to spend). Gresham Dollar's longevity depends on people spending it. Plus, with poor people, we can make a big impact with a small basic income.

The way we'll set it up is that nobody will lose money they already had. I can get into detail about how this works if you want, but what it boils down to is that when we stop having enough USD to continue to back people's additional basic incomes, existing GD that they already have in their accounts is still guaranteed to convert to USD.

The plan is to expand beyond poor people and beyond the United States, but we definitely do not want to start with non-poor people.

Besides, if we get a foot in the door with poor people, it would be hard for government regulators to decide to to shut us down. For exactly the reason you said, they'd be harming a lot of people.
It may provide the income stream, but it doesn't provide the same incentive to deliver. And strong-arming your customers is basically never a good move.
It's a South Korean patent, no idea what their expiry is.
Weird example if you ask me. New Yorkers get about an hour of physical activity a day just from transportation, and have a culture of looking more attractive than in other cities, which includes fitness. I find it pretty hard to find a fat person on the subway in NYC.

In contrast, few people in Florida away from the beach seem to work out at a gym, and very few people bike (drivers there see cyclists as fun moving targets). It's often too gross outside to do physical activity, whether it's raining or hot as balls.
As anyone ever written an artistically worthy novel with only those 1,000 words? Sounds like an interesting lipogram.

Also, is there a Vim plugin to do that?
Heh.. I'm tempted to submit an Apply HN on the idea of "Force Google to do customer service (using HN)".
If this existed a year or two ago I would apply, but now I can't :(
That is interesting. What about languages other than English? Any idea about the avg. word count needed to learn them? (Used on TV does seem like a good benchmark for "learned). Or is it roughly the same for every language, do you think?
[Disclaimer: I previously worked for Optimizely as predictive analytics PM - but no longer work there, and don't speak for the company.]

Optimizely has a bandit based 'traffic auto-allocation' feature in production on select enterprise plans [1]; bandits are excellent in a wide range of situations, and have many advantages, but like anything, have design parameters and there are some caveats you have to be aware of to make sure you are using them effectively.

On Frequentist and Bayesian:
Optimizely's stats engine combines elements of both Frequentist and Bayesian statistics. They have a blog that tries to touch on this issue [2]
But this is subtle stuff - and there are a lot of trade-offs, and different perspectives; look at the Bayesian/frequentist debate which has been going on for decades among statisticians.

But, FWIW, I definitely saw Optimizely as an organisation make a big investment to produce a stats engine which had the right trade-offs for how their customers were trying to test; and I think the end result was way more suitable than 'traditional' statistics were.

[1] https://help.optimizely.com/hc/en-us/articles/200040115-Traf...
"Traffic Auto-allocation automatically adjusts your traffic allocation over time to maximize the number of conversions for your primary goal. [...]
To learn more about how algorithms like this work, you might want to read about a popular statistics problem called the “multi-armed bandit.”"

[2] https://blog.optimizely.com/2015/03/04/bayesian-vs-frequenti...
"Yet as we developed a statistical model that would more accurately match how Optimizely’s customers use their experiment results to make decisions (Stats Engine), it became clear that the best solution would need to blend elements of both Frequentist and Bayesian methods to deliver both the reliability of Frequentist statistics and the speed and agility of Bayesian ones."
Yeah cold and dark isn't the best mix for encouraging you!

Does sound like you're doing the right things, so good luck with it.
I think the point is that people don't particularly care whether TE will be able to provide more stable updates, because they are fine with the current functionality at the current price.

Perhaps in this case TE should have done a better job of positioning the value that would come from their ability to deliver more stable updates, etc. I'm not familiar with TE, but do you think it's users would view that it was unreliable and needing regular updates or new features?
First, I really like your startup, best of luck with it :)

>> Only the largest players in the market have access to it, and even then it's only applied to a limited domain of problems

In that case, why it's applied only to a limited domain ? It's not a financial issue, the fixed costs are already paid ? Or in most cases capacity if full and it would require expensive purchases ?
Tim Cook has a southern accent.
Whenever I hear the word "amazing", the association that leaps most readily to the fore of my brain is the word "doubleplusgood".
I faced this same decision (for very similar reasons) about 15 years ago, and decided to go the management track (I'd been a back-seat manager before that too). I enjoyed helping "underlings" succeed, was well-respected (not always popular) by those people I managed, had some good mentors, and had some good success moving up the ladder. I was reluctantly getting used to the fact that I spent most of my time in meetings, and made no direct contribution to the bottom line of the company.

After 3 years a programming job came up from a company that was an early adopter of telecommuting and had (organically) adopted many business concepts since popularized by 37Signals (i.e. better job by eliminating the crap). The company I was at was asphyxiating due to 2008 crash, so I took the leap. Coincidentally I had read 4 Hour Week around that time. I knew it was a potential "step back", but it seemed like a better way to work (I could be a programmer, and strongly influence the direction of the company, and have a much better work-life balance).

Best choice I ever made. I have since changed jobs twice (first company got bought out by a bigger public company, who ruined the fun with bureaucracy), but what I look for now is a company that is structured in a way that front-line technical people (and Support people, and Sales people) can meaningfully influence the success and direction of the company, and the executive management spends most of their time with sleeves rolled up, coding or closing deals, and very little time as overlords. Those companies are out there, more now than before.

Many people who I have worked with in the past are now in executive positions. They often try to persuade me to move into management (so far, unsuccessfully). Some of them make more money than I do (that, fortunately has also changed in the last 10 years). All of them spend their days doing things that I would enjoy less than what I get to do, the things I would have been doing if I'd stayed on the executive track. The pay/asset difference would not make up for the work and life I enjoy now.

YMMV
That you can't see how much of a dick you're being when you accuse someone of playing "buzzword bingo" is proof to me that you can't be anything but a god damned troll. This isn't about having different viewpoints. This is about you objectively being an asshole.

Edit: Sorry, TRIGGER WARNING: Real things are being said.
Posted images contain far more information that what is posted in text. Scroll through your feed, people upload images then write a header that adds to the scene. It doesn't describe it. There is so so much more information to gain from parsing images, I can't believe you can't see that, and can only assume you aren't thinking this through properly.
it literally says "now: realtime node.js deployments" on the top on the page.

> You literally just stole some of my life.
he absolutely did not! You decided to spend time investigating what now is, he did not steal anything from anyone.
ITIL vs. DevOps in Financial Service Organizations
How can you be committed to your own ideas and at the same time announce you're willing to abandon them the moment you see a different idea that "blows you away"? And if you're not that committed to your own ideas, the odds aren't good that you'll stick with them long term.
I have no data, but I suspect it is similar.
Thanks!

Which browser/OS are you on? I've alerted Tomasz & Judith about the zrebak losing its head ... :P
I'm okay with the cost going up.
'Walking man' settles into new life, friends, waist size
I personally use http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ when I think I've gone a bit lazy in the way I have written an article.
The US currently has (minimum) tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of untested rape kits.

Sometimes the kits are not tested because both people agree that sex happens, but they disagree on consent.

But if police don't care about actual rape why do you think they'll do anything about sexual assault or harassment?