skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, moot point. All it would take are a few large companies to hoist its downloads through this platform and provide the initial seed pool...

First candidate: Blizzard!
Oh hey Diego, didn't recognise your username! Great to see you applying to the fellowship, you definitely have the right 'hacker' mentality. (Just for the rest of HN's reference, Diego built a rig where you could watch yourself walk around in 3rd person like in a video game, using an Oculus rift and a camera drone).

Back to feedback:

- Linemetrics has been doing this sort of thing for industry for a little while, though more around energy usage. https://www.linemetrics.com/de/ If you already have a paying / letter of intent client for your system, you should have that front and center in your application.

- Where does the AI part come in? Those seem like fairly straightforward monitoring applications. What you wrote suggests that you would be able to tell customers what they should do about the anomalies/waste you detect, how do you plan to do that?

- Which of the industries you mentioned do you want to go after first?
Most of the car parks are underground, it's not like they are taking up viable office space.
'josh_carterPDX' claimed beta was open now in a comment earlier. Yet you're just adding people to the waiting list? That seems inconsistent.

Security is always a high priority and a fundamental feature for any stage of business. That is especially true when credentials and authorizations are intertwined.

It is SSL*.
Presumably it's to avoid suspicion and liability. Re-selling is strictly forbidden by the rules here, and losing your liquor license is the worst possible thing to happen to a club.

To put it in perspective: If there's a report of using drugs in the bathrooms nothing will happen, it takes too much police work to amount to anything, but a single incident of alcohol leaving the premises can get you shut down. They're super strict about this.
Highly varies by the program and university. When I started my graduation program in 2013, higher education from good universities in India would have had a fees of around 20k to 30K USD, or even more.

Of course, graduating from a good university here meant a lot more fees.

Unfortunately, and it is something that I really hate is that, the education loan system in India can really use an update - at least in terms of the loan amount that is offered to prospective students. As the bankers told me, there is a limit of roughly 25K USD that can be allowed for education within India. For those who want to get the loan for international programs, the limit is roughly 33K USD.

Now, for local education, that is a decent amount, though might not be sufficient in many cases. For international education, it is NOT sufficient. This restriction applies to government banks and they usually follow it.

Private banks have made a lucrative business out of this, and offer much larger loans to students at nasty, and often floating, interest rates (17% or so would be average.)

That becomes a hell of a loan to pay back even if you are earning in USD and returning in INR.
Their website seems to have a weird linking system. I found the page in question, and because their system is weird, the "get link" button doesn't really do a normal permalink, it just gives you a goo.gl link. Whoever wrote the article in question just copied what was in the URL bar, which doesn't work for any of the patents.

http://goo.gl/ZKRWCv
If you take the Ballard Connector to MSFT it is not that bad. 45-60 minutes depending on traffic. With the new 520 work on the Eastside, the carpool lanes are speeding things up dramatically and I expect it's closer to 45 most days (I'm in Phinney currently, and I'm usually at 45-50 minutes on the last stop).
Communities are choosing to use it largely because it's free, so I think it's fair to use the term in this context.
I think you have defined autonomy in a very specific way. That is not everyone's goal (what they want control over, or to feel like they are accomplishing).

I think the OP wanted control over building/shipping/creating products. Not life comforts, house, food on the table, free time. His goals would not be helped by a middle-class income, but more control over the products he was building.
I am also very frustrated by transit advocates who don't seem to realize just how bad the bus experience is and just how strongly that shapes public attitudes about public transit. Every time a train or trolley proposal comes along you get all these people yammering on about how much money we could save with "BRT", not realizing that you save that money FOR A REASON, by settling for a crappy, uncomfortable experience.

[p.s.: there is actually a term in transit-nerd circles, "rail bias" - as though people have an unreasonable preference for trains when other transit modes would do just as well. So far as I can see, "rail bias" is a myth - the truth is merely "bus aversion".]
> You don't deploy the RAT unless shit is going sideways.

We can't also confirm nor deny that RAT is a hand-picked acronym to make the "rats leaving the ship, we're doomed" joke.
Other commenters have mentioned safety, but if you can execute safety really well, this could work for toddlers, since they can stay still during a haircut.
Hi! Monetization is pretty straightforward - allow authors to sell their stories.

Also I'm thinking about experimenting with the kind of monetization blendle.com is using - people automatically pay a small fee for reading a story(automatically refundable if they didn't like it).

Edit:

fixed the link to blendle.
clickable link: http://www.computationalhealthcare.com
Well you can take the job on the risk that you learn something, get promoted and get a better job. But I agree, even for the median wage programmer it is too expensive.
This sounds awesome

You mentioned that your process doesn't require a clean room. What are the regulations around getting a catheter "approved" for human use? Do you need to run some expensive trials or is this something that you can scoot around?

ie. If I wanted to use your catheters tomorrow, other than a repeatable manufacturing process whats stopping me from ordering a few thousand and putting them to use?
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There's also a lack of experience dealing with (comparatively) large amounts of money. When I was in high school, a hundred dollars seemed like a lot of money. It's hard to compare the costs of rent, food, transportation, insurance, interest payments against potential income, when all those numbers sound like unfathomably-huge sums of money.

I think you have to live at a certain income level for awhile to really understand how much money you're making and what things cost relative to that. You can make a mock budget as a high-schooler (I was required to do that for one of my classes), but it's hard to know if the numbers you're plugging into your budget are even remotely realistic.
The beta is open to some folks that have already signed up. The waitlist is for new beta users. Sorry for the confusion.
You can get a sense of the scale for the subprime/Alt-A market here: http://bp3.blogger.com/_pMscxxELHEg/RxzD0s_7EYI/AAAAAAAABB4/...

That graph shows you the size of the actual loans, but there was also a sizeable amount of money tied up in derivatives of those loans, which multiplied the effect.
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Thanks for that link. To me, 'supercharging' is the act of charging. And he specifically said supercharging, not supercharger hardware. So that is where the confusion came from.
I think there is something to this. I believe humans are inertial driven machines opting to invest more time and energy in actions that result in positive outcomes. But for every example of an action I can think of where past history is indicative or future success (say going to the gym for example), I can also think of an action where a person feels diminishing returns on the results to the point where they get sick of it. (eating the same food for every meal)

I think there has to be some sort of classification of actions. Actions where excessive repetition leads to disillusion and actions where excessive repetition leads to addiction.
> 2) Education loans can't be wiped out in bankruptcy because

One can opt in for an unsecured personal loan, which are wiped out in bankruptcy, but those come at higher rates to compensate for the risk. The reason for low(er) rates on student loans is their legislatively mandated low rates of default.
> Bizarrely, I misread it as an overcomplicated ASCII art divider.

No worries!

> Strict mode then gives you slightly better protection than in many otherwise more robust languages (Python and Ruby, for example).

I really dislike that aspect of Python; IMHO it's a pretty bad flaw.

> On the ASI side, I don't see how it can be 'incorrect'

I think it's incorrect in the sense that it's such a bad design that the Right Thing to do is to always use semicolons manually (with the corollary that if the design is such that one never uses them — as with Go — then it must be correct).

> I'm assuming by generic functions you're talking about eg. Clojure protocols or Haskell typeclass functions or stuff like that

I'm thinking Lisp's multimethods. Behaviour doesn't really belong to one object or another, an uniquely privileging the first argument is just weird.

> I return to my main point - no, JS is not a great piece of language design, but it's hardly 'nuke from orbit' bad.

If it weren't for the installed base, I think JavaScript would be only two steps ahead of INTERCAL …
Facebook circa 2016 comes up because it's been a ubiquitous hub but that seems to be its fatal flaw. It's lame once you have to be associated with Grandma and the whole UI looks like AOL.

[1] https://31.media.tumblr.com/106e7e5598f02c6017fb6e146dea465f...
Why are course 7 majors not allowed to do this? Weird.
I recommend the DE0-Nano:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/451

Altera's tools are much nicer for the beginner to use than ones offered by Xilinx. This board also has a lot of peripherals you can interface with (ADC, accelerometer, etc.) to grow your skills.
Is the client open source? Don't want to install closed source programs on our systems.
How big is your team and what are their backgrounds?

Do you have a specific industry/customer you'll target first? Are they already using engineering services firms for this work, and can you do it cheaper/faster?

Are they really on social media? I would have thought that these people would be more likely found on a trade-show floor. This sounds like a pretty sales-heavy market, how will you get past the relationships a lot of incumbents will have built up over time?

Or is your plan to go after new entrants / give access to firms who want it but can't get it yet?

How do you prove your part is better than the human designed one, what's the key metric for 'better' for your customers ?

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For the record, I think this is a really cool idea and probably the future of a lot of the downstream end of mechanical/process engineering, but execution is going to be everything.

I'm working with a lot of optimization right now in computer vision applications, and we're seeing the compute restrictions come down pretty quickly around this stuff too. It would be nice to have a general optimization engine somewhere I could just dump my problem into though.
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I'll vote no but for the opposite reason: I think we need lots more light rail and we need it in Seattle, not in the suburbs.

Autonomous vehicles cannot possibly solve our transportation problems because the best they can do to reduce congestion is nothing; at worst, they will aggravate problems by increasing the number of trips taken.
If I remember my RethinkDB history correctly, they picked the realtime web as their focus a while back.

Also, RethinkDB has kept their focus on real-time use cases since picking this focus.
You can't inject wealth into the system at the demand side like that! The rabble will spend it all on natty ice and chalupas! Gotta give it to the job creators!
Need the magic letters "CS"? Just add it like Scott Thompson did http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/13/technology/yahoo-ceo-out/
Thanks for the feedback!

Engineering analysis is already a pretty much solved problem. Topology optimization, however, has a lot of benefits that have yet to be realized, and it's much more well suited to the SaaS model because of how computationally intensive it is, since the analysis needs to be performed many thousands of times.

Because we outsource the capital cost of server hardware to AWS, we can scale linearly with demand which allows us to accept lower margins than our competitors. Our strategy is to make up for lower margins by reaching a much larger audience in industry than our competitors.
At least the lender can make extra considerations. Career choice, academic history, etc. Better than lending any amount to anyone and still have a guaranteed payment.
City administrations are not good at figuring out the needs of transportation especially when they give less importance to market needs and focus more on propaganda.

D.C.'s Metro system: http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/20/dc-metro-repairs-closed-es...
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Please don't post promotional comments in these threads. It's obviously not what they're for.

(You overdid it in the announcement thread too, but we decided to cut you some slack there—an excess of enthusiasm isn't the worst thing.)
Yes, because if there's one thing America needs, it's more class stratification.
"Street" has E, for East and West, they all also have a T Street sounds like East.

"Avenue" has N for North and U for South
Facebook already is one fricking giant database because it's searchable. Go ahead, try searching for "Branting Monument" on Facebook, it's a statue in Sweden.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11418949
You are right about raised busses being more comfortable. Unfortunately, they cannot be used for mass transit, as it takes to long to get a wheelchair or stroller onto them :(.
The short answer is voters.

The longer answer is complicated.

1. Some urban planning decisions are made at the state, not local, level, which means that more housing gets built and prices are lower: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/6/11370258/honan-zoning-reform-bil....

2. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is insane. For example, it allows anyone to sue anyone building anything on environmental grounds.

3. CA has Prop 13, which is also insane, and Prop U in LA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_U which is insane. Prop U encourages some people at the margins to pick SF over LA.

4. SF has rent control, which means that many voters are encouraged to say no to everything.

5. The cities' histories are different: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing. SF has a longer history of radical, economically illiterate politics than Seattle.

6. Seattle's city government is not quite as reasonable as it looks. Google "The Seattle Process" or Kshama Sawant. It only looks better than SF because SF has uniquely terrible voters.
Your ignoring proportional representation it's not first past the post so most states will be contested. Senitors are still going by person, congress becomes vote for the party. As a bonus third party's can have a real shot in larger states.

Of note you would still want more people in congess.
Tim Geithner has not been Treasury Sec in years. Jack Lew is the current head.
> The problem is that undergraduate degrees are more and more a prerequisite for getting any job

That is dependent on the economic cycle. In boom times employers hire anybody with a pulse, in bust times the glut of resumes for a job opening makes employers choosy. If out of all resumes for a retail associate job one candidate stands out due to his MBA and experience, he will likely get the job. That does not imply, however, that all retail associate positions now require MBAs.
And when Seattle tries to build its own in-city solutions, county/state voters vote to block it.
This is a great answer and makes me even more intrigued.
Mostly it is the federal government doing the lending, not the schools. Eligibility is fixed by law and has nothing to do with ability to repay.
Isn't this money squandered, if autonomous vehicles are likely by the time of its completion?
Absolutely. I was just trying to illustrate where a single tool doesn't pose a threat to BI companies, particularly from a consulting angle.

Tools like Segment and yours are invaluable. I work for a Microsoft partner, so often am stuck in that ecosystem for better or worse, but the problems and solutions in the BI space are largely universal and transcend specific tools. Even when the tools make individual tasks trivial, the overall architecture and design of a data pipeline and visualization solution leave plenty of room for companies like the one I work for.
The alarming increase in the use of the death penalty across the world last year
Which CPU did you try?
I'll check out bende.com Thanks for the tip.

edit:hrmm.. bende.com sells a lot of meat. I think I got trolled.
Federal loan rate history:
http://www.finaid.org/loans/historicalrates.phtml

I consolidated but I know that some of mine were at 6.8% fixed thanks to this lovely change:

2006-07: Replacement of separate variable in-school/grace and repayment rates on the Stafford Loan with a single fixed rate of 6.8%. Replacement of variable interest rates on the PLUS Loan with a fixed rate of 8.5% (FFELP) and 7.9% (DL).
What makes a tram different from a bus?
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Yup, and the article's fancy header graphic? It's of the Google diabetes-monitoring contact lens project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contact_Lens Definitely not misleading...
I also think there's a simple solution, but entirely different from the one you propose. I wish that k-12 would focus on job prep. Most jobs really don't need specialized degrees - If our public schools were worth a damn there's no reason kids couldn't graduate ready to work. Leave university for highly specialized fields and intellectual pursuits. I think it's a shame that our public school system is failing kids so badly that they can't even get jobs without taking on tremendous personal debt.
No, we need to change the structure of education. There's zero reason to spend 4 years taking general ed courses at the same cost to pursue a history degree as you would spent pursuing a science degree. Stop focusing on the lettered degrees which are supposed to prove "overall knowledge" and then a specialty, and let people take courses a la carte when it comes to professional preparation.

We need people to be knowledgeable in things like history, the arts, languages, even archaeology - things that pay almost nothing as careers. It's very easy to sit on a high horse with a well paying job in a STEM field and say things like you're saying. Actively discouraging people from pursuing study is not the answer. Changing the program and the institutionalization of education is. We need to stop worrying about how to pay for a program and start worrying about why the program is what it is.
AGPL is used by a number of DBs such as MongoDB and Neo4j. I'm sure there are others, but these two are top of mind.

RethinkDB's drivers are Apache or MIT (I can't remember which).

Licensing the server as GPL/AGPL while making drivers Apache/MIT is an accepted practice in the database world as it provides the DB vendor with opportunities to protect revenue while the driver licenses protect developers from the GPL/AGPL.
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The article literally has a chart showing that the current candidates are all speaking at a higher level, and that the remaining candidates, Democrat and Republican, are speaking at 8th 9th, and 10th grade levels. Of the current cohort of candidates only Kasich is near Trump.

If you're talking about presidents (which is unfair, the type of speech you give as president vs candidate, and debates are different), it's clear that although the trend was downward, for the past few presidents the average level was about 8th grade:

http://www.vocativ.com/interactive/usa/us-politics/president...

Trump speaks at a 4th grade level. Probably intentionally.
Ehh, Seattle and Washington's government isn't any better than other cities and states. You just don't hear about the junk going on unless you live in the state. Our state funding for education is a complete joke and the state congress refuses to give funding that was mandated by the state supreme court (http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/supreme-c...). The right side of the state (towards Idaho) is much, much different than the Seattle area and is always at odds with what Seattle wants. For every awesome transit project there are many other quagmires like our Bertha big dig that's been spinning its wheels and wasting money for years now.
They may be getting the same rebate, but they aren't paying the same tax. If the rebate is the same for all, then those who use less will make a profit, considering the $rebate - $tax amounts, while those using more will pay more tax than they get in rebates. (This is assuming a revenue neutral arrangement).
If this colored or underlined words past the 1000 rank, instead of removing them, it would be less offensive to my sensibilities.
It may have been intentional or it may not have; I could hardly fault her for subconsciously "performing" given the context.
If you're doing the counter commute, Kirkland->Seattle Business District in the morning, 520 is a great option. Most people have abandoned it due to the toll, but the only area where things get sticky is the merge from 405->520 where you need to merge left twice in short order and then merge left again directly after the Burgermaster exit. The merge across I5 to the Union exit is annoying since the backup for the Mercer exit (and people that never realized the needed to take Mercer) extends almost to 520, but if you wait in the third lane from left until you pass Mercer, you can usually merge gracefully right and take Union.

The return commute is only screwy when there's a big con - SakuraCon for example.

I did take Mercer for the three months I worked at Lab 126 in Fiona, but I assume it's better now that construction is over. It was much worse.
You said, "Our beta is open now if you're interested.", to another intrigued commenter 1 hour ago. It's changed since then?
What would be interesting is a greasemonkey script that scales the size of words to be proportional to the log of their frequency.
A tram does not need a suspension system because the rails are flat. That means that the tram doesn't bounce around or sway. The flat rails are also much more efficient due to reduced friction.
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That would be the stereotypical wrong answer.
Counterpoint: I am reading this quite comfortably on one of Seattle's "rapid ride" buses out of downtown right now. I agree that the regular buses tend to suck, but the rapidride refinements are quite nice. Dedicated lanes, much more spacious buses and rail-style tolling (meaning you can enter in any door, much improving stop times) help a lot.
And 5-6 figure unsecured personal loans are available to 18 year olds with no assets or credit history?
IntelliJ uses same model I believe.
I rode a bus for years, it wasn't an awful experience at all.

Until massive amounts of money stop chasing American real estate, it's the only option. It would be cheaper to provide free uber than to build a train line in any moderate sized American city.
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