skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be frank, my first reaction on reading this idea was negative.

I think part of my reaction is because I'm not seeing a useful goal: "interesting things" is certainly a goal, but strikes me as being too vague from which to extract useful information. What are interesting things? If you don't know what they are, how will you know if they happened? Are you set up to measure interesting things? If so, can you quantify them, and what sort of sensitivity/specificity, dynamic range, etc. do you expect your instrumentation to provide? What is the duration/endpoints of the experiment? Does the experimental design support the objective, and with what power does the experiment have to inform?

I think that the other part of my reaction is that, as an experimental scientist, I am specifically trained against doing something so unstructured. Practical considerations like safety and budgetary waste aside, I am the person I trust least: it's very easy to fool oneself about the significance of a result with an ongoing experiment that one is conducting. Experimental discipline, like planning ahead (and preregistration) and blinding and good controls, serve to promote objectivity and help reduce bias.

I have no doubt that this experiment would produce "interesting things". I am very skeptical that, as presented, you would know why it produced interesting things.

Of course, I'm just a dog on the internet. Best of luck!
I like people who dare to come up with another social network, but why is this better? If you say you're "just another" you're declaring you have no advantage.
Given any consideration to giving some percentage of the profit YC makes to charity or something? After all, YC is benefiting from the wisdom of the crowd and the crowd gets nothing.
Not sure, but maybe you could test by showing people two similar colors and asking them to decide if the are identical.

With enough samples (and enough individual participants) you establish how many "statistically-significant distinguishable differences" exist along a given path through the color-space.

Then combine those and get a sort of topographic grid...
Nvidia  bets big on AI with powerful new chip
Read the very first sentence. There's no qualifier.

The thirty day part applies to you if you don't pay much in taxes.
I'm not sure I understand your question. Basically, Gresham Dollar is a currency that's backed by USD reserves. A debit card is a card you carry around that lets you directly spend your bank deposits.

One of the initial Gresham Dollar payment methods may end up looking very much like a debit card. To start, we will be handing out Gresham Dollar accounts to poor people. We want to make it as simple as possible for them to use.
> Services that do support client-side encryption (AeroFS, BTSync, SpiderOak, etc) seem to have other issues (Closed source client, poorly performing client, etc). As far as I know, Box's KeySafe also only claims that Box won't have access to your keys. They will still have access to your files (which is what the keys are supposed to protect anyway).

I can't imagine anyone with any understanding of security being willing to use a closed source client to handle encryption. If you don't know how it's working, you don't know it's working.

> What file sync solution do you use today? What kind of issues do you have with it?

For servers, configs, and general "small stuff": tarsnap

For big/static things: GPG + S3

For ultra private: pass + git on a private server

No issues with any of these and all three are highly recommended.
I'm so tired of sites trying to bring animated/turnable pages to the web. Pages make sense when you're constrained to to the size of a physical book, but here on the web you can have infinitely long pages with sections divided however you want. There should be no need to click a button to advance or split your text by what fits onto a page, and it certainly shouldn't need to break the Find tool.

I have to admit that some of these books make great use of the layout, with 2-page wide drawings and text fit around the illustration. However, that same effect can be accomplished with vertical scrolling (as Medium has done) and those 2-page wide drawings get split in half on mobile where only one page is visible at a time.
Companies know we want it, and have gotten better at talking the talk (e.g. technical career tracks.) But look into how that actually works. For most people it's much harder, if it happens at all.

I speak as a guy at the end of the technical track, on my second consecutive job of "look, you make as much as we'll pay just-a-programmer, even an architect, here."

Many managers are now convinced things are better. I never talk to anybody high-up on that track who thinks so. Of course, most companies don't have anybody high up on a technical career ladder, but are convinced it's going to be fixed any year here.

Fundamentally, as long as it's even 20% easier to get promoted as a manager, people are going to intentionally pick that track. In practice, it's usually 2x-5x easier to get promoted as a manager.

I don't think that's fixable. At some point, executives have to decide who to promote. Executives, like the rest of us, prefer people who have skills like theirs - I bias in favor of programming skills for the same reason.

But executive bias toward their own skills mean people managers get promoted.

I've never worked at Google. But I know a lot of Googlers. I don't think I'm wrong. Also, there's another comment from a Googler disagreeing with you in response to this very comment.

It's not a Google-specific problem. But it's a big one.
deepjazz - Using Keras and Theano for deep learning driven jazz generation
That's a very kind and flattering analogy. Thank you!

I feel like after seven years, I have a pretty good sense of what bookmarking/archiving needs people have, but am at the limits of what I can personally build. If the votes swing my way, I'd be happy to have a good-faith conversation with you.
"Do Things That Don't Scale"

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

Since a hosted bookmarking service obviously scales well, that can't be the heart of the Pinboard value prop. What does Pinboard do that no one does, that seems totally nonscalable?

How about @Pinboard? He's just one man, hand-crafting tweets about the SF tech industry in his spare time... it can't possible scale to every city and industry, can it? (Can it?) And bonus: the Twitter handle is producing $0 revenue!

The answer is clear: $100 million of investment. $50 million for a machine learning system that will ingest the @Pinboard snarky tweet corpus, and output tweets adapted to other industries and localities. And $50 million for a custom ad bidding system that injects subtle product placements into the tweets at the ###### possible CPC.

###### - If you are an investor, please read this as "highest". If you are a customer, please read this as "lowest."

EDIT - My numbers are all wrong. It should $20 million for the AI, $20 million for the ad system, $55 million for marketing and signing bonuses, and $5 million for the cafeteria.
I would be pretty reluctant to use a name that already has a strong connotation. I think most people are going to jump to thoughts of Dribbble.
Tacky Turing
Move to Seattle from Atlanta and quickly got sick of people up here talking about how racist it must be in Atlanta.
Thank you for comment. It's a very valid concern. App uses keychain to store the info within the phone. We are looking to improve our messaging which tells the same to the users to address their concerns. Data is not stored anywhere else. Any others ideas to address their concerns?
Interesting, looks like this might be a press release describing that (or a similar) project? [1] Proposed wind plant in Wyoming connecting to compressed air energy storage in Utah. Can't find much about where the project went though...

Looks like there are at least 3 operating CAES plants: Huntorf, Germany [2], McIntosh, Alabama [3], and Gaines, Texas [4].

[1] http://www.duke-energy.com/news/releases/2014092301.asp

[2] https://www.eon.com/en/about-us/structure/asset-finder/hunto...

[3] http://www.powersouth.com/mcintosh_power_plant

[4] http://www.generalcompression.com/index.php/tdw1
The guys at GitLab are usually quite open about this sort of thing (having copied this and that, etc). I don't think they've ever claimed to have invented anything they have not.
Meetup - formal, usually larger meets, and have to pay to create one. Informal meets like grabbing a coffee to meet with a couple of researchers at your university to discuss research doesn't fit in Meetup.com's environment.

Tinder - Limited to dating and one-one, not meeting people over interests really.

Craigslist - Can be super sketch - authentication is lacking, and doesn't have features to get information about the people you're about to meet and easily chat with them. From what I've seen those 2 features are important to make people comfortable enough to meet new people.
Nvidia goes all-in on self-driving cars, including a robotic car racing league
What Happened When a Business School Made Tuition Free
Apply HN: Mechanical Mind – AI Assisted Engineering as a Service
We are developing software which automates much of the design work for engineering problems in structural mechanics, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics. Computational topology design and optimization allows engineers to offload work to a computer, boosting their productivity. These techniques produce nonobvious designs which outperform those created manually. Widespread adoption of this technology will allow major advances in fields such as transportation, power generation, and aerospace.

Despite the power of topology optimization, it has very little adoption in industry. We believe that this is due to large barriers to entry, in the form large capital overhead from very expensive software licenses and the cost of HPC hardware. This is where Mechanical Mind comes in.

We plan to bundle our topology optimization software with compute services offered through AWS in a simple pay-as-you-go format. Users will be able to parameterize their design problems via a CAD plugin, then simply upload the compute job to our servers. Upon completion, the result is returned and the user is billed.

Typically, most topology optimization is based on a continuous approach, however we tackle this problem with a new discrete combinatoric method. This simplifies our solution search space and allows us to infer information about what sorts of solutions exist where. Also, as quantum computers mature, this solution approach directly maps to qubits, allowing near instantaneous solving by quantum methods.

Here's a simple proof of concept demo where a set of optimal cooling fins are designed to minimize the core temperature of a thermal body. Note that since this was run on a consumer laptop, the breadth of the search was limited for performance reasons. With more computational power, the quality of the solutions will improve.

https://imgur.com/a/T08nA

Any feedback or questions are appreciated! I'll be dropping in and out respond to them as they come.
The library just positions poppers, it doesn't decide about the behavior.

I've tested popper.js on svg and it seems to work well but I need to write some test for them.
Awesome, thanks for the info!
If you try to "seek one out" it will look tacky. Just go with the flow and don't interrupt people when they are obviously concentrating. Be respectful and I bet senior people will go out of their way to teach you things.
Most consensus is that normal market forces don't work very well for health care for a variety of reasons. Firstly people are notoriously terrible in predicting what coverage they might need (so any choice offered becomes of nebulous utility right off the bat). Secondly, because of the nature of health emergencies, most people are not in a good condition to investigate their options at the time of care. You can spend months researching the optimal smart phone for your budget and use case, you spend the same amount of time on looking into your cancer treatment you'll end up in the same place as Steve Jobs.

For the average consumer, demand is very inelastic when it comes to ~not dieing~ and availability of information + expertise to evaluate said information is sparse. Single payer is the far more efficient solution for everyone except the middle men profiting off the current system.
No problem. :) I'm glad it worked out for you!
Another thing to consider is that social sharing via those buttons just doesn't seem to be "a thing" on Twitter. I'm a heavy (probably excessive) Twitter user, and I interact with a lot of other heavy users, and I almost never see tweets generated by those buttons. IME, when people on Twitter share links it's usually by copy-pasting the URL, and when those Share buttons are used, it's usually by bots or the, er, less technically literate. It's just not part of the culture.
If you made a special case for numbers and fudge the clause structure, it's not that bad.

> Eighty-seven years ago our fathers brought into the world a new country, born of free thoughts and doings and the idea that all men are created the same.
To provide some context, Wikipedia has a version that's written using "Plain English" that's based on limited set of common English words:

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Haven't had the chance to use the tool, but sounds like a good first step to making English text easier to read.
How 2 village childhood friends Bootstrapped from 0 to a million dollar startup?
> there are plenty of bit patterns where possessing them should result in jail time. For example: ... novel ways to enrich fissile materials.[1]

And yet you just pasted a link to a high level overview. I don't see an explicit governmental condonement of the contents of that link - perhaps the edit history contains something "over the line", and you should go turn yourself in?

You still haven't made a case for why possessing such information should be a bona fide crime (as opposed to being evidence of a real crime). You've merely asserted it should be illegal, with only fearmongering innuendo to back it up.

> How exactly would this work if there's no way to punish people for possessing data?

Something tells me most people would stop using Google if it randomly popped up child porn.

> Otherwise you'll just get trolls pasting links to child porn

So where are these trolls now, given they can act with impunity through TOR? In fact, any such trolling is even more lulzful under the current regime, since the website operator is automatically guilty of possession! They're reliant on an informal "I'm a good person who was trying to remove it, please don't rough me up too bad" - which works most of the time if you supplicate to the police, ultimately undermining the rule of law.

> people get framed from time to time

I used the word "frame", but there is actually no such thing under a regime of strict liability.
The problem isn't being framed, it's the ridiculousness of strict-liability non-mens-rea possession, especially of something that can be so easily obtained. The threat isn't just cops, it's anyone who decides to make you a criminal!
One thing that really stands out is they aren't running reserved instances. That must be incredibly expensive.
Video: Unmanned Test of Apollo Launch Escape System Turned into a Real Failure
Eliezer Yudkowsky made me swear on the Necronomicon never to feed the Pinboard tweet corpus into any self-modifying learning algorithm.
Is it possible to suggest existing projects (in which I do not participate) ?

I have few in mind like Unicorn engine (http://www.unicorn-engine.org/).
You've misread; Evan says that he based his calculations on a Microsoft paper. Not that he works for Microsoft or that this is Microsoft Research or anything like that.
Or "should a" ;)
I have my doubts that this is inherently a winner take all market, but it maybe because of funding. It appears that the investment community believes it is a winner take all market and on that basis it will be a winner take all.
I would just prototype with a centralized database-backed system, if you don't need anonymity (and for this, non-anonymity might actually be an advantage).

This isn't an interesting technical idea, it's interesting because of the social/economic/etc. behaviors, so I'd try to do the cheapest/easiest/oldest technology possible.

More like a PayPal-style system...which ironically actually started out as a "digital currency" system on handheld terminals before they rolled it back to an email/website thing.
Is Anything Worth Maximizing? A talk about metrics and measurement
Would there be limitations on who can post? for example product hunt has a member community that is allowed to post, and an even more exclusive community that can "pin things" to the front page directly.

I imagine that this idea would get the company short term traction when first posted. How would they maintain traction without advertising as their posting slips in the rankings?
Taxation is theft so I guess it falls along the lines of robbing a drugdealer
Seattle is putting up $50B for transit
While playing the devil's advocate, I could argue that the description using only 0 and 1 is more precise than the phrase "It's a picture of a white cliff on the shore of the sea, possibly in the south of England, in the foreground there's the silhouette of a man or woman to small to distinguish clearly at the bottom of the cliff, the sky above the cliff is bright blue with a few trailing clouds etc etc etc etc etc".

But we're not really talking about the description of a picture, we're in fact talking about political discourse.
I like this guy, he seems to have the same idea about death as I do
I'd say that cuts both ways, as a latte-sipping godless liberal etc.
A Story of How Two Childhood Friends from Village has bootstrapped and build their startup up from Zero to a million dollar company in 3 years.

A Journey of thousand miles starts with a single step, coming from a non-business family we are happy and humble that we have bootstrapped this far and this is the first step of success and still a long way to go, we are now coming with some of the great products.

Stay Hungry . Stay Foolish.

P.S. This Post is written to share the passion, pain, sacrifice and hard work travelling through the path as entrepreneurs and startup. Hope it will inspire someone who read and can relate to it.
"Cortana Cross-Device Features: Starting today, we will be releasing new features to Insiders on an ongoing basis that keeps you in perfect sync across all the devices where you use Cortana to stay connected and never miss a beat throughout your day. "

So much data. And users will want this in droves (specially since Pushbullet went premium).
To be clear, I'm fine with data mining my emails to find certain features for analytics or data science purposes. But my point is that you, as an individual, should be the gatekeeper to all of your information, private or public.

Now, whether or not you choose to cede that right is entirely your prerogative (as in the case of Gmail, where the TOS specifically outlines how your data might be used). However, there should be no doubt that privacy is a fundamental human right, much like property.
Even by your chart, FB is still much higher than the other networks.
And this was submitted before as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11367972
How is it not still king? Your link clearly shows Facebook is still way ahead of any competitors.
Have thought about this. Other names I considered included Sportify, which is undeniably worse in this respect haha
It's broadcasting.
Fliers beware: new airfare rule could lead to costly mistake
Hi Kevin, we applied through the conventional application process for S2016 - would there be any merit to starting an "Apply HN" thread as a supplement and opportunity for public discussion?
Vivaldi 1.0 32bit DEB
Vivaldi 1.0 64bit DEB
Vivaldi 1.0 32bit RPM
Vivaldi 1.0 64bit RPM

Where's the good old .tar.gz for all those NOT using deb/rpm-based systems?
Fintech Firms Are Taking on the Big Banks, but Can They Win?
No, one of the major assumptions was existing hydro got converted to peaking power plants. A reasonable assumption that takes little land or capital and would payback if there where significant day to day demand and a regular oversupply of power. The other major assumption is significantly increased energy transmission which circles back into demand as transmission losses add up.
I have a question about the YC Fellowship model.

If I had an idea, which I knew would never likely grow beyond $1M in revenue, just because the market is so niche. B2C, but the entire consumer group is probably only in the region of 10,000.

I'd imagine the company would probably max out at 4 or 5 employees.

I have little to no interest in building a product out to $100M or aiming at an IPO.

The YC Fellowship rules indicate that the $20k funding, for convertible security, at least assumes the goal is $100M or IPO.[0]

I'd very happily offer 1.5% right up front for $20k, no need to worry about convertible security, as long as it was clear my aim was never to hit $100M or IPO.

Would such a view exclude me from a YC Fellowship grant and thus Apply HN?

[0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/fellowship-v2
How big is the market? And how easily users will switch given if they are comfortable with the existing software?
I'm honestly curious as to who'd move to a proprietary browser in 2016 given all the history of the last couple of decades!
> and who are genuinely ashamed of how much money they make.

Are you sure that isn't an act? People pretend socially acceptable emotions all the time.

If they donated the excess to the IRS (the IRS accepts donations!), I'd be a bit less skeptical.
Accelerate JSON in Spark SQL
Is this propaganda? Not to sound negative, but is what we are viewing here an example of influence on the internet?
Inside Marketing: CloudLock
Or, you know, less people vote in the south. In the 2012 Election, southern states all had far less turnout than northern states[1]. Your'e not comparing apples to apples.

Saying the entire south in aggregate is "stupider" because of that is plain wrong.

http://www.electproject.org/2012g
https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
I seriously doubt Samsung has any the ability to overcome the hurdles in storage, communication, and video projection to make these in a reasonable timeframe either.
As long as it is obvious to females that you are straight then dating in the bay is easy. Easier than a lot of other places.

Hit the gym and go to shows.
I would use your website but I'm missing a more precise search.
Why not a tagging system?
Would be nice to be able to look for a "black" "shirt" with "stripes".

Do you guys want to only do this for fashion? This seems applicable to other industries, doesn't it?

I'm doing something similar, see "Apply HN: Alternative to Advertisement" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441537). I'm excited to see that other people seem to care about that as well.

It would be so cool if things get popular based on their quality and design.
It would be random at first to bring in users (gotta get them somehow), but as our user base continues to grow larger we will be creating categories (school, relationships, family, ect.)
High sustained use with little variance in resource demand (easy for HPC, storage-centric services). No need for geo-distribution (orbackblaze) big enough you'd need multiple data centers anyway (dropbox). For specialized uses, big enough to design and manufacture specialized cases up through motherboards (dropbox, backblaze).
Is the now cli not open sourced?
If it affects the poor, it would make the most sense to rebate purely on income level, equally based on income level.

If the idea is to just give it back to the people that paid into it, that completelt defeats the entire purpose.