skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be correct, but playing this out. GE isn't in the catheter business, maybe they are willing to commit cash for an acquisition so that they can get into the catheter business. With a powerful strategic partner manufacturing may be the way to go.

But that's one of the things we need to learn - are there any big players not in the market that want in and will commit real money to do it?

I'd rather not lose money because we didn't do that work now. At the same time, what is a Cook Medical and a Bard looking for in a license? Where do we need to be at, what tests do they want data for? Are they looking to invest in the catheter space?
Thanks! My first question upon seeing this post was: isn't there already an emacs mode for this?
People also use something like that to mask a lack of knowledge / experience / understanding / intelligence. Once in a while someone uses big words so well it's poetry, but those people are the exception.
The Bay Bridge one mile bypass cost about $6.4Bn. It was quite contentious too, and did nothing to make getting through the city any easier. It amazes me how unwilling most municipalities are to make this kind of investment in transit that would actually make it easier for people to get around rather than just pumping more lanes into freeways. Seattle should be lauded for putting their money where their citizens wants are.
It's the one mentioned in the interview, http://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Productio...
That's the idea of generalizations. They don't need to be 100% fair, just statistically useful.

I'd wish people would get that, and only complain when a generalization is statistically wrong (e.g. doesn't really hold for the majority of the people it lumps along), instead of everytime they find a counter-example...
Apply HN: Fiction as a Service
Hello HN, with all the excitement of Apply HN this morning I couldn't help myself. I had to throw an idea out there.

I really like reading Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, but I would like to explore an alternate method for discovering new authors and funding their writing.

I'm a game developer, and I would like to apply some of the lessons we have learnt in the games industry in the last 10 years or so.

I think books should be free up front, and readers who are really enjoying a book should be invited to contribute to development of more books by asking them to buy premium content.

This lowers the barrier to entry, and because there is no fixed price for a book, fans can spend as much or as little as they like delving into the world that the author has created.

Premium content for a book is probably special chapters, side stories, back stories, more detail, more to read; but it might also include getting involved in the writing, naming characters and helping determine the outcome of events. Readers might even be interested in chatting with their favorite author.

I want to build a platform that authors can use publish their own books, and help them structure and sell their content in this innovative way.

Think Steam for Science Fiction and Fantasy, but with a focus on making great free fiction easy to find, and exciting premium content easy to buy.
That's not the only option.

You can create your software on the side, offer it for free and only quit your job and start charging when the software takes off.

The hardest and least predictable thing is finding product/market fit. I don't know how to do it (other than launching a product and waiting to see if it takes off) and while I lurk in startup-related forums like r/startups, most of the ideas I see seem very unrealistic (from the point of view making money).

Second hardest thing is finding users (i.e. marketing and such) even if you have a decent product.

Also, beware procrastination. Many people underestimate how easy it is to not work when you don't have to. You might be an exception (you can test it by doing 8hr of work on your project on Sat/Sun and seeing if you can keep it up for e.g. a month).
I wonder if there is any school that shows students how much money they are expected to earn after graduation for their selected major, compared to the amount of debt they will have. I work with several people who have large amounts of student debt, but when I ask about their studies at college, the average income for their degrees pale in comparison to any salary they might ever earn that will help them conquer that debt. I think students should be made aware of a cost benefit analysis for their chosen majors.
Most teachers should qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, meaning any federal loans (not private) should be forgiven after 120 payments without incurring the tax burden. As far as I understand, the 120 payments could well be "payments" of $0 if the annual income is low and the borrower is on an income-based repayment plan.

By the way, if you file taxes separately, they typically only take the borrowers income (unless you are on the REPAYE repayment plan, instead of the IBR repayment plan).
As a 20-something startup engineer, I'd love to hear you write a blog post with more on that last bit.
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As a resident of Seattle who lives south of the ship canal, I am going to lose my mind if we don't get to, someday, vote on transit through the Central District. The CD has more riders and more density than the opening-in-2021 station in Roosevelt. Roosevelt is going to be zoned lower than the upcoming rezone at 23rd and Jackson. Yet, inexplicably, nobody ever wants to put a Metro 8 Subway to a vote.

I'm already half tempted to vote no on ST3 because running light rail to ISSAQUAH--expected to get 11,000 riders per day, or 70% of the riders that a single route (number 48) through the CD gets--before filling in the gaps in the rest of our system is just...galling. But I'll probably vote yes because it's not like voting no is going to end subarea equity.

(See the seattlesubway.org yellow line for what a Denny/23rd Ave "Metro 8 Subway" would look like.)
Apply HN: fictionhub – the best place to publish, discover and discuss fiction
http://fictionhub.io/

My goal is to make the perfect place for writers to find their audience, and for readers to discover great writers.

Currently there's a few websites where people can post fiction, but none of them are done very well.

fictionhub will make it easy for new authors to get discovered, build their audience, and sell their works.

I want it to be the Hacker News of fiction writing - awesome community sharing high quality stories, discussing cool things, and helping each other to get better at writing.
The selection of websites listed is sort of weird. Buzzfeed I get but the others aren't high on my radar. I'm guessing the graphs would look different with different websites to analyze.

But more than that, this analysis sort of presents a tautology. Yes, Facebook is king of Facebook-style sharing. No one is surprised. What, you say Pinterest doesn't have a ton of National Geographic articles shared compared to Facebook? Not a surprise, given the nature of Pinterest. Twitter is also not the same sort of social network. LinkedIn? Google+? These are not the same sorts of sites at all.

Meanwhile, the article totally ignores Tumblr, Snapchat, and who knows what other sites I know nothing about.

In summary, Facebook has won at being Facebook. Other sites have different purposes, and their users use them differently.
I'm not sure I understand your comment, perhaps we have different understanding of what a popover is?

For me a popover is essentially a small overlay of additional contextual information, visually attached to whatever it's providing additional context for. Historically triggered by hover, but increasingly triggered by click/touch. A drop-down menu in a navigation bar is a popover.
This seems actually kind of cool. I've always enjoyed reading Twitter during popular keynotes, but it would be super cool to see what other people think during my favorite tv show. Have you planned to do a Twitter like rating (show popular comments + a few new random ones).

How are you planning on syncing this with Netflix, Amazon, and co? You could have a start button in your app but I doubt this would really work out well because some shows have different lengths on different platforms (some add a longer intro, others filter some content) and I often like to pause the TV show, which would make it out of sync unless I also pause the app.
I'm heading off to Codesmith (in LA) next month, and I can't tell you how motivating and reassuring it was to read your post!
I this comes out of the flawed meme of private enterprise efficient/gov't inefficient. Thought it's true in some areas, in the area of funding education in society, it's terrible.

The loans push money to unsophisticated buyers (kids and their parents), who use it to make a huge amorphous transaction which is only performed once in their lives and plays out over years. There's insufficient buyer information to provide price discrimination for the asset being purchased - so it's just inflating college prices.

On the other hand, if we took the same amount of money and goverments directly funded public schools - there's a lot of attention over time and many transactions that can be administered by a gov't department to provide funding discrimination and control over the quality of what is provided. (BTW this is how many low cost public schools were funded in the boomer generation... at least in California)

Edit: BTW, Does any reader here know of any interesting economic theory on how to predict if a market will act efficiently? I'm imagining there must be some way to model the structure of a given market with information, quality and quantity of transactions between nodes representing persons/companies/institutions in a market.
It's the normalized search volume for the term »facebook« on Google. It is not too straight forward to interpret but I thought about it for some time and I am still convinced it is a pretty good indicator for Facebook's future.

For example users switching from desktop browsers to apps will no longer go to facebook.com by searching for »facebook« in the address bar and therefore lower the search volume. On the other hand people searching for solutions for issues with Facebook should still track the size of the user base. The same holds for developers interested in Facebook APIs, authors researching Facebook for articles and so on.

You can almost always come up with explanations why the search volume should go down over time, developers already knowing the APIs, Facebook maturing and therefore causing less and less issues for users, users maturing and therefore being better able to deal with issues without searching and so on.

But if you look at similar cases like MySpace [1], Google+ [2], ICQ [3], the German StudiVZ and MeinVZ [4], the search volume on Google was always a really good indicator for the fate of those platforms and I don't have enough convincing arguments to believe that Facebook manages to counter this trend.

[1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=myspace

[2] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=google%2B

[3] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=icq

[4] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=studivz%2C%20meinvz
uTorrent shows banner ads and recently shipped with bitcoin mining malware. It's also a lot more work--and requires a second program, like VLC--to do streaming.

I'm optimistic about WebTorrent Desktop adoption.

You're right that we need lots more hybrid client adoption to bridge the BitTorrent and WebTorrent networks and really make it work in the browser.

I hope WebTorrent Desktop can be that client.

Finally, libtorrent is open source. Here's the discussion about adding WebTorrent support: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/223
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Prosthetic joints and ortho hardware (pins, rods, screws).
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"That's a pretty big hurdle considering most regular torrent users don't even realize WebTorrent exists"

They don't need to. That's the point.

If I send a user to https://file.pizza/ to transfer a file to them. Not once to I have to mention that it uses WebTorrent.
IMO that's the killer feature.
They like you just fine. You're not like "them". You're not like the racist, bigoted, regressive, backwards, ignorant, inbreds of people who still live in the South.

Most people out here can comprehend the concept that there are people in our country who conservative, religious, and smart. They'd shit themselves if they met someone who was conservative and smarter than they were. (This is where you insert a joke about if they're so smart then why are they conservative! hardy har har.)
This is about the dollar cost of the college and university education process.

I'm surprised there isn't more discussion here about ways to educate people cheaply and efficiently, more discussion of supply pricing.

It may be a bad deal to obtain the knowledge required for a degree in Anthropology @ $150,000, but maybe it's a great deal to obtain the knowledge required for a degree in Anthropology @ $15,000.
Save more money and start developing some of your ideas on the side. At some point you'll figure out which one scratches the right itch - then pull the trigger.
I have a degree in political science. Today I am the Director of Government Relations and I've been out of college for 10 years. Many of my friends from college are shocked that I am still in the career of my degree. Rather to the point, their shock that I made a career out of my degree. It's only a hypothesis, but I suspect that I was a little more desperate than some of my peers, and that allowed me to work for shit pay for many years as I clawed my way up the ladder.
I go to LinkedIn when I'm not looking for work. For some professions, at least, they do have great people and great discussions - but limited by the horrible UI/UX.
This headline is misleading. 40% of borrowers "aren't making payments or are behind". Those are two entirely different categories.
I wouldn't recommend the CSS route as you'd be working against a core OS feature. On OS X: System Prefs > General > Show scroll bars > "Automatically based on mouse or trackpad"; "When scrolling"; "Always".

It's possible via something like [1], but the problem is you are hardcoding colors for a specific OS version. The example given in the link is a much darker scrollbar than is present in Yosemite.

I'd just go the route of labeling the example more explicitly. By the way, nice job on the site. Very snazzy, and you didn't make the mistake a lot of people make which is to hijack the native scrolling.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/10100209/2609094
Another angle to this is cost of sending kids to schools (my kids are elementary school age). I support public schools and frequently volunteer to teach stress management programs in public high schools. However, few years back, to cut down on housing costs, I purchased a condo in "very low API score school district". When my kids were ready for school, we hesitated to send to public school and choose private school. Now, my wife and I are shocked with the costs and have been inconclusive on private school vs owning a house in "good" school district.

I learnt from others that in other parts of US, we get good schools and decent house at reasonable price in Seattle/Portland/Austin etc. But uprooting entire family looks extreme at this point and we don't have stomach to do it.

Curious, as to what others in similar situation are doing.
When everyone goes to college, the bachelor's degree becomes the new high school degree. Then you either split between "good" bachelor's and "bad" bachelor's (depending on the institution), or all the degree requirements increase one step, or a little of both.

You can't just expect to give everyone a degree and have a nation of professionals, with "someone else" (people in foreign countries, immigrants) doing the blue collar work. For two reasons: one, there just isn't enough demand for professional-level work. Two, people differ in innate ability, and education level is often more useful as a proxy for that ability than for what it concretely teaches you. Giving everyone the same degree, even if you somehow get everyone to recite the material, will not give everyone the same level of ability - it will just destroy the degree's value as a proxy.

I wouldn't blame the councilors, teachers and parents too much, though - they have to focus on the individual case. Blame the politicians and thought leaders instead, who should have been able to see the effect at the collective level. If you're advising an individual, it's fine to assume that the market environment will not be affected by their actions. If you're advising a nation, it's not!
Woah what loan are you speaking of??? My federal loan was about 3% in 2005.
If you're at all interesting in getting into hardware, buy yourself a cheap FPGA and put a RISC-V CPU on it. I'm doing it with my kids and it's been tons of fun. :)
Also interesting:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=instagram%2C%20snapc...
That sounds promising. So conceptually you'd end up with something like popper-engine and popper?
Gainesville, FL has got their stuff together.

Streets are North/South; Streets has an S in it and so does South, they all also have a T.

Ave are East/West; Ave has an E in it and so do both East and West, also Ave and East share an A.

It's either really silly, or genius, or complete luck that my overly analytical brain turned into something real.
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I live in SLU across the street from work and i love it! 4 minute door to desk commute.
The algorithm is indeed incorrect, as I've explained in a more recent comment on the article.
Because the ADM 3A terminal had HOME on its tilde key for some reason.
"If this what you wrote was true then you would see big adoption of webtorrent which is not the case."

You're missing the point.

Think of it this way.

Check out this video: https://fastcast.nz/videos/cityscape-chicago-ii.html

Once you're done viewing even a second of it, just know you've just adopted WebTorrent.

You don't even need to know WebTorrent exists or was used and BitTorrent wasn't needed in any way.
I promise not to be seduced into a dead-end poetry career. But seriously, thank you very kindly.
What are your main use cases going to be? These are the only ones I can think of where this is going to be "very" useful.. But even so, how often can companies expect to switch between these?

And what's the expectation that Brightwork is going to fail vs expectation that the underlying service (Google, Mailchimp, etc) with a proven track record is going to fail?

Maps
Email
Analytics

I'm very interested to see how beta turns out. Your success heavily depends on enterprise and developer adoption. The fact that you're also baking in API analytics makes me think that you're likely going to pivot to full-blown API traffic/analytics platform in the next few months (ala Mashery).

We're not seeing much adoption in that space either as service-end products are doing the majority of that work already (ie ELK stack). Very interested to see where you guys go with this.
This advice tends to be akin to the advise to disable JavaScript. Basically at this point why are you even on the Internet? Also, as you mentioned Flash, Java, and especially SVG. The only real mitigation here is full drive encryption with a long passphrase which you'll never give up. Of course in the eyes of the courts and public that's a serious double-edged sword because you are assumed guilty at that point.
> How do you make money?
We will take a commission model like Airbnb.

> What prevents the local contact travelers privately, bypassing your platform?

We will scan the part of messages such as URL and Email not to navigate the other URL.
However, reviews and tour guide records are more important to get reliability and customers for them. If they navigate to their own website or contact privately, they can not use review system which means they have not done any tour guide previously. Obviously, we need to consider more the way to prevent the situation like this.

Thank you for your comment, yanglang.
I was just thinking the other day, that it would be logical for there to exist something like a mortgage-backed security for student debt. Call it a millenial-backed security. You'd bundle up a bunch of student student loans into a security, then sell shares, paying out the interest as dividends. It'd be like 2007 all over again! What could possibly go wrong?

In a sense, I suppose that's not much different than buying stock in a bank that's heavily invested in student loans. You can invest in or short those as you see fit.
A serious problem with student debt that is not talked about enough is the inflated cost of classes, schoolbooks, and the pile on of all of these extra classes that university forces you to take and pay for, that are there only to pay graduate students. It's crazy how many pointless labs you are forced to take now, classes that have never had labs before. I think we need to dramatically reduce the number of classes that students are required to take to get a degree.
It's unfair to blame the 17 year olds who are told by everyone they know and trust that getting a college education at the best school you can get into is the most important thing in the world. It's also unfair to blame them for not calculating the risk that in four years the degree they've been taught means everything will not be sufficient to get a high-paying job to cover rising housing costs and student loan debt when median wages have been falling.
Technobabble is a prime example of that. (Star Trek TNG is a hilarious example of pseudo-science jibber jabber.)
I am from Brazil, and was victim of the same thing.

Worse, I could if I had spent a year studying or so, join a free university, but even that was unnaceptable, the "right thing" to do was take a loan and dive in a expensive course.

I finished college in 2009, I still don't got my first legal job, and I still have debts, I am struggling to buy medicine I need.

Meanwhile everyone I know that ignored the "adults" and did whatever they wanted, managed to actually start a life, and now have house, vehicle, sometimes kids... meanwhile I just have a stupid piece of paper that is not good even to wipe my ass with (the university diploma they gave me is just a normal A4 paper printed in a normal inkjet).
Establishing a public forum for earnest discussion of startup ideas seems likely even more valuable than the actual funding of community-picked proposals. But also, the chance of receiving funding adds incentive for discussion and earnesty!

I'm excited!