skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the great question.

How do you plan to acquire customers? What channels will you use to get the word out?

Even though we're not officially in beta, we already have a customer we're working with and we've been curating a list of prospects for our beta who have a high-degree of both interest and pain (usually due to the amount they're paying every month, but also due to managing complexity). We'll work with them first, rather than a big launch event, and slowly start to market to other customers, mainly newly forming start-ups at first. (Which is another reason why a YC Fellowship could be very useful to us.) This market is highly reputation-based, which means word-of-mouth is more powerful than other markets. Our market research tells us that based on the feature set specified, prospects would not only find it compelling enough to evaluate but they said if it matches or exceeds expectations, they would be willing to tell others. Our channels for this initial market are mainly direct: talking to directly to companies in accelerators and incubators, meetups for startups, etc.

There are already dozens of very actively used databases out there. Some of them have track records that are decades long. There are dozens more new entrants into the market every year. How, in a marketing sense (not a technical sense) will you compete with them to get the word out and convince people that they should go with your solution instead of another?

We have things easier and harder than a normal product. With an app you can have a harder time clarify your offering but an easier time getting adoption. It's the opposite for us. To be embraced and see high rates of adoption, we have to be more than fractionally better than others in our segment. We have to be so much better that we exceed the risk costs of switching (or adopting) new technology and the risk of relying on an initially small firm. So far, our market research says that when we state our offering, our feature set, the value is usually quickly perceived. Someone in this thread referred to us as aiming to be the Tesla of databases -- that's it. But we have to pair that with immaculate execution.

We're applying to the YC fellowship to give us the best possible odds for that type of execution (as well as potentially increase our pool of first customers).
I've seen this on Product Hunt but couldn't comment so now that I have the chance to, Here's what I want to say:
- first, awesome idea. This would make things way easier.
- second, say that I have built a bot, then what ? Would it follow the same philosophy as the regular App Store? (Meaning you upload then people download or buy)
- Third, you should add a FAQ and a roadmap so that people can help! (Even with just an idea)
Well, that’s a very different case, I didn’t notice you were talking about businesses.

There, indeed, Steuerberater are very common. But yeah, that’s probably the case in most countries, as companies are a lot more complex – just the whole case with funneling your money through, say, the UK and the Netherlands to reduce taxes.
Chiropractors still need to be licensed.
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Deep down, we all want to be communists. That's what I've learned the last 5 years. Someone is rich and that's not fair. /s
As George Soros. I'm sure he'll give you a NO.
Yeah, well, I'm not a rat. Just because rats liked side with Oreos as much as they liked side with Morhpine doesn't mean Sugar = Morphine.
From this it seems that what financial executives learned from their buddies going to jail was that they need to lobby the correct people so that when the shit hits the fan (and it's their fault) no one will prosecute them. Every prosecutor who had the ability to investigate and eventually bring charges and did not should be ashamed of themselves.
You don't mind posting a link to your girlfriend nude pics then? In the name and spirit of absolutely free speech. We will be waiting.
Credit bureaus don't create any information themselves, they just list what your other creditors say about you.

At least that's what they claim.
I think that my code must die with me. My precious code.
Finance needs it's cut of everything.
GNU Guix[0] supports unprivileged package management, among other features [1]. Each user may maintain one or more "profiles" containing whichever packages they'd like. On top of that, they have access to a universal virtualenv-like tool called "guix environment"[2] that can create arbitrary software environments for development or even just to do one-off experiments. It can even create containers for maximal development environment purity.

[0] https://gnu.org/s/guix

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Glad to see all the positive feedback here. I volunteered as a reader/advisor for this first edition and wanted to take this chance to say the experience was great. Joe is very respectful of volunteers time, even those of us who occasionally fall off the grid for a few days ( I still owe you a pic and bio Joe :) ). I'd encourage anyone on the fence to pick up this edition, there are some absolutely outstanding stories in there. And I'd also encourage anyone thinking about volunteering to jump in, it's a great project/maintainer to work on/with. Here's too many more issues Joe!
Google's purchase of Waze is one of the main ways they get realtime traffic data:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-bought-waze-the-in...

For serious drivers, there simply isn't anything on the market (and free!) better than Waze.
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Are these bots just for slack? What do you consider to be a "bot"?
Or maybe it's a form of harmless-but-pointed civil disobedience by people who don't want their society to merge with those of the Middle East.
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Maybe because VW had somewhat of a reputation for being a good quality car manufacturer that would have no need to cheat and lie about their vehicles. Whereas cheating and lying is a common perception of Wall St firms in general.
To be fair, the tools exist for anyone regardless of income to monitor their credit on at least a yearly basis at no cost to them. Going 5+ years without checking your own credit just because you're not in the market for a house or a new car is pretty high on the list of things most responsible adults don't do.
Hey I'm the other founder of Finac :) I love your suggestions!

We agree that incorporating real world examples would really make learning finance a lot more relatable and easier to understand.

Regarding the second point, we ourselves got heavily into Finance over a year ago and the on boarding process was very time consuming for someone who hasn't had a formal education in finance. We were really frustrated that despite financial education being so essential, a lot of it is very convoluted.
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Ahh the new SaaS(Swede as a Service).
Not if the paper is opaque and there are lots of snippets (you align the space of the floats, not the line height).
Would love to know more about it. At the moment is sounds like a platform for selling real estate?
You are lumping together a number of players under "they."

The number itself typically comes from Fair Issac -- who traditionally sold a black box algorithm to project a multidimensional vector onto a single scalar.

The data itself comes from a Credit Reporting Agency, who lumps together payment histories and public records.

That data in turn came from creditors and public sources.

I'll happily agree, though: the entire keiretsu benefits from the general public thinking it all sort of just happens and is authoritative and predictive in that single scalar.
I was under the impression that renting an apartment also contributes to your credit score.
That was really eye opening. I had no idea about everyday things I interact with being invented by DK.
I almost bought a Prius for this exact reason a couple of years ago. Unfortunately(?) the emissions requirements is now limited to electric or plug-in hybrid models now.
About 1 month ago, I moved to within a 15 minute walk of the Pittsburgh T. I really want to use it more. They allow bikes on the T, so I'm planning to get one to ride around downtown and out in the country. I am glad to get out of the suburban hell I was living in for 6 years.
Python has been a common teaching language for at least a decade now, it's just that this particular course has now switched to it as well. Still took 15 years for it to get that momentum, though.

You won't see a CS course taught in Go or Rust anytime soon.
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San Francisco Human Rights Commission, "Compliance Guidelines To Prohibit Weight and Height Discrimination"[1]

"Medical providers must not make weight loss or weight gain related intervention a condition for treatment."

"Employers must strive to maintain a respectful, non-hostile environment related to weight and height. Verbal or written harassment against an employee based on weight or height is prohibited. Unsolicited comments, advice, or literature recommending weight loss or gain are inappropriate."

"If a tenant needs and requests an accommodation because of weight or height, it must be made if it is readily achievable. Some examples of alterations that are usually readily achievable include: installing offset hinges to widen doorways, rearranging furnishings, lowering mirrors or replacing shower doors
with shower curtains. The need or potential need to make an accommodation may not be considered as a factor in the decision to select a tenant."

[1] http://sf-hrc.org/sites/sf-hrc.org/files/migrated/FileCenter...
In theory that makes sense. But in practice it's hard hunting down the actual effects of something this big.

Also, you might not be so happy with the results of helping those who were impacted. Some of the easiest to find of those who were hurt are those who bought the mis-rated mortgage backed securities. A lot were sold to non-US entities like foreign mutual funds and sovereign wealth funds. Can you imagine how happy everyone in the US would be if a big chunk of the settlement got shipped off to rich foreigners? It might be fair in some sense, but politically it would be awful. Hence, easier to just dump it into some state and/or federal budget's general fund.
Yeah basically - kind of rent with an option to buy. Still a bit at the early stage - not quite sorted the details.

If someone's interested in getting involved drop me an email 0707tim at gmail. I'm in London now and may be in LA/SF shortly. One of my problems applying to YC is I'm solo presently.
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Same here. Almost tempted to vote for crazy,racist,sexist,xenophobe trump just to throw a tantrum.
I am setting code deploy, autoscaling and load balancing on AWS, so my app can handle 10.000.000 users ;-)
Better to keep the brain busy while we are waiting. Do you think YC has the list ready?
Are all the features on Waze in Google yet? Or should I download Waze?
I really hope the name "PP leaks" does not catch on.
I think I'd look at actual health outcomes as per the study, rather than policies like this, that may or may not make a difference.
Crime and Punishment is a thick book, there must be a Reader's Digest version somewhere. Try it.
This fear gauge just hit an all-time high
Creating fake accounts to inflate perceived numbers of people who would answer in arabic sounds more like misrepresenting statistics...?
Senior insiders from tech companies are often techies and will spend time in places like this. Senior insiders at banks are rarely techies. The techies at the banks that do spend time here probably are so far removed from this activity there's not a lot to talk about.
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The link you gave is incorrect. That's an amateur club race in California (which is cool too!). FIA RoboRace is entirely different. The link is:

http://roborace.com
Some info on X-plugin: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/x-plugin.html
For someone making $90k in San Francisco, a 1-bedroom apartment with a parking space is categorically off the table.

For someone making $45k in the Midwest, a 3-bedroom house with a 2-car garage in an excellent school district is expected.

If the 1%er moves to a lower cost of living area, he will not be a 1%er anymore.
"medium bowl" is not a standard measurement. My everyday bowls at home probably hold about 2.5 cups if filled to the top, which I don't do, because a bowl filled to the top inevitably spills. I use a 2-cup measuring cup every day, so I'm reasonably familiar with how much it holds. It's a decent bit.

Also, a cup of Cheerios is 100 Calories. So 3 cups is still only 300 calories. Add milk and you're at maybe 500 Calories. Even Honey Smacks is only 133 Calories per cup. If you eat 600 Calories of Honey Smacks and milk, I hope you'd consider that enough sugar for breakfast. Or else I hope you're training for a marathon.
Me too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11449020
:)
one issue is that high-protein diets don't regulate blood sugar. If anything, they contribute to the problem as too much protein gets turned into sugar (Gluconeogenesis) and dumped back into the blood.
Our team is from a public school. We have a manufacturer that sponsor's us with space and tools but not money. We have a variety of sponsors that provide funds and we raise our own money as well. All funds go into a 501c3 that is a "boosters club".

Our public school is somewhat affluent but not like a private school might be. We took first place in two district events this year and entered the quarterfinals in the district championship but only won one match. Our robot was good one other year since 2010.

Our teams primary focus is outreach, helping disadvantaged / underserved students with STEM. We just had a big success with writing a state senate bill to help fund STEM competition teams at schools that have 40% of the students that qualify for the free lunch. The bill went into law this weekend. We had three students actually write the bill and a state senator promoted the bill under his name. The senator lives about 100 miles form our team. So really a state effort.

We won Chairman's at the District Championship for our outreach. That gets us to Worlds in St. Louis. Without the Chairman's win and without the robot I love that we do outreach. My daughter is going to do a gap year this year before college and do a Americorps VISTA job for FIRST robotics helping the underserved start and fund teams. This is the best part of what FIRST creates for young adults.
As a Swede currently living in California who also has visited IKEA in several different countries I can report that the general experience of visiting IKEA is pretty much as stressful and disorienting here as in Sweden. There are some local variations in the product portfolio both due to different standards like in bed sizes and kitchen and cultural differences. You cannot find a cheese slicer in my nearest IKEA and they have icing on their cinnamon buns (almost blasphemy).

To be honest, IKEA is a Swedish company by brand only. The products are sourced from wherever it is cheapest to manufacture right now and the ownership structure is so complex, multinational and tax-avoidance schemy that probably only the head honcho Ingvar Kamprad (IK in IKEA) who until recently resided in Switzerland, knows where the profit ends up.

(edit: got Ingvar Kamprads name wrong first time around)
One presumes that they paid taxes on $5B revenue in previous years, so there's no problem with this part.
Congrats on the launch. I had a short story in mind that I was going to submit after reading your last post but I didn't realize you were going the hard science fiction route. Although I strive to be as scientifically accurate as possible I can't classify my stories as hard since there are fantasy components-- I have a deep obsession with time travel, parallel universes, bending spacetime, etc. I also like to mix in mythological components from ancient to Mesoamerican.
Visited the site on mobile and could not find a little explanation about what the goal of the site is. Maybe a short introduction might work. This seems interesting but it's not fully clear what it aims to do now and in the future. :)
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Ruby is used for tooling and is not at the heart of the typesetting programs themselves.
People also use bars, clubs, bookstores, meetup events, weddings, and vacations for hookups.
The bought the tech from Theseus.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1172662
They don't look like Formula 1 cars at all, the layout is similar but all the details are different.

It's actually much closer to an Indycar, both built by Dallara.
> Our standards were higher in the past?

No, but our fuzzers were worse, so we didn't know :-)
FLL is the best program to start with at 9 years old. The balance between robots, research, presentations and core values gives students of all sorts a chance to grow.

I coached FLL 4 years and I stay in touch with most of the students. They grew and continue to grow from FLL. The ones that go on to FTC or FRC are amazing young adults.

The FIRST program is a cornerstone of what I spend my outside of work time on. I will continue as a volunteer now that we are aging out.
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This is a pretty neat idea. I know it's probably an MVP but a description of what the bot does instead of forcing the user to click through to the bot website.
Hey there!

Cool concept (kind of like try before you buy)!

I think a lot of people who want to sell their houses approach a real estate agent since they're pretty keen to sell quick- how do you plan to acquire those customers? What will be the incentive of using your platform instead of approaching a real estate who does open house inspections etc and can seal the deal quicker? I'd imagine having to sort out rentals and having the possibility of the renter not buying the house would mean the seller might miss out on potential buyers which they could've avoided if they used a real estate site.
Actually, the best controlled and pseudo-controlled studies show that, within the United States, access to medical care has negligible impact on life expectancy.
Of recent attempts at dethroning LaTeX, there's also SILE, which actually reuses some LaTeX internals. For some examples of the output (hard to find, the author seems not great at marketing), see e.g.:

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/ara...

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/art...

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/fra...

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/par...

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/jap...

https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/tes...

For a deeper dive, see the author's presentation at FOSDEM 2015 - I found it really amusing - from the starting line of: "I wrote a typesetting system - by mistake."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BIP_N9qQm4
Because it's the Guardian and this is how they gin up controversy ignore real solutions to societal problems.

You wouldn't know it by reading articles like this, and certainly things can be a lot better and fairer, but over the last 50 years, every single ethnic group in this country is better off when you look at this Census report on median household income: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio.... Welfare programs have only expanded, and necessities like food and clothing have only gotten cheaper.

I admit it isn't staggering advancement, but 50 years is a blip on the grand scheme of things. At the same time we might have just been lucky. But things aren't dire and many in the 1% have contributed in ways that have made us all better off.

Real solutions to the tax dodging problem don't come by slinging emotionally charged statements like this around:

"In so doing, you rob your own society of cash for hospitals, schools, roads…"

Real solutions start by asking why wealthy people don't see value in publicly-financed goods and services, and if these people would have created more or fewer jobs under a more progressive tax regime, and if we want more jobs or more/better social services, and if we want new people in the top 1% every year. These are real tradeoffs that go beyond just negatively impacting the top 1%.
Yes. It's amazing that ~3% gets clipped from every credit card transaction. I am surprised that nobody has come in for 2% or 1.5%. All the so-called disruptors I've seen have just attacked the fees on top of the 3%.
Any kind of background checks?
Issuing a chargeback for a valid charge is credit card fraud.
"Poking a camera through your window" is "hacking" now? Wow!

Sure, I would prefer that you not do that, or indeed that you not physically trespass in any way. A more interesting hypothetical would be for thousands of homeowners to install a bunch of IP cameras in their homes, and for you to hack those without the benefit of physical trespass. I don't think you'd have much of a leg to stand on if you were to publish John and Jane Doe's humdrum bedroom activities. However, you might also witness some truly awful shit, which I'd have no problem with your bringing to the attention of society.

The bank example is another aspect of our bending all rational rules and expectations in the banks' "favor". They shouldn't build such brittle systems, and the more we coddle them the worse they get. It would be possible to prosecute fraud without criminalizing security research.

Libel laws are most often used for the benefit of the already powerful, so yeah getting rid of those would be an improvement.
The poster you are responding to is making a utilitarian moral argument. You are referencing a novel that explores the a common source of crime (poverty) and the chain of events that follows.

I don't see the connection. :-S
care to elaborate? open to being wrong, but also want to see who says so and why
That's why they created the "Apply HN: <Enter Idea>" format!

That being said, my team and I are trying to fix mental healthcare:

Apply HN: Synaptitude – Remote Mental Health Monitoring and Treatment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442000
No but they are definitely shifty characters.
Goldman Sachs received a $10 billion bailout.

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
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The PM does not earn enough to be in the top 1%. Top 2%, yes, I think so.
Exactly! You are the unhappy minority, and as much as I feel your pain, you are irrelevant business wise (sorry!)

I know that I'm personally very irrational when deciding prices: I find paying for HBO Now ($15 a month) an outrage, but will go and spend $20 on a cinema ticket without batting an eyelid. Heck, an Uber ride from the cinema because I'm too lazy is ~$10. Throw in a soda, and every trip to the cinema is about $40. I'm getting around 10 to 15 hours of entertainment out of the HBO subscription, which at ~$1 an hour is a much better deal than going to the movies, but no amount of rationalizing it will make it feel good.

There's clearly enough people that consider the $10 a month price "good enough" to be comfortable with it.
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I also had a background check asking for ten years of history. Many of the companies were either out of business or outsourced HR which created issues. I also ran into an issue with job titles not matching exactly or external job title (which I was familiar with from the hiring process) not matching up with internal title (which I was not familiar with at all). The month or so of back and forth on this was easily the most stressful period of my life.
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