skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think these ideas would take over communities neither the world, but they are awesome:

1) Some kind of crawler that goes through YouTube videos indexing them and its subtitles and then when a user searches a word or idiom the web app would show some part of a video that speaks exactly that search term.
I know there are other services that does that, but I want something more natural since these services use some kind of text to speech with a robotic voice and not a real life situation.

2) An old school open world MMORPG with modern graphics and a mix of Ultima Online (PVP) and Diablo III (Dungeons) gameplay. Nowadays every mmorpg is a copy of World of Warcraft with a different story. There is no innovation...

EDIT: add another idea :)
A little suspicious, but lacking hard evidence of trying to hurt competition, I choose to give Google the benefit of the doubt here.

I have had a ProtonMail account for a few years and the system keeps getting better. The one feature lacking, and keeping me from using it as a primary email service, is not being able to backup my emails locally. I think that is on their TODO list.
"A brain for my brain" -

Do you mean capturing the thought train on devices and with adaptive feedback mechanism to generate new ideas?
Those streaming devices won't help much if the FCC doesn't stop your <local monopoly ISP> from kneecapping Netflix, Amazon, etc by trying to profit both ways... we all know the rest of the net neutrality speech.

Interesting times ahead.
>> here they come, crawling out of the woodwork...emboldened.

Who exactly is crawling out of the woodwork? People who are against H1-B because it creates profoundly unjust outcomes for American workers?

When H1-B is discussed on HN, a lot of the participants who are American citizens have written a lot of negative remarks about the program. Are you suggesting that all these people are closet racists as well?

H1-B is unpopular program with American workers because access to jobs is one of the most important elements of social mobility in the US and a hell of a lot of American workers just happen to believe that they should not have to compete with foreign nationals for economic opportunity.

I've said it many times in this thread: Access to jobs is a bedrock social justice issue in America.

No one here has made a single personal attack or nasty remark to anyone else.

Your remarks make you sound like a proper fascist, and you really should apologize.
Reminds me of why I still prefer brick and mortar. Yes you may have to camp out, but it definitely has a better success rate than trying to compete against machines.
For a movie about math, it was extremely boring.
I was doing this (refreshing).

I had the Amazon app open on my phone and the website on my MacBook. I added it to my cart from the app at approx 14:00:01 ET, and by the time I clicked the cart and then checkout I got an error message saying the item was sold out.

I was so pissed that this happened, because I had been planning to follow this diligently since the day it was announced, and I had no less than 3 calendar events in my phone so that my day would be replete with reminders. I had the other websites that were supposedly selling it open as well, as a failed backup plan.

I should have written a script.
Thanks for clarifying that. I use it for 5 or 10 minutes, finish whatever I am doing, then logout.
Did some more research and it seems that the subjects are not gone but there will be more project based learning that combines multiple subjects. The changes are already implemented.
> You wouldn't dare enter or knock on a bathroom door that said ENGAGED, especially one belonging to Churchill would you?

Eh...I would. A huge part of my family was wiped out because of Churchill's machinations leading to the Bengal famine. My grandfather was able to move south with the sacrifice of his siblings.

Churchill's actions put him in the grey area for me.
I was asking myself that a moment ago and had to navigate around a bit to get a better idea.

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It is also a marketplace for components that fit within the suite. It has strong ideas about security and the post's linked page is about how they are making that security model available to versions of Linux that don't support some of the Linux kernel's newer features.
Why did Trump win? Because Democrats stayed home
I can't implement an asteroid mining program now because the cost of space launch for the preliminary/prototype mining equipment would be prohibitively high.

If I had access to a space launch capability for less than $100/kg, however, I could bootstrap the whole business from my basement with an investment of ~$100-200k from some friends. [0]

From SpaceX's perspective, they can put ~5 tons in lunar orbit for a cost of $200k in fuel [1]. $40/kg is great, but it's not what they charge their customers, and it's not what they'd charge me - demand from comsat operators with a much higher willingness to pay means that I have no access to the market, and SpaceX needs to make a profit.

Give it 10-50 years, and I'd expect real asteroid mining will become economically viable. [2]

[0] assuming zero NRE for mining robot fabrication and a single person salary.

[1] ignoring actual launch costs, personnel salaries, and assuming the whole booster stack is paid for through infinite perfect recovery.

[2] see also Planetary Resources, and why they should be in hibernation mode, not burning $2m/year developing camera sats. but hey, VCs have money to burn.
The removal and fix need not have been so blatant - a breaking change for some sites might have been prioritized, and the fix to that break may have had other work pushed ahead of it. There doesn't need to be an explicit blocklist or clearlist in play to make some customers more important.
Ah thanks for the link and analysis. Also found these:

http://www.oph.fi/english/current_issues/101/0/statistics_of...

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_kindergarten
http://archive.is/4Kmku
SimVillage - A building simulation game of of a village of up to say 1,000 villagers. Like Simcity/Skylines, but with the emphasis on detailed human simulation rather than on large scale.
It's a different story when they're the most popular search engine. They have the power to control what others see and unfairly prioritizing their services disadvantages competitors, a big no-no for such a big company like Google. Also, to many people, Google is the internet. Everyone I know just types stuff into the search bar to get where they want to go, not foo.com. If you don't show up in the first page of the Google search results, you don't exist.
That's the main challenge that needs to be solved. At the moment, the media and social networks.
I feel like if you truly groked capitalism, you would be able to point out lots of its flaws, but also to realize that scalping is definitely not one of them.

With supply limited like this, the optimal social outcome is for the X units produced to go to the X people in the world who would value them most, in other words the people who would be willing to pay the most (only exception I can think of to this is if someone values it at V dollars and only has a net worth of W dollars where W < V, but for the sums we're talking about with the NES I think almost everyone either has or can scrounge up V).

In the final accounting with reselling on amazon, the goods end up where they are most highly valued. Sure, if we held a lottery to see who gets to buy the NESs at the sticker price rather than auctioning them, the people winning the lottery would be more happy than the people who end up winning the auction. But as a whole, society would be impoverished since it's an inefficient distribution (no room to prove it in a HN post, but it's not too hard to work out on paper when tallying up the welfare of nintendo, the scalpers and all the people who get to buy the NES under one scenario or the other).
Uhhh. NYT uses a simple cookie to determine paywall, o' users of HN.

This is not a difficult thing to bypass. Not even slightly.

If you have a hard time defeating a roadblock established purely based on a plaintext variable in a simple, vanilla browser cookie, maybe consider whether you should be commenting at all.

It counts down from 10. It is not bound to an IP address. A login is not required. Ergo, this is not a "wall." It is a solicitation. It is a warning prompt at best. They know this, and now you do too.
So dwarf fortress with human village setting?
What I meant by 'as long as you have a working brain' is that "you are competent as long as you are willing to do rational analysis on your own and come to conclusions". You are perfectly fit for the office of president so long as you are willing to learn. You do not have any inherent limitation. Even most of the economists do not know what they are talking about. Most mainstream economic theories are not even proven to to be correct. Its just like anyone willing enough to learn to code can eventually write beautiful and accurate code so long as they remain enthusiastic learners.
Where is SemVer for hardware models?
Fire cracker tutorial
I am not a mathematician, therefore, thoroughly underqualified to judge mathematicians. However, I recommend George Andrews' lecture[1] on Ramanujan's relevance to current mathematics. I wish they'd make more movies about (other) mathematicians and scientists too, minus the fake drama like Ramanujan's physical abuse seen in this one.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_0NuOBNobk
I researched building this a few years ago. YouTube has this data indexed but didnt seem to expose a reasonable programmatic search interface for it. Indexing and providing the search myself seemed far beyond scope (would YouTube even allow harvesting all that?).
Disclaimer: not a string theorist.

In examining the behavior of superstrings, we are concerned with modes of oscillation. As with ordinary strings, the possible oscillations are determined by the boundary conditions on the string. E.g., both ends of the string can be fixed; both ends can be variable; one end can be fixed, one variable.

One dimensional strings in a three dimensional space really just have a couple of possible conditions.

Superstrings oscillate through as many as 10 dimensions. That means there are many more possible boundary conditions. They come in groups. As an analogy, if a dimension ranges from 0.0 to 1.0, the string behaves pretty much the same regardless of whether its end is fixed at 0.5 or 0.6. What matters is that it is fixed. We can group the "fixed endpoint" conditions together.

The collection of boundary conditions on a superstring defines a "sector".

The "hidden sectors" is the part I'm less clear on. I think that refers to the many combinations of boundary conditions that would produce a string theory that we simply can't observe. I.e., all the strings we see as bosons, fermions, charge carriers, etc. share some sector. But the underlying math allows other string theories to exist. They are internally consistent but would result in particles we could not observe.

And, of course, 100% of this is based on string theory which is, thus far, unproven.
Why does it sound like that? Did you take a look at the content posted?
Was there even any sign that this was going to be under supplied like this? I didn't get that impression from the reviews/previews I read.
One JavaScript framework to rule them all
Well, I didn't name the reasons of why we continued using Docker because I thought they were obvious to any serious docker user. The reasons are all the promises that docker makes to you without actually telling you the complexities involved. Namely - the promise of better portability, better dev-prod environment replication (You can even run vagrant for dev portability but you wouldn't use it for prod, but with docker, its just docker everywhere), better scalability with managing clusters and deployments, and so on... without actually running heavy virtual machines. And no, as per the docker promise, it wasn't supposed to be complex.
The recent election should have made it clear to everyone that many communities, centered around industries like manufacturing or fossil fuel energy, have been decimated in the last few decades or so. These are obviously large trends, but in our technological and economic progress we should figure out how to make sure these communities are not left behind.

I would like to see a larger effort for the SV community to expand into some of these communities and help give some of these communities a much-needed economic jolt.
On the flip side, stuff like this just sours the whole thing. Why have a sign up page to be alerted when something's available if you know it's going to be sold out immediately?
Reputational Review Network - A review network where users can rate local restaurants, services, goods and other reviewers' credibility. Ratings are personalized based on your own reviews and who you find credible - this gives a user an incentive to keep their reviews honest.
The color camera on the Hololens is 1280x720, making it useless for most tasks

This seems.. somewhat extreme.

I built a (prototype) hand-tracking system using a 800x600 webcam[1]. In Javascript. Using a Flash->Javascript bridge. In 2009. I'm surprised that one can't find useful things to do with something that appears somewhat more capable.

[1] https://github.com/nlothian/FlashCamShim
Use a chrome extension that piggybacks off of existing YouTube users to crawl YT (similar to RECAP for PACER), push to S3, process with Lambda to build your index and throw away the raw data after processing.

Bonus if you can finagle all of this with free AWS credits from their startup incubator offers.
I would want to have something like Wikipedia that takes account of the user's context and knowledge to present transformed text that is customized for the user so it's easier to digest.
iPlantTrees - kind of tree sharing. You want a plant, post location. You know how to plant or have money, go there and plant a real tree. 8 billion people and counting. If every 8th person plants 1 tree, we can have a billion trees.
Because it gives both of us a firm ally and makes it far easier for us to coordinate.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927
Contra Krugman: The Podcast That Refutes Krugman Every Week
That law is about fixing the sounds themselves, which is specifically what andromeduck is proposing not to do.

It's conceivable that andromeduck's distinction won't stand up in law, but you haven't addressed it.
A self-hosting static Linux distro, with pacman. It's bloody hard to bootstrap a Linux userspace from scratch in general, but when you add that you want everything to be static it just gets stupidly difficult. I'll try again at some point with another strategy, it'll be the fourth such attempt.
Perhaps Banished is more in line with what he's describing.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/
Why do you think this is morally bankrupt? We aren't talking about wheat, but a superfluous luxury item. Where's the moral argument?
Amazing find, strange that it took so long to actually search the Black Sea considering the perfect oxygen-less environment for preserving these wrecks.
>Photogrammetry, a process using thousands of photographs and readings, produced a rendering that appears three-dimensional.

Photogrammetry generates actual three dimensional images, not merely appearances of.
In places, this is quite simple-minded, though there is a nod to the distinction between throughput and latency. A function call may effectively cost nothing; if the function and its caller do useful work, a few store/load pairs (save and restore registers) and correctly predicted return address may be a handful of microoperations merged in with a stream of other instructions. The idea that there is 20-50 cycles of actual cost from a function call is outlandish.

Similarly, the virtual function call number looks way out of whack as long as the indirect branch target is correctly predicted (which, if the use of virtual functions is substituting for a more straightforward approach, is likely - and if it's quite unpredictable where the indirect branch in your virtual function call would go, any other approach probably just moves the branch mispredict somewhere else).

The numbers are not overall "crazy-wrong", but there is a tone of precision and certainty to them that is a bit deceptive. Talking about how much an operation costs is pointless; build things one way, measure that, then make the smallest change possible and measure that. Most of these costs make sense only in context (if you're on a critical path, measure latency, if you're on oversubscribed execution resource, measure throughput, etc).
Having inherited an ES cluster shortly after it replaced Solr, and built out many clusters since then, I can comment that the 'split brain' problem which attracted a lot of attention 2-3 years ago thanks to the infamous Jepsen 'Call Me Maybe' torture test is effectively a non-issue in a well-configured environment, today.

Theoretically possible, perhaps; in practice, just not an issue. Our initial cluster suffered from it thanks to improperly having been run across data centers with default settings of various kinds.

Once I got that under control, zero recurrence despite our clusters living in what I like to call a 'hostile network environment.'

I am not a fan of the 'Zen' cluster management system they adopted; but it does work and Elastic has put a ton of work into cleaning out the corner cases.

For my purposes,

One of the distinctions I would say is most interesting today is that Elastic the company has been aggressively chasing the analytics market, at the expense of developing the text/freeform search capabilities of ES.

At Elasticon last year there were some interesting talks that touched on this in various ways; and I was part of a group of people who traded chagrin that Elastic does not have a strong user community in this area.

Instead they have put a lot of work on their 'stack' and data shippers and cloud deployment.

Solr on the other hand has continued to move forward and for an environment in which the primary application is going to be free-form text search (vs. say structured metadata, or analytics) it is probably stronger.

Fwiw I find deployment, configuration, inspection, etc., all refreshingly clean. Imperfect, sure, but the ES team did have the advantage of starting with a blank page in a lot of respects. It shows.

(Currently running 6+ clusters, 100+ nodes, doing metadata and full-text and a small amount of analytics)
I was thinking a contemporary village where villagers have cell phones, cars, social network accounts, hobbies, errands, illnesses, social functions etc. Human simulation at the level of The Sims, but community size of up to 1000.
I've been dreaming of creating a platform that used crowd sourcing to map concept & procedural masteries to higher level masteries and to occupations.
Basically, a giant graph database mapping concepts, procedures, systems (versioned), and occupations. I think such a database could be used to improve learning management systems for school faculty and autodidacts alike. It could also serve as the basis for a performance/competency evaluation system that could replace resumes eventually.
Object tracking[1] and QR code reading are definitely possible at that resolution. For QR codes it's going to depend on the distance from it though.

[1] http://introlab.github.io/find-object/
Sense of humor

Word play

Irony in all its senses
And hopefully we agree that the Chinese immigration ban hass been a black stain on America history, since forever?
- Empathy

- Imagination

- Self-actualization / strong sense of self

- Names of dinosaurs
> Google isn't obligated to include every web site in existence in their index.

No, but to have a competing product appear highly ranked at first, then drop off their search engine entirely and not return until there is a public outcry, screams of anti-competitive action on Google's part[1]. That said, I don't think a lawsuit would get very far either. I'm just saying the whole affair is fishy.

[1] Or, if you want to go tin-foil-hat with it, perhaps a certain government told Google it didn't want people to know about a secure email startup that resides in a country that is known for upholding privacy rights. I don't buy that one myself but I've seen it bandied about in the past in similar cases.
> Living in Maryland I already knew Clinton would carry the state. So why go vote?

I think it is helpful in these situations to extend your thinking to everyone else and see if you like the result:

1) My candidate has a big lead in my state so I won't bother to vote.
2) My thinking in 1) is rational and therefore lots of other people will think and behave the same way.

vs.

1) My candidate will only win if their supporters vote for them, so I will vote.
2) My thinking in 1) is rational and therefore lots of other people will think and behave the same way.

So which behavior will most likely lead to your desired outcome?
Religion is a powerful driving force in many cultures. Comprehending that other people believe in a different religion as strongly as you believe in yours helps one's understanding of the world.
Reasons not to use Uber
One complaint I've heard is people looking for restaurants and finding 4-5 star rated McDonalds. Seems ripe for PCA or something. There are a ton of examples of this sort of analysis too, especially since Netflix made their datasets available. Here's the first paper I found: http://www.lkozma.net/mlsp09binary.pdf
How ThousandEyes Grew Using Discarded Computers
Thanks, that's very interesting to me but not quite what I had in mind. I'm thinking modern era, where the sims have links to an outside world - so some sims would commute out of the village for work each day, some would go to the nearby city for nightlife at weekends.
How do you know that people are doing this with your VMs?
Steam and Netflix do cost, but have verifiable impact in their industries. And they do pay their respective artists.

The streaming service doesn't have to be free. But it does have to have a decent user experience.
Yes, I do realize this. Would companies relocating jobs to these locations have any reasonable expectation of paying lower wages and less taxes?
The reason is most likely that the top and bottom of the page are easiest to find so the comments at the bottom have a little more visibility than those in the middle.
You can see Andrew's tweet here:
http://imgur.com/a/vnbvT

Note that he did not simply tweet the words "Build the wall." That's not what happened. What he did is he screenshotted another YC founder's private facebook wall post, in which she says she is scared for her safety. And he publicly tweeted her words while adding "Build the wall" as mocking commentary.
Doesn't work on iOS using Firefox either. Same error. Oddly enough it does sort of work on iOS Safari, but the experience is bad. Works fine in Firefox 33 on Windows btw.
> Be a good person and a role model

This. More and more, I've realized that I want my kid to have empathy, curiosity about the world, and a strong sense of self, and I trust that the rest will fall into place.

The specifics of what she learns or what her interests are, matter less. (Obviously I want her to learn all the academic basics, reading and math, etc.)

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10-Second Videos from Your Sunglasses
This is textbook tribal protectionism. The result is usually more protectionism from all countries and the destruction of the WTO. Another poster clearly laid out the possible reactions from the Indian government (for example). Your tech companies are making MILLIONS in these other countries, learn how to spread that wealth more efficiently.

The world has known only ONE model of peace (yes world peace, look at the metrics), and that is globalized trade, take that away and we'll be back at each other throats.
Yes, I get this. I've been trying to code a virtual factory so that I can replace my actual factory and the overhead that comes with an actual factory. Just can't quite get there.
Dolphin Emulator + Wind Waker ROM = HD experience you never had