skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little bit about HumbleRise:

My cofounder and I were going through the YC application process and had a lot of fun discovering and watch other people’s pitches. So we found about 400 YC pitches on youtube and made them easily browsable on HumbleRise.

We also realized that it might be cool if there were “employer pitches” directed towards potential hires. This could help the job seeker “meet” the team, and see if he/she would enjoy working with them. And for the employer, a pitch video could allow them to communicate through the video, in much clearer manner, the benefits of working at their early startup.
That's a reasonable question. It's possible the 500 and 1000 notes will be relegated to large, all-cash transactions where the goal is to avoid taxes. But I imagine that some amount of osmosis will _have_ to take place. You can't buy food or pay for gas with a 500 note after all; probably any businesses found accepting them would face charges.

And if you can't use them for anything except real-estate purchases and the like then their value is going to decrease over time. The number of 500/1000 notes will asymptotically approach zero over time as they get converted through official or unofficial channels.
I believe you misread tedks.

I read

> 2. The user hasn't installed the plugin. Who does that? So signal doesn't work.

as
"when the user sees that it doesn't work out of the box, and sends you to an app store instead, they consider it broken."
Automate (by Llamalab) is the best example that comes to mind. Tasker also uses plugins, but their "base" app has too many permissions.

A few other applications that use plugins:

* ES File Explorer

* Trigger

* FB Reader

* Threema

And there are others. Most of these don't do this for the explicit purpose of permissions management (Automate may be the only one), but there's no reason that security can't be the primary motivation for a plugin system.

There's another bonus to this approach: a plugin architecture allows you to add controversial features without forcing them on your user base. Don't like a new feature? Don't install it.

Yes, a plugin architecture adds complexity. However, Android's intent system is built to simplify this kind of design, so it's not like you have to build it all from scratch.
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And why do you suppose that they're unable to record the wake events? They don't need metadata from Signal: they can make their own, which is precisely what I've been trying to say this entire time. That's enough for them to reconstruct your social graph.

Signal is seemingly built around providing the image of anonymity and security, but has glaring design flaws which negate these.
Trump[1] and Cruz have said this. Are they lying?

In the past, the supreme court wasn't the political football it has become today.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/19/trump-ill-appoint-supreme-cou...
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It's meaningless.

Near Seattle there are trends reported for "voter intimidation" and "long wait times" and "voting machine problems."

Those trends make no sense for a region that votes by mail.
> spread sheet is now nearly a year long project which requires a new employee who will have comparable pay to the person who ALREADY operates excel.

And now you have a scalable system. You can go from something one employee takes all day to look at 2x/day, to something anyone in the company can see in real time on a dashboard of some sort.

Is that worth it? Depends
From what I read here, I think they are aiming for a system that has 'enough' resolution on the entire field of view.

'Enough' is retina resolution, but only on the fovea, and way less the further away you go from the fovea. That can significantly decrease the amount of work needed to render a scene.

Moreover, color-wise, you don't need color except for the center of your field of view (you need cones to see color, and cones can only be found in the fovea).

Building such a screen probably isn't that hard; you would need to build new production lines because everything out there is built for rectangular grids of equal-sized pixels, but that probably is 'just' a matter of investing money and time.

Writing the software to efficiently draw scenes on such a screen probably is a bit harder; there will be lots of optimizations that need to be discovered (what's the equivalent of Bresenham line drawing, for example?)

The biggest challenge will be to keep the high-resolution part of your screen centered on where the retina looks. That requires eye tracking and some way to move your screen. Saccades move at hundreds of degrees per second; you would have to match that.

If that's what they are building, and they succeed, I think it will take over the world, even if they initially sell it at $5000 an eye.
I completely disagree: I think that voting, in person, surrounded by other members of the community, is an important part of our civil religion. Election Day should be a true holiday, dedicated to patriotic and civic commemorations.

In particular, I think that early voting leaves voters liable to act on less information than is necessary. Obviously there must be a cutoff — if a candidate goes insane the day after the election, it's too late — but I think it's preferable for all voters to be acting on the same available information.

Obviously some folks need to be away from home on Election Day, but I think that the vast majority of us should be voting together, with our communities.

I fear that the trend towards early voting will lead to increased partisanship, and that the way we've been running our elections and districting for the past century or so has led to a decreased sense of community and patriotism.
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I agree, finding a problem that is actually a problem (even if you aren't "passionate" about it) can work.

But I think that is the main point, seeing something that is an oppurtunity.

I was more reffering to people who "play startup" for startups sake, because it is cool or the done thing.

If there is oppurtunity and solution you don't need to be passionate generally.
disclaimer: I work for Volkswagen.

that being said, Volkswagen certainly is pushing electric vehicles now, all internal talk, newsletters are about the MEB (modular electric "toolbox", same as the current MQB for our conventional vehicles). The next investment meeting for the following 5 years is this november, a lot of money will certainly go for investments in electric vehicles.
Recommend you look at this history of emerging technologies announced at SIGGRAPH.

Tends not to be a linear progression at all; if the attention of more than a couple researchers is applied to any of these things then they grow very quickly - couple this with improvements in parallel processing power and it becomes quite viable.
(see: physically based lighting, rigid body -> full crumple simulation, fluid dynamics, Photoshop's "smart fill", or really any game tech)

Apropos of nothing: Same applies in terms of hardware - what we can do with light field cameras now was science fiction just over a decade ago, but within a couple years of crossing a research tipping point we went from 10x10' camera arrays to <$100 hand-held commercial products.

source: graphics tech and SIGGRAPH nerd for the last 23 years

actually there was an extremely slow build up of this tech, with a sudden and rapid escalation - but between 1908 and 2010 was a very shallow incline :)
Grain has international prices, there are lots of grain producing countries. I doubt it Mexico farming less grain affects prices.
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Oh I didn't mean by him, I mean by a different person (probably) each time.
An import tariff is not a boycott and would have real influence with minimal pain. Remember, trade imbalances work against China in such a fight. China is in a surprisingly weaker economic situation than you might think, and very dependent on exports.
I don't disagree with your premise, but in this case, how can this screw regular people? If someone has chosen to store a lot of their money as cash instead of in a bank and doesn't know about this, I can see that. Am I missing something else?
Apparently a bunch of states (23?) are using a software system called Interstate Crosscheck to look for "double voters".

> Election officials in more than two dozen states have compiled lists of citizens whom they allege could be registered in more than one state – thus potentially able to cast multiple ballots – and eligible to be purged from the voter rolls.

The problem is that it often only uses a persons name as a singular data point. So if a person votes with the same first/last name as another person in another state, it's possible that vote could be wiped out. It was even matching names even though there were differences in middle names or had Jr/Sr at the end.

The journalist, Greg Palast, who investigated this back in 2014 has been doing radio circuits again recently saying that it's still being used in a bunch of states. Not sure about the validity of this since there hasn't been much reporting elsewhere on this. He seems to be the only one talking about it. And googling 'Interstate Crosscheck' only brings up his articles and democrat superpac websites.

http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-steal...
L3 DDoS happening now?
http://www.caputer.com/
The UI on this app is spectacular actually . I want to sit down with the team that wrote it and just ask questions for days.
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Insightful. This should be higher up.
Nothing interesting to you, mayhap.

I enjoyed reading through the simple code, these older languages can often seem somewhat esoteric to the uninitiated, seeing the COBOL language twisted to fitting in to an MVC-lite pattern helped me to understand what was going in - it read like the applications I'm used to seeing.
So where does "everybody has one but nobody uses them" fit into your adoption cycle?
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I find the "Long Wait Times" in Hillsboro to be a little odd since there is no waiting.
Indeed, they can, but it's difficult to get foreign currency without valid ID. But gold is an option, even though govt have even made it mandatory to flash your ID for gold purchases.
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The first rule of that situation for anyone is: don't become another casualty. Call the authorities, don't be a fool and get yourself added to the body count. You don't save drowning people by drowning with them, you just put your own life in danger and the lives of the people who will eventually have to rescue both of you.
That's only true for a very niche sort of trading (only high-frequency/latency arbitrage type stuff) which makes up a tiny portion of the financial industry[1]—and that tiny portion is certainly not using Julia for production trading systems.

Everyone else has more reasonable performance constraints.

[1]: I can't find my source right now, but I remember seeing a credible estimate that the HFT industry in the US takes in $10 billion in revenue. That's a drop in the bucket of an industry that's measured in trillions just in the US.

Intuitively this makes a lot of sense because HFT strategies make a tiny amount of money per trade and have to do a ton of trades across a ton of different securities—which means the capacity of HFT strategies is relatively small.
Can you version/diff it though? Basically can you have a semi-sane software engineering process when it becomes big?
shouldn't the cash be listed as capital instead of asset?
If you are serious about deep learning I would recommend this book instead: http://www.deeplearningbook.org It is coming out next month, but you can view the entire book online.
I think in this case it boils down to whether you ever need to do a pattern match over the select box type. If you do, then having the compiler check for exaustiveness makes the code more robust. If all you care is the string representation of the strings and how they convert to a numeric time then a dictionary will do the job just as well, while keeping things simpler.
I doubt that. It's certainly the trend and a lot of new code is produced in Python. But most models will run on R/Matlab/C++/C#. I'd guess that most quant departments have less than 10% of their code in Python.

But Python is the modern way to go, so every shop stresses that they use it and they expect every new hire to master it.
I know of a ton of startups that were successful after pivoting to a completely different idea, such as Twitter and Reddit. Many companies don't start with a great idea, but they discover opportunities while trying to solve something completely different.
Came here to say the same. It's not impossible, but you want to see multiple replications, and p a lot lower than 0.05, before believing study results like those.
Being that chunks of it are already available via https://opensource.apple.com/ not much would happen.

The NextBSD project was consuming some of the open sourced bits and bolting them onto a FreeBSD fork, but I'm not sure where that project has left off.
> Also, we hear hacking accusations against Russia and China regularly, but never against the US.

Does the NSA spying on Germany not count? What about STUXNET?
He can still pay tax and get away.
Definitely illegal. However, it'll get a pass like everything else illegal done this election.
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Is there any open source framework that has an excel-like GUI and good integration with standard coding tools?
How come? I would think the opposite. Voting from home absolutely applies to "voter intimidation" situations. Someone could literally be in your home with a gun to your head, making you vote the way they want you to vote.

The same problem as well as vote buying applies to online voting, too. But those are not even the biggest problems with online voting, so most people tend not to focus on them.
sounds like they could be lighter too? might make solar airplanes easier to build?
SpaceX and Tesla are not doing anything really new..

Not sure how it elevates him from yet another billionaire entrepreneur...
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Exactly! :D
I personally find it useful for more than recruiting, such as sales etc. Shaving a few minutes off finding an email compounded over a day can save quite a bit of time allowing you to focus on more important things.
Their colors are off in the AdWords example dashboard. The donut charts in the bottom right, yellow is mobile phones in the chart, but the mobile phone icon is blue. The other chart-icon colors are similarly off.
This is personal accounting. For government accounting there is one step:

1. If there is no money available, print more
Citations please.
> classifying possible human behaviors is exactly a field where I don't want machine learning to go.

What do you think doing A/B testing on cohorts of users is?
A different question altogether, but interesting none the less, let's say Russia or China get to colonize Mars first, then let's say they find a safe way to thrive there. could they then by extension manage new colonization of Mars the same way we colonized earth? That is the colonizer could regulate who might get to further colonize Mars --ie require a kind of interplanetary visa (if we allow many people from many places on Earth have the means to get there)? Are there treaties which require any colonizer to allow other people to set a foothold there? And what if the new Martians just declare independence? Do we cross our arms?
If that was their intent, then yes, that would be an issue. The key is good UX; don't send the user there without explanation. A well-designed "read this!" screen is key, and even then you will lose some users. It's a trade-off.

Also, I did acknowledge that this approach will turn away "mass market" users, but again, I don't think that those users will ever be Signal's primary user base. Most people are going to use stock apps or whatever is most heavily marketed (read: whoever spends the most dollars on acquiring users). Signal frankly can't afford to buy its way into the mass market. It's a niche app, and it should focus on catering to that niche.
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> on my end it wouldn't make any difference at all

Sure, but attribute (or tag) names refer the the structure of the document whereas values refer to each special case; structurally (essentially) those two are the same:

<comment-box hackernews="1">
<comment-box reddit="4">

but you can't tell because they have different attributes.

Okay, so in order to write (current solution):

<comment-box hackernews="11850599" reddit="11850500 11859454"></comment-box>

you could do:

<comment-box network="hackernews" items="11850599"></comment-box>
<comment-box network="reddit" items="11850500 11859454"></comment-box>

which would work just the same, you just have to group consecutive comment-box into one; or you could even do this:

<comment-box sources="hackernews: 11850599; reddit: 11850500 11859454"></comment-box>

(inline css style).
The most value I see here is the map presents you way to observe state-by-state disparities about the searches that MAY reflect some state-level, systemic disenfranchisement due to voting laws, disorganization, negligence and like. For example, it's notable that NC has a high concentration of searches for "Inactive Voter Status" compared to a much more populated state like Texas.

Of course, this could just mean people in NC are more curious about "Inactive Voter Status" than the rest of the country... but I would reserve that possibility for search terms like "Voter Fraud" that are a more politicized.
Moral authority doesn't come into it. The key questions are: "Does China care about rules?" And: "What do China's actions here say about how it will act in other circumstances?"

Should we see China as a reliable partner in the South China Sea? (No.) What would a regional economic order look like under China? (Maybe TTP isn't so terrible.) Should companies continue to use Hong Kong as a base for legal operations in China and SE Asia? (E.g. Singapore is looking better and better for arbitration.) Certainly, Taiwan should take note what any promised autonomy would look like if China offers a grand bargain to reunify.

Countries should see how China acts, note it, and behave accordingly.
I used to replay the same negative thoughts as well. Here's how I broke free:

Reframe all your negative thoughts.

I used to obsess about past mistakes.
Thought: "I wish I didn't do that."
Reframe: "If I didn't do that, I wouldn't have learned that lesson to be the person I am today. Or in the position I am today."

Stop worrying about problems that haven't even materialized yet and very likely never will.

We waste tons of mental energy worrying about problems that never happen. If you don't believe me, make a list of all you worries about near future events. Wait a week and see how many of them actually happen. You'll find 99% didn't.

This one was the hardest to put into practice: be kind to yourself.

A lot of people believe that if you stop criticizing yourself, you won't learn. You won't improve. You'll become arrogant.

When you criticize yourself, you actually make it even harder to learn from your experiences / actions. Why? Because when we feel badly, we're not very productive about forming ideas on how to change and putting them into action. Instead, we seek distractions (sometimes really unhealthy ones) to try to make ourselves feel better.

When you do something that leads to a negative outcome for you, preventing that negative outcome from happening again is enough motivation to change in of itself. You don't need to make yourself feel bad to learn and change.
This is digital Stockhold syndrome.

Excel is something managers and executives can understand, so it became the default language for data analysis. Now technologists trapped using it have to create ex post facto justifications for why it's really "just misunderstood."

Excel is massively slow, makes it easy for beginners to make massive mistakes, computes lots of types in very odd manners, performs floating point operations wrong, and leads to spaghetti code that is a rat's nest of incomprehensible cross-references.

Worst of all, the lack of code path visibility usually leads to a bus factor of 1.

Sure, one can learn to operate Excel for data analysis with a decent level of efficiency, in the same manner one can cross the Pacific in a canoe, but both are still terrible tools for the job.
Good. Now get rid of the crore and lakh "decimal" craziness.
There is some evidence for this, but honestly the US does the same, usually worse. Better not speak of China, where this is official policy.
Good point. I also found it absolutely magical when my Scala code written for the JVM compiled flawlessly using Scala.js.
Agreed. It would be interesting to see how genetic engineering might be used to "steer" the changes needed to adapt to life on Mars. I've been concerned about the gravity issue for some time. It's not at all clear that 0.38g is healthy for humans in the long term. And the radiation threat is a very serious issue, even just for the trip out there. The long term effects are hard to predict. It really is a pity that Venus is such a hell hole; 0.87g would be much nicer on the human body.
This might be the best argument for using an adblocker indiscriminately.

For whatever reason, the web got to this point where non-technical people get infected within minutes, whatever advertising revenue is lost by content creators isn't worth my headaches providing tech support to family members and friends.
A more charitable reading would be that "How to pick a startup" is the same thing as "How to pick a problem to solve." There are many problems one could solve and some guidance in picking which one can be useful.

However, I would question the idea that the only way to think is in terms of "problems." There are many valuable things people can do beyond solving problems. Solving problems takes care of our basic needs, and there's definitely something to be said about the relative importance of solving problems vs. doing other things (creating art, for example), especially if you want to "make the world a better place" (tm), but I feel it's still a bit limiting.

That's why I like the Y Combinator motto "Make something people want." Start from the want, not the "problem." Solving problems is just one of many things people want.
Context: Said by some AMD exec a year before they sold their fabs to GloFo.
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LibreOffice, but it's not as good as Excel for the upper-end stuff. Microsoft doesn't have an empire built on Office by accident.
Capital is what you owe your investors, eg "startup capital". Sometimes this is called equity.
Your desired explanation also would prime kids for introduction to other similar number sets, like the complex plane.. easing understanding significantly in comparison to referring to them as 'imaginary numbers'
>13 years to get the hell out

This is exactly why my father-in-law sent all 5 of his kids to the US for college. All 5 now have US passports and can leave Hong Kong if and when it becomes worse than they can stand. So far, 2 of them have made the move.
Along with a sign-up form on his web site for 'volunteers' to drive over into 'suspicious' neighborhoods in blue counties.

And the mere threat of intimidation will be enough to keep people home googling instead of voting.

At any rate, Oregon provides the perfect control for any theoretical 'googling out of idle curiosity' crowd.
> you had 13 years to get the hell out.

Good luck with immigration. Britain certainly didn't want to let many of its former subject leave.
An explanation by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynRVnIh6wq4
Great, now all the hot new build tools will be JCL based.