skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Government can very rarely outpace private business in terms of getting things like this done.

That's not really true, it's never ever really been true. It's capitalist propaganda that 'the Government is useless', and it's mainly propped up by extremely liberal governments (Republicans and Democrats, for example) that make the Government useless on purpose then say 'hey look the Government sucks'.

Not that it should ever need to be Government writing software to compete against Microsoft. Governments have much, much better tools for dealing with monopolies than trying to outcompete them. They're the only ones that have those tools. They should use them aggressively.
Ask HN: Is YC ever planning on opening an international incubator?
If YC opened up an international office/incubator that would be wonderful. I think many of us here are worried. An international office would open up a vessel to US investors, and people could work from the alternate country without having to worry about the US visa system.

A primary candidate is Canada, obviously, but there are many other options also. I really think it's worth thinking about, the only reason I haven't launched a company yet is because of visa issues.
What you describe is basically running an online magazine or media organization. You hire writers to write pieces, and users pay a subscription fee. This is what the NYT times. The article mentioned that this was their original business plan but it was scrapped.
This is wi-fi direct though? Superbeam, Shareit, Xender, etc?
Bloomfilters.
>The government can fund private business developing free software to outpace another private business.

Why? Governments are the only ones with the tools to actually deal with monopolies properly without competing with them: breaking them up, fining them extremely fiercely, etc.
>"Celiac disease" is consistently between 15 and 20 times more popular than "coeliac disease".

Because Americans don't know how to spell. The fact is that it's called 'Coeliac disease' by sane people and 'Celiac disease' by non-medical Americans. Medical Americans know how it's actually spelt, as do all non-Americans.
University attacked by its own vending machines
Isn't PHP generally the first language to put anything in their standard library? I remember back when I did PHP dev, it seemed like all the batteries were always included.
My personal experience tells me that a bit flip is very unlikely to cause a system to fail before a bug or normal termination turns it down. My intuition tells me this is due to shorter and shorter individual program life span due to expansion of client/server architecture, higher frequency of bugs due to expansion of untyped/unstructured data, and the fact that most data manipulated by a program is not initialized/used anyway. Only in very big clusters have I ever heard of memory failure being noticable, but even there I've never seen memory corruption cited in a post mortem. Having to deal with bugs and other hardware defects forces one to work around lack of data integrity anyway.
i have had some original ideas, and the key to having original ideas is not what you think.

It's less about actually having original ideas, but more about being able to perceive whether an idea is original or not.

In your case, you lack that quality, and that's why you "thought" your idea was unique. It has nothing to do with whether you're an original person or not.

Let's say you come up with 100 ideas per month. If you're unable to figure out if your idea is original or not, you will probably go with the first idea you thought was cool. After one month you'll realize it's not original at all.

This is NOT a failure of yourself as a creative person. This is a failure of yourself as a person who can't lack knowledge about the field AND lack ability to do good enough market research. Imagine what you could have done during that one month if you were better at telling original ideas from unoriginal ones.

So the solution is simple:

1. Keep studying and trying new things in different fields. You'll soon have enough knowledge to be confident that when you come up with an idea you think is original, it actually IS original.

2. Learn to be better at research: This is crucial. The more you do this the better you'll get at this, and you'll pick up your own skills. After a while, you'll become so good at market research that you can be at least 80% confident that your idea is original in a field you've never seen before, after a couple of days of market research.
Collecting data, including how much your customers value your product, is so important. This is a great way to collect that data.
For JavaScript we have https://github.com/estree/estree as our JS AST spec for parsers like esprima, acorn, babylon (under a config flag), etc.

JSCS (https://github.com/jscs-dev/node-jscs) (now merged with ESLint) started a CST project as well https://github.com/cst/cst to help deal with autoformatting by adding whitespace type nodes.

Currently the community has a lot of interest in https://github.com/jlongster/prettier which just simply reprints the file from scratch in a consistent way (posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13365470).

We also have https://github.com/benjamn/recast to help source to source transformations and https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift.
If you exclude the position of the sun, then what bearing would chronology have? As long as you are on a consistent cycle with sufficient sleep, it wouldn't make any sense to think your body cares either way. To say otherwise would deduce that moving from one time zone to another forever puts you at odds with your circadian rhythm.
>some good farmland, which CA has some of the best of in the world.

Is that a joke? California is a terrible place to be farming. Farming in California is only viable because farmers are allowed unfettered access to water, depriving it from residents (who are told they should turn off the water in the shower while farmers are pouring untold millions of gallons on crops that could be grown somewhere actually suited to farming).
My Experience as a Freelance Data Scientist
Wouldn't it be, underwater you find out your batteries perhaps are low in power, but you continue on since even if they go out you still have all your companions as backup.

But you just stared down the incident pit?

You still have multiple layers of security, but normalizing the removal or weaking of one goes against the point of having the multiple layers in the first place.

In your example you seem screwed immediately?
India’s first digital village project shuts down
Math major here.

This presentation does skip some nessasary legwork for complete rigor, but presents a valid non-standard construction of e^ipi.

Specifically, he defines two sets of objects: adders and multipliers, and a function (written e^x for historical reasons) that maps adders into multipliers.

He then generalizes this construction to work in 2 dimensions instead of 1 dimension.

I would add to this construction that e^x is the particular converter that maps pi -> -1. However, I think this requirement is implicit in him stating that e^x is the most "natural" of the converters, and that pi -> -1 is the most natural of mappings.

The only place where you might need calculus is to provide an explicit construction of e^x (and possibly to justify the notational choice of writing it like an exponential).

EDIT:

To make the point clearer. Under the construction presented by the video, e^x is not defined as an infinite some, but rather as a function satisfying certain properties. That this function is equal to a particular infinite sum is a statement that requires proof; and not a statement that is needed for many applications.
Yeah the case could be made for California. Is it true that residential houses now require sprinklers too?
I think it's Spivak's burden to back up his claim, not mine to falsify the claims of Oracle.
to clarify: it's not the dam itself that's at risk of failure, but the emergency spillway. while this scenario would be catastrophic, it's far less catastrophic than the entire dam failing
Ask HN: How would you automate my farm
I intend to fully automate my farm from soil prep to harvest within 3 years.

As a thought experiment, how would you imagine the automation of an one-acre farm?
Having grown up in a town that I saw flooded when the Teton Dam failed (http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/idaho/videos/enginee...), I've been watching this closely.

Thankfully, it appears the actual body of the dam is unlikely to fail, so hopefully even if the emergency spillway fails, it won't be a catastrophic, immediate draining of the whole lake.
I looked for more information about this situation. LAT has a live blog that seems to have some really good info about the dam, the spillways, and the damage in the early posts to the live blog http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-live-updates-orov...
I know you're joking but just for the record: this process was started in late 2015, it's a surprisingly complicated endeavour to switch source control hosting.
If they are going to a subscription or patronage model, they will need to cut way more jobs and costs. That type of model can work but you have to run very lean, and you might end up replacing those ad banners with ones begging for money. Organizations like NPR and Wikipedia are some of the largest to use such a model, they have the benefit of goodwill and tax breaks due to their non-profit status, and their cost structure and business model looks very different from most valley startups. You can kiss that valuation goodbye.
As I understand it, aeroplane tickets are already very low-margin.
The Sourcegraph Chrome extension provides this for Python, JavaScript and a few other languages I think.
"I wonder if we could close it even further if we let the employees control the means of production."

Employees do control the means of production. They make all the decisions and do all the work.

You probably meant to say own the means of production.

Tried that. See: every Communist regime, all of which failed :)

Anybody is free to create a startup with 100% employee ownership - you can do it today. All the power to you, it'd be cool if that worked, I just don't think it will.
Because Americans don't know how to spell. The fact is that it's called 'Coeliac disease' by sane people and 'Celiac disease' by non-medical Americans. Medical Americans know how it's actually spelt, as do all non-Americans

Attacks like this are unwarranted.

Reviewing the references for the coeliac disease article shows plenty of "Medical Americans" and international papers referring to "celiac disease".

- "Celiac Disease" https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-disea...

- "Subclinical celiac disease and gluten sensitivity"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4017418/

- Tonutti E, Bizzaro N (2014). "Diagnosis and classification of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity". Autoimmun Rev (Review)

- Ciccocioppo R, Kruzliak P, Cangemi GC, Pohanka M, Betti E, Lauret E, Rodrigo L (Oct 22, 2015). "The Spectrum of Differences between Childhood and Adulthood Celiac Disease". Nutrients (Review).

That's four from the first six references.

Of the first 25 references for the Wikipedia article, 13 spell it "celiac", 8 spell it "coeliac", 1 spells it "cœliac", and 3 don't mention the disease specifically. To my eye (granted, quickly scanned), they all look like solid references, mostly journal articles. To me, especially given the dipthong œ used in one case, this looks like a clear case of a word that has legitimate spelling variants, just as you used "spelt", where others would spell it "spelled".
Just yesterday [0] someone (multiple people, actually) was claiming fingerprint locking on phones is unsafe based on fact the 5th amendment doesn't protect your fingerprints, but does protect your right to not reveal your password.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622684
Press ? on any page.
This is the problem with the stupid American capitalist system. You have these sorts of problems.

If it were all controlled by the Government, like it is in other countries, nobody would need to have 'priority'. You just schedule the trains properly.
Inside the bizarre 1960s cult, the Family: LSD, yoga and UFOs
So far, the only failure foreseen is to the auxiliary spillway which would definitely lead to an uncontrolled release of water from the lake, but is a separate structure from the main dam.

There's definitely worries about the erosion on the main spillway moving back upstream towards the dam, but that is something folks are going to have to look at and consider over the remaining duration of the water season, unlikely to be a danger tonight.
I feel medium would have a chance if they allowed video and audio content to be published there. They already have the users that produce such content. Imagine it like a youtube/soundcloud for adults (I don't mean pornographic content). They could then sell many products and services around it.
Plus with a train you don't have all the stupid security that you do on a plane.
>Everyone I know who has had to use Gerrit has absolutely, utterly despised it.

Everyone I know who has had to use github has utterly despised it. I work with a lot of systems and kernel programmers that use gerrit or email workflows.

See how anecdotes aren't very useful?
I'd be really happy if they parsed the code and indexed definitions vs usage in search. A lot of times when I'm digging through a project I'll find a function and want to look up the definition. Ok, try searching for the type and function name, nothing, it must be type, a line break, then the function name. A lot of times I end up clicking through pages of search results trying to find something that is a little elusive. It would be awesome if they did it like IDEs and you could filter searches by usage or definitions (go to declaration sort of thing). Given the number of languages they would have to implement that over, I don't think it will happen, but it would be cool.
Flying has lots of externalised costs - noise, pollution, requires use of fossil fuels etc.
Not just residents, but also states around it, as well as Mexico.
Why We Can’t Have Nice Infrastructure
par2 data could be uploaded but also kept on local backup or traditional cloud backup providers.
“The really interesting thing about this group is that it wasn’t a bunch of hippies with flowers in their hair: they were middle class; they were highly intelligent; they were successful in their careers,”

To understand Assange, you have to understand his early years exposed to this cult. [0]

[0] "Christine Assange then became involved with Leif Meynell, also known as Leif Hamilton, a member of Australian cult THE FAMILY, with whom she had a son before the couple broke up in 1982. Assange had a nomadic childhood, and had lived in over thirty different Australian towns by the time he reached his mid-teens, when he settled with his mother and half-brother in Melbourne, Victoria."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Early_life
Wine yo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_wine
I'd take an 18-hour train ride from SF to NY. Hell yeah. That sounds amazing. Much better than driving it.
For me, it's the exact opposite. I'm rarely hungry in the morning, and a larger meal in the evening helps me fall asleep easier (and is often connected with social encounters)
Second this. I used it on my iPhone.
I understood that reference to "Impossible standard" to mean from a jurisprudence perspective.

If you want to insist that "100% proof" and reasonable doubt are the same, that's of course your choice. I think you'll find that people will tend to disagree with you.
Or, what if you had a paper in a safe that was written in an invented language? They may be able to compel you to open the safe (i.e., provide a BIOS password), but can they compel you to teach them how to read that invented language?
Android Security: A walk-through of SELinux
One thing that nobody has mentioned - autonomous cars. Close to the time this will be completed, I assume I'll be able to sit in my vehicle and be shuttled from SF to LA in 5 hrs in the comfort of my own vehicle.
Think about that statement, what does is mean to you that the "emergency spillway failed" ? The ES is the portion of the dam that is slightly lower than the overall height of the dam so that in the event the main spillway was unable to release water fast enough, the water would start spilling here rather than across the dam. If it "fails" then a portion of the dam ceases to exist. That releases water through that hole uncontrollably. At which point losing containment is generally a matter of when not if.

If it fails, it will be a double disaster, many people will lose property, and California will lose some or all of the water in its largest reservoir. The challenge is going to be keeping ahead of it through to the next storm.
Person above is running a NAS; seems the i3 would be perfect.
I posted this on his site but it needed to be approved. Also, there's actually a comment in the book (I just borrowed my gf's copy) in which they speculate that multilayer networks could be built, but since they only computers they had were .15 MIPS KA-10s (and all the figures in the book were hand drawn) they didn't pursue it.

My guess is it's still early days on the AI boom.

My comment on AI Winter:

Minor correction: Marvin and Seymour's Perceptrons book was published around 1969 and nuked neural nets around there. AI winter set in in the 80s as expert systems and similar crude symbolic systems proved not to be scalable (I was at that AAAI in 1984 and remember that panel well).

Moore's law rescued NNs and is about to rescue symbolic AI as well.
Good comment. A few things:

>- polyunsaturated fats are the category that includes omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids. Even further, omega 3's can be ALA (from plants) or DHA (e.g. salmon) variety. Omega 3's and in particular DHA have been shown to have anti-inflammatory and other health properties.

You missed EPA which is also in fatty fish. ALA doesn't convert very well in humans to DHA or EPA. So eating lots of flax to get Omega3 is pretty useless.

Opinion: The conclusion I came to a few years ago is that we have too much PUFA in our foods, of which Omega-6 is just one form. Eating fatty fish and cutting down on vegetable oils high in O6 help to restore a more natural ratio that humans are more tolerant to. But ultimately saturated fats are intended to be the primary fuel.
80% of California's water is used by agriculture.
The thing that really vexes me about Spotify is how many listens they're giving away to YouTube by making it impossible to search for and listen to a song without losing your place in your current album or playlist: the interface has no concept of tabs or easily-accessible bookmarks. There's a back button, but it doesn't remember what time or even what track you were on, and even with that memory it would be a second-best alternative anyway. The upshot is that even if you're listening to Spotify at the time you decide to search for a particular track, the instinct is to pause Spotify, go to the web browser, open a new tab and search YouTube! YouTube has other things that Spotify lacks like video, song descriptions and (for better and worse) comments, but I think it's largely just the inconvenience of losing your place that drives you away from Spotify in cases like this. For a company which is scrambling to survive, and which I assume would be better off with more plays and more and happier subscribers, it looks like reckless or hapless squandering.
If you prefer slides over a video, here is a slideshow I wrote:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oMNjkDp-LieSGnZEwNpc...

Or you might prefer Better Explained's article:
https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding...
To elaborate:

The complex plane can be thought of as being made up of two-dimensional geometric transformations consisting of rotation and scaling (Tristan Needham calls such transformations “amplitwists”), with 1 as the identity transformation, and i as a quarter turn anticlockwise, and i^2 = –1 as a half turn. To compose two such transformations, you multiply the scales and add the angle measures of the rotations. Because such operations are linear, you can also break them into a part parallel to 1 and a part perpendicular to 1 (some multiple of i), and multiply two such transformations component-wise, using the distributive law (a + bi)(c + di) = (ac – bd) + (ad + bc)i.

exp z is a complex function which maps (in an angle-preserving way, i.e. conformally) from an infinite two-ended cylinder to a whole plane minus one point (the “origin”). The exp function maps negative infinity on the cylinder to the origin on the plane, and it maps the zero point on the cylinder to a given “unit” point in the plane, and the “zero” circular slice through that point on the cylinder to the “unit circle” on the plane, containing the unit point and concentric with the origin. The coordinate system on the cylinder has 2πi measuring one loop around a circular slice, and 1 pointed along the cylinder axis. The coordinate system in the plane is the customary square grid. Addition of coordinates in the geometry of the cylinder (if you like, rotating and/or sliding the cylinder) corresponds to multiplication of complex numbers (composition of amplitwists) in the plane. That is, exp(w + z) = (exp w)(exp z).

In particular, exp iy for some real number y maps points at distance y along the zero circle in the cylinder to points on the unit circle in the complex plane at a proportional distance around the circle; that is, to rotation operators which correspond to the given angle measure in radians.

So πi is halfway around the zero slice in the cylinder, and exp maps it to the operator in the complex plane corresponding to a half-turn rotation, i.e. exp πi = –1.

The log function is the inverse map, from the plane to the cylinder; it is a multi-valued function because we can make multiple “straight” helical connections between arbitrary points on the cylinder, which wrap around different numbers of times.

Once we have this general concept for how we want the exp map to work, we can work out the details to find that the unique such function is the solution to a particular differential equation f'(z) = f(z), or alternately the Taylor series we are all familiar with, exp z = 1 + z + z^2/2 + z^3/6 + ...
ashkenazi jews live very long lives. There are plenty of articles about this.
For the most part, that's a completely different part of the state.
Not nearly the same area of the state...
The coast is already full of private property and protected areas. No way to run a train there (unless you bury it all the way.)

SF/LA commuting is still a thing, though, and will be great!
> I hold out very little hope for any of this to change, but we as citizens need to keep resisting anyways. Gut some government agencies, cut the budgets, stop the revolving door of lobbyists.

I don't like this idea but I respect it. I might even support it. Problem is that evil people will use this sentiment and turn it around to say they want to cut taxes so these agencies have less money to spend which leads to smaller government. Evil people like Ronald Reagan have argued that with starve the beast and we know how that worked. Please do not support tax cuts in an effort to gut government agencies. If you want to gut government agencies, do so directly.
Now consider, what if the police find nothing after executing the search warrant? "Hey, we know you have a counterfeit press somewhere -- give us the address where it is located".
Or you can make the same argument for the diamond industry. Buying a diamond you are committing a crime against humanity, as you are supporting war, slavery and a whole lot of violent stuff somewhere in Africa.