skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these reservations include non-refundable down payments

Interesting that they forgot to say how large is the down payment
Preparing for the Worst: Renegotiating Nafta
Show HN: UserDefaults x Swift 4
There is value in going down the deadends and figuring things out without being constantly pushed back onto the road. After all, once out of school there isn't someone to correct your course for you.
Happy to give you a chat on some growth strategies - especially around some of the modelling/strategy - I'm trying to do more consulting in this area so its just your time for my time, at least initially.

email is in docs i'm gmt+10 so similar timezones
This is a good answer, and I'll add that some projects are already active: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/business/gm-and-nissan-re... or https://thinkprogress.org/why-used-electric-car-batteries-co... .
ROS: The Robot Operating System
Veasy.js, a simple yet powerful react form lib which focus on form validation
Loads quickly for me. I keep hearing that LinkedIn loads slowly but people fail to mention specifics about their devices and internet speeds. Are you on home wifi, LTE or something else?
Development Banks: How Green Is My Value?
World-cities-mongodb, a free cities info database which contain updating feature
Several countries have already committed to ban cars with internal combustion engines in the next 10-20 years.

London is introducing a new "T-charge" today whereby owners of older and more polluting vehicles have to pay an extra fee to enter central London.

I suspect that 'a jet that generates double the pollution so that rich people can get to their destination faster' is dead on arrival.
> To get to $7500 in tax you have to have about $47k of taxable income, and hence about $57k of gross income

The OP said “most people don’t pay $7500...” which is not true since I said you have to have “at least 40K+ salary in order to afford that $35k+ car. I did not say you have to have 40k salary to pay 7500$+ in taxes
Google's motto is still "Don't be evil". You may be confusing it with Alphabet's motto, which is "Do the right thing".
Sorry, but you are incorrect on both accounts.

1) AlphaGo Zero was indeed trained in the way I mention.

2) As directly quoted from the article, Hinton believes that a better way of learning doesn't require all that labeled data. If such a method is invented, as is required to push AI forward, big corporations would not have a data advantage, which is my original point.
Might Have Beens: Counterfactual “What If” Analysis
I am nearing 40 and hard of hearing. So far I have survived with fellow people's help, but not sure how it would go, going forward when I am expected to be in supervisory or managerial position attending meetings, conference calls and managing people, which I am not good at, because of the handicap. I am good with technology, though, and fairly updated with cloud skills and other latest stuff. Hmm.
No one is saying they should "enforce ideological equality". What I am saying is that it's dangerous for a tech company to tip the scales like this.

Under your majoritarian rule proposal we'd just end up with any idea sufficiently derided by the loudest groups and most influential twitter personalities effectively banned. Especially given that 140-characters isn't enough space to realistically make full throated arguments, the prospect of people being misinterpreted is resoundingly high.

>We all wish we lived in a world where any idea could be freely discussed, and "bad" ones would be naturally dismissed, but we don't. The world doesn't naturally improve, people force it to, and not just by hosting neutral discussion spaces.

This statement is just Neomarxism repackaged. Taken to its logical conclusion, these corporations should become essentially political entities that enforce whatever ideological consensus the majority deems palatable. Twitter thus becomes a tool for sociocultural engineering. Given how poorly the company operates today, they should probably stay away from trying to broaden their mandate.

>If you decide to be neutral, you're just giving more power to those who aren't...

What? No I'm not. No one is neutral and those who say they are are lying. It sounds like you're half trying to Kafkatrap me. Just because I don't endorse Twitter's rule-making in this context does not mean I'm "helping racists". Especially since the definition of who is a Nazi or a racist seems to be continually expanding, forgive me for being skeptical that if they abuse their power anything would be done. You'd be helping the Nazis, remember?
Why do you think we give Mexico a pass for its election interference?
From the article:

> Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced today that his company will not "initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology."

The question really is - what defines "good faith" for Musk and Tesla.

Additionally, I am no patent expert but it will be interesting to see licensing terms, if any. Specially after what happened with React and Facebook.
>To make the situation more difficult, we were told that, even though we still had no product, the target for the next Demo Day, in 2 weeks, was a working messaging product, with secure file storage, “like Dropbox”, and 15 business customers using it.

This doesn't seem... real? I've been involved with three different companies during their time in YC and while I never attended any of the actual YC functions this kind of a deadline for such a lofty target seems out of line with my experience. Maybe things have changed in the past few years.

My internal "What would PG/JL do/advise" model seems to really suggest the opposite of what I'm reading in this article. Weird.
I don't think mining is the best application of utilizing client side connections. But surely we can find profitable ways to distribute computation. I'd be willing to divert the resources of a small sandboxed vm of sorts to websites if it meant less/no ads. It'd be fascinating to see what people could come up with if there were a publicly distributed Lambda/Serverless sort of capability.
They don't as of yet, at least not in any real sense.

[1]: > Around the three-minute mark someone asks how many automakers have taken Tesla up on the offer to use its patents, and Musk notes:

>>> Musk: We actually don't require any formal discussions. So they can just go ahead and use them.

>>> Reporter: Is there a licensing process?

>>> Musk: No. You just use them. Which I think is better because then we don't need to get into any kind of discussions or whatever. So we don't know. I think you'll see it in the cars that come out, should they choose to use them.

Sounds nice, but no legal department on Earth is ever going to approve of deliberately using another company's patents without an explicit licensing agreement, no matter what non-legally-binding statements that company's CEO has made. As a sophisticated businessman, Musk is well aware of this fact.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/06182930052/elon-...
While I like this project, it seems too ambitious for the current state of affairs.

Start with counting how many cells of each type are present for various tissues. Do this using cadavers of various ages, etc. Pretty much all we have right now for such estimates are totally back of the napkin.
Packers and Movers Agra
if you are buying a $35K car, I sure hope you are making at least $56K.

And if not, lease it. The Bolt is leasing insanely well right now - https://leasehackr.com/blog/2017/10/16/bolt-ev-never-been-be...
(Apologies in advance for sounding harsh. I have extreme empathy for the author. But this lesson is so easy to ignore that I had to really amp up the contrast before I could focus on it myself. So it seems worth stating plainly.)

"You must have at least 10% equity in the startup to be considered a founder by Y Combinator. Only founders can come to interviews if invited or attend batch events if accepted." -- https://www.ycombinator.com/apply

If he couldn't attend, it was probably because he didn't have the requisite equity.

Joining as a founding member with less than 10% equity in a startup without a product or customers -- after being ambivalent about joining -- seems like a really bad decision.

One hard lesson I've learned over the years is that status matters. And in the startup world, equity is a huge marker of status, outside of its potential monetary reward. The initial conditions under which you join a project act as a non-negotiable upper bound on how much say your collaborators will let you have on the big picture. Regardless of how much you contribute afterwards.

Some reading on status for other aspirational-Vulcan types like I used to be:

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/march7/sapolskysr-030707...

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/social-status-down-the-rabbit-...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003J5653Y

Tl;dr - humans are pack hunters. They can't survive outside packs, not really. As a result, the topology of the pack has a powerful warping effect on our brains. You can't break out of it. It is as real for humans as gravity. Within a group there's no "being so good they can't ignore you."

This is not to say that being low-status is always bad. Just that it's worth being very clear-eyed about your status in a group. If you aren't going to the YC dinners, you aren't the CTO. Not really.
It’s Reboot Time for “Operating Systems”
What table are you using?
What are we going to do? Accept that it is not our job to stop people from doing things we don't like? I have no social media accounts, I never have, but I don't begrudge others their pacifiers.

We all do harmful things to ourselves. I find it easier to accept if I just accept my own negative acts. It's easier, for me at least, to accept that other people enjoy different things. I'd probably make a piss poor evangelist, but the reward is I spend less time being unhappy with other people's choices.
I don't think this sort of bottom-up approach will make you happy, though. You never know what kind of technology you need tomorrow and whether your Chromebook allows you then to handle that. And fixing that then is not possible, not with a bit of sysadmin work.
A good percentage of us living outside of the US think the same as the post above, to be honest.
On the other hand, it might just be that this particular topic is unusually divisive. The science of gluten sensitivity is young, its study fraught with placebos and confounding variables, and adherents of the anti-gluten movement are often nearly religious in fervor. Asking for citations might just be asking for trouble.
Yes, it sounds like you live not too far away. I'm either south or south-west of you.

Congratulations on doing the planning for additional capacity! From what I can tell, there were no such provisions made for future expansion of the two spots available to me.

Also, to be clear, I'm not unhappy, I'm thinking ahead. Right now I do not have a car, and I don't anticipate needing a car for some time. So this discussion is theoretical right now.

As for not needing to charge every day, no, I probably don't. But, I would prefer to not have to think about it. I can understand why people harp on battery exchange: If I was running low on gas on the way into work, there are multiple opportunities for refueling on the way in to work, at the expense of not taking the time to find the best price nearby. With an EV, my options would be more limited: Hope that a charging spot is available at work; or turn around, start charging at home, and take the bus into work. There are times when it would become kind of a Russian roulette game.

Am I being alarmist? Yup! But for me right now, I would own a car because I want more flexibility than what I get using the bus. VTA's Route 22/522 schedules & delays are already variable enough that if I HAVE to be at work by a certain time, I need to either leave much earlier, or take a Lyft. I don't want to substitute one set of stresses for another, which is what would happen if I did not have a confirmed charging point on one end of my daily commute.

Finally, to head off one set of comments: I've noted the approximate for the different commute modes available to me: By bus regularly takes 45 to 60 minutes, with the data points (actual travel times) being all over the range. By car would be more around 30 to 45 minutes. By Caltrain would be 50-60 minutes, with little variability.
My guess is it should be obvious much sooner, 20 years or so.
Similar racially-motivated tactics were used in New York. Specifically, I recall that Robert Moses designed bridges and roads out of the city to not be accessible by bus, so only people who could afford cars could live in the suburbs.
Try using a service called LBRY....they are a decentralized video platform and nothing can ever be deleted by design (LBRY.io).

I believe they have a mass import script (all open source and the service is free)
Could someone please explain the explanation of equ. 18 in the appendix to the paper? It seems key, but isn't clear to me.

> if one greedily maximize the sum of entropy and value with one-step
look-ahead, then one obtains π˜ from π
That's the real rub for me with limited range EV's. It's all but impossible to own one for your average street parking city dweller. I rent a garage, but it's non powered, so basically it's just a nice place to lock a vehicle and keep it out of the elements (and because even street parking is tough in my neighborhood).

I'd love to own an EV - it makes perfect sense for about 95% of the car trips I take, but I'd have zero way to charge it. Seems like people like me are almost the perfect market for these sub compact limited range vehicles, except for that.
How about inviting others to what you do instead? Probably easier to replace then just remove the addiction.
https://leasehackr.com/blog/2017/10/16/bolt-ev-never-been-be...

This site is rarely updated unless there is a significant deal but the forum is usually popping.
I actually could have lemon-lawed it, but once it crossed that line it didn’t have any more trouble until the warranty expired.

A few months after that, the driver-side heater went out, and the radio started to fail.

The fact that so many things failed makes me think there are significant systemic issues with GM vehicle platforms (and not just individual components).

The more I think about the regenerative braking issue on the Bolt, the more I think my car had the same root-cause problem, which makes me wonder if it impacts their whole line: Traction control sporadically engages on a regular basis.

That’s not a big deal on ICE cars, but if they really disable regenerative braking when traction control enganges, it’ll eventually kill or severely injure a pedestrian. One of the worst things a vehicle can do is have an intermittent braking system!

Anyway, I no longer own the vehicle. Getting rid of it was worth every wasted penny. :-)
I imagine Elon knows this, maybe he thinks he can keep one step ahead for long enough to make it worthwhile.
They're not solid walls. It looks like the walls are loose rocks.
There is actually some really good ted talks on this:

* https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ebJlcZMx3c

Make more connections to the things you need to remember. Make a tune out of the specifics or make a quick phonetic story out of it.

Good stuff.

I haven't been able to forget my ex's anniversary date because I remember it as "she's a 10/10" (oct 10).
After MongoDB’s IPO: Our Model at USV
Your link seems to indicate otherwise? Notably, that it will enable Apple and others. They also seem to think it is a legally binding statement, if a little vague.

That was my takeaway, actually.
It's a bit sad that some Governments exercise so much control on businesses and knowing the right people means so much.

There should be a Goldilocks zone between Laissez-faire economy and extreme regulation.
GNU Guile 3 update
The serverless graphic had more arrows than the server based one. I'm not sure that is an argument for serverless being simpler.

The serverless functions take up to 1s to boot. It is not fair to compare that to a VM that is on all the time. We should compare it to a container that is booted on demand. Right now only Heroku does that. At GitLab we're considering adding idling by sponging requests https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3712
Why has nobody designed a variable width wing? One that can expand / contract for different speeds?

Naïve question, I know. Just curious...
A licensing process is different from having a license. I know plenty of companies use open source software. There is no real process for something using something with an MIT license. You can just use it. As someone who has worked as a programmer, Elon Musk would be familiar with that.

Regardless though, the idea that no company would ever use the patents flies in the face of reality:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/10/14/tesla-m...
It seems abundantly clear at this point that China's economy is vastly "smarter" than ours, in terms of aligning productive resources to where the country needs them most.
Launch HN: Cashfree (YC S17) – Automated Payouts and Bank Transfers for India
Hey HN!
I am Akash, co-founder of Cashfree(https://www.cashfree.com).

Cashfree is India's first payments platform that automates inbound and outbound bank transfers. This replaces the slow, error prone alternative of uploading Excel files for bulk payments or manually reconciling payments received via bank transfers. Using Cashfree, payouts that took more than a day to process, happen instantly and independent of banking hours.

We help businesses like fintech platforms and marketplaces to easily setup custom payment flows to receive and disburse money.

Cashfree is being used for automated payouts and collections for use cases like -

* Supply chain collections by distributors

* Crowdfunding campaigns

* Marketplace vendor settlements

* Instant deposits and withdrawals at bitcoin exchanges

* Payroll for on-demand economy workers

* Loan disbursal and repayment by lenders

* Invoice payments at Modern ERP and Accounting tools

* Instant refunds (versus 5-7 days presently)

We started Cashfree to help e-commerce customers pay for their COD orders on delivery, through their mobile. While running Cashfree, we faced challenges around settling payouts to our partner merchants. Our partner merchants too shared similar problems and it made us dive deeper. We found no other payments company solving this common problem and decided to build a solution.

We support RESTful APIs that can be integrated easily with tech stack of a business (a) to carry out payouts and (b) automatically reconcile inbound bank transfers. Our solutions are built on top of banking infrastructure and are compliant with the regulations.

Would love to answer your questions about Cashfree and look forward to discuss anything on payments and bank transfers.
Why are there still import tariffs in the US?
When I was a kid in the late 50s people would brag to all who would listen if their car made it to 100k miles. It reflected on the immeasurable quality of the car and careful maintenance you did. They don't make them like they used to and that's a very good thing.
$50? Nice find. I have come in possession of a t42 with a cracked display. I've set it up so I can ssh into it but it seems not worth the hassle because 1GB RAM and core2duo (afaik) processor. What is your setup and use case if you don't mind sharing.
I don't think you're giving the human brain enough credit for its ability to take everything for granted.

For example, every smoker knows what it's doing to their own body. Some even have endured catastrophe like loved ones dying to smoking-related disease. But they still smoke. Even when they develop a chronic cough and barely have the lung fortitude to inflate a balloon.

I'm not sure how you can expect people to care about people dying 200 million kilometers away. Nor how something as abstract and distant as the survival of humanity is supposed to compel people into action when immediate threats right here on earth don't.
I discovered that you can read Medium's "members only" articles by googling them and fetching the cached copy:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UsYheN...
The link in another response to me has a link to a clarification video from Musk. I didn't watch it, as the text was adequate. It looks like no licensing is required and that they've been legally dumped into the public domain in a binding fashion - maybe. That's not actually ever been ruled on in a court, from what I can find via Google.

That post suggests no company legal team would allow it. The article thinks Apple might use it, as an example of a user.

I am no expert, so I'll defer to others.
I couldn't do bumpy and jupyter notebook Even though there are tutorials online.
Meet the Teen Who Is Bringing Female Hygiene Products to Homeless Women
If you'd even done a cursory study of foreign firms in China having their technology stolen, you'd realise it's a real problem that many foreign firms face and concerns about it aren't due to racism but an abundance of cases where it has happened.
> I don't want to be a sysadmin

Hence "run Debian on it". The whole reason to run a Linux distribution is that the maintainers do most the sysadmin work for you, and Debian maintainers are among the most skilled sysadmins you can find.

You have to keep your filesystems from being full, but apart from that things will Just Work as long as you stay within the Debian tooling.
> Under what traditional model would you spawn off an entire server instance for such a minor function

I think that's the point - would you rather run your own VPS and manage the logs/errors from a cron job? Or simply write code that conforms to their contract and not worry about logs, errors, and whether it can scale or will fail to restart itself.
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing strange activity related to their application?
We have had 0 views on our video and 0 hits to our demo, but all of a sudden in the past hour we have 12 embedded views (1 second) and several hits to our demo but only for the html which makes me think it's a bot or a scraper. Does YC use bots to help process applications?
With fedora and gnome, I don't even dnf upgrade anymore. When I turn of the computer, I just check "install updates" which is unchecked by default. This is how updates should work.
If you want Wikipedia to have more contributors, maybe the editors ought to stop being so caustic toward new members?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CiPHPerCoder

Created an account, created a barebones skeleton user page just to make the red text link go away, immediately flagged for special deletion. Even when the person agreed with my point, their tone was mildly hostile and lectury.

(Epilogue: I ended up not really contributing much since then simply because of how I was greeted.)

Behavior like this drives new contributors away.
Why is it that I can eat tons of sugar, including HFCS soda, and not gain any fat?
So many things went wrong that it’s hard for me to think I’m a huge outlier. Though, CR does currently rank Chevrolet (but not GMC) above Tesla for reliability:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

And the Bolt is their most reliable car, apparently.

Perhaps I am being unfair, or perhaps they improved. Still, given the nature of the issues I hit and continue to hear about, I’ll continue to avoid them.