skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been definitely seeing more and more startups popping up (or maybe I hear them in the news more) coming from Boston. But I'm not entirely sure if Tech Crunch's conclusion is sound. You can see from the past five year data graph that NYC's investment is quite high but all of sudden there is a dip this year. Boston-area startups is "overtaking" the pace of NYC not because of a boom in Boston but rather a dull in NYC.
> the actual cost of someone going to the theater is irrelevant here. The only cost that matters is what the theaters are charging since that is what MoviePass has to cover.

These two things are tied. A theater is not going to give a discount it can't give. The theaters will not sell a ticket at a loss just because MoviePass is asking for 100 tickets at a time.

MoviePass thought they could leverage being the source of a lot of sales into getting discounts from theater chains. But theaters are simply telling MoviePass that the prices are what they are. They make money elsewhere.

Investing more into MoviePass really seems like throwing good money after bad.
aws icons are just noise to me: totally useless
At the moment, Google is displaying MoviePass's parent company's market cap as only $189K [1]. Yahoo Finance is showing an even lower number, $141K [2]. If these numbers are accurate, that's pretty astounding -- if you buy $2000 of shares on the public market, you'd own over 1% of the company!

That said, I can't imagine they're actually correct, given the share volumes changing hands. Finance apps seem to have trouble with stock splits, share buybacks, post-IPO equity offerings and the like... is there no good data source for number of shares outstanding of a company?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ:HMNY

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HMNY?p=HMNY
It's honestly very common people are unaware.

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/11/08/gpl-enforcement.html

> I'd say that 98% of the violations I've ever worked on since 1998 have been unintentional and due primarily to negligence, not malice.

(author of the above statement led FSF's GPL enforcement for many years)
That was a great idea when healthcare was relatively cheap. But now we live in a world where keeping people alive can easily cost 1,000,000+ per year. We are hitting the point that universal healthcare (everyone gets everything) may no longer be possible. If we are to ration, measurements like "years saved" rather than "lives saved" may be necessary.

Personally, i am against most organ transplants. The massive cost to save one life there could save thousands if spent on vaccinations overseas. Even at home, people die for lack of basic treatments every day.
There is no way to avoid all effects of climate change, but there is a significant difference between a two degree increase in global temperature and a six degree increase, which will be truly catastrophic. Thus everything that is done to reduce emission will make the effects less severe.
Not every service has an API, especially new ones. They tend to launch things console first. Look at Alexa. It took over a year to get API, and it still doesn't have CloudFormation support.
I have this "problem" also. Makes tech interviews fun. :D

Shame, because once I understand a complex system (even though it took months to get there) it is usually on a deeper level than most folks. Which leads to those "aha" moments which can and does improve productivity significantly.
> Global warming can only be reversed if we stop all Co2 and methane emissions, and then start net carbon capture to reduce current co2 levels.

We do not want to reverse climate change, we want to slow it as much as possible. And there is never a point at which you can meaningfully give up, 5C is better than 6C, 3C is better than 4C. What you’ve posted is just another rationalization for inaction.
I'm sure canaries died of natural causes in the mines occasionally...
And yet:

'SpaceX is so cheap that Ariane's CEO worries SpaceX could eventually "kick Europe out of space" if Ariane cannot figure out a way to launch its rockets more cheaply'

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/02/europe-complains-s...
New plan gets rid of peak pricing and ticket validation. Their biggest problem is just how awful their customer support is.
It’s about surface area and a cubic mm has a certain surface area.
It's not about profitabity. It's about marginal revenue per usage.

If amazon initially dropped ship books to you that they ordered from Borders for $12 and sold to you for $10, they would have gone bankrupt. Amazon generally made money on each individual order.

Planet Fitness isn't burning money every time you go into their gyms.

MoviePass assets decrease every single time any user makes use of them. AMC A-List can possibly survive, MoviePass can't as is.

MoviePass has to demonstrate a model where the marginal revenue per usage is > 0 or that the total cost of a user is easily managable to be under their monthly subscription cost. I'm not convinced either are possible.

I'm a happier customer because I know what I'm getting and have seen 100+ movies on my costco annual subscription, but have zero expectations for them to survive.
> how well do you actually know AWS? How many AWS icons can you correctly identify?

I know this is mostly for fun, but that is a wildly faulty premise.
> 58 Nm

* 48 Nm
Echoing the other respondents–if you don't have a nonlinearity, your whole network is just a sequence of linear transforms, which (multiplied out) is the same as a single linear transform. Meaning that removing the nonlinearities gives you (effectively) a one-layer network.
once we've made our own calendar for the app. It took us soo long. next time we will use some library for sure. thanks for sharing!
Climate change is one of those crux problems that necessitate the formation of a new political ideologies. Liberalism is inept to deal with it. Individual action is not enough. The current politicians will not do anything. But liberalism is not going to last forever nor is the current political climate, eternal.
You are wrong. Homes are not the cheapest in the human history. As we are close to the 2007 housing bubble home prices.

Here's a source with home price to income ratio.
http://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-incom...

US healthcare cost is exploding.

Food prices are actually going up.

Transportation is a tough one, as it may include different modes of transportation, some did get cheaper.
Geizhals lists 63 Z370 mainboards for me. 48 of those have PS/2. That's 76 %.

https://geizhals.de/?cat=mbp4_1151v2&xf=317_Z370%7E7088_PS%2... (I don't know a similar English/US site)
Not only that, but grass has a special kind of photosynthesis that can survive in a lower CO2 atmosphere than other kinds of plants. Believe it or not, one of the long term hazards for life is too little CO2 for photosynthesis, below 100 ppm. The long term driver of CO2 is geology: weathering of rocks and formation of limestone in the deep ocean remove CO2; subduction zone volcanos return it to the atmosphere. Biosphere carbon is less than one percent of geologic carbon. When the Earth cools down too much to continue plate tectonics in a billion years or so, there will be too little volcanic carbon returned to the atmosphere. Plants and algae will die and so will all animals that eat them. Only chemeotrophic microbes will remain.

Sentient life could halt this process by burning limestone to release carbon. This is how cement is made.
Basically, there was a spreadsheet floating around that showed who was reselling what. Really just buying on price and retention.
SpaceX lost money on R&D, they didnt lose money on the launch itself. i.e. every actual customer increased the money in their bank account.
Well, what happened? Last I heard the outcome is some land lost, no immediate deaths, and about 100 deaths due to cancer over the next 50 years. A tragedy, but not apocalyptic. (And minuscule compared to the deaths and destruction from the earthquake/tsunami itself.)
The biggest issue with Amazon currently is counterfeit products. How is this planning on addressing that?
Make that 1.80% now :)
> And how to really remove a file from your git history....

That's misleading. Once you commit and push it to a remote, you should consider it compromised. You could remove it from the repo and force-push to re-write history, but anyone could have pulled from the same remote since your original push and have the file locally on their system.

A better option is to push a new commit to remove the file from the repo (add to .gitignore), then set a new, strong passphrase/whatever and don't ever use the one you pushed again.
I agree. I do a lot of dirt biking (off-road motorcycling), and absolutely love it. Lots of great people to meet and ride with, fantastic exercise, and you see lots of backcountry that very few people ever experience. Also, if you maintain your own bikes, you learn how to do mechanical things.
I am so proud of letsencrypt. This is a huge step forward for https everywhere!
Interesting statistic in the article about a 25% reduction of Fortune 500 female CEOs in the last year. They have discussed female CEOs on Freakonomics podcast a fair bit including the theory that shareholders and employees prefer a CEO with more masculine traits when the economy is good (aggressive, risk-taking, outward-facing). And people prefer more feminine traits when the company is struggling (care-taking, risk-aversion). Interesting theory and the economy has been doing well in the last year.
Serious question: whatever happened to mechanical solutions like seeding the atmosphere with a chemical that will reflect light? Are those things considered too risky to try? I remember hearing about those solutions some years ago, but they seem to have fallen out of vogue now.
Inside an AI Conference – Robotics Science and Systems 2018
Given Ariane's French roots I think we can count on the lunch and all other meals being not just efficient, but superbe!
The 2018 numbers are YTD though. Both cities seem like they're on track to do as well or better than they did in 2017 assuming that funding doesn't tend to be significantly front-loaded toward the beginning of the year (which might be the case – I honestly don't know).
There's an argument that putting children through traumatizing simulated events has unclear psychological consequences. Western education at young ages goes surprisingly graphic when talking about certain historical atrocities (think seeing Schindler's List in grade schools). While this sort of shock-and-awe storytelling can be impactful, its consequences may not be all positive.

Another issue is that a stronger reliance on "empathetic/emotional" learning experiences can delve too far from education and too much into propaganda. Group A can produce material that hits deep at our psyches and highlights the evils of Group B, and vice versa. Whose side wins the popular debate isn't from the facts on the ground, but from which group has the tech/production skills to make their story grip the heartstrings. In that way it's like any other over-produced documentary, but VR can have the seductive appeal that it's "more real" and thus more objective.

The issue of "experiential VR learning" becomes harder and harder to do right the further back in time you go, because of the mistake we moderns make when trying to "relate" to the past. We often imagine time-traveling and dropping ourselves in a past environment, thinking that's what it would be to be, say, a medieval peasant. We too easily forget that our own mindsets and approaches would be fundamentally different in some ways.
Actually with this release threadripper 2 will support DDR4-2933 which should increase the memory bandwith and the throughput of the infinity fabric if I'm not mistaken (I am pretty sure infinity fabric runs at the ram speed)
It can't be that hard to change it to use whatever payment processor the seller wants, shouldn't it?
IDK, in my universe (at least for this topic) politicians reflecting the people they govern means that any nontrivial short-term sacrifice to even start fighting a war against climate change is an impossibility, the voters will throw them down the moment they'd propose devoting a meaningful amount of resources (with the associated cuts to other areas needing funding) or forcing major lifestyle changes on everyone, not just those who volunteer to live in a more eco-friendly manner.
I've always had issues telling the icons apart, but in fairness the recent UI updates have already been phasing out the icons. They're no longer on the management console home page, and they've been replaced with much improved category icons.
Would it help make this more concrete for people if we were to install markers along the coastlines of various cities that say “The ocean will be touching this sign on $date”
The dichotomy you present is false. Only in the absolutely insane US system one needs to burn through savings to get paleative care.

Health, just like fire fighting, should not be a for-profit business.
Even under nationalized systems such as Britain's NHS, they have to make utility decisions about how to allocate spend: a life is not of infinite value, and the NHS has to estimate the value of various types of care, because it simply isn't feasible to say "we'll spend and spend and spend, no matter what, for someone to stay alive."

For example, saving a person's left eye is less valuable if they still have their right, because they can still see, versus someone who was already blind in their right eye that would leave them completely blind. So they're willing to spend more to save that person's left eye if they would otherwise be completely blind.

Similarly, saving the life of someone young is of higher utility than someone old, because their life expectancy is longer.

These sorts of calculations bother some people, but it is a practical reality that these decisions have to be made. I actually think NHS works pretty well and it's better to be open and transparent about these sorts of decisions, versus the American system.
I think web of trust might be suitable here.
I agree with these points.

On the other hand, defeatist attitude is not going to help anyone. Reversing the climate change may be the moonshot, but unless we have an objective we cannot convince anyone outside the "greeny-lefty" minority. At a minimum, we should be good examples to our children who are in greater danger of suffering from this than we currently are. I, for one, am teaching my child respect for nature and its resources. If we all did this, world would be a better place nonetheless.
Virtual AI Challenge Aims to Help Prosthetic Patients
Your article is cool. I have some things about information of machine learning. just check it out http://tricks4321.blogspot.com/2018/07/machine-language-for-...
Something being normal is simply widely practised or widely encoded into law. It doesn't make it right or without struggle nor does it take away from the conflict. It was part of the reason there was conflict and struggle.

Knowing what was normal - widespread, encoded in law, and other such things - is part of understanding what the struggle was all about. Normal doesn't equal correctness, just what was average and widespread at the time.
It's not someone's future grandpa resisting a carbon tax, but massive lobbying by the coal and oil industry.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E1210

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=E01
I think this is what led to instance muting. Now admins can mute an instance, but people can still opt in to following someone there, probably without caching.
Sorry for my love of zen interfaces(
I'm from 90's and love sites without "landings page". I love to explore new things, but maybe it was over zen

All articles on English language, for example - on subdomain http://en.tgr.am/all - here: http://en.tgr.am/all

It's first public beta and i want to catch as many feedbacks as possible before going forward. Most activity from first adopters on http://ru.tgr.am On others languages - it may contain only auto-translated welcome post(
It reads like you are adding the mathematical sophistication to an intuitive idea. An "an infinite directed path consisting entirely of vertices with only one parent" is simply a chain.
Are you thinking about adding RSS? Seems pretty essential for a publishing platform.
I know, right?!

( Not sarcastic )
I thought this was pretty interesting. So I looked up how many trees there are per person:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

The US has 716 per person. Sadly, it looks like China and India are the worst culprits: "Brazil had 301 billion trees (1,494 per person), Canada 318 billion (8,953 per person), and China 139 billion (102 trees per person). Among highly populous countries, India (population, 1.267 billion) had a tree population of only 35 billion, leading to just 28 trees per person."

By comparison, the US won't take that long to get to carbon-neutrality. India and China are going to be a burden on the planet for the next century at least.

Note that you don't need to plant an additional 1000 trees per person, you just need to have 1000 trees per person to cancel out their emissions.
Optimization Modeling Language JuMP (Julia) Joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
Dictionaries in Python
Web forums were around and huge by the late 90s. I don’t think people really consider those to be “web applications.” In any case, being able to click a link and get started with no friction is a big advantage.
someone is https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-We-Can-Save-Planet-ebook/dp/B00...
I get that the rhythmic nature of music enables precision at the scale of a few ms because musicians can anticipate these moments in time (reaction time does not apply).

I think it's more like an "equivalent time sampling" effect, and the perceived 1ms latency is actually a perceived phase shift.
While I can see Intel's leadership in single-core performance with 6 cores (overclocked 8700K can have 5+ GHz and future flagships probably will be even faster with 8 cores), at high-core workstation AMD is a winner, hands down. Competition is good.
wow very useful page. never heard of this curve before. hope someday all this countries inequality will be remaining in the past
honest but silly question: since the only way to deal with the problem is to also implement carbon capture to deal with the existing excess, would the same carbon capture mechanism be also able to cope with the rest of the world continuing to emit carbon at present rates?
Definitely, however my issue is more one of UX than capability. If I read something 13 pages ago that I didn’t have the foresight to bookmark, paging back in a book is far quicker. And I can do so intuitively, without needing to shift my mental focus into remembering how to summon the bookmarking or search UI.

That said, full text search is the one electronic UX element that I wish paper books had!
That's one of the engineering solutions that people seem to be terminally opposed to. We have global warming ... and we have engineering solutions, indeed nuclear could do a lot as well, especially in countries like China.

Let's NOT USE THOSE ! They're scary ! Science is wrong and evil ! Green glowy children !

And of course, somehow you can criticize science like nuclear and it's safety record, but shout "science denial" at people opposing climate science. That's an entirely reasonable attitude of course.

But it's very clear: getting and grabbing power, that's what it's about. Not fixing a problem.
We will invent things, the question is the market conditions which will allow inventions to arise and then quickly gain market share. Even with the amazing progress in solar, wind and electric batteries, it’s still not enough. We need some meaningful pricing of carbon to allow the market to solve the problem.
> The one platform that they CAN'T ban and will ALWAYS have our live streams is http://infowars.com/show

Challenge accepted. Where are they hosted? The videos stream from Akamai CDN. CNN can now press Akamai to remove Infowars.

Do they use CloudFlare? CloudFlare is know to censor far-right sites (but not jihadi sites).
>There is massive deforestation all over the world.

And that deforestation is to make room for other things, mostly farms. As the world population continues to explode, the amount of land that can be allocated to forests quickly decreases.
Well, it's probably require a fork. Cryptocurrency is already tightly integrated with OpenBazaar. This also removes all of the platform's credibility in my eyes.
In America we have a breakdown lane on every interstate, meant specifically for disabled cars.

And interstates are what we're talking about here.
Bloomberg shows it as 542K, which I believe is fairly accurate.
How did the earlier story get marked as a dupe rather than this one?
Here in the (western) US, millions (billions?) of trees are burning up every year due to forest fires.

So to add to your list, we also need a way to facilitate healthy forests without completely destroying them and re-releasing nearly all of their stored carbon back into the atmosphere within a couple of weeks. Controlled burns is one way, but that requires an investment in firefighters and other specialists.. who are currently all preoccupied fighting uncontrolled fires.
Reviving China’s ‘donut homes’
Ask HN: Which top companies have zero or negative impact on the society?
In other words, which companies do you think can disappear today and it would not make any meaningful difference to most people's lives or can actuallly improve people's lives?
I don’t think SLS ever looked good, except when evaluating it for pork value.
Thank you! https version must work to, but not totally finished(
Also Spotify. Most have taken quite a bit of effort to have these 4 tech giants do this at the same time. Alex Jones is not a small fish, his Youtube channel had 2+ mio. subscribers.

Does anyone know the process or drivers behind this?
I see a lot of people mentioning OpenBazaar here. I remember trying it out a year or two back when they had an early release. Has the OpenBazaar community grown? I haven't found anything I was interested in buying through it. I feel like the weakest link with stuff like Nile or OpenBazaar is that there is no good search engine out there for consumers to discover new products easily.
> What you’ve posted is just another rationalization for inaction.

How so? Seems like they are advocating for even more action than usually discussed because the problem is even more severe than we think.
What if better educated kids grow up to be lobbyists for Exxon? Or work at the Heritage Foundation? Or finance new coal infrastructure at Goldman Sachs?

The problem has nothing to do with an insufficient number of smart people being involved. The problem is that coal and oil companies are paying a lot of those smart people a lot of money to make things worse.
MOV.AI raises $3M in seed funding to create an ‘Android for Robotics’
>a simple and cheap plan that is politically impossible.

If it's impossible to execute the cheap and simple plan because of political obstacles, we just have to change politics. It's also simple and cheap once you know that money has nothing to do in politics.
"Sure he can say it but platforms don't have to allow it. "

Yep, he has plenty of money to set up his own broadcast channels if he must. If nothing else, Jones can broadcast on shortwave. Which is probably a good place for him.
This is actually inaccurate. You are portraying it as a monotonic trend towards older marriages, but it was actually a local minimum in the 50s and 60s. The average age of marriage in 1890 was roughly the same as 1990 for men and 1980 for women[1]. After that typical marriage ages dropped gradually until the 50s and 60s and then started rising again.

[1] https://www.infoplease.com/us/marital-status/median-age-firs...
Can someone give me a concrete example of a situation in which a private blockchain makes sense for a company or industry instead of a shared, permissioned database?