skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accelerators that fund startups without taking equity
I have made a list of equity free accelerators accepting applications currently:

1. The UNICEF Innovation Fund (http://unicefstories.org/blockchaincall/), based out of New York gives USD 50K - 90K in equity-free seed funding to for-profit blockchain startups.

2. European Data Incubator (https://edincubator.eu/) is an equity free acceleration program based out of Berlin and it provides grants of up to EUR 100K for selected data startups. Applications close on 4th January, 2019.

3. Spinlab (https://www.spinlab.co/) is based out of Leipzig and it offers startups with EUR 6K along with co-working space. Applications close on 18th November, 2018.

4. Booking Booster (https://booster.bookingcares.com/#bookingcom-booster-why) is a 3-week accelerator program based out of Amsterdam with EUR 2 million fund for startups working towards sustainable tourism. Applications close on 2nd December, 2018.

5. Ikea Bootcamp (http://ikeabootcamp.rainmaking.io/) is a 3 month program organized in Älmhult aimed at funding startups that can collaborate with IKEA. Applications close on 31st December, 2018.

6. Startup Hub (http://startuphub.pl/) is a 4 month program based out of Warsaw and it provides equity free funding of upto EUR 50K for selected teams.

7. The Pearse Lyons Accelerator (https://pearselyonsaccelerator.com/) based out of Dublin takes 10 AgTech startups from across the world and offer them a 4-month programme and 15K EUR equity free funding. Applications close on 6th December, 2018.

8. StateZero Labs (https://www.statezerolabs.com/) is a dedicated Blockchain Lab for startups and it will fund upto GBP 50K in the form of an equity free grant. Applications close on 23rd November, 2018.

9. The Stable Fund (https://stable.fund/) is a virtual investment fund and it offers equity free grants up to USD 25K to alpha projects.
Hi HN. Vyne is my project. It's still early days, but I'm excited to share the MVP.

Vyne itself is platform agnostic, and will work with any HTTP based API (with other integrations planned).

There's a decent SDK for Spring Boot projects, which makes getting started as easy as a couple of annotations. This will be broadening to other platforms shortly.

Happy to answer any questions, and feedback warmly received.
On observers creating the universe, I’ve sometimes wondered if given the simulation hypothesis, that simulating quantum mechanics is so computationally expensive that it isn’t done unless we’re looking at it, and that the high energy levels required to probe smaller and smaller length scales is an artifact of the computational requirements of simulating it.
Replaying the tape of life: Is it possible?
This constellation should have lower latency over long distance than is even theoretically possible using terrestrial fiber, because the speed of light in space is substantially better than the speed of light in fiber. [0]

Even over short distance the latency (which the "Legal Narrative" pdf quotes as 15ms) is negligible for almost all applications.

[0] paper http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink-draft.pdf / video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKNCBrkZQ4
I don't have a problem with the touchbar, its the keyboard that they introduced on the same model.
The 'world's first' A.I. news anchor has gone live in China
Interesting overview.

I understand from elsewhere on their site that they are not using a recent version of ES (2.x?). This has a big impact on how things behave as they improved performance and garbage collect behavior by e.g. doing more things off heap with memory mapped files, fixing tons of issues with clustering, refactoring the on disk storage in Lucene 5 and 6, and giving users more control over sharding and indicex creation. So, it's likely that this setup is working around issues that probably have been addressed in later versions.

For example, 6.x has a shard allocation API that allows you control which nodes host which shards. That sounds like that would be useful in this setup.

They also seem to be mixing query and indexing traffic on the same nodes. I would suggest separating these in a cluster this big and using specialized nodes for query and index nodes (as well as dedicated master nodes). That way write node performance would be a lot more predictable and query traffic is no longer able to disrupt writes. Also you can use instances with more CPU/memory for querying or use elastic scaling groups to add querying capacity when needed. You might even get away with using cheaper T instances for this with cpu credits.
No idea about subsidies, research, and gen-pop attitudes around the two.

Solar thermal has a couple of advantages - peak supply extends through into peak demand (around sunset), because it's basically its own storage system - efficiency is around 70% (compared to PVC which is ~ 15%, and is expected to rise very gently - as you noted in another thread). The lack of sensitivity to technology improvements makes it more attractive to investors, which is convenient as it's obviously a larger capex per installation. (I suspect R&D for pvc is higher per, say, unit of technology - though this isn't a big concern in terms of capex per user.)

Either way, most nation states have electricity grids that lend themselves to larger power generation installations, than a totally distributed system (where someone else looks after short term storage and baseload) - plus larger installations (solar thermal) work well in regions where there are disparate climates within the reach of long-haul power cables. (Definitely the case in AU for most major metropolitan areas - there are solar-thermal-favourable sites within a few hundred kilometres of the larger population centres.)

I've just done a pvc vs cst - and the latter's numbers really make a mockery of the anti-solar apologists' estimates on surface area required to provision estimated power requirements.
It does, at least for me in the UK. All 1m22s of it is embedded at the top.

Yes, it's that one without the last 8s of Greenpeace call to action.
I can't tell whether one version looks more aggressive than the other. As for the extra frames, maybe it's been mangled a few times by things like screen recorders.
I'm not saying that you're wrong or that one couldn't come up with a better algorithm but at the same time I wonder if it's a good idea to have ultra-complicated heuristics in something like an airplane. For one thing a complicated heuristic with many inputs and weights is a lot harder to validate and can lead to strange and unexpected failure modes.

Besides that the problem of having a very clever autopilot is that it makes it a lot harder for humans to react appropriately when it messes up, because they both don't expect it and are more likely to panic. The Tesla autopilot accidents are good examples of that, those have seen would've been easily avoided by a human but because the autopilot was usually fine on its own the driver didn't react quickly enough.

An other much more tragic example is the Air France Flight 447 crash in the Atlantic where the autopilot detected a faulty sensor and disengaged and the two pilots managed to get the otherwise perfectly functioning plane to crash into the ocean because they basically freaked out and failed to understand what was going on.

That's a strange paradox in a way, as we move from fully manual to fully automated we have a strange "uncanny valley" for safety where the computer is clever enough to handle most situations which lulls the human operator into a false sense of safety. The operator pays less attention, eventually starts losing their skills and reflexes and then at some point, maybe years later, the computer messes up and you have a handful of seconds (if even that) to remember what you're supposed to do.

On the other hand a simple but predictable autopilot might not be quite as autonomous but at least it's easy to understand and anticipate, and it forces humans to remain attentive.
Navigating our thoughts: Fundamental principles of thinking
Debunking the overpopulation alarmists
Oh yeah, bike lanes are definitely for public use! It's the free parking that isn't— that's the one that's private individuals demanding the ongoing right to take up valuable public space by dumping their private property on it for hours at a time.
French Montana Gifted Uganda Ghetto Kids New Mansion and a Van
China has developed a virtual anchor to deliver the news
A couple for you that I found invaluable as I taught myself programming:

1. Team Treehouse. They now have a huge library covering just about anything he could imagine wanting to learn, mostly geared towards beginners. Much of their work is a) project-based so students can understand the practical implications of what they’re learning and b) split up into short videos/sections to help keep their attention.

2. App Academy Open. App Academy just opened up their introductory curriculum in a series of short-form videos and programming exercises that are highly-entertaining and practical.

Once he’s graduated from those, I’d second the recommendation here to check out techyourselfcs.com. Bradfield is a fantastic resource for self-taught programmers who want to build up their CS fundamentals.
Acosta should have never touched that woman.
I'd be fired or suspended at my job if I did that.
Musk is essentially a celebrity at this point.

It may not be traditional advertising, but there's certainly tons of advertising going into it.
Mobile Indie Spotlight Episode#3:Iron Snout-Provoking Users to Stick in the Game
I think that this is one of the main reasons that it is harder than it should be to convince average people in the US, especially on the political right, that we need net neutrality.

Take the plan I'm on with T-Mobile. I pay a fixed monthly amount and get 3 GB of data per month. If I go over 3 GB, T-Mobile reserves the right to give me lower speed for the rest of the month.

T-Mobile has a thing called "Music Freedom". Under Music Freedom, they zero rate around 45 streaming services.

Look at this from my point of view as a consumer. I signed up for 3 GB of full speed data a month, and I get that. There is never a situation due to Music Freedom's zero rating where I find myself short on data and think "dammit...I could have downloaded this if it weren't for that zero rating!".

All that Music Freedom does from my consumer standpoint is make it so sometimes I get more than the 3 GB my plan entitles me to.

Compare this to throttling and blocking. With throttling and blocking if T-Mobile were, say, throttling Skype or blocking it, then I could find myself saying "dammit...I paid for this and they are not giving it to me!".

In the Music Freedom case, they give me all I paid for and they toss some free extra on top. In blocking/throttling, they interfere with me using what I paid for. From a consumer point of view equating these two as net neutrality advocates do just seems odd on the face of it.

If we keep net neutrality focused just on making sure that we get the data we pay for, free of blocking and throttling, and if the ISP wants to give people extras on top of that let them, and I think net neutrality would then have near universal strong support among consumers, maybe even sufficient to get laws through Congress.

But what about the actual potential harms to competition from zero rating, which is one of the main points brought up in favor of covering it under net neutrality?

We can deal with that without shoving it into net neutrality. We already have a whole legal framework and associated regulatory infrastructure in place to deal with that: antitrust. We can use that to distinguish between the kind of zero rating this is probably good for consumers (Music Freedom) and the kind that is not (ISP zero rating just their own streaming service).
Deep Learning by Curiosity Without Killing the Cat
Uncle Sam can't do shit and I'm sick and tired of big government and all of its "non solutions" but since everything looks like a nail when you are a hammer...

C'mon, Bruce, really? You're getting old.
While we need to be aware of environmental impacts, the same is true of how to mitigate them using existing processes. The French recycle their fuel. Eventually it's not usable in their traditional reactors. They ship the waste to a plant that creates glass logs. The material is then safely stored, as a solid, underground.

The US does a poor job of recycling due to the fact that it listened to the environmentalists and anti-terrorist groups in the 70s. Jimmy Carter was told that recycling was bad for the environment (won't someone think of the children if the train overturns), was not cost effective, and would lead to nuclear proliferation due to terrorists dropping from the sky and stealing the train to Mexico [2].

Now we can recycle, and we can reuse the fuel to breed new fuel sources. If we did this 30 years ago, even just the first half of the last clause, we would not be looking down the barrel of climate change.

1 - https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-france-plans-to-do-with-i...

2 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/10/01/why-doesnt-...

* Edit a typo thing of the children -> think of the children.
Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking
Vaccine studies
What France plans to do with its nuclear waste
Oddly[1] it seems to be different in the REPL. If I save this to cube.hs

import Data.Bits
a `adj` b = if (elem (xor a b) [1, 2, 4]) then 1 else 0

cube = [ [a `adj` b | b <- [0 .. 7] ] | a <- [0 .. 7] ] where
a `adj` b = if (elem (xor a b) [1, 2, 4]) then 1 else 0

main = print $ cube

and run ghc on it, I get a bunch of type errors:

[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /tmp/cube.hs, /tmp/cube.o )

/tmp/cube.hs:4:11: error:
• Ambiguous type variable ‘a0’ arising from a use of ‘adj’
prevents the constraint ‘(Bits a0)’ from being solved.
Relevant bindings include
b :: a0 (bound at /tmp/cube.hs:4:23)
a :: a0 (bound at /tmp/cube.hs:4:41)
Probable fix: use a type annotation to specify what ‘a0’ should be.
These potential instances exist:
instance Bits Integer -- Defined in ‘Data.Bits’
instance Bits Bool -- Defined in ‘Data.Bits’
instance Bits Int -- Defined in ‘Data.Bits’
...plus one other
(use -fprint-potential-instances to see them all)
• In the expression: a `adj` b
In the expression: [a `adj` b | b <- [0 .. 7]]
In the expression: [[a `adj` b | b <- [0 .. 7]] | a <- [0 .. 7]]

/tmp/cube.hs:4:46: error:
• Ambiguous type variable ‘a0’ arising from the arithmetic sequence ‘0 .. 7’
prevents the constraint ‘(Enum a0)’ from being solved.
Probable fix: use a type annotation to specify what ‘a0’ should be.
These potential instances exist:
instance Enum Ordering -- Defined in ‘GHC.Enum’
instance Enum Integer -- Defined in ‘GHC.Enum’
instance Enum () -- Defined in ‘GHC.Enum’
...plus six others
...plus six instances involving out-of-scope types
(use -fprint-potential-instances to see them all)
• In the expression: [0 .. 7]
In a stmt of a list comprehension: a <- [0 .. 7]
In the expression: [[a `adj` b | b <- [0 .. 7]] | a <- [0 .. 7]]

/tmp/cube.hs:4:47: error:
• Ambiguous type variable ‘a0’ arising from the literal ‘0’
prevents the constraint ‘(Num a0)’ from being solved.
Probable fix: use a type annotation to specify what ‘a0’ should be.
These potential instances exist:
instance Num Integer -- Defined in ‘GHC.Num’
instance Num Double -- Defined in ‘GHC.Float’
instance Num Float -- Defined in ‘GHC.Float’
...plus two others
...plus three instances involving out-of-scope types
(use -fprint-potential-instances to see them all)
• In the expression: 0
In the expression: [0 .. 7]
In a stmt of a list comprehension: a <- [0 .. 7]

This is with GHC 8.0.1. Adding :: Integer after the 0 makes it compile and run correctly.

1. This is probably not odd if you know more about GHC than I do.
A single operator handles multiple military drones. A large part of this is they can takeoff and fly to a specific location, and or land from a specific location on their own.

Their are many reasons a 747 is not setup to do this is, but it’s not technology that difficult. Ex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
Not only that, but the companies first successful orbital launch was only 10 years ago!

In those 10 years they went from being literally laughed out of rooms, to being the forefront of the industry. And even now that they are arguably "on top" in many ways, they keep on trying to do these insane things.

They are currently trying to build a rocket with the largest launch capacity in history, launch and maintain a satellite network which is the largest in history (if successful, it won't just be the largest, but will be at or near half of all satellites in orbit!), and still have a goal of getting humans to mars.

Say what you will about Elon Musk, the guy knows how to set goals.
A bit disappointing to see that the storage is not user-upgradable. I guess it matters less on a device like this where you could more easily use external storage, but still. I wish Apple stopped soldering in stuff and just made things a centimeter taller if that was the tradeoff.
I've been interested if I could do something like this research at home. http://neurosky.com/ is what I used I use for brain monitoring.
Maybe someone here can give me some tips.
More accessible than the previous gen (although oddly iFixit gives it the same score of 6/10), but it's harder than I'd hoped to get to the RAM.
Link: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6415/eaat6766
Herman Hesse is my Tesla, my Einstein, my guru. I first read "Siddhartha" quite young, and by my early teens I'd read both "The Glass Bead Game" and "Magister Ludi" - a different translation a bit harder to read - I'd read them both multiple times.

Hesse's philosophy is so comprehensive, there is no trite summary. Perhaps simply viewing life as a series of symphonic movements, with competing harmonies and melodies is as short as one can get.
I think most people either lease or buy second hand.
The first rule of effective writing (of any sort) is to imagine yourself in the position of the reader. It's not about what you want to say or get done, it's about what they want or might be interested in.
Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Golang (2017)
Also why I don't see .NET Core going anywhere, it's controlled by the same old Microsoft who have a massive conflict of interest for directing everyone to use their preferred libraries and services. Unlike every other popular language which is typically developed with a transparent independent governance model whose direction benefit all libraries and services equally, instead of giving their own preferential treatment.

A good language is only part of what makes it appealing, having a large diverse open community is often more important as it ensures mature bindings are quickly available for new technologies and 3rd party API's, it influences whether the language will be used to create new technologies (instead of just playing catch up and making clones of what's in other languages), whether libraries are able to succeed on merit so it doesn't discourage the community to invest in developing a variety of competitive options and whether there will be an active community available to quickly answer questions and resolve issues.

.NET Core will never have the community of other popular languages, unless you're happy to use Azure and want to be locked into using Microsoft technologies there are much better platforms to risk your business on instead of committing to one whose future is controlled by self-serving interests.
I don’t think it’s attainable but only what is destined happens. Quantum mechanics to me is something us humans do not have the ability to analyze to the depth of other things today. I assume it’s determinism as well. It’s possible to have local hidden variables that play into the determined outcome and which are not measurable in our universe or with our capabilities but still would be determinism at the heart. I think free will only exists if you have the perfect life, where one always enjoyed it and that to me is ignoring what I would associate “free” as in the definition. It’s more of like thinking well you can’t necessarily say the person didn’t want the existence.
The problem is not today but what the ecosystem will look like 10 years down the road under that system.

We saw it before and it wasn’t good. In short the carriers had control and companies that wanted access to consumers had to strike deals with the carrier, those deals as a result were very generous to the carrier (eg. they took 50% of revenue).

This is not good for the consumer over the long term.
> (That a human-equivalent or better machine for performing complex tasks in the real world is realizable with Turing-computable algorithms seems more or less guaranteed to me, unless there are physical processes happening in biological humans that are not)

'Guaranteed' sounds a little too strong to me. We just don't know yet.

Also...

> we are already having some success at using biologically-inspired techniques for classification

I presume you are referring to CNNs, which in good-faith can only very _very_ loosely be characterized as biologically-inspired. People are constantly trying to draw comparisons (see the 'look the brain be like CNNs' papers that show up at NIPS every year) and I wish they would stop... certainly there are some superficial similarities but... it's more a case of convergent evolution than anything, there is no deep connection to be unraveled...

I don't think there's any deep insight belying CNNs beyond 'wow building your data's symmetries into your model works great!'. Which is like a pretty obvious and fundamental thing imo...
Nigel ferage has his own radio show, and it’s very popular, and as you might have guessed, swayed towards reminding its listeners they are under imminent attack
I don’t see how BigInts can’t be serialized to JSON? Isn’t the “n” suffix exactly that — a serialization?
In the early 90s, I was told by an IBMer in the US that if he was cought drinking beer in lunch time (even outside in a restaurant), he could be fired, no question asked.

Apparently it was a paternalistic policy that came directly from Watson, who not only banned alcohol during work time including lunch, but also paid the wage on Monday to somehow honder spending it all in alcohol over the weekend.
The last issue is merely one of performance, not capability.

I’ve successfully used LMDB in 32-bit land, though it takes some effort. I had to scan available virtual memory for the largest contiguous chunk and use that.

Bigger issues are growing the database size and performance in low memory. No transactions can be running to increase the map size, which is usually hard to coordinate.

Also, in low memory situations, LMDB’s performance suffers tremendously. It can be 100x slower, and commits can take seconds. You won’t run into it unless you are really hammering it, and the developer usually won’t notice because they usually have lots of RAM.
> any document that exclusively uses masculine pronouns for genderless subjects reads as outdated.

Correct English is never out of style.

Different languages do different things, and that's okay. Some languages apply grammatical gender to more than just sex, e.g. tools, or fruit. That's okay. English uses grammatical gender to distinguish between male, female & neuter objects, and defaults to male when referring to unknown males-or-females. That's okay too. It's all part of the rich panoply of life.

> By referring to “the user” as “he”, you’re already distracting roughly 50% of your potential readership

I really doubt every woman is distracted by proper grammar. And of course by not using correct English, you distract people who use & prefer it.
Exactly, we have the luxury of being able to show a single, clear example of essentially the entire product. I realize that most SaaS companies probably don’t have that luxury, as each customer’s use case will be slightly different.
I still haven't found a language that lets me get a very basic website up and running faster than PHP.

I don't care too much for the syntax but if you just want to put up a simple page with server-side logic in as quick a time as possible then its as good as most.