skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Propose this to the homeless and the destitute and see what sort of responses one receives. This is a fun thought experiment for the privileged. As a kid this is what was beaten into the minds of the soon to graduate out of college 'study what you love' they'd say. The idea was attractive to be sure.

But when it is about survival, when you don't have a cushion, an infrastructure that will provide for you, this sort of thing isn't an option, the rhetoric is really a sophistry. What one can glean from this is what many have already considered.

Make enough money, satiate yourself so that it's no longer a need, and then you really do have the freedom to pick and choose and do what you want. It is a rare sort of situation and person that can do this from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Work comes out of a necessity, for many of us it is not something you simply change your mind on, and you're suddenly free from the burden.

EDIT: spacing, wording
I'm interesting in this too. My guess is you'd really need good, light, haptic gloves to make this work... certainly you will need the same sort of precision and physical feedback you have now with a physical keyboard, even if you're not primarily using it for traditional typing.
Despite democratic propaganda, government is a particular institution within society with its own particular capabilities, faults, and goals. It is not an avatar of the will of the united people.
The 'i' prefix would risk unwanted attention from Apple.
On the other hand, my parents live only 90 miles away; my mother-in-law lives about 20 miles away, and my father-in-law lives 3,000 miles away -- I'm not driving to reach him.

I think that people who have relatively routine commitments more than 250 miles away but less than 500 miles away are a small enough segment of the market that you could reasonably describe the market as "disrupted" if those people remained on gasoline cars and most other people went to electric.

That said, I don't buy even a little bit that we're going to go from "no commercial versions of this technology at all" to "being produced in car-battery-sizes and gigantic numbers" in two or three years. If Li-ion batteries aren't good enough, then any electric car disruption is at least 5 years out.
The article mentions to practice code-oriented challenges. Are there are good resources out there to help with this?
That's because, as Steve Jobs put it, Apple squandered a 10 year lead on Windows. You still have to show up and compete.

If you look at the market now, Apple is the most profitable "PC" maker.
The Fluke 25 and 27s could be had either in fading black or get-dirty-yellow and fading black. Both came with decaying LCDs for no additional cost.

They definitely used yellow and black in the mid-to-late 1980s, primarily on "ruggedized" field gear. Bench gear tended to look pretty much like most bench gear, as far as I can recall.
the way for electric cars to get higher range and lower cost is obviously battery improvement. The metal-air (specifically zinc/air and Al/air) batteries sound like a natural way of doing so. These batteries can be thought as fuel cells "burning" zinc(or Al) instead of gasoline. Having lower cost and size than Li-ion they would be also good candidates for battery swapping stations. If only we as society were able to build such an infrastructure...
Actually, if they had a super charger on the way, you'd only have to stop for 5-10 minutes tops (since you'd only need about 50 more miles of range to be comfortable). I'd rather stop for 5 minutes than pay for a whole tank of gas. Doesn't seem like a deal breaker to me. Hell, I'd do it right now in a Tesla and stop at a level 2 somewhere for an hour. Maybe get some lunch. Road trips are adventures. :D
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Great points. I think #2 (reliability) and #3 (reputation)are really key here.

I would argue that there is a caveat to #1. Agreed that a MVP for a Bloomberg replacement wouldn't work unless you had everything Bloomberg had and more (in which case, it's hardly an MVP and good luck). That said, I think an MVP for a niche fin-tech data product that Bloomberg does not have would work if the sales pitch is that I use your product in addition to Bloomberg. If you offer me an edge by providing data (or analysis) others don't have, an MVP would be fine. Heck, some traders/funds would pay for just a csv file if it contained unique (but directly useful) financial data/analysis (an obvious example that may have had potential 5 years ago was sentiment, although now everyone and their dog is offering that and it's not entirely clear there's direct value to it). I think the very fact Bloomberg can look like its "from the 1980s" just reflects the needs of the market it serves. Wall Street doesn't put great value on pretty interfaces, ease of use, or anything other than direct value add to their revenue generation process (ie. investing, pricing, selling financial products, etc.). Tell me how your product makes me more money today. I think any fin-tech startup needs to be driven by that philosophy if they want to succeed, I don't see how you'd convince a trader that the fact your app offers a nice interface or interesting but questionably actionable analysis is any real advantage if the other guy offers analysis or data that is directly applicable.

Another thought: while disrupting pricing data would be very difficult (given the speed + accuracy required + relationship with exchanges), what about other financial data like fundamentals/accounting/relationships data? That data is free - it's all on the SEC's EDGAR (and it's far more than just financial documents, there's plenty of data on individuals too). Would Fact Set or Capital IQ, for instance, have more competition if the SEC had API/machine readable data? There has been some effort through XBRL to do this - although the percentage of filing actually available in that format and the lack of consistency in the format (in some cases, there's at least several hundred 'tags' for the same or similar financial line item) makes any large scale data processing from EDGAR a massive undertaking.
More and more services are starting to use an even better solution that includes proof of storage. Please see my comment above.
Their benefits offering is fairly average to below average, with an undefined profit sharing bit. It seems like the offering from the outset is not compensating for the NSFW premium.
Stoicism isn't anti-improvement. Epictetus was an abused slaved, then philosophical leader. Seneca was rich and was tutor and adviser to the emperor. Marcus Aurelius was the emperor.

Yes, Stoicism teaches you that you don't have (at least ultimate) control over the world. But it does emphasize that you have control over yourself. You internalize your goals: Instead of "winning the tennis championship" it's "be the best player I can possibly be despite circumstance".
Just tried this in various accents - nope, doesn't work. Nexus 4, newest Google Search, Personalised Recognition on.
Then just web spider SSI running on a local server.

Or someone should write an SSI static site generator.
An nice info-graphic for content Mapping Of Today’s Social Networks
Yes, it's only a problem with objects that are unusually close to your face. It's a small concern and only really relevant for people designing VR content, because with properly designed content users should never notice.
I'm not convinced no fractional reserve is the absolute answer. I am fine with exchanges making some money from what I keep there. In one way or another it will benefit me. What needs to be worked on is the actual fraction they can get insured for in the low-probability case everyone wants to run out with their coins.
The problem is that the value of your own continued existence is Inf, not just because you don't want to die, but because you lose control after that fact, and thus all subsequent negative events are added to that cost.

But aside from that, humans are not rational. Depending on your definition, humans aren't even intelligent.

When it comes right down to it, it's pretty obvious what the human mind does to solve problems. It copies behavior. That's all it's capable of. It doesn't try to be rational, good, ... It is like DNA in that way (where 99.9999999999% of behavior simply comes from the parent(s)). People keep forgetting that evolution didn't create a "human", evolution is simply trying to duplicate itself. Your brain is nothing more or less than another trick to accomplish that.

More detailed, here's what it does :

1) it looks at it's inputs, and models them : it finds how the feedback loop works between outputs and inputs (e.g. you move muscles 382, 182 and 138, your hand moves in the image of your eyes. That sort of thing and more complex)

(technically it doesn't really do this. Your brain models the outside world as if it's part of your brain. That it models accurate prediction models is just a consequence of that)

2) it "shortcuts" the feedback loop. Essentially if neuron B always sees something happen 10 ms after neuron A sees it happen, they will form a connection and neuron B will report the event when neuron A starts seeing it's other event. If this means anything, it's a huge autocorrelation machine (with only positive offsets)

3) it copies behavior from it's predictive model to it's outputs. A human effectively tries to be the most "average" human in existence, based on his/her idea of what that is. It also copies (much less) from other events, like trees moving, animals, even just random signals that somehow get into your nervous system (some were put there on purpose). And lastly it copies from various internal sources that were put into our nervous system, like various clocks (I'm sure you can see why a clock would be useful to correlate things with), and chemical signals that get translated (like hunger, pain, or exitement, or ...).

Keep in mind that I can split it up into functional things as much as I want. "Phase 1", "Phase 2", "Phase 3", but they don't really exist. The brain starts with a random signal and then does one operation continuously. That one operation implements 1,2 and 3 as a consequence of
Good lord, that man is full of himself.
If the author is hanging around: Good debunking. Wouldn't there be situations where the pilots would be dealing with an emergency and not radio ATC? Given they are so far away from an airport getting priority to landing doesn't seem like the most important thing. E.g. here (http://www.deltava.org/library/B777%20Manual.pdf ):

TOTAL POWER LOSS

- Determine if possible to reach airfield, if not search for an appropriate field or clearing to land in.

- Stay on or above the glide slope at all times during approach. Once you get below it, you cannot get back up above it.

- Use full flaps for landing.

- Set Auto-Brake FULL

- Continue as if normal landing.

(I don't know if this is equal to the pilot's checklist but there's no radio ATC in there, I guess that's a subset of "normal landing")

I'm sure the airplane will be found eventually and the mystery will be resolved. Right now there doesn't seem to be enough reliable data publicly available to form any sort of conclusion.
Toppling Bloomberg is kinda like Toppling Google. They are giants. If you go head on, you will most likely fail because you will try to do a lot of things in marginally better (if that) way. I can only think of one way: targeting a very very small niche that BBG handles and do it significantly better (not necessarily cheaper). Keep in mind that the costs of $20,000/yr for a BBG license might sound like a lot to us but for wall st, that is chump change. Ok well lately, firms are getting cost aware but even then, it won't make a dent.
Those guidelines are why I flag every Snowden article.
They don't have the ability to spend your coins.

If you trust every other aspect of their service (that they aren't capturing and storing your password, which of course they handle every time you use the service), then you can feel safe in knowing that you don't have to trust them not to spend your coins because they can't.

But only if you trust that every other part is honored.

That isn't a rational set of conditions. In the usage of Blockchain.info, they absolutely gain the capacity to capture your private keys. As does anyone who hacks the service.
We're dead serious about applying and getting in YC.

We do RFS #8 (Ephemeralization Apps) and now, thanks to this post, we're also on the RFS "Improving healthcare".

I have a request to existing founders, mentors or partners of YC:

We have an amazing team and a real problem we're solving in healthcare. Hundreds of doctors are waiting to use our app. I'm wondering if you could help us by reviewing our application and sharing some feedback/advices. Please don't be shy, that would be really appreciated. Just ping me phzbox at gmail
This would reinvigorate some of us who are jaded by SV's astounding lack of ambition towards actually solving hard problems as well.

I didn't become an engineer to crank out CRUD apps in some rock star's crazy DSL all day.
Cheers for the video.

Saved me searching for the episode. Thinking out loud - maybe being neurotic is the true Turing test?

At least it will say something before just not working one morning.
You applied to 25 companies and got responses from 17? That seems like an extraordinarily high response rate. Your process sounds pretty normal, but my understanding is that most people who follow a similar process get a much lower response rate. Why do you think this is?
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Inside the GitHub scandal: is sexism part of the Valley's DNA?
they did a couple papers describing algos:

http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/papers/295_ISMIR_2012.pdf

http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/papers/LBD2.pdf

(There's usually a few "doesn't work" comments, but imagine how much extra processing is required to get the fundamental when you run guitars thru delay/ reverb, overdrive/distortion, chorus/tremolo/vibrato etc effects)
> You need people who know how to find the answer to such questions.

You can't look for an answer if you don't know what question to ask.

This has to do with that whole "conscious competence learning matrix" stuff, more entertainingly described by Steve Schwartz as "shit you know, shit you know you don't know and shit you don't know you don't know" [1].

The purpose of interview questions about algorithms and data structures is to see whether the candidate has the basic understanding of how the most fundamental data structures work and when to use them; whether they understand the concept of complexity and why it matters.

If you think these things don't matter, you're taking them too literally. Knowing when to use a linked list, when to use a binary search tree and when to use a hash map might be the difference between your software being able to scale or not.

[1]: http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyr...
The "error-free Internet"? Really?

The truth is that most engineers are aware of what Agile is. It's a series of principles used to run a software development project. Agile isn't a set of tools or a movement or a methodology. It's only people who are selling tools or books or a viewpoint that talk like this.

From the trenches, I have never worked in Agile. I've worked with "agile" and I've worked in teams organized using agile principles. But, the orthodoxy has come from consultants, who were quickly shown the door.
You don't need breakthrough batteries if you can push the margins close enough to the cost of the materials used to make the lithium ones.
The two overlap, but aren't the same thing.
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We’re a small team of developers rethinking the way people buy and sell things locally. We're building a product in a multi-billion dollar market, and are well on our way to profitability (10% WoW growth leading to $1M run-rate, in just 6 weeks).

We're built on Parse, with a native iOS client, and use Haskell, typescript and coffeescript on the backend. We're looking for talented individuals with experience or interest in this stack. Client-side web will be our most immediate engineering hire, so experience with Backbone, ember, etc., preferred.

This is a key technical hire, with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

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Why don't the charts plot he variance in the data?
Right...because we haven't wanted better batteries for the past 30+ years, and it's just our lack of desire which is keeping it from happening.

SpaceX didn't do any new science in building their rockets, really. They took functional technology and a lot of great engineering and made it work. I don't think it would be responsible to bet Tesla's success on a battery technology which doesn't exist yet; 50% cheaper Lithium-Ion through Tesla/SpaceX style vertical integration and awesomeness is good enough.

If better battery chemistries come out, then sure Tesla could use them, but the planning for the next car needs to work even if they don't.
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Funny timing, we are pretty big bloomberg users and just had the Reuters Eikon sales team in.

Things bloomberg does well....

- Emsx, they have the largest trading network in the world. If you are able to trade, its free and every broker is hooked up to it. You can be up and running in a few days.

- market Data. To get full market data for just the Canadian exchanges is about $15,000/month. With a bloomberg terminal its about $300/month.

- excel plugin. You can pull real time data, reference (non changing data like the dividend rate) and historical market data into excel. You can experiment so quickly with the combination of bloomberg and excel. This can't be stated enough.

- decent api. You can pull the same data you could from excel into your C++/C# or java app with their api. This also really simplifies prototyping and makes it easy to write the basic infrastructure you need at a a hedge fund.

With these three things bloomberg has done something pretty remarkable. They've locked down the lower end market here making it hard for competitors to start from the bottom as the bottom is significantly less profitable now.

EDIT as to what Eikon does better than bloomberg, the answer is not much. They have a bit better discover ability for functions due to their auto complete typing being much better than bloomberg.

Eikon also ranks analysts predictions and then gives predictions as to how a company will do against its earnings, they tell me their predictive model can be very accurate.

Reuters also has reuters news integration which is arguably better than bloomberg's news.
If battery tech doesn't improve on the price any time soon, I'd like to see a slightly different financing option. I'd like to buy (or lease) the car, and then lease the battery pack separately, so you pay for it by the charge. Currently, it cost about $6 to "fill up" a 300-mile range battery, vs. $50-$70 for gas. So as long as the electric cost plus battery lease per charge costs than the cost of a tank of gas, I believe that would go a long way to solving the up-front vehicle cost issues.
isn't it up to the mailing list author to determine the level of noise? any intervening on threadable's part would be censorship.

very hypocritical to claim "less noisy" while spamming about your service on your investor's "news" site.
I say this a lot: "You don't know what's customer support until you try Bloomberg's." It's surreal.

One year and a half ago I was involved in an important project which required niche data. I was creating so many help requests I got sent a real person for a couple of hours whenever I needed.

For comparison, this same project required even more data from Reuters and the replies from the support team were so bad things escalated quickly to top managers. It took some time but eventually we had a meeting with top managers from Reuters and then I finally got a real person for a couple of hours.
No, but I do recognize they can be dangerous and so take reasonable precautions like unplugging them before trying to get toast out with a butter knife etc. 120v rarely kills people, but saying that does not mean it's 'safe'. https://xkcd.com/795/
They offered to return them to me or recycle them: http://www.goldstonebooks.co.uk/files/rubbish.jpg
The Pointlessness of Unplugging
Given that these more visionary, long-term, scientific startups will often require founders of a different demographic than what we're used to seeing (eg. older, more experienced in a given field, maybe with obligations like a spouse and kids), will you guys modify your approach to evaluating applications, more specifically the founding teams?
"The price of energy" is kind of a confusing term when you're comparing fuel that may be burned to produce steam with fodder that may be fed to draft animals. Per unit of work produced, coal beats hay hands-down. It may be that the price of coal increased once it was used for more than heating and smelting, but that's the price of coal, not "the price of [mechanical] energy".
What's on the opposite side of the Earth?
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Yeah. That's getting in the scary "I don't want to run out of juice" range, especially if there's any range of problems. I actually thought the range of the Tesla was 300 miles and 265 for 'real' driving; but, again, all it'd take is for you to have too much fun for a little bit of the drive, and you're out of range 10 miles before you get home. A bit of a bummer.

Grabbing a meal halfway through there (if there were a supercharger more than 100 miles into the trip) and back might not be /that/ bad. That's an individual preference, though.

Actually, if they're not charging from flat, it might not even be 30-45 minutes.
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Maybe it's a Tipping Point or a Perfect Storm or an Outlier or a Pop Culture Science Book Title?
I think the reason the largest startups focus on institutional investors is because these are by far the largest users of financial data and are willing to pay for it (just look at Bloomberg's subscription fees). With just a few customers, you could have a million dollar business. How much would an individual pay for access to similar data? Given they could just give their funds to a professional to manage, probably less than that professional costs them.

That said, your startup looks cool and could be very useful if you're able to extract data all historical financial data from annual and quarterly filings (something that is very difficult right now) but it's worth noting that there any many startups in the space of making investing easier for retail investors (many of whom frankly aren't passionate about or interested in anything to do with investing beyond growing their personal funds) probably the most notable ones are maybe Wealthfront https://www.wealthfront.com/, Robinhood https://www.robinhood.com/, and most related to your startup, Quandl.
It's rendering it twice, but at only half the resolution.

Thinking about this more, the closest analog to stereo rendering would seem to be games with a split-screen mode. Which, in my experience, often does entail a performance hit (though certainly not a generation-sized one).

My guess is that how much a second viewport affects performance is highly engine-dependent. Ironically, the one game I remember having the biggest delta from single-screen to split-screen is the Dreamcast version of Quake III: I distinctly recall the sharp drop in poly-count on the otherwise curvy rocket launcher.