skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I ask is to see where you are with the project. If you're serious about it, you'll need more than some ideas jotted on the back of a napkin, and starting from that point is considerably more work than if the business and marketing plans already existed.

I can recommend a few things, depending on what your plans and goals are and, at the very least, some direction. If you'd like to shoot me an email for privacy purposes, I'm at musgrove<at>webdesignpopd0tc0m.
There MPS for music.

https://github.com/np1/mps
http://pandoralive.info/?p=3380
How does it compare to AirDog: World's First Auto-follow Action Sports Drone (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7897776)
Small countries, like mine (.pt), kind of disprove this idyllic vision of small government. Small governments easily fall prey to large multinationals.

USA's woes with oligopolies may have many causes. A government concentrated at the federal level isn't probably one of them.
Just how do The Nordics consistently produce so many great startups?
Note: My post was an answer to some of the comments appearing here and not the response to the original article, which wasn't so negative as the mentioned claims.
African children being used as lab rats in heinous vaccine medical experiments
Haters Gonna Hate: this is developed in Israel.
I had to use Google Docs because my text exceeded 2000 characters. I apologize.
In the case of JavaScript, at the beggining it didn't just "came" with all browsers since it was first implemented by Netscape. Why MS included it in IE is far from my knowledge/interest into the history of JavaScript/MSIE. I guess that once your language is in 90% (Netscape + MSIE) of all platforms, then yes, all (Chrome, Safari, etc) had to follow along.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847829

This is not a very green technology. It is not the same as recycling aluminum. The aluminum is turned back into alumina by the reaction. "Recharging" this "battery" (it's more of a fuel cell) means shipping a 220lb module back to a far-away aluminum smelter and reforging it anew.

Forging aluminum is a hugely energy intensive process that produces significant greenhouse gases. It's a cheat to say the smelters use hydropower -- if this were to scale up to power the automotive industry it would require more dams which have major ecological impact. Plus there's still the greenhouse gas emission and transport problem.
The point is that even for Apple, engaging on healthcare is risky. Yes, margins are available at volume, but it's not their standard modus operandi given the costs of regulation and reimbursement.
Have you tried meetup.com? Maybe there's an event or group that catches your eye.
Re: frame rate, is the PS3 / 'HD' re-release better in that respect? I haven't gotten around to getting that version yet; I can imagine it's smoother due to better hardware.
The Aluminum-Air batteries are rechargeable, but they wear out faster than
lithium-ion batteries. Eventually, both Aluminum-Air and Lithium-Ion batteries
will wear out and need to be replaced, but the Aluminum-Air batteries need
to be replaced more often since they wear out faster.

From the ComputerWorld article:

> "The recharge of the aluminum-air [battery] is user-friendly and consists of refilling water and replacing aluminum when depleted," a spokesperson for Alcoa said in an email response to Computerworld. "The water refill is an easy task that can be performed by using tap water on average every one or two months according to mileage driven." The battery's aluminum replacement is also a "quick operation" that will be performed at periodic maintenance checks at a local service station  on average once a year according to mileage driven, the spokesperson added.
There is another problem. Namely not wanting to bother some segments of your contacts. Twitter and linkedin suffer from the same problem.

As an example if I post something to facebook is it the sharpneli that loves to fish? Is it the one who plays esports at somewhat competitive level? Is it the one who posts an example how to do something with OpenCL?

All of those circles are mutually exclusive and frankly posting something regarding esports would bore majority of my friends. Same applying to any other subset.

That's why my own postings are always in sites that are very specific and focused on a certain topic.
Because, yeah, it's individuals making dumb choices that is the problem -- it could never be the social systems around us that is the problem.

Maybe I don't care if my degree (philosophy) has questionable utility in the work force. Maybe I don't want to be "employable". Maybe I chose to study philosophy and didn't fall into into because I was undecided.

For you realism is adapting to the world. For me realism is making sense of the world, figuring out if perhaps there could be a better world, and constructing the world that I would like to live in and that I would like my kids to live in.

You don't get to decide for me what I should study in the same way I don't get to decide for you what you should study. If you'd studied philosophy you'd be able to see stuff like that easily.
It wasn't about his personal belief. He actively donated. He picked a side in what is still an ongoing globalized war for human rights.

Secondly, freedom of speech does not entail freedom of societal consequences of speech. It just means the government can't punish you for being an asshole. It doesn't mean anyone is forced to hang out with assholes. Nor are we forced to use products of which appearantly funds end up trying to oppress other human beings. The answer to moral criticism of corporatism is always 'vote with your wallet'. Now you are saying we are not allowed to do just that? That we must treat every company equally irregardless of their political actions? (actions yes, not opinions)

Also, the exact position of gay marriage in the US is completely irrelevant -- that notion alone testifies a misplaced arrogance. Mozilla operates in a very large globalized world. A world where in many countries gays are still oppressed -- and i don't mean in the you-cant-get-married-way but in the we-are-going-to-kill-you way.

This is a large globalized war for human rights, and he picked sides. That has consequences. Here's a question: what if he contributed to Al Queda? He didn't fly those planes -- it's just freedom of speech, right? He should be able to be CEO of Mozilla, right? What an assholes we are if we would stop using Firefox because of that, right? I realize it's a straw-man argument. His actions are not on the same level. But it proves that the notion that political actions should be free of consequence is plain wrong. The whole point of political actions is that you want something to change. People who believe that change is for the worse, are free to fight you with any legal means including voting with their wallet or refusing to work for somebody who they perceive to be their moral enemy.

Yes, that makes a person less qualified for certain types of jobs. It made sense for Mozilla to fire him for financial reasons -- but i kind of hope, moral reasons played a part as well. And he did choose to stick with his guns, so he lost a standoff he chose to be in.
Ok, where are the money for the basic income coming from?

All the people getting replaced by automation will be less able economically to buy stuff, use services - and pay taxes. Automation removes a lot of costs, frees up a lot of resources and increases profits. But all those positive effects does not compensate for the negative effects unless there is real net gains. For most of the society.
The one thing that helped me the most when I just finished university and lived alone in a foreign country without any friends was to take a look at activities and clubs nearby and become a member. Since I was shy and found it hard to express myself, I decided to force myself to join an improvisation theater group. This really helped me a lot to meet people I wouldn't have otherwise met and to be in situation where it's much easier to communicate because you have some shared interest which isn't work.

This may sound trite but I think that this really helped. My choice of doing theater was also great to improve language skills and confidence I think (my english wasn't that great either then).

I recommend clubs where there are activities because if you just go to meetups, it's often very hard as the new guy to approach people. Social activities like improv theater or sports or board games or anything like this creates a basis of interaction with the people around you making it much easier to meet.
> And yet I don't see Arizona contributing much to the US economy, social welfare, and/or higher education.

The University of Arizona (a different school) is one of the top public state universities in the country when it comes to research. The astronomy and anthropology programs at UA for example are among the best graduate programs in the nation. It contributes a great deal to science and the education of the population. So where ever you got your facts from are simply wrong. I'm guessing you just sat there and conjectured on it based on the kind of thing the media likes to bring up when it comes to Arizona.

Arizona is a magnificent state, and it contributes a great deal to this country and is home to a very diverse set of people. A great portion of the Navajo nation resides in Arizona, as well as Apache and other tribes. A large amount of immigration comes in from Mexico and from international students that attend at Arizona's universities and work at Arizona based companies. Arizona is also a huge state for the military and tourism. Beautiful deserts, the Grand Canyon, sweeping vistas of Sedona, and the unimaginably beautiful north eastern part of Arizona are things you shouldn't miss in this short life.
>Now do that in three dimensions.

You just broke my brain.
LessWrong meetups. You're in the Bay Area, where they have the strongest community.
Shortage of housing in the US is only local, and it's a feature, not a bug. Voters want a shortage so that they can buy a house in a "good neighbourhood" to move away from poor people. It's almost never explicitly stated that way but that's the way the votes go.

Whole new towns are incorporated around the US to avoid poor school districts. People impose new taxes on themselves, something otherwise unheard of, to do that. Proposition B passed in SF just this month to limit new developments and will probably lead to more limits in the future. Conservative south and urban liberals united at last.

This is the system working as intended, fulfilling the wishes of its constituents.
1. Why haven't you been social in school? Too much pressure to get good grades? Fear of being rejected?

2. Why do you live alone? I'm 26 years old guy living in a foreign country and I live with a flatmate. I'd hate living alone.

I had a friend in a similar situation as you (a young Japanese guy with basic english living in Poland). My friends make him to go out. It took a while to him to get comfortable.
No joke: I bought a dog. Probably the best way to come into chats with complete strangers :-D Also don't underestimate the value of your body language. That is often more important than your skill at expressing your thoughts into language.
"The recharge of the aluminum-air [battery] is user-friendly and consists of refilling water and replacing aluminum when depleted," a spokesperson for Alcoa said in an email response to Computerworld. "The water refill is an easy task that can be performed by using tap water  on average every one or two months according to mileage driven.

The battery's aluminum replacement is also a "quick operation" that will be performed at periodic maintenance checks at a local service station  on average once a year according to mileage driven, the spokesperson added"[1]

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248966/Electric_car_...
Just guessing: it follows your phone?
The Bay Area has a strong "rationalist" community (lesswrong.com, CFAR, MIRI, etc.) which has tons of people like you. They have meetups all the time and are generally welcoming, I've had a lot of fun hanging out with them. You don't have to buy into the ideas, and you'll get to meet some interesting characters, to say the least.
The best way to make friends is to find some sport or social club and join in. Friendships should develop over time, as you see people frequently in a relaxed setting.

A good idea here is to join a social sports team -- in New Zealand I'd recommend you play rugby, but I don't know what you play in America.

If you don't like sport, that's cool. Just find something that you're interested in, and find some pre-existing group of people that is formed around this common interest, and join in.
Making friends is incredibly difficult once one is an adult, so I won't offer advice on that. But you mention that your English is not at conversational level. Therefore any attempt to make friends will be doomed before you evrn start. You need to take English classes.
A long time ago, in western Europe, kids wouldn't go to school if they were sick. To check if they were sick the mother would check their temperature with an alcohol thermometer. Of course the kids understood the goal and used the night lamp to get the appropriate temperature displayed to skip school.

When talking about metric in corporate setting I like to remind everybody that I have a strong suspicion that the guy who invented the thermometer also discreetly invented the night lamp.

(most of the context is disappearing: blinds that force you to use the night lamp in the morning, alcohol thermometers and incandescent light bulbs)
According to http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248966/Electric_car_..., recharging the battery is "just" replacing the aluminum plates and topping up the water.

And note that there's a classical Li-Ion battery, so the usage scenario seems to be mostly urban users with short commutes (on the Li-Ion, possibly slightly longer on the metal-air battery) with the occasional long trip eating into the metal-air battery.
When I was actively seeking for an internship, I have attended a lot of meetups. I was not able to make friends, though.
In the Bay Area there are tons of fascinating people. I met more such in my first 2 weeks there than in two years of living in some other places.

Being new to a place may be hard. But in the Bay Area you can find a http://www.meetup.com/ for many, many topics (choose topics you genuinely enjoy); it may be a great place to start. Being an introvert myself (though one who have learnt to start conversations) having some topic to start (like Meetup's main theme, or the last talk topic) is great.

Lack of car in US may be a hard thing... but: you have Caltrain & as of now it may be more cool (and healthy) to be more bike-oriented (at least, in the Bay Area).
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> You are exactly describing the world today, as provided by our big government.

Of course I am. Orwell would be astounded.

I perceive a false dichotomy of big government vs big corporations. While it may be possible to have one without the other, we have the latter (as you point out) courtesy of the former.
> it would basically collapse our government's finances

My guess is, the comparatively extremely high military budget [0] is the actual culprit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
1. School workloads were demanding
2. I'd prefer living alone, provided that I have people to spend time with when I feel like. Also, I was new to the area, so I did not want to have a roommate until I find a good one.
Do you have a sport you enjoy playing? Maybe there's a club/team you can join to get to know people outside work. That was always the first thing I did when I moved to a new location.

If you have a common reason to be somewhere, it reduces a lot of the awkwardness from meeting new people.
Someone's already said it, but starting with something like meetup.com just to give you that initial confidence boost and practice socializing would be perfect. Once you've gotten used to seeing, talking, and shooting the shit with other humans once a week I think everything else that you want (meeting girls, making close friendships) will develop naturally.

Also, because you're in the bay, I can make a few personal recommendations:

- Start rock climbing. If you're near south-bay, hit up Planet Granite. If you're in the city, maybe Dog-Patch. You'll not only become stronger and more physically confident, but you'll also learn how to socialize, meet, and make friends with strangers.

- Check our your local hacker-spaces. Hackerdojo is probably a good bet, given your location. There's usually classes or meetups for a particular interest on weekends which are well attended. At the worst, you'll show up and learn something.

Perhaps one last bit of advice: try to learn to be happy by yourself. This means enjoying the time you spend reading, learning, walking, etc, and not spending that time contemplating how you'd be happier if you were with friends. Gradually, this poise and contentment will transform itself into a very attractive self-confidence :)
I'm not an introvert, but I'm shy. That's even worse, because I WANT to hang out with people but I'm desperately afraid of meeting new people. Anyways, go find an event that sparks your interest where you will meet people. Or, just force yourself to do something. Social dancing did it for me, for example. I know indoor rock climbing has worked for other people (if you don't have a partner you sign up on a list of solos looking for a partner).

I would venture to say that if you truly are an introvert (being social saps your energy) then you should consider social dancing or rock climbing, because for a few minutes at a time your attention is focused on just one person and you can for the most part shut off everyone else, unlike being in say a generic 'common interest' meetup.

But anyways you have to actually put effort into it. Unlike the olden days, where everyone in town knew what was up, and dragged other people around, or college, which professionalizes the student's entitlement to experiences, you are rarely going to be handed social activities on a platter.

If someone invites you to spend time with them in a group, make a mental note of it, and if you're counting too many examples where you're saying no, think hard about saying yes the next time.

Also, yes, it is harder being an Asian. I know this from personal experience. But there is nothing you can do about that, so forget about it.
>Haha. That's not austerianism. Austerity is when you cut down to the levels of spending you can afford.

"In economics, austerity describes policies used by governments to reduce budget deficits during adverse economic conditions."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity

The fact that you invented a new definition of austerity used only by you changes nothing.

Japan has been practicing austerity for decades because many among the government erroneously believe (like you) that a government's capacity to borrow in a currency it prints is limited and will some day reach a limit.
> because people don't want the best -- they want mid-lowbrow. Ask every starving genius writer/artist

I am glad to read an article like the original post, about how the incentives of the world we live in distort the effects of the things we consume. I am distressed to read top comments like yours, which lazily declare that the world sucks because you're too smart. Even if you were right, and you're not, you wouldn't change anything.

For instance, your comment about '"intellectual goods" like art' is completely off the mark. Having dabbled in both music and writing, I have found that there's a huge difference in attitude between your stereotypical "starving artists" and people who produced art and music that the world actually liked, if only a little bit beyond their circle of friends.

Generally, the people who ranted the most about popular art were people who least understood how to craft music or writing that people wanted to read. This sort can often be found roaming university halls and earning degrees making art nobody actually wants. On the other hand, the guys who played at bars, or published stories in small magazines, almost universally had respect for the extraordinary amounts of talent in even the "lowest" books and music, even if they strongly disagreed with the value of the art. They also had very sharp analytical and critical minds when it came to the art in question.
They provide access / listings of copyright protected movies. What is NOT illegal here? Come on! We have a lot of disciplinary warning letters here in Germany because of popcorn-time an a lot of people have to pay a LOT of money because they used it. Be honest to the people, torrent networks are dangerous (in some countries). I am not here for a discussions about the border between legal, illegal and to split hairs about that topic.
Get out of bed and stop feeling sorry for yourself. Life goes on. Do the following actions:

1. Get at least 8 hours of sleep every day. Go to bed at a reasonable hour, and get up when you wake up.

2. Get a small notebook and a pen. Carry them with you everywhere.

3. Eat properly. No excessive junk-food. Don't skip meals.

4. Ever day for at least 1 hour, go to a quiet place and bring out your notebook. Spend the entire hour writing out ideas. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad. Just write them out. Do it. The point is to use your "idea muscles".

5. Spend at least 1 hour every day walking, running, moving, or doing something to make your body active and actually get your blood pumping. Even if it's just 5 minutes here, and 2 minutes there... do that a bunch of times every day.

6. Repeat step #4 at least two or three times per day.

With the above steps, you will condition your body and brain to be a thinking machine. You'll find after a week or so, it will become easier and easier to think up ideas for your notebook. Soon you'll have hundreds of ideas written down. Eventually you'll get an idea for a new startup that just work. Pursue it! (Don't stop the steps above, though... maybe just limit them a bit.)

Remember, your brain is a muscle. Exercise it. Keep your body in decent condition because it feeds your brain.
So....what exactly is Isohunt.to? Isohunt.com was shut down and the footer of Isohunt.to says they are not affiliated with Isohunt inc. So...wouldn't it be safe to assume that Isohunt.to is just an MPAA/RIAA honeypot that's designed to snap up users of the original Isohunt who just don't notice the difference? I'd stay 50,000 miles away from them and any of their "products."
If these kinds of hacks become popular, I wouldn't be surprised if some school districts and standardized test makers decided to ban all non-stock-OS calculators in the near future.

They might even partner with TI to add some sort of DRM and force students to buy these new, even more overpriced, "ETS-approved" calculators...
Congratulations!

You managed more than most of the start-ups!
Your idea was worth it and it will go and change part of the world. It was your doing.

By now, you have experience in starting, you have confirmation on your ideas. This is bigger win in long term.

Bummer that you didn't get paid in money, but money comes and goes. You will do fine. being a employee for a while, might be a nice change to reflect on your experience and work on your ideas. Less hectic and more stress free change.
The language barrier is a problem, but it can also be an opportunity. Try looking for conversation clubs or meetups (look on facebook, too) -- perhaps you can find someone who wants to learn your native language and you can teach each other.
> Pretty sure formerly "text-based games" got relabeled "interactive fiction"

That's what GP said. He wrote "formally", not "formerly" ;).