skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First expressed, I believe, by Clay Shirky:

[…] She heard this story and she shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years.”

­— Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, Clay Shirky, May 2008 (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008009.html)
nuclear fuel is 2 million times more energy dense than any other fuel (even more energy dense than that for solar or wind), and this reactor is 30 times more efficient than conventional reactors.

that means roughly 2 million times less transportation, less land use and less waste. (Land use comparisons: http://newenergyandfuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LandU...)

How can we factor in the amount of CO2 removal lost by removal of millions of trees for wind farms? (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10546071/Millions-o...) Or millions less train use in transport of coal?

It's a good point though. We should count not just that the reactor itself saves 200,000 tons of CO2 during operation, but also the frequently 10x that of fuel burnt to transport that diesel in conventional generators. So each reactor deployment may save 2 million tons of CO2.

Nuclear facilities are also much longer lived than many. Eg solar panel life degrades significantly after a decade. Wind turbines generally have a life of 15 years of so. So that's less concrete, construction, etc.

You're right it's tough or impossible to quanitfy. Intuitively, it all comes back to the energy density number. 2 million times more energy dense, no emissions or pollution in operation, and the "waste" is actually useful fuel which produces energy.
The manufacturer claims these discs will last 1000 years:

http://www.mdisc.com/what-is-mdisc/
Nah, using visual recognition software, this can be achieved too.
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What if Instacart isnt a delivery startup?
Linguistic economy.
That would be incredibly shortsighted. Assuming it's not the case, it's still a reasonable move: they need to pay their national debts in American dollars. There's no need for countless dollar notes to be circulating throughout the country every day for intra-national commerce, anything else that would be inflated at most below US QE levels would do the same trick and release those USD notes from that task, hopefully sooner or later trickle them back to the national treasury in order to send them back to where they originated. Plans of mice and men, but they gotta give it a try. No country can afford to depend on the US national currency for too much in the long run.
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I have a collection of old burned CDs. All, somewhere between 8-13 years old. Recently I went through and either copied the data to an external drive or tossed 'em. I was able to get all the data off of probably more than 80%. But there were a few that I couldn't get anything off. So I'd say maybe 10 years for burned disks.

My pressed disks (store bought albums and old video games from the same vintage) seem to be 100% okay unless there's scratches on them.
Whether this is true or not, I find my own comprehension/recall much much higher when longform text is read to me than when I read it. Consequently, I currently get all my books either in audiobook form, or if not possible I use my smart phone to read the ebook to me. (With the exception of highly technical books with lots of formulas.)

There is still a bit of a taboo in our society I think to not read books manually, hopefully this will pass- It's much more important what you read, not how you read it.
I spent this summer ripping my stack of about 100 backup CD-Rs/DVD-Rs dating back to 1997?99? to store on Glacier instead. They were just lying in stacks on CD spindles, pretty much the worst kind of storage possible. The majority copied fine. 2-3 failed with visible damage. 2-3 failed with no visible damage.

While most of the discs were the cheapest ones teenaged me could get his hands on, 2 of them were Kodak Gold CD-Rs. One of those was one that failed...

There really is no knowing.
> yes, reusing the same button as in the door controls elsewhere probably saves money, but why on earth position it bottom centre of the toilet backplate, where exactly zero people will expect it? To force me to close the lid? Surely there are less confusing solutions.

I wonder if they put it there to force you to put the lid down in case the pressurized airplane-style waste has an issue, but I cannot find any references to this.
This is one of the first solutions I've seen to the data analysis problem that I'd consider a real solution: the ease of use of spreadsheets but with the question answering power of a database.

As one of my tasks at my previous job I investigated a bunch of data analysis/reporting solutions for our use. None of them provided that combination with any finesse. We ended up writing our own solution as a thin wrapper over SQL that output data either to the browser or to Excel. It served our purposes, but it was a compromise.

This new feature from Chartio, if the video and post are to be believed, would have been perfect. Now if only they offered an appliance so companies could use it without shipping data out.
Takeaway: make sure your users click-to-agree on your terms of use. Referencing them in the fine print somewhere isn't safe.

Professor Goldman often makes this comment:
> "there are two types of online terms: mandatory click-through agreements and everything else, which I’ll call 'things that aren’t contracts.'”

Secondary takeaway - you probably want a mandatory arbitration clause in your terms of service. Discuss it with your lawyer, but arbitration is often far less expensive and less distracting for a startup (compared to litigation).
Sigh, in this new world of multiple series I don't think I'll get a chance to invest at all "early" in this company but I would if I could :-). One of those companies that I really like the product. So I continue to wait for their IPO if they decide to go that route.
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High blood pressure can be disability depending on (1) the specifics of the condition ("high blood pressure" is a broad range, not a single binary condition that manifests identically in all people suffering from it), and (2) the persons usual line of work -- disability determinations are generally [1] made based on your ability to do the work you did before the disabling condition manifested.

> High blood pressure is not a disability.

Your high blood pressure, as it currently is, is clearly not a disability for you in the work that you do. That does not mean that high blood pressure is not a disability.

[1] The exception is that each state agency also has a "List of Impairments", a catalog of specific conditions and combinations of conditions that are considered unconditionally disabling; if you have a condition on that list, or one judged as severe as one on that list, you are considered disabled without analysis of the specifics of your previous work.
I don't understand. Did you buy a house in BTC or in USD? If you bought it in USD, then the value of it in USD hasn't changed. If you bought it in BTC, then your debt is in BTC. What am I missing?
Average gross margin in a traditional grocery store in the US is 26-33%, depending on local competition. There is a huge range (0-90%) by product category however.

Net income after labor, distribution, and fixed costs ranges 1-6%, depending largely on market share and fixed cost control

Reference: I helped traditional retailers with price optimization for almost 20 years
Golf, yacht sailing, cycling.
If it's the only currency in Ecuador, the price of a house in Ecuador in bitcoins doesn't have to match the fluctuations of BTC<->USD. If Ecuador also tightly controls exchange with foreign currencies (which they likely already control, just not tightly?), then they can make the value of bitcoins within Ecuador as stable as any other currency.

As for how they would acquire bitcoins in the first place, all they have to do is mine enough for most citizens to access them and then distribute them. Or fork off a new blockchain with a different cryptocurrency that can only be mined by the central government (say, because it requires private keys to mine that only the government controls).
Competitor slammed me in the press, said we couldn't scale. So I responded.
Scala is different than C++ in the sense that Scala at its core is a simple language compared to C++ and most abstractions are built from that. That said, there are different Scalas to, Scala the 'a better Java' is a very different language from scalaz/shapeless Scala.

This seems to be the curse of any powerful core language (Scala, Haskell, ...) - on the one hand they allow you to make all kinds of useful abstractions that you can't make with e.g. Java. On the other hand, their abstractions are so powerful that they create seemingly different languages.

One could apply the same rule as C++ - stick to a subset of the language/abstractions. However, if you look at e.g. Haskell, a large number of libraries now depend on a library such as lens [1], so often it's not that much of a choice.
> automated style checking is the only way to go

Absolutely. We've found automated style checking also improves quality and efficiency. Even the "pedantic jerk" can miss small style issues that are easily caught by tooling.

For anyone wondering what tools. The most common for JS are JSHint and JSCS. Then use Grunt or Gulp combined with a watch to check a file each time a change is saved. Lastly, use a precommit hook (or similar) to check again before code is committed into the repo.
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If you bought it in BTC, the house is now much more expensive then when you originally bought it.
Maybe I need to try mine again but last year I went through a stack of CD-Rs I burned back in 98-99 and didn't have one failure. They've pretty much lived in the dark in a plastic tub, but in Florida (indoor) humidity.
> The research project was partly funded by NSF grants, so does that mean the public have the right to see all work related to the project?

For better or worse, no. NSF funding brings requirements for data sharing, but does not automatically trigger code availability.
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>I never understood how companies like instacart explained this to their investors.

They don't need to explain anything. Most of the time the founders and investors are in on it together. Just get an exit.
This is EXACTLY what argentina did before the 2001 crash, by pegging ARS to USD @ 1:1. The problem is you lose the ability to set monetary policy because you can't set interest rates nor loan money via a central bank, when you don't own the currency.
Most of our customers have come via email marketing and content marketing, but HN has definitely sent a few :)
I totally agree with you. I think we all know Facebook overpaid for Whatapp and SpaceX has a higher realistic valuation. Great post!
What's the difference between this concept and e-paper?
One gotcha about naming otherwise anonymous functions is that the function name is often removed during minification.

So, if you have code or logging that assumes all functions have names, then the code may break or degrade when built and deployed in production.
That was a fantastic read. I can't count the number of hours I have wasted trying to figure out a bug (or trace a problem) in the system because someone decided to update the data silently. I think this is the kind of database which should be standard in finance industry. I have been working for financial companies in NYC for last 8 years and I have yet to see anyone use this product. Does anyone on HN have used this on a live system?
But, the data storage can be in a AP system, allowing better stories around data availability.
Nathan Kontny is the new Highrise CEO
If you are in California, there are a lot of legal restrictions on HOA boards. I would recommend picking up this: http://condobook.com/ for more information. (Despite the name it has a lot of information general to common interest developments.
What concerns me is the steps are: open up home router to port 80 and pray that Cloudflare will solve all your problems?

I do not know, I take time reducing the attack profile of OpenWRT and learned to use it specifically because, as we read a lot this year, commodity home routers are on the whole terribly insecure.
The future is scary. There isn't the time in the day for anyone to read all this legalese for every single service they use.

Imagine if you had to read the terms & service of every supermarket you walked into. Every convenience store.
It's more expensive in USD, yes. Which is a problem if you're being paid in USD, instead of BTC. In other words: if your debt is not in the same currency as your income, that might be a problem. Is that what you're saying?
The first thing I used to do with a new book was smell the paper. I find having that constant smell near me as I read a book makes the experience somehow more visceral.

To be honest, I still remember how the paper in my primary school maths books smelled, and I remember how the pages felt (shiny).

Thankfully I also still remember some of the contents.
You can copy your private keys to another device obviously, and eventually Nyms can help you do this by brokering an end-to-end encrypted tunnel between devices to transfer keys securely.
This is great. I use Seatgeek 100% because of their excellent design work.
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There's several similar boards; off-hand I can think of the VoCore, the AsiaRF AWM002, and a couple of unbranded Chinese ones.
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My thoughts exactly. Just use the download builder (http://jqueryui.com/download/) to choose the features you need a la carte.
Presume someone resorting to gimmicks to manage spending in excess of revenue is shortsighted (intentionally or otherwise.) Borrowing money in a foreign currency has pros and cons but I suspect most citizens don't realize the long term consequences.
I real incessantly with Kindle on an iPhone 5S ... so this is really relevant for me. Thoughts:

1. The worse temporal understanding could be a problem for history and bio books especially. I find myself making a quick diversion to Wikipedia quite often for additional context and information. For non-fiction you can quite easily pull up timelines etc. if you're having trouble remembering. For some reason on the iPhone I can do a quick web search without getting distracted, which is a problem for me if I try to read on my laptop.

2. Interesting to know the "reading history" of the participants. I've been reading paper books since I was quite young, I couldn't be any more comfortable with the medium. I only got comfortable with eBooks after powering through the entire ASOIAF (i.e. Game of Thrones) series on a phone screen. I find that after being acclimatized it is much easier to fully focus on the material.

3. Using the dedicated hardware (Kindle DXes) was probably quite helpful to the performance of that group. It is important that page turns etc. are fast and there is no resistance of any kind to movement through the book. I might quite naturally take short breaks during reading but having them imposed on me or any other kind of focus break would be intolerable.
"Expected"? I don't agree with that at all.
Sorry for the delay in response... I would call them actual startups.

For one I raised $1.7m in money over the years several years ago, but then had to scale it back due to lack of success. I pivoted it to a site that now has millions of visitors per month, but I run it solo trying to figure out how to make money and grow it.

The other company is just two us, my cofounder and I created a social media analytics platform and we have done about $150k of revenue in bootstrap mode in the past year or so. We are now trying to push a product to the masses and may look for funding soon.
It is suspected (and I think reasonably so) that Bitcoin volatility will decrease over time[1].

Regardless, I think with the financial tools we have developed in the past few hundred years we are very well equipped to deal with volatile assets.

Perhaps it is you who doesn't want to think longer about Bitcoin than the two seconds it takes to realize that loaning Bitcoins might be a difficult problem.

1] http://elidourado.com/blog/bitcoin-volatility/
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OK, let me explain this better using USD.

You take out a 100k mortgage in USD. Over the next year, the USD suffers suffers from extreme deflation (increases in value). It is now worth twice what is was worth last year. As a consequence, wages begin to go down. Now let's say you were earning 50k a year while paying down a 100k mortgage (not assuming a downpayment, this is for simplification). Next year, you are now being payed 25k but still owe that 100k mortgage. And the house is now worth 50k.
The EULA isn't all that important actually. It's the copyright. It's illegal to distribute copyrighted software without permission.

As long as they don't distribute that copyrighted code or derivations of that code then they should be okay. The end user then has to find a legal way to get a copy of that code.
I heard Rich Hickey speak about a year ago about Datomic.

Those are exactly the sorts of clients that Datomic aims to sell to (and their pricing model reflects that). Though Datomic is still relatively new, so knowing how quickly (read: slowly) financial institutions update their infrastructure, I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if it were widely deployed in a single financial institution yet.

I really liked Datomic from what I could see - at the time we started building our stack at my startup it didn't mature enough (library support, etc.) to be worth it, but it could make our lives a lot easier.
It is pitch black here.
Nice, shame they don't support non-gmail yet. Although the UI looks just like Fastmail with the minimalist web theme selected, which I highly recommend if you're not comfortable using GMail. I find it superior to GMails web UI in many ways.
Yeah, take the go language, for instance. No vision, cobbled together by amateurs without any clear goals, and no real-world experience. Awful. /s

A lot of open/free projects are indeed "hobby" projects (and not in a good way) -- but to claim that all of them are bad? Compared to what? The shareware scene from the 90s?
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Is it easy for locals to reuse content from previous itineraries, i.e. do they own the rights to their content?

Would there be competition from Fiverr for custom itineraries?

TripHobo is focusing on logistics, but can offer a free service because they make money on hotel bookings, http://thenextweb.com/in/2014/06/30/travel-planner-triphobo-...
I think there is room for improvements on email clients, so more competition is nice!

Some other newcomers are:

- http://mailplaneapp.com/

- http://www.postbox-inc.com/

- http://inky.com/

Unfortunately, Mailbox FAQ question 'Does Mailbox store my emails on its servers?' => 'Yes, but...' is a deal-breaker for me (sadly).

It's still nice to see the innovation though.
When I was a small child my dad taught me how to take apart motorcycle engines, while my mom taught me QBASIC and getting around in DOS.

You'd be surprised at how much children can learn even at a very young age if you don't make it look harder than it is.
Elon Musk is probably one of those most ambitious entrepreneurs of our time. SpaceX and Tesla are both incredibly profound ventures.
I love it, it appaer cheesy in hindsight, but it was pure gold back then.
I started a small module to do that without any dependency: https://github.com/bpierre/minidrag#minidrag-
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Poll: Do you have any problem in finding your ideal cofounder?
I have seen few people who suffer a lot in finding their ideal cofounder? Is that really true? If it is, is there any solution apart from traditionally classified. Anyone/startup working on it to fix this crucial problem. Please, share your experience/hacks on how to either overcome with this problem or what's the best solution you think?
Yes, I have a problem in finding cofounder.
NO, i am okay.
Epsilon (it's an Emacs clone). Was about $300 new, and upgrades over the years were about $100 each.

It hasn't been updated in quite some time, but it's a very capable editor, and many of the heavies I've worked with in the past decade or so have also been power-users of it.

Epsilon is arguably more abandonware-like than Sublime Text, but it's also a much more mature product (with way better documentation). I'd love to have some new features (multi-window editing would be great, and multi-selections, and support for collapsing regions of text), but on the whole I'm happy with it.
Hey! I'm the other founder of Localfu.

Great question. We've been finding locals a bunch of different ways. A TaskRabbiter suggested we try Craigslist like they did, and that was extremely successful. Locals verify their identity through Stripe on the site, and then we approve them if we like their profile, so we've been able to get some great locals that way. We're also working with local bloggers to reach out to their network, and we've had some success there.

As for the travelers, we're targeting lots of specific groups - football travelers, conference travelers, etc. People we can target.

And we solve the trust equation the same way AirBnb has - reviews, and detailed profiles. We hope the traveler can get a good idea of who they're planning with before they open a plan that way.
Ask HN: Legal Options for a H1B founder to participate in Y Combinator
What are some of the legal hacks for H1B founders to participate in YCombinator program or similar Accelerator/Incubator?

- Both Founders are on H1B.
- Established a LLC (Online forum responses seems divided on whether some on H1B can open a LLC or not. Responses were more inclined toward H1B person legally cannot open LLC, but never the less we decided to jump and create one.)
- LLC is not generating any revenue, very less capital mainly to support server expenses and cannot afford to pay to hire full time employee.
- Willingness to leave the job and work full time on developing the product if got selected for an Accelerator/Incubator program. (Willing to risk it to get the biscuit)

What are some of the legal options to support H1B employee staying in USA and work full time on startup.
(I understand Incubator/Accelerators don't provide enough funding to support H1B, but some should have hacked the legal system and found a way to workaround the system.) Help would be appreciate.
You can't. It's for invited guests only.
The short answer is that I bought the cheapest new car I could find.

The long answer is that I want my big expensive stuff to be simple and easy to maintain. It has a manual transmission, no air conditioning (I could have added it for $2k USD), and crank windows. I was disappointed to find that it has electric locks and lock/unlock buttons on the key. Power assist steering was something I didn't really want either. I wouldn't have paid for a radio if it was optional.

My other car is a '76 VW Beetle (currently undergoing reconstruction). Classic Beetles don't even have radiators.
Always great with more competition, hopefully it will result in better editors for everyone.
I wish someone would make SourceInsight for OSX, it's by far the best editor I've ever used but it's only available for Windows.
Sadly, I don't have hard numbers here. Just going with sources such as this[1]. Basically, the fiction market is growing by about 40% currently. To my (admittedly layman) eyes, that is pretty impressive growth.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/media/e-book-sale...