skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the best case I think that's possible, but in the usual case someone who leaves a PhD program after a year does very little research. US-style PhDs don't typically require a master's degree first, so first-year PhD students are doing mainly course work and "figure out what I want to do for my PhD" project-shopping. If you do that for a year and bail, it's pretty common that you wrote zero papers and did very little research. If you leave after two or three years, it's more likely you will leave some kind of research contribution, although it's also pretty common for people who realize they are going to leave to just "pivot" to full-time MSc coursework, so they can leave the program with a master's degree. In that case, the NSF basically funded someone to take MSc courses, which is arguably not useless, but isn't what the NSF intends to fund.

I think with this amount of money it's just a risk of funding people. Putting in strings requiring repayment if the person changes areas, when you're giving someone <$100k, is pretty heavyweight for either the NSF or Y Combinator, so they just try to pre-screen for people they think are going to use the money as intended and stick with it, and accept that some percentage of people will instead use the money to flail around for a year or two and leave. If the percentage gets too high, then I guess reconsider the screening process.
Problem
there is a red question mark on the hand next to my name that shows my rank. the hand has an X instead of a number and i cant do anything except move around. i'm stuck in a small world with nothing to do! I have already emailed the Manyland address so please dont tell me to do that. If anyone can help that'd be great!
https://github.com/resonantcore/lib/blob/master/js/diceware/...

https://github.com/resonantcore/lib/blob/master/demo/dicewar...

Run this locally, e.g.

dw = new Diceware();
dw.load("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/resonantcore/lib/master/js/diceware/diceware.wordlist.asc", function() {
console.log("Diceware loaded!");
});

console.log(dw.getWords(8).join(' '));
Its probablly ok if you live in Norway and your not poor and have a good credit rating, other wise your going to have to go with a prepaid solution that is full of transaction costs. The same with traveling to these countries.

At DEFCON last year I took two bank cards, that I had loaded with funds...big mistake transactions for ATMS and using POS systems were very high.

I don't think this is a good idea if you are forced to go with a card to go with everyday transactions.
This brings up some good (and bad) memories from past hobbies. Back in the day when 1080p was the new rage, I remember getting immersed in one of these DIY projector projects. For anyone looking into it - this was the site to get parts from:

http://diyprojectorkits.com/store/

They built a box 100 times better than I would hoped to have. Plus, I believe I got my lenses from there as well.
Going cashless smacks of dystopianism. We seem to presume that anyone "off the books" is up to no good. Some are up to no good, but many are simply trying to survive.

Perhaps I'd think differently if we had no unemployment.
Thanks for putting this out there. It takes guts and self awareness to write something like this.
The paper is about entanglement, which is not "a single particle that exists in two places at the same time."

By definition quantum entanglement "occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact."

[Quantum entanglement](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement)

> To summarize, we have shown that entanglement can affect the gravitational field. This suggests that entanglement “has a weight”. The perturbations in the gravitational field depend on the amount of entanglement and vanish for vanishing quantum correlations. The effects studied in this work decay with a time scale proportional to the characteristic “size” of the particle. Furthermore, the contributions to the metric are relevant only if particle positions are not extremely larger than this characteristic size. A prospective theory of quantum gravity must be able to account for this phenomenon and explain its origin.

[On the weight of entanglement](http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.4007v1.pdf)
But we don't know that. It could be exactly the same. That's why I suggested you link to an article about all the new updates and your vision next. That's what everyone usually does and it gets a better reception over on HN.

"Show HN" is really not for this sort of thing.

I have never seen this before btw, I really love it. Planning on using it :-)
We at spatch.co are strong believers in decentralized protocols. Email is currently the "best" we have for decentralized communication and collaboration. We are trying to change that by building a modern decentralized collaboration platform.

We don't have anything open source yet but we hope to start opening up code and specs to the community soon.

Our website is unfortunately out of date, it makes Spatch look like too much of an app (what's shown is a prototype we've built to show off some use cases). We will be updating it soon along with a jobs page.

We are well funded and hiring, based in London.
Also used extensively, and to great effect, in Godel, Escher, Bach.
On Building Products Like CrossFit and HackReactor, Not 24 Hour Fitness and Coursera
Success can also be short term growth and being bought by a larger company, in this industry.
The Big Ideas Project
"Our society should have room for both vocational schools and big-picture-intellectualism schools."

Moreover, it should be reasonable for someone to attend both.
The only bike I've had stolen was a $600 hybrid that I bought when I first moved to Boston. I parked it in the same place every day the entire summer at a T station. Cops found shattered pieces from my U-lock and told me the thief used liquid nitrogen.
From my former department: http://www.maia.ub.es/dsg/nbody.html
I believe the trend in the nordics is largely driven by the Dankort and similar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankort) which is a debit card that is free to get and use for consumers. Merchants pay an annual fee depending on their transaction volume and they are not allowed to pass the cost on to the consumer. It doubles as a VISA which is neat when we go abroad.

An interesting data point is that every single taxis here is happy to take your credit card. I was surprised to learn that I was unable to pay with my VISA in many taxis in the UK and USA.
> The fully loaded market rate for "two guys who seem pretty smart" in Silicon Valley is somewhere between $200,000 to $300,000 per year

Each
I haven't had this experience at least. I get about 7 hours if I'm doing light web browsing, and about 3.5 if I'm working (Xcode + Parallels running Win7 which is running CodeComposer).
First gen MBPr.
There are ways around it: using the code for the key directly north-west of the problematic character, and if that's a bad character go further, maybe wrap around, or try to follow through the problem character (a/& -> &/| -> |/f, thus f would be the code for a) etc.

As for remembering which sites have what restrictions, I can keep that stuff in my head (looking at you Microsoft), but I guess you may have more accounts than me. Then again, when a password fails, then all you'd have to do is retry with a safer version (and maybe only have two password kinds, for convenience - full-blown char support, and minimalistic lowercase-letters only, so you'd only have to retry a single time after the first failed login).

Personally, my biggest problem with this card is that it doesn't provide enough value.
Show HN: What will you achieve in a year? Set a goal, get reminders every month
Yes, pretty much, for a bike you care about that is. In my case it was key to my profession. I made money bike racing & being without my bike was simply not an option, so it was always with me or in my apartment. Yes, if you live in a dorm maybe my model would be an issue, but then again if you live in a dorm it might not be a good idea to have a bike you care about. And yeah, when I'd go to a nightclub or somewhere I couldn't take my bike I'd get a ride from someone and leave it in my apartment. The key here is that if you care about a bike that you don't want stolen, don't leave it somewhere to get stolen.
I always get tenaciously grimey hands whenever I put my wheels on and off.
Framework Bound
> review lots of locks

> end up suggesting one that is flawed anyway.
Because it's so easy to misunderstand a problem. If it's a problem you're having yourself, you'll likely notice pretty quickly when you're solving it in the wrong way (or not all, merely thinking you are solving it).
PhD student working on the C4 rice project here. On the road right now but happy to answer questions when I can find a moment.

I genuinely think C4 rice the best shot we've got at alleviating a huge chunk of world hunger in one (extremely difficult) move.

Some key points:

- C4 plants (like maize and sugarcane) are generally about 50% more efficient at biomass accumulation than C3 plants (like rice and wheat). C4 rice could mean a yield increase for rice of up to 50% _with no increase in inputs_

- RuBisCO is by far the most abundant protein in plants. It accounts for the majority of the nitrogen required by C3 plants, and the inefficiency of C3 is the reason we have to use so much nitrogen fertiliser. C4 rice would require considerably less fertiliser than C3 rice.

- C4 plants use CO2 much more efficiently that C3 plants. This allows them to keep their stomata closed much more of the time, so they lose less water through transpiration. This makes C4 plants much more water efficient - C4 rice could require much less water than C3 rice, meaning it could be grown on land that is currently unsuitable for rice production.

- C4 is probably the most interesting example of convergent evolution we know about. It has evolved over 70 times independently. This is quite amazing - it's a complex trait that requires dozens of proteins to be organised in a particular temporal and spatial pattern, and needs a new cell type to be made. Yet it has evolved 70+ times.

- We are using the recurrent evolution pattern as our 'way in' to the problem of figuring out how to control C4 at the molecular level. We analyse gene expression on a massive scale in C4 and C3 sister species from all the evolutionary origins of the trait.

- This involves a lot of interesting software challenges that hn might be interested in. For example, we're working with so many species that we can't sequence all their genomes. But we can sequence their _transcriptomes_, which is all the genes that are expressed at a given time. The sequencing technology produces millions of tiny fragments of the original sequences, which have to be pieced back together to be useful (an NP-hard problem).
Debit cards are the norm here in Norway. I pay 275 NOK/year for mine, with zero transaction fees on everyday usage.
The move to cashless transactions in Sweden is helped by the various immigrant gangs robbing bus drivers and stores. And the state is quick to "solve" the problem in a way that ensures that all transactions can be monitored by ... agencies.
..."professional hoop-jumper" ...He means being a kid?

There's a self-importance and arrogance to all of this that really comes through from this type of rhetor. I think the imposter syndrome might not be that much of a syndrome in the case of far too many startup teams sadly.
Interesting Invention: A Food-scanner That Fits in Your Pocket
The page is confusing. Here is an example https://github.com/stevedekorte/io/blob/master/samples/misc/...

How to make better landing page -> http://www.rust-lang.org/
No lock is perfect. You just need a lock that is better than the next guy's...
Because it's mostly just to sell their Microsoft Surface clone: http://www.jide.com/en/desktop/ultra_tablet.html
I think OneNote is an example of a good decentralised system. You get a multiuser wiki that only needs a shared folder to save. It is installed alongside MS Office and can be setup without any involvement from IT staff. It is several orders of magnitude easier than installing MediaWiki and needs no big internet connection.

It is a big lie to believe that multi-user applications always need infrastructure, they just need to be well designed. I expect that a very large OneNote system may need professional support at some point. But when it does the value is already proven without ever having to ask permission from an engineer.

You are right to be sceptical of cloud although perhaps for different reasons. Amazon S3 is probably more secure and resilient than the typical corporate SAN. But the random office in some small town will not have enough bandwidth to use it. To the average user the corporate run services are exactly like the cloud; they are slow and not designed for them. With properly design P2P systems normal users could actually choose their own tech again.
CURL – Changes 7.40.0 – January 8 2015
This is slightly off topic, but why aren't folding bikes or scooters more popular? Their folding mechanism allows you to take them with you which would presumably prevent theft more than a lock. If a bike lock is the only thing that's keeping your bike from being stolen it doesn't seem like it'll work more than it just delays the inevitable.

Plus aren't locks really inconvenient to carry around with you? 10+ pounds is a lot when your bike is only 20lbs.
Nature article about the paper: http://www.nature.com/news/game-theorists-crack-poker-1.1668...
I wonder if now the governments there consider people using cash "suspicious", just like the US gov considers not having a Facebook account suspicious, or how the Spanish Court in a recent case considered encrypting your e-mail end to end as "suspicious".
This is just further proof of how broken the system is.

The DMCA notices are to take down Google search results. These results are not the infringement (the search page is not displaying copyrighted data, just linking to a site that does) and the site with the infringing content is still there.

This flaw means that correct DMCA notices, even when acted upon, will contain links to infringing material that is still up because the notice is not to take down the infringing material, just links to it.

Normally correct notices should be fine to display and index after they've been acted upon because the content is gone and similarly incorrect ones should be fine to display because the content is not infringing.

The very premise of Google removing search results is flawed and results in this sillyness.
Why should you take Vit K with your Vit D?
If some manufacturer made a laptop docking station with a full length PCI slot and a fat power supply I'd just throw money at them. It would completely remove my desire to keep building big powerful gaming/development rigs. Laptop CPU:s are already powerful enough for gaming these days, but video cards will stay at several hundred watts.

I'm not exactly sure why thunderbolt has to be involved if it has licensing issues? Couldn't a laptop maker make their own interface for transmitting PCIe to through a docking connector?

EDIT: spelling
brazil is a joke. 80 to 300% import taxes on anything with electronics (everything made after the 80s)

there are exceptions if any step of production is done in the country, which causes all large companies to buy a small warehouse with some 5 employees (usually in tax free hellhole of manaus), and all they do is assemble the last two screws on the case. That works even for automobiles which has the highest import fees. harley has a factory where they literary just bolt the top cover of the engine and its enought to qualify as "made in manaus"

it is a travesty that only serves the big corporations. That plus income disparity causes fun things, such as a PS4 during christmas there costing US$2k (R$6k)
Success is the most loosely defined, illogical concept in the startup world. When your friends are raising big rounds, you think they are successful, even though most of them won't survive beyond the runway that round gives them (esp. at that stage).

Yet the media and the community celebrates founders for all sorts of things and call it "success" when it's not. So yes, it's incredibly vague, and the existence of an accounting formula means nothing in the founder psyche.
there exist people who don't race professionally who care about their bikes (but not to the same extent that you do)
Interesting! Thank you for that info, I was very curious to know how that happened and didn't get a chance to ask our assistant about it yet, just assumed that she'd worked some of her usual magic! :-)
No, he didn't. Elon Musk paid a fortune to get experts to design a car for him. He did the opposite of what this thread is debating.
One nice thing is that this appears to be unpolluted by the larger affects of flag abuse and give what the user base at large thinks is interesting enough unfiltered.
No Protection Against 4th Amendment Violations Due to Police Mistakes
I don't like how the keyboard appears stretched with really wide keys on large screens.

Could the keyboard perhaps zoom/stretch horizontally to the user's desired width and key-size?
Amazon datacenter under construction catches fire
The language is a tool, not an objective. My suggestion would be to take a project you've already built in JavaScript and rewrite it in Io (another prototype-based language), because it will teach you to separate the problem from the solution.

Beyond that, find a problem, fall in love with it, become obsessed by it, and look for ways to solve it.
Johnny Mnemonic's Secret Door
SpaceX rocket nails launch but narrowly misses landing test
Here in Brazil I almost don't use cash. The credit card is accepted everywhere, even by the beach's vendor.
I was a freak about keeping my bike clean & always used wax instead of oil on the chain. Sometimes grime was unavoidable like when it was raining so I carried a moist towel in a ziplock bag in my backpack. I also had a chain clip on the rear stay so it wouldn't flop around and brush into things. When removing a wheel the key is to hold the spokes, not the tire and rim. Spokes should mostly always be clean with a bit of maintenance - they don't need oiled after all. On my set of Mavic wheels that was somewhat dangerous since they had oval spokes which were a bit sharp. I did cut myself on them a few times.
Your approach requires a large up-front investment, especially for a student. Lugging a heavy frame around isn't practical, and many would find it hard to justify $2,700 for a carbon-fibre bike; I struggled to scrape together £280 for a bike this Christmas (the cheapest aluminium one I found).

Whilst it's sensible to keep them indoors at home, that's no guarantee; I've had a bike stolen from inside my house.

My bikes seem to last ~1.5 years, so I chose new bike under that assumption. For your bike's $2,700 I can get ~6 of my current bike, or about 9 years worth.
Maybe it is a mild paranoia attack kicking in, but I find the trend to a cashless society very troublesome. I'm doing all I can to avoid being tracked on the web, using AdBlock and Ghostery, among other things, yet the privacy implications of going cashless I'm rarely considering. Cash is anonymous; cards are perfect trackers.

Both your tracks and your most intimate preferences on the web and in real life are perfectly transparent to anyone with access to the transaction database. And I have no idea what kind of protections there are against governmental access to these databases. It is weird that the privacy implications of cashless are so rarely discussed - everyone just seems to be touting the great benefits of cashless all the time.
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"they are not allowed to pass the cost on to the consumer"

Haha, that's funny. The merchant's whole income is from the customer, there's no way not to pass it on to the customer, just to conceal better the fact that they're passing it on.
Previous Discusssion(s):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8858280

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860508
Show HN: I Hate Angular
Now Browser, a fast and lightweight app for the mobile era
CS degree from Stanford == clout in the startup community
I don't actually mind them selling their hardware, just make the OS freely downloadable and installable on any hardware, just like we do Linux distributions now.
From a strict biz point of view, the flaw is in the accelerator/startup model.

If you have a viable business idea, you can make money from it almost from day one. There are plenty of people who run side businesses and do a day job too.

You only need a huge sum of investment cash if you need to pay yourself and/or a dev team a ton of money to build a massive working prototype and do some marketing.

So what is YC actually for? How much of the chumminess and support offered by getting into YC is mission critical?

If you can't answer that question, don't apply. And I'd suggest that you don't know enough to answer that question until you've built a prototype small business that runs successfully - not just a GitHub account with shiny code happening that might somehow be business related, perhaps, but a business with paying customers that makes more than it costs to run.

If you need to spend five weeks writing code, you may as well expand that to half a year of less intense and more considered part-time work, bypass the drama, and see how well your business idea does on objective terms in the real world.

You won't get feted as one of the elite entrepreneur class, but you'll learn a hell of lot more about business, customers, and yourself than you will by spending a fortune on moving to SF and hanging out with the cool kids.

Bottom line is that if you don't have the stamina to go it alone, you probably won't do so well with funding anyway.
I had hoped it would somehow make it more dangerous for the thief or render the bike useless. The suggested model isn't going to do much but send the thief down to the next unsecured bike, which means if everybody does it we are no better of.
For readers who are afraid to start such a huge amount of books and for Discworld readers who haven't read them yet, please have a look to
The Carpet People (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpet_People)
and The Nome Trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nome_Trilogy)

They are listed as "children's novels"(1) on WP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett) but they are in my opinion even better than some of Discworld books

(1)English is not my first language and for some reason, "'s" sounds wrong to me, I would have only used a "'" but since WP use it, I guess it is indeed correct?
These others have been around for ages. And, they are free.

http://www.passwordcard.org/en
Many algae already use a carbon concentrating mechanism [0] similar to C4. It works in a similar way, by concentrating CO2 around RuBisCO, the key enzyme that creates sugar from CO2. In C4 plants, the RuBisCO is kept in a wax-enclosed cell, and the CO2 is pumped in. In algae, which are single-celled, the RuBisCO aggregates together into a bubble-like structure called a pyrenoid [1], and a high CO2 concentration is maintained inside.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis#Carbon_concentra...

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenoid