skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your article is solid and I am grateful that you wrote it.

And I understand your tone completely.

When a framework is oversold in a major way those who try to use it on real life projects get very frustrated.
A guide to California's water crisis – and why it's so hard to fix
Of course if you conflate logic with just traditional first order logic then all the interesting fruit has been picked.

But there are many logics that can be used to reason about stochastic and probabilistic dynamics.
Aaaah, big data. Lovely.

And this from people who are marketing a visualization product. SMH...
Autocomplete could work the other way around, with "n" finding `∗.news` and `g.news` finding `∗g.news`, after all that `news.google.com` actually starts with `http://`.
Does anyone know the history of technology stacks used by NYT to provide comments? Like HN, the comments are often more insightful than the article:

Transactional revenue

"... Yes, "think of subscribership as membership." But that doesn't mean "in short, get some percentage of the loyal readers of The Times to pay more — some of them a lot more." It means, leveraging the strength of the very real community of loyal readers that the Times has, by building more and more revenue streams from delivering more and more value to members of that community."

Public debate

"... A good place to begin would be with the comments areas, with the goal to transform them from the current depositories of opinion into well moderated forums for dialogue which instead of producing points of view stimulate learning and advancement. Public intellectuals rather than know-it-alls would be the result. That would be different!"

Weekly cultural ritual

"... The Sunday edition of The NYT is different. I peruse this all week while giving my electronic devices a break. I'm older and still enjoy the serendipity of discovery. Yet I rarely look at the A-section. It's old news and I've already digested all - more than likely I have digested it prior to your pages being sent to the printing plant."

"Truth be told, I'd be sad about the disappearance of all but the Sunday edition from print, but more to the point: It's infuriating, and confounding, that the Times insists on undermining its Sunday edition, a cultural institution so important and dear to its readers' hearts."

"... every Sunday morning I would buy the $$$Sunday London Times PAPER, spending all the long day reading it because every article in that preposterously-thick paper was delicious-even the sports section."
Just open it in incognito mode.
I never even thought to apply.

Why? The San Francisco requirement was against my ideals that tech exists everywhere, and that's not how I wanted to build a company.

More so, the stake they required relative to funding was pretty huge.

I would now, to a degree, put YCombinator kind of in the same vein as Shark Tank in outside perceptions - allegedly that show takes 3% of your company whether you get a deal or not. Clearly, advice is offered for either winner, but the deals given out are often not as valuable as the "press" or label in that case.

While a lot of interesting companies have come out of that particular incubator (thanks for the forum, BTW), there's also a lot of business models that I consider on the edge of a bubble, and without the weird investment ecosystem that does exist in the bay area, I don't think many of them would exist. I say this in terms of valuations of what service the business provides to society, and how niche is is, versus "valuations" in the typical investment sense. What is valued is, I don't know, skewed in strange ways.

By all means, if you want to try to create a startup (which I do believe is not for everyone, or even most people), build things your own way if you really believe in the idea. If you can bootstrap things and avoid venture capital entirely, and be your own boss, even better. I'd advise thinking of it as a company from day one, rather than a startup, and don't think of funding as a way to get profitable. That means you'll be free of the venture capitol addiction at a much earlier time, and be in more control of your own destiny.
Typescript isn't a standard though, it's one company's implementation of type-checking for JS. Hopefully, the lessons learned from Typescript, Flow, Dart, etc. will be fed back into the TC39 committee and be used to inform an actual standard for optional types in a future version of EcmaScript.
Yep I worked on one of the other TLD's in that round .coop (I sat next to the technical architect) and .info was obviously in spend lost of cash to get rich quick and not worry about the long term consequences mode.
> SysVinit was a mess.

Not just SysV - every attempt to move beyond BSD-style init has been a mess.

> I wish there was something [lighter|simpler|more portable|more unix] than systemd.

I think the trick with systemd is to realise that it's not unix. But it's something else that's really interesting in its own right.

Init/scheduling is a much more difficult problem than it first appears, and it has always and everywhere been tacked on to its host OS as an afterthought: init scripts, cron, windows services, system v init. All are poor, partial solutions. Yuck.

To fill the void, there has been a proliferation of application containers, each of which does a different 70% of the general problem. All of this stuff could just be done in the platform. And that's what systemd is.

There's going to be two separate camps at the end of this: a group led by the BSD platforms will stick to convenitional unix goals. On the other side, the linux kernel plays second-fiddle to systemd. The systemd service graph is a new operating system tradition.

[New, but not without precedent: in the debian world, the 'apt' package management system has become more significant than the kernel. You can create things that are not linux, but which are still debian. Both systemd and apt use a sophisticated data-graph to contain a difficult problem.]

There are exciting opportunities for developers on a systemd operating system: you'll be able to quickly put together application stacks using microservices in a way that hasn't been practical until now. It /is/ unixy in the sense that it gives the console operator a powerful new general-purpose tool.
The word around here is "if it fits onto a computer you own, it's not 'big data'".

I'd look strangely at anyone claiming "big data" for anything smaller than double digit terabytes.
Brainstorming with Marc Andreessen
>>> Even today, downloading one of the papers would cost a
physician here $45, about half a week’s salary

And if that's not a good reason to end the publication by private journals, I dont know one.
Show HN: ezcf - Directly import JSON/YAML/INI/XML like .py files
The loading time is probably because of the way they are using the ORM:

https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/8953

I guess it also isn't a great approach to do row based filtering using a data frame.
Satisfying a complicated constraint is not much easier than sampling from a "thin" manifold.
Rwanda as well as several other countries in Africa are in a very interesting place right now. Their people are in need of better health services, education and social mobility which can all be enabled by better technology. Combine this fact with the state of tech: it's now easier than ever to launch and scale a service.

Additionally, since smart phones and IT infrastructure are still lagging, developers of all types have a real opportunity to 'softwarize' [1] these countries before they develop legacy, siloed infrastructure that's often seen in the US.

There's so much low hanging fruit that we can pick off to improve and I'd encourage anyone here to do so.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-41016
I had the chance to briefly see the transformation going on in Rwanda last year first hand. It genuinely blew me away. If they can manage to keep the political / security situation in check over the next few years (which according to those I spoke with living there full time is far from a given) then they are on track to be one of the most amazing stories to come out of Africa I think.
It might - and it might not. Can go both ways.

If you have a natural co-founder, someone who developed an idea with you, and you trust deeply, great. (If it's a close friend, you might be losing that friend eventually, though, but I think I'd prefer someone in friend territory).

If you are going to be doing sales/fund-raising versus having the money come to you, it can be very hard to do all of that. But I don't believe in the idea that it can't be done either - especially if it's a website where somebody can sign up and pay, and you don't need sales - and ideally can avoid fundraising.

Anyway, if you don't immediately have a perfect idea for who a "co-founder" should be, consider whether you want one. I think it's a phrase that gets thrown around a lot, perhaps a bit too lightly. I wish they were really just called "founders" really - and if you had an idea, the person you brought on later is "help", not the founder. Consider granting significantly less equity and keeping your control.

If not, realize that this relationship is a lot like marriage, and you're much less likely to be in love with this person, and probably will see them more. A co-founder is not something to be simply go out and "got".

You will probably need lots of help, but "co-founder" just isn't something to be given away casually. Hire the help you need, sure.
Similar project, ideal for image-based paginated content: https://github.com/lisezmoi/lightbulb
Demo: http://catgifpage.com/
Shirky's post in 2009 was one of those great clarion calls. Failure is always an option (and not the kind you learn from and pivot off of).

Noting that newspapers aren't necessary (but journalism is) is great, but the problem is that a lot of (most?) journalism is still done in newspapers... and the way the media is currently breaking up, where companies like the Tribune Company and Gannett are splitting their television holdings from their newspapers means that journalism and newspapers may not be inherently tied together... but when it comes down to it, they are still for all practical intents and purposes tightly coupled.

Web based news orgs like Vox, Fusion, Gawker and Buzzfeed are making some moves towards funding journalism (Buzzfeed in particular has great investigative reporters), but they are way too few in number to replace newspapers as a home for investigative journalism even as the industry stands today in its depleted state.
On the rapid computation of various polylogarithmic constants (1997) [pdf]
We (my partner and I) subscribe to the Sunday only print edition, which gives us digital access. We shouldn't really be considered "print subscribers" in a traditional sense. 90% of the time we scan the magazine and maybe read one article in the paper. Then straight to the recycle. The majority of our consumption, and engagement with ads, happens throughout the week as we share a single digital account. The physical paper is more of a souvenir, or possibly a house decoration, than a means of engaging with the stories in the paper.
So you got rejected? Good
1. Now you know you KNOW you're on your own!
2. Next time you apply you will know that accelarator is not THE CHANCE to get to where you wonna be. Its just a SHORTCUT that you can take, or NOT.

Lately I have that feeling that people tend to approach accelerators like they approach Santa:
"Dear Santa, I have been a flibustier all my life, and I have a bright idea, and I am really really smart. So please help me get my dreams come true..." Does not work.

If you THINK your idea is something that has to be done.

Just go for it. Make it your mission and do whatever it takes to accomplish it. Once I met those guys from UK in Siberia riding their bikes. I asked em WTF? Well, they told me,
they are on a mission to go around the globe on bikes.. Why? They had no clue, I had no idea, but they have done it. (Find em "tough miles") Thats what a start up is, it may be even tougher.

(thats actually SCARY. Coz you will NOT have support from your friends, family, spouse and any reasonable person (they'll think you're nuts)).

IF you do it anyway, sometime you'll KNOW it works (coz you have clients and revenue and the growth). Then YOU decide if you want to take the SHORTCUT or not.

Hope that helps. Listen to Iron Maiden - The Trooper. There is always a chance.

Sincerely, Mike

PS: I will just go on painting Cathedrals to get the funding. Incorporte in HK. And launch our mob.app for the guys like us in July 2015:)
Apple Watch could make you a walking weather station
Here's a question: How much money goes in to hardcore investigative journalism?
Debian release bug status
Do you have analytics on if anyone checked your demo?

Not a lot of people would have the analytics in place, but it would be interesting to further correlate results with YC demo testing patterns to get a more complete picture of the admissions funnel.
Try the BOOC: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-models
And then there's the matter of infrastructure, quite a few of those machines assume a readily available supply of fuel, electricity or hard to get substances such as oil for lubrication and other raw materials such as bar stock, rolled sheet and so on.

If anything the 'reboot' would simply re-use or salvage that what was left over from the aftermath of whatever did us in in the first place, it's a lot easier to fix an old jeep than to make a new one and it will still outperform a horse when doing tractor duty.
Your points about companies splitting TV from newspaper, makes me wonder if we'll ever see a periodical journalism outfit grown out of a streaming provider like Netflix or Amazon Prime.

`Netflix premiers Vice News Nightly`
I wonder if there is any data on the fixed costs of newspaper production - digital or not? That is how much do they spend getting words to the bifurcation point - where the words could go to a printing press or to a web server?

That seems to me to be the important part. The words and knowledge of the NYT is the important bit - whether I read them on paper or screen seems less important.

And if they cannot afford to produce good words for a subscription only clientele, perhaps they need to find ways to monetise "influence". Pay us and we will keep influencing politicans on your behalf - essentially expand lobbying out past the proprietors.
I know that in an effort to provide SDK's for their services, they have also produced some greate high quality supporting Libraries.

Guzzle, an http library for PHP came out of their PHP SDK: https://github.com/mtdowling is the author, and participates in the php framework interop group on behalf of Guzzle.
I like the notifications grouped by app, it lets me scan and clear an entire app in one go, vs clearing each individual line. Less labour, less friction, more likely that I'll use notifications.

I've ordered the apps to show the app on top which I'm expecting important info from.

Tbh, I've almost all notifications off as well, my default for almost any new app asking to notify me is DENY.

In app choices of which sort of notifications you'd like to receive would be great, whether in the app itself or in system settings.app in the apps settings (ideally they would reflect). But failing that, it's mostly off except for anything that is actually important, then ordered by app importance.
At that point, is think typescript should basically become the official next version of javascript (with the added modification to have things like import work in a browser).

That would save everybody time. Imagine google, facebook and microsoft agreeing on that, and i think it wouldn't take more than 6 months to see it working in chrome, internet explorer and all the other major browsers would follow.

With the new microsoft, and now facebook and google talking to each others, this is the first time something like this could actually become a reality.
Coming Soon: Interplanetary Broadband
No, the squatters have just moved to the .tld level where they can extract even more value. That's what this entire article was about.
The UK managed to mess up the TSR-2 all by itself [1].

[1] http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Research/RAF-Historica...
> Is that really true though?

Yes, it really is. The chairman of the Royal Dutch Library paid a pretty expensive lawyer for a reasonably long amount of time to get this figured out once and for all, the rights did not automatically transfer from the author to the publisher so technically they still lie with the author or in applicable cases with their estate.
The REAL promise of deep links
You think that amazons competitors would not use this sort of attack hint the walmarts and supermarkets of this world have along record of being ultra aggressive ask any Farmer about how suppliers are bulled.
I'm waiting for the killer e-ink devices. I love my reader and am anticipating it's evolution will eventually make it a staple for most adult millennials. Once that thing is crystal clear, fast, cheap (and perhaps can be folded in half), I find it hard to believe it won't rejuvenate the newspaper market.
As originally submitted:

Yes, We Were Warned About Ebola,
but It Was Behind a Paywall
DC spends 30k a student and 83% can't read properly.
better e-ink devices won't fix the problem that the internet has completely changed the advertising market and how brands reach consumers.

It's hard to see what newspapers could do to get the same returns per unit sold or page viewed as they have historically. And that means a couple possible things: readers bear more of the cost, advertisements get more intrusive (or crazier), or newspapers find some other way to make money.
What ever happened to educating people vs just lashing out and punishing? There was a great teaching moment there (as well as learning moment for the staff).
Tell HN: Hacker News Is a Tool of the Devil
One reason I read HN so much is that so many of the linked articles and essays are so helpful in my work and in my life, as are the followup discussions here.

However there are so very many of them that were I even to attempt to keep up, I'd never get any sleep, let alone get any work done.

It doesn't really work for me only to read the front page, because I find so many of the less-popular articles helpful. My present work focusses largely on how to write source that makes better use of the data cache. There are many who write about that kind of thing but they tend - unfortunately - to work in security.

If I were to read, let alone reply to all the HN articles that I find rewarding to read, surely I would perish before the year is out.

What do I do?

Help my Y Combinator, you're my only hope!
Russia just made a ton of Internet memes illegal
I have heard both good and bad things about Flipkart, the obvious Amazon competitor in India, but something that makes them quite attractive to me is their healthy open source portfolio https://github.com/Flipkart
From what I have heard from people working at the place is that it isnt any well thought out strategic decision to attract developers, just something that felt right to them because they use quite a bit of open source stuff. If anyone knows more I will be quite interested to learn.
How do I know what to look for in a technical cofounder
I'm non-technical with an idea, and want to develop a product similar to Magic (W15 batch). I want to post an add to look for a developer on websites like Elance but don't know what specific skills to request. It seems like a straightforward backend so I'm hoping that someone good could do this fairly easily.

Any tips on what I should be asking for?
For a lot of companies that is a lot of data, yes. Maybe not big data, but the term is relative so if a business sits on 1000 times as much data as they have played with before, is it that unreasonable for them to say it is big data?
Second this.

I'm a single founder of a medical devices startup looking for a co-founder. It is very hard as a single founder to keep all the plates spinning, not impossible, just hard. There is enough risk in what we are doing, so finding a co-founder is, in my opinion, a sensible way to reduce risk.

However, for me, its also the ability to talk things through, bounce things off each other and, in the tough times, keep each other going. I'm sure others will agree that it can be incredibly lonely and isolating at times running a startup. From personal experience, there are some pretty low moments and times when you have no idea what the right path to take is. Having another person there, who is equally committed to building an amazing company, is a major plus and thats why I'm putting a lot of time into doing that right now.

The flip side though is having the wrong co-founder. Again, I have experienced this and its debilitating and led to the end of friendships.

PS: As mentioned, looking for a co-founder with skills in machine learning, AI and bio-informatics ;) Contact details on profile.
tl,dr: its a campaign where you enter name and email and hit a button that pops up your email program filling in an email to the chairman of TRAI to support net neutrality in India.
India needs net neutrality. An 1885 act surely can't be used as an argument to make faster lanes on the open internet.
ummm ok
Very cool implementation. We are looking at real time AR video filtering using this implementation:

http://www.learnopencv.com/non-photorealistic-rendering-usin...
Stronglifts is also great because they have a very good app, which was so helpful for me in keeping consistent, which is the most important part of training I had difficulty with.
Most successful tech companies in the world have atleast 2 co-founders,Look even at the company in the World that most founders draw inspiration from(Facebook)..It had technically 5 Co-Founders..A start up is too much work for a single founder,you need to Find people who complement
Official website: https://elementary.io
Well, if AngularJS 2.x is made of modular components as the team says one could be able to ditch Angular view layer and swap it with React.Angular got dependency injection right that allowed easy communication between multiple components. If they plan to ditch scopes and the digest cycle then there would be no relationship whatsoever between directives and injection. The only difference between Angular view layer and React would be the use of Typesript for the former and JSX for the later.

> It's as if ReactNative is being treated (strategically) as a more powerful version of PhoneGap.

ReactNative is like Titanium/Alloy. It uses native components to render views, not the DOM. So it has nothing to do with Phonegap except for the use of javascript.
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I'm not even applying for VC.

It's hard sometimes, when I hear about some guy getting millions of dollars for some idea that I once thought of, but the reason I don't pursue VC is that my actual experience with it leads me to be skeptical that it actually works.

Sometimes the VCs want to exercise control over the day to day operations of the company, then they demand the company do really stupid things that leads to it going out of business.

I'm not so sure it's such a good thing for a company to be publicly traded. Your "investors" at the IPO might not have any longer-term interest in the success of your company then the next millisecond, this because the reason we really DO need to Occupy Wall Street is the popularity of Sub-Millisecond Precision High Speed Trading.

I worked for an electronic medical records startup in 1996. We were one of the very first. Our product was not meant to go online IN ANY WAY. While we were a client-server shop, the server was intended to be in the same hospital as all the clients.

Even so, one of our VCs popped by the office one day to ask what our "Internet Strategy" was.

This had the eventual result that "KnowMed Systems" changed its name to "iKnowMed".

-- Misha