skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify... AppSumo sold people a WordPress plugin for $49 for one site or $149 for unlimited WordPress sites on Black Friday which offers unlimited giveaways and mailing list integration. AppSumo still offers the standalone WordPress plugin but has also launched a SaaS app that integrates with WordPress as well as other systems. This SaaS app is offered for $0/mo for unlimited giveaways and mailing list integration. They also offer a pro version for $8/mo which adds in the ability to custom brand your offers. This ability to custom brand was not a part of the product you purchased on Black Friday. The publisher is giving one year of access ($96) to this new pro offering to people who had purchased the WordPress plugin.

I'm unclear what the issue is. If you'd like to use the current plugin on WordPress because you like the integration, you can do so. If you'd like to use the new SaaS product on WordPress or any other site, you can do so for free. If you'd like to custom brand, a new offering from this publisher, you get a year of it for free and you can pay to do so after that. Were you expecting the publisher to give you their new offering with a new feature you weren't promised and didn't pay for for free forever?
I've had discussions with people about things I've never searched for or purchased -- discussions around specific companies, and then the same day I start receiving advertisements for those companies, only on Facebook (don't even get Google ones). I have a hard time believing they are re-assembling this from purchase history or any other metadata they have that is not real time. I'm still looking for a simple explanation for this!

Facebook is not a trustworthy company, so I have a hard time believing them about this. But it's why I don't install ANY Facebook applications on my phone anymore and that includes Messenger and Instagram, or any other company they purchase.
Same with my monitor! I've found that what would be the natural axis towards you usually work, at least both on my TV, desktop computer (because of course you have the chassi on the right) and monitor.
I guess what I mean is styles besides gothic (undecorated strokes of even thickness) and those that mimic traditional calligraphy. I see a lot of other forms for Latin scripts, but for Arabic, CJK and Indian scripts most typefaces fall into the above two categories. I might be wrong though, maybe I am just not exposed to a lot of variety. I do find it most notable in mixed script printed text, e.g., Arabic, where the predominant form seems to be Naskh, which looks like calligraphy, and Latin, which typically doesn't look like calligraphy at all. This mix creates an image that looks very uneven to me, similar to when people use too many different typefaces in Latin text. Actually, I am not even sure whether the typographic style is dictated by Naskh, or whether its just the form of writing.
"They are usually morning people" - golfers:

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/are-you-enjoying-daylight-s...

And for the candy industry:

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/an-extra-hour-...
I first heard about Stellar from Patrick's (patio11) Harry Potter post around 3 years ago: Harry Potter And The Cryptocurrency of Stars[1]. I have been following Stellar closely since then and am also running one of the biggest Stellar communities.

It's one of the rear cryptocurrency and "blockchain" technologies that actually make sense to me. They have a simple structure: you are able to issue assets/tokens on the network and you are able to send and trade them for other tokens. I think that this simplicity allowed it to gain a lot of credibility with bigger companies (Stripe, IBM, now Keybase, ...), while other technologies like Bitcoin/Ethereum are getting just more and more complicated with 2nd layer networks and locking up tokens in them. They stayed true to the original ideas without introducing a bunch of buzzwords around them and trying to avoid hype in their announcements[2]:

> Our agreement with Keybase entails many practical Stellar-centric deliverables. Rather than giving out a list now and spinning up yet another crypto hype-cycle, we’ll announce products jointly with them as they’re completed or near completion. We know the Keybase team very well and expect they will create critical Stellar ecosystem components over the coming years.

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/08/05/harry-potter-and-the-cr...
[2] https://www.stellar.org/blog/keybase-and-stellar-partnership...
People are always leaving California, yet every year it gains in total population. As Yogi Berra said, "Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded."
Given keybase is a social product around cryptographic security my bet is on some kind of a social platform where stellar tokens play a big role.
It would probably raise them so little money at their scale it's not worth the trouble, that's why they don't do it.
I was sure the market was going to crash when we bought our home, but external and internal forces made us stop waiting and make the leap. At this point a large correction in the market wouldn’t even put us below our purchase price.
Actually, a pretty significant portion of the luxury development is purchased by non-residents as a place to park their money. This makes up a high percentage of AirBNBs here.
Sad reminders to cherish the moments you have with those you care about because they are fleeting.
The reason I use PayPal is when I use my credit card on small websites I get fraudulent charges and have to get the card replaced. This had happened at least 10-15 times since I've been buying stuff online and it's a huge hassle. Small website security is absolutely pathetic.
Honest and noble intentions to be sure. But the author should have foreseen the consequences, or at least investigated similar services to see how they behave (and what Github and users typically consider acceptable). Greenkeeper.io for example, provides a very similar service for Node.js package dependencies - but it's opt-in, as Github support was quoted as mentioning in the article.

All one needs to do is take a step back and take stock of how many real-life situations we find unsolicited anything acceptable, and the real potential for pitfall would've been clear.
Village in Dharwad district gets modern anganwadi – Times of India
I still see the lack of security features as in iOS a penalty.

I would prefer less eye-candy over a better security. And I hope that more middle-high end phones might profit from the Go edition of Android.

I still find surprising that a few vendors (Maybe only Nokia and Lenovo?) are selling bare-version of Android.
Rubik's robot solves puzzle in 0.38 seconds
> And traditional banking, with its branches and offices and free dog treats, uses even more electricity than Bitcoin.

Isn't this disingenuous, to say the least? First, traditional banking uses more (for now) but also performs orders of magnitude more transactions. I'd be surprised if banking used more per transaction. Secondly, a bank does a lot of things that Bitcoin doesn't even try to do. I can walk into my local bank and get quarters for me laundry, Euros for my trip, a loan for my house, set up a retirement savings account and get advice on what to do with it, request help if I've been defrauded, and probably a lot more I haven't ever considered.
The Pontoon Bridge Being Floated as an NYC Transit Fix
at this point I know kicad and all my custom parts are in kicad. maybe for my next project.
Phones? It's been 10 years since I worked at a company that gave me a desk phone, and it was archaic and useless then. Email is mostly a dumpster fire because of inflexible clients like gmail or outlook with terrible filtering and clumsy rules engines.

At my current company, the main way to reach someone is Hipchat. We have a large percentage of remote workers, so face to face works for some people, but not everyone. You have to be on chat, and you have to be checking it regularly. We still use github, JIRA and confluence for work, but almost everything passes through chat.
> "Qubits will endow quantum computers with the ability to do certain tasks—such as querying a database, factoring large prime numbers..."

Why do people make that mistake so often?
I think that the author is taking away the wrong lesson, because I think they started with some wrong ideas about communication. If you read the GitHub ToS, the relevant policy statement says "excessive automated bulk activity" not just "automated bulk activity". I bet someone complained about them, and I think it happened because they thought it would be bad to make the bot act like a person.

If your bot has output, always make your bot act like a person. That means messaging, and that means timing. Even in the best case, if your bot uses few resources and always perfectly does the right thing, people don't like bots.

> There are four very important things that any automated message needs to do in order to help avoid aggravating people: Be Accurate and Useful, Be Honest/Open about being a bot, Have a mechanism for feedback, Be Friendly

No. God no. There are two important things that you need in a PR: Don't act entitled (op did a great job there) and don't waste my time (op failed hard at this). Everything else is bad. Telling someone that your pull request is coming from a bot only hurts your goal. In the absolute best case, they treat your PR like any other. In many cases, though, knowing that a message was automated will get you instantly reported for spamming regardless of how helpful you were.

> Automated messages should describe themselves as such.

This is off topic and therefore violates the "don't waste my time" principle. It also has a tendency to engage the gag reflex.

> It should be the opening line.

Having multiple lines for something so small violates the "don't waste my time" principle. And definitely don't start your message with something that is off topic.

> announcing it as automated helps explain why they are receiving the pull request

They are receiving the pull request because something is broken and you are fixing it for them.

> Have a mechanism for feedback

They can put feedback on the PR. This violates the "don't waste my time" principle.

> I ended up settling on the following message for the pull requests:...

Holy crapballs that's verbose. This definitely violates the "don't waste my time" principle.
"Fix broken badge by pointing to working URL foo [see: bug_report_link]". Boom. Done. It's easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to approve.

> Note that the last paragraph is only included in the message if the README includes the “download count” badges. I debated working out a system to delete these badges automatically

You should have either skipped them or maybe filed an issue instead. "The download count badge in README is broken because the foo API no longer exists". Not a whole paragraph.

> Do not make automatic unsolicited pull requests.

Most pull requests are unsolicited, and GitHub has an automation API for pull requests, and their ToS doesn't prohibit unsolicited automation, just "excessive" such, so this is probably the wrong takeaway.
For those curious about writing to help deal with tragedy, look into the research by James W Pennebaker. TLDR is it is proven to help.
For European customers, you can make quick friends by offering payment via invoice and wire transfer. E v er y company is equipped to handle that efficiently; if you only offer credit cards, someone needs to get up and find "that guy with the company credit card for AWS".
I've been casually considering: what would the universe look like from a photon's point of view, considering that its entire lifespan is - from its own perspective - instant? Photon views itself as a point, with the totality of everything viewed as a radius from that path.

And great insight on God having a very different perspective of time. That's pretty clear in most theologies, but how it's different is never seriously considered. Only change to your point I'd make is: whatever the actual nature of time, a "tweak" (miracle?) may be made & propagate in a much simpler fashion than our perspective perceives it as (ex.: we see "spooky action at a distance", but God sees it as just changing the state of a singleton).
It has ALWAYS been time to move back to IRC!

(Arghh... I'll probably be downvoted to hell for a flippant, drive-by comment, but what the fuck... We all know that HN hates comedy.)
Got the serverless webhook part. Thanks for the tool and explanation, really easy to follow and a great help for future works!

Just one remark, about indexes.js, you write: "Update name to the name of your index that you set up earlier, and url to yourdomain.com/algola.json, replacing yourdomain.com with your site’s domain."

The protocole has to be included (https://yourdomain.com), not only the domain, it makes sense because the key is "url" but the exemple provided (yourdomain.com) and phrasing suggest otherwise.

Thanks again!
Payara 5 RC1 available for testing
This has been happening for the past decade. Why do you think so many VC/PE firms and incubators have a hard requirement of people relocating to SF/SV?

You'll also find that many investors will very strongly encourage your startup to utilize technology choices (e.g. MongoDB or Docker) that happen to be part of their investment circle.
Considering the fluid nature of social dynamics, there still seems to be a relation there.

>By the time of the outbreak of the civil war in 1983, Sri Lankan suicide rates were already extremely high

Civil wars don't just spontaneously start for no reason. They start because people have been unhappy for a long time.

Notice also that the suicide rate began peaking during the Elam War II phase of the civil war, a time of "unprecedented brutality", and then began declining at the time of the ceasefire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War
Seattle has made a lot of progress in the last 20 years. West Seattle for example, has become pretty crowded with apartments, though, as with with the rest of the city, they are concentrated along transit corridors (West Seattle still chokes on traffic these days, unfortunately).

Rents are definitely weaker than they were a couple of years ago. Maybe no reductions but definitely incentives and a freeze on increases.
Depli JVM monitor v1.1.0 has been released
can wireguard work over tcp?
many captive portals i encounter daily block most ports and almost always allow only tcp. so i set up openvpn on port 443 over tcp, which got through everything so far.
Apple cables have their logo and USB, if I recall correctly, and they always get me confused.
Use fastmail instead of gmail and some alternative search engine that respects your privacy.
Smart Makerspace: A Web Platform Implementation
I think the problem is at a much higher level - why do companies have this motivation.

It's because we've structured our society (in Western Democracies) so that people grow rich if they can trick you in to buying stuff. The better they are at tricking you, the more they earn. The higher the price compared to the cost, the more they earn. The lower the longevity of the goods, the more chance to sell to you again.

Many of the incentives are towards fooling people rather than creating useful goods that enrich society with minimal environmental impact and maximum longevity.

It's unsustainable and leads to powerful (ie rich) people who are incentivised to parasitically feed on poorer people.
WebRecorder is your friend!

https://webrecorder.io

It can capture content such as images and JS and also do offline playback. You can use the web interface or run your own instance https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorder
Uber's Original Pitch Deck
Analysis of the Memcache UDP reflection amplification attacks
Yeah, then you'd be <a href=https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=munsoned>mun...
I've had this discussion with people before. It both sounds good and not depending on the viewpoint. The good is already spoken about in the article - I generate data that a company is in turn using to make money. The analogy I have used before is imagine if I owned land and ate apples on that land. If the apple seeds I spit out grew, I'd have apple trees. It would be bothersome to me if the state came in and sold all the apples the tree grew and I never saw a dime. Refraining from political discussion, I'm upset someone else is profiting off my work. No different than using my uploaded picture to train image processing systems.

Now the bad, how much am I REALLY worth? Online surveys pay out pennies at most for my "opinion". I'm a middle-class, white, male, computer scientist - the market is literally flooded with data from people like me. My data is only worth something if I was, say, a single Hispanic mother or some other niche demographic, and that's only because of their rarity.

Now, this is where the discussion typically leads to science fiction. I think this would be a great use of blockchain currency and let the market drive the value of your data. If there's a shortage of, say, beach pictures (because why not), then you're Instagram data might be of value. Likewise, the GPS locations of an underrepresented demographic is suddenly worth a more because its hard to get that kind of data.

But I think the major issue still falls back to how much its all worth. The article says $20,000, which nicely would support arguments for a living wage. I generate the data that runs the world, so pay me enough to live it in. However, what if the data isn't worth $20k?
Build a Simple Presence Alarm system with email notifications
It's certainly possible using BitlBee - https://www.bitlbee.org/

But as far as I can see nobody has written a Slack-API plugin for it, yet.
Start at https://www.zillow.com/los-angeles-ca/home-values/ and use various zip code queries at the top bar. The year-by-year plot is at the bottom.
I prefer a dedicate app because I can alt-tab through a relatively limited number of apps compared to the dozens of tabs I may have open.

For example, the desktop app will show notification count in the dock.

Imagine if all of your apps had a browser version and you could always pick between a tabbed version vs standalone version. To use the tabbed version of everything would be like using an AOL app back in those days where you alt-tab to the AOL virtual window and then find the app you want within it while wishing you could just use the OS' window manager system.
Rhode Island Wants to Charge You $20 to Watch Free Internet Porn
Prop 13 makes it really expensive to upgrade, so there’s also less mobility from the “modest” range of homes (approximate $1m range imho).
I'm saying that it's something you don't give up if you don't have to - I own my apartment now. Thanks for assuming, though.
Show HN: Tinder Revenue Estimate
Many of them haven't stopped using facebook, but many have uninstalled the app.
I find the term "your data" bothersome. Just because there is a piece of data out there that pertains to you it doesn't make it "your data". Some will contend that the data is only gathered through a violation of your privacy, but I don't agree--in most cases, particularly the big tech companies who clearly spell out in their ToS, privacy policy, etc. what data they're gathering.
I've got Japanese friends who live in the UK for more than 10 years now, and it's more Engrish then English, than anything else. My english sucks by the way.

Maybe this will help you?

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/3/755

http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test4materials/seco...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120328172212.h...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093934X0...

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5vvY2BDWZjEC&pg=PA251&dq...

https://www.justinguitar.com/en/BC-101-CommonQuestions.php
There is nothing wrong with asking for a citation to a relevant work, especially if you explain why the work is relevant. The authors still have no obligation to cite you.

But demanding a citation by posting here, on a link aggregation site, seems more like a self advertisement, and doesn't seem appropriate to me. Who knows if the authors will even see this? Send them an email.
This is a great effect! The resulting image is quite stereoscopic (in an exaggerated way) and you can see the stone structure as clearly in front of the lighthouse as well
Have u made contingencies for one of these PayPal acount blocking disasters ?!

How often do u transfer the money out of the PP ?
AR uses all the power it can get. On-device ML becomes possible and practical. On top of that, the A series processors are also getting more energy efficient, so longer battery life.

I can't believe people are still making "640K should be enough for anyone" arguments after watching decades of waves of innovation crash over them.
So sales are up, and inventory is up, but days on the market is down sharply. It seems reasonable that if houses are going faster then higher bids are being made because you're not going to get a second chance.

Totally unrealistic, and somewhat antithetical to the whole idea of free markets charging what consumers will bear, but this is where Vickrey auctions would be amazing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction
Would this also violate the terms of services to create an issue automatically, to explain what is broken. And include a link in the issue text to automatically create a PR via the bot? Then it would be an opt-in situation. Or is it just frowned upon to even do that?
Why won't keybase address requests for Monero?
As someone from Seattle, I can only say this makes me unhappy, because even more people will want to move from SF to here. We have enough people here, please consider moving to another fair city. :-) Our own media brags about how we are the fastest rising city by price, yet quotes numbers smaller than this, say 19% yoy as of January - http://seattlebubble.com/blog/.
Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology, but isn't a "hedge" something you do to reduce the risk / variance of your investment? If the start-up scene tanked, both your house and your incubator would do less well. Therefore, both markets are correlated and do the opposite of reducing risk.
I'm not a mathematician, so excuse my ignorance, but is it wrong to call it factoring? The definition of a prime number is a number whose only factors are 1 and itself, so you're still factoring the number to see if it fits the definition.
cities aren't tourist destinations, people live and work there. skyrocketing rent just so tourists can frolic is a disservice to the people who live there day-to-day
maybe its time to revive my macOS native slack client MacSlack :) https://twitter.com/harisamin/status/727634194814373889

I've posted about it before here on HN but wasn't sure if there's enough interest
Put 4 class of prices:

- free (with watermark/no cloud storage/whatever restrictions)
- minimum (2-5€/month)
- advanced (10-15/month)
- enterprise (on number of clients)

For sure you can get as much as possible and later you might adjust those classes