skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, Golbach's conjecture has been verified up from 5 to 4000000000000000000 computationally.

But in general, it's common for mathematicians to assume a conjecture is true and go on from there, because if they arrive at a contradiction, then they can conclude the conjecture false (or that another interesting fact may be logically equivalent to the conjecture).

Pure mathematics consists entirely of such assertions as that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true…. Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- Bertrand Russell
People still use Skype? Some never learn.
Yeah about that, giving some severe tire damage to a truck isn't the best way to bring it to a safe halt.
It doesn't do the site any good if it gets this sort of publicity, and clearly its doesn't do the user much good.

Not a day goes past with out some poor user being booted from a website for reasons which are either misunderstood, unknown or unreasonable. So many sites mean a lot to many many people, and to be arbitrarily booted is quite an awful experience, especially if it seems unreasonable or plain wrong. It seems unjust that the issues are decided at the whim of the site, and are often not reversed. Too often the people working for these sites wont back down for silly ego reasons, they make a simple mistake and don't want to admit it, and it is very hard to break past that. There is too often no way back either.

I would like to see some sort of independent arbitration process for this sort of thing. Quite how that would work, I dont know, but there has to be some fair and consistent way to resolve these issues. Right now, it seems the only way a user can solve a problem is to make as much noise as possible to almost bully the website in to taking them back. But in the end, that isn't a "happy" resolution.
When I was in Gibraltar (a tiny tip of land at the south end of Spain under part British rule) there were no homeless people to be seen, despite some of the nicest weather in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar (I recommend visiting, it's a fascinating place).
You know, I haven't worked on that much software, and I've run into situations I at first thought impossible often enough that your comment just makes me laugh. :P

Unlikely? Surprising? Insane? Sure. But never call something impossible unless you can not only write down a formal proof for it but also verify your assumptions.
Discussion from a few months back on "how Bitcoin dies": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5109961
This is awesome. Really intuitive UI. You've really boiled the workflow down to the bare minimum. Great work.
Thrifty Shop by 500 Startups (Parody of Macklemore's Thrift Shop)
IMO you're either right on that it's just about the bragging rights, or the person who bought the meeting once had a youthful crush on Apple. I've been known to do things that make very little sense as a "gift" to boyhood me.
Only for one hour a day; they're closed the rest of the time.
For Google Voice, you prepay. After that, it debits from the prepaid amount per minute. That is, at least in theory. Most of it's free except for long distance and perhaps some other features, so I've never paid for it. I got some free money for being part of the beta that's gone untouched.
I use a static site generator (docpad) and deploy to github pages. I've had bad experiences with both, so I'm looking for alternatives. I have my own servers, but somehow I assumed for a homepage gh-pages would be best. I was wrong.
Oh yay, a class action lawsuit. I'll be sure to thorougly enjoy the $0.17 iTunes gift card that we'll get as a "settlement", while some class action lawyers split ~$2M in fees. Seems fair to me.
The dynamic you are describing captures probably the majority of all the pitches investors hear. Everyone thinks they can "recoup" within X days of spending on sales, marketing, and support. The reason to do it one city at a time is that it allows you to demonstrate two things: (a) that your model actually does work, unlike the 1000 competing pitches that claim the same thing but don't work at all, and (b) that you don't actually need their investment, which gives you leverage in your negotiation and, counterintuitively, makes you a more attractive investment.
Because that first step of USD(cash) -> Swiss Franc has to go through a bank and/or Forex exchange which has to follow U.S. anti-money laundering regulations. If you attempt to place a large amount of cash into a bank or forex account you will have a lot of paperwork to fill out to reasonably prove that it isn't illegitimately gained money.

Whether those regulations are actually effective is questionable (see HSBC, BoA, etc.), but that's the rationale.
A BUNCH of small businesses with physical storefronts I frequent locally already use an iPad or iPhone with square as their PoS.

They do this DESPITE the inconvenience of using the standard plug-in square reader. DESPITE the technological know-how and inconvenience needed to hook up a receipt printer (they will email receipt to you ONLY, some customers don't like this, too bad).

Despite all those downsides, they do it cause Square's 2.9% is less than they get charged from other processors; and a typical PoS system costs so much more and is STILL crappy. They do it despite the other inconveniences.

So this is part of Square recognizing that they are in fact a hair's breadth away from taking over the small business physical storefront PoS market too, they just need to smooth down a few more edges.
Numbers for good or worst? They help A LOT fighting fraud. I think a good solution could be implementing it on Stripe.js.
This is the thing that gives me a bad feeling about Kickstarter. It seems like the site and its project creators are preying on those who are willing to lay down money based on hype without being adequately compensated for the amount of risk they're shouldering.
"The developer should have done X!", well, then why doesn't Go just do it by default instead of choosing an approach which has been discarded by pretty much every other modern language/ecosystem?

I think the fact that every Go proponent attacks the developer of the game is one thing which keeps me from using Go. The community seems to be incredibly closed-minded and hostile.
You can always sell to individuals on localbitcoins or whatever
Productivity Placebos
Just one example: Manas Air Base base in Kyrgyzstan. Annual rent $63MM.
The same thing the Windows key does.
Looks great. I love when people learn to code to meet their own needs. Congrats.

EDIT: Great design. Are you a designer or did you use a template?
Oh, $9.95 shipping. Damn! :/
>If someone can afford that ridiculous price tag they're pretty successful to begin with. Chances are, Tim Cook won't have anything meaningful to offer to that guy/girl besides the bragging rights of having met with Tim Cook.

This seems to be an odd thing to say. The wealthy have nothing else meaningful to gain or learn? Bill Gates had nothing meaningful to gain from reaching out to Steve Jobs? Is the only reason you could want to meet with Tim Cook because you want him to help your business?

I assume that Tim Cook is probably an extraordinarily interesting man with many great insights. I think there are many reasons beyond "bragging rights" an already successful person could have to want to meet him.
> Those people are just looking for a reason not to get exercise, and are better off dying around their mid 50s.

I assume this is intended as snark, but still... a little extreme.
Same error running Chrome 26.0.1410.65 on OSX 10.8.2
Actually, Congress is thinking of modifying the Orphan Drug Act because pharma has been raking in cash by the ton.

Genzyme was built on rare disease drugs.
1. Walmart paid $300m to buy Kosmix/RightHealth to create @WalmartLabs http://techland.time.com/2011/04/19/walmart-purchases-kosmix...

2. The original Kosmix founders left in a year - http://gigaom.com/2012/06/22/walmartlabs-loses-kosmix-founde...

3. Rinse and Repeat with "Tasty Labs"
What's interesting about this situation is that if people complain (as some have) to their credit card companies and the charges bounce then kickstarter gets hit with a chargeback fee in addition to the money that was paid in. I've seen chargeback fees of between $25 and $35 per transaction.
Ask HN: What does it mean if others have failed doing what I'd like to do?
I have always wanted to provide a service online, and I would also like to make money while doing it. So far, there were two ideas that got me excited, both times I thought they were completely original and on the right track. However, both times, while doing research I've found that other people have had the EXACT same idea (in one case, their execution was even better than what I had planned) and then abandoned the project.<p>Should I take the hint and move on from these ideas or does this not mean much?
Story seems to be getting flagged and is going down the front page.

Looks like some HN folks with good karma can't stand a Microsoft story that is not super critical and bitching about them. Those stay on the front page for days.

http://i.imgur.com/wFN21wY.png

Even announcements are not spared. Can anyone who flagged this post care to tell us why? I suspect the answer is "lol M$'.
Yeah I'm sure he's a real jackass. I don't give a rat's ass about him as an individual. But I do care that the law is applied evenly to everyone irrespective of how much we like or don't like them. That's what makes it the rule of law, rather than a popularity contest. If the law is applied unevenly the just-ness is removed from justice, perverting it. It makes me sad that we live in a world where injustice is OK because it happened to a person we don't like.
> In both examples, 99% of the population won't watch either for free.

FWIW, Transformers 3 took about $350m in north America, which at $10/ticket (is that reasonable?) is 35 million viewers. Not all of those are in the US (but I think "north America" in context might just mean "US and canada", which is like 90% US), and some of them would be repeat viewers, but probably 5-15% of the US population paid to see that film.
The Elusive Universal Web Bytecode
You don't say where you're from or where you're based but let's assume the bay area. If I were very happy with the company, I'd set up shop in Vancouver and/or Rosarito (depending on your weather preference/season), work remotely and try again next year.

On the other hand, if you (or the company) is ready to part ways, I'd do the same. ;)
Looks very cool, love the "signup process" if you will.

Nitpick: I don't like the "because we're not douchebags" line.
I'd love to see coinbase's network traffic right now as this spreads through the net. I really wish coinbase would allow currency exchange from bitcoin to any currency (hint hint coinbase).

I remember one of the first algorithms I wrote was to pattern trade the exchange rates (USD -> CHF -> EUR -> DNK -> USD), but then I realized that the fees would kill any potential gains from the imbalances.
The Google Ventures guide to Google I/O
Take your axe-grinding elsewhere -___-
To argue by analogy, are the (no doubt hundreds) of "clocks" listed on etsy that are no more than a cheap prebought movement mounted through a hole in a piece of wood in violation of the same policy? What about the driftwood lamps and such which are just prebought components fished through holes someone drilled?
Yes, Etsy is stuffed with Asian mass production firms. So this is really weird to see.

Just check out "macbook pro" covers, nearly all are mass produced & shipped from China. For example.
War is more profitable than peace. Don't believe all the propaganda that war is always necessary.

But there's always the refrain that war is a job creation machine and any attempt to dial it down is met with accusations of being unpatriotic (case in point, whoever downvoted me). Not quite that simple.
Oh not at all. The paper is just fine. The NYT summary though could lead someone to think that this 7 minute work out is all anyone needs. As any trainer will tell you, the certifications provide tools for directing clients to the best program to reach their goals.
Also: People will find a way to work around this, cutting of your revenue stream.
Being 2 minutes late is just like being 2 hours late
MongoDB is the Pinto of databases. It is not safe at any scale.
I think you're wrong for a variety of reasons about how many people will die if the entire Internet becomes unavailable to North America for weeks at a time.
U.S. cards only have magnetic strips. It's possible there are some cards in the U.S. that have chips now, but point of sale systems don't generally use em, only the strip, yep.
The article doesn't mention which browser the reader and colleagues used to open the link. It could be IE checking the links and not Skype.
> it's only illegal to destroy coinage for fraudulent purposes or to melt it down for the raw metals.

It's more nuanced than that.

Back in 1965, the Treasury prohibited exporting or melting of silver coins, but that prohibition has long since been rescinded.

Currently it's unlawful to melt pennies or nickels, but not silver coins. Although silver coins (talking pre-1965 stuff here) trade for somewhere around and above spot value anyway, so melting is pointless.
Ask HN: Do you click on ads as a way to say thank you?
I don't know if I am the only one but whenever I encounter an internet resource that I find very useful I usually click on couple of ads on their webpage.

Idea is they will get paid for those clicks.

Wonder if others do this as well.
I'd add that this isn't just a problem around getting USD into Bitcoin, but the challenge of making it easy for people to pass BTC to other people as casually and safely as they do cash. It would be great if someone released a solution like this.
Yes the OP is a designer, hence the whole learning to program thing. He designs over at campaignmonitor.com
Not possible.

What was your 1RM squat, deadlift and bench press then and what is it now?
Okay, well why don't the progressively more dire warnings include stuff that dangles from the sign and causes the truck driver to hear a big rattling sound on his roof?

Not this far though: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/10/durha...
There's a pretty large literature on the topic. I'm going for a run but would encourage you to check out 'disease stigma' (not stigmata, which would yield a different set of results!) on your favorite search engine.
DPRK, North Korea you mean, I think. There's nothing very democratic about that place.
Never heard that there are for example over 50,000 US soldiers in Germany operating military equipment worth billions of USD courtesy of the US tax-payer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Europe

So, any attack on the German soil must result in dead American soldiers. Now, who sane would risk doing so?

Yeah, very convenient preaching universal healthcare and welfare for the poor when somebody else pays your security bill while you are sitting between Arab Spring and Russian Autocracy.
The diversity visa lottery is worth a shot. The odds of winning are worse than getting hit by lightning, unfortunately.

In the same vein as the L1, you could try the B1. For your purposes, both of these look kind of dodgy to me, though.
"HousingMaps was a pioneer of the Ajax revolution"

It was?
I do. I always wondered if others did this as well. I also wonder if that is OK to do... probably not.
Check out Atlantis/Embassies; they've proposed a very similar thing: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1799... (not sure why they call a lightweight VM a "pico-datacenter", though)

There may be a way to incrementally approach this architecture by reimplementing existing functionality as modules that run inside some kind of VM and then deprecate the old hardcoded version.
Because it's a massive investment in replacing all POS hardware and cards for almost no gain (in fact, the customer experience is decidedly worse).
You're welcome, and, yep, I used Panglossian more because it was pretty than accurate, it obviously overstates the case.
I have found that the best way to combat depression which hinders progress on a startup or other project is to think: "well, no one said this was gonna be easy." Or "This isn't supposed to be easy you know?" Somehow it turns it into a challenge as opposed to "is it really worth it", "why am I doing this", "I don't feel like it", ect.
How do you gzip your content hosted on S3?
English and Dravidian: Unlikely Parallels
As of Today, Every Major Mobile Competitor Also Makes Apps for iOS
Which will then cause them to be shut down.
You don't have to buy the book - the same advice is given on the website you'll see if you search google for it. Or even do Stronglifts, which is the same kind of thing as Starting Strength (some people even consider it a ripoff) and it's free.

But don't go shooting the messenger because he's a bit of a meathead and turn people off to good advice as a result. That's just employing logical fallacy. Really, the benefits of weightlifting and eating properly are so great that if you tried it you wouldn't be surprised I'm so adamant about these programs. They literally prevent you from dying early.
> What a load of shit.

As your strength declines, so does your life. You can no longer play with your kids. You can no longer get up stairs. You can't care for your house or yourself. Someday, you will no longer be able to get out of bed.
Kickstarter doesn't get hit with these fees since Kickstarter isn't processing/receiving the payments. It appears to me that money goes directly to the project owner's Amazon Payments account, so any chargebacks would land there as well.

Even if Amazon lays the blame for the chargebacks on Kickstarter, they're probably safe. Since they're still in business, it's pretty safe to assume their overall chargeback rate is below 1% by transaction volume, as that's the threshold where processors start hassling you because Visa/MC will start hassling them. Given KickStarter keeps 5% of 100% of the volume as revenue, there's a lot of padding there to handle any chargeback fees and still be very profitable.
One way that China is "different" is that the police in China can summarily sentence arbitrary Chinese citizens to "Rehabilitation Through Labor" for as long as a year without trial (trials are available as a formality but are apparently so delayed that their practical impact is negligible). You can be a Chinese citizen and plucked off the street and put into a labor camp for a year with no recourse.

Your call whether that's just a cultural difference. I don't know what "evil" means here.
Product renderings are prohibited.. but I wonder if photographs of cleaned up 3d prints of those same files would be permitted.
By that logic, I suppose you agree with NYC's "stop and frisk" policy. Because, just in case.

It's like saying "There are lots of black people in prison, hence it's a good idea to stop and frisk them, just in case, because you know the track record". That sort of circular logic is why I feel my blood pressure go up every time I think about it.
There's another important reason to teach.

A lot of people fall into the trap of building solutions for non-existent problems. (I certainly have) By going out of your way to help & teach others, you notice what problems people keep having, and what solutions currently exist.

Crassly put, teaching is the nice way to do market research.
Never, because it's unfair to the advertisers. "Donating" other people's money and feeling good about it is a bit ridiculous.
Critical infrastructure shouldn't be connected to the public internet. Obviously some of it is, but I don't see how surveillance and spying on citizens is going to fix it.
Free JavaScript Inheritance Library
It's officially not OK, but it does work. Just never do it multiple times in a row.
All I want too know is can you now easily make Metro not the default GUI and can the start button menu now appear easily. ALl without hacks and addons and mods by third parties. If they have done that, I'll bite, that alone stopped a laptop sale for a friend who stuck with windows 7 laptop as not even a salesman could demo/handle it. Tried a few shops as well and all and myself and friend just could not handle it, was messy. Now touch screen laptops, whilst much more compfortable with metro, still only suitable if you use it as a tablet with keyboard
I have always enjoyed Ambrose Bierce's definition of a monad in "The Devil's Dictionary"

"MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See
Molecule.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to
be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without
manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of
considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which
the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentlmean.
Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities
needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class
-- altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be
confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern
him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct
species."

http://bierce.thefreelibrary.com/The-Devils-Dictionary/13-1
>I'd really love to learn about what is actually done in Europe. Where is a "mentally unstable" person to be found in Germany? If a "San Francisco-style lunatic" (like the one you saw in public in Germany) is encountered out in public in Germany, where is he put?

Some notes about the Finnish system:

There are plenty of psychiatric hospitals where most mentally ill people are (those who are not cared by their parents or relatives). There are some alcoholics/"crazy people" on the streets, but most of them have housing that they pay for themselves (through social security) or they live in special apartments for homeless people.

The whole country has about 1000 homeless people (for 5 million citizens). They could pay for their rent since they're entitled to "toimeentulotuki", a sum of about 700-1000 euros per month, but they probably spend it on alcohol or are unable to fill in the papers correctly (not an expert on homeless people here).

There's no official minimum wage, but "general employement contracts" make the minimum wage about 7-10€ depending on the job. There's some regulation on rents too.
Here is a sample for people to go wild on. (I hope I don't regret this.)

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[Link removed]

I have regrets. Careful, someone redirected the page to porn.

Here is a pre-porn screenshot of everyone's dots- http://awesomescreenshot.com/09f19vrpf5

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Here is what the feedback balloons look like (forgive the z-value issue of the dot over the ballon, that's my fault):

http://awesomescreenshot.com/07819vss00

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IIRC, HSBC signed a deferred prosecution agreement and paid a sizable fine. That's not justice.
I gave a TEDx talk about starting and building redditgifts on reddit.
There should be an easy fix, you can tell by looking at the circuit board whether or not it was assembled by hand.