skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I got my car insurance with state farm I just put on the life insurance because I had nothing at the time. They said it would be cheap to add it now because I'm so young. I got this plan when I was 24 and it's $36 a month for 50k. WTF. I just checked out my employer and I can get 300k on my wife and myself for about $12 a month. The only thing I'm not sure of is if I can keep that plan after if I leave my job.
Allow Ukrainian Citizens 90 day entrance into the USA on passport, without Visa.
Not yet, we are still trying to drive people to the site before we add a monetization aspect to it.

http://LocalsNetworking.com
Going global? Don’t confirm the 'Arrogant American' stereotype
> Yes sorry VAT (i called it sales tax for US readers to relate)

Sales tax and VAT are different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax#Comparison_with...

VAT only taxes the value added to goods by an entity, so if they buy parts for £10, make a widget from those parts, and sell a widget for £20, they pay VAT on £10, with the assumption that they entity that sold them £10 of parts paid VAT on the rest of it. There are also possibilities for running costs (such as purchasing a screwdriver to assemble the widget) that are not taxed, because they are not sold on to the public.

Sales tax is repeatable, so tax may be paid for a particular good each time it passes hands. Yes, there are exceptions.
Apple Activity Tracker Patent
Thank you for that example. It's very illustrative. Everything is impossible until it happens, at which point it often becomes everyday.
A Rocky-like chess bout from the Romantic era
I love the service and it provides great value. I'm happy the price has stayed the same for so long but times change, costs go up and I will still pay for it.
Yeah, I checked the BLS site about the inflation from 2005-2014 and they are just about on track to follow inflation. And if you consider they didn't adjust in that entire period then the slight amount over inflation is warranted (IMHO).

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=80&year1=2005&y...
im getting 'page is not secure' loading with insecure elements such as pictures.

Loading mixed (insecure) display content on a secure page "http://static.giveforward.com/favicon.ico?1394547964"[Learn More]
In some countries if you have multiple life-insurance policies, only one of them may actually pay out.

Be warned.
I (being a developer) really like the concept, but I'm curious what they've done to verify the market.

It's my impression that the kind of people that need to resort to using spreadsheets as a highly abstracted programming language are (mostly) mutually exclusive with the kinds of people that would want/need this deep grain analysis. But I'm just some dude. The more I think about it, I could imagine some non-quant in the financial services industry may be interested in something like this.
The Trouble with Mrs Hughes
Great summary, thanks. I've had an eye on both services for a while and wondered how they differed.
Long time HN reader here. I've got several iOS language apps in the App Store. Here's my Spanish app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?m...

I'd appreciate it if a few people could download it and provide feedback. The store is getting quite crowded so I'm looking for ideas to find a niche. I've got versions for several other languages, which I outsourced the translations. At this point, I'm not sure where to make further investment.
Smoothing out transactions sounds like a good reason to look at incorporating elsewhere particularly if the overhead of international payment processing can be kept to a manageable level.

In the US, there are multiple forms of limited liability businesses some of which are not corporations and several forms of incorporation. That was the context of my response not the suggestion that limiting liability should be avoided.

Good luck.
While I don't mind the Prime price-hike, I've begun noticing that Amazon's prices are also increasing quite-dramatically. Cereal that used to cost $10 now costs over $18. Dog biscuits used to cost $11 are now over $22. Yet if you compare Amazon's prices to Walmart, you can get these items close to Amazon's old prices with $5 shipping (or free shipping over $50). I know there's been considerable discussion about Amazon being able to "flip the switch" on profitability, and maybe this is what we're seeing ... but even if many consumers are trained to just "go to Amazon" for their shopping needs, if prices rise by 100%, they're likely to seek discounts from competitors. I definitely have.
I really like the number of features it offers. And layers with clipboard history is killer.
I'm not sure why this guy was down-voted. There is a big (and maybe worldwide spread) confusion about the definition of first/second/third world.

For example, Qatar is a third-world and it's pretty well developed. Turkey is a first-world and yet it's an under-developed country.
It's easy to forget that the SNES game library was mostly a sewer filled with "character with attitude" platformers. Loads of really, tremendously bad, unoriginal stuff
Yeah I've been thinking about this kind of an approach for a while - the idea of making a content management system that is just a content store that is accessed via API. Like it.

The largest obstacle for me to adopt such a system is that it requires me to bet my company's content on your system being around. I've looked at, for example, Webpop which is different but has some similar ideas - but I can't get away from the fact that Webpop may or may not be around in a year, so betting on it isn't something I would want to do.

That's what continues to push me to Wordpress and the like, although recently I've been spending more time with static web generators like Harp and DocPad. Those have a similar issue - my boss saying to me "Well, I know we can find Wordpress developers, but will wevbe able to find a Harp developer?"
I did. How about you do the same?
This is one reason I love Prime. I frequently find myself ordering something I need for a trip at the last minute.

Another instance was when our son needed to move from the carrier to a real car seat. We ordered the new one late one night. The next day before noon it was on our doorstep. And that was the 2-day shipping option.
The single most important concept of learning a language is personal motivation. I always thought that without that needing a language (because you live in a country where you need to use it, because your girl/boyfriend speaks it, because you want to read some books/watch movies and are only available on a different language) is extremely difficult to get it.

If you think that learning a language would be cool, or it will make a good job opportunity... that strong need is not that present, and everything is way more difficult..
Why The 'Reasons to Ban Handheld Devices Article" is Wrong, Stupid
> For one thing, this isn't exactly a stealthy or cheap thing to do.

That's actually the more disturbing part about this: it require computational resources that only governments and large corporations can afford, so they are the ones who gain the most from it; and it gives them more leverage over the population.
A look back at recent hacks on MIT
Is the plan you have a term policy? They are cheaper. No need to answer, just pointing out a possible reason.

(because other policies sort of mix in an investment product)
Looks messy to me. Try increasing the line height.
I'm pretty sure I could live in the Scottish Highlands for $50 per day USD to pay for food and stove fuel.... :-)

Access and wild camping are a lot easier in Scotland as well http://www.outdooraccess-scotland.com/
I'd say that is a personal opinion. I say that as my own personal opinion is quite the opposite. I rarely use Prime streaming and prefer Netflix simple based on ease of use. Of course Netflix seems determined to screw that up, but that's a different story.
Hmm... you make some good points.

It seems like the purpose of sending a signal is ultimately to get aliens to visit us. But the diseases they bring with them do have a high probability of wiping us out (or us wiping them out).

I suppose if both sides are very careful, or if we restrict ourselves to communication only, then it could be all right. But why go looking for more problems when we haven't even solved our own? And we probably never will.

One reason to be searching for a new civilization is to steal their technology. The first nation that's willing to do this stands to dominate every other nation, so there's a big incentive for us to steal their tech as long as the concept of nations still exist.

And of course, if the aliens somehow didn't already have nuclear technology, then transmitting our Wikipedia to them might prove disastrous for them.
Awesome. Thanks. Should be good now. Though, will test some more.
How does that translate to software startups? I haven't seen many on HN, for whatever that means.
I am having my body donated to science.

My wife had her father's body donated to science. It cost $200, and several months later she got an urn of her father's ashes by mail.

We then rented a boat and spread his ashes in his favorite harbor. It turned out to be a solemn and yet mildly joyful occasion as each person talked about fond memories and spread some ashes in the water.

I want students to cut my corpse up and learn things. I want my body to contribute to society for a little while longer after I am gone.
So, I'm guessing blogspammy Upworthy links are banned, but upworthy-clone links aren't yet? This side by side comparison of the two sites' layouts will shock you:

http://i.imgur.com/kvcdjCB.png
White House urges 'geeks' to get healthcare coverage, launch startups
That's probably a very strict definition. I'd say that, if you're able to have a decent conversation without feeling frustrated all the time, you're doing good...
This article is funny. Makes it sound like the USA is all complex, in the stone age, etc. I lost it at the green card part/to work in the USA was hilarious as the USA grants so many of those it isn't even funny. That's the whole point of people in this country complaining that foreigners take our jobs.
I seem to recall reading they made money on each Prime customer and a quick search turns up several articles[0] confirming as much.

[0] http://business.time.com/2013/03/18/amazon-prime-bigger-more...
I too would recommend these types of walk - a couple of other ideas for long trails that I've particularly enjoyed:

- Lykian Way, Turkey (http://www.lycianway.com/)

- Rota Vincentina, Portugal (http://www.rotavicentina.com/)
Thats about how any long trail hiker looks. My personal best is the John Muir trail (15 days no resupply). That was plenty to see a difference. My wife and I both lost about 10 lbs, and neither of us had that much to loose. I actually got sick and threw up after eating regular food at a restaurant the day we finished.

Some day I would like to do an art project of before and after photos of all of the AT hikers one year. I think it would be impressive, and would only require a few weeks at the start and about a month or so at the finish to get a good group of people.
My small experience from working with startups was that a LOT of java EE was used. This most likely came from them needing cheap labor, and many programmers fresh from school only knew java. I don't know if those startups qualified as 'cool and exciting' though.
Shift your freelancing efforts towards things can generate recurring income.

Browse through http://envatomarketplaces.com/ and find the unsatisfied demand. For example, while most of the CSS stuff isn't particularly well patronised, there's a few snippets in there that have sold more than 200 times, and the top one has 900 sales at $4 a pop. There are jQuery sliders on there with 10000 sales at ~$12 each. And so on... Look for the features that aren't on there and build them.

Pro tip - if you negotiate your "small web designing projects" contracts well enough, with a license of the code rather than ownership going to the person you're designing for, you could be getting someone to pay you to develop a feature that you can then sell on sites like envato. You lose nothing, you might gain recurring income. That's a big win.
1-2 years? Not bad.

FWIW, Mormon missionaries learn their languages in 6-12 weeks, then are fluent after about a year in their field. I wonder how they do that.
>At any rate, no, I will not stop it.

Fine, keep pulling that term out on HN and you will be seen as a provocateur, whether or not you actually are one.

Edit: And in case it's not clear, I actually do agree that the "botnet" likely has no connection to the government.
Compaq keyboards weren't all that great, when compared to the IBM boards of the same era. The Compaq keyboards were quite mushy.

Where Compaq had it all over IBM was its video boards. IBM gave you a choice of two video boards: CGA and MDA. CGA gave you color and graphics, but at the expense of high quality text. With MDA, you sacrificed the graphics but the characters in text mode were rendered with a 9x14 bitmap rather than an 8x8 bitmap. This resulted in a huge quality improvement. What Compaq did was develop a video board/monitor combination that supported the higher resolution rendering in text mode, but still supported CGA quality graphics. It was a nice compromise for the time.

(The other compromise board was the 'Hercules' board. These boards connected to an IBM MDA monitor, but had a special high resolution graphics mode. They had high quality text, and better high-resolution graphics than CGA, but they weren't as widely supported.)
On Learning Haskell by ESR (2010)
Some of them, yes. The poverty...
Most of the conversation here seems to be around shipping costs and speed. But there are a number of other perks to Prime. Here are the ones that I use:

* Streaming video: not all the stuff I want to watch is on Prime, but when it is, it saves me a few bucks

* Lending library: ditto, for books. If I care deeply about permanently owning a book, I'll buy the physical copy.

* Kindle First (get a free book every month one month before its release): the books are not exactly destined to be timeless classics, but free reading material is nice and it helps me discover new authors

Any other important Prime perks I'm missing? The shipping plus the above go a long way toward justifying the cost, to me at least.
Making a FirefoxOS app is ridiculously easy if you have experience making websites. It's very similar to making a chrome extension.
Government's Empty Buildings Are Costing Taxpayers Billions
HipChat is an absolute beauty ... We can not survive with out Hipchat and Asana ...

This is a great list ..

Probably the reason why Google+ is not working is, no one is really on Google+ :)... Have you tried Facebook Secret Groups?
As someone old enough to have been working with waterfall when it was considered the way to write code, this comment sums up for me why Agile has not failed, despite the idiotic cottage industry sprung up in it's name.

That an emphasis on delivering software, on interactions instead of process, etc. seems normal and no different permeates the industry such that people see it as the status quo. I assure you, that is not how it used to be, and there is a huge difference other than less emphasis on documents.
Is your problem related to availability or continuity of the service? Things that could help their, a usable export for the first case. And an insight into the API architecture for achieving scalability and availability for the second.
If you're going to go out in a blaze of hedonism you'd think you'd pay the extra couple of bucks for the hooker to be alive. :P
What's impressive about Copenhagen's transport is the driverless, electronic metro that runs 24 hours a day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Metro
Why Razer Spent $380K Redesigning The USB Port
If you read the articles on HN frequently, I would have to imagine you believe the US to be a place where everyone is starving in the streets or living in high rise luxury condos in the bay area.

Non-government solutions to Europeans is unfathomable.
Yeah, generally speaking for object detection - Scale, position, rotation: typically you can identify something based on 2 of these really efficiently (for example, wavelets give you a transform that is sufficient for object identification under scale and position transformations in O(N) operations).

If you'd rather have orientation identification (ie. rotation angle) and scale in that mix but don't care about position, the radon transform is nice and easy to work with.

But beyond inverting 1-2 key transformations, one usually has to pay a pretty hefty computational cost which often precludes online (near real-time) use.
Can we change the headline to reflect the content:

"12 Rules for Learning Enough of a Foreign Language to Moderately Communicate and Possibly Comprehend in Written or Spoken Form in Record Time"
Sorry for the dumb question, but can anyone explain how this compares to something like RabbitMQ?
Question - what gear did you take, etc? You mention the english breakfast every day - I take it that meant you stayed in a village every day? So no camping gear etc? Did you buy new supplies in each place?
Student Appreciation RAP
Watch this boss rap video done by me and my 4th graders to show that students should be appreciated just as much as teachers!
If you can make it to Florida I can take you and your family to any of the four Disney parks, at no cost to you. I can't find your email address anywhere, but if you can provide it I'll send you my info so that you can reach me if you do decide to come.
I'd like one. not.on.the.internet@gmail.com
Editing the Future – Light Table, and Atom, and Then What?
Healthy habits Every Girl Should Have
...It might sound a little corny, but every day could—and should—be considered a fresh start. Healthy eating habits Had a fight with your mom/boyfriend/landlord yesterday and didn’t resolve it?
healthy habits Every Girl Should Have.
If polish is going to be his 13th language and he has already strong bases in russian and eu languages, I don't see why it should be impossible. Keep in mind that is not true that is one hour. Is all his life learning other languages that is applied here. (there's a famous quote among artists about this that i cannot remember right now...)

Anyway my point is, that you are able to pick up CoffeeScript in one hour if you are fluent in javascript and python, aren't you?
True, but also: it's not particularly hard anywhere else.

I grew up in the sticks. The country. The middle of nowhere. Or, as I used to call it, to the left of the middle of nowhere, because at least the middle of nowhere had an intellectually interesting distinction of being in the middle of something.

Yeah, it's "boring" out there. We dreamed of living in the city and going out to craft beer bars with a wider selection than just Dogfish Head (if they even had that) every night and seeing awesome bands play who weren't the same, one band you've been seeing every other night since high school.

Now that I live in the city, I dream of living in the country and going hiking every weekend. It's "boring" here, when all there is to do is go check out world-class art museums and Michelin-rated restaurants. I miss sledding in the snow. I miss seeing the stars every night--all of them. I miss not living under an airport takeoff path.

Point being, people have a tendency to do 10% of what a place has to offer and assume the other 90% is the same. One of the first few months that I lived in Philadelphia (when I lived there, I'm in DC now), I met up with a friend at this place called Reading Terminal Market, for lunch. He had lived there for 10 years and had never been to the place. "Who knew this was even here?" he said. Uh, dude, it's one of the most popular places in the city. You can't watch a travel show about Philadelphia and not have them mention it.

Some people are just dense. If you're not engaged in your location, the grass will always appear a shade or two closer to #00ff00 everywhere else. Someone, somewhere, wishes they live where you live.

Well, barring somewhere really fucked like Mogadishu or something. Hell, I bet there is an aspiring photojournalist somewhere who'd like to be there for 6 months, though. So you never know.
I don't know, nowadays it seems that if you look hard enough you can find published papers demonstrating any point, and it seems even easier to find paper "proving" something against common sense and experience.

Here it is the case: My Chinese wife is a perfect French speaker but she still can't hear or pronounce the difference between "gato" and "cado". I work in Chinese, in a 100% immersion, and tones are still not natural to me. And our bi-cultural kid, at 3, has better tones than me, and has no problem with d and t, or g and k.

I won't look hard for papers but I would be surprised if none has ever "proven" that babies hear and execute the full palette of sounds, and learning a language specializes (by narrowing) this skill, removing parts not used in the context to differenciate meanings.
That's actually a huge problem for US citizens living in Switzerland.

Since the US nowadays puts so much pressure on Swiss banks most - if not all of them - are extremely reluctant to open bank accounts for US citizens.
> edit: Downvote brigade... why am I wrong?

Most projections have the worlds population set to start reducing again within a few decades, and then likely stabilise well below the projected peak.

Here is UN's latest revision of their "World Population to 2300" report: https://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/Wo...

This report presents a main scenario with a peak of 9.22 billion in 2075, followed by a drop and slow resumption of growth towards 8.97 billion by 2300. It references older UN projections that indicates a range from 7.4 billion to 10.6 billion for 2050 depending on scenario.

This current report assumes 8.9 billion for 2050, and projects annual increases in population sizes down to 0.33% in 2045-2050, vs. 1.22% in 2000-2005

This comes as more and more countries sees rapid decline in birth rates equivalent to those that the developed world has already seen.

Particularly look at pages 6-8 in the report, where you can get an idea what we would expect to see if cancer was "cured": Life expectancy and fertility mirror each other closely. As we live longer, we put off having children, have fewer children, or opt not to have children at all.

Even if we were to cure all forms of cancer, people would continue to die of other causes eventually. At most a cure would lead the population size to level out at a somewhat higher level because we might have children proportionally earlier in a life span so generations would overlap more. But we have to deal with these population numbers without a cure for cancer too, to deal with the bulge around the peak population sizes expected.

While pension-age might be a problem, if people remain healthier longer there's little reason not to increase the pension age, as some countries have already started doing.
Aw man, no bitcoin donor link. I would have thrown some money at this if I didn't have to go through wonky fiat transaction sites I don't use.

500k Euros is absurdly low for an animated film. I'm worried that by not using a popular crowdfunding service they won't have the visibility or at least retention to reach their goal.

I do think this is the future of film - no, information - creation in general. It is just missing investors insurance in case the project fails to get mass market appeal. But it lets us just toss that outdated corrupting copyright regime we have right now.