skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Will people with something important to hide still wear disguises? I'd bet yes.

Facial recognition systems can be (and are) trained to not be fooled by things like facial hair, hair changing, eyeglasses and sunglasses, hats, etc. Although it can obscure your features for sure.

If someone does something really odd to try to avoid the facial recognition (I've people posting things like making your hair non-symmetrical, or just avoiding the camera in the first place) then they just train on those things too. And that person gets flagged as being really suspicious. And things like full face masks are banned in some places already.
Caminandes
Episode One : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOhiWY7XmoY
Episode Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4C82eyhwgU
And even after you've mastered 10s of thousands of words (you can estimate it for english here
http://testyourvocab.com/
) you're still going to be struggling with cultural references to children's shows which were popular 30 years ago or politics from 5 years ago.
Did you guys play Chrono Cross? To date, this is by far my favorite soundtrack. I will sometimes go back and play through it again just to experience the music with the game (because I listen to the music so much outside of the game).

If you liked Chrono Trigger's OST, there's a good chance you will like the Chrono Cross OST. It's definitely more mellow and playful up front, but it builds in energy and intensity up until the perfect vocal closing, "Radical Dreamers ~ Unstolen Jewel ~".

Here's the title opener:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46RY4PU8a8
The email they sent to current Prime customers was very classy and effective as well...

Dear ________,

We are writing to provide you advance notice that the price of your Prime membership will be increasing. The annual rate will be $99 when your membership renews on October 29, 2014.

Even as fuel and transportation costs have increased, the price of Prime has remained the same for nine years. Since 2005, the number of items eligible for unlimited free Two-Day Shipping has grown from one million to over 20 million. We also added unlimited access to over 40,000 movies and TV episodes with Prime Instant Video and a selection of over 500,000 books to borrow from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.

For more information about your Prime membership, visit our Prime membership page.

Sincerely,

The Amazon Prime Team
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What carrier offers free EU roaming?
It's probably a whole life policy.
Excellent point!

Learning French in France or Spanish in Spain is easier than learning Dutch in Netherlands because everybody speaks at least OK English, there is just no need to learn Dutch. Getting a little desperate and lonely helps a great deal to picking up a language faster
I'm single with no dependents. I have enough money to cover my mortgage. Why should I be required to purchase life insurance?
But... crosswords in Chinese? How'd you do that?
> the latter is undisputably true unless you're over the age

Medicaid and unemployment do not depend on age. ACA provides healthcare insurance subsidies based on income, not age. SNAP and other programs exist as well.

The US safety net is perhaps inadequate, but not "undisputably" "nonexistent".
Planes do have that, the engines also report automatically to a ground base every thirty minutes.
The aforementioned trackers can be shut off in the cockpit, however, which seems to have happened.

It's unclear whether or not the engines actually have been reporting for hours, as Rolls Royce are apparently denying it according to some comments further up.
I don't disagree about the hypocrisy of the folks who have redefined the Agile movement to be something that is decidedly not Agile.

That said, the thing I dislike about this new "Agile has failed" meme is that it discounts how much the movement has changed the status quo. Sure it make sense now that small iterative releases, continuous integration, automated tests, customer collaboration, etc will produce better software. And yes there were teams that did this before Agile became popular, but it certainly wasn't the norm.

There used to be no standard way to write/run unit tests. The class of software called continuous integration server did not exist. Gant charts were completely normal planning devises.

I've worked in environments that literally believed that a senior developer could use uml to design the entire system down to the method level and then it would be a trivial matter for a junior developer to "fill it in". That sounds insane now, but it happened throughout the software industry.

Agile didn't fail, it worked so well it became the norm, and now the term is being co-opted by opportunists. That's sad, but let's not let that detract from the very real success story of the Agile software movement.
For serious cancer, terminal or not, the system seems designed for the cost to be "everything you have" whatever that happens to be.

For some people this may be true. My mother died of breast cancer at 59 and it really didn't cost her anything thanks to the fact she had health insurance through my father's work. My parents were probably lower-middle-class but the fact that my dad worked the same job for 39 years and had steady health insurance throughout kept them from this fate.
I have no doubt that a highly disciplined individual could accomplish such a feat. But then add a wife or husband. Then add a child. It seems increasingly less likely for an average or even above average saver to accomplish what is being espoused. At least without major push back from the other people you are attempting to subject to this lifestyle.

I am honestly wondering what they do when people they know are doing something that costs money. Do they just skip it? Birthday dinner @ a restaurant - skip it. Going to a sporting event - skip it. Kid is getting made fun of at school for wearing dollar store shoes - skip it. Kid wants to play school sports but costs $300/sport - skip it. Kid wants to go to dinner/movies with classmates - skip it. Holidays roll around, time to exchange gifts - skip it.

I guess what I am trying to say is that while extreme saving is a laudable goal, I highly doubt that their family budget is so neat and tidy. Exceptions come up all the time and you would have to put forth heroic efforts to say 'no' to most or all of them. You would also be making huge sacrifices and asking your SO and children to do the same.
Hmm, Seems the Google Cache version of this article is full of viagara links? - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xBaBObi...
The logic of this argument seems flawed. I assume the goal here is to get young, uninsured people to buy health insurance. The argument here is that by buying an ACA plan, individuals will be more free to start their own business because they won't have to worry about getting sick without insurance. If I am risk averse, I will simply pursue full time employment that include health insurance benefits. If I am young and willing to forgo salary and benefits for a startup, why would I weigh the risk of getting sick while uninsured any more than the other risks involved in a business venture. Based on what I've seen of the costs of ACA plans, it seems like someone working in a ramen profitable startup would not even be able to afford the insurance offered.
Don't mean to be rude, but literally thought this was common knowledge by now. Clearly, that is my own failing for not understanding that The People != Me.

I think people are starting to get it, though, especially thanks to how creepy targeted advertising is getting on Facebook and the like.

And that's kind of the thing, with all of the data that Facebook had on me, they couldn't figure out to not send me advertisements for skeezy dating services? That's the only solace I take from this story: it sucks that the security services are collecting all of this data, but if I can't do anything about it, it's good to know that they are drinking from a firehose.
Hey Jonathan do not worry, slowly things will fall into place. I wish you luck and pray for you and will also curse this unfair world for you. Stay strong and instil your little ones with confidence and happiness. Take care.
Cleaned it up. Should be fine by now. But still working on it.
Be aware of color rip-off pricing on some prime items e.g. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009MLPSNC (35% extra for some colors)

I got this shipped from Target (redcard member) for $10
Thanks! I obviously worked my ass off on this thing, and as many features as there are, there are still many more that I would like to add and tweak.

But I probably won't put more work into this code in the near future. So far it hasn't retained any regular returning users, and I don't want to invest any more of myself in this software if it is just going to collect dust.
Honestly, the Playstation 1 was probably the greatest system ever for RPGs.
Microsoft says, Come and get it -- Windows Phone is free
What? And pass up the joy of writing 6809 assembly language? (well aside for the 6809, the Color Computer was terrible).
Government enforces it. I don't know how exactly it is in the USA, but in my country there is "land registry", which is maintained and updated by legal courts. Within the registry, every land/house/flat ownership is noted and this registry is also the final instance whenever there are legal battles regarding ownership.

Whenever you take a loan for your house, a bank will want to add a note to the registry that it has first claim to your property in case of not paying, premature death, and so on. So one cannot just give his house to his relatives, as the court will block the transfer when it will see in the registry that the bank has primary claim to it. To do something like that, one must make a deal with the bank that new owner will either pay up the loan or take it on his name.
Its already heading past 20k.
Sorry, I have to disagree. I have run a small software consulting business in Dublin for nearly ten years. The one thing we get right in this country is our pro business climate. It is easy to set up a company, there is a lot of support and advice available. I think we do this well...

Two caveats though:

- You DO need to get a good accountant to get advice on international VAT charges as they are complex (I suggest bypassing them by using a company like FastSpring that manages them on your behalf).

- Small business owners should have the same social welfare security net as everyone else (I think this might be changing).

I agree with you on the inbred gombeens and cute hoors, but thankfully there seems to be less of them in the tech sector :)
All languages divide into groups. It's always easier to learn foreign language of your group.
For example if you are an English speaker, you can start with German. Then look at Dutch. They have more or less same grammar rules.
After that if you've had enough zeal and curiosity, you can probably understand main rules of forming words, split unknown words into lexical units and morphemes.
That said you can move to the next level - French, Italian and Spanish. Italian and Spanish can be learnt simultaniously. It's hard, but as the languages have a lot in common, it will be interesting.

My native language is Russian. I can understand and speak Ukranian, Belorussian, Chech, Serbian. Just because they have a lot in common. And vice versa. But not always...

Well the only rule to succeed as already mentioned is to dive into language. People who move to other countries usually learn to speak foreign language within several months.

But as far as we live in Internet you can learn whatever you want without actually moving. Every day we read thousands of sentences and 10s thousands of words. You can read the same in the language you want to learn. Facebook, twitter, google, newsfeeds, search for the information you want in the language you want to know and read articles.

The more you read the more you learn and soon you'll be able to form your phrases. As soon as you can form phrases and understand what you read without searching every word in dictionary, you're ready to dive into grammar. Learn grammar as fast as possible now. That's the hardest and the most exhausting part of my method, but it is obligatory. Learn rules, draw tables with tenses, declension rules and so on. Find grammar exercises and do them all. Thus you train your brain to form phrases the right way, to spell the right way.

Next part is fun part - pronunciation. It's fun because in real life you sometimes can't understand your neighbour, and dialects divide your country to sort of "language provinces". In russian language there's no English sound "th". It transformed to 'f'(Theodor - Федор) and 't' (thriller - триллер). So placing tongue between teeth is a hard but funny part for newbies. It's also funny to learn to pronounce 'r' in German, English and French. You will learn a lot about your tongue and jaw.

Last part is a "separate thread" part because learning new words is a constant process. Sometimes it's also a funny part. For example in chech the word hallway(chodba) is pronounced exactly like russian word ходьба (walking) and german 'Herr' (Mr.) is pronounced like russian 'penis', so "Herr Ivanov, sitzen Sie bitte" sounds funny. And spanish 'huesos' (bones) is the transliteration of 'хуесос' (dicksucker). Apart from that there are a lot of words common for all european languages.

That's what I do. It's a slow and silent method for learning foreign language on your own. It's like progressive jpeg. The harder you work the better the result. But every next language is learnt faster than previous.
For the first time since it was introduced nine years ago, the price of Prime is going up.

Nine years? Is anybody else completely surprised by this? I only heard of it the first time when it was introduced in the UK about two years ago.
Categories so that I can find the specific topics that I'm interested in.
Blender is an established and well known and loved product with really decent PR mechanisms so they don't need the visibility one gets on Kickstarter generally, although Kickstarter's fees are relatively low so it probably won't have hurt much.
Monster Great White Shark Attacks My Mate 
monster great white attacks cage diver. I was in the cage myself when this monster great white came through and I almost shit my pants!! I can't describe the feeling of being in that small cage with that beast out there trying to kill me and eat my dead or alive! I would have gone out punching that bugger in the snout!
You seem to have confused the econospeak-meaning of "rational" with its usual English meaning. It's rational to prefer meaningful work.
Also, perhaps some site-initiated intros to other members would help with the feeling of 'small community' that a lot of people seek.
Considering Netflix comes out to $96/yr, $99 for Prime, with a comparable (albeit not quite as good) video library, along with shipping and the free ebook, it's still a deal.

And even if Amazon loses money on a Prime membership, there's been statistics about Prime customers spending over 2x as much annually then non-Prime customers.
Jonathan, my heart truly goes out to you. Someone very close to me was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma a few months ago, so while I can barely imagine what it must feel like to face this, I do know what the medical picture looks like and the information available looks grim.

I don't want to tell you about your disease, but if you haven't yet, please find a way to get evaluated at md anderson. They're in Texas, and possibly the best (at least top four or five) place in the world to be treated for melanoma. And they're one of three hospitals in the country with trials ongoing in TIL therapy (sometimes referred to as ACT), which, having done as much research as a lay person can do, seems to the most promising avenue of treatment with long term response rates as high as 70%.

And just to give you some hope, as horrible a diagnosis as you've been given, there has never been a better time in history to receive it. There are literally new treatments coming down the pipeline every few months.
Can this pitch attract VC?
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Why not just replace "http://" with "//" in your Bookmarklet code?
For English it took me from 10 years old to 20 to be able to fool people in online conversations that I might be native. Now at 33 I am still daily picking up new English idioms and especially cultural background, but finally it is getting rare to encounter unknown words or phrases.

I still (rightly IMO) hesitate to say I can speak Japanese, even though I have lived here for 5 years and spent two of those solely studying the language. I encounter an unknown word in almost every sentence. Like someone here commented for German, having to explain so many words or think of synonyms is annoying enough that a conversation switch to English can happen if it is possible. Imagine talking to a speech recognition system that doesn't understand 10% of your sentences. It quickly makes you want to start typing instead.
It would be an interesting book to read about the difficulty in growing a company in Ireland. I have not heard about the unique problems. U.K. yes. Continent of Europe yes.
Extremely addictive and awesome patterns! Well done!
Building a RESTful Service Layer with JAX-RS, RESTEasy and Spring Framework
As someone who just quit his job to walk 2650+ miles along the pacific crest trail I found his last statement very interesting as well.

I'm a pretty normal tech industry hacker who can sometimes be socially awkward and definitely a bit introverted. I'm hiking the PCT because it will force me through things I find uncomfortable like being alone, and meeting new people. As I see it, I'm forcing myself through a tumbler and hoping what comes out the other end is more in line with who I want to be. Very different reasons.
Skype started in Denmark, as did Bitbucket, Zendesk, Podio, Unity, SteelSeries, AppHarbor, Tradeshift, Endomondo, Iconfinder, Momondo, TrustPilot and many others (http://starrt.dk/startups).

European software startups that need a huge infusion of capital tend to move some of their business to Silicon Valley while sometimes maintaining a development department back home (e.g., Unity is now headquartered in San Francisco while having its chief development department in Copenhagen, AFAIK).
I immediately think of Netflix when I read stuff like this --

They are struggling to find a way to raise their prices (or at least create a tiered pricing structure) that doesn't immediately give everyone flashbacks to the Qwikster debacle.

Netflix got, after a few months of hooplah, a pass on that one because there wasn't a lot of competition yet, but I think it's a different story now; or at least becoming one. I run a Netflix blog on the side, and a lot of people comment their intent to cancel their subscription when I write about how certain shows are being removed (King of the Hill caused quite the storm). But I'm fairly certain very few people actually go through with it. $7.99 a month is an afterthought for most, especially compared with alternatives ($50/mo cable subscriptions, competition not being up to par, etc).

All that said, I believe I would pay considerably more for Netflix, or a better streaming service,(I'm guessing upwards of 20-30 bucks a month) if their content library increased alongside the price change. I think many people would likely agree.
if you're interested, here is a blog post talking about the API availability https://blog.prismic.io/UlMRYknM0-kFs5Cy/how-prismicio-api-s...
I don't like being the tinfoil hat in a discussion, but given that what most tinfoil hats have been thinking wrt NSA, etc have been proven true thanks to Snowden, maybe there is a conspiracy to keep clean fresh water a secret to start a civil war on water rights in the US.

And if not, it'd probably make for a good movie.
No, they're much slower. At 24 frames per second, you can watch a bolt from a blaster pistol fly across a room; even a tracer round from a low-velocity handgun would just be a streak. It's more in the range of a good fastball than a bullet.
> and as different as Europe.

How? I just have a hard time imagining how a place with dozens of languages and cultures (I think that cultures with very different languages are likely to be very different from each other) and all of that can be less varied than a place like the US.
Thanks for the feedback. I am one of the co-founders.

To respond to these points:
- Enterprise software seems to be moving increasingly towards a subscription pricing mode. (eg Office 365). Additionally, this is software that will be used on a regular (daily, at least weekly) basis, and when you calculate the potential time-savings, pays for itself quickly,
- Thanks for the UI tip. We are working really hard on improving the UI, esp as this is one of our main selling points!
- We need to be clearer on benefits of cloud vs addin. One of our big learning points recently has been that users seem to favour the addin over the cloud.
- Sorry about this.
- From speaking to our target users (mainly analysts in the financial industry), there are two things that repeatedly come out: error handling and understanding exactly how complex spreadsheets works. We have found interest has been about 50:50 for both
- This is a fair point! We will include some sample data and show the Slate view with it.
Homes in America are pretty large.

I can't think of a place I've lived that can't support 6 extra people, 4 of them being kids.

It may not be comfortable but its probably less comfortable than not seeing your family because you can't afford a hotel.
I don't know how Spritz can patent the <blink> HTML tag.
I'm startups, and dream of the opposite.
> I never heard about it happening with other languages or in other countries

Same thing happened to me all the time in Japan (to be fair, my Japanese is essentially non-existent except for a handful of phrases) and France (significantly more proficient, but still not a proficient speaker). The Japanese in particular seemed put off by butchering their language.
My company only offered a $50k insurance policy.

You can purchase $500k for <$20/month for most people.
Helsinki-based Applifier acquired by Unity
I'm not a huge fan of the sales-talky, motivational speaker tone that Benny uses. [Also what I don't like about Tim Ferris]. That being said, I think the basic message of, "the way to learn a new language is to speak it as much as humanly possible", is important enough that it deserves to be repeated despite it being pretty obvious.

I spent eight months studying French for a few hours every Saturday morning in a class and a few hours a week doing homework, I felt like I was making good progress in the class but without actually being able to usefully speak French. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has had a language learning experience like this.

The thing is - I could (kind of) use two past tenses and one future tense while still stumbling over basic introductions and asking for directions. This doesn't make any sense from a utility point of view.

So I hired a succession of French teachers on Skype to have the same basic conversations with - the kind of basic transactional or quick introduction "speed dating" type conversations that I'd actually be likely to have with native speakers on a frequent basis. Surprise, surprise, my French abilities got better by leaps and bounds. It cost less than I was paying for the classes as well.

I now think that organised group classes are a waste of money for adult learners. I can find native language French teachers that do classes on Skype for less than £10 / hour, which is about the price of group classes with 6-10 people in them. Spending an hour which is 45 mins me talking and 15 minutes of corrections has done more for my spoken French than an hour of group classes where I actually have maybe 5 minutes cumulatively to speak.

Yeah, sometimes it is a little boring spending an hour having conversations about hotel bookings and flight reservations, but I can actually do those things pretty confidently after practicing them for two hours.