skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the utmost respect to you and the post you responded to, research is about answering questions to things you find interesting; for a biologist, pipetting is simply the means you take to get there.

If you want to contribute to Firefox or any other non-trivial open source project, you need to spend time creating a development environment and it likely will take weeks to months before you can make a substantive contribution.

If anyone is reading the comment I'm responding to or its parent comment, keep in mind that the manual labor is in pursuit of a goal.
You forgot to mention the various AI solvers that will sprung up and compete to be smartest / fastest.
I would suggest posting this under the HN clone SwintonReport.com...
Am I to understand from those charts that over 25% of iOS apps make more than $5,000 per month?

That sounds like great odds to me! Especially given the amount of garbage in the App Store.
> Ask any recently-turned 16-year-old what it's like actually being able to go places. ...

That's a sentiment born of the suburban age. Cars are freedom from suburban isolation. In places where you can get around using your own two feet, cars offer only a marginal sort of liberation, and one that's bound up with all sorts of dangers and obligations.

Cars are the sine qua non of suburbia. The problem is that they are also the non cum qua of cities—cars destroy cities.
So his argument is that it cost 0.5% to 1.5% of the GDP to have cash money... I believe the current visa processing fee is 1.51% plus $0.10
UK government use some PDF forms that use Acrobats digital signatures and won't work properly on anything else I've tried. Don't know why they didn't create them as web forms/apps in the first place however.
Awesome! Add sound, throw this in a PhoneGap container, and take my $2.99.
I never perceived Paris as a particularly welcoming or friendly city, and I imagine few people do. All the things you read about the Gallic Shrug and general rudeness are absolutely true there, but I found you can have amazing fun if you just choose to be entertained by it instead. In the end, it all boils down to the fact that in Paris, nobody will help you with anything. On the other hand, it's mostly a city where you don't actually need a lot of help to get by. If you can manage to blend in and not care about strangers, it's quite a fun place.

The article itself portrays very well that Paris syndrome is probably not real (in a statistical sense). There is a big number of tourists in the city at any given moment, some of them will statistically snap during their stay. I do like the theory that disillusionment and added stress contribute to the timing, though - especially if the trip was expensive.

Since the article mentions it, Jerusalem syndrome is similar but qualitatively different. Many people who go there are not just tourists. I'd wager that for over 90% of travelers there the city has some kind of religious significance. They are essentially pilgrims. And you'd have to be to want to go there: the city itself is a dirty, oppressive mess filled with scary people and shady salesmen.

Combining these factors, it wouldn't surprise me if the incidence of Jerusalem syndrome was much higher than Paris, mostly due to the clientele but also the city itself.

Now Stendhal syndrome is more interesting: it's a generalized description of these kind of psychotic breaks, though they are mostly understood to be a little bit more benign than Jerusalem syndrome. By definition, these effects are attributed to exposure of a susceptible individual to an object of great personal importance, such as a piece of art. In this context, the same pattern of breakdowns has been studied with tourists who snap while visiting Florence.
Made it to 23 before I started to have a hard time.

I am the 1%.
1) Because humility dictates.

2) I have no problem someone calling themselves an 'academic philosopher' if what they teach and publish is philosophy. That still doesn't make them a philosopher though, at least not to my mind. Also, if you have studied philosophy but don't devote a good proportion of your life to philosophising you are not a philosopher.

3) Maybe I do need to distinguish between philosophers of the first rank and workaday philosophers... I'll concede that :)

4) The boundaries of what a philosopher is are far more nebulous than those of other 'professions' or 'callings' due to the very nature of philosophical pursuit and practise.

4) Would you designate Eckart Tolle a philosopher? How about Kahlil Gibran? Or Paulo Coehlo? Or Alain de Botton?

5) Allow me to demonstrate to contested fluidity of the subject: Derrida, a pillar of continental philosophy is not even recognised by some[1] as a philosopher. `Some analytic philosophers have in fact claimed, since at least the 1980s, that Derrida's work is "not philosophy."'

6) I would prefer to say that I 'do' or 'study' philosophy... :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida#Criticism_from_...
With apologies to all, everyone is missing the point, including the author.

Spoiler/tl;dr summary of this comment: Soon you will be able to generate a key while standing at the lock, scanning it with the laser scanner built into your mobile device, generating the key with a hand-held 3D printer you bought at the convenience store on the corner.

OK, longer version.

A number of comments dismiss the security threat as not particularly meaningful (give someone your keys, give them an opportunity to mess you up) and they are correct insofar as this very specific threat is concerned. It really is very similar to the traditional "give someone your credit card, they can mess you up" threat.

But think about that threat for a moment: The reality of that threat led to chip-and-pin cards, to CCVs, and to PCI compliance.

That threat was also greatly magnified by the move from the pen-and-paper world to the world of online shopping - and we've had to adjust our threat mitigation strategies appropriately.

The point of the article isn't actually for example that valets require great trust. The author actually misses the real point while describing it quite clearly: It has always been possible to do this, it's just orders of magnitude easier, and cheaper, to do it today, because of the blend of off-the-shelf widely available low-tech technology. That's the point of mentioning KeyMe: It is so easy to build the bits to do this threat that there are reliable commercial services that make money from low-cost apps and unattended kiosks.

And it is going to get much, much, much, much worse, very, very, very soon.

Very soon now you will be able to buy a pocket or at worst back-pack size multifunction replication device, that is, a 3D printer with a scanner built-in, or perhaps a 3D printer that uses your mobile device as a scanner.

With that device, you will be able to duplicate the keys on the way up the stairs.

And soon you will be able to use a commercial hand-held 3D printer with a commercial hand-held laser scanner to generate a key by scanning the lock.

That's just the beginning of tomorrow's threat model.

EDIT: Added a missing word above, and the following thought....

We assess attackers based on motivation and resourcefulness: a motivated, resourceful attacker is always a worry. The key duplication threat used to require a motivated attacker capable to acquiring resources, e.g., the prisoner, who would duplicate a key slowly and laboriously, using low-tech tools. This is a very motivated attacker.

Existing and emerging technologies make the resources widely available and lower the motivation bar dramatically. The key duplication scenario will soon be populated by the equivalent of script kiddies who will perform the threat just because they can, just because it's that easy.

That's the point of the article. That's the threat model we face going forward.
Good riddance!
I stopped using it many years ago. The default PDF reader provided by the distro is good enough for my needs.
What would you expect the tolerances to be on grid frequency?
This sounds like the app developer's equivalent to the "10,000 hour" rule of thumb.

Fifty attempts to hit the nail with a hammer is likely to improve your aim.

In addition, anyone willing to try 50 times is likely to be a survivor. Those unwilling to persist will go try their luck elsewhere.

It is oddly inspiring to see the "try 50 times" story and the payoff for the doggedly persistent developer.
News story in 2006:

Jail keys changed after TV lapse

All the locks and keys at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution have had to be replaced after security was compromised during a media visit last week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5145026.stm
I recently moved to the UK from the US and my wife has some severe medical problem. I wrote a long rant here, but I decided to be more sucinct.

UK: Decent care and treatment of foreigners with pre-existing conditions. My wife's health has improved greatly in simply a month.

USA: Don't bother. Neglecting all of the economic concerns, the actual care isn't that great. Your Crohn's disease will either be treated with a bottle of pain killers that don't do anything besides hide the problem, or you'll be accussed of being an addict searching for pain killers and tasked with proving that you actually have Crohn's disease. If the blood test comes back confirming what you've original said, they'll just repeat the blood test over and over again until statistical uncertain confirms their original diagnosis.

I've started to rant again, so I'll stop here. If you want to know more about the USA or the UK, my e-mail address is in my profile.
Too indoctrinated by academia to be employed? Out of touch with corporate expectations? Or those who aren't a fit for employment returned to get their PhD, but only as a delay to the inevitable.
Swarm.fm Update
Does the fact that a burglar used a crowbar vs. entered silently via a copied key play into how easy it is to deal with your homeowners insurance provider? (Genuinely curious, and couldn't find anything via a brief Google search.)
this is an extremely weird case of humblebragging.
"The phone didn't take those pictures!? Next you'll tell me Terry Crews doesn't even use Old Spice either!"

Does he really think anyone expects to get professionally retouched photos out of a phone?

As for licensing, I mainly wonder if the girl receives a cut of the income or if she's simply exploited either way.
Typhoon Neoguri
A fiber is point-to-point unless there's an add/drop along the way. A submarine cable is point-to-point between say California and Japan or New York and Southampton.

That 5GHz radio has short reach and low capacity. It'd only make sense in certain situations. It would not be suitable for the gigantic capacity required by the Internet backbones.

For example, with the advent of coherent optical technology, you typical submarine cable is carrying 4000x the capacity of that radio (4Tb/s). Terrestrial long haul systems can be easily 8Tb/s.
The funny thing about the Wired article they mention [0] is that it first ridicules McDonalds for being so tech-unsavy, and in the very next sentece suggests Burger King register a domain name containing an underscore...

[0] http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mcdonalds_pr.htm...
I tell this to people all the time. Usually my analogy is that working on the web now is like working on Television in the 60s. It's still early and while the medium might be defined, the delivery and the product never is.
That fascination sounds kinda like how many young people where I live relate to the US, though for different reasons.
Apple Q3, 2014 Earnings Call: It's About Continuity and Gratification
Yes, these are awful (and not only in Paris)

And the police are not tackling them, but not being naive is a good advice anywhere.

Keep off the tourist path and you'll have a much greater time.
Ask HN: Connecting with YC founders
How hard is it to get in touch with founders at YC companies? I'm looking to contact the founder of Teespring, to talk about prospective a B2B proposal.
What would stop McDonalds from suing him if he refused to relinquish the domain name for free? Couldn't they claim it was trademark infringement?

Edit: Changed "copyright" to "trademark".
The police try to tackle them, but it's very difficult. A lot of pickpockets are children.
Right. The point here is actually reducing the pool of candidates to those enthusiastic enough, and with enough time, to do projects in a way that fits the template this interviewer is looking for. I don't doubt they had success hiring people this way, rather the problem is in the false negatives as you point out.
It's really good to see such a lightweight interface, like Ollydbg. I stopped using Ollydbg back then when I had to debug some x64, but didn't find anything free with such a minimalist and powerful UI. I guess you guys made it, good job :)! I wish it was available for Mac too thought - not using Windows anymore.
I'am french and from paris. Yes it's true that paris can have some awful side, but there is some beautiful side too. I'am fond of urbex so i've discovered some place that even parisian don't know. And i know a lot of place in paris restaurant pub. If you want to have a good travel take a guide or contact someone local who can give you some tips. I always do that when i go to foreign country. Generaly i visit the local hackerspace and i ask my contacts in other undergrounds if they know someone or some place. Or i contact some people from the undergrounds that i know for advice. Exemple : There s burner everywhere in the world.
You make a good point, but I think it's clear that the Internet and HTTP will be here to stay for a long time. It's just a matter of creating something that adds real value.
International Stereotype Generator
why not visual studio?
So your solution to the problem of government overreach is to create a new government agency?

The only "department of liberty" is you, and me, and other citizens. We're sovereign under the U.S. system of law; empowered to make change in a variety of ways.

But we have to do it. There's no way around the fact that a democracy is only as good as its citizen activism. There are some things you can't outsource or delegate.
Having visted Paris on 10+ occasions it's fair to say it's one of my favorite cities. However I can see how this can happen. The more knowledge you have about the city the better your visit.

It's easy to book a bad hotel, it's easy to get lost amid the irregular street patterns and hard to find someone to give directions, it's easy to head into bad neighborhoods & get drawn into scams. It's also very easy to not know any French & think you'll get by.

These are all things that can be avoided by an hour of research or alternatively traveling with someone that has been before or on a tour that has a guide.

There are so many small tips & tricks that go into experiencing Paris properly. Having arranged visits for many friends & family it CAN be as magical as you'd expect it to be.
^ And if anyone knows about hiding treasure, it's someone with the handle "Pirate-of-SV". :)
Replace "app business" with "musician."
Prevent HangOvers with this cross platform app
This reminded me of gotchas one can fall to when defining some Lisp macro from scratch. So I decided to test whether rotatef works exactly like Python's multiple assignment:

(let ((A (vector 2 1)))
(rotatef (elt A
0)
(elt A
(1- (elt A 0))))
A)

It returns a changed vector as if indexes were saved.

I am not sure which should be considered the right behavior.
When the author is wearing gloves with cut off fingers* and poking around in the rubble of the post apocalyptic civilization looking for an iron bar suitable for fending off packs of wild dogs, I hope he remembers writing this article.

Ok... that was a bit dark. But my point is... no one knows exactly what the future holds. I do expect he is somewhat correct and more advances are in store. But sometimes given the geopolitical and resource situation I become less confident of this as a certainty.

*Post apocalypse characters must wear gloves with cut off fingers. See Mad Max and The Matrix for specific style references if you wish to make your own in preparation.
We actually had a debate about this in Norway; removing cash completely. Only 2.7% of all Norwegian transactions are in cash, anyway. In Norway I can go for months without having any cash with me. Germany, where I live now, lives and breathes cash, which was very shocking when I came here.
People should be honest in advertising.

In the UK it is very common for a competitor to send complaints about adverts to the regulators. This is almost free to the people sending the complaints but potentially costly to the advertisers.

One example of this would be mascara ads, which had very many reports being sent to and fro. Now mascara ads in England either use real product on real eyelashes or they contain disclaimers about the use of fake lashes.
I think many countries hold the same idealization for New York City.
Mods, please change the name of this submission. It is completely misleading. The linked article is titled: "Why Killing Cash is Key to Mastercard's Competitive Strategy".

On the other hand, if this was meant as click-bait, then go right ahead and not change the name. I'll just regret my click, and hopefully this comment will serve as a warning to other unsuspecting, curious individuals.

Edit: I see that the title has been changed. Thank you very much, mods!
You could also arrange the panels along a corridor entering the dangerous area so the reader reads them in order.
WRT zoning I've lived in three places with that strategy and none really worked.

One is Madison WI with pedestrian only State Street. If the experiment of State Street worked, it naturally should have spread thru the city, or at least thru downtown, over the course of many decades. Instead its mostly avoided other than sorta being an outdoor strip mall of bars, sorta. I dread going there because I no longer live there and know how unfriendly that design is to visitors.

Another example is the small boring river city I grew up in, with legendarily bad downtown street layout, loops of one way streets and no parking and narrow streets and everything a meandering unpredictable cowpath so easy to get lost, aside from only having 4 bridges over the river which cut thru downtown and the river isn't even navigable anymore. It just didn't sell and resulted in economic decline. All economic activity has always pushed out of the downtown into the areas nearby the interstate with easy parking and nobody who could afford it would voluntarily live there. People just didn't like it.

The 3rd example is I live in a suburban neighborhood about 50 years old which was intentionally zoned into quiet (admittedly large) pure residential, narrow (for suburbs) streets, and within short walking distance (oh, maybe a quarter mile) the perimeter of the subdivision is encrusted with retail and commercial and light industrial along major arterial roads. This seems an utter failure in that noone commutes by foot or bike, but I certainly see a lot of cars. In theory this should work, in practice it doesn't. Some of it is expense driven. There are 3 restaurants I could walk to in 10 minutes, but why blow the money on one of three if a 15 minute car ride puts me in reach of way over a dozen restaurants, many of which are better than the walking distance only competition? These arguments all seem to devolve into all retail/service is interchangeable commodity... the marketplace disagrees and prefers choice and competition, even if it requires personal automobiles. If I wanted to only visit 3 restaurants and 2 bars because thats all thats "within range" I'd live rural and cheap, not city prices, especially when the claim is city life means you get a better selection.

There is the meta problem, that in an area with decent public infrastructure, I can work 20 miles from home in a 20 minute commute in my comfy car. In NYC thats what, a couple hour commute in a mix of foot and public trans? I could do it, but the hit to my standard of living would be brutal. Either I'd spend all my life commuting which is a waste of a life, or I'd have to work within a 20 minute walk, which would be incredibly inefficient and I'd be stuck doing manual labor or something like that. Another thing thats rarely discussed but very important is commercial density vs residential density. I work in a 800 person building, and even if you could fit 800 tiny little houses within a short walk, if I got a new job I'd have to move which would be a PITA and we're assuming only a single breadwinner per family, what if we lived within walking distance of my wife's employer not mine?
The problem with "Yes, if.." is that the person asking only hears "Yes..." You better make sure the "if.." is in writing, with extra bold font. That, or you're stuck supporting IE6 with no budget or time to do so.
It's hard to keep off the tourist path on the first visit to Paris with an innocent child-like wife! Next time though I'll enjoy it and put more effort into finding the best places to go.
If algorithms continue to be confused by patterns painted over one's face, isn't it inevitable that eventually a lot of people will be openly wearing this in the street? I was punk rock, and we walked down the street looking even worse.

edit: also, it's a bit New Romantic/Gothy, although that effect might lessen with better, easier-to-form distraction patterns.
If there actually existed domain names with underscores, probably many casual internet users wouldn't know how to type them.
It's the same scams you can encounter in any city in Europe...
Yeah, I a french guy I would never send a foreigner there.
It's something of the past, but in modern time it's not interesting, we're not in 1920 anymore.
Thanks for the detailed answer. Hopefully you'll get it to the point where the telecommunications companies will be willing to sponsor you and provide you with free data to make your life easier - but those hacks you cooked up are really cool.

I had no idea cellphone microphones were that sensitive btw.
I believe most PIN-based payment systems end up being a lot cheaper than that, and since this is MasterCard we're talking about, maybe you should look at a network like Maestro (which is big in the EU). Unfortunately it's really hard to pin down exact rates with a casual Google search...
Excellent game. So much fun and very addictive.
> But perhaps I'm looking at this the wrong way, maybe a utopian civilization would consider thoughts of evil, thoughts of crime and intentions to harm others as a justifiably punishable event.

Maybe. And yet, I seem to remember reading an essay a while ago about the difference between cities and companies, and why some cities have lasted for thousands of years, whereas most companies are lucky to make twenty. The answer in the author's opinion was a tolerance for dissent.

So, you may be right about stopping violence, but do you think those in charge of surveillance will stop there? Because I do wonder whether, in a world where thoughtcrime is a real possibility, things might not get end up in a permanently rigid status quo, rather than the free-flowing and ever-changing conversation that we call culture.
James Lovelock, author of the "Gaia hypothesis", suggested dispersing radioactive material over a large wilderness area. The effects in any location would be lessened, animals can quickly adapt, and (for the wilderness preservationists out there) few humans would want to develop that wilderness area.
Purely noble motives regarding removing cash from society, right? It essentially gives international financial corporations oligopoly over commercial transactions.

And for those of you that cherish privacy, imagine the tracking possibilities in a society where commercial transactions no longer can be pursued anonymously.
I think phreeza's point was that underscores aren't allowed in host names. (Officially, at least. I feel like I've seen them work and then sometimes seen them not work.)