skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8116199
As soon as I get a a github repo for this thing, I'll happily accept your PR to change to 01/10/11111100010. :)
I'd been raised in a semi-Japanese home environment but wouldn't call myself an expert.

Many people would point to the Bushido culture when it comes to the aura of honor surrounding suicide. However, I think it may go even deeper.

From what I understand, Japan has never been a fully self-sufficient economy. The peasantry were always under some feudal rule and a lack of resources had been the norm. Tragic practises like carrying the elderly into the woods to be abandoned and die were not uncommon. The elderly knew when they had become more of a liability than an asset to the family and graciously accepted their fate.
That makes sense - to get any stellars from the giveaway (either from the initial sign up or from setting up password recovery), you need to confirm your identity. Otherwise, you'd be able to create a bunch of accounts and just get the 1k from password recovery on each.
So after giving them access to my facebook account I was told "Your Facebook account is too new to qualify. Stay tuned for new ways to grab stellars."

How unfortunate. And strange seeing as the account is many years old.
I remember seeing these guys pitch PagerDuty years ago at a Waterloo StartupCamp (before yc). Awesome to see them go this far!
How much creative potential do you have? Are you limited to Excel types or could you extend it arbitrarily?

VBA is a kludge, but I've always thought that spreadsheets might be an interesting programming environment if you were restricted to the native functionality with a small addition. Namely, add a new value type: "anonymous function," which consists of parameters with an excel-native body, which can be assigned to a cell. You could then call the function by referring to the cell it's stored in (or any other way you can get a reference to it) and passing parameters. Function naming would work by using named ranges.
pmarca would hate that feature, it would interfere with his tweet storms. :)

In all seriousness, noise is the biggest problem I have with twitter. When you follow more than 100 accounts, the timeline becomes pretty much useless.

Your comment gives me another idea for my app though - we will make it so each of the Top 5 is from a different unique publisher... and if more than one of their comments are trending, we choose the 'fastest'.
>Candidates who sign the CounterPAC Pledge must give 50 percent of any money spent on their behalf by a group with undisclosed donors to a charity of their opponent's choice.

This sounds like it could be abused. If I'm rich enough, what's to stop me from running a bad ad for a candidate I don't like as a way to force them to donate all their money to charity?
i used to struggle a lot with suicidal thoughts. i kept wanting to get out from the loneliness and general sense of "well what's the point? nothing i do really matters". i felt like the world was broken and alternated between trying to enjoy myself as much as i could, and wishing i could make things better.

what helped me finally move past this was repeatedly trying and failing to kill myself. always someone would come by, or i'd change my mind, at the last minute. i internalized the idea that it's not possible for a person to experience their own death. i see it in terms of the multiverse; if someone dies in my timeline, their world track has diverged so far from mine that we cannot meaningfully exchange information. i see things like war and the holocaust as being more akin to network partitions than destroyed hardware. the big bang was the network splitting for the first time, and portions of it have been trying to reconnect ever since.

i have no idea whether this is true or not, but it's .. being free from those thoughts immediately forces me to think "well if i'm stuck here, i have to make things work better for myself, since leaving apparently isn't an option."

sometimes i think i DID successfully kill myself - years ago, on my first attempt in 2006 - and i'm in a purgatory now.

i see stories of "life extension technology" being developed, and i think it's entirely plausible according to "mainstream science" that people my age will be able to live indefinitely. everyone else tells themselves "well its because of this new technology" and in the back of my mind, i keep thinking that i won't have a choice - i'll be alive forever because you can only die once.

i'm sure this all sounds ridiculous to anyone hearing it, but honestly being able to put aside suicidal thoughts, and focus on improving my life, has been really, extremely helpful. it sounds like this guy has found another way (i.e. not involving believing immortality is the default state, or that you are already dead) to make it happen.
Serif, the company behind this product, was founded in 1987. It's cool to see innovative new products from people who have been around for a while.

In the software business, too many companies older than a decade just end up milking their installed base forever with lame feature upgrades wrapped in an ancient GUI.
Could the electromagnets involved in microwave generation be interacting with the Earth's magnetic field?
I eat at Tsui Wah late at night when I go to Hong Kong, which is pretty much a HK denny's.
> Each week, the network will identify the winners. The winners are the 50 top voted for accounts that also received at last 1.5% of the vote. If no account has over 1.5% of the vote, then the top 50 accounts voted for are considered the winners. That week’s new stellars are then distributed pro-rata to the winners.

So does this mean that if one account has 5% of the vote and all remaining accounts have under 1.5%, that account will receive all of the inflation-creates Stellars?
He never claims to be an expert on English grammar.
Domain Name Registration and Geo DNS for Route 53
Fair enough. It's possible I skipped that section because I was already familiar with his HPHP/phc post. Regardless of why, I never noticed it
a time component would be helpful no?
"The Lowdown on LIDAR (Josh Blochs presentation)" is 47 chars and would probably have been kept.

Your title is link-baity. "Beats speeding ticket" and "with science" are obvious link bait. I'm kind of surprised that you thought your replacements would stick.
When this was recently posted a few weeks ago I wrote a userscript to do kind of the same thing for FF: https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/571d5d8e2d9c875d27be

It's a bit naive but people might have fun dropping in their own replacements when Hacker News gets to be a bit... much.
It's Adobe. Illustrator is buggy and inaccurate with UI flaws that have existed for years. Plus the subscription model really messed with pro indies who paid for CS. We're looking for a big change ASAP.

Really interested to see if this works. Most indie vector apps have not been ready for production use.
I personally don't care about how good or bad the politics are. The CIA clearly broke the law and anyone directly involved needs to be held accountable to the fullest extent possible. At the very least Director Brennan needs to be brought up on charges of perjury. Between him and Director Clapper the precedent is being set that its OK to lie to congress especially if you're a member of the Intelligence community.

We simply can NOT have bodies with the power of the CIA and NSA spying on our own government or people. There's no way that ends well for us as a nation.
You're right; my bad. I'll edit if possible.
I responded to a sister comment with more details. By machine, i mean machine learning algorithms... Yes i agree that hiring a good designer might produce excellent designs.. That's our challenge, to iterate till we pass a point of neat, elegant designs..
Plucker: The best HTML and ebook reader for Palm and Windows mobile devices
> "Not 100%, but an amount they agreed to"

They are holdouts precisely because they didn't agree to a haircut. Argentina declined to write a collective action clause into their bonds so that they could sell them for a higher premium. This is the price associated with accepting that risk.
In my humble opinion, as a 20 year user of vector software, Sketch sucks for drawing. It has very interesting features, mostly for UI/UX design work, but drawing anything mildly complicated is a nightmare. I'm excited to try Affinity (later today, whenever I have a chance) because their example drawings look very complicated and nuanced.

…But maybe I am not a judge of good vector creative tools because I love Corel Draw and I miss it so very much since I switched to Mac.
Except when ten years have passed and everyone's forgotten about the movie and tending its backups. Corruption happens, then it's too late. If you have a film print in a vault, it can be ignored or forgotten for decades and there's still hope.
The reason I gave you 1000 was so that I got the one time 1000 bonus from Stellar, then you paid it back. The assumption was you had already given 1000, gained the 1000 from Stellar and then got it back again.

Now, someone would give me 1000, I'll pay it back and the chain goes on :)

As it's clear you weren't quite sure how that worked, I'll pay yours back :)
So the answer was yes, someone else was interested in making this site.
The link to "Assembly" in the page footer is broken.
What happens when the limit is reached? 100,000,000,000/7,000 is "just" 15 millions accounts
How to Master the Art of Living
Speed limit laws started as a safety thing, then they were a car efficiency thing (during the 70's oil crisis). The problem is that the municipalities started to increasingly depend on the income from traffic enforcement.

No, lawmakers don't say "Hey, I know! Let's charge people money for driving over a certain speed!", they instead say: "lets install these red light cameras on this intersection that doesn't see a lot of accidents.", or "this long straight stretch of highway, with few accidents, but lots of speeding should be better policed". The enforcement of laws becomes more about making money from the tickets than from concerns about safety.
How China obtains American technological secrets
> “How do you make money? And does it involve selling my information or otherwise sharing it?” Here’s our answer: We don’t yet know how we’ll make money.

I think this is code for "we hope to get bought by Facebook".
Yeah... I'm not giving my phone number to Facebook...
> "There's a magic to the grain and the color quality that you get with film."

Can be simulated by shooting at the same frame rate (24 fps) plus some post-processing? It probably wouldn't be simple to write an accurate simulation, and it could be quite GPU intensive to process, but I imagine it's possible to get results from a digital camera that are indistinguishable from those using film.
He tells you it was about a ticket on the third slide.
The Android app is in the mitro-core/android/MitroApp directory, and should build with the Eclipse ADT. See: https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro/tree/master/mitro-core/and...
I hear you. It's a temporary measure: https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_Why_do_I_need_to_authenticate_.... Basically, it was an easy (but imperfect) way to start. We'd certainly love suggestions for other channels to distribute stellars.
Every large studio will have an archive department whose sole job is to protect the integrity of these films. They won't just 'forget' about a movie that's been placed into the archive system.
Just fixed it. Thanks.

Here's the link: https://assembly.com
The Viewport Emulator
Good question - we call this the "sham ad" problem. If an ad is of questionable origin and effectiveness, we'll investigate and even focus test it to see if it sways opinion. We have a group of 3 independent commissioners who would then vote on how to proceed. They are:

- Lawrence Lessig (Harvard, Creative Commons, MayDAY Pac)
- Richard Painter (George W. Bush's ethics czar)
- Buddy Roemer (former Governor of Louisiana, has been both a D and an R)
IIRC there's actually quite a bit of overhead and risk when doing digital storage on spinning or tape storage. Properly prepared and stored film will last quite a long time and often what degradation there is follows a known pattern. Replicating many times can be destructive to film but if archival is your goal, you do it a limited number of times and almost certainly have digital backups as well.
I have to assume that becoming a gateway requires navigating the Byzantine Hellscape of multinational financial and banking regulations. Have they discovered some non-obvious way to avoid this or are the gateways expected to be run primarily by existing financial institutions?
Their domain name would itself be worth quite some amount.
> You don't have a right to second chances

You can argue that if you want. I'm personally of the opinion that people tend not to change much.

However, you're giving a lot of power to people who probably shouldn't have it. Good luck trying to get anyone to enforce libel committed via blog/forum post.

It should probably also be noted that getting a fresh start today is much harder than ever before in modern history. It will continue to get drastically worse as we perfect facial recognition. People may not have a right to second chances, but it's been the status quo for a very long time.

> To impose such a right would be to try to force forgiveness in the minds of others

Again, no. You're misunderstanding. No one is being asked (let alone forced) to forgive/forget. The poster of the original information has no inherent right to share it with everyone in the world, and the consumer of the search engine information has no inherent right to know everything that's ever been written/observed about a person.

Obviously pushing the burden onto the search engines is pretty silly, but it's similarly obvious that the problem will get worse if it's ignored.
I've been looking for open-source alternatives to LastPass. I'll give this a whirl -- thanks!
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Plain English
Or maybe there's an even larger trend of peace lately? http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1991-01-03/
This is sort of a different way of saying the same thing: this is effectively no different from the standard tagged-union approach, with the exact same danger of calling the wrong `get` function and triggering a runtime error that you have in C et al. Don't get me wrong, it's certainly a valid representation of a sum type, but when you hear fans of Haskell and ML talking about how useful sum types are, it's generally because the compiler provides some support to ensure that they're safe and usable.
They are terrible! which is good because that means I'm not getting obsolete anytime soon. On the other hand, I'd love to see this AI get better and make me obsolete. How are you training it?
Why should there inflation be built-in at all? Or prohibited at all?
They're distinguishable. They've been shooting at 24FPS digital for a long time now, and digital post processing has been standard for decades.

It really is difficult to say what sets film apart, but it's generally agreed among cinematographers digital and analog that the filmic quality is pretty unique to the film itself, though of course it can be faked fairly well.
Sent you some, as your username is my name (with an extra 'e')!
I've noticed the exact opposite.

It can take 15 seconds for my iPad to connect to the store over wifi. Similar results on my Windows desktop and my Apple laptop.

A download will fail at least a third of the time. If I'm downloading more than one thing, or the download is large, say a movie, I almost always have to restart the download.

Television shows continually reset themselves as unwatched, or split themselves into two seasons.

Items that are downloaded to the computers or devices suddenly make themselves "unavailable" and have to be downloaded again.
Elmer – A tool to embed Python modules in C, C++ or Tcl applications
I wonder how many of the websites that are not following web standards were written by people who complained about Microsoft not following web standards ;-)
I love these. Building fraud detection systems is so funny because the signals themselves end up usually being really simple, it's just a matter of:

a) Having the tools to look at all your data to see where the patterns are

b) Having the tools to track instances of patterns once you've identified them.

But as I said, the patterns themselves are usually pretty simple, as you see in this article.

This one is a bit specific to Justworks since we use bank account numbers instead of credit card numbers, but one we've picked up is the source of the bank account is a great signal. If a company has bank accounts exclusively from certain banks then they are almost certainly fraudulent. We've even seen people try to sign up with consecutive bank account numbers from the same banks!
It would be a lot cheaper to lock one in a vacuum chamber and see if it still works.
We backpropagate the user feedback about a particular theme to its design element parameters. Then we use new parameters to produce better themes.
Build System Shootout
So I just signed for an "international account" (and not UK) and my only server choices are the 3 US locations and HKG/SYD.

Looking forward to that latency :)

Of course it's not your fault, but if UK is the only sensible choice for people in the EU (and needs a seperate account), please don't call the other offer "International".
I borrowed my classmate's TI-83 PLUS calculator and archived all his variables.
Nope.

Ed Witten (of M-Theory fame) famously did the entire undergrad physics syllabus in his own time one summer after completing a different degree. Then he applied as a postgrad, aced his interviews, and got in.

The tragic thing about the 10k myth is that it makes people who aren't the best of the best underestimate just how good the really talented people are.

Most people simply cannot do what Witten did. No amount of personal tutoring or practice time is going to give them that kind of cognitive ability.

The reality is that you can take them a random selection of kids, hothouse them in any subject, and most of them will turn out to be good at best. Not brilliant, not geniuses - just good.

There's certainly an argument to be made that a lot of talent is wasted, and education is much better at destroying ability than nurturing it. But that's a different point.

The bottom line is some people just get it - whatever it is - and they're outstanding.

I'd guess most people here get technology like that to an extent that most of the population can't imagine. I'm certainly not brilliant, but I'm much better at getting technology to work than my friends and neighbors.

Take an aptitude like that, level up ten times or so, apply it to math or physics or music, and you get some idea what 'brilliant' might mean.
Anyone interested in setting up instant funding for Stellar with ACH, let me know. We've started doing it with some Ripple Gateways and would love to work with Stellar.

tommy at knoxpayments dot com
7 tools Product Hunt used to build its community
This looks really great, sadly this is the type of product where being an early adopter makes me nervous, but after a few minutes of playing with it I'm impressed with the UI.

I love the functionality of LastPass, I really do, but man their UI is terrible. I trust them from a security front though and in the end that is what matters most to me.

If Mitro builds up that same rep then I'll switch over, but until then waiting it out. (sorry!)
A profile of the recently re-proposed (Nicaragua was one of the original Central American canal locations, along with Panama) Nicaraguan canal, it's backing, and the dissent. Nicaragua is the 2nd poorest country in the Americas, only behind Haiti, and Ortega (the Nicaraguan president) has promised the canal (back by Chinese investment) would significantly alleviate the country's poverty. There is minimal faith in the project amongst the average citizen, and the political opposition has been vociferous in dissent.

This canal could also dramatically impact the current shipping regime, although I don't really have the expertise to make specific comments.

On a personal note, I have visited Nicaragua, and can't help but think that the proposed canal would dramatically alter the country (currently one of the safest third-world countries in the world and certainly on a slow upswing into what many people picture as a second Costa Rica [dependent on politics of course]). In particular, I can only assume it would destroy Ometepe in its current form.
Absolutely! If anyone is reading this, I recommend Eric Lippert's 11 part series on immutability in C#. The concept apply everywhere, of course.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2007/11/13/immut...
:-) I'm sure good designers will never get obsolete. I responded with technical details to some sister comments.
This looks great. I'm a diehard 1Password user, and that probably won't change, but I love having open source options that have great features.
Introduction to Latency Compensation
I had the same experience exactly.
Yes, but they do business in the US. Aldi is German as well, but they have stores in the US so Americans can visit and form their own opinions about the brand. Not so with Illiad, so T-Mobile being owned by DT isn't relevant to the discussion.
Sent you 1000
2008, 15

Hung out in a private IRC channel where gamehackers resided, guys who made cheats for valve games. A few of us exploited websites (complete skids, just downloaded shit off milw0rm). Not too exciting a story, but one of the guys links me his injected c99 shell to some site, and then links me their directory of plaintext databases that include CC's and tons of info burried into some stupid generated path like a/w/da/w/r//13/g3/g/g/3/g1/g1/3ga/g/s/g/<csv files>.

Turns out all they did was parse this shit with a PHP script from their form over HTTP. I emailed them this story. 3 weeks later police raid my house, I give them every email I know of from the hackers I knew, and they spent hours meticulously disassembling every part of my computer and filing it in these special plastic bags and boxes. Then my Dads computers, and my Mom's. And all our laptops/tablets.

The only scary part was when the cops picked me up in an unmarked van to take me home to open the door for the agents or whoever they were. They asked me one question, "when you're ready, tell us what you did". Obviously being 15 I'm shitting my pants and just start ratting myself out for the next 15 minutes until we got home, and even then I had no idea what the fuck I did until it dawned on me. Cops probably tell this story to this day.

Goodbye $15k~ which I'm still on the hook for from my parents. Yet to hear back from the police.

I still have no idea what the fuck happened.
How to live for ever
The UI is indeed awesome. I'd love to see a little more development on the features (doesn't support wildcard domains, for example). But it's definitely a great starting point to work on.
HN does not care about crediting the first submitter of a link. If you're in it for the karma, submitting links is a waste of time.
One sentiment analysis, there seems to be a lot of false negatives - at least when parsing Techcrunch. For example, all these were tagged as 'negative':

- Timely Turns Your Calendar Into A Time Tracker

- Audi Tests Self-Driving Cars On Florida’s Roads

- Twitter Acquires Password Security Startup Mitro, Open Sources Its Product
If you are big enough, at some point it doesn't make sense to pay people to be your CDN.
He spoke at SXSW in Austin this year.
The signup with FB to get 5000 stellars pushed me off. Why should I give a totally new non-profit organisation access to my FB profile? I guess most of the devs here know, what that mean in terms of privacy.
and then you rewrite it?
First Nations study uncovers grizzly bear 'highway'
In terms of investing (buying Tesla stock), is Tesla's probable-seeming big success with their next two cars already built in to the price? In other words, how overvalued is Tesla stock? Would it be worth making it a significant fraction of my portfolio?