skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system currently uses the same consensus algorithm as Ripple. However, one thing David Mazières is currently spearheading is development of a provably-correct version of consensus.

(I think it's very important that whatever primitives you're building on have solid theoretical foundations, and I'm pretty excited to see the infrastructure improvements Stellar is going to introduce there.)
Looks fantastic! Amazing job Mathias!
Toronto ranked 15th on global list of millionaires
We have to keep in mind that much of Anime targets specific demographics and specific subcultures. It is not usually intended to portray society in a realistic or general manner, with some exceptions.
I'm a 1password user, but I'll definitely be checking this out. Having recently switched to Windows, I'm liking it a lot less. To put it charitably, their Windows version is not quite as nice as the Mac and iOS releases.

It's a sunk cost at this point, but owning 1password on 3 platforms is expensive. $70 for my laptop and desktop, and another $18 for my phone. But I bought into it because the Mac version is great and I was primarily a Mac user at the time. Oh well.
I can't speak to their pricing, but ours is $15/serving which includes free shipping.
http://shipilev.net/talks/jvmls-July2014-benchmarking.pdf

Slide 6/75 Theory: Why would people benchmark?
Slide 7/75 Theory: In the name of Holywar
My favorite example: Computer Language Benchmarks Game

In the name of Teaching

Replace very-wrong ideas with less-wrong ideas.
I guess YMMV. I tend to work harder at MOOCs now than I did at classes in college, making sure I understand derivations of formulas rather than just memorizing the formula for use on a test. I don't really know how my college-aged self would have behaved though. I've also found the for-pay structured certificate-granting aspect of what Coursera calls "specializations" is a decent motivator, along the lines of tuition and grades at college. Definitely, camaraderie (and similar: networking) is a major component of the college experience that is missing (or spoken to in a very token way) from the online experience.
I am curious if I ask I can publish a howto following his steps.

I will ask.
>is excel speed a common problem for people?

There are people who will pay for any amount of speed in a spreadsheet. These people buy the fastest PCs they can to run overnight spreadsheets that involve sloshing millions of dollars around. Large chunks of the world's financial industries run in Excel macros. (Be very afraid.)
I wonder if the Japanese groan when they have to get into one of those...
Suicidal people by definition have a low regard for their own lives, and are often in search of purpose or meaning. Enlisting to fight a war might be a solution to both. (I'm not an expert though, and the only evidence I have for this theory is knowing two fairly depressed people that enlisted during the recent Iraq war.)
Heroku now abides by Safe Harbor
Never hurts to ask. If they know you're a low-risk tenant, they might be able to reduce their margins accordingly.
In my experience, SMS is still many times worse. Long messages arrive out of order and parts sometimes do not arrive at all. I've had messages to friends on AT&T delivered 36 hours late, causing confusion.

iMessage, on the other hand, has mandatory delivery confirmation (so you can at least know if a message is going to be problematic) and optional read receipts.
The drawback to services like this is that they are great at hindsight (Aha! Based on the signals we should have known!) but bad at prediction. Take the example of Doral, FL that they offer; it has 8X higher fraud. But, should you avoid Doral customers? No. Should you avoid people who use forwarding services? No. But if you're scammed, you can look back and say "I should have known!"
Ask HN: Should I launch my app without in-app purchases?
My app was recently approved today, but I read that paid apps get most of their traffic in the early days.

I want feedback on my app, and I'd like to make a little money back from it, but it's my first app and I need to test the idea.

Would adding in-app purchases later be a waste of time because traffic will be low? Should I just release now at a low price? It's a personal productivity app. I plan on getting most of my traffic from blogging as the app represents something I've cared a lot about for a long time.

I plan to Show HN soon, and I think I'd get more feedback if it was free vs. $1 or $3.
Even if it's encrypted?
We have no technology for carrying energy that does not waste more than enough mass for using in reaction. Reaction mass is free with the carried energy.

Well, except for solar pannels, of course. But you can't move near lightspeed and stay near the Sun.
One of the founders of Tumult Hype here --

When we started out Adobe was still sticking to their Flash guns. As HTML5 was the only method to make animated web content on iOS, it was clear someone needed to make tools aimed at graphic designers, so we decided that someone should be us! Luckily with no other competing apps around, we didn't have to deal with an uphill battle on feature parity unlike these vector editors do with Illustrator. So I wouldn't say we were disgruntled, just trying to fill in a hole. And, on a personal note I had a need for such a tool for a side project I was working on.

OS X is a great platform to develop for generally speaking. We naturally leverage WebKit, and Quartz and CoreImage frameworks I'm sure do a lot of heavy lifting for the vector-based tools. Also keep in mind a larger percent of graphic pros use a Mac than the general population, so if you're building a tool it is a safe bet to start on the Mac.
Is there any difference between this and blueapron? Do I get to choose which recipe I'd like to have delivered?
No, I meant that chromecast's value proposition isn't "if you don't have an HDMI port, you can use this to watch things!", so I don't understand the comment about Macs and HDMI ports. My computer has an HDMI port and I wouldn't dream of that making my chromecast redundant.
What is the difference between free on youtube (and app/play store) and comcast on netflix ? I don't see one, Free is an enemy of net neutrality, I left them for that, and had a 15min call with their customer support after where they acknowledged that fact. I also left their mobile offer because it just didn't work (dropped http, call, sms).
Freelancer.com using bots or copywriters to write fake user profile content
“TurboFan” – Experimental new optimizing compiler for Google's V8 JS engine
There's no method to reset Mitro, so if you're like me and Mitro ran into an error partway through importing your KeePass database, you won't be able to reset Mitro and try importing with a different method.

Do I seriously have to click manage->delete secret thousands of times just to reset Mitro?
Nice job following the Harry's model of pre-launch promotion.
Exec summary: a geek/nerd gets a speeding ticket driving a porsche.
5 years later he's still doing powerpoints on it rather than getting a life
um, no you don't, and yes i've done something similar before

While I'm sure there are valid reasons for ua spoofing, I'd bet it's a great signal for fraud.
US journals aren't big on publishing null results either.
Nice.

Do you have any pictures of OnMetal infrastructure? What do you guys have between the servers and the API layer?
Does this affect AppleTV any?
Quite possibly, they saw the same item purchased 5 times within minutes, all off of other Discover cards. You'd only see the transaction that used your number.
Show HN: I'm renting a truck to make buying and selling furniture easier
Yeah, I get the feeling they don't care about their Windows users at all. I just try to ignore the Windows desktop app because at least the Chrome extension is fine in Windows.
Hey guys, I built this with the team at Fobo.net. It’s just a quick experiment I put together during the week.

The idea is to rent a truck and drive around the city picking up anything you want to sell. Furniture, appliances, etc. – anything of value that fits on a moving truck, as long as it isn't broken, in poor condition, or something you'd typically donate.

At pickup, we photograph your items, put them on the truck, ask for minimum selling prices, and notify SF folks of the deal. Highest bidder after 90 mins gets the item delivered. We have 100’s of interested buyers in SF so far.

Would love feedback. To cover the cost of delivery and movers I ask that you split the final price 50/50 on large items. Happy to wave the cost on more high-end items for now, just ask.
@joshfraser - http://sourcery.us/ can help you with streamlining your sourcing, as well as surfacing the upstream supplier and location information (where available) just give us a shout!
I got an email invite, curious where they harvested my address from.
I'm not sure anyone in a high profile position can guarantee exclusion from being criticized. Having said that, I don't think it's fair to come in here an parrot some vague negative statement and then use it to question their motives. If you've got a specific beef with him, then you should just say what you mean instead of saying something that only serves to lay blame without rational.

95% of the coin is being given away and the effort is decentralized in nature. A 5% fee for the continued development of this platform and a fair amount of control over it's direction seems overly reasonable to me. Clearly Jed and his team care about creating something that is beneficial to everyone. I'd rather see speculation about the possible benefits than a rathole over something someone got bent about during the Ripple deal.
How do you handle property management?
I am some kind of weird mutant because I consider having external javascript on my website to be an embarrassment for anything bigger than a hobby project -- but 99% of the universe behaves otherwise.
Not quite "across the country", maybe halfway. Still rather impressive.
Presumably encrypting them with a password you control?
If a scam works once, it will probably be tried again. Even if you are correct, there is probably value in simply detecting similar scams. Plus, if sift's network is big enough, a given business will be protected against scams that hit other businesses.
Uhm... so? 15 TB of storage cost way under $1k.
Virginia is also a state that bans the use of RADAR/LIDAR detectors.

I suspect that this business model is in trouble if GPS makers begin to track speed-limit information and pass that along to their users.
Film sales declined by 96%. If that Kodad factory closes, the last 4% are gone.
He said 'bot farm' that could just be a group of EC2 servers. He didn't mention botnet. A bot is just an automated program, a bot farm is a group of automated programs.
No what? You won't report a bug? That's idiotic.
Thanks Daniel. Here's another peek into the work we've put into building a reliable system - http://blog.pagerduty.com/2014/04/end-to-end-sms-provider-te...
I've heard that good signals are things like small gas purchases at a gas station you haven't been to before; they're used to test card validity at a pay-station with no human present.
The scariest USB hack of all-time is almost completely undetectable
The graphs say local time; I interpreted that to mean ip-address local time.
As a warning for any who choose to hack on this, cloudflare gets a bit upset if you query too often, resulting in a period of sadness. It's probably a good sign I should be doing unit testing.
This is true of many riverfront municipalities. 771 cities in the US have combined sewer overflows [1]. My partner monitors the pollution level in the Hudson across from NYC (in Hoboken) and when it hasn't rained in a few days the water is clean enough to swim. But after a heavy rain, it is, indeed, foul.

That said, the Hudson is ridiculously cleaner than it was 20 years ago. So much so that the Marine Borer (a type of worm that eats wood) has made its return and is destroying the old piles that hold up parts of the landfill on the waterfront. Unintended consequences, but worth it.

[1] List here: http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/npdes/cso/
Sadly, nothing will ever happen to Brennan or Clapper. And if there was even a wiff of charges, Obama will pardon them at the end of his presidency.

But even more sadder is that by stating the above, you're possibly now on a list, used by the people above to keep tabs on you.
I have to wonder - did Richardson's work influence Isaac Asimov at any point? The concept of diffusion applied to sociology sounds quite a lot like the basis of Foundation. Hell, the very idea that you could mathematically predict how nations in aggregate behave does sound like basis for psychohistory.

Asimov was a chemist, so he would have known diffusion by heart.
"Users want and demand a rich computing experience."[1]

[1] http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18.85.html#subj6
By your logic, it should be safe to describe surviving on a concentrated stream of spiritual energy emanating from the Godhead as an alternative to eating food, even if it's only available to the 12 Ascended Masters.

Saying that this is only an alternative on a Mac is not trolling, not a strawman, and not an error, it's a clarification that people looking at thread titles to click on might appreciate. You're either a troll, or you're an idiot, and I'm honestly curious which, because I would like to assume the former, but your post makes no sense, even as a troll message. What was your motivation?
And entanglement.
> No, the density of suburbs doesn't inevitably increase.

This is a very badly thought out statement. The only way a suburb could not increase in density over time would be if it were to spring from the head of Zeus fully formed and populated at its inception.

The way reality works is, a bunch of land is owned by whoeverthefuck and is just green space and farmland until people start building on it. They don't fill up the entire suburb all at once. They'll build a few houses or a development, people who appreciate all the green space will move there, and the process repeats until the amount of green space starts to dwindle, the nature of the buildings themselves might change as land's value changes and the roads change, apartments are built instead of houses, etc. etc. The suburb's density increases.

I've witnessed this enough that your denial strikes me as strange. If you want to argue that the end result of such a process isn't great, I happen to agree...
Is it seriously? Right now we're having a civil war in the middle of Europe, "war on drugs" claims thousands of victims each year, both may continue without end and even expand.

And I'm not even touching middle east and africa where civil war without end seems to be the new norm.

We don't see superpower regular army clashes, but we're having other wars in excess.
Thanks! I'll try to put in a bit more work on the UI front. I look forward to any more feedback you have.
This is why anycast is better than DNS for cdn, IMHO :)
Would appreciate some also. The connect with Facebook button on the Stellar dashboard isn't working. Username is keanemachine ;)
Apparently not very common in China, which would make it notable there.

Citing Talhelm as "grad student" in the title makes it a bit more clickbaity, gives it a sort of a "one weird trick" vibe, but reading the article it does sound like he's onto something.
It's nothing to do with Operation Mockingbird. It's simply pure Kleptocracy. Anyone with an objective eye can see that this is the inevitable path the US has paved for itself.
I agree, everything isn't pink in Iliad-land, but you can expect occasional fuck-ups from any massive service provider.

I've been a 'free' home internet customer for a little over 10 years now and mobile customer since they launched their mobile services (jan 2012)

I'm a happy customer.
My phone bill dropped from an average of 70€ to 16€. Yes, part of the network relies on Orange (Previously called France Télécom, French main carrier). As long as i can make phone calls, send text mssgs and have 3G/4G coverage, i'm ok with that

As for the Internet + TV + Landline Phone it's been a blast for the last 10 years.
It costs 36€/month for broadband internet, unlimited phone calls to landline phones of over 100 countries + a fantastic box that plays blu-rays/dvds, streams AirPlay, it has an internal 250Gb hard drive which makes a very capable multimedia player (it can download torrents, you can securely have access to the box from any computer so it can be used as a nas etc..

Regarding YouTube streaming, it can a bit slow at times. That's true.
But the discussion/debate between service providers vs content providers is interesting.

Content providers such as google (youtube), netflix (soon to be launched in france) etc.. make money distributing content, yet service providers are they ones who should support the cost and invest (in other words buy bigger pipes) to stream content to the end users. But maybe that's not relevant in this topic.

Anyway, fellow americans, i think Iliad/Free will definitely be good news for you.
They shake things up. Here in France, the same pattern happened when they launched the Freebox (home internet package) and again when they became mobile carrier. Competitors dropped their priced dramatically.
Competition is always a good thing in a free market. Economics 101 :)
We're even using their code!
https://github.com/harrystech/prelaunchr

Here's the context for those who missed the story: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/07/21/harrys-prelaunchr-ema...
Stellar is built to be a bridge from the physical one to the digital one. There certainly are tradeoffs there, particularly that the kinds of trust relationships needed for your life today have direct analogues. But, as I mentioned in https://stripe.com/blog/bitcoin-the-stripe-perspective, it's not obvious that the Bitcoin technology on its own will end up being enough to avoid having to reintroduce trust in some form. (There is a chance that we'll figure out how to do trust in a distributed fashion, which would be awesome for both Bitcoin and Stellar.)

So I'm with you — there are real tradeoffs here, and I'd encourage everyone interested in this stuff to mull them over (and I'm also happy to discuss: gdb@stripe.com). But one thing I really respect about the Stellar organization is the very deliberate approach they've taken to these choices, and how they've found a happy middle that feels like a translation of the existing physical world into the new digital one. If it works, I think it'll make Bitcoin and other digital currencies even more successful.
Wow, async tasks on top of WP? You are truly heroes, in a sick and twisted kind of way. Nice work.
That's not the one, but it's along similar lines. The site had lots of graphics and was written in layman's terms. I think I first read it around 1999 or 2000, and then lost it.

I agree with the others that any force above light pressure would appear to violate Newton’s laws.

However, I have never seen an analysis or simulation that incorporates the delay in the speed of light. Ring 1 would be limited to light pressure, and be symmetrical, but ring 2 would dissipate one half of the wave by canceling it, so technically only 3/4 of the energy would be emitted if we thought of the whole system as a black box. The other 1/4 would have to go somewhere, probably mostly heating the rings but some of it could go into the box as kinetic energy.

I think an easier way to run the experiment might be to set up a square wave with a duty cycle of 25% and a period equal to the time it takes for light to propagate between the rings. Then it would just be a matter of varying the phase on one of the rings and seeing if there’s a net force on the setup. With a spacing of 10 centimeters, there would only be 0.33 nanoseconds to build a magnetic field, and it’s going to fall by the square of the distance between coils, unless we could use the long wire approximation for large coils which falls linearly by distance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampère%27s_force_law#Equation

The forces might be small but they should be measurable, and if they are even a fraction of a percent above light pressure, it’s a really big deal. Maybe the duty cycle should be 33% or 50%, maybe the period should be double or half this, maybe another waveform would be more efficient, but you get the idea.

Blah what I wouldn’t give to have the disposable income to work on this and the hundred other half-baked ideas laying around the house. It’s a special kind of hell to toil away one’s life making rent while watching the wondrous breakthroughs of the world spring forth from other people’s minds.
That's exactly the reason I haven't switched away from my ISP's DNS because some services do run significantly better over my ISP's DNS instead of the non-ISP ones.
If I recall correctly, for reasons I don't understand, this is not only not implemented in California, but not even legal there.
Title changes are a perennial point of friction. Much time and energy by many parties has been spent over months debating and analyzing it.

Why not just implement a title history feature? Mods can change title, then users can click a link to show title history.

For extra points, you could make the title history page a poll/voting system which allows users above n karma, registered for x months to vote on their preferred title. Top voted title after y votes and z time after initial title change is what's used.
I did in fact already run this scenario. The fallout area is large if you set the threshold low enough. But from what I understand, the largest rings do not render the area uninhabitable by any means. Perhaps the smallest inner ring does. Fallout is also generally a short-term effect -- weeks, not decades.

Also be aware that fallout from an underground blast (as in a silo) is going to spread much differently from fallout from an airburst.
"I think people should be able to donate to causes anonymously without worrying about retaliation.."

But this has never been the case, it didn't start with Mozilla. Laborers used to be at risk of being murdered for attempting to unionize, here's a nice example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Little_(unionist). Even in less extreme cases, they could lose their jobs, and they still do, routinely (despite the fact that union activists have a small amount of legal protection today).
But they did throw in a "quantum" or two. This is basically what they are shooting for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_vacuum_plasma_thruster
At one point I was thinking about setting up a tv channel for VLC... you can write a lua script to let VLC extract video urls from a webpage. So I'd use Tor/bitcoin to get hosting somewhere, put up a simple page for that purpose, and use Youtube to host the videos. You need Google accounts though, lots of them (Google would suspend them quickly, after all).

The solution I considered was paying people in Africa to sign up for gmail for me, and I'd pay them per account. I figured I'd only need 50-100 per month, so the low volume might make it possible. They often have smartphones, and amounts that are too low for you to bother with might be a decent payday for them for 5 minutes work.

Now, I know what you're going to say... Youtube detects copyrighted works, won't let you upload them. That part was easy.

Just invert the video color, and flip it upside down. Then the lua script for VLC would de-invert and unflip it. And I could even bring in the audio from another site (VLC allows muxing), since Youtube uses audio signatures more than they do video signatures for that stuff.

I had a prototype going for awhile. Called it "Space Potato Channel". It just played videos others had uploaded (wrote a little backend to schedule movies). If you tuned in 5 minutes late, it'd show the video 5 minutes in, etc. Then I learned about how the NSA was giving tips to law enforcement and doing the parallel reconstruction thing, and I reconsidered my scheme to become a bitcoin millionaire.

Long story short, gmail accounts were never something I thought would be much of a problem.
You can get selected, but only problem is not all of them sponsors. If they do, you are in luck.