skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to live near the Tojimbo cliffs and have been thinking about the place (and what happens there) on and off since my first visit. I also really liked this NYT article, about a retired cop who made it his mission to stop suicide attempts at the cliffs. 222 lives had been saved as of late 2009.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/world/asia/18japan.html?_r...
So how long until this gets forgotten about and then taken offline, like Google Base, Google Notebook, Google Sidewiki, Google Wave, and whatever other note-taking stuff I've missed?
Doesn't having it in Python mean that its memory requirements are moderately large in comparison to pure C++ code?
This is really cool, and I have to say I'm impressed, but is excel speed a common problem for people?

Are you trying to monetize this? Who is your target market? I'm genuinely curious.

I work at $BIGCORP in analytics with a lot of large excel spreadsheets every day. If I bump up against row limits or need functionality not available in excel I'll import into a corporate oracle db and manipulate it with SQL. A lot of the people that I collaborate with can only use Excel and it's often faster to just manipulate data there rather than put it into a real db or parse it with another tool.

With modern computers I can tell you it is a very rare occurrence that I cause excel to choke. On the order of once a quarter.
I've never seen it before. Maybe others missed its release too.
You get 1000 for verifying email.
This presentation was not to a court; see slide 51 for the resolution: his attorney bargained it down to a zero-points violation before trial.
Pick a specific audience and build them a platform or a way to connect with others looking for their services.

Some random ideas I just came up with are below. Not all of them passive, but might still interest you.

- Website with WordPress templates for real estate agents.

- WordPress multisite network that enables real estate agents to create a site quickly and then pay a monthly hosting fee. You could scale this by selling to different real estate companies, getting all of their agents a personal site.

- Mobile marketing for restaurants. Create a service that enables restaurants to send text message deals to customers.

- Pick an audience that interests you and post user generated content. Then sell ads/sponsorships to companies that want to be in front of that audience. For example, if you create a site for people to submit cute dog pictures, a company like BarkBox might pay for sponsorship.

- Teach people a skill and use Amazon affiliate links to the tools that you use (if possible).

- Marketing analytics. Build a tool that integrates with Google analytics and provides recommended actions to take to improve website performance.

- Create a stock photo site for a specific niche (doctors, lawyers, start ups, etc).

- Create a directory for a specific niche and then sell top placement on that directory.

- Create a site that allows people who don't know how to code to make an app.
Puzzle/racer set in a Soviet space colony full of Lenin clones
How the FDA Fails to Curb Antibiotic Overuse
A given car will either use refined gas or electricity. The point is those both use a similar amount of electricity, either way the impact on the grid is similar. Oil companies are not going to refine more gas than is used. They might refine more than is used on a particular day or even month, but they are not going to outpace demand on any long time scale.
From the guidelines:

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

and

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
To boil it way down: The root claim is that there is a way to craft a special closed box that when you apply electricity to it, the box starts moving (linearly) without either pushing off of anything or throwing anything out. If that were true, it'd mean an awful lot for space travel; changing direction in space requires a ship to either crash into something or throw bits of itself away until it runs out of bits. If this thing works the way it is claimed to, a spaceship using it could control its motion forever, powered by merely the light of the nearest star.

(... it probably doesn't work the way it's claimed to, because if it does, there's a lot of interesting things we should already have seen by now in the "closed boxes moving around as if by magic" category; the universe is a big, big place of big, big possibilities. But lack of observation doesn't make it impossible, just unlikely).
Github is a much more social and connected platform than google code. Easier to find and fork projects and more of a neutral venue where different technologies can co-exist. Another interesting thing is that a lot of the google developers are on stackoverflow, which isn't google centric, but is very accessible as well.
I'm hosting a talk about Rails 4 going through all the new features as of the 4.1 release. It will be targeted towards people new to Rails and experienced Rails 3 developers.

This event has an amazing lineup and I'm looking forward to attending many of the sessions myself.
Why do people up vote old news?

I'm not trying to be a negative nancy but Google released this product a year ago with barely any updates after they failed to buy Evernote.
Interestingly the system you describe, marking two points and measuring time between them is illegal in California:

Definition of a speed trap: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d17/vc40802.htm

Speed traps are prohibited: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d17/vc40801.htm
You are right, things have changed in Colombia, but might be too early to say it is more stable
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

Figure 1 is particularly helpful.
Where does DataNitro run - is it an add-in, is it a desktop program that operates on external Excel files, or are the files uploaded to, and processed on your site? If it's an add-in, is it Windows-only (COM)?
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Wouldn't it be a better use of his life to work to make sure that sort of accident never happens again? Maybe he changes the culture that led to his incompetence. Maybe he tutors young architects and teaches them to learn from his mistake. I think someone that makes such a huge mistake is actually in a very powerful position to salvage something from it.
I wish you the best of luck but I unsubscribe from every Drip marketing list. ;)
>Facebook

Ha ha ha. No.

The rest of it looks interesting, however.
How is a ticket quota any different than a SLOC quota or a SLOC analysis in a performance review?. Quantity of tickets issued is a productivity metric, as flawed as it is. Their existence does not imply that tickets exist for revenue.
Exactly. Cheap energy (and therefore, cheap transport) allows one to live in a relatively low cost-of-living area where land is cheap (suburb), but work/shop/recreate in a higher COL area (city). The rich can afford to live in the more expensive areas like Manhattan, while the working class have to live hours away from where they work (New Jersey, upstate NY, etc).

In the modern era of stagnating wages, this is the primary way a working family can give themselves an effective "raise", by living in a cheap area and working in an expensive area. It should come as no surprise, therefore, all the megacommutes people are doing as a result.
Looks like a really interesting project! I started on this route, out of a need to balance everything in life, but quickly realized that the kind of AI I'd need would likely be a lot of work.

I personally opted for an assistant off Odesk & Trello. Assistant got to know me better over time, understood priorities etc. I certainly think there's a need for something like this, and so far haven't found anything that quite fits the bill (besides hiring another human being, which isn't terribly efficient either).
I just created a subreddit for further discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/thestellar
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In my case, because its been around for a year, yet I just discovered its existence from this post. Not that this says much for the product.
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I'm in Cambridge with 3 school age kids, and I never want to leave. High-five!
When I read the new PHP spec, I threw up in my mouth after I saw that empty("0") was a special case of empty that returned TRUE. I know that's how PHP normally works, but that doesn't really make my mouth taste any better.
It's been around for a while, but I find it very handy. It does a good job as a simple Android note-taking application and the integration with Google Services makes it accessible anywhere without managing yet another account.

Definitely no competition for the likes of Evernote, but I don't need anything that complicated. Just something to set reminders, keep lists, take notes, etc.
I expect to see a post about time synchronization problems with remote equipment.
We kept that in mind - the actual core is written in C, Python is used mainly for auxiliary jobs (parsing etc.)
Most people who do heavy analytics in Excel don't have the option of importing something into a DB and using SQL, either because they aren't familiar with SQL or because they have to send the spreadsheet (and not just the result of the calculation) to someone who does.

Right now we're focusing on building the software over monetization - the beta is free and will be for a while. Our target market is Excel-based analysts. They're found in a lot of sectors, finance and ad-tech being two major ones.
I posted this on the support forum as well, but myself and at least one other user have had this problem: I created an account, but it timed out and never took me to the next page, however I received the two confirmation emails (including the pw recovery code). When I try to log in though, I get invalid username or password, and the password recovery code is useless. So it looks like it's possible to create an account which is completely inaccessible.

EDIT: Looks like more folks are reporting the same issue.
Calling yourself not-for-profit doesn't make it true. I'm not so sure why they needed $3M for something that only needs to pay for a few developers, and why they need to be in control of the issuing of the currency (unlike Bitcoin).
I make Excel choke regularly. For example, copy-pasting a complicated vlookup down 1 million rows takes forever.
This is such a great thing to do. Thank god they persevered through the trough of sorrow.
The one I've seen were not installed on the toll booths themselves (those are only there when entering or exiting the freeway) but on separate kind of portals above the road.

A camera records the traffic, a computer extract the plates. Then later you have the same setup, and they can then calculate your average speed between the two. The French name is "radar tronçon".
That's so bold! You're a good guy.
I note that's not actually a denial, just an admission that what they do is absurd. :-)
I know the trucking industry regularly criticizes the safety implications of having a separate speed limit for them, as it makes lane changes much more complicated. They aren't impartial to the financial impact of the speed limit though, so there's that.
After reading your critique, I'm now very confused on where this spec stands. Is Zend bound by it (I don't think so)? For example, you mention absence of RAII, I don't think that Zend's PHP will lack RAII (because they don't break BC), but new implementations following this (proposed?) spec are free to disallow it
It turns out that is what judges do. When there is a disagreement about the terms of a contract a judge or jury has to decide what to do.
And what is with people, that don't have a Facebook account (yet)?

I guess, anybody that creates a new Facebook account now, because he wants to also get the Stellars will fall into the spam category.

tl;dr: Isn't it a legitimate interest, to get something that others get? Or is it just a giveaway for Facebook users? When so, would you please say so in the first place (, that your system is only for them). It does not foster my trust in this new system, when I am locked out, just because I am not inside some "special club" (I don't remember, that Facebook membership is now essential to interact in the internet -- .... I am at the verge to feel discriminated.).

I find it good, to have an alternate payment method to get out of the trap of traditional payment systems, that are dominated by a few big corporations .... and then, what happens, I have to bow to one even bigger monopolist. --> Does not foster my trust into a system that claims to be free and open.
>They exist to disincentivize speeding

Where I live, in Chicago, the speed limits are so low on some freeways that 91-98 percent of people are going over the speed limit, and the average speed is over 70mph. So everyone, including the police it seems, agrees that the speed limits here are not for my safety, but exist as a way for the officers to cherry pick essentially any car they want and write them a ticket.
If you or I participated in money laundering for drug smuggling we would spend forever in jail. That's true if the amount of money involved was thousands or millions of dollars. But once you get into billions of money laundered and once a big multi-national bank is involved then suddenly everything becomes less serious and only fines and admonishments are handed out.
I was able to successfully sign up and get 5,000 STR, so that worked for me at least. But then I started looking a little deeper into the blog post.

> Development is led by Jed McCaleb and Dr. David Mazieres in collaboration with a small team of others. (The technology is based on the open-source Ripple project, originally created by Jed a few years ago.)

So, is Stellar fundamentally the same thing as and/or a fork of Ripple? They've hired the same guy who started Ripple (Jed McCaleb), and as I recall there were a lot of concerns around that, as noted in a WSJ article [0] and other places. Jed is also on the Stellar board, too, one of only three members -- and so wields a considerable amount of influence.

If so, then doesn't it have all the same problems and concerns as Ripple? Centralized authority holding a large chunk of initial funds, questionable governance decisions, etc., just to name a few of the political problems, not just the technical ones.

I'd love to see the "IP layer for currency" described by Stripe succeed, but I'm not sure that this implementation of it represents a good idea. And I'm also concerned about whether Jed, the cofounder of both MtGox and Ripple, has the best interests of Stellar at heart.

[0] http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/22/ripple-alternative...
Every time I see figure 1 I completely lose it.
It all runs locally, Excel files are not sent remotely. No COM is used (god forbid!) for the engine. We have a small plugin for nice UI in Excel, but the engine can be run outside of Excel as well.
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That's a fair criticism. It sucks when Google kills a product you've invested a lot of time and effort in, but Google Takeout should a least make the data recoverable after the fact.

I don't see this product specifically listed in their Takeout offerings[1], but I think it is included in Google Drive.

Edit: On the bright side, they have been making incremental improvements in the year or so since it was launched. The Android app has received several updates for better design and new features, including reminders based on location or time and the ability to make checklists.

[1] https://www.google.com/settings/takeout
"Iliad is a French provider of telecommunication services. It is based in Paris and its operations comprise fixed and mobile telephony services, prepaid phone cards and internet access providing and hosting services. The company was founded by Xavier Niel in 1999." -Wikipedia
This is exactly why I'm so excited for iOS 8. I never liked the apps living in their own walled garden and am excited to see those walls start to break.
The title has been changed to the title the original author used, which seems appropriate. I think HN's title modding is done to prevent rampant link baiting and other titling by 3rd parties, instead entrusting it with the original author
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Iliad is awesome. They own "Free" in France. It's the company that started offering TV + phone + broadband at 30€/month that every other company had to align with in the mid-2000s. They entered the mobile carrier market two years ago and offered something unheard of - Unlimited calls/text (to France and dozens of other countries) + a few gigs of data for 20€/month and another plan that costs 2€/month. Other carriers had to lower their costs as well. They managed to capture more than 10% of the market in 2 years.

I'm very excited to see what they'd be up to in the US; the current oligopoly needs a bit of a shake up... and I don't think there could be a better new for US consumers that Iliad entering the market. Savings for French consumers were estimated to 7B€ and a minister even said that "Free increased the purchase power of the French people by more than Nicolas Sarkozy ever did in 5 years".
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Welp, I guess I won't be using Stellar
So regardless of the science behind it, what is the successful legal forum / mechanism to raise doubt about the accuracy of the technology being used by police?
I'll take some of that, please! 'thrashr888'
You're right -- they can't limit this service to ONLY Facebook or Twitter and expect it to succeed. They'd need to give you a big enough slice of the internet that most external links will work. Or, at the very least, they would need to provide a means for gaining access (i.e. watch this ad, or pay for temporary access, or buy this cheap add-on package).

My point wasn't that the Internet would suddenly become a set of pre-packaged channels. It's just that, if you leave it up to the average internet subscriber, I can see a future where the desires of many price-conscious consumers ultimately how Internet service gets structured. I suspect my parents, for instance, would be willing to trade reduced Internet access for much lower prices.

Sure, plenty of people would still go for the "Real Internet Access" option, but for a ton of consumers the Internet would cease being as open as it is today, and I'm not so sure they wouldn't be totally okay with that, if it meant paying a lot less.
I'd more interested in seeing a CUDA implementation. If they were able to get 100x baseline on the CPU, I'd expect the GPU implementation to be at least 1000x baseline as most tasks are "infinitely" parallelizable (row additions, multiplication etc.)
This is largely the approach I've had to scheduling commitments for >2yrs now. I found the initial challenges being:
- accurately estimating time
- being honest & disciplined about your daily capacity.
GDB 7.8 released
Another thing to keep in mind is that BIG would be basic, and living on it would not be particularly luxurious. Unless you did things to supplement the basic income then you probably wouldn't be able to afford to buy or run a vehicle, go on foreign holidays, have the latest fancyphone or anything of that sort. So financial incentives would still exist for most people.
Actually, as its co-designed by a compiler writer (read the bio we paste with the talks:

> Ivan Godard has designed, implemented or led the teams for 11 compilers for a variety of languages and targets, an operating system, an object-oriented database, and four instruction set architectures. He participated in the revision of Algol68 and is mentioned in its Report, was on the Green team that won the Ada language competition, designed the Mary family of system implementation languages, and was founding editor of the Machine Oriented Languages Bulletin. He is a Member Emeritus of IFIPS Working Group 2.4 (Implementation languages) and was a member of the committee that produced the IEEE and ISO floating-point standard 754-2011.

), its actually designed to be easy to write a compiler for. It's he polar opposite of the "sufficiently smart compiler syndrome" :)

I keep suggesting we do a "sufficiently dumb compiler syndrome" talk, but it'd contain nothing novel; the art is well established by all the VLIW machines that have come before.
That's not exactly what I'm after. Being so far removed from the country they're based in, I have no idea what the general sentiment about the company is.

How is their customer service? Are their product offerings priced competitively? Do they generally "go to bat" for their customers on issues like privacy and net neutrality?

On a scale of Google Fiber to Comcast, how do they rate?
Is Drip available as a whitelabel product?
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The bots should all cooperate with each other, except for one which will defect against peers and take all the points for the win.
still waiting for my 2k :P
You've posted this 5 times. Please stop.
If i had a site, and i knew people loved it, just not enough, then killing it would bring me pain. but that is emotional and subjective.
This kind of looks like a re-branding of Ripple. Ripple had a lot of image issues after one of the founders quit accusing the company of unethical behavior. Kind of unfortunate that Stripe would through their weight behind Ripple in any way.
But this one is better because it has mandatory Facebook integration! Exactly what everyone wants!
Looking forward to a few of these
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Iliad and Xavier Niel make $15B to takeover T-Mobile US
You might want to read this.

http://www.familyhandyman.com/smart-homeowner/energy-saving-...
Google Map: The Perlan
I was scrolling all over Iceland trying to find the proposed area for The Land of Giants and ran across this:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=64.129100,+-21.918994&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=A

Iceland's Perlan : A sweet piece of architecture if you ask me - https://plus.google.com/101781362521724525045/about?gl=us&hl=en
Thank you, that helps to put this announcement into context. It sounds like their business strategy is pretty closely aligned to T-Mobile's, so that's one less thing for me to worry about as a T-Mobile customer.
Well it's premined and centralized, so I would say it's just like any pre-Bitcoin coin/exchange.
Great idea. This is going to be huge.
2-point speed meters would work especially well on toll highways. They already know exactly what time my car go on and off of the MassPike, but if you cover the 60 miles in 30 minutes then you get charged the same $5 as always.
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No, but I believe they're excited by it (according to Facebook's post at least).

I'd expect Zend to keep supporting RAII, but I doubt new implementations will - its a real drag on building better GCs, and that can be as much as half the performance of a program.
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Bummer. I just signed up but got to there and can't go any further since I don't have an account. I wonder if there will be other identify-provers in the future? I wouldn't mind hooking up LinkedIn or Twitter, or a phone number or something like that. (Or my Stripe account!)
Why not just dump all table...?
Totally, I get it. FYI we're continuing to add presenters througout August and should be biggest soon.
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Well, you certainly can by expanding the parameterization manually like I did above. I think you're otherwise correct, though - I don't think Java will presently do it for you.
how and why would stripe value 2% of the stellar at 3M$ ?
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Does anyone have the owner's contact? If so please put me in touch at tonylandis-at-gmail, I am interested in purchasing.