skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the first step to suicide were ideation, which is usually the result of prolonged psychological isolation, then wartime simply can't provide the proper enviroment for it.

During a war everyone huddles together trying to survive, and social and familial ties could become strong enough that even the thought of suicide would seem offensive, as if one were abandoning friends and family to their own luck. And when you have people running around shouting orders, bullets flying and bombs falling there's simply not enough time to think about anything else.

What people seem to dread being is left to themselves, not their conditions. Which is why only reason why war has ever had any defenders, aside from bureaucrats: it gives "purpose" to men.

Recently enough, Ars ran an article on a study (10.1126/science.1250830), which I'm not sure how appropriate is to the discussion of suicide, but sums up this point quite well:

In 11 studies, we found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think, that they enjoyed doing mundane external activities much more, and that many preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts. Most people seem to prefer to be doing something rather than nothing, even if that something is negative.
I didn't know your usage level! For small projects they've served me very well.

For larger projects then I'd rather host my own anyway, as I want pretty complex rules for handling queries from different regions, failover, number of IPs to return, and so on. We do exactly that with gdnsd and handle about 450m DNS queries per month.
This looks really great! Does this tool have any desktop apps for logging hours? I can't seem to find it on the website. This is the only must-have feature that's missing for me. Logging hours only from the website is not suitable for my workflow.
Thanks for sharing the details. My core problem isn't with the details, mainly because I haven't gone through it or even what percentage of Stellar is controlled by the organization. My problem is with the basis of having such a self-selected organization which seems to have given itself the de facto control over the flow of the monetary system.

As a good example what you mentioned: "As needed, the organization will also hold open auctions to raise funds from its remaining pool of stellars".

This is a huge thing! Who decides when "as needed" is? If it's the board, what's the basis of their authority? Just being a non=profit doesn't stop one or more of the board members to act in self-interest.
You call it a marketplace of ideas; I call it tyranny of the majority.
The egress path of that heat will tend to be dissipation throughout the habitable area, modulo circulation. One factor I've noted in room heating is how much heat tends to rise toward the ceiling. A vertically-oriented fan (need not be a ceiling fan) will help achieve a good blend of temperature floor-to-ceiling.

Air flows between rooms / through doorways can also be surprisingly stubborn, but it does happen.

The specifics will depend on the size of the interior space, position of the kitchen, access to exterior walls, etc.
Value Objects in Java and Python
Spellchecking api
Why isn't pre-mining viewed like VC-less VC?
that's a very very different scenario. your password manager's password is not sent over the wire, and you know it to have very secure hashing. it is stored only on your hardware

not so with external websites — if you use the proposed strategy on two websites with poor security (something which is completely opaque to you), your passwords are compromised.
It's hard to establish identity without using one of these centralized services. As someone without a Facebook account I'm also a little sad. I don't know if other centralized accounts have as many good ways to prevent new accounts from signing up. For example, Google and Microsoft accounts might not be so easy to associate with a real history.

University accounts might be another way. Some people who don't like centralized services like Facebook and Google will still have a university email address.
That's assuming your gateway has stellar on hand to provide as conversion. Stripe is starting with 2% of the stellar, but (AFAIK) nobody else is starting with any significant chunk. If a gateway issues credit in exchange for real-world exchanges, I don't see why there's any expectation that they'll have stellar on-hand to use for the conversion, although perhaps they can use their real-world money to buy stellar from some other gateway.

I'm also wondering, since the amount of Stellar is capped (100 billion, right? Can this ever change?), and since 50% of Stellar is being distributed to people who sign up, it seems like a sizable portion of this Stellar will almost certainly immediately become unusable as people sign up, get their Stellar, and never come back.

Edit: Just found the bit where it says Stellar will be created at a rate of 1% annually. The fixed 100 billion cap I cited was based on earlier comments about Ripple's cap.
And it's been awhile, but IIRC the Mitrokhin Archive has a number of other examples of the Soviet Union influencing US politics through donations to political organizations.

I would be surprised if governments weren't still attempting to influence each others' internal politics.
Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month
I like this idea quite a bit. Both selling and buying furniture on CL is a nightmare. I moved to the city 3 years ago from across the country and was forced to sell furnishings for a 3 bedroom house. I don't expect you will have much trouble on the supply side because CL sucks:

1. CL interface is abysmal. No way to tell people stuff already sold or to automatically repost.
2. Dealing with humans was trouble. From time to time, someone would show up and offer a fraction of the asking price.
3. People can't move big stuff.
4. We were particularly time sensitive. We like sleeping on a bed, but we also don't want to be stuck with one.
5. People come by at random times, or don't show at all, or schedule a pickup a 10 days in advance. It would have been great to just load everything at once and be done with it.

I understand you don't want to rent a warehouse, but a 90 minute auction is too short.

On another note, this business model reminds me of modcloth. When they first started, I think they used to travel around and buy up vintage clothes to sell on ebay. Much later, demand outstripped supply so they started contracting out to small shops to make replicas.
Would National Geographic not be interested in purchasing this and keep it alive? It would be a shame to see it disappear.
How do you make a bird? Shrink a dinosaur for 50M years
Yes it does eliminate people showing up to your house and giving your address out to God-Knows-Who. But this service certainly doesn't eliminate the reposting problem. You can only sell your stuff in a 90 minute window. In fact, using this service more cumbersome because you have to physically be where the merchandise is for the pickup. CL you can do at work and deal with the masses on your schedule. Plus, the truck problem isn't the sellers. Sure, YOU might not have a truck, but SOMEONE does.

My concern is, this product seems to be more valuable to the buyers than the sellers. Yet the buyers don't pay anything for the service.
Because it's a Canadian website.
You can't, that's why bitcoin is build by trust on an algorithm, not on humans.
I think this is long overdue. Sometimes Apple are really conservatives with these kind of infrastructure things. Like building enough Datacenter for their iCloud Services.

It cant be hard for Apple to build a CDN of its own when they have a worldwide reach in Mobile Network, and most Mobile Network are owned by a Local Telecom ISP.

I hope their next Keynote will be running on their own CDN.
Most of my development work in recent years has been on learning management systems (LMS). I've built lots of different types of LMS's for different types of schools and students.

When the MOOC "bubble" started, I was sort of stunned that so many schools thought that they could deliver a valid learning experience by just posting videos and syllabi online. Everyone's been doing that since 1995. MOOC was just a way to say "lots of people are watching our videos in the same sequence!" The model started breaking down quickly as soon as tracking objectives, assessing students, and interacting with instructors came into play. That's when you're into LMS territory.

LMS seems to be a bad word when you talk to MOOC advocates. Like so many buzzword people, they say that MOOC's are "disrupting" the traditional LMS.

But at the end of the day, if you're going to be successful with a MOOC, you're going to have what amounts to an LMS to deliver it. There's no magic bullet shortcut there that combines ("mashup"- another favorite buzzword for people reinventing the wheel) all the things you need to deliver a successful learning experience.

MOOC people say they're disrupting learning systems by mashing up all these things. It's a great idea- but once you actually implement, you've built an LMS.

My current client's LMS could easily, today, deliver a class to 100K students with manageable interactivity and assignments (and delivery on mobile devices), and yet the client wants to throw the thing away because it's 10 years old. Most universities who have failed with MOOC's would spend a million bucks or more to have this LMS, and the client is just going to throw it away. Wasting money seems to be the true meaning of "disrupt" in the learning context.
Your comment here explains the idea more than the website does. Why on earth don't you put more information on the actual website?
Alternative title: "New Users of Vacuum-Insulated Containers Amazed at How Well They Work". I've used vacuum-insulated containers for decades, and as I read the article I kept waiting for a punch line that never came. The whole point of the article was "wow, it can keep coffee hot for 24 hours". Has the author seriously never opened a day-old Thermos of coffee and drank some?

As a side note, Thermos suffers from Kleenex syndrome as the only short version of "vacuum-insulated container" I can come up with is...Thermos(tm). But Wikipedia not only has a better generic name ("vacuum flask"), it also has the interesting history of how Dewar never patented it, and the glassblowers who did the work for him started Thermos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask
There is a new experimental build of inkscape for osx which is slightly less awkward. Search for 'inkscape osx menu', it has been stable for me and you don't need to install an x server.
This is an awesome idea, and we want to help support it.

To that end: how do we disclose a security vulnerability? Is there a PGP key posted, or some other system for us to do that?
I wanted to kill myself, and I didn't want to live, so having lived both sides of that coin, I can categorically say it doesn't really matter what the difference is. It's not a place anyone ought to be.

My advice: get help. If that fails, get help from someone else, and keep searching until you find it. Avoid things that only exacerbate the problem. If you find it hard to go on, focus on getting through just today. When it's really bad, focus on getting though the next hour.

There is really, really good help out there. You just need to find it.
Clearly I'm biased, but I think we're only beginning to reimagine what a grocery store of the future will look like.

I totally feel you with regards to packaging waste. One of the key areas we've been focusing on in our beta is making sure our packaging is minimal. All the packaging we do send is reusable, biodegradable or recyclable.
Is meth a completely different phenomenon? It's prescribed by doctors under the brand name "Desoxyn" for ADHD and narcolepsy - evidently they find more value than harm in it for some patients. The negative effects of meth are probably mixed up, to an extent, with the effects of taking a "street drug" filled with toxic byproducts.
I saw the title after it was changed and I definitely thought that this was going to be a technical article about LIDAR in its 3D mapping application.
Here's a link to an abstract of the journal article in Science.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6196/562

The commentary on the article in New Scientist is also interesting.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25982-dinosaurs-shrank...
I'd be more excited if this was raw ingredients and not prepped ingredients. Prepping (at least for me) doesn't take all that much time; but running around different stores to get fresh ingredients does.
Selling on CL is a huge annoyance. I've tried to sell a number of things there, and mostly get flaky "buyers" who never respond back after their initial "I'm interested" message. Then you have the problem of giving your home address to a stranger. I'd be open to trying this service if they ever expand out to the East Bay. I've got a bunch of stuff in my garage I'd love to sell, but the existing channels (CL, eBay, etc.) are total pains in the ass.
This is a great option for anyone who's planning to use Route53 for DNS anyway, and also for no other reason than having a clean and easy way to just buy domains without all up-sell crap you get from GoDaddy et al.
Safe Harbour is a complete con.

This is good news if you're a business that needs to cover its ass, bad news if your personal data ends up somewhere where it has zero legal privacy protection.
Well if you (via Stripe) cooperate with Alipay do a giveaway via them.
Seems any old idea is great in San Francisco.

For what it's worth, 90 minutes is a very short for an auction, and only getting 50% is daylight robbery
I used this form for a while but realized that if someone is doing a targeted attack specifically on you and happens to find a single compromised password of yours, all the others are only a few guesses away. It's better than re-using passwords, but still worse than using truly unique ones.
It may just be that they use US proxies. I did when I was overseas.
Neat stuff! You should consider building some binaries and making them available via GitHub's releases feature: being able to ship just binaries is a big plus for Go ;)
Almost all of the SDK source is also used in production app engine.

Taking datastore for example, the performance characteristics of different queries is negligible - any optimisations are done at the level for which the code is open source.
We didn't. Digital movies have been around longer than you think (eg Collateral was shot on a Viper > 10 years ago), and film is stil the only viable choice if you are shooting 70mm or for Imax delivery.

However I'm being pernickety because film is my industry (and because I'm middle of checking off a list of deliverables for a feature right now, which requires me to be extra-pedantic). It has been a rapid and near-total shift. To shoot on film nowadays you need to be working with a very large budget (where your unfashionable preference will not have a substantial impact on production costs).
If you stay within the Apple ecosystem, 1Password is great. If you stray outside of that bubble, not so great. Their Android app sucks (quit putting an icon in my system bar every time I open the app, for starters), and the Windows version isn't so hot, either.

Yeah, it's pricey, but in the end I think it's worth the aggravation and time it saves me.
He didn't say botnet, he said botfarm which would be akin to a Google Crawler. Whos property is it? Does reddit own the links? What do they own?

None of its illegal.
> outlook

> Some of the most fraudulent email domains are operated by Microsoft. Why could this be? Two possible reasons are that 1) Microsoft has been around for a lot longer and 2) email addresses were easier to create back in the day. Today, websites use challenge responses such as image verification or two-factor authentication to verify your legitimate identity.

But outlook.com is the most recent Microsoft web mail domain. Why is it already much more used than other Microsoft web mail domains (hotmail, live, etc.) ?
Lawyers can also challenge the officers experience/training with the device as well as the last time the device was calibrated to be accurate.
Such an old and depressing story. Why is this misuse of antibiotics allowed? Political influence.
The world is full of mockers and fools. I know, because that was me for the first 20 years of my life. Now that I'm 45, I hope I am less foolish, and that I mock less.

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"Well I'm not sure I'm wiser but some things are clearer
And it's getting clear that I'm not here for long. So what am I to do with my few minutes here in this place?" - Steven Curtis Chapman https://soundcloud.com/stevencurtischapman/a-little-more-tim...
This has been such a common signature for fraud over the years that I'd be surprised if many fraudsters are still doing this.

If they were smart they'd buy a chocolate bar from a grocery store that has self-checkout, then buy something a little more expensive from Target or whatever, then buy the very expensive thing they really want.
Or maybe fraudsters route their traffic through international tunnels to make law enforcement activity more difficult?
Those that aren't in Unicode are often coordinated in a Private Use Area by the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative¹, which periodically makes proposals to add characters to the standard.

¹ http://folk.uib.no/hnooh/mufi/
This doesn't surprise me. I walk a lot too, and I constantly see cops flip their lights on for the few seconds required to make an illegal left turn, run a red light, etc., and then turn them right back off.
There's important differences in color response, although a lot of the most modern films have very similar color response to digital (because the one was designed to mimic the other, obviously). The grain is also difficult to mimic precisely; film, being an analog medium, has sometimes superficially higher resolution than a lot of digital sensors but this is because it degrades continuously (whereas digital tends to be superb until you reach the handful of pixels range).

This is all, of course, in the context of color films. Black and white films are particularly difficult to mimic with digital, partly due to spectrum rendition issues that are difficult to recreate in post processing, partly due to very different grain structure (B&W grain is generally sharper than the dye clouds you get with color films), and it must be admitted partly due to romanticism on the part of film partisans.
Not sure if anyone's tried this (probably tons have), but what would be even better for sellers, would be some kind of a mobile pawn shop, that shows up at your door, cleans out your garage of all the crap you'd otherwise toss away or donate, but would rather have a few bucks for, and then re-sells it all on their own time. I'd choose that any day over holding a "traditional" garage sale.
XML, JSON and YAML for Dummies
I am a heavy heavy Excel user. I use it to help run a large startup.

100x faster would be a huge win. There's always a tradeoff between design/human cycles and speed. You could even think of it as Excel technical debt. Legacy spreadsheets never get rebuilt/re-engineered because of a lack of human time. That's a large cause of spreadsheets that become unmanageable.

2 questions around this:
- How do we know the data is secure? (the IT team will want to know this for sure)
- How do we know the computations are correct?
>Why not have the specification allow runtimes to expose their choices of behavior into the runtime to allow code to determine what their platform does?

Because the idea is that it should be transparent to the code. If you start doing that you get into mess like the "feature sniffing" BS JS does in browsers, IFDEFs etc...

So, which of these specifically seem to you to be "on areas were code would need to know the runtime behavior"?
> Is momentum the only type of energy a photon has?

Well, momentum is not a type of energy.

But then, for photons and any other massless thing, the momentum is a function of the particle's energy. It's mass that make it possible[1] for the momentum to vary.

[1] IANAP and don't know the exact causation relation here. Talking about causation probably does not even make sense, but I'm not sure of that.
Show HN: Amirite – Share your opinion will others agree?
I enjoyed summer weather in Chile and it is fantastic, but right now it is winter, and I've heard winter is something my Colombian skin could not survive.
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Go to hotmail.com and look at the login portal.
while I agree that details matter in design, a. it's not a big deal and b. mentioning it doesn't really add to the conversation at hand. I thought HN was all about trying to ensure that comments were useful to the topic?
This kind of stuff in Fight Club is probably done very much on purpose. One big point of the book is that people (and perhaps men in particular) tend to be wired for struggle and a search for (a) meaning and (b) a reinforced identity in a social context. There's a number of ways that can be found, but the training of a monastery, the grind of boot camp, the initiation into a fraternity... that's part of what they do.

As an exercise, the astute reader may wish to translate the paragraph beginning with "Apprentice monks" above into corresponding aspects of Valley/Startup culture.
The password recovery scheme is so poorly designed, that's borderline scary: You can't use the recovery code sent by email after registration without validating your email first (but since you have the code, your email is obviously valid)... which requires you to login (but if you don't have your password, well, you can't log in)... Great!... one lost account for me.
Much of the discussion I've seen of MOOCs is how the format enables more interactivity by enabling learning where lecture and associated self-check exercises are delivered purely online, and interaction time with other live humans -- whether co-students, individually-selected tutors, or formal group classrooms with faculty instructors -- is used to provide direct Q&A and support on substantive assignments (which may also be delivered and graded online) -- and a significant subset of that discussion has centered around use of existing MOOCs or custom online courses built on their open platforms as support for "flipped classrooms".
"who in tech has a facebook account these days?"

erm, lol ?
If meals were delivered cooked, then you'd have to arrange for the delivery to occur near the time you wished to eat, unless you are willing to refrigerate them and reheat them. If you do that, you are essentially eating leftovers. Ingredients can be delivered and stored well before it is time to cook.
Seems to overlap with, err, Timely, which has been around for a while now. I'll let them know (I'm an investor)
http://www.gettimely.com
Goquery – a little like that j-thing, only in Go
sure it is, but you try opening up a word processor or spreadsheet file last saved in 1991 - it might not be corrupt, but there's a good chance that it won't come in properly. Likewise you have a floppy disk, hard disk, or CD-ROM from the same period you might have difficulty hooking it up - the CD-Rom is your best shot, but that assumes it was correctly encoded in the first place.

As in every other industry, film people tend to resist new technology, then stampede into it, then do the same thing with some other technology a few years later - we don't do backwards compatibility all that well (because there's not a whole lot of money in it) and while there are technical standards for everything from color space to perceived audio loudness, they are frequently slightly abused or subverted for artistic or budgetary reasons.
"Convert energy to mass" does not make much sense. If you throw light away, it'll propel you.
This is usually the point where I volunteer ;)
They don't accept Mattresses or Appliances which is probably a big market by itself. Half of the CL ads (in my area) in furniture are beds and mattresses.