skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the "lack of culture" actually the "culture" of rural living? What does that even mean, lack of culture? There's lots of culture in rural living, its just not the same as city or urban or whatever you want to call it. There is music, and gatherings, and performances, and games, etc. Carnivals, dances (the square variety is well liked), singing (blue grass and country are popular), art (lots of art from rural dwellers). So While I agree with the beginning of your post... I too love rural living. I grew up farming, my parents still farm. The culture bit is just not true, you just might not like it as much as something else, which is ok.
From the article it appears that he was hardly sleeping in order to keep up with responding to people. It also makes it clear that other people's anxiety was passing on to him. Chronic exhaustion and stress might be OK for a young man if it's part of an effort to break his mind/enlighten him. But long term it's not surprising that it would seriously affect someone's health.
What do you think a botnet is?
It's unfortunate to see that Uber's forays into caffeine delivery are off to such a rocky start. :(
We don't love that the ads team requires so many placements and that AOL requires so many trackers, but we worked to speed things up where we could
Absolutely. The Illustrator near monopoly has been a disaster for a lot of people in either the Freehand, Corel Draw or more esoteric areas.

It's mildly amusing this is back to Mac-only territory, given that the reason things like Xara were Windows only in the mid 90s was the logic of the era was design and publishing was going to become a Windows NT stronghold, which underestimated the stickiness of custom AppleScript and Quark XTensions.
I wrote an ExpressionEngine Add-on called Detour Pro that sells for $22 ($17.60 after the site I sell it on takes their cut). I released it back in February of 2012 and to date I've made about $15k, this year alone $4k to date.
Examples to prepare your matplotlib plots for publications
Iirc he doesnt anymore, their in the hands of the newspapers.
Tesla Releases Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results
Have not tried it yet. If you do, please let me know about your experience!
iMessage is still terrible. Messages don't make it to their destination, images fail to send properly, messages are duplicated.
Constant thrust using only solar power and no propellants is already possible. Just shine a light backwards, or better yet turn that solar panel into a mirror. What makes this so strange is that it is emission-less even counting photons.
> (and worst case, your gateway should be willing to do so)

Isn't the worst case that the gateway goes belly up?
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Either use a real wallet or pester Coinbase to support signing.
Check out http://bowery.io/
"Going to work at a start-up or growth company in your 20s will put you on the fast-lane learning curve. It will be the best investment you can make because you’ll find yourself."

Not to mention be the asset to making the founder rich. Note the article is written by "CEO and Co-Founder at BloomReach". A quick peek at the author's LinkedIn shows no development experience, only entrepreneurial/C-level stuff.
Thanks Jim for participating here. Can you explain the links between MaydayPAC and CounterPAC, their degree of cooperation and what makes them different? Thanks!

PS: Congrats for the hard work you're doing.
There are many in the German government that would love to give him asylum, but they dare not risk it. Not a fear of the voting public, but the wrath of the US.
Do you have enough friends? A common spam prevention measure checks for 100+ friends. It may just assume that if you have less, the account is 'new'
I wonder if they have any plans for a phone app.
What? Tell them they're sleazeballs? Already ahead of you on that. They don't want to hear it and usually have a lame rationalization that lets them sleep at night.
I feel this way in the vast majority of Maryland.
>The only places you saw anything anime related was at gambling establishments and certain districts of Tokyo.

How about airplanes? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Jet
wow, thanks for that. i had no idea anyone else thought this way.

interestingly enough, the first suicide attempt was in 2005. my favorite band at the time - because it was both optimistic and depressed at the same time - was 'the eels', fronted by the son of Hugh Everett, the physicist who developed the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

music and mathematics, poetry and prose. it comes whence it is headed, where it's going - no one knows.
Ask HN: Experiences with Tilaa
https://www.tilaa.com

I have found them some time ago and I find myself needing a VPS, considering the costs they look like a nice option for me.

Has anyone used their VPS? Good or bad experiences?

Thanks
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Great idea and product! Where do you plan to source your ingredients and how much will the customers know about where the ingredients in their meals are coming from?
because its not just a floating pool, its a pool that uses the actual water of the east river and filtration.
"A decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money": How is this news, exactly?
> I would presume a highly-skilled fraudster could just spin up a new VM, for instance, and evade detection that way.

From my experience building fraud detection systems at Eventbrite most fraudsters are not that sophisticated -- fraudsters usually go for the lowest-hanging fruit and as such are looking for systems to defraud that have the highest payout for the lowest effort. Because there is always some level of uncertainty (getting detected, the credit card not working, etc.) fraudsters often favor techniques that allow them to try as many websites/cards as possible. This is especially true for Sift Science's customers who tend to be more small to mid-size companies; big companies for whom fraud detection is critical will tend to have their own in-house solution.

In addition this is usually only one signal -- ideally you want your algorithm to be able to detect first-time fraudsters too, so the other signals should be able to stand on their own.

One caveat though, the reason why multiple accounts is a signal of fraud is because fraudsters tend to be repeat offenders, and will keep defrauding the same website if their previous attempts worked. But now that they're facing a fraud detection algorithms that detects repeat offenders more easily, it's highly possible they will adapt their behavior.

This is a signal that will fade out in strength over time, and one of the dangers of pooling together data from multiple websites as in this blog post (but hopefully this is taken into account in their algorithms) is that the strength of the signal may be skewed by the proportion of new users of their platform (who will have a higher proportion of unsophisticated fraudsters by nature of they not having a fraud detection system previously).

This is why whenever you are building a fraud detection algorithm (or any machine learning algorithm that's consumer facing) understanding the story behind the data is very important, and not just looking at the numbers.
Foundation: A New Grid
iTunes Match is fast for me. And alot was stuff it didn't match and uploaded from me (which is odd because they sell some of it now. I bought the classical music direct).

I can download and play at work almost instantaneously.

uploading this to match was not fun..
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4778167
The night owl thing is misinterpreting the data. I am going to guess that the more likely scenario is that at 3am there are simply less total transactions, while fraudulent transactions stay at more or less the same level. Looking at a total volume of fraudulent transactions vs the hour or the day would be more helpful.

Another prediction: "fraudsters work on weekends" would yield the same graph if displayed as a percentage of total transactions.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statisti...
Yes, but also more generally, highly-liquid IOUs ("bills of exchange") as were widely used before the rise of modern banking:

http://jpkoning.blogspot.de/2013/02/ripple-or-bills-of-excha...
I'm with you on that - I'm an early adopter for many, many things, but security software is not one of them. I'm happy to play with it a little, but I'm not certainly going to migrate my passwords until it's show to be relatively reliable (and long-lived)!
U.S. judge orders Microsoft to submit customer's emails from abroad
Where can you find .25 acre of land in a development for $5000? Locally for me, in a more rural part of Pennsylvania it's like $20,000 to $40,000 for a .25 acre parcel.
I'd love to see a $5/mo "me and my SO" type plan for this. Could use something nice for home
a relatively privacy friendly way is to compare accounts to ip addresses. You obviously expect there to be some nat-ing going on but it should be relatively constant over time. That is, if in your entire network you've seen, say, 10 accounts from a given ip and all of a sudden 5 accounts interact with a given shop, it's probably fraudulent.

You can monitor characteristics the browser reports, including user agent strings.

You can use techniques like differences in rendering of canvas drawings to images to fingerprint browsers. In fact, I'd bet good money this is a great signal: what you're trying to do is not fingerprint, but detect when the reported user-agent has been overridden. Few people override user-agents.

Then you can go on to ways to bury identifiers in browsers. For example, etags on cached objects may be ok if you aren't using it for advertising and clear it in your privacy guidelines.

You can also fingerprint with time deltas, though this may be patented. Briefly: computers synchronize to milliseconds, I think. If you are careful, you can probably detect sub-millisecond clock skew between a client and your server. This should not be constant across devices.

etc etc etc
Most of Google's client libraries and sample projects have been moving to GitHub over the last year.
Came here to say, "that looks an awful lot like Ripple." Looks like I am in good company :)
"both parties are choosing from among what exists."

No, one party is dictating what exists, the other is choosing. You need to re-read your last post. You say that:

""Both of them want to do it by choice, **because it benefits them**, in their view.""

And you are wrong. One party, the consumer, has no real choice. You act as though this is just a great deal for both sides, which is nonsense.
This article has tons of misleading "so-called facts". There were no airstrikes the day before the kidnappings. HAMAS does use the palestinian population as human shields, as proven over and over again and even UNRA, the UN organization in Gaza said they found Missiles and launchers inside their schools and hospitals, ready to fire.
Mischief is a neat program, but it's kind of the opposite of this program — Mischief pretends pixels don't exist, whereas this program has a lot of pixel-centric features.
That, and you're typically also paying for a more expensive SSL certificate, much more expensive wildcard SSL cert, or much much more expensive EV or signing certificates.
Ask HN: How to respond to software cost objections?
I am working with a b2b startup company. The core value proposition of our product is that by putting your data into a database and out of the spreadsheets (the way everyone does it now) you can potentially save a lot of money.

The software system is expensive and one objection people raise is that they could hire a lot of people for the cost of the software to update the spreadsheets more accurately.

Any thoughts on how to respond to this objection?
> I've yet to get on an internet connection that isn't saturated by a download from Apple.com

This year Apple has usually maxed out at 20-30 Mbyte/s instead of the 100+ Mbyte/s I get from some servers.

Move to KC — we also have great BBQ!
Unfortunately, if you want to run on Linux, KeePassX is the best choice. KeePass "proper" does work on Linux under Mono, but the UI is pretty buggy (textfields don't render the cursor in the right place, and the UI just looks awful in general). I really do wish there was a better native Linux client - some new features would be nice.
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who is their economist/fiscal policy/monetary policy adviser? I looked on the website and there doesn't seem to be anyone with this background amongst the advisers, board, or employees.
I've never experienced this. Sounds like a general network issue, not an iMessage issue. Junk network equipment at home? Badly oversubscribed LTE/3g in your area?
So this is pseudo-decentralized in the same way CA certificates or domain names are? I thought we were trying to move away from that model after Bitcoin made it possible to.
I think the criticism is reasonable, though.

Roemer has been a self-declared Republican for 23 years. Painter seems reasonable and thoughtful, but when making political judgements it's tough to overlook his connection to the Bush administration. Centrist and liberal observers can be forgiven for being suspicious of a committee with two Republicans and a techno-liberal.

I don't envy the people who had to organize this, by the way. Either you set up an odd-numbered panel and expect a bunch of criticism or you setup a even-numbered panel and prepare yourself for stalemates and ineffectiveness. (I suppose you could have a very large odd-numbered panel and hope that the law of averages helps you remain balanced.)
Demoted CTO of technology company shoots CEO before killing himself
> And if Russia or China was participating to a significant degree in our internal politics, that would come out as a national security issue and should be dealt with in other ways.

We know Russia has done this successfully at least once.

According to Time magazine, a US State Department official estimated that the KGB may have spent $600 million on the peace offensive up to 1983, channeling funds through national Communist parties or the World Peace Council "to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many cases, reject the financial help if they knew the source."[13] Richard Felix Staar in his book Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union says that non-communist peace movements without overt ties to the USSR were "virtually controlled" by it. Lord Chalfont claimed that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £100 million a year. The Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) alleged Soviet funding of CND.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_m...
Sketch is a bit nasty for freehand drawing. I'm very much not a Corel Draw fan, but loved Freehand when it was still around. Illustrator still lags Freehand of ten years ago in a lot of respects.

Affinity looks very promising.
I hadn't realised they were commercially available as well. No I hadn't heard of guys of LIDAR, good to know there's someone out there fighting for the little guy.
It's also partly due to them tending to be more international, meaning they are more likely to live in a different timezone.

The "outside of business hours" explanation is still a valid explanation but definitely not the whole story. Overall, I'd caution that when building fraud detection models understanding the stories behind the data is extremely important, or you risk having an algorithm that works for the wrong reasons.

For example, if suddenly your user base because more international (for example if you start allowing non-US users to use your website), you'll suddenly have a lot of false positives if you're not cautious because to your system it'll look like they're "operating outside of business hours".
Going to need to change the Android app name, too. :-)
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HOW 4 SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS CAME BACK AFTER STARTUP FailURE
Some of us swam across the Hudson years ago -- http://joshuaspodek.com/saturday_morning_hudson_river (with pictures from the disposable cameras we brought)
Is it black hat to write a program to cheat on tests? Because I wrote a program on a TI-84 for my Algebra courses in high school (2006-2008) that ran the quadratic equation for me. And then I expanded it for my AP Physics course to take care of solving every equation I needed, from Newtonian motion to thermodynamics.
This is beautifully written.

"As drugs have swirled into this kaleidoscope of lifestyle and consumer choices, the identity of the ‘drug user’ has slipped out of view."

This perfectly sums up the situation in my opinion. Many people still, regrettably, automatically associate drugs with the "classical junkie", while forgetting that they themselves are drug users, of a kind or another.

Not mentioned in this piece, but I believe there exist escaping habits incredibly akin to drugs, with effects at least as damaging, or I suppose, as good too. One only needs to look at chronic social networkers, obsessed reality TV show watchers or compulsive buyers, to only name a few.

Any attempt at suppressing these behaviors therefore seems utterly pointless, push on one end and it'll come out of the other.

One might think that helping people realize self-worth and be critical, through (actual) education, would be the answer, but one may dream...
Aw, thanks for the UI love, nicpottier! I appreciate the support.
When I discovered smtp I sent mail to people from santa@northpole.org telling them they were very naughty this year and to expect coal in their stocking.
I imported my LastPass vault into Mitro, but can't get it to auto-fill pages I have stored data for. I have to search for the page and then click "sign in"..

Am I wrong in expecting it to work exactly like Lastpass did?
This does nothing to protect you. Malicious users will just make their own usb stick. The parts aren't exactly expensive.
First, I want to thank you, Paul, for writing this critique. It's great to read well thought-out feedback about the draft spec that was announced yesterday.

Before getting into technical nitty gritty, I wanted to clarify that the spec in its current state is a draft offered to the PHP community as a starting point for specifying the PHP language. It now belongs in the php-src repository and can be updated through the standard commit processes for that repository as the community sees fit. Some decisions about specificity were made for the initial draft, but these decisions are by no means final and the hope is that the community will settle on what's right for the PHP ecosystem overall.

Regarding RAII, I'd argue that __destruct methods in PHP are a bit different than stack-allocated variables in C++. Stack allocated variables in C++ have a strictly defined lifetime based on the scope of the variable. In PHP on the other hand, objects are heap allocated and when they are destroyed is not as well defined. For example, you can have a cycle of two or more objects pointing to each other that are unreachable (i.e. cyclical garbage), and it such cases any __destruct methods for these objects are not immediately invoked when the objects become unreachable. I considered requiring refcounting-based automatic memory management for the initial draft of the memory model, but describing in detail cyclical garbage felt really implementation specific and so at a gut level it seemed better to not require RC-based automatic memory management and see how people reacted.

Based on my personal programming tastes, I'd argue that try/finally is a cleaner, more robust way to ensure certain cleanup happens when a scope is exited rather than relying on __destruct. However, I understand that there are some PHP programs out there that rely on __destruct being invoked eagerly in non-cyclical-garbage cases, and that such code will probably exist in the wild for a quite a while regardless of whether try/finally is "superior" or not. I'm curious to see how this issue settles over time.

For the record, HHVM uses RC-based automatic memory management and will eagerly call __destruct on objects that become unreachable that are not part of cyclical garbage. The initial choice to be a bit more liberal about reclamation was not essential to make sure that HHVM was compliant with the spec.
Good point (although you would hope better ventilation could help with that?) Regardless, we should be (finally) seeing more electric cars in the near future (not that they can't catch fire). Anyway, I don't think underground road situations are actually practical, just that it would be nice to use that third dimension more in an ideal world.
Maybe he prefers the rival company and..

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bolted out of there
Sure you can do that, for safety( and it is really easy ). But I think the larger goal here is to develop methods for filtration; it doesn't use electricity, machinery and uses local water.

I think this is the best example of what a project on kickstarter is supposed to be.
Please see the answer by cryptographer Thomas Pornin on AES 128 vs 256: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/14068/why-most-p...
Tesla Second Quarter 2014 Shareholder Letter [pdf]
I'm actually on the board of MayDay PAC as well, but they are separate efforts. MayDay is trying to elect pro-reform candidates.

CounterPAC actually doesn't care what views a candidate holds. We're 100% focused on the way they run their race. We're running ads calling on candidates to sign a legally binding pledge. If any group spends secret money on candidate's behalf, that candidate will donate from their campaign to a charity of their opponent's choice.

MayDay has to pick sides. CounterPAC is happy to work with anyone who will run their race cleanly and transparently, even if they are backed by the Koch brothers or others - as long as their backers aren't anonymous.
Great, so when that is resolved, and it ends up as Elon says it would, i'll happily give him credit. But that's still "in the future" :)
LOL, I am hitting most of these for completely different reasons and never attempted nor plan to attempt a fraud. I guess another overreaching application of statistics (it must be because confidence intervals say so and our prediction model agrees!). It resembles to me the saying that all murderers eat bread, so bread is dangerous!!!

I really hate oversimplifications in these serious matters.

It happened to me that my bank was using a similar silly algorithm to consistently block my credit card during my world travel every time I arrived to a new country/airport, even if I told them about it in advance. A way to lose customer for life for sure, especially when their emergency line operates only during working days between 9am-6pm in Germany...
Their source for this is his LinkedIn? Amazing.
I haven't heard of any company going down because of technical debt, but here is a study that has some quantitative analysis of technical debt in the beginning: https://medium.com/building-bowery/e5a006f7b724
I've been using OpsGenie, which also offers incoming support phone numbers, and push notifications since day one. They did improve their Android app, but it seems that VictorOps one-ups both PD and OG.
> 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?

Definitely.

> In other words, how overvalued is Tesla stock?

For those following Discounted-Cash-Flow models, a lot.[1]

> Would it be worth making it a significant fraction of my portfolio?

That's up to you. I'll leave you two parting thoughts:

a) It could follow the path of Amazon, lots of people screaming "overpriced" forever as it rises.

b) Building a lasting car manufacturer isn't exactly easy.[2]

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[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/aswath-damodaran-tesla-valuat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_man...
Isn't Matt Cutts supposed to be on sabbatical? :)