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TLDR; Point is a consumer mobile banking app focused on transparency, design, and technology. You can signup at www.point.app

Hey HN, we're Patrick, Kenan, and Sid, co-founders of Point. We're building the banking app we wish existed one that's simple, transparent, and rewarding.

Although it sounds cliché, Point was started out of frustration with existing solutions. We realized most of us end up with our banks because our parents setup an account before college and then we kind of just deal with that for the rest of our lives. Personal finance is at the core of our lives, so it should be something that we embrace not dread. Sid, was formerly a interface designer at Apple so he knows a thing or two about creating beautiful products and with Point we are bringing that same attention to detail and simplicity to consumer finance starting with the basics: checking and debit.

Our main differences from some other players in the space:

1. Brand. We're aiming to bring an American Express type product, that's more transparent, personalized, and a debit card to the next generation of ambitious folks.

2. Design. This is subjective but we think that most financial products are extremely difficult to use, un-focused, and confusing.

3. Transparency. What you see is what you get, we’re not charging overdraft or foreign transaction fees.

Is this too good to be true? Nope it really isn't. Like most other neo-banks we monetize primarily from interchange revenue (merchant fees every time card is used) and are adding a subscription offering that will offer a more premium product experience. People are willing to pay for a service if they find value, and we think this is a lot more viable economically and customer aligned. We're also working with merchants to establish relationships and fund our rewards offerings. We even hired someone from Amex to help us with that.

We're really thrilled to get your feedback and answer any questions!

My email is patrick at point dot app. If you're interested in trying POINT out check out our website (point.app) and use invite code HN2019 to get a 500 point signup bonus.
I'm surprised there's not more of this kind of worker co-op apps. These gig economy apps largely cater to region specific markets - so having enough platform scale to cover an urban agglomeration seems is good enough. If members of a profession in a city choose to go with a specific app, the demand tends to follow by word of mouth. Seems like there's a business model in building white label apps for co-ops and unions on a costs plus kind of model.
I get 403 when connecting from the UK. Connecting via a US access point, I can view it.

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Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's The Only Guy Allowed
Most of us don't have the tech skills to create an app, but there are other ways to improve your odds for online dating.
Author: Ben Briscoe
Published: 3:29 PM EST November 20, 2019
Updated: 6:06 PM EST November 20, 2019
GREENSBORO, N.C. — 31-year-old Aaron Smith can put his finger on exactly what’s wrong with dating apps.

“The biggest problem with the other apps is that my face is not featured prominently," he said.

To cut down on competition, he created a new app called Singularity (only built to open on phones not computers). What's unique about the new app is that he’s the only guy allowed on it. No matter how many times you swipe, it’s only different versions of his picture.

“If life gives you lemons, you should first make lemonade," he said. "Then make sure no other companies can produce or distribute their own soft drinks. So the only game in town is lemonade.”

He even made a commercial to promote the app.

Singularity was created with the help of Smith's best friend and software engineer Scott McDowell.

“All of us who have done online dating in some sorta way can all relate to the fact that it really does sometimes suck," McDowell said.

Improving Your Chances

But not everyone has a computer genius at their disposal, so how do you improve your odds? By knowing when and where to look!

HighSpeedInternet.com says Tinder has the most men on it, but to get women, tinder tied with plenty of fish.

Your age matters too. PC Magazine found for 18 to 45 Tinder is king, 25 to 34 it’s plenty of fish and 45 to 65 is most likely to find love on Match.

And a study by Ogury says the best day of the week to make your move is Thursday. Most people use the apps then looking for a date on the weekend.

It Can Happen

And don’t give up hope of finding true love.

“It’s 100 percent possible. We’re proof of it," said Amanda Caudill.

She met Jonathon over Bumble. The two were married less than four months later.

Jonathon and Amanda Caudill
Jonathon and Amanda Caudill get engaged.
JONATHON CAUDILL
“Trust in god to write your love story," Amanda said.

Jonathon said there's another key to success too.

"Be authentic. Be honest," he said. "Too many people try to sell themselves like a car. Just be honest.”

And know one day you too could delete all these dating apps.

"Hallelujah,” Amanda rejoiced.

As for Aaron, he hasn’t heard from many women after making his new app.

“No, well other than like my mom who calls me. No.”

But he hopes creativity will be the key to finally making love happen.

"Hopefully it will give people a chuckle about just the absurdity of what we’re reduced to as a society," he said.
Can’t do this in usa as well.
"nah mate, don't go sarf of the river, me"
> I don’t think anyone at that age can properly address this question

I guess it depends on what you mean by "properly" but there's absolutely no reason why a reasonably well educated child of that age shouldn't be able to both understand the nature of the question and make a decent stab at an answer.
ActorDB has them
I'm a big fan of Slack, so hopefully this turns into something interesting.

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This illustrates to me the complexity of talking about poverty.

In the UK such housing just doesn't really exist as far as I know. (If it does, I probably want to move there). Our planning system and the cost of land basically means that your home will necessarily meet some basic standard or you'll be harassed and end up having to tear it down.

I'd love to, for example, get a large static caravan, buy a few acres of land, site it and see how that goes for a few years. Maybe I'd hate it. But it just isn't really possible here.

Perhaps there are European countries where such a thing would be viable that I could emigrate to.
Out of curiosity, what kind of executable is this? Something generated by HPHPc?
Other developed country have arguably not suffered a proportional injury from terrorism (in terms of deaths per capita per incident). The nearest example I can think of is Norway's massacre carried out y Anders Brievik, and it's questionable as to whether an atrocity by an individual actor meets the operational definition of terrorism, since the threat of future attacks could be neutralized by the capture of a single individual; 'terror' surely implies a non-zero risk of future attack, as opposed to the 'horror' of a previous one that has a zero probability of being repeated.
What if the officials are mind-controlled by alien slugs? What if the NSA is actually a terminator skynet sent back from the future?

There are lots of scenarios in which we're screwed and can't do anything about it. That's life.
> it's an incredibly efficient way to disrupt a nation

As other commenters pointed out, it's only efficient at disrupting a nation if the nation itself decides to disrupt itself.

The right way to react to a terrorist attack is to ignore it. Simple as that. You chase the perpetrators like ordinary members of an organized crime group. Anything above that is achieving the terrorists' plan.

All the money America spends on "War on Terror", including NSA, is actually the cost of 9/11. If the US wanted to really effectively prevent further terrorist attacks, it would defund the NSA. Right now all that counterterrorism measures are only actively inviting further attacks - everyone can see that it takes only a bunch of civilian casualties to make the nation go completely nuts and drive itself to destruction.
> Too many youth coaches, Mr. Toran said, spend their time designing intricate plays.

I could not agree more. So many coaches at this level of play want to try out the fancy stuff before establishing the basics.

> At the time, he said, he was an assistant coach with a semipro men’s team and was eager to escape what he described as the “whining and complaining” of players who were resistant to coaching.

> In search of a more mature audience, he turned to a group of 9-year-old girls.

> “You can actually teach them basketball,” he said.

I already posted this comment on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8910371), but I think it relates to this article as well:

I play women's football and coach high school guys football. Football is one of the most teamwork-dependent sports out there. Everyone has to be doing his job every single play. There's no way for one player to carry the team.

Before I started coaching guys' football, I had heard consistently from other coaches in my women's league that women are way easier to coach than men in the game of football. Reasons given included less attitude, less individualism, less ego, more willing to work together, etc. When I started coaching high school ball, this was exactly the case. So much of my time was wasted beating the individualism out of these boys and getting them to play for each other, not themselves.

Maybe it's that football attracts a certain type of male. But I think women might be more naturally disposed to working on a team than men on average.
Regardless of solution chosen, Swagger or otherwise, I'm puzzled as to why people integrate the API spec/documentation into their source code. Seems to me to provide incredible scope for bugs and dramatically increase software complexity: http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/swagger-is-gre...
A bit OT, but I remember a very cool Quake2 mod that basically built a neural network so that bots could learn how to play.

The useful part was that you could save the NN to a file, and so you could let Q2 run for hours (mostly I left it at night so it wouldn't prevent me from playing :) ) and the hext day I would save the progress.

After about a week of doing this everynight, the bots evolved from just jumping around in their spawn points without moving, to actually run around the level and shoot the other bots on sight.

They didn't really have a good aim, but sometimes they would land a rocket or a rail. I always wondered how much time would I have to let the bots evolve so that they would become competitive.

Unfortunately after some time I lost my NN files and lost the project page. Some time later I found again the project but it was not updated and the download files were broken.

Wish I had saved the mod :(

Now, honest question: would this kind of approach work for, say, programming a Hello World program? or would the number of variables and possibilities is too big?

It would be interesting to put several of these bots to compete against each other, but in different languages and see which one is "easier" to grasp by the bot.
Assuming the same rate of higher education in Europe, that's another 20m.
One really has to love this Modern USofA -- Everything is illegal until regulated.
> Despite the fact that A needs a website and B needs an oil change, A and B will likely end up performing the work themselves, not because they enjoy it, but because they can't afford to pay each other.

If they don't have dollars, they can pay each other in IOUs (which aren't divisible, but otherwise would work fine).
Whether it's worse or not, it's violating our privacy to an extent where there is barely anything left to be exposed.

I assume they do the same with Skype, Lync etc. I hate the thought of being photographed by these creepy "intelligence officers" every time I'm on a webcam. Probably it also happens when we don't use the webcam.
You should be fine then unless the provider has also blocked the exit node(s) you happen to hit.
I'm always reminded of the bit from The Incredibles:

BOB PARR: All right, listen closely. I'd like to help you, but I can't. I'd like to tell you to take a copy of your policy to Norma Wilcox on... Norma Wilcox. W-I-L-C-O-X. On the third floor. But I can't. I also do not advise you to fill out and file a WS2475 form with our legal department on the second floor. I wouldn't expect someone to get back to you quickly to resolve the matter. I'd like to help, but there's nothing I can do.
I am sort of confused by this. There was never even any actual concrete legislation to pass.

AOC introduced a resolution (text here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolutio...) which if passed, would have basically just affirmed (in a non-binding way) the interest of the house to create a "Green New Deal". The actual legislation itself would, if the house agreed to do so, need to then be created, debated, and voted on before being passed.

"House resolutions are not binding law, but rather express the collective sentiment of the House on a particular issue, person, or event."

The actual resolution itself is pretty short, and I find most of the statements and goals in it pretty tame and agreeable. But again, it is not as if this resolution being passed means that all of those things necessarily must end up in the actual Green New Deal to be passed or even that it gets created at all.

Could you elaborate on how this would destroy the middle class? I might have missed something but there was never even any policy proposed, because the Green New Deal was never created to be voted on. I don't understand how you can make an evaluation like that without examining the actual policies to go into effect.
Let me assure you then, that in most markets, you will pay far more than the cost of a 30 year mortgage plus taxes and insurance for renting a house. You're subsidizing the cost of vacancies and also paying for some of the maintenance.

A 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in a decent but inexpensive part of the DFW where I live will run you $2K per month. These prices will skyrocket as rental prices catch up to the mortgage market. But just for comparison, 2 years ago that same house would have been on the market for about $220K and would have had a monthly mortgage of about $1200 a month on a 15 year loan or $800 or so on a 30 year loan.
Prototype of my bookmarking app: https://instant.leftium.com/

You can only search for bookmarks right now. I loaded my bookmarks by converting a Netscape-format bookmarks.html file to JSON.

So you could just use your browser's bookmarking feature and occasionally import them. (I exported my bookmarks from https://www.bkmks.com/)

Source code:

- https://glitch.com/edit/#!/johns-first-react-project

- https://glitch.com/edit/#!/jkm
You think he could bully his way into becoming president and dominating the republican party by sheer luck? Even if I wanted to I couldn't do it what he did and I doubt you could do it either.
> I'd be interested to hear your opinion defending professional sports taking itself as seriously as it does then.

Also stupid. Athlete worship is as bad or worse than celebrity worship. The obsession with and tribalism from professional sports has creates some of the most obnoxious bores in the world. All for a bunch of people kicking or throwing a ball around.
How interesting? I leave open tabs for reading lists. They have to maintain their interest level while unread or they get closed.

For more general topics I'll post on HN or subreddit so it's in my profile.

I also save to Firefox bookmarks, but I rarely ever go look at those lists and don't put much effort into saving them. I'll copy my home directory and if I get it in an accessible manner great. Can't recall the last time I searched an old Firefox profile directory for anything.
What else needs to be done to improve GS?
"As its text notes, a return to the Moon has been a Congressional priority several times before; that didn't stop Obama from dismissing it with "We've been there.""

We've been to Oregon too, with Lewis and Clark. Fortunately, we went back.
I'm only one data point, but I felt significantly better in two or three days after hacking together a sit/stand desk. I can point to specific aches, pains and other minor medical issues that I simply no longer have now that I divide my time between sitting and standing.
The article is about 'this', not about creating closures.

I agree that in the case where you're creating a closure, you need to create a reference to the scope referenced by 'this' in order to 'enclose' it, however, that doesn't make it a best practice, all the time, as many responses are suggesting.
Awesome! Congratulations to the Wufoo guys!
Wouldn't his technique require the listener to be sitting still and have his ears in exact specified locations? Not very practical then if that's the case. I guess the system can include some sort of (visual) ear recognition and tracking logic and adjust the cross-talk filter respectively, but (a) that's pretty far off (b) still won't work for more than one listener.

Moreover...

> The filter is designed to work with loudspeakers - not headphones

Because regular stereo in headphones already has no cross-talk, so it is naturally 3D. And this leads to the trivial 3D stereo solution (if one really wants it) - just put the headphones on.
Link to original article, without blogspam: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2481610
One piece of advice that I've seen people learn painfully.

If you're going to name a high price to do what you don't want, make sure that the price is truly high enough for the grief you'll suffer. Don't just name something that is high enough that you think they won't take it, because they just might.
I agree that the notion that chess is "less complex" than go for humans because it is more amenable to algorithmic play under current computing limitations is silly. Both games are, for all practical purposes, infinitely complex when played by people. Logic, creativity, intuition, structural thinking, they all have to come into play.
They did mention about using tactics to encourage better communication (with the visual feedback and such), which showed that those efforts led to better team performance; so, for me, that shows good communication creates a good team environment instead of vice versa (since the communication was the variable that was changed during the experiment).

People often forget that communication is a skill that can be honed. Certain behaviors - body language, active/passive, talking versus listening, etc. - can be adjusted to make you a better communicator.
there's also people who wear valved masks and don't know about their ineffectiveness.

and then there's people who rage at others for wearing valved masks, even if the valves are properly capped. My wife's had to deal with a few dickheads like that.
> but there is absolutely no general consensus for the exact causes

Yeah, in such a complicated system there are so many parties involved that trying to break down one cause seems like an impossibility. All one can do is look at effects and try to speculate backwards from there to see whose incentives may have aligned and who might benefit from the outcomes we got. Maybe nobody, since accidents happen, but in the case of the Great Depression I think it's very interesting to learn how the 1929 stock market crash stemmed the tide of people leaving the south for better-paying industrial jobs in the northeast cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_Ameri...

"Between 1910 and 1930, the African-American population increased by about forty percent in Northern states as a result of the migration, mostly in the major cities. The cities of Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, and New York City had some of the biggest increases in the early part of the twentieth century. Tens of thousands of blacks were recruited for industrial jobs, such as positions related to the expansion of the Pennsylvania Railroad."
What struck me as crazy was the focus on fishing rights. More than there are boats to actually do the fishing with, while there are so many more economically impact full topics left without a solution.
As a counter point: I've got the bottom ranked one in this and it definitely made a real impact on measurements. It's totally a budget bottom end, but article makes it sound useless which is not the case. That said I'd not recommend it.

If I had to do it again I'd skip straight to my latest purchase though: Xiaomi Mi 3H

Everything about it just screams OK this was designed by people that actually live with real air pollution.

I bought it because interwebs said one can home assistant it, but thus far I haven't. Seems usable without wifi frankly

Also I'd estimate effective filter surface area on the Xiaomi to be maybe 8x of the Levoit. Physically they're just different beasts
> Would you recommend D for web APIs?

vibe.d is quite good

> How fast is D compiler on a 100k line project?

The D reference compiler takes a few seconds on my machine and is about 450k lines.

> Does it support incremental compilation?

Not very well if at all.

> How's the package management story and where is D heading in this camp?

Uninspiring but more than enough to be productive - i.e. infinitely better than C++
> You don't think it's because they essentially invented the market, starting out at 90% market share?

Apple essentially invented the harddrive digital music player with iPod+iTunes and maintained a +80% marketshare for the lifespan of that product

> I disagree. I think people shop for a phone the way many people (unfortunately) shop for a new car: On the monthly payment, not the sticker price. All that matters is that the carriers finance the phone, subsidies are dying. Every major US carrier now has installment options.

The monthly payments for cars vary widely with the differences measuring in hundreds of dollars per month. The monthly payments for contract cellphones in USA are mostly the same for a $0 low end phone or a $0 iPhone. Indeed for many years AT&T/Verizon/Sprint wouldn't give a discount on the monthly plan even if the consumer brought their own phone which made it slightly irrational to not sign a contract. It's impossible for the low end to disrupt when the high end is the practically the same price.
Could you give some examples of the computer tools/software that are commonly used?

Could you provide or maybe point me somewhere where I could get an expansion of the ideas in your last sentence? Is it basically creating a simulation along certain non-linear parameters then running the simulation and watching what results? Like, "hmm... that looks like a phase transition, let me see if I can workout what is going on"?
Nope, you're not the only one.
I've slipped into the same pattern during the last few months, and if anything, I wonder why it didn't happen earlier. :)

Edit: Another good reason to do this, is that I tend to browse HN and open all the interesting stuff in background tabs, then go through those later. Opening the comments instead of the link, I save memory. Also, if I later read the actual article and then want to comment, I can just use the back button in the browser.
that's called "security through obscurity". and sometimes it works great! Well, the first time.

Of course, just like the shoe bomber changed airport security forever, an rfid keyfob like you suggested becoming commonplace, would just lead to the cops immediately tazing and tackling you, and treating every single motion of your arms as an attempt to destroy evidence.