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Maybe I'm not sufficiently hardware-savvy, but what's the downside here?

I am more or less in the market for a modest tablet, but I'm indifferent to whether it comes from Amazon. Can someone recommend a better deal?
We use PGP for sensitive internal emails at Coinbase as well as for signing releases on some of our open-source client libraries.

Keybase makes it pretty easy. You can see all of our keys here: https://keybase.io/coinbase
The President of the US may have bigger weapons, but I'm of the opinion the tools used by the Federal Reserve may be more dangerous by scope of impact...
But it's not in the interest of Stripe et. al. to subsidize fraud. The fact that they have the penalty set so high is because they don't want services like JSBin acting as basically defrauded card authentication gateways (as a side effect of their legitimate business).

Unfortunately for Remy Sharp, he built a fraud enabling system that doubled as a pastebin, and the financial system responded as appropriate for an open fraud portal. It's a bit like calling foul when email gateways start mistrusting your server because it's a proven open-relay node for spam. Not fair, but the system has to protect itself and its users.
The Nexus 7 was 3 times as much. Maybe $100 isn't much to you, but it is to a lot of people.
This is correct. Our payment provider GlobalCollect has passed us on a court ruling from Netherlands to state we don't need to pay any VAT since we're not physically there, even though we do sell there. A lot of payment processors like FastSpring, Avangate and Cleverbridge act as resellers for your products and are therefore obligated to charge and pass on VAT even if your company is not located there.
does religion matter at YC? because the 3 of them are jews...just saying... don't hate.. maybe justa a coincidence
Makes me want to create my own game now. Impressive job with Three.js. Would be cool if this was multiplayer.
Why You Get Stuck in the Status Quo
I stumbled upon a book by James Franco on Amazon.com a long time ago, and it had a 4-star review on the search page and on the product page.

I thought this was bizarre, because I just happened to have read reviews of it on literary and nonliterary sites giving it extremely poor reviews.

I clicked on "See all # customer reviews" on the Amazon page and the average rating on top immediately went down to 2 stars.

I thought this was a glitch, so I tried to access the product/book page a different way. The same thing happened to all of them.

There were always the same amount of reviews, as well.

About 6 months later I looked up the book again, and the "mistake" was gone. But I had taken a screenshot of it the first time, and there was only two more reviews. The 4-star average appeared on every page.

I look for it now, and it is back at 2 stars like it always was. The book in question is Actors Anonymous.
It was £6, which is closer to $10 USD. But good question.

Could you require the first payment to be for say three months upfront, and rolling monthly after that?

Or discount quarterly billing and hike the rolling monthly above the threshold?
Content Security Policy with Wordpress
This app is spreading Esperanto like never before
Re Hearthstone: This is something that applies to any user of the Amazon store, which is open to regular android users. I doubt Amazon's target demographic for this tablet is "Hearthstone players"... at least, not for that reason.
> So, you're telling me that the preferred form for making modifications to the source code of a router does not include the scripts which install onto the router to test those modifications?

In short: yes.

Being able to access and modify and redistribute source code isn't the same as having the ability to deploy it to a particular piece of hardware.

Likewise, if I open source a .NET project that doesn't mean it has to include Visual Studio even though VS is the preferred way to build it.
It's Uber for Bitcoin! Oops, I mean Bitcoin for Uber! Wait no, it's like Paypal for Bitcoin for Uber...

These analogies are really messing with me. :)
Sorry I disagree. See I work in Paris. Where the populace regularly work 35-45 hours and then take month long holidays. My contract allows a minimum of 35 hours/week. Anything after that is voluntary. I normally work the typical 8x5 week. When I decide to do 7x5 I strip out all the extra bullshit and focus on getting out the office. No breaks, meetings, phone calls, etc. my colleagues in he US don't care and don't know. I've worked a full day just like them, but an hour less.
Will be nice to demo cryptography apps with Anne and Ben. :D
Likely it's heavily subsidized vs market value in order to increase initial buy with the hope you will purchase from the marketplace.

If you want an ereader get a paperwhite imo. But if you actually want a screen tablet this may not be a bad bet. There are lots of good cheap android devices these days too. Fire does run android but in my dev shop we treat fire with special care due to both the heavy modification and different store.

It's not a pure android device so you're going to be very much locked in to the amazon market.
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Does anyone knows if this comes with a Snapdragon CPU?
Much of which is spent on the over-inflated cost structure of healthcare providers gaming the system.
Biggest downside is the FireOS, Amazon store instead of Google Play, etc.

If you want to do basic web surfing stuff, this is a phenomenal deal. I doubt you'll find a better one.

If you want to experience all that modern Android tablets are capable of, these tablets will not provide that. In particular anything related to Google services (mail/apps) and Android apps that are delivered through the Google Play store but not delivered though the Amazon store. There are a lot of mainstream apps that don't bother to push their apps to Amazon's store.
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From what I could tell, (at least) the $50 Fire is currently ad supported, and by default Amazon Underground is ad supported as well.
I wish there was opportunistic encryption, or at least a system more similar to how ssh keys work.
Mono speaker? I guess they expect everyone to use headphones.
Publishers handle that in the gaming industry.
Anyone else heading to the Ann Arbor event?
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Even if unrealizable business don't pay very much(close to doctors/lawyers), it still is a distortion in the market that wouldn't be possible in a free market.

Btw, big players are also dependent on a ZIRP, which goes beyond simply 'more credit'.
But what if the user would "read" the spam?

Of course "fake behavior" could be dected if you have known real behaviour to compare it to.That also means that it is possible to simulate "real behavior" given the relevant data.

Whis is a win-win situtation, ad networks get to fight fake traffic, fake traffic becomes indistiguishable from real human trafic.
How does U get their cut?
Personally, I see the Buzfeed-ification of titles as an art form. Appreciate it while it lasts; we will be nostalgic for this soon.
Your mistake was doing them in the first place. Code challenges and whiteboards are for cattle and cubicle cannon fodder at big companies.

Show them your github, credits in some os software, side projects, dont be another no name code monkey.
"Yeah, we're expecting our investment in CoolApprfy to return about 150% yoy ... wait, what? The risk-free interest rate is 3.75% instead of 3.25%??? What fools we were to invest in this! Cancel all upcoming investment rounds, stat! Conswilio is just gonna have to bootstrap their own multi-interactive paradigms for now."

Seriously, I've heard that claim a lot, but I don't see any plausible mechanism for the two to be related. The folks investing in tech startups aren't the same ones with easy access to cheap capital who pick nits over a few bps on bonds.
What makes you think "He" is?
Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Technology and the Future of Growth
Thanks man ! :)
I have been following the progress of this game on the-witness.net for a few years. Really exciting that they've got a release date now.
Wonder if you could root this and install Cyanogen or something?
I'm an idiot. I feel idiots are underrepresented in the tech community. Will I get special office hours too?
A Fundamental Shift in the Economy for Entrepreneurs and Small Business
How many VW Bugs is that ?
Your Nexus 7 cost (more than) 4x as much when it was introduced, no comparison.

Further, there's probably a market for people who want simple devices laying around at their bedside, couch or table that's bigger than their phone, more functional than an e-reader but not as clunky as a laptop (still very much a form factor for desks) for doing light digital stuff like reading the news, e-reader, checking email, browsing the web, watching video etc. None of this really requires high-end specs. This is exactly what I bought the Nexus 7 for (intro'd at $200 for the 7 and $230 for the 7 2nd gen), for my girlfriend, and she hasn't run a single app yet in the last 2 years that'd have required more specs than this tablet. The only thing she might miss is the N7's beautiful screen compared to the 170 PPI Fire tablet, but after buying a MBA a few weeks ago she still hasn't noticed the 128 PPI yet despite me pointing it out to here a few times and she's super happy so even here I think the Fire tablet would've more than sufficed for her use.

Granted with 5 inch phones becoming the norm the 7 inch form factor is being squeezed a bit, but at $50 it's still a very interesting little consumption device to have laying around.

It's not for me but I've got several family members for whom it's pretty good value.
Excuse my ignorance, what prevents a savvy user from flashing it with a different OS?
The title on the page is "Comcast is inserting Javascript into http web-pages with DPI". What's DPI stand for in that context? Assuming it's not Dots Per Inch.
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> So, you're telling me that the preferred form for making modifications to the source code of a router does not include the scripts which install onto the router to test those modifications?

No. Not really. GPLv2 requires that the modifier of source code release the tools to build/compile that source code into an executable. Whether or not the source code can be run directly (ex. Ruby, Python) or requires a compile/assemble/link process (ex. C, Java) is irrelevant. The GPLv2 also does not entitle or give anyone rights to any method to execute that recontributed and rebuilt code, for example if the code was ported to a proprietary hardware or some closed sourced ISA. However, IANAL and could very well be wrong because the GPL is such an unwieldy beast of unknowns.
Great resource for critically thinking, informed professionals. Kudos to the author.
Which software do they use to collect the signatures? Is it in the app store? With the Amazon Android?
What all fiction tends to do - crime stories, disasters, horror, action, romance - is make ordinary life look relatively muted. Maybe you don't want to become a mafioso in real life, but you do want to feel validated in your more minor lawbreaking, your small rebellions against authority, etc.

Plenty of teenagers want to imagine themselves being action heroes, with a "simple" life full of glorifying adventures where people die but not them - an escape from the immediate problems of their everyday existence. As they get older, most of them feel less inclined to see the world burn, and so reinterpret the same stories in a more troubled way. But in the moment, it's always about being "so badass" or whatnot. A person you could be, if you were just a little less inhibited by things like emotion and caring for others.

And that's the second part of it - that you can uphold "glorified bad guys" as part of an elaborate rationalization process to ignore your own failings, praising their every motion while distancing yourself from the idea you are also bad.
It's unfortunate that your submission didn't get any attention. You can iterate on the project and post it again to HN. Hopefully it gets more attention next time. Read on about when is the best time to post to HN.

As for the website itself, I think it's pretty nice, well done! Suggestion: use HTML5 geolocation API to suggest interesting places around the visitor.
Uh, I wouldn't say salaries are inflated right now at all. As the other commenter said, doctors and lawyers still grossly outpace software engineers. For whatever reason, I've noticed engineer pay plateaus around 120-150K, which is odd to me. If you have a lead engineer who's building the product that is bringing in millions of dollars of revenue and funding, you should pay them accordingly.

Also even if you were right, it's not just the tech industry that relies on low rates. Anyone who needs capital, which is everyone, relies on low interest rates.
> "Of the noncompliant states, only New York and Vermont issue enhanced licenses."

Minnesota has been offering them since Feb, 2014.

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-to-offer-enhanced-drive...
i guess if it's a standard chipset and unlocked bootloader, give it a couple of months. You can get a decent tablet for not very much more though
I would encourage you to use data to back up your statements. This means measuring heart rate and exertion in an automated fashion. You might see some patterns. I know I did, to the point where I could predict a "meh" day in advance.
Fair enough, although I disagree that the title is link-bait.
the leeches and the people who need to make a living
According to Google[1], the median salary for a lawyer in the US is $113,530 and for a software engineer is $93,350. Considering a lawyer requires a Masters degree and a software engineer typically (but not necessarily) only has a Bachelors, I don't think there is much effective difference. On top of that, the median starting salary for lawyers is $62,000[2], which I think is significantly less than the median for software engineers. Lawyers also graduate with significantly higher debt load.

Doctors are a different ball of wax. They require effectively PhD-level education plus a seriously underpaid multi-year residency before they can actually practice. They also have debt loads that make law degrees look cheap.

[1] Search "lawyer salary" and "software engineer salary"

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/15/pf/jobs/lawyer-salaries/
> Anonymous business. No street address. Not in Dun and Bradstreet. "Private registration" domain. And they want you to deposit money with them. Yeah, right.

https://bitcoinbuilder.com/ full name of the founder is at the bottom of the page, Josh Jones (founder of Dreamhost).

You can look up the company "BITCOIN BUILDER, INC." here: http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/
>> People are alot more concerned about trade with China than a token Fed Rate hike, sorry.

Wallstreet is terrified of the rate hike. If it is indeed the start of a ramp to 3.x percent in one year, shit is gonna fall apart again. There really is no way around it due to the inverse relationship between interest rates and housing prices. Better lending practices and stress testing will ensure the big banks can handle it this time. That doesn't help your 401k though.

Looks like we'll see whose right on this by the end of the year. I'm betting on the rate hike in October.
Ouch. This one landed. If this is true, then I think it would turn me off the deal. Unless I wanted to try what someone else mentioned and flash it with CyanogenMod or something. Never done that before, but this might be a good way to start..

edit: It looks like they've got the same situation vis-a-vis ads as all Kindles - yes they have ads, there is some attempt to make them unobtrusive, and they only have ads in the US.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/all-kindle-fire-hd-models-ad-su...

So that explains that. Now to find out how hard flashing a new OS would be. :)
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Norwegian here. It's very common. It doesn't say "3D-secure" or "verified by visa", but logging in with your bank credentials (Bank-ID) sometimes feels like it's more common than not.
My colleague considers every annual review as a renewed offer of employment. With that mindset, periodically interviewing for other jobs is a normal thing to do; you take the best offer you get.

In this world view, going out to get another offer isn't 'for leverage', its part of a career process that makes sense.
> we should try to reduce needless suffering as much as possible.

Killing everyone, as fast as possible is the best way to minimize suffering in the long run.

Not sure that's what you're looking forward to...
But would it fuck him on the VATMOSS? Would he lose the ability to verify the address via the cardholder billing address?

A question I don't know the answer to.
>If you have a lead engineer who's building the product that is bringing in millions of dollars of revenue and funding, you should pay them accordingly.

How much money someone "brings in" is not the sole determinant of how much money they make.

And do you believe that engineers should be making the same as doctors?
Nothing is worthwhile for its own sake, but empirically speaking representative democratic societies have been the most successful in recent history, which makes it a reasonable default. What would you argue is better and more importantly, what evidence do you have that it would be more effective?
The cost of Diablo 3 convinced me and my brother to get Torchlight 2 instead. Best $40 we ever spent!
See here for a write up up Jai's language features: https://sites.google.com/site/jailanguageprimer/

John is clearly coming in from a C++ mindset and is essentially fixing problems with the language that should have been really been fixed long ago. I think it looks interesting, but I'm not sure it really solves any big problems? Just seems to be a bit better syntax.
I'm not sure how this is premature. The reason the practice is called tivoization is because we went through all this years ago when Tivo did it. The FSF acknowledges that releasing the source but locking you out from installing your self-built version of it does comply with the GPL2, which is why there's a GPL3.

See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#Tivoization
looks great, if it supports touch-pen it will be perfect for school kids.
> So many people think SIMD is somehow about parallel computation, but to me the obvious use is small vector math with basic vector types and standard operators.

The fact that you think that indicates that you have no experience with SIMD programming or instruction sets. Using SIMD for small vector math is at best a wash, and typically a poor idea for performance. You only get significant performance benefit out of SIMD instructions when you can use vectorize an entire inner loop (moving between scalar and vector ALUs is fairly expensive on some microarchitectures), and when data arrangement and movement is arranged to maximize throughput (think SoA instead of AoS). Using SIMD for short vector math is generally moving in the opposite direction of those goals, resulting neutral to negative performance delta compared to scalar code.
(Presuming you're referring to this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/156932)

Those are all entirely reasonable things to block for if you understand the mechanics behind why those calls may block. And none of it should be fast-path stuff; it's easy to architect a solution where you avoid those things except in corner cases.

The other thing you're missing is that when you architect around Windows completion ports and threadpool I/O facilities, it doesn't matter if one thread blocks every so often. Windows will detect this and schedule another one to run, such that there is one active thread scheduled on every core.

I/O completion ports facilitate thread-agnostic I/O completion; the thread that blocked because it was extending an encrypted file won't impede the latency of other clients because there is no thread-specific association.

I exploit all of this with PyParallel. http://pyparallel.org

For more details on asynchronous I/O on Windows and why it's fundamentally better than the UNIX I/O model in every possible way: https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...
> It seems like the market has become addicted to low interest rates.

More, low interest rates are insufficient tools alone to achieve the goals for which the Fed deploys them, so that the conditions which motivate low interest rates are not sufficiently resolved by them to move the market to conditions where low interest rates would stop being desirable.

Monetary policy isn't magic and even with herculean interventions has limited efficacy (basically, at the moment, limited to not making things worse); the problems it addresses often require simultaneous fiscal policy actions to achieve substantial, durable changes.

> At one time, it was the Federal Reserve's job:

> "to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going"

That's still basically true. The thing is that, even with a rather full punch bowl set out, the party steadfastly refuses to get started.
When I was young I remember the world used to be beholden to the demand of the american consumer. What they wanted drove the export of entire economical regions in Asia.

Now it seems the giant in the room that everyone needs to accommodate is the Chinese consumer.
Apple has built in VPN and Tor support so at some point you have to wonder if Apple haters are suffering a type of Stockholm syndrome.
I like how it puts ads on the lock screen to offset costs
socket.io and ws are apples to oranges. ws does not provide hand-shaking, retries or fallbacks. These are important things if you're building a production app.
I feel like everyone looking to understand C++ should read the both the FAQ and the FQA. But please, take them both with a pinch of salt.
No, they expect anyone who cares to pay more than $50.
I pay for Gmail, because I need real business email accounts.

Did I get lucky with being one of the early Apps for Your Domain users? We don't pay a bean for our company's Gmail accounts but seem to get most of the features (no ads, custom domain, etc).
Excellent! That's how democracy works. If you don't like how things are run, you can a) try to change them or b) find a venue more congruent with your personal beliefs.
One way to flag titles that you consider to be link bait would be to put quotation marks around them, as in "one weird trick that..."

The proliferation of quotation marks would probably give the impression of a somewhat sarcastic and superior editorial policy, but in all seriousness, software people are all about detailed quotation policies, literal references where appropriate, changelogs, version control, etc.

HN's stripped-down aesthetic is a bit Procrustean.
locked bootloaders.

got a Xoom 2ME here. decent hardware, but I never got a new OS on it
In fact its rarely correlated. Good Engineers are woefully underpaid most of the time.

Case: a support Engineer of my acquaintance worked to retain $24M worth of at-risk customer contracts last year. He got a better job offer, and when he told his employer he was leaving they said "Tell us what it would take to keep you"

He replied "$3M paid over a two year contract"

They said "No, really, what would it take?"

That's how badly Engineers get treated. Given a proven track record, they still couldn't imagine paying him what he was worth. They'd rather lose the next customer.
Companies love to set things up such that illegal activity is never ever ever tolerated, but at the same time set up metrics and goals that are impossible to meet legally. Then you just keep firing people who underperform, and the rest happens by magic. This lets them reap all the benefits of illegal activity, while letting low-level employees shoulder all the blame.