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I don't have direct experience on the hosting question, but I have often though that if you could come up with the purely simplest way to allow a small, local business to create a one-page website, they would pay $30 a month for the service. Better yet, target a specific niche – Restaurants, spas, landscapers, etc. You could then have a dead-simple template they could type their info into.

Not gonna win any design awards, but so many small-biz sites suck badly because the tools available aim to do too much and become complicated or encourage the user (probably non-technical to begin with) to get too fancy and do too much.

Piggy-back off this and up-charge: https://picnic.sh

Biggest challenge would be gaining traction.
Was there a lot of purple blood in URL ?
You have to be very careful about these sorts of GC statistics. Things are often not quite what they seem and they depend a lot on the type of app you run.

The first thing to be aware of is that with modern collectors (I have no idea how modern Go's new collector is though), GC pause time depends on how much live data there is in the young generation. So you can easily have enormous heaps with very low pause times if all your objects die young and hardly ever make it into the old generations, because then you never really need to collect the rest of the heap at all.

Of course, outside of synthetic benchmarks, many apps don't show such pleasant behaviour, and often GC algorithms face difficult tradeoffs that are only really knowable by the developers. For instance, do you want low pause times, or less CPU used by the collector (higher throughput)? It turns out that's a fundamental tradeoff and the right answer usually depends whether your app is a user facing server (needs low pause times) or a batch job (better to pause for long periods but complete faster). No runtime can know that, which is why the JVM has tons of tuning knobs. Left to its own devices you can theoretically get away with only tweaking a single knob which is target pause time (in G1). Set it lower and CPU usage of the collector goes up but it'll try and pause for less time. Set it higher and the collector gets more efficient.

Or you can just buy Zing and get rid of GC pauses entirely.

So a stat by itself like "20ms GC pauses on 200GB heaps" doesn't mean much by itself. You can get very low pause times with huge heaps out of the JVM as well:

http://www.slideshare.net/HBaseCon/dev-session-7-49202969

but of course, you have to pay the piper somehow ... assuming non-weird heap usage the program will run slower overall.
I'm a perfect example of the problem you just described, parents basically let me handle all applications, pick my school, my major, and I ended up choosing an out of state school that was vastly beyond my means (~45k/yr). Parents who payed tuition ran out of money (after mortgaging the house to get my older brother through, and covering ~2 years of my education where I secretly took fewer credits to lessen the burden on my family).

So I dropped out and am now working for a recently funded start-up, making a decent amount of money with promises of more if I can work at a level that can elevate the company itself. I intend to finish a different degree over the next ~3 years (CS -> Philosophy). Needless to say none of this would've been possible had I not spent thousands of hours learning software development in my free time, such that the degree I ultimately get, or if I even have one at all, is much less important.

However I don't blame my parents at all for my poor decisions. I think today's youth need to be taught financial responsibility.. some how. Maybe mandatory minimum-wage work during high school? I don't know. This is all so ridiculous you would think it could only happen in theory. Financial institutions finding a way to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from the adult population using their children as a proxy and the parents being grateful to do it..
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I played around with this and found that the default rates were high, even among highly rated borrowers.
It's clear that you haven't read it at all:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proof

The fact of the matter is that the sort of Platonic definition of proof that you fantasize is impossible because it depends on certainty, which itself cannot be proven. The best we can do is fail to find an error in an alleged proof.

Consider the proofreader's paradox: A proofreader can be prepared to swear, for any given page of a 1000 page book, that there are no typos on that page, but no proofreader is so foolish as to claim that there are no typos in the book.
Please try the following http://tutorials.jenkov.com/iap/iap-message-structure.html
Nationalizing industries is not inherently a leftist thing. There have been despotic regimes who were not leftist and seized control of means of production. And there are plenty of leftist governments that don't nationalize industries.
I paid somewhere between $1,200 and $1,400 per month to share 180 square feet with one other person, and I was lucky not to be sharing with two other people. I could never prove it, but I strongly suspect either the university or their contractors were making a handsome profit off of on-campus housing.
Because such a ban would obviously prevent illegal transactions from taking place; people might be committing other crimes, but they would never think of breaking this one.
Those are A LOT of generalizations you're making.
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> The article talks about the slow transaction time being a barrier to arbitrage.

The article is wrong on many levels. You don't need to transact (or even own) bitcoins in order to arbitrage. You can just buy/sell and open short/long positions via the exchanges websockets API... Not WallSt speed, but a decent speed for any self-made bot vs point&click traders.
> Can you build a consistent accelerometer that does what you want?

I gave it some thought, and no, I don't think you can build a self-contained one. But if you allow external communications it becomes very doable (see: GPS system). Also, if you allow another input that tells the device it's orientation wrt. the gravitational field, say a magnetic field sensor, it becomes easy.
I lived in Shenzhen for the past 5 years (including one year in Hong Kong) and moved to San Francisco last month. If anyone wants to talk over a coffee/beer, feel free to shoot me an email. Not looking to gain anything from this other than meeting people.
Thanks! Lots of people are requesting docker images, so this sounds like the way to go. I'll look into it.
"Stoozing" (hadn't heard it called that before) hasn't been profitable in a long time, unless you're willing to take huge risks (in which case, there are better ways to make leveraged bets). I haven't seen a balance transfer offer with a transaction fee of less than 2% in quite a while. Even at 1%, you'd just break even.

Even if you are willing to take on a moderate amount of risk, most people - even those with good credit and decent incomes - are going to net a few hundred bucks per year off this thing, max.

It is a really poor way to make extra income.
Didn't read the article, but if this headline is true then that's a ridiculous law.
I don't see how any of this is related to No True Scotsman.

I'm not surprised they exist, but they seem quite rare and thus not worth addressing. Most of your links appear to be random authors, unless they're influential and I'm just not familiar with them. The one about the Congressman is interesting but could just be a matter of finding something good to say about the recently deceased.

In any case, Chavez-defense hardly seems like a popular movement that needs to be spontaneously called out and debunked like this, any more than news of a satellite launch needs an "Ah hah, so there, Flat Earthers!"
That's a lot! :)
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And a sports platform to rival DraftKings and FanDuel, etc..

They also have valuable properties like Flickr, Tumblr, etc., further down the page there are some very interesting propositions on how to make them work better, they might be better as spinoffs.
I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
> This is why there are experts (which I do not claim to be).

Heh, humility goes a long way towards becoming an expert. ;)

Thanks for taking this feedback well. :)

Also, a friend in IRC point out that:

https://github.com/turtl/js/blob/master/library/tcrypt.js#L6...

Your default iterations here is only 400.
Worst still a large number of companies are springing up offering refinancing on private loads that offer absurd terms and drag debtors further into the hole. These refi companies are to debtors what for-profit schools are to blue-collard workers.
They may be similar in their approaches to international commerce, but Trump and Chavez seem like opposites in terms of their approach to the domestic economy.
Hunh. Title is a bit misleading, but anyways.

Does Germany not have populations religiously opposed to banks or electronic currency, similar to the amish?

When I was younger, I would sometimes help out at the family lumber yard. Local amish folks would occasionally come in and purchase enough lumber to build one or more barns and/or houses, all in one go. This could easily be thousands to tens of thousands of dollars in lumber, all paid in mixed bills (and sometimes rolled coins) or varying sizes. They never tried to cheat us, but we had to spend they day sitting around counting the money anyways out of principle.
Depends what you compare it to. As I have written above, you can get low pause times with huge heaps today. In practice very few apps need such low pause times with such giant heaps and as such most users prefer to tolerate higher pauses to get more throughput. There are cases where that's not true, the high frequency trading world seems to be one, but that's why companies like Azul make money. You can get JVMs that never pause. Just not for free.
A minor quibble in that is was setup after the referendum to try to cater for the 45% of people who voted for Independence given that no daily paper in Scotland backed Independence.
Because they're white and conservative.
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I like the approach! I'm a GTD user and would love for the app to integrate with OmniFocus, meaning that defer and delegate are added to the appropriate place within my contexts and projects.
Interesting, would never think of CI use!
Thanks for the reply!
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The best way to protect the money would have been to buy US dollars on the black market.

Another way would have been to buy a car, motorcycle, alcohol, etc. Anything that preserves it's value over time. The worst thing would be to have it on the bank.
"International law" is one of the things that people like that really hate, c.f. all those people getting mad about "agenda 21".
> when people talk about socialism they usually have Marxism-Leninism in mind.

Er, what? Socialism is much more than just Marxism even in the broad sense, and Leninist vanguardism ("Marxism-Leninism") is not particularly significant in modern socialism. About the only thing from even Marxism in the broad sense that is fairly broadly common throughout all of what people talk about under the umbrella "socialism" is the broad outline of the critique of concerns/problems with capitalism, but the actual alternatives vary considerably.
You've addressed the visual presentation. Now, what do you think about the ideas he is presenting?
For personal use, the simpler and smaller the grinder, the better. True coffee enthusiasts will know the freshness of the bean because the roast date is on the bag. They will frequently alternate between different roast, when one bag is down to the last few grams, or a fresh bag has just rested. They will think about this when they are lying in bed in the morning, which makes a hopper a useless tool.

Make something consistent, easy to clean, easy to service, or solve an already known issue in the process. Displace the air around the beans with an inert gas to seal in freshness. Simplify the process and waste of dialing in the correct grind based not only on the brewing method, but also on how brittle the bean is and the oils present.

I wouldn't add features to a grinder just because it can be connected to the internet, there's a manual effort involved in coffee that might not need to be replaced.
Agreed. Private lenders wouldn't take the risk at a price most people would accept.

I believe this is the problem with getting the government involved in the loans. It obscures the true cost.

Who knows what the college system would look like today without federal funding? Maybe distance learning or a more focused associate degree would have developed.
Wouldn't universal store across devices count? I mean it doesn't matter if you sell X amount of phones or Xboxes or Desktops, you just need the # of devices that have access to the store to give someone a reason to develop for it. I don;t see anyone moving in that direction at all....
> If you want a reasonably fast statically compiled language, what would you use?

Nim. More similar to Go than most languages are to each other, but Nim has (a) more modern features, (b) better compatibility/integration with C libraries, and (c) an amazing macro system. The only thing in Go's favor is the size of its community/ecosystem, which seems to be an accident of timing and most definitely not about inherent quality.
It's fine to report such a problem, but "left a nasty taste in my mouth"? Come on. You make it sound like they shouldn't have even bothered, when this is one of the coolest things to have appeared on HN in a while.

All: Before responding to new work with swipes, dismissals, or nitpicks, try mentally multiplying their effect by 1000x. That seems to be about the magnitude by which we underestimate how such stuff comes across. Adjust accordingly, and then you can offer criticisms and corrections without adding air pollution.
This high school class builds an entire house every year
There's also http://www.28.io (totally ungooglable name, btw. Also know as "28msec").

http://www.28.io/documentation/latest/data-sources/

Not really comparable to Parse, even though they call it "Virtual Databases". Sure, you can query everything, but what about updates?

EDIT: Looks like they have updates, but I couldn't find whether they support similar uniform interface to updates as they have for queries (ideally XQuery Update Facility).

http://www.28.io/documentation/latest/modules/connectors
I'm definitely interested in this if for no other reason than Varnish is a particular nice piece of software. I would like to see a detailed feature and performance comparison between Hitch and HAproxy but I can't seem to find one. If only I had more time!

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9687330
Check out TMail21 ("Power Threads for Teams". It is explicitly designed as an asynchronous communication platform. Furthermore, it is being integrated into all of the chat services like Slack, Hipchat etc. to avoid balkanization between chat and asynchronous communication.
I am not aware of any active Amish communities in Germany or Europe. http://amishamerica.com/do-amish-live-in-europe/

There seems to be some small congregations but nothing like the Amish living in America.
HN headline: Germany to make cash payments of more than 5,000 Euro illegal

Article: ... Germany’s Social Democrats have proposed an upper limit on cash transactions and the abolition of the €500 note. It could prove a tough sell in a country that still loves paying with paper money.

Edit: headline updated by dang, thanks.
Imagine trying to sell a used car or other high asset items like fully loaded computers and Swiss watches. Who is going to take a check?

[edit]

“Limits on cash transactions would discourage foreign criminals from coming here to launder money,” says the Social Democrats’ paper. If sums over €5,000 have to pass through traceable bank transactions, laundering would be severely hampered, it adds.

Other European states have already imposed such restrictions. In 2011, Bulgaria was the first country to set a limit, restricting cash deals to €2,500. Italy followed suit a year later, with a radical limit of €1,000, although this was later relaxed to €3,000. Portugal is considering similar measures..."
if you constrain languages enough, they all eventually become verbose k.
How much programming language syntax is really intuitive, as compared to what you've grown familiar with over time?

Once you use the Go(/Jinja/Perl) syntax once or twice, then putting a minus sign to remove whitespace will be easily understood.

I am interested in an alternative that you find more elegant.
Perhaps a prerequisite to banning cash altogether which is necessary to introduce negative interest rates. A total cash ban has been proposed in Norway by Norway's biggest bank, DNB http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/oekonomisk-kriminalitet/d...
Sorry, I used to work at IBM and in my mind Java is WebSphere and a lot of suffering.

Certainly, there are other simple ways to use the Java stack with things like Play. DropWizard, etc.

But there is certainly a lot more complexity around tooling and deployments and such in the Java ecosystem than either Go or Node.js (although I can't say I'm a Java expert, so it could just be I'm just wrong).
They tend to be very volatile though. The VIG (Vanguard Dividend ETF) pays 2.4%. Dollar-cost average in on bad market days.
I'm currently configuring a personal Debian server and found out that I made all the mistakes the OP did : ssh is still on port 22, authentication with a password instead of keys, weak password for root, short user names (2 letters) etc ...

This is discouraging.
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If it is achieving the intended impact, it's good design not bad design. I've seen looking at direct mail response rates that a very slick polished classy piece can underperform something more FUCKING LOOK AT ME MY LETTERS ARE BIG COLORFUL HERE'S CLIP ART OF A GUY HOLDING CASH!!!!!
Not an expert in the subject but not accepting cash gives banks and credit card oligopolies almost all the keys to financial transactions.

Also interesting, how cryptocurrencies play with these rules. If they are accepted they should force the POS providers to be open to new ways of payment instead of using them as a barriers of entry.
Metabase looks very interesting. We will go through it in more detail. Can you point to any doc on what it takes to create a connector?
Note that Snappydata has two straightforward entry points - SQL (e.g. JDBC connector) or using the Spark APIs. Looks like the SQL connector route is the simplest?
"Presumably someone constructed it as a product of primes known only to them"

It would be foolish to presume that. And knowing the factors of the Diffie-Hellman parameter isn't all that important.
Sure, there are some differences in what compilers accept in terms of bleeding edge features. I've never found it an issue to keep within a subset that works everywhere; we're not talking about cases where you need to support VS6, obviously. And there are always compatibility shims in boost for many things.

"How are you going to avoid breaking things if you can't cross-compile before committing ?"

Depends on the workflow. If you cannot afford to break builds, you need to push changes through a staging layer, which will then (in large scale setups like that) also run tests etc. If it's just a few people, your build server will catch it. If it's just me, who cares that it breaks on another platform - I'll have to fix it myself anyway. As long as you do somewhat regular integration, obviously.

There is no silver bullet. But when it comes to giving up the great efficiency gains that come from a great IDE like Visual Studio, or having to fumble with the toolchain a bit to integrate better - it's an easy choice for me. Plus having a project that compiles with multiple compilers keeps you honest about standards conformance and portability.
It's definitely not safe. But it's very hard to stop visiting family. Just avoid public places, don't go out during the night and stay with your family.
"Citizen, what is in that briefcase?"

"€5,000, officer. I am purchasing a used car today for €4,900. Then I am taking my wife out to dinner."

"Carry on, then."
Yes, definitely. It was unfortunate that the recent Dietary Guidelines issued by the USDA did not include more meat-related stipulations.

Not that the USDA report is the end-all-be-all, but I do think it has substantial power over the decisions we (Americans in general) make at the grocery store.
bank transfer?
Pretty much. It's fitting in with the trend of execs writing about buzzwords to make the topics relevant to their startup offering.
Go doesn't use a generational GC AFAIK.
I've recently started using more, but I still have to turn to sublime fairly often due to speed (dealing with larger projects, bigger data files, more complex regex searching).

That being said, the performance has been getting steadily better, enough to the point I can do most of my coding in it without noticing a problem. I'd suggest giving it another go and see how it does for you! It's quite a joy to hack on.
Either he means exploiting bonus programs for new members, which is hardly sustainable and unless there's an endless supply of those. Or it's your regular arbitrage gaming, which is also hardly worth the effort and not free of risk. If it's an arbitrage scheme in an exchange, where the quotes might vary over time, your are gambling and at that you are probably playing the bookie who always has the better latency.
So your point is, what? Because something is imperfect that the status quo where nothing is done is inherently superior?

Plus a lot of people involved in money laundering have no idea they're involved in anything illegal: auctioneers, realtors, sometimes accountants, sometimes lawyers, etc. Or if they do know it is shady they can play ignorant.

Laws like this make it harder to involve law abiding parties in illegal activity.

PS - I actually feel like 5K is too low, 10K seems like a more reasonable lower limit.
I tried installing it recently and adding on the facebook react extention, and whilst installing it completely broke.

Restarting made it end up in the same install cycle as before.

Atom fixes what is broken in Sublime, but has it's own issues that are currently far worse.
The bit that remains is more protein that starch. This is a great demonstration that you can produce raw gluten in your kitchen, and it's handy for when people start spouting pseudo-science about chemicals in their food.
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There is very little chance I could sell a CEO on using Nim. The fact of the matter is that the community and ecosystem are parts of the entire platform and the platform matters a huge deal when you're betting your business on it. Accident or not.
"An email client with a Tinder-like UX" probably would have been less confusing.