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etc.

Add a button, set up google analytics or some other thing to track the button click. I've used unbounce before for this. use something like wufoo to add a form to a page an collect emails or do a survey to validate your assumptions about your potential users.

The button is to see if people are even willing to click on a button to solve the problem you suggest you can solve.
Adblock Plus and Flattr’s new project will let users automatically donate money
What you are describing is not a democracy, it's a textbook plutocracy.
China Creates World's First Graphene Electronic Paper
”Those will last for a few more years, until password crackers will become so fast that it will be impossible to remember any kind of secure password anymore.”

I don’t think you need to worry about that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3140898
"Participants who worked had their mincome supplement reduced by 50 cents for every dollar they earned by working." - that is not Universal Basic Income.

"... found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families, which resulted in more teenagers graduating."

And that does not sound bad at all and it rather counters the lack of supply of nannies (if there was such).

(Quotes from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome)
Spoken like someone who's never been anywhere near the US federal procurement and implementation process for software.
Better Call Saul I agree with, the others are too whimsical. But Silicon Valley is damn hilarious, and even more so for us techies.
Pretty neat for the older generation, until you run into one of these sites that persist that they know how to properly do password security and require you to have at least 1 number, at least a 'special character' (of which the definition is often very vaguely described) it should contain of at least 8 characters and also be no longer than 12.

You will soon come to the conclusion that it is still easier to teach people to use a password manager for this because these schemes are nice but only get you this far before you have to revert to remember that single password again.
> Flattr Plus will “eventually” be integrated into Adblock Plus

> Once Flattr Plus goes through its beta process and the model is proven, the functionality will be incorporated into Adblock Plus and made available to millions of people.

I call this a malware
In short, it wrecks it:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/T_Ce...

http://www.nasa.gov/content/study-reveals-immune-system-is-d...

http://www.space.com/4302-stresses-immune-organs.html
Their rent won't increase. It'll decease because they can quit their dirty job and move somewhere nice with low rent but few jobs, like a small town.
> You get $700 / month from the government for basic income.

I thought the idea was that it be enough to live on.
Snowden and Fareed Zakaria Debate on Govt's Right to Access to Encrypted Devices
Upper-lower-middle class huh? Makes me glad to live in the UK, where we have working class (manual labour, shop work, emergency/healthcare), middle class (anything in an office), and upper class (whatever you like, your income is from return on investments).
The amount of possible alterations (practical alteration that people actually come up with) of a diceware passphrase is, I think, much lower than the possible values of a 6 figure number (which is what most two factor applications use). If you think hard, you'll come up with maybe 100 possible alterations. I wouldn't trust this scheme as my password manager. I use 1password, which feels a lot safer to me.
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You wouldn't value a company you were thinking about investing in that way.

That's exactly how you value an early stage company - back of the envelope calculations and monte carlo.
Let's assume that sitcoms aren't a complete travesty of expressive form to begin with. Just for the sake of argument, just for a minute.

You know, there is the option to just stop watching TV. If, after skipping all the series that you don't find relevant to your life, you find there is nothing left to watch, then just turn it off. Nothing compels you to watch TV.

You want to talk about class struggles, how about the modern depiction of feudal systems as fundamentally good, if not for a few "bad apples"? Disney/Pixar movies are particularly bad for this. I like to think the White Walkers in Game of Thrones are an allegory for democracy and capitalism, that as the aristocracy send more commoners to clash against the inevitable, unstoppable wave, it just creates more corpses and more converts.

There is so much freely available content out there to spend your time on that you don't have to be beholden to the major production firms. Stop watching network television. They have perversely skewed incentives. It's like people who pass a local restaurant they've never heard of to go to McDonald's. Why not take a chance on a burger that will probably be better, rather than go eat a the burger you know, that you know will be shitty?
That's offensive. I am 23 and have lived away from home since I was 17. I've been financially independent since I turned 18.

Don't stereotype.
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This is pretty sweet. It's like a super lite IDE but on paper.

For C#, in the online section, you should put a link to http://www.dotnetperls.com/. It also has sections for other languages.
When I did my compiler class at the university, our professor teached us a nice way to do dumb compilers, that I always suggest as learning process.

Generating bytecodes in a suitable text format, that can be either be easily validated and executed with a dumb interpreter, or translated into machine code via a Macro Assembler.

Surely the code performance sucks, but it gives the students the gratification of producing something that executes real machine code and that they can show off to their friends.
To be fair to the author, he does write the following at the end of the post:

> PS If you are planning to do this... please consider using a password manager first.

which shows that he is aware that this is only a second-choice solution.
This is the idea of progressive overload that has been a core tenant of many weight training programs for a long time. It may be that body composition changes are primarily adaptive responses to stressers, rather than the typical simplified model of 'x work burns x calories'. That is, x work may in some cases be associated, on average, with x calories being shed, but it does not directly cause that outcome in a straightforward fashion. Rather, it may well be the case that your body adapts in proportion to the level of stress that it experiences (that would be consistent with the conclusions here).

Another consideration is that when we assume that natural processes respond linearly, we seem to have a tremendous track record of being wrong. Even with that being the case, essentially every model that covers any aspect of fitness seems to assume linear response. So it's not surprising to see demonstrations that these models don't hold to reality at the extremes.

Since the Fitbit was released, I've maintained that counting steps is a useless activity unless you are very old or infirm. I think that practitioners (i.e. athletes) have long known that intensity is the primary determinant of changes in body composition and athletic performance. It's seemed to me for a while that one of many causes of the difficulty people have improving their bodies is that they 'exercise' rather than 'train'. That is, they think of their workout as putting in time or quantity of work, rather than just trying to improve their performance across various physical tests.
> and went into technology where I could make an upper middle class salary.

Not everybody can do that, in fact, most of America can't.
As the author says multiple times, before you try this, please at least try to use a password manager.
In Rust ecosystem, we've been experimenting with different ways to make CPU-GPU interaction safer when it comes to graphics abstractions.

In gfx-rs [1] one defines a Pipeline State Object with a macro, and then all the input/output data and resources are just fields in a regular Rust struct [2]. So assignment pretty much works as one expects. All the compatibility checks are done at run (init) time, when the shader programs are linked/reflected.

In vulkano [3] the Rust structures are generated at compile time by analyzing your SPIR-V code.

[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx
[2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/blob/2c00b52568e5e7da3df227d415eab9f55feba5a9/examples/shadow/main.rs#L314
[3] https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano
> But novelists don't have deadlines and when the novel is done

I hate to "well actually" you :) , but a great number of authors have contracts that demand one or two novels a year over a fixed period of time. I know Iain Banks did with his publisher, he mentioned it at a one of his readings of a new but yet unpublished novel I was lucky to attend back in 2007'ish.

> they usually don't take reader requests to change this or that part of the story.

Even well known authors are reigned in by their editors and proof readers, and sometimes things have to be changed.
A child learns much more and more deeply about language from just a fraction of the amount of unsupervised data. The point is that the mechanisms are entirely different, it's not very useful to compare.
Perhaps the question could be rephrased as: I am happy with how React handles my view layer. What more does angular bring that would make me want to switch, from React + whatever else I'm using as libraries?

I don't really think angular and React are direct competitors.
Three earthlike planets discovered, only 40 lightyears away [pdf]
wow are silicon valley folks really this pretentious?
The undemocratic part was not that one. Like I said: "even if everyone was entitled to a vote and to change it whenever they want" and then carried out the argument based on that alternative scenario to bitcoin reality and explained why that would be a bad system.

The reality is that just an handful of people can vote in this system, the ones that control all the mining. All other people are left using a system in which they have no say.

That's a classical textbook Plutocracy and completely un-democratic.
I am not personally offended, but a lot of the applicants are less experienced than us and so we need to be careful with what we say.
Roseanne was fantastic. No it didn't have a brand new comedy line for every episode, in fact it was largely the same problems over and over again (money, relationship, bitchy daughters, etc.) but I still love it and watch what little I can on Netflix because while the problems weren't always shiny and new, they were identifiable and made the characters more real. I can't stand most sitcoms because their problems have to be built out of literally nothing that would even tip my proverbial Problem Scale a little bit, and it comes off as cheap, and the characters just look weak and stupid.

Maybe it's a thing that only people who grow up in that kind of area get (I'm about 250 miles from Landford's fictional location) but seriously most sitcoms just make me cringe with disgust. "THAT's your biggest problem today? I'll trade you any day of the week and you can find out what a REAL problem is."
How much money is actually spent on the costs of administration that would actually be eliminated by UBI, which is mostly just qualification paperwork?

You'd still need fraud prevention--people faking identities. You'd still paper pushers who coordinate payments and customer service.

I can't believe this really would create all that much savings when averaged out over 330 million people.
I use passwordstore.org's pass... which just syncs all the passwords via git (and they are encrypted with gpg). So I have redundancy/backup/versioning and the rest is just seperate (gpg'd) textfiles.
In-depth look at how we chose the name, logo and branding for a new product
re: Krewe -- it does not end after your group is formed. You continue to gradually expand after you become close with your group, thus making it possible to make dozens of friends in your neighborhood. You're also 'born into' a decent chat application, so you don't have to head over to facebook groups and set that up. It also has functionality similar to Down to Lunch, so you don't have to set that up either. I have plans for many more features that will keep users engaged long after their first meet.

Krewe is not a "Tinder for friends." It's about giving people the kind of network they can rely of for anything including making career connections, finding romantic partners, becoming connected to their local community, and having incredible real world experiences.
The unintended byproducts of refactoring code
In my area, Kroger, CVS, and Target all have a house brand meter that has very inexpensive strips and seems to be accurate. The meter is silver/white and the strips are black. While it seems identical at the different stores, I found out that the strips have different notches on the end, so a Kroger meter won't take CVS strips.

Either way, the meter is about $10 and 25 strips is around $7, 50 is $12, 100, is $20. Very afforadable.
>The people without treasury are left out of the new money created

Everybody in the US has treasuries. SS is the biggest holder of them, so when their value goes up, everyone with a SS account benefits. Next, most pension/retirement plans give another large class of adults benefits (50%+ of adults hold such plans).

Remember, Fed buys from the Open Market (the "OM" in "FOMC"), which has an effect on pricing for all.

> With 10% fractional reserve, the banks can lend out 10X of what they have

And they also have an offsetting 10X in liabilities. It's not some free money giveaway any more than lending money to my friend does not create new money - it gives him more cash and an exact same amount of debt.

Plus, if you think fractional reserve creates money (in the sense that the gain is not balanced by a matching debt), then paying it back "destroys" the exact same amount. Fractional reserve is zero sum.

>Basic income can become another mechanism for the Fed to inject money.

All other Fed injection mechanisms swap assets. And the amount needed for even a tiny UBI is massive compared to any other amounts added. This is not even remotely plausible.
CNN report http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/02/health/three-habitable-pla...
Thanks, I'll give this a try.
I'm looking forward to trying this out. Having written Ember, Angular, and React apps now, I feel like they are all getting closer, but a lot of rough edges still exist.

Ember: interesting framework, but all too often, you would hear a team mate say "wait, why is that working, it shouldn't be?" Mixed with equal parts "logically, that SHOULD work, what am I missing?"

React: I love the component focus, and redux is pretty slick. However, the insistence on using JavaScript in lieu of helpful abstractions that clean up the code for easier maintainability, is frustrating. The whole point of JSX is syntactical sugar, but the team went with half measures. You also end up with a lot more plumbing code than the other two. Sure, I can reuse some of these components, but in truth, most of your components will be single use.

Angular 1: by far the easiest and most intuitive. Enough magic to make setup and a basic app easy, but not so much magic that you can't figure out why something is working. However, the more complex an app, the less Angular 1 serves. And you really need to use directives as a component, and follow a more react pattern, or you're going to have a bad time. Also, the dependency injection is a nice thought for simple directives, but when you're done, you'll very likely have so many dependencies being injected that unit testing becomes burdensome. And if it's burdensome, it won't be done as much as needed.

All that being said, if your app is primarily collecting data through forms, you can't beat angular. If it's highly dynamic, and you want a more native feel to your app, react is the clear winner. Ember is a neat, but I won't be using it again.

Angular 2 doesn't fix all of my complaints, but it's getting closer.
Lithium-battery factories in the US (where Tesla is building its new megafactory) don't produce any air pollution or any significant pollution at all.

Coal is certainly polluting, but "where the renewables are manufactured" doesn't make any sense — where are sunlight, rainfall, and wind "manufactured"?

Gallium is not a mineral at all or a rare-earth element, most solar panels don't contain either gallium or rare-earth elements.

Rare-earth elements are almost entirely mined in China, except for a recently reopened mine in the US, which are not usually considered "conflict zones".

Gallium is nearly half recycled, but as for mining, it's mostly mined in China, Germany, Kazakhstan, and the Ukraine, of which only Ukraine is a "conflict zone" — although Nazarbayev is guilty of many human-rights abuses, there is no real insurgency there. Germany has some of the most stringent "environment regulation" in the world. Gallium primary production is actually mostly a product of aluminum production.

Earth is not a closed system: we're mostly concerned about energy here, and Earth constantly receives energy from the Sun at a rate of ten thousand times world marketed energy consumption, almost all of which is either reflected or reradiated into space as heat.

As far as I can tell, you just put a bunch of words into your comment with no concern whatsoever as to what they meant or whether any of them were true. Maybe you meant to satirize ignorant pseudo-environmentalism, but environmental damage is a real problem that needs careful discussion. Posting paragraphs of lies, as you did here, is a bad thing to do, because it effectively reduces the intelligence of the people who read your comments — it confuses them to the point that they are less able to make effective decisions.

Please don't post things like this any more.
Supporting your 1), it's a lot easier to read about stuff where your side had a clear victory. "Bob moved his units into position, they defeated Bill's units, Bob claimed the flag" is a clear victory story for Bobians, and set-piece battles are something they can visualise. "Bob's units moved off into the jungle, and they never really found the enemy, and never really won, and we didn't really understand why we were there in the first place" is a hard story to feel reflected glory from.

I was told once that on the European continent, they're a bit puzzled over the Anglo obsession with WWII history. For the Anglos, it was almost a complete success story - a defensive war against a difficult (and demonic in hindsight) foe where we united unquestionably on the side of right and prevailed, and were never occupied. On the continent, the story was more about occupation, resistance, informants, people disappearing in the streets, secret police with frightening powers, so on and so forth. It was a much more painful experience, where people often couldn't even trust their neighbours they grew up alongside. And even after it ended, the continent was split in twain between two foreign superpowers bristling at each other. That kind of story is also hard to feel reflected glory from...
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I am having a hard time understanding your reference to China.

Yes, China is "into" electric personal transportation.

http://qz.com/137518/consumers-the-world-over-love-electric-...

Yes, China has 200 million electric bicycles. At that adoption rate, I would have expected 50 million electric vehicles on the road in the US.

But, the USA appears to be in love with the car. China has 128 cars/1000, USA has 809 cars/1000.

For a great many people, the electric bike would be a great transportation option -- cheap and clean. However, there is no way to compete with China in manufacturing these.

The only hope the USA has is Tesla.

For this reason, I would expect subsidies! USA manufacturing, possible exports, and a cleaner environment.

I personally use an electric bike, for which I received no government rebate... but, I don't have to pay for gasoline, or insurance, so I come out ahead anyway.
And KeePassX on Linux / KeePassDroid on Android. It's simple and works.

The biggest issue is that the passwords are usually copied via the clipboard, so any program accessing the clipboard could copy your passwords. It's of course up to your own assessment whether this is a problem worth consideration or not.
Not that I think Craig Wright has presented any evidence that he is Satoshi, but if the anonymous creator of Truecrypt can be an international drug lord and weapons dealer, why can't the anonymous creator of a cryptocurrency be a serial fraud and tax evader?
An alternative for people in colder climates: just wear less clothing day-to-day. I generally wear one layer fewer than people around me. It really doesn't take long for the body to acclimate to it to the point it's no longer uncomfortable.

I love my hot showers too much to give them up, so this seems preferable.
Not really new things, I think I get a longer battery life when I avoid scrolling with the trackpad (you can see a higher cpu usage in the activity monitor when scrolling) but to be honest I never really measured it scientifically.
Illustrated History of Mac OS X
And the bad thing is, that it's in general not the cleverest set of people that make extra kids to get a higher income. Overall, the more educated people are, the smaller their families are. So this will effectively reverse everything that Darwin claimed: no survival of the fittest, but victory by the 'stupid' by overpowering the educated...

Edit: yes, I do, but I am unsure if it will stand the test of Hacker News readers :)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2172480?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...
http://www.iqtestexperts.com/iq-family.php
The 1995 story in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine-...

It is misleading to classify the original welded design as adequate for quartering winds by virtue of the safety factor incorporated into the design. The safety factor accounts for the gap between the design and its execution in the physical world. It takes into account reasonably likely implementation errors not possible design errors.

The safety factor is a try-catch for IO. It's not there for kernel panics.
I would say that most small B2B software companies aren't giving profits to investors, they're giving revenue to operations overhead to support staff that aren't strictly needed, but are nice to have (sales, marketing, HR, larger than necessary dev teams, etc.). Any company focusing on solving a single problem while growing slowly is generally a lifestyle company rather than a true startup in the HN sense, and can be as efficient and profitable as yours.
Because the world doesn't work like that? if it did, we would be paying the same proportional amount of income to rent today in 2016 as we did during 1970. We don't. Just because there is more money doesn't mean that you get proportional increase in construction, maintained demand for housing, or demand for land for which houses are built on. It doesn't change how government rezones in order to control rents in cities.

Rent is not some basic formula derived from the average income.
Mr Bitcoin: “I don't want money, I don't want fame” BBC News
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