skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting cash in a bank account is actually you lending money to the bank (for them to lend to other people), not a neutral store of an asset, like if you put physical bills or gold or whatever in a safe. If the bank goes bankrupt, that mean it's creditors (you) don't get paid, or get paid less than they're owed. To prop up trust in the banking system, governments insure bank deposits, in the Eurozone up to a value of €100k.

If you invest instead, you own (a piece of) something physical - a business or a property, typically. A house can burn down and the business can go bankrupt, in which case you lose your investment (unless you're insured). Banks in Italy are incredibly unhealthy at the moment, so to protect your money, you would want to put it in something more healthy, which might simply be a bank account in a not-Italian bank, or as proposed, assets of healthy businesses.

Reneging on an insurance guarantee or forcefully converting deposits to a different currency is a substantially different legal beast than confiscating property (which your shares would be). Perhaps, given that they serve roughly the same end, that shouldn't be the case, but it is.
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Thanks, thats good info. I am very interested to hear about your conclusion and experience when you set it up. Are you integrating with an accountancy package like Xero/Sage?

Quaderno/Stripe sound promising to me too but I can't find genuine feedback from Quaderno users. Its a real shame Recurly isn't priced to be an easy choice. It seems expensive to triple dip on subscription fees, transaction fees and %revenue and beyond frustrating that multi-currency is an enterprise "call us for pricing" feature.
Thanks. Have you implemented any of these yourself?
"generating latent vector representations with iterative processes using numerical analysis algorithms"

Sounds like word2vec.
| The real answer ... is that operating systems are designed to help users and programs. They are not designed to be a custom tailored highest-performance cure-all ... Using one tcp stack helps users and programs more...

I don't use that definition of operating systems, I use the unix virtual machine because it's ubiquitous and provides its same large core set of defined functionalities across many scales and platforms; and it is a particularly genius virtual machine; coding to other virtual machines is more difficult and terribly parochial, decreasing the usefulness of the work.

Much work is done at many layers to the internals of the unix virtual machine to increase its ubiquity, scope, scale, and performance. The more the internal design of the consistent virtual machine can support a custom tailored highest-performance cure-all for the highest possible theoretical computing throughput, the more ubiquitous and useful that virtual machine will be.
>Yes, let's throw away all the great toolkits (Qt, Cocoa, etc.) that we have, which have developed into an extremely stable base over the past 20 years, with look & feel consistency between applications, and replace it by some experimental browser tech and constantly reinvented web frameworks. </sarcasm>

I don't think you understand how WASM works. Qt can compile and work on GLES 2.0 (WebGL) and WASM is just a sandboxed bytecode that maps closely to CPU instructions and C memory model, meaning you could run Qt apps inside of WASM/Browser sandbox, and given the small size of WASM binaries compared to ASM.JS that's feasible even considering the size of Qt.

Browser with WASM is just a sandbox on top of native APIs and some chrome - it's essentially the app model for desktop with low friction distribution - you have back/forward, easy switching/kill, resource sand-boxing, etc. just like you do on your phone.
yup. fixed, thanks!
Is there a place where all these rules are detailed by the way ? not that I want to game the system , I'm working on a HN clone, and it would be interesting to know the business logic behind comments and submissions (how comments are sorted on an item page, how an article makes it to the homepage, is there something manual curation ? an algorithm ? ect... ) . While looking simple in terms of functionalities , HN is actually quite complex when it comes to content management,moderation and curation. I mean if all this is managed automatically.
do you think that the euro is the only reason? If you ask people on the street the real reason behind Italy's fall is the rise of China, Italy used to have a lot of small manufacturing businesses, which are now pretty much gone or dying, and leading to the issues you are seeing with the GDP as well as contributing to the bank problems (small businesses can try to stay afloat with bank loans for a while)

It also didn't help that when the Euro came in many, many, many shopkeepers repriced 1000 lire = 1€ (basically raising prices by 100%) which although I don't think was tied to GDP issues, it sure caused major pain for normal working folks.
The top game in China right now is a Pokemon Go clone
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why? do you also refuse to put quarters in arcade machines?
This puts into words what I was trying to put together into a thought.

I'm glad he found a system that works and I'd even like to hear about that system (productivity porn), but to say it's bad advice? This isn't science, there's not objective "good" or "bad" advice like "exercise every day" or "don't eat too much sugar" where you've got some real data to back up that advice. It's work. If it works for you, great.
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I'm not familiar with the tech but having read the article I feel he was very positive about the TAZ 5 and so doubt he was going out of his way to make it look bad.
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RSA is extremely limited and France's social help generally vanishes the second you have a something ressembling a serious job.

This is also a reason why it can be safer for a while to stay unemployed with no revenue than to work a low pay part time job.

Having plenty of kids might be the closest to a guaranteed financial help, except you actualy have plenty of kids and it's a workload and life style that you have to bare, and you still need to stay below a revenue limit.

I think not working in France requires a special set of skillset in itself. You need to be OK with a low cost life, stay away from any official and decently paid job, navigate the administration to find the right niche for you, and follow up with all the changes to stay in the sweet spot.

People with those skills will thrive in France, but most people are better off working and that's what they do.
I wrote a comparison for Australian companies recently:

https://medium.com/@grmcameron/stripe-vs-braintree-for-your-...

1. Feature Related Main Takeaways:

Stripe vs Braintree feature comparison:
Braintree allows payments through Paypal
(This can increase conversion if you believe your customer base feels more comfortable when using Paypal, a name they will likely recognize, as their card details are not revealed.)
Stripe accepts American Express while Braintree does not
Braintree allows you to bring your own merchant account
The stripe ecosystem is (arguably) more developed (i.e. Atlas)

2. Cost Related Takeaways:

If you are going to be bringing in under $200k revenue, then Braintree will likely be the better option in terms of cost considering their first $50k fee-less revenue.
However, if you are to be earning more than $200k, then Stripe will likely be the better option in terms of cost considering their lower % fee on transactions.
Additionally, the number should be re-calculated based on your international/domestic split, your estimated no. of charge backs and your average transaction size.
do you draw a distinction between currency and money?
Chicken Tikka Masala

That's not British though, it's Indian.
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Servers aren't actually binary, either. Your cheap server might serve the same result (binary), but performance might degrade under load more rapidly (nonbinary), the failure rate might be be higher (nonbinary), and the support for cheap hardware might be nonexistent (nonbinary). There's also the issue of SKU drift/mix as your cheap hardware fails and gets replaced with a different/newer SKU (adds maintenance cost, is also nonbinary).

At the end of the day, the cost difference plus the ability to mitigate/hide the problems via software makes the commodity hardware the winning option, but it's not just a matter of "same bits come out; good enough".

Commodity hardware is also not really cheap. These are 1U/2U servers that cost thousands of dollars. These are cheap relative to mainframes, but they're not consumer devices.
Don't take whats written in 'Haaretz' for granted, its an highly controversial newspaper, extremely left-wingish, and very unpopular by many sectors in the Israeli society. Usually I would say their general opinion(especially in the international edition) is actually, against Israel, or to very least always emphasizing whats bad.
To the article itself, even in the survey payed by them, only 2% said they are actually planning to leave. I wonder how that compares to other countries.
Your hands have an incredible number of degrees of freedom.
3D Printing is really great for industrial designers who want to prototype products. My uncle is an industrial designer and I remember how costly it used to be for him to come up with a simple prototype. Today a $2500 printer can get one pretty far in a few hours, trully revolutionary. It gives a greater margin for experimentation, trial and error.
I disagree. The ability to reach consensus within a community does not necessarily imply centralization.
OK, the name-dropping and too frequent bolding of text makes for a bit of a grating style, but I enjoyed the enthusiasm of discovery that is at the core of the essay. Getting discovered on Github will seem just superficially cool to those who've been doing open-source development for awhile, but it's hard to comprehend how fun it is until you've "made" it. Kudos to the author.
I understand the need for reliability, i.e. "come back up if you get bad data so it doesn't just die on you", but this seems like something that dates back from when any kind of raised exception would bring the entire system down. Don't we have modern frameworks and systems now that can tolerate individual failures instead of completely dying just because someone tried to POST some bad data?

Plus, having reliability and coming back up if it goes down doesn't solve the root problem, which is that there's a bug in the code, or some sort of unhandled edge case. 99.9999999% uptime doesn't help if your code doesn't work right.
In fairness, Galway is a big student town. I think you'll find similar sentiments in student towns around the world.
I mean, I don't think there's room to argue the "actively known for" claim. British food is absolutely known for being bland, fatty, and overcooked (at least in America); it's even the punchline in that "in hell the cooks are British" joke.

As for whether its true, that's a much harder sell. I can buy that Britain has quite a bit of bad food; 'British' mass-market food can be a bit shoddy, since it tends to be traditional dishes like fish'n'chips and pies that respond terribly to low-quality ingredients and lengthy storage. The restaurant stuff is much better, but it can certainly seem rich and heavy to those unfamiliar (partly because it's special-occasion food being served every night).

But to sincerely claim that the Brits don't have good food is a bit absurd. It seems to be born of either ignorance or ahistoricism. People know "fatty pies", but not cullen skink or any of the other more specialized delicacies, and they seem to have gotten their sense of what's available in around 1945, which was understandably not a high point in British cuisine.
Yes, but unlike for pure correlation we actually have a mechanism that could explain it. So it isn't on the level of "all we have is correlation", but of course it also isn't on the level of "we know for sure".
The CIA laughs and says, "Yer fucked because we can make an operating system too, just like yours."

I say, "You are a retard-nigger who has absolutely no clue what a certified random number is. It's God, retard-nigger. Nothing you can do will succeed against me. Yer fucked. Surrender to the IRA."
I guess I'm just not used to the Erlang/BEAM message-passing/infinite-servers mental model. I'm used to single threaded programs and importing libraries and the like, so I've never had the need to pull off complicated networks.
Kind of cool idea but I feel like they didn't do enough with it. Really it's walk around and collect Pokemon. But what kills me is to do anything in the game you have to go places. Which means if you live in an unpopulated area (or area where nobody played Ingress) there are no Gyms or other points of interest. So you literally can do nothing except have the game up and hope Pokemon pop up. You have to physically be near a Gym to battle Pokemon. What the hell do you do when you are not near places and want to play? Nothing. It's basically a walking app with a Pokemon overlay.
When are they going to put this concept into video conferencing? The worst part about a video call us that the other person is looking at your eyes which are usually below his camera so there is a huge conversational disconnect.
I think it's 8 hours.
As a cranky old man, I'd argue all of them that support arrow keys have issues. Arrow keys are an abomination.
browsers generally don't pin certs. there are methods to do it but everyone is scared to do it as it's a pretty quick way to DoS your entire user-base if you get it wrong.

The intended design of PKI suggests that pinning should not be a thing. unfortunately PKI is broken and pinning is a 'patch' because it's too each to obtain a cert for a property you don't own (hi bluecoat)
i had that happen on my nexus 5. for me, it was a bug in the headphone jack, though i didnt bother to go about fixing it.

in a call, the phone thinks theres another mic installed, and tried to use that instead.
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Thanks for the well-considered feedback.

For now a match is when everything after'@' is the same. I figured this would be acceptable because many schools and businesses give users multiple addresses (address@domain and address@sub.domain).

*also it's possible to add up to 3 email addresses through the settings page, though I haven't done a good job of making that known.
Pokemon Go is currently the top grossing app on the App Store. More than all the hugely advertised games like Clash of Clans and Mobile Strike.
Tetris wasn't that big before the Gameboy version. It was "big" in the tiny new computer/tech world, but it was gameboy which brought it into the mainstream.
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I'd love to see Warden integrate with Cachet [0] as they'd go really well together!

[0] https://cachethq.io
Can you provide some kind of reference so I know what the heck you're talking about?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State... 27.1% of the US is under 21 and 14.5% is over 65. I know 16 should be working but a good chunk should be getting education. That leaves only 58.4% even eligible for labor participation.
Clone them?
The problem isn't a lack of Pokemon, it's a severe lack of polish. For example:

- Obviously the servers are slow, but the app freezes and crashes all the time too.

- The help text is unhelpful and leaves the user with a ton of questions as to what the buttons actually do.

- Little to no support for people in rural areas, as the Pokemon follow the XM patterns from Ingress.

- Buggy Pokemon catching (e.g. you have to throw super far to catch Zubat)

- No way to add friends, and very little community interaction (with the exception of gyms and lure modules).

- Can't rename character, change clothing, etc.

- The map on the Pokemon screen loads slower than everything else, so when you go to tap "Transfer" and the map loads it changes the layout and makes you click the app.

It feels more like a buggy beta of Farmville with geocaching than it does a Pokemon game. Pokemon Go is to the classic Pokemon games as Elder Scrolls Online is to the classic Elder Scrolls games -- tons of potential, but severely lacking in execution.
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Open source doesn't work everywhere - https://medium.com/@did_78238/what-happened-to-open-source-c...
The logic behind the time limit on down voting is almost certainly to prevent people from going into someone's history to downvote everything they ever said. Since your karma is literally the number of (upvotes-downvotes) you've ever received, doing that to someone could remove a huge chunk of their karma.
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Except that with genetic engineering, we know precisely what they do

No, we don't. At best, we know a few of the reliable consequences of that gene locus. We know nothing of the proliferation that gene may have in a wild population, or how our modification will help or hamper the organism to adapt to a changing environment.
You're beef should be with government (crony-capitalism), not banking. A bank can't force you to bail it out, only government can do that. The "force" 100% resides with the government, not the bank.
Microservices makes sense, I suppose, but the cases in which distributed services and isolated processes are critical just aren't comment enough in my experience to require sticking specifically to a SOA-like architecture for everything. Especially in a web app like something you'd make in Rails, which already handles exceptions pretty well and rarely require concurrency.

The idea of composing individual applications and programs sounds very powerful, and I like the idea of using it as a way to compose programs written in different languages together (a Rails server talking to a Clojure ML service that uses Rust bindings to do hardcore number crunching, for example). That could be interesting. I don't know what I'd use it for, though.
> also interrupting. People dislike the interrupting.

So your argument is...what?

Hypothetically: Let's say I have an inventory of stock A, which I think is worth X, and which try and sell whenever the market price climbs above X. Now there's some new public knowledge that materially impacts my estimation of the value of that stock (eg, a large hedge fund has started buying large blocks of this stock): I no longer think it's worth X, but actually Y, and I'd like to stop selling it whenever the price climbs above X, and instead wait until the price climbs above Y.

So you're saying that's okay, and I can price my inventory however I want, but only if I give the hedge fund a chance to buy a bunch of underpriced stock first? This raises some questions such as:

1) Why on earth is that a good rule?

2) How much time do I need to give the hedge fund? Do they only need a few seconds? Should they get a day? A week? At what point am I allowed to change the price I'm selling stock A for without it "interrupting" the hedge fund? Do they need to announce that they're done, or is their a timeout period after which I can just assume? Can I change the price I charge other people if I still let the hedge fund buy at the old price, or does everyone get the discount?

3) Or is it not about time, but about amount? Does the hedge fund have some divine right to buy as much stock as they want without it driving the price up? Why? And how come nobody else has that right? Do you have to be a hedge fund to get the right to name your own price, or do normal people get to do that too?

4) Or is it somehow okay if I'm selling, but not buying? Is it's okay for me to raise the price I'm willing to sell stock A for if I find out a hedge fund is investing, but not okay for me to raise the price I'm willing to buy stock A for? What happens if I find out a hedge fund is liquidating their position instead? Do I get to lower the price I'm willing to buy and sell it for, or just one of them? There's no laws or SEC regs about this; is there a list of rules somewhere? Is it in the bible?

5) Does this only count market actions? If the hedge fund gives a Bill Ackman style press release about how some company is terrible and should be prosecuted, can I change my prices immediately, or do I need to wait in case I'm interrupting some hedge fund strategy? I mean, maybe they were planning on giving the press conference and then buying a bunch of stock; if I think their arguments are bollocks and I buy a bunch first, is that interrupting them?

And so on. The entire argument seem awfully focused on why large hedge funds and investment banks should be able to ignore basic market rules. I'm sure they'd like to; I'm still waiting to hear why they should. (One of my favourite scenes for Lewis's Flash Boys was when a trader expresses outrage that his very large order in a thinly traded stock caused the price to move against him. How terrible; if only there was a law that required people to trade with him at the price he chose...)
Same situation in NYC. Great location, trendy expensive interior decor? Prepare to be disappointed unless the cost is $300pp.
this x2

we are at full employment and those statements about only 62% employment might need to be looked at in more detail, they are wildly inaccurate when looking at the big picture, I am astounded this is even considered as reality.

how many families have both parents working if there are two in a house?

those numbers are based on use of welfare and unemployment. if those statements were alarming the people that are homeless would be astronomical at the moment.

http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/p...
Right. I feel like the game would have been so much better if it released with trainer battles (without a gym) and trading.
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Does any share of Blendle go to the content providers, or is it exclusively delivered to Blendle along?