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That's what I do.

Its strange how banks reward checking accounts but not savings accounts. I get no reward or benefit from my savings account. Due to holding the balance in my checking, I get all my ATM fees auto reimbursed. Its not much but its worth more than keeping it in zero interest savings.

There's also a time issue. I have plenty of credit so for less than a week I can use my CC and for more than a week or having to sell stock wait for the transaction to clear and transfer from my brokerage to my bank.

I have gotten into time crunches like when my old car died and I wanted $10K or so for the downpayment on the new car and I needed a cashiers check like that weekend, but in the end everything worked out alright.

Many years ago I used to participate in Treasury Direct back when the interest rates made that worthwhile. Treasury Direct is (was?) a US treasury program where they'd direct debit and direct deposit t-bills, bonds, etc. Kinda cool back when the interest rate made it worthwhile. I remember some years after I stopped using it they did very early 2FA and I still have a card covered with random numbers laying around somewhere. TBills were sold at a discount for various terms so magically $99XX would disappear from my account and then a month or quarter or whatever later $10000 would direct deposit reappear. Its not worth the effort anymore of course. Maybe if I had $1M.

I'm not sure why I'd need to save money anyway. Lets say I saved $10K and got $500K of medical bills or $500K of some kind of legal judgment against me, the only effect of having had $10K in the bank is that I wouldn't have enjoyed having it. Its not like the hospital or IRS would walk away satisfied with $490K unpaid.
Given that the best savings / MMA accounts are netting at most 1.10%, and inflation has swung between ~1% and 3% over the past 10 years, you're likely losing money with a savings account.

Better to dump it in a major index fund or bonds if you're feeling cautious.

Most people with substantial incomes realize this and do this anyway. I wonder if investment portfolios were included when they asked about "savings" accounts?
Bad news then... Google is not what it seems. http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279...
Blah, my $%#$% credit union, upgraded their web software the other day, and it basically supports only the latest FF, and chrome browsers on the desktop. Complete with a nice please download chrome button, and a refusal to proceeded. I'm running a webkit based alternative browser, and I had to go change my compatibility string to get past it.

I opened a ranty support request about the fact that they should consider replacing their web devs if they were unable to create a site that adhered to standards enough that they didn't feel the need to write browser specific code.

Having spent some time in the past few years doing web development myself, I don't feel the least bit sorry for web developers that are using browser specific prefixes, or other crap. In my experience its actually chrome that has serious rendering bugs these days, and FF/IE manage to render pages pretty similarly. So, at this point if your a web developer using chrome as your default target, that should be considered incompetence.
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I was just about to consider a Lenovo laptop. This is such a turn off that I'm putting it way down the list now.
Ah, that's interesting. Well, as long as it's not on my screen I'm happy enough. :)
It didn't make the cut for 2.0.0, but we definitely should have a nice message there on the command line. Sorry about that! :)
Seems you don't use Seil or Karabiner. Lucky.
With my Surface Book this became more practical. I really like the drawing experience with it. Prior to that, online solutions suffered from "hard to doodle in"
Big difference between indexes and indices. Indexes are entire systems of indices.
> You don't, it's a proof. You don't need tests.

Ok well what does it look like? Can you show me an example of this proof and how it is tested? You can't just say it's proven and remove the need for you to prove you've implemented it correctly. How is the proof validated and how is the source code checked against this?

Also by the act of checking the source code you've essentially just created a test case. So we are back to my initial phrasing.

What I'd like is for someone to show me how I go about proving something. Could you, if possible, walk through "proving" an implementation of a Fahrenheit and Celsius converter or something? What do you do? Where do you start? What does this look like?

That's whats been driving me crazy about all of this "formal methods" thing. People say "it's proven" and when you say "how do you check your code or how do you verify what you did was correct" they say "we made a proof, it's proven". No information is exchanged other then the assertion of "what I did was right".
Hey everyone, David (founder/ceo) of Weebly here. We’re really excited about this launch, Weebly is now a platform to power a business online with websites, ecommerce, and email marketing all under one roof. In case you haven’t heard of us, we were W07 (one of the first YC batches) — 9 years later, over 40M people have created their site or store on Weebly, and 325M people around the world and half of the US population visit those businesses every month.

Here are some cool things you might not notice:
- We were born pre-AWS and actually run our own data centers, have an ASN and manage our own network, host 2PB of data that is geographically replicated in near-real time, and have successfully defended against 200Gbps+ DDoS attacks.

- We’ve put a ton of care into bringing all of the pieces together (websites, ecommerce, email marketing) in a super integrated and seamless way. Check out, for example, how you can customize all of the store emails with Weebly Promote (email marketing), when you send out an email campaign you can automatically track sales generated from that email, how we automatically import and create smart groups -- like frequent customers who haven’t purchased recently -- or how we will even recommend pre-created emails based on actions you take adding new products, putting products on sale, etc.

- The eCommerce platform has been significantly upgraded, with things like real-time shipping (UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL integrations), abandoned carts, gift cards, a re-built tax & shipping engine, a new store front & checkout, bulk editing and power seller features, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff.

- Check out the apps for iOS and Android. It was pretty hard engineering work to get a full live editing experience with a fast, native UI that need to ultimately render down to a slow WebView (no one else that we’re aware of has been able to pull this off like this).

- We’ve built a web code editor (similar to Mozilla Thimble from a few days ago) that’s pretty nifty. Create a site, then go to Theme>Edit HTML / CSS (screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ry5aeykn1l56l17/Screenshot%202016-...)

- Here are some of the cool new themes: https://highpeak-theme.weebly.com/, https://verticals-business-slick.weebly.com/, https://pathway-financial.weebly.com/, https://urbandine-business.weebly.com/, https://jaysims-oasis-merch.weebly.com/, https://oikos-test.weebly.com/

Our ultimate goal is to create a platform that small to medium creators of all kinds can use so they can focus on what they love doing, and less on the business of running their business. Imagine all the time spent learning from awesome people like patio11 -- what if we could make the whole online side of running your business a whole lot easier? That’s the dream, this is the first step in that direction.

Happy to answer any questions and would love your feedback!
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4. The near-century of French and American imperialism that preceded 1, 2, and 3.

There's direct causes, and there's indirect causes. Kissinger directly created the circumstances that let 1, 2, and 3 create the KR.
Of course we'll have to call them "cyberjudges"
They are guaranteed to double after 20 years (hence 3.5% rate).
Have we even seen a copy of SICP on his desk?
> - tried melantonin, calming teas, etc etc, bullshit, money wates

Melatonin, while not effective for everyone, should not be grouped together with "bullshit money wastes" in my opinion.

> Guys, be grateful for your lives and go out and speak with people, one day this magic substance might be found, but I am more convinced that it will come from machine/human merger that from substances. Good or bad, that is the most likely future.

This is a very positive outlook, but bear in mind how reality changes for people who are deprived of sleep. As I'm sure you know it becomes a state of desperation. So while you may not want foreign stuff / substances in your body, others are definitely willing to make the sacrifice, even if that doesn't mean good sleep indefinitely. Other people may be willing to be dependent on substances in order to feel rested, for example. Myself included.

> I am more convinced that it will come from machine/human merger that from substances. Good or bad, that is the most likely future.

Curious, what kind of machine/human concept are you thinking of?
McLaren has the istream concept, which is about making cars out of cheap but very light and stiff flat composite plates.
I don't like how the article isn't exactly clear on whether the people with less than $1,000 in their savings aren't simply using their checking accounts to store their cash. I've seen similar articles about a large percentage of Americans being unable to come up with $x amount of money on short notice for an emergency. I think that wording is more specific -- it implies that they don't have the money in any sort of liquid form, whether that be bank accounts, physical assets, or even cryptocurrencies.
It is not absolutely certain. Quantum theory is an incomplete description of the physical laws of our universe, and the mechanism behind quantum teleportation is not even fully understood within the framework of that theory. So, it is most certainly not absolutely certain that FTL communication by this means is impossible, though it would be fairly surprising.

The premise upon which the idea that it is impossible is based is an axiom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wightman_axioms#W3_.28local_co...

Not a conclusion from data or other, simpler premises. It is an axiom that has nice consequences and is generative of much that describes our observations, but it remains an untestable assumption.
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I don't know about the USA, but in Europe "ordinary" people don't do investment portfolios. You can safely assume that if they don't have any savings, they most certainly won't have investment portfolios.
The bottom of the page says:

Methodology: This GOBankingRates.com survey posed the question, “How much money do you have saved in your savings account?” to 7,052 people among all 50 states and Washington, DC. Responses were collected through a Google Consumer Survey conducted from Aug. 1, 2016, to Aug. 9, 2016, and responses are representative of the U.S. online population. The survey has a 2.6 percent margin of error.
In the past you could get savings accounts paying significant interest...nowadays it doesn't matter so much. In 2006 I had an ING Direct account paying something like 4.5%.
People in the nordic countries including Finland have more trust in government authorities and public administration compared to for example Americans. A government agency given the task to given the task to produce some kind of recommendation of best practices is expected to do so reasonably well.
http://alexjs.com/ for example.
> You wouldn't say 'sister doesn't know'

Parents do sometimes use "brother" or "sister" without an article when speaking to their young children.
> I would be stupid to put any more money into it.

As a millennial who will not be retiring (period) unless severely injured, where else would I put my savings? My checking account rate is 0%.

Whole Term life insurance only can be "cashed in" after building 20+ years.

I'm holding some long term positions in stocks (risk), but honestly, I cant find anywhere else I would put the bulk than a savings account.
It requires the ability to govern one's selves effectively, which we in the US have proven beyond all doubt we're not capable of doing.
Soon it will be revealed that North Korea had actually saved up a bunch of zero days and just pwned the machines of millions of curious people around the world who loaded up these sites when they hit the news yesterday.
I view savings accounts as a staging area for other kinds of investment (house, stocks, etc). It's not meant to be the primary storage, but absolutely can count towards retirement.
+1 for this. We've been using Greenkeeper on a number of projects and it's amazing!
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Halt and Catch Fire is my favourite at the moment. Although it had some hmm not so great moments, third season is beyond amazing. Probably my favourite show of the year!
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But it still doesn't help people to actually know what to do.
This is the daily reminder that technology is not politically or socially "neutral".
Elliott isn't good with people. The owner of the firm is. Like all professions, IT contains people who struggle socially and those who do not.

> Also the part about vilifying companies and loving big government is not my cup of tea.

Watch Season 2 before you make any judgments on who the bad guys actually are.
The nails would turn lighter because even though Coke probably doesn't dissolve steel it certainly does dissolve rust.

Phosphoric acid is used in some commercial rust removers and soldering fluxes for metals like steel, nickel or chromium.
+1

Once they add a Windows or Linux client I'll give Allo a try.

To me it's a bit distracting to abruptly interrupt a coding session and pull out my phone. Lately I've been trying to minimize distractions and stay in a terminal or development IDE as much as possible. I mentally view distractions similar to latency when accessing memory, something like:

Look up info in terminal or IDE - comments within code, man pages, etc. <===> register access
Desktop applications - PDF, Powerpoint slides, IM, etc. <===> L1 cache hit
Google something (often results in reading articles, HN!, etc.) <===> L2 cache hit
Phone usage (apps, calls, etc.) <===> Memory access
In person chat (prone to rants/complaining, tangents, etc.) <===> Disk access
Meetings <===> Tape based storage :)
McLaren said in a statement to The Verge that the company "is not in discussion with Apple in respect of any potential investment".

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/21/13000666/apple-mclaren-acq...
What if you destroy the entanglement by destroying one of the entangled particles? You can't do this by shooting it with a particle accelerator, or else the entanglement infects whatever you hit it with; but you could use an intense field like sending a photon into a black hole or an atom into a neutron star to be ripped apart.

Is there a rule for describing the entanglement of the resulting constituent particles with the pre-existing particle?

If it's possible to actually break entanglement(so that measurement of a qubit resets to 50%-50% random), it seems like you could transmit information faster than light by preparing a 100%-0% distribution with quantum gates and destroying the particles. Then the first particle would change the distribution of its measurements. And so you could prepare 1000 qubits and measure them every hour, waiting to observe a change.
I love the Ikea crib. Simple, safe, all you need for a baby / toddler. We had a fancier crib for our first, but it was way less durable and failed during the toddler years. For clothes, it helps to know other people with similar aged children; we've traded clothes back-and-forth with a whole circle of people. Kids also don't care if they're wearing hand-me-downs :)
True, it's an interesting point.

As it was with Boromir (who wanted it for good) or Gandalf when he denies taking the ring.
They could've ended doing evil with initial noble intentions, that's how the ring would've exploited them.
Could you post a dump before you start so others can look instead of waiting for you?
We'll have to see after tonight's episode, in which the episode seems likely to break in such a way that makes the first season twist look weak in comparison. I'm eager to see how the writing goes, but I'm afraid I'm going to be disappointed as I was with how BSG went off the rails.
Right, but given the worthless interest rates on saving accounts these days, a lot of people probably have their emergency funds in checking accounts.

And if you own stocks and such, those are pretty liquid.
Password lengths are variable. With passwords longer than 72 ASCII characters, you will lose entropy after that.

Let A be a 72 character long string, and B be A + X. Regardless of what X is, when bcrypted the result for A and B will be the same.
Could buy homes to rent out.
Savings are not necessary in countries with social security.
I'm sorry, but I am sick and tired of "unprofessional" just thrown around like this. The person is a god damned human being, not a robot. They had just gone through an extremely frustrating experience with an unsatisfying conclusion. And it's Twitter.

The only one who's being unprofessional is the one chiding others for being "unprofessional".
As John Cleese pointed out (IIRC, as a followup to him making a brilliantly funny and loving eulogy to Graham Chapman - "Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries"), you can be serious without being solemn.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487081
That's fair. But what I see is that the car fleet will head towards OTA no matter what we do.

Forgive me for my cynicism. If you've ever worked with embedded systems... Well the state of consumer security is so bad I'd be shocked if someone hadn't already been killed in this way.

The Bluetooth alone is a nightmarish enough vector already. And local installation is very possible.

After all, all cars do need servicing...
I completely agree. I admit that I'm following season 2 because it's still an enjoyable show, but every single one of those points is valid. At times it feels like Esmail is insulting your intelligence or pandering to extreme cliches (points 8 and 9), all the while entirely ripping Fight Club off. And no, he didn't seek Fight Club for "inspiration". He utterly and completely replicated the plot, but executed it poorly. The laziness of his storytelling is clear when we can pretty much assume all of Elliot's confusion is the result of Mr. Robot intervening on his behalf. Except that mysterious intervention doesn't even appear to be attributable to a well-defined and somewhat believable circumstance (Norton's insomnia in Fight Club). Instead, Elliot has some odd lapse in memory, and what do you know, some unthinkable event has occurred.

It's an entertaining show, but only in the same sense as corny superhero movies. Esmail has been trying to wrangle a sensible plot with an interesting premise, but unfortunately he's not as skilled as his execution implies.
I'm not qualified enough to speak on this conclusively, but I believe the Ruby coding he did was using an actual social engineering tool. Also, he uses Kali Linux.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but it wasn't an obvious slam dunk to buy a home with an 18% loan. That's like paying for your house on a credit card. It was even more unaffordable then as it is now (on average, obviously individual markets vary--SF is more $$$ and Detroit way cheaper).

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/just-explain-it/why-mortgage-...

> Affordability dropped to an all-time low as rates climbed to record levels. Simply put, mortgage rates priced most Americans out of the market, and it took years for home sales to rebound.
A message should only be readable by the intended recipient, regardless of how sensitive the contents are.
The cliché is girls that are socialized that way. It's still overwhelmingly true that girls will have dolls more often than boys and that it will format their behavior.

Recognising that is not perpetuating or condoning it.
Unless you are some sort of app reviewer and install hundreds of apps I would say the Google method is better. You get notifications served by default and its a quick long press right in the notification bar to mute all future notifications if needed. Apple wants you to make this decision early on when often I don't even know what type of notifications an app serves.
I'm sure they mean the apps they made, not the apps they use.
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Colorado tends to rank in the top 10 as far as ease-of-starting I believe. I think these kinds of regulations are often overlooked when states dream of starting their own tech hubs.
Did this really need a 7000+ word essay? If you don't like Facebook, don't use it. If you're concerned about "distraction overload" then remove things from your life you find distracting. Nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to use smartphone apps and 10 different text messaging systems. If you want to live as a technology-free hermit, go right ahead. But don't try to argue that I should live like you.

The author instead seems to be taking his personal opinions about technology and trying to apply them to everyone. It's not enough that he doesn't like these things. We should not like them either and here's why. Time with my kid is invalid because I also have the TV on? GPS leads me to stop remembering things? Emojis are unsuitable replacements for voicemail? The author imagines restaurants where smartphones must be surrendered upon entering. Cool, you've described a place I'll actively avoid. Where's that "stop liking things I don't like" GIF when you need it?

"Our enslavement to dopamine?" -- how about YOUR enslavement to dopamine? Leave me out of it.
The big difference is if you have a substantial income you can afford to play the long game and throw money into the market. If you're living paycheck to paycheck as very few people who contribute content to this site do, it's a much different story. They need the money to be liquid, and they can't afford to take a 10% loss and wait for a rebound.
Here's what little I know:

A measurement is an interaction of the quantum system under test/consideration with another system / component that is classical (non-quantum, e.g. big).

Why? Because otherwise we would have to specify the exact details of every measurement device. Model number wouldn't be enough. What is the full quantum state of photon detector with its enormous number of atoms? Unusable.

Entanglement isn't some spooky thing. In fact it's required for us to be able to measure anything. The measuring device's quantum state must become entangled with the quantum system it's measuring. We can't really consider each one separately, but we try anyway, and with great success if we do it right.

I like James Binney's take on this: QM is adult physics. It's an admission that when you measure something, you disturb it. When you measure something really small, you disturb it alot, and can't idealise that away as you can for classical macroscopic systems.

He explains it better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPI_wurNlo&t=37m20s

EDIT> I should add that for a measuring device, we want it to be correlated to the system under test. I.e. I could make a thermometer that always read 5C (uncorrelated to environment), but it would be a bad thermometer. Quantum entanglement is how this correlation is set up. But it means that now the future evolution of the quantum system depends on the (unknown to us) exact state of the measuring device.