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Hello!

A while ago, we attended our first Montreal NewsTech startup night where five startups get approximately five minutes to pitch their project. We had no idea such a meetup existed, so we decided to attend as a member of the audience. While waiting for the event to start, we got to talk to a few of the attendees, and tell them about Deal Sniffer. We got quite a positive review by many due to its uniqueness in the browser extensions world.

Deal Sniffer is a little project that was started back in November 2016 (full story here: http://www.getdealsniffer.com/2016/12/31/the-beginning-of-th...) as a means to provide my wife with an easy mechanism to not miss any cashback reward incentives when shopping online.

There are many, many cashback providers around the world. Their annual revenue vary from 50 millions to 250 millions US dollars. Deal Sniffer currently supports just over 15 of them. This forces to monitor over 25,000 merchants across 20 countries.

What it does is quite simple. Once the Deal Sniffer extension is installed in the browser, it'll notify the user whether a cashback reward incentive exists for that particular merchant. It only cares about the merchant's web address (URL) and nothing else.

In short, it tries to connect online shoppers with global cashback providers under one umbrella: an extension.

We're currently working on developing a few useful apps around it, to make it even easier to shop online and earn cashback reward potentials.

It is our hope that you will like it and find it useful as much as we do. We're pretty good programmers, but we suck at marketing. During the Montreal NewsTech event that we mentioned earlier, one of the attendants suggested that we share our story on Hackers News. We had no idea what "Hacker News" was up until that point.

Now we are here. And we're loving the platform.

Wishing you all a very happy new year and many cashback returns. :)

The Deal Sniffer Team
> before we even break ground on that rail from SF to LA

We already have, here's video of the construction: https://youtu.be/1lsiYkyEW0w

Monthly construction updates: https://www.hsr.ca.gov/buildhsr.html
> Honestly, what the hell is with PC manufacturers that still include the TrackPoint™ Style Point, Nub, Nipple Mouse, Clit Mouse?!

Some people like them.
My problem with desktop Linux is actually development - it seems really hard to get patches and fixes into upstreams or deploy them stably (i.e. not fighting apt overwriting your custom builds, etc.)

There's scope somewhere in there for Canonical to improve Launchpad so the experience of fixing issues is more streamlined.
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Recording the conversation and filmed
Jewish - https://www.mikvah.org/article/torah's_viewpoint_on_pregnanc...
> Yes, that counts, but no it's not evidence in any way.

So it counts as evidence, but it's not really evidence? The word of an officer holds weight in court. Heck, the word of any eyewitness is evidence.

> Something that will justify the cop-rage

Instead of projecting feelings on the officer, how about the driver was driving so erratically that the officer felt as though the lives of bystanders were in danger?

> Oh no, in fact there's plenty of test evidence that he wasn't intoxicated.

No. There is no test you can take to prove that you weren't intoxicated. He was not intoxicated on any of the substances he was tested on.

> It's a logic error to assign weight to the accusation in absence of any positive evidence

The evidence in this case the the observation of the witness, an officer, which is evidence whether you see it that way or not. We're not talking about chemical tests here.

> The system is able to punish him despite the lack of evidence.

It seems like you're saying the word of an officer is somehow less than the word of a non-officer. If anybody gives eyewitness testimony to erratic driving, that's evidence. I don't see why you're talking around that.
I actually might do the same thing, just not with OS X, but instead using Linux as a desktop OS and a virtual Windows for specific stuff that Linux doesn't do, can't remember off the top of my head right now. I'd like to build a beefy server and put a few VMs on it for my family and have them use linux PCs as dumb thin clients and use the VMs, so I can roll-back changes and keep it always fresh, and of course benefit from a fast CPU.
Have you got an example where pure addition breaks the existing compatibility?

> the lie that people will do security and other updates on older versions.

Semver does not say anything will be supported. You still have to know what's going on with your dependencies as far as big releases and patches go. It simply says that is old versions are still supported, they're updates will preserve compatibility.
What backend are you using with om/next? How are you making those api calls?
Super cool idea.
It was very clear to me from the title.

And secondly, I don't believe the author should pander to people who won't even visit the site and instead judge from titles.
By the way, we have added a public help desk page for those that would like to contribute their ideas, suggestions or issues to make Deal Sniffer better for its users.

You can access the help desk support page at http://support.getdealsniffer.com.
Privacy is pretty much finished whether you are using a service from China or anywhere else. Given there are more surveillance to come in post-terrorism era.
Show HN: HamPanda – You Get Hams for Playing and Pandas for Winning
I was expecting an interactive koan like http://rubykoans.com/

It's my favorite way to learn the syntax for a new language.

Also, should the checkout one be enlightening? I never thought about it, despite using git every day, but overloading git checkout like that seems like it should be confusing.
Since we're just talking about defaults, you'd get an equally unsecured MySQL install on the latest and most popular AWS AMI today, as you would with old MongoDB installs.
Amazon stops selling Indian Flag Doormat after VISA threat
The Likud is not the "ruling party" in Israel. Israel's government is a coalition of multiple parties. The platform of any individual party does not equate to the official position of the state of Israel. Israel had right wing and left wing governments and the path towards a solution giving Palestinians control over the the west bank and Gaza goes back to Menahem Begin who was a prime minister from the Likud who signed a peace agreement with Egypt that included the path forward to solving the Palestinian conflict and the return of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt.

During the many years of this conflict Israel had right wing and left wing governments with various different approaches. Ehud Barak has offered Yasser Arafat a two state agreement very close to what John Kerry has recently described and was rejected [1]. Earlier while Rabin and Arafat were attempting to make progress towards peace Hamas was busy blowing up buses and malls with suicide bombers which eventually lead to the rise of the right, the assassination of Rabin and the collapse of the process.

EDIT: Also worth mentioning that the withdrawal of Israel from the Gaza strip which included tearing down Israeli settlements and evicting them forcefully, was done by Arik Sharon, prime minister from the Likud.

I don't think there's any factual basis to a comparison between the Likud party and Hamas. I'll agree there are definitely opinions in the Israeli right who feel strongly that the Palestinians should not be given their own state for various reasons. Some practical (see Gaza) and some religious/ideological. However that is not the official position of Israel. No doubt there is various political maneuvering going on but the source of the trouble is the Palestinians refusal, or inability, to negotiate in good faith and compromise something they've had many opportunities to do and their insistence of using violence as means of addressing their grievances.

The majority of the world is not fully democratic[2] (well, it's a mess) and doesn't share our values so decisions made in the UN by the "whole world" aren't exactly a yard stick of humanity. The UN is systematically biased against Israel. Where are the condemnations of US, Russian, Turkish involvements in Syria?

MORE on Israel's official position, one of many instances of Israel's willingness to make progress:

April 2003: A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict[3]

May 2003: Israel accepts the roadmap[4]

You keep saying Hamas has accepted a two state solution but I haven't seen an official link. In fact Israel's insistence that the Palestinians accept its right to exist wouldn't be a problem if the Palestinians indeed accepted a two state solution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[3] http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/peace/guide/pages/a%...

[4] http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2003/Pages/Goverment%20m...
That's exactly what I got, too. I feel for who ever interviewed him. They clearly got sold a bill of goods and nothing else.
The room needs some sound treatment. Also I found Sam's constant vocal fry annoying and difficult to listen to. Sorry, yes, I'm OCD.
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It is an interesting problem, since the construction of said high-rise buildings would itself affect the value of property in the area for many reasons (beyond just the increase in the supply).
Hey Ollie-- sorry about that. Honestly the truth is we weren't expecting N1 to grow so fast in popularity, and we realistically couldn't afford the unbounded infrastructure cost associated with running it for free.

We also didn't want to add an advertising system or sell user data or anything scammy like that to pay the bills, so we decided to simply charge users for the version which uses our hosted backend. We had to implement this pretty quickly, and I wrote about the transition here: https://nylas.com/blog/nylas-pro

Our team at the time was almost entirely engineers (including myself) and we definitely could have done a better job with the messaging.

But on another note... stay tuned! We're working on some updates that should make it more affordable for folks who just want the basic mail experience and don't need any of the pro features like open/link tracking, mail merge, Salesforce integration, etc.
I fear this as the new, Trump reality. For at least 4 years we're going to hear horrendous crimes talked down and rhetorically diminished to zero.
Likud platform of 1999:

a. “The Jordan river will be the permanent eastern border of the State of Israel.”

b. “Jerusalem is the eternal, united capital of the State of Israel and only of Israel.
The government will flatly reject Palestinian proposals to divide Jerusalem”

c. “The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river.”

d. "Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel... The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."[1]

So both parties are rejectionist in principle. However in practice Hamas has indicated they would accept a two state solution. Likud has not.[2]

[1] http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/charter-destruction-palestin...

[2] http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.587047
Powering medical implants with solar cells
"package managers" as in apt, yum, npm, pip, etc ? They do not "use semver" for anything. Your versioning scheme is completely irrelevant to package managers. (as long as the format and separators match of course)
Lily drone closes after raising $34M in Pre-orders
Pardons can certainly be corrupt, but I don't think they're corrupt by definition. I think of them as a last line of defense-in-depth against unjust convictions. After all, no organization made up of humans can be perfect, and the court system (of any nation) is no exception.

Of course, pardons are misusable. I would support, for example, disallowing presidential pardons in the last year of a presidential term, so that Presidents can't cut and run from the political consequences of their last minute pardons. That could cut down on egregious abuses like Clinton's.
We've made it a LOT faster and the next release is going to have an insane performance improvement. :)
No, Talos is certainly not a cheap board, but I believe it was clearly intended by its developer to proverbially break ground for a new ecosystem that wasn't vendor-controlled--with increased adoption, these would undoubtedly get cheaper and better down the line.

While most people aren't rich, there is certainly enough wealth among the HN readership, as evidenced by their interest in Apple products, high-end smartphones, DSLRs, Teslas, etc. And even if people couldn't afford to get a workstation, they could have still donated to the cause. That this didn't happen says to me that enough people honestly just didn't give a damn. This comes off as very strange to me, because people are clearly outraged by the conduct of MS, Intel, and others. Buying a Talos means a chance to start stripping some of the usual antagonists in this saga of their hegemony on the computing community at large. Personally, I'd be willing to live with more expensive computers in the short-term if it meant a check on their influence in the long-term.

And performance-wise, Talos with an unclocked 8 core 190 watt POWER8 promised a bit better than the i7-5960X workstation I use at home (not a $400 chip), and consumed only modestly more power than same. So that doesn't strike me as a strong argument against it. But if the only reason this product would appeal to people is that it needed to offer equivalent performance to its x86 counterparts at roughly equiv prices, then we're in dire straits--that misses the entire point of having a computer that guarantees your access right down to the hardware and firmware. Until now, we've only enjoyed this luxury on small embedded boards (e.g., BeagleBone), which are toys in comparison.

Finally, RISC-V may be promising, but it's not here--POWER8 is, and POWER9 is already in the works. Why hold your breath for what may prove to be vaporware apart from prototypes in an academic or company R&D setting?
> yes i have a better solution

Now implement it.

Paper Centrifuge s seems like one of many reasonable stopgaps until your better solution is realized. It'd be sad if we let people die simply because we looked down on practical solutions for not being high-tech enough.
It's not quite what I was getting at, but it does sound interesting.

What I had in mind was staying in the procedural/oop paradigm of e.g. Java, but without the requirement of a fixed syntax, way more flexible rendering options, and the possibily of more diverse input schemes than typing one character at a time.
Heh heh. They would just add extra pieces.
Painting music on iOS
> The only thing I really miss is Excel.

Sadly Excel for Mac is the main thing keeping me from switching to Linux. OpenOffice/LO are ok for very basic documents but I routinely deal with files that they can't handle.
I think the point is that these things should not require enlightenment, but do. They ARE confusing. These are the kinds of examples that people have in mind when every git thread devolves to an argument over whether it's a good tool, power vs UX, because apparently that's a tradeoff you have to make.
If the conviction is unjust either the law is unjust and should be reformed or the system is unjust in not providing a reasonable, equitable and useful avenue of appeal to overturn the injustice.

Corrupt by definition because it is always a corruption of "equality before the law"
Deepgram (W16) is pretty pumped about HamPanda and all the fun that SHOULD be had with it. Seriously, go have fun with it.

The magic is mostly brought out by drshrey, I'll have to get him in here.
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Amusing and depressing, awesome stuff.

Git's rise to become the de facto standard revision control system has been fascinating to watch.

I think it does provided real benefit over Subversion, but there are also smaller projects where the gain is marginal.

The tooling around (in particular GitHub) and perception that git is the "right" way to do things probably helped it achieve prominence. As well as early adoption by a few high profile projects.
I've always thought that site is actually meant to be a clever critique of the absolute mess that is git's command line interface. :)
In the new, DevOps-centered world, doing all that is unnecessary and only serves to slow down the launching of $product.

Besides, you should be using containers for everything anyways. If something happens to it, just throw it out and spin up a new one.

/s
In 2006 there was a supervised election where Hamas was legitimately elected over Fatah. The Palestinians gave a mandate of a terrorist organization to lead them.
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Either I don't get most of the koans or they are intended to disparage git's UX instead of truly enlighten. Is the joke just going over my head or am I not thinking hard enough?
Beautiful, beautiful, just beautiful. Reminds me of primitivetechnology on YouTube.

I'd love to see how far one can go with 'simple' physics.
I don't think that idea holds up to scrutiny, because:

-- As you point out, resorting to the legal system should at most be criminalized only in the most extreme instances of abuse.

-- Those extreme instances aren't the hardest problem to solve, because the legal system already knows how to dispose of OBVIOUS nonsense.

-- Any apparent counterexample to my assertions would probably already be covered by other criminal statutes, such as those pertaining to perjury.
What administration? If something happens to the system, just toss it out and spin up a new one.

Come on, man, this is 2017. Get with the program.

/s
Do you trust a "supervised election" in a fascist regime? I don't really. But let's say you are right, and majority actually supports it. It means quite something morbid about such society.
Suppose we abolished presidential pardons. Now, couldn't the exact same argument be used in favor of abolishing the final layer of appeals courts? And then the layer below that?

Keep in mind that many (most?) people consider interrelated checks and balances between the different branches of government to be a good thing. And the system was designed to be biased in favor of false negatives in order to reduce as much as possible the incidents of false positives (wrongful convictions). I consider that a feature, not a bug.
Heh, not surprising. I must follow this Man.
Approaches like these seem packed with mnemonic benefits. As I read, I kept thinking about how I would try to assemble something like this about git, and the result is a really sort of intriguing learning experience.

(any other good examples of things like this?)
There are always security/privacy trade-offs when it comes to applying policies. There are 1.4bn people in China. It has to take a much scalable approach to manage the population to ensure safety for average people and smooth functioning of a society. Especially given there is modern terrorism randomly seeks opportunities. Btw, not every app is interested in tracing you, and quite a few are giving options to email registration . And for Internet cafes, believe it or not, the gov set up ID-link was primarily to forbid children to go to there(most of them skip their classes to play games) since they have to wait till 16 yo to obtain a ID card.
Last time I checked, some early blueray DVDs will work on Linux but newer ones will brick your blueray reader.
The thing I don't line is that it's still very active instead of passive. I've been using rescue time to track time wasting. it'd be great to have a if there was something similar that presented the places I went and percentage of time I spent there with my budget spread accordingly.

Ideally with some kind of black list or white list feature.
$34M in pre-orders still couldn't get it done. Rough!

Just out of curiosity, what OEM were you using?
To be honest I don't remember the last time I filled out a PDF form. Every form I've had to work with in the last 5 years was either fully online (docusign) or required me to print it out and sign it.
Recent submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251162

Plus a few others.
A thought sneaks up on you
Because people who have read the spec don't have anything to complain about.

When only nonsense is written against an idea, it's great , it shows the idea is great
You can, but it's limited because of stagnation of MacOS graphics stack. While Wine on Linux continues chiseling at DX11 support, it's not going to happen on MacOS (no OpenGL beyond 4.1). Same goes for Vulkan. Games like Doom (2016) can work in Wine on Linux, but on MacOS - no dice.
Agree. However, I wasn't talking about 40k homes here, but about $1,000 homes in risky neighborhoods, with the obligation to renovate to code, potentially costing ten thousands of dollars in the process.

There's a reason why the value op the property, including home and land, cratered to $500 or a few thousand dollars. It's the state of the neighborhood that dictates the value and it can change rapidly, faster than in regular neighborhoods.

It's not an investment I would recommended for inexperienced investors or people with limited savings who put all eggs in one basket. And sadly, the low prices attract quite a few of them.
> How would most of us feel if we came into an office for a blood draw and saw this toy?

Oh, good, I don't have to reschedule this appointment just because a firmware update took out their centrifuges. Eh? There's been a mass outbreak and the centrifuges are just busy?

Frantic centrifuging
Sure you can
Yeah, I read it as jeering, too.
Your biggest beef with semver is that that some people don't follow the semver spec
Wow thank you for that link. I've had two browsers installed with chrome being used purely for Netflix. Now I can finally give the damn thing the boot.
What’s It Like Being on the Node.js Foundation Board of Directors? – Medium
It is meant as a bit of a joke.
You may be interested in giving SpaceMacs (http://spacemacs.org/) a shot.
Josh Berkus – Retiring from the Postgres Core Team
TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
The big problem is black market for data/identities. Not only in China but in the world. Identity theft is quite huge. And a lot of those data weren't even stolen but was sold by those corrupt officials or staffs in some firms.
A Koan is "a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment"

I think that kinda implicitly means the author considers git to be either paradoxical or illogical. That seems even more clear from the last two paragraphs of "The Hobgoblin".
> The Palestinian terrorists are declared martyrs, mural paintings are done, their relatives get a pension from PLO -- while caught Israeli murderers are sent to jail..?

Judging from the public reaction in Israel to the manslaughter conviction of Elor Azaria (polling suggests something like 67% want him pardoned), some segment of the Israeli public isn't above sticking up for its murderers.
I can't speak for the author's intention, but yes, these "koans" highlight some of git's worst UX warts; or, arguably, not just UX warts but conflicts internal to the conceptual underpinnings of git (http://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/onward13.pdf).
LA Community College paid $28,000 to free itself from ransomware
You can also mail in for weeks ahead of time... but then I guess you lose the events of the last days to judge...
So where does the uncertainty move to?
You are right, I should have worded my comment differently, Wine can be used on Mac OS although it will not run some recent titles due to the issues mentioned by the user shmerl in this thread.