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You certainly don't understand Legos then. The design on the box is just the first step. Then it gets junked, reimagined into something else, tossed into the huge Rubbermaid tub with the other scrap pieces, and pawed through and built, deconstructed and rebuilt into a thousand different things.

The packaging used to be better about this, even including alternate instructions using the pieces in the set.
He may have been ousted from PayPal, but that didn't change the fact that he was a primary share-holder and made hundreds of millions of dollars when it was sold out. Besides the money it also opened up the door for him to move on to bigger and better things. I doubt there are may people aside from Elon Musk who would consider that "failure".
Total old school videogame vibe, love it!
I believe "Nearly every fact presented there is completely wrong" was referring to Google's snippet in the screenshot, not my comment.
People can take time to come up with solutions to problem of lack of opportunity. And take time to implement those solutions.

People shouldn't stop others from having an option to arm themselves while these solutions are being envisioned and implemented with some success.
I was a long-time Airave user. I always had problems with the device not getting a GPS lock and thus refusing to work. When I got a Galaxy S5 with WiFi calling I stopped relying on the Airave. I've since moved to Project Fi and haven't looked back.

This new device looks like it receives service from a nearby Sprint tower and uses it to serve your home/office. That wouldn't have worked at my home where it was nigh impossible to get Sprint service even when outdoors.
Sheep (mutton) and horse meat. I also ate camel meat, though I'm not sure how common that still is. The whole country smells like mutton, though, and you will too. It's by far the most common meat and is basically the staple food.

The principle grain is (I think) wheat, often as Russian-style dumplings. Filled with mutton, of course.

The food is pretty simple. Nothing flashy. Not many ingredients. The steppe is a pretty desolate place. Not necessarily bland, either, though. The homemade camel soup was made from dried camel meat seasoned with a wild herb (maybe some kind of allium-related weed?) the host collected while tending his livestock and packed into jars with salt. (Perhaps it pickled a little?) Another dish at a small restaurant was stir-fried horse meat with garlic shoots.

I did eat sheep brains, scooped out of a whole cooked sheep's head sawed in half. That was at a restaurant in Ulaanbaatar. Memorable but definitely the most bland dish I ate there.

I had many other dishes but my memory fails me. Oh, I did have tea with camel's milk on a couple of occasions. Never got to try the famous fermented (alcoholic) horse milk, though.
I like this idea. I'm not quite sure how to enforce it though but it's an interesting approach nonetheless.
Each round it gets exponentially bigger... There will come a time when postponing it won't work, then what?

By the way, how injecting money in the hands of a chosen handful and taking it from a country to try to pay back can make a viable and competitive economy?
This is a huge (HUGE) marketplace ripe for innovation. Imagine having all your business transactions automatically pulled into your accounting system, ready for you to process and reconcile? You have (x) different bank accounts all integrated in real time, and you get realtime information.

Bank have been very very reluctant to open their systems via API access, which is why there are services like Yodlee. Basic charge is around $20k per annum plus pay per use. They are making a LOT of money, but the service is imperfect because they work by screen scraping the data from bank accounts. They have some direct integrations with banks, but my understanding is that the vast majority is still done via scraping. From end user perspective its terrible - you have to give them your login credentials, and supply OTP/2FA (if your bank uses this) every time you want to pull data in.

The banking industry is being dragged kicking and screaming to modernise and offer proper API access like this.
So NY would be a better city if they started an express bus service that competes with the existing, popular private bus service? Either way, I take the bus.
The escrow loss problem is a probabilistic game though, and one I'd be willing to bet that someone enterprising could offer insurance for; whether it's loans using it as capital, or actual insurance.
Ask HN: Why did you switch from Windows to Linux as a desktop user?
My story, very silly:

Windows was consuming all my Internet data.

I had a laptop back in college days. It came with Windows 7. I was already experimenting with Linux distros and it was fun. But that's not the reason.

We used mobile dongle for Internet. I could not afford fancy data plans. There was one particular plan which allowed me to have 25MB/day. This suited my needs. But you know what, Windows ate all my data. I had no idea which application was calling its home.

And the other reason was,the CPU fans was always spinning aloud. During idle(when user not interacting), all four CPU slots were crunching data.

I felt like a my computer was cheating on me. That's enough. Ditching you.

I switched to Linux and never looked back.

I had a HIGH feeling when I completed LFS(Linux From Scratch). Because I knew exactly what my system will do. As well as why.
There is a rich history of computer hacking that this community and others seems to have forsaken -- an entire generation of people who grew up with exactly that creative/destructive mindset. Unfortunately that ethos died when computer hacking became tantamount to terrorism in the government's eyes. The industry has done this to themselves, because we scream bloody murder every time there's a security breach.
I think parent is referring to 3-D Secure (3DS). This is basically an authentication step which delegates most of its implementation to your bank (or whoever your credit card provider is).

I'm not sure what Standard Bank is doing with regards to 3DS, but it would certainly be neat if its implementation were programmable as well.
You are going to need to be more precise there.
Ok... One - Do want, yes. Two - Might there be an accompanying launch pad gantry set in the future? :)
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Private, old company. Its their nature unfortunately.
I have. With the aid of an attorney.

And I am 100% certain that most people who get shoved into Medicaid either have no idea or have no choice but to sign on the dotted line. That's the tragedy here. Our government is making people sign onto something almost out of desperation.

Let me make my position 100% clear, because those down-voting my post and attacking it might not have understood this. Actually, no, I failed to communicate it.

Medicaid Estate Recovery is an abomination.

It should NOT be a part of the program.

It should NOT exist.

We should provide medical care to the needy without ANY recovery requirements whatsoever.

If someone needs a million dollars in medical care they should receive it.

They should not have to worry about being on the hook to repay it in any way.

That is what a decent and compassionate society does and how it behaves.

If this estate recovery business were done by a private insurance company they would be destroyed by both public opinion and brought-up on fraud charges. We should demand better from our government. We should demand that estate recovery be completely removed from Medicaid.

Hope that clarifies my position.
That's a great advice! Thank you @edw519
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What is this visa thing you applied for that took less than 5 minutes? Are you from a country that does not require a DS-160? There is no chance you filled that form in 5 minutes.
I think deterrence is fraught as an explicit goal for law enforcement / punishment of violations. I feel it lends itself too much towards a utilitarian "I'm punishing you to send a message to them" sort of situation where it doesn't matter if the person receiving the punishment actually committed the crime or not, only that fewer people commit the crime later. I'll grant I'm excessively idealist.
Older people mostly get health benefits from Medicare.

Medicaid is intended to be a further benefit for people that have low incomes.

It's only surprising that it examines an estate if you don't understand that it isn't designed to be anything more than a benefit of last resort.

Sure, you can't have Medicaid pay for your parents care and also keep their estate. But this isn't mind blowing information, it's the way the law was designed to work and something anyone involved in estate planning would know off hand.
So many US schools use Apple products and/or Chromebooks and/or Android, I would have thought that approach was already unsustainable. It can hardly be essential software, can it?
You can totally build your own version of digit.co with this instead of having to rely on a middleman like Plaid.
In the US:

1. I would reverse the decision of SCOTUS that establishes corporations as "people" and their money as "free speech".

2. I would figure out a way to get money out of politics. It seems that the main issue is that government officials spend about 1/3 of their time in office fundraising from donors (who expect certain legislation in return) and campaigning for re-election. The American citizens will continue to be thrown under the bus in favor of corporate donors, such as the ISP's, in exchange for money.

3. I would make it to where the local governments own the basic infrastructure (poles, towers, etc) and the ISP's are only allowed to pay a fee (or percentage of earnings) in exchange for using such infrastructure.
IANTTE (That Type of Expert) - means, everything I say about the subject could be 100% incorrect and sound 100% accurate

:)
"I agree with the decision, but I came to my decision via different logic."
"The only way out" != "trouble free"

Obviously Greece needs a balanced budget for defaulting. Too bad it seems to be moving the other way.
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Ask HN: What's the next “ARPANET” type of breakthrough?
I came across recommendation from some HNers to read the book "When Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origin of the Internet", and the book is like an adrenaline drink. I ask myself, what's the next breakthrough I can be involved in?

I may create a new tool, make some smart optimization here and there at work, but I would be more excited if I get to solve real hard problems.

So my question to the community is: what do you think is the next "ARPANET" type of breakthrough which will become legendary in history?

Thanks.
This article's point is a giant instance of survival bias. How many people went bankrupt when they were ousted as CEO of their own company, and because of that couldn't financially start second, third, fourth companies?

There's also this quote from the article:

> Elon Musk’s story proves that once you’ve mastered the art of failing, success becomes the only way you can go.

That seems like the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy: "after this, therefore because of this". Perhaps he got incredibly lucky after failing for a while. Perhaps he was incredibly unlucky while failing?
Ask HN: What are the best irc channel you listen to?
Agreed. Far too many reports of abuse of civil forfeiture.
I would add that for any young female, in any town, walking a significant distance home from the bar after a night of drinking should be avoided.
For what it is worth, I agree. The web browser is a required component of operating systems these days and first class/"native" support for web applications is a standard that we should celebrate and encourage.

I don't think it is "sexy" to most developers right now because there are still a lot of developers that still cling to ancient "native" control toolkits, ancient ideas that web platform is already the main UI platform for the majority of user these days, and for whatever reasons dislike HTML and JS for application development. You see a lot of the complaints here on HN every time Electron or Cordova are brought up.

I'm sure Microsoft knows they don't get a lot of enthusiasm from a lot of developers for the native Windows 10 web stack, so I'm not surprised they underplay it at conferences. Those of us that do care know we can follow the Edge team blogs and know that UWP API enhancements benefit all three main stacks.
This is correct. I started r/cubancigars for example. It's mine. I can kick every single moderator off the team, shut the sub down, or change the rules without care. I don't, but I can, and nobody would stop me.
In this case, 'elements' seems to refer to the number of sections of the set that are independent -- the stages of the rocket, the lander, the astronauts, etc.

Also, they specifically refer to the "LEGO Ideas" collection; the Taj Mahal was part of the "LEGO Sculptures" collection.

(There have been many other sets from other collections with more pieces than this.)
I see this attitude all the time, namely the idea that difficulty is somehow proof of quality, or "professionalism" of a tool. It's obviously rooted in some instances where it is/was correct, such as the superior typesetting of LaTeX vs Word for academic work. But it's not an ironclad rule, and it shouldn't be trotted out as an argument anytime someone tries to improve existing tools. In this case:

- I'd say I need to look up any option flags or commands I use less than 15x/week

- Even the most professional 10x developer will spend a significant amount of his time with such commands, making this feedback useful

- The shell is essentially a REPL, but most people forgo most of its potential because the language isn't core to our work, and somewhat hideous. Anything that helps discoverability could be useful.

And, for what it's worth, designers that work with code usually don't have problems with git. Designers that work with photoshop would rarely need git, which is kinda out of its element with binary data
yes, i always think of this. Why is this system not in use at Reddit or HN? Is it patented? I would pay 1000 euro's if they could implement it for my facebook group, with 2000 members it takes an hour a day which would halved with such as system, 14 hours a month.
thanks for a good advise!
the problem with (all?) multi-vitamins is the absorption rates are very inefficient. This gets a bit more nuanced when you consider there are diff types of each vitamin like Magnesium Oxide. ...
Magnesium Citrate. ...
Magnesium Orotate. ...
Magnesium Chloride. ...
Magnesium Lactate. ...
Magnesium Sulfate. ...
Magnesium Carbonate,

and you're not likely to get the best version in that multi vitamin.
Obviously it was the best option for Netflix not to pay up, to avoid encouraging that to happen again. Other than that, this is the second article about this I read on HN, both articles basically say the same, and they smell f being paid for by Netflix. Both articles make a point of how inconvenient torrenting is having to find a legitimate file, try to avoid the ads and viruses, download the file and then have a subpar experience watching it on the laptop. Sounds written to scare non technical people away. With the likes of Stremio or Popcorntime the experience is much better than Netflix actually, since you're not limited by the small catalog Netflix provides and is trivial to set up any of the many solutions to watch it on the TV. Don't get me wrong, Netflix produces excellent original content at a reasonable price, but there's so much great content you'd miss if you just have Netflix.
He thinks that the majority reached the right conclusion (the result - that the defendants were entitled to the money) but not for the right reason (the particular argument that the majority opinion made)
It means he agrees that the money should be returned, but not for the same reasons that the other justices gave. So he'll have his own section in the judgement explaining his own reasoning.
Not yet, heaps of CLI parameters in the ToDo though - until then, clone the repo and set it in https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/src/Mapsci... - & thanks for the kudos ;)
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I think you misunderstand the definition of a totalitarian country.
As for percentage of gun owners who hunt please keep in mind more than 1/2 of all tags sold for big game are for Archery.

As for knowing those who aren't conservationists I think, based on my experience, it is very much a regional thing. People from back east don't have a strong a tie to conservation as most of their land isn't public land or land they have easy access to. Most hunting out east, and in Texas, is owning land or knowing someone who owns land. As you move further west most hunters use public land and they are more inclined to focus on conservation. Please keep in mind these are my observations having lived and hunted all over the US, it is by no means a sweeping detailed study.
Streaming android applications via the browser
Google doesn’t allow changing the location provider, push notification provider, etc.

Google has a MASSIVE advantage over what competing services can do on Android – trust me, I’ve tried to replace them with FLOSS ones without rooting.
I understand the sentiment, but this seems to have taken the place of model cars and other such things that were glued together in the past.

The collection seems small, but it looks like you can buy general brick sets for maximum creativity.
Show HN: Upstream – Lightweight stream processing and visualization
Seeing as we know Amazon can get Intel to make custom Xeon chips specifically adapted for EC2 usage, I'm 100% certain Intel also makes custom chips for military/etc applications that have whatever functionality the customer does (doesn't) want enabled (disabled).
This site has a good summary[0] of Wisconsin, and in general I think Wisconsin's drinking laws are very sane.

But contrast it with Utah[1], Arizona[2], Kansas[3], North Dakota[4], Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, West Virginia, Pennsylvania or Vermont.

[0] https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/APIS_State_Profile.html?...

[1] https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/APIS_State_Profile.html?...

[2] https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/APIS_State_Profile.html?...

[3] https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/APIS_State_Profile.html?...

[4] https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/APIS_State_Profile.html?...
How will teller be impacted by PSD2? Will it make your life easier?
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I will check it out.

I would love to be able to script my bank. Chase.com is an ongoing battle. There are plenty of projects to automate banking, but it's an uphill battle.

I'm sure if I had a business account, I'd have more access than what the browser gives me.

I would love to be able to do things like, see what payments are flagged as recurring, and group them together, and sum them.
ID lookups against databases are actually pretty rare. The information is embedded in the barcode, and not in a cryptographically secure way.
The OP may be over the top and on the fear-mongering side of things, but there are some very difficult situations monetarily especially for elderly recipients. While there is some policy to not completely bankrupt surviving spouses, the reality of a long term care spouse utilizing medicaid is that the surviving spouse must reduce assets to below $2500 with few exceptions or shelters. That policy will almost guarantee that the surviving spouse if not a homeowner, will be strongly below the poverty line for the rest of their life. The primary cause of that scenario is the huge gap between enough money to be retired(50k-150k), and the amount of money required to be retired without assistance(350k-500k). Full time skilled care like a retirement home, can easily cost $7k a month on the low end, with averages around 28months.

The OP may be able to make a more widely accepted argument, by more empathetically communicating that medicaid is at best emergency support for crisis, and not a vehicle for long term or widespread medical care. He is correct that using Medicaid as a primary vehicle for ACA coverage expansion ensures a very large group of people will have huge negative motivations to exit poverty, even more so than were previously. I would guess that the OP has first hand experience with Medicaid policy completely eliminating a family member's entire life's monetary worth, which is a hard pill to swallow when someone has paid into Medicaid for decades.

http://www.longtermcarelink.net/eldercare/nursing_home.htm
https://www.ahcancal.org/ncal/facts/Pages/State-Data.aspx

edit: typo medicaid
Why just owner database?

Such registration would create two classes of citizenry, current gun owners who have guns without having cleared the tests, and another class of people that are first time gun buyers who can't buy guns without first clearing the test.

To make it fair to first time gun buyers, then the process would become a "gun round-up, education, certification and reclaim you gun" process.

Good luck passing that!
- Do you have programmable international wire transfers in the works? That would be an instant sell to me. My current bank requires me to show up in person, and then verify the transfer by phone, both of which require making time out of a busy schedule.

- Do you have programmable virtual credit card numbers?

- Have you considered virtual bank account numbers as well? For example, I have had issues with organizations continuing to deduct from my account via ACH after stopping service. If I had a virtual bank account number that could be deleted, those rascals could be stopped in their tracks the moment I make the call saying "you are no longer authorized to deduct from my account". With the current system banks still let the unauthorized ACH transactions slide.
We might be slowly starting to creak in that direction. The AEI recently announced that they would start preregistering studies on the link between the minimum wage and unemployment and fix the "success criteria" ahead of time.

The AEI is hardly my favorite institution, so it's actually especially encouraging to see them "go first". Hopefully others will follow.
Nice job! When I started iOS development, I made a similar app for my portfolio. I still use it occasionally, since I'm also colorblind.

It's been a while since I updated it, but it still works aside from the occasional Core Data crash because I didn't know any better back then: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/colormyworld-color-picker-an...
I've written ORM's, I don't need them explained to me, and no all ORM's don't try and hide the database, that's just one pattern. Others like ActiveRecord simply try and make life simpler without complete hiding behind so much magic you can't figure out what's going on. ORM's abstract the database, that's not the same as hiding the database.
SCOTUS rulings are not yes-no votes. There are any number of opinions written and justices who took part in the case (usually all of them) will sign on to one of these opinions, while sometimes noting that they largely agree with another one. I didn't look up this particular case but usually that sentence means that there were at least two opinions written: one agreed by a plurality, one by Alito, and zero or more additional opinions (at least one if there were any dissents). It means that Alito's opinion amounted to the same yes-no answer(s) as the majority but he was unwilling to say he agreed with their actual written opinion.