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No, credit cards exist because in 1978 the Supreme Court released an opinion allowing banks to export interest rates from one state to the other. So a bank in a state with a 25% interest rate cap could lend to a family in another state with a 12% interest rate cap. Politicians figured out quickly that if they bumped up the credit rate ceiling in their state that the financial institutions would come running, cash in hand.

Thirty(ish) years later we have an insidious industry that has saturated US culture with the poison of unsecured credit. They set up stands at colleges, snaring college freshmen with offers of free tee-shirts. They sponsor educational curriculums in grade schools advocating the use of credit cards. They even kick money to toy makers to include a little "Visa" or "Mastercard" with their products. They lobby Congress to pass laws making it harder for people who've dug themselves into a hole to include credit card debt in bankruptcy.

Credit is not necessary for modern living, despite the propaganda that permeates every piece of media to which we have access. I know this because 18 years ago I was that ignorant kid that wanted a free teeshirt. Ten years ago I quit using credit as a means of purchase, and six years ago I made my last monthly payment (with the notable exception of student loans, which is a rant for another day).
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So if I compile a busybox-like crunched binary with a variety of "do one thing well" UNIX utilities, including sh itself, and then I write a shell function that only calls this single binary it its various incantations and uses pipes and temporary files residing on tmpfs or mfs (instead of reading entire files into memory the way perl does), and this binary used like this can do all that Perl can do, why should I use Perl?

That's my question.
Indeed. I've been on the HN front page a couple of times with Jekyll generated sites (http://os-blog.com is one). Hosted on an Amazon micro instance (613 mb) and served by nginx, none of my sites have broken a sweat under the increased traffic.

HN traffic isn't really that much. I was watching the stats under the new Google Analytics realtime mode and the site was averaging about 3 - 6 requests per second.
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We can use debit cards here as well, the reason we generally don't are usually because of the security and benefits (mileage) you get from using a credit card.
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Right which was my point above in setting the history of how we got here and why no one is really interested in leaving. The history is very important to how Java became dominate and created the top reasons, which I would content are inertia and labor pool. The reasons bullet pointed above are why no one is in a hurry to move on, it does what it is supposed to do and the enterprise is happy with it. Until the cost/benefit is blown away, they will continue to be happy with it.
One of the cases is his own lawsuit against California, which is underway: https://www.facecash.com/legal/brown.html
I don't know about in the US but I regularly transfer money througgh email with an ING Direct canadian account. I know other financial institutions here have similar functionality.
they claim thats there to verify you are really you who is trying to change the address.
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I made this tool to make single list of freely available programming books on internet (Question asked on Stackoverflow) then i made it generic so it can use for any Stackoverflow question.

I need your valuable feedback / suggestions on this.
So why do ACH transfers take 4-5 days in 2011 anyway?
Still can't load the website. If anyone could paste the text of the article here. :-) (WordPress To Jekyll And Back Again And Finally To HN)
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More like adds and then buries. I'd rather have the plus sign operator back, google.
A couple background pieces on the increasing influence of money in politics and the disconnect between policy and the social good:

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Republican-Propaganda1s...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-gop-became...

These focus on the Republican party but much of the same can be said of the Democrats as well.
Anyone out there paying their rent with a credit card while maintaining no fees for the landlord?

I played around with Venmo in the past and thought this would be perfect for this use case. Been a while, but I believe you can accept credit cards directly and pay no fees. Seems crazy, but I think the only downside is the amount limits.

Would be awesome to collect cc rewards on rent payments every month.
Why are merchant credit card fees somehow different from all the other costs that merchants silently pass on to the consumers? Costs that the merchants choose to pay in order to get more sales?
And, of course, the "search for what I actually fucking typed" mode is completely undiscoverable, hidden behind another click, and which can't be defaulted into.

This is a good bandaid, but is still a bandaid. I have still switched away from Google to a search engine that will actually search for what I told it to, not one that thinks it can guess my meaning. (Not to mention one that doesn't wrap all the outgoing URLs in click-tracking garbage then uses JavaScript in an attempt to hide it, with no way to opt-out.)
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Fwiw, I believe depression has certain deepness of thought and getting over with it is better than not getting it at all in the first place.
"Still need to plug into a monitor, keyboard, mouse."

Why?
Also I think I was 16/17 at the time.
Nathan, that's a great market to develop applications in. There's a general need for your application, and you're helping society at the same time.

I recently saw a short segment on 60 minutes, "Apps for Autism", which demonstrated and explained applications in your applications field, autistic children. Here's the video URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385686n&tag=cont...
A story of my friend from the time I've lived in Germany...posted to a different topic but interesting nonetheless:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3224374
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> So because Dwolla's customer service tried to protect your parents, they're horrible?

This is a common marketing lie. This actually isn't trying to protect his parents. This is greatly inconveniencing his parents in order to protect themselves in a cheaper fashion.

Preventing theft is hard. Preventing theft while not punishing users is extremely hard. And so lots of banks and services take the easy route: forcing complicated passwords, OTP's, holds, "sitekeys", security questions, et cetera.

True protection would be: "Behind the scenes we are going to do everything we can stop thieves. And, in the very rare cases where they succeed and access your account, we'll cover it 100%. And, we're not going to make you stab yourself in the eye every time you want to create an account, or send, receive or withdraw funds."

Then it's up to Dwolla to build in strong defensive and offensive measures to combat online thieves, without making 99.9% of its users suffer for the 00.1% of people that are looking to steal.

tldr; these "security measures" absolutely suck and I can't wait for the service that comes along and says "we did the hard security work so you don't have to".

P.S. Dwolla looks awesome. I signed up. Am very impressed. I realize EVERYONE has these PitA security measures and I'm sure the Dwolla guys hate them just as much as me and have plans to eliminate them eventually. I just had to respond to the marketing bs.
Thanks for also considering the power users/edge cases.

Even better would be to have a prefix for the search, e.g.
/l(iteral) so that you could do the whole search by keyboard only (but perhaps there is a key binding for the menu option? Would be great)
Matt, do you know if there are any plans to once again allow the mixing of exact match with the regular fuzzier search functionality? It's great to have exact matching back, but I often found it a useful strategy to build the search loosely, then refine with +specifics. Perhaps something like this, in exact match mode:

~run ~sprint ~hurdle nike

could be the equivalent of the old:

run sprint hurdle +nike
I wish I could up vote your comment more than once for picking up on that reference :) I'm from Vermont so that movie was a right of passage during my younger, hockey-playing years.
Three pieces of advice.

1) Write some shitty CRUD app in C# for school, and write your scheme interpreter just for fun. Don't waste your time fighting with a prof, just play the game and move on.

2) Add README files to your github projects. Some prospective employers will ignore your grades/cv and browse your github - readme files will help them.

Put the scheme interpreter here too, even if it's just a fun little project.

2) When you are looking for a job, send me an email. I'm CTO at a startup based out of Pune and NY. When you graduate we'll either be hiring or bankrupt, and in the former case we probably want to talk to you (see point 2).
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that's actually something that was annoying me greatly. Type stuff and Google just search for whatever it thinks is best. Bleh!

Anyway, that's awesome.
Thank you. Irritation has been growing that I can't search for what I want without fielding all kinds of "well what about this variant..." results, without even + prefix and "" squishing into some unwanted twist. Would be nice to make (at least as an option) Verbatim mode the default, with a link provided per search to show variants.
Many PoS merchants also now charge surcharges for using cards. (which I admit for a merchant only makes financial sense if you underreport cash on your taxes--otherwise it seems the costs of handling cash coupled with lack of reporting is drastically more than the interchange).
I'm really excited by this project. I think it's a great idea. I very much hope they sell them to anyone, maybe at a slightly higher price to subsidise the others.

But there's a tiny[1] hint of regret that modern programming is necessarily abstracted away from the hardware. When people were using the popular home computers of the 1980s they would be able to use some version of BASIC, and then also some machine code if needed. And that wasn't something just limited to the brightest smartest young programmers; it was above average but nothing extreme. I learnt Z80 ASM on a suitcase instructional computer, turning fans on and off or stepping through traffic light sequences on LEDs. Then I made a resistor ladder DtoA convertor and pushed data out the parallel printer port for audio. (Something also done by No$GB emulator.)

That seems to be something that children will be missing out on, unless this project gives them enough boost to then investigate things like arduino or similar.

[1] Not a criticism in any way of the Raspberry Pi project.
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From March. It is a little curious that MS is buying something that ARIN is giving away for free.
Lawyers are expensive and in my experience do not provide value commensurate with the expense.

The underlying issues here are of national interest and involve a complex regulatory regime including the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the White House, Congress, and state regulators. There are a lot of people who need to know what's going on.
Just to be absolutely clear, NULL /= 0 (zero).
This goes beyond mysql. On some IBM mainframes NULL is actually a distinct representation from zero. On most pc's, null is overloaded with 0. Pr1me for example used 017777600000 as null. Data General MV encoded the ring level in the top bits of a null value.

A similar case s NaN /= 0. Except more people know and understand that rule.
This 28 year old is making sure credit cards won't exist in the future
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This isn't really the solution we were looking for Matt.

Can we replace the + operator with something else? How about¬? We don't use that very often to the point I don't even know what it's called, but it's there on the keyboard in one keypress.
The problem with monogamy is that you can guarantee you are, but you cannot guarantee your partner is.
Honestly, I am completely unsure why we are discussing this article, or why it showed up in a place like HN. It is clearly based on shutterstock's agenda in acquiring perl developers.

I coded perl full-time for a year, straight up, for 10+ hours a day -- using it as the glue to hold a rudimentary distributed system together.

To show that I myself am not biased, I will admit Perl has a lot of nice things, but it also has a lot of undesirable things. This article only concentrates on the former (and doesn't even focus on what could arguably be the right nice things to speak of).
uh, you can run other OSs on Apple hardware. It's a little bit trickier because of EFI but it's not hard.

What you can't do (Apple say) is run Apple OSs on non-Apple hardware.
I avoid writing checks as much as possible in part because of that.

Knuth stopped sending checks for rewards specifically because it turns out that giving random people your account info is a bad idea.
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And out near 127,000th st, where it gets real sketchy and you can never find a taxi, even death may die.
Two points.

First, I believe the parlance is recovering addict. If you choose to subscribe to the 12 step method of recovery, you are never fully "recovered" from addiction.

Second, marijuana, alcohol, and cigarettes are all gateway substances. The dangers of these mood altering drugs are self-evident. It seems to me that we should be doing everything possible to educate people before they get hooked, not try and deal with a drug addict after they become addicted.
Blech. The reason I was enjoying Quora was its lack of explicit gameified geegaws -- versus StackOverflow (and to a lesser extent the whole StackExchange federation). SO has become less and less useful, if you've got a novel and/or slightly abstract or subjective query, because everyone is playing for points, including moderators. It leads to a Pavlovian house style, favoring novice questions with circumlocutious answers, with terse rebukes and heavy-handed moderation for everything else.

I appreciate SO's focus but only inasmuch as it produces something I can use. I still use it frequently as the majority of "duh, what module?" sort of questions have been answered there already.

Quora wadn't about that, though; I found the process of socially-networked collaborative question-answering to be as valuable as the answer... E.g. Answers that were 80% there would frequently contain clues to new relevant questions; if people are trying to "win" I m afraid that horizontal exploration of Quora's topics won't be as fun or accessible.

In fact I think it will be less fun in general, and the likely inference that less fun leads to less Quora use (and therefore less $)doesn't require rocket-science-grade reasoning.

I am sure enough people love this kind of game enough such that they'll stay afloat even if the Quora game is every bit as unpleasant as I might anticipate -- but in my personal expert opinion, that'd be weak.
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I rarely engage in shameless self promotion, but this seems like an appropriate moment. My startup, Fitocracy, is built around the notion of loosely mapping the MMORPG experience to exercise and fitness. We've been getting fairly popular with the early adopter crowd and we've even been featured in XKCD and Penny-Arcade.

You can create a private beta account using this link: http://ftcy.co/jMSLsG
Ah, you're quite right. I think it used to be in Kazakhstan before my final tweakings of the grid.
I sincerely hope you find peace one day.
Instead of tell us what they do wrong why don't you tell us what you do right.
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I like that I can run my Jekyll blog for free on Heroku, and it is served entirely out of Varnish. Seems like you are paying more money for crap performance.

In addition, my blog regenerates in < 5 seconds on Ruby 1.9.3.
Because I want my shell prompt to be a giant graph.

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Ship it.
Chile gives an entrepreneur $40k to fund an internet company and stay there for 6 months. Mexico taxes you twice because you have an internet company.

Oh, and they will use those taxes to fund a stupid war.
I do. :) Corporate-owned apt complex.
Interesting, but this part is pretty weasily: "...told by parents and teachers that intelligent people didn't use drugs. Turns out, the adults _may_ have been wrong." As an unqualified statement, it is definitely wrong, and was demonstrably wrong at the time: Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Paul Erdos...
I had my wordpress blog on shared Dreamhost for about a year.. I was slowly increasing traffic then I noticed the dreamhost daemons killing off my processes.. after much, much hassle I finally got the offical line of "1000 unique visitors per day is using too much memory for Dreamhost shared - you need to upgrade".
I moved to rackspace.
Not on US keyboards, I don't think.
Speak for yourself. I've been wanting this solution for years.
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You're mixing up development time with sales time. Your team would probably bang this out in a few weeks and then move on to another app. In the meantime, the app would be selling in the store not costing you developer resources.
Yes please allow something like this, mixing verbatim with fuzzier search functionality is powerful.
I don't know of the laws in various countries, but this already happens on major purchases here in the UK - flights, holidays etc.

You will be charged a surcharge for using a credit card, or a fixed fee. Eg £4.50 for a CC, free for a debit card.
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I doubt it. Seems like he likes fighting people.
I can't wait to get few of these.
Hooray! Does the "more search tools" menu learn from the user which tools are useful to them? I seem to recall at one point having to open the search tools for the helpful timeframe narrowing options, but now those routinely appear exposed on the left.

If after a few times using verbatim it realized I was a "power user" and always had that option sitting on the side for me, I'd love it.
I'll pass the feedback on. Part of the issue with + is that it turned out a lot of people were mistyping queries with + when as far as we could tell, they weren't trying to match an exact word. Getting further off the beaten path with a more rare character might help though.
As somebody who's been in a teaching role, I would have dinged you too. It's not that I want "drones," but if I give you an assignment and you ignore the requirements, you don't deserve a passing grade on that assignment. Now, if you came up to me and said, "Hey, can I get extra credit for doing a RPN calculator?" or even just "This is a little below my level — can I do an RPN calculator instead, as long as I mark the stack correctly?" I'd probably have said "Hell yeah!" But that isn't what you did. You ignored the teacher, and she ignored you right back.

(Edited to change "failed" to "dinged," as I think the former gave the wrong impression. I meant I would not have given full credit for completing that assignment.)
You still can do that, you just have to use "quotes" "around" "the" "words" instead of +putting +the +plus +sign +before +each +word. This just lets you get that type of search for every word easier.
In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly.

Actually, Google decided to repurpose the + operator for Google Plus Pages Direct Connect (http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p...).
Credit cards right now are used by a lot of people because they're the best payment option. Easy to use, limited risk of loss to theft, many offer cash back or airline miles.

They can also be used as a source of payday/personal loans, but that strikes me as suboptimal. Justifying the existence of credit cards as a source of credit doesn't make sense. One, why must the credit be tied to a card? Two, how often is a responsible spender gonna need that card as a lender of last resort? In fact, the idea of a "charge card" predates the idea of attaching a revolving line of credit to one, and you can still get charge cards from American Express, among other firms.

The only argument in favor of credit cards is the freedom-oriented one that people should be free to have easy access to run up revolving debts. I'm fine with this argument, but let's not obscure the issue by pretending that a significant number of people actually need access to that credit and that they need it in card form. The utility of credit cards lies in making payments, not having credit, and they're clearly an inferior solution--the space is ripe for disruption.
Can somebody tell me what the point is? How much of a saving are you getting by transferring json data+metadata versus what would normally be sent. I'm ignoring the extra time that would be required to implement and test it.

And like you say, it starts to look like a traditional native app, so why not just create a native app, if you're working in a domain that requires...whatever benefit you're getting here. It seems like you're just trying to approach a similar appearance to the user, while simultaneously wrestling with lots of technologies that don't suit the idea (CSS for example).
Addiction can strike anyone at any time. To say that drugs are not dangerous is disingenuous.
Just a nit - sin(1) is transcendental ( by the Lindemann Weirstrass Theorem). All real transcendental numbers are also irrational, but the converse is not true ie. the square root of 2 is irrational but not transcendental.

So I guess your teacher was just looking for a plain old irrational number and going all transcendental on him is "a bit too clever" as you put it :)
The "hacker" part of the title is ironic. Any hacker news here is purely accidental.
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I'm betting on no.

Caching with WordPress.org is as easy to set up as Jekyll, if not easier. With W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache, performance is roughly equivalent to a baked site being hosted by the same web server.

Edit: Oops, I lost, as he already said in another thread that he had WP Super Cache turned on. But it seems to me that 512MB would be enough if the web server was set up properly, and in fact caching was set up so the web server would serve pages directly.
Yeah, that actually sounds more correct.
Isn't

run sprint hurdle "nike"

what you want?
We don't have to use any kind of cards in Finland, and I think the situation is the same in Germany. I can directly pay a merchant and the money is transferred from my bank account without having a card at all.

I can use a credit card as well, or a debit card, but there really is no point to use them here.

It's surprising how far behind the U.S. is in this matter.
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