skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, DCC.

On the positive, it lets you know (probably) how much you're going to spend, in your own currency. I say 'probably' because you might get hit by fees from your own bank for using an overseas ATM as well. But it's not free.

So you could look upon it as being offered a paid service, and IMHO it shouldn't be used without the customer being made aware of this.

The reason you will be asked if you'd like to pay in your currency is not really anything to do with your convenience though, it's about who gets to do the conversion and who gets to pocket the (inevitable) fees. With DCC the merchant and their (acquiring) bank get to take the fees and set the rates. Without this, your (issuing) bank does. At some point one of the acquiring banks realised that they get to see the transaction before it gets back to the issuing bank, and so they have the power to do this stuff, so DCC was born.

--EDIT--
I should say it's possible, however unlikely, that DCC could turn out cheaper. The article does give a great reason why this is unlikely though - if there's one set of people more eager to screw you over than your own bank, it's someone else's bank.
To paraphrase a coworker who also uses Ruby: Whenever I guess at how to do something new in Python, I'm usually wrong.
> Resolution = pixels per inch; size = number of inches.

I tend to think the same way you do, with resolution meaning pixels per inch, which is a very important number to me. But I don't think that is how the term is commonly used.

Resolution usually means the total number of pixels in each dimension, independent of the size of those pixels. Just look at any display product spec: You'll almost always see "Display resolution 1600x900" (or whatever the numbers are) and almost never see "Display resolution 123 pixels per inch". In most cases you're left to calculate the pixels per inch on your own.

For lack of a better term, I've taken to using "density" or "pixel density" to refer to pixels per inch, or else just use DPI or PPI or spell it out.
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Out of interest, are you familiar with Venkatesh Rao's "Be Slightly Evil" mailing list? He has a similar worldview to you (cynical realpolitick as an amoral tool, usable for good or evil).
"Mil" means "thousand" in Spanish. It makes sense for me.
Interesting - anyone got the link to the original HN discussion?
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50 whole k? to disrupt an entire industry of telemarketing scum, and save the telecoms millions in calls?

yeah, I don't see any serious solutions making their way through there..
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Since this is already out there as a known issue, and concerns Google too, check out:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22wants+to+be+friends+on+Fa...

And you'll find at the time of writing 250.000 more results where the "wants to be friends" email with the auto-login link is posted on blogs. Many of these blogs are also hacked, in that they redirect you to Russian dating sites if you visit the homepage.

An example of such a blog with password reset email is:
http://papajimummyji.blogspot.com/

An example of a spam-redirecting blog is:
http://demiansyahhh.blogspot.com/ (possibly unsafe)

For some more Facebook reset emails see:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22You+recently+asked+to+res...

EDIT: Twitter emails are also exposed:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Forgot+your+Twitter+passw...

Youtube emails:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22YouTube+sends+email+summa...

Twoo emails:
https://www.google.nl/search?q=%22Massive+Media+NV%2C+Emile+...

And likely more web services.
So you're saying in a 10 day period 100+ people were filling out all of the billing information and NOT clicking submit? That's amazing to me. Who are these people?
What's the smallest piece? A carbon atom? The only reasonable way to compare densities is to take a sizeable chuck of the material and compare it to the same volume of a different material.
and PayPal does this too...
I think it might have to do with the ROI on these unsolicited outbound calls. They're almost free, at this scale, in the US.
Actually it already has, see http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920.
Weird, where did you go? Every ATM I used in Spain for 10 months asked me. When paying by card, I always asked them to charge me in Euros and never had a problem (expect for my sketchy Spanish). I've had similar experiences in France, Italy and Germany.
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It's not unlikely that breakthroughs in battery technology could be retrofitted into present-day electric car. I can totally imagine that 5 years from now you take your Model S to the shop, and replace your battery with a new and improved with 3x the range. It wouldn't be cheap, but cheaper than a brand new car.
I can share that with you (co-founder) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323459 - as I say, we wanted to create the illusion that we'd stumbled across it so that we got genuine sign up's. Alas, people found out who we were so we apoligised and held our hands up. Our intentions were always good and we felt it important to include that experience in our journey because we learnt a lot that day.
I've bought, and sold, many things via Craigslist. I funded a cross-country move by selling the things I couldn't fit into my truck and u-haul trailer using Craigslist.

Having said that, I dislike the meeting-up aspect of Craigslist. For all of the money I've "made" by selling my stuff through them, there have been countless times where the person on the other end of the phone never shows up and leaves me there waiting.

Overall, it's been a positive experience. I'll continue using them for the foreseeable future.
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There's a continuity in user experience that native platforms provide that helps people accomplish the tasks they want to do.

Apps on each platform tend to look and behave in a similar fashion. E.g. on iPhone there's a tendency to use Tab bar buttons which are at the bottom. On Android you tend to have off-screen menu buttons and/or the Action Bar at the top.

Whether that's good or bad in terms of UX is a matter for debate but people get used to interacting with their platform in a certain way and it's disruptive to their user experience to suddenly find an app that doesn't follow these conventions.

For example, say you create an iPhone app where the menu buttons were at the top along the lines of an Action Bar you might find it creates a barrier to interacting with that app for a non-Android user.
I think it's distressing to think any kind of success in the Y Combinator application process is significant at all.

You're presumably trying to start a company. YC is step -1. Treat it as such. It might be the catalyst for your success, or it may not.
Can anyone point to a volume hardware OEM that doesn't charge considerably for storage capacity or RAM?

Off the cuff, let's go buy a laptop from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc.

Lenovo's T430u is $730 with 4GB of memory and a 320GB hard disk. An additional 4GB of memory is $160, even though the consumer wholesale price of such DIMMs is $20. The cost to upgrade to a single 8GB DIMM is $450, even though the consumer wholesale price of such DIMMs is $40-50.

The cost to go from a 320GB 7200rpm hard disk to a 1TB 5400rpm hard disk is $170, even though the consumer wholesale price of such a disk is $110.

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Every OEM does this for memory and storage, because to the end user, there is an obvious, measurable benefit. Twice the storage means they can store twice as many things. Twice the memory means they can do twice as many things at once. This is why Apple doesn't mention clock speeds for their custom ARM SoCs, but instead how many times faster it is -- 1.0GHz to 1.4GHz doesn't resonate with people as well as "twice as fast", especially when if you looked at just clock speed you might think it was only 40% faster.
> Science stops false connections by correctly attributing cause to its respective effect.

So was Aristotle a quack as well?

I ask because, he was pre-science, and pretty much laid the foundation for what became the scientific-method. (i.e empiricism).

Perhaps before you dismiss large bodies of knowledge you should look up the history of science, and see that it has flaws in and of itself...
Related: http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/10837/when-paying-w...
Thanks sw007 - well done for keeping calm and not rising to some of the comments in the thread. Good luck!
Can you explain this in concrete terms?

Women still make 77 cents to the male dollar. Women have much higher incidences of anxiety and depression disorders. Women are substantially more likely to be the victims of domestic violence, and 1 in 5 are raped. Etc etc. These statistics don't guarantee that every woman is worse off than every man - clearly that's not true - but they do mean that women have, on average, more difficult problems to deal with in their lives.

If we are discussing statistical incidence of problems, why choose "male" and "female" as your reference classes? Why not simply choose incidence of problems as the variable to slice on?

There are statistically significant differences in various problems between men and women, which are correlated, and which we have good reason to believe are causally related - because if you're paying any attention at all, you know that men and women are treated differently in our society. (And if you investigate further, you find you can explain what you see with a historical and social analysis that looks at things like the subordination of women in the family and the social division of labor with the development of class society, the hegemony of oppressive political and cultural ideologies, and so on.)

Usually, if you're trying to fix something, it's worth trying to figure out what the root causes are.
Anecdotally, I've experienced 0 incidents of fraud linked to using foreign ATMs, even those in questionable places. On the other hand, I've had several incidents linked to handing over my card to servers in downtown US restaurants.

One more rule...Never use an ATM in a strip club. They're the lords of exorbitant fees, stuff like "$20 or 10% of the withdrawl, whichever is greater".
When Google does something, it's OK, but when Apple does it, it's not. ???? Just a guess.

Another related guess - some of the same people that complain about Apple's 'excessive' markup also pay $2 for 8oz of bottled water flown in from 15000 miles across the globe.
So the NSA has the technology, but will not give the FTC access to it. Isn't that a good thing?
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Can I ask a stupid question... If it's lighter than air, does it float?
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Do agree that all data seized on Megaupload now belongs to the US-government?
Don't know why you felt it was necessary to take a dig at PHP, as if PHP is the cause of all bad web programming practices. Nowadays, PHP is very much evolved, and the abundance of mature frameworks have completely removed the most of the inconsistency issues.There are in fact variable declarations and types in PHP, there's even type-hinting to enforce types.

The fact of the matter is that many web developers fall into bad practices via laziness, copy & paste syndrome, regardless of whether the language they're using has strict types or not.
It's pretty rude to post religious gumph as though it's fact too... I'd argue the response was reasonable.
Jeez, as far as I can tell the person you're replying to is just defending affirmative action.
Why I Will Not Be Rushing To Upgrade To Evernote 5 For Mac
The main issue with pockets is thickness, and the Note is as thin as any other smartphone. I usually carry it in my jacket or coat pocket, although it does fit comfortably in slim-fit jeans.

I'd say if you wear tight jeans and bend down a lot it's a bit risky. But otherwise fine. Pop into a phone shop and see!
Why not invest in American labor? Is there any evidence that immigrants are more productive? Above and beyond the anecdotes presented in the New York Times piece?
IT field outside the US.
Hi HN,love the lists.
I would like a post talking about programming jobs/IT jobs outside of the US, for example in Europe,Asia,Africa,South America.I would like to have an idea how is the IT/CS field in the world , not only in the states.

Also would like to know how is someone capable to work in those places.What languages are a must.
That was my initial thought. If it's lighter than air, it must float...
Android has native stylus support. However Nexus 10 doesn't have a digitizer, so won't be able to use a real stylus on the Nexus 10.
Thanks :) They were right I guess in that maybe we were not honest enough but at least our intentions have proved to be good. As I say, it was a good lesson. A sad night - we felt like the experiment was over a little bit - but ultimately it did us good.
No. I'll look into it.
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I never use cases; the last phone I've had any kind of screen damage on was ye olde Nokia E71, by dropping an open pocketknife directly on the face. Said phone is still in use.
Actually, the early trajectory of Java on the Desktop wasn't so bad. It basically ran out of gas as people moved to the web. It was never 'prettified.'
If a tech journalist buys the thing for professional reasons, the signal he sends is not the same as a consumer buying it. I do agree with your luxury/fashion goods comparison though. That's exactly the business that Apple is in.
I think the fundamental premise is actually wrong. It often is not better to have a compromise device than specific devices. Can you get along with a compromise device? Sure, sometimes. But the difference between no compromise devices can be surprisingly large in my opinion.

Most people I know haven't given up having a saw and a screwdriver and a pair of pliers just because they can buy a multitool that "does" all of that.

I also feel that a tablet has far more in common with an ebook reader or a smartphone than with a computer. I've yet to see a tablet do a task that a smartphone can't do, and I have to wonder if the "phablet" (god do I hate that term) won't be the convergence you're looking for rather than a convergence with a laptop.

I have yet to talk to a laptop user who wants to trade it in on something that isn't a general purpose computer.
You don't mean minority/majority, but yes.
> six times lighter than air

If it's lighter than air, doesn't it float away? Wouldn't this make it a bit hard to work with? Why doesn't the article say anything about this obvious consideration?

OTOH, the piece in the photo with the drop of water does not appear to be trying to float away - unless it's the water drop holding it down. So maybe it isn't lighter than air? Or is the piece glued down?

> Non-conductive objects, such as plastics, could be coated with aerographite to make them conductive — without gaining weight.

While the material may be very light, I'm certain its weight is nonzero (and non-negative). This doesn't even make sense.

Fascinating material, dumb article.
That's my plan :)
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I agree; the correct fallback is to load the webpage the "traditional" way.
Neat. I'm working on JS-based word suggestion (=cheater) for Letterpress, and there were a few bits from here that I might borrow.
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Ask HN: How do you read Hacker news?
tl;dr - Do you read the story or the comments first?

tl -
I'm a new HackerNews user. I love it. The posts are interesting and the comments are (usually) thought-provoking and typically provide more information that the original article.

When I first started lurking here, I would open the article in a new tab and then read it. Then I started opening both the article and the comments in their own tabs. I would then read the article first, then the comments.

Over the past few days, I noticed that I've shifted a bit, opening both the article and the comments in new tabs, but reading the comments first.

So my question to you, seasoned HN users, is "how do you do it?" Generally speaking, article or comments first?
Let's start with getting some lawyers to understand math first before moving on to IT.
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At some point the stack is going to grow which will cause allocation at the OS level. And if we're discussing small embedded systems with fixed stacks, this code is entirely unsafe (non deterministic stack usage may cause stack overruns).

In embedded systems (non-MMU ones) you generally want to avoid repeated dynamic runtime allocation to prevent memory fragmentation.

It's a cute example, but I can't see any scenario where its better or safer than heap use.
This was answered on the same page that showed the logo, really. It was designed as an application icon, for a Hacker News reader demo application for Windows 8.
I absolutely love the Note. The screen is ideal for videos, web browsing or using Google Maps, and it's gorgeous. The pen is great for writing down quick notes, playing Pictionary, or recording my lifts at the gym. I've also used it on holiday to compile a quick scrapbook of photos, maps and hand-written notes while abroad. I didn't need to take a laptop because the screen is large enough to comfortably use for extended periods.

I used to carry a DSLR because my phone's camera was so poor, but the Note (and newer smartphones in general) has an amazing camera which is adequate for 99% of my needs.

I've had a lot of people strike up conversations due to its size, which I consider a good thing. It does look a bit dumb when you use it for phone calls, but that's not really the target audience.
I don't understand why the colors are changing. Shouldn't the doppler effect not apply if the speed of light is the same for all observers?
Better let Andrew Wiles know his 8 years spent on Fermat's Last Theorem was just a bullshit waste of time, because he couldn't use it to run a hedge fund, or software company...

It can only be 'proved' in the 'contrived' world of pure mathematics... what bullshit!
We've been down this road before. I think the misleading part is that it doesn't displace air to any significant extent.

By this logic, a roll of chain link fence is three times lighter than water[1]. But it still sinks.

EOM

[1] Calculations follow…

50 feet of 6 foot tall 9 gauge chain link fence rolls into an 18" diameter cylinder 6 feet tall and weighs 216 pounds. http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDi...

Mr. A. Wolfram says that is a volume a 80 gallons. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+a+cylinder+18...

Water is about 8 pounds to the gallon, so the water of equivalent volume would be 640 pounds.

Steel fencing is one third the density of water! Write the press release!

Sorry about the units, world, at least I didn't break into microfortnights.
Something about redesigns is always scary - the change. However in the Evernote case they seem to not just be changing stuff but also ruining stuff (like Skitch). A shame but it may be that in a few months we understand why.
It's still Turing complete (though that's not saying much really). You can always grow the stack more :P
It does not displace a significant volume of air, so no steampunk airships for you. But I'll bet breezes blow it around.
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Programmer salary in Israel?
I am a Ruby programmer with 2yrs of Ruby experience, and about 4yrs of PHP. I've recently relocated to Israel from Ukraine. And I'm current in doubt whether should I agree to any job offer I got so far.

There's this survey of about 600 Israeli developers (year 2012) and seems like the average for a web developer is about 4100$ gross (ranging from 1800$ to 6800$). But all the job offers, after a few days of negotiations are limited to about 3200$. Sometimes it's even less, but they're offering more bonuses like better health insurance, and company car for a small monthly fee.

Am I wrong to ask for an average salary with my years of experience?
Is it really 4100$ an average here?
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Another good reason.
Ugh, I never even thought of that.

It would be nice to have received a "no thanks" from even one of them from the I think six I sent out though. Not so say that I think they "owe" me that, but it would have done a lot to dissuade me from suspecting that most of the bids on my item were fraudulent.
I said mathematicians weren't bullshit.
If a piece of aerographite were to be sealed on the outside, and all the air removed, then yes, it would float. But without this treatment, the air permeates the microstructure, and it does not float.
Can you explain this in concrete terms? This meme is repeated often, but few people actually explain what it means.

Basically males often do not have to put with things that women often do. The concrete example is in this article. If you're a male contracter and start in a new IT place, and the other co-workers know nothing else about you beside (a) you're working here and (b) you are male, then they are much less likely to presume you are not a programmer than if you were female. See the OP for more examples of IT.

In general terms, some other examples:

• If a man gets drunk and passes out at a party, he rarely has to worry about more than someone shaving his eyebrows/hair or someone writing on his face with a marker. Women have to worry about being sexually molested or rape.

• If a straight man goes to a bar, and doesn't want to meet a new person, he's much more likely to be left alone and not propositioned than a woman. (i.e. he can have a quite drink with/without friends without being interrupted). If a straight man wants to experience more of what women feel, go to a gay bar.

• A man can walk past a building site (say) with it being unlikely that someone will shout something suggestive at him.

• When it's dark and they've had a beer or two, a man has a wider selection of streets he can walk down to get home. Less hassle, take the direct route! (I know men are often victims of other kinds of attacks & robberies, that doesn't mean they are not less likely to suffer other kinds).

• A straight man is much less likely to be the victim of physical or sexual abuse from his spouse than a straight woman.

etc.

This is what I mean by "men have it easier (in some regards)"
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why choose "male" and "female" as your reference classes?

Because there has been a very long history of lots of people doing that, and the result being that females were often denied lots of things, purely for being female. This procress may or may not have fully stopped by now, definitly continues in various parts of the world in different defrees. We should watch out for it, and be wary.