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I've worked with rails a lot over the years, including high traffic sites, and the general comment I'd make is that Rails scales more or less like PHP, but consumes far more ram per process doing so. Beyond that, whether it's good for your project probably depends a lot more on culture and the people involved than any technical distinction. Deploying rails was historically rather clunky, but that's been resolved over the last couple years thanks to folks like Heroku.
An overview of the JavaScript regular expression API
Actually fiat currencies have value because the government promises to accept them for tax purposes (and for various other purposes -- fees, fines, court settlements, etc.). The government does not "think" the money is worth something; the people think the law has meaning and is worth following, and so the law gives money its value. The relationship between money and law is a major reason (maybe the only reason) that currencies tend to be neatly partitioned along international borders.
Ask HN: why does Gmail keep getting more complex?
Once upon a time, I used Gmail because of its straightforward and simple design. But it just keeps getting more and more complicated. What's the deal?
I don't think it's a problem if you're willing to use less capable hardware. Think Intel i7 vs. Lemote Loongson.
Article I, Section 8: Says nothing about "other currencies," only the value of its own coined money and of foreign coin. I don't see it.

To be clear, I'm devil's advocate arguing that this probably shouldn't be an SEC case, not that he hasn't committed a prosecutable fraud.

Securities always represent a legal obligation to something. A stock represents legal ownership of a legally recognized organization. If this guy wasn't making such binding obligations, as I suspect he wasn't, it isn't a securities issue - just fraud.

Because applied this broadly, the SEC would therefore regulate as Securities Dealers: Ebay, Baseball Card publishers, and Blizzard's World of Warcraft.
This isn't Congress doing the "regulating". It's the Executive Branch.
Remember the "Citizens United" decision? From wikipedia:"
Justice Kennedy's majority opinion found that the BCRA §203 prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech. The majority wrote, "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."
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.. about how happy we are, what with the eradication of poverty, waste and hunger!?
What about the binaries? Isn't it possible to them off the device? Since you can't stop reverse-engineering, is there any sensible motivation for not officially releasing them?
I really doubt that it would be cheaper than say, beans and rice. The initial one week supply is $65, which is nearly $10/day.
backslash is a man falling backwards. forwardslash is the opposite.
But you do trust your health to the distracted 16 year old flipping burgers at McDonalds?
A bind only re-evaluates if changes happen within its own immediate scope, and not if the changes are within any descendant binds' scopes. Whenever you want to carve off finer-granularity updates, scope things to a separate bind. This has scaled to, for instance, a complex WYSIWYG web page editor, where the whole page/document being edited is structured using cells and rendered with recursive binds - the app needs to be very responsive to each change a user makes, whether it's typing in text or dragging a style slider, even if the focus is on the top-level DOM element. That's not to say we've seen all the use cases - we definitely want to see where things fall down as well.
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They are getting to use a popular OS free of charge though, seems like Qualcomm would have very little negotiating power.
The man sent his changes to the contract to the bank, and they signed and certified that agreement.

So what does it say about the rule of law in Russia?
In my opinion, he describes a basic mechanism of survival for cultures. Cultures that inspire such defensive "inability to think clearly" about the subject have increased survivability (social propagability).

But in order to survive, cultures must also change over time. I see the mechanism for this change as the individual's improvement of the culture for oneself, and then attempting to propagate it to insiders and outsiders. Triggers of this modification include conflicting experience, either direct or indirect via dialogue/argumentation with others.
I guess people who want to avoid paying taxes will have to find other local businesses that do the same.

What matters to bitcoin users is whether the transaction goes through or not.
They're bulky, heavy, hold heat, and you look like a dork wearing them. Maybe some sort of light plastic glasses like you wear for a 3D movie, if the technology was there to put an HD image in the lenses. But nothing in it's current state.
Good point. I was mostly responding to common criticisms. I think JS boot time is usually pretty good since it's easy to incrementally load code in.
Indie no-go: only one in ten gets fully funded on Kickstarter's biggest rival
from the site:

ChromeOS IDE for developing on Chromebooks.

Node.JS blog engine with git as the database.

Custom Git hosting using custom storage back-ends.

GIT CLI for restricted environments.

Standalone GIT GUI desktop app.

Git based deployment tools.

JavaScript package management for server and client.

Whatever else you come up with.
I would be surprised if it did not work out well in the USA, to be perfectly honest. There is nothing illegal in the extra terms he added to the contract, and the bank is not in any position to claim that it failed to read the contract. More likely, however, is that the news of this case has led every bank on the planet to institute a "check all paperwork" policy to prevent this from happening.
They suffer from the "click company logo after reading their blog and it takes you to their blog" syndrome.
In addition, when it comes to encryption that is intended to defeat things like XKeyscore, this isn't it. It's nice that the tunnel to the server is TLS (which is probably not really safe from the NSA), but you still generally are going to have unencrypted inbound emails coming into the server and unencrypted outbound emails exiting the server, no?
It's the executive branch enforcing regulatory laws duly passed by Congress.
If you eat a large amount of food with coloring in it, like green or blue, it comes out green or blue.
This is such a cool idea, and the nerd in me loves the alternate input idea.

My problem with this, and it's such a niggly problem that's it may not even be worth mentioning, is that this will only work when you've got the footpedal around and I'd be frustrated when I sat down at a computer and didn't have it.

Like the author's note about muscle memory and wanting to hit the ESC key. I'd be frustrating to get the pedal into muscle memory and then forget it.

Sure you can learn a new system, but it's nice to know that vim is vim, regardless of the device you're connected via. Same is true for Emacs. Boy, an ALT key at my foot would spoil me rotten.
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A beater isn't an equivalent alternative, nor is a bike or a bus.
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It depends on the business. $MAJORWIRELESSOPERATOR on accessory sales has obscene margins (like 1000%). Things like minutes are skinny with gross margins of 60-100%. There are costs so if you're playing the LCR game you're likely making 4-10% net margin.

It all depends on volume and cost to deliver. Some of the biggest providers have the highest costs to deliver service.

Does that help?

Edit: for example, a hosted PBX provider, pricing at $35 all inclusive per seat, should have gross margins north of 150% and net margins above 40%, assuming at least 10,000 seats. There are, of course, huge variations because of management style, frugality and a myriad of other factors, but there's money to be made.

The easiest money in telecom, with the highest margins, are the Analytics, billing and operations tools (of which there are many but finding quality ones is a YMMV proposition).
When I was in grad school a friend in another department said "You guys in CS have much nicer printers; can I mail you my thesis and have you print it out? And how would I mail it?" I said "Sure; Just do 'mail me@school.edu less-than-symbol filename". Later he calls in a panic -- "my thesis file has disappeared! I did what you said ... oh, wait a minute, I might have done greater-than instead of less-than..."

Fortunately for both of us, he had been diligent about making backups and din't lose his entire thesis.
because what the world needs, is a slower banking process.
Quite the contrary in my experience, capitalism typically restrains innovation. Patent trolls are just one of many examples.

Not saying I've got a better idea than capitalism, but I wouldn't consider it ideal.
Tesla Posts Surprise Profit
I am on the waiting list, depending on limits and schedule of the service I will be using this about three or four times a week to do a daily commute between my condo in Los Angeles and eBay in San Jose. It works out to about what I would pay for a Bay area shared room but I get to come home each evening and see my cats and dog. And my wife.
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I agree with you, but with a mass produced product we can expect low costs, so this would be really helpful in poor countries where starvation is common.

If Soylent becomes cheaper than the previous products [1], it would definitely help more people.

For people living in the US, I agree with you and I don't think it's a solution :

If we take 2 different people, whose optimal intake is 2500 kcal, I'm pretty sure that among these 2500 kcal, one person would need x% of protein and y% of carbs, whereas the other person would need x2% and y2%, so how can Soylent fix this ?

If we can figure out what the x,y,x2,y2 exact values are, then people could get their personalized Soylent, but we're far from it.

[1] http://www.wfp.org/nutrition/special-nutritional-products
Thanks! JPEG decoding isn't the only problem with image loading. Image resizing, texture upload, and relayout/painting related to image loading all contribute to jank. Also, as you pointed out, the fact that it's impossible to schedule any of those things at appropriate times because you have no control over or visibility about when they happen.
Tesla Q2 results - record sales of Model S in North America
AppFlood Announces iOS Compatibility on One Year Anniversary
Some criticisms:

Firstly, this is basically a standard UNIXy virtual mail solution with RoundCube chucked on the top. Nothing special. Does not deserve the manifesto spew. You can get this solution canned by just installing this on your own kit: http://www.iredmail.org/ (or build it yourself). Or you can get it at WebFaction and many other hosters for a small fee. You can even stick it behind your firewall and IDS on your DMZ and rejoice!

I very much doubt anyone who throws this out in no time at all actually has the capacity or planning to operate a virtual mail system. I planned and ran an 80k-user (not many!) exim/cyrus outfit for an ISP and it was a full time job and it required some serious kit at the time. To give you an idea, we had 2 SMTP front ends, COTS NFS appliance for mailboxes, 2 IMAP servers, 2 web servers, tape library, 2 redundant LDAP servers, dedicated UPS etc. The lowest CPU at the time was a dual Xeon Pentium III. The whole thing was a full 42U rack and sucked up power. Even with the progress with virtualisation and storage etc, you're going to need big iron to shift email or run a free service like that.

I doubt the security of the solution. You don't know where it is hosted, there is no motivation (in the form of cash) to actually not puke your details everywhere, there is no SLA, the software may have been modified etc etc.

No thanks.

Edit: just to add that I really like the core idea and concepts but this cannot work in the real world of capitalism, the corporate-controlled Internet and the current global surveillance situation.
Chrome's Password Security Strategy Is Insane
Frankly, if the internet had been driven by the desire to make profit in the early days, we wouldn't have TCP/IP, the web, email or any other open protocol for that matter.
I'd be fine with a slow banking process that exclusively involves junk mail offers.
Tesla Posts Surprise Adjusted Profit on Model S Output
I think the gap you're trying to carve out for bitcoin between U.S. money and "foreign coin" is a narrow and tenuous one.

You've got a good point that, depending on how Shavers's investment was structured, he might not have been issuing anything that could be called a security. But he was billing it as a "bitcoin hedge fund" so if there was some sort of tradable interest in the fund that would in fact be a security.
>There is a few counter examples like the blue Gatorade, but it's 100% liquid, I can't think of any soup-texture food that is blue.

Blue smoothies are pretty visually attractive.
Deep down I really want this man to win his case, if only just to show the flaw in fine prints that have screwed over many legally-challenged (for lack of a better term) people. You can argue that it's one's responsibility to look out for, read, and understand fine prints in any contract one signs, but then why are they in fine print in the first place? So as to not detract one's attention from the borderline dishonest big prints like INTEREST FREE LOAN* or something like that? So that you can make money off that few unfortunate souls who overlooked the fine prints?
5*400 = 2,000, a day. Multiply this by 30 days and you already have 60,000 auths per month, while only 20,000 are in the $99 plan.
You can keep tweaking the settings and get pretty close to 2005-style.
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Can you achieve greatness without passion? Can you feel passionate about a topic without it creeping into your identity?

I don't claim to know the answers.
Apache Tomcat 8: What It Is, What You Need To Know
In the github description there is a typo: 'Langauge Features'.

A typo on typo's presentation. On purpose? :)
No, I trust my health to some million years old nature that says kale is good for me.

When I eat a burger at McDonalds, I know what I'm getting and it surely isn't for the health benefits.
"If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot."

I think the Launch Ticker is probably the closest thing to that. They cover much of the same ground as HN. Of course, you don't get the comments, but that could be a positive to some people.

http://launch.co/
It's interesting to see an industry traditionally dominated by marketing/advertising being taken on from the perspective of engineering. I have a strong suspicion that the management team isn't right for the long term and if they really hope to compete in the food industry or supplement industry they will have to get bought out.

I was a bit surprised when I tracked down the price - $65-$75 for a weeks supply means $10+ per day. Although I cannot imagine replacing my entire diet with this I could see supplementing or replacing the occasional individual meal. IMO, the price would have to come down from $10 for that to be reasonable.
Nice, I'm a big fan of 2600hz!

I'm currently on Twilio's first tier volume discount (I assume there's further volume discounts that aren't on the website), paying .8 cents/min IIRC.

I looked into buying voice minutes and DIDs and running my own freeswitch boxes. Any provider that had listed prices charged upwards of .4 cents/min or had unlimited minutes per DID with a $4 or something fee per channel. A lot of them also limited the number of channels on a DID.

Another reason I have low margins though is because my free plan and free trials also cost me real money. There is no way I can get around that.

While we're at it: Another reason I looked into self-hosting was because I'd like to host conference calls with up to 5000 participants (think earnings calls, public forums, classes etc), most of which are mute. THAT is a high margin business, with companies charging up to 20 cents/minute/caller for those kinds of calls. I read this may be possible with freeswitch on beefy hardware. What do you think? Do you know any way I could get around hosting my own freeswitch servers, load balancer, redundant backups etc?
Hey everyone, I'm Ray, one of the founders of Weilos. We just got started, but early signals are promising with active users making significant progress on the site. Very excited about this opportunity to help a lot of people! Would love to hear what everyone thinks.
Late to the party, but:

The Department of Better Technology is hiring a developer to come help us make software that helps government work better. We've just completed an initial round of funding, and now we need a developer to help us build out Procure.io and Screendoor.io -- our software that makes it easy for government to buy things. Are you the right fit?

You will work with us to build out the Screendoor.io platform. This means you need serious Ruby chops, some knowledge of systems administration, a self-driven work ethic, and a healthy sense of humor. You're going to be part of the founding DNA of this company, so fit and ethic mean a lot to us -- procurement and government isn't for everyone. But for the kind of person who wants to make government work better, and wants to build a great business doing it, we're a fit.

The nutshell:

- Experienced in Ruby
- Passion for good user experience
- Comfortable working in remote environments

Interested? Shoot us an email at hello (at) dobt (dot) co and let's chat.
This is a worrying development for Android as an open source project.
That Google doesn't care enough about keeping ASOP relevant, to even make sure their new Nexus 7 is supported in it, is rather depressing.
Some here are blaming Qualcomm and I'm sure they are part of the reason this happened. But the new Nexus 7 is probably going to bring in a sizeable chunk of money, and Google could have used this to force Qualcomm's hand.
That Google didn't, sends a clear message about their priorities.
I don't know if I really like the idea of no-string-attached basic income. Wouldn't an alternative like a guaranteed public service job that then pays you with basic income be better?

At least we'd be making society a better place while guaranteeing an income of some kind.
Brilliant, I'm so itching to try this in US.
Ask HN: Is hellbanning permanent?
Is hellbanning permanent?

By the way, that "hellbanning" thing is so retarded and juvenile.
If you as a customer are held accountable for fine print that you never read, why isn't the reverse? This should be a no-brainer if you ask me. Hypocrites
I'm talking about equivalents. Same size, same age, similar options, etc...

For instance, I had a Prius and put 120K miles on it in 5 years. If I recall correctly, compared to a similarly outfitted Camry, I saved thousands in TCO in 5 years.

This is in the economy car class, which means people are usually looking for economy. If it were a sports car, we'd maximize for performance.
It may succeed competing on convenience (and marketing) not necessarily price.

Something mailed to your door monthly and quickly mixed together vs going to the grocery store for beans and firing up the rice steamer for 15min.
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But you're (a) making an assumption that the full set of end-goals that your neighbor desires aligns exactly with yours, and (b) speaking in very generalized terms about what those end-goals are, without making reference to details of questions that people might evaluate differently.

Your attempts to build common ground with your neighbor will approximate tautologies as the actual intersection of your respective value systems shrink. You can say "Look: we all want more good things and less bad things", but what are you actually proposing?

If I asked you and your neighbor a more particular question, i.e. "should the state intervene to ensure that the greatest amount of people in America are well-fed, well-educated, etc., in its own judgement", I might get different answers from you and your neighbors. If I asked you to define what constitutes "well-fed", "well-educated", etc., I'll likely get different answers. If I asked you whether it's desirable to allow top-down, universalized definitions of these terms to form the basis of public policy, I'll likely get different answers.

All of these are questions of desired ends, answered differently due to different hierarchies of values, and not due to divergent interpretations of empirical data.
Tesla shares surge after surprise profit
That is just the current price, it will go way down with mass production.
It's more dark blue - purple.
Even, would you like a puree that has the same color as blueberries ?

(Blueberry puree is not blue : http://www.adventuresinshaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/b... )
Tomcat 8: Websocket, Lamda Expressions, SpringOneG2X & More
I'm not sure if you are serious, or trying to make a joke... But last I heard, consuming the Phytoestrogens in soy were found to have no measurable effect on a human male's estrogen/testosterone levels, or otherwise make them appear/act more feminine.
"I can't believe we are having this discussion!"

That's how I felt, but that is also what made me want to have a quick check with others before voicing that kind of opinion. Seems like when I am the most sure about something, I'm the most vulnerable to making a mistake.
"Exploiting device across network".

Security doesn't exist in isolation. AKA. there's always a way.
How many businesses do you know of that pay no taxes at all? Even mafia fronts pay some taxes (having your front shut down for failing to pay property taxes tends to work out poorly). There is also the matter of where those businesses will get their supplies -- eventually they are going to have to deal with someone who pays taxes.

What this boils down to is this: how much faith you have in the government's ability to enforce the law, particularly those laws related to money. I have quite a bit of faith in the government's ability to enforce the tax code; even people who cheat on their taxes are rarely bold enough to not bother to pay any taxes.
I would add to that: use a self-signed cert for the SSL. If you rely on the OS's PKI its relatively easy for an attacker to add their own CA and read the connection.
I think parent meant that if the man wins the case, it would be a sign that rule of law is indeed strong in Russia (not the opposite).
I've been wondering about this for years. I hate sales people telling me they can't negotiate as the contracts are standard... of course they can.
Android reaches 80% in Q2 due to low-cost offerings, iOS falls to 13%
You know who owns all the patents related to CDMA devices (and makes literally the only CDMA radio chipsets you can buy)?

I'll give you a hint, it starts with Q and rhymes with "Wallcomm".
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