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Well, I saw demos earlier. Nevertheless, it looks quite interesting, but if you address your question to developers - you should provide more technical details about the implementation - that is even more interesting.
Australia and New Zealand are on my bucket list, but as a person with what I assure you is an ordinary income by Western standards, it seems prohibitively expensive to stay there for any prolonged length of time. Though I am aware of the working hostels in those countries, I think that option would have been far more practical back when I was unmarried and didn't have a child :-)
It's not my first time here. I am well aware hot it works. When I comment I usually prod someone to give me a contrary opinion, and I learn something new from someone for more knowledgeable from me. That is why I keep coming back to HN.

But I could have been more direct this time around, mea culpa.
As cool as it would be technically, I don't want to see that...

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Seeing UAE on this list immediately shows how flawed the methodology is. It might be safe and friendly for white rich muslim males who don't drink alcohol, but that's about it.
$1k gaming PC is more reasonable proposition when it's your only (or primary) computer. But spending $1k on a secondary livingroom pc is asking for bit more.
Off-topic, but since you mentioned it: do you know if HN user potatolicious has seen your SF poo blog? He's commented on that phenomenon many times here and I'm sure he'd appreciate your Tumblr!
There is error in calculation or wrong assumption somewhere clearly. We have Estonia in top 15 and Latvia in bottom 15. Two neighboring countries that are quite similar in size, economical situation, cultural background and political situation. Estonia has some little advantages over Latvia (IMHO) but those are not that critical.
Reading the article, I think even Apple thought it was just a case of taking existing parts and smashing them in a case - until they actually tried doing it.

A lot of the stuff Apple had problems with is almost certainly routine for the big existing phone players like HTC, Samsung, Nokia... I mean, Jobs and Ive didn't even realise that metal cases block radio waves, which is basically common knowledge. Many of their problems seem self-imposed in general - for example:

"Even people within the project itself couldn’t talk to one another. Engineers designing the electronics weren’t allowed to see the software. When they needed software to test the electronics, they were given proxy code, not the real thing. If you were working on the software, you used a simulator to test hardware performance."

Apple could apparently get away with this, but I expect their development techniques would have killed lesser companies. Maybe, in some alternative universe where things worked out just a little differently, the iPhone killed Apple too rather than being their biggest success.
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Smoking the equivalent of four packs of cigarettes per day simply by living in some cities.
Hmm, I don't think so, I was only able to get 3 different pictures because I ended up moving. Here it is, for the record (warning: poo) http://sfdisgusting.tumblr.com/
I have seen both...the no foreigner sign was outside a strip club in Shibuya and the higher price was at a hotel Where the reception called and asked in Japanese "how much for foreigners" before quoting a price. We all spoke Japanese and we called her on it and got the native price.
I'm not so sure the safety index counts for war. Georgia is ranked as #2 although it was in war with Russia just a few years ago and Russian military forces still occupy a good chunk of Georgia. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Georgia_war
I live in NZ and yes, our cost of living here is quite high, but average incomes are lower, it's almost impossible to buy a house in Auckland if you're a first home buyer.
well, investors hate rails for one, because a lot of high profile companies had to move off it to scale.
Yes! Details, please. I'd love to visit Australia and NZ, have been all over Europe, US, Canada, Israel, South America, and SE Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

Look up Switzerland within any measurement of it.
The anti refugee stuff is getting pretty extreme, and Australia, especially outside of urban core, has always had a broad undercurrent of racism.
Economic threats are not national security issues - if they were the current Government shutdown would not be tolerated.
Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I've invested myself in vim as it stands, but will research along the lines of your recommendation.
Writer is from capetown.
Shocked that Austria is even considered friendly. I know a bunch of people who live there an who have lived there and they unanimously agree that the country is extremely racist towards non native Austrians.

When I was there on a short visit, in central Vienna, I asked about five different people, in English, where a certain museum was. I was just ignored as if I did not even exist.

The sixth person did direct me to the museum, but they happened to be an American living in Vienna.
Good to see Taiwan at #8. Lovely country, safe and very friendly. I have been working here for past 7 years. I wouldn't call it cheapest but hey I come from India.
Reminds of a news[1] recently that a USA police officer came to Taiwan and was shocked to learn this "Kaohsiung has a population of more than 2 million people. He was shocked to hear the city only averages about 10 murders a year. When his group visited the city of Taitung — a city with a population of about 250,000 people — they learned the last murder was in 2005."
[1] http://www.newsadvance.com/go_dan_river/news/danville/articl...
Depends what you switch to. Coroutine's just need a C stack for example.
Utopistically, how nice would be if the whole web provided no-javascript versions of the sites? In the end 90% of the cases javascript is used just to do fancy things, while actual functionalities could be achieved with much less pain (and vulnerability).
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They wouldn't have needed this expensive hardware if they went with the same or similar AMD hardware as in PS4/X1 and take advantage of their Mantle API, which basically makes the system as lean and efficient as a console. Not to mention it would be trivial to port the same highly-optimized console games to the Steam Machines. Carmack thinks Mantle could help Steam Machines with AAA titles a lot, too:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mantle-api-xbox-one-pla...
In the UK it was ordinary kids who were emulating American rappers who were emulating businessmen (or so the story went).
Yes! I've been saying this for a while. A basic income funded by a land value tax would solve a lot of society's problems, I feel. Unfortunately I think it's a bit too radical for most people.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. However, I still cannot see why this a national security problem. The ban on researchers attending conferences is for "national security" reasons.

That's war talk.
Valve will get a wholesale price, and may not even try to make profit off it, much like Google and amazon. They make money off the platform anyway, so charging more than cost on something that gets people on the platform is silly.
As a BlackBerry user (not a shareholder), I'm glad BlackBerry didn't move to Android and innovated instead. I love the new BB OS. It's the best OS for any smartphone I've tried.
They are if you're saying political slogans are not appropriate here. Facts are always appropriate.
The irony is that the movie Gravity opened this weekend. It somewhat indirectly celebrates collaboration among different countries.
> One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income.

Half jokingly, I would say "Portuguese immigrants". I once went to Zurich for a conference and, on the day of the flight, was unshaved, poorly dressed (two hour sleep night before the fligbt). Man, was I drilled by the border police about my intentions in Switzerland. They were convinced I'd be moving there to serve tables or such (I'm a s/w engineer...). Apparently, there is a huge flow of my compatriots over to Swiss menial jobs.
Sure is a lot of poo on the sidewalks and in public areas in SF. I don't think I've ever seen someone just pull their pants down and push out a brownie in the middle of the sidewalk anywhere else but there.
Magnesium (amongst other important minerals and fatty acids). To relax the nervous system.
Nightmares in response to melatonin suggests low serotonin. Try 5-HTP sometime, which is a partial prodrug for melatonin and in practice works quite similarly to melatonin, except it induces vivid happy dreams and is the proscribed treatment for night terrors in children.
The poverty line is 2200, the median around 5700, and a starting cashier at one of the big supermarket chains will make 3200+ and benefits. [1]

[1]: http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/03/04/bla...
Last time I was in Dubai there were a lot of mid-priced hotels to choose from, the Metro worked a treat and reasonably priced and the shops in all the malls I visited didn't have a sales tax. Compared to anywhere in the EU with minimum 15% VAT and given everything was new it felt very well-priced.
No one forces you to buy it. What's your point?
Ah, that's unfortunate. The other thing that drives me crazy is the fact that no one will give me a credit card here. I understand that I have no credit history in Japan, but can't they at least give me a crappy ~$500 limit card to start with or something? I've applied to probably 10-15 cards and have been rejected every time.

My theory on why a lot of these things happen is that the companies or establishments have been burned by foreigners too many times in the past. For example, SoftBank does a background check when you try to open a cell phone plan with them. They don't tell you what they're checking, but if you fail the check, you have to pay for the phone up front instead of paying monthly. I'm guessing a lot of people came here for half a year or a year, opened up the contract, then left the country without paying.

I've also heard that getting an apartment is quite tough as well, but I had no trouble going through an agent and I got my first choice. You have to pay an exorbitant amount of money to move in (guarantor fee, key money, first month's rent, agency fee) but that's not really a foreigner-only thing. If I had known someone in Japan who would have been willing to pay my last month's rent if I flew back home without mentioning anything, then I wouldn't have needed the guarantor service.
Right. It's also entirely legal for men to beat their wives in the UAE (as long as you are not leaving visible marks), so I would argue that it's really not safe for women who are married or open to possibility. It would be like calling a country that doesn't criminalize murder safe even though it has a murder rate in the 100s (for context, El Salvador holds the highest murder rate in the world at 139).
But Russia has Soyouz and the Saudis have oil and power. What could the US gain from China? Where there is nothing to gain, there will be no cooperation...
Is it really dogma on the right? At least in the right circles I run in, the EITC (extra cash for working: earn more, get more) is way more popular than food stamps.

I am absolutely in favor of cash as the best anti-poverty method. It's also the most respectful of people who are, after all, citizens. If you wouldn't like to be told by the government what foods you are permitted to buy for your family, why should you feel good about imposing those restrictions on anyone else?
I don't see how that's unreasonable.
Honestly, so what?

What is HTTPS supposed to protect against in this case?

1) If you are using it to protect against snooping (why?!) then you must realise that the logs of many Maven repositories are effectively public (eg, I believe Apache committers can access the repo.maven logs pretty easily). For protection against snooping, use a local repo.

2) If you are expecting it to protect you against tampering in transport, then you are better off using a local repo (again). It's much more likely artifacts are tampered with at the remote repository rather than during the transport phase.
Its okay, how you did that. Much appreciated.
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Yup. When my mom came to visit me, she came back to my apartment one night and said, "you'll never believe what I just saw." I already knew what she was going to say, it was that she saw a homeless guy pull his pants down in broad daylight next to a trash can to relieve himself.
honestly, I think some parts of the government are just too stupid to see how much the shutdown affects the business lobby.
The (US) government is run by the top 1%. Everything is about money.
As a non-Twitter user, I had always wondered how they were going to be generating long-term revenue. The possibilities for real-time interaction with TV audiences via a hashtag/tweet on a TV program sounds pretty enticing to me. It will be interesting to see how YouTube responds in the next 6 months.
The US needs Soyuz, but have nothing to gain from China.
The US does that all the time. "National Security" is code word for "we don't want to get into the reasons".
No, it's only economics. Back to my analogy, if I buy a bag of apples from you and I find a few rotten ones inside, I'll never buy from you again. It's simple, really.
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Aka "no true Scotsman" fallacy
Live near the border with France. Buy everything there in EUR.

Border is nonexistent for all practical purposes so this is very doable.
Yes, I noticed that right away. The good thing is that it's an easy edit.
Nice! What would also be cool would be the following:

-1- Being able to follow a thread you haven't commented on.
-2- Being able to follow a comment that is not yours.

The reason behind number 2 is that sometimes, you see an interesting comment and you'd be interested to know what people think about it, so you'll follow it and be notified whenever people reply to it.
So Caracas at least to me isn't the sort of place one would perceive as dangerous until something finally happens, and the statistics don't lie. Everyone I know who is Venezuelan has either been kidnapped or is close to someone who has, and they've all been on the wrong end of a gun barrel at some point in their lives.

That said, most Venezuelans are in fact friendly people :)
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At $work (in Australia) we use EWay as our payment provider so the Stripe integration obviously won't help me. However, dunning emails would be very helpful to our head of sales in her qoal of meeting monthly sales targets. Is there a more generic sendwithus product I could use? The three events mentioned in the post would be perfect.
Yep, mongodb is launching their own moocs
https://education.mongodb.com
There's some evidence for this. Initial basic income test programs show that people tend to reinvest their basic income in starting businesses, in particular.

http://www.globalincome.org/English/BI-worldwide.html covers the tests - not unbiased but has useful facts and data on where to get more info.
I don't think there is an actual maven IDE. You normally use it from the command line, since it's integration into IDEs is serverly (eclipse...) lacking.
wholesale price depends a lot on volumes, though. its very hard to know at this stage what to expect in trms of market sales. launching new hardware without prior experience is very. very tough. But as long as they are willing to learn, its doable.
> China is an economic threat to the USA

I hope you don't really believe that, and are only talking about it from the politician's point of view. China owns the US. [1]

[1] http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/ss/How-Much-US-De...
Venezuelans are pretty friendly but the country is dangerous as hell and inflation is wreacking havock. This must have determined their shitty score.

Then again, if you get your Bolivares on the black market you can have a super cheap holiday. I was there in May and would go there again over Macedonia. Venezuela is beautiful.
> Could you elaborate on the scammers?

Here's an example. I remember there being a big storm, so big that the subways were shutting down temporarily, and if you didn't catch a ride soon you would be stuck for a bit. Of course this announcement was in Japanese, and I didn't understand the exact words, but I did figure it out from the rain + watching other folks scramble to buy tickets.

There was a guy there who would go up to the tourists and let them know there was a storm coming and that they needed to buy their tickets. He would say this very hurriedly, causing the tourists to become a bit panicked. Then it was
"Where do you live?" "Ah, you should take this route" "Do you have enough for this? How much money do you have?" and at this point the tourists would instinctively pull their yen out of their pockets. Then the guy would clasp their hands over the tourists, lead their hands to the machine, and dump the coins in the machine. The machine would spit out a ticket, he would hand it to them, and then say "oh and I'll take this for helping you" and run off (revealing that he took some of your yen while he was guiding your hands to the machine).

He was actually pretty slick about it, and I imagine it worked on most people because they were accustomed to the locals being very polite. And by reinforcing that he was helping you, I think he avoided people reporting him. I ended up running into him again doing the same thing at a different subway station, so I assume he changed locations often.
Can someone make something cool and post it?
Appropriate time for a song about Macedonia? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5Beq-D74A
To quote a generic reddit visitor:

"Wow, I did nazi that coming"

As a European I am not shocked that a Republican congressman would sponsor such a law. I am shocked that a law like this could be passed without an enormous public backlash. I know it's an awful thing to compare current events to pre-WW2 circumstances, but the U.S. is making things very difficult.

It is mind boggling to think that many journalists and opposition politicians read this law and thought "yeah well, but we're in competition with China so it makes sense" and proceeded to not make a fuss about it. This is indoctrination at its finest. The minds of the U.S. citizens is being polluted by ideas of international competition. This is an age in which international cooperation is of critical importance.
Because Jo(e) Average Worker gets squeezed by these guys more every year to pay their generous salaries and retirement packages. Well turnabout is fair play.
Hey AJ, send me an email (matt@sendwithus.com) and I'll see what we can do -- we're always looking for more integrations!
Obviously the Makefiles gets branched with the err, branch. And merged with the merge.
I'm not a creative man.

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> This is a list op countries that are nice to visit for a few weeks if you're well-off, healthy and not planning to do anything even mildly risky.

Have you been to Thailand or Ethiopia, in positions 9 and 10?
I never thought that. I always assumed all cyber-war capable governments had hidden caches of 0-day vulnerabilities.
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The unit in the linked vid is using a gas/oil mix 2-stroke engine.
So I guess investors completely ignore the fact that maybe Rails is actually a factor in the initial phase of the life of a startup and allows you to build foundations at a fast pace while still providing great structure and good tooling, cause hell you have to "move off it" to "scale" (which a big percentage of the companies they invest in never have to face anyway, since they go bust before having to even face scaling issues).

First gear is shit, I always to have move off it to go fast on the highway.
Well, then it's not overvalued, is it? People value it as a hedge, so it's relative value increases.
I can't be more agreed
Red Mage from Final Fantasy 1:

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Mario from... Mario :

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Mickey Mouse :

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Attempt at something cool.
Bonus points if you actually understand what it is.

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Comments: Would be good if you could somehow define your own color pallette. Obviously you are limited in how much data you can encode in with your available Tweet length... so not sure how plausible that would be. Still kinda fun, just hard to make anything decent out of the available canvas size.
I don't mean how do you version a Makefile, but if your project depends on 6 libraries (with various version requirements) each with their own sets of dependencies, how do you use Makefiles to download & install all of them?
The Grand Chancellor of English, or Webster's Dictionary, has confirmed that utterance of protected terms is in scope of the latest edition.
Tloewald has the gist of it (see his comment at this level) though I think the racism is mainly toward our own aboriginals. The response to asylum seekers is more complex than "just" racism. Still stupid though.
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Neat! Suggestion: show a 'actual size' thumbnail of it. Those of us new to pixel art have trouble visualizing what it looks like shrunk down to actual pixels!
Lots and lots of poor, uneducated, unacculturated citizens, and Switzerland quickly turns into Bangladesh. Brilliant idea!
Thanks! I like that idea.
4000CHF was regarding the minimum salary, not basic income.
Switched to buildr (http://buildr.apache.org/) years ago. So much better than maven.
This is cool. It would be nice to have a grid option, though.
Now we could see how deceptive sales technologies and media manipulations are leading to ridiculous valuations instead of any new technologies or even appropriate (for a persistent storage engine) design decisions.

Still enjoying table-level locking on writes and lack of atomic writes in so-called transactions at $1,2B valuation?)

The same story as it was of MySQL prior to stabilized InnoDB (5.1.x) an extremely popular crap with table-level locks, silent data conversions and millions of ignorant 'satisfied customers'.

By the same logic PHP must be valued at one trillion - millions of satisfied cheap coders, and, you know, Facebook was written in it.)
Yeah, this has been a big thing in Holland over the years, where they actually remove traffic signs and separation between roads and bike lanes (merging them into one wider street) precisely because it turned out to be safer.

It makes complete sense: when rules are based on other people's behavior rather than mindlessly following rules (that others might not, for various reasons), everyone watches out more.

Edit: to be clear, as a cyclist, roundabouts (and zebra crossings, for that matter) scare the hell out of me precisely because the rules are less explicit, and one dumb driver who doesn't stop for me might cost me my life. But I still prefer a roundabout that results in me being overly cautious, to traffic lights that I and my fellow commuters mindlessly follow where there is still the same risk of a dumb or distracted driver going through red. I'm probably safer off with roundabouts.
It also means that there are employers who see a full-time employee as more expensive than two part-time employees and therefore have exclusive or nearly exclusive part-time employment. For employees in this situation that need full-time income, they end up taking a second or even third part-time job, thus working full-time or more hours but without the expected benefits of full-time employment.
Dunno, some life-form out of the Game of Life?