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Half of Australia is working from home, using the Internet
Anyone know if this will work with international debit cards?

E.g. if I have an debit card with my account at a Jamaican bank, can someone from the US email me cash and it arrives instantly or is this just a US service? Can't find any details about this on the site.
Struggled to come up with an appropriate title for this, feel free to change it.

His statement shortly after: http://blog.coturnix.org/2013/10/15/this-happenned/

For people unaware of the science journalism community, Bora Zivkovic is one of the largest figures and leaders in the field, if not the largest.
How would that work? Wouldn't it essentially be replying to a master tweet from the website (assuming the website auto-tweeted new submissions, something that many sites do now)?
And that totally sucks.
I don't see this as an HN clone. If anything is a clone, HN is a clone of Slashdot->Digg->Reddit. Not that I think any of these sites have an exclusive claim to a threaded discussion board.
Hostgator is awesome, Their support is pretty good. I have 4 VPS servers running there and never faced any problem. Their customer support is also awesome.
Why would you not sweat this? You act like 10k is no big deal, but that is probably a ~10% instant raise for the OP, not to mention the cumulative effect a 10k raise at age 20 will have on one's lifetime earnings.

I agree that a fresh student should care more about the experience and choosing the best life path rather than chasing 5k here or 10k there, but once you have chosen a path, you should absolutely negotiate for the best deal possible, IMO.
Are you serious? Why would _anyone_ design a system like this?

In Australia, the equivalent is EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer). You can deposit money to anyone's account by telling the bank their BSB (Bank/State/Branch number) and their account number; however this is not sufficient information to withdraw money.

To withdraw money:
1. at a physical bank branch:
a. you put your credit/debit card in a POS terminal and enter your pin/sign to authenticate.
b. provide yous credit/debit card and photo ID to the teller.
2. at an ATM:
credit/debit card + pin number.
3. online banking:
either the credit/debit card number and a password and often a pin as well, or a separate number and password.

All of these use an independent authentication source to the bank account number.

Also the delays quotes here are insane:
In Australia, there are essentially 2 ways to pay for something (excluding cash):
1. EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer)
2. Credit card (possibly using a debit card) transaction.

On POS terminals, you can choose either; the differentiator being whether you want to use a savings account (EFT) which goes via your bank, or a credit (or savings account accessed via debit card) account, which goes via MasterCard/Visa.

All forms of EFT take 1-2 business days between banks, pretty much all the time; and they're universally free for the payer.

Credit/debit transactions seem to take 1 day universally.

We have a fairly stagnant banking system, with 4 major banks having basically the entire consumer market (and the vast majority of the nonconsumer market as well). Why, in a small, stagnant market like ours, do we fare much better than the US system?

[edit: I forgot to mention, checks are dead here, they're now almost only used for large transfers of money where:
1. you don't want to use EFT;
2. they're over the daily online maximum for EFT transfers, and you can't be bothered to go to a bank branch (although you can only get bank checks at a branch AFAIK);
3. You want an immediate guarantee that the ammount was paid and the date/time/payer/payee (as opposed to waiting 1 day for the payment to come through).]
Faster payments are so fast in some cases that, transferring between accounts with different banks, I see an update in the recipient window before the sending bank website has finished serving the confirmation page!
I found a positively amateur Javascript/HTML problem that tells me maybe they have a porn-site problem where no competent programmer wants anything to do with them, much less take their money in exchange for work. Or they've been pranked.

My apologies to the porn site industry for the aspersion.
I'd like to see one site that relaunches without using the words "super-clean" or "beautiful." Just for a change.
Thousands of groups applied for S13. Only 255 groups were selected for interviews. Only 53 companies ended up getting funded.

My advice: Stop worrying about perfecting your application or trying to game it. Stop worrying about trying to get into YC. Submit it, forget it. Go build a company. You don't need their validation, and you certainly don't need their permission.

Just go freaking make something people want.
This will be awesome for terminating SSL closer to the user and should make a big impact on latency in mobile apps on high-latency connections.

Combine that with a custom SSL certificate at all the edge nodes ($600/month) and this is a pretty compelling dynamic CDN offering.

Can't wait to try it out for our API.
For interesting related reading, see this article on Hacker News's and Reddit's ranking algorithms: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588

It links to this excellent read as well: http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...
"Have a good look at yourself in the mirror."

I don't need to. I look around me and continuously see people making poor life decisions and blaming it on the "system". The truth hurts.
You're overthinking it. The faster you can build, the more of a competitive advantage you have. It's that simple.

If it takes person A 1 month to build the same thing as person B in 2 months, all else being equal, person A has a better shot at succeeding.
The better example is the scam people had going for a while where you could buy $1 commemorative coins (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar ) from the US Treasury for $1.00, with free shipping (the mint made many more of them than the demand, and wanted to get rid of them). Some people bought $100k worth of coins on an Amex card and kept the miles (only problem with that is depositing a zillion coins with local banks). That's now been shut down if I'm not mistaken.
I viewed it as (correct me if I'm wrong): the bottom of the slinky is being pulled up by tension at the same rate that it's falling.
This was exactly how I made sprite animations back in my Amiga demo coding days.
Take a look at early C64/Amiga demos and you'll recognize these patters.
I will only point out that you're paying for this kind of convenience in getting your money back - and the cheap flights - somewhere.
Whoa. I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole.
Why is that? That seems like a reasonable phrase to describe what the service offers.
If this is the true intention of the question, then why don't they just ask "Tell us about a time when you iterated quickly." I'm still not convinced code velocity is a good metric.
> Are you serious? Why would _anyone_ design a system like this?

Because it's descended from writing simple letters of credit (and by this I literally mean a letter that says "Hey bank, pay John here $15 out of my account kthx"), and giant ancient heavily regulated institutions are terrified of change.

The system wasn't designed exactly, it just sort of evolved
we need so..oo more than saving "links" now. We need full text searchable full page archived. Maybe including the audio/video as well.

Think the last time you saved a page on twitter/facebook but just few hours later the OP decided to delete or hide the post.

And perhaps facebook-like graph search based on metadata extracted from page. E.g. search a archived page talking about presents published before 2013 Christmas, author's name is vaguely start with letter J, from website XYZ
How does that apply to TrueCrypt? Is the claim that TrueCrypt is secretly siphoning off data and feeding it to the NSA? Or is the claim that the NSA sent a dude to sneak into my house, image my hard drive, and then decrypt it?
Now that MS Word uses zipped xml as their format you can make some progress by specifying a custom diff driver which pipes the plain text to stdout.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattribut...
I can attest to the solid Vagrant+VMWare Fusion support. I've been using it for at least the last six months and have not seen a single problem.

I've completely stopped using VirtualBox now! Good work mitchellh :)
Delicious: Coulda been Pinterest. Coulda been a contender.

(I didn't actually realize Yahoo sold Delicious. Interesting..)
Well, what do you think of this French site : http://news.humancoders.com/ ?

(not mine)
HN clone without any real userbase at all.
FWIW, the Mashable design was constructed with a focus on visual content over serial order of headlines; for those of us that are used to an RSS reader, it's less optimal, but it was intentional after coming to a better understanding of our core audience. It's worked out quite well for us.
USV.com post about this HN post: http://www.usv.com/posts/union-square-ventures-new-website-i...
I call it corporate socialism.
Yep, society cooperates with law enforcement. It's been that way for about six or seven thousand years. In this case it was in response to search warrants. If you're not outraged, you've been paying enough attention.
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The flipping horizontally & vertically hint is ridiculously awesome, and works for just about any design or artwork.

Anything that requires composition can be improved by flipping the work one way or another. Lots of digital artists use this all the time to check anatomy too.
"What's going on?!

Not your fault, we're experiencing a server error. Try again in a moment!
Fail-Fred "

face plam thats all I get when I click on comment.
as someone who has an iPhone app that requires asynchronous high-resolution images uploads, hooray.
A nice piece of work!

But I'm curious about a few architectural decisions. What made you to decide to build each HTML page by hand?

Code like this[1] makes my eyes bleed... reminds me of the faux-OOP HTML builder classes that used to be a fad among PHP programmers (or ISAPI & Delphi web developers of old) a while ago.. No offence, but much of your Manager.HttpHandlers.* codebase feels like messy, ugly PHP4 code ported to C#...

What made you decide against template-based output rendering (Razor, NVelocity, NHaml, .liquid to name a few)? With template-generated output, the business logic layer could be decoupled from the UI. I had only a cursory glance at your code (and thus could be wrong), but it seems manager.io's DAL/BLL layer is intermingled within the GUI parts.

The protobuf DLL was named protobufnet.dll in the MSI. But the proper filename should be protobuf-net.dll

I think user input validation and error handling could be made more robust.

Additionally, spawning 5 HTTP worker threads to serve a single user seems a little overkill.

These are few of the issues I've noticed during the 5 minute tinkering with your assemblies. But don't let this critique discourage you. The app looks good - I guess end users won't care how it's built so long as it provides real value...

PS: Thanks for the heads up about Eto forms! I'll give it a spin and see how it fares against Xamarin's XWT.

[1] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7003337
Actually, that is not the real reason credit cards are safer :)

You can dispute most debit card transactions now.

Besides the "one is availability of credit, the other, real money", there is a liability difference.

It used to be, at one point, that debit card liability was essentially unlimited but a consumer's liability for fraud on their credit card was limited to $50 by federal law (see 15 USC § 1643). Debit card liability now has a maximum as well, but your maximum liability actually depends on how quickly you notify.

If it's within two days, it's $50 liability on a debit card, but if you notify past that, they could legally make you liable for up to $500.

(There are other liability generating situations that exist for debit cards but not credit cards)
That might be a cute object lesson in good security practice for the security cognoscenti, but the overwhelming majority of potential users in the world will just throw up their hands in despair and say that we can trust anything and privacy is impossible.

If we want ordinary people to benefit from TrueCrypt, a better idea would be to find secure ways of distributing signed and verified copies of the binary. I'm saying binary because most users in the world will be ordinary Windows and Mac users, not software developers. Most people in the world cannot compile from source.

Also, as a first step, we need to do this security audit of TrueCrypt.
I am too. I wrote up a brief note about how that might work here: http://tomvladeck.com/2013/10/04/twitter-conversation/
I think we'll see a trend of VCs creating HN clones. Wouldn't be surprised if they are already working on them.
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> My point is that raising people out of poverty should not be used as a measurement of a systems [...] success.

I have no words.
There's a video on the blog about the redesign -- maybe it should be on the home page:

http://blog.delicious.com/2013/09/ten-years-of-delicious-sam...
YouTube-style Page Loading Bar
I actually have considered doing this as a wordpress plugin. The amount of times I have linked to something only to have it die later and loose the content is quite high.

A service to do this would be nice, although I cannot see myself paying for it so not sure how you would monetise.
I think you're dead on with on with your intuitions. I find QA a problem because on a traditional production line QA is a very defined process.

However in software what is QA the UI, interaction, API, backend code ?

More to the point do I really need QA ? As a Startup is QA not a part of our core design and iteration process as we try to achieve "product market fit" ?
I read Hacker News on a daily now and never in my life thought a topic from my previous daily reads (Gecko and Reptile forums) would ever make it here! I once bred roaches for reptile food and the lizards did prefer them over anything else, so I would guess they are tasty!
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I would say that in those 10 years where that distribution already had a great starting point, it has been surpassed an absurd amount by Android.
deposit confirmation seems to have disappeared. I pay several of my bills (including rent, kind of a biggie) via direct withdrawal and never confirmed the account. Just went to a website one day, typed in some numbers, and clicked pay. (oh, I did have to mark the checkbox that says "I authorize this payment", but that doesn't seem like foolproof security to me.)
The gift suggestions need a bit of fine tuning. Body hair bleach, ping pong paddles, and kitchen accessories are perhaps not advisable as gifts for the women in your life.
Max, give it up.
It's simply not, due to the fact that you don't know it's a passphrase. You know nothing about the password, you will never get to trying it.
It could just be a comment thread 1 level deep, a la the current Twitter Conversations implementation. The website can prompt the user to syndicate the Tweet to their stream. (This is also how Facebook Comments work.)
I wouldn't call it a HN clone. It's not like HN was an original idea - it's just a news voting site (Reddit, Digg etc.) with a specific niche. The important part of each of these sites is the community, not the idea.
A 58 character passphrase defeats all demonstrated examples in that article.

But the point is being missed - two months? "I taught my wife in two months the passphrase"? Completely moronic.
I logged in (for the first time in at least a year) and snapped a screenshot: http://www.clipular.com/posts/5191729086988288?k=JiS8gdhlAch...

On first blush, it's underwhelming. A lot of monotone flatness, which I'm sure hit some kind of trend that got it greenlit, but doesn't make for good UX.

The interface is a solid wall of text that makes it very hard to distinguish one link from the next. There's no signposts to make it easy to tell where you are, or what you're able to do.

I ran through the bookmarking process, and it's clunky. Still asks you to tag things, only now things like the suggested tags are gone, meaning you have to think even more about what you're doing as you save bookmarks.

There's nothing really new that I can see, just a coat of paint and a lot of gratuitous flatness. Flat for flat's sake is definitely this year's skeuomorphism.

Full disclosure: I work with a clipping service that might be considered a Delicious competitor. (But I'd have the same critiques even if I didn't).
and they're universally free for the payer.

Not quite. Vendors can now legally add a surcharge to cover the cost for payments from a credit card. Some vendors traditionally refused Amex when they had to eat the charge, since Amex was something like a 4-5% cost to the vendor as opposed to the 1-2% costs of the other cards.

Why, in a small, stagnant market like ours, do we fare much better than the US system?

We have strong banking regulations, apparently. I heard somewhere that during the GFC, there were only ten banks of that kind globally that hung on to their AAA credit rating, and all four of the Australian big banks were in that ten.
Steve Ballmer is right, and I was wrong
A buddy of mine has a similar project that launched awhile back. Curious to see how similar this turns out to https://simpledonation.com/
The majority of lavabit users probably joined on principle and would not be harmed by the NSA having their secrets at present. For those users the convenience of getting hold of all their mail (if they didn't have a local backup) might be worth the tradeoff of having to change their password and risk the NSA recording/decrypting their data on lavabit. Others could simply not access the data if they want to leave it encrypted.

At least this option gives the users that choice.
"the court must be the one who bears the cost of implementing a properly auditable and secured system, not the business who has no need for it. "

The court is essentially an arbiter.
It is on no one's side, and actually has no real skin in the game.

This means it is not going to pay for this, it is going to decide which party pays for it :)

If the parties fail to pay, or fail to comply, they will be possibly sent to jail
Note that Levison has not really won yet, since he still has a contempt hearing coming up ...
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Take a look at our site, Clipular: https://www.clipular.com

We save full, searchable text with each "clip," and let you snap a box around whatever part of the page you'd like for your image. The image you clip is also shareable by itself, or as part of a board, if you make one.

We don't have a graph search like you describe, but I'd be interested to hear more about your idea!
Somebody is paying for it. Maybe not (only) the person getting cheap flights.
> don’t say “if we capture 10% of this 100 billion dollar market, we’ll be making 10 billion dollars!”

> From this, based on the volume of repairs in San Francisco...we could be operating at about $70k per day in just SF.

A bottom-up story can just be a top-down one in disguise. Capturing 10% of a market doesn't sound too hard until the word "billion" appears. Instead, we can capture 114% of one region. And $20 million per year is too big, so let's give it per day.

Just saying "the average dishwasher needs a $200 repair once every two years" tells me more than that entire paragraph.
At my bank interac e-transfer costs $1.50 a pop but paper checks are free and unlimited. It boggles the mind.
Maybe the bid-ask spread in that area for USD is that wide :D
You might see something like this

BUY SELL
USD 6.1538 13.3636

And it makes sense immediately. You have USD3.25, you buy 20元 for that. Pay for various resources, get back 150元. Well, you can get only USD11 for that.
How is this different from OFX? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange
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Can someone pen a similar - 'The India I left behind' and put the damn thing on NYT
Responsiveness (especially on news sites) is a HUGE win for those reading on tablets/phones. The content doesn't matter if it's completely unreadable.
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You have completely missed the point of the comic, which is that if you choose 4 common English words at random, the entropy is surprisingly high. It isn't based on "human readable strings" at all.

For example, my /usr/share/dict/american-english contains just shy of 100,000 words. A random word chosen from that set has 16.6 bits of entropy, and four randomly chosen words has over 66 bits of entropy. If anything, XKCD's comic is understating the entropy involved.
> If the attackers knows that your password is constructed in this fashion

Then all bets are off, but they don't, so we're sorted.

Mind you, my /usr/share/dict has ~ 100,000 words in it. 100,000 5 is around the same order of magnitude as 62 12, which is the number of 12 character passwords of upper and lower letters + digits.
They just got an email from you. Not so suss.
Yeah, I'll be MC'ing and telling people how to be scared of things they didn't even know about. Come!
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You probably lost those words when Qin Shi Huang decided to burn all the (non-legalist) books and bury all the scholars [1]...but there is always YinYang (also Taoism), which at least emphasizes contrasts. Let a hundred schools of thought flourish!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of...
You underestimate people. More often than not people will use a quote like the example in the parents post did. In a world of custom FPGA devices to crack passwords, it wouldn't take long.
I don't think it's particularly misleading; if you look carefully, he's assigning 11 bits of entropy for each word in the passphrase, in other words, choosing from a list of 2048 common words only.

This is probably quite close to what a brute force passphrase cracking software would do as well, and he's not even adding bits for common alterations, such as capitalisation of first letter(s), spaces between words, common substitutions, etc. So the 44 bits estimate is for a software matching exactly this pattern, using exactly this common English dictionary.

Also, I suspect throwing in a single word from another language would greatly increase overall strength, especially if it's an uncommon word.
If you sync your TrueCrypt volume to Dropbox or other cloud storage (an excellent use case for TrueCrypt, by the way), a backdoor could be exploited by whoever has access to the Internet traffic or the servers.
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Aaawww, this reply made me very emotional, in a good way :) It's great to know that I'm not alone in this frustration. I understand that sometimes it's not always the teachers, it's also administration, and the students. I currently teach a large 3 hour lecture hall at night (6 PM to 10 PM). No matter how I try to be entertaining or make the class more engaging, half the class is on the phone or about to sleep :( But I can't blame them. The 3 hour lecture format is antiquated.

Congrats on the career change, engineering fellowship, and the courage to learn something new! I'm not surprised it didn't take you only a few months to learn. With patience and love for what you do, anything is possible. You're very inspiring!

I know HTML and CSS, and I would love to learn Python and JavaScript. Chalktips was written in Python, and MagTag. My husband is the CTO and he wrote all the code. Just two married couple wanting to build tech tools :)