skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'd want to be making returns north of 20% per year just to offset the fees alone if the numbers abalone outlined are correct.

Edit: to elaborate on how I calculated that:

1. We don't know transaction size so I just focused on the 0.05% transaction fee. Obviously if transaction sizes are small, the fixed element of fee is higher as a proportion of the amount held for 1-2 days so the required return to break even is much higher.

2. If the transaction fee is 0.05%, $1 transferred turns into $0.9995

3. Square is sending $1 to the recipient. Therefore to break even, it must turn 0.9995 into $1.00 in the 1-2 days it holds the cash for.

4. To do that in 1 day, it must earn a return that is roughly equal to 20% annualized. So the annual return is (0.9995 x 20) = 0.1995. The daily return is 0.1995/365 = roughly 0.0005.

5. Adding the return of 0.0005 to the $1 brings you back to the $1 that Square sends on to the recipient. So they break even if they are earning 20% a year on the cash they hold before it gets sent on to the recipient.

Note the required return to break even is lower if they hold the cash for 2 days. However I'd guess they don't because one of the banks along the way probably hold it for at least half that time. Also, even if they do hold it for 2 days, you still have to overcome the fixed cost, so that moves the required return back towards my 'north of 20%' figure.

PS - since the Square guys are obviously smart, I'm sure they've done the above math so I'd question whether they really are paying these kinds of fees on each transaction. However if they are, Abalone's dotcom days comment is entirely correct.
And when Interest rates return to normal and they lose 30% or more in a bond crash on their "safe" government bonds what then?

A diversified portfolio should also include property which is why I have investments in REITS as well as shares.
Couldn't agree more.

My father-in-law works for a small business that launched a static site earlier this year. They pay $80/month for "maintenance" on that static site.

I just launched a static site last night. Total cost? $10 / year.

If this was an easy thing for most consumers then they wouldn't be paying $950 / year more than I am.
Go where your hobbyists are right now. Forums, usenet, blogs, mailing lists, whatever. Tell them about it, why it's better than what is there right now, and ask them for feedback.

If it is two-sided (as almost all market places are), go to where the sellers are, too. Contact them individually, they will be happy to find better marketplaces.
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Should probably be updated to reflect the year of the post.
I also loved couchsurfing (http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/cesidio) and wanted to fix couchsurfing creating another product, but I struggle to create interest around it and a viable business model...

http://beta.minstrels.com/

any help or advices would be very helpful. It is built in ruby on rails and uses mongodb as database and deployed on heroku. it is just a prototype at the moment, a working prototype but with fake data in it.

The product is different from couchsurfing in the following things:

1) there are stories that form a user 'travel resume' that help users host real travelers and not just people wanting to get hosted for free

2) there is the concept of 'incentives' so a traveler can increase the chances of being hosted by providing something useful/entertaining to the potential host (small present, cooking a meal, sharing some knowledge on something)

3) there are 2 types of meetings: open meetings (where everyone can participate), close meetings (organizer can approve requests to participate)
>It's bizarre for a population bottleneck in 1852 to have lasting effects (on the size of the population) over 150 years after the cause of the bottleneck ended, much as I don't expect the number of mosquitoes in 2014 to go down no matter how many I manage to kill in 2013.

A bizarre claim. Unless you factor in your inability to kill that many mosquitoes.

Else, if you kill enough of them (or all), their 2014 number WILL go down.

After all, there are species made extinct, as well as lots of species that had their populations shrink significantly as a result of human action (sometimes temporary).
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The most important advise is: Unbundle domain contract and hosting contract. Do not eat the bait of the free domain!

About softlayer: Its possible to bargain with them. We have E-2620 servers there, official starting price at $879, and we pay $299/month including more RAM and a small network. So they had been willing to undercut co-location calculation if you ask them. I dont know if this is still possible after IBM. I guess their sales team now knows better how to barter with big customers.
Depends on country in the UK a single person will never get a council house unless your a single mum.
I'm living in Stuttgart as an expat, so reading this brought me the same reaction. "ja, nacht Berlin!" "Yay, Stuttgart!" and all that.

But I'm disappointed there isn't more of a tech scene here. Stuttgart does have a lot of great schools, but this is an engineering town, not an IT city. Industry here revolves around Damiler and Porsche. The students are all in mechanical engineering, it seems. I'm thrilled to read something about this area, but I have to say, I'm awfully puzzled at the same time.
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Ireland 2,200[1], UK + Ireland 19,000[2]

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[2]http://www.ge.com/uk/company/leadership/bios/Mark_Elborne.ht...
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Depending on how puritanical the District Attorney and/or the Judge are, yes (how safe their office is come election time figures into it too - "Vote for me, I'm tough on crime!").

It's not rare to read about some teen that is having to register as a sex offender for doing the kind of things teens have been doing for a long time, it's just that now technology keeps the evidence around and accessible.
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Maybe it's true that C++ has become less verbose and more easily flexible than it once was through some of the additions of the C++11 standard. I'd argue that a scripting language is not defined by these criteria though, a scripting language is not compiled down to a binary by definition - that's what defines it.

Semantics though.
I haven't written much C++ in quite some time. Does it still suffer from slow compilation? There's a module system in the works that should help a lot.

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html
And it is also a good for upward social mobility owning a home means your children can inherit it
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See, this is something I can't understand about Microsoft.

Passport could have been 'Log In With Facebook' years earlier. The NEC Versa LitePad, running XP, came out years before the iPad. Windows CE ran on touchscreen smart phones (costing less than some current iphone models) and had native apps long before the iPhone came out.

I wonder whether these things should be attributed to a lack of CEO vision/proper resourcing, or if they were simply 'ahead of their time', or something else.
Maybe someone from the VirtualBox team can explain to me why VirtualBox for Ubuntu has a dependency on acroread-bin.
Usually tax avoidance means legal , tax evasion means illegal.
Would be great if somebody could post Python/Ruby/.. code here that achieves the same, just to compare. Even with all the C++11 additions it never felt like scripting to me, and I use it practically every day.

Small nitpcik to the author: please define variables when you're going to use them, not C-style all at the beginning of the function. It makes code easier to understand. It doesn't make the reader wonder 'hey what's this variable going to be used for' then having to crawl through all code underneath it. It creates code that's easier to refactor. Also, but more arguably for such a small sample: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1452721/why-is-using-name...
There is IBM and T-Systems nearby (Böblingen/Leinfelden), but that's mostly 'business' IT catering to Daimler/Porsche/Bosch rather than people doing anything exciting :-/
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The four points on how "scripting languages differ from classical compiled languages" would mean even Java qualifies as a scripting language, and I've never seen anyone credibly claiming that.

Wikipedia is more clear on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language "it is uncommon to use Java as a scripting language due to the lengthy syntax and restrictive rules about which classes exist in which files" -- I'd say this applies to C++11 as well.
Or, to keep the blood sugar levels at a sane level, people could stop eating so much junk; protein and fat don't spike your blood sugar the way sugary carbs do.
We use CloudFront (without SSL) for our public site (static on S3) and this definitely looks cool. Our app itself has SSL (via an ELB) but not our static WWW site. The only thing we have on there I'd consider sensitive is our PGP key for emailing us security issues and I have that also linked directly to the HTTPS S3 bucket. As there's no user input it didn't seem worth it to pay the $600/mo for CloudFront SSL.

Was a no brainer to setup and honestly I never even think about it. We just update the S3 bucket for the site and CloudFront picks up the changes. Support for these new HTTP methods makes CloudFront a lot more interesting for a dynamic app.

Regarding SSL, the $600 per month seems like a lot for SSL but I think (pure speculation) it's because of the individual IPs needed for each endpoint. SSL ports can't be shared with other hosts[1]. Since CloudFront has endpoints at multiple edge locations, they would need multiple IPs per SSL cert. Add CPU cost for SSL processing too and I guess that's where the $600 comes from.

[1]: Well technically they can using SNI[2] but some older browsers don't support it (mainly IE on XP).

[2]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
It mentions blood sugar control as a major problem with sitting. I wonder how much benefit could be achieved by simply taking a walk after each meal?
I solved my companies accounting needs with a bunch of Ruby scripts that scrape / download / convert from the banks and then output to ledger-cli. The cool thing is that ledger lets you script everything so you can write another Ruby script that outputs a CSV file that I can upload to the tax authorities. The end-of-quarter tax preparation went from a few days to a few hours.

It works great for us but something breaks about once or twice a year when one of the 3 banks we interface with changes something, so I can see this being very hard to solve generically in a way that works all of the time for non-programmers.

Still, I would recommend this solution to anyone who is comfortable with Ruby and ALSO comfortable with accounting because ledger is great but it also allows you to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't know what you're doing.
I don't understand why a minimalistic Haskell server (while neat) is the "future of http server stuff". While I'm glad it puts up similar benchmark numbers to Nginx, what reason is there to switch?

Nginx is plenty stable despite not being written in Haskell.
> IMPORTANT! Make sure to remove the .encfs files from the secure folder before syncing. IF THESE FILES ARE IN THE SYNCED FOLDER, YOUR FILES ARE MUCH MORE EASIER TO BE CRACKED.*

What?! No don't do it! If you lost your .encfs6.xml file pretty much you lost everything. You can't decode your files back. Of course you don't have to sync it, you can back it up by other means. But you can't just remove it.
It's proportional to the size and complexity of the code base really. Precompiled headers help.
But almost all people wont be able to build up 100k whilst renting. The difference between renting and mortgage if it existed woudl never allow you to build up this nest egg and 90% of people dont have the discipline to invest in this way they would spend it on day to day living.
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File.write ARGV[1], array.join("\n")

edit: get input and output file names from command line
I thought the same thing.

Email money transfers? I've been doing them through my bank for years. It's incredibly simple.

I guess this says something about the state of innovation and technology; there are gaps, even in the mainstream between neighboring countries whose cultures are nearly identical. By finding those technological gaps, you can impress a lot of people.
If the C++ code I have to deal with looked like the given example, I'd be very glad. Too bad it usually looks way more complicated.
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Doesn't even have to be two people. A 15 year old taking nude self photos will be in possession of child pornography.[1]

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what I immediately thought is what a contrast.

On one hand we have technologists at github who believe the government can and should be improved ... and are doing something about it.

On the other hand we have pessimists who are so anti-government they'll enthusiastically shutdown the government.
if it's mostly empty, you're only going to 'look weird' to a handful of other people... who aren't burning as many calories as you are.
high-level general-purpose language != scripting language.

the fact that the language provides a few new services doesn't mean it's become a 'scripting language' and I'm sure you probably know that and the title was just looking to stirr some s#it up.

can you use it for scripting now? sure you always were able to do so, it's just a little more comfortable now to do so, you can use any programming language to script.

however, you can't use a scripting language to do all the things (as well/efficient as) a real programming language can.

i guess one of the main requisites to consider a language a "scripting language" is that you don't have to recompile it to run it, it's read as a script and executed by a runtime (that may perform some JIT compilation and what not), far from the case.

I guess the right title to your post would've been

"Now C++ can be used like a scripting language."
I think that using gray scales actually focuses the user on more valuable assets on the data visualization. But you're right, it's also a fashion. Thanks for your comment.
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So very true, I live here as well and noticed the same things. Even the local hackerspace (which is Germany's 2nd biggest) is very hardware oriented, it seems. Mechanical engineering is just very strong here.

I'd be very interested in more interesting things to work on, but as it is, its mostly big business IT with lots of Java and XML.
I don't know about other people, but since Snowden's revelations about the companies that partner with the NSA, all of them are dead to me.

And that includes: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk, and the rest of them on these slides.

They are letting us down and we should treat them the exact same way.
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"the beauty of the table as a visualization": you are right, I shall try a blog about that. Thanks for your priceless urls.
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Now that's the succinctness I'd expect from an actual scripting language
Good article. I've always wondered how many more calories are burned while sitting versus standing. I'm quite surprised by how much of a difference standing makes, to be honest.

Unfortunately, for the moment, I simply cannot use a stand up desk full time. I spend around 8 months out of the year travelling. At home, I have a stand up desk, and I really love it. When I'm travelling, though, I spend most of my time sitting while working at a desk, which isn't too good.

One thing I've found useful is to stretch for 5 minutes for every hour of sitting. People look at me like I'm crazy, but it makes a demonstrable difference. Kelly Starrett goes into great detail about the effects of sitting and how stretching can help in his book 'Supple Leopard'; it's worth picking up, in my opinion. (http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Supple-Leopard-Preventing-Per...).

The couch stretch is particularly good at counteracting tight hips caused by sitting. (http://fitnerdz.com/2013/05/31/fitnerdz-couch-stretch/). Get into position, hold it for 100s, swap legs, hold it for another 100s, and repeat for every hour of sitting. It makes a huge difference to the legs, hips, and back.
Also, the US has a very weak culture of consumer protection and regulation; solutions that require co-operation between competing entities are much harder to get off the ground. See the ACA software mess.
Just curious, what C++11 features are used here? It's been a while since I flexed my C++ muscles, but all of this looks like the standard C++.

Admittedly, even old style C++ with Boost does look a lot like a scripting language (except for the segfaults).
While not doubting the general findings I'd like to add a pointer that it is not a high level of glucose that raises the risk of getting diabetes II and heart disease, but fructose.

See this lecture of Dr. Lustig on sugars and how they are being metabolized in our body: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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"The rent I get almost covers the mortgage + property taxes."

You are lucky to have bought a house that can benefit from high renting prospective. This is not the case everywhere and whereas taxes might go up (whenever the authorities will want more money), the rental profits simply might not. It's not a scenario easy to accept - renters usually have the flexibility to move to other cheaper places or to group together (shrinking the rental market BTW), but the house-owning costs are there to stay. Also, the worst case is when the entire area enters in decline, housing costs plunge and render the entire multiple-house ownership a bad investment.
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Using template heavy code can cause really slow compilation. If get really liberal with nice things from Boost, a simple looking file can take a couple minutes.

On the other hand, by modularizing the code down into libraries, and generally using incremental compilation, after an initial 'full build', minor builds during development are not too slow.

An example of my problem with C++ is, writing a function in a shared library, which is meant to return a class from the standard library say vector<string>, to the program that calls it is very unwise.

Can you imagine if your Python modules couldn't return objects from the standard library?

This is because the shared library and calling program might have been compiled against a different version of the standard library, and also because the 'flattened names', used to refer to members of a class are not uniform between compilers / compiler versions. You can often get away with stuff on linux, because all the software is compiled in the same environment, but build once run anywhere? No.

This is turning into a bit of a rant. I like C++, but it has so many imperfect, jagged edges, enough to surprise programmers after 10 or 20 years. There is still a lot left to fix.
Also: UGs are not enjoying that good of a reputation, since they require only a minimum of starting capital. my tax accountant likes to tell the story of the one time they did business with an UG: ordered file folders, never arrived.
Sounds promising. Can anyone tell how the delivery into bacterial cells works? Wouldn't this also affect the human cells?
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but only time will tell if we are right about that
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I've found the same here in Hannover. Most bigger companies are either automotive related because of Wolfsburg or related to insurance companies. So most automotive IT jobs require some kind of embedded programming experience. There are a few small web startups but not much for regular "application" developers IMHO.
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>Ruby still has some ugly stuff inherited from Perl (globals for regex results, or the use of unreadable "magical" globals such as $:)

And Ruby also has some pretty stuff inherited from Perl like postfix statements & first class regex so it wouldn't be good to strip out all of Perl's influences! Gosh even Ruby's blocks are (partly) inspired by Perl's list block functions...

array.map {|n| n * 2}

map {$_ * 2} @array;

However I do agree that Ruby's magical global variables should be removed because they're not dynamically scoped like in Perl.

NB. It should be noted that not all Ruby magical variables even come from Perl. For eg. $: doesn't and thankfully Perls $= does something quite different to Rubys! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072925
for(const auto &i : data) {
ofile << i << std::endl;
}

The for loop definition there with the auto keyword. The rest has been standard for donkeys years.
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The real differentiator is that there is no user-visible compile step. Scripting languages can be compiled to binary, through a JIT or even AOT, but when this happens, it's hidden from the user. Consider Python and Java: both are compiled to binary formats, but Python hides this while Java does not. It is common to call Python a scripting language, but it has been a long time since anyone said that of Java (and even back when they did, it was intended as an insult more than as a technical classification).

C++ is adopting some of the properties of scripting languages, but I'm not aware of any implementations that have removed the explicit compile step. I don't think it's really accurate to call C++ scripting as long as that step is still required, and I haven't seen very much interest in taking it out.
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1996 was my first shared hosting. 96-97 was OK, but I had a project for a client that got shut down after a few days. It was a small ecommerce project, and we got shut down for 'resource abuse' - CPU was spiking and network was going crazy. Had a week of back and forth emails and I think phone with their 'support.

They were poking through my code, bitching that I was doing "select *" queries ("those are inefficient" they kept arguing). After a week we were reinstated - turns out there was someone else running spambot on another hosting account on the same server. But... we were "ecommerce" so obviously must have been the root cause of a spiked CPU. I vowed at that point to not use shared hosting again, and haven't since 1998.

It's been nicer with cheap VPSs over the last few years - easier to get clients set up with their 'own' servers. I know that VPSs are shared as well, and I've seen issues where one VPS abused resources to the point where it affected mine, but that's been pretty rare (2x in the past 5 years I can think of), and it's always easier for people to track down, isolate and resolve.

Also, it was one anecdote point, and was 15 years ago, and was just 'bad service' but life is too short to try to be putting projects as risk to save a few bucks. Projects/sites generally have enough troubles - dealing with shared hosting is just one more thing that can go wrong, imo.
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