skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where you get the illusion that we do not have a galloping inflation. See the gold price vs USD :

http://goldprice.org/charts/history/gold_all_data_o_usd.png

And no, there has not been a "run for Gold" or things like that, Gold is not used as a currency anywhere a demand is still relatively low and stable.

So that gives you a sense of how much inflation you have been getting over the years. It's certainly faster than the official numbers. And anyone who has lived through the past 30 years should know very well that you could buy more commodities with a single dollar in the 80s than you can buy nowadays with the same amount.

Regarding savings -> you know most people do not get paid directly in cash, right? Most if not not all employers require de facto a bank account in order to pay salaries (we are not in the 60s anymore) and most of the savings go and stay there when you work. These savings become funds that the bank can use to emit loans and different financial services to private companies.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6557245

Subdomain www instead of uk, or it would have been picked up by the de-duper, I think.
You should do this when buying anything online. I often save quite a bit.
what about sending cash to an international debit card? Has anyone tried this?
Hm, I missed the fact that UniTrunker is required for frequency hopping, there is OpenTrunker, but it doen't seem very active.
However, there have been reports [1] of UniTrunker running with wine.

Apart from that, you should be able to follow the directions in the OP.
You can use SDR# or more straight-forward, rtl_fm, (forget about the later, it doesn't allow to switch frequencies without restarting, but this should be possible with rtl_tcp) now with PulseAudio it should be possible to redirect the audio from those applications to dsd, but that seems to expect something like /dev/audio - I don't know how to provide that with PA.

[1] http://forums.radioreference.com/trunking-control-channel-de...

Ok, turns out there really is some additional research/instructions required to get this running on Linux…
You know what's at least as hard to track and prone to fraud? Actual cash. I really dislike the idea that e.g. children shouldn't be able to pay for things over the internet because their identity can't be verified. Let's see some more support for prepaid cards.
If you don't trust your bank to fix fraud, than you need a better bank.
This is depraved. Elephants are one of only several species on Earth that pass the mark test[0], which is thought to indicate that they are self aware and conscious, sharing with us a quality of mind that used to be thought unique to humans.

[0]http://www.pnas.org/content/103/45/17053.abstract
>Banks have figured out how to comply with the law, allowing law enforcement to seize bank assets, without letting employees abscond with deposits; it's not difficult.

Are you sure? It seems that all banks have done is to be able to resist attacks from adversaries up to a certain size. Typical criminals are smaller than this, typical governments are larger. But when the reverse is true the banks fold to the criminals (as in various high-corruption countries), or the government folds to the banks and let them out of well-deserved hot water when the banks are the ones thieving and cheating.

I don't like either of those things if I'm a depositor who is trying not to have deposits stolen by criminals, bankers or corrupt governments.
You mean email account, and not address, right?

Prevention is less important than detection and reversal before withdrawal, which Square and other payment methods companies are pros at.
Impact: HTML5 Canvas & JavaScript Game Engine
Brilliant solution, but can anyone tell me how they avoid fraud? I just sent money to a friend, and back. It worked fast and flawlessly, as expected. Supposedly money will be posted to my account in 24-48 hours. All good there.

Now, how can they make sure that the email is genuine and wasn't spoofed? Sure, they can check for white-listed domains and SPF records, but still seems fairly weak process. The FAQ [1] doesn't say much either. Human validation is even worse.

It helps that the send receives an email confirmation with the transfer, but you may not check the email before the money is posted. I guess they're pushing the onus of the proof to the receiver -- after all to receive the money you have to have a bank account and a visa/mc debit card.

Whatever the security mechanism, it's a brilliantly simple solution. If it takes off, it'll quickly replace Dwalla and other micropayments.

[1] https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5144-square-cash-sec...
Show HN: Swap your bad gifts for things you actually want
The font doesn't have those characters yet, so your system is likely defaulting to another font.
Hey prawn, appreciate the feedback.

Awhile back I built a tool for my church to accept donations online. I later learned that 85% of donations in churches are given offline, and most churches don't interact with their members (or future members) online effectively. Enter Addo.

Key v0.1 features:

1. Accept donations via Dwolla, where transaction fee is $0.25. Way less than other payment processors.

2. Super simple "dashboard" showing donations in intervals (weekly, monthly, etc.)

3. Members can check their giving history, and update account info.

I'm currently fleshing it out for other churches to use. The landing page is pretty bare, but I hope to have more info up by end of week.
Having recently moved from the UK to the US, I was quite shocked at the state of US banking. In the UK we can transfer money for free, use many ATMs free (not just the bank's own), we get free chequebooks, and there are plenty of accounts with no monthly fees. My US bank has a whole list of charges, and it's not made up by higher interest rates.
Melbourne IT are also a waste of time. I don't know how they're still in business.
Always happy to find other startups built on C# :) This GUI framework is intriguing as well.
Actual cash is nearly impossible to fraud/counterfeit.

Are you a parent? I do not have want to my kid buying products unfettered.
It is funny to ready Ruby guys complaining of the lack of web frameworks alternatives. Python community likes to complain that they have too much web frameworks. Nobody is ever satisfied :-)
Ryse: Son of Rome crunch tweet sparks Twitter furor
Not exactly. The free market is also what enables neighborhood preservationists to keep redevelopment out. Well that and the horrid examples of redevelopment 40 and 50 years ago that are getting uglier and less livable by the decade.

Developers have done a good job of buying off the media, and the Chronicle has never waivered from its support of those sectors that still advertise in its pages. That's why many of us are not sad to see the otherwise well written paper giving way to Internet new sources that, this article excepted, are less inclined to skew their editorial policy in favor of anything real-estate (-development) related.
If I'm a small business that can't afford "enterprise" pricing and nginx starts stagnating because all of the effort has gone to nginx-plus, what then?
pcmonk - royce here. Would love to connect. I'm basically building a super simple service for churchs and their members to interact starting with automating tithes and offering. Love to chat more about it - royce.haynes@gmail.com.

Curious what your involvement is with churches?
What is the security of this app? It was just revealed today that Snapchat sent unopened pictures to the feds.
I love roundabouts. No stopping, no hesitation about who goes first because it is just like merging onto a tiny circular highway. In the UK the road engineers carefully design the roundabout to match the amount of traffic going through so that when there is low traffic volume you can practically just go straight through with only a slight slowdown because the roundabout is just a low circular hump painted white.
Intel delays Broadwell PC chip production to early next year
After owning my first house for about 12 years I was able to refinance it and pull out enough of my equity to cover the down payment of my second house. Now I rent out my first house. The rent I get almost covers the mortgage + property taxes. So after 12 years, someone else is buying that house for me. This might not be the greatest investment... but I wouldn't put that anywhere close to "terrible." YMMV
This is free: http://eliasoenal.com/2012/09/30/osx-port-of-the-awesome-gqr...
Remembering Jon Postel and the Day He Hijacked the Internet
> There’s just one problem: no one knows who created the software.

What do they mean by this? Do we literally don't know who created Truecrypt?
Practice the phonetic alphabet when you're on a long boring drive by spelling out the words on signs. Extra points if you spell the whole word before you pass the sign.
Yes, in the US you can take money out of an account if you know the number. No, it's not a good system.
Here's the thing...if any government organization actually goes through a truecrypt backdoor or flaw, the odds are very good that the news will get out. Yeah, if they seize a computer, crack it and never provide the unencrypted information to a court or other public forum (and somehow shut-up the perpetrator), they could keep it secret. But what's the point?
Interac is an exclusively Canadian payment-processor. The American equivalents are PLUS and Cirrus--who could have implemented this long ago, but for some reason haven't.
This will be very handy indeed for a number of circumstances, for the low, low price of free.

Trust is a big issue though, people know paypal (mostly from ebay), merchants and techies know and generally trust square so getting that hurdle cleared will be a big deal.

I'll use it though for sure. An overseas option for cheaper than my bank (around $30 once everyone has had their slice), competitive with Xoom and I can see a lot of expats using this.
I found "The Misbehavior of Markets" by Benoit Mandelbrot to be a good and engrossing read. It explained the concepts of fractals and especially fractal dimensions better than the Wikipedia page and other sources that I have read previously.
In addition to phishing risks noted below, I wonder how many typo squatters will pop up for the cash@square.com cc.
These are really fun. I have one sitting in my Jeep with me right now.

Obviously you can do a lot more with it than just listen to cops, and even this tutorial makes it look a LOT more complicated than it is.

Plug the device in, and select a frequency. It's pretty much that easy.

I use it for listening to everything from ham radio operators to airplanes. Seriously have had every penny worth of fun playing with this.

Here is everything you need, available on amazon prime: http://www.amazon.com/Receiver-RTL2832U-Compatible-Packages-...

(Although I recommend a better antenna. Dig one out of your garage, that is what I did.)
http://eliasoenal.com/2012/09/30/osx-port-of-the-awesome-gqr...
For anyone wanting to try out Arch, I cannot recommend enough that you install BusyBox first. A system upgrade with pacman -Syu can break your system in spectacular ways (the recent lib migration issue comes to mind).
I've never even heard anybody use this for anything. Huh.

For flying, and for ham radio, we use NATO.
Great user experience often is / should be the product.
So if I was a Googler, I'd apply for a promotion just to see what my manager and my peers thought about me - both pros and cons - and use that to improve my performance.

Does that happen in the company?
That's described as a limit on spending, not on receiving. It may be symmetric, but it's not clear to me from that.
I'm the same. Really tried using and liking path for 6-8 months but I just couldn't find a use-case outside of using it like Instagram without having to admit I used Instagram. It's derivative and deliberately-limited for no perceivable benefit. And since everyone (even Trello!) is adding "stickers" Path had to hop on the bandwagon too.
> I would hope that most large-scale modern email services somehow sign emails to vouch for their authenticity to avoid email spoofing.

Wait, what? I don't think that is a thing.
Depends, do they have a fraction of the IT staff that Tivoli and Opsware users have? I'm guessing not.
You sound like a perfectionist. Let go of that because it will destroy you.
Interesting I'll take a look. I need a backup system for my gf (basically a wife) to decrypt my drive in case of my passing. I had a truecrypt volume, now I switched back to OSX encryption.

It's basically a drive (in a safe deposit box) with all of my stuff there, also with a copy of my lastpass passwords unencrypted. My gf knows our phrase, 50 characters no less. Took me few months to teach her it.
I hate to break this to you, but they can already buy things in physical stores.

And if you legitimately have a $20 bill, I can walk into a store, represent that it's mine, and buy things with it, never encountering an obstacle along the way. That's the same fraud you're worried about in prepaid cards.
"Hey do we have $X million for Opsware?"

"Sure thing."

"Damn it feels good to be a banker."
Two of the best lectures I've ever listened to were on negotiation. These are the highlights of my notes:

https://www.startopz.com/blog/notes-negotiation/

I'd strongly recommend listening to the Joel Peterson one as he specifically addresses negotiating at the beginning of your career. The gist was that you should be looking at the opportunity rather than the last $5k of salary.
I think its fun science. I hope we'll get a bunch of coherent qubits one day, but if not, what're ya gonna do.
All online business ever is a great attack vector for "Nigerians."
Is this open to non-church religious organizations?

I have a friend who is a rabbi of a small but extremely cool, open orthodox synagogue on the Lower East Side (he's also a former web developer) He's done crowd funding before for the synagogue, since the building is historically important. Due to the fact that the congregation is open to whomever showing up, compared to other orthodox synagogues on the LES, he has an extremely tech literate crowd.

It might be a good match if it works for not-churches.
Yeah, it is said at the end of the article that the system is suboptimal because the receiver will have to switch back and forth between signal and control.
Cockroach farms multiplying in China
The point is that if it is uncompromised we are safe, if it isn't writing the fingerprint in the HTML will be of no help at all.
What are the verification steps for sending money to a previously unknown party? Is it SMS verification, or do you have to re-enter your card details?
I work next to Media Temple in Culver City, and FWIW, those MT employees in their new GoDaddy hoodies partying with their taco truck seemed pretty happy this afternoon with their new SOPA-backing overlords. I'm not sure if the reaction is supposed to imply something positive that I'm just overlooking.
shanac - I'm currently focusing on religious organizations. Even though it may work, the usage will feel most comfortable to churches.

Its definitely something to consider after I ship. :)
It's a shame that audio routing is pretty much nonexistent on Windows.
It is ironic; management who want open plan offices almost invariably all get private offices, usually surrounding the perimeter of the floor, and usually with the window facing the open floor plan.
Exactly, but Greenwald et al are just reporting the facts. They've even agreed with the Intelligence Community to not publish some things and have asked for comment on every story.

I'm just trying to figure out what rubs people the wrong way about his reporting, or why some people would rather remain ignorant of what there government is doing. 'Because if we know, the terrorists know' doesn't cut it.
In Defense of Skeuomorphism: The Nest Thermostat
Mm, no, the opposite I think – the rider will fall slowly. The spring remains extended due to the weight of the rider – being held aloft by a tower vs. a parachute makes no difference here. However the descending parachute shortens the spring at a rate slow enough that it can be transmitted to the rider well before the parachute reaches the ground, so the rider will fall a little bit.

(This is analogous to simply lowering the hand holding the slinky – the bottom eventually follows suit.)
Hacking tools for the noobs. Know your WAF
I don't believe this is true at all. Dependency injection is just a way to invert control, decouple your code, and make it more testable. Proper tests of your configuration when your container is bootstrapped is all that is necessary to maintain sanity here.

You are still getting all the benefits of static typing, especially if you are coding to a contract.
If you were renting the same property, would your rent be $500 a month? I doubt it, so even with property taxes you're still better off than renting.
I actually just turned off Flash and am going to try this for a while, youtube works pretty good so far.
Interesting stuff. Unfortunately, this paper conflates dynamic typing with not being able to express anything about the types of values:

> An implicit effect of dynamic typing is that every variable, object slot, and so on, can reference objects of arbitrary types.

This is simply untrue. It happens to be true in Python and many other dynamic languages, but it by no means necessary. Dylan and Julia, for example, are both dynamically typed, yet let the programmer express that variables, fields, and collections will only contain certain types of values. That ability eliminates this whole class of problems – which tend to be the hardest problems when trying to optimized dynamic languages. If you don't have a nice type system, of course, then this kind of cleverness is absolutely necessary to get better performance. V8 in particular does this sort of thing amazingly well.
I know that they plan to add dynamically loaded module support in a future release. As long as they don't plan to keep that feature as an Nginx Plus feature then I don't see much to be concerned about.

As it stands right now, a lot of users aren't able to make use of 3rd party modules because of the overhead (recompiling). Once dynamic modules are supported the community should be able to fill in the most desired features.
The similar software was called Gordon, and was for Flash. :)
That is not business, it's pull.

The US is hostile to business as such.
Pullback started about 2 years ago.

I wrote about my experiences here trying to raise a seed round for an app that had considerable traction for the stage we were at http://blog.zmitri.com/startups/2013/06/14/you-need-a-millio...

Path was just well financed enough to make it this far.
GoDaddy lost me as a customer due to their slimy control panel. You practically need a special AdBlock configuration.
As long as you don't hit the ground while fully at rest it'll be fine.
Hence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes.
I haven't pulled the code yet, but it looks like it targeting MVC4. The documentation[1] states that mono currently partially supports it, everything but the async stuff, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything else in there that will cause it to not be compatible.

[1]http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility
Really valid alternative to Venmo (soon to be owned by Paypal through the Braintree acquisition)
funny thing is he comments on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=davemorin
how do they make money with this? BTW I didn't know I could scroll for the longest time! I thought it was an animation.
I blush for MIT. There's something grossly wrong at the admin level of a lot of schools.
This is wrong.

You absolutely CAN dispute charges with debit cards. The problem OP might have with debit cards could be that a fraudulent charge temporarily locks cash funds (with debit card) instead of credit availability (with credit card).
Where did you get the .5% figure?
I'm a pastor (and former geek) and I would love to see more info on your landing page before handing out an email address.

Not sure if my congregation is ready to go "online giving", but the organization I belong to may be interested. Is this only suitable for church congregations, or would a church organization (state level) be able to use it?
What's interesting about standard shared web hosting (mainly used by small PHP-based sites) is how most of them are secretly owned by one company: EIG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group

Many people spend time comparing the different services, but in truth they're all the same!

Also, you get much better specs with the free tier of OpenShift, but I guess that will change once enough people switch to it (just like AppFog changed their free tier).
Here's a 58 character phrase:

You always find something in the very last place you look.

I wonder how many months it'd take to learn that. :-/
This Coding Competition For Teens Was Also Created By A Teen
>You can see how ridiculous the argument is ...

It doesn't seem so ridiculous if you follow the money. The author is "executive director of SPUR, a Bay Area nonprofit membership organization" whose directors, advisors and members are comprised almost exclusively of real-estate developers and investors.

The current Berkeley Daily Planet goes in to some detail about this sort of non-profit, http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2013-10-11/article/... as does the Bay Guardian in its "Friends in the Shadows" expose http://www.sfbg.com/2013/10/08/friends-shadows You'll never read these sorts of in-depth articles in the rest of the Bay Area's real-estate advertising filled newspapers.
I've actually never got one myself, because I'm still at university. However, banks seem to be willing to lend up to 80% of the value of a house, for someone with an average income.

I suspect the biggest problem is simply that houses are very expensive compared to most of the USA. I'm flatting in a really crummy house (as in, cracks in the wall) on a quarter-acre section, yet the property is valued at $500,000.
how do you authenticate the said person so you could allow she/he to download her/his data?
Actually the "easiest" way around this problem would be to modify DSD to talk directly to SDR# or the rtlsdr DLL. I'm just not sure if the Windows patches to DSD were ever made public.
woah it works for regrowing hair?
I actually laughed at that. Every bank here is the same and we supposedly have some of the safest banks in the world. Im limited to an 8 character password, and the other banks here are little better. New Zealand.
2 out of 4 my boxes are Win 8 and I haven't noticed anything funny with Ubuntu 13.04. I use Linux guests fairly extensively.
Why would you need to? The data is encrypted by the password.
I love how the East codifies aesthetics like this. My favorite is shibui which loosely translated (i'm told) means that every single detail of the object is simultaneously both useful and beautiful.
And then the developer with ISO 4217 experience realizes that splitting the input on '.' doesn't cut it. The Indonesian rupiah is formatted 1.234,56; the Japanese Yen is formatted 123,456; the Lebanese pound is formatted 1 234.

The rabbit hole goes deep. Be careful when you think you've reached the end of it.
Monkey HTTP Server v1.3 is out (Golden Monkey)
GNUCash just rocks. And it is more trustworthy.
N as in mnemonic
I see loads of those outside at night in warm weather here. Maybe there's some kind of reverse-aliexpress I can use to sell them? :)
I didn't realize that. The ubiquity of Interac around these parts, and its deep integration with all things financial, led me to believe it was an international institution.

After spending the last week trying to find a cellphone plan for my mother, seeing a Canadian institution that mostly works and is mostly good for the consumer is a welcome breath of fresh air.