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Ask HN: Looking for ANDroid phone with SD card this holiday season
With many new phone options this coming holiday season, I'm guessing many of you have an opinion on great reliable Android phone models with SD slot options.

Are there any ANDROID models in particular that interest you? Companies you like to buy and stay away from?

Reviews websites to check out and stay up-to-date (besides cnet/verge/etc.) on best smartphones?

I was considering the new Google Nexus 5, but I have a SD card I want to use and was suggested otherwise.

What is a better ANDROID phone than the Nexus 5 that you would purchase?

Thanks!
Projects like these is where Bitcoin can really shine.

Maybe Bitcoin will conquer the world, maybe it won't. I have no idea.

What I do know is there is real utility in being "electronic petty cash" which Bitcoin can easily become.

Imagine: Alice sends Bob a few bitcoins after Bob writes a particularly insightful comment on HN. Bob then comes across a great blog post by Charlie and sends him a few bitcoins. Charlie then finds an open-source project by Diane that will save him hours of work and sends her a few bitcoins. And so on.

It rarely would get converted to USD and wouldn't amount to much when it did. Instead, people would just earn a bit here and spend a bit here.

Bitcoin enthusiasts miss that USD works fine for most people. But right now it's really hard to do the above scenario using traditional banking. I don't want to connect my bank account to some website to send a someone a few bucks. It's just not worth the hassle/potential risk.

I can't be the first person to think of this. But I'm just not seeing much movement in this direction. Am I overlooking something? Or do I just need to be patient?
Not exactly. It was not specifically designed for detecting life, but it has a lot of instruments that could provide enormously strong evidence for life. For example, if you took a pile of mulch and put it through Curiosity's SAM instrument suite you could look at the data coming out of it and go "yup, that's a bunch of wood chips, unquestionably". But that would require quite a bit of luck. If there are only extremely small amounts of materials of biogenic origin Curiosity is unlikely to be able to definitively identify them.
> It's the question of why we all let this happen without any resistance.

Why, and how did we let this happen? Look no further : http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Holl...

'War-nography', islamophobia, narco-phobia... and the script goes on. When the masses believe that they are in danger, they will stand behind those in power for protection.

There's surprisingly little difference between Joseph Goebbels and Hollywood.
Roger Horn is one of the best linear
algebra and matrix guys around, and I
was, by wide margins, the star student
in his class, effortlessly.

For the notes, I found serious problems
in just the first half of the first column
on the first page.

F'get about the four pages.

If enough people want an outline
in a few pages, then I'll consider
knocking one out and putting up
somewhere as a PDF file.
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We're proxying the transactions and collecting a 10% commission that goes to a Bitcoin-accepting charitable organization. The current organization we're donating to is the Bitcoin Foundation.
My Startup Ideas (that you can steal)
Riot Opens Up League of Legends Developer API
The perfect gifts for that special programmer, developer or coder
MCServer, a FOSS Minecraft server is also on here: http://tip4commit.com/projects/74

We haven't got any outside donations yet, but I think it would be quite a good way to reward contributors, and I put a bitcent in to try it out.
I loved logo, was a big inspiration for why I am a programmer today.
"This is a city for the right people, who can afford it"
Learning to code will not make you rich (or particularly powerful)
Anecdata: I use FF<current> heavily on a daily basis and haven't seen any of these problems. Issues of this magnitude are "set the internet on fire" problems. If a few web searches don't turn up tons of other users having these problems then it's best to assume there are local issues that need troubleshooting. Some suggestions on that:

1. Have you tried troubleshooting Firefox via Safe Mode? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-is...

2. If troubleshooting via #1 doesn't help, consider using the Profile Manager[1] to create a new, blank profile and see if your problems reproduce there.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Profile_Manager
Nearly everything in linear algebra has
important geometric interpretations.

In addition, a lot that works in
the 3-space we live in (for the
non-relativistic approximation)
generalizes to linear algebra,
vector spaces more generally,
and, in particular, both Hilbert
space and Banach space.
pop up a message, log something

People forget that even printf calls malloc. Logging probably isn't an option unless you are doing something special.
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Your post started by excluding trafficked workers!

You can't come back comparing trafficked workers to non-trafficked workers and say that the rest are voluntary.

There are criminal gangs that specialise in coercing girls into providing sexual services, and who take money from punters for those services. See recent UK cases about child grooming gangs.

Your link in incoherent. One example:

> It is true that as I type this, there are young girls and women {and some boys} who are physically locked behind closed doors, who are threatened with their family’s safety, and who are paying off debts by servicing men in brothels. Estimates are, in fact, that there are about 4.5 million women and children forced, by coercion or abuse, into the sex industry today.

That's coercion, not trafficking. I have no idea what definition they're using for coercion, or trafficking, or even prostitution. (Can a 14 year old be a prostitute, or is that always rape of a child?)

Here's a better article about modern day slavery: http://www.irinnews.org/report/98964/anatomy-of-modern-day-s...

And about helping people who used to be indentured workers. This article also has links to better quality information about human trafficking, about child trafficking, etc: http://www.irinnews.org/report/98867/new-lease-on-life-for-e...
Disabling JavaScript is silly in 2013.
Very interesting - I was unaware of the financing options until I read this article. Seems like it could be a good idea if you're unsure if the company will be successful long-term, a way of hedging your bet. Though I would hate to give up 20-25% of the potential upside, I'd consider this if I was on the fence about exercising my options.
I guess it is unfortunate that the suburbs are where the poor are these days [1]. I think your description is accurate although the motivations are not. Neighbourhoods were designed to be convenient to residents and inconvenient to non-residents. This does discourage crime as it makes non-residents more visible and that makes it more difficult to commit a crime and not be noticed.

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2013/0911/Face-of-US-po...
What you describe kind of sounds like a universal karma system (yay internet points!). As stackoverflow and similar sites have shown, people will do quite a lot to accumulate internet points.
You have a point. I may be going overboard from general dislike of Elsevier and I should probably withhold judgement for now.

edit - and sorry for quoting boilerplate at you, you are right, nobody should have to suffer that.
You mean like the NVIDIA Tegra?
But how does an armored vehicle counter or deter bombs or a lone gunman? Their purpose is generally to get a handful of soldiers into an adversarial environment. Lone gunman are taken down easily enough with standard squad car kit.

I mean, there was that one bank robbery in LA where the perps had serious body armor and heavy rifles in the 90s. Other than that I'm really drawing a blank for how often this would be appropriate tactically.
Hacker sentenced to two-year in Prison & $183,000 fine for 1 Minute DDoS attack
Hate speech is just the speech that the majority has determined that they don't want to hear, and clearly, in some countries, are willing to exercise state violence upon those who commit it.

The problem with making speech legal or illegal based on popular opinion of it, is that one IS perfectly capable of engaging in hate speech without choosing to do so. What happens when what I said online two years ago becomes hate speech tomorrow? Do I need to make sure I go scrub all of my past speech before anyone finds out and sends me to jail?

Furthermore, one "chooses" their future course, and whether they want to self-identify with one group more than another. To claim otherwise is to deny any semblance of free will. I know many people who choose to identify with the gay community that aren't gay, and many who choose to NOT identify with the gay community who are gay.

False equivalency rains down wonderfully on the head of a man imprisoned for speaking his mind. You can tell him all day how he chose to be in jail.
For example? What's involved for a citizen of the United States who would like to settle in one of those countries permanently?
"On the grapevine we’ve been told that HTC pays $5 a handset, Samsung perhaps as much as $10."

The grapevine, eh? That's where I go for all my fact needs.
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I thought 83(b) only helps with RSU grants? For ISO grants I thought you can't do an 83(b) election?

Can anyone clarify?
A few minor mistakes (perhaps just in my eyes), but overall pretty good.

The hardest part about teaching linear algebra is that nobody explains the big picture. I teach mathematics and computer science and regularly tutor linear algebra students, and I encounter students all the time who ask me "What are vectors good for? I thought all we cared about were matrices and doing RREF and stuff."

For this reason, I deemphasize computations and emphasize the connection between linear maps and matrices. It can be summed up as follows: if you fix a basis, every linear map is a matrix and every matrix is a linear map, and operations on functions (like composition, inversion, whatever) correspond to operations on the corresponding matrices.

It's definitely not an analogy or anything in "scare quotes" that would imply something different is going on behind the scenes. It's exactly the same thing.

Other questions usually left out of discussions about linear algebra (and these notes): what are orthogonal vectors good for? Why would we ever want a basis besides the standard basis in real Euclidean space? Is Euclidean space the only vector space out there? Do vectors have to be lists of numbers?
yes, and it will unless paypal figures out how to work with bitcoin and not against it.
The article wasn't complaining about density but about structure; a fences-and-backyards suburb arranged on a grid or some other well-connected layout is much more walkable than the same density suburb where all traffic must pass through a distant trunk to a major street.

This makes it possible to actually connect useful mass transit to the suburb, which as the article explained, people will use if it's there.
I'm not entirely sure where I'll take the project. It's currently just a proof-of-concept.

Bitroad was created for the Virtual Piggy 2013 hackathon. The prompt was to create something that solves a problem for youth. I created Bitroad to let kids without bank accounts sell stuff online (I wanted to sell stuff when I didn't have a bank account, but there was nothing out there that let me). The name similarity to the underground Silk Road is purely coincidental and will likely be changed in the future. We don't condone the transfer of illicit entities.
That's not true for any city I've been to in the U.S. I'm seriously trying to think of a single one that doesn't have sprawling bungalow neighborhoods near the center of the city. These are historically known as "streetcar suburbs", as most cities had actual fixed transit networks throughout the city itself.

Today these are close-in neighborhoods full of generally smaller homes with yards. They tend to have small yards, as they are generally built pretty close together.

I live in Denver which has an enormous number of those homes ringing Downtown. New Orleans has the garden district and surround. San Francisco fits that bill with the huge number of row-homes in the city(although the costs are nuts). Portland most certainly has a lot of that stock. Capitol Hill all the way to the Queen Anne in Seattle fits that bill. Dallas has the park cities. New York City has queens. Little Rock even has an excellent selection of inner-city bungalows (the neighborhoods are in poor repair, but they exist).

The issue we have in the U.S. is cultural. I think it's a widespread mental disease. We're willing to drive enormous distances, spending huge chunks of our lives in cars, so that we can own giant houses full of rooms we don't even use. It's nuts.
I'm not terribly familiar with Academia.edu and how it operates, but from reading the article and a cursory review of their website, it seems that the papers it hosts are meant to be submitted by the authors themselves.

How is it slimy for Academia.edu to operate under the assumption that its contributors retain the right to publish their own work on the site? Or am I missing something about their business model?
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I used to live in a city centre without a car. My office was only a 20 minute walk (or about the same by bus due to traffic), so I did that usually. If I wanted to go shopping it was about 10 minutes to the nearest mall. I used Moves [0] to track how much I walked, and it was around 60km/week.

[0] - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/moves/id509204969
Bitcoin Affects Litecoin - Banks In China Refusing To Accept Bitcoin
Taxes can be tricky depending what type of stock options you have. This recently found document tries to point out several strategies:

THE STOCK OPTION TAX DILEMMA FACED BY PRE-IPO COMPANY EMPLOYEES
BY BRUCE BRUMBERG, ESQ.,
MYSTOCKOPTIONS.COM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND CO-FOUNDER

https://welcome.sharespost.com/system/resources/BAhbBlsHOgZm...
Chase-ing Bitcoin: Is JPM Preparing To Unveil Its Own Electronic Currency?
What is preventing USD from being used in this way? It seems to me to only stumbling block are regulatory and security restrictions. If that is the case, wouldn't future bitcoin regulation put an end to this type of use case?

Or is the real benefit of your proposed use case the distance of bitcoin value from perceived financial value (ie you are willing to tip X bitcoin but have second thoughts when looking it as X cents)?
Define "enough". Prices would go up, meat consumption would go down, not all meals would include meat, but I doubt people would be forced to go completely without meat.
Neutral pH, fresh water (not brackish), moderate temperatures. That's pretty exceptional anywhere in the Solar System that isn't Earth.
If investors really wanted to know, they could make a big stink about it and MS would release more detailed numbers. But the investors have (quite rightly, imo) decided the precise breakdown doesn't affect the quality of the investment. On the other hand, announcing to all of your competitors exactly how you make your money and from which products seems like a poor strategy.
Primo simulator
Coursera Launches iOS App, Android App Coming Soon
On Consistency and Durability
It's getting cold (a true border story)
There's builtwith.com - looks at server response headers etc. Doesn't always detect everything because hiding such information is a security advantage for website owners.
The bare basics of coding, like variables, conditions, loops, creating and using objects, etc. aren't that hard. Certainly no harder than, say, high school algebra. So writing a simple script that's basically a big main function is something that most people are capable of learning how to do.

But core CS concepts about data structures and algorithms, or designing large OO programs with your own classes and methods? Those are significantly more difficult things. Not everyone can do that.

The thing is, being a programmer means you probably hang out with people of above-average intelligence, and read things written by people of above-average intelligence, so that skews your perception of what 'average' means. I mean, we had plenty of people fail miserably at my college intro coding class, and this was at a fairly respectable tier-1 research university!
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This is AMAZING! We're getting closer and closer to a cyberpunk society (unfortunately, authoritarianism is necessary, but not sufficient for this). Soon it'll be like Escape From L.A. or Snow Crash or Neuromancer!

I can't wait to stroll down the streets of Chiba like Case.

I can't wait to hack around in the Metaverse like Hiro.

I can't wait to explore the underbelly of prison-islands like Snake.

We just need a bit more authoritarianism, some advanced cybernetic implants, and just enough unrest for a Modern Wild West to be born.

Does anyone else plan on coming along for the ride?

HACK THE GIBSON! HACK THE PLANET!
That's right.

We made this project as a part of Rails Rumble contest and are using a limited-time free server offered by them.

So we need to collect money to move to a new server, to cover transaction fees and to continue development of this service if it is demanded.

Maybe we should remove the fees, go opensource and crowdfund ourselves. We were discussing it but haven't made such decision yet.

We don't expect to hold large amounts for a long time because large amounts should attract dozens of commits every day (and thus will turn into small amounts quickly).

If it doesn't happen then we will probably introduce a fixed minimum size for a tip or some other mechanism to solve this problem.

Probably it is good to hold money for some time and to smooth the tip rewards thus placing authors of commits into nearly equal position.
Especially that the payout is higher for earlier commits, and easy fruit gets picked first.. chances are the hard bugs would not get fixed (or to be an optimist: this would identify what the hard bugs are) and the owner could put an explicit bounty on each of those.
I'd be keen to see your outline.
>> When you reach a certain age, you're put out to pasture to fend for yourself. People seem to think "coding" is a young person's activity (even though it isn't), and if you're lucky enough to get a job doing it, you'll have to find something else to do when you're 35 or so, and that's not going to be so easy.

Why is this?
Because the version of Firefox increments by one every 6 weeks, and whatever features are ready get included. This is a over simplification of the process. For more info you can read this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Release_Process.
> some people's brains just aren't wired in a way that would make them any good at software development.

I've worked in education with enough people to understand this situation very well.

There's an initial "hump" that you have to get over, the very first time you are learning how to program. It involves wrapping your head around a few dozen distinct concepts and how they can interact.

For some people, it takes a few days, and for others, it takes a few weeks or months. This is usually based on how much prior exposure they've had to programming - how much they tinkered with it before trying to learn it formally.

Anyway, after that hump, people feel confident that they can learn to do anything in the world of programming. In my experience, the only people who failed to reach this point were the ones who did not dedicate a reasonable amount of time.

Once you get over those initial concepts, your skill level is really just a matter of how much experience you've had. The ones that learned the initial concepts in a few days are not necessarily better than the ones who took a few months.
Riot Games API Launches into Beta
I hate to be a party pooper here, but if this project would ever take off, and the project would receive serious amounts of bitcoin that would mean that serious amount of bitcoin would have to be managed and secured by whoever runs that project.

The past has shown that everyone, even persons who run e-wallets and currency exchanges, severely underestimates the amount of security such an endeavour requires.

There's a hundred questions you should ask anyone who asks you to keep care of bitcoin. How large is the hot wallet? How is the offline wallet stored? Where's the source code? What hardware does the service run on? Who are you? What will you do when someone steals your hot wallet? What monitors do you run to make sure the books add up?

So, nice idea, but please make sure this is actually going to be safe.

(BTW there seems to be a way to escrow bitcoin where a third party decides if the transaction should pass, but that third party never gains access to the bitcoin themselves, I haven't read the details of it, but that would seem perfect for this sort of thing)
I've recently started using Pencil, which has been fine so far. No export-to-code or anything like that, though.

http://pencil.evolus.vn/
You presume too much. I live in a suburb just east of Kansas City and my money goes a long way here.
At the risk of losing some karma... I would have checked out your web site, but McAfee Site Advisor considers your web site to be risky. Who knows why. Their algorithms are questionable, I'm sure, but why take any chances?
The video will be released in the next few days! :)
If it takes approximately 10 minutes to confirm a transaction, it seems like you would be putting merchants at risk. Perhaps some sort of bitcoin insurance would mitigate this risk for a small monthly fee.
This is a really good idea! It really adds an incentive to contributing.(Though I can see a lot of people abusing this.)
Aye, thanks. Shouldn't do math with a cold...

Edit: It also always depends on what uptime really means. I have one hoster who regularly does "network maintenance" where their entire network goes down for several hours. This can happen several times per year. So there's no easy failover.

It's so incredibly annoying. A few years back even their corporate site went down during such outages. They have that fixed now but I can't move all sites due to political reasons...
Anything other than a perfect grid in neighborhood design is due to classism? Sounds like bullshit to me. Mildly meandering side-streets:

- Block some of the noise from nearby major streets

- Obscure the view of traffic

- Give the neighborhood a less "uniform" feel (think of how you feel in a neighborhood with 20 identical houses in a row. Arrow-straight roads contribute to that feeling)

- Reduce through-traffic- not because "outsiders are undesirable" but because through-traffic is noisy

- Reduce speeds of through-traffic. Neighborhoods near thoroughfares often wind up battling with cars whizzing through at 45mph; gently tangled roads combats that.

You are right that it can make the neighborhoods a little less walkable (although reduced traffic can make them safer to walk). A nice solution I've seen is shared open spaces in the neighborhood; pedestrians and cyclists can then navigate freely, cutting through blocks as they like.
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PKparis unveils world's smallest Android flash drive