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Twilio quietly increase international SMS Price without letting you know 
If you are using Twilio as your SMS GW..
Please be warn that Twilio will increase their SMS Price without given you any warning..

SMS Price for a number of Asia Countries has increase to 200 to 300% , I only found out that when I trouble shooting SMS deliver problem at Twilio developer Portal

Here's Twilio CSR reply to me..

"Thanks for your feedback. We've discussed the addition of the pro-active notifications feature that you request, and it looks like that our team will not have the bandwidth to dedicate the engineering resources necessary to build that addition to our services in the near future.

If you would like to track pricing changes in real time from your side, the best way forward would be to schedule a daily script that will pull the current Global SMS rates from our CSV file and compare those rates to those downloaded from that file on previous days."

This is very bad..

Imagine that if you have spent on average USD 5,000 every month on sending international SMS, and out of sudden, you are paying USD 15,000, because Twilio just quietly increase the price without letting us know, so that we can find better alternatives..

Compare the SMS rates from the CSV file daily will not work, because new price already take effect.. and we still needs time to find better alternative, and do the necessary integration..at the end the losing end, is us...
I would like to warn those who don't know that the author of this post has vested interest in bitcoin. It doesn't mean anything per se, but you might want to take those articles with a grain of salt.

So this is how it goes. a16z invests in Coinbase, so cdixon posts supportive posts regarding bitcoin.

We can now safely expect more and more HN readers to buy bitcoins because of the fear of missing the bitcoin train, and bitcoin detractors will soon look like iPhone detractors in 2007. That means that no matter what the value of bitcoin is, you should buy some, because the whole SV is soon going to be on it.

For the fist time on HN, a significant part of what hits the front page are posts about an asset that you can buy simply, and will likely make you a millionaire in a couple of years without creating any value. This is as great as it is sad. Enjoy it.

Make us long time holders rich.
Well it started with the roadster... So rsex?
Why does a sonic boom ... boom?
I agree but I think it could morph (dare I say pivot) into something cool–possibly on mobile. I could see letting someone blog from their iphone while the camera on the back is capturing the environment.
Clapper said, "No" and "not wittingly." That mind-rotting article you linked to is one guy speculating that he was put on the spot and had to say something in order to not confirm that they were openly spying on people...WHAT?

Everything we have seen makes it clear that they are spying on Americans and they obviously know they are doing it. Clapper's answer was thus a LIE. He was asked a question and gave an answer he knew was wrong. HE LIED. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF LYING.

I wish someone around here would ante up and starting banning the shills.
I think the "give poor people money or they'll take it" is a bit too simplistic. The basic reason we should give welfare is because that's what the majority has decided it wants to do. And in a democracy we do what the majority wants.

Now, the question is: why should the rich do what the majority wants? Not because the majority will otherwise kill the rich. The majority doesn't protect the rich minority from itself. The majority protects the rich minority from the strong minority. In other words, it's social order, underwritten by the majoritarian mass, that allows bankers and programmers to get rich instead of warlords. In a world where the majority isn't underwriting social order and the rule of law, there remains a ruling minority class, but they're different people than the ones that are rich under the existing system. Think feudal lords, rather than Silicon Valley nerds. That's why the rich go along with the majority. The majority protects them from the men of war that would otherwise dominate society.
Congrats, your sockouppet account is now active.
I'd go further:

- I want everyone to own an amount of clever metal molecules that group together to form the object I need right now: need a bowl to eat rice, molecules migrate to form a bowl in a few seconds. Need a helmet? Here it is. A knife? here you go. That's the christmas tree machine without the waste.

- I want to project movies, music and books inside my head, so I can watch movies or read books eyes-closed, hear music in my head without headphones.

- I want to be able to teleport in my friend's eyes/glasses when they party and I cannot attend.

- Ultimately, I want my self to be able to migrate in a newborn soul, and re-live, when my body will be too old to support me.

- However, I do not want to eat pills to avoid fat, that's cheating.
I think (s)he was being sarcastic.
>Lastly, the basic income makes it easier to abandon the income tax entirely and move to consumption based taxation.

How so?
Easily manage Apache VirtualHosts with Ansible and Jinja2
Picking a place to intern: Google vs Microsoft vs Fog Creek
So with less then 24 hours until one of these offers expires, I can't make a decision. I already turned down one project at Google because I wasn't interested in it, so I am awaiting another team.

I would be a part of the OS group at Microsoft, but I don't know exactly what I will be working on.

And Fog Creek, is well, Fog Creek.

I already worked at another big name tech company as an intern this past summer, so I don't need the brand. I want what I do this summer to be able to stand on its own, no matter the name above it.

So if you were in my position, where would you go and why? If you interned at one of these places, what was your experience like?
As always your stuff is great to read and very insightful! Thanks again Patrick!
> Its the tulip craze with bytes.

Oh, you! Tulips were better. You at least got the pretty flower after all was said and done.
When leasing office space improves the company's chance of success. That means it has to be a net win in terms of distractions. Finding and renting space costs time and money. So the act of doing so has to mitigate other distractions which are consuming a more important chunk of resources.

Playing business leader is definitely not a good reason.
A list manager with a pointer to the last element on the list should also be able to append to the managed list in O(1)
The older I get the less inclined I am to find fault with the world around me and the more inclined I am to try to make the best of whatever hand I'm dealt.

It's easy to play the critic and sit back and declare that life does not measure up to your expectations. But personally I find building new things, however imperfect they may be, far more satisfying.
I want to know why a random blog post is on HackerNews and why people are voting for it.

I want to know if people remember that the author claimed and tried to justify why Apple's iPhone screen size of 3.5 inches was perfect, large screens were a stupid idea, and of course only Apple could have figured it out.

http://dcurt.is/3-point-5-inches
How to Find a Position
The world doesn't seem to agree with you. Straight from Wikipedia [1]:

Gender is the range of physical, biological, mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, the term may refer to biological sex (i.e. the state of being male, female or intersex), sex-based social structures (including gender roles and other social roles), or gender identity. ... the meaning of gender has undergone a usage shift to include sex or even to replace the latter word. .... Gender is now commonly used even to refer to the physiology of non-human animals, without any implication of social gender roles.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender
I have no problem with the way the first-gen smartwatches look (although given that TI's Metawatch predates a few of these, are we 2nd gen now?)

I am more interested in the inside of an iPhone rather than the outside, so that makes me an outlier.
I would like people to appreciate that expecting 40% of your life to be spent on trivial entertainment and artificially introduced challenges is unreasonable and unsustainable.

I would like the homogenization of culture reversed.

I would like everyone to be taught how to be interested in understanding things and to pursue their passions above all else.
>and then probably get boring once the novelty wore off

You might need something to augment that novelty. Maybe instead of a blogging platform, some kind of PostSecret like app where people post anonymously with video backdrops instead of cards. This would be better than a blogging platform as well because it would encourage (or perhaps even limit) small blocks of text which would fit into a small space without needing a scrollbar.
That does not work if your list is persistent.
Sometimes I think I was lucky to be one of the last people ever to experience "love in the time of snailmail" and one of the first to experience love at the dawn of IM.

I know exactly what its like to write those "long, heartfelt missives" and check a mailbox like a crack addict and I also know the thousand tiny thrills one got from that new "ICQ" client's happy little "uh-oh!".

Which is better? More "real and heartfelt"? I've got only selection bias to offer. I lost "heartfelt missive" and married "uh-oh!". Modern technology rocks like an old man on his porch.
You probably wanted `git merge --abort`. It's not very clear what the various states are that git can be in. There seems to be a 'fixing merge conflict' state, and it's hard to find documentation that warns you about this state and what your options are once you're in it.
"[I]t is slavery to force one out of the market and no longer be productive or do anything for society."

While I wouldn't put it in such strong terms, I agree that is a horrible thing. I don't think it's at all what a basic income would do - especially a modest one. Doubly so in contrast to our current welfare (including disability) system.

Basic Income is not contingent on you not working. If you can find some clients that are willing to pay you a little in exchange for some work you're happy to do, you take home the money they pay you on top of the Basic Income.

"I can just see people dropping out of high school in large numbers to stay at home with their parents, avoid taking a job, just apply for basic income and get that low income AT&T DSL Internet for $15/month and play video games on a cheap PC or used Playstation or used XBox for the rest of their lives and never contribute anything for the betterment their lives and help out others."

If their parents will stand for it, I'm sure that will happen some. But most people do like to feel productive, and most parents prefer to see their children doing something useful, and them doing something useful - for pay or otherwise - does not decrease the Basic Income stipend.
Paranoid Android is very fitting. I think Curtis has some great ideas - but the things like give me the toaster that 80% of the people in the world favor, just falls flat on its face. What about the other toasters? What happened to choice - to choosing something different, because it might be not as well liked, but better? I know his blog post was moreover a non-analyzed wishlist, not meant to be carefully studied. I can't help but say that the sentiment was eerily deaf and soul-less, with a lack of humanity, a kind of wishing for the uber-human. There have been so many fictional novels based on utopian cyborg scenarios, and well, they don't end well. I will agree with Curtis on one thing, if we can eliminate many menial tasks, we will be freed in time and energy for more important and jovial endeavors. This in fact, relates to the recent article about a default base wage for everyone. Interesting ideas all around, but lets not remove our humanity at the cost of optimization.
A masochists' best friend. All joking aside, good job.
Nanobiosym: Our portable device can detect AIDS in under an hour
It is funny, Franzen describes in the article how he also approached this state of mind when he grew older.
The thief probably wasn't bright and hadn't seen it before, thinking that iMac must be so new that he hasn't seen it in the news and therefore the most valuable (after all, Apple is making colored iPhones now).
Developers should probably just skip this one; however, for any designers on HN who also do project-based work, this might be helpful.

A few days ago, I wrote about how positioning a design studio can make getting jobs easier than if you're undifferentiated. Some asked for more ideas on this topic. As such, I wrote this post.

Even if you're bootstrapping a startup and running a services business to maintain cash flow, this post could help you. By taking these approaches, we've increased our billings, and made working on side projects far more viable.
Stop saying shills, this isn't Reddit. Critical thinking about issues here is appreciated. Everything unfortunately related to the NSA isn't cut and dry, black or white.

You really must not have understood the article, as it mentions testifying about top secret programs is not a simple task.
I'm not quite the target market for the Pi, and I love how much attention it's got but even with a home-server workload you may find that you need something a bit beefier.

I had a plug-computer before they were cool (the Globalscale Dreamplug) and it's been pretty good for almost 3 years now.
"I read articles about giving some random homeless guy money and programming training, and then he has an app in the app store for iPhones. Why don't we just do that for all of the poor people out there? Everyone can write their own app, get training and support, and get some startup funding and see if it works out they can have their own small business. If not, well at least you tried."

Because it makes the already super competitive field of app writing artificially even more super competitive, and probably doesn't add as much good to the world as the same people could elsewhere, and probably doesn't actually make these people enough money to do much (plausibly not even survive, absent other supports).
Oh I like this logical exercise. How about, "there used to be a feudal system, and men and women didn't fall dead in the streets of hunger in droves." Did I do that right?
Yes! Haskell is a delight for optimization because you can use algebraic reasoning and calculation to derive more efficient code. For example, if I had the following code:

(concat . reverse . map reverse) strs

I could easily replace it with the following code, which is simpler, faster, and reduces memory churn:

(reverse . concat) strs

You can prove that these two implementations produce the same results (see [1] for a step-by-step proof). After you do the proofs for a while, you'll start seeing similar optimizations everywhere – and claiming them.

[1] https://gist.github.com/tmoertel/7968466
Agriculture The Most Promising Market For Drones
And farting, too?

Seriously, if you want even more restrictions on what your fellow human beings are allowed to do and enjoy, you should be very happy in North Korea and I can only invite you to prepare your visa application papers. Wait, US citizen are not allowed in NK. Hope you are not US citizen?
Ask HN: What are the best optimizations you have made?
I recently added an index to a relatively large MySQL table that made a certain function go from taking about 15 seconds to less than 0.1 seconds.
I wonder if they'll announce a rev of the Model S at the same time just to keep sales of that model up.
I don't know Blaise or have any direct experience with him, however when I worked at Microsoft I used to enjoy his talks and demos at company events. That doesn't sound like much but that was pretty rare.

At the same time my cynical side would figure that if he's half as competent as he seemed to be in these appearances, he's probably unhappy at Microsoft.
I learnt about the IFC6410 board in this thread which seems to have real gigE rather than gigE-via-USB like many other single board computers.
Qiscus Hack Tip: How To Prevent a Resume Avalanche With Evernote
Governments role is whatever its citizens decide it should be. There are no absolute rules. Every generation makes that decision for themselves.
Just a second.
It would be great if there was a new standard like LESS/SASS for on the fly browser CSS creation. Think of the download speed up and the simplicity, removing minifiers, bandwidth, complexity. Also when new browser support elements are added the intermediary layer will just be the global one always even during development. Browsers will just add them to this instead of prefixed properties moz- etc. Support can change with the same simple stylesheets, browsers worry about it.
Right on. So basically, Bitcoin solved part of the problem. The bigger unsolved, ie. not automated, problem would be adaptive updating with care to the intricacies of the diff between old and new behavior. And security in the process to prevent a mutiny or hostile takeover in the vulnerable split state. Obviously updates can't be atomic with so many players.

This kind of topic is worthy of a thesis. Thoughts?
This looks like a case of someone using a profiler to optimize a haskell program. A profiler is nearly always the best place to start when optimizing a program, regardless of the language.
- Elance & oDesk
Outsourcing industry is the only reason, why the tech entrepreneurship even exists in India.

Its easy to troll on these companies for not offering us the great life in a gift box. But the fact is bulk of the infrastructure, reputation and even the very trend to help build the entire ecosystem was done by these companies.
The Gift of Knowledge
Arcade Space Invaders
I rate a sites age/last updated (And hence how useful it is) via the copyright, if it says 2009 I'll move on. I suspect may other people also do.

Unless you are in a strange place were there are legal issues, I'd keep it up to date, preferably with a dynamic year.

If you have legal issues, I'd add in a dynamic 'last updated' or range.
"Having a poke around confirmed what I had already guessed. The unauthorised user had been mining litecoin with the mining pool pool-x.eu."

Hmmm..you already guessed someone hacked your account to mine litecoin? Astroturfing much? That's the last thing I would have guessed. I would have thought someone was using it as some crazy web server or mail server to generate spam or phony websites for bogus ad clicks.
Lists don't have O(n) complexity of appending an element, if you keep track of the tail element.
That actually makes a lot of sense. At some point he just may get tired of it. How much abuse can one person take.
Have you seen MuMaMo? It does a pretty good job handling mixed language files.

I'd also point to Ensime as an example of a language plugin that uses an external parser to check code.
There are algorithms out there that are resistant to QC attacks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_digital_signature
In fact, storage-area density apparently increases more rapidly than does transistor density (i.e. Moore's law).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder#Kryder.27s_Law

A PhysOrg.com article reports on a 2009 study by Mark Kryder. According to the report, if hard drives continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020 a two-platter, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 terabytes (TB) and will cost about $40.
Value was the wrong term. Substitute "unit of account" if you wish. Bitcoin units are summative and the maximum is fixed by design.

Way up at my original post I was pointing out that bitcoin is not the gold bug's Huckleberry, because the monetary base will peak and shrink.

Rothbardians are very exercised by the problems of monetary policy. They take the view that a growing money supply causes distorted behaviour. They view a fixed money supply as less distortionary (and deflation as a net positive over time).

Bitcoin's fixed upper limit for total circulating monetary base, at first blush, fits neatly into that worldview. Except that, as I have pointed out, it doesn't. Bitcoin is not like gold because it can be destroyed. In fact I don't think any economic theory has ever seriously addressed the problem of an irreversibly shrinking money supply.

The thing is that we know inflation does cause problems. And so does deflation. That's why most monetary policy these days aims at neither. Instead the goal is to maintain approximately stable price levels over time. To do that you must grow the monetary base in rough correspondence to the size of the economy.

> The point is, the decline in the number of bitcoins does not impact it's usefulness for those who possess and transact with bitcoins.

The point is that it affects the ratio of bitcoins to goods and services in a way that cannot be governed or reversed. Some consider that to be a feature. I don't.
Those people are already not working. So, instead of spending more on officials and offices and paperwork determining if they can have welfare or not, let's just give them the money directly.
I don't know if your post is entirely serious, but I like it.
Are academics adopting GitHub?
Proves? Hasn't this been common knowledge for a long time? Why else would jobs that need workers that are creative, but not __too creative__ demand a 9-to-5 day?
The original title, "Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers", might be more appropriate.
Yes, our investment was very publicly disclosed on my blog, Coinbase's blog, and multiple news sites. Also, I was posting positive things on my blog about Bitcoin long before I (or a16z) had a financial interest.

I am interested in Bitcoin as a new payment system / economic protocol for the Internet. I don't think people should buy Bitcoins for speculative purposes. On the other hand I'd love to see more developers build things on top of the Bitcoin protocol. My job is to invest in new technologies and I believe Bitcoin is one of the most interesting new technologies in the past 20 years.
Why I stopped using Spring | Java Code Geeks
It actually does this in a bunch of cases; see Haskell's stream fusion[1] and rewrite rules in general[2] for examples.

However, there aren't any rewrite rules for list-based code, at least with the standard library. Rewrite rules are generally used for libraries designed explicitly with performance in mind like Vector and Bytestring; the standard String type and the Prelude don't fall into this category.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/578063/what-is-haskells-s...

[2]: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.1/html/users_guide/rewri...
Winklevoss twin says Bitcoin valuation will top $40k
At the last job where I used git, I'd work in a separate branch, and I started using `git merge --squash` to merge into the main branch to keep the history from getting too difficult to follow. When git merges a bunch of different histories into one, it becomes almost impossible to make sense of if people make lots of small commits. I shy away from `git rebase`, because it seems dangerous.
I don't see how the name 'tiny' is fitting. This blogging platform would require relatively large amounts of HTTP traffic.
I purchase media often now with the advent of Steam - but people wonder why other people pirate? It's these bullshit lock in mechanisms. Why bother paying when you can just click a button and have it in HD on your hard drive to play whenever and wherever you like?

Note that I don't condone piracy, but I understand where these guys are coming from. I used to pirate when I was 14, but now I just buy things on Steam because it's soooooo much easier to just tap the Buy button and have it just work.
I don't think poor people steal from rich people, they seem to steal from other poor people.