skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australian startups buying US Startups
$600 phones

Smartphones get cheaper and cheaper. Last year it was the $300 Nexus 4, now it's the $180 Moto G. And that's for mid-tier phones; the low end of Android goes very low.
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That's the Discourse demo site. What's wrong with resetting it every day?
The CTF does not give a description of the problem, but the code instead. And it persuades the new users not to change algorithm too much, just save a few steps, which implies to have minor changes of the code only.

Look at my another comment, hash may not be always better than list.
Unskilled labor can, for free, produce a baby. Accelerators are expensive.
Hey, Balanced employee here.

> what kinds of debit cards can be used

This will work with any US-based debit card. Regulation is hard, still working on the international story in general.

> I'm even interested if something like this will make it easier to exchange cryptocurrencies remotely without going through a central exchange.

Can you expand on this a bit? I'm not immediately seeing the connection.
Maybe there should be a secondary option to allow a site to use the mic in the background.
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A to-do list for everything. If it isn't on a list then it isn't getting done.
In addition to timers, I try to have to things I'm working on. That way I can switch back and forth.
Work in bursts and then take a break for 5 minutes.
Try to get some daily physical activity. I find that exercise is one of the few times I can reliably get my brain to shut off.
I personally think caffeine helps me, but try to identify if any food makes it better or worse.
That's not how coinbase (the company app.net is working with) works, though.

The second somebody makes a payment via BTC through coinbase for an app.net project, the BTC is cashed out on the fastest exchange possible and the fiat value of that BTC directly sent to app.net whenever they please.
PHP deployment gets really painful at decent scales. The process model is very poor leading to both high memory usage and high server load.
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Sunrise on why they ask for your Apple ID and password
I think it's a misunderstanding stemming from loose terminology... and the code size thing is resultingly a strawman.

Bloated also tends to mean things like "takes up way too much conceptual space". Which is a valid argument against a lot of frameworks. The idea being: i have to learn to think about the problem in the framework's way, and restructure my solution around it.

The opposite being: with micro-frameworks I can just wrap my app with the framework and get some functionality out of it that would otherwise be difficult or boiler-plate.

(The counter-counter being: then you end up having to reimplement a buggy version of a full framework anyway as requirements grow and change...)

The real solution is to not think of it as either/or , but as "both, sometimes".
Sorry, but repeated insistent assertion doesn't convince, compared to the many, many published sources which define and use it differently, and how I've observed it used over many decades, including in primarily academic/policy sources dating to before the era of internet forums.

Some examples of credible 'fiat money' definitions:

Oxford dictionaries: "inconvertible paper money made legal tender by a government decree"

WordNet, Princeton: "money that the government declares to be legal tender although it cannot be converted into standard specie"

Financial Times Lexicon - "Paper money or coins of little or no intrinsic value in themselves and not convertible into gold or silver, but made legal tender by fiat (order) of the government."

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Ed. - "Legal tender, especially paper currency, authorized by a government but not based on or convertible into gold or silver."

The legal decree has been an necessary (and usually primary) part of the term for a long time; here's "The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on historical principals" in 1933:

https://archive.org/stream/shorteroxfordeng01litt#page/693/m...

"fiat money, U.S. money (such as an inconvertible paper currency) which is made legal by a fiat of the government."

It seems you and tptacek dislike the mild slur connotation for 'fiat money' that's grown in some communities since the mid-late 20th century - concurrent with fiat money becoming the dominant form worldwide. You would like to yank the semantic rug out from under these disfavored goldbugs (and now bitbugs), by retconning/refactoring the term into something more simple, with no allusions to what they dislike.

But with over a hundred years' of use where the legal-mandate was a crucial part of its meaning, and a derivation from a word meaning 'authoritative decree', you're going to lose this, both on the matter of past meaning, and its perpetual evolving meaning – especially that the very idea of non-decree currencies is again becoming more salient.

(You're also misinterpreting fiat if you think it means any decree, as opposed to one from an authority with the power to make things so. Look it up! But that's a digression.)
I do a few things with this type of mindset.

I copy my 1Password keychain onto a USB drive, space is cheap so a 16gig USB drive contains backups going back like 6 months. This drive also includes other bits of data, like tax returns.

There are now two of these drives. Once every two weeks, or after significant changes are made, I rotate them in and out of a safe deposit box.

At home I have the other in a fire safe.

One of my notes in my keychain is also instructions on what to do in case of my inevitable demise :) What credit cards I have, what services I use, all of that type of information.

The master password is stored in a safe location that only immediate family know about. Along with location they know how to handle my affairs if something were to happen to me.

It's a great backup system, but also helps handle taking care of things when I'm gone as 1Password stores data about whatever you want and keeps it secure.

Hope that helps with some more ideas for how to use your password manager to make your life easier.

Kyle Swank

AgileBits
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Yup, I agree completely. I've seen this happen several times to particularly interesting stories over the past couple months. It's particularly annoying because it's "sneaky" -- no indication that a story is dead, it just suddenly jumps to the third page and stops receiving upvotes.

It feels an awful lot like a "child-proof" or "sanitized" version of HN, almost a kind of "censorship for your own good", which seems contrarian to the independent hacker spirit.

I can understand if a badge next to the comments link showed up ("warning: controversial") or something, but this kind of sneaky-censorship just feels underhanded. An interesting conversation gets going, people are making valuable points, and then... everything's just dead.
That being said, MG Seigler is a Google partner? Wow.
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Checks? Visa card without chip-and-pin? Is this the nineties again?
Network Solutions now says they will not automatically enroll anyone into the program. It will be opt-in only:

http://domainnamewire.com/2014/01/22/web-com-weblock-program...
(co-founder of Balanced here)

Thanks! We're pretty interested in cryptocurrencies at Balanced [1]. Would love to have your support on this project:https://balanced.crowdhoster.com/let-s-push-to-debit-cards/c...
The past few times I've had this happen, refreshing the page just dropped me right where I'd left off before trying to seek backwards.
At our startup (we're still stealth, so I don't want to announce it here), we found that way more people signed up when we kept the signup as frictionless as possible, because our app doesn't sound amazing in the marketing language but it really speaks for itself once you start using it (I'm thinking of my reaction to the iPhone back in 2007 - "so it's like a smartphone without a keyboard? How does that work?"). Once we get people using the app, it is very easy to get them to put in a credit card. One way we encourage them to put in a credit card is with a free trial countdown at the top of the screen that gives them special offers if they put in a credit card on certain days (e.g. 14 days left, get a freebie if you enter a credit card). One thing that is unique about our app is that it has residual value even if you don't convert, because you can opt in to still receive alerts. Each alert gives us another chance to convert a former free trial, and to date the record for latest conversion is 100 days after trial ended.
Are you sure it was the flame war detector and not people flagging the story?
Your "fix" doesn't make sense. I'm looking at this from the perspective of a dev that's looking at OP's code for the first time. You're telling me that I have to sift through the codebase (which I might not even have complete access to) to figure out the argument order of a poorly named entity, just so that I can go and add keyword arguments to each place I work with ORM code?

So now you have me going and editing tested, working code just for my personal preference and digging through code that I may or may not be authorized to view. Do you have any other best practices to share?
I don't mean this one to be a self-promotional comment - I wrote something similar last weekend:
Building real time web apps with AngularJS, NodeJS and MongoDB -
http://www.anupshinde.com/posts/livebase-realtime-webapps-an...
OP should have appended [-11,997,986] to the title
In this framework, if you have a floor income, your utility is negative infinity below that, and 0 at or above that income.

So basically run the same analysis with that utility function which is the CRRA function as risk aversion parameter gamma approaches infinity.

Alternatively, read Bengen's 1994 article - using historical data at that time, the number he came up with was 4% and a 50/50 stock/bond portfolio - http://www.retailinvestor.org/pdf/Bengen1.pdf

If you wanted to, you could segment your plan into a 'safe' withdrawal portfolio that puts a floor on your retirement income (assuming future is no worse than the past, which is of course not guaranteed), and one that maximizes spending/certainty-equivalent spending for some level of risk aversion.
Man, no way this is going to run on any sort of Windows environment. Guess I won't get to sneak in CTF time at work this time around.
This will be really cool. We use Balanced for our payments system, and have talked with a lot of our users about pay-outs. The top two problems with getting customers to cash out are the security of giving away their bank account info, and the time it takes to get your check book and input the account and routing info.

I'm curious about how this works though. I think Square Cash is doing something similar right? I've heard rumors about how it works where the company basically posts a refund to the card even if it had never been charged. Is that correct?
"Part of his motivation to see PayPal spun-off is because he thinks that by separating it from eBay, PayPal will be able to innovate faster and get things done faster."

Yeah, that's not happening at this stage. This just seems like a desperate cry for attention by a company that is losing market share.
Andrea: Unhappy the project that breeds no coders.

Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the project that needs a coder.
Translation: buy the stock.

(They would like to bet against the claim that Facebook will lose most of their users. That's a bet on Facebook's long-term value, and maps to buying their stock.)
I did run into some issues at one point (relating to not being able to use computed columns in a later unique call), which was slightly disappointing.

But I feel it does what a framework should : solves 95% of the cases well, and gives a backdoor for the other 5% (the "extra" query). I might be heavily influenced on the generally good experiences I had with the models too though.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.
Can you explain like I'm 5 why ACH debits won't work and Debit Cards will? It must have nothing to do with fees, so you're saying you assume too much risk because you'd only have 2 days to reverse the transaction? I don't know what that would be true - because you guys aren't compliant with Regulation E or something? You should have 60 days.

Edit - reading some of the comments perhaps it's about convenience - 4-5 day wait, I don't know my account number, etc.
Looks like this thread was killed by the flamewar detector and then resurrected? Or was it flagged? It troubles me when conversations on HN are just "disappeared" like that.

For those who didn't notice: this article disappeared from the front page, and another related submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105451) eventually rose to the front page, where I commented that this was strange and linked to my post on the matter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105414). The newer submission was then killed and this article was resurrected. My post was also briefly killed, though it was brought back with a reduced rank. Not sure what happened, but it's all a bit confusing.
Made some custom maps based on OpenStreetMap designed for reading on the Kindle. Have made about ~€100 so far, but there's a lot more I could do.

http://www.kindle-maps.com/

The books themselves: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digita...
I never said that I am the best developer that I can ever be without it. After all, the title is "Math is Not Necessary for Software Development", not "Math will increase your skills at Software Development".

If I had better math skills I don't doubt that it would benefit me. As it is, I've got some design skills and some product knowledge, so my broader skills just skew a little differently.
I think its better for non-trivial apps, where you isolating the database code properly in a separate module using SQL, and then, say, controller or event-handler or whatever code (depending on the precise architecture), you make calls into that code with a good communicative interface. ORMs often make stuff that is already easy a little easier, but get in the way when you need to do something less simple.
I don't want to ask too much but, could you elaborate more on the ablocal.com site?
It's hard to see the value against other services: Google's, Yelp, etc.
It's so great to see people working on this tech as the real world gets shittier!

For a second there, we may have actually had to worry about revolt.
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Agree completely, all aspects of the funnel need to be optimized, I was explaining that despite really good DAU/MAU numbers, it wasn't a metric that indicates sustainability in this instance.
You dont have to use Ruby. I actually did it in Python because I dont know Ruby. Just had to change the !# and fiddle around a little with the input reading.
And would honoring that license require them to release the source for the non-GPL licensed parts of Xcode and perhaps require some action on any patents implemented in that non-GPL code?
Their model is based on search query volume. Is it possible people simply don't need to Google for Facebook any more?
You are right on both counts, It is not a beginners programming course, knowledge of procedural/imperative programming is assumed.
>Nonetheless, we can fairly argue that both hypotheses lack a firm grounding in the evidence.

Then make that argument. Because just saying "I don't like it" over and over is not making any such argument.
(11,997,987 BCE)
Is not that amazing. You talk like if you have never use a ORM in your life before Django's one.
their price implying they'll have 150% of all advertising dollars spent in any form. Or something roughly like that.

Doesn't mean its dropping to zero, just astoundingly overvalued.
this story has been told 1000 times - the canonical outcome is that more technical jobs (programming, repair, etc) will be created to maintain and create the robots. I'm pretty sure that the dynamics of the economy and governments would shift were we to reach 70% unemployment too, towards more of a leisure-oriented existence.
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CNN's Frontpage Right Now: "Big divide: What is a living wage?" - I'm Shocked
Am I the only one shocked to see the idea of a Living Wage reaching the mainstream so quickly?

It's something that needs to be discussed in this country, and many others, but I'm still just floored that this is getting such major press.

Is Moore's Law applicable to society? I'm really wondering now.

I didn't expect Pot to be legal in my lifetime either, but here we are...
It's American banking.
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> My objections come from supporting the platform as a whole

T-Mobile doesn't care. The same thing is common in the Apple world. I use an app all the time that faked their own drop-downs to the point that the 'labels' are actually editable text fields.

They don't care. Been there for months and a few updates.
It's the same phenomenon that creates pop music, pulp literature, prime time TV, summer blockbusters, two-party voting systems, and AAA games. The mainstream tends to be safe, non-threatening, and appeal to a wide variety of audiences. There may be a genre/topic/idea that better suits people, but it takes work to find it and not everyone wants to put in that work.

Not everyone will like Thelonious Monk, and the same people who like him might not like Americana or electro house or black metal. But no one complains about smooth or cool jazz. No one complains about mainstream country. No one complains about techno, no one complains about hard rock on the radio. They're watered down, appeal to wide audiences, and are non-offensive in their broad market. It takes no effort to like mainstream culture, and it doesn't demand anything from your intellectually. You're going to like the Billboard Hot 100, or at the very least you're not going to hate it, because it's been manufactured to be liked by everyone.

Same thing with high rated comments in a lot of cases. While the poster might not actually be saying anything, might not have a point, might not have any intellectual depth to their comment, their comment offended no one, was easy to understand, and can be appreciated at face value without needing to think about it. If you can get people to like your ideas without making them think, you're going to be popular. If you make them think, they have the chance to decide if they like what you're saying or not, and if you make them think, you give them the chance to decide that they don't like you.
It is aimed at people how have difficulty getting a checking account, making direct deposit complicated.

If you don't do direct deposit you get a physical check.

Also chip-and-pin is worthless in the US until they do a big push for it, since merchants wouldn't accept it at the moment.
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> Facebook's appeal is largely casual entertainment.

I don't know if that's truly accurate, at least among my crowd (a few years out of undergrad, who mostly joined Facebook in late high school).

The use of facebook for casual entertainment has largely faded. It was new and novel once, and now there are so many other forms of entertainment out there that for that purpose we could drop facebook in a second.

We (specifically my friends, I don't want to generalize to everyone in my demographic) use it because its a centralized way to stay connected. For the most part, my high school friends scattered all over the country when we graduated high school, and then my college friends did the same thing. Facebook's prime utility at this point is that we want to keep up to date on what those people are doing, and so far, everyone is still there. I'm not sure if there is something that can come along that take over that same role for us. Now we may grow up and stop caring about that sort of stuff, but I think it will take more than a few years.
A timely comment to read, as I'm simultaneously watching live video of the Ukrainian revolution in another window.
For #2, attached events in the child nodes may still be bound. This may lead to more memory usage than needed. Of course, if you don't have any bound events in the children, it'll work. Maybe a work around for any child events would be to delegate them on the parent container and just remove that one when you clear everything.
Couldn't that argument be used about any function that has multiple values?

Besides, keyword arguments do solve the problem. Also, correctly named variables ( City(city_name,country_name).save() ) and , if need be, some comments all solve this issue.
It isn't though - it's a way to illustrate Bitcoin's usefulness as a currency as "worse than gold."

I'd put bitcoin's inherently deflationary nature, inability to perform chargebacks, vulnerability to selfish mining, incentivizing the waste of electricity, or a myriad of its other problems far higher on the list than the fact that it has no intrinsic value. Outside the above argument, its lack of intrinsic value isn't that common a criticism, nor is it really relevant.
Here's something I just don't understand about this:

How could anybody ever just "opt out" charge you money for anything? Charging somebody requires a contract between the two parties. That doesn't need to be written or signed, but there must be an agreement between the two parties of some sorts, verbal or whatever. If not, I could just spam the world saying "I herewith unlock you for Foo Service at $5000 per month, opt out by travelling to the North Pole and doing a waltz around it". Surely, that must be illegal in US law, too?

How do these people not end up in jail? Or at least sued to death by some consumer organization?
Well my first thought was to use c++11 to do the same thing to give me a better basis for moving forward, and I can't seem to use anything outside the c++ standard libraries. Thats cool because we can always staticly link everything and be done with it and

version `GLIBCXX_3.4.18' not found (required by ./level0)

:-(
Linear lists are.... linear. Hash maps are constant access. N doesn't need to get very large to see orders of magnitude difference—one you'll certainly see if you switch on level0.
> We don’t think it’s a universally reasonable suggestion to write “small apps” in a “small framework” and “big apps” in a “big framework”. You can’t really know to what size every application will eventually grow. We don’t really want to have to rewrite a previously small application in another framework when it gets “too big”. We believe the current binary distinction between frameworks for small and large applications is just false; a well-designed framework should be able to be good at both. Pyramid strives to be that kind of framework.

http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/nar...
The phrasing of "No charge at participating T-Mobile stores; if purchased elsewhere, the fee will be refunded to card account within 30 days" makes me suspect that fee is actually just the cost of getting the initial card.
People in the US don't pay for their phones outright, anyone can put together $100 for the down payment.
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I've also seen it work the opposite way - older founders who were already wealthy paying themselves no salary at all. But yes, it is obvious that younger founders without families can live on less. Another consideration is the older you are the closer you are to retirement and the less risk you can take if you are not already wealthy.