skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a problem with online only banks also. I was in a similar situation with a closing, needing a cashiers check from usaa. I had to wire the money instead. Does simple allow for wire transfers?
I don't really think the malware author cares.
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Rx is not FRP, for sure, but even most impure FRP systems (like flapjax) are not really FRP given a pure definition.

"Reactive" is quite vague. The earliest programming systems labelled "reactive" were meant for expressing low level real time control behavior, but these days the word could just as well be related to UI or enterprise/web data processing (note, that the above projects don't really help with UI, they are more for the latter!).
Yes, understood. The diagram was only meant to show how interference works, not at all to represent the problem under discussion.
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Also greed/covetousness.
I agree completely. The justification of market liquidity and accurate resource allocation are in fact false. As this article clearly articulates. Rent is the primary justification for their involvement in the market. And again as the article accurately articulates. The Rent is Too Damn High!

(not to mention the brain drain on the labor markets, and the corrupting influence on politics, and the speculative instabilities, etc.)
Where I grew up there's a saying:

Whoever holds the bread and the knife, will cut a bigger slice for himself.
Ok, and next question: logRevenue why only accept dollar ?
This puts the burden of estimating dollar revenue received from different currencies on your customer. ( which is a common case for global mobile apps... )
Sounds really interesting! Do you have any pointers on how to get up to speed on these topics?
To me, the problem with this argument is that there is, in fact, no connection between what is best for society and what is profitable. In theory, there should be, but it isn't an intrinsic thing, it's created deliberately and must be maintained.

When you have the money, you make the rules. That sums up the problem. Markets are not magical creatures, they exist within the context of social rules and norms. Selling human beings was once seen as rather profitable. Then society decided that selling human beings was wrong, even though it was profitable. You clearly understand this, we banned slavery, we didn't just ban investing in slavery-related businesses.

What I think you are missing is that there are a ton of things that are between "good for society" and something along the lines of slavery that is clearly a bad thing. The problem with these middle "bads" is that they aren't bad enough to be universally and energetically rejected.

This means that there is plenty of room for people with money to get these things made legal, or kept legal, and it is these things that often seem to be more profitable than other, more socially beneficial, activities (possibly because fewer people are morally willing and able to do them). I think of this sort of thing as "meta-competition" because it is competition among those with money to most efficiently turn their money into influence and power that can be used to allow them to make even more money.

As long as money can be converted to power, you can't assume, as you have done, that whatever is legal is socially beneficial (or at least not socially destructive).
yes, well, mostly. python has subprocess.Popen which is an awesome way to call out shell cmds, but I do most of my SA work in ruby. I just find it more pleasant to write.
I think the main reason is users in non-develiped countries and remote niches that dont really use FB.
The challenges here are threefold:

1) Trying to get reliable information out of a country.

2) Trying to figure out if it will drive "page views" or "viewership" or anything that pays the bills at the "media" center.

3) Creating a credible narrative around 'justice' in the face of massive injustice.

That is why "global warming, you may die tomorrow" is a more important story than "far away government is repressing its own civilians."

FWIW: The Economist has covered Venezuela (http://www.economist.com/search/gcs?ss=venezuela#masthead&gs...) but even it doesn't provide breaking news coverage.
Why would you claim composable futures are indeed a component of FRP? I find no mention of this in Elliott's and/or Hudak's description of FRP.

Edit:

Conal adds a notion of future values in his push/pull work, but I wonder if it is the same thing as being discussed here, as composable futures were around long before FRP:

http://conal.net/papers/push-pull-frp/push-pull-frp.pdf
setUserId --> do you propagate the user id backwards to events of the same session that were sent before the user id was set ?
You are technology-aware somehow. Billions of people are not. Us, the IT bunch, must understand this. People buy apps that make fart sounds or only show a damn GIF of a naked someone. People send emails (yes, they somehow manage to do so), and call you after to notify you. Wake up.
despite being 150 years old, from what I've heard about BBVA, they seem to be making a real push to be innovative. They've fairly recently moved all of their staff onto Google Apps which is an interesting move.

The way I see it, someone has looked at their online/mobile banking, and said "what can we do better here? what are other people in the industry doing?" and seen the way Simple operates, and the general satisfaction of their customers.

It'll be interesting to see what happens from here
> Financial sector is our new aristocratic system. Those will be and are now our rulers

"Are"? Yes, I'm afraid. "Will be"? It depends.

> They tell us, that they are needed (as the aristocrats did in the middle ages to the farmers), since we can not go without

An argument echoed by Ayn Rand BTW.
I checked and it seems they accept wire transfers, but you can't send them :(
> offline backups

If it's online, it isn't a backup, it's redundancy.
> scan the press and find...Nothing.

Ah the old, "there's a conspiracy to suppress what my side thinks in the news".

Ten months ago, Maduro was elected president by the majority of the country.

Some of the opposition tried to create this spectacle ten months in. The whole point of staging a big spectacle blocking highways etc., with some rioting, is to get world headlines. This has been happening in Venezuela for over 16 years. If the country was really anti-Maduro, it wouldn't have voted for him ten months ago.

Also, it's not even like the opposition is united at all. It's completely factionalized, which is probably why it is out of power. It also reeks of that lazy, upper class, kind of slow and dumb Castillian Spanish aristocratic sense you sometimes find in Latin America. Like that man in the documentary "The Revolution will not be televised" who said "Watch your servants! They may be Chavistas!" Watch your servants, they may be Chavistas might as well be the slogan of the opposition. It's not something with much popular appeal, either in Venezuela, or even out.
Could you expand your comment a little beyond "Fail." to explain to those of us who aren't totally clued up on BitCoin what is wrong with that statement?
OP here.

Yes, using the generated API is the issue, not generating one.

As for authenticated sites, as long as the underlying generated module keeps track of cookies received in responses and sends those cookies on subsequent API calls, just like a browser would, it should work fine for "normal" websites that use regular cookies for remembering if user is logged in. Gargl modules generated as PowerShell, or as Javascript (and used in a WinJS project) do this "cookie remembering" today. It could also of course be possible for the user to remember the cookie themselves in their code (after it gets the raw response from the API call), and then pass that cookie into any subsequent API calls manually.
The link makes no sense - if the U.S. were rooting for the protesters, wouldn't they support reporting of brutality from government forces? And if the U.S. were in support wouldn't big media be right on it?
Yea, Mint is the aggregator of all of your accounts into one platform so it's pretty cool in that regard, although there haven't been many improvements since 2008.

The absolute best thing about Simple is their goals, I just got into them and they really reshape your thinking about planning your money for future goals. What makes them better than Mint is that they actually hide your money in your goals every day
Criticizing the wealthy used to be a complete taboo in this country. It looks like things are (very slowly) starting to change. Not a second too soon.
What are the press companies outside of the USA saying? Are they just as disinterested?
> The place is full of vibrant startups & new ideas.

While there are certainly exceptions the vast majority of startups are not very innovative. Having some slight twist on sharing photos or sending messages or analytics isn't innovation.
In my experience it feels different in part because you have the person in front of you (it's harder to fake seeming genuine face to face).

It also feels different because they are talking while they are doing something else, unlike on a phone call where these questions are preventing you from doing the communication you need to do to finish the call. It would be more similar to Trader Joe's employee stopping you on your way in to ask you a bunch of questions about your day and the weather outside.
There are many types of smart, good sir.
I used to really like Trillian, iirc even payed for it once upon a time, but haven't used it in forever... most of my family and a lot of my friends are all on FB, so I check there once in a while.. anyone else will SMS/text me.

If anything, I think I've used google hangouts than most of the other IM platforms lately.
For posterity, the official repo has been transferred: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg
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In our company we do a forward-confirmed DNS to verify whenever a bot is who it claims to be.

Oddly enough we have blocked legit googlebot/bing/baidu servers, because they fail to properly configure their servers...
s/up/down/ .. just realized I transposed my up/down, but the point stands.
I swear you could just write a "HN comment generator" script for these sorts of articles:

input: $new_google_tech

output string: "$new_google_tech will let Google know more about you! I disapprove! Also, NSA."

Repeat. Occasionally sprinkle with insightful comment about the actual technology being introduced.
I know the difference between Sikhs (religion) and Arabs (ethnicity), I only lumped them together because most Americans do not and the original poster mentioned "turbans", hence a number of violent attacks against Sikhs after 9/11 by rednecks who didn't understand the difference.

Remember when the Hillary Clinton campaign released a photo of Barack Obama wearing a (Somalian) turban? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/26/barackobama.use...
> Studies have consistently shown there is very little or no autocorrelation between excess returns--that is, someone who beats the market in year n is essentially no more likely to beat the market in year n+1 than anyone else. This is very different than a field like programming or basketball, where someone who performs well one year will probably perform well the next year.

> To me, this is absurdly good evidence that the market is not "stupid," even when I think it is.

Or it could be evidence that the game is essentially random, and that intelligence is not a differentiating factor.
Maybe I'm being a bit far fetched here, but what if someone up in management is banking on "phasing out the pilots." Autopilot has for a long time been "good at some things", and there's often debate here as to what purpose a human pilot increasingly does or doesn't have in the cockpit as the computerized solutions become more reliable. As there are fewer pilots, relegate the physical role to a babysitter; potentially cutting down on the initial educational costs and reopening the low wage employment doors without that first costly hurdle.
Or it could be outright fraud. I was a victim of a person who made big promises and I finally had to take them to a debt collector. My sympathy level for people who do this sort of thing is at a very low ebb.
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this is my experience as well. I've got two keywords set up for firefox, g for ddg, and go for google.

I type in "go blahblahblah" a whole lot more nowadays.
What result do you expect for something as vague as "flowers"? Try something like "flower delivery <your city>" or "hydrangea" to see a useful search result page.
This is the third time you've deleted and resubmitted this. No, changing the title as A/B testing is not justification.
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Sure, but go back into the kitchen of any restaurant, or hang out and talk to the cleaning staff and I can almost guarantee you that you won't see any white people, unless you're talking to management or the chef.
For every Elon Musk out there, there's a thousand smooth talkers who are exceptional only at projecting an image.
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TREY songz? who? WOA Incredible  I'm a new fan 
I hope this video goes viral.
It seems unlikely to me that the author wanted to help anyone.
I wish I did not.
This looks to be fraud & lies (not just a business failing amidst unrealistic hope.) And, huge waste (not ramen).

It's good to see justice to help keep the investment environment clean.
Steve Perlman is about to learn a really ugly fact about modern capitalism. Scarcity = $$$. I hope I'm wrong, but given how certain people are reacting...
Well, with so much focus on news about tech companies worth billions, do people become too optimistic and blind for sheer con artists?
so the usage of the data is where the legality is concerned. if your users scrape a site and you host it through accessible means, you can get sued but not if you provide a flat csv file?

Armchair lawyers please advise, we need more details.
"correct" is not equivalent to "helpful"
I live in NYC and was actually thinking about Trader Joe's and checkout lines here generally when I wrote my comment. Cashiers here generally don't waste anytime with small-talk and that's understood as common practice since we're all in a hurry. In other parts of the country, some small talk is expected and one party will be viewed as rude if they don't participate. I prefer we skip it.
That a system such as Bitcoin has value does not intrinsically make a bitcoin have any value. The question is whether it is any worse than traditional/national currencies in this regard.

At the moment the speculative /bubble behaviour is dominating and volatility is too high compared with any national currency except those undergoing a massive crisis[1] (which is not most of them most of the time).

[1] I'm torn about this argument as it feels unfair to exclude currencies in crisis but on the other hand if the argument for Bitcoin is that it is as stable as a currency regarded as failing isn't an impressive claim to make.
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Sorry, I meant different in that I know very little about it. My language was imprecise.

With turbo{fan|jet}s I think there is an issue that its just difficult to construct aircraft with a single engine as opposed to wing or tail mounts.
Well, any US conspiracies seems like a waste of money, since the Venezuelan government seems to do the impossible -- running an oil country into the ground.

(But lots of people will be certain that all of that comes from more conspiracies from the US. :-) )
I just hope we don't find out that the only reason the FBI got involved in this case is that Mark Cuban or another rich person called them in. The FBI is in danger of becoming the enforcers of the rich and powerful. They already act as Goldman Sach's volunteer corporate security dept: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...
From the consumer point of view, as a startup bank I think it would be important to guarantee to the users that you'll accept no buyout offers from big banks for 5 years, and then renew that commitment every 5 years or something. It might be a crazy idea and maybe those who don't like big banks just are more vocal about it, but a lot of people are afraid of trusting a new system that can be gone any day or snapped up by a monolith that they were trying to avoid.
> In an efficient market without monopolies there's no such thing as rent seeking

Seriously, read Zombie Economics (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9270.html)
When plasma screens first came out 10 years ago, I had a similar idea for a restaurant. Instead of buying or renting an expensive location with a great view, you could rent a cheaper place and put HD flat screens edge to edge on all the walls. Then you could have a different scene every day, adding ambiance on a budget. Now that thin and even flexible screens are common and cheap, has anyone done this?
> Look at natural gas extraction by fracking - are we saying that polluting the water table, the air and ground in an is best?

Yes, it's better than the alternatives. Cleaner and less CO2 than coal, cheaper than solar/wind/nuclear. It has never polluted the water table. For North American energy, what's better?

> Or look at the defense industry.
Since the power WWII superpower era, death and destruction has gone way down. Overwhelming force and vastly superior weapons are making large scale wars a thing of the past. We are actually living in the most peaceful time of human history, from a bodycount perspective.

I agree too much money is spent on defense, but thats a political problem not a banking/investment problem.
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No, I just watched the news here in Chile on Tuesday and it was in the headlines. It was very well covered.
See. This is the stuff that I don't like. While Tango is cool, self-driving cars are cool, and Google Fiber is needed, I feel like Google is only doing these things to collect data about me.
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Legends don't die
I've used Mixpanel for some time. It does most of what it's supposed to but I'm not a huge fan. I can't wait to check them out.
New App Letting People Get Paid For Smartphone Photos
Check it out. I just started using it. Seems pretty cool. I'm just posting all of my pictures.
Redefine "innovation" as "generate money for VCs". Then anything which lets you sell eyeballs to advertisers (or metadata about eyeballs to advertisers) becomes innovative, if you do it at the right scale.
I'm not addressing your post, or the situation in Venezuela at all, but:

> If the country was really anti-Maduro, it wouldn't have voted for him ten months ago

Elections can be rigged. Votes can be bought. There always need to be more datapoints than just that.
Nobody should feel sorry for him, I was the CTO of Motionloft during the first two years of the company, and before he started stealing from the company (as far as we know). He is/was the most selfish and delusional person I've ever met. I hope he ends up in jail for a really long time.
If it doesn't have much appeal then why do they feel the need to terrorize middle class neighborhoods as they article states?
That's really exciting, I will definitely check it out!
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Either you ride the seabus, or you're figured out the secret to teleportation. I've sat in more traffic lineups* on Taylor Way than any sane person should ever have to endure.

The same can be said for the Massey tunnel, the Port Mann (before it was rebuilt) or half a dozen other spots in the lower mainland.
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Yeah I know it's a local, but it reminds me of other languages where it's global (JavaScript). It get's confusing. And even as a local it is still bad. How is it that the =~ operator can assign local variables? Can other method calls do the same? If not, why not? Why this special status?
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It's worthless to speculate about what would have been if this or that. There is no way to know. It is sad, however, when the aquisition happens simply to remove competition like some of the buyouts that are immediately followed by startups removing their product offerings.
>Malware aside, it's annoying that people still think Bitcoin payments come "from" an address.

Do you mind clarifying?
> Then society decided that selling human beings was wrong, even though it was profitable.

More interestingly, society decided that slavery was wrong after it became unprofitable. The same goes for child labor.
Funny, usaa has a pretty good mobile app, with check scanning (unfortunately they only allow that if your military + credit card).
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This is an article from a few months ago about the accusations against him: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/30/motionloft-jon-mills/

The comments have quite a few of his investors discussing the allegations, which make for interesting reading.
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"...ever considered the possibility that the people running google are actually just hackers who got lucky enough to have the resources to pursue projects that they think are cool?"

Given that he said that, yes, he probably has considered it.

You're reacting reflexively here.

There's ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with considering the potential problems along with the benefits. In fact, it's extremely shallow not to.
I'd heard of the TomTom SDK, but never even explored the option for quite a few of the concerns you managed to affirm from first hand experience.

I very much agree on your point about platform lock-in worries associated with automotive OEMs. Though Google via the Open Auto Alliance is making headway to push forward a more standard platform, it seems likely that OEMs will still wage territorial wars to lock app devs out of the data garden. The OEM caution is not without merit, they're the most likely legal target if someone drives into a wall because of poor usability from some buggy 3rd party Music app on their platform.

Given all of these potential in-car platform issues, how do you feel about creating an interface on the smartphone that makes accessing apps safer?
So to be clear - we are not implying that these routines should be used in the browser right?

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
The AP has a story out now:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/02/20/world/americas/ap...

EDIT: I googled to find the AP story, but I just now stumbled onto another article during my normal aimless coffee-break web surfing. So I think the story is picking up steam.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
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I'm sure tiny gyros and accelerometers have improved in the past couple years. They've probably advanced dead-reckoning using existing sensors. And maybe they can use both front and back cameras for position information.
I would expect a glorified redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower That is what I expect for any search that is vague or generic. The results for "RTG" are pretty much my idea of what a set of results should look like.

(Note that while DDG's results page for 'flowers' is cleaner, the actual results are similarly shit.)
Not just yet. It'll be on the app store April 1st, assuming it passes Apple's tests.
A landing page with white text on a pale grey background? What is their UI designer smoking?

That, and I can't pull up the "Sign up" page or view information about any of the available photos (I see the thumbnails, but nothing happens when I click) on IE 8.
I should note, I tend to have a LOT of tabs open (like 20–70, because I have a sickness). In Chrome, each one gets its own slice of CPU, and it gets way up there.

My lap, and my potential for creating future children, much prefer Firefox.