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Straw man #1

No, it's not. I've already addressed that the poverty level varies across different parts of the US. It's established by local costs and prevailing wages.

You clearly can't or won't grasp this, and you're presenting arguments irrelevant to this point. I'm not arguing that cheaper Indian labor cannot substitute for more expensive American labor, in some cases, though you may well want to study why it doesn't do so in all cases (hint: labor productivity per worker is much higher in the US, for various reasons, and by various metrics).

Your comparison of US vs. Indian costs of living is in fact a strawman. You might as well compare living expenses in Park Circus vs. Malabar Hill.

I'm done here.
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How hard is it to piece apart theft from incompetence?
Execution (match engines are just a part of that) and settlement aren't just different parts of an exchange architecture; they are often different business units, or even different companies.
Scientifically speaking, are you saying that this would be the result for most people? Steve Jobs, for example, famously took LSD but he certainly cared about controlling most things in his life, and sweated the details.
I agree that most Bitcoin service providers are total bullshit. Satoshi does backflips to create a decentralized system, and the first thing these idiots do it to try to centralize it in all sorts of ways. If the people doing the transaction can agree on a trusted 3rd party, then you don't need Bitcoin. But credit card fraud happens every day, large bankruptcies happen every year, and sovereign default happens every decade, because people are unreliable.
Just a hint shift+scroll wheel in a lot of cases will scroll horizontally.
Yeah I feel that's why the WeMos were really flawed. They needed a hub. A guaranteed place that keeps track of their status as well as a guaranteed place to relay data.
According to the article, with such a small n, the contestant should reject the first collector and pick the best offer from the other three.
I fail to see how 99% of USD, which are just records in a database, is different than bitcoins in that regard then. The failure I would argue is in the original analogy of taking physical money to begin with.
I have a fairly small bladder and I like beer, coffee and soda, so I've had to develop a bit of expertise in this area.

My standby move is to find a decently busy restaurant that's upscale enough to not have a lock on the bathroom like a big-city Starbucks / McDonalds. They'll almost always have a host / hostess stand at the front where people intercept you and prevent you from using their restroom unless you're a customer.

So I've started just walking straight past the stand while 'scanning' the restaurant. If they slow you down (they probably will) to ask if they can help you, just tell them that you're meeting some people and are going to check if they've already been seated.

Walk straight to the bathroom, do your business, and right back out the front. "I didn't see them, I'm going to wait outside." It's never failed me. Use responsibly.
A campaign to collect airfare for single people? lol
By your spelling of Iraq as "Irak" I am going to wager you are Russian.
somebody should have asked Moby why he was there.
Quote: "Sorry, Humanity," says Evolution. "What with all the jaguars trying to eat you, the parasites in your fur, and the never-ending need for a decent steak, I was a little busy. I didn’t exactly have time to come up with a way to conceive of vast stretches of nothingness."
There's also a pernicious fallacy that accompanies all these discussions, which is that DSX is either Uber or Lyft. In reality, if regulations are rolled back, DSX is going to be 100 random companies operated by some of the same yutzes that run crappy cab and limo companies.
What advantage will another currency have over Bitcoin, that will trump it's lack of branding? If Bitcoin (with first mover advantage and network effects) fails, wouldn't it be twice as hard for the next to start from scratch?

My uninformed intuition tells me it's more likely that there will be a Gold and a Silver - one better, one worse, each used for different things.
I'm glad the taboos around psychedelics research, especially as tools for therapy, are slowly falling down- there's some fascinating stuff in there.

To people who have never experienced drugs, grown up in a culture that demonizes them all indiscriminately, have a hard time wrapping their head around what they are/do exactly but are curious about them, I recommend this article by Sam Harris, a great neuroscientist[0]

For a slightly more in depth essay, Aldous Huxley's "Doors of Perception" [1] is a great book, albeit slightly dated.

There are also some extremely interesting synergies between the origins of the computer industry and the psychedelics/California counter culture era. John Markoff's "What the Dormouse Said" [2] is a fantastic read, although it requires knowing about computer history a little bit already. I learned from it that there was scientific research on LSD conducted in Menlo Park, a few blocks away from where I used to live.

There's also a great essay by Timothy Leary about parallels between psychedelics as tools for expanding the human mind and the computer as a tool to enhance the human brain in Brenda Laurel's book "Art of Human Computer Interaction Design". [3]

There's a great essay by Carl Sagan about his experiences using marijuana creatively/intellectually [4].

I had never tried any drugs before moving to California in my 20s, and had grown up in a fairly standard European culture of all drugs = the devil. Some changes occurred, and it turns out there's a really fascinating history and philosophy in there (especially w/ regards to parallels with computer history, as described in the aforementioned book).

[0]: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-...

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Doors-Of-Perception-thINKing/dp/19...

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Pers...

[3]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Human-Computer-Interface-Desig...

[4]: http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/
I wonder how much all the cameos cost?
I agree. This was a beautiful illustration of our solar system. I especially liked the running narrative. ;-)
So what happens when my email server goes down? One of the huge advantages nagios has is that there are plugins that'll send SMSes, plugins that'll send me phone calls. Hell, people have written scripts that let them call to get nagios alerts [1]. One of the huge advantages of having something hosted in-house, and with nagios, is that it can be configured to a level of precision I can't see your tool coming close to achieving.

Yes, Nagios' configuration is ugly and occasionally requires sacrifices to elder gods. At the same time, I've never found any sort of monitoring/alerting I've needed done that it can't handle. As much as your service looks cool for a specific subset of monitoring, it is still missing half the hooks as to why nagios is stubbornly sticking around.

[1] http://www.googlux.com/callnagios.html
I've never tried micro-dosing but those interested in the idea should check out Gwern's lengthy piece on the subject:

http://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
Is it going to keep you from graduating? Are you already accepted to college at this point? How badly will it hurt you? Do the math and figure that out first. It's probably not the end of the world... and next time do your homework :)
That was probably the biggest part of the idTech4 legacy--unified lighting and shadows, no bullshit, no takesybacksies.
But this should not use the subjunctive, because he has indeed drawn an image using the scale of the Moon being one pixel wide. This shows it's possible, and hence the subjunctive is inappropriate.
I view the way paedophiles are treated today as the way gay men were treated roughly 50 - 100 years ago.

Think about it in chronological order:

1. Gay people are not mentioned and thrown in jail if discovered.
2. Decriminalised, society begins to learn what they are, huge public backlash, declared mental illness.
3. Science catches up, stops declaring it a mental issue.
4. Society catches up.
5. Law catches up.
6. Gay people == Straight people

Now, of course paedophiles bring their own set of problems but think about this timetable:

1. Paedophiles not mentioned and thrown in jail.
2. Society begins to learn what they are, huge backlash, declared mental illness.
3. Science catches up, discovers why paedophiles are the way they are and comes up with treatments.
4. Society catches up, focus on treatment and feels pity rather than contempt.
5. Law catches up.
6. Paedophiles == Normal people (Obviously in need of treatment though)

I have this feeling that in 100 years we will look back and think "Jesus Christ did we do that to these poor people, they needed treatment not throwing in jail". That's even before you ask questions about the current systems ability to protect children. (I don't believe it does at all)

Of course if you made this statement outside of an intelligent forum like hacker news you would be accused of being Gary Giltter's pimp! IMHO that just shows how emotionally unintelligent we are to deal with this issue. Give it 20 - 30 years and we'll be in a far more advanced place.
The major problem here is that the auditing and security features were not explicitly looking for negative balances. They add deposits and withdrawals and check that accounts are in balance. If you have 2 BTC, withdraw 10 BTC, and are left with -8 BTC, the software would see that you deposited 2, withdrew 10, and have exactly what you should: -8.

Another design flaw is that withdrawals should be queued at every step of the way. This could not have happened if withdrawals requests were processed sequentially instead of simultaneously.

Oops!
Eh, there's a lot to be suspicious of, but people have gotten locked out of a portion of their funds, with a promise by this guy who they previously trusted to make it up.

Apparently it's only $50,000 ("only"), meaning no individual lost tens of thousands of dollars.

It's unfortunate that this guy being upfront with everyone puts him above average, but it does, so his business will probably continue, such as it is.
They did win 11 Emmies. If your going to biased to a staff a highly decorated one is generally a good choice.
I like to control things as well, but not things I am not able to, like other people, or distant wars, or politicians, etc :)

Anyway, I got a lot of insights that really changed my life for the better. Funny thing is that most of it is common knowledge, these things that are 'easier said than done', that then turn out to be just as easy done as said :)

(I can only talk from my own perspective of course)
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To be fair, a great many of web apps can justifiably say "my domain is the data store." In fact, whenever I use BaseCamp, that's exactly what strikes me almost immediately. Stock rails tends to be a great fit in those cases; your business objects are bags of data. Of course, those projects don't happen to be all that interesting to work on technologically, but I wouldn't want to work on MS Access "apps," either.
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Yeah, but he was kind of a douche.
I think this might be a viral advert for the next Back To The Future movie. A film studio would have access to special effects, the car, the actors and celebrities and the financial backing for such an elaborate fake.
Well they could have problems with manufacturing. Making real physical products in mass quantities does incur problems that deploying software does not.

They T&C also has this

> In addition to other regulations and speed limits, users of our products must be at least 16 years of age and between the height of 4’11 and 6’4. To ride safely, you must read and follow all instructions and warnings in the User Manual. It is your responsibility to ascertain and obey all applicable regulations (including minimum age and height requirements) in regard to the possession, use and sale of any item purchased from this website. By placing an order, you represent that the products ordered will be used only in a lawful manner.

As well as stating somewhere that this only works with 180lbs or lower.

UPDATE: I got trolled. No patents or patent applications and their domain has a hidden owner.
Could you clarify your position?

Are you saying that Bitcoin-based financial systems cannot introduce a more secure settlement system without fundamental architectural changes to the Bitcoin protocol?

Or are you simply saying that nobody has apparently done so?

If the former, I would like to challenge that assumption. If the latter - what are you really trying to get at?
Yes, I'll be getting questions like write a program which prints table from 11 to 20 upto multiple of 10 and write a program which tells the difference between two integers and some more questions like these. I already know PHP and JavaScript, so I've a good idea of how programs work, but C++ is fully object oriented and they're totally different from PHP's OOP except the curly braces.
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Here across the Sound in Malmö they installed toilet doors that you unlock via premium SMS. Of course, all too late they realized that locks out any tourists without a local phone number...
shift+scroll appears to scroll me back and forth in my browser history (Using FF).
https://github.com/d11wtq/boris#using-boris-with-your-applic...
Sorry you have a shitty computer, or OS, or both.
Because a real huvr board would violate the laws of physics in so many ways.
So, I threw up a bit in my mouth reading the title on HN and thought, "I'm wrong. It can't be that bad." Clicked through to Crowdtilt and it was as bad as I expected.

Old and busted: Mail-order brides. New hotness: Mail order dates from NYC.

http://archive.is/PCq7u
Watch out Brooklyn hipster guys: you got competition!
To your first point, in general you face far fewer risks regarding such issues on employer covered plans within the US than on self-bought plans. The group policy should cover these types of issues, without risk of rescission[1].

As to your second issue, I agree with this. I think tying these things together has had a large and unfortunate impact both on people and on the US economy. The ACA is far from perfect, but it does at least move some of this in the right direction.

[1] If it isn't obvious, I am speaking in generalities. As with all insurance, some conditions and medications are covered more prevalently and conveniently than some others.
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Unusable web site - does not bode well for the service.
I hadn't yet seen that particular article but I'm very familiar with those arguments. Thanks for the link!

I agree with them that building a crypto library in JS that can be trusted regardless of the security properties of the web application is impossible (content-controlled code, runtime malleability).

However, I don't think those points mean that building an application that as a whole has good security properties and uses JS crypto is impossible. If the entire application code is delivered on first load and code is never dynamically loaded, one should be able to audit and trust that complete application. That'd mean no ads, no google analytics, no CDNs, etc.

The next bit is reliable delivery. SSL is definitely needed. Because static code is all delivered on first load, an interested third party could download it at any time and see that it matches the audited code. The host would be caught if it attempted any attack that wasn't narrowly targeted.

And that's why it's better than just SSL. If the host receives the plaintext, there's zero chance of catching them.

Their points about graceful degradation and CSPRNGs are irrelevant; I'm only interested in targeting modern browsers with window.crypto.getRandomValues.
Are you a C++ programmer?
Heuristic refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery that give a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic
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I immediately pictured:

http://4thebest4e.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderp...
Love the way they avoid mentioning Rails.
I can't read the article, and wow does that headline sound terrible.
Hahaha, I was thinking the same thing....
I didn't really think they were all needed but apparently even celebrity endorsements from Tony Hawk isn't enough to convince people that this is a real product. Whether or not it comes out without any issues is another story.

I remember reading a story that Mattel actually had a prototype over a decade ago, but they declined to release it. I forgot why.

Strange. It looks almost exactly like the Mattel hoverboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSdF1iH2UDw

I guess it is fake =( Back to the Future II takes place in 2015
Note that they don't technically offer leasing, but rather a loan with a guaranteed repurchase price after three years. I don't know how much that matters, but there it is.

I get the impression that they like to talk up monthly costs not because they prefer leasing, but because it tends to show the car in a better light. They have a calculator which lets you calculate the "effective" cost of the car, which basically starts with the actual monthly cost and then subtracts off various savings, ranging from reasonable things like paying less for gasoline, all the way down to fairly dumb things like the value of the time you no longer spend filling up at the gas station.
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So, it's a fake? Dammit, it got me so excited.
Unfortunately, I won't go to college if I fail.
One problem: users of open source love oodles of features, no matter how useless. Witness the sheer number of people who admit the primary way they choose a library is the last commit date and features list.

So if you write a solid library with just the right number of features, then it might get less consideration because you're not always duct-taping over poor design choices.

This is what happens when we glorify Internet Time. It becomes more about shipping and less about quality.
Way to go, Obamacare.
> PHP, however, has types. == is wildly unpredictable

It's deterministic. It is by definition not unpredictable.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php
That's the same thing my sexual partners insist on. But they always insist I wear two, just in case one tears off.
I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make. I don't share Chris' politics, but the point he is making is straightforward: it is not in fact invalid to compare living expenses between SF and India. The poorest 5% of Americans do in fact enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds that of the average Asian. But Asia does in fact remain very productive.
You mean that diesel extends the range, is that the variable you are missing? At 20 mpg you need 50 gallons of fuel. At 50 mpg you need 20g. Cars with 20g fuel usually get 20mpg for a 400 mile range. On the flip side, many more models with diesel have higher ranges because the fuel capacity is set for petrol (20g) and swapping in diesel increases the energy payload per unit volume (40-50mpg).
I gotta say if you're an expert at something or at least consider yourself an expert at something: take LSD.

LSD really dislodges how you view the world; it cleans out your mental system, like moving a fridge and cleaning all the crap that's been swept under there over the years.

I would love if some of these prominent intellectuals like Noam Chomsky or any of the nobel prize winners did LSD. I saw a really intense movie a few days before I did mushrooms and it totally changed how I viewed the world during my mushroom trip.

I can only imagine if you've been sitting on some idea(especially a really big intense one like how humans acquire language(!)) for decades how LSD would completely alter your viewpoint.
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Why not send males over to NYC instead? (rhetorical question) The job market can better support them. Not sure if San Francisco's job market can handle more workers as easily.

I was born and raised in NYC and all I have to say is that I am glad that I moved to California as a married man. The two cities are not in the same league when it comes to both the quality and quantity of women (with the definition of quality not specified).
I can imagine this actually working in special parks with some kind of maglev system. People would line up for that experience
I predict this will meet with surprising success, but only because it will self-select for women not averse to SF.

NYC and SF attract different gender profiles for a reason. The dating troubles of the modern era are a wicked problem, similar to hiring.
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This doesn't sound like advice but it is.

First: Don't panic. It won't help and in fact will make things worse. Most of the fear comes from the unknown, which the rest of these steps address.

Second: follow ColinWright's four steps in his comment here. (What you should have been doing anyway, but I'm sure you already know that. Anyway it's too late to change the past).

Third: Consider the context: did you just goof around all semester when you should have been learning C++ or have you been doing a bunch of programming languages and C++ is simply the latest of the set?

If it's the latter case, then realistically the test won't cover much of the language and the amount you will need won't be so huge (see item "First" above). You can ask the teacher for help.

If it's the former case, well, OK, you know you won't be getting an awesome grade. Take a few deep breaths, reflect on this and then put it aside. You can't affect that but you can affect how well you do.

Fourth: Realize that one part of this lesson is about planning and context. To you, a year 12 student, this is a big deal. To me, who just turned 50 this week, it's simply the kind of thing that added to the mix that made me who I am. I was a good, diligent student AND I was a fuck up. At the same time, all mixed together. And I ended up being what many people would call a success.

My friend Esther Dyson likes to say, "always make new mistakes." That means it's best if you both learn from what happened (perhaps poor planning, which is chronic among students; or perhaps just a lack of perspective) so that you eventually learn not to make the same mistake, but also learn that you will always be making mistakes your whole life.

I know a final exam seems like a huge deal, and I'm not trying to tell you not to take it seriously! But in the scheme of things you'll survive and, depending on how you handle it, thrive.
If a person is single... and STILL can't afford airfare ???

I'm not sure that's the dating pool you want to swim in.
The optics of this are really bad, especially when the industry (as well as the front page of HN recently) has been discussing getting more women involved in the technology fields. Now we have a front page story where we're going to next-day air women to SF?
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Well done. That is a real free and open media