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Such a shame. After owning an iPhone for since the first launch, I recently bought a Nexus 5. Cover was one of the first apps I downloaded that showed me the power of Android. Effectively doing what you want with the OS. I wasn't oblivious to it, but here was a nice approach to make my life just that tad bit easier. I showed a lot of friends and they were all impressed. Felt like maybe something that should be baked in Android. Unfortunately, after 2-3 weeks of usage, I gave up after it wouldn't reliably switch home to car or car to work and found I needed to intervene a lot more than I would have liked to. However, I was hopeful this would be smoothed out...guess not now.
I was just about to say "surely there are honest alternatives in the Philippines below 25%", but I just checked my most recent Kiva loans in the Philippines, and the portfolio yield on my most recent ones range from 28% - 45%. Thanks for the reminder to check the Yield when lending.
I have a small side business providing consulting and equipment services to broadcasters using Skype/Google Hangouts/Spreecast/etc. as a cheap way to put remote interview subjects on the air. While this could be exciting depending on price, locking into Skype isn't ideal. In my experience letting the interview subject select the platform they're most comfortable with yields better results.
Oh yeah I saw that. It's gonna make life tough supporting it in my app lol.
There is essentially never an issue with the insurance company unless you make a claim. The insurance company is happy to take your money regardless of how well or poorly you follow their terms, and will just deny a claim if there is evidence of any violation of the terms.
Hardly. The "new code/technology" is completely open spec/proposal and its implementation is open source in Chromium. In terms of "Google pushing it", the spec was co-edited by people from Microsoft and Netflix. In terms of "supported only by Chrome", this is strictly Mozilla's fault as there is nothing stopping them from implementing the spec today.

This article and a lot of comments here are really sensationalizing reality. Google needs to serve tons of video data efficiently so they are motivated to push things like MSE. Reading this as "Google crippling Firefox" seems really dramatic and contrived.
Indeed. Given the availability of reading material and the skill of reading, any "circuitry" would have to be a relatively recent effect in the general population. Further, if "new circuits" are developing over a few tens of years, why would anyone expect the "traditional circuits" to have taken longer?

It seems to me unlikely that this is anything other than an individual behavioral difference.
Did the article do a bad job talking about the UX of search boxes? Did the author try to hide their interest in the topic?

I really don't see the problem here.
I read to about here:

"Using an apartment for short-term rentals is a crime in San Francisco," said Edward Singer, an attorney with Zacks & Freedman who filed the notice against Katz.

Considering private attorneys don't prosecute crimes, this sounds like a landlord that wanted to raise the rent and found a good excuse to evict the current tenant.
Hi UweSchmidt,

Yes, that is true: loans held for less time pay less, and a loan at 5% held for 2 years would pay 10% of the principal.

Using flat rates instead of APR does result in loans that cost disproportionally little when held for short periods, and disproportionally much when held for long periods. The greatest concern are cases in which a loan for an initially large amount is held for a long time after most of the initial amount has been repaid, resulting in interest calculated as a flat percentage of the original amount being applied even though most of it is no longer outstanding with the borrower. Avoiding such situations is probably the strongest argument for changing from a flat rate to an APR methodology.

We have not done so because such cases are not very frequent, and because we judged that the value of having a simple and intuitive cost calculation method outweighed the value of having a more precise model that the majority of our members would not understand in practice.
The HFTs get to see the list of orders as they come in. That's the advantage of colocating with the exchange.

If a 200,000 share limit order is placed at the NYSE, the HFTs know that regulation NMS requires the NYSE to route shares to the BBO on other exchanges, before filling the order from their own book.
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Does anyone spy a link to the data? Some of the numbers make me think they're over-emphasizing the conclusion.
I don't see any ambiguity there. Airbnb is just one such abuse.

In talking to people, I've heard countless examples of "master tenants" charging incoming roommates much higher rent than an "even split" on the rent. In one extreme, a tenant in a 3 bedroom was living 100% rent free while the other two tenants covered the entire costs - until they learned of this and moved out on principle. Tenants moving in as roommates on rent controlled apartments are apparently even offering cash bribes exceeding $1k for the privilege of obtaining a spot.

Quite the broken system, imho.
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So, in this climate of protests and such, I wonder which news outlet will go with the "just trying to make ends meet due to the high cost of housing due to all the techies, a couple used Airbnb (one of those techie startups) and got evicted. now their apartment has been rented by a tech startup employee and they are homeless" angle. It seems like the perfect storm type story.
Normal maps tell you where Ukraine is :)
Yep, prefer the iphones smaller width to be honest. Not everyone has huge hands.
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Why does capitalism have to be maintained? We are capable of sending a man to the moon, but this is the best we can come up with for wealth distribution?

Actually on second thoughts, its not really capitalism our current system. Capitalism should have failed, but the banks got bailed out by the tax payers, and we have been on emergency low interest rates for years now. This ain't capitalism or free markets.
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Sorry English is not my first language and sometimes I end up writing convoluted sentences.

Let me rephrase then.

Why would anyone but HFT traders need to move 10K lots through the market?
This isn't black and white.

Many landlords struggle because their tenants are paying below market rents. This is a particular problem in San Francisco, but also in other cities like NY.

On the one hand, you can say, "Joe taxi driver can barely afford rent, what's wrong with him leasing out his room when he's out of town?"

Then look at it from the landlord's point of view. They say, "I can't get a free market rent, because the law says that I can't evict Joe Taxi Driver. So I have to settle for less money, then he goes and rents the room out without paying me a dime."

Then look at Jane NewToTown. Jane says, "I would like to pay market rate for Joe's place. I can't, but if I want to stay for a few nights I can pay the renter who gets below market rates, rather than the landlord."

AirBnB isn't the cause of the problem - it exists because there is a problem that it being arbed.
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It was clear that Disqus had jumped the shark after they first added opt-out ads, but I suppose the slope is slippery.
The pros of a larger screen vastly outdo the cons. I can't even imagine the tiny screens I used to deal with, and my next phone, I'm definitely looking for something even larger.

It's madness that Apple doesn't offer two different phone sizes, the only rational I can come up with is that they blew their load convincing people that their size and form factor was the best best best.
Seems unlikely. Fuses, MOVs, and clamp diodes cause signal integrity issues (especially at 3.3V and under). And, for 200 lines, the cost might be impressive.

That said, if the Pi foundation can arrange for all the I/O to come out of reset in a hi-Z state, then there's a chance they could arrange the rest of the pins to avoid damage.

But would it be worth the effort? Given how hard it is to access most sodimm sockets, mistakes seem rather unlikely.
I'm uncertain if you are addressing me or rayiner, but marriage equality (or more so bans against) is an easy one without even straining.

Do you mean to imply that laws are inherently just and fair?
"Maybe, but we cannot tell". Great script, I could build in in node.js in 10 seconds :D
> Airbnb is well aware that many of their hosts are renting illegally

Their entire business model, in fact, depends on it. Welcome to the "sharing economy", that is, the economy of ignoring the laws regarding what it is you're trying to do
The RPi is essentially a PC, the only real difference is that it uses an ARM processor so yes, I'd assume it would be rather easy.
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There still is (at least to me) a difference between specific illegal activity involving housing laws and simply any illegal activity in the apartment. Can you get evicted for, say, lying on your taxes from your apartment?
I totally agree with you about the SEEMS.

But that's exactly why the Michael Lewis book is so frustrating. He's a paid professional who should be able to see through the SEEMS to get to what is actually happening. He's also a talented and popular enough writer that he probably could have done a lot to help explain to the world what's really going on here.

But instead he took the lazy route and just played into everyone's fears so he could make another 5 million (or whatever) on his latest book.

It's so lame.
Which Sublime version are you using?
Excellent, I've pondered doing something like this with a BeagleBone Black. Can't wait to try it out and see what I can do.
I read "skype transactions" and was awed that MSFT suddenly was a paypal competitor.
I can fit a nexus 7 in a few pairs of my work pants. Stop wearing skinny jeans.
How does forcing someone to leave an extra bedroom empty drive up prices?
FWIW, my list of ideas: http://firespotting.com/submitted?id=shadowcats
Economics is the main challenge because it's a difficult task and the demand for it is low (market is small if demanding [0]). But the mbrola people, who have a nice free speech synthesis program that also isn't opensource, [1] say it's a hard technical problem too.

[0] http://www.ted.com/talks/roger_ebert_remaking_my_voice

[1] http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html
Not so sure about your second point - If a person has a place that has been rent controlled for 5+ years, this is quite doable.

Additionally, how is renting out a "rent controlled" place at market rates not transferring income from the actual landlord, to the lessee, while defeating the "control" at the same time?
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Correct, plus the cheap SD connectors are a source of a lot of noise and unreliability. Just doing away with them will be a huge benefit.
Thanks! I didnt know this.

I actually just received my first RPi's on friday...
While your cynical assessment of the chances for Comic Neue is almost certainly accurate, at least there's a chance that Comic Neue could replace Comic Sans if it makes a big enough splash that it turns heads at Microsoft or Apple.

Of course, you're saying this in a forum filled with entrepreneurs where each of us has a slim chance in hell of turning our rinky-dink start-ups into unicorns. We do it anyway. A dreamer has got to dream.
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IANAL, but my understanding is that HOAs in California can't put a lien on your property for failing to pay fines, only for failing to pay dues.

Furthermore overly punitive fines aren't allowed, and that rule does in fact have teeth (and is also abused by homeowners to make it more expensive to collect fines from them).

That means if you pay your dues, but not your fine, the only option the HOA has to collect is to sue you. Once you pass the maximum for small-claims, that starts to get really expensive.

Lastly, each homeowner has a common-interest in the HOA, including an equal vote in board-members. For large HOAs, that becomes fairly moot, but for smaller ones, it makes a difference.

Now HOAs aren't all sunshine and roses (I prefer to not live in one, primarily since common-interest property tends to be run quite inefficiently), but it's not as bad as you make it out to be.
I see a lot of undeserved negativity here for what I'm sure is an exciting time for the Cover guys. Let's not piss on their parade. I say congratulations, I hope you guys made a bit of cash, had a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy working on interesting projects at Twitter!
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I think it's poor form to name names from deleted comments.
Yup. No Ukraine on my globe as a kid in the 80s, just "U.S.S.R.".
> What the hell are you on about?

Please don't address other users aggressively on Hacker News.

Consider how much better this comment reads if one deletes the first sentence. It goes from being a bad HN comment to a good one immediately.
The new paper the blog post introduces: http://www.bailis.org/papers/ramp-sigmod2014.pdf
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Julia, I think you need to spend some more time considering MMC's analysis and hopefully some more significant changes to how you present and market the costs of these loans.

I had never heard of 'flat rate' vs 'declining balance' interest rates. As far as I'm concerned, it's abusing the word to call your fees an 'interest rate' because they are not. They lack the necessary property of a 'interest rate', that is, being based on balance over time. What you are charging is a fee, based on the starting balance and period. I think you should stop calling this an interest rate, and I'd be surprised if it's not illegal to do this anyway.

It sounds like your 'service fee' is ALSO a flat rate fee based on the starting balance and period, which makes splitting it out and consistently footnoting it in your marketing seem deliberately misleading. The reason we insist on APR is because you can't hide anything from it. When lenders make up terms and market them, it's almost invariably because they are trying to hide costs. Somehow this cost hiding is always couched as 'better for the borrower'.

The "it's only 63 cents" trick won't work with this crowd. Because we understand how "interest rates" are supposed to work. If it's just 63 cents, then easier to refund it than write the blog post. But 5% of $2m is $100,000 so lets get real.

MMC includes a screenshot showing 'About this Loan' a few times during the article;

Amount Requested: USD 50.00
Repayment Period: 6 weeks
Grace Period: 1 week
Offered Interest Rate: 25.00%
Service Fee: 5.00%
One-Time Reg Fee: USD 11.78

Total Amount (Including
Interest and Transaction USD 51.73 (30.00%)
Fee) to be Repaid:

It was confusing to me, even with the explanation in parenthesis, that the 'Total Amount' did not actually include all the fees. You should call it a 'Partial Amount' if you want to leave parts of the total amount out. Otherwise, it should actually be, you know, the total amount.

If you can get users to pay the 'Registration Fee' completely independently of getting a loan, then by all means, have them pay it separately, and keep it out of the loan statement. But, what I imagine really happens is, users pay this fee to get a loan, then it's a loan fee, and you have to include it when you do things like report your total loan costs!
For Hypercard, I think the answer is that, at the end of the day, people will write off any technology that gets "stuck". Spreadsheets are amazing (I have a secret deep love for them) but you can't code with them without hitting a wall of what they can do. SQL and declarative languages are better but still suffer from that granularity issue.

[Disclaimer: I work on a hypercard-like declarative language.]
An acquihire is not a success it's a failure, and instead of being excited, I'm sure the feeling is more like being resigned to at least having a place to go after closing the doors. It's sad too because their product is ace.
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The tiny plug on my laptop seems to take 200 watts just fine. I doubt charging a battery as the article describes but you're going too far in the other direction.
But if you profit off illegal activity and/or look the other-way... you have created a nexus with that activity...wilful negligence etc. How do you stay out of the legal crosshairs?
You should reinit the map though, otherwise doing this on level 2 causes funny bugs (and makes the game rather easy ;)

maze.create = function() {};
var tmp = map.placeObject;
map.placeObject = function(x, y, t) {
if(t == 'exit') tmp(x,y,t);
};
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Sounds like a decent way to eventually get ridiculous laws changed.
What editor were you using previously, and what in Atom made you switch over?
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24/7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country three months after the U.S. release and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." - Gabe Newell IGN Interview (Nov 25 2011) [link]

[link] http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/11/25/gabe-says-piracy-isnt...
You're not alone, I have noticed as soon as you get out of most tech circles and look at mostly women only things, that is nurses/etc... they tend (tend is key here not always) to prefer iphones.

Funny part is they seem to hate the 5/5s cause its too tall and still prefer the 4s. I know a girl that downgraded back to her 4s because the extra height on the 5 was too much.

With my girl hands I pretty much agree though, I do miss the smaller height of the 4s over my 5. I think when people talk about what phones they prefer they should also bust out their glove size. Mine is a 7, and any phone > 4"ish starts to really frustrate me when I try to text one handed.
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I'm behind you 100%, but even getting that discussion started will take a colossal effort.

People don't know what open sourcing even means.

Worse, the government will certainly interpret discussions of open-sourcing as an affront to its authority/power (rightly so), and will likely attempt to crush any movement toward that end.
I was just looking for rayiner's take on what makes an unfair law unfair.
Airbnb doesn't have to know about laws in every places, but if it knows about such laws (and that they're being actively enforced) in SF and NYC, why allow people to announce or rent places there in the first place?

There are plenty of services (online streaming) that will tell you "sorry, our service is not available in your country/city/etc".

The fact Airbnb is allowing this to continue makes me question their ethics. It's all good they want to change the law but while they haven't had success in the area, is it worth the bad press and headaches for renters?
Been using it for several weeks. I prefer it slightly over ST2.
Hi mcintyre1994,

Thanks for noticing that. I am not finding the quote "And that's just for repeat borrowers (by sheer chance, none of the 20 random loans was from a first-time borrower)." in the blog post now.

I did take a look at the borrower profiles that were linked below the photo collage, and the majority of them were indeed first-time loans. These can be identified in that only second and subsequent loans include the link "View previous loans" below the on-time repayment rate displayed in the profile pages.
If you own your own home, code violations usually result in getting an abatement requiring you to cease that activity, pay fines, or otherwise come into compliance with the law. There are a variety of enforcement mechanisms that can be used ranging from fines to condemning the building depending on how they structured the law.
A lot of the unreliability comes from the connector, and a lot more comes from crappy counterfeit SD cards.

If you still want an SD card (I don't -- network and USB are so much faster), I expect you could buy an IO board with one or more. I don't see one on the Pi Foundation's board right now but it should be easy to add.
I've been working on this problem as well - the idea is to come up with a "dynamic decision" boundary that allows you to have a "virtual p-value" for different points in time that is equivalent to the 5% p-value at the end of a standard experiment. For example, maybe you stop any test with a p-value less than 0.05 after 30 days, but you require a p-value less than 0.01 for 10 < d <= 30 and less than 0.001 for 1 < d <= 10.

Here are some sources on how to go about doing
that:

http://people.bath.ac.uk/mascj/papers/cj_bwt_kuwait.pdf

http://people.bath.ac.uk/mascj/talks_2013/cj_york_may2013.pd...
Thanks. I've been looking at the code, and aside from a list of dependencies in client/requirements.txt, it looks pretty simple.
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Pretty much.

All my online logins are long random passwords stored in either 1Password or my phone. I've considered writing up my password (to 1PW), and computer unlock PW, and dropping it in my safe deposit box, updating it monthly or whenever I change those passwords.

Any good reason not to?
Lowers the effective rent for the apartment.

Let's say everyone in San Francisco rents out their apartment for $200 once a month. Now landlords can raise the rent by $200, since people could afford the rent before, but are now making an extra $200 a month. Meanwhile, you, the person that doesn't illegally rent out their apartment, has to compete for apartments with people that can pay more because they break the law.

That's where the angst is coming from.
I think you might want to rethink that assumption. No definitive data, to be fair, but this: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/02/geog.test/

"Inside the United States, "half or fewer of young men and women 18-24 can identify the states of New York or Ohio on a map [50 percent and 43 percent, respectively]," the study said."

I don't think it's that far fetched.
Short-term tenants generally pay substantially more on a per night basis than real roommates (long-term tenants). Forcing only long-term tenants would thus presumably cause rents to move towards what the long-term tenant market can handle rather than the aggregate nightly rate achievable by accommodating lots of short-term tenants.

Naturally the reality is vastly more complicated but I believe that's the basic reasoning behind the "short term rentals drive prices up" line of thought.