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Including reverse charging?

VAT is complicated! Varies a lot depending on the goods you are selling as well.
So when is Stripe going to buy these guys out?
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Save scumming is so pernicious and ubiquitous that it's driving the growth of an entire genre in response: Roguelikes!
Cue, the home lab for quantified self
Show HN: #moot – simple crowd-scoring via Twitter
Though it's certainly a valuable number to know, I'm not sure a huge "TIME WASTED WATCHING TV: x DAYS" is what people want from a TV watchlist. (Whereas this would be a valuable feature in a productivity app.)
Unless you're playing against a human opponent who is very close in skill level to you (such as a friend).
For some definition of flashlight. I use the LED on my phone for a flashlight several times a week and a white screen just doesn't cut it.

* Your hike took a bit longer than expected and now you're coming back down the trail after dusk.

* There's a rustling noise in the bushes, is it a raccoon or a burgler?

etc.
Many sites reusing Heartbleed-compromised private keys
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
"What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied.
"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes.
"Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher.
"So that the room will be empty."
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan
SIGGRAPH 2014 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer [video]
As another piece of anacdata, I have one and absolutely love it. Its not the most powerful phone I've ever owned, and you're right the camera isn't great, but for the price I really couldn't ask for much more. Its quick, its light, and the screen doesn't shatter the first time you drop it on the floor.
Yes. Instead of passing the instance variables from the controller to the view, you instead send it to the client as JSON and basically replace the state of the relevant component(s) (through the ajax callback, or whatever method you prefer).

As your app grows, it might become inefficient to send down the now-huge JSON object, and you might want to add some client-side logic to deal with that. However, this might not even be necessary, as 1) even though you replace the entire state, React will only update what changed, and 2) by using optimistic updating on the client (or whatever the proper term is), the user might not notice that the actual data-syncing is a bit slower. Plus, it'll still be faster than a server-side-only approach.

The nice thing is that sending the total state (of the page or component) every time significantly simplifies matters, to the point where you might be able to keep relying on your server-side framework for most of the logic, at least until you need to start optimizing stuff.
Actually we are a EU base company, so we support the Data Protection Directive :)
New Rails 4.1 "travel_to" Test Helper
My eyes hurt just seeing these examples. I hope such technique will not get much attention outside of SO and HN.
The author clearly doesn't understand the benefit of CSS preprocessors.

Protip: There's more to them than prefixfree and nesting.
this is something I wanted to add to a little side project I called routehacker.com, to create a wiki-like searchable db of mass transit routes. Will be taking a look at the maps api for this.
This. I used mine on a long run into the mountains last year on holiday, left super early (5am) before the sun rose and it got unbearably hot. No lights on the dirt path we were running along so the iPhone flash worked a treat.
Always interesting to see the stats on those bitly links, just append a + to the end of the url.
http://bit.ly/TVTracker+
If you keep it client-side: you turn the server-side data into json, then pass that to the renderComponent function (in a script tag or whatnot). Inside your component, you'd use this data in the getInitialState function to set the state of this component (which could pretty much be the whole page).

Does that answer your question?
Nowhere near as bad as iOS4 (which added absolutely nothing to the phone in question) was on the iPhone 3G
"TIME WASTED" is one of their feature. I think much more valuable will be knowledge what you have to watch next and what you have missed.
Third time this project is on HN frontpage in 2 days... and it's nothing special. They should sell their online marketing knowledge instead.
Lost Horizon. Very good.
Of course there's faith in science, the no-quotes kind. First, you have to believe in the scientific method. Second, you have to believe that the process as it's currently carried out in academia and elsewhere leads to valid, relatively unbiased results.

The first is more of a metaphysical question. But there are huge doubts about the second in every discipline, maybe except physics. There are publishing biases, observational studies everywhere, replication problems, sample biases (19 year old college students), even straight up fraud that goes uncorrected for years. And that's just the cases we know about.
Come on, GP obviously meant the step with the single choice dropdown was redundant
I'd though so, but I have a friend that run a similar site, and he told me that this was one of the most request features.

Sure, the choice of wording is unfortunate. "Wasted" is a negative word, I think "Time spent watching TV" would work better.
It was kind of surprising to hear how just fraudulent the research on reservatrol (characteristic red wine chemical) was. The guy was a regular feature[1] on Retraction Watch until he passed away...

[1] http://retractionwatch.com/category/by-author/dipak-das/
Against The Odds, Bunkr Raises $1.4 Million
OnePlus One Smash the Past winners receving phones without SIM tools, chargers
AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
Revealed: the reason the OnePlus One is so cheap
Grumble grumble job creators! something something
Its out of stock already!
Broken link in article: the report can be found here -https://estoniaevoting.org/
Just because the Moto E is cheap doesn't mean that people aren't expecting to keep it for 3-4 years. $129 is still a lot of money to most people in the world - particularly where they are targetting this.
The Moto G LTE has an SD card slot! I'm glad to see SD having a 'resurgence' with HTC (m8) and Motorola now adding it back in.
gPapers terms itself the "iTunes for PDFs" but it seems more of a "Rhythmbox for PDFs" (i.e. huge usability problems).

I like jabref, but it doesn't have papers' ability to grab a bibliographical entry for a PDF...
This is a great game and runs fantastic on older systems. I've turned more than one old and "useless" laptop into a Wesnoth/ScummVM/mp3 player box in the past and they work fantastic.

This is also about as close as you're going to get to a native Advance Wars game on PCs. If you've played any of the AW games (GBA and DS) you'll know how addictive they can be.
Doing some digging, it seems to be possible to format >32gb cards as FAT32 using this utility[1] (see the video[2]). Apparently the 3DS is also limited to FAT32, but accepts 128gb cards fine using similar techniques[3].

And according to Wikipedia, this appears to be within the FAT32 specs[4] - it's just Microsoft's crappy format utility that has a maximum of 32gb.

That said, I'm not going to risk $350 (card + phone) on this working until I see a few field reports...

[1] http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA9fp863d-o
[3] http://nintendoeverything.com/3ds-can-accept-128gb-sdxc-card...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
Yea never even bothered ordering things online in Romania the internet is probably the best in Europe but very few western companies offer anything there.

Luckily you can always order stuff and have it delivered to a western address then have it hand shipped trough connection to Eastern Europe for a fee.

Or just move to west Europe. Still miss the speed though.
Commerce Guys Launches Platform, Continuous Delivery Cloud on AWS
Flexiant acquires Spanish startup Tapp
XOR Obfuscation explained
I didn't know about Wtactics. Is it from the same devs?

While I see the value of Wesnoth, it's not my kind of game. Now a constructed card game, that I enjoy!

Browsing that website, I think the game rules should be easier to find.
Yup, in hindsight I should have done just that. However at that point I was still hopeful and positive that VPS9 support would step up (since they've been helpful in the past with smaller issues).
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7741610
It's trickier to get OS X working on a laptop, but building a Hackintosh desktop is quite easy. A lot of motherboards are entirely compatible, while everything else (CPU, RAM, storage) works anyways.
Learn to develop iOS applications for the iPhone/iPad
Powershell is a great language. I would love to see unix shells inspired by it.

The associated toolset, on the other hand, is clearly not there yet. As soon as you start doing real things with PowerShell, you will hit all sorts of bugs and limitations.

Your mileage may vary, of course.
Is the cookie implementation compliant to RFC 6265?

http://rikacomet.blogspot.in/2014/01/setting-cookies-in-perl...
It would be pretty inconvenient for me to have a phone without a camera now, even if I were happy to carry a separate camera. Even though I have an eye-fi card and can therefore wirelessly transfer photos from my camera to my phone, there are many use cases where it's too clunky or too impossible:

1. Scanning a barcode (e.g. a product bar code or a QR code to add a contact).

2. Sending time-sensitive photos over WeChat, e.g. my wife sent me some photos as she was standing in a fabric store in another continent, and I was instantly able to pick the one I wanted.

3. Video calling using Skype/Hangouts or similar

4. Adding a payment card to the Uber app
Who cares about yet-another-new-phone.

What we need is 100% open-source software, hardware and firmware.
It's called FTL, but I am not actually sure it's Faster Than LuaJIT.
Other researches have tried and failed to reproduce Rat Park's results:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9148292?dopt=Abstract

"The results of earlier research, indicating rats housed in a quasinatural colony drank significantly less sucrose-morphine than rats isolated in standard laboratory cages, could not be replicated"
>witnessed nine out of 10 dealers from around the country falsely claim

Wait? Car dealers lying? The biggest official BMW dealear in my state got a lot of bad press when he sold BMW's that had been in an accident and were repaired as 'PREMIUM Houde Selection' cars...
Implementing “filter” with “reduce”, in Ruby and Python
There are some languages using latin script without the letter "Q" in their alphabets.

It may be an attempt to cut down the amount of helpdesk calls when 2 systems used the same passwords among language barrier.
so, they have a requirement to maintain compatibility with telephone password input, but require an uppercase character as well? it does not make any sense.

this is incompetent developers in a dysfunctional environment. there is no good light anyone can throw at it. and no, having the system live since the 50s is not a good excuse. it is certainly not the same system, for obvious reason.
I've taken to completely ignoring news about Google hardware products, since outside the US they are about as relevant as news about in-n-out burger.

This, plus Google's retarded approach to geo-location, language and it's arrogance towards non-American ideas (and laws!) concerning privacy makes Google a surprisingly non-internationally oriented company.

Companies like Apple and Microsoft are fully international, Amazon is making a serious effort to get there, but Google barely seems to make an effort.
'Game of Thrones' author explains why he writes on a DOS machine
Russia Makes Plans to Kill Space Station in 2020 Due to Sanctions
No, not especially. Poor search, pages in apparently random order. Quantity is good though.
I've always been amazed by how people can change the Holy Bible.

If you don't like it the way it is, just don't apply what's in it. Why the need to alter it.

That's like altering Shakespeare's work to modernize it, using "new" English. It became what it is today the way it was written, why change it. Just weird.

PS: I'm not Christian. Maybe that's why I'm baffled.
I've been listening to the ANTIC 8-bit Atari computer podcast, and one of the hosts is a former submariner. He has a story about bringing his 8-bit Atari computer on a tour once and writing some utility software that helped with sub operations on his downtime.

It seems submariners have a pretty wide berth (pun intended) to bring on all sorts of stuff if they can fit it in their very tiny personal spaces.

If I had to guess, I'd bet most of the folks on board a sub have "solved" their e-reader problem in various ways already. I'm also kind of surprised various manuals and procedure guides haven't found their way onto official e-readers/tablets in each compartment already.
The BBC title is misleading. The article is clear that it was British Audi _dealers_ that lied about the cars having done the Euro NCAP safety tests.
This seems like a mut point.
There are those of us who actually enjoy Windows and prefer using Vagrant with zsh when doing Linux devevlopment.

OS X just doesn't cut it when it comes to keyboard shortcuts and window management... Linux is nice but lacking in stuff not related to development.
I wish this product explained in one sentence why I need it.

How would my world come to an end without it? I often wonder if the ADHD you get from availability of all this data subtracts more than a product adds.

"Be your most motivated". How did our ancestors do it? Keeping things simple is as important as having the power promised by information. We still fail at the simple things, while getting distracted by complicated things.

"Add a sample". A sample of what? I'm also curious about how they measure how well you sleep and how they achieved wireless charging.
Thanks. I knew I'd read it ages ago, but couldn't place it.
The normal person doesn't not eat fatty fish every week.
Not that much further

> "Forty-eight of the 50 dealers I spoke to told me directly that it had been put through the Euro NCAP programme and it had a five-star rating."
warranty expires long before or in the best case at about the same time that the battery needs replacing. battery replacements look a bit similar to buying ink cartridges for printers.
By elimination it must then be one of those secretions they wouldn't name in an ad ;-)
"power goes out a few times a week"..

I'm going to think about this today as I reflect upon my own #firstworldproblems
I don't know why, but it creeps me out. If it's that easy to test your body for "molecular" levels . How long before you are asked to be tested at your workplace, on interviews, etc.

Gattaca anyone?
It's not much better in Western Europe either. The odd limited choice of Nexus models long after launch in the US and maybe a Chromecast if you're lucky.
Title is misleading, it was the dealers.
Have you tried it? This person says it works just fine. https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/466327291027804160 And it doesn't make sense that it's a holdover from phones, because then it wouldn't be case-sensitive.
It's already easy to test for political affiliation / religious beliefs as part of the interview process, but people aren't doing that. No reason to believe that something like this will be different.
500-year-old mystery: Wreck off Haiti may be Columbus' flagship Santa Maria
You really think that a flashlight adds more than $1-2 to the production cost of a mobile phone?
They are doing this to attract more people to their premium models... The key selling point of Nokia 1100 was strongest flashlight on the market and the low price... I bought it for its flashlight phone as working as technician few years back...
There is no evidence that vitamin C supplementation has any benefit. I have seen studies on this, and they don't show any benefit.

Please note the difference between supplementation and deficiency. I am using "supplementation" in the same way that I understand the medical community uses it: for strictly when you are supplementing a normal diet, and you are not already deficient in that vitamin or compound. If you are deficient in vitamin C because you are forced to eat foods without it for a long period, then you should take vitamin C pills to prevent scurvy. But if you are not deficient in vitamin C, and you do get it from your normal diet, then no one has established any benefit to its supplementation.

In that context, I think that the meta-study is relevant. People supplemented their normal diet with omega-3s, and it didn't help. Yes, there are other circumstances we have to test. We have not "proved" that omega-3 supplementation is not beneficial. But we need to amass a large corpus of evidence to address the question, and that is part of it.
Maker Faire, definitely.

Noisebridge: Yes.

Maybe the morning session at http://events.stanford.edu/events/442/44295/ before Maker Faire
Someone needs to make a parody video of this ASAP: "Man takes cue out of his mouth...smartphone says: You have 4 hours to live." "Woman pulls cue out of her ear...smartphone says: You are deaf"
Which is a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7741443
Ketone Strips and Why They are not Useless
Still too complicated. IMO none these libraries should hide NSMutableURLRequest. A lot of their functionality can and should just be exposed as category extensions to NSMutableURLRequest and a bag of utility functions.

We should expose composable pieces to assist with use of the existing APIs, not build monolithic wrappers that get in our way by hiding entire chunks of APIs in the guise of simplicity, since eventually this just requires us to reimplement the needed abstractions in a different way once our wrappers' limitations become apparent.

So today, it's simple. Tomorrow, since it sees more use by people with different needs and it ends up looking a little more like AFNetworking. The next day upstream adds some features that don't quite fit with how simple we thought everything should be, so we twist things a little. And one day we look up and it's all really complicated, so we scrap everything and start again with a nice simple wrapper to hide all that stupid stuff.

And some days later, someone needs to satisfy a network requirement, but since the authors of all of their different dependencies chose different network wrappers (they each had an opinion about what not to expose), everything is really hard to centralize.
You call that a hackintosh? THIS is a hackintosh:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfmmtSKCEAAQ2WQ.jpg:large
For Poland I would consider forbidding Y, y, Z and z in passwords.

Windows by default installs 2 keyboard layouts - Polish programmers layout and Polish "touchtyper" layout, which has z and y switched (and which nobody ever used on purpose).

The shortcut to change the layout is Ctrl + shift and many people don't know it, but they can randomly hit Ctrl+SHIFT (it doesn't help that when you want to select a whole word of text it's ctrl+shift+right), and then their password suddenly doesn't work.

Happened to me, my friends, family, people that work often with computers know to check that, but casual users doesn't. I think it costed millions of PLN in support calls and wasted time already.
> If we turn out to be wrong, though, we will not be religious about it or anything.

Well said!
Where does the Moto E compare in "horsepower" to phones we currently know? It states the Snapdragon 1.4 ghz dual core processor, isn't that what's in the US domestic Galaxy S3?
Czechs are perfect consumers - they accept mass surveillance without questions and have no idea about privacy, very good brave new citizens! Everybody uses Facebook doubtlessly and they happily run into every marketing campaign. They are willing to accept ridicolously low wages and accept the total replacement of their traditional markets by monopolized global company infrastructures, as long as you give them some little gimmick for free. This is a great country for big companies experimenting with a spineless, noncritical crowd that made it their sweetest praise to immitate US non-culture. 50 years of communism made them disciplined and hungry for products (yes, collecting empty packages of western products was a wide-spread pseudo-religious rite) and 20 years of full-force marketing with media-bombardement did brainwash them into total obedience while still believing this is "freedom". A perfect playground for testing the future of a consumerist police-state.
To those saying "it was the dealers, not Audi" I would say that becoming a dealer (in the UK at least) for a brand like Audi is not a simple matter of just applying to stick the Audi/VW badge up over the door.
Audi have a responsibility to vet their official dealers. It's the expectation here.
So it was the dealers directly, but since they are acting as Audi's representatives, I'd consider Audi to be culpable also.
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 Could Be Unveiled Next Week
At first I thought it was about a torrent tracker...
Fine, if you want to remove mut, then add const
Not necessarily: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmv1VhrtYRo
Superhot game
From the FAQ:

You can track 5 key health molecules: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home.

I was trying to figure out what the device can tell you about yourself, and it appears it can't tell you very much at present. Also, these things aren't 'molecules'.

As an MVP this is exciting stuff! In a few years we might have something that is actually useful.
Surely just turn on "QuickEdit mode" and paste by clicking the mouse.
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This is great, but the video seems a bit misleading. Seems like a all-in-one device with a magic collector capable of getting instant results of several indicators on a single sample, be it blood or saliva. But the site make it clear that an analysis package is needed for each molecule being tracked and that results take minutes. Nothing is said about packages lifespan and sample collectors reusability. Anyway, could someone familiar with this matter give us some background on the hardware?

UPDATE: from the FAQ:

"Cartridges are single-use and disposable. To enhance user safety and hygiene as well as minimalize contamination of samples, the Sample Wand permanently locks inside the cartridge and is disposed of with the cartridge."
(...)
"A 5-pack of inflammation vitamin D, fertility, testosterone, cartridges costs $20/pack. A 3-pack of flu cartridges costs $30."

Definitively not the everyday tracking thing seen on the video.
KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace
I use the program Ad Muncher for Windows, and I've found that it sometimes becomes a humongous bandwidth hog, when I'm watching video.

So it's not just memory that can be at risk of hogging.
> Visually, you can imagine that the cat heads have each pushed down a chunk of the green plane (the dog heads have held the green plane up off the ground).

Thank you, that helps. I was mentally projecting the whole plane down and could see why it wasn't all-green (or all-not).
The first thing people complain about with browsers is probably memory usage. I doubt that many people actually understand what a browser actually does with that memory. I sure don't.

100mb sounds like a lot of memory for a webpage. Where does all this memory go to?
I hadn't heard of postach.io before. It looks pretty good - thanks. I take it you use it yourself?
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