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> Let's say I have $10,000 in a Wells Fargo checking account. Tomorrow, they add support for Stellar. How does that play out in the protocol? Should I trust them for the full $10k in my Stellar client? Some intermediate value? Why?

Great question. You'd probably want to Wells up to the $250,000 FDIC insurance limit — the US government has guaranteed that funds up to that amount are safe, and so you likely feel comfortable with them holding that amount on your behalf.

> Let's say that I want to cash out some bitcoins using Stellar. I'd find a Stellar gateway that supports Bitcoin, deposit the bitcoins there and trust them for the deposit amount. I'd need a USD gateway to send the funds to. Do I trust the USD gateway for the expected USD value of the bitcoins plus a buffer for variance in the price?

This one is probably easier to handle just by using Stellar's baked-in exchange. As I mention at the end of the post, you can make exchanges without regard to your trust settings. So the workflow would be:

- You deposit BTC with a gateway, trusting them to your deposit amount.
- You create an offer with TakerGets: BTC, TakerPays: USD from your desired gateway.

And you don't need to set an explicit trust line with the USD gateway.

> If I trust two gateways for the same currency, the network reserves the right to move balances between those gateways. Do these moves only happen if they increase my balance? Otherwise, why would I trust multiple gateways for longer than it takes for me to complete my transactions?

In the steady-state, the way to think of a gateway is as an analogue of a bank. You probably want to maintain a long-lived relationship with one or more of them. Those moves will happen at par.

For example, imagine that I had $100 with Wells Fargo and $100 with Chase, and you have the same. By default, we could wake up tomorrow and find that I have $200 with Wells and you have $200 with Chase.

> I'm excited to see what people build to solve that problem.

Me too :).
My experience in gardening leads me to believe that "fresh" manure is actually not that great for plants. However, pile it up and let it stew for a year or two and you're left with good fertilizer.

TBH, I've only used livestock manure for gardens, so perhaps human manure is different, but I rather doubt it.
Some fish are also very high in mercury[1] content these days.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish
If you are interested in this sort of thing, the chess programming wiki is an excellent resource:

http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/
This kind of thing is becoming increasingly common. The latest "wonder drug" for cystic fibrosis costs some crazy amount (like $300,000 annually) and I believe it works for about 5% of people with CF -- though, in this case, testing can determine beforehand if it will work for you because it basically works for people with specific alleles. Here is one of many articles on the topic: http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/health/cf-wonder-drug-ka...

Part of the problem is the mental models behind our concept of "health care." Everyone who is looking for a new drug (and I don't just mean researchers -- it is a broad cultural phenomenon and patients are equally guilty) or miracle cure tends to have their blinders on with regards to more effective but less splashy treatment modalities.
Ask HN: What is the most convenient blogging platform to integrate with Heroku?
I'm currently blogging on Medium but would like to host it on my company site to reinforce my brand rather than Medium's. I have been searching high and low for an easy way to integrate a blog directly into my web app built with Ruby on Rails. Since the app is hosted on Heroku, I have ran into various issues with a spectrum solutions (e.g. needing to host blog on subdomain, etc.). I was surprised to find out that there's not a Heroku add-on for basic blogging functionality.

What are some of the pros and cons of the blogging platforms you have tried and integrated with Heroku/RoR? I appreciate any feedback rather than trying to recreate the wheel.
Tried it. Typed e4. Got this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sunfish.py", line 388, in <module>
main()
File "sunfish.py", line 365, in main
move = parse(crdn[0:2]), parse(crdn[2:4])
File "sunfish.py", line 345, in parse
fil, rank = ord(c[0]) - ord('a'), int(c[1]) - 1
IndexError: string index out of range
Thank you for posting this! Incidentally, I came across this a few nights ago when I was desperately searching for Martin-Löf's article on verificationism. A very handy collection!

It might be an interesting exercise, if someone can get his permission, to re-typeset some of his older articles so that they are searchable and more legible.
A Simple Radio Transmitter That Can Be Built Only With Passive Components?
If an employee owned 4% of the options, would they have to give up 100%? This simply sounds like they are not doing their math right. Obviously, the plan that they proposed benefits them, but propose to them what would be fair based on diluting options by percentage equally. If they want to extend the option pool, the same percentage should be taken out of all option holders.
Here's my first thought: Pretty and simple.
Second: Who is this?

Sorry, but I don't like signing up to random single page apps without background knowledge about it. Why should I post my email to even more potential spam sources voluntarily?

I do realize everyone has to start somewhere, though.
I get the idea and I think it's clever. It might even work to convert leads. But as a user, I find it rather intrusive.

I've come by quite a few websites recently who fire this in my face prematurely. It feels rather annoying to get a "please don't leave us" pop-over when all I wanted was to move the mouse out of the way so that I could read the site's content (which is now impossible due to the aforementioned pop-over).

</rant>
> Doesn't this work just as well in reverse?

.

> I live in the bay area, but am from Utah originally

You just answered your own question.
Any plans on releasing the source code?
I think this is a useful viewpoint on the matter - "Should I use those annoying popups?" = http://socialtriggers.com/annoying-popups/
And the plot thickens. Synology acknowledged on Facebook and customers are not happy:
https://www.facebook.com/synology/posts/10152343606857897
This is comparable in scope to Microsoft's Project Roslyn (compiler as a service).
Fish need to eat other fish to survive.

We don't need to eat other animals to survive.

It is very possible (and very easy, in some places) to survive and thrive without animal products at all. Why should animals suffer for our pleasure and/or convenience?
I don't think pay is as much lower as you think it is.

I keep in touch with a lot of people in tech from all around the country. Those in flyover country (Denver, OKC, Austin) make less money than those in comparable positions on the coast, but it might be 10% less. Meanwhile their housing costs are typically less than half.

For comparison purposes:

For the same price as this 800 square foot 1 bedroom condo in SF http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/452-Fell-St...

... you can get the most expensive home in my entire zip code. 2800 square feet, on a private lake: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4845-W-Warr...

The net result is that, on a developer salary in a place like Denver, KC, or Salt Lake, you can afford the same luxuries as on a developer salary in SF, and quite possibly more.
Yeah, everybody's doing it.
Try saying e2e4 instead.
I think decentralized exchanges will only work on platforms like Ethereum, where it's easy to tie all sub-currencies to each other, since they all use the same underlying platform, and it should be a lot more secure, too, than tying incompatible currencies and blockchains to each other.
I understand that changing all links is more work than updating clients, but why did developers of TCP/IP decide to do it this way?
That's not at all analogous. The bride and groom are "threatened" because they're the ones that signed the contract.
Incognito: http://i.imgur.com/yvmBMde.png
The trycaviar link comes up first for me.
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"Many (most?) people don't know what the hell they are doing when they start"

Its as bad as parenting, although the stakes aren't as high and its often more carefully planned.

Tropical fish are cool, I've kept some on and off since the 80s.

I will say from my wild youth that they are a good hangover pet. When you're too "blah" in the morning to do anything, you can at least watch the fish.

I have had the same pleco for about 9 years although it strangely seems to have stopped growing around 5 inches or so. And I had an oscar for many years and only I fed it and through extensive experimentation involving cardboard boxes and other test subjects I came to the conclusion that it identified me coming to feed it by gait analysis not visually, which I thought was interesting. Or maybe my experiment was faulty, I donno.

Gotta be careful with fish, even just trace contamination from some herbicides and detergents can kill them. That might have gotten those fish.
Thanks, this was inspired after using qualaroo and having a good experience but $250 a month is nuts.
See [0]. Also see this[1] and this[2].

[0] https://twitter.com/mikeevangelist/status/496322439740424193

[1] http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28243/

[2] http://www.synology.com/en-us/support/security
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This AMA was pretty helpful for me:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2cbthq/science_ama_...
I do the same, but for most subjects the english article is enough. I rarely need more detailed information than that, but if I do, and I need it, I will use a translator too.
> arrivals are essentially a poisson process.

The funniest thing I've heard all week.
As the author of ARAnalytics it's been really cool to see this DSL approach to analytics. It means that the code associated with doing all analytics is kept separate from all the application code. This keeps code well compartmentalized and simple.

Good work Ash.
Now I am gonna be suspicious of chip bags and plants everywhere. We will need to invent telepathic communication (mind to mind) to preserve privacy.
You can do it on your desktop,

http://oi58.tinypic.com/2rrnyxc.jpg
There is something similar to racism going on, and the article does mention it: the social caste system, in which it is considered taboo to adopt behaviors of the untouchables, even if such behaviors may be beneficial to avoid cholera.

It's all about prioritizing. Creating a bunch of port-a-potties is a cheaper, and more possible, short-term solution than upgrading the water infrastructure for a country of a billion people. Yes, I said billion, because yes, that is a factor. Ignoring it won't make it easier.

I'll agree, putting a port-a-potty inside my apartment isn't a great solution ... but now we're arguing placement, not the validity of using it instead of an open field.

As for cleaning out the port-a-potties ... if the Indian government who's installing these things isn't allocating some funding or encouragement to cleaning and maintaining, then that's another resource-allocation problem. Here again, we're discussing a bad (or at least, imperfect) implementation of the goal, not the validity of the goal itself.

It's also worth noting that in a sense it's not even upgrading water infrastructure - if a large region has next to no waterworks to begin with, that makes this even more difficult.

Lastly, just because it doesn't look like Western sanitation, doesn't mean it's not a better temporary solution. I would even suggest that for an area with very little water infrastructure to begin with, it may be too much to expect them to go straight to a system like you'd see in Berlin (or, I'm guessing, New Delhi).
Meet Minilock, a powerful new encryption tool built on ChromeOS
Direct link to one such exemple.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/540994973960668020/

I think those fonts are really great. I could easily see them on a lot of products and posters. Handwritten fonts give a charm to a lot of products. Wines bottles comes to mind.
Agree 100%. I used to work at UCSF Medical Center (Parnassus) and take N Judah from Outer Sunset.

Typical case was I would start walking towards work (or, towards home in the evening) when I didn't see a train. Although the N-Judah schedule was "every 15 minutes", there were often ~45min-1hour delays ,which was enough time to quickly walk from Parnassus to Outer Sunset. Of course, it didn't help that many trains stopped at 19th or Sunset and turned around rather than going the whole way (which meant you'd have to wait another 15-45 minutes for the next train, if it didn't turn around).

Another problem was at the turnaround at La Playa- drivers would disappear into the Muni bathroom there for half an hour, and block all the subsequent trains. Eventually (this was ~2000) Muni put a full time supervisor on site who "watched" the drivers and knocked on the door to get them to go back to their trains. Eventually they started using the switching in the track to skip a few trains in front of slow ones, as well.

More recently I've gone back and the psychological advantage of knowing how long I have to wait has improved the experience a bit.
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Possible and easy perhaps for a relatively small percentage of the world's population. It's doubtful that the industrialized society that enables a portion of the population to live without using animal products would ever have developed if we hadn't used animal products in the first place.

Everything that lives suffers and dies eventually. Why is it better for an animal to die and feed maggots than to die and feed a human?
"how to deal with burnout more effective" - That's the key. I have noted that my burnout often comes from situation, where I constantly feel that I'm not doing enough. Reason for that is that you should do everything and always optimize to maximum and be efficient. Things get fixed when you accept, that it's ok to lazily get to work, do something, if you feel like it, if you don't then don't. Then wonder home enjoying the world, it might take hours. Eat something, watch soap opera and go to sleep. - Suddenly you can feel happy, and not burned out at all. Need to be effective and performing well is the ultimate trap.
I've got both an LG AndroidWear watch, and Glass. At first, I thought "Glass is radical enough, and watches won't be." But I wear the smartwatch almost every day and I've only found Glass really useful for recording PoV video for tutorials and reviews. Glass needs a "killer app."

At this stage of development, Glass is too obtrusive and has too limited battery life. I could see some high-value enterprise apps for Glass. AR glasses are a step or three beyond that.
Couldn't you technically run Windows 7/8 under VMWare and then run the Windows Phone tools under that? VMWare has nested virtualisation (at least on Workstation 10 on Windows, think its there on Fusion or the Paralles options). And given MS give free VMs for testing IE on Macs too, your a step closer...
The article also mentions how a common employment of women of the lowest caste is carrying leaky buckets of feces away from the toilet area, often on their heads.
That's comforting.

My human brain still senses longing when he swims up to the front of the tank, but I guess I'll never truly understand how he feels.

That said, there's a blog post in one of the comments here where the author chronicles a similar sentiment, where his Betta fish at least apparently chose suicide (!). It made me seriously considering researching how to release my fish into the wild.

>Your cat, on the other hand, probably wants to go outside and murder things.
Probably, but I don't believe she's severely depressed on account of her restrictions, even if she can't comprehend that I do it with the intentions of keeping her healthy in the long term. But again, the problem is not knowing. She doesn't wait by the door to make an escape, so I have to guess she's fairly content.
I expected the "Try it for free" button to redirect me to a web app. Not a login page.

I think end users should be able to demo the app - even a simplified, I'm-not-going-to-remember-any-of-your-stuff version before even signing up.

The big reason why I clicked this link in the first place is to answer this question: is this app worth my time?

The todo app market is heavily saturated, so answering that question up front will be key to your success. And if you're forcing me to sign up (putting a wall in my face) just to get a glimpse of it, I'm inclined to think this app is not worth my time.
Their reasoning about the dangers of low speed limits make a lot of sense when you're looking at highways, but I don't think they'd necessarily apply to city or residential streets where there are frequent red lights, pedestrians, etc. Of course, the right thing to do there is probably to configure the roads so that people drive more slowly naturally by narrowing lanes, having trees on the side of the road, etc.
"Most people think of fish as somehow lesser than pigs, cows, chickens and other land animals."

Most people don't realize how incredibly stupid cows and chickens are. There's a reason they don't exist in the wild - they would never survive. Our neighbors raised turkeys and had a special pen with rounded corners because young turkeys will get stuck in normal corners and starve to death.
Something to do with the morals of cynically raising them solely to be food for us - there's definitely a responsibility there, different from hunting or eating animals that happened to die.
Ask HN: Which pg essay gets the most page views?
I think its the Anatomy of Determination.
I agree. I would like to see a "who is this" page as well, followed by a Terms of Service and especially a Privacy Policy. How private is the information gathered from visitors to my website that goes into their database?
Show HN: Raster PHP a framework for websites
The site is officially broken from an overload of HN requests.
This seems identical to Facebook's "poke" functionality.
Actually I like to code, but I also like architecture and design bit. Sitting down with a pen and paper, working out options for the main algorithms, seeing what looks best. Meetings and emails, not so much.
While I'm not sure how closely this matches up, it sounds like you may at least be interested in exploring these concepts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_component_analysis

Edit: Spacing.
Hmm. I hadn't heard of the errata-driven memory corruption paper before: although interesting, it didn't seem terribly novel -- errata being used to adversely affect a machine have been around since the dawn of time.

My personal 'most innovative', I think, would go to the BROP paper. The other exploits are all interesting tricks on modern systems, but the BROP paper is the one that made my jaw really drop in terms of how much they could do with such little information...
Is anyone else disgusted by this?
I speak Catalan and Spanish, if anyone is interested I can translate parts of http://www.arrelsfundacio.org/ to English. Google Translate gives "good enough" translations though.

http://www.arrelsfundacio.org/que-fem/ (this translates to rootsfoundation.org/about-us)

> We help homeless people in Barcelona

> We focus on two tasks: Covering the needs of homeless people and supporting them in their personal itinerary.

> At Arrels we provide accommodation, food and health and social care to men and women living in poor conditions in the streets of Barcelona, and more importantly, "we are with them" accompanying them on the long road to regain autonomy.
Is that unusual? Depending on the size of the business, more people could be looking for the company than for Wikipedia information on caviar.
Ask HN: Why So Irrational
I am an software engineer in a well known company. In free time I started working on my own IOS applications. Now I have 3 applications in AppStore.

Compared to my salary I get very less income from AppStore. But still I like working on my own Applications and spend a lot of time on them. Half of my brain goes into thinking about these small Apps. I know these apps wont give me comparable income to my salary.

So why I am paranoid about them? I am sure many of HN readers would be having the same story.

This is my interest? or a false hope? Or I don't like my work at my Job?

It would be interesting to know some psychology topics around it.
I don't know how I feel about this.

In some way this feels cheap. Fonts? Buying fonts to help homeless people?

Having homeless people create fonts that you can license out?

Is this the best we can do? Seriously.
You missed "Lamest Vendor Response". That's a though category. I want OpenCart to "win", but as General Motors' is the only one that required a Congressional inquiry, it's though to beat.
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That would be a very interesting collection in its own right.
The recipient associated with the shipping address hasn't committed any fraud though.
No measure taken in isolation will give you "that much security". As you say, validating the identity of the artifact signer is an extremely important and oft-missed measure, but that should not lead one to conclude that transport layer security (both confidentiality and server authentication) is unimportant or "snake oil".

I will give you that web PKI sucks, but I would rather have a bit more assurance (even if imperfect) that the site I'm pulling artifacts from is indeed the one I intended to retrieve them from, even if I have a good signature + signer verification mechanism in place.
Good insight from a fellow buspreneur.
1- you could have a open/free version and have a more specialize version that you charge a fee

2- you could sell a package with some of your project (3-4 for seem might go well together in some case) charge per parkage

3- charge for support to install

4- make a guide how to set up them on an hosting company (like bluehost) and link to a affiliate link to bluehost

5- build a free guide and a more advance one sell the advance one

6- create a course, sell it on udemy or on you site.

Why did you started this project ? Was there a hole in the market for that kind of need ? Try to find the old you and how he would buy that product. For the first project it seem it will probably need to stay free, the 3 other can probably be monetize. Check if there other product that are similar to your project and how do they monetize their product.
In my view, Stellar is the "IP layer for credit" while Bitcoin is the "IP layer for money".

Stellar doesn't actually transfer value (like Bitcoin), it only transfers IOUs, the settlement (actual value transfer) occurs outside the Stellar network.

Stellar and Bitcoin achieve two different goals. Ripple can function as a decentralized exchange, while Bitcoin functions alongside USD, EUR, CNY for transferring value.
You will never be so short of people that you will have to hire someone from SF or NY. Those places don't have an excess of programmers, they have a deficit, and it's one that is continually resupplied from middle America and overseas.