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That is an interesting question. A quick search shows a few websites saying that it's legal (in the US) and trying to sell seeds for tobacco.

I guess it's only when you start distributing the product that people get involved.

Isn't it similar to fry-oil? If the owner pays for it to be disposed of that's one thing, but if the owner sells it off for someone to use in their car then someone wants tax?
Unless you're licensed as a bank, it'd be illegal to lend out these funds. As a mere money transmitter you are required to hold 100% of custodial funds, fractional reserve banking is not allowed.

Seeing as they've not ever communicated any lending product and as there's no hint of that anywhere, and seeing as they're the most funded ($40m) bitcoin company by reputable VCs who do due diligence and stress regulatory compliance, I doubt they'd be so blatantly breaking the law on this point.

The fee is indeed for the wallet service of insured storage with easy configurable pincode, password, 2-factor authentication and daily spending limits. If you can do all that yourself, awesome. But there's plenty of mainstream users who haven't a clue of proper security measures, and paying 0.12% annually for secure and insured storage, sounds like a decent deal.

I don't use it myself, I can easily set up my own secure cold storage. But it's a nice product, particularly for securing something many see as an investment vehicle that can easily do 10x, perhaps 100x value increase in the next 10 years. Paying 0.015x every 10 years to store, secure and insure that vehicle isn't such a big deal, and that's their fee structure.
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DE0 is dope, and it comes for a very good price (especially for academics).
It's very reliable, and Quartus is remarkably stable (compared to Xilinx ISE)
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Scrotter is a popular one on this Chinese cartoon forum I visit.

http://yttrium-tyclief.github.io/Scrotter/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yttrium.sc...
A comparison of sorts between Objective-C and Swift
It left me with the impression that Elmer was the beginning and end of that little misadventure and that he was one of a kind.
Because it would make a lot of code less nested and simpler to understand. The most common case is:

if some_error_condition then
None
else (
// everything else in the function is nested
)

which would be replaced with:

if some_error_condition then
return None;
// everything else is not nested

The situation is particularly bad when you have to do a lot of small tests at the beginning of your function. Think permissions checks:

let user_id =
match user with Some id -> id
| None ->
printf "you need to specify a user\n";
return None in
if not (permitted user_id) then
printf "this user is not permitted\n";
return None;
// go ahead and return Some object

The alternative is to use exceptions, either hidden within the function (requiring a nested function), or demanding that the caller is careful about catching exceptions. Exceptions are an unsafe back door, when what's really needed is a return statement.
Agreed, shrooms are indeed complex, but at least there are limits to the amount you can ingest.

This is what makes LSD dangerous, you could take a very large quantity without even realizing it; it's why I lean toward no, don't legalize it (but also don't prosecute), it should remain hard to find.
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It should be noted that this is (obviously) not a general directive in Sweden but rather about certain types of crimes in certain poor, problematic areas where distrust of police (and other government agencies) is very high.
They could at least be vector. And, could we have flat, solid-color silhouettes of each model?

Also: http://techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-ph...
#1380asal
I know https://placeit.net/ previously is free but now they charge for generate image for commercial use. Recently I found http://frame.lab25.co.uk/create which is cool as well as support quite a lot of mockup.
Its a good article in general with one very minor error. It explains you want on board LEDs and switches because its too easy to screw up soldering your own. The core reason why you want LEDs and switches on a FPGA board, why you'd buy included or solder your own, is too often during debugging this will be your UI.

So you are in a quandary about which of several PLL designs to implement. Its not 1990 anymore, you've probably got space on the chip to put them all in, and select which operates in real time using the switches. Then you wire up your spectrum analyzer or scope or whatever exotic test gear you require, fire it up, and instantly flip between implementations while its running. You figured it out in theory, now in practice which one actually has the fastest lock up, or the lowest noise performance, or the least noise spurs at critical freqs? Just flip the switches and find out.

And on the LED side, there's a lot of testing patterns that boil down to "and when the state machine hits this state, aside from entering state 8, it also fires the LED on a little timer" Again hook up all your real world hardware and see what happens.

True, you could implement a VGA display and PS/2 keyboard without much hardware work, but then you have to drive them probably with an embedded processor, a little picoblaze or whatever running the UI... and all that screwing around to basically re-implement LEDs and switches, just slower and harder to do.

There are in circuit analysis tools, some of them pretty cool, and some of them are actually reliable, but fundamentally you're always going to find some LEDs and switches, its just too easy and convenient.

There is also the "hello world" test proving your hardware and dev system aren't screwed up, everyone has their personal favorite, what I always use is a simple 3-input switch / 2 output LED full adder.

I've also been known to do things like output the version number of my project on the LEDs. Hey, they're just sitting there and everyone who's actually done labwork has had the amusing experience of thinking they're testing version 12 but finding out they uploaded version 11 or whatever.

Finally when the analog / hardware side isn't ready, if theres no timeouts and its a strict state machine, I've been known to flip switches as inputs, many millions of times slower than the real hardware works. Hand toggling switches to talk to an I2C slave or SPI is a little tedious, but sometimes the best option. Once you get past layer 2/3 type problems there's higher level protocol tools, some are even cheap like the "bus pirate" or you can send $375K to Agilent for slightly more advanced test equipment.
If I did write a code sample and replied here, would you get to see it?

I don't think there is a way to send messages on Hacker News, and I don't yet know if you'll get alerted to replies to old posts.
Very interesting. Is there a corollary to this? Say, if a person or a bunch of people are curating articles then they will select only those which are most novel and all other related things will get dropped. In that sense, we should not see similar stuff on the front page of HN. Yet, I recall, seeing at least 3 news items about Microsoft retrencing people, on the front page of HN. So should HN consider applying the corollary "correlated novelty".
Nice, but I wish there were some other Android devices to show off (HTC One (M8)?).
I think it's trivially obvious that both sets are infinite.

There are infinitely many addition problems involving two numbers, and that's a subset of the set of problems that the article claims to be smaller.
I am working approximately 4 hours a day, earning around $1500 a week. Which is much more than you are looking for (about 4x more...) but is only about 2.5 days a week total time invested. So it's definitely possible to achieve $250-300/wk if that is all your expenses are.

However, I already worked full time for this company for 18 months remotely before I negotiated this arrangement. So YMMV but I think if you can afford to put things on hold for 3ish months and prove your worth you can probably get something similar which would provide you with time to do what you want.

I find alot of companies (startups especially) are happy to cater to these arrangements if you are sufficiently skilled.
FWIW, you can download high res PSDs of Apple products for free directly from Apple’s site and just drop in your mockup: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/marketing/guidelines/#...
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#1380asal
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This is interesting, an odd mishmash. whilst the FAQ is big it is not specific - eg 'we are not a prepaid debit card' (do you have a deposit license?) ... 'We automatically withdraw money from your xapo wallet' (and that doesn't count as preloading?).

To me, it looks like they've taken a standard visa backed prepaid debit card (although not putting visa logo on it I thought was a breach of scheme rules). They've added a nice ui, and wrap around of saying you can use bit coins.

However. Bitcoins stops at the point of actually using the card, where they convert it into the issuing country's currency (assume here: Usd). You're still using visa / other scheme network to transact and they don't take bitcoins.

The other comments are bang on and prepaid cards are immensely profitable with trxn fees to load them up, and 'hidden' fees for doing fx. What's odd here is that people using bitcoin are presumably doing it because they like the idea of not having to pay for all that crap! Much comment about how the funds are insured for 100% against any loss - but no mention of FDIC...
And the official Nexus mockups are available here: https://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/promote/devic...
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good stuff. would be great if you could add a way to paste in urls like placeit.net - i find their system a little buggy sometimes.
It really depends on what you mean by improving. It might mean something directly quantifiable like crime rates, or it might be something intangible, like it just being cool and fashionable to live there. The hipsters see the latter and descend like vultures on it. In the process, they do improve the neighbourhood in a quantifiable way - house prices. But they destroy what brought them there in the first place.

And here's the thing: the hipsters don't need to do this. They already live somewhere. Why not stay there and live their hipster lives? That's what makes people angry - they just invade and colonize, destroying communities and driving people out of their homes for fun.
Yes, it is. You can sync a max of 10 MCZ/day per account. The amount of MCZ you get is in proportion to how much you move (or just the phone). With normal use you probably won't even get to 10, but if you shake the phone like a maniac for a few hours, you'll get there. But shaking becomes boring pretty fast and that's why the app is made to run in the background and you don't need to think about mining, it just does it when you move.

Well, to be honest, nothing. If you think about it, what's stopping you from making a bunch of wallets for other cryptocurrencies, or any other service for that matter that you need to signup.
The way we deal with this is by allowing you to mine only on one phone at a time with one account. This is because if something happens to your phone you can sign out and mine on another phone (your coinz will be synced with your existing coinz).

If you have a couple of smartphones lying around you can make a couple of accounts and walk around with a phone in every pocket (I don't know how comfortable that would be).

Hope this answers your question.
You let you server software run on a server (cheap VPS should work unless you have lots of players) and let players connect. Then add things as needed. Dont overthink / overdo things. Just try to have a running games as soon as possible. It is way harder to get players then to get a server running!
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I wish we had cops like this in Cambridge, MA. Whenever I've reported a crime, or seen people report a crime, the police can't be bothered...
Yeah, tools from hardware vendors are notoriously awful. Embedded debuggers (JTAG) are almost always terrible, too.
You may want to temper that desire with the thought that it does sound as though, motivated as they were, the police did about the same as the original thugs, to a variety of other people, without finding anyone.

edit - The German general Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord was quoted as saying;

"I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief."

These police in this story are definitely in the stupid and diligent section of Kurt's matrix.
You'd say no, but why should it be up to you?
The LD50 for THC, last I ever heard, was over 40,000. Technically water is more dangerous.
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Yes, almost all recreational drugs should be legalized. For much the same reasons. As shown in that study, alcohol is far and away one of the very fewest of the most damaging recreational drugs, ranking up with meth, heroin, and crack, and in some ways even worse than them. But, of course, our attempts at prohibition of alcohol proved disastrous, as our attempts at prohibition of other drugs has been turning out to be as well.

And while the prospect of allowing meth, crack, and heroin to be legally used by adults is likely enormously disconcerting to most people it shouldn't be. Largely that is due to the bias of familiarity. The problems of alcoholism are familiar to us as a society, they've been with us a long time and we know them well. Are comfortable with them even if we don't like them. And we accept that alcoholism and other problems of alcohol use can destroy families, destroy lives, and have fatal consequences, aside from its propensity to cause disgusting side effects (vomiting, loss of bowel control, pissing oneself, a generally slovenly or disheveled appearance and a rank smell due to lack of personal hygiene combined with the smell of booze, and so on). Yet the dangers and grotesqueries of, say, meth use have yet to worm their way into such a position of familiarity and comfort in the heart of the collective conscious. Which enables the public to decry its use, shun it from polite society, and force users outside the boundaries of the law.

Aside from all of the very good practical reasons to roll back drug prohibition there is an even more fundamental reason: the cause of liberty. People should and must be allowed to make mistakes. Being "allowed" to engage only in activities chosen from a list of behaviors that have been determined to be safe and unobjectionable activities is not freedom. But that is much of the nature of drug prohibition, the idea that the collective (the government) is in charge of what you can and can't do with your life and your body, not you. Without the ability to make choices that others, perhaps even lots of others, disagree with or object to there can be no freedom. The law should come into play only in so far as people cross the line into actively harming others, otherwise it should not intrude on how people decide to live their lives.
"STM32 F4 series"

You know how you start a microcontroller project with a "dream shopping list" of timers, I/O devices, memory, whatever features, then all the mfgrs have a giant table you scroll thru and then you trade off, "well, I need at least 3 SPI and 128K of ram, but they don't sell 128K ram with 3 SPI I need to buy a 192K to get my 3 hardware SPI, of course I could do two in hardware and bit-bang in software the 3rd...". Or even worse "I need at least three hardware PWM timers although they only need to be 24 bit, but the entire F4 series has exactly two 32 bit timers, oh knoes what am I going to do?" Even worse as the project changes over time.

With a FPGA you skip all that garbage and just synthesize in what you need. Oh I need 3 PWM timers, well, include three of them, no big deal. Wanna HDMI, if you can wire it in, you're good.

Ideally you'd put the "boring" parts of your software in the FPGA I/O device. If you're building a thermostat, why write the state machine in assembly or C, just use some mag comps and timers. Put the UI in the softcore processor.

If you're doin' it right, your UI soft processor need run no faster than a human, say 100 KHz clock speed. How fast can a human being hit a hardware debounced up arrow and read the LCD? If you're doing it wrong, you've got a softcore processor running multiply-add in software at 80 MHz and wishing for higher CPU performance.

There was an era of a couple decades which ends with FPGAs where its cheaper to throw in software than hardware, even throw in multiple microcontrollers. Why put in hardware schmidt trigger gates and resistors/caps to hardware debounce a switch if you can write 10 lines of code to do it in software? The hardware of the future will be a FPGA with exactly what you need and a very smart/advanced peripheral library. Why write 10 lines of buggy code to soft debounce a switch when you can just include some FPGA library code to get a perfect debounce with no race conditions or interrupt collision problems in the software, its just perfect.
Wording like that is not encouraging: "[Why would Singaporeans] rather live as Labrador Retrievers and not human beings? Why do they accept a life where they have to live no better than slaves, where they have no rights and completely at the mercy of a dictator?"

True political discourse - and convincing arguments - sound more like this: http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/antifed/main.htm

The thing is, I've read two pages of the stuff, and it's mostly name calling with a few names from history thrown in. Where is the reliable, third party evidence of so called human rights infringements? Plenty has been written on Abu Ghraib, for example, or Assad's use of chemical weapons. That's what I want to see - independent, solid evidence of human rights infringements and unfairness of courts. I've been pointed to plenty of independent blogs but never saw evidence of the widespread human rights abuses that Singapore is apparently committing. At worst, people dig up incidents from the creation of the country decades ago - where, should I remind you, LKY was actively fighting Maoist Chinese attempts at taking over the country by agents corrupting the political process!

I've lived and worked in countries where citizen truly are "labradors" with "no rights" and "at the mercy of a dictator". They looked nothing like Singapore. On the other hand, I've lived in countries where parties like the "Workers Party" have strongly influenced politics, and a few decades later, you get ghettos, no law zones, a crumbling economy, high unemployment and so on. In the case of emerging markets, they result in countries with zero or negative growth rates, GDP per capita a fiftieth of Singapore's, and widespread monopolies somehow connected to the government. I just don't see it here. More evidence?

(I'm going to be slow on this thread since it appears HN is now rate limiting me. It's a pleasure to have a conversation, nevertheless - thanks for participating.)
There are very few policy arguments in the modern world where there is literally no rational argument on one side. It is, however, very easy for people for people to get so wrapped up in one side of issue that they can no longer even see the arguments on the other side. Maybe that's typical, even.

In the case of marijuana I'm strongly in favor of legalization on the same basis as alcohol with maybe driving while intoxicated being treated a bit more leniently. But if you want rational reasons why legalization might not be idea see here:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-tha...
Agree with Ryan. Repo Management in XCode would make sense only if this feature was there.
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Why would that be controversial? State changed it's official name and newspaper started to call it by its new name.
I like it. The vagueness of the options works better in some areas than others though: suppose I'm looking for exactly a 13,3" laptop: I'm picky on the size, but don't care so much for accurate results in others areas
> Who gives anyone the right to say "X Number of Months" is required for something non-specific? What a bunch of malarkey!

It's not a right, it's a matter of statistical significance. People who measure certainty actually care.
It is absolutely a real quantum system. It's an artificial atom. It has basically approximately the same Hamiltonian as a trapped atom but at 6 GHz, and we can control the coupling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing

> In general, these terms do not have a precise definition. Rather, they tend to be used by advocates or critics of a given programming language, as a means of explaining why a given language is better or worse than alternatives.
Yeah, good luck with that.

My experience is that the Amazon App Store has basically zero traction outside the US and UK. And then even if you do manage to sell a few then you'll probably never see the money as there isn't one Amazon store but each region has its own. This means you need to hit the minimum payout in that region before Amazon will pay you for that region.