skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Uganda where I currently live mobile banking is used by pretty much everyone. Mobile solutions like m-pesa and airtel money is used by most of my Ugandan friends.

From what I have seen some of the main advantages of mobile banking are: 1. You can manage your account with any phone. Most people here just use gsm phones.

2. Opening an actual bank account is expensive. Not expensive from my western point of view. But from the perspective of local people it is.

3. It is easy. Mobile carriers are everywhere. And since cash is still the way of handling most money transfers it is very convenient to be able to, even when you are in a village in the middle of nowhere. Go to a place with the "airtel money" sign and get cash so that you can buy that roasted cassava.
So, because you are philosophically opposed to certain laws, I should have my inbox filled with a tipping "service" and my name and projects listed as available to donate to, on a donation-collection site I refuse to do business with, and have no ability to opt out of it?

Protip: close the /r/bitcoin tab, close the mises.org tab, and learn to be a decent human being.
I have no comments about the demo in the video. However, from what I understand about GR, the important concept is that mass bends space-time (3D space and 1D time). Time and space in GR is inseparable. This is an important concept.

So the next question is why in GR, the two mass objects gravitated each other. It is because in GR, object follows the geodesics (i.e. straight line, shortest path) in space-time. So imagine, if there is only 1 object, it will follow the geodesics of spacetime with space coordinates being constant and time coordinate is changing with a constant rate.

However, if another object is placed near it, it will bend the space time surrounding it. So now, the geodesic is not "straight" anymore. The new geodesic will include changes in the space coordinates ( object moving nearer to each other).

So there is actually no pull force of gravity, it justs that the spacetime is curved thus the "straight line" now appears "curved" in our perspective.
Nothing surprising here - as society moves forwards, things that were once only available to the very rich classes slowly trickle down. Having a chauffeur for your kids used to be for the 0.1%, Uber and the like have now made it for the 1% (and even for the 5% in large cities like SF).

When networks of self driving cars start appearing, it'll reduce the cost so much that it'll trickle down to the 10%, then 50%, then to the 100% - much like the original car or the fridge did. When I used to work in downtown SF, taking an Uber from my house to work was only 2x as expensive as the bus, even though it was more like 4x-6x a few years ago. Over time and as technology/infrastructure improves this will go down to 1x, and then even below.

It'll be a great future where people don't own cars anymore (except for a select few who will for recreation, much like people still ride horses for fun now), and instead pay a monthly subscription fee for X miles of driving around per month. Much like cellphones, there'll probably be things like family plans and so on. Your kids will get a self driving car to pick them up from school, which will promptly drop them off at home/sports practice/etc. The car will then just drive to its next request, thus completely removing the need for parking (which will have a wonderful impact on American urban areas- larger sidewalks, no more need for giant parking lots everywhere), heavily minimizing traffic (no stop and go when all cars on the road can sync up in real time), heavily reducing lethal road accidents, etc.

Self driving vehicles will do for transport what the fridge did for food or the internet did for communications. It's going to be very, very exciting and I wish more people realized it so we could make it happen as fast as possible (e.g. a really forward thinking city could easily make a subpart of its downtown area open to self driving vehicles exclusively by 2020).
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RootBSD (https://www.rootbsd.net/services/virtual-servers-vps/) has OpenBSD VPS's (I'm guessing it'll be a little bit before they have 5.6 available).
i still use windowmaker on my desktop development system. its very efficient and doesnt get in the way.
I don't think that would work in this case, because there is no way to bind a PHP array to an SQL tuple. Available param types includes string , int , bool but no array or tuple type.

http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.constants.php

You can write "SELECT calories FROM fruit WHERE name IN (? , ?, ?)" and then bind the parameters as strings but this will only work in cases where the length of the tuple is known and fixed. If you need to allow for a variable length tuple then you will need to concatenate the query string yourself.
I'm a bit different in that a significant part of my income is from professional photography. Here's how I'm organized:

Each year has a folder: YYYY. Inside that folder is an Aperture library per category (e.g., Weddings, Portraits, Personal, etc.) Inside each Aperture library there are projects for each grouping of photos (e.g., Valley of Fire). Every file has a unique name that includes the date photographed and the frame number.

I do allow Aperture to keep the image files internally because it simplifies backups. Aperture does not support XMP sidecar files like Lightroom and others do, so the only benefit I feel I'm losing out on by not storing them separately is having a file structure that matches the library structure. The libraries themselves are OS X packages, so it is possible to extract the files relatively easily if I'm no longer able to open Aperture in the future.

I also do not care to have most photos on multiple devices. I have the ability to remote into the computer with the photos from anywhere I have an internet connection, so I'm able to grab a file if needed. With multiple terabytes of photos it's impractical to make them universally available to all of my devices anyway.
Your quotes are fucked on mobile.
So basically main point of opposition boil down to:

1. "Don't use my project name to collect money for me!"

Why not use your project name? Did you trademarked it? If not, then it's just public information and you can't control how anyone chooses to use it.

No one is collecting money for you. The guy just collects money and promises to give it to you if you ask. Until you ask it's his money.

2. "Don't spam!"

Well, spamming is certainly in bad taste. I guess he just wanted to make sure people know that he will give them some money if they ask. Probably mistake on his part.

3. "There might be some laws against some of those things in some countries."

So? There are countries that have laws that say that being gay is illegal. Nobody cares about all the laws.

I think it illustrates that you should "do NOT as you would be done by" because you might have different tastes. Personally I'm all for free pennies and all possible schemes of bringing money to developers so they can do what they wan't instead of do what others tell them to do.
> Lets multiply all these durations by a billion:

This was great at helping me develop a better intuition for the numbers. Thanks!
I've been a happy customer of ARP Networks [0] for about five years now (running Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD hosts). I've pretty much moved everything off to my own servers (since I work for an ISP and can put whatever I want in our datacenters) but I do still have one VPS hosting a few websites.

Native IPv6 is enabled on every host which, as a network engineer, is a huge plus for me. Physical location is at One Wilshire in Los Angeles and ARP has great connectivity and lots of peering.

It's a small operation which, depending on your point of view, can be either a good thing or a bad thing. There is no "instant provisioning" (or wasn't, the last time I ordered a new host) so it may take a day or so for your host to be available for your use. On the other hand, you can often catch the owner in #arpnetworks on freenode and chat directly with him (or get quick answers to (general) questions from other happy customers). He's also on HN occasionally, if memory serves.

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I don't really "amass" photos that much, but for what it's worth, I auto-rename all photos to yy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss first thing I do after deleting the ones I don't want to keep. From then on out it's pretty much just a tree of folders, with the ones that have a lot of photos in them having additional subfolders per year. So far I never even had use for using tags, and my main tool is still the delete key followed by enter :)
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If the objective was to help addict we would help them instead of throwing them in prisons.

Furthermore, alcohol is not forbidden because some people are addict.

Ultimately, I would add that drug abuse by itself is not the problem. The problem is that some people are self destructive. drugs / alcohol is simply one of the ways to do it. We should help them.
> No one is collecting money for you. The guy just collects money and promises to give it to you if you ask. Until you ask it's his money.

Did you see the bit of US tax law helpfully posted elsewhere in the thread?
Chrome is a huge source of revenue since every download is a default search set for google, without having to strike any deal with a distributor. If Opera, for example, had built a chrome like browser, google would have to pay millions to them in order to beat out competition from bing and yahoo.
> There is nothing in reactive programming that implies being incremental

Yes there is. Because if it's not incremental, then you could replace any "reactive" program by one which just recomputes its outputs every time something changes, from scratch. Reactive programming solves this by only recomputing parts which change.

PS: Thanks for the link, I'll look into it!
>It's hard to rationally explain why liking Bitcoin leads to liking tip4commit's approach

A currency only works if people use it. A good way to support bitcoin is to expand adoption. It seems to me that the creators of tip4commit have blinders on and only view the project through bitcoin colored glasses.

The issue as I see it is that the bitcoin movement mirrors the technology's decentralized nature. There is a general optimism and push towards adoption, but no real methods or direction towards that goal. It's a rather organic, evolving system. Things that have helped adoption have been repeated and things that cause a backlash are squashed and learned from. The latter is what I would say is happening here.
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I forgot to add that I am strongly in favour of decriminalising all drugs.
Yes, it's true you're supposed to pay taxes for money earned in the year it was earned, not just when you happened to deposit the check. That has little to no bearing for this situation.

First, the money isn't available since it hasn't even been sent to you. Until you sign-up for the service, and provide a bitcoin address for the funds to be sent to your private key, they are not available. But more importantly, since you have no business relationship with the person giving the money, I would think the best characterization for the income is a tax-free gift (up to $14,000 per giver). But IANAL, and this isn't tax advice.
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:-) Drop me a line if you want to chat or discuss further! Would be great to know what you guys were considering (mallyvai at offerletter.io) - or just tweet at me - @mallyvai .
How do you find all the photos of Bob?
This is an interesting side effect of http://offerletter.io , I've noticed - we've been aggressively institutionalizing knowledge around many of these kinds of processes. Tends to give folks we work with a leg up.

(Incidentally - We offer precisely this kind of help and coaching - let me know if we can help! mallyvai at offerletter.io :)
There's a great book that can help you - "Start Small, Stay Small". It is exactly for that kind of people, developers looking to create some passive income.

Usually passive income is either content(like udemy videos or books), or apps. Because you don't want to create content - it's probably best to come up with a product idea and develop it.

I think that building MVP product for startups is, first of all, much closer to freelansing than to passive income, and second - if you have skills and resources necessary for building a product - why not build one for yourself?
If it will be profitable - you'll start having a real passive income, instead of trading your time for money.

Also, in my opinion, this is way more fun, because you control all the aspects of the product, from idea to execution and selling.
Obviously, governments and borders are outdated. I lived in 5 different countries (Russia, Switzerland, Italy, US, Denmark), and I couldn't help but wonder — why, why all this paperwork?
What makes you say so?

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resul...

Italy is one of those high-prices low-wages places which is not uncommon in southern Europe.
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Tenobrus corrected me on two accounts:
1/ UK vs. worldwide
2/ The exact figures

I'm saying the figures are correct, and said plainly that it should have been worldwide, not the UK.

OK, fine, statistics are important, but if you're going to make statements espousing the importance of statistics, then you better have the right ones -- or at least be aware of them --, and not just copy 'n paste the first few from your search engine of choice!

It takes some knowledge to put together a commentary on the current situation with drugs. Any idiot with an AOL connection can Bing some stats -- badly.

Edit: Changed the search-engine-as-a-verb to 'Bing', from 'Google'.
And yet techniques like custom memory allocators can have compelling performance benefits.

To me the right tradeoff is: if you want to do fancy allocation, at least make the allocator injectable so that people can use standard malloc (or even a specialized security-hardened malloc) if they prefer. Robust low-level libraries like Lua, zlib, etc. usually take this approach: you can pass a pointer to a custom "malloc" function.

Unfortunately this isn't always possible: LuaJIT doesn't support the "custom allocator" part of the Lua API for a couple of reasons:

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Why-does-LuaJIT-have-it...

https://gist.github.com/nddrylliog/8722197
What is up with all the negative reviews on Glassdoor?
Dunno if this is why this is here, but today is an international day of solidarity for Kobane / YPG / YPJ (opinions vary on which).

People in the UK might want to support the campaign to http://delistthepkk.com/

Edit: It's not that I can't think of reasons why somebody might want to downvote my comment, but it's frustrating not getting to find out which reason it was.
Ask HN: Work/life balance – Significant other complains you work too much?
I got a lot of complains from my gf about me working too much and not having enough time with her. This leads to a common work/life balance question for all the people who want to be success.

So how do you handle this balance? and what would you do when your gf/bf/wife/husband complains about it?
Is it possible to use this as a drop-in replacement for Angular POJOs that hold $scope data? We're hitting a whole class of bugs which are basically due to mutability of native JS objects, and we could use something like this for the most complex ng-controllers.
http://offerletter.io takes a similar but distinct tack - we generally find that advice tends to work better. A little bit of coaching and mentorship can go a long way here. Drop me a line if you want to chat! :-) mallyvai at offerletter.io
I just did. What a bizarre construct. Totally unenforceable. You'll get 'civil forfeiture'-d 50 times at random before IRS will charge you with that and wins. Besides it's not uncashed check. It's verbal (or even virtual) promise made by person in another country. If Nigerian prince offers you 500000$ you just need to claim do you have to pay taxes on that?
What do you guys think of one of my creations (still in development stage) - Secure Digital Archive: http://goryachev.com/products/archive

While not strictly a photo organizer app, it does have a photo gallery, timeline, and raw file format support.
Or a forward moving city bans cars entirely from dense city centers.

I've no doubt driverless cars will come, but while they are moving forward, so is the realization that we really don't need all that many cars in cities and that they don't do us any good.
To add to your point and take it a couple steps further. The continuous automation of physical muscle and mind muscles will reduce white and blue collar work.

Humans Need Not Apply:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Related and also very interesting: [1]

[1] Ulrich Drepper, What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~os142/wiki.files/drepper-2007.pdf
That has no notion of time or distance between "events".
I agree and would like to see a proliferation of more well-designed technical terms. I think the rest of the space sort of lacks enough clustering/commonality/analysis to pick too many terms yet—the places which are well-defined already have names like RtFRP and AFRP.
You're not giving the above comment the respect it deserves.

Whenever you offer up an analogy, you want to choose it carefully, and be sure to convey its limitations. The video didn't discuss its limitations (which is OK, it's just a video showing off a rig). So we're left to do it here. And trust me, learning GR with Kip Thorne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne) makes the above commenter qualified to offer an opinion.
I have local friends whose daughters are driven to learn many different things. (I know the friends through my daughter's club soccer team.) One day we had a conversation about the eventual era of self-driving cars, and I commented that it would be a convenience to be able to put my daughter in a self-driving car to go to soccer practice. A mother involved in the conversation DREADED that prospect, saying, "If I didn't have to drive my daughter, I wouldn't be able to say to her that she has to limit her activities. She would get in the car with her cello and go right from soccer practice to cello practice, and never have any down time." I hadn't thought of it that way before, but that's right. Sometimes I say no to my daughter not on the rationale of "that would make you too busy" but rather on the rationale of "I haven't got time to drive you to that once a week." Some ambitious kids could lose free time altogether if the cars drive themselves.

EDIT TO REPLY TO FIRST TWO REPLIES:

One of you has said you are not a parent, and I'm asked in the other reply about free time being time to decide what you want. I acknowledge that both concerns are valid.

In other words I agree that if my chief rationale for telling my own daughter that she shouldn't sign up for a sports program is that she will be overtired and risk injury besides, that is the reason to lead off with in conversation. (What parents usually find in parenting is that many parenting decisions are overdetermined, being grounded in multiple rationales, but children also think their desires have multiple rationales, and parents and children have conversations with a lot of serve-and-volley about rationales for decisions.) Similarly, if "we can't afford it" is the fact, rather than just an excuse, I would say that. We cherish honesty in our family--and, honestly, sometimes the reason we don't consider other activities for our children is that we would be run ragged driving them around.

Children have desires that go beyond their ability to estimate the costs and benefits of pursuing those desires. (Yeah, adults do too, but this limitation in planning and self-assessment is a big part of the basis for distinguishing between adults and minors.) When my daughter is pursuing her own schedule with her own money, I am sure she will continue to delight in challenging herself and keeping busy. Today, sometimes, as the adult in the room my job is to say, "Remember that time we signed up for [name of activity] and then you found out you were too busy to keep doing that?" We let her try out a lot of things, but sometimes we just have to say, "You need sleep, and you need daytime rest, and for your own development sometimes you need just to sit and think and not do structured things all day." The girls I meet through my daughter's soccer team are all high-ambition girls who push themselves academically (several are in full-time foreign language immersion school programs) and athletically (they are in the top team in our soccer club for their age group) and in other domains. We parents are all proud of them, but we know sometimes we are doing best by our children when we tell them to take a break.
Sounds works nicely for chrome, but the "there is sound on this page icon" is missing.
Just to clarify, when I say US-level salary - I do NOT mean Bay Area/SF - which is an extreme, yes...

But since you mentioned - I doubt you'll find an experienced software engineer in Iowa working for 2K USD per month... AFAIK living costs in Iowa is much much lower than in any place in Italy.
If anything people are holding back because she's female.

This thread would be far more insulting if she were male.

The problem has nothing to do with her being UPenn (I have no fucking clue about US geography or state rivalries) or not being in some club (which she clearly is part of - look at where she's raised $10 million from).

It's to do with people being sceptical of the physics. This device is implausible at best.
Animal history is emerging as one of the hot topics of historical research
Same for tip4commit. You need to accept the their offer to give you money. Until you do, money is not available to you.
OK, so yes. We agree that it is unsustainable if the effort is put forth to make your product actually convenient for the volunteers whose shoulders you sit on.

Meanwhile you insult us by simply saying "fork it." That doesn't get money donated on my behalf out of your Bitcoin wallet. I suggest y'all stop bickering and actually start helping. The burden to clean up your oversights is on no one but yourself.

We know you built the project in good faith, but it needs serious tweaks. At this point you're being a nuisance, at best, to the very creators of projects your site is deployed upon! If they were in your situation they would have fixed this, shipped it, and have written a detailed postmortem by now.
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