skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a good point. There's a chicken / egg problem here where you need a critical mass of activity for anything interesting / useful to emerge but the barrier to entry getting to these places is high enough, and the pain / friction involved with spending time there is significant enough, that communities have a difficult time forming. I think LookingGlass is meant to try to overcome some of these problems. That said, strolling down darknet alley sure does feel a lot like wandering around Chernobyl.
I do not see how labor laws are not good for employees. Unless you're an apologist who says that unless we let employers fuck people over, they won't bless us with their benevolence and jobs.
I found entire criminal networks operating on PayPal and Ebay, when I reported the case to them they refused to deal with the situation. Basically the criminals were selling software that appeared to be legal but the serial keys were stolen from the vendors. When somebody realized what is going on they sent an email saying if you rate us on Ebay 5 star we give you back the money.

Ebay was more than happy to let these guys operate on their platform, I have supplied them all the evidence but nothing happened.
You must accept that you will sound like a fool just for using this word. You can use it for anything you want to show satisfaction/approval for. React.js on fleek, eyebrows on fleek, uptime on fleek
So. Say you wanted to put PayPal out of business with better service.

I guess for this specific instance, they can conference call GoDaddy and have the third party vouch for things.

But how do you rule in a he-said-she-said situation? If a customer says they received a ceiling tile instead of an iPad? For other digital goods like in-game characters?
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A somewhat similar situation happened to me a couple years back. I was put in contact with an individual through a mutual contact about purchasing two phones from me. I was located in the US and he was in the UK. All of it seemed good, no worries with the sale, he sent the payment and covered shipping.

A couple days after delivery I get a PayPal dispute saying he filed a fraud charge with his CC company for the $1100. It was basically a no questions asked refund to him in the full amount which left me with a $-1100 balance on my PayPal account. So not only did he receive the products, he got all of his money returned to him and I had no way of contacting him due to him living in the UK. I was only racking up my cell phone bill trying to reach him internationally all with no answer.

The only thing PayPal had to offer me in terms of why this happened was "he filed a claim with his credit card company".
Although I am partial to this argument, I did not walk away from this article thinking that plastic bags are good. However, it did make a case for why they are "less bad" than most people think.

Key points:

- Plastic bags a technologically marvelous and poor people can use them to carry many groceries

- Plastic bags make up only 0.6% of visible litter, and plastic grocery bags are but a subset of that -- other studies with higher numbers have unreliable methodologies.

- As David Santillo, a senior biologist with Greenpeace, told The Times of London, "It's very unlikely that many animals are killed by plastic bags. The evidence shows just the opposite. We are not going to solve the problem of waste by focusing on plastic bags. With larger mammals it's fishing gear that's the big problem. On a global basis plastic bags aren't an issue."

- Most plastic bags are made with natural gas, and not oil (and even if it were oil, 100 billion bags would be less oil than American consumes in one day)

- Ultimately, the amount (in tons) of reusable bags thrown in landfills every year is greater than that of plastic bags.

- Reusable bags can be unsanitary and have led to an outbreak of norovirus (and I assume other incidents as well, although no other figures were provided)

I do think this is sufficient evidence to oppose bans on plastic bags (although -- as I said before -- I am biased). In order to make something illegal, a very strong case should be made against it. Banning plastic bags would have virtually no effect on liter, global warming, landfills, or animals life. That being said, I wish there were more of a comparison with paper bags, so we could determine which one is truly the best.
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The Heroku deploy does appear to work, but I was hoping to get it all running locally. Thanks though! It looks like there's a ticket on the lwip project on github that is similar to my issue, so hopefully they'll resolve that soon enough :)
1st mistake: trusting paypal.
2nd mistake: trusting paypal.
3rd mistake: trusting paypal.
4th mistake: trusting paypal.

paypal is evil. when are you idiots going to realize it? paypal skirts the law by being the bank that wasn't. america is corrupt and you're all pussy sheep. you get what you deserve.
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Is that a working solution? Does the US government claim jurisdiction over US corporations or over corporations operating in the US?
Read more Warren Buffet, less Jim Cramer. Definitely do not read stuff where some random guy wrote it (a lot of the investing news sites.)

I'm not convinced someone who doesn't know much about business can be a good investor.

Consider the worst thing that can happen isn't losing everything you invested but rather making a huge return completely randomly. People who have a bunch of money made in an unrepeatable way are miserable and often die quickly.
"Economic refugee"? This is some way to make a word lose its meaning. At this point any immigrant would become a refugee.

"A refugee is a person who is outside their home country because they have suffered (or feared) persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, or political opinion; because they are a member of a persecuted social category of persons; or because they are fleeing a war." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee
You definitely get better protection if you use your credit card. Maybe it depends on the bank, as I've only had to do it 3 or 4 times in my life, but they've always stood by me, even in less obvious situations than the linked post.
2015 and people still use Discover cards. Why?

I can think of several good reasons to use American Express, despite it being somewhat less widely accepted. But Discover doesn't seem to have any obvious value over a MasterCard or Visa.
Scaleway Now Provides Crazy Cheap VPS-Like Servers for $3.40 per Month
Everyone having a computer in its pocket (no pun intended) also makes a big difference :)
Storage and VPS systems are becoming (have become) commodity so quickly.

It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on open-source Saas businesses. I.e. "We'll host it for you or you can host it yourself for free" - for example, ghost.

Hosting it for me has definitely has its level of remove-hassle advantages, but if such software is easy to install and low maint, then it becomes notably cheaper to grab a VPS for it.
Good point. I had exactly the same thought. There's no way I'm downloading and installing anything off random darkweb site. I might build it myself and see how that goes but there's certainly still risk for sure. A more vibrant community built around software like this would provide a greater level of comfort, not to mention an independent security audit. Certainly anyone seeking to help this project might start with solving this important problem. I'll be putting some thought into it.
> So it's likely that the story was fiction

The phrase "short story" that was used to describe it is a term for a particular form of fiction writing, so that was obvious from the outset.
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Yes, it is intellectually dishonest. The submission/posted website does suggest inviting refugees into one's own home, but you are the one who suggested that we should compare "fear of refugees on a national level" (ashleyp's post "But what's the fear about letting refugees into the country?") to "fear of letting a stranger into one's home" (your post "How many homeless people do you let crash at your place each night?") That's not a sound comparison. Nowhere has anyone stated that you (the impersonal you) should take refugees in, while I don't.

I am not suggesting that any individual be mandated to keep refugees (or anyone that they don't want) in their home. I am suggesting that pooled resources (taxes, which aren't "someone else's resources") go towards maximizing the benefit for the most number of people, inclusive of immigrants.
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The above is exactly correct, though: Write it down, put it in a safety deposit box (or two if you're paranoid about losing it?). Note that fireproof safes normally won't protect digital media (temperature) but paper survives well (I hear).
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i've had 3m users with 1 person (me), working part time between classes and real jobs. this is pathetic if people see this as impressive 10 years later.
Yes, my level of respect for traders is exactly zero. There's a difference between investing and trying to make a profit off short-term trades, arbitrage, and other forms of financial practices that offer dubious value to anyone other than the trader.
> But how do you rule in a he-said-she-said situation?

I forget what the scheme is called. With digital things the buyer and the seller put 100% of the value of the transaction in a bag. If either disputes the transaction you burn the bag.
The pending TISA trade treaty may limit data sovereignty, http://www.zdnet.com/article/wikileaks-leak-shows-data-sover...

"50 countries including Australia and the US may be signing away rights to ensure sensitive customer data remains in its country of origin ... the draft document reveals that the United States and the European Union are pushing to prevent signatory countries from preventing the transfer of data across nation borders."
That's a hot topic, haha! Anyway, I really like this quote: "I'm sure there are still COBOL programmers out there, but I wouldn't want to be one of them."
The data gets collated in a Google sheet, so I think he'll be fine. Or at least if he finds a bug, it'll get fixed.
Tarsnap was exactly what I was going to suggest. Exactly what don't you like about it//why do you want to replace it?
I think this is from 2002, a pretty long time ago. The infrastructure issues don't seem to have gone away though.
I agree that most users don't utilize all of the space provided by any online service, although in this case what they upload is also out of their control. Typically space utilization is somewhat hampered because users won't be bothered to wring every last bit out of it by hand.

Even if we say each user only stores 10GB over 3 years, that's $10 just in S3 storage costs. Bandwidth costs for S3 can easily eclipse that if data is transferring back out to the device frequently. Even at a super conservative 10GB outbound per year, that's another $1.50.

I'm skeptical that a $400 phone sold in small quantities has the kind of margin to support this type of ongoing cost over the long term. They're smart people though, so maybe they have factored all of this in.
I personally don't see having the version in the package address particularly more nasty than specifying it in the project file, as in Maven, which I have been dealing with lately. One problem I imagine is that when migrating to a new version of a library, the address has to be updated in each file the library is used in, with potentially catastrophic consequences if any one file is forgotten. A grep seems wise in that case.

Would you argue that there are more robust solutions in the Haskell ecosystem? What scheme do you prefer?
The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous

Assuming that were even possible. Whether it is or not is a pretty big open question. More to the point, can you do it without needing the hammer of government sanctioned violence (or threat of violence).
The email screenshot says the website is Wordpress and the newsletter/flyer a MS Word document. I doubt they use special NHS Software beyond MS Outlook or similar. Especially since they say they tried to get the email back (MS Exchange feature).
someone should sell 'paypal.com' and then after being scammed try to get the money back from paypal. That will be a fun conversation! "I have proff that the domain was transferred to you, I can see right here the domain payp..... yes is yours, this can't be faked!"
Except when the new knowledge is in the form of pure mathematical research.

Then, some decades later someone finds the practical application, and the data that matches the model.
Domain hoarding is different from 'buying anything cheap and then sell it later at a higher price'.
Everyone's focusing on this being a PNG problem but actually if my server unzips a 420 byte file into a 5M file of any kind, I'd say that's the first red flag. Assuming some sort of streaming decompression, you could write an output filter that shuts off the decompressor when it's seen a factor of X bytes. A reasonable factor would be 10 - which in this case would have halted bzip decompression at 4kB.

This would probably be a trivial patch to bzip2. But I like the idea in general of passing an "max input/output ratio" to any process or function that might yield far more output than input.
> Just out of curiosity, how did you get out and what are you working on these days?

I quit and went to grad school. I'm now a computer science professor.
I can't help but disagree -- they are caught between a rock and a hard place. Following the demands of one Federal government (Brazil) will result in them violating the laws of another (US).

They are fighting for a unified legal regime that spans across all international boundaries.
Probably Ctrl-W, and the browser does the saving. It also works with back.
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“Don't forget to blacklist malicious usernames if you allow user-generated URLs”
It's the War on Drugs, waged by America, and it's been going on for decades.
Yes, the Pantheon is a good example of what I was talking about — except that it's built with Roman concrete, which is substantially more weather-resistant than modern concrete, for reasons that are still not well understood. It's probably a matter of using slightly different pozzolans, but the Roman concrete manufacturing process was lost with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. So if you were to try to build a Pantheon today, you'd have a good chance it would fall down in only a century or two.

Lime cement, though, we do still know how to make, and it has the advantage of having a lower TCE, which will reduce thermal-cycling stresses on your wall when combined with other low-TCE materials like granite.

Both lime cement and Portland cement can suffer pretty badly from acid rain, a problem that was only discovered in 1853 (just yesterday, in the lifespan of the aqueducts or the Pantheon), and which I think we're well on our way to solving. It might come back, though, and it's harsher on lime cement than on Portland cement.

This should reinforce my point above about surprising failure modes in things that you think you've "overengineered" to last for the ages.
Agreed, though the tip-off to me that it wasn't USD was the comma. For anyone else like me 2.99€ is $3.36 USD.
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Cavemen did not have cavities
I'd wager that, at minimum, the U.S. Navy, 3M, and MIT have already done so, pursuant to research on waterproof adhesives.

I know at least that MIT has:

http://news.mit.edu/2014/new-adhesives-stick-in-water-0921
More:

- https://www.paypal.me/login

- https://www.paypal.me/help

- https://www.paypal.me/demo

[Source](https://redd.it/3jd1bj)
If I have to blame one thing and only one thing, I will spare the Indian politician and blame the "babu-giri", Indian Civil Services, which is still modeled around its colonial predecessor. These are people recruited in their 20s and have a lifetime appointment in the system. Some are wise enough to get foreign education when possible, but most live in this bureaucratic bubble, and methodically eke their fiefdoms. These guys are the policy wonks, district level executives and every thing in between, and they do not have one frigging Idea, how the private sector works. They are worshipers of process and people are not in the picture. This culture permeates to every level, a culture of gatekeepers and fiefdoms, from the Secretary to PM to the peon in the municipal office.

India was called hope of Asia in 50s. The hope and promise was nothing new, and the delivery was never there.
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If one browses on over to shop.com, at the bottom of the page you'll find:

© 1997-2015 SHOP MA, INC. All other designated trademarks, copyrights, and brands are the property of their respective owners. (prdmf002)

Doesn't really look like a shop that's ready to turn out the lights.
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And that was exactly my point :) In case it wasn't clear from the context, I was suggesting getting a notebook with a discrete GPU instead of integrated GPU (that's what iGPU/dGPU stand for, not a desktop GPU).

If you are game developer / graphics programmer / game player / designer / photo or video editor / VR enthusiast / anybody who cares about graphics, I would advise to get at least GTX 960M (if you have budget or size constrains, this should get you roughly to PS4/Xbox One levels, so relatively safe for this gen), but preferably GTX 970M (best price/power and you can still get slim notebook).

GTX 970M will get you about average GPU performance overall, including desktops (these days I get ~50-percentile rank in 3dmark firestrike with my GTX 970M notebook, so average GPU in September 2015 is at least as fast or faster, at least for that cohort of people).
How would you charge someone far above the market rate? Isn't the market rate determined by what someone is willing to pay?
Who says you need escrow services for that?

Store your N'th fragments with /friends and family/ that you know well. You might also be able to get in on distributed backups together.
Racism and xenophobia together with paranoid isolationism all the way to straight up facism have been on the rise recently, together with actual violence against refugees, that much is certainly true, but you forget that there are many different people with many different views living in Europe. The outpouring of support (donations, volunteer work) has also been rising a lot.

In Germany I have also seen a marked shift in media coverage, away from crisis reporting towards a more honest approach portraying practical solutions and steps, including volunteer work. The main evening news in Germany, for example, has been airing a portraial of volunteers and their work and has consistently shown the donation account number for wire transfers.

You may be stuck in your own isolationist filter bubble. There is a whole world out there.
How about we all try getting rich (or just keep our wealth out of violent neighboring hands) without violence or a government.

There's a pretty broad range of what you could call "government" in that discussion. The question of how to reign in would be aggressors isn't fully settled, but it certainly hasn't been proven that it takes the kind of government we have today. Especially given that the system we have today doesn't stop aggression, it just shuffles it around and renames it. See, for example, "civil forfeiture".
Perhaps the attacks on our fundamental values helps to prevent the silent majority taking them for granted? Im not talking violent terror type attacks, more the freedom to argue against them.
The value system is still very much influenced by Christianity, though.
Samuelson attempted to develop a sort of thermodynamics of economics. As far as I can tell it was a miserable failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Economic_Analys...

I'm a fan of using physics models for predicting behavior of large groups of people, but economics .... they do occasionally come up with nice statistical tools. Sort of like psychological researchers; those fellows whose papers can only be reproduced around 1/3 of the time.
Traders add value by bringing the good to the customer. That is the justification behind their margins.

What value does a domain squatter add?
> Pirate Bay will be blocked in Norway

Until someone sets up a VPN or Proxy.
Factually if we take each point in the Article, a lot has changed and yet not enough:

1. You can get cross country SIM card easily in India today.

2. Taxes for IT business is uniform (no incentive for export per se)

3. Indian IT industry did just fine during bubble burst so Author's cyncism was bit misplaced.

4. Indian aviation industry is fierecly competitive. Today no one worries about future of Air India not because Air India has become good but there is enough competition.

5. I would argue that a lot has been done to ease Foreign investment since Article was written. Why just yesterday new measures were announced (http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/no-mat-on-fii-why...)
The "3rd party doctrine" is a bullshit interpretation and it needs to die. When I go through the trouble of coming up with a long complicated password and setup two factor authentication it's pretty obvious that I have "an expectation of privacy". Maybe what the tech companies need to do is have a checkmark on sign up that says "I expect my data to be private".
Interesting article, but 1999 called and wants its webpage color scheme back.
Hot dang, that last line is insightful.

Some people will argue that whenever you let someone have data about yourself, you're implicitly giving access to practically everyone by virtue of often imperfect security.

I believe that those people are full of shit.
Can someone tell me what it offers over Evernote Web Clipper?
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We should help them because they are in need of help. It doesn't imply we have to support them indefinitely. We should help the homeless people, too, but the issue is not lack of money here.
I could, but it's more of a force of habit- but if I did that would further prove my point that the choice of logo doesn't make any difference to people using the site for search.
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Ted, can I ask a question? what's your opinion about network sockets and 9P?
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Err... cause I'm also in a bad economic condition? The crisis had real impact in here for anyone except the rich, in case you don't know.

Your question doesn't even make sense. I'm asking why we are helping (we, our government, our taxes) the refugees/migrants before we help our own homeless people.
You are right, it depends on the card issuer. My friend was forced to pay a large sum at knife point in China a few years ago with his CC, later the CC company told him there was nothing they could do since he personally signed it already.
Looks like you get a lot more memory than on the cheapest Digital Ocean droplet (2gb vs 512mb), and more storage too (50gb vs 20gb).
>> If companies stored customer data encrypted by keys that are held by the customer, they wouldn't have this problem.

There is no value to the company in doing that. They can't mine the communications to determine what ads to serve you, or anything else. At that point they'd just be offering a free service. Why?
I just pasted a picture to heavy machinery.
Actually I did all of that. But of course I saw the current, legit whois info which is what I would expect to see before I had purchased.
Huh, so they did: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/07/14/438...
> Does US law for some reason override Irish law?

It's pretty simple. Whoever has more guns backing up their laws wins.