skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this has to be a deliberate fraud outlet.

Back in 2009, I ordered a pair of boots for a Halloween costume online. They sent me an email telling me a window when the boots were supposed to ship, and I specifically ordered two-day shipping. Of course, they charged my card right away, which I didn't know at the time was a red flag.

They missed the shipping window. I thought "no big deal, there's a huge holiday coming up, so they're probably just backlogged, I'll wait another day". Another day passed. I sent an email asking what's wrong. No response. No phone number listed on their website, either; that's a red flag. Another day passed. And another. Another email sent. No response. Another day. By this point, it's been about a week after the boots were supposed to arrive, and they haven't even shipped; it's Friday, so I send them an email telling them that if it doesn't ship by Monday, I'm filing a chargeback. No response either.

Right after I sent that last email, I got curious and googled the name of the store. There were pages on Ripoff Report [0], Reseller Ratings [1], and other sites detailing the fact that they just take people's money and never ship anything. I also discovered that they used to have a phone number listed on their site, but they took it off. The BBB had listed them as an F, but it appears that's since been scrubbed from their website.

Well, fuck.

I contacted Chase and filed a chargeback that day. No way am I waiting till Monday now that I know it's a scam. After going into my whole spiel about how they never responded to my emails and I found all this dirt online about them, the person I spoke to just said "Wait, they said it was going to arrive on [date] and it still hasn't shipped?". I said yes, and she immediately approved my chargeback. I was surprised: I was expecting to have to fight them for it.

Also, according to the websites I found, whenever people issued chargebacks against them, they had a habit of running the charge again, sometimes from a different merchant account, again and again and again. People had to report their credit cards as stolen to get it to stop. I watched my statement like a hawk for months, and thankfully it never happened to me, but I just got lucky.

Also, just out of sheer spite, I filed a BBB complaint against them. A few weeks later, the BBB sent me an email telling me they closed my complaint because every attempt to contact the company failed. They didn't answer their phone or respond to any emails or letters.

Reading Viet's post and your comment, I am reminded of that incident. There is no way in hell the business wouldn't have known they weren't shipping product. People don't just issue chargebacks out of the blue. We call and email and do whatever we can to get the damn product into our hands first and only as a last resort do we light the bridge on fire by issuing a chargeback. And I wonder how many people just gave up and never even bothered to issue chargebacks.

[0] https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/specific_search/Queen+F...

[1] https://www.resellerratings.com/store/Queen_Fashions
Is that the place with the Golden Arcs and the BigMic?
Thank you. That was clear-as-mud every time I wondered what the difference was before.
Even that would make little sense. Jeff Bezos' income is $0 (or maybe $1, can't remember) — you really think his kids would be disadvantaged tho? That just massively incentivizes financial trickery in order to reduce stated incomes.

For example if I were a parent I would just give all my money to my siblings with the understanding that they provide it to my kids under my management, state my income as $0 or even negative, and watch my kids' college acceptance letters roll in.

It's impossible to use finances as an admissions variable because finances are already so heavily gamed by modern accounting practices.

Meanwhile Harvard keeps being racist AF. Don't they know about Goodwins law!?!? Lol
> Receiving money via Credit Card is surprisingly risky for the merchant.

In this aspect cryptocurrencies are surprisingly dangerous for the customer because there is no easy way to revert a transaction done by mistake or fraud (lets say someone cracked your wallet).

With credit cards in the worst case you just screw the merchant and I guess this is what marketplaces will end up doing instead of setting up their own escrow systems in order to protect both sides because handling disputes is hard work.
It's just Yelp Elite program run amok.
How about the European Union, at europa.eu?

My employer's database has a few hundred email addresses ending .eu. The vast majority are scientific institutions, local government, or EU institutions.
I’m curious how brands come up with these numbers- is the ROI really that good?
"I want to eat my cake and have it too!"
As far as EU is concerned, you voted Leave and you deserve much worse than changing your email addresses.
One man's leaker is another man's whistleblower. It's not always so black and white.
David Brevik, the creator of diablo is currently working on an indy game pretty much by himself called It Lurks Below. It's kind of like if terraria merged with diablo. You have to survive by growing crops and you get items by venturing lower and lower into the world using your pickaxe. It's still in pre-release on steam, but even at this stage I played it for quite a number of hours and found that it had a surprising amount of depth.

It's certainly not on the same level as diablo, but it is worth checking out if you are into those kind of games.

I really wish Blizzard would not have shut down Blizzard North and would have let Brevik continue working on his vision for diablo 3. That's life I guess though.
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Vaguely related: "EINSTEIN DIDN'T WIN the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity. He won it for showing that you don't need to worry about radiation from your cell phone." - https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Einstein-Yo...

More specifically, http://ap.io/blog/radiofrequency/, The gist being if the photons don't have enough energy to affect your atoms, your don't need to worry too much. Since the power falls off proportional to 1/d^2, just don't use your router/cellphone as a pillow.

The whole "human body is complicated and it could possibly affect you in some other way" is certainly a good place to investigate, but probably really hard to demonstrate without drastically increasing the density and power to unusual levels.
Problem with TypeScript is that it's a temporary bridging language until we have proper WASM toolchains and WASM DOM/GC integration for real languages. Just look at Blazor go! So betting on TS on _server side_ of all places is quite weird.
When you elevate everyone else’s risk exposure by driving too fast on a public road or smoking in a public place, you pay a fine. I imagine we’ll need to do the same to people who feel that “bits do not rot” operating ancient software on the internet. (With similar allowances for doing whatever you want in private).
Isometric ARPGs are niche now, but there's still games being made. Off the top of my head:

- Titan Quest (just got an update and a new expansion!)

- Grim Dawn

- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

- Victor Vran

- Path of Exile

- Warhammer 40000 Inquisitor - Martyr

- Torchlight 1 & 2 (I wish Runic games hadn't imploded...)

It is unfortunate that most of these don't have the same level of randomness than Diablo has, but they're pretty good games in their own right.
I don't grasp this logic. Apple builds a feature to help with 911 services so they should fund 911 services? Apple also implemented Amber Alert support. Should they fund the Amber Alert system, too?

Aren't emergency services pretty clearly the government's job? You already pay a fee on your cell bill specifically to cover the cost of 911 services to your local and state governments.
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multiple hash functions only exist because they don't use secure hashes (for speed reasons) so there's collisions.

Normally for passwords you would use a secure hash, negating this
The problem is, those that are doing the action usually will disagree that they are harming people.
I chuckle to myself every time I see a superfluous piece of technology like this being out of service. Then, I realise the probable reality is that no one cares. All they care about is that the core business is still operating (for better or worse).

I've never managed to get free WiFi properly working on a plane or train.
I did something similar with the Starcraft manual...the art work alone was awesome.
Consider me (man) an outlier, then. I much prefer to comparison shop and maximize the quality/value ratio. Plus, I do tend to know what I want (in terms of style, at least), but it might take many visits to many shops to find it (both virtually and physically).
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UK will still need to work with other countries including those in the 27. The 27 will still want to cooperate with UK, so club analogy not strictly accurate, more like leaving a shared house and moving into the empty flat next door.

Isn't there a precedent that we don't break urls on the Web? I think I remember top level country domains persisting after the countries changed?
Think of like a part of the US emigrating into Argentina, taking up a majority of the country, and then deciding to rename Argentina to "Inca Empire" and talk about how great their Inca ancestors were. Presumably Peru would be at least a bit miffed about it.
Bad logic because Greece's borders are internationally recognized. Nobody legalised Russia annexing the Crimea. You cannot just claim territory unless you're a superpower.

Besides I think the people in Greece-Macedonia are happy being Greek.
The repository is ~1mb. Far less than most websites.
I've thought about it. It's a risk/reward thing, though. I like doing this, and I'd hate to be exposed as a fraud because then my passion project comes crashing down and what do I have left?

I guess that's the downside to trying to make money from a hobby. Either it stays a hobby that you don't make money from, or it becomes a second job and stops being a hobby.
Here, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/disclaimer/ . That gives a pretty clear explanation.

Quote: "The presence of an article in PMC does not reflect an endorsement of, or concurrence with, the contents of the article by NLM."

PMC is PubMed Central, and NLM is the National Library of Medicine is the center at NIH in charge of managing it.
Ah - I'm from the UK so "posh" in this context to me means traditional very upper middle class or lower upper class. Definitely not posh as in spice.
I think as long as they don't include DIABDAT.MPQ or any of the content / texture files from the original game it should be ok.
If only there were some way to Syndicate website updates to a centralized reader in a Really Simple way...
Thanks for the follow up! I'll look it up.
Funny nobody mentioned about Li-Fi yet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi
I personally don't give a shit about single thread performance. That is a metric that is meaningless. And Sandy bridge was pretty awful.
Why wouldn't phage therapy be patentable? A quick Google reveals a number of them.
How Square Made Its Own iPad Replacement
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714581
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Thank you. I was about to be amazed about the other life of a hall of fame point guard and mediocre coach.
I wonder whether the advertising reach of 'influencers' is due to the lack (or absence) of enforcement of advertising regulations. I don't know about the rest of the world but in the UK many 'influencers' certainly seem to skirt the line and the Advertising Standards Authority is increasingly paying attention [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43470227
> Giving resources to the sibling hyperthread via pause is not the kind of context switch I'm talking about.

Isn't this entire thread about "pause" ?? Anyway, i think we both understand the difference between "context switch" and "pause" here.

> Pausing for as much as 10ms could be better under some circumstances, but that would seem to me to be heavier than a context-switch. Whether the system actually achieves better throughput or not in that case would be workload dependent.

Seems reasonable. Ideally, threads / cores shouldn't be blocked that long, so 10ms+ blocked periods is definitely an anomaly.

But whether or not a context switch is actually worth it? Ehhh, its hard to say for sure.
Civ 2 for me

Game manuals are a lost art :(
Basically the same way SV companies come up with their valuation. You ask someone to pay $1000, and if they say yes... that's the price. Now every company who asks the price is told $1000.
Bloodborne on the PS4 is pretty much exactly what I imagined Diablo III could have been. It’s so close but it’s also quite different.
Ya, I'm a VW share holder.. I never asked them to cheat all I'm not sure why I should be punished anymore than the big hit to market cap this has caused them.
I agree that's a problem with the glider image, but that's the issue I had with railroads as well—there's much more freedom than what is shown here; railroads can go multiple ways, join in various orders etc. What I mean is one line change in a given direction does not imply subsequent ones will be in the same.
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> it is hard to identify a specific economic problem which they currently solve

It is hard to identify such a problem till you believe you can withdraw your money from a bank anytime. Visiting a bank and getting an answer "please come tomorrow" for several weeks changes a person's view on cryptocurrencies and problems they could solve, imo.
You first make the claim that your chosen diet must be safe because if it weren't safe there would be evidence to the contrary. Then you dismiss those people who try to bring forward evidence to the contrary as liars. You can't have it both ways.

It's funny that you should bring up Atkins and then suggest "following the money"... Atkins Nutritionals sued some of the people that you are labelling as liars, and lost all of their lawsuits. If there's one thing I've learned from my two decades living in America it's that when a corporation loses a lawsuit to individuals here, the individuals are probably barking up the right tree.

Have you considered the possibility that what you are terming "liars" is just "people that disagree with my strongly-held belief"?
Ever wonder why mosts casinos have more “SLOT ATTENDANTS “ than cocktail service when it is rare to see a slot machine breaks or needed service and surely those attendants had no engineering degree or at least experience on fixing those computers..
Will I figured out the answer after years of observations, provocation,to gather specific outcome relating slot machine payout. casino players tend to focus only to the screen , would skip going to the bathroom hoping that somehow it will randomly pay some jockpot..
The Handheld Device equipped by the “slot machine attendants “ are designed to remotely control slot machine and it make sense for casino’s point of vantage bacause they not only have the advantage but they have TOTAL CONTROL of cashflaw acting like gods and the players sheeps ..
floor supervisors / managers will orient/instruct attendants on their starts of shift to have a certain machines to patrol /covered and will be instructed to press a certain button for each active machine depending on BET the will also be instructed to write down machines # located at the top area near the remote receiver wich they have now built bigger more accurate. Slot attendants do not know exact functionality wich I think careless.
They think they are above the law and things will not have a day in court !
I will subpoena their video recordings , slot attendants employment records, their job descriptions, and the ultimate proof of this immoral , dirty , currupted system is their sudden double / triple Revenues after Slot attendants and their handheld device where operational.
Revenue’s should have decreased since they have to pay extra for hiring so many slot attendant .
Casinos sure contribute generates tax , employed , and sometimes help some organization, individuals,
But casinos creates more unemployment, foreclosures, divorces, tax revenues individuals before they where deceived go out to dine, go to stores and shops , spend money for auto repair, medical , and had a bank account .
Once people learned how they been going to those damn casinos not knowing that they have zero chance and machines where remotely controlled .. I can’t imagine the implications . I hope it’s not too late. Too many lives destroyed victimized by this greedy , barbaric individuals that profit’s on other misfortunes this is worse than the Eslavary era.
Section 10 on their compact agreement states that casinos should maintain a clean , honest gambling operation wich they have broken and will be questioned and challenge .. When I migrate to this country I have a big respect , belief, and admire the law , the rules, will I guess I was wrong I thought this only happens in third countries welcome to america.
Populace are being feed constant fear about nuclear, North Korea, Russia, China, global warming bullshit. No one is talking about this damn casinos that is more distructive combined any other treats it put the country in jeopardy. They enemy are among us and already crossed the border they play their card very will and could be the victor..
The document [1] that it all hinges off doesn't say that it will all be turned off on exit day but says that post-exit if you have an .eu domain and you no longer meet the eligibility criteria then you won't be able to renew it (section 1 of document 1).

For individual registrants, it hinges off residency, not nationality. So if you are British but resident in the EU you are fine as long as you are using your non-UK address to register. If you are a citizen of an EU country but registered with your UK address then you'll also be caught up.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/notice_to_stakeho...
As far as anecdata goes, I know someone who makes around $800K a year even without some crazy-impressive a follower count on Youtube (around 600K). This is not factoring in free trips, etc.

As with any commercial exchange, there's a lot of variables other than size of audience, including the composition of the audience, how good the channel is at moving a specific product, whether there are side-opportunities related to the main influencer role, how good of a B2B salesperson one is, etc.

This particular person works as hard as anyone in a startup, around 100 hours a week, and treats it as such. She also happens to be pretty good looking which helps with the videos.

It used to piss me off a little bit, given how hard I have had to work to get to this stage, but one can think of it as very similar to modeling with probably a similar income distribution too (and I seem to intrinsically understand that top tier models make a lot and am ok with it).

My question is -- of all the people making a lot in their 20s and early 30s, how many are going to be making the same amount in their 40s and 50s? I suppose by then their peer generation will also be the same age so it's hard for me to project. I also expect it to be much more of a mature market at that time.
>... German rigidity shows

And what has Germany to do with this?
It is. And it's mentioned at the bottom of the github page, too: "This work is being released to the Public Domain. No assets of Diablo are being provided. You must own a copy of Diablo and have access to the assets beforehand in order to use this software."
No they wouldn't. The EU standing up for them - which it does - is the only way they will have more rights than any other migrant worker from around the world. Being flexible would mean abandoning them to get some trade-only, no-free-movement deal.
>you should never let things like the constitution get in the way of doing "good".

Protip: If it's really that "good" you won't need to make an end run around the constitution to get it done.
It's a term that I only see the media industry using.

It's all cut from the same cloth but at the end of the day, advertising works.
I saw a great "joke" the other day. It said, "If Shazam or Siri can't identify a song for you, make a quick video and upload it to YouTube. Within a few seconds you'll get a copyright takedown telling you the name of the song".
"capable of handling thousands of users across thousands of virtualized or native systems": Yeah, the systems that I often work on can usually handle those kinds of work loads with extreme reliability and efficiency without even breaking a sweat. Meanwhile the server folks will look at that kind of stuff and almost wet themselves.

On "cards": Open a terminal session or a command prompt on almost any system ("new" or "old"), and it will generally default to being 80 columns wide. Guess where that default comes from!
"Literally every ico is a scam aimed at idiots."

Well, if you were planning a scam, would you aim it at smart people? Seems similar to the reason why so many of those scam emails have terrible grammar: they want to weed out anyone smart enough to recognize the scam.
Do you have Ad Sense installed on your blog? Seems like you should have made much more than that from your own views independent of what "Brands" are paying you.

Or have you promoted any Amazon products with an affiliate link?
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It's hard to imagine anyone making any significant investments in new film cameras even if there are a few essentially novelty designs here and there. And I have to believe there's enough used gear floating around to meet market demand essentially indefinitely. Take a typical midrange film SLR to a used camera store and they'll basically laugh at you in my experience.
Tempest 3000 supports rotary control, but a rotary controller never shipped for the Nuon.

18 years too late we got some NOS controller chips (proprietary stuff) and are making a run of “new” controller boards with spinner, specifically to enjoy Tempest 3000 as it was developed!

Old details: http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=86824&hilit=Yak+tw...

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Haiku is also one of the best performers in a virtual Spice display. It feels faster and more responsive than a virtualized Fedora or Ubuntu.
Does the average American respond to a stupid law by campaigning for secession?
Audi/VW/Porsche are not American companies
Based on their claims in Thrace and Aegean sea they are. So I guess you agree with me then.
That book is called IBM and The Holocaust and it is indeed very good. IBM wasn't going bankrupt before working with the Nazi's though. It talks about how IBM rolled out punch-card technology originally developed for the census to the Nazi's via its German subsidiaries.

I don't see the parallels here though. Nazi's were detaining and murdering their own citizens. ICE is enforcing existing laws against illegal immigration and it's doing so with transparency. The laws it is enforcing may be controversial to some, but it's not the executive branch's place to write new laws.
Yes. I only read Finnegans Wake by reading it aloud to myself. I can hear a lot more of the puns and word enjambnents auditorally than I can see them visually.

Having said that, I am still reading the book only a few pages at a time every other week or so. I’m 25 years in and not even close to being done. I’m ok with that.
Greece probably shouldn't have elected an anti-nationalist governing party then.
Can someone summarize what are their arguments?
To be fair, the parent commenter was vague about what "strict editorial policies" meant.

Tech publications receive free stuff all the time too.

And for people like Casey Neistat - people send stuff to him unsolicited.
You are calling 911. The purpose of the call is specifically to ask the government to send someone to your location.