skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, buyer fraud could be a problem in this scenario and is something that would have to be accounted for.

I am not saying it isn't a problem, just that you should expect to have to make concessions in the form of higher reserves and/or fees. Many companies do similar, if not the same, scenarios so it is definitely not impossible or something that is so difficult to accomplish that it is avoided at all costs.

From the sound of your response, you have not gone through the application process as of yet, you have just been talking with processors. If this is the case I would suggest going through the application process. They, like you, are trying to reduce risk and are most likely not going to tell you upfront that they can get it approved or not.

Try http://globalpaymentsinc.com I had a customer who used them in the past and was very pleased with their service (although they were selling directly). They offer service in Canada as well.
The Weakest Link: What Wikileaks Has Taught Us About the Open Internet
I got one now, thanks! No 64-bit version :(
I created this web app in a couple weeks after seeing Google Hotpot. Bookflavor is essentially Hotpot for books.

The main screen can be used to find books, rate, and review them in an easy to use interface. Clicking on a book's cover will take you to a detail page that shows a stream of reviews from multiple sources.

Please let me know your thoughts on Bookflavor and tell me if you experience any problems or anything that doesn't work like you expect it to.

Thank you.
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange to Meet with UK Police
ESPN recently started letting you watch a simulcast of their cables channels if you (or say your parents) get ESPN from their Time Warner cable service. I don't know that there is any other providers signed on yet but they seem to be working on adding more. It's how I cut the cord.

http://espn.go.com/espnnetworks/index
>But if you're saying that you have become the arbiter of what causes harm or not, you are taking on yourself something that you have no right to do, whether you're alex or some WL guy.

>Does that make sense?

More than you may think. I'm Canadian. The US routinely makes decisions that affect me but that I have no say in.

Now, I want to be very careful here, because I don't want to frame this as "the big bad US got some egg on their face, serves them right" - it's very easy to think this is about the US (and, well, in a literal sense it obviously is), but it's really not.

What nationality is WikiLeaks?

Think about that for a second.

To what extent would you support retaliations against an American member of WikiLeaks by, say, the UK or German government?

Here's the fundamental difference between how we're looking at it. As a citizen of country X, Y, or Z, you have every right to be pissed if an external party leaks some of your country's secrets to another country.

If, however, you think that technology from the last 20 years has set us on an inevitable path to an interconnected world, then that changes things. Your vote as a US citizen affects me, although I have no say in it. My vote as a Canadian citizen affects people in other countries. And we're no longer talking about geopolitical stuff like wars or foreign aid, we're talking about everyday stuff like how my computer works. To what extent should I support your specific government's secrets?

Here, a perfect example:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5504/125/

Maybe "less secrets" IS the answer, and maybe governments will never arrive at that answer on their own. I don't know. I do know the picture gets a lot more complicated when you look at it on the global level, and not just one country.
"Please - don't fail the whales." [Insert photo of sad baby whale]
As another datapoint, it didn't for me. It implied storing things in air.
Temporal Issues in Information Consumption
GitHub now uses history.pushState to avoid page refreshing
What's your favorite Eco book, Jacques? I listed mine at the top of the thread.
What a cool website! Congrats!
Wow, nice catch. It even has the exact same search term and result page in the search bar graphic.
Windows 7 still searching for the ghost floppy
Alternately, he didn't count on his boasting leading to embarrassment for the NYPD. Not a good strategy with your house in their jurisdiction.
All the same limitations? Most SQL databases don't support anywhere near the amount of atomic operations that MongoDB provides. Also sharding MongoDB is a lot easier than sharding MySQL and PostgreSQL.
There are two processors that we've gone through the application process with, Global Payments and PayPal. Both denied us citing the business model being the factor they couldn't get through the risk department at the Acquiring Bank.
I'm conflicted about this. On one hand, I like to have the full text in the RSS feed.

On the other hand, if someone makes or writes something that is interesting enough to get in HN feed, why not have HN send them the traffic spike, regardless of whether it's ad supported or ego supported.

The current way doesn't seem broken for me. In fact, I enjoy seeing the design of the various sites (even if it's fugly) as well as the presentation of their info.

Either way, kudos for a nice coding exercise.
Sorry I meant WiFi Tether (officially called "Android Wifi Tether"), it is an open source project that does the same job as the "official" wifi tether app that the carrier usually lock or require you to pay extra for them to set allowWifiTether = TRUE;

Being rooted allows the app to provide the same functionality without needing to check the carrier setting.

It's the killer app of being rooted. Unless you are on AT&T in SF or NY in which case your network is probably hosed anyway
So if a robber give you the money they just robbed in other country, means you are free to use them?
Groupon takes an old model - "one day sale only" or "first 1000 people to sign up get a free t-shirt" - and makes it work in the social space.

Groupon is promotions, not advertising. Trying to compare it to Adsense will be extremely difficult.
A few years ago I dealt with the same issue but at that time in a different industry - resort real estate development. My suggestion is to go with a) or b). In my experience, things only get worse with business partners if they start off this well. I didn't know mine very well before entering into the deal and also confronted this person and it just didn't "sink in." That became a common occurrence. This will be a huge drain on your energy and it is better to go ahead and rip the bandaid off now than be dealing with issues down the road. I know every person and situation is different but why risk it?
I like reading smart things on any subject. Not sure why this stuff is dry considering what's at stake for the people involved.
"he flaw that you keep hitting is that you assume the government is just."

The heck if I do.

I'm saying that I personally support the system of voting to enact change, that I believe the only arbitrer of whether something was justifiably held secret or not are my fellow voters, and that by denying us the right to participate in that agreed-upon state of affairs, it is a form of attack. It is not denied by keeping too many secrets -- secrets leak and we make choices. But it is, oddly enough, denied by dumping entire boatloads of secrets.

A just government has nothing to do with it.
My master's thesis involved using prolog as a query language to analyze source code. The implementation of Prolog I used was written in smalltalk and allowed putting smalltalk code right in a prolog query to, for example, performing heavy computation faster.
First, of all, thank you. Seriously. Second of all, here are the gaps in my narrative:

3. He is more technical than I am, and the reason he is maintaining his PHP shop is to pay the bills, whereas I am fortunate enough not to have that concern for the immediate future. This unavoidable disparity in commitment levels may have caused a bias in me as to how invested we both are.

4. We have been looking for the CTO. It has been difficult and the guy we were pinning our hopes on ultimately didn't come through. As of now we have someone who is willing to build the MVP if we pay him, and we feel he'll do a good enough job.

5. He has intimated that he will pursue the project independently. Since I really want to bring this concept to life, I may end up doing the same if we part ways.

6. I'm not sure about this last statement... The extent to which our issues pertain to the operations of the business itself is obviously important, but equally so are the overall relations between the small number of people who are trying to build it.

In general, I completely agree with your assessment of the situation, and I've suggested a call with him tonight to attempt once and for all to iron our our differences. This comment was mostly to fill you in on the details which were lacking in a post you were kind enough to respond to regardless. If you have anything to add given the new info, that would be great - if not, no worries, and thanks once again.
Olympic curling lessons - strategy, minimal athleticism, and fun.
Ask HN: Scala internships in the UK?
Is there anyone in the UK developing in Scala who's interested in taking on an intern?

Does anyone know of any such things? I can't seem to find anything on job sites.

I'm hoping that somewhere on HN's social graph there's a Scala startup in the UK :-)

London or Cambridge would be nice, but I'll travel.
I'm glad you like it. Out of curiosity, did you happen to rate or review any books during your visit? I'm interested in whether or not the interface motivates visitors to rate and review.
I recall the first interesting example usage my professor taught of dynamic programming was this example (well, described, not taught). He basically just said that all you do is take the L^2 or L^3 sum of extra space and minimize it using a DP. The fact that that yields great-looking text I thought was pretty cool.
Columbia students told job prospects harmed if they access WikiLeaks cables
>"Why shouldn't he publicize his views if lots of people are interested?"

For the record, Eco has been writing for newspapers and magazines for many years. Travels in Hyper-Reality is a collection of such articles.
I could easily overlook this if they rolled out UMA (aka Generic Network Access) on all handsets. Its been the saving grace for me on my Blackberry, especially in large convention centers with poor cell reception. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network
Foucaults pendulum
I've been meaning to learn Prolog since I took an AI course that focused on theorem proving.

I can't help but notice that the webpage looks like one of the awful default Beamer presentation styles.
I rated a couple I've read recently. I didn't review, though I might later. :)

I liked the interface the most. It's very easy to use to browse.
Google, NXP to integrate NFC into Android
i never suggested the reference was detrimental to the page, but it is a risk. proven even just by the fact that it's debatable. it is an error page; the person likely got here because they are confused in the first place. this is especially notable given the huge spectrum of Google's audience.

i don't feel strongly either way on the execution. however, i do feel strongly that it would be negligent for the deciding party to not at least recognize that it is a risk.
Well to follow that thought, I actually do run Ubuntu in the datacenter (we'll have to debate that one another time) but last time I checked the Ubuntu package for AeroFS was GTK/some other UI based package and I couldn't see any command line mechanisms in the package to let me manage things on server.

Would love to see that tided up because then this becomes a mechanism for distributing files to the cluster super easy for my "normal end users", plus the cloud benefits illumin8 is referring to.
The key would be whether the tax office accepts the loss as genuine.
Hm, that’s actually a good point. I’m unable to come to a solid conclusion right now. I will just point out that information and property are not the same and that even with property, taking stolen goods is usually a lesser crime, especially if you are otherwise unrelated to the thief. So while there are some similarities it’s not a perfect analogy.
Thought experiment: pick a foreign country that most people think is really screwed up. Let's pick Saudi Arabia, but you can pick any country.

I hate the way SA does things. I hate the fact that they support terrorist. I hate the fact they oppress their women. I hate the fact that they oppress their people. I hate the fact they bleed us with oil money (continue on ad infinitum, or until you get a good head of steam worked up over how bad country X is)

Now. I come across a big pile of documents from Saudi Arabia. All of their secret documents. All of the details of all the bad things they've done. All of the little evils. But also some good things. Some things that might hurt people (or not). And some things that I have no idea the importance of (probably the biggest hunk, really).

We're back to the 3 choices again. I can give it all to my own government. I can choose a particular injustice and release documents in support of that (and be willing to accept the consequences) or I can dump them all on the web and effectively declare my own little personal war on Saudi Arabia.

Option 3 is incredible because it didn't exist before. Sure, it used to be done -- there was a big dump of secret documents before WWI that partially led to the instability that caused the war -- but not by a single person.

In this case I'd pick option 1 and be very happy about it. But I could also support somebody picking option 2. This is a personal decision.

Option 3 is a non-starter with me. It is wrong under any circumstances.

That help clear it up?

You guys are so starry-eyed by the new existence of option 3 that you think it's going to solve all these huge problems. I'm telling you all it's going to do is cause somebody with a really big stick to come over and hit you on the head. And then we all suffer because a few guys thought bittorrent and aes could save the universe.
He emigrated when he was a child and was raised in the US. I'm sure he's more familiar with the US legal system than whatever approximates one in Russia.
For small programs you are probably right.

However, the key of learning Prolog to teach you how to expresses the logic of a program/system without describing its control flow. Basically to describe what the program or system should accomplish (which rules govern the program or system) without thinking how these things will be implemented and executed (it will just happen). This kinda of thinking can be very powerful tool when designing complex systems and products.
The essays in Travels in Hyper-Reality predate both novels.
I'm going to disagree here. If that is the goal then removing the naivigation makes sense when clicking sign up but not clicking pricing.

The equivalent would be amazon removing navigation when you arrived at a single product page.

The end result IMO is that it looks like a mistake.
Leaked cables suggest China Access to Microsoft source used for cyber attacks
I've had my N1 for about 6 months and have never had that happen. The touch screen isn't as good as on my 3G iPhone, but it never freaks as you've described.
This Is What It Looks Like When Your Gmail Gets Hacked By China
Google Wave will continue as Apache Wave
Solving Einstein’s Riddle using nondeterministic computing
MongoDB is designed specifically for multi-server durability. All writes are done in-place. It will support single-server durability in 1.8. Until then, 10gen strongly recommends against using a single-server setup with any data you care about[1].

I don't have any ready figures in front of me for disk performance, but MongoDB uses an in-memory layout and memory-mapped files, which provide a far less than optimum data layout for disk performance. As you might imagine, it works well with SSDs, but the performance is awful on rotational disks. Foursquare's outage was caused in part when their MongoDB instance began to exceed available RAM. My own experiences with larger-than-RAM MongoDB collections mirror this conclusion. Under these circumstances, you're likely to see much worse performance with MongoDB than MySQL or PostgreSQL, especially with concurrent writes[2].

As far as the SQL pitfalls, and database in general, don't think for a second MongoDB has some magic that exempts it from performance problems that RDBMS' have. Start using any of the familiar SQL scaling "no-no" features: multiple indexes, range queries, limits/offsets, etc.... and it's going to start exhibiting performance characteristics like a PostgreSQL or MySQL database would under those circumstances.

The temptation with MongoDB is to be lured into this idea that a brand new, immature database with convenient, SQL-like features can perform significantly better than it's highly-tuned RDBMS brethren. There are some reasons to choose MongoDB over MySQL and PostgreSQL, but performance should not be one of them.

[1] http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Durability+and+Repair#Du...

[2] http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-574
Out of date: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/columbia-wikileaks-...
Consumer Reports ranks AT&T the worst wireless carrier; says trying to do better
The Price Of Gold And Silver Is Being Manipulated .
Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You
Thanks. Mental note: "Search for anything you are going to ask before you actually ask it".
I've long thought talent was akin to "potential energy", some people do seem to have an aptitude for math, or music, or art, but it really doesn't go anywhere unless they work through and develop it. Talent is a yardstick for saying "you could go far doing this", but certainly has nothing to do with what people actually do.
In a sense, its just a measure of peoples future disappointment with your "gift".

What people usually mean, when they talk "talent" is technical ability, and that is only achieved through practice. If someone has the discipline and patience to work through the painful parts of developing that skill.

Often, someone with "talent" will be called that because the early and introductory steps will seem easier for them than most people just being introduced to the subject, but that causes the paradox of being lazy by resting on their laurels. The difficult and advanced parts are still difficult, but the average person working through them will find it closer to a linear increase difficulty, whereas the one with "talent" for it will suddenly be at a steep curve, even if it is the same curve as for everyone, just because they have only been exposed to the easy parts so far.

Natually, this is a generalization, and some things (especially physical feats) really have a lot to do with genes and environment, but nothing in the end beats plain old practice.

I think the real talent is being able to find joy and fun in what you are doing so that the painful and tedious parts don't seem daunting at all. Or, at least surmountable.
>"Eco is foremost a craftsman of fiction and fantasy."

I would say above all he is a scholar and public intellectual. His novels are a means of communicating his ideas about semiotics to a wider audience.
i'm 22. it's not a generation gap and i'm aware of the virality of "fail" in general. i never suggested in what capacity it existed, just that i would consider it subcultural. even if you assume the extremity that everyone under 22 has heard "fail" to some extent- i'm quite sure they are not Google's primary audience for this product.

i do realize this is not an acute analogy, but allow me to close with a sobering reminder of the truth. google asks: "what is a browser?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
Not sure in Canada, but my merchant agreement forbids me from charging any money before an item is shipped. The $50mm in net worth is a polite way of saying No.

Two suggestions. Change your business model. Obviously you have some credit with your sellers. Talk with UPS Logistics, integrate a shipping platform so that your sellers ship to you, and you reforward. At this point, you don't need TPPA processing. You get the business off the ground, processing orders, proving the viability of your concept while continuing to pursue TPPA.

Two, YOU or your cofounder get on the phone with the acquiring banks. Only you know the business, only you know how you're going to address fraud and risk, and only you have the passion to sell the idea to the banker. My guess is you're talking to a broker that is doing the dealing behind the scenes that isn't talking to the person that can actually make the decisions. Leverage your Board - they surely have connections.

It is a longshot, but, email me and I'll give you two contacts that MIGHT be able to help. Poorly disguised email address in my profile.
...replacing a tactical bomber with a strategic bomber is a bit of a leap. And B1s are -expensive- to keep flying. That's one reason why they're first to be considered to retire. B2s cost a lot too, but they're stealth and B52 are just... well, remarkable is the only word.

Btw, I think you ended up replacing your FB-111s with Super Hornets.

On the side, I'm sad that you guys are retiring your F-111s. Once they're gone, there'll be noone left to do dump and burns. Voosh!
JavaScriptMVC 3.0 Released. New Features and Standalone Subprojects
Congrats, I'm going to be at the London Devnest so feel free to say hi !
Usually just asks me for a captcha
Jacques your rhetoric on Wikileaks is quite frankly awful. Here are some specific pieces I take issue with:

The mere existence of information that more than just a very few people have access to almost guarantees a leak and eventual publication

Empirically not true. What percentage of classified information has been leaked in the course of history? It's infinitesimally small.

With every advance in telecommunications technology, computing and storage the amount of information explodes further and avenues through which it may leak out multiply. Cellphones with cameras are one nice example of this effect.

The government can control what technology they allow into secured facilities. Cellphones with cameras are irrelevant when they aren't allowed into secure locations.

what a banal list it is, is that the best they could do?.

Obviously not. Do you really think the list that was leaked is the only such list? More detailed lists would obviously be classified at TS.

It looks to me as though the big lesson of this leak (besides a bunch of important details in the cables themselves) is that this process is currently failing.

The stuff that's been leaked is relatively low level Secret stuff. To claim that recent events prove that the government's ability to protect classified information is failing is ridiculous.

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Why the standard of debate so low for this particular issue?
Interview with Kyle Bragger [Forrst]
No. The solution is to allow downvoting the original submissions, not only the comments.

I see really crappy submissions occasionally. I just don't want them to show and I'd like their authors to refine their submitting strategy, so I just want to downvote. And the argument that I can upvote other stories instead is flawed - it'd require me to be here all the time, which is an evil requirement.
"Why is it not fair use?"

I don't mean this in a sarcastic way, and am genuinely curious about your answer. Why do you think it would be considered fair use?
There was actually something going on they have fixed:

http://twitter.com/#!/lizthegrey/status/11944278339100672
http://twitter.com/#!/lizthegrey/status/11950637621186560
If you've got time to spare, check out this video series on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33S6qap_SIU It's about learning Kolmogorov Complexity with Prolog.
Seriously. Excuse me for enjoying the service so much that I make dozens of quirky queries.
Thanks, but no. Not until the fixes I've mentioned have been done.
Obviously you've never been to Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn (where he lives). They call this part of Brooklyn, 'little Odessa' for a reason.