skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I think it is stealing/nefarious. They gave money to the Card so it could be used at Starbucks. If someone else uses that money NOT at Starbucks, it's against the intention of the project and not what the money was given for.

I understand that it's not necessarily an unexpected consequence, but that doesn't make it okay.
The title completely misses the point that it isn't what you buy, but what you do with it. Another proof that execution is the key.

If Yahoo had bought DoubleClick, they likely would not have come up with AdWords, which is where the big money is for Google. On top of that, Yahoo's search technology wasn't as good as google, so people would have still left Yahoo for google.
My behaviour is pretty much the same — Safari for personal browsing, Chrome for dev. Chrome is very nice, but Safari is a lot more "solid", especially when it comes to 3D Transforms and other advanced features.

Safari 5.1 on Lion isn't a life changer, but the gestures just feel right. Going back to Chrome feels like taking a step backwards, especially on a Magic Mouse where the double-finger-sideways swipe is still somewhat awkward.
By offering it as an option, you no longer have the option to not rely on it completely. What happens when everyone decides to pay in Bitcoins? I don't think the caterers will accept them as a form of payment - they'll echo Doug Shaftoe's sentiment:

" Doug’s regained his composure now, and is back to belly laughs. "What’ll that buy me? Pictures of naked girls on the World Wide Web?" "
So they hacked his account and stole money. I guess that's illegal... and will put you in front of a judge.
What did Wayne say when you proposed to make these changes to RVM itself? It seems like if you wanted to make the pie bigger, and you just want ideas versus egos to rule then you could've proposed to improve RVM.
Good news for consumers. Horrible news for developers. OK.. let's see, we gotta make an iPhone app, an Android app, a web app, one for the Blackberry, maybe one for Windows Phone, and ooh.. a Facebook app! Now a Chrome app..
Well, what's your real name and address, 'doctoboggan'?
It was stated that this was a social experiment. Given the fact that everyone knew what would happen, I hardly think this constitutes abuse. Diverting the money to a more worthy (in his view) cause, as some people were using it to buy food for the homeless, should have been an expected outcome.
so this doesn't apply to those famous enough to be recognized by their pseudonyms? e.g. Bob Dylan, Bono, The Edge, 50 Cent, Eminem, Dr. Dre, etc.

Sounds like selective entitlement on the part of Google.
So you would argue that if money given to a charity for 3rd world hunger makes a beeline for the operator's pockets, that's perfectly O.K.? Because it's practically the same thing, this just isn't official.
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> Maybe the NSA or ONI can figure out who 'revscat' really is

I decided to do a little experiment and try to find out who you really are. In about 20 minutes I found out your internet service provider, in which city you live and your username seems to be linked to "Rev. Scatological Warfare". Am I on the right track?

> but Google already knows more about me than I feel comfortable with

But how exactly are they going to link all your google searches to your real identity, if you've always used a pseudonym when using Gmail or any other Google service?
Creating new things can be a great way to progress even without cooperation. Not everyone wants to or can successfully cooperate with existing projects, so if creating a new project is what gets them working and contributing to the world, that's still a win.

Naturally, working together on things can get bigger results in the long run, but the idea of creating new projects instead of merely patching up what we already have should never be dismissed or placed "below" cooperation.
A space is not a lowercase letter, so the xkcd password would pass my test.
And how did he get the Card Security Code (PIN)?
Whoa, a bit.ly link? Was that really necessary?
Your "EJ" moment will be someone dying of e-coli poisoning. Until then, have a ball!
One of the most exciting things that has happened to me recently was finding a brand new copy of this in a used bookstore (real version, not EE) for $8. No marks, no anything.

(And my life is full of excitement, trust me!)

Great book, one of the must-reads. Though I'll admit I've only gotten like a third of the way through it...
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Do you have some more information on the control panel (front and back-end) that you are building? What languages, technologies are you using? I didn't notice anything on your personas website about this.
Yes, this is a social experiment. And as such I find this guy's moral code - as revealed by the experiment - severely lacking.
Nothing with real consequences at stake relies on a name, real or otherwise. We rely on social security numbers and credit card numbers in the US. Drivers license numbers. Telephone numbers. Account numbers.

No organization that really cares who you are gives a flying eff about your name, they rely on the relevant number, because names are not unique. Names do not identify, they merely suggest.

It's so bizarre. Even if Google's motivation is to uniquely identify you to advertisers, they already have that information (your unique Google account ID) and yet cannot guarantee that unique you is the same John Smith as other John Smiths in the advertising universe.

They seem to be getting nothing from this, nothing but lost good will.

EDIT: Changed money to consequences.
Let's do a back-of-an-envelope calculation and say Paypal makes 1% of a transaction (after accounting for CC processing, etc.) - if the company in question had processed say £200,000 through Paypal then Paypal would have made £2,000 from it.

That's a fraction of the £11,000+ that they would have been on the hook for if it turns out the event had been a fake and they'd allowed the account holder to withdraw the money.

You're making the assumption that fraudsters are stupid, they're not. Fraudsters regularly try to build (or perhaps more commonly steal) accounts with reputation before using them for fraud, you can weight account history in your risk evaluation and they may well have done so in this case, but you can't let that overly influence your risk judgement as otherwise fraudsters will exploit that.

(Unless you're arguing that Paypal should be more lenient and just accept the high fraud rate as a cost of business (presumably passing it on their customers in the form of higher commissions) - in which case I agree that's a feasible route they could take, but I assume Paypal have done the analysis and figured the numbers just don't work).
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what is the next books
I like the message that replaced 500: "too. much. traffic. Please wait while I install memcache."
What I find most interesting about this is Sam's comments in the previous thread:

1) Claimed that a large purchase was him buying food for two homeless guys:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2857712

Sam, is this true? Did you actually buy food for some homeless guys (and then later decide on this strategy), or was this cover for your experiment?

2) in response to a comment about the card being ripe for abuse, he said the balance seemed to be holding at a low and steady value, and "That would imply that the card is currently being used as intended."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2858511

Interesting, then, that he's most definitely not using the card as intended. An "edgy/controversial twist" for sure.
Mac Office exists to prevent corporate Mac users from introducing competing office products. The only reason it's good is iWork.
Why assume he did? There's no law or even expectation that you can't create new projects. Not everyone is gifted at the diplomacy or negotiation required to work on existing projects. And, of course, many people want to have their "own" projects. There's nothing wrong with that at all. If everything was just an improvement of something old..
"We’re listening, learning, and iterating to give our users the best experience possible."

No. You're not. Nobody has complained about lack of a grace period. We complain about the policy in the first place. This grace period is almost a little bit insulting. It's like saying "beg for mercy and repent for your sins and we will forgive and let you use our social network."

Perhaps the above is a bit sensational, but the point stands.
Time Capsule.
When he noted that he had been banned from their help forum a lot of alarm bells went off for me.
using a laptop recovery service to do exactly what it was intended to do. sweet hack, bro!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Solomon
I feel sorry for the moron who thinks he's making a statement with this. The card was a brilliant social experiment regardless of critics claiming it a stealth marketing campaign. People who participated felt good giving whether someone was free-riding. However, this just leaves a bad aftertaste. You ruin it for everyone then pretend it's okay by "donating" money that isn't even yours and killing the experiment then brag about the ordeal. Kudos to you. Bravo indeed.

Having said that I'm not at all surprised by the outcome just didn't expect something like this. Now I'm sure some yuppie wannabe is going to try and score an iPad for themselves.
I enjoyed Safari for about an hour in Lion (because of the gestures, and how they broke in Chrome), and then immediately went right back to Chrome. Apple's done a lot to improve Safari over the years (especially recently), but it's still not close to where it needs to be for everyday browsing. Development is pretty equal, although I'll always find myself using Chrome over it because of Chrome's much, much faster release schedule of improvements to Webkit's tools. Safari gets them... eventually. Eventually isn't good enough these days, when entire new pieces of technology appear in the span of months.

For regular browsing, I can't stand not having:

* Favicons on the tabs. It's impossible to glance at 5+ tabs in Safari without getting completely lost.

* Favicons on the bookmarks bar. My bookmarks bar doesn't have a single character on it, it's all just favicons with blank names that makes it into a horizontal list of frequently used sites.

* Any sort of Synching. Right now my Chromes at Work, Home Desktop, Laptop, and Tablet are completely in-tune with each other.

* A real omnibar/awesomebar. There are some extensions that make this more bearable, but the default address and search bars are pretty worthless.
Yes thats a possibility- however I haven't gotten food poisoning from any of my friends or family before. When I was younger, I did get a bad milk from a restaurant.
You aren't the only one. Stomping on other people's fun because you'd prefer they donate is deeply irritating. I haven't been able to read the article, yet, due to a 500 error, but whatever charity is receiving this should be upset that they're being associated with this asininity.
You are right, of course. I was just providing a data point.
In my blinding e-rage I do seem to have forgotten about the 'social experiment' aspect of the card. I guess this could be interpreted as being fair game. I think the attitude that came across in the post makes it seem worse too. So I revise my pointless internet opinion to: hmmm ok, but still feels rotten.
I don't see why it matters at all. Who cares what my friends commonly call me? It's up to me to decide what I want to be called on G+.
Jonathan's Card claimed to be a social experiment, but it was never clear to me exactly what the experiment was supposed to test. As an outsider looking at this experiment, the first question I has was: How would he prevent unintended use of the card's funds?

Sam is just part of the experiment. Yes, he's spoiling the good fun of buying coffees for each other, but if it weren't him taking the money, it'd be someone else. At least we still have data on the where most of the money went.
I wouldn't report it because I try not to be an utter prat, on the internet or IRL. But it is a telling instance of Google's hypocrisy on the issue of pseudonymity.
It's not a case of black-and-white innocent-or-not, an account has a certain level of risk associated with it and Paypal has to manage that.

Paypal didn't think they were fraudsters when they suspended their account, they thought they were high-risk. They unsuspended the account when the event organizer agreed to some risk mitigation measures (allowing Paypal to hold the money for the length of the creditcard chargeback period to let Paypal protect themselves).
The point system seems too opinionated for me. For example not all devs have to use hackernews to be good, but its required to get a higher score. Also what happens when you hit 100? Is there really a perfect score?

The workforpie logo also makes me think im slaving away at tasks just to get a higher score.
I don'5 know who is OP but I believe what he did is wrong, both in legal ground and moral ground. Obviously Jonathan didn't allow him and his friends to transfer money off the card, is that enough to sue him? I'm no lawyer but I can't believe that's acceptable. Also, he misused the card + donate other people's money -- what did he think? And one last point, he said they did that many time but he only intended to donate that $600, what about the other attempts? Can we do something, please?
Looks good. reverseRange()'s end condition can just be `i < j` because you don't need to swap the middle character with itself. :)
This article seems to boil down to the idea that because plus isn't a 1:1 copy of the mental model and concepts of facebook and twitter, it has to be a failure.

It builds on a bad assumption right out the gate, that automatically reposting trash you happen to perform a lightweight operation on is what it means to be "social" online. That only happens because facebook is pandering to marketers. I wish I still had the email where facebook described to marketers the change from "Become a fan" to "like". The change was to make it so that the action that got people to spam their friends became more lightweight.

The author compares it to tweeting. Really? Last I knew on the twitter you slammed a link into the text field, just like people do on plus when they actually want to share the link.

Ultimately, a lower number of bullshit reposted from MSNBC.com showing up in my stream than my feed is a WIN for me.
I had the same impression. So many privacy features, yet everything feels so public.
It's worth noting that besides "11 out of 50 Fortune 50 companies" there are no raw numbers here, just percentages. "Increased 4549%" Increased from what? To what? This doesn't demonstrate that QR codes are popular, just that they're more popular than they used to be.
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Also, I frequently find the information I'm looking for in the blurb from the website and so don't bother to click through. (Or I view the cached version.)
My mom is a hacker too. She hacked her own gmail account the other day by recovering her password, she even had to remember the name of her first pet!
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I agree with you except on one point. Sam is exactly the kind of person I thought was taking the money and I think most people probably suspected the same thing. I thought it was someone sitting around watching the twitter feed stealing money 150$ at a go. Someone who looked at this, possibly silly probably naive, social project and said 'This is stupid and I'm gonna show them how stupid it is.' I also knew that this person would eventually write a blog post about how smart they were for figuring out how to steal from people giving away money and how the project wasn't just foolish it was immoral.
> you just want ideas versus egos to rule then you could've proposed to improve RVM.

One of the features I noticed from rbenv is that it does less than RVM. This is a good thing, but proposing this improvement to RVM would essentially be asking the maintainer to remove features.
Bing also has a built-in calculator, flight status, and definition queries. I'm not sure there's any data that suggests whether or not it is used more or less often from Google or Bing.
Can you elaborate on the 'Western' qualifier, I think it's unwarranted? I imagine any big enough and sophisticated (organized) enough government would engage in some of this activity.
The death of "Booting up"
cache http://google.com/search?strip=1&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fsa...

why he's installing memcache for a single-server wordpress I have no clue - just install wp-super-cache and use .htaccess to do rewrites to static files - only way to bypass the (lack of) performance nightmare that is wordpress
agreed and sharing the code ensures that others with more devious ambitions will pretty much ruin this experiment.
Not forgetting, of course, that it was all an elaborate (or not) marketing campaign by somebody connected to Starbucks.
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The Talentopoly Podcast discusses some of the best links posted on Talentopoly.com each week.

- I decided to buck the trend of (1) co-host and instead went with having (2) co-hosts. One is a designer, the other is a dev/designer, and I'm mostly dev.

- I was inspired to start the podcast while watching Kevin Roses's 2009 FOWA presentation where he said all startups should be doing one.

- Between Tumblr & Feedburner it's incredibly easy to do one.

- I found that the mic in my MBP isn't quite good enough so I ordered a Rode Podcaster that I hope will get here in the next day or so.

I'm looking for some constructive feedback from the incredible HN crowd. Thanks
OS X Lion: Apple’s Continuing Unix Dilemma
Dark Intellisense [comic strip]
Even better, sometimes google instant answers my question before I even see search results.
The Visual Studio IDE has gotten much much worse.

I started with Visual Studio 6 (mostly using Visual C++, and VB6) and it was a speedy.
Visual Studio 2003 was a little slower but not bad, 2005-2008 about the same. It was all bearable and acceptable.

Now Visual Studio 2010 is painful and awful. I've got a Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM and the interface is slow, you can see the GUI repaint sometimes. Clicking on the interface causes frequent pauses that take close to 1 second to respond.
This is a really good tutorial, exactly what I've been waiting for before diving in to D3.
I was wondering if you had any connections in the media. I helped start a political satire website (http://thewashingtonfancy.com/) and have been spending a lot of time on our marketing. We already have a fairly robust facebook and twitter and I feel like the next big step for us would be to get some media attention. If you have any means of doing so, or any other marketing tips, it would be greatly appreciated. Also I filled out the WuFoo form. Thanks!
How do your distributed nodes figure out which is the most recent version of a particular object?
A Day To Remember
How the hell does this comment get voted down?

Sometimes I want to give up on HN.
Interesting idea - just a thought, I'd want to see pictures of the homes/kitchens before signing up.
NASA Creates Human Exploration And Operations Directorate
Certainly. Sometimes changes are just too major to bring back upstream and a new project is warranted. It just seems like Wayne was blind-sided by all of it.
It might just be me, but the line "Perfect backup for your baby pictures :-)" on your features page struck me as a little... odd. It's the only smiley face on the site as far as I can tell, and the oddness of the lone smiley accompanied by talk of photos of children just seemed somehow creepy! Again, maybe it's just me :)
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It wasn't. Jonathan denied it, Starbucks denied it. The "proof" was flimsy at best.
It's like a homeless guy taking a gift of food and selling it to buy drugs rather than eating because to him "drugs are more worthy"
Two math problems from an IT hiring campaign
the word 'hacker' has been diluted to a new low

first to 'somebody who can write a web app', to now 'somebody who can install software'
A Note to the Results-Oriented: Just Be Nice
And you come off as a person with a holier-than-thou attitude.

What's wrong with thinking about an experiment that hacks the original experiment? I thought this was Hacker News.
That is what I thought, and the reason 1.0 was basically a photo sharing app. When you click on a Host's profile, you'll see their most recent photo with the ability to dig deeper into all of their photos. For some users that is only a handful but others are up to 100+ photos.
thanks for the awesomeness of rvm wayne! here is my enormous HUGGGG!
Now the community should do a social experiment of encouraging Sam to return the same amount of money onto the card as he stole and see if it works.
The thief did more "hacking" by using the OSX install CD than him.
Off topic, but I think you'll appreciate this:

Affect is a verb (Housing bubbles affect so much of the economy), and effect is a noun (The effect of the housing bubbles is so much). My poor formula to remember that effect is a noun: Remember the term "after-effect"
Hiya, by an index. The index of course isn’t cached. This model applies equally well to RDBMS as well as non-RDMS systems. You can index which is the most recent version without losing the benefit of caching the data (and potentially it’s de-serialized form within the application). Not suggesting one size fits all, just highlighting a useful strategy.
What about architecture lock-in? Good luck running x86 NaCl apps on your iphone.
One of my favorite Microsoft stories is of Windows for Pen Computing. A company named GO had brought out a product based on Pen interfaces (this was around the time of Windows 3.1). Microsoft feared they'd lose their monopoly so they rushed out Windows for Pen Computing 1.0. It stunk and so it failed pretty quickly.

In the book Barbarians at the Gate one of the co-creators of "Pen Windows" tells the story of that failure and what he told his fellow co-creator. Here's a quote from the book...

[Begin Quote]

"Greg, Look. This wasn't a thing about making money. This was all about 'Block that Kick.' We were on the special team. We were preventing GO from running away with the market. That was our job.

Look, your background is in applications, you have to ship the application. My job is in systems. Systems, for much longer on, has been completely 'Don't let anybody else steal DOS from us.' That's all we're doing. We weren't trying to sell software, we were trying to prevent other people from selling software.

From my view, Pen Windows was a winner. We shut down GO. They spent $75 million pumping up this market, we spent $4 million shooting them down. They're toast!"

[End Quote]

Sorry for the long winded post but I wanted to point out how old this strategy is. .Net wasn't a product to make money it was a product to block Java. By making it the default Windows development environment they were able to do so without flushing money down the toilet (as was done in the example above)

So, as Miguel De Icaza says in the piece, Microsoft really doesn't love .Net the way Xamarin does. They still want people developing for Windows alone. Their developers just happened to create a great tool while management was paying lipservice to cross platform development.
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Is this one of those viral marketing campaigns again? Yesterday, there was a popular thread on Reddit about some guy who retrieved his stolen Macbook by using the exact same software that's being mentioned here. And not to mention the several other threads here on HN a few months ago that are suspiciously similar.

Or maybe it's just really useful.