skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about this. I've called Paypal many times and even though they sometimes weren't very helpful, they were always friendly and very respectful. Intentionally or unintentionally, the poster probably transcribed a phone call in a way that made the representative seem more blunt. I doubt it was transcribed word-for-word.

This is still ridiculous on Paypal's part, though. Good customer service isn't all about friendliness and nice words like "thanks for calling". People would appreciate it far more if Paypal omitted the pleasantries and just solved their problems.
I saw a decent length video segment. The thing I left with is that this wasn't a handout, this young woman works hard and has a great deal of drive. Great, supportive mother, too. Very inspirational. She seems ripe for somebody to snap her up and invest in her education.
Keep an eye on Dwolla.com if you want an alternative payment system without the 2.9% transaction fee.
That's great. I don't mean to rag on Stripe, it's just one of the things that's held it back from being an easy PayPal replacement even in the US.
It would appear that if they overpay on the final paycheck, tough shit.

Please check my reading--the link seems to indicate that future wages can be reduced to recoup an error, but that the money can't be collected back directly. So, it suggests that the final paycheck is overpaid, Codemasters would have to reduce future wages temporarily to make up for the imbalance, but there are no future wages (lol), so Codemasters cannot seek recourse.

Am I reasonable in this interpretation?

~

As an aside, it irks me that an employer is given any rights in this regard--if you can't do basic HR arithmetic (especially since they sure as hell aren't doing anything as exacting as code or what have you) I deserve the balance of your ignorance.

If a company overpays for a part and then finds out that the part went on sale right after purchase, they eat the cost.

If a company brings a product to market and underprices it and loses money, they eat the cost.

If a company hires someone for contract work and overpays them--pays them more than is reasonable for the work done, but pays them what was promised--then they eat the cost.

If a company decides to take out a chunk from its petty cash fund and burn it to make smores over, they eat the cost.

So, why the hell isn't an overpayment in HR considered something similar? Why isn't it a free-market "you can't do math accurately" tax?

(genuinely curious)
Ask HN: Where is Google's response to Mocality's Allegations?
Given the speed with which the story is spreading, why no response?
I definitely agree with this although I think you could lighten the shading and get away with the current method. The dark grey just creates too much of a contrast change for me to read it easily. It only adds a split second to my reading time, but it is noticeable.

I also don't really like the boxes/buttons at the top (they look very much like every other site trying to create a mickey mouse design), but this is probably just my natural resistance to change. I probably won't even notice in a week.

I changed to DDG a while back as my default search engine and must say that I've been extremely happy with it. To hear about an interface upgrade was initially a little upsetting as it brings to mind the recent changes to Google. The preview and instant search features are what finally pushed me to the simplicity of DDG. I'm glad you kept the same clean design and didn't try to change what already works wonderfully. Please keep up the great work.
It all depends on how you look at the overall system Google has created. If one considers the entirety of Google+ to be a mere component of Google Search (like the now-extinct Friends section of Netflix was), then one can better reconcile this situation with supposed fairness. After all, what's to stop Bing or Yahoo from creating a social component to their products which affect search?

So the issue in is not one of ethics, but of how Google is marketing Google+. When all that existed was the +1 button, no one complained about ethics. Nothing has changed since then except a reworking of the information architecture of the same +1 data and processes. Google seems to believe that Google+ needs to exist independently of Search. If they're gonna stick with that route, they need to open the Search platform to 3rd party integration.
I think the point is that sometimes atheists are more influenced by ideas that come from religion than they realize
A lot of it depends on your exact job, the support network you have and how much cash your business takes to get running.

If you are a programmer or other highly employable type, my advice is to form an s-corp, get an hourly contract that will pay you 1099 and then hire people to build the product you want. Your take home pay may end up being even higher than it was before, even after paying your contractors. And, you won't have a runway to worry about.

Then, focus on cash flow ASAP. If you can get enough revenue to support yourself, then quit and dedicate yourself full time to scaling.

Alternatively, if you can reduce your expenses very low and don't make enough to pay others to build your product for you, it might be better to quit and build it out yourself.
This is kafkatrapping (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122):

"The aim of the kafkatrap is to produce a kind of free-floating guilt in the subject, a conviction of sinfulness that can be manipulated by the operator to make the subject say and do things that are convenient to the operator’s personal, political, or religious goals. Ideally, the subject will then internalize these demands, and then become complicit in the kafkatrapping of others."

I actually agree that the software development community tends to be too inwardly focused, but this style of argument needs to go.
It would be a million times cheaper and simpler for Google to acquire Mocality outright than to do what is being claimed they have done.

I also don't believe that they have actually done this (but it'll be interesting to see this story unfold).
Oh, malarky.

Here. I set up a page at http://lab2.gibsonandlily.com/google.html

Then I ran it through google translation services. Here is the result in apache's log:

74.125.16.18 - - [13/Jan/2012:10:45:37 -0600] "GET /google.html HTTP/1.1" 200 327 "http://translate.google.com/translate_p?hl=en&sl=fr&... "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7,gzip(gfe)

Look familiar? This one is tossing up windows NT, which is strange, but it doesn't seem like a stretch that some of the machines at google for stuff like this are running linux.

The scam here isn't being done by google, it's just a run-of-the-mill scammer scamming and using google's name.

Dearest mocotality. Turning on referals in apache logs and you'll see where on google this is coming from (if you care to).

Here is how:

in: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (or whereever your apache configuration sits) change the "Logformat" option to the following:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

and then use option:

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_log combined

(or whatever log path you want).
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The new UI has a lot of really nice touches, and is a lot cleaner than it used to be. Kudos for that. The magnifying glass and menu arrow in the header are gorgeous, I love the dotted line between the two. Really nice.

That said, there are a lot of issues, in my opinion. Clicking that menu arrow pops out a really bland box with no padding and no structure to the content. The "header" text is wrapped in dashes, but the text looks exactly the same as the rest of the text in the box. Like someone else said, the mouseover effect on the individual results is really harsh. The zero-click box at the top fades in to the background, and the sponsored link is intrusive and throws off the flow of the entire page.

I hope you folks keep working, because the progress I've seen in the last couple years has really been great and I want DDG to be a huge success. Search is completely ripe for disruption - Google got simplicity right, but most of their recent updates have been boring or steps backwards. Keep fighting the good fight. And if you're ever looking to hire a UI / UX designer, let me know where to apply. :)
Also still waiting for them in Europe...
Then we'd have to go through security to get to security. :-P
I think the author is missing something that makes Open Source work that few people appreciate. It's a fundamentally lossy development model. A certain number of patches/features end up in /dev/null for any Open Source project.

You can think of each "fork" as a new start-up trying out a new idea. But instead of reinventing the entire world, they get to start with a functioning product. The vast majority of these start-ups will fail but the ability to experiment (and fail) with forking is fundamentally what makes Open Source development better (at least IMHO) than proprietary development.

A lot of people look toward Open Source development thinking that there's a lot of wasted development and that that's a problem worth solving, but that's like the government trying to make 100% of businesses successful.
Having learned Django first, and attempted to build stuff with Rails (for intellectual curiosity) multiple times, it's interesting how I have basically the exact same opinion as you in reverse.

For me, the Django way of doing (almost) everything makes sense. Rails feels backwards. I also feel like I get more baked-in with Django, even when not factoring-in the admin. And its distinction of "Apps" vs Rails' "Gems" makes me feel like I have a lot more available from the community in terms of third-party plug-and-play code. Being able to have a minimum viable product without writing a single line of my own Django code because of apps in the community just doesn't exist for Rails as far as I could tell.
You are correct that it is all hypothetical based on who is responsible. However, you are incorrect that this is related in any way to Google's own T&Cs. The post links to the Mocality T&C page and says whoever is responsible is violating the sections mentioned in the paragraph I quoted above.
We could do that in the JS as well. You think it is more important on mobile I'm assuming then?
The SSSS mark is also handed out when you purchase your ticket shortly before the flight or when you pay in cash, or at the discretion of the airline. I've endured it more times than I care to recall because I frequently change my travel plans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening_Se...
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> When your application uses an unmodified theme.holo, it may (and likely will) look "out of place" in a heavily customized manufacturer theme.

Your app would only look out of place in the sense that your app has a different design and UI compared to other apps using the manufacturer theme. I don't really consider that an issue as it is common to have apps use different themes and styles for UI widgets. The important point is that within your own app, you can enforce a theme that hasn't been tinkered with by the app manufacturer, giving you a stable theme to work with or modify as you write your app.

As an example of this, recent versions of the Motorola theme have altered ListViews such that any empty space after the last list item in the view uses their custom off-white background and ignores what background you may have set on the ListView itself. For me, this is a very annoying, inconsistent change that clashes with the design of some apps, so I would target Theme.Holo to make sure that I am working with the standard ListView theme and my modifications work as I expect them.

This is the great power of this change for ICS, as now I can opt-out of carrier customizations and stop having specific work arounds and hacks for some devices to avoid their custom theme from the manufacturer.
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Very awesome. I've been doing the same thing lately, except I've been building up from very little linux knowledge at all.

But now I can set up ubuntu server from scratch, and set it to serve django apps. Learned how from this link: http://blog.stannard.net.au/2010/12/11/installing-django-wit... Which is lean enough to get me up quick, but detailed enough to let me follow up and learn what's happening behind the scenes.

I'm building my own model as we speak as well. I have to say, Django is pretty damned awesome. It's worth it for the free admin interface and user system alone. Plus as a bonus I get to continue learning python.
I guess I should have made it clearer that I converted the site to use stripe as the main payment processor but people can still pay with paypal if they want.
We're also in Montreal!

One big reason we went US was to avoid Bill 101 and all the language restrictions it entails. It was going to really slow us down. We also like the access to US capital that setting up in the States allows for.

An LLC is an amazing thing that we don't have in Canada. It provides limited liability while freeing you from the governance requirements that a corporation has. As a bootstrapped startup, it really sucks to have to deal with endless paperwork to keep your corporate veil in order.

Carl Mercier posted a really good blog entry from a local Quebec perspective, check it out:

http://blog.carlmercier.com/2011/08/29/us-incorporation-for-...

If you need any more details about how we set it up, send us a shout!
How hard is it to bribe a sysadmin on the backbone routers in Kenya? Better yet, how hard is it to become a sysadmin on the backbone routers in Kenya?

Of course there are a dozen Google services that could let you serve a webpage from some Google IP, so router-level spoofing seems a bit farfetched for this scenario.
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And they are in the kernel? What are dozens of .sys files in drivers folder then?
Does your app take people to the stories inside your app, or does it open a link in Safari? If everything happens inside your app, Apple probably views it as if you were claiming you owned those stories, or at least were not allowing the original websites to display their ads and everything. If you provide an outside link to Safari, then that's weird, because the current HN App I use does that and it obviously got approved.
Why would it need to be available on MSDN? Windows Phone ROMs are not on there. There will be emulators for developers.
We're working on it! We want to make sure we get it right. But I do want to mention https://stripe.com/global for anyone not in the US that wants to be notified when Stripe gets to their country.
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This is just a guess but he's been teaching for long enough that each year he probably keeps an eye out for concepts that he can use during Halloween and then works on the ones he judges to be the best.

Some say brilliance is often a product of hard work over a long time.
Google HQ is in UTC-0800, right? They've probably not been aware of it for very long, and are probably scrambling to find out Google Kenya's side of the story.
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Crossposting this from another thread:

Oh, malarky.

Here. I set up a page at http://lab2.gibsonandlily.com/google.html

Then I ran it through google translation services. Here is the result in apache's log:

74.125.16.18 - - [13/Jan/2012:10:45:37 -0600] "GET /google.html HTTP/1.1" 200 327 "http://translate.google.com/translate_p?hl=en&sl=fr&... "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7,gzip(gfe)

Look familiar? This one is tossing up windows NT, which is strange, but it doesn't seem like a stretch that some of the machines at google for stuff like this are running linux.

The scam here isn't being done by google, it's just a run-of-the-mill scammer scamming and using google's name.

Dearest mocotality. Turning on referals in apache logs and you'll see where on google this is coming from (if you care to).

Here is how:

in: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (or whereever your apache configuration sits) change the "Logformat" option to the following:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

and then use option:

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_log combined

(or whatever log path you want).

edit: to be clear, I'm not saying that they're using google translate, just demonstrating that "It came from a google IP!" reveals approximately nothing.

edit2: it was pointed out in another thread that google is probably forwarding my user agent to the site that is being translated. This makes perfect sense (duh!) and closes the loop on the story. The scammers are using linux, which is consistent with both networks that they were seeing in their logs.
Why do I have this scummy feeling about Dwolla? Was it something I read? I have this feeling that they're going to evaporate as soon as sites start taking Dwolla payments and there's a reason for them to be targeted by criminals... will 25 cents per transaction really cover the fraud-prevention excellence they need to develop?
Wouldn't it make sense to have the zero-click info on the left side instead of all that white space? Once you realize it's there you'd always have instantanious access to both zero-click info and all of the most accurate results without needing to scroll. Further, you could have a very elaborate zero-click info box instead of the current, heavily compressed one.

Right now the center seems very stuffed.
There are already federal standards for "enhanced" state drivers licenses.
Can you create subscriptions with Stripe on the fly? My wife runs a subscription business but pricing is based on the products the person chooses so my subscription rate is always variable. When I first looked at Stripe it seemed like I had to have subscription + prices created beforehand.
Defining piracy to be theft takes the meaning out of the word "theft".

I believe copyrights that restrict individuals are an unjustified burden on society, and so I would never support the copyright industry by paying for copyrighted content.

I generally prefer to use free software (even using pirated software contributes to its ecosystem) but if I must use non-free software, I will not pay for it anyway. Given that I would never pay for it -- whether I use it or not, using the word theft is silly: A resource isn't being moved from one place to another. A new resource is being created, in the privacy of my own environment.
Ok, after reading over this transcript, it's clearly a scam unrelated to Google: http://blog.mocality.co.ke/files/2012/01/Incoming_Call-Redac...

1. Google doesn't offer website creation.
2. Google doesn't charge for low-traffic hosting.
3. Google wouldn't setup your website via email.
"I suspect he's going to have to give them the money back."

In the US, if two parties owe each other money, it can sometimes be handled as a suit and counter-suit. I.e. one case for both debts. At the end, a balance might be calculated in favor of one party. (Larger debt minus smaller debt.)

This says nothing about the present case though, particularly given differences between jurisdictions. It's just a general observation about these types of cases.
Unfortunately for DDG, those habits need to be taken into account seeing as they're the underdog. When getting people to change to a new interface, the process should be as painless as possible to prevent resistance.

The other day, I went to the kitchen to eat an orange. After a moment, I changed my mind because I didn't feel like peeling it. I quickly realized that it was silly to let 10 seconds of work prevent me from enjoying what I wanted, but that is the power of even the smallest obstacle.
Not really. A small businessman gets cold-called by an SEO/Adwords agency offering to "get you on Google" at a one time special offer. Intrigued, they search Google for their business and find quite a lot of websites referring to their business they didn't know existed before. Connected?

Kbo.ke publicly advertises web hosting for free, and by the sounds of it might be automatically populating the listings. So its a reasonable assumption that someone trying to charge Ks 200 per month for their[?] web hosting service might be aware of the potential to exploit Kbo's existence but isn't acting with their blessing...
Only, under current laws, this is impossible due to restrictions on non-accredited investors.

That is why the crowdsorcing investment laws snaking their way through Congress right now are so exciting.

I don't see what is stopping other countries with less restrictive laws from incubating such a company, though.
Speeding isn't a criminal offense. It's an infraction of the vehicle code.
Wow. Here in the US, the idea of the government handling bankruptcy to the benefit of the employees who lost wages is so completely foreign... I gotta stop thinking about it. That is simply impossible in the United Corporations of America.
Often times companies change rules and policies and it effects everyone; if you continue to work there then you agree to those conditions. You don't sign a new contract when you get a raise or when you get a promotion, or when you change offices, or they change who delivers food, etc...
I should have been precise: how does one determine the number of seeds for a given piece of data e.g. when the same movie at different resolutions is available, that is, different hashes?
It appears they've set a text shadow on the main body text for some reason.
I'm not convinced by the idea of heavily specialised high schools. At that age you should be discovering what you're passionate about, and sampling a wide range of subjects.

The focus here seems to be more on training kids up for a job - would anyone be so enthusiastic if we replaced "software engineering" with "assembly line work" or "street sweeping"?
I'm always happy to read posts from people who've learned something new and are excited to share it with the world. I feel like I don't make time to share my own learning experiences.

I would love to the see the author go a step (or maybe multiple steps) further and do some simple scale/performance testing. Essentially, how easy was it to develop and then deploy a Django app into production? What happened when too many requests came in? What did you do to diagnose?

Generally, I would love to see some simple performance measurement baseline to compare experiences with diagnosing and scaling. Like a best practices guide, maybe specific to certain frameworks of where to even begin when you're preparing to deploy an app.
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They have an API to create new subscriptions on the fly yes. It's very easy. I have a similar situation. I used the API to create about 150 subscription plans that cover all my alternatives.