skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey David,

While I can't give you a technical answer as I'm just the marketing guy, I can tell you that simply setting up a VPN in England is not going to work. We have a number of state-of-the-art gating techniques for identifying and prohibiting players from using our service illegally. We check for much more than Geo-location and IP. Obviously I can't get into as much detail as I'd like, but that's the gist of it.

Also, as Betable is doing all of the gambling, in the event that an extreme edge case occurs we would be liable, not the game developer working with us.

Unfortunately I can't answer the following questions about security precautions, but I can see if one of our engineers can hop on the thread to respond. I'll get back to you.
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Just to chime in with everyone else...I'm in the same boat. VC2/3 since Sept/2005. I started with them because they were the only host to offer Rails support. Now, my most pressing need is email support--transferring the main accounts, so that gmail can POP them off the accounts.

Edit: Obviously, any serious application would have been migrated off of Joyent long ago, but many of us have several small apps (Rails, Wordpress, etc) along with email accounts. I think it's more of an issue of migrating many small apps rather than a single large app.

I've used Slicehost (now Rackspace) successfully for a couple of years, but my pricing is probably terrible now. 256MB slice for $20/mth. I have a feeling I need to re-visit this...
I orderer from RS in the first week and got it months ago for a total cost of $41 including shipping to Israel.
This isn't a web font and is mostly used in print (InDesign, Illustrator, etc...). Not sure if it's even licensed for the web.
His treatment hasn't been normal.

>For most of his time at the brig, Manning was held in highly restrictive pretrial confinement. Designated a maximum-custody detainee under prevention-of-injury watch, or POI, he was confined to his cell for all but an hour a day, and has a number of other restrictions placed on him. At one point his clothes were taken away, and he was forced to sleep naked.

>The ACLU called his treatment “gratuitously harsh” in a letter sent to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. And former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was forced to resign after publicly calling Manning’s treatment at Quantico “counterproductive and stupid.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/general-manning-jai...

>The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, the US soldier who was held in solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks source.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning-...
I've never been into getting mileage or whatever, but rewards cards can be very handy. I basically get 1% off of everything I buy -- I've got a card through Amex with no annual fee that simply sends me a $25 gift card in the mail every time I spend $2500. It's basically effortless -- all I have to do is pay with two cards every once in a while after getting the gift card and buying something for more than $25.

If there are people willing to give you free money you might as well take it. :)

Amex has also consistently given me absolutely fantastic customer service. I'm really not in any hurry for them to be disrupted...
It is hard to imagine that a noticable fraction of gamblers would be able to understand if they are being ripped off. Only a small corps of elite poker players and card counters would notice, but the usual hordes of slot machine pullers will dominate the audience.
I would pay good money for a service that advertised vendors with a fair rate. I'm so sick of every vendor marking things up 100% or more because it is for a wedding. I'm really happy to pay for quality, but it becomes exploitative quickly.
A nice target for burglars :)
Wow! I have received over a dozen emails in the first hours that want to join in the lawsuit. We have enough to form an offical class and will be able to get Joyent to abide by the original terms. Please contact me soon if you want to participate!
You might get away with it longer doing that, but the repercussions should you be caught wouldn't be lessened any by using an LLC.

The real risk you're taking when abusing a merchant account is being added to the TMF (Terminated Merchant File) and MATCH (Member Alert to Control High-Risk Merchants) lists. These are essentially blacklists for the payment card industry that all acquiring banks and processors check new applications against.

The reason the risk is not lessened is that when a merchant is added to these lists, both the company and all the company's principals' names and social security numbers are added. The list of a company's principals is something merchant account providers ask for on new account applications for this reason.

Basically, if you do something so egregious as to be added to these lists, you'll never be able to have an ownership stake in any business accepting credit cards for the rest of your life. The only way to get approved in the future would be to commit a new act of fraud to avoid the new acquirer from knowing a blacklisted person is a principal of the new company.

I don't know about you, but for any kind of entrepreneur, the prospect of a lifelong ban like that would be pretty terrifying.
I think this is kind of a portable PO box, or PO box you can franchise. It seems there are things moving to kiosk despensers like redbox, blockbuster, even those change counting machines in the supermarket!
> the article makes great sweeping points, pretending to talk about some sort of general truth while in fact catering to a very specific readership

For reference, here are the article's points:
> The market doesn’t care what you love
> You must create value
> You must be adaptable.
> You must learn how to sell
> You must be entrepreneurial

Clearly list your criticisms. The absurdity of your two comments is staggering.
The mortuary industry is also covered by state regulations designed to keep out competition, justified by entirely specious public health reasons. For example, it is illegal to import wooden boxes without a license in most American states, if those boxes are intended to be either buried or burned. Wooden boxes are well-understood commodity items which, if they had an OSHA sheet, would be stamped "generally regarded as safe."

The bridal-industrial complex does not benefit from similar regulations, but not for want of trying.
Unlike Phillip Su's post, this is all just very thinly veiled sarcasm to make Facebook look like a good place to do an internship.

While I think Phillip also was being sarcastic, he actually gave good insight into why I wouldn't want to work for Facebook: too much code being shipped, not enough meetings (which results in disorganization, fragmented or duplicated effort), and too many decisions made by engineers (which means less consistent, less usable products).
I am indeed.

As humans, we seem to think we're the most important thing getting around. Even your comment suggests killing off humans is much worse than killing of bacteria on Mars.

Back to my story, the bad-ass aliens might very well look at us just like you're looking at the bacteria on Mars.

What's the difference? (nothing)
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Samsung turns tables on Apple, demands $400M for its own patents
Apple files plan for large-scale Oregon data center
Interesting. Can the tutorial continue on a different page? For my use case I'd like to show them around a few different tabs / pages.
I agree, what the UK has done is unheard of.

However, I believe what Ecuador has done is also unheard of. Based off a pedantic reply to my mail, has anyone else ever given asylum to somehow who is wanted for questioning over accusations that he sexually assaulted two women.

The UK government claims all that is happening here is that normal UK, Swedish and European law is being applied to investigate a sexual assault charge.

One important thing, which I'm not sure I'll word right which is unfortunate. One important thing to remember is that by giving asylum Ecuador can be seen as highly insulting the UK, by effectively saying they can not be trusted to deal with this issue in a fair, non-political way. The UK government must respond to this accusation in the highest possible terms.
The problem and the fragmentation of content and communication
> I had a roommate sophomore year of college get investigated by the FBI for running a similar scheme.

doesn't really sound like you can hide it well then..
Sure the package could be left at the post office, but happens when you go to pick it up, only to find out the office is closed? BufferBox allows you to pick up your package at your connivence.
Looks like they're focused on Toronto:
"The team has plans to expand into 100 new locations, including convenience stores, grocery stores, and transit stations within Toronto"

The service sounds useful as a way to receive deliveries (and potentially a place to drop off a small package for pickup later by yourself in the same day).
Very nice app. Here's my wishlist: http://www.haikudeck.com/p/wpf2bbxWk9/haiku-deck-wish-list
This must be why my best bugfixes happen when I'm taking a shower. The number of times I'm showering and suddenly realize what is causing a particular programming problem is pretty surprising. Because of this phenomena, I've taken to going for a walk when something is stumping me.
This looks very attractive, but I suggest reading slide:ology, Presentation Zen and such. Haiku looks like it will make beautiful backdrops for a talk, but the sharing of "slideuments" is a bug, imho.

There's either too much detail in the slides to keep them from being distracting from the actual talk or too little detail to make them useful as a standalone document.
> We're not saying rape. We're saying våldtäkt (which is a broad term).

Better. Somethings really are lost in translation, I guess.

However, extraditing someone for questioniong for an alleged våldtäkt (not rape) case? I'm guessing there's more than meets the eyes.
The way I look at it is that photos equal files and files should be in folders accessible via a simple file manager. iPhoto subverts that model turning it on its head and makes your photos beholden to it by burying them within its internal structure. iTunes does a similar thing to music files.

It is clear that Apple is attempting to abstract away user control over their digital assets by giving that control to their applications.
In the part i was replying to the parent was not referring to this font specifically, but the font-graphics concept.

>my problem lies more with the paradigm than this particular font
> So flash or JS, certain mobile users that should be able to see it won't be able to see it.

JS can be fixed for those users, though. Flash can't.
>weaving baskets from bubble gum

This reminded me of Walden.

In short, I went on thus for a long time (I may say it without boasting), faithfully minding my business, till it became more and more evident that my townsmen would not after all admit me into the list of town officers, nor make my place a sinecure with a moderate allowance. My accounts, which I can swear to have kept faithfully, I have, indeed, never got audited, still less accepted, still less paid and settled. However, I have not set my heart on that.

Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a well-known lawyer in my neighborhood. "Do you wish to buy any baskets?" he asked. "No, we do not want any," was the reply. "What!" exclaimed the Indian as he went out the gate, "do you mean to starve us?" Having seen his industrious white neighbors so well off- that the lawyer had only to weave arguments, and, by some magic, wealth and standing followed- he had said to himself: I will go into business; I will weave baskets; it is a thing which I can do. Thinking that when he had made the baskets he would have done his part, and then it would be the white man's to buy them. He had not discovered that it was necessary for him to make it worth the other's while to buy them, or at least make him think that it was so, or to make something else which it would be worth his while to buy.

Thoreau goes on to say that he wove a basket of his own, but, rather than making it worth others' while to buy them, forgo the necessity of selling them altogether.
learning a new layout makes you pay close attention to the movements. I predict that switching from dvorak to querty will show the effect, too.
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pt-online-schema-change should resolve that issue for you:
http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/pt-online-sch...
it's opt in. the old pricing scheme is still in effect.
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Thanks :) , I can do that :) .

Will try it out at home. Looks cool, and sounds like it could lead to interesting use cases.
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Funny you mention that. My server with them (shared hosting, lifetime account) just had a two-day outage Monday through Wednesday and still isn't totally recovered.
This is pretty neat! For some reason the player sprite doesn't show, but otherwise this is great.

EDIT: seems to throw an error when trying to connect on Chrome Mac OSX Lion.

"Error during WebSocket handshake: 'Connection' header value is not 'Upgrade'"

Works on Safari though.
I think the point of the article was that it has nothing to do with how hard you work, or really even with entitlement. It has to do with finding product-market fit, where you are the product.
They could do some work on the (privacy) protection of those registries, for example by making the URLs of registry a little harder to guess. (Yeah, I know, adding obscurity instead of security, but nevertheless).

I wanted to see an example list, didn't knew a valid first and last name to search for, so guessed
http://registrylove.com/registries/
and some low ID number after that. Pronto!

I don't know if some Daisy & Javier mind that I can see their wishlist for their wedding. Personally I would have wanted to keep that list a little more private to only those people knowing I had registered my list at RegistryLove.
> I doubt that MS is doing password hashing wrong

They have a long and storied history of doing just that. You can get a flavour from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM

Their hashing is most likely something defined to produce two parts from two 8 character chunks.
The Meek Asian Woman comment is outrageous.
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Exactly. The content racketeers like to tar their opponents as "spoiled children who want free w4r3z." But the fight is really about control over the means of distribution; which translates into control over culture in general.
Ah. OK. Personally, I care about my photos and music; the files are incidental to the content. Both iTunes and iPhoto (or Aperture, in my case) privilege the content over the file structure, and to my way of thinking, that's correct behaviour. Of course, to each their own.
It seems to be an "open" variant (i.e., works for private couriers) of what Canada Post does.

If you're not home (or if the Canada Post courier is lazy - the one that covers my neighborhood just leaves tags instead of ringing the doorbell), they just leave a tag at your door or superbox and drop the parcel off at a local retail location for pickup.

Purolator is also doing something similar here too.
We’ve found good results using only the configuration phase; we have versions with full SLAM but it tends to work well without it. The QuickMap app uses only access points detected during the configuration phase.
> Where did you get this disinformation?

http://justice4assange.com/US-Extradition.html#TR

http://wlcentral.org/node/2671

> Why did you trust it enough to post it

It seems to be supported by evidence, and has been posted by sources that are trustworthy.

> under your name, John Millikin?

It would be cowardly to post something like this under a pseudonym.
But America is not well known for extending more -- never mind equal -- rights to non-citizens than to citizens, despite the clear intentions of the authors of the Bill of Rights.
In the wiki article, it says that it's only recognized in a few jurisdictions.

Thank god, I say (as a man, the sex usually accused of rape). Otherwise it would be too easy to accuse everybody of rape. I believe that a necessary ingredient of rape is intent, as well. So, if she seems willing to have sex with me (and she's not too drunk with me being sober), I will have sex with her, and it would be really bad form for her to come after me the next morning and say that she didn't really want to have sex. I can only hope that the law doesn't allow that.

Also, see above my example of a prostitute. Is that also rape by deception?

I can hardly fantom that regret for having had sex with someone can be as traumatic as being forced/drugged into having sex.
In NYC at least (admittedly an outlier in the united states), most apartments don't have doormen and there's no place to leave packages and package pickup locations are almost uni formally in warehouse districts/boroughs hard to access via public transit
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I just want to say that what I've found is that you need a balance. Swing too far in the direction of "Do what you love" and you'll hate the fact that you're poor and can't get a job. Swing too far in the direction of "do what's practical" and you'll have all this money but you'll hate what you have to do to get it.

It's not either/or. The best thing to do is find a career that is exciting or interesting to you in some ways, but also has a good bit of practicality.

In other words, we shouldn't be asking kids "what do you want to be when you grow up?" The question should be -- "What are the top five things you could see yourself doing?" Because of those 5 things maybe 4 of them are impractical, and maybe the lucrative one isn't the top choice, but it's up there.
I'm guessing from http://textusers.com/wiki/VC200 this $200 hosting offer was in 2004, eight years ago. $200 up-front comes to a bit above $2 a month.

In 2004, shared hosting with PHP/MySQL was the standard hosting package. A good quality Cpanel account at that time was about $15-$20 per month. So you've gotten an exceptionally good deal.

Around that time Dreamhost became the place to be. quickly followed by a series of lengthy outages that utterly destroyed it's reputation. Other Cpanel-powered hosts popped up, went under, merged, acquired, disappeared, reappeared, went down, never came back out.

Fast-forward to today, shared hosting is just a race-to-the-bottom barrel scraping. Margins are practically non-existent. Every kid with a bedroom computer has their own Reseller account and pretend they have their own hosting company. Pricing on that seems to be about $4 a year, but the quality is absolutely dire, and that's when the server is actually online.

Shared hosting is largely a dead industry today, it bottom-feeds because their top-end audience grew into dedicated servers, and their average and above average end customers are comfortable running their own cheap VPS. Safe in the knowledge that it's very much harder for another customer to take down everyone's website.

Shared hosting is no longer a sustainable business model. You got a great ride for your money, you got a very good deal. Now it's time to move on.

Grab yourself a VPS, and take a step up to the next curve on the online hosting technology stack. It's well past time. Good quality shared hosting, with great support is getting more and more expensive, because the market for it is dwindling down to people who can't or won't take the step up towards VPS/Dedicated servers - that means the support cost per customer rises. And that isn't a sustainable process.

If the average monthly price you paid for good quality hosting on TextDrive/Joyent is under $10 because of these packages, well done, you got a tremendously good deal. How would you have rated the service you received before you received the email/message? Think about that - consider if the support/service you received related to the per month price you've paid.

Now go out and find a web hosting offer that will give you the same quality of service, for the same monthly price - and switch to that. I get a feeling, apart from special offers that will surface because of this, you'll be hard-pressed to find an equivalent.

But seriously people, "lifetime" and "unlimited" are the two emptiest words in the language of web resource offers. You know that. I'd feel sad for you if you only got 1 years hosting for your $200 for such features.

But if you got 8 years for your initial outlay, and you still feel you deserve more... that's a text-book example of bottom-feeding. Quite the sort of customer a web hosting company wouldn't miss.

A class action? That would be amusing.
VC here...How did you get this? Did it come in response to a support ticket? Did you ask them for a full refund? Is half of your original investment $100 or more like $1000?
How does our staying our hand affect the decisions of your aliens? If someone is going to come exterminate Earth then it is imperative that we put our eggs in as many baskets as possible, regardless.

Turning this into an existential question for the humans does not invoke the morality you are looking for.

This form of argument only works on Earth because humans are the most important thing around, and it can be safely assumed that all human-capable things are humans and therefore you can make moral arguments based on the Golden Rule with the safe assumption that we are all working on the same basic desires. As soon as you introduce true aliens into the mix you can no longer make this assumption. You need to establish from some sort of more basic first principle why this is a bad idea.

Might I also add that from my point of view, the question is, which do you prefer, a bare sterile ecosystem barely hanging on and marking time until the sun sterilizes it, or the sort of rich vibrant ecosystem that we can build by terraforming, bringing life abundant to a place nearly sterile. Even on its own terms the snap "Don't touch anything!" is not the life friendly answer you are probably casually assuming. The ecosystem that will exist AD 100,000,000 is quite different depending on whether we terraform or not. (Again, the snap "Don't touch anything!" is itself a terra-centric viewpoint. On Earth you can assume there's a rich ecosystem pretty much where ever on the planet you point, and you can sort of leap to the conclusion that extensive human interference will at least not make it richer. In space, you can't make that assumption.)

In fact this whole thing ends up cutting to the question of exactly how do you compare two possible ecosystems and decide which is better, a question that environmentalists have to date not really had to face but is one of crucial importance even here on Earth, and completely unavoidable in space. If you're up for a challenge, try to rigorously explain why it's important that we leave a starving, barely-functional ecosystem alone for a hundred million years instead of terraforming the place and then in a hundred million years having a rich, varied Martian ecosystem.
Obviously I can't get into as much detail as I'd like, but that's the gist of it.

Come on, we all know that security through obscurity is weak. Tell us how the security system works and the community will test it for you!
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Great article and sounds very similar to my experiences. Raising capital is hard work with very long hours and no guarantee of success. It's also requires a tremendous amount of strategy and gamesmanship (such as the "Well our round might not be open by then").

Overall, I hate the experience. Will always try to avoid it at all costs.