skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the status quo seems to me like a situation in which an entrepreneur can't start an honest corporation without putting his kids' college savings at risk of highly unpredictable fraud loss.

And to add insult to injury, that kind of risk is entirely the fault of the payment industry itself, for failing to implement sufficiently robust security measures. And yet, the merchant typically carries the risk, not the payment industry.

Perhaps any compulsory refunds should be classified as either based on fraud or based on dissatisfaction, and the card payment services should be required to indemnify the merchant against fraudulent ones provided that the merchant has followed the recommended security steps before completing the transaction.

In fact, I've noticed recently that a few payment services are offering to eat chargebacks based on claims of fraud if an on-line transaction included a test such as Verified by Visa, so this situation may be starting to change, albeit rather slowly.

For losses based on dissatisfaction, it's probably as fair as anything practical to make the merchant carry the risk, but it is extremely unlikely that this kind of chargeback would result in a sudden spike in refunds a long time after the initial payments. It seems reasonable to handle this case via a level of retained funds commensurate with the observed level of loss.

That really only leaves catastrophe-scale events, such as a product having a fundamental flaw where everything dies at midnight on 1 January 2000. But in that case, either the business has the funds to cover the loss (in which case there's no problem and the card services can go to court if the merchant doesn't pay back what they owe) or the business is toast (in which case unless it's a very small business, probably no individual who gave a personal guarantee could do much to cover the costs anyway, and if it was a very small business, there's no substantial danger to the card service companies on the relatively rare occasions that they have to write the client off and eat the loss themselves).

In short, to the individual a piercing agreement may be an existential threat to their way of life, but such agreements make little real difference to the card companies in cases where the problem is not essentially their fault anyway.
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I'm not sure about a format just yet, but I'm fairly certain it would be a superset of edn (as opposed to imposing it on "plain old edn"). The Document Format spec for Collection+JSON is probably not a bad starting point:

http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/format/

Seems like it could readily be adapted to edn syntax. But I find myself drawn to the RDF concepts underlying JSON-LD, and wonder if the C+J and LD ideas could be melded together.

A solid exploration of the larger concepts involved in hypermedia controls can be found in Mike Amundsen's recent book:

Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020530.do

The basic idea is that, per Fielding, HATEOAS is an aspect of REST that shouldn't be ignored. Standardized media types with well-defined hypermedia controls allow clients that understand those standards to make state transitions without having to "know other rules" that aren't contained in the representations themselves.

Our web browsers do this all the time when we click on links and submit forms that we find in web pages. Based on the X/HTML standard, ours browsers (hypermedia clients) know what to do with links and forms, i.e. how to initiate the appropriate state transitions (build and run GET/POST requests) based on the markup semantics.

Now, if a client is driven programmatically (i.e. not by a human reasoning about the appearance and purpose of a form-button labeled "login", etc.) then you need a bit more besides links and forms. This is where attributes like "rel" (for `a` and `link`) become important. There's been a lot of work in that area, e.g. Microformats and RDFa, among others.
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Michael can correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I read from Fielding it's essentially having links and information about the relationship between "this" and the linked resource as first-class types in the data format.

A concrete example would be the <link> tag in HTML, which with the 'rel' and 'href' attributes can make explicit a relationship between that HTML page and e.g. the page of its author.
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I was wondering if there are any companies that were hiring non software related engineers?

Are there any startups that are looking for Mechanical, Electrical or even Civil and Industrial Engineers? Or is HN not quite the platform for that?

Please forgive the implications of the title - I did not mean to imply that a developer or back end engineer is any less of an engineer.
Yes, that's the basic idea.
I think people should not be picky about the origin but the quality. If you really care about local manufacturing then making it competitive should be your priority and not charity or warm fuzzy feelings. Tough love and all that.
> The hardware buttons for the page turn are the essential feature i love

Interesting, I often find myself swiping across my (3rd Gen Keyboard) screen wishing I didn't have to use those buttons to turn a page.
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I'll stick with JSON for one simple reason: you can have anything as a key (as long as it's escaped). The fact that this can't means you either a) can't use it if you have more-complex keys for some reason, or b) you have to use some non-standardized packing format to encode your illegal keys.

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edit: thanks repliers, I missed part of the spec. Ignore!
Seriously. Even now, it sounds like a "too many issues, will not work" concept.
I find that it depends on your seating position when reading. If you sit upright, it would be easy to hold the device with one hand and swipe with the other. I however often find myself laying on my side reading, this makes swiping quite a lot harder.
Actually the move has and always had a 5 year time frame. We are well within it.

As a side note, I just yesterday tried out the Django 1.5 development trunk in a python3 virtualenv and it all worked. :)
Maybe you should fix any XSS vulnerabilities...
If you remove the word "annual" it will still be impressive but be more accurate. I don't know how many will stay. My guess is somewhere between 25% and 75%. But I think the price might be cheaper the next year. I also think there's a good chance that by adding new users they'll maintain $1M+ in annual revenues.
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Interesting code of ethics you're proposing there: that it's actually unethical not to take advantage of people, and your only ethical responsibility is to the people who pay you. Convenient, I'm sure.
> Why should I care how many people switch to Vim?

That's up to you.

I think Vim is more productive, and I'd like to see more people getting that benefit from it.
What are you trying to say?

I use AMD on a desktop and a laptop and dual monitor works perfectly in Ubuntu 12.04 with both in various setups.
Does anyone know how these numbers compare to identi.ca / status.net?

Has everyone who has signed up for app.net used status.net and found it lacking; have people not heard of status.net or does app.net do something I don't know about?
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You have to supply your windows password to the software. When you swipe your finger the software then supplies your password to the computer and logs you in without you having to type it.
PostGIS is an extension of Postgres that turns it into the best geo-spatial database out.

http://postgis.refractions.net/
It's a relatively common thing for criminals to do, and is known as a 'long firm': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_firm

1) Run a legit business for a few months

2) Build up credit history with suppliers

3) After a while, buy a huge amount of stock on credit

4) Sell all of the stock for cash at massive discounts

5) Disappear with the cash, leaving a pile of unpaid debt in your wake
False. You can use anything as a key.

> Note that keys and values can be elements of any type.

The sample code also uses a vector as a key.
Sometimes it's the honest way though. But you're right, polite people come across as more professional. So is it any better when someone tells a customer to "fuck off" in a polite way (pretend there is one)?
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Don't know about entrepreneurs, but he certainly is a good role model for drivers (professional ones, that is).
A (bit more) stable Telepathy stack for KDE is a big deal.

Also LightDM and guest mode finally come to Kubuntu. I hope it gets backported to 12.04. I'd prefer keeping my LTS system.
how about /translate?url=http://www.news.ycombinator.com/ ?
Did you read the spec? "... keys and values can be elements of any type".
What I read was that Google would allow Apple to do turn-by-turn in exchange for ads. Apple don't want to sully iOS with ads so they refused those terms, and Google wouldn't agree to anything else.
Hm.. I believe he is a role model for more than just driving.

Focus, personal drive, willingness to go against the status quo, amongst others... Seem like pretty important features for entrepreneurs.
I never fully understood how such a concept hasn't drawn more criticism than it has. Airbnb have been around for a while now and it's evident they're doing exceptionally well, even joining the prestigious $1b club (but seriously, what startup these days isn't be valued at one billion?). The real question is how long can they sustain this growth for before the lawsuits start flying around and something bad happens?

Look what's happening to Uber, they're facing heavy attention from taxi lobbyists not too happy with someone else muscling in on their territory. It's going to be the same for Airbnb as they gain more notoriety, motels and hotels are going to start lobbying their local politicians to get some draconian legislation that will make what Airbnb is doing even more unlawful than it potential is.

I love Airbnb, it's a great idea and it deserves every ounce of its success, but the troubles have yet to come for Airbnb. Lets hope they're saving that yearly revenue because they're going to need it when the lawyers come knocking.
You say above, I say portability problem.

JSON is a lowest common denominator. The features that you just specified are not directly available in JavaScript. Therefore data represented in this new format will be very, very clunky to access from JavaScript.
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So Windows8 Metro UI is inspired by AOL(1996)?
It seems that the people who paid for app.net (myself included) are very motivated to get their money's worth. There's a group of people who seem to be posting all the time. Some have thousands of posts already.

I spent $100 to have developer access. For me it's fun to observe the community develop, and see what interesting insights I can get from the data. In my case I don't feel the money I paid is significant. The time I spend online is the real cost. I suspect it's the same for many other people there.
You really don't appreciate how much great data Google have in their maps until you try to use anything else. Apple have a lot of work to do to get iOS 6 maps on-par (for instance, I still haven't managed to do a successful search here in Japan - I have to carry around an Android phone for maps and train directions)
I don't get the point on app.net. They seem to be an alternative to twitter, just without ads and user funded. Ok, so far, but why should a developer trust their plattform more than any other one? App.net isn't open source like status.net/identi.ca, so if they close developers will be still screwed. I don't see any reason why I should pay money to finance a closed source plattform, sorry. Also the most people are on twitter, so it wouldn't make any sense to change to app.net. Maybe I'm wrong about it, but I don't trust them more than Twitter.
We're looking into it at the moment. They seem like decent people. Their integration set-up isn't bad.

As far as we can tell, there is only one catch, but it's a big one: you can only take payments from bank accounts within the reach of their direct debit system. That means UK-only today, and they've announced their intent to expand across Europe in "mid-2012" [1], but it's not clear when they might go any further.

[1] https://gocardless.com/faq
Well, they probably log, but maybe you find an open or public wifi to join ;)
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I kind of like the tagging syntax. It almost seems like they should really be lists with the first tag in function position, but I don't know think that would interop with real Clojure. I tried to come up with something similar, but somehow couldn't generalize to tagging any random object. When in doubt, generalize...

PS: I'm just learning Clojure.
The initial 1 year charge was part of the recurring subscription. Users get automatically charged and the drop-off might not be that massive.
Being a bit of an F1 nut I don't see why not however I used the example of Juan Manuel Fangio - http://www.rookieoven.com/2011/08/17/why-be-a-startup-founde...

Also earlier this year was at an event in Edinburgh where Sir Jackie Stewart spoke to a bunch of founders, he was excellent. Write up of that here - http://www.rookieoven.com/2012/05/17/eie12-keynote-speaker-s...

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Yes! Same here. I feel like I'm part of a niche group that wants an e-ink device that at least reads web content rather than having to download or email myself articles. Are there particular technological limits aside from the cheap processor/e-ink controllers that are preventing an e-ink device from having a really usable web browser?
20k paying users as fast as they acquired them is absolutely amazing. TBH I don't see the appeal other than leaving Twitter for something new or niche. Perhaps that's enough? I'm not sure.

Part of me says Dalton is on to something. The numbers seem to be evidence of that. Another part of me can't wrap my head around the value proposition. But it exists somehow. If I'm right then the numbers represent people who are signing up out of sheer curiosity and wouldn't renew (unless it's automatic). That would infer (to me) that the community might not be sustainable.

It's fascinating nonetheless.
I already see spam (with t.co links) on the alpha.app.net page. Surely nuking spam and spammers shouldn't be hard for a paid, centralized service like app.net?

Identi.ca also appears to be full of spam. Basically nothing will kill a public space faster or deader. There is a certain set of users who will stick around in a chat room/feed/forum/whatever full of spambots, but it's not a high-quality audience and doesn't tend to grow much.
The superpack is a great one-click option. For staying up to date, I find a package manager (like macports or homebrew) more effective for managing my python packages.
Every time app.net is mentioned, I see identi.ca/status.net mentioned, yet I know no one using that platform. Rather than just asking how things compare, can anyone present/offer insight into who/how many people are using identi.ca/status.net?

There is certainly overlap, but asking about comparisons or why isn't something used without providing examples as to why they should be used doesn't help those of us not wholly familiar with them.
You should checkout the following blog post as a possible solution to item 1 on your list. You can setup a phone number that will page the on-call person.

http://blog.pagerduty.com/2012/08/how-to-provide-24x7-phone-...
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That doesn't validate user+tag@gmail.com, which is one of the very root points that he was trying to make in the first place.
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Microsoft isn't distributing that software. It's the computer manufacturer that provides it.
Well by this point most of those NDA's have probably expired. NDA's usually have an expiration date within a few years... Not sure how legal it is to make them arbitrary long.
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which btw wouldn't help at all with op's scenario of Python 2 scripts finding an unexpected Python 3 interpreter.
I think the knowledge gap between humans and ants is less then humans/ alien species that traveled to earth. Hawking is right and we should avoid making contact with any alien species...Security through obscurity actually works well in this situation.
why is there a google ad on that page? did you at least try to pitch a sponsor like the jamaica tourist board
And can't be changed. Because they are, you know, attached to you.

I lose a jump drive containing a key file? Easily change the keys on the server. The lost key is no good to anyone anymore.

My fingerprints get compromised? Uh... cut my own fingers off? Nope, they still have access. And now I have no fingers.
They might get away with Aardvark, Excel-style...
What would it achieve?
I think big events is actually one of the places it's less of a revolution: Airbnb makes it easier, but people have always rented out spare rooms for big events as hotels fill up or get too expensive. When there's a huge demand around a specific time/location there are ways to make that work pre-Airbnb, ranging from Craigslist to event-specific forums. That has happened for many years at the Olympics, for example. I've never gone to an Olympics myself, but many of the people I know who've gone have rented out apartments or rooms from random individuals, usually finding them on Olympic-related forums (it can be even better if you can find someone with similar sports interests to you as a host, e.g. on a forum dedicated to Olympic swimming).

I see Airbnb as more revolutionary for just normal travel, where previously the discovery/matching problem for that scattered demand and supply was insurmountably high.
I think Airbnb has the advantage of being very global compared to say, Uber. The lawsuit/lobbying issues are primarily a US problem, and to a lesser extent, the UK and western Europe. Not to say that they'd be the same business without those markets, but the slew of other countries where they operate gives them some breathing room
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Yeah, I have the same problem every once in a while. --Probably not every 10 pages, more like every 30-50, but still.

But it looks like the Paperwhite Kindle now has a capacitive touchscreen (rather than using IR sensing as the Touch does), so that may help.
IMO one is better off training to _do_ something rather than acquire a external physical characteristic. Most of the people I know who train consistently and have impressive physical achievements (a) enjoy training and (b) train for intrinsic goals, often quantifiable goals.

Like "enter competition X", "win championship Y". Or some tangible set of lifts or times in a run/row/swim, etc.

Wanting to have six pack abs is a ridiculous goal. For some, it's ridiculously easy and sets the bar way too low; for others, irrelevant or even counterproductive.

On the other hand, wanting six pack abs will get you in the right frame of mind to have a nice heart-to-heart conversation with all those skeletal women running grimly along on the treadmills for hours. They, too, depend on extrinsic motivations that are chiefly concerned with appearance.
> It's begging for a machine vision application, which records video and...

A simpler use case for computer vision I could think of with Openstreetmap would be to automatically extract roads and building shapes from satellite imagery (though I hope that the license to use Bing would extend to something like this).

> As an aside, are there any efforts afoot to decentralise OSM?

Well, even Wikipedia's not decentralized yet and has no obvious plans to, so...
Ah, I missed that part. I was going off the keyword == symbol rules, which are waaaaay more restrictive. Thanks!
Why do you need to trust them? It's a commercial relationship like any other. I don't even think about the issue of trust.

For me it's very simple: I pay to have fun with the service. I've spent more time playing with app.net in the past month than I spent watching Netflix in the past year. How many people like me are out there? Who knows, that's the X million dollar question.

To your second point, Twitter is not Facebook. You cannot replace Facebook easily because you'd have to convince your friends and family to go elsewhere. On Twitter I follow a bunch of interesting people who tweet news, links, thoughts. I don't need the same people to be at app.net. As long as there are 100-200 interesting and active people for me to follow / interact with, that's good enough.
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I thinks it's pronounced as 'kwantal'. I think it's easy enough to read, maybe it depends on your mother tongue (or 2, 3 or 4th).
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Seems like a slam-dunk leaked photos = prior art.
Yes, you are right. I knew that, but I listed them because they were kept as independent subsidiaries, but thanks for making it clear.

I remember when that happened, and was pretty sure that a bidding war would start involving Garmin and Google, first for Navteq, and then for Tele Atlas, when they both were acquired (Google Maps used data from them, and it seems like they still do for some countries according to their Terms of Service: [1] and [2] as as examples).

[1] Canada: http://www.google.com/intl/en_ca/help/terms_maps.html
[2] Argentina: http://www.google.com/intl/es_ar/help/terms_maps.html
I can almost hear the politicians now: Oh please, Jimmy, please! Please don't enable SSL!

But seriously, what he's suggesting is the truth. Any website that thinks it might be seen as slightly toxic for its users will move to SSL if it wants to stay in use.

The problem with this play is that turning on SSL for all Wikipedia users would be really very expensive. Encryption costs a lot of CPU cycles and entropy.
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