skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how chargebacks work and even PayPal doesn't have the ability to change that system. When someone charges back a PayPal payment, the funds are removed from PayPal's bank account and deposited to the cardholder's bank before PayPal even gets notified.

Their allowing you to keep the payment until the dispute is decided is actually PayPal floating you a loan on faith that if you lose the dispute, you won't have disappeared along with your balance to reverse it then. Of course, for disputes only within the PayPal system, PayPal's a bit safer not immediately reversing the payment.
A week ago I had funds held for a dispute and received this message from PayPal today. So it is a policy change, not just a PR move.
Control is control, whether it's a public company or private company. Zuckerberg, at Parker's advice, was very wise to maintain complete control of Facebook, since his ambitions have always been a few orders of magnitude bigger than those of his investors.
This is a good point. I can't comment on Plan9 or Xiki, but I believe this was how Linus went about developing Git. I remember watching a video where he discussed his complete ignorance about CVS and SVN, and how that was a blessing.

Having said that, it is a bit disheartening when somebody solves a problem which is solved almost exactly the same way as several other solutions.
>You seriously feel in danger of getting blown up by Muslims?

Not at all. My argument is not predicated upon mortal danger to my person, but rather the existential threat to the beliefs I hold dear posed by those who meet criticism with indiscriminate murder. That they tend to be Muslims says something about Islam, and about the breakdown of civilization in that part of the world. However, I by no means lump the actions of a few extremists in with the billion other Muslims who don't murder innocents whenever they feel slighted.

>You're way more likely to get hit by a bus or get shot by the police.

A Big Mac is far more likely to kill you than either of those. Again, this is not about individual mortal danger, but rather about winning the culture war that we have no choice but to fight.
Ask HN: GIS, Audio Mashup Ideas?
I'm looking for a neat side project idea, preferably something to do with geolocation and audio. I had an idea of showing a graph with people in your area that are listening to the same radio channel as you are, but Pandora doesn't have an open API and I'm too cheap to pay for IHeartRadio.

Any ideas?
To make things worse, the experienced person hesitates before wading
into an Internet debate, while the inexperienced fanatic takes typing
classes so that he can reply to everyone within 6 seconds of their
posting a comment. So the debates are dominated by the people least
able to offer insight.

Oh, God.

Oh, dear.
For me it was reading SICP which used LISP (scheme) that made me pay attention to clojure.
Yes, thank you. His modern interpretation is, I think, fascinating. While I think Kingdom Come is the best treatment of this theme, I actually think Frank Miller got it perfectly in Dark Knight Returns:

"Twenty million die by fire... if I am weak..."
I got to ride one of these at Disrupt today. Inside, in a crowd, but still impressive tech. Smooth acceleration. I do ride boards, so I'm not a newbie. Loved it. I want one.
In order for Apple to maintain its unprecedented brand recognition and profit margins it's not good enough to match the competition. They have to be unambiguously better than the Android alternatives and they just aren't right now.

I disagree… are Macs unambiguously better than the alternatives? I'd say they aren't, but they still give Apple unprecedented brand recognition and profit margins. Ditto for iPods. For years, Macs and iPods often only saw incremental and obvious improvement.

Innovations don't always need to come from Apple; as is eagerly pointed out here, Apple's quite happy to let others pioneer tech (like, say, NFC) and only adopt it when it makes sense for Apple's product story.

Apple creates a superior story, a superior experience. That's it. Macs, iTunes, iPods, Apple Stores, and iOS devices all play together to offer clear and obvious benefits to consumers. Apple only needs to innovate when nothing currently on the market meets their product goals. Otherwise, they're focused on improving and refining the tech they're already shipping.
I disagree. The post got its point across very concisely. If you set aside your snobbery you might perceive that this "meme" is very similar in form to senryu.
The pitch did not impress me, it felt rehearsed, awkward, and lacking a "wow" factor. If I may be honest, not trying to be negative or troll, but most startups that pitched and demo'd at Disrupt don't excite me.

The exception was last year's BitCasa, who ironically lost to Shaker. Strange world we live in sometimes.
Yes, ImageOptim is a wrapper around pngoptim and several other programs. It tries them all and goes with the one that provides you with the optimal compression for that specific file. It also supports JPEG and GIF files.
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"WTF! Is this really how Americans see their police?

I live in Wisconsin, in a small town of 20,000.

Our police department has an armored car, with a mount for a water cannon. We've got a TAC [1] team. Our cops carry rifles in the trunks of their patrol cars.

Elsewhere you can find comparable sized police departments that have .50 machine guns, armored personel carriers.

So .. yeah. That's not how we see the police.

It's how they are.

[1] A TAC team is not a SWAT team, although the only difference I can see is our TAC team is only a part-time deal for the officers.
A bug in C caused an alignment issue? That's pretty surprising to me. That should be abstracted from the programmer. If it was written in assembly, it makes sense, though.
You can have lossy compression that results in zero difference to the end image on a pixel by pixel basis.

E.g. if the PNG was 32 bit, and had a full color palette but was filled with a single 8 bit color. You could safely, and "loss-ily", convert the PNG to 8 bit and replace the entire color palette with the single entry for the color that is actually used.

That said, PNGQuant uses dithering so there will often be changes apparent if you perform a pixel by pixel comparison in code.

Just like you, I can't visually identify the difference between a PNGQuant image and the 'raw' PNG that was used to create it (at least not on any images that I've seen so far).
Apple's Phil Schiller explains lack of NFC and inductive charging in iPhone 5
Are people really paying that much attention to languages being used? Most of my problems are finding and getting the right libraries to work with my apps. Learning new API or new libraries take up more time than worrying about language issues.
jpxxxx, how does it "insidiously portray class and ethnic conflict as an everyday battle worth fighting"? And "fetishistic"? I don't know.

It's fair to criticize where criticism is due, but aren't you going a little overboard? Seems like they did a pretty nice job on the visuals here in my opinion.
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Ooops, my bad. I didn't know there was a different between grade and degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(slope)
I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but this is how C is taught at my school (Penn) and I'm sure many others.

In my CIS240 class (currently enrolled) we learn computers from the ground up and eventually learn C. First we do binary arithmetic by hand to get a feel for it, then we design basic circuits (and some complicated) that can perform the basic computer instructions (ADD. MULT, SHIFT, AND, XOR, etc.) then we keep building up off of these basics until we are finally writing C, at which point we will (hopefully) have a good grasp at what is going on and appreciate our programming language of choice a whole lot more.
Agreed, of course.
Depends on where you go. The news concentrates on Madison and Milwaukee, which tend to vote liberal.

Up state, out of the cities, tends to be more conservative. We just never get on the news.
I mean honestly... You're a multi-billion dollar company... This one email is pertinent to probably 85% of your income... WTF PayPal?!
I grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee and diversity just isn't a thing here. As a white dude there are just some areas you are not allowed to go in the city.

Hell there was a race riot after the state fair last year. This segregation definitely contributes to negative stereotypes on all sides.

Now that I live in SF I understand what diversity really means. Poop everywhere...
It can monitor itself. Emails when the batteries are running low.
The vehicle is a tank festooned with gun ports.

You're being needlessly alarming.

The vehicle is a wheeled armored personell carrier. Totally not a tank - there aren't any caterpillar tracks.

Go back to bed, nothing to see, no worries, Citizen.
I didn't get one of these emails, does that mean that Paypal are going to hold even more of my funds to cover the increased risk? Ouch :)
I was somewhat skeptical of this claim, so I did some googling.

TLDR: FB made about 10% of its 2011 revenue, $4270 M, from Facebook Credits, $470 M.

Their projected 2012 revenue is $5042 M, of which $811 M is expected to come from 'Facebook Payments and other revenue'.

This doesn't say how much of that revenue comes from Zynga specifically, though

Sources:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/20/facebook-revenue-2011/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/08/30/poof-1-bill...
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Speed up your site with a few really simple techniques
One neat feature: you could specify regions of a window (text document) as a separate file, so you could perform redirections to and from. Of the window was "Fred" you could, eg:

Echo "main() {}" > {Fred}.$
cc -o mything {Fred}.$

(Of note, the actual syntax included high bit MacRoman characters, so you were actually using the "section" glyph rather than $)
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Dyalog is the most popular implementation; It's alive and kicking, can do COM and .NET on windows. Dyalog is closed source and proprietary.

There's also J http://jsoftware.com which is the APL's designer "fix all the deficiencies" iteration. It only uses ASCII characters, and takes APL to the extreme -- e.g., +/ % # (that is: plus-slash-percent-hash) is a complete unary function that computes averages. J is open source.

And there's also K, http://kx.com which is popular in the financial world. The relation is K:J like C:Ada, I think. Whereas J strives to be pure, and mathematically complete and extremely well defined and rounded, K throws away almost every language redundancy (e.g. it only has nested vectors, which are also used to represent matrices), and does everything to be superfast. In the latest revision of the language, K4, they incorporate a database into the language. There's an open source implementation of K3 called Kona which you can find on github.
The quality of the pitch is only marginally related to the two most important questions about the company: Is it a good market? And will this company be a leader in this market?
As a Missouri resident, I am going to call dibs on a blog post title of "'Show Me' the Money" :-)

But more seriously, the lack of vision by some investors into the potential of a new idea can be frustrating. However, the expectation of discipline to grow a robust business is an attractive trait of many of the same investors. More base hits than home runs can be a better investment strategy.
Android vs. iOS development
I probably wouldn't gamble on Apple forgoing litigation over something like that, but you're right - so many API-related leaks already occur that it is effectively useless, except to block legitimate things like books, tutorials, and sharing code like this.

It is a little silly they keep insisting on an NDA.
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The Milwaukee police department has an ugly history. Some of its excesses are the result of institutional traditions dating back a century, when it was seen as a bastion of civil order against anarchists and, later, political progressives. Milwaukee had Socialist mayors from 1910 to 1960; unlike most American cities, the state legislature had authority over the city police and appointed police chiefs who often were hostile to the city Socialists. The police department had a reputation for harassment and intimidation of the political left, gay people, and the counterculture. Police officers were linked to a firebombing of The Bugle-American alternative newspaper in the early 1970s. In January 1981 Milwaukee police officers arrested and beat Wendy O. Williams, lead singer of The Plasmatics, when the punk rockers visited the city on tour. Some of the police department's institutionalized prejudices are tragic, like the two police officers (one who later became head of the police officers' union) who found serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer's victim 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone nude on the street, and returned him to Dahmer, later laughing about how they had reunited two gay lovers (Dahmer killed and dismembered Sinthasomphone). It is also dangerous to be black in Milwaukee. In the 1970s, when I lived in Milwaukee, I remember repeated news stories about black men who were arrested and died in custody. I assumed by now that the police department's violent institutionalized racism had been cleaned up by improved training and diversity in hiring but I was surprised to learn that "black man dies in police custody" is still a common local news story (just google it: "dies in custody milwaukee").

Among US states, Wisconsin has a reputation for "good government" and efforts to eliminate cronyism and institutionalized corruption. The state is known for a history of Progressive politics from an era when Liberalism and Socialism were admired by many. At the same time, Milwaukee has long been one of the most racially divided cities in the US, more segregated than many cities in the South. The state has long been politically and culturally divided. Its divisions, fear and violence, reaction and repression are as much part of the state's history as is its reputation for liberalism, though not as well known.

What does this have to do with a website that promotes the Milwaukee Police Department? Maybe not much at all.
Agree, maybe I am just being a curmudgeon today, but the kind of companies that TechCrunch chooses for Disrupt as a general rule of thumb, don't excite me.

It is a good idea though, peer-to-peer anything is the new hotness.
Not that hard. Apply improper member alignment via aligned/packed attributes, or hit a compiler bug, or just do something funny, and then execute code that requires specific alignment, like, say, an SSE code path in a PNG decoder that expects natural alignment.
If you scroll the experience is terribly broken and scrolling is a deeply ingrained interaction paradigm for web sites. Its particularly annoying on a mac trackpad due to inertial scroll.

Saying "don't scroll, use the buttons" to get a non broken experience is like saying "don't click the big red button" to avoid the server throwing a 500.
> The value of these systems is more teaching students how to work with parallel code.

There are no practical applications to this, it's just to show that it can be done.

You can spawn 64 processes in a Core I7 and it would be about the same, just faster. Or 64 VMs.

Maybe the real value of these systems is to teach students to design and calculate before building it.
> Common Lisp native ASDF is probably very well designed, but it is practically useless to anyone who isn’t already an ASDF guru. ASDF should be taken out back and shot.

This sounds like the best you can say is "it's probably very well designed for the wrong purpose"; and I'm not sure that can be usefully distinguished from "poorly designed".

(I have dabbled with both CL and Clojure, but never used either ASDF or Lein.)
Edit: deleted comment I replied to was saying two of the judges were investors in the company.

Wow really?

If that is the case how can they not have received favorable treatment? Even with the best of intentions those judges must be intimate with every aspect of the business and would be unable to separate that knowledge from what the other judges are basing their decisions on.

I know the TC bias bashing is a bit of a meme here on HN but is hard to get away from when things like this crop up.
I need serious repairs requiring a lift. How do they do this "on site"?
Its a fair question to ask: Since the original dynamics were set in place, we don't need to print books, since we don't need capital to distribute recordings, etc should we re-evaluate in light of this.
> where in the DSM IV such a hyperanalytical geek is so categorized

I think we're often put under Asperger Syndrome (AS) (also called Asperger Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, ass-burgers, and My God He's A Weirdo), which falls under either Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD).

AS is often considered to overlap with High-Functioning Autism (ASD without mental retardation) and, in fact, a change being considered for DSM-V would eliminate AS entirely and lump us in under ASD, which would be rated on a severity scale.

That said, the diagnostic criteria for all of those diagnoses are a bit more involved than 'is a hyperanalytical geek'.
And your current investment thesis is...? :)
Well, they may not litigate but couldn't they revoke your developer credentials (and put you out of business)?
>entirely possible that the idea of depression is itself a cause of depression

This comes across as "it's all in your head". I hope you didn't mean that.
Because SHA1 tends to have every byte of the digest change if so much as one byte of the message changes (if you can disprove that, you have a much more important result than "Oops our caching is slightly borked"). Accordingly, 10 hex digits is sufficient to guarantee that a change breaks the old cache (1 - 1 / 2^40) of the time. You wouldn't be at risk of birthday-paradoxing your caches even with billions of files in your site's history.
I'm not sure that I know what pp/sql is. As far as diverging from SQL, the data I want to analyze is really separate paths of actions performed by distinct objects (e.g. users). it's not relational or tabular data so I ran into issues trying to use a language like SQL to query it.
http://goo.gl/WT7YZ

Sorry had too. :)
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Wow, Pointcast. What a trigger for my mental Wayback Machine. I woke up to my Pointcast feeds every morning for a long while in college, but I haven't thought about them in years.
"Within weeks I became lethargic and suffered mild brain damage. I am still conducting this experiment but over greater lapses of time. I only take drugs that are given to me"

Fuck. That.

Damaging your one-and-only brain for the sake of "profoundly affecting [your] perception of the self" is such trite BS.

I've known people who took drugs claiming similar reasons: a deeper understanding of the universe, a connection with nature, etc. All an illusion, all false, and utterly banal to anyone unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of any new "revelations".

Hey, some drugs are fun. Just know the effects for what they are.
> The iPod Touch upgrade looks really good. It's even more impressive than the iPhone 5 it's based on. (Still no GPS, though)

Yeah, I'm most glad they upgraded the ipod touch—I find the idea of an independent device which has some the neat features of the iphone without being tied to my phone contract, or incurring sometimes-scary phone charges, pretty appealing. The old ipod touch was pretty nice, but had some big flaws, like the fairly lame camera. The new one not only seems to have a decent camera, but despite having a larger screen, is actually lighter than the already-featherweight ipod touch 4!

Everybody I've mentioned this to has said "oh they'll probably get rid of the touch anyway, they want everybody to buy the iphone instead" which made me sad—but apparently it's not true! :]

Lack of GPS is a shame though. Even cheapo phones have GPS these days, so it wouldn't appear to be a cost issue; I guess they are still trying to push the iphone...

[An android version might be even nicer, but as far as I've seen, Apple's the only one even attempting to address this niche...]
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For HTTP traffic?
There are portable hydraulic car lifts on the market that would easily fit in the back of a cubevan/small truck.

e.g: http://www.asedeals.com/images/MSC6K-portable-post-lift-5.jp...
Object Orientation doesn't imply "single dispatch / message passing" style of Object Orientation. Common Lisp's CLOS and Clojure's multimethods and protocols are also object oriented, albeit in a different style.

Of course CLOS is far more powerful than what Clojure has, but I wouldn't be so quick to discard OO in Clojure.

OO doesn't imply mutability: even in Java it's encouraged (per Bloch) to create "functional objects" -- objects that create other objects instead of mutating internal state.
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Unlikely. NFC operates around 13MHz, and Bluetooth is 2.4Ghz, I believe.
they are using droids i think. i don't know about transit, but the parent just said "map directions" which i was guessing meant turn by turn.

i was thinking there are third party apps with transit directions but i could be wrong about that.