skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"and retained the prestigious firm of DLA Piper"

What are your thoughts on the pox on DLA Piper's house as a result of taking him on as a client? Doesn't it speak to their naiveté after reviewing the materials he was able to present? Or?
He may have made it sound like that, but it is not. It's a federal felony, and it's generally used to foreclose on large-scale scam operations.
Well, the point is, he's a distinguished, popular, and famous Briton because of his skills in sport. It's not outside the realm of imagination that he might deserve to be on a bill, though that honour is usually mostly reserved for politicians or royalty.
With the dubious security reputation Bitcoin already has, you're already on thin ice with regards to this sort of thing. My gut says that by asking for banking passwords, you hurt yourself more than you help yourself.

If you're looking to get users into the door more quickly, you could borrow a page from LendingClub, who will let you deposit from a credit card, but only when opening a new account, not afterwards.
At least it says that Go works for replacing legacy apps that are using deprecated libraries and making false assumptions. There are tons upon tons of such programs in the world.
Here: http://marlamin.com/cdr/single.php?type=app&id=520
Given the horrible security record of Bitcoin trading platforms, there is no way in hell I will give my bank account details to one. There are so many amateurs in the field that I cannot take any of them seriously.
How One Guy Applied 2 Months Late To Y Combinator And Still Got In
Or just use a normal iPad 1 or 2? They have the same resolution. Am I missing something?
Yeah, I think this was a sub-par post. I understand that maybe the author had a different point (even though the author's grammar and spelling are competent, I suspect English isn't their first language), but I suspect that they don't have a very good grasp of electronics design, or electronics manufacturing. And this is coming from a software weenie.

Sure, you could make some good points about e-waste, and the bloat of software, the inefficiency of modern processors (up until recently), or even critique the whole disposable culture, but suggesting that producing locked down chips that are practically designed for planned obsolescence is the solution? No, sorry. That argument was lost when they started putting general purpose microchips in microwaves.
It is inaccurate to call it a "microcosm". That's why I noted the error and corrected my post 4 hours ago.
The problem is really the mechanism of voting, it needs to be verifiable and the machines need to be assistants in the process, not black boxes. I think some more thought has to be put into it to make systems which assist the voting process, but not make closed proprietary systems.
Except "resisting arrest" is your word against an officer's, while "mail fraud" (from what I understand, IANAL) still requires the state to meet the burden of proof.
I still don't understand why they're only limited to allowing developers from a few select employers and Stanford/MIT grads.
Best advice I can give: There is no substitute for revenue.
If you find that reasonable, I have a slice in Brooklyn to sell you.
It's not a problem for me, but I'm thinking bigger. IMO we need very strict rules to keep normal users from compromising themselves, and there's a sort of herd immunity that comes from everybody following these rules. No service should ask for anyone's password to another service, ever. Even if OAuth isn't available, just say no.
From BofA's guidelines on online privacy and security [1]:

"Protect your Online ID and Passcode. You should always guard your Online ID and Passcode from unauthorized use. If you share this information with someone, all transactions they initiate with the information are considered as authorized by you, even for transactions you did not intend for them to make."

Sure, why not.

1. http://www.bankofamerica.com/onlinebanking/index.cfm?templat...
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I am sceptical. Other socket.io vs. ajax tests show opposite results.

https://github.com/monteslu/jsonrpctest

Here socket.io is at least 2-3 times faster than ajax.
It doesn't, really. The only difference is the venue where it's prosecuted.
By that same logic, is converting files from m4a to mp3 illegal?
After the fiasco and temper tantrums over the NYC debacle, we'll see if they have learned any lessons on working within an existing framework of laws and regulations.
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I've had the pleasure to meet a couple President's and a VP of the United States, Governors, hit golf balls with a Hall of Fame running back, drink with Mark Cuban and more just because I saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. As an example, I found out the President was going to a bar near me for a surprise visit so I got there quickly and placed myself where I knew he'd have to pass. Managed to get a hand shake and exchange a few words. You'd be amazed at how easy it is to meet people if you have a can-do attitude and use a little bit of creativity.
It's used often because it's easy to prove, just like tax evasion.
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That acceptance criteria was used for the first auction, but we're opening it up now.
There's a reason why a huge portion of the population in the western hemisphere speaks Spanish.
The DANE Protocol – DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities
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Thanks for the detailed response. How did you find linkedin? I have some friends that used that oauth method and it wasn't as social as say fb or twitter. Would love to hear any comments on how those networks performed for your projects
This comment really comes off sounding bad. You don't think a multi-billion fraud was that serious? The people that arrested him are pathetic for being proud of that?

Ceglia faked a contract, faked several emails, wasted $100,000's of Facebooks money, wasted $100,000's of the courts time, experts were testifying as to the thickness of the paper and the age of the ink and the staple hole locations... all with the goal of getting a $20 Billion payday. A huge attempted fraud by any standards.

Good for the USPS for stopping one more fraud. They probably do this all the time for all sorts of frauds, and they don't get the credit they deserve.
> assume that the volume control on your operating system controls the DAC rather than doing the stupid thing of digital volume reduction.

What would be the difference? I've never seen a DAC with an analog volume control. Any DAC I've ever seen with volume control does so digitally, usually with toggable steps (+6DB, +12DB, etc) or rarely with a programmable gain. Either way the DAC is adjusting the incoming digital signal prior to conversion. It would be really strange to try to make an analog adjustment to the output before the reconstruction filter.
Want to find anyone's e-mail? There's an app for that: http://linksy.me/find-email. Pretty useful.
Interestingly, the exchange rate is slumping the last two days:

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60zczsg2012-09-01...

I wonder if an easier disposal method for US customers is letting miners unload en masse?
Learnings from a journey to the outer limits of Amazon Mechanical Turk
Very nice article, reminds me this from Tim Ferris:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/12/10/how-to-get-g...
Sure, but if we could paste HTML between editors and browsers without any rendering or layout issues, there would be no reason for users to look beneath the surface. I do agree that we're not quite there yet.
In case you're forgetting history, Java only went open source very recently (2007, only really usable in 2008)[0]. For much of its life, it has been a closed source language / runtime.

Nothing against Java, now, but it's not a fair comparison to Go. (Disclosure: I was an early Go contributor but no longer use it for day to day work. I have no affiliation with Google.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)#Free_...
We had a lot of LA Employers onboard, but no LA Developers.

It's a lot easier to recruit local talent vs. convincing people to pack up and move -- especially if they own a house, have family/partners/friends or other strong ties to their current location.
I have to hand it to this guy, he has gotten his marketing company exposure on HN twice now in as many weeks, and his other accomplishments are quite notable. The thing that rubs me the wrong way about his articles is they always seem to be predicated on the notion that being really incredibly outgoing to the point of recklessness is the road to success. For example, this post should probably have been titled 'How to bum-rush the Russian Prime Minister and live to tell the tale'. The last one could have been 'How to screw over your competitors and an innocent event organizer to further your startup'.

He is very accomplished, but one wonders if there isn't a way to accomplish the same things without bending the rules so hard.
I'm not sure I like this handwavey security argument. There are lots of services handling money that don't get hacked, at least not in ways that cause a loss of said money. Treating being hacked as a foregone conclusion is rather bad practice.

Its a poor argument to try to excuse the Bitcoin community's abhorrent record with security (sans the actual Bitcoin protocol, which is quite secure).
Could it just be that the hosts on http://internettrafficreport.com/ are out of date? I'm in Vancouver, BC trying it hit the UBC hub and I don't get any further than the main educational provider, bc.net. Maybe the UBC host listed on internettrafficreport.com isn't supposed to be up and its been replaced with a different host.
It wasn't Free Software, but is now (more or less). IcedTea / Java 7, as shipped by Fedora &co, is entirely Free Software[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)#Free_...
Right. They're running WEBs.

On one hand, they're getting pretty good authorization with the credit matching part, not sure of the legal details of the un/pw bit. That's also going to help a bit with the miskeyed account number problem.

On the other hand, return rates on WEBs are bad, and the number of people who will revoke their authorization is pretty high. (Even if they have to make a signed statement under penalty of perjury, it happens.) And they have 60 days to do it. It's going to be hard for them to reverse a return even if they have all their auths in line.

On the gripping had, there's the low daily limit. That limits their risk to any particular account, but it's possible that someone would wind up contesting a bunch of charges all at once, say after they got their bank statement.

edit:
I'd love to see their underwriting documentation and just how they're explaining this to their bank. And I'd love to see their bank's comfort level in 60 days.
The Times should not just only be blocked in China. Serious.
> Not that DevelopersAuction has been sticking too closely to its original parameters anyway. Ostensibly the company solicits developers who are graduates of Stanford or MIT and/or have worked for companies like Google, Facebook or Apple. But at least one Chicago based developer was accepted even though he didn’t match those criteria.

I was accepted to Developer Auction (not looking for work, but I always like to know what my options are) despite having no college experience (let alone a degree), indicating I lived in the middle of nowhere in CT and was only interested in remote work, had never worked for one of the 'big startups', and stating I was only looking for security roles. No idea how I was accepted.

I received some interest -- e.g. "Are you sure you don't want to move to SF?" -- but no offers. I'm assuming it was primarily due to the remote requirement given that.
I put myself up on there even though I'm based in Atlanta. (I'm a friend of Allan Grant, btw) Any thoughts about telecommuting positions or general remote workers? Are you avoiding those kinds of positions currently?
I believe this is about size, not pixels. This way you can see if your buttons are too small, or similar...
Or they won’t as everyone who worked on perl based website from 2000 will tell you. This is a massively overstated title and lede.

However the solutions given, if you do end up with this problem, are good and detailed.

They did miss perl's solution, Special Backtracking Control Verbs : http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Special-Backtracking-Con...
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Presumably because it was easier for the DoJ to make the same case using mail fraud as the vector, just like it was easier to take out Capone with tax fraud. The heart of the actual case will still be the deceptions Ceglia used to attempt to scam a billion dollars out of Facebook.
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That would be the one hell of an annoying rage quit.
Aging Satellite Fleet May Mean Gaps in Storm Forecasts
Discount for people who bought previous book? :)
> games in virtual machines actually work reasonably well these days

In KVM / Qemu, you need to forward a hardware graphics card to the VM, which means you can't use it in the host OS. It works ok if you have a crossfire or sli setup (since Linux support for either is... lacking) but you still need to have separate displays for the host and guest then.

I haven't tried vmware / xen though.
liquidity is a factor in pricing
If you're on a mac, you can obviate a lot of bit depth issues by opening /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app. From there you can see all your audio input and output devices, and set their frequency and bit-rates. Most default to 44kHz/16-bit, but a saner setting is 44kHz/24-bit.

You can see the objective differences between 16-bit and 24-bit output in NwAvGuy's measurements of the 2011 MacBook Air's DAC: http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/12/apple-macbook-air-5g.htm...
It is obviously because people are auto refreshing the Team Fortress 2 blog in preparation for the update.
I thought that the limit WAS 6 characters from telephone banking days prior to online banking and mobile banking - a holdover. So when I set up online banking eons ago I used the same PW and was setup instantly. I take it new account setups are asking for a longer and more secure PW?
> Looking at things more closely, the only thing that you're truly locked into with GAE is the esoteric nature of the datastore. This isn't any worse than picking say MySQL vs. Oracle or Riak vs. Mongo.

Sure it is. If you pick the wrong DB your only locked into that DB. You pick GAE and you're locked into GAE's DB.... and GAE. I can move my MySql db to another cloud provider.
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Its hard to make generalizations about 1.2 billion people from 3 or 4 data points. It is even harder if these are educated middle class Chinese in a first-tier city like Beijing or Shanghai. I'm sure this topic was shutdown on Weibo already, and you would have to be in a special circle to understand any code used to talk about the subject.
As a bitcoiner, I urge you to reconsider the first option. Asking password to users' bank account is very bad practice.
Increase Productivity with Email Sprints
Reminds me of the joke:

"The Queen of England spoke to me!"

"Oh really?! What did she say?"

"Get out of my way you bum"
I don't mean to be harsh, but the fact that you're even asking for banking credentials means I want nothing do with your service, and I feel like actually shouting loudly to everyone I know not to use it either.

There have been far too many shady Bitcoin related hacks/frauds/incidents for this to be something that you should even be encouraging. What protection do your customers have if you do get hacked?
www.squarespace.com ?
Startup Maryland pitch bus video road show - low quality - it was shot on a BUS
Be very, very, very careful about giving any service, ever, information about your actual bank account. This is a much bigger deal than giving a service your credit card information.

(Individual ACH charges may, with some effort, be reversible like a credit card charge, but invalid reversible credit card charges are pretty much all you have to worry about with a stolen credit card, and not all you have to worry about with a stolen bank account).
One of them has a functioning mobile app that I used last night to order groceries; the other doesn't even have a website.
I wouldn't have thought this would have ever got of the ground with potential security issues. An underground station would be the perfect place to plant explosives. In London they don't even have rubbish (trash) bins in the stations.

Perhaps only pre-approved retailers can deliver to it. That system's still open to abuse though.
Re: LinkedIn

Integration for it was easy enough, though I have the slight complaint that they don't give me the user's email address as part of the oAuth process, and I can't even get it with an additional request. Since we're automatically reconciling user accounts based on authenticated emails, this makes LinkedIn kind of the odd man out.

As far as traction, LinkedIn represents approximately 30-35% of our users who are authenticating via oAuth, which is only about about 32% of total users. So, one out of three users logs in with oAuth (vs. traditional username/password auth), and of those, 2 out of three prefer Google to LinkedIn -- and this is on our Enterprisey product.

In other side projects, LinkedIn usage is far less. Perhaps one out of 15 users prefer it to Facebook / Google / Twitter, and it's probably worth noting that in the consumer-based apps (games and the like), users prefer oAuth 3 to 1.
So if your site gets hacked, the hackers can order a bunch of untraceable bitcoins with my banking funds right?

Thanks, but no thanks..
Hmm, case-in-point, then. Thanks for pointing that out.
You seem to have high standards for "meet"
If we assume WYSIWYG editors keep on improving, at some point, they'll become good enough. What then for Markdown?
Unique? Portions of Italy have seen power come and go multiple times, if you count the Roman Empire. The Republic of Venice was still a going concern when the United States was in its infancy, and had been so for hundreds of years.
And the reason Steve Jobs DID start one of the most influential and powerful corporations on this planet was because he was such a brilliant computer science theorist. Or are we getting our logic all backwards and sideways here?
Last week, a friend got himself onto the top 30 Klout influencers list for some conference he wasn't even at. He simply started tweeting lame general platitudes about business with the appropriate hashtag, and by 10 AM he was a top influencer at the conference. I doubt he was even dressed by 10 AM.

The only thing Klout measures is how hard somebody is willing to work to increase their Klout score.
Today, maybe, assuming a calm ocean and no scaling issues. But I don't believe you spent an hour a week setting up your three data centers, backups, failover procedure, etc.
The article is a bit misleading. Offers generally mean the interviews are done, and the company has found a match. But on the homepage it says all offers are non-binding and before any interviews. It seems they can be used as just a way for the recruiter/company to get someone's attention.
Why Zynga is vastly undervalued
He's yet another Tim Ferris. Yes, you can further yourself by violating the rules of society around you and put furthering your own goals above anybody else's considerations.

We can argue all day if that's unethical or just "hacking the rules" - ultimately, it's a choice we all need to make on our own.
They're doing the smart thing and keeping most of the money offline. Some level of hacking is inevitable but they'll be okay.
That's the standard option that all other monetary services use when they want to ACH transfer to or from your bank account. Using that mechanism will make your service much more familiar and acceptable to people, whereas asking for a username and password raises huge red flags.

I only know of one other service that asks for bank account usernames and passwords: mint.com. And they frequently have to deal with customer concerns about the security of doing so, even though they very explicitly say they only provide read-only access. Your service doesn't even have that guarantee.

So: drop the username and password thing, and only support the standard verify-two-small-transfers option that every other service uses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SONET_ring#Network_architecture...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionless_communication
How do the new DMCA rules affect your rights?
As much as I agree it maybe annoying for any app that doesn't intent on capturing/transmitting personal information to have a privacy policy, I think it is a great requirement. The problem with not having one is that it could be misused in the future updates. Make it a habit to include both a License and a Privacy Policy when you start writing a new app. Just like most open-source softwares include a licence, I wish all applications had a privacy policy attached to them.
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I would definitely recommend changing the Favicon from Spotify's logo.
That you are no-one and they are a big company,mature and well organized? This is what I got as a person how know nothing about both. And I am not sure that is a point for you.
Seems to me if anywhere Mogolia would probably suffer the most from this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mongol_Empire_map.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire
Yes. Please come to NYC. I'll use it very often.
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A link for the lazy, like myself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_Maze
I'll do a 25% (ish) discount on launch day and will be sure to let everyone who bought the previous book know about it.
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Perl also has some clever memoization which handles a lot of cases that choke less mature regular expression engines. But neither of these is a satisfying solution; backtracking control verbs can only help you if you use them, and the memoization is not the solution to all woes, as the benchmark in the "Performance" section of this article shows:

http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

The sky isn't falling, but it's still possible to get struck by lightning. (And of course, you're vulnerable to DoS attacks if you run user-supplied regexps with backreferences -- this is provably NP-hard.)
Sure. Also, this is a very common question (about the domain name and copyright). Spotify seems to promote sites with their exact logo and company name, as long as I put the disclaimer in the footer that I'm not related to their site. In fact they have a page right on spotify.com promoting a lot of other spotify___.com playlist websites.

I also contacted about getting a developer token and they didn't seem to have a problem with my domain.
Isn't the correct term "web apps"? I've never heard anyone refer to them as "software".
Of the hundreds of explanations about how you are different to WebVan, you really think this is the best one?
Russia happens to be in both, and it definitely suffers from this nostalgia.
C'mon that's just not fair.

The point is, in case you truly didn't get it, is that these guys are a scrappy start-up (which, we hope, isn't burning money into a fiery pit of despair), and Webvan is a too-big-for-its-britches lumbering incumbent.

Good luck guys - Instacart seems like it's got amazing potential and I hope you guys do wonderfully.