skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like you have just discovered chargebacks, something that just about every merchant discovers at some point.

What to do? Some options to reduce your fraud are
- outsource the problem by using an indemnified payments system (a payment processor who do their own fraud checks and don't pass on any chargebacks to you). Pros: easy. Cons: expensive and lots of valid payments will be refused.

- Use an e-wallet that usually has few/no chargebacks, eg Skrill & Neteller. Pros. Easy, not too expensive. Cons: more difficult for people to make payments as they need to create an account with the e-wallet first.

- Use services to help with your fraud detection. Eg. Iovation. Pros: you can keep it easy for your customers to make payments. Cons. a lot of work to implement (relatively speaking).

- Use bitcoin, eg bitcoin247.com. Pros. no chargebacks ever. Cons. about 0.00001% of your customers use Bitcoin.

Edit: I forgot to add:
- require 3D Secure / Verified by Visa payments. This removes the chargeback liability from the merchant in most cases and shifts it to the card owners bank. Pros. much fewer chargebacks. Customers can still deposit directly on your site using their card (apart from the 3D redirect). Cons: entering 3DS details another barrier to making payments so will reduce payments. Plus I'm not sure of the penetration of 3DS cards in the US.
Indeed. These are some other headlines on the BBC sidebar at the moment:

Deadly car bombings rock Syria
S Korea shuts nuclear reactors
Two killed in Bahrain explosions
Apple sales are high due to international availability, and thats no ordinary feat. It would interesting to see US only numbers.

I liked the old Apple, which out-sold the competition just on their product and product differentiation.
don't know the twitter api very well, so....maybe instead of scaling back and doggedly trying to get the current record set, you simply mark the 1st 1000 as having an error somewhere, proceed to the 2nd 1000....come back to the ones giving you problems later. I know eventually you have to come back and get the broken ones, but if you manage to process 80% of someone's millions of followers, then you can start digging into the other 20% a bit at a time and at least provide some value for your customers in the meantime......

I haven't actually checked out your service because i'm not really a twitter person so maybe you do this already, but could you provide statistics based on the amount of data you've got so far? (i know they will be inaccurate), but you can sort of give them as a "moving target", based on x number of your followers type thing. That way the user gets a little bit a value right away.
Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday
I hear Cutco is hiring too. Unlimited earning potential.
The choice of font for the blog's body text doesn't lend the author any credibility on this topic.

For what it's worth, I tried both syntax highlighted and not - and the former results in a measurable improvement in productivity. I believe experimenting with tweaking one's tools is worthwhile in most cases.
> I was wondered when I saw that I can't login in to my gmail account.

If you couldn't log in, he did it by guessing the answers to your security questions based on other stuff he could find out about you online, and resetting your password (possibly resetting or taking control of your backup email account that you had your new password set to send to, you should check all that stuff).
The iPhone 5 was hyped by the media in every possible sense. It was projected to be some kind of a super-phone. Some even speculated it to have a mini projector, laser-keyboard and what not. But now, all it has is just a few inches of extra screen size and a slightly upgraded dual-core processor, while the rest of its competitors have had super-fast quad-core chips with higher clock speed and larger screen sizes for a while already.
We try to do this automatically. If a product attracts clicks but doesn't convert then we disable it temporarily, to give other products a chance to be shown in their spot.

So if the retailer is cheating, then their products should not be shown very often - and products that do convert should be shown in their place.
Conversely, only humans have the ability to wipe all forms of intelligent life off this planet and hasten their own destruction.

Furthermore, you could've made the same comment about us [humans] just a few thousand years ago. And considering the rate of evolution compared to the length of time this planet is going to be around for, it's probably a bad idea to extrapolate the fate of dolphins in the future based on their current capabilities.
So...
when dolphins gangs of male bottlenose dolphins isolate a single female and forcibly mate with her... we charge them with rape, right?
This is what happens when your startup's president is named Paul Ryan.
Why can't a job simply require that you're competent and hard-working? I don't want to be "ready & pumped to share that vision and move it forward"
Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Khosla fund LightSail Energy in $37M Deal
Here's a nice infographic for this: http://dontbubble.us/

Google has been serving personalized results for a while now, but this is probably first time it attracted such widespread attention from media.
What do computers have to do with ethnography?
Interesting practical problem. I've tried mentioning a few solutions you might try here: http://dhruvbird.blogspot.com/2012/11/twitter-api-y-u-no-res...
Surely this is mainly due to the language barriers though? If we could fully communicate, what then?
Ted talk: How Data Is Changing International Aid
Visualizing the US Election 2012 with burgers & fries
It's number sold, so it's not all pre-ordered, only those that shipped prior to today. When you pre-order, you are able to cancel up until it's shipped, and payment is not taken until it's shipped, so these numbers can't be counted.

Given that the white models sold out* within hours (or was it minutes?) and the entry level black model sold out the next day, subsequent orders would not be included in this figure.

* By sold out I mean shipping date slipped
I wish Gabriel had inserted a map of where the screenshots were taken. My hunch, which could be wrong, is that magic keywords are geographic too. In a state like NH which leans strongly, maybe the algorithm automatically identified Obama as a magic word. (This hunch is based based simply on ddg being not-quite-mainstream, so maybe its users are more democrat than the country?)

I think it'll be interesting to see the Google response to this. I think the most important question is whether identifying magic keywords happens automatically, or is programmer input involved?
DynamoDB Improvements - Consistent BatchGet & More
A friend of mine has broken this down precisely in this manner, and come up with a 'cannibalisation estimate' [1] of 50%, using product-wise sales data from the Apple-Samsung patent tiff [2].

[1] http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2012/10/ipad-mini-cannibalizati...

[2] http://allthingsd.com/20120809/apple-vs-samsung-trial-forces...
It's fine to get an MBA but don't be an MBA
Openness about the problem is good, but I am not sure that it helps to provide that much detail about the ways you detected the fraud. That just give the attacker more information about how to circumvent your detection.
I'm happy to give more context on this. Some people don't put all their information needs into a single query. For example, instead of searching for [iphone wikipedia] to find the iPhone page on Wikipedia, they'll do one search for [iphone] and then their next search will be [wikipedia].

Google tries to help with those sorts of search sessions. For 0.3% of queries, if we see a search for a query A and then another search for query B, and there appear to be good results related to both A and B, then we may surface those results.

For example, I just did the search [iphone] and then the search [wikipedia]. In addition to the regular results for Wikipedia, Google also surfaces the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone . A good way to see that Google is doing this is to look for a phrase like "You recently searched for iphone" under the newly-surfaced results. Go ahead and try it with the search [twilight] and then the search [wikipedia] for example.

Between Gabriel's article and the WSJ article, words that are reported to provide this behavior include iphone, nexus, obama (but not romney, because there wasn't enough information for this word at the time the data was generated), tablet, twilight, computer, health, speech, iraq, sports, social security, and stock.

Just to reiterate, this algorithm affects 0.3% of searches on Google. Most Hacker News readers are savvy enough to search for [iphone wikipedia] instead of breaking that search into multiple queries. However, if you don't want Google to surface additional results that might help with your current query, Google has a support page telling how to turn off search history personalization: https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

As an aside, I wrote a blog post ~4 years ago to preemptively debunk the idea that Google skews our search results for political reasons: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-search-and-politics/ We simply don't do that.
At the moment we have no "none english" inventory but we are working on it :)
> I think a case could be made that the near-constant consumer demand around Apple products is contributing to the increase of consumer debt which, in turn, is one of the largest contributors to the "depression".

There's a big difference between consumer debt (often held locally) and national debt (held overseas). I'm not sure consumer debt is as big an issue as you think.
Why are you comparing this to a registrar? The service NameTerrific is offering is primarily managed DNS, not registration. A better comparison would be to Dyn.

http://dyn.com/dns/dns-comparison/
Something not entirely dissimilar happened to someone I know.

He was called, "due to feedback from someone who worked with you" and sold on a business opportunity. He'd be starting as the head of IT, etc. (This was, in fact, a reasonable position for him.) Near the end of the call he was told, "We still have another few members of the team to fill out. Can you recommend anyone for the head of finance?"

The real story is that it was all a trick. They had an applicant for head of finance. My friend was listed as a reference. The CEO knew that he'd never get an honest answer if he got a call saying, "How is so and so?" But if the reference really was good, the name he'd be looking for would be on the short list given. (In fact it was the first name given.)
Ask HN: How to show ads everywhere and block them only on specific domains?
AdBlock does provide an option to "show ads everywhere except for" particular domains but it resets to default on extension version update.

Also the process is not a one click solution. To add new sites to the block filter, one needs to go under options and manually add the domains in proper syntax. Is there any other Chrome extension or any other solution?
Perl is also my primary language, and it is partly why I like highlighting. It may state something about the opinions of the programmer; perhaps that complex interpolations in strings, among other things, might be a code smell they don't like, and avoid. Having no highlighting would remind you not to do that sort of thing.

I think the sigils alone are sufficient to flag variables in strings...but when things get complicated and span multiple lines, it can become ugly and difficult to work with. But, I'm not convinced this is the most useful function of highlighting in perl (again, because the sigils already provide visual clues)...it think it's more useful in pointing out unclosed parens, brackets, quotes, etc., and letting you know your syntax is wonky.

That said, it may be laziness on my part. I find it soothing to have highlighting enabled, and I get nervous when it's not, as I'm never quite sure I've got the syntax right until I check it.
What you are suggesting ...

That's not in the least what I'm suggesting.

Dolphins cannot participate in our society by agreement. They don't understand what participating is. They're captured or born in captivity and then trained to perform a few tricks. They are beautiful and fascinating, but they have no contributions to make to the fiber of our society that can't be made by other animals, machines, or even simple objects.

They are able to do nothing further. Giving them a new status is just semantics. They are fundamentally not functioning members of our society. Not individually. Not as a species.
There's value to some creators in having a marketplace in order to get exposure and to provide a convenient browsing experience for customers. Independent musicians who give away their music for free are often grouped into netlabels[1] so that people can find them and discover other works that are somehow related.

A large portion of applications on the Mac App store were and are available directly from the creators, but plenty of authors elected for a presence there. More independent models, such as Cydia and Ubuntu Software Center still take a cut of sales.

Review sites might be one way around the issue-- say, if it was possible to browse GoodReads and every book you were interested in had a link to whatever distribution method the author chose. But then, if GoodReads was the go to site for books, it might start charging a cut too, or prioritizing sponsored links.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel
It was several years ago. He may have changed his tune. But, he was very emphatic about it at the time.
I do not deny the (apparent)link between morality and religions but morality, specially non-violence, neither exist/ed only in Christianity, nor it was introduced by Christianity, nor Christianity was/is the largest proponent of it, so what warrants special mention?
Religious arguments or justifications would be laughed out of any ethics class. Regardless of what the other merits of religion may or may not be (not relevant to this discussion), they do not aid these types of discussions.

Any relevant principles can be talked about without a religious carrier signal; including it only serves to alienate those who do not share the same beliefs.
Maybe I am running some kind of ad-blocker, but I don’t see any example ads, when I cycle through the different ad size options. If this is not just me, could you include an example?

I think it would aid conversion, if you had more examples and perhaps mentioned some websites that use your ads
No, the fear was that long term the sales of the mini would cannibalize sales of the higher-margin iPad and reduce net margins in a market that is approaching saturation and seeing increasing competition. Obviously that effect isn't going to be apparent in launch-day numbers like this (basically, you'd need to wait to see if the mini owners buy another iPad for that).

But you can believe that "Wall Street was effectively upset that Apple would be making too much money" if it makes you feel better. I'm sure those fund managers stay up late at night worrying about beating their targets...
CERT Secure Coding Standard Helps Developers Address Security
It's astounding how poorly the market understands Apple. They're completely oblivious to the real issues that are limiting Apple's growth (constrained supplies of key components), and pay far too much attention to market share.
> if Neanderthals were to somehow come back and enter the modern world, would we accept extending some sort of ethical consideration to them?

Some people think neanderthals and humans mixed genes.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genome_project)

> the project published their results in the May 2010 journal Science detailing an initial draft of the Neanderthal genome based on the analysis of four billion base pairs of Neanderthal DNA. The study determined that some mixture of genes occurred between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans and presented evidence that elements of their genome remain in that of non-African modern humans.

But some people think this genetic overlap is the result of a common ancestor, and not from interbreeding.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/14/study-doubt-hu...)

We give special consideration to primates - not just because they're rare but because they're close relatives to humans. Vivisection is limited pretty strictly if you're using non-human primates.

Would there be much difference between a chimp and a neanderthal? Neanderthals had the FOXp2 gene, and a hyoid bone, so they might have had language. Hunting is a complex activity, and so there's strong possibility that they needed language.

I guess having a language would be enough to guarantee extra protections?

(Having said all this, modern humans happily butcher each other every day, so who knows what'll happen for dolphins or hypothetical Neanderthals.)
incidentally - fopen still works if you want to clean out the MS enforced sloppy parallelism and do your own - or even not be asynchronous...
You really could have made it more obvious and opt-out. As in, have a list of keywords that google also considered somewhere on the top, along with smal "x"s next to them.
Welcome to the nightmares of dealing with money.

Any good payment gateway should be managing the risk of stolen credit cards, but it's likely that because Gittip works with small recurrent payments instead of big upfront payments, it doesn't trigger any red alerts.
Nice hack, but what is the point? How is this useful?
> waste their time making sure an in-house Powerpoint deck is designed to perfection.

This is the problem, though. Black text in a standard font on a white background would be far more readable than the strange mess they've gone with.

Putting zero effort into it produces results that are superior to when you try a little but don't know what you're doing.
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements, animated
It it this generations BMW car.

Though I find it interesting you can buy an iPad 2 for seventy dollars more than the mini. For many that is a great option.

For me, having to buy some gifts this year I can get three kids into Nexus 7s for price of two minis.
>approaching saturation

Do you have a source for this? It seems to me that the whole tablet market is cannibalising conventional computer sales, in which case there's a hell of a lot of growth left.
Love the idea. Any chance of getting information on the next event? The "next event" listed was apparently for 3am this morning (which I would have been up for).
HN is very consistent about jumping on the bandwagon against MBAs but this article manages to not just trot out the standard, over using comments.
If this was the case, then we would be as tolerant toward the house cat who plays with the bird before killing it without eating it as we would be toward a human who acted likewise.

The well being of an animal is no better after a slow cruel death than a quick painless one. When well being comes into play we tend to prohibit killing specifically and instrumental uses in general, as is the case with humans.

The free range chicken on your plate is no less dead than one raised under factory conditions which make us feel better about ourselves. Neither has any more being to which degrees of wellness may be applied.
I always saw this question as one of sentience, not intelligence. Certainly there are computers that exceed human levels of intelligence at certain tasks today, but none are sentient.

The things that I have been thinking a lot about lately are --

What happens when natural death is reduced by 99% and human levels of intelligence are extended to countless genetically customized biological lifeforms?

Do sentient computers that consume non-renewable resources have the right to reproduce and live? Who would enforce either option?

I think we are at the early stages of experiencing a paradigm change in human philosophy. In some part, because much of traditional human beliefs simply hold no foundation with reality (religious and otherwise.) Secondly, the things that were distant science fiction now exist or is within reach. The Star Wars/Star Trek view of the future and space travel mere decades later has become archaic.

I happened to read "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil over a decade ago. It completely changed my thought process in regards to much of life. (I doubt without it I would have been as strongly convicted about dropping out of college and starting an internet business.) As technology has advanced since then, I believe it has kept my thinking a step beyond where it would have been otherwise.

The average person, even equipped with the latest smartphone, is unequipped to deal with these radical changes. Children can no longer look to their parents for patterns on how to live their lives, because their parents lives will not remotely resemble their own.

These are very good opportunities for start ups.
sure

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http://eighteensixtyfive.co.uk
http://missgeeky.com

Are all running EmberAds
I've lost faith in humankind. I can die with peace at least.
Can't find any of your "leavesofcode" links : (

I'm sorry but I've professionally worked in the mobile space for years and the idea that it is easy is simply false. I've done BREW and J2ME you know how hard it was. Devices weren't "spec compliants" but "examples compliants" (only a few basic examples would work). Any non-trivial app targetting J2ME devices required a gigantic QA team and the money needed alone to acquire the various devices to be able to test your app was sufficient to drive most small players out of that market.

It was hard on J2ME / Brew because of fragmentation. Then for a few months/years it was "easy" because one iPhone was the only player in town and ruling the entire app market. No fragmentation. Things were great.

But now fragmentation is here again: various Android versions, various iPhones / iPads / etc. and dealing with all these different devices is a complicated things.

You cannot say that it is "easy" because you shipped a "todo app" (or whatever) on these devices.

There are a lot of companies with succesful mobile apps out there stuggling to solve the fragmentation issue.

Of course you can do it but it's not anywhere near "easy".

So saying "The idea that it is too hard to do is simply false" is quite misleading.
"I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Redis yet."

Because it's not a very good fit for this job?
For an in-depth look at what v8 does and doesn't do to optimize your code, see Vyacheslav Egorov's hilarious JSConf talk: http://blip.tv/file/6124796
The idea for your project is not important and neither is it's business potential. If it were, you would be hired for the position of CEO or head of marketing or whatever. Just do something, Anything that will show a potential recruiter your value.
I don't classify my views as religious, although I do classify mine as moral.

Existence doesn't have a purpose. Existence simply "is". Purpose (in general) is the goals of pre-planned actions taken by intelligent agents acting to achieve specific ends through whatever agencies they believe themselves to control.

My answer to what is moral is to undertake actions that work to achieve those ends, as opposed to random junk and hoping for the best. Moral is to think, not accept dogma. For me, that is the exact opposite of religion.