skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly!
Paypal is the middleman here and they are preventing me from going directly to the credit card issuer and providing them with extensive documentation proving fraud.

Not only that, they are making it extremely inconvenient to have any sort of communication with them
I think a marketplace that you could plug into an existing website would be incredible.

Eg. If you have a website / forum devoted to say knitting, being able to simply plug in an auction commerce application would be quite nice.
I love this. I'll try implementing it in my shell later this week. I've been looking for a great way to remember all of my custom aliases.
Not an RTS, but I've been musing with a similar idea for some time with a certain RPG...

http://lumakey.net/labs/battleground/demo1/
You can already do this on eBay, the sellers with Y feedback thing

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/buyer-requirements.html

More specifically: http://imgur.com/xvAYd

But it still doesn't get round the way this specific scam works, see post from Spooky23 above for a great explanation.
McAfee safe, EXIF data puts him in Guatemala, but he faked it
It's not shoplifting. It's fraud. But yes, this phone was totally stolen.
Sounds like a problem with the credit card system rather than Paypal, since it appears the customer used a credit card. If you sold iPhones via Stripe, you're still liable for the same chargebacks.
Still doesn't help you, which postal employee is going to sit for 1/2 hour while you test your iphone and make sure it connects to your computer etc? They can only say, "yup it looks like an iphone", not whether or not it works.
I am an engineer and my co-founder has a 'bizdev' profile. One requirement I had for him to join me in this venture was to have him learn some fundamentals about programming. Not how to be a full-blown coder, but at least to have a good idea about how things work. It proved to be very interesting for him, and also opened his mind to contribute new ideas with a vision on how those ideas could be implemented inside our product.
This happens all of the time. Paypal is caught in the middle, and the credit card company almost always decides in favor of the buyer. It's because they're trying to provide the same service for both EFTs and credit cards, and those work very differently in the real world.

Unfortunately, PayPal sticks the user with the cost in this case. It would be out of business I'd imagine if it ate the cost.

Whenever someone pays for something with a credit card using PayPal, you automatically lose all of your protections if they dispute it through their cardholder. They just act as a passthrough.
I can't get this out of my head - http://open.spotify.com/track/6Yyt7aFBMAxp0Eqzb1XGtl

thank you for the list, really appreciated
You're assuming sarcasm rather than a "whoa, seriously?" response, which given your social circle is I think fairly unusual isn't accusing you of lying so much as asking if he read it correctly.

And he didn't -advise- you, he asked why you -didn't- do that.

Of course, assuming bad faith and then using his age as an argument as to why your knee jerk reaction was ok apparently is also an option - but not up to your usual standard. I think perhaps the 'emotional minefield' part is crucial here, and next time you should step away for that hour before replying at all.
That's a bit of a simplification of the whole IP debate. It's not an either-or thing.
When opening an SSL connection your browser typically transmits the server name unencrypted, so the server knows which public key to send you. This is known as Server Name Indication [1].

SSL doesn't stop people seeing what servers you connect to, or the amount of traffic you exchange with each one.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
The point of a class-action suit isn't for the victims to recoup damages. It's to force the corporation (in this case, eBay) to change some sort of behavior that a suit from a single person wouldn't have been able to accomplish.
Yardsale does meet the description of "garage sale on the internet", but in the Craigslist sense more than the old-eBay sense: it's for selling stuff locally, not for selling worldwide and then shipping it. For some things that works fine, but for long-tail items with niche popularity I found the old ebay quite useful, because you could reach a non-geographically-constrained audience, increasing the odds that someone somewhere would want your obscure thing.

Nowadays I sell niche music and books on Amazon Marketplace, admittedly, so one chunk of that market is spoken for by a strong incumbent.
With concurrent.futures http://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html#con...

it could look like:

from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor as Pool
from socket import getaddrinfo

def lookup(domain):
try:
result = getaddrinfo(domain, 80)
exception Exception as e:
print("error %s -> %s" % (domain, e))
else:
print("done %s -> %s" % (domain, result))

nconcurrent = 20
with open('domains.txt') as file, Pool(nconcurrent) as pool:
for domain in (line.strip() for line in file):
pool.submit(lookup, domain)

To run multiple processes instead of threads, change the import to ProcessPoolExecutor.

To support multiprocessing.Pool (for Python 2 where concurrent.futures is not in stdlib), replace pool.submit() with pool.apply_async() and use contextlib.closing() around the Pool().
Only for my USB sound card when it is connected and disconnected. But, that's more of a nice-to-have. Everything else is built into the programs I use and into Gnome.
The trouble is with repairing old hardware. Recently I had a motherboard die on an old system, and needed to go to Ebay for a replacement. With forced bundling, replacement parts will be more expensive, and harder to find.

For the motherboard manufacturer, they'll need to buy CPUs and estimate the relative demand of each, instead of leaving that to the consumer or OEM.
One week to vote on Facebook's proposed data usage policy
With so much inspiration floating around (and fixed to every wall in the office), I find http://www.despair.com/demotivators.html refreshing.
Bitcoins tip the pendulum too far in the other direction; there needs to be a way for a buyer scammed to reclaim their money in the case of a seller scam. (And that's not even getting into the instability of the currency.. I'm a fan of bitcoin and I can't imagine using it in a serious enterprise)

A third party escrow service that examines all goods for compliance with their description and then sends them on could be a useful tool..
Believe me, after a few meetings with people, that comes out pretty quick. The couple times I've let it get that far, I've kicked myself for the time wasting.

Should I have known on day 1? Possibly, and sometimes I do, but I don't want to live my entire life distrusting 100% of what people tell me on day 1.
Christmas Spirit
"1. The iPad eats the consumer PC market.

This is happening right now. In the third quarter of 2012, PC sales were down 8 percent on a year-over-year basis worldwide. In the U.S., sales were down 14 percent. A big chunk of the decline can be attributed to the rise of the iPad."

Or just that PC speeds have reached a plateau, and common desktop applications no longer need the latest hardware. The continuous upgrade cycle is slowing. I think that speaks for the 8% on its own.

On second glance, this whole article is borderline troll bait.
Vice Magazine's post that McAfee has safely left Belize: http://www.vice.com/read/we-are-with-john-mcafee-right-now-s...

His own post on the topic, saying he'll be returning to Belize: http://www.whoismcafee.com/i-am-safe/

Gizmodo post on the location revealed by the EXIF data: http://gizmodo.com/5965295/vice-magazine-just-accidentally-r...

The apology on his blog comes after those three articles.

Surreal.
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Inspires me:

1) "This Week in Startups"
2) "Dragons Den" CA,UK \ "Shark Tank"
3) "Gold Rush" Discovery
- What kinds of tasks do you need to do?

- How do the objects you create (.txt files, emails, etc.) relate?

- What are the big headaches you run into?
Paul Thurrott's http://winsupersite.com is hellbanned on HN, you can't submit a link to it

FYI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4867752
Can anyone try to summarize the main parts of the proposed change? Thanks!
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I don't think you would hire me given the amount of snark in your post and my waning tolerance for it, but if I were to be a "good fit" for your company, I would probably pass on the interview for fear that I might become fodder for your next rant.

Do you suppose you could have generalized this post into a lesson with a little bit of ranting versus a rant with a little bit of lesson?

If I were James, I would feel like crap reading this. What did that gain him in reality and what did it gain you?
I did literally just this last week, with an ITX motherboard, a 65W APU (Trinity), and a case to match. I'm quite pleased with the results, and with Big Picture mode (given it *was still Beta)
The coin based pricing is weird, but my god! It's Heroku for gaming servers! Why hasn't someone thought of this before?!
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As usual for the cool, modern user interface for landing pages these days, no information about what you are signing up for.

Edit: sorry about that, was visiting the mobile page and was all confused ( http://i.imgur.com/hrWE8.png ). Tested on computer and got a better page.
I was hoping to find some mention of IDE, IDE plugin, or more process oriented stuff, rather than language features.
As nice as the message would be (We don't need your content; get bent; kthxbai), Google is never going to do it. Part of their business is predicated on MafiAA content (movie and music store) and it would be suicidal for them to toss that.
On the down side, it makes gas slightly more expensive.

Oh? For many years a fill-up was substantially cheaper in New Jersey than neighboring states, and whenever I was driving up from Washington, DC area to New York or Boston I would try to fill it in New Jersey (a full tank of gas was not a trivial expense for a poor grad student). The difference is small these days.
paypay already has your credit card and banking information. I think its more about having staff investigating it. For example in this type of story it may be clear, but otherwise its your word vs theirs type situations. With volume of sales, and probably the number of transactions, I imagine its not cheap.
I was just about to buy MacBook Pro Retina 15, 16GB, 512GB, when I found out about this ghosting problem. I could not take the risk of getting faulty screen (I would have buy it on trip to US).
I am surprised that Apple is not doing anything about it. This problem is known for months
There are better ways to hedge against that.

http://www.amazon.com/s/field-keywords=counterfeit+money+pen
Probably the best programming language blog.
Strictly obeying someone's instructions is a well known technique for sabotage.

Indeed. Rumor has it that American Airlines pilots have recently been engaging in a similar strategy in order to put pressure on AMR management. Apparently they simply follow the rulebook to the "t", phoning in maintenance requests for the most minor nit-picky problems, following every procedure in excruciating detail, etc., with a net result of causing American's "on time percentage" to drop precipitously as flights are routinely delayed.
I think a telling part of this post is where she almost expresses surprise that people were staying up all night to hack. I think that explains a big part of why biz-dev people are sometimes seen as 2nd rate citizens.

I have some good friends on the sales side of things and they invariably leave the office at 6 and do fun activities, go to the bar etc. They seem quite puzzled that I would turn down invitations to go out in favor of learning new skills and building cool stuff.

In a business that's all about building and shipping products no matter what it takes, and at an event that is about shipping products in a very short time, it is not surprising that a biz dev person would be seen as somewhat superfluous. I'm sure the engineers at the hackathon were quite happy to have her make a powerpoint and get some beers though.
I have, eBay ignored all my complaints and requests. Never got anything but the odd automated 'we have received your report' emails. I'll never use eBay again for any reason.
If you have recently sold stock at a $2 valuation, you should be very wary about issuing options at $0.25. This will put you across the ISO/NSO line and has tax implications for the employee.

If you haven't actually sold stock recently, you are probably better off using ptacek's formula and computing future value rather than present value, and avoiding pricing your stock at all.
Sounds like John may have been a step ahead. (He claims to have editted the EXIF data in an apology to VICE mag.)

http://www.whoismcafee.com/another-apology/
Funny, I just wrote long winded post precisely on this topic:

http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/12/03/dear-microsoft-let-...

I actually don't think the MS nightmare is all that bad. I'm still seeing a lot of organizations try to move to Google Apps and then moving back to MS products because the lack of features and native functionality (Outlook is a big one). Even though I'm a heavy Apple user, I'm slightly rooting for MSFT.
Becoming a (cash-)billionaire sounds pretty good to me, freedom and all. You can still use that money for businesses to start or run if you want, perhaps focus your life on charity.

But these are just empty words from the rail; the article reads like the celebrity gossip magazines, in my opinion.
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There is a credit card involved.
So you're saying: "It's very complicated, you won't understand my arguments."

It is simple, IP laws lead to slower development of science and industry and accumulation of huge amounts of money and power in the hands of a few. Classical example is 19th and early 20th century British Empire - it's IP laws are what to a big degree allowed US and Germany to catch up and surpass it.
being a non-engineer, I could not agree more about your analysis. Coders don't really need us. Or at least they think they don't - to be honest I think a lot of developers out there don't really value bizdev work and don't see why they should have someone who can code on the team.

Now the question is how do you get started on coding when you're a non-engineer? Which language? Where do you begin?
people like backbone because they can still work with the tools they know ( jquery , ... ) and some basic structure is always better than no structure at all. Other frameworks are great too , angular is very good.
This seems apropos: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~choh/german.htm
Secure Tading? Is that a typo or something I'm not familiar with?
Don't read TechCrunch, don't sell on Ebay, think twice about Apple...
Today's HN headlines make me a bit depressed... :(
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Calling shenanigans on this one. McAffee is almost certainly bluffing.
We could just as easily be reading a post from "James" about how his time was wasted by some punk who has no clue how much value he would bring to a startup. And I would consider that equally tacky.

He asked for what he wanted - it was not in line with what you wanted to pay. End of story. Not all job interviews end with a hire.
I had some activity using gmail and hotmail. Microsoft revealed my IP address. Neither Yahoo nor Gmail reveals IP addresses. Now I'm in court for bullshit. This happened in a non US country. Now, do you think that I'll use any of their products anymore? I've closed all my Microsoft related accounts and I've promised myself never to use their products. I am going to make an open source application for https://tent.io/ just because Microsoft has shares in Facebook. Fuck them. Microsoft, go to Hell!
Wow. I would have dumped it and never used them again.

I was having a bit of a "debate" with a friend of mine who bought the new MBP a few months ago. We are both C# developers so we have no real use of the Mac features, and he was running Windows 8 in VM. His laptop cost over 3 times more than my Dell XPS, which granted is thicker and the screen is not as high res etc, all features which I did not care about to be honest. His argument was that Mac had very good hardware and would last several years. Sure, but in that same time period if my laptop broke, I could afford to buy another 2 more and still be even... MBP is a bloody nice piece of kit though! :)
Hey, they're selling the lockitron for...the same price as lockitron.net...

http://packstore.anvil.net/products/lockitron
That for me also summed up nicely what separates a coder from a hacker. :]
In Germany perhaps this strange beast called "job security" can still be found in the wild. In the US there is no such thing outside of government work, and at a startup the idea is laughable. "Career security" is what you want to think about, making sure you are always up to date and desirable. And also, building up a savings account no matter how difficult that may seem.
It does kind of seem like, if it was a ruse, he wouldn't want to tell anyone that it was.
Google Wave tried this, and it was interesting and completely unusable.
No, because most cellphones/iPods etc will be subject to scammers.

These devices are absolutely simple for scammers to work with. They're high value, cheap to post, and can easily be swapped with phoney/broken identical devices.
and productivity in offices plummets. :)
Unless you're a regular eBay seller, selling one phone on eBay is going to eat up a lot more than 5 minutes of your time. And that's the whole point - eBay is terrible for selling newish electronics unless you're a frequent eBay seller like yourself. To the point that people will willingly accept $200 less (eBay fees!) to avoid it.
"If this happened and then these other ten things happened and if for some reason people stopped buying office (but they aren't) and some folks did some other things (that there is no evidence of happening) then MS is doomed!"

Look, I'm as bearish on MS as they come (I think Microsoft's cultural and technical dominance of the personal computer is at and end) but this is a whole lot of crap in an article.

I think Microsoft as being the "only" choice for personal computing is over, which is a net positive. But there are still tons of businesses (the people that really pay Microsoft gobs of money) that are not switching off of Microsoft any time soon. I think Google will nibble off a bit of Microsoft's services for the small and medium business (who needs Exchange any more unless you have strict auditing requirements, which most SMB's don't) and Apple will make inroads, but iPads won't be replacing shitty $500 Dells any time soon (although I know IT departments would love virus-free completely locked down computers; it's been their "Holy Grail" forever).

MSFT has seen declining Windows revenue as a proportion of the total for a while and will still have rev in the many tens of billions if even half of MSFT's consumer market disappears.

I don't think MSFT will ever go out of business. It'll just be smaller and a lot less relevant.
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> Expecting early stage-like equity and later-stage-like salary doesn't make sense.

Not for you maybe, but for the lucky sob who gets it, it definitely makes sense! Just like employers generally aren't in it to be "nice" to their employees, employees are not trying to be "nice" either. Now if you have a scarce resource, you are supposed to try and get a as high price as possible for it. Free market and all that.

Also, this James fellow, if he actually was an amazing engineer, one of the best in the area and Google-material, then I don't think it is unreasonable for him to ask for both a high salary and a big chunk of equity. If he also worked "crazy hours" that one of him would replace a team of 3-5 average engineers. If so, you were the one pasing on a great bargain. :)
Yeah I don't think that is true, why then did Vice.com pull the photo so fast after it was uncovered? Why not strip out the EXIF data altogether in the first place...or simply disable geo tagging on the phone. Why would he then even tell people he manipulated it...doesn't make sense.
This is such a piece of trivial dreck that I would downvote it if I could. There's barely even enough of a real idea for the few paragraphs actually written.
and backbone has many plugins too
Though they've recently been bought by TWC, wunderground.com is and always has been my go-to place for weather info. Never had any luck with weather.com's site or mobile apps myself.
Tab completion and aliases need not be mutually exclusive. For instance, in zsh you can use:

alias gs='git status'
compdef _git gs=git-status

FYI: I also mapped g without parameters to `git status -sb` but g with parameters will simply execute everything as normal

g () {
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
git status -sb
else
git $*
fi
}
compdef g=git
Jesus Vice staff are a bunch of children. "Suckers"? tags: "Suck it bitches" ?

vice staff sure do have a case of tiny penis syndrome.
Would you consider blogging about this? I'd like to do something similar next year.
Why would they post his location though...that's messed up.

If he gets held by the authorities and executed, that blood is on the original poster's hands.
What is the intended audience of your newsletter? I assume the subjects are of broad variance, but is it targeted at people who would read Hacker News, for instance?

I really like the power of a single curated deliverance daily, it sets you apart from all other curations by solving the paradox of choice in a huge information flood. And the friction is seemingly minimal--"just one read, let me show you what I can get you." Best of luck.
Are all of these full-length (~30+ minutes) talks? If not, is there some way to see which ones are full-length talks?
wow -- that sucked... sorry. I also ran out the clock on edit-ability.

I guess I'll just try and submit it again.
I hope the state of the art is much better than that.
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This is vice we're talking about. That would be welcome publicity to them.

I'm just glad (yea, i'm rooting for McAfee) McAfee seems to be aware of the situation. Whether or not he's bluffing about the exif data being edited, at least he knows this is out there.
It depends on where in the world you are. http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/ may be helpful.
I wouldn't mind writing about it, but I don't exactly have a blog. What is a good medium for a one-shot post like that?
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You won't see many engineers with kids at a company that has $100k in angel funding and 6 likes on Facebook, but many VC-backed startups can afford to give their employees weekends and reasonably competitive salaries.
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This. He acts incredibly paranoid - a lot of what he puts online is misinformation to protect himself. When he fled the country he made sure to write blog posts and report to others that he'd lost all of his money (since there's still a wrongful death suit with his name on it).

I'm sure he freaked out when the metadata was uncovered - probably fled Guatemala immediately.
Well Vice didn't post his location. They posted the photo.

It's the mobile privacy guys that looked for the EXIF data and posted that.