skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think paypal is the problem here, this is a pretty clearcut case of not having ones ducks in a row before doing business.

People shouldn't expect that you can run a business as though it were a lemonade stand and funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars through any processor, including paypal, without anyone taking notice. That's not the way banks work, it's not the way the law works.

Get a business license, get your ducks in a row, make sure you read the terms of use, make sure you understand the legal implications of the business you are conducting, and then proceed accordingly. If you run into problems with a bank, a processor, or whomever then go consult someone who knows the law far better and can act on your behalf (e.g. a lawyer).

This is the exact same advice whether you use stripe or paypal or authorize.net or what-have-you.

If your business operations are indistinguishable from fraud or money laundering on the surface then you should not be surprised if your accounts get frozen and you should ask yourself how you need to go about making sure there is a perceivable difference.

Perhaps one could argue that the law or banking regulations or the corporate policies of the most popular services were different, but that's the world we live in. And it's not because they are trying to be assholes, it's because fraud and money laundering are commonplace, and if these companies don't try to keep it in check then they will get shut down by the government or the fees you pay to use the service will be much higher.
I think what will happen is that people will all own EVs and then rent gas cars for long distance trips until there is some huge breakthrough in battery capacity or charging times.
You're right, but I don't think it's a ridiculous one to make.
Thanks for that info, I didn't know :)
Tech guys rarely click ads on searches.

Most people click ads frequently.

Many (most) people don't even differentiate between ads and organic results.

People often enter web site URL into search box.

According to Google keywords tool that you probably used, there were 170 searches for postjobfree.com and 91 search for www.postjobfree.com

I guess it's not too many to worry. But there is also postjobfree with 2900 searches. These are users who are searching for my web site specifically.

That does worth the trouble.

While on phone call (inbound!) I experienced that it's hard to explain to users how to find my web site on Google. User enters the term, but then first 3 results are competitors' ads...

You are probably right that the solution is to outbid competitors for my terms. I hope it wouldn't be too hard to do, considering that my ad should have high click-through-rate.
I think the critical mass conversion towards crowd-funding comes when you have some protection in place for failed projects. Once that happens, and "average" Joes start to accept the "I'll put money into whatever I want to see" potential, we can cut out a lot of toxic habits and leeches in society by replacing the "put money into product to make more money" with "put money into product because I want product".
I think that people are blaming the wrong thing here.

The car works great.

The problem is that there are very few places to charge it.

If there were more than two cities in the whole area to charge, he could have stopped sooner at one of those.
I find these things fun, of course some folks want to find alien technology, but I remind people that we've lost roughly 2/3rds of all the probes and ships that we've sent to Mars [1]. Since there isn't a lot of stuff covering them up, eventually we may find a bit of antenna from the Mars Observer sticking up where the spacecraft attempted to fly through the planet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#Past_missio...
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We could try honesty and integrity. That this seems like a comical suggestion when actually it isn't kind of shows how bad things are.
The major problem isn't the batteries. The problem is the lack of charging stations.

Even with batteries going down sooner than you expect, you could always recharge, if there was a charger in the same _city_.
Use WePay.com
What they're trying to defend is that they like the social contract, except when they don't.
This should get you started: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=circumcision+aids

I'm not an expert on the field, but it does seem a bit controversial.
It's a great system. And easier than you'd think. It really takes only two days of logging-in to learn a random password; even a long one. After all, how often do you think about your password when you type it in? I imagine you only consciously think about it the first dozen times you type it, and after that it becomes muscle memory, regardless of whether it's a random password or a memorable one. If that's the case, why not just use a random password to start with?

Still, it's never good to encrypt everything with the same password otherwise you end up in the same mess as the OP. What's the point of a backup if it shares a common point of failure?
'It didn't help that the OP is a student from Venezuela which is not one of America's trading partners.'

A common misconception among Americans. Though understandable considering the state of diplomatic relations.

"The United States is Venezuela's most important trading partner. U.S. exports to Venezuela include machinery, organic chemicals, agricultural products, optical and medical instruments, autos and auto parts. Oil dominates U.S. imports from Venezuela, which is one of the top four suppliers of foreign oil to the United States. About 500 U.S. companies are represented in Venezuela. U.S. foreign direct investment in Venezuela is concentrated largely in the petroleum, manufacturing, and finance sectors."

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35766.htm
There is a "standard" of sorts - The Xbox 360 controller for Windows. Almost all games support this.
The car works great when it isn't cold. If the mileage estimates aren't taking temperature into account, that seems like something Tesla should be addressing in software.

A relative gauge or percentage would be one thing, but if you tell the driver it's going to get 100 miles, they need to know it can make that to the next charging station.
Better off to disagree or debate philosophically than pretend common ground can be had, clouding the situation with dishonest arguments and fabricated 'facts'.

In most political arguments with nutty theories on one side, those on the science-backed side think they are fighting for truth against ignorance. But what they are actually advocating is an implicit philosophy of deprecating personal autonomy in favor of an engineered society. This should at least be explicit, for the benefit of all.

Analyzing utility functions obviously puts oneself first, but you overstep in trying to handwave them away as only not giving "a shit about anyone else". If we wish for systems of rules to be grounded in relation to reality (rather than taking on a self-perpetuating arbitrary life of their own), then we must consider the base case of self interest. Only after that is aligned properly can we examine emergent phenomena like societal good.
"The problem with all fiat currencies is they have no inherent value; it is all in the eye of the beholder"

We'll see if you really believe that is true if you ever find yourself having to pay taxes but lacking the money needed to do so. Fiat currencies do have value: their value is in their ability to cancel debts (like taxes).
I've found multiple graphs that show many different timelines. This page has a very similar graph at the very bottom that gives a reference.

https://wiki.ecdc.europa.eu/fem/w/fem/line-graphs.aspx
You need to read up on American Revolutionary War and Civil War reenactors.
Snapchat, a growing app, lets you see it then you don't
Hm... I'm glad for having you here... :-) Oh, and personally, I believe young age is hyped too much. (http://500hats.com/late-bloomer/)
It doesn't "go" anywhere, it's just a balance. It remains locked until some resolution of an investigation happens, it's no different than when a bank account is frozen.
Mathematics. Which makes it a lot harder to mess with - as opposed to government backed currencies. It's also harder to forge and easier to transfer than material currencies like gold.
I'm certainly not an expert on this, but I'd say the most important number to think about when looking at rover images is the scale.

"the little protuberance is probably about 0.5 cm tall, or even smaller."

Five mm is obviously tiny. Keep this in mind before making up hypotheses as to what the thing is. =) We have to wait until better data is available.

What's fascinating in itself though is that no person, however sceptical, can immediately rule out the possibility that stuff like this is some form of life or even evidence of non-human technology. Of course, such hypotheses have to work extremely hard before they should be accepted. Our standards of evidence for stuff like this must always remain as high as possible, given the emotions and mass misunderstandings involved. But the very fact that we've come this far and still cannot rule out the existence of life on Mars is quite remarkable.
Depression and the Limits of Psychiatry
But even an innovative cell phone is covered by thousands of existing patents, many of them unknown until someone sues. That's the problem. There is no such thing as "pure" innovation. All new technology somehow involves older technology, and in many cases it isn't clear which existing patents cover a particular device or product so the only thing to do is wait to be sued or not release your new (an innovative) product at all.
Is there anything to be gained by making the parking brake electrically actuated? Such parking brakes are becoming increasingly common in cars of all types and it bugs me. From an engineering perspective, it seems like it's just introducing a complex dependency that can fail to a critical part of the car.
Personally, I think the law is outdated and poor if pretty much anybody can run afoul of the laws while being completely clueless and befuddled by them essentially on accident.
Math is just obfuscated code that you have to run in your head.
Precisely my point. The vaccination had no critical effect on any graph and the decreased incidents of polio following suggest a natural progression of technology and disease knowledge and awareness. The drugs that existed before the vaccine were not in wide scale production and play no relevant part in considering the impact of polio on the public.
Principal in this case is the money that you earn interest on. He doesn't have either.
I've used Zend Framework v1 and Yii for at least a year each on different projects. Zend Framework has a steep learning curve but is great for larger applications as the code is well thought out. If you need to build something quick though I wouldn't recommend it.

Yii is not bad. I prefer Zend over it but for getting something up quick it would be a good choice.
Before 7th generation pretty much everyone paid royalties in the games. I believe one of the major reasons the industry is in shambles now is that, with the advance of the 7th generation, 3d parties moved to cut off royalties either by acquiring studios or by rigging contracts.
Still, 3d party owned studios working on profitable titles are paying bonuses that are proportional to sales more or less. For example, check out Activision vs. Infinity Ward GMs lawsuit.
"I still don't know what a fiat currency is although I might have an idea after reading this thread."

Fiat currencies are currencies whose demand is created by a legal system. The US Dollar, for example, has demand that is created by law: tax laws, bankruptcy laws, etc. Like anything else, the value of money is determined by supply and demand.
Comparing with other graphs, it is number of deaths. Unless measles had a 600% death rate. http://www.vaclib.org/intro/present/index.htm#8

But as I alluded to in my other comment, the range of years for each disease is different. Almost as if each graph were cherry zoomed, as it were.

Also worth mentioning, the decline in typhoid and scarlet fever wouldn't have anything to do with the development of antibiotics and chlorination of the public water supply, would they? Thinking that because some bacterial diseases had non-vaccine cures, therefore all diseases can be similarly cured is... what it is.
Occasional sales of personal property below a threshold value are not taxable, nor do they need to be reported to the IRS, etc., nor do most payments, so creating an account does not necessarily require an SSN/TIN.
> Underestimate the remaining miles

I suspect they already do, hence the comment that he'll still have some range even when it says zero.

The problem is what number to display after a full charge. If it doesn't strongly resemble the specification range then people won't be happy.
Usually encryption schemes use a key derivation function like PBKDF2 to "stretch" a user's password to generate 128/256 bits for the symmetric cipher. In this case, the attacker cannot bruteforce aes directly because the generated key is "randomly" selected from the impossibly large 256 bit key space. The attacker now must feed his password guesses through the key derivation function, which hopefully will slow the attacker enough that even the smaller space of memorable user passwords is too large to bruteforce.

It doesn't seem so ludicrous if it works.

No key derivation function will protect from very short passwords, which is effectively the scenario here as the author is helping the attacker narrow number of possible passwords to 22472.

As a side note, my interpretation is that the author's password is longer than 6 characters, and he cannot remember 6 of the characters.
Thank you for that, I stand corrected.
> And it's not because they are trying to be assholes, it's because fraud and money laundering are commonplace

Actually, in large part, they are just being greedy assholes that are doing this because they can get away with it, and because it is profitable. They largely invented the freezing game, and they know how profitable it is.

Of course fraud and money laundering are issues, however that is far from the OP's use case. Before they freeze hundreds of thousands of dollars, you would think they would at least look at his site for a few minutes.
why ? I thought you pay tax by residence in most cases.
I know when I worked in US I elected to pay taxes in Canada because I wasn't moving to states (there is tax treaty)
No "probably" about it. Jason would win everywhere except Boston.
And can be fixed when it does.
> "I'm starting to think everybody is a bit schizophrenic."

Given the "online disinhibition effect," I think that observation can be considered a statistic (the presence of that trend demonstrates real, if hidden, attitudes). The collective response is naturally quite defensive and misanthropic. (Heck, people still burn "witches"... Or anyone else they are afraid of.)

Even before the Internet, it was obvious that the criticism of strangers was harsher than the criticism of friends and colleagues. Addressing strangers is the new norm, but it's far from second nature. I think some of the schizophrenia can be attributed to the natural tendency to fear the unknown (racism, etc), and to another very basic thought process:

1) I want people to think I'm important/knowledgeable (Internet "street cred").

2) OK, I have to at least post something if people are going to know I'm awesome.

3) So, what's my opinion? (People post to type, not because they have a thoughtful insight.)

4) I'm short on time... I'll just skim...

5) Post the first thing that passes the spell check. ("Boy, I sure tore him a new one.")

6) Profit!!! (The Karma comes rolling in... See 1)

(The rest of the misanthropy might have medical and economic components.)

The group-think phenomena, however, has negative and positive attributes though, so please don't choose to be pessimistic ("not participating in public, unmoderated fora") simply because of the presence of the negative ones. We should all try to be more respectful, and understanding, but I'm convinced that the absence of another thoughtful voice will only amplify those of the bullies.
"Secundus, after acknowledging the insanely annoying tendency of math papers to make up their own notation without ever defining it"

"The math case is hard because someone failed to tell you what you need to know, and no one wrote it down anywhere."

I agree with a lot of what you're saying but I don't agree with these two assertions.

I'm working developer and have been for 6 years (Ruby, JavaScript). About a year ago I wanted to learn a bit more about how math (logic in particular) gets used to prove interesting things about programming languages. It was a very short search for books/material on the subject that were approachable for me and contained plenty of fully explained notation (eg, inference rules in Pierce's Types and Programming Languages).

After convincing myself the math was nothing to be afraid of, approaching papers was difficult but not at all impossible. It really boiled down to putting in the time to fill in the gaps in my knowledge through reading referenced papers and taking notes. I have yet to come across a paper that does not provide, through references or explicit notation semantics, all the information necessary to understand the content.

Is doing the reference reading easy? No, it's very time consuming. That doesn't mean that these papers are deliberately evasive in their definitions.

[edit] If it's not clear I'm reading CS papers mostly to do with type theory. It may be that things are very different for pure mathematics papers.
It's a typo, and their supporting link is borked.

Try million instead of billion: http://www.wellsphere.com/men-s-health-article/bill-gates-do...
If the up-front cost of producing the first instance of the product is paid by society, as is often the case with the type of work published in Elsevier journals, than it does seem fair to distribute the product back to members of the funding society at the marginal cost (which is not quite zero, as hosting, editing, and curating do have costs).

The analogy can be made between scientific funding body and investor, where an investor expects a return on their investment. In this version of reality, the funding body would encourage distribution of the product at supra-marginal cost, with some percentage of that cost funneled back to the funder. This situation is rare in science, i.e. a journal company paying the NSF royalties on subscriptions whose content was paid for by the NSF.
It's not fiat because you can't create Bitcoins from nothing. If you can then create one. I dare you to create a single Bitcoin.
The general theory is that circumcision causes a change in the membrane and "microbiomes" around that part of the penis.

I still struggle, however, to believe that a truly controlled study could ever be conducted and I wonder if the money wouldn't be better spent just providing condoms and sexual education to these at risk groups. We already know that condoms are very, very good a reducing HIV transmission rates, plus they work for both partners (circumcision studies only show reduced transmission to men from women), and also consistent use can reduce the risk of cervical cancers, HPV and unwanted pregnancies. In a way, studies and campaigns that focus on circumcision are unethical if they don't also provide access to this highly effective device.

But going back to the studies, the problem I have understanding them is that there is, as far as I'm aware, no way to perform a placebo circumcision. Any adult who has a circumcision is surely likely alter his behavior or perhaps take greater notice of the sexual education he received alongside the circumcision. Or, perhaps he may have the superhero effect, thinking he can have more unprotected sex? That's the part that makes it hard for me to believe that studies are controlled. And for those studies that look only at populations that perform infant circumcisions, it seems even more likely that differences in cultural, religious or social norms of each population would have just as much influence as the operation.

If anyone has details on how these studies control for confounding factors like that, I'd be interested to hear.
AFAIK you can't work for US employer or perform services for US employer. Not sure that this covers outside of country services/work.
This is meant to protect US jobs which you didn't take and that is a bottom line.
I tried it on a bunch of Android devices and the only one that worked well enough to be usable was my Asus Transformer.
Attaching a mouse re-enables scroll bars, I finally figured out.
Seriously? You're implying that this is an antenna from an Earth spacecraft?
Please, go ahead. Create some Bitcoins. I'm waiting..
Instead of BTC. You know, when US banks talk about how much business they are doing, they speak in terms of dollars. When Japanese banks talk about how they are doing, they speak in terms of Yen. The funny think about Bitcoin is that its success is measured in terms of other currencies, although that should not be too surprising since its utility is absolutely dependent on the existence of other currencies and on the existence of exchanges.

Why might that be, you ask? Simple: everyone still lives in the real world, where taxes and other debts have to be repaid, and nobody can use Bitcoin for that. So any business that accepts a Bitcoin payment, even if it is an illegal business, does so with the intention of trading Bitcoin for another currency later.
http://i.imgur.com/4oDNx1q.png
I'm assuming you're selling the toys in the US. If you're selling them in somewhereelseistan, then you probably don't have a US paypal account and none of this matters. Unless you are using a US paypal account, in which case, whoopsie, should have sorted that out ahead of time. Don't funnel money through a country if you're not doing business in that country.
If swapping is the answer then in that case you need a non-ownership model for batteries. I am not going to swap out a brand-new battery for a 2 year old one and then be stuck with that one for the foreseeable future on my regular local car use.
One of my dearest wishes is that humanity will find solid evidence for other lifeforms in the universe (whether it is through remains or actual contact).

This moment, if/when it happens, will be so mindblowing on so many levels and affect us deeply as a society/species/etc. that I just WANT to see it.
RABL caching is still not as robust as it needs to be though, it's a shame.
I use OJ to speed up the actual JSON render: https://github.com/ohler55/oj
The weather described in that article is not extreme. It's normal. Driving at much slower speeds than traffic and not using heat in the winter is the extreme part. Cars that require extreme conditions to drive have problems.
Name somebody who has made that much money ethically.