skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, everything can be evaded. In practice, it won't be. If you run your transactions through something like MaxMind MinFraud with Device ID, you will know it's the same person, even if they clear cookies, switch proxies and re-register on your store between every card. It costs half a penny per transaction; anyone can afford basic risk scoring.

Most of the time that kind of tech isn't even necessary. The types of criminals most online stores deal with are not sophisticated; they're just people that paid $1/number for a list of phished credit cards on a black market forum who are going to enter them one-by-one on a few websites to see which haven't been reported stolen yet.
This screen and 4:3 would make this an almost perfect Ubuntu Linux laptop for me. Too bad it probably won't be installable for a long time!
Groupon changed from "gross revenue" (which did not deduct money paid to merchants) to "net revenue" (which did). I believe they did this willingly because they were going to IPO, not because they were "slapped" or due to GAAP.

Living Social is private and can do whatever they want, but they probably are using net if they're comparing themselves to Groupon. Otherwise they're making themselves look half the size when they are really a quarter, which I suppose could be purposeful.
Facebook is protecting its users from spammers aka app developers.
I had a missed connection happen for me. It was actually my buddy who checked missed connections regularly and realized one of them was in reference to me. It was at a halloween party and my costume and the general location was described in detail, including what we talked about. Pretty crazy.
Hi,

I have used PtGui since 2004, It is great software. But it is not suitable for stitching panoramas containing thousands of images for various reasons.

I did try it with a set of 12600 images and it failed to detect control points on a few hundred images, so this was a no-go.

Autopano Giga supports GPU to some extent, but not for much, really. Mostly for some display stuff, but not for rendering or any other really heavy stuff (AFAIK).

Both Autopano and PTGui are really amazing programs, I like them both!
But you're asking them to open up all of the kernel APIs to Vimscript, Emacs Lisp, Node, and Ruby... that's no different than just being another Linux Distro, which they didn't do for security reasons. If you want all of that, I don't understand why you are against chroot.

Besides, the fact that Chromebooks are running linux under the hood is an implementation detail. They could very well be running FreeDOS as far as the user should be concerned; the platform is Chrome.
It usually takes a while for YouTube to block the videos (Probably because they don't get immediately scanned after they were uploaded). At least I was able to watch all 5-6 videos I clicked the day after. YouTube tends to hide blocked videos from search and related videos, but doesn't remove then from playlists (pretty annoying because it will not skip to the next video automatically).

I'm still not sure who is the one who is wrong in this legal war between YouTube and GEMA, but Google does a good job of making GEMA look like the bad guys with the their message "This video is blocked in your country because GEMA doesnt allow it" (Sorry for the broken translation.)
Not a bad idea ;)

Worth noting that I have reached out to the mods of /nottheonion to let them know about it and ask if they would like anything else done (since the only reason this doesn't suck is because of their community)
If the Facebook infra doesn't know about this problem, then it is a serious bug, If FB does it intentionally then it's just stupid.
Native Mobile App Development
Could you be any more condescending?

I was referring to things like illegal turns and disorderly behaviour.
I'm saddened that it's 2013 and we still have to deal with laggy screens!

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/21/4013932/chromebook-pixel-h...
I taught English in Beijing one summer, and a student wrote this poem for me on a big piece of butcher paper. My Chinese is mostly gone now, and honestly it was never good enough to understand the whole thing, so I'm delighted to find a transcription with the pinyin and English translation. I still have the poem 14 years later. Pretty amazing accomplishment!
Um, are you seriously hotlinking to resources hosted by theonion.com? That is a terrible, terrible idea.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.theonion.com/static/CACHE/css/2903347c3113.css" type="text/css" media="all">
OMG that's a good new! Just moved to the uk and would love to ditch paypal for Stripe for me business!
Interesting screen aspect ratio of 3:2, halfway between the 4:3 of yore and the nearly inescapable 16:9 widescreen. It seems like a nice compromise, better than 16:10 if height is important to you.

I wonder how long it will be before other manufacturers pick it up?
Full Disclosure: I shorted a few weeks ago when the NYT article came out and covered today.

I would not bet on TSLA the stock just yet. They can be successful and profitable and yet still not come close to the current stock price (P/E contraction, future equity dilution). Most importantly, the thing which stemmed the drop today was a short-sale restriction (a circuit breaker after it falls 10%)

What would be a buy signal for me is when the car cost can be brought down to the 35-40K range (which, based on reports from mercedes benz and bmw, is the most profitable segment)
Well, the image needs to be optimized all at once in order to have the correct shape. Especially since it is a sphere. You can't really cheat so much.

Re: importing in a pre-sequenced batch: YES this works on a few hundred or thousand images. But it didn't work with these images. The software broke. It didn't work. :-(
What makes a great startup?
Thank you for the insight. 3, 4 and 5 are probably the reasons why they don't do it. They could, but it would be harder to operate, a bit more expensive and a lot less elastic. And maybe some customers at some points in time are, in fact, too large for that strategy.

As for 1, they do use ELB now, I don't know if they did during the "intelligent routing" era. It is only possible to create up to 10 different ELBs with a standard AWS account, but something as large as Heroku does not have the same limits.

I don't really understand point 2, could you explain what you mean? I can see how keep-alive can be a problem with some configurations but if you use the DNS to select the shard it shouldn't be a problem (you have one balancer per shard, with ELB it means different CNAME targets).
It benefits the Facebook user, which is what they should care about.

It sucks to be small and at the mercy of app developer spam.

Maybe it's time to create real products rather than just exploit the Facebook API to spread garbage?
I bought a 2012 Golf TDI a few months ago. I really like the diesel engine (that pull you feel when accelerating up a hill is exhilarating). It was the only car I drove (in my price range) that actually made me enjoy the experience.

A few drawbacks, though:

* The DSG transmission has a weird bug that causes some lurching at low speeds, like the transmission suddenly up & down-shifts repeatedly. Many drivers report this same issue but my dealership won't acknowledge the problem. They have been unable to reproduce it. I can reproduce it every morning when leaving the parking garage.

* Diesel is an oily fuel that does not evaporate. Most pumps I use have a nice layer of diesel coating the handle that never goes away. I now have to wash my hands after every fueling.

* The TDI engine adds a bunch to the price of the car. Hopefully the claims that the engine needs less maintenance will be true and will help offset the initial extra cost. I easily get 32 mpg with combined city and brief highway every day. On long trips it's easy to get up to 42-46 mpg, so that should help offset the extra cost too.

* Diesel is currently more expensive than gasoline, but I'm betting on that changing in the future. Diesel powers industry which should have a more constant and predictable demand curve. It shouldn't be subject to the drastic price fluctuations that gasoline sees. We'll see how that works out.
Google Retail Store: Can it find a niche between Apple and Microsoft?
Specifically, it's trading away consciousness of probability in favor of a sense of agency. We all do that a little bit from time to time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)
Somewhat ironically, it's also one of the best manufacturers for tires, the product specifically mentioned in the article. Michelin (for passenger car tires) is amazing, although their US-market tires (at least for everything but some specific race/customs) are all made in South Carolina.
Sorry, this panorama uses the original "qtvr" style navigation. Google streetview, maps, and Earth use "click and drag" navigation. There is currently a religious war going on in the pano community about which one is better. I tend to agree that the "click and drag" has become the standard.
Waiter, another beer please.
But you willingly allow them to, and in return they give you value back.
I love that it has a taller/squarer aspect ratio than the vast majority of laptops on the market. I find the current crop of ultra-short screens completely unacceptable for the text-heavy tasks I spend the vast majority of my computer time doing.

I'd rather have 4:3, and my current laptop is a semi-custom Thinkpad I built by shoehorning a newer motherboard in to a T60p just so I could have a decent 15" 4:3 screen and 8gb of memory in the same laptop.

Unfortunately, this particular machine is a little pricey for what it is and not a size I'd like. It should diminish the "these are the only screens we can get" excuse that PC makers keep trying to give us though.
Remember that copyright applies to CSS too.
> the fact that people make health decisions based on their economic situation is fundamentally wrong.

People make all sorts of major decisions based on their economic situation, including what type of food to eat, where to live, and how much education to invest in. It's not fundamentally wrong, it's how the world works. It's up to individuals to determine what amount and type of health care, shelter, education, and food they need. Not some bureaucrat.

> I have yet to see the doom and gloom that I always hear is supposed to be my reality

I have yet to see it in my country (USA) either, but then again we are but two data points, aren't we?
> There might be capture-the-flag

How about "Transport the flag?" Or how about a bunch of flags? The other team is allowed to try and disrupt your transportation as well.
App developers trick users into sending out that garbage.

Create something people actually want and you won't have to spend your life trying to exploit every possible loophole in Facebook's system.
"The lesson I took away from that day is that when I’m stuck I ask an outsider."

Interesting, there's a very similar lesson in this post from James Bach's blog yesterday about programmer pairing with a tester:
http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/852
What is the website?
Nice, but I can one-up it. I've got 2X Turbo Legs that don't require plugging in and run completely on food energy. Talk about eco-friendly!

Mind you, it runs a little slower, but I choose the planet and my children's future over convenience and luxury.
It's surreal that the government pays LESS for these services. "Cost plus" is a common practice for government contracts and often people point at it to explain why the military pays so much for a simple product. The contractor gets a fixed profit over whatever the costs end up being, which obviously provides no incentive to reduce costs, subverting market pressures to innovate or increase efficiency. Medicare is essentially paying cost plus, yet that is less than everyone else pays. How is this even possible?
If the client downloads it, it is distributed.

LGPL is interesting when used in the server software itself. Then, it doesn't have to be distributed, as the server software itself is never provided to the client.
Wouldn't the fraction of people paying with Bitcoin be a subset of the people that didn't commit fraud with credit cards? You're just moving a very small number of honest buyers from credit cards to Bitcoin.

You not going to have a person not defraud you because you provided the option of Bitcoins. If you have transaction that you deem risky, require a bank transfer, that will make it easier for the criminals to go commit fraud somewhere else.
Google doesn't HAVE to blur faces (except in only about two countries). They do it as a PR gesture, to please people. This has had terrible effects for photographers, who are often told that "they have to blur faces like Google does".
Hey, I'm the creator of the blogging platform he's running on and am trying to replicate this. Do you have cookies or js off or any other notable change from stock?
Google Cloud Platform introduces new support packages
It's important to distinguish two, seemingly contradictory positions:

1 People won't love me for who I am. In fact, it's the job of the rest of the world to show me where I need to improve. But, on the other hand ...

2 I should love people for who they are. It's not my business to make people over. My job is to make myself over. There's more than enough work to be done there. Working on other people's supposed failings is just a distraction from my real business.

That's a rough paraphrase of Byron Katie's "Work", an approach that has helped me tremendously for the last dozen years or so. Whenever I get miserable it's usually a clue that I'm working on someone else's 'business'.
Lots of people that meet in more traditional settings probably go far enough to either exchange info or not bother.

There's also the part where they only used 100 listing from each state. That's a few days worth, enough to be pretty sensitive to the day of the week that the data was gathered.
WebGL? Web Workers? It's astonishing how out of touch the cynics in this post are with modern web technologies.
probably because Google is looking into the future.

with the advent of technologies like WebGL a lot of apps can be moved into the browser. Including photo editing and 3D gaming.

If such apps are running in a browser, as non native code, this would call for good hardware specs. especially with such high resolutions.

seems reasonable to me.
This was one of the last errors in the image. I just didn't have another week left to fix this area. :-(
'electronic dance music' does not seem to be all that new to me. I'm amused by the idea that something popular in Europe for decades which originated in US alternative cultures is only now catching on in US mainstream culture.
Can't argue with ya' there.
Read Design Articles in Smashing Magazine, great content and they break down new fads and interesting sites.
Especially since for $1269, you can get a refurb MBP Retina with more RAM, more flash, more CPU, and almost as much screen.
I wish I could buy such a policy, but it's actually illegal in Massachusetts.

Insurers are not allowed to sell a plan that doesn't cover a long list of routine preventative care. And they're not allowed to offer deductibles greater than $2000 per person or $4000 per family.
Is that a joke or serious statement? Can't tell thanks to Poe's law.
You should fix the top links (Video, Politics, Sports, Business, Science, Tech, Entertainment, and Breaking) so that they don't take you to the real Onion.
> Grants are always subject to board approval...and employees always get the options.

My sibling comment offers a counterexample [1].

> X00,000s of stock options is meaningless, only percentages matter. You should always ask this question.

Exactly right. They weren't willing to answer this question in writing.

> Similarly, they can't specify the strike price because for legal reasons the strike price is set when the options are issued.

I believe it's legal to set the strike price at X percent of the stock price, which seems to be what you'd really need to try to valuate private company stock options anyway.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5258483
Dear Larry, we will design Glass for free
We are an eyewear startup that is way more daring than Warby Parker. We can be at the Plex on monday!
Hi,

This image was shot on a Sunday in October.

The London 80 Gigapixel (which I also made) was shot in August. I think that explains the relative lack of people, here.
Sure, you just write the tool that can audit encrypted traffic from Skype or Spotify in real time and check that it's legitimate as opposed to a malicious program impersonating their protocols.
I'd rather have 4:3 or even 5:4, but I'll take any steps in the direction of square as positive.
* Enable developer mode.[1]

* Drop Crouton[2] onto Chromebook to get a full dev stack and unfortunate Ubuntu/XFCE environment.

* Set up chroot and start building other people's crap.

* Write to SD Card/internal storage and reboot.

Which step here is hard? Tedious to roll your own I'd give you, but you don't even need to as there's stuff like ArchLinuxARM[3] which skips the middle two steps.

[1]: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/deve...

[2]: https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton

[3]: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung-chromebook
That's probably Detroit.
You should look at Scalatra before dismissing scala web frameworks. It is very simple and easy to use.
They are already doing this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281403/U-S-Air-Forc...
Why aren't more car companies to using a diesel-electic powertrain? They've been used in the locomotive industry for decades!
Lots of scary things are possible as the hardware gets smaller/lighter/stronger and the control algorithms get more sophisticated.

Grenade lobbing is quite pedestrian compared to "precision targeting" in the video here: http://bit.ly/W6DnuO
Simple JQuery plugin to show title and text attributes from image tag
How do you "sinkhole" an IP address?
Nice.

I'm just starting a new project (in about 30 minutes) and i'll be running with this theme as the initial template =)
Taking suggestions on places to link to! We've swapped out a few of them, but were waiting for inspiration to strike for the others.
USAF developing micro drones that can can hover, stalk and even kill targets
Volkswagen puts 261 mpg car into production
I'm surprised that people still have expectations of Facebook, given what twitter has done in the past ...
If only Microsoft understood it should release a laptop like this... just 256/512SSD + 8Gb RAM, I would be happy to pay 2K for it. No borders, a lot of vertical space, why is it that hard to copy a MBP and put Windows on it ?
Nevermind... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install?action=show&redire...
Haha...so funny..Atherton seems such a quiet area whenever I drive thru that but I know a lot of Silicon Valley hot shots live there so city must have good policing. Some of the calls are just funny though.
Who are this post intended audience? (surely not all)
How do you know that you are the person before this 'change', and have not already made one to many sacrifice of your self.

Maybe Im stating the obvious, but I can't see this being true for virtually all people, yet how do you know I youre one of them.
> Though there is the hyperloop which Elon hinted at in the past.

Isn't he supposed to publish about that soon?
Strip Card App
and it was the same guy Raff D'Andrea who started that company
Anyone notice how closely the video ad resembles an Apple ad? Come on google, how about a little originality? I'd love to try one of these out in person though.
Yes ChromeOS has a terminal. Just hit Ctrl+Alt+T. The SSH interface is a little non-standard as I recall but not enough to be a problem. It has dynamic proxying support so you can set up a SOCKS proxy through localhost and on to a host in [country] to get around content licensing restrictions. I've done this for Netflix, Hulu, MLB, Fox Soccer, and the London Olympics.
No. The freelancer was Jim Normile in between stints at Apple.
Obamacare fixes this problem by getting everyone essentially closer to the medicare rate. Because I have high blood pressure, I cannot even get medical insurance which Obamacare will fix as well.
That's a great article, thanks for the link!

> If your dream girl or guy had a hidden camera that followed you around for a month, would they be impressed with what they saw?

Now I want to try walking around imagining that my dream girl is watching me :-)
Host Chopper
Actually comparing Arm versus x86 is really like comparing apples to oranges. One is RISC, other is CISC. One is good with running multiple threads on single core with highly sophisticated branch prediction, other concentrates having many low powered cores each hoarding threads. And this is very, very crude simplification.

Benchmarks tend to be always favor other camp, depending which attributes you are testing.
I'm thinking about running Wine for HeidiSQL.
These are all good reasons, but they strike me as being much more valuable to a person that is new in the industry, rather than one with several years of experience.

I can certainly see the appeal for someone looking for experience, but I still don't see it for a seasoned professional.

To me it seems as the only valid dichotomy is between being a founder yourself or working as an employee in a more established (but still perhaps small) business.
This has a far better screen than either of those objectively and a more preferable aspect ratio for many of us subjectively. Installing arbitrary Linux distributions on Chromebooks has been trivial in the past and almost certainly remains so with this one. Many people here would install their Linux distribution of choice on whatever laptop they bought anyway, so the shipping OS is a non-issue.
I agree with you. I am from Europe where mass transit and reliable and efficient public transportation has been implemented and enjoyed by the population for a long time, I think this is a way for the future.

Siemens, a German company and Alstom, a French one both have the technology to make 200+mph on a train happen in the USA.

The West Coast for example could and SHOULD have a HST from Vancouver to San Diego. By car that's roughly a 1400 miles trip or something like a 15 hours drive (give or take). With a HST, that suddenly becomes a 8 hour trip with next to no greenhouse gas emissions per person while everyone just chills out browsing the interwebs in a comfy seat.

Same for the East Coast, there should be some sort of East Coast HST as well (something to the tune of Boston -> NYC -> Philly -> DC -> somehow down to Florida or some other route, I don't live in the States).

If Germany, Spain, France, Japan and China have that, there's no reason why the USA shouldn't be able to do it as well.

EDIT: By saying that I am not implying that the "middle of America" should not benefit from HST as well, but its population density and sheer size makes that less cost-feasable.
BT = "British Telecom", it's not a small start up.
I was just thinking of that same Cracked article. I think it stated things much better.
Your site is bad and you should feel bad. ;)
And thru that program you can also purchase home in SF that are way below market rate.
"Fuss, Futexes and Furwocks: Fast Userlevel Locking
in Linux": http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-479-495.pdf
HTML5 Games: Learning from Mobile and Flash Games
Lasers wouldn't have that issue. And make this even cooler.
Chrome Developer Tools, built into Chrome and Chrome OS really are top-notch Chrome OS development tools... because everything runs in Chrome.
How to Not shut down a 'backup' service.
Just got an email from memolane.com (social backup tool) reg. them joining another team etc. and will be shutting down memolane.com and deleting all their content. TOMORROW! Might be the best example I have ever seen of how to NOT shut down a service.

See their blog here for the announcement: http://blog.memolane.com/

At least they seem happy in their group shot. I bet not all their users feel the same, especially if they forget to check their mail for ONE day!