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I've been using Unity straight for about a month.

Some of it is OK but a lot of the time, it feels like being tied up in a pit somewhere while my computer floats elsewhere. Just I can't explore my own machine in any easy way - the "search" function is basically terribly broken.

I'm pretty sure you could search application menus via keyboard in Gnome2 and it was a whole lot easier when they were always visible.
It's not an easy feat to accomplish.
You can't reliably outlaw it for citizens because in democratic societies it's kind of very hard to reliably harass citizens. Look at the copyright lobby and still not many people are really scared of persecution.

They can easily take bitcoin-based businesses down but they would just shift to different/distributed jurisdictions (Japan, Eastern Europe) where they will be hell to control or influence.
Is there a bug logged with Mozilla?
Short of subverting human nature of everyone on the Internet it will never be possible to have a leading search engine that people aren't constantly trying to game.

The best we can hope for is gaming behaviors to roughly align with desirable search results.
Yeah, that's awesome. What's so unusual about it to me is that when he was discouraged she didn't tell him to do something easier that would make him feel more immediately satisfied (by making money, providing for the family, etc.); she told him to keep doing what was making him unhappy in the short term. I think that takes a damn strong relationship.
I'm glad you've never had to do a charge-back, or dispute a charge to your account. Unfortunately, not everyone's had such a pleasant experience.

That's beside the point. You claimed no one would buy if not for availability of chargebacks. This is simply not true, not because I did not ever do a chargeback, but because I never even considered whether I can chargeback or not before performing a transaction. I doubt I'm in any way special in this, so there definitely are people who would buy even without the chargeback option.

What happens, for example, when an up-til-now reputable seller takes a ton of order money and bails(a pump-and-dump scam)

You lose some money, they must close their business. You and the other screwed customers report the case to the police. Just as in any other fraud case?

it's the seller who's more trustworthy than the buyer. Why is that?

Because a vast majority of transactions are between a user (buying) and a company (selling), not two users. Which one do you think is more trustworthy, a random amazon customer or amazon?

All of your points put so much control in the hands of businesses.

No, they put some control in the hands of the seller, making the situation more fair. A seller and a buyer still can arrange a transaction that's safe for both based on bitcoin. That's simply not possible using paypal, because there is no way to prevent the buyer from taking his money back.

Where do they go for help? Bitcourt?

Where does the seller go for help now when a buyer charges back? Paypalcourt?
Register on mtgox and buy them with okpay currency. It's realtime as opposed to having to wait N days. Okpay currency is also obtainable in the realtime.
Lessons from the UGNazi hacking attacks against Mat Honan and CloudFlare
Looking at the history of Bitcoin and saying “Wow, the price of Bitcoins will never drop because it hasn’t dropped so far” is like looking in the back mirror of your car saying “Wow, there will always be a freeway ahead of me because I have been driving on the freeway for so long now”. The fact that is has flourished can have a million explanations, where one is that it does actually have a long term viability as a currency. We do, however, not have enough information to say with any certainty that that is indeed the case.

What we do know, is that so long as new users flock to the currency there is an increasing demand, and this will drive the price up – until the recruitment halts. Then what will happen? We don’t know. It might disappear, it might drop slightly, and it might stay the same. That will be the true experiment. Right now we don’t have enough data to say whether it is sustainable over the long term.
FYI - I had also observed some similar issues which I recently presented at a security conference. (The conference talk happened to be the impetus for Google to fix this stuff when they did.) For my perspective on the issues, please check out my conference slides: http://connect.ncircle.com/t5/VERT-Security-Research-Blog/Ha...
> anyone with wildcard subdomains enabled

i.e. nobody. why the hell is webkit not following the standard here? they even implemented a permission dialog so you can allow an app going over quota.
I feel like that when I use OSX. For example, like having to use a hack to show hidden files and the inverse scrolling idiocy. I have found my experience more glitchy than using Linux. I rather use Windows than OSX in that case. After a few system lockups, I gave up on my brand new macbook.

In the end, it does not matter. Use the best tool for the job. For me, I just work better in Linux.
Hats off to Google (for breaking my app)
I find it appalling that the apriori assumption to this conversation is that all homeless people are suffering on accident. Many homeless suffer from mental illness and drug addiction. These are problems that transcend being homeless and should be looked at carefully. However, I spoke with a few homeless in the Tenderloin (where I live) and the common amswer to the question "Why do you live here?" is "It feels safe. It feels like home"

I guess I'm just asking people in this discussion to stop and talk with homeless people sometime. As many people that have gone through depression know, beinf acknowledged is one of the most important feelings when you believe you have been sequestered to a lower level.
I would gladly accept this vulnerability in order to live in your IPv6-enabled future. Great point. :)
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You are exaggerating. I live in Westwood, have lived in the area for 15 years. Also spent quite a bit of time in SF.

There is absolutely no comparison between the two places. Even in Westwood Village you could go months without being hit up by a homeless person for change. Now, maybe you were in a hot spot where a few hang out regularly, but they are not everywhere by any stretch of the imagination. They're also nothing like the aggressive homeless population in SF. The police here are very quick to crackdown on any kind of aggressiveness.

If you lived in rural Idaho I could see how you might think Westwood had a lot of homeless people -- anyone from SF would think there were none.
PHP is not a compiled language for systems programming.

As for MUMPS I know it is something used only in US it seems.
I think you are underestimating the number of double-spend attacks that a business like Amazon would face if they never waited for confirmation

A double-spend is costly, a chargeback has no cost. One would think the number of double-spend frauds would be lower than chargeback frauds simply because these are more difficult.
Random links on forums already have pretty low value. I would assume that forum spam has come down now that this is the case.

As the article states, websites are looking the clean up the spammy inbound links as google has threatened to deindex sites that don't make an effort to do this.
Spammers target HN.

If you have showdead turned on you see a variety of obvious spam (handbags and shoes) and non-obvious spam.

And there have been some aggressive voting rings.
In Visual Basic, False is 0 and True is -1.
I can't put words in the mouth of the SEO quoted, but (unless you know he was one of the people making removal requests against your site) I suspect he is not talking about you or sites like yours.

I should add that I don't agree with the rhetoric btw, but I think he is targeting a different kind of webmaster.

I think he is referring to webmasters who sold links (knowingly outside the guidelines) for years. They would previously have instantly removed the links if someone stopped paying.

As soon as Google stepped up their game and removing those links was important, those same webmasters started charging to take down the same links.

I would personally point to the irony of this (google creating a market that enriches people who have been abusing their system for years) rather than calling it immoral. Ymmv.

Hope that helps clarify some things and I hope I'm not distorting the guy's real meaning.

(written on my phone. Please excuse typos).
> And C++ has plenty of its own dangerous aspects, not just C compatibility.

All of them would go away if C++ wasn't made to be C compatible.
I screwed up the markup there, it's supposed to be

BaseClass.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
Browsers like Chrome do it with geolocation for example. If it is required for the user to get a certain service they want, what's the "scary" part? You can say no and use the parts of the site that work with it, or yes and get the extra functionality. Like with geolocation.
There is some truth to this:
"According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 20 to 25% of the homeless population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness."[1]

Mental disorders prevent people from carrying out essential aspects of daily life, such as self-care, household management and interpersonal relationships. Homeless people with mental disorders remain homeless for longer and have less contact with family and friends. Any type of help from friends and family can be misinterpreted and further pushed towards the cycle of poverty.

[1]http://tinyurl.com/bwg38ab - National Coalition of Homelessness, July 2009
The solution is obvious -- write a routine that automatically goes through the entire forum database and disables all the links -- leave the names, but rewrite the links so they're just text, not hyperlinks. Sort of like:

s!http://!!g

The above deletes the "http:// prefix, but leaves the original destination name, in case anyone wants to object that their post has been edited after the fact. So technically, it's no longer a link back to the originating site, but it's otherwise unchanged.

No human intervention required. Problem solved.
Tokyo hotel shrinks in amazingly efficient urban demolition
In 13.04, you can size the icons to whatever you want (currently there is a hard limit of 32px). They also added a window switching quicklist feature.
Aside the dizzy collateral effects you get after writing more than 10 words, when you try to write accented words in other languages it stops working.

With measure, and applying it wisely, this can be a good thing. But for long texts, it's a madness.
it has to reach a plateau before it becomes stable, it does this by finding the market rate, which is what is hapenig with the price rise. eventually it will hit a point where daily demand and supply of BTC will match and at that point the price should become steady. Given the scarcity of the product it is not surpising the price is considered low at the moment.
No. And I resent the fact that you couldn't be bothered to read past my first sentence.

The e-mail protocol (and I'm talking about the entire stack, from SMTP to the client's handling) is old and really not best suited for the modern way we send documents and modern security concerns. Which was the crux of my point.

So I'm not talking about replacing the paradigm nor ownership, just it's the implementation.
Maybe, but if I can do it without waiting by just sticking with credit cards, why wouldn't I?

How can you? If a credit card transaction can be charged back, it effectively never clears (or doesn't clear as long as the chargeback is possible, if there's a time limit on chargeback). So in any situation where you would be willing to take a possibly chargeback-able, you should be willing to take an unconfirmed bitcoin.

"Nobody has published any way to double spend cheaply, and I cannot think of one; therefore it must be an expensive thing to do!"

The fact that nobody published a cheap way to double spend is strong evidence that it's difficult and expensive to double spend.

Also it doesn't really matter if there is some obscure method to cheaply double spend, since because of its obscurity it would only affect a small number of transactions (and presumably once it is used it will be detected and made public, at which point it can be fixed).
It could be done as in Opera, where there is a initial limit, and a request to exceed it when maxed.

http://i.imgur.com/SOoadOB.png
You can make a physical coin out of bitcoin.
I hope you are right. Maybe I am just to pessimistic.
Here is how it looked in Opera: http://i.imgur.com/SOoadOB.png
Plenty of products exist. Google Glass is just a very very good iteration of existing tech.

(http://www.diginfo.tv/)

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0hF0cbw8E&feature=youtu...)
> You can bound-check your arrays at run-time, by wrapping them in a struct and only accessing them with functions.

This is no longer a data type seen as a language type, but an Abstract Data Type as known in Computer Science.

You are no longer using arrays, but a data structure made by yourself.

> There's even a proper (although conservative) garbage collector for C, while C++ usually boils down to reference counting.

If you are referering to Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC, it also works in C++.

C++11 also has a GC API.

> Even in C you are not restricted to the standard library to handle strings. C doesn't have to mean null-terminated strings.

The moment you do this, you are the strange kind in town as all libraries expect C style strings as input. So it is conversion party any time you need to call those functions.

> (And in C++, too, string literals give you the old-time bad strings.)

Yeah, this is a consequence of C's compatibility that infected C++.
Amen. I think it might have been 1998 even :-) It keeps getting rehashed every 2-3 years.
Lets see if this one sticks around.
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It should not be blocking though!
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You can do that, but it might not be fun. I spent 4 years in tech at A Big Financial Company and the one thing I learned was that I didn't want to work at a company where my work wasn't a core part of the business. I've heard that at Oracle they say (used to say?) that you build [stuff], you sell [stuff], or you are [stuff].
More stuff to find:
1. - Most referenced wikipedia articles.
2. - Most referenced websites in wikipedia.
3. - Calculate the deegrees of separation from Kevin Bacon (that's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon ) for a given wikipedia article.

#1 is interesting.
#2 is valuable for SEO.
#3 makes a good post on HN and will get you hired somewhere.
Show HN: Use Webhooks as generic access point for integrations & notifications
Do you know what webhooks are good for? In essence webhooks allow to invoke a behavior on a another website/application upon occurrence of an specified event, e.g. a comment being posted to your wordpress* blog or a user has paid in item in Shopify<i></i>.<p>In elastic.io there is a webhook component which you can use generically for integration of many different services, e.g. Mailchimp (mass-emailing), dwolla (payments), etc. elastic.io has built a video tutorial showing how you can receive automatically notifications to your mobile (using Pushover<i></i>*) from your Wordpress blog. You can target also other end points, e.g. dropbox, mongoDB, email, etc.<p>So other usecase examples could be:<p>Shopify => CSV => Dropbox
Wordpress => CSV => Dropbox
Dwolla => Pushover
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If you're trying to maximize the good your dollar can do, you're probably better off giving to a charitable organization. A thrifty homeless guy might be able to feed himself for $2, but the cost of a stomach full of soup, bought in bulk and prepared by volunteers, is likely to be considerably less.
This is a specious argument. Yes, most, if not all national currencies are "fiat currencies" with no inherent value. Then again, having a hard currency backed in gold only gives it value if you believe in the inherent value of a shiny yellow, conductive, malleable metallic element.

What gives the USD value is that the law of the land mandates that it is "legal tender for all debts public and private", meaning that all governments and businesses (and individuals, when it comes to receiving salaries, see 29 CFR 531.34) can not refuse to be paid in dollars. [NOTE: This means dollars, not dollar bills -- you can refuse to accept cash money]. Thus, if you try to pay me in Bitcoins in return for mowing your lawn, I can laugh in your face, but I can't refuse your dollars and demand that you pay me in Bitcoin.

Therein lies the value of the dollar, or of any national currency -- I can always ensure that I can operate within my local economy without incurring exchange rate risk or exchange arbitrage, because I can be 100% certain that I can buy the things that I want in dollars, and receive payment for my work in dollars as well.

As long as it remains illegal to pay salaries in Bitcoin, most consumer transactions will involve an exchange, which will add overhead.
This also changes the behavior of swiping (it reverses the swiping direction). Try it.
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Well it has a use even in normal transactions since you can avoid any kind of fees or hassles with a centralized service like Paypal. And in the end it doesn't matter if it becomes that mainstream or not. Exchanging between currencies is becoming more common for online shopping and presumably it wouldn't cost that much for the services that do it to support bitcoin too.
Nothing in this bill prevents a inventor to sell his finished invention once to whoever want to commercialize it to a product. Nothing. He doesn't even need a patent to do this.

Say that the best battery chemist invents a way to make current lithium-ion battery packs 25% better. In a bidding war, the price would easy reach hundred of millions, because the practical effects of having better batteries are economic interesting for companies being restricted by ineffective batteries.

Regarding cancer research, I find it quite wrong that state funded research is being patented. Most serious medical research is being paid for NiH with the use of tax money. Society has already paid for all the step regarding the research and it due to get what it paid for. Research which has no bases on NiH funded research theories, and has no relation with any public funds what so ever is an exceptional case, and there is a lot of companies out there that produce derivative works from NiH produced research and gets a patent for it. derivative works that has been created from tax money should not allow someone to get a 20 years state enforced monopoly on it.
Bit Coins represent trade in an Economy independent of the Rot Schild banks.

There is no proof that the 2007 financial crises was not orchestrated on purpose. There is also no proof that that 2007 financial crises was orchestrated on purpose.

But we do know that Goldman Sachs sold financial instruments to their clients which they betted against. When the clients lost that money the profiteers was Goldman Sachs.

1. If you assume that the Rot Schild banks owned the entire English economy since June, 1815 and, If you assume that the Rot Schild bank had a value of USD 1,000,000 at that time, growing at 5% per annum for 200 years it's value would be USD 17.2 Trillion.

If you also consider that the Federal Reserve has been leaking money into the shareholders of the FED at 6% of interest on bonds raised since 1913, and if Rot Schild banks were all part share holders in the founding banks of the Federal reserve this profit has been going to them.

If the Rot Schild banks were the major investors in Goldman Sachs, it would make sense for Goldman to loose their investors money and transfer it to their biggest investors directly through dividend.

We know from 1. above that the Rot Schild holdings should easily be USD 17 trillion + and that the valuations of the banks that went under was about USD 800 billion. Hence it is highly possible that the biggest investor in Goldman is bigger than all the rest combined.

The bitcoins are there for a reason much much more important I think.
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But why did you cleared users table at the first place? I don't get it.
I remember visiting vancouver and found myself walking down that street. I was like WTF is going on
Wildcard subdomains are ridiculously common on the web (unless I've misread you?) Blogspot, tumblr, tripod, basically anywhere using HTTP/1.1 Host-based routing of requests.
Google launches Google Play Books in India
Wow, so Google penalizes a site if a link to that site shows up in spammy pages? That seems like a new business model for black-hat SEOers: "hey, nice site you have there - it'd be a shame if links to it started appearing all over my spammy network - $$$ will make sure that doesn't happen." Really search engines should just give zero weight rather than negative weight to links from spammy sites.
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Yeah, cultural issues are very hard to fight and usually require a generation change.

I convinced unless a big OS vendor forces changes for their default system programming language, nothing will change.

This is why I like Microsoft's decision to drop C on Windows.

What I would like is to have a proper systems programming language in the lines of Modula-3/Active Oberon/C#/D/Rust or similar, being used.

Time will tell when this happens, but it will require a few generations of developers for the mentality change to take place.
for legal reasons

Oh come off it. You mean illegal reasons. You know you do. If you believe people should be free to buy any kind of drug they wish then say so, I don't think HN would view it as too radical a view. But your post sounds like typical corporate bullshit.
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Pleeease! You are only 23! I'm 42 and learning Erlang and Haskell! As it is commonly said, never its too late.

Maybe you didn't choose the right programming language.
I have to take issue with your comment on keyboard use, because that single wart is dealbreaker keeping me from using Ubuntu.

I give Ubuntu another shot every X.10 release just to see if they've finally made the desktop environment satisfactory, and I must say they are getting really, really close. The Menu system is getting close to making sense in Unity, Pulseaudio throws fewer temper tantrums, significantly less hardware issues, and everything is much snappier (especially compared to memories of Unity from its Ubuntu Netbook Remix days).

But I can't customize my keybindings for crap.

And you're probably thinking "That's BS, of course you can! It's under [submenu] of [menu] of [option] of [settings application name]." And you'd be right. It's just that some subset of keybindings will reset to their defaults every time you do a full power-down of the computer. Rinse and repeat until they're all back to their defaults.

It varies which hotkeys will be reset. Sometimes Metacity ones will reset. Sometimes GNOME bindings will reset. Sometimes opening the Unity configuration will reset the Metacity keys. Sometimes it doesn't! I even wrote a shell script to run all the proper `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface [blah]` incantations upon login, but when that didn't work reliably (again: Metacity keybindings vs. Unity appeared to be the problem) I gave up.

This has been my experience in Ubuntu 11.10, some mid-2012 version of Mint (with Cinnamon) and Ubuntu 12.10, so it's not strictly Canonical's fault. However they haven't seen fit to address it in their user experience, and so I portion out a slice of the blame for them.
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