skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paypal has $200 of mine with them. According to the rules governing financial institutions in the country in which I reside and from which I have registered for their services, ther are required (by law, as a condition of their continued right to offer a payment service in that country) to pay that $200 into my account by close of business today.

My account is for Rupees, not USD. Because of the way the Banking system works, that currency must be exchanged so that it can reflect in my account. This exchange is performed at the current market rate, plus some surcharge of fees levied by Paypal's liquidity provider to perform the currency conversion, and by Paypal in order to cover the SWIFT interbank charges plus any backoffice administration they need to do to verify my identity. There are additional verifications they need to perform on the US side; for e.g. that my bank account is not on a Interpol, NSA, FBI, CIA or INS watch list.

That money is then sent, likely via the SWIFT interbank network, which levies a charge.

Those funds arrive at my bank, where my bank levies a charge. The money reflects in my account, and I see that 'Paypal' have given me a terrible exchange rate.

They haven't. They've likely given me a reasonable rate, because it is not in their interests to charge punitive exchange rates as it will drive customers to competitors.

My point is that there is a whole different level of processing and infrastructure hidden behind Paypal's facade that you are not privy to; all of it has people performing tasks to move the currency from a US account to a Indian account, and all of that requires a modicum of human oversight because of incredibly strict financial fraud controls.

Trust me when I say that the small markup Paypal is charging you is nothing compared to the level of bureaucracy you would run into were you to try to perform the above exchange manually.
Tastebuds (http://tastebuds.fm) - Anwhere in the world

iOS Developer

The Tastebuds team is a small but close-knit group of mates passionate about technology, music, product design and everything in between. We're a well-funded company based in North London, UK a stones throw from leafy Hampstead Heath, right beside Gospel Oak overground station.

Although Tastebuds takes up most of our time, we also like to switch it up sometimes and work on fun, crazy projects that get us excited, which is why we run monthly Hack Days. We typically rent out a place on AirBnB and lock ourselves inside for a day or two. Previous hacks have included a trip to Spotify HQ for Music Hack Day in Stockholm, Sweden and a 2-day extravaganza where we came up with http://stereotype.fm

The team consists of Julian (Developer / Co-Founder), Alex (Growth Hacker / Co-Founder), Milo (Designer) and Mariusz (Community Manager).

We are looking for a gifted iOS developer to bring Tastebuds to the iOS platform. This is a ridiculously exciting Greenfield project where you will have a unique say in influencing the future of a fast-moving company. You will responsible for leading the development of the app from scratch until launch in the AppStore to our hundreds of thousands of eagerly anticipating users.

If that sounds interesting send a note to the founders at hello@tastebuds.fm including your current notice period, links to your LinkedIn and Github profiles and a brief summary of your iOS experience to date.

We look forward to hearing from you :)
Is Open Always Better?
FTFA:

No fussing around with your mouse, or alt-tabbing to another window, or waiting for a JVM to start. It’s there at your fingertips whenever you need it. It literally loads the 50,000 commits of the JIRA codebase in a fraction of a second.

And:

In short, it is the mutt to your Outlook, the Vim to your Emacs, the w3m to your Firefox.
don't use go with mssql. why would you want to do that.
I actually enjoyed the few times I was asked to do a small project, and I think it's much better way of evaluating someone, if done right.

First off it's a sign of commitment from the candidate : as small as the project can be, it will require on his/her part to invest more hours than the one/two of a live technical interview.

Second, it's much closer to what your real job will entail : being given a task, committing to deliver on a definite deadline, and doing it using whatever tools and sources of information you are more comfortable with.

A live interview should still be the final step, but in this case the candidate should defend and discuss how the project was realized, possible improvements and problems : this way the company should be able to confirm that the project was actually done by the person being interviewed as well as judging his ability to explain, communicate and work with other people.
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Many are more worthy of that than Wakefield, though his legacy has yet to fully bloom.

But he's definitely good for 5mn and a punch in the face in passing.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796798...
I don't see why you can't direct link to the mode itself: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
> short-sighted consumers

This should be a law of failed software. You know a product has completely failed when something like this is said. Blaming the users is the last refuge of failed software developers.
Most likely answer: they don't work in a text-only environment e.g. an ssh session
Ever since the first time I had to do sales tax for an online store I've been wanting to create an online service to help sites calculate sales tax.

After reading your comment I've changed my mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBurst_(microarchitecture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_(microarchitecture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge
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Does anyone know whether one can host open source crypto code on GitHub without risking violations of the US Export Administration Regulations? One issue could for example be that GitHub doesn't block access from countries under US embargo, AFAIK.
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The above poster was specifically referring to IBM's patents. IBM licensing this code under the GPL also extends a patent license for all of their own patents. This comes from the word "contributors" in section 11.

They obviously can't grant a patent license for patents they don't hold, but that's life.
Ha :) I guessed so .. It is impossible to make an un-crackable system .. not sure if that is a good thing or bad ...
I'm not that surprised by the low score of 5/2/11, because double negatives are hard. It's actually hard to separate sentiment when interactions (such as double negatives) come up:

"A bomb killed a terrorist." Good news. Three negative words.

Many psychologists believe that the quickest parts of the human brain don't process double negatives at all-- that's why thinking "this is not going to kill me" doesn't help during a panic attack, but "this will end" does-- which is probably a small part of why news-watching (even positive news like Osama's death) makes people unhappy.

"My best friend has been killed by a heart attack." Three positive words. One negative. One (attack) that is slightly-negative but has energetic/positive connotations.

"My best friend defeated cancer" vs. "Cancer defeated my best friend." Similar tokens; opposite meanings.

What really surprises me is that it seems contrary to economic trends: in late 2008, when the economy was going to hell, the sentiment average goes up in a major way. Across 2009-13, while the economy slowly recovers, the sentiment level declines. Day-of-week average differences are very slight, but the more people are working, the more unhappy they are. This could mean that structurally unemployed people are self-deceptive, or tweet happier things because they have more time per tweet, or it could genuinely mean something.
Please explain your assertion? Unless you're talking psychology, in which case please don't bother.
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Actually, the biggest bit in the judgement might be the "referral" (and not the _good_ kind of referral) to their state bar(s).
Thanks for the detailed explanation.

$10-$15 per year is a bit expensive. I doubt a domain that gets no more than 10 hits a day should pay that much. A 1000 or even as little as 100 of them owned by a single person certainly would be expensive. I wish there were a way to pay per use.

In a strict philosophical sense, the platform with the most users sets the rules. It wouldn't be surprising if an emerging platform with a lot of users established their own naming service. To some extent, the App Store is a naming service.

The people running such a platform would probably not even realize themselves the importance of having their own naming service amidst trying to get up and running. And what would have them stick with custom naming would be the same force of inertia that keeps current domain prices so high.

There's probably unseen innovation around naming waiting to be discovered.
True, but going by a different name may be enough to get past the "What if a parent Google's his name" hurdle that may be one of the reasons for not hiring him.
That's exactly what they are, only this is the online variety. The hardest problem of all for me in dealing with this is that you simply can't reason with these people.
It said "not redirect from http to https" -- meaning that when someone requests http://example.com they would normally be redirected by the site owner to https://example.com, but the attacker could just leave the original request alone. The point is that most people wouldn't notice.

HTTPS Everywhere or similar browser plugin would probably pop up an alert if this did happen.
I wasn't speaking theoretically. I don't understand how a pipe read + string compare + pipe write would add 5ms per query.

As for detection, that was the reason I brought up CPU power. Modern CPUs are so fast that that it seems like this redirector would hardly generate a blip in any chart (such as top).

I don't care about proving anybody wrong. I care about filling my knowledge gaps. I.e. it's interesting to try to figure out how something like this would be detected in practice.
People try to paint these types of things as being a problem unique and newly introduced with the advent of the Internet. In truth, there have always been ways to slander and defame someone just because you don't like them. You can always post an anonymous editorial in the paper about someone, or make an anonymous phone call to DHR or child services slandering someone. It's not just 'cyberstalking'. There has never been much recourse for victims of slander.
> Modern Desktop Linux is very fragile because everything has to be configured and managed automatically. You haven't been able to startx without a lot of reconfiguring for years.

I guess I don't know what a Desktop Linux from a hole in the ground.

I use Slackware on my desktop, and it works just fine. I can switch WM using startx.

I will allow that installing Slack is not a pointy-clicky exercise, and if the application isn't in Slack's package manager you'll need to compile from source but .. it's not that complicated.
I'm not sure typical non-technical users have any idea what the TLDs mean, or pay any attention to them at all.

Many users just type website names into google or their location bar, not paying any attention to the URL at all. Or, actually type the _hostname_ into a google search box, not realizing what a hostname/URL _is for_.
Thank you very very much. But I still think that it should be in uname -a. I have never heard of lsb_release... and I'm not new to the stuff.

If they really wanted to improve UI, it would also be in the 'system settings' link under the username on the desktop panel- for users that run desktops.
"So, the best GUI for Git is a command-line based UI?" lol
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Also, the map seems only to cover the United States. America extends up to the Arctic and down to Cape Horn.

It looks to me like the map includes Canada. The United States and Canada are the only two countries in the Americas where English is a majority language, so the title seems legitimate.
Yes, we can easily create a slew of alternative explanations.

But the simplest explanation - something that's happened many many times to many people - is that a single person is harassing this guy.

The problem with creating alternative explanations is that some people will start saying things like "Maybe he did something to cause this? Maybe he could have done something different?" And that's a problem, because stalking and erotomania are genuinely scary. It's hard to believe when you're the person that it's happening to, and it's hard to believe for people outside it, but that's why we should be careful not to pin blame onto the victim.
That's a little different. The message of that video: never talk to the police. The two cases being, 1. you are not under arrest, or 2. you are under arrest. If you are not under arrest you should just walk away or refuse any kind of engagement (except in a traffic stop which is a special case), and if you are under arrest then you have two explicit rights which you should always use - refuse to talk, and demand a lawyer be present.

The situation is quite different in a trial. If you are summoned to appear in court, you must appear. If you are asked any questions, you must answer them (or assert fifth amendment rights explicitly in a refusal to answer, like the Prenda clowns did).
I think you're missing the point here.
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For those who want to stick to the CLI and have a beautiful history log, you may be interested in these two aliases: https://github.com/Dinduks/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitconfig#L...

Otherwise, tig is neat.
I personally won't have to do `git lga` + copy commit's SHA1 + `git show COPIED_SHA1` anymore.

The thing it lacks imo, is more VI-style shortcuts (such as "gg" and "G"), displaying the SHA1 of each commit, and a feature to copy the hash of a specific commit.
"because you know, that's a good target to burn registrar access on and all"

No, nearly ideal use. Its like a strategic nuclear weapon. You don't use it sneakily, that's the opposite of the whole point. Always intimidate as publicly as possible and in the tech community messing with linode is about as public as it gets.

The other part is showing off, its like declaring "we have access to them all but we don't care about name.com". Maybe they do...
What's for shame? You're post boils down to:

"What she did was wrong, but I don't know if he did something significantly less wrong to her, so I can't be bothered to care at all."

or

"Sure she murdered him, but the article doesn't tell us if he looked her the wrong way or not, so I can't be bothered to care about this murder."
As another random anecdote: my technically not-inclined girlfriend loves it. Finds it super easy to use: use the desktop mode for her architecture apps, and metro for all her personal stuff.

I even like it, although I did just wipe it on my new laptop for Ubuntu 13.04 - it's quite nice to use in my humble opinion.
So, I'm an asshole if I purchase your product and decide later to do a chargeback (you don't even have a chargeback policy or a policy at all).

Apparently, you are not the nicest person to deal with on earth, and you are complaining about PayPal because your country laws are complicated?

Also, exchange rates are indicative. There is always a middle men when you are exchaging currencies, and he makes money by charging that rate.
Hahaha, sounds like every girl I've ever been with.
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I'm a long time Windows user. I gave Win8 a try and had to google "How to shut down Windows 8" and "How to close apps in Windows 8". It's ridiculous. Just go to google and type in "how to shut " and it'll suggest you the rest. Same goes for "how to close apps ".
For me, it seems like the upper management is incompetent. They just read IT news about the cloud and other buzzwords without knowing what Cloud means in that context. For example, Microsoft does not offer Visual Studio on the cloud, they offer Azure that is a complement for their offerings.

PS: I am not arguing that Microsoft is right on all their offerings, only using them as an example.
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> sufficiently tech-savvy bonobo

So... Ballmer, then?
The problem is even deeper: information is non-scarce. The marginal cost of production for any unit of information is zero, and thus the natural market price for a piece of information is zero.

The problem being that while the creation and copying of new information is obviously massively valuable, we've not yet invented any effective and sensible way to trade information for physical goods like food and land and medicine.

The more information-based our economy gets, the more blatantly neo-feudal it gets, because our property laws for information are blatantly feudal and have been for decades. Popular examples of the problem include patent trolling and Mickey Mouse's regular copyright-extension bills.

Free Culture was a marginal movement in the past couple decades. It's going to quickly become the next big question of the world economy. When data is what makes the world go 'round, how do you compromise between compensating the original creator of the data, making use and extension of the data as widespread as possible, and not allowing "intellectual property" to expand into feudal-style veto or rent on everyone else?
> cheap, reliable, unpractical, and great vehicle.

Best description of a Lotus Elise ever. That car was designed purely and simply for driving enjoyment.
My first impression that Microsoft perhaps hadn't thought the whole Windows 8 UI through was actually gained at a Microsoft conference. A chap sitting in front of me was attempting to use the Windows 8 tiled interface on a laptop balanced on his lap - he reached out to do something, touching the screen and managing to knock the laptop off his lap onto the floor.

I like a lot of Microsoft products (Excel, Windows 7, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Dynamics AX) - so I'm not a Microsoft hater by any means but I do wonder about their judgement in this particular area.
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I have been asked these questions from quite some time about how can one get into IT industry and get their first job.

As there are thousands of engineering colleges in India which provides courses in IT and CS. Most of the colleges fail to get campus recruitment. Once passed out from colleges people has to search for jobs their own. Fighting with lacs of other graduates they find themselves hopeless. On top of it these students actually have no idea about the current trends in IT industry.

I have been thinking about to fill this GAP between freshers and jobs but no luck.

Any clue?
Atlassian, ironically, are the vendors of one of the best Git Gui tools for Mac OS X, 'SourceTree': http://sourcetreeapp.com
When it doesn't change under you every 5 minutes....
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> If they put the start button back and default to the desktop, that would address 90% of people's concerns.

And that would erase 90% of Windows 8. Hard to call Windows 8 a success if Win8.1 or whatever reverts back to the good ol' start-button-driven desktop by default. Windows 8 will be what, an obscure alternate desktop hidden in a user setting that no one will use?

The whole measure of success for Windows 8 is exactly the new UI and whether the users, you know, use it. The old desktop is barely an evolution of Windows 7 for the common user.
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Great. So what? Just because the current product isn't good right now doesn't mean that the direction it is heading in is bad. You might not like Windows 8 that much, and you probably shouldn't. I'd never argue that people should like it. Why should they? It's a janky feature-sparse mashup OS. I use it on desktop myself and while I appreciate the performance bump and some of the new features, I don't have any use for Metro and it took quite a few tweaks for me to be happy with the desktop experience. You're absolutely right, currently it just doesn't offer the 10X product improvement necessary to induce eager consumer behaviour change.

Look, Microsoft is making an omelette. But right now all they have to sell is broken eggs. The only source of confusion here is that Microsoft's marketing department trying to convince everyone that they've got an omelette to sell. Look at it like that and there really isn't much to argue about anymore.
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Viber releases desktop apps for Mac and Windows
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For the power user those might be minor issues, but not for the average user. The start menu and the initial boot screen are about the most important things to get right to be user friendly to the mass market.
Booting by default into an inferior environment and not having the chance to change that default sounds like a massive issue to me.

Maybe not massive from the developers' point of view (they can probably revert it just from tweaking a flag somewhere in the code), but definitely massive for the user which will see a completely different desktop environment.
Interesting. Obviously anecdotes != data so assuming my experience is universal would be quite wrong.

Have you or she customised the interface at all? I found the lack of start menu odd and hard to work with.
Looks cool! One little nitpick: "Vim to your Emacs"... Er, maybe Vim to your Eclipse. I don't know if I'd put Emacs in the same camp as Firefox or (heaven forbid) Outlook.

Also, here's the manual: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/manual.html
Everyone loves to rail on Metro but there are a ton of HCI reasons that its the superior interface and most people I know who've actually given it a fair shot (average users mostly) like it.

It's an odd decision to force onto people, but when most people actually use it, it's a pretty good interface and you realize the Start menu was actually less efficient in many regards.
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Perhaps. Does that matter? Regardless, there were no international IP laws and treaties at that time.
The big tech companies haven't been happy with the people the interview process have been giving them – all we heard about for a long time is about how they couldn't find anyone to hire. Perhaps this settling you speak to marks the end of developer shortages in the industry?
Is it really a fault of RBI or is it paypal? See this for the real facts: http://www.hacktrix.com/paypal-rbi-fiasco-who-is-the-real-cu...
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Disproportionate? Just the other day, the New York Times linked to this:

http://betabeat.com/2013/05/revenge-porn-holli-thometz-crimi...