skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ACH fraud isn't a new thing, generally if the vendor can show evidence to the bank that the transaction was legitimate (the verification & IP checks are probably sufficient) they can suspend the chargeback.

There's also the deterrent factor, what your suggesting violates a whole number of criminal laws including wire fraud and money laundering. So we're talking seizure of assets and significant jail time.

Moreover if you're convicted of such a crime you can pretty much say goodbye to ever getting any kind of financial product at any kind of reasonable price ever again. No credit, no mortgage, no insurance, etc. You may even struggle to get a regular bank account.

You've got a pretty high-chance of being caught assuming the exchange even has rudimentary fraud detection, so doing it for $200k is crazy because the pay-off is so low.
Isn't the first story in the article a clear case of entrapment? The cop encouraged the guy to do something and then killed him for it.
These predictions always fail to account for C++.

That is, having computers write code depends on the code being in a form about which computers can formally reason. If you can't prove anything about your code because the language is that bad, good luck getting a computer to write code.

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Fifty Shades of Kale
A potentially big upside is the preservation of our culture for future generations.
Also generalizing to all native Americans everywhere is sort of a needless display of ignorance.
I decided to give OS X an honest try after Ubuntu started crashing for no apparent reason.

I wouldn't have lasted much either, if a friend hadn't pointed me to a neat little application called BetterTouchTool [1]. It lets you re-arrange windows using keyboard shortcuts.

[1]: http://www.boastr.de/
This is quite nifty. I'm not usually into games or gorilla marketing but I'm going to keep an eye out for this.
Reposting this from the killed-dog-thread. It certainly won't help when the SWAT team is already in your home, but for the creeping sense of out of control cops everywhere:

"Most of us carry video cameras in our pockets now. Filming police needs to become ubiquitous. There should be no police officer in the United States that doesn't know that at any time they could be being filmed and held accountable for their actions by the public they are paid to protect and serve. It is one case where I think constant citizen surveillance could be useful. After a few years of it and constant court rulings that it is protected, perhaps cops would stop yelling at people and arresting them for doing nothing wrong. Yes, I'm talking to everyone on this site. If you are walking back from grabbing a burrito and see the cops "talking to" a homeless person on the street, or pulling over a driver for running a red light or detaining someone, /you/ need to stop for 5-10 minutes, get out your camera phone, and start filming. Please. For the love of a police state run amuck."
I'm curious about why ckknight started this project instead of contributing to Dart. I see that the syntax is more Pythonic than C-ish. What else distinguishes this language from Dart?
In general, we don't need Hard AI for much anything, and usually don't want it. Any specific problem you want solved will require some specific solution method or algorithm rather than the whole and entire "make a computer hold an adequate water-cooler conversation" thing.
What if it turns out that most people are building the wrong products?
I've read an awful lot on the topic of weight reduction. I wont say that the article states something unique but I do appreciate the detailing. Good read.
This comment sums up what Hacker News has become perfectly.

Front and center is the sentence correcting some slight, inconsequential anachronism that has nothing to do with the overall point of the comment and only serves to show the perceived intelligence of helpfulness of the commenter. Then there is a short sentence, more of an afterthought, addressing the point of the comment.
In order to stay safe from the government,

1. Don't buy sparkling water if you're a college student

2. Don't bet with friends because an arbitrary threshold of about $2k warrants your execution

3. Don't tell American citizens that their government abuses its power, or you'll be charged with espionage

4. It's probably a bad idea to bear arms these days, because saying "Officer, I have a weapon in the trunk of my car" might give him reason to shoot you in self defense

5. You don't actually have free speech anymore, so be careful about that. If you threaten to shoot up a school, even jokingly and totally within your rights, you will be incarcerated for half a year before your trial. And who knows if the judge will let you off? You just have to pray for one who knows and abides by the constitution.
I agree with this. The NSA already has exceptions that allow them to keep encrypted data forever as they attempt to crack it. They have the law on their side and when they don't, they change it or fudge with loose interpretations.

And even if encryption were to continue, next thing you know, we will hear about other technologies. Some crazy BIOS back doors, exploits, or chip-level garbage.

To my mind, this is a legal issue more than a techical one. We shouldn't have to play cat-and-mouse with our government to protect our privacy. They need to be reined in legally, and all of this nonsense made punishable by law.
Companies mostly care about making money, not being beneficial to human race. (not passing judgement, just observing)
I think we can just call it murder. "Entrapment" implies that the end result was that he was punished in what would have been a lawful way if he had committed the crime of his own accord.
Well, you're wrong. From the same article:

Indeed, that’s exactly what happened to seventy-two-year-old Aaron Awtry in 2010. Awtry was hosting a poker tournament in his Greenville, South Carolina, home when police began breaking down the door with a battering ram. Awtry had begun carrying a gun after being robbed. Thinking he was about to be robbed again, he fired through the door, wounding Deputy Matthew May in both arms. The other officers opened fire into the building. Miraculously, only Awtry was hit. As he fell back into a hallway, other players reporting him asking, “Why didn’t you tell me it was the cops?” The raid team claimed they knocked and announced several times before putting ram to door, but other players said they heard no knock or announcement. When Awtry recovered, he was charged with attempted murder. As part of an agreement, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison. Police had broken up Awtry’s games in the past. But on those occasions, they had knocked and waited, he had let them in peacefully, and he’d been given a $100 fine.

Summary: people who are committing minor crimes don't want to trade up to major crimes. Be reasonable and most people will be reasonable in return. The police increase the risk to themselves and to the citizens they are supposed to be protected by using unreasonable force.
Don't forget all the war-on-terror funding and politics that have provided even rural police departments with armored personnel carriers and the like.[1] Or outfitting police departments with tons of equipment in advance of protests planned there which then filters down into daily use. In some cities, there is so little for the "anti-terror" cops to do that they have been conscripted into arresting drunk people and pot smokers.[2]

1) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/police-militarizati...

2) http://www.startribune.com/local/209811381.html
Maybe it got backed up onto magnetic tape and then archived whoknowswhere along with the equipment necessary to read it.

Maybe they thought it was being backed up but the backup script started failing silently 2 years ago.
So, NSA became a state within a state with no democratic oversight whatsoever. Is anyone surprised that they crave more and more power?
Why is this specific to web developers? All ten things are applicable to anyone selling a product.
What We Can Expect From The Next Decade Of Technology
Fascinating. I find it especially interesting to see the results of gentrification. As someone who watched a million Nathan Barleys take over Shoreditch in the mid to late 00's until the artists left, it is absolutely amazing to see the average salary of Tower Hamlets is now £3400.

Where did all those poor people go?
My "Brain-Clearing Whiteboard" has a scrawl on it about investigating "refactorability" as an empirical code metric. I'm taking this Hacker News convo as raw material for figuring out what that would constitute, but broadly speaking my hypothesis is that "more refactorable is better".
durf a dumb fuck wow u so smart.
Into the night with Garry Kasparov and Peter Thiel
So Shaq, Matt Damon and Steven Seagal participated in SWAT raids. Is this for celebrities only or anyone can sign up?
Not that I would like to participate though.
People have always owned their own weapons, and if anything the percent of households with guns has declined [1]. The burden is on you to show why the increase in police militarization is necessary. What is different now that requires SWAT teams to participate in poker room raids and alcohol regulatory inspections?

What the article posits is that what has changed is not, in fact, the level of danger that police face, but that there has been a combination of mission creep and cops getting away with pushing the boundaries of excessive force. Other commenters have pointed out that there is a monetary aspect as well: departments justify bigger budgets by using personnel and equipment on more and more trivial tasks. What used to be routine enforcement and arrests become full SWAT takedowns.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/chart-day-gun-...
Why don't you start a web-service to help companies opensource products?
Cleveland snags Jack for four years, $26 million
Is this really the America that America wants?

The article mentions one case where a judge refused to issue a search warrant for a narcotics investigation and instead the police brought representatives from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and raided the place with a swat team to conduct an alcohol inspection. What did they find?

Two sample bottles of beer that weren't labeled as samples and a bottle of vodka in the office. The fourth circuit court of appeals upheld the search. According to the article: So for now, in the Fourth Circuit, sending a SWAT team to make sure a bar’s beer is labeled correctly is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Computers don't think like computers. Computers reason formally. Thinking like a computer is just a matter of learning to reason formally and exactly instead of employing fuzzy mental abstractions.

This is primarily hard because we're wired for fuzzy mental abstractions, since they make loads of tasks (natural language, making breakfast, manual labor) far easier compared to taking genuine formal approaches, and we have a lower layer of the brain that can be trained to follow exact procedures quite well anyway.
Ask HN: Why is there no quantified self apps for Android?
I keep seeing quantified self stories pop up here in on HN (due to the qs/startup cross-section), but they always seem to promote iOS support and not Android support.

A lot of the various wristbands and other devices use BLE, but Android devices with BLE shipped before iPhones that had it did, so it can't be merely hardware support.

Is it a result of Apple's image at work? "If you own an iPhone, you're thin and good looking and self-conscious, but if you own an Android phone, you're fat and ugly and don't deserve our service"?

Android is the largest mobile phone platform, and I just don't understand why startups, especially these, are cutting themselves off from such a significant part of the market.
Paul Dirac's handwritten notes for his PhD, the first ever on quantum mechanics
He doesn't know how but he knows he loses weight by dieting and exercise, link bait title.

Furthermore, what he describes is a typical low-carb diet which works by suppressing your immune system (my experience with a low-carb diet, and the experiences of most people I know who have done a low-carb diet for long enough). After burning all your fat, you will get sick as hell (I had a 1 month fever at my lowest weight before deciding to stop it).

People with great metabolism can be fine on low-carb. But if you're seriously overweight, your metabolism is probably not great.

Slow carb diet by Tim Ferriss is a bit better because you ingest more carbs (and the cheating day maintain your immune system).

If you have cold feets/hands, inflammation (swollen gums for example), bloating, slow pulse, low libido or anything not normal, then your diet is not the right one.
madVR uses the ImageMagick jinc with anti-ringing filter to upscale video. Looks pretty good. :)
I didn't lose 20 lbs in 1 week, but cutting wheat, corn, and dairy from my diet and upping my vegetable intake to 5-7 servings/day has caused me to lose 30 lbs over the past 4 months.
"diet and exercise"

He went in the "personality diet" direction, not just diet, which was pretty weird because he basically went paleo although is being very careful not to use the phrase. Tip toe all around it. I don't know if there's a legal explosion going on or what about the term, because I've noticed this elsewhere.

The Paleo thing is pretty easy to implement if you know anything about food, most of the time, the more recently it was added to the rich western diet, the less of it you should be eating. Just make a ranking and try to reasonably optimize at the store. Pretty simple and cheap and easy to implement. Tastes pretty good too.

It really pisses people off because there's no diet industry personalities to make money, no guilt inducing neo-puritanism, no weird expensive foods to buy. Kind of a post-capitalism diet, other than I have to haunt my produce aisle at the store about twice a week rather than once a week back when I mostly ate "psuedo-food" out of freezer boxes. I do spend less money on food, so what I waste in extra gasoline becomes just a rounding error.
It doesn't have to be. That said if I made it more abstract the result would likely be less web developers reading it. I've met more web developers that need to hear these things (probably because I spend more time with them than other people building products).
> Would be interesting to see an overview of the routine first.

This refers to a specific workout which received a bit of attention in the news and here on HN in recent months :

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi...

Original discussion :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485
Large Scale Data Analytics with XtremeData Parallel SQL Database Engine
three differentiaion / integration relationships I come across

displacement - speed - acceleration - rate of change of acceleration

displacement - distributed load - shear force

capacitors integrate current, this can be used in sampling.
Uh, what? They were hashed and salted, from everywhere I've read.
Some people who are HIV positive never develop AIDS even without drugs.
It's only unexpected if you didn't learn when Python instantiates default variables and how it passes them. Or put another way, if you treat Python like some other language you learned, apparently not realizing it is a different language.

Now personally I hardly every use default values, but to me, when I see this -
> I see no reason why anybody would not want the default to evaluate every time

It means you should have put it in the method.
Sometimes the wrong product is a low quality product that does X and the right product might be a high quality product that does X.
Well yes, the whole point of the 4th amendment is so that we can "trust" (in the sense of feeling comfortable with) the government as a whole when it comes to searches because of the requirement for a warrant. In other words, the government has "access" in the technical sense of the word (the police can technically break into your house any time they want), but the requirement for a warrant is supposed to prevent them from misusing that access (they'll get in legal trouble if they break into your house without a warrant).

I wasn't suggesting entitlement so much as practicality. Up until recently, the distinction you're talking about didn't really exist. A warrant might not give police an "entitlement" to something in your house, but there wasn't really a lot you could do stop them from getting it. The best you could do is hide it which isn't very practical in a lot of situations.

But with an encrypted document, suddenly you have new protections. As you suggest, a warrant does the police no good because you also have the right (under the 5th amendment) not to tell them how to access it. Unlike a safe, forcing open an encrypted file might turn out to be impossible. Now you have a technical protection against searches that goes way beyond the legal one found in the 4th amendment.

Again, I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but I think it's an interesting way to look at it and at least one of the points I saw in the article. Technology is less a means to ensure 4th amendment rights and more a means to go beyond them...for both good and bad reasons.
I've got a couple [1] of screencasts [2] that go into detail on the integration side of things; I chose to integrate with Laravel (PHP) and MySQL purely for mass-market appeal but the lessons learned should be widely applicable to any stack:

[1] - End to End with Angular JS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAyiqUs93c
[2] - Security with Angular JS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ifoT-Id54
Leonard Susskind on string theory: Using maths to explain the universe
Because it is not how open source movement works.

The big idea about open source is that if you're making something useful for many other people and if it is sane, readable, manageable, then you will get lots of feedback, testing and even patches with bug fixes and improvements.

This is the story of nginx - when it was open sourced, people found it useful for themselves, and then they start using it, which leads to the extensive testing, fixes, patches, etc. Now it has several forks, including tengine.

The other story is the story of RedHat at times of RHEL4. They decided that they will maintain their own set of patches for kernel and glibc. Eventually kernel's src.rpm contained a hundred of patches. This was a mistake, because they should send those patches into main tree instead, and, if patches proven to be correct and useful, they would get feedback and testing and code reviews for free. As far as I remember, they did so with RHEL5.

There are another important stories about how community ceased to improve open source projects after they being acquired by big companies - no one wants to improve other people's property. MySQL and Xen were the most well-known examples.

So, there is no use to open source anything which no one need, except, may be some hobbyists and marginals.
This argument is spectacularly stupid because based on the rise of exactly these kinds of incidents, you could justify the production and distribution of automated turrets to negate the use of current SWAT tactics. You can't just stop at the perceived consequences of your supposed equilibrium point, you have to follow it all the way to the logical conclusion.

If this keeps up and/or accelerates, it's only a matter of time before someone acting in the same spirit as defense distributed throws an arduino controlled turret and either sells them on silk road, or open sources the plans and we're living in a much shittier world because of the out of control arms race accepting that the police are going to act like militant home invading thugs will provoke.
It's the average salary, which can skewed by a handful of extreme outliers.
You can install Unity on Arch[1], but you also need to install several libraries with many Ubuntu-specific patch[2], since Ubuntu loves to patch stuff downstream.

I'm also not sure if it will work flawlessly, as I haven't tested it. But, for example, Ubuntu ship with also a patched Mesa, that it's missing for that project and it's supposed to contain some Unity-specific patches.

There were some projects to include Unity in OpenSUSE and Fedora[3], but it seems a dead project now and it's not available for the latest versions of those distro (last version supported: OpenSUSE 12.2 and Fedora 17).

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unity

[2] https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch (See "order to compile/install")

[3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Ayatana
Have you ever worked on a rebuild? Copying is surprisingly hard, almost never trivial. Check out how bad Rocket Internet's products are compared to the services they copy. They are pros at copying and still they can't get it right.

People copy when they know it's worth the risk. That's why successful projects are copied. I agree with you that it is a very good indicator that you are on the right track. :)
Damnit, that's what you get for forgetting the unicode for irony punctuation
Sure. But when we say X is great it is somewhat implied it's great compared to non-X similar tools. I believe Microsoft is offering decent tools compared to their more direct competition, but I'm yet to see something that makes me curious enough to really try them. I'm exceedingly happy with my current Python based stacks and curious about Go. I'd love to find a good reason to dig deeper into Ruby and Clojure, but, when it comes to Microsoft or C#, the move doesn't seem worth it. Not only because of the technology, but you have to change the whole stack, from server OS to developer desktop and deal with their idiosyncrasies.
HN has lots of people who read a diet book that taught them a Deep Secret about weight; they're bursting to share it with the unenlightened masses. So up they go.
I've got a LinemanJS [1] template [2] that gives you a really lightweight boilerplate and workflow for developing Angular projects; Lineman is like a smaller, focused version of Yeoman that also uses Grunt.

[1] - http://www.linemanjs.com

[2] - https://github.com/davemo/lineman-angular-template
I am more interested in his next post:
"Five years later and I am going to tell you how I managed to keep the lost weight off"

> I took some pills, specifically raspberry ketones, a multi-vitamin, and cod liver / fish oil. I went back and forth on these, and then decided to drop them. I may go back to the oils, but I think vitamins may be snake oil. It is hard to really tell though.

Vitamins are snake oil. Ok.

(And what the hell is a "dev aggregator" ?)

Calories in, calories out.
Abs are 90% made in the kitchen.
Go to the doctor when it hurts or feel unusual.
The EU welcomes Croatia
I think he contradicts himself by saying,

"I am the same person now as I was then. I am not a better person,"

and then, a few paragraphs down...

"Mentally I was so much happier, my mood changed and I was able to deal with other things so much better."

I think when you shed weight, you change -- both physically and mentally.

I wrote an article about phantom buzzing/ringing (when you feel/hear your phone ringing when it's not) and its occurrence follows the same principle of your brain making adjustments to your body. I think the key takeaway in this article is you have to "re-program" your mind, over time, to get certain outcomes.
Minor correction: The size of the malloced area: (width height * 4) modulo 0xffffffff* is incorrect. The modulo is 2^32, not 2^32-1