skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't surprise me at all. Even with physical goods sometimes the kind of proof they want us to send we don't have access to or sometimes doesn't exist.

It is not enough just to show them some online tracking which shows that the item arrived (even in some cases if it has a signature verification attached).
How the NSA could stop sucking and be awesome instead
Even those of us who are gay? I mean, I realize you have a global mindreader to rival PRISM, but do you have to be so heteronormative?
We just set up a third gmail. Use it for all family rather than individual stuff. Typically my email clients just check it alongside all my other accounts, and my wife gets an auto-forwarded copy.

But this is just as good.
GitLab.com co-founder here. Thank you for commenting. We're looking into packaging but this will take some time. Maybe you can try the Bitnami images (http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab), they are already upgraded to 6.0.
> PayPal must reverse the transaction and eat the loss because it was against their policies for the transaction to ever have taken place

It's far from clear that PayPal must reverse forbidden transactions. In fact, the behavior seems to be "PayPal can do whatever it chooses with forbidden transactions." In computer science terms, the result of submitting a forbidden transaction is undefined: it might go through, it might not go through or something entirely unexpected (party van?) may occur.

Given the number of people who try to scam PayPal every day (it's a huge and visible target, to the extent that a security company basically spun out of PayPal), I'd be very surprised if this hadn't been tried already.
The country building three churches a week
So in the US it might be harder to see as you don't have a proper examination system at the high-school level. But in the UK we've had examinations first at 16 (previously called O levels then GCSEs) and 18 (A levels).

You can objectively see that the requirements to get an A are lower in terms of knowledge of facts and methods than they were, say, 30 years ago.
Maybe also have a look at https://github.com/crashsystems/gitlab-docker
Nope, git user is created, but I just use su to do things as git. If you're running as root using sudo doesn't make sense, thats what su is for.

https://gist.github.com/mitchty/6b9bc8c7dd41cd925b82#file-gi...

Thats basically it, nothing overly special, just switched sudo for su mainly. I could test to see if i'm root and then su or then sudo but don't see a point.
Agreed. the site is nearly unviewable on my phone. And sadly, it offers nearly nothing in substantive content.
GitLab.com co-founder here. Thanks for explaining Rovanion.
It's like kids these days don't even know how to use the XOR trick for linked lists. >:(
When it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. OP's main mistake was not checking where he was adding value - why they were paying more for his BTC.
Lot of comments dismissing this, as their always are when we see kids are getting dumber articles. Yet in my life I think it's been pretty much factually accurate that graduating class after graduating class has emerged from education with slightly lower levels of knowledge in key areas.

I wonder if a lot of folks live in too much of a bubble of people like them to really understand this. I don't know what other explanation there can be because I see this around me all the time.
Just because XKCD says it doesn't make it true. The idea that there because societal decline claims of the past might be interpreted in ways that leave them open to debate doesn't mean that there is no possibility of societal decline.
I'd never even noticed there was such a thing as a 410 until this. And it's not surprising - what incentive is there for a team in the real world with a shipping product to honor it?

There's a pretty obvious incentive to ignore it: it takes developer time to implement, and the result of the 'feature' is that your customer may get permanently locked out of a net resource. What happens if a website admin accidentally puts up a 410, or - worse yet - if a previous owner of the domain once put up a 410 for a page with the same URI.

I suppose there's an RFC for the code somewhere, but it seems like a bad idea. I pity the tech support agent who has to explain why his/her customer's browser refuses to visit foo.com/bar when everyone else can view it and there's no longer any way of knowing that once, for an afternoon in 1997 the page threw a 410!
I agree. In the installation manual most commands are 'sudo -u git', they run as the git user but they use sudo to make them foolproof (some people skip the instruction to login as the git user).
This is very constructive. I think this post could be expanded a bit when it comes to key signing and basically ELI5 the concept to make it crystalline why this would be useful and why it would still be private. (It gets the point across, to be sure, but it could be more accessible to less knowledgable folks by being more explicit in marching out its explanation.)
Under US protocols, only the President can authorize the use of nuclear weapons, however the Secretary of Defense must also approve the use.
PayPal is infamous for freezing accounts indefinitely and even putting accounts into the negatives even on people who did nothing wrong. That scheme is not going to work. They are so intent on nuking any fishy business they nuke a ton of innocents as well.
The majority of you men...
As long as they're screwing over the 95.55% of the world's population that don't live in the United States, they still suck.
Спасибо, товарищ.
NSA spied on UN, breaking active agreements
I see no problems with faking certain things until you have gained a critical mass of users. As long as you're not scamming people out of money or doing anything that would hurt them, it's fine.

Most businesses need to do this at one point or another. If you don't, you will most likely fail.
>I have never traded stocks. I have never taken an economics course. I have never aspired to be someone who trades money for money.

This is how someone becomes greedy.

>As an advocate of privacy, Bitcoin intrigued me at a fundamental level. Trying to make money was (hopefully) merely a side effect.

Just a side effect!

>I would be scraping maybe $5-10 every BTC, and I would have to wait weeks to see the money. I also had little capital. My interest faltered.

Wow, what an academic undertaking!

But wait, he goes full casino.

>No way. Too good to be true. I know what you're thinking, there's no such thing as a free lunch, PayPal is an insecure way of trading BTC, etc. I wasn't really thinking at the time.

As far as I'm concerned anyone who is into Bitcoin has no right to be angry at Wall Street, because they get sucked into the same damn game.
This is all true but here is the other side.

Knowledge is local. We can prove that (see the CAP theorem). Therefore decisions are best made at a local level. Someone needs to take ownership of decisions like hiring and firing and that needs to be someone close to the work. Since the leader is not the one with that power, that leaves the manager, and if you can't trust the manager with that power, then you can't trust the manager with anything.

The basic problem is that with responsibility comes power and vice versa. You can't be responsible for something without the powers necessary to live up to that responsibility. Likewise power without responsibility doesn't work out so well either. The question, as always, is what are the responsibilities and what are the powers that come with them.

My sense from where I was (front lines of Product Support Services in 2000-2003), that the team managers were bit players. They could not fire people. All they could do is try to interface one team to another, but they didn't have the authority to get anything done. I found that for anything out of the ordinary, the last person I wanted to bring in was the team manager because they would claim responsibility for it, but had insufficient power to do anything about problems.

So my point is this: if you are going to give managers responsibility for the production of the team, they need to have the powers to do things like hiring and firing (within a budget of course). if you can't trust them for these things, you are giving them responsibility without power.
That's actually false. The buyer can still file a claim and just say the item was inaccurate. Paypal will side 100% with the buyer no matter what the case is. I had a case where I sold a tablet to someone and five days after she received the item, she complained to me that the device didn't turn on until she plugged in the charger. Then she stated that the power drained really quickly and she had to plug it in again to turn it on. I basically responded by telling her that the device probably ran out of batteries on the way there and she needed to charge it boot it up. There was nothing faulty with the device. My guess is she just drained the batteries too quickly or left a power hungry app on. Regardless, I gave her the option for a full refund. I didn't hear anything from her for two weeks. Paypal had already done a chargeback since day 1 when she filed a claim. I couldn't find any contact emails on eBay or Paypal's end... I escalated the claim to eBay. Guess what? They sided with the buyer and gave her two extra weeks to return the item to me for a full refund, shipping covered by ME. At the end, she never did send it back because I guess she realized it was a user error, but oh how I love eBay/Paypal.
I am not angry at anyone, in fact I understand why somebody can get sucked into the "game". You're right, my intentions ended up being not-so-pure. A good lesson!
Hmm. I'm not sure that's the case. Sure, it's preferable, if possible, to describe a mathematical idea in such a way that makes it completely obvious and trivial. But at a certain point, there are some ideas that will not be obvious and trivial; there is a huge amount of foundation which is needed to understand them.

Can Grigori Perelman describe to you his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in a way that is completely obvious and trivial? Well, no, otherwise he probably would have done that. Rather, he explained it as succinctly as possible, in a series of papers totaling about nearly 70 pages of fairly dense math, building on nearly a century of earlier work on the problem.

Does the fact that he was not able to express this completely obviously and trivially mean that he is not brilliant? No. It means that it's a really hard problem, which doesn't have a really obvious and trivial solution.

Now, it's absolutely true that mathematical complexity has nothing to do with how correct a theory is. You can have a complex, difficult mathematical theory that is bullshit, and you can have a complex, difficult mathematical theory that is a damned good approximation of reality (remember, in all of science, we are building models or approximations of reality, so even the best theory is never expected to be "right" in some absolute sense). And likewise, you can have a simple, easily explained theory that is bullshit, and you can have a simple, easily explained theory that is a damned fine approximation of reality.

Part of the beauty of physics is that since you are just studying the most fundamental of forces and interactions in the universe, it's a lot easier for a simple mathematical theory to model it quite accurately. Newton's laws are a damn good approximation of many physical phenomenon that we can observe directly, even if we now know that at large scales and high speeds they are not quite accurate due to relativistic effects.

It's just hard to find that kind of beauty in economics. The systems involved are just so much more complex; remember, you are trying to model not just the a single human, but a complex system of humans operating in both cooperative and competitive ways. So, asking that they boil down theories into something completely obvious and trivial may be asking too much. It may be the case that no obvious and trivial theory provides anything close to an accurate model of reality.

Now, the issue seems to be that there are a lot of theories in economics that are simply not grounded in any sort of empirical evidence at all, and are merely more mathematical manipulations applied to other theories that haven't been well substantiated. And this may be a problem; it's also a problem in physics, where ideas like string theory take hold and lead to complex, opaque mathematical manipulations that seem to be almost entirely independent of any kind of empirical evidence.

This does not mean that better theories will necessarily be simpler. There are plenty of theories in physics which have been well tested which are quite mathematically complex and non-obvious, like quantum electrodynamics.
Willing to be persuaded otherwise, but the major win of mirrorless for me is scale. A mount can lose its mirrors but the flange distance is still based around a mirror box so there's no win there. NEX is nice in some ways but I'm not convinced the site difference with a standard kit zoom mounted between an NEX and a Nikon D3200 is worth a system switch.
Pioneering 3D Scanning in the UAE | Wamda.com
Pi can only be expected to contain a subset of itself. Specifically, if we choose a finite digit sequence of length N, for any value of N there are an infinite number of copies of that sequence within Pi.

Let's try this with an experiment. Let's say we want to find the first four digits of Pi (3141) within Pi. For the first 100,000 digits of Pi, we find the substring "3141" at these index locations (skipping the first match):

3497
26613
42126
45903
53277
68919
88009
91355

For the substring "31415", one more digit in length, within the first 100,000 digits of Pi we find only one example, at index 88009. This makes sense, since the binomial theorem provides a probability of 0.632 for one or more successes within 100,000 normal digits and a substring length of 5.

Binomial theorem calculator: http://arachnoid.com/binomial_probability

Based on this example, with an arbitrarily large set of Pi's digits, it's reasonable to say that any reasonable digit sequence can be found within it. And for Pi's infinite sequence, any subset of Pi -- or any other numerical sequence of any length -- can be located within it.

One more example. For the substring "33333", within the first 100,000 digits of Pi we find occurrences at indices 28468 and 89086. I include this to suggest that any digit sequence, for that matter any sorts of numbers, for example representing letters, can be found. The old saw about finding the works of Shakespeare within Pi is obviously true, if difficult.
Who the hell knows which month they signed up? I signed up over 6 years ago.

I think it is unfair to expect people to save their original email confirmation mail for upwards to 10 years (skype was released in 2003), especially given that nowhere in the mail it says that this is really important to keep.
If you go to the javascript console there's a whole game in there too!
Two things: When I click on an ID in the example, I can't get back except for using the browser back button. Also, the EPF link tries to send me to epif.io.
Tetrapulse - 4-player CO-OP w/ lazerzzz
Yeah they were saying it was probably causing performance issues, so the sooner the better.
Given that netflix offers 1 month free subscription, I kinda get why they won't delete accounts completely. Else people could just sign up, delete and sign up again for free netflix.
Its no delivery, its a transaction.
PureDarwin - Community project to make Darwin more usable
Session-Management on Linux
> or they show ads like [...] Wikipedia

What?

> Bring morals into a world of capitalism is silly

No, actually it's not silly. It's the only thing that keeps this world from falling apart.
Yes, Microsoft innovates. Their innovations just don't stick.

For instance, MS had a "PC tablet" (WinXP based) much before Apple, but it took iPad to make a revolution.
You're confusing a browser password-keeper with a house lock, when the house is actually synonymous to the machine. Lock the machine. Should every OS come with only encrypted filesystems that you have to enter a password on every read? You know, so your brother doesn't find your sexts logs?
In a multi column layout, I might wish to alter the width of the web browser in the primary column somewhere between 30% to 68%, in 2% increments, by simply tapping [Win+L] to increase its width, or [Win+H] to decrease its width, without worrying about whether it is the focused window, and without worrying about having to focus or adjust any other window after the keystroke was made to prevent overlapping.

If you want a layout where a web browser takes up 60% of the width, and two terminals take up 20% of the width, it becomes not only possible but relatively easy.
AFAIK, this project is dead for years
I don't see any reason to get holier than thou. He is pretty clear he hoped to make a quick buck and got burned. I thought it was admirable that he is willing to post so openly about it. Most people would be embarrassed and not want to talk about it.
I can very much empathize with this feeling. Last year, my freshman year of college, I lived an extremely isolated life. However, by living very quietly for quite a while, in a beautiful place, I found great comfort in my own mind. It was incredibly peaceful to have days where I did very little but eat, sleep and think. In that time I learned a lot about myself, and grew as a person. I'm glad I had that chance.
Shipping the USB key isn't 100% fraud-proof.

If you think the point of Bitcoin/Litecoin is being able to transact with it quickly and easily over eBay, you might want to look into the other things you can do with these new currencies.
eBay at one time was dealing with a lot of seller fraud with sellers that didn't ship, shipped you a rock instead of a laptop, etc. over the years they started adding more and more buyer protection to keep shoppers from being scared away. Unfortunately they tipped the scales so greatly that now, as a seller, you can very easily be scammed. The scammers have simply moved to the other side now and commit their scams as buyers.

It must work out better for eBay that way. But it sucks to sell anything of high value.
I guess it wasn't totally clear but I was referring specifically to digital/virtual items since they're often sold as is, not applicable of defects or "item not as described".
The reality is, you mistake a browser with a house, when the OS is the house. Let's rail on every OS distribution that defaults to unencrypted drives! And every digital device that has not bio-metric and multi-factor authentication!

Grind your axe elsewhere; it's sad.
Oh, I completely agree. The point I was trying to make was simply that increasing funding for medical research on malaria, tuberculosis, etc. was more significant than anything he did (or could do) with Microsoft.

But regardless, I agree that the world would be a much better place if addressing our solvable problems didn't require the support of a retired billionaire first.
Thanks. Great info.
you should probably post this as a Show HN-thread and work on a simple yet comprehensive title that catches the attention of the HN public. Then be an active participant in the discussion and ask people for feedback.
Technically, sure. But 'arbitrage' today is interpreted broadly--more along the lines of buying basically the same thing and making the difference at some point in the future. Like stat arbitrage. Merger arbitrage. Capital structure arbitrage. There is an amount of non-simulataneaity in all of these. Buy two of what ought to be the same price, but are not for some reason, and wait. Sameness and waiting. I mean, shoot, in stat arb the entire thing is based on such a murky idea of sameness that two products/instruments/securities might not actually even be the same thing and may never converge. So point being, in the vernacular, yes, 100% what the author is talking about is in fact 'arbitrage.'
> You can have a complex, difficult mathematical theory that is bullshit, and you can have a complex, difficult mathematical theory that is a damned good approximation of reality (remember, in all of science, we are building models or approximations of reality, so even the best theory is never expected to be "right" in some absolute sense).

One quibble. Unlike the empirical sciences, mathematics doesn't have to agree with reality, only with the rest of mathematics. Mathematics need only be internally consistent, where successful empirical science theories need to be both internally and externally consistent, i.e. they must agree with established theories* as well as survive reality-testing.

* = Or overthrow them entirely, as relativity did to the ether theory

> This does not mean that better theories will necessarily be simpler.

Yes, true, but Occam's razor favors simple theories, and there's plenty of empirical support for the idea that a simple explanation is more likely to reflect reality than a complex one.
NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show
Wow, you need to pay attention more.
About the wrench, subtly.
Any way to automatize updates on Mac, every time I open Calibre there is a new version and going on the site, download and manually installing is so 199X? :)
I'm quite fond of Gnome 3. It's gotten a whole lot better since it started (it was kind of a mess when they started).

Every two-ish releases I try out Ubuntu again to see if Unity's better, and each time it seems like they never address my main concern, speed. Unity seems really slow. I've never done benchmarks or tests, but on an i7 machine with 16GB of RAM, I would expect it to be snappy. It's even worse on my netbook.

I like the dock on the side, but the super menu and alt+f2 prompts are really bad in my mind. If I could get the dock, and maybe the global menus (I'm ambivalent on them), with Gnome Shell's activities menu, I'd be happy. Also dynamic workspaces, I really like those.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993516
Sorry, I don't know anything about the process of recovering your account info. But if you can describe the bug in enough detail that someone might be able to repro it I can forward that to the right person. (Which certainly couldn't hurt your chances I figure.) Email me ['m', 'a', 'r', 'a', 'y', '@', 'm', 'i', 'c', 'r'...dotcom]
Calibre (and the plugins to remove DRM) is the only thing that makes e-books worthwhile, despite still being overpriced. I wouldn't be wasting money on e-books if I couldn't use them as freely as physical books.

iPad, Kindle, Nook etcetera, it's all the same incompatible DRM-crippled crap. Without the existence of Calibre it's pretty much impossible to have your own virtual library.

This software should get way more credit and support.
Especially from publishers that support DRM-free books, like O'Reilly.
Right, but they provide drivers and optimizations for them.
And still Chewie didn't get a medal.
Do you have his address?
Given that you can't escape student debt even through bankruptcy, it's much harder for default rates to impact this particular bubble. You're probably right about the mechanism, but it's going to take incredible default rates to get there.
He was probably trying to comment over here, on this other article, about Microsoft's Stack Ranking program:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6266863