skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More info on the #bitcoin-otc advice on paypal: http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/Using_bitcoin-otc#Notes_on_...
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I sold e-gold for Paypal once. I knew at the time though that a chargeback was quite likely, and sure enough, it happened. Somehow, though, I managed to win that case and keep my money.
Google translate:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&pr...
GitLab.com co-founder / GitLab core team member here. Thanks for detailing your needs. Many people use GitLab merge requests to do large code reviews for feature branches. These can be up to 100 commits and include per file diffs with line commenting. How many commits are your feature branches? We now have notification settings per project and mentions in issues and merge requests, would you want anythings else regarding notifications?
i feel your pain. wish more companies had the foresight to use webgl, and focus on proper graphics coders not just 'html5' when all they really mean is gradients and rounded corners.
I already using Netsparker for 3 years, they're best solution
Impressive: use your smartphone for virtual reality glasses [Google transl.]
how did you get that view on the page? mine seems to be off screen on load and scrolling up doesn't have the same nice pan.
I don't think it's just the "twat" factor. You can only do so many "I haven't received the goods, refund my money" before you accumulate such a horrendous feedback that nobody will do business with you again. In addition there is a chance your paypal/ebay accounts can get shut down.
> Who made that decision? When and why?

As to "why", because the new definition is simpler, more consistent and easier to explain. By the way, your quotation from the gram definition page contains a glaring flaw -- the definition is 1 x 10^-3 kg, not 1 x 10^3 kg.

Reasonable people may differ, but to me, saying, "a gram is one thousandth of a kilogram" is self-evident and simplicity itself.
The problem is recruitment consultancies. They take submitted cv's and may put their own headers on them before passing them on to employers. So a candidate may submit a nice pdf, but they may then be asked to supply the cv in word format.
I don't think that these sort of scams are generally run using the buyer's personal credit card, and if so this feature of foreign credit cards by no means provides protection against getting scammed by international buyers. Stolen US credit card numbers are a global commodity, so it is very possible for you to be ripped off by, for instance, a Malaysian buyer using a US credit card number.
What is it that makes US citizens so gung ho on spying on other countries but get all upset when they are being spied on?

Why should it be ok to have warrant-less surveillance of all the people in Spain (for example) but Texas is right out?

By seeing the rest of the world as the enemy and by not respecting the rights (as enshrined in the privacy directives of the various nations) of every citizen of every other country on the planet the US is placing itself in a position where sooner or later the rest of the world will start to see it as the enemy.

Maybe that's the goal, I don't know anything about what goes on behind the scenes other than what's leaked but I think this is a very bad development that could backfire.

America is fast losing its benevolent and 'on our side' image. It may not be all too visible from the other side of the world but people elsewhere are shifting their stance in relatively large numbers and that's as far as I can see uniformly negative.

The NSA could stop sucking and be awesome if they not only stuck to their charter of providing intelligence on 'persons of interest' but did that in the narrowest way possible and only after they obtained specific warrants.

Remember the ruckus over that spy plane downed in China?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

What do you think would be the US response if the Chinese, the Russians or even some Latin American state would fly spy planes right off the coast of Washington, New York or LA?

This goes way beyond the NSA, an article along the line of 'How the USA could stop sucking and be awesome instead' would be a much needed refresher. After 9/11 the US had immense political capital and most if not all of that has been spent by now and the general worldview of the US has slipped from 'friendly' to 'possibly hostile'.

Writing this isn't going to change anything, I realize that. But I really wished we could get out of the 'us and them' phase.
I have liked Calibre when I have used it a few times, but the GUI is pretty slow compared to most software these days. I attributed it to using python, but maybe thats not the case? has anyone else found some speed hacks that make it easier to use? (or maybe its time for me to upgrade the machine it resides on?)
In a single day, I routinely use up to four different operating systems and none of them are Windows.
To make a different but related reply, see the comment in which I responded to a submission from another? I attempted to direct the discussion to the hacker/technical aspects of the "Syrian Electronic Army." Their prolific hacking of large entities is rather noteworthy. I noted how a 'western' company named Bluecoat had their hardware installed by Assad, the logs were later leaked showing tracking of sexual and religious activity.

I tried by best to steer the conversation into a realm that truly does relate to "Hacker News." The real life ramifications of producing spyware, ISP data mirroring hardware. Of course the topic was deaded and my commments down-voted.

Is HN a place for commentary on Snowden and Manning sexual habits or for the details and real ramifications for our work?

I've been hell-banned and down-voted for trying to steer discussion into more than social observations of the actors involved. It lowers faith in this community and those involved moderating it.
4 months on HN and this is your first comment? Hmmmmmmmm.
I think you'll find a bunch of stuff on the pirate bay. Off the top of my head I can think of these Scandinavian shows and movies that are all at least decent if not great:

Trollhunter //
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (trilogy) //
Let the Right One In //
Cold Prey [Fritt Vilt] (trilogy) //
The Bridge [Bron/Broen] 2 seasons //
The Killing [Forbrydelsen] 3 seasons //
Kon-Tiki //
Dead Snow //
Headhunters //
Easy Money [Snabba Cash] //
Norwegian Ninja
Super nice, thank you!
I'm flagging this. The submitter looks suspicious and so does the first commenter.
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You could use SO_REUSEPORT with threads too. Linux threads are processes after all, with tweaked clone() options.
Note that iPads and (some?) Nooks support DRM-free ePubs and PDFs. There are probably other readers that do as well. The Kindle is the worst when it comes to format support and vendor lock-in.
I guess it's a bit more specific: PayPal doesn't care about sellers.

I sell a JavaScript Game Engine[1] and have made the exact same experience over and over again. Someone buys it, I send out the license email and the download link and 2 days later I see a chargeback. I can show PayPal screengrabs of the license email and database records, showing that my software really has been downloaded from the account in question. They don't care. It's not "proof of shipment" if the shipment doesn't go through physical mail that supports tracking.

I have since come to terms with the fact. I see it as simple piracy - it still annoys me, but I have to live with it.

Funny thing is: if someone sends me an email, saying he's not happy with my software, I always give them a full refund - which somehow isn't nearly as taxing on my mind as PayPal chargebacks.

[1] http://impactjs.com/
I hate to pile on, but perhaps the site creators are reading this and can get some constructive feedback on site improvement:

At least on my iPad (Chrome), I viewed the site and simply scrolled down to the bottom. After that, I had to click the back button 4 or 5 times to get back to HN. That is seriously broken from a usability standpoint. The act of scrolling should never trigger hard URL changes. If you're going to design a single-page, scrollable website (which can be great), you have to make sure the user can go back to where they came from with a single Back action.
The long-dead project is "OpenDarwin".

As the index page says: "(some people think of it as the informal successor to OpenDarwin)"
You remind me the innocent dog who got shot in the face by the police because it's owner were videotaping them.
Honestly, I just hit refresh and then the "Home" button on my keyboard really fast, followed by the "start recording" button.
> He learned to use Unity within just a few minutes

I'm an expert and I still haven't figured out how to use Unity. If I have so much trouble that every time I've tried it, within a few hours I give up and install traditional Gnome, LXDE, or Mint with Cinnamon, I can scarcely imagine how bad it would be for a novice.

First of all, it crashes a lot.

Secondly, you have to use some magical key combination to start multiple instances of an application.

Thirdly, Unity has no easy discoverability of apps. If I want to see what I have installed on my system using a traditional desktop, I can just read through the Start menu [1] and its submenu. Unity has no way to do this that I can figure out.

Yes, you can type an app name, but a novice user might not know their Internet browser is called "Firefox" or their email client is called "Thunderbird." (Heck, when I started using Ubuntu, it took me a while to figure out that Totem was a media player, Nautilus was a file manager, and Vinagre was a remote desktop client.) The point is that typing "video" or "file" or "vnc" won't point you in the right direction.

In short, Unity sucks and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

[1] I heard Windows 8 is ditching it too, at least by default.
Anecdotal: I understand that children who have learned to play on electronic (physical) keyboards (e.g. Yamaha stage piano) have problems when they encounter the mechanical actions on uprights and grands.

What will happen is a slow change in playing style, so things will sound different. Sort of like the change from arch to Torte bow for violins, only more radical.
Sandvik is developing technology[1] that also changes the underground operations to automated and/or remotely controlled.

Underground navigation technology comes from Navitec Systems [2]. I think they are using laser scanning to provide accurate positioning underground without requiring installation of beacons or cables.

Accurate positioning is obviously important since it affects how fast the underground trucks can drive.

[1] http://bit.ly/17dDq99
[2] http://www.navitecsystems.com/wordpress/en/referenssit/sandv...
Personally, I wish for an ARM notebook market to come out of the Chromebook, with different configurations for Chrome OS and Ubuntu etc.
Wikipedia article [1] states that differential GPS can provide up to 10cm accuracy.

Differential GPS works by having a local GPS receiver station which location is well known. This station is comparing the location determined from the GPS signal to its known location, calculates necessary corrections and sends the information to other GPS receivers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
Interesting. What's the best study you have, with scatterplots, that shows that the "very old" models performed "very well"? Insofar as we have seen actual quantitative predictive modeling by Keynesians of macroeconomic quantities, the plots tend to look like this:

http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/wp-content/up...

And the independent variables of course tend to like this:

http://m.research.stlouisfed.org/fred/series.php?sid=BASE&sh...

Neither seem particularly textbook, but you're obviously thinking of something. Given that people who think differently from you invented Bitcoin (and thus have at least a glancing familiarity with advanced mathematics, if the solution of the Byzantine Generals problem means anything) it would be great to see some plots to the contrary. Not just models, but X/Y plots or tables in which Keynesians predict something and nail it. It's not hard, after all to find many examples of Krugman, Bernanke, Goolsbee, or Orszag making quantitative predictions that turned out flagrantly wrong [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6038790
Yours is a fair enough argument, but I find the line you're drawing to be arbitrary. We can conceive of a continuum of security mechanisms, each with a given strength which can thwart attackers with a given skill level. For example, near one end of the continuum, minimizing the browser when I leave should thwart a computer-illiterate attacker. Somewhere between that end and your suggestion of a master password is Chrome's behavior, where the attacker must know that they can find your passwords in the browser settings. Near the other end might be biometric authentication, or even no option to save passwords at all.

A more sufficient version of your argument would attempt to show why the master password is an appropriate place to draw the line on this continuum, perhaps by arguing that it's an optimal balance between minimizing the valid user's frustration and thwarting some percentage of attackers.
http://damninteresting.com started with lots of obscure nonfiction, under-reported stories.
Haven't checked it lately.
yes. we know of this problem and are actively thinking of finding a solution. may be create a recruiter login which allows users to share resume with recruiters and they tailoring it to their needs. its a far fetched thought though.
"You know, and I think you can hear it from some of the comments that we’ve gotten here. (Inaudible) – see, think about people who are willing to go forward to Iraq and Afghanistan to help insure our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, so they can get the intelligence that they need. I believe these are the most noble people that we have this country. They are willing to put their lives on the line for their fellow – their fellow soldiers and fellow Americans, and other countries. And 20 of them lost their lives. And when you think about that, the issue is these same people who take that same oath to uphold and defend the Constitution (are?) the ones that run these programs. And we get all these allegations of what they could be doing. But when people check, like the intelligence committee, they found zero times that’s happened. That’s no bullshit. Those are facts." - General Alexander, 31 July 2013, Blackhat 2013

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/speeches_testimonies/T...

"That guy's a fuckin' liar" - ioerror, 29c3, "Not My Department" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5OQz0Ko8c&t=24m15s
Try a self-hosted Gitlab installation [1] [2] for a project management interface with Git integration.

For hosting file downloads, I recommend nginx. If the bandwidth is more than your server's connection can handle and you don't want to upgrade it, you could either use AWS or other cloud vendors, or provide your download as a torrent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6270446

[2] http://gitlab.org
Share, Discover, and Group Fund anything you want.
Color palette resembles iOS7?
I am not a fan of real name policies, but anonymity should not be a long term solution if possible. Better solutions should be sought.
That basically translates to "any off-topic shit that the community and mods will tolerate". Shame on them.
Replace "NSA" by "China" and the whole world would have gone into frenzy.
>>> but if you want more flexibility in your environment, there MIGHT be a 3rd-party tool for it, and it may even work, but if it does, it'll cost $20. It's like the world of Windows about a dozen years ago. Maybe in a few more years, this situation will improve.

If this means that almost every free program i download from the internet wants to install some crap along with it, i'll gladly pass and pay up.
He wasn't "getting sucked into the game" or being greedy.

Are you trying to say that anyone who tries to make money through arbitrage is greedy or has no right to be angry at Wall Street?
But you can always conceive of some would-be attacker with a given skill level. You conceived of a child who knows about Chrome settings but not about keyloggers, and thus concluded that there should be a master password in the browser.

But I could just as easily conceive of an attacker who knows how to read a computer screen but doesn't know how to use basic window management, and thus conclude that the browser window should always display all saved passwords as long as the user can minimize the browser.

Or toward the other end of the continuum, I could conceive of an attacker who knows how to install a keylogger but doesn't know how to lift and spoof fingerprints, and thus conclude that the browser should require a fingerprint scanner to recall saved passwords.

These arguments need to establish why the line should be drawn in that specific spot, rather than just mentioning the line and describing the types of attacks it can thwart.
Also, I find it quite weird that the site is cleary designed to be very high-quality, but the profile pictures are very low resolution.
I find e-books very convenient to read, but am annoyed that it is harder to lend them to friends (if they themselves don't have a reader), and that I have nothing to put on my shelf.

What I really wish for would be someone to offer physical books at price X and the combo physical book + DRM-free ebook at price X+0.50€ or X+1€ or something small like that.
(I can understand that e-books by themselves are not dirt cheap, since most of the cost goes does not come from the printing and physical distribution process. But in a bundle with a physical book that is already paid for through the price of the physical book, so one just needs to tack on a little bit to make a nice profit). I'd take that option everytime, turning the small extra into almost 100% profit.
Well, their (and your!) English is much better than my Swedish, but your point is salient. Improper spelling and grammar in communications has much the same effect as broken windows in houses or uncollected garbage on city streets ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory ) -- it lowers the quality of overall discourse.
It's usefulness is source level compatibility with Mac OS. It's a tool for understanding Mac OS, testing Mac components in a detached fashion, redistributing Mac software without proprietary baggage or running a pseudo Mac environment on commodity server hardware.

Even as a standalone OS, a comparison with other BSDs is far more appropriate.
No doubt. If China had done this, the USA would be at the brink of war right now. They would be 'terrorists', or 'information terrorists' or something bizarre for undermining the 'international government'.

So over the USA.
Sorry, but the idea that real name policies are all about improving discourse is nothing but a load of self serving bullshit from the companies that push it. They (and their advertisers) stand to benefit massively the easier people are identified and profiled.
Yes, there is a continuum of security, agreed.

The correct place to draw the line is a place where the user has every convenience they want, and an attacker does not have any additional convenience.

Revealing plaintext passwords does not convenience the user but it would convenience attackers (with low skill).
USA is, was, will, ever be BS.
Well, Kindle supports PDF and DRM-free mobi files. What difference does it makes with the iPad when both of them have a proprietary DRM scheme?

Nook or Sony accept standard DRM epubs, iPad doesn't
> This will open up a whole new type of website, where you can plug in your instrument and jam with friends

Even replacing audio with MIDI, the network latency imposed by even the speed of light is too great for simultaneous jamming with friends in other places. Heck, it's even an issue for marching bands -- the difference between the speeds of light and sound across even a football field requires special attention in order to keep things sounding together for the people in the stands.

The only good solution I've seen for this is NINJAM[0], a protocol for online jamming where, instead of trying to fight latency, the creators changed the problem. By enforcing a uniform tempo and number of beats per phrase (inside of which a repeating chord progression must fit), people can jam together by playing to what the other people played n beats ago, and everybody else will hear you n beats late.

I started working on a browser-based client for this protocol a while ago[1], though I unfortunately put it on the back burner before figuring out proper vorbis encoding/decoding in JS. A MIDI adaptation of this could prove to be quite fun, and I think my client (if ever finished) could actually benefit a bit from some MIDI integrations already present in some existing clients as well. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[0] http://www.cockos.com/ninjam/
[1] https://github.com/BHSPitMonkey/ninjam-js
I just wish it would not insist on forcing the user to use its library and only its library. Just like my music I prefer to organise my ebook files myself. With calibre that is not possible.
LWN did an analysis of the bug and response [1]. This issue aside, what I don't like about Calibre is it trying to be a library and device management solution, with a small amount of conversion on the side, while all I am interested in is the conversion. (I use a dropbox folder for library management.) The device management is what led to the suid security holes in the first place.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/465311/
This is why the most interesting OC on the 'net seems to come from the swamps of 4chan and reddit (and SA and YTMD and the like).

There is very little to gain (other than targeted advertising and srs bznz) from giving up anonymity online, and if you make friends somehow you can always coordinate out-of-band.

I'm really sad that so many places want me to integrate my gmail or my real name or my birthday or whatever other bit of personal info I claim into their registers.

We're still recoiling from the NSA stuff: why the fuck should we accept companies that want to do the same things to us?

EDIT:

I'll go one step further. An author I'd read in some scifi story or something similar had suggested that the mark of our era was the relentless pursuit and shaming of hypocrisy. The idea was that, having embraced moral relativism and given up any attempt at judging people on a cultural basis, nerds and soon the rest of people flocked to the last bastion of the judgemental: chiding others for doing something other than what they'd preached, or saying something different at different points in time.

Without anonymity, it can be very difficult to conduct useful intellectual discourse, especially if you aren't strong-willed enough to deal with trolls and jerks who say "But aha! Yesterday you claimed A, but today B; which is it?".
Marissa Mayer Q&A: How much info does Google share with Fed Government? (2006)
Pretty sure it says that the Chinese attempted the same, yet the headline is about the US.
> They (and their advertisers) stand to benefit massively the easier people are identified and profiled.

How? Surely people are just easily matched on a pseudonyms?
I would say the line exists when you astroturf.

In the case of the restaurant, they're not making up fake customers to fill out the other empty seats. The people who are in there are genuine diners. Invoice numbering is completely arbitrary, but the preceding invoices before the start do not exist. With two-for-one vouchers, the businesses take a hit in the profits; they are giving up something to bring in that extra business.

But online businesses and services are astroturfing and no one calls them on it. They're not giving up something to create business. They're not "filling the window seats". They're committing fraud and they know it.