skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never underestimate the pedantry of a crowd of IT-types. I used to be like that, but I grew out of it.

The main problem seems to be that it's either a simplification - which is needed because the real thing is too complex to absorb at once - or the technology choice doesn't meet their expectations.

As someone who knows all about engines, I think it's neat. Too many people don't have the faintest idea about how their car works. Though I guess most don't care and it's my desire to know how everything works that makes me odd.
I've always wondered why this policy is in place. Is it just to screw people over or is there some legitimate use? Are they trying to prevent money laundering?
"Coverity gauges that since 2006, Python has achieved a defect density of .005 (or .005 defects per 1,000 lines of code) [...] To date, the Coverity Scan service has analyzed nearly 400,000 lines of Python code and identified 996 new defects — 860 of which have been fixed by the Python community,"

I don't understand that. 400,000 lines times .005/1000, in my book, equals around 2 defects. Interpreting the 0.005 as the more reasonable 'per line', it would expect 2000 defects, not 1000. Does that mean there are 1000 other known defects in Python that Coverity did not find, or that they found, but ignored as not being new? Or did they check what fraction of known defects they found, and extrapolated from there to get an estimate for the number of not found defects?

Dr Dobbs copy-pasted their press release at http://www.coverity.com/company/press-releases/read/coverity... and the report requires registration, so can anybody explain?
...and that is why you don't use PayPal, no matter how loud people scream that they want to use PayPal.

Seriously, PayPal has screwed over so many individuals, businesses and projects in the past, the obvious conclusion is that PayPal isn't an option when you run a small business (esp. IT/software-related) or a crowdfunding campaign.
I assume this is to protect against chargebacks. If Mailpile were to empty their PayPal account and then buyers start requesting refunds for non-delivery of the described product, PayPal would be left holding the bag.
If you're going to take it that far you have to add "at standard pressure".
PayPal is fine for a certain class of limited transactions - usually when they involve selling physical or digital products which actually exist and can be delivered today.

Rightly or wrongly though they have a very[1] long[2] history[3] of freezing the accounts of projects they deem to be remotely 'risky' to them. By definition this would seem to include almost any crowdfunded project where an actual product or service which people are paying for does not yet exist.

Given how well documented this is I can't help but wonder why a company like IndieGoGo would touch PayPal with a bargepole - their interests seem diametrically opposed !

IndieGoGo should be protecting their users by disabling PayPal as a payment option for all projects.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/06/paypal-account-freeze/

[2] http://www.holdtheline.com/threads/paypal-freezes-funds-from...

[3] http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/08/16/paypal-freezes-then-re...
> What on earth does PayPal care about the financial planning of the recipient of the funds? This doesn't seem like it has anything to do with fraud detection.

Because PayPal provides users with the option to ask for refund which can be very expensive for them. If they deem the risk is too high they won't do business with you.
> They just don't want to, and we cannot help but wonder why.

> Crowd funding is an adventure.

I don't think PayPal are as enthusiastic in joining you in an "adventure" as you think. Especially if that adventure includes credit card chargebacks.
What do you think of the new Yahoo logo?
I disagree. The result is a brilliant demonstration on why design by committee is bad.
So basically investors won't even give you the time of day if you speak with a non-foreigner accent and aren't affiliated with an ivy-league university.

Everything I've heard about startup investment recently has made me feel sad about the world.
The post doesn't have a lot of info, but the only rational explanation I can think of is that Paypal believes Mailpile is a scam intended to solicit donations through false pretenses.

Have a large number of donors issued charge-backs (or whatever the paypal equivalent is)? Has Mailchip missed some sort of deadline that might have caused donors to complain to paypal? Regardless of any of those things this action seems on the surface to be a huge overreach by paypal, but at least in those cases it would make some kind of sense.

Also, I assume there's something in the paypal use contract that gives them authority to take this kind of action? Clearly not a good idea to keep any significant balance in a paypal account.
Only 3.8% of voters vote below the line. At least 95% of Wikileak's votes will go to One Nation.

And then there's the question of why the hell you would support a party that does this sort of shit. The only thing they will ever do is appear on a ballot and distribute their preferences, and they can't even do that well (I mean assuming you wouldn't want to vote for One Nation... if you do, then go ahead).

Edit: I got mixed up. Replace One Nation with the "Australia First" party (even worse IMO... look them up) and the shooters and fishers party.
I see that nothing has changed, even with the new CEO that promised us Paypal would have more reasonable policies in the future.
Mailpile is about encrypted email that NSA may not be able to access. Mailpile also referred to Edward Snowden in their indiegogo campaign. Mailpile also accepts bitcoin payments. Do you need anymore reasons to why this happened ???
Elemental Weapons are okay, but not really very viable. If you want a weapon without scaling, chaos is your best bet, if you're => 10 humanity. The way to play is break points though. Most stats fall off at 40, then 45, then 50 points. Meaning that You should at most invest 50 points into one stat. So pump up VIT/END to 40/45 and then your primary attributes. For a generic melee characters a mix of STR/DEX works really well, since a lot of weapons scale with both stats.

Just in case someone was wondering about builds...
The good (well...) news is that the curved lines can't even be seen, when the logo is shrinked :)
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You need to get Indiegogo involved and IGG need to take serious measures, such as threatening to completely disable the paypal option from all their future projects.
Bitcoin ftw. Sure, not everybody can contribute in bitcoin. But on balance, bitcoin beats paypal by a factor of infinity. Why infinity? Well, with bitcoin you could at least have some contributions, i.e. > 0. With paypal you get 0 contributions. (N>1)/0 = infinity.
It seems a bit late in the day to decide not to do business with you if they've already taken money on your behalf.
The Pirate Party could be the best party on the ballot, however if it wants people to vote for it, it should consider a non-churlish name. I can relate to a lot of the Pirate Party's policies in the UK, but struggle to take them seriously with such a silly name.
Well not exactly.

Recently I sold a bunch of hardware on eBay. Took photos of it being packaged, photos of it at the post office, added express shipping and a tracking number. The tracking number says delivered, so I withdrew the funds back to my bank account. Next thing I know, PayPal debited my account for the full amount because the buyer filed a non-delivered complaint.

End story is, PayPal doesn't leave themselves with no options for recourse.

(I'm still fighting that one)
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I wonder if that Internet filter they've just added to their platform policy will be used to censor websites like that. My guess? Definitely.

It may be why they even decided at the last minute to introduce that, to stop this sort of activism from happening at future elections.
I was under the impression that PayPal was a payment service. Party A uses it to send money to Party B and as long as no laws are broken, PayPal keeps its nose out of other people's business.

What makes you think PayPal is an escrow service akin to escrow.com?
PayPal terms of service strictly requires any kind of charity donation campaign to be approved by them in advance. Anyone who has their unapproved donation drive frozen by PayPal kind of deserve what they get.
I think so, this place does get a lot of traffic.
There will always be only 2 relevant sides in politics.

If there were 3 or more, then it means that one sides vote is split, and so will not get a majority.

Unless of course you have some wacky proportional representation system.
They've withdrawn that, claiming it was "poorly worded". It's apparently an opt-in filter now.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/no-internet-filter-say...

Though in reality we still have the AMCA filter, which has been used badly in the past.
Pictures: Dropbox.

However, one of the problems I run into is sharing with my family members. I often go on trip, and all family take pictures we want to share with one another. However through Dropbox, the shared folders quota is not "shared", which makes the limit reached way too fast. I'd love for someone to solve that scenario (or anyone here know of a way to achieve that?).
Actually it is their money. Paypal is taking all of the risk in the transaction. If Mailpile fails to deliver, Paypal is on the hook. I see no problem with what they did, maybe this should have been communicated better.
> The people paying $80 for todo list management don't need upgrade pricing.

Omni makes good products that are (IMHO) worth $80, and paying full price for an upgrade is unfair whether that's an $80 app or a $3.99 app.

The problem isn't that software costs $80, it's that giving up freedom to use AppStore ends up hurting users and developers.
I really doubt the quality of WINE for such purposes.
There's a (not so small) online bookseller with the version you're after

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Broken-Sword-Fantasy-Masterworks...

Apparently the Gollancz Fantasy-Masterworks versions are true to the 1954 version.
The entropy Randall calculated for "correcthorsestaplebattery" was a lower bound, meaning that if the attacker knows that you made your password out of 4 dictionary words, it still has tons of entropy. If the attacker doesn't know how you came up with your password, it'll take them even longer.
They just don't want to, and we cannot help but wonder why.

The risk of complaints, refunds, and chargebacks for non-delivery would be my guess.

"Please provide an itemized budget and your development goal dates for your project"

This puts us in an incredibly uncomfortable position...

...of having a roadmap for your product's development. It's really not unreasonable, and if you don't have even a vague idea right now, that's a big warning sign.

... we do not feel that it's remotely in their jurisdiction to ask for a detailed budget of our business

Which is unfortunate, as PayPal's business boils down to risk management, and they're asking you to reduce their risk.
The algorithm is not targeted against the type of password which the XKCD comic suggests. The algorithm is designed to exploit common human behavior, which is similar to the XKCD method but not identical. The significant difference is that human behavior in picking words is not random, while the XKCD method requires the word selection process to be truly random. The "iloveyousomuch" example by Steube is unlikely to be picked randomly.

salmonellaeater is right, Steube misunderstands the comic. The idea of the comic is to pick a small random selection of the 250,000 distinct words in a oxford dictionary, rather than 8 of the 95 letters from all ASCII printable characters. A selection of 3 words has then higher entropy than 8 random characters, because 250,000^3 is a bigger number than 95^8. The question then is, will 3 random words really be easier to remember than 8 ASCII printable characters?

The downside to the Schneier scheme, is that each is a common sentence (low entropy), with a chosen transformation algorithm added. Thus the quality of the password will depend on the number of transformation algorithms, and the quality of each one. If we are to use the one first described to create "tlpWENT2m", we get a password strength like:

Using strictly the first letter, would only do 2x linear increase in entropy over just searching for common sentences. Change any occurrence of common numbers substitutes for words adds (0-2x) entropy increase. Writing one of the words in all caps means 6x increase in entropy. Combined, tlpWENT2m is slightly less secure than "This little piggy went to market" + two [random number below 10] or a single letter at the end.
The problem here is that crowd-funding is a risky business and as things stand paypal has to shoulder that risk. What we need is a type of transaction where the payer/crowdfunder assumes the risk, i.e. chargebacks are not allowed.
Paypal understands full-well. They just don't want to be in that business to begin with. Whoever ends up accepting credit and debit cards (in this case Paypal) has to deal with chargebacks on those cards from unsatisfied customers, and crowdfunding is rife with chargebacks from unsatisfied customers. Paypal doesn't want to bear that burden; they never signed up for it.

This whole problem would be mitigated if Paypal set certain limits on accounts by default ($3000 transfer per month, say)--that you'd obviously want to unlimit before running a campaign like this--and then required a phone call with the account owner to discuss the need for the unlimiting. Then they could just tell the crowdfunders "no" up-front.
Bought my wife a silver ring with a golden knot of eternity in the place a diamond would be as her engagement ring. It was made by a local artist and one of a kind. It was affordable and she loved getting something unique. I recently made her a silver ring by hand at a workshop and she calls it her "second wedding ring" and wears it constantly. Most women prefer something unique, or hand made since it shows more care then spending a lot of money.
Another issue with this is it breaks password managers, including the built-in browser password storage. While you might say that's a Good Thing for security, it's not something you could easily pull off as a startup.

Due to lock-in effects, people have to deal with all manner of usability hell from their bank, but the same logic doesn't apply to startups. Not that your idea is usability hell, but you probably don't want to make it any harder than it needs to be.

I think adding a few characters to the minimum password would be equally secure and more consistent with tooling, as well as a more familiar model for users.

Also, 2FA might be easier than you think using a service like Twilio. Or another way to do it would be to let the user connect via a service that does support 2FA (e.g. Google or Twitter;and maybe adding your own password if you want to harden that).
I don't know why, in 2013, people are surprised when they use PayPal and wind up without access to the money for months or years. Paypal apologists will say that this is relatively rare. Even if that is true, since the criteria they use to take these actions are often beyond the control of merchants, using PayPal is an unacceptable risk for any business that doesn't have at least 6 months of working capital.

Always avoid PayPal if you need access to the money. Even if you feel that your business falls squarely within PayPal's AUP, always have a backup implementation with an alternative payment provider coded and ready to go (I recommend using Stripe and skipping PayPal altogether). You don't want to lose new sales on top of the money PayPal decides to hold indefinitely.
The ones in this all feel more attractive - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/reviews/9943578/Electr.... I think that's because of the segway effect - it looks weird to be riding a vehicle while appearing to not "do" anything.

On the segway effect, I wonder what would've happened to the product had it been designed for rough riding and stunts first before it was targeted at the commuter.
Not in NSW:

http://www.aec.gov.au/election/nsw/gvt.htm#i

Wikileaks Party Prefs for Greens
FAEHRMANN, Cate	The Greens	57
RYAN, James	The Greens	58
BLATCHFORD, Penny	The Greens	59
HO, Christina	The Greens	60
FINDLEY, Amanda	The Greens	61
SPIES-BUTCHER, Ben	The Greens	62

Wikileaks prefs for One Nation
HANSON, Pauline	One Nation	108
MCCULLOCH, Kate	One Nation	109
PLUMB, Aaron	One Nation	110
People should start to understand that crowdfunding is not a trivial business from a legal and regulatory perspective.

Yes, PayPal sucks, but you can run into this crap with any bank or payment service provider you don't have clear and direct business dealings with, and who you haven't informed upfront about what you're up to.

Also, it's just plain lazy and irresponsible of IndieGogo to pay out via PayPal, at least not without big fat warning signs. Of all the options available, this is pretty much the worst.

It's very naive to think that you can just accept money in exchange for unverifiable promises and not set off all kinds of alarm bells. Expect frozen assets to start to happen more and more often with crowdfunding, and not just at PayPal.
What benefits would Jails and BHyve bring?
Until it crashes and then you are fucked. No crumple zones in the vestibules.

The route master gave many people lung cancer who worked at the depots, my father included.
"...where their freedom is greatly restricted — far more restricted than most adults would tolerate in their workplaces"

wtf? which culture have you been living in recently? most people don't work in your workplace, they work in a factory, department store, supermarket, engineering shop, building site etc. and their freedom is suitably restricted i assure you...
I added a "donate" button to a free to use website I run. After its first use, PayPal proceeded to freeze my account because I "recently declared your organisation to be non-profit or started receiving donations".

I was very unimpressed, mostly because there was absolutely no indication that adding a "donate" button would do this

The first Google result for "paypal donate button" gives this page:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donate-intro-outs...

It clearly states: This button is intended for fundraising. If you are not raising money for a cause, please choose another option. Nonprofits must verify their status to withdraw donations they receive

I think it's unfair to blame a company for enforcing policies which they're completely open about, especially when it's a policy you could read after mere seconds of research.
I agree about the bevel. The world goes flat, but Yahoo adds texture. It is too soon to be retro-cool.

Though, it may stand out amongst all the flat logo designs, I wonder if it will stand out looking old, or just be more noticeable.
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It's not the first time I have heard about them freezing funds - the last time was a few years back. From what I remember they were worried that the customers would ask for their money back if the product wasn't completed (explaining why they want to see a budget). This has nothing to do with fraud. They are allowed to do whatever they want with your money because they are not a bank.

It's completely ridiculous because participants in crowd funding are aware of the risks - they may never see their money's worth (even though that isn't the case here).

Either way, I would raise a massive stink if they don't buckle - I see you have a WIRED article, maybe approach them about writing about this encounter with PayPal. That's some pretty bad publicity right there. You may also be able to demand interest if they do continue to illegally with-hold the funds for that long (again, they are not a bank, but that means that this time they are not protected by those very same laws).
In Australia we have a wacky proportional representation system.
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...and yet Google vows to appeal right in the article.
In fact I even thought it was unnamed fork of effeckt.
Reference requested. I don't believe that is true.
Shouldn't you be in class?
The first answer is text, the rest are images as you can see in the screenshot.

Yes, I clicked outside of the light box.

I used a screen capture service online to see what the site looks like to a third party: http://i.imgur.com/UedyYQW.png

Since it's an automated service, it doesn't click away the lightbox, but if you scroll down you will see the text in the background are all blurred images.
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Same deal for the Sex Party. Their civil liberties platform is actually very sensible.
> It's completely ridiculous because participants in crowd funding are aware of the risks - they may never see their money's worth (even though that isn't the case here).

I wish I could agree, but the angry rants on a few Kickstarter projects show that many people see it as a "shop for things that haven't been built yet", rather than "give us some money, and we'll try to build these products, and if we do manage to build them you'll get one, but we could fail".
The more I hear these kind of stories the less insane PayPal actually becomes in my eyes. It's just that their service is very specific and tailored to eBay usage.
The idea being subjected to random people in times when we are 'alone' but in close proximity to others, i.e. on transport, is horrifying. I think it's contextual based on what part of the world you are from, but my take is that if I am on this flight for 9 hours, I want to read my book or watch a movie in peace and not have to make fast friends with you just because the seat lottery has paired us up. I know some people love being friendly with others in such situations, but it's not for me.

In a different scenario, a bar or a coffee shop etc, I think it's more acceptable as you are out in public anyway and then idle chatter is always going to be part and parcel of spending time in such places and I am generally ok with it.
Note that they had previously stated that they wanted to release the funds as slowly as possible. Asking us to provide a detailed budget is basically asking us to justify that and give them a timetable so they can withhold the maximum amount of cash for the maximum amount of time.
In Mailpile's case, there must be a higher risk that their linked account doesn't have $100,000 for PayPal to back out.

The same could be said for your situation, but I'm assuming the liability is lower due to the amount.

Edit: That's not quite right since $100,000 represents a collective amount, not individual buyers demanding a refund.
I think topics are mixed up in this thread and more strangely nobody is mentioning it!

1. (120)fps you refer is about the graphic card not the monitor.
2. (120)hz is refresh rate of an LCD is completely different than CRT. BTW, I never heard of 120hz high-res monitor. Mitsubishi or NEC maybe. could you give the brand and model?
3. monitor input lag will _always_be there with LCDs. there is no 120hz or higher LCD panels. they do real-time interpolation with 60hz panels. and that's not natural if you look closely. maybe just maybe OLED will improve response time or input lag as you refer.
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I certainly didn't have $250 in that account, which of course added a $50 overdraft fee. One would assume that they didn't spend all their money at once, so paypal would be able to suck back at least some of it.
Do you feel the same way about people who insist that GMO food is bad for them? Science is pretty clear on that, too.
No further business. The money they have frozen they are holding in escrow to help the increased risk of refunds.