skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With domain name registration the factors that we have noticed that are almost certainly fraud orders are (in various combinations):

1) credit card payment is all lower case and/or obvious non understanding of how US addresses are formatted

2) domain name has "hack" or some foreign sounding word. Or is anything related to vietnam (get plenty from vietnam)

3) IP location doesn't match customers location

4) Multiple attempts in a row with different credit cards

5) Registrant name doesn't match the name on the credit card and/or address

6) Customer name doesn't relate to email address used in any way.

Once again no one factor is definitive usually but a combination of several together almost always indicate a fraud order.

Those are off the top there are more. Bottom line is when you simply look visually at the orders you can tell with near 100% certainty that an order is fraudulent.

Otoh, here is a fictional example of an order that wouldn't appear fraudulent at all:

domain: bobspartycity.com

Registrant: Bob Wagner
Address: 76 Walnut St., Williamette IL
bobspartycity@gmail.com
And IP is in that vicinity etc.

...etc. It could be of course but we've never had a case where a fraudster puts much effort into faking an order using knowledge of what we look for.
I think to be fair, a bunch of those insertions/deletions were from checking in node_modules early in the dev cycle. But the 5k commits is accurate :)

And for schedule, it was vast underestimation of the scope of a digital CCG combined with having day jobs => bad estimation and inconsistent hours.
>but if you're making an app of you staring at boobs it goes from a fleeting thing to more a situation where you've just turned that lady in an object

How is that different from going to see people play music or act in a movie?

Is an actor "an object"?

How about other people we see as objects/machines to do stuff for us, like someone serving meals at McDondals (or a programmer)? In that interaction, we only value what we get out of them -- they might as well be objects (and in some cases, they ARE replaced by objects, e.g with automation).

How are those cases different, except in the puritan way of "it involves sexual desire" so it's bad?
Congrats on launching! Not much of a gaming guy but liked the tutorial you have. Good luck!
Freaking awesome, thank you MS.
Could someone post a direct link to the report. You have to register email with them to get this.
(a) your wife is awesome, (b) I too am a whiskey snob, (c) there's really nothing wrong with Jack Daniels or for that matter with jack & coke, (d) there is something wrong with mixing vodka and cola and calling it a cocktail.
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I think there are some stateless SSH / terminal options you can use.

screen, certainly (I rarely ssh to a host without starting screen), though tmux is what the cool kids are using these days.

I regularly suspend my laptop. Almost as good as leaving it powered. The main hassle is if you've got multiple SSH sessions to the same host, and you need to sort out which is what.
With Drupal 8 introducing major changes, a Drupal fork appears.
This is a very common issue in NYC, my building is also listed as built in 1900. Someone with real estate knowledge told me a fire destroyed many building records (not sure when), so the city defaulted those records to 1900.

edit: I just read this somewhere: "But a word of caution. Buildings built before 1900 are often labeled 1899 or 1900 in city databases." So there may be two separate issues at play here.
Huh ? context please.
Agreed. Unfortunately, this is a personal side project. If it were my business, I would certainly approach it differently.
The only benefit they get is that lots of people continue using Facebook who otherwise may have given up on it. Oh, and they sometimes seem to add features that I come up with first.
But in general, yes - I am someone they would like to just make go away.

Which is fine - they have a right to do that. But everyone should be aware of this, because at some point when Facebook decides they don't like your politics, or hobby, or sexual choices, they'll arbitrarily shut you down, too. So, don't give them any more than you can afford to lose. But I see many companies investing a ton of time and money into their Facebook strategy. My point is to beware, because it may not be a good choice.
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We are going back to our roots taking Dell private
My microcode experience is some years ago, and nothing nearly as complicated as modern Intel stuff, but depending on just what you can control, you might be able to induce excessive thermal gradients by working some bits flat out and disabling/not dispatching to others. I don't know if the effect would be anything like significant enough to cause damage, although I have seen an excellent project using thermal regional heating to "fingerprint" cores post-fab. I think that required some (but not excessive) physical layout constraints as well.
There are some WMs which either emulate look-and-feel of the Windows environment, or let you map hotkeys, that this isn't too much of a hurdle. My preference happens to be WindowMaker, which allows extensive hotkey mappings.
Does the nyc opendata initiative have any crowd sourced programs to repair broken records? Could be a win/win for developers and the city if they would accept feedback on their datasets.
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First, if you think I'm complaining you may be misreading. I'm explaining the difference in perceived ethos but I have no problem with HB at all.

Second, I think you already realise that your analogy is only analogous in that there's a multi-billion dollar company and a much smaller company are both involved.

For example, AB InBev makes up half of the US beer sales with Budweiser and Bud Light being the top two US beers and the Budweiser family is the best selling worldwide. On the other hand, while Valve doesn't release many numbers, it's estimated that Steam has a strong majority of the PC game digital distribution market and Origin's market share is, obviously, lagging far behind.

Also, it doesn't take into account the vast difference between Origin and Budweiser. Origin exists to sell you other products and you have to use the service in order for this to happen. It is difficult to overcome the initial user inertia to get them to join and install the service and to keep it running on their system so that things can be further pushed on them. Once this inertia is overcome there is very little extra resistance to using the service to purchase games. This inertia is also increased because the market of people who would use a DRM-full digital distribution service is not at rest but is rather largely moving along happily with another service. By offering a significant discount on popular games if you start using their service they could convince people to get and run Origin giving them that initial hook.

Further, the Humble Bundle was creating an opportunity to have a significant effect on their user numbers. At 50,000,000 users in July, even if only half of the bundle purchasers were new Origin users, that's an extra 2% of people using their service, and they created positive exposure to many more that may have also joined or may be more inclined to join in the future.

And, finally, I don't think HB was attempting to get EA market share at all. EA was trying to increase Origin market share; Humble Bundle was trying to grow their own service and make some money. (People keep saying the Origin Bundle was "all for charity" or whatever, but don't forget that sending a portion of the money to Humble Bundle was an option that I'm sure some people chose, if only by default.) Again, I don't fault HB for this but it is a noteworthy difference from their prior operations.
Color output is not on by default in 'ls'.

Your 'ls' must be an alias for the real ls with some options. For example, mine is:

$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

A quick way to run the original 'ls' (not the aliased version), just prefix it with backslash:

$ \ls ...

Or:

$ command ls ...
Is one double for loop better than two for loops?
I mean, is:
for(..){
for(..){
}
}

better than
for(..){}
for(..){}
?

May it be in terms of running time, memory, etc.
This may be a dumb question, if so, i'm sorry.
The IT Crowd is a successful show in the UK but the pilot for the US version was garbage, ruining almost every joke from the original. Even though having a successful predecessor helps a show somewhat, there is still a lot of room for error.
There are no alternatives, and nothing to be expected in the future, because packet-based networks has made it obsolete as the primary sharing method between people. No market left. No economies of scale.

If you really don't want the information (even encrypted) to travel over networks you don't control, then you probably can afford SD cards or USB sticks or more esoteric special constructions.

Can you elaborate on why you feel a need for such physical media?
That's not always the case, take a look at The IT Crowd.
Agree 100%. People have asked for a mobile version of this app, and one of the big reasons I won't do it (or build any mobile app) is because I refuse to invest a lot of time and effort into something that can only be distributed through a 3rd-party channel, with their blessing. I will not take the risk that Apple will not suddenly decide they don't like my app tomorrow. No way.
About 90 m/s, depending on elevation.
The Hubble constant is 67.8 (km/s)/Mpc. That means that something one Mega-parsec (Mpc) away will appear to recede at about 70 km/s. Our galaxy is about 35 kpc across.

Voyager is currently 0.0006 parsecs from Earth, moving at 17 km/s.

Given this distance, we find that the cosmological effect alters the apparent velocity of Voyager by 4.2x10^-8 km/s. This is only 1 part in 4x10^8, which is probably too small to measure.

There may be general-relativistic corrections to the spacecraft clocks, however, and computation of its trajectory may involve general-relativistic dynamics. So some of the often-ignorable effects probably do add up.

Of course, the surrounding volume is also expanding with the same rate, so from that point of view, there is no effect.
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there are many things wrong with Jack Daniels.
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"Your product is short-term, the relationships you build are long-term." - Love this <3
Gave the tutorial a try and signed up.

We're huge fans of tactical strategy games here in the office, so I've shot the link around to get a few people up and running. Small game studio based out of Toronto here, so if you'd like some feedback from peers, let me know and I'd be happy to collect what feedback we can offer. :)

Congrats on launching!
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... How do you know you're going in the wrong direction?
The HTML, DOC, and XLS files all have identical structure (though different content). They are all HTML, and Honey Docs is relying on Word/excel's parsing the HTML in those files to fetch the image (a 1px gif).

I downloaded the credit card Honeydoc. The content looks like:

<html>Nicole Davis 4556062729618215<br />
Brian Baker 4556767839126624<br />
Patrick Jones 4916615717158539<br />
....
<br>
<br>
<br>
....
<img src="https://honeydocs.herokuapp.com/img/html/202719bb5717d5621068780180abc593b0fedda692bd63727a510911d21fdcbf.gif">
</html>
I don't know how to do that in VB and I'm sooo proud of it! :-P
The problem I see with no mods and really good algorithms for up/down-voting (with some kind of bot/spam-prevention) is still going to get played by clever people, just like PageRank got played, a human touch is always necessary, just like with most ML algorithms.

As palantir says it, big data, the best results are a combination of good ML algorithms and human guidence. That means moderation. That basically means we have moved the ladder up a bit, a quite step up from irc.

What I think would do better than reddit has done in this situation is much more transparent moderation - no anonymous mods, and mods to be at the mercy of the mass of users. So we could basically ban or demote a mod just as we can upvote a story really high. That system would be more difficult to manipulate.

Do you think this is an interesting venue to try?
I don't get the logic here. All major software suffers from exploits and code that needs patching. You can make the case that the browser itself is the weakest link in the chain to start with...yet nobody's abandoning their browser of choice and replacing it with something vastly less capable.

I'm not sure there is a single software package that is powerful and popular that doesn't receive post-release updates and patches. If you want to convince a person to get off the software on to an alternative, it would have to at least approximate its capabilities. Moving to Pelican from WordPress is like ditching a computer for a calculator. If all you want to do is add and subtract, that's fine...but come on.
thanks,

to everyone use hnotify!
This is called "bus factor".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Good work!

I tried out the tutorial and thought it was pretty good, but wanted more before signing up. I'd recommend putting in another larger battle where the tutorial ends, so I can get a feel for how the game plays.
It's a valid point taken by itself. But I would respectfully suggest that it's not a particularly useful statement, because you're not comparing SQL to anything. "Complex SQL queries are hard" because "complex queries are hard". If there was a magical tool where you could do complex querying and always have the right answer in the minimal time, then these discussions would never arise. (To a debatable extent, that is one of the things people are paying for when they choose a "better" database: the hope that they get closer to the ideal on complex queries)

Personally, I would much rather perform a complex query in SQL than NoSQL. The base-line is likely to be not-terrible, which may be good enough for single-use queries. Optimization is much easier (IMHO) - SQL is a DSL for querying and indexing. Compared to having to write code to do that (which seems to be the primary NoSQL approach), the DSL approach seems much more efficient. SQL isn't perfect, but it beats no-DSL-support or another DSL that is even worse than SQL :-)
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This gives us four possibilities:

1. This geared creature must be considered part mechanical. A cyborg, if you will.

2. A "gear" is no longer (and was never) a "mechanical" device, but instead an organic one. Using gears is no longer (and was maybe never) doing mechanics.

3. Whether something is mechanical or organic depends on the process which created it. This is the "colored bits" or "patent" view. (If I build something using intuition instead of reason, am I no longer doing mechanics?)

4. A gear is no longer (and was never) either mechanic or organic, and is simply a physical process. The whole "mechanical" and "organic" division is a false dichotomy.
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I did mention Carpalx, but not your exact link in another comment.
NYC is a beautiful place.
And for the price you even get all the weirdness of file corruption, sometimes works sometimes not, and data-loss that you had with the cheapest no-name floppies back in the day ;-)
From the Raspberry Pi FAQ: "We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming."

I guess Coder is exactly the type of project the Pi was built for. Of course, you can install Coder on a "regular" PC or Mac but having a credit-card sized computer dedicated to a single educational task makes it more inclined to be played around with.

You give this to a little kid: he sees it like a toy, a powerful toy, with which he can develop "super-powers". It's less overwhelming than a full-size regular PC, and as a parent you can be assured that your kid won't mess up things, or launch a game because he got bored with coding.

I can see myself offering a Pi with Coder as a gift to anyone, even an adult, eager to learn coding. There are other projects similar to this one, but more focused on programming (Python especially), whereas HTML and CSS (and to some extent JS) is probably easier to grasp for beginners, especially because it's Web stuff.

The most valuable feature of Coder is how it looks. It's colorful and friendly, with a nice interface, which can be less obscure than a console.

By the way, I loved the introduction video. It reminded me of Google's own presentations. Then I realized Coder was made by Googlers.
A US company selling internationally will have to be very careful, especially at first, applying any "fraud best practices."

One of the (apparent) advantage to the OP's service is that there is a built-in learning component, presumably tailored to your particular store. That should help quite a lot with recognizing patterns unique to an individual situation.
Yay Little Snitch...

http://imgur.com/FfbenAb
Yeah we work with one of their competitors and it is not simple. It takes an investment and thoughtful analysis to get use out of these services. No surprise. It's an inexact science.

But, they really shouldn't advertise it as easy to use.
Webhooks are in need of some standardisation for sure, so moving towards something like PuSH is a step in the right direction. However this technology has been around for a while, so whether this will become standard or not remains unclear.

PuSH solves a couple annoyances with webhooks that comes to my mind:

- Lack of debuggability: the inability to subscribe to events forces me to explicitly set up callback URL(s) on service providers' dashboards or in query strings in requests. IF I managed to set them up correctly, data will come crashing in any day in the future, throwing exceptions, or bouncing on unspecified routes. And all these POST catchers and local tunnels developers play with to get this right in the first place.

- Ad-hoc verification schemes: Every service comes up with their own way of ensuring the data originated from their servers. Signature hashes as 'X-*'-headers, a number of extra fields inside the JSON body, etc.

There are more, but these two has annoyed me for quite some time.
Actually, you don't even need grep, just find:

find . -name "*.php" -exec printf "PHP found, you're probably owned: " \; -print -quit

Sorry, I know that "PHP is insecure" jokes are overdone, but that enormous blacklist that you have to find vulnerabilities seemed like it could be simplified a bit.
Don’t waste hours hours on something someone else can do in minutes. Value your time.

Yep, hence why I hire designers..
It's not a dumb question, this idea is covered at the beginning of every data structures class and is described as Big O Notation.

The difference is the growth rate.

for(..){} for(..){} will grow linearly, or O(n).

Iterating over 10 items will be 20 loops, while iterating over 11 items will only be 22 loops.

for(..){ for(..){ } } grows exponentially, or O(n^2)

Here iterating over 10 items will be 100 loops, and increasing n by 1 (to 11) results in 121 loops.

Typically it preferably to user O(n) over O(n^2).

This probably explains it better than I can: http://rob-bell.net/2009/06/a-beginners-guide-to-big-o-notat...
This doesn't seem really smart since some of those apply to me. I am not from America and I sometimes order from there meaning it would seem like I'm ordering at 4am when its 2pm my time. Another thing is the email, I know a lot of people with their birth year inside their email. What about them?
the most logical communication medium between myself and my users has been taken away.

Were you paying Facebook to provide your business [edit: I see from another post of yours that it's actually a side project--so this might not be strictly applicable to you, but I still think it's worth bringing up] with a communication medium between you and your users? I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the answer is no.

And that brings up what I see as the real issue here; actually two of them:

(1) Business owners still seem to see Facebook as a free platform that they can build on as they please, without realizing that you get what you pay for. If you're not paying Facebook, you're not their customer and your business has no leverage over them, particularly if your business is built on something they're known to dislike.

(2) Why doesn't Facebook allow businesses to pay for some kind of premium business account that lets them communicate with their users, or even alter the user interface their users see? That would solve both problems--your problem of needing a communication platform that everybody knows about, and FB's problem of not getting any benefit from third parties piggybacking off their popularity.
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Since the phone is covered in the password anyway, it would be interesting to see if it stands up to a gummi bear attack:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_f...
>Can you elaborate on why you feel a need for such physical media?

Maybe it's not perceived the same way in the USA, but in Europe, most people who use cloud-services find it increasingly difficult to trust american cloud-services, thanks to the NSA. Hence why I'm looking for alternative ways to share sensitive information, programs, documents, you name it.

There's of course also owncloud, which is nice enough, but let's just assume that some may not even have access to the internet in the first place.

So, with respect to the point you made (make no mistake, it's a very good point), I say that there are scenarios that justify need for physical mediums to share data.
i'm not saying i'm not impressed. in fact, i think anyone who can start a business and be self-sustaining deserves praise. all i'm saying is that there is enough inefficiency in any large market to become a 7-figure business even if your product is no better than the competition. you can get customers through personal relationships who are doing you a favor and sometimes customers don't have the time to do a full evaluation of all your competitors. so, if you happen to reach them at the right time and solve their problem, even if you don't have the best solution, they still might choose your product. all i'm saying is if you want to create a truly disruptive company that can get to $100MM in sales, you do need to offer something 10x better. if you want to start a business in any given market and get to high six figures or seven figures, you just need to create something good enough and hustle. but you won't start displacing your competitors at scale if your product isn't significantly better.
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Not quite.

> When a person has a valid privilege against self-incrimination, nobody — not even a judge — can force the witness to give that information to the government.

The Fifth Amendment explicitly outlines that you cannot successfully "plead the fifth" in response to a grand jury compelling you to testify.
Hmm.. the text wouldn't load for me. Anyone have a copy of the article?
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Wait, one of the biggest mail providers (that did a relaunch not so long time ago) did not have IMAP until now?!
What on earth makes you think prospective starlets have stopped getting literally screwed?
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I'm the other 1/2 of the development team. Glad to have some other devs kick the tires. Would love whatever feedback you have! Thanks!