skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be that this is indicative of the core value of Paypal's fraud prevention intelligence. All the smart people I know who work at Paypal are working on fraud prevention (even the analytics guy I know there admits to providing more data to the fraud prevention teams than anybody else).

I wouldn't be very surprised if Braintree decided to be acquired because they learned that doing "enough" fraud protection requires the sort of fees that Paypal charges – _plus_ a dataset like eBay to mine for patterns and to instrument up for real-time triggers.

Thinking about it (as in, this is not some long-held considered belief, just some random thought that's just popped into my head), it'll kinda surprise me if anyone smaller than Paypal/eBay, Amazon, Facebook, or Google, will be able to compete longterm as a payment company. If you don't have firehose-sized transaction data to monitor (Paypal/Amazon) or strong social network signals about identities (Facebook/Google), I doubt you're going to be able to create fraud protection as effectively as those players, and that's going to cost you and your (non-fraudulent) customers and be reflected in the transaction fees you'll end up non-competitively charging.

Random thought number 2 – I wonder if there's now some opportunity to start up a non-US based payment company, and lobby for privacy law changes in the wake of the post-Snowden knowledge about how the PRISM-linked companies are mis-using personal data, especially of "non US persons"? I wonder how hard you'd have to push the Brazilian government to make using PRISM-linked or US based companies as payment services illegal - for domestic privacy reasons? (Unfortunately, I suspect the opportunities for me in Australia to lobby for laws protecting Australian citizens from surveillance by the NSA won't get any support at all from our in-bed-with-and-beholden-to-the-US government.)
Flagged. Why wouldn't an intelligence service target a second-most-populous nuclear-armed space-faring nation? That's as much a revelation as the Pope being Catholic.

Please stop with the manufactured NSA "news" stories.
Is it the "most transparent administration in history" yet?
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> The bottom line point is that Apple delivered on the peformance front.

... working in conjunction with Samsung's new 28nm processes.
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I wonder what goes on in the heads of those responsible for setting up this sort of "response".

Do they already know they will never allow transparency to happen?

Do they really think the public is better off not knowing about what's going on? Or are they rather very well aware that they're making fun of their voters/tax payers? Do they really think the public buys it and settles down?
I remember looking at that, but Twisted's epoll reactor was a C extension at the time. It looks like Twisted 12.1.0 switched to using the epoll provided by the Python base library, but that was released about a year after I was originally installing this daemon (and I was installing everything from apt, so add another year to the age of the packages I got).
Sure thing, friend.

I can afford to withdraw.

You're not disagreeing with me on any particular point.
Yes; the hackers are just holding it the wrong way! It's really secure if it's held the right way.
In which AOL add nothing but their advertisements to the AP's article at http://bigstory.ap.org/article/close-ties-between-white-hous....
I think you may have shedskin ( https://code.google.com/p/shedskin/ ).

I seem to remember performance wise the RPython guys seems to think a JIT implementation of Python would be faster because of the dynamic nature of Python.
But an income tax is seen as a creeping evil, perpetually siphoning money away from the pockets of the citizens who worked and toiled for that hard-earned dollar. Instead, a sales tax fits more with the public's idea of a "fair" tax because it's like a "user fee," you only pay it if you use it. Don't want to pay sales tax? Easy, have Internet access and dodge it by ordering online, or just don't buy something. Don't want to pay income tax? Die.
It does, perhaps it doesn't think your code is good enough?

/s
It's relevant because I've seen more than a few people try to advance Weev as some sort of Aaron Swartz-style culture hero. As a part of this culture, I don't want that to happen. I don't want anyone to ever cite Weev as a personal inspiration, I don't want to see his name listed alongside people like Swartz or Bradley as an innocent hacker victimized for trying to do the right thing. If you want to use him as a test case for an unjust and poorly-interpreted law, that's fine, but don't tell me that the discussion has never been about whether Weev is a great guy, because I've seen it happen; and don't try to tell me that the truth is not relevant.

Weev is proud of hurting innocent people. He brags about it. He wants us to know. And I'm sure as hell not going to try to cover that up on his behalf, or tolerate those who do.
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Nice tooling for writing compilers. :)
I think it's great that people are trying to tackle this, and I feel a little sorry for the creator for some of the rather-harsh criticism. That said, given the nature and aim of the project, it really needs to live to very high standards to deliver on its promise. And some of those harsh-sounding words are to a large extent helpful. Putting things into perspective and helping identify the weak spots.

To me this looks similar (at least on the surface) to clipperz[1], even though I believe clipperz does all crypto on the client-side. Of course, both suffer from similar attack vectors or trust issues either way. Client-side does not mean you don't have to trust the server.

I hope for the sake of the project, that it gets more than just passing comments (however helpful), but rather serious engagement from people with experience in this field.

[1] https://github.com/clipperz/password-manager
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Silly Ruby hipsters and their bizarre project names.
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Ironically, it was because of his disruption innovation theory why I thought immediately after I saw the iPhone that it's going to be disruptive for the whole smartphone industry, and also why I thought Nokia and RIM will be the last companies to adapt to the new smartphone world (which is exactly what happened).

I guess Clayton Christensen put too much focus on the "low-cost" part of the disruptive innovation, which I suppose does happen more often than that, but the way I see disruptive innovation is making some things "10x better" than before, and those things need to be things that the market wants, obviously, otherwise they're pointless.

In a way he was also right, just not about the iPhone - but about Android. Android is also disruptive to the iPhone, and it's more about the low-cost strategy than doing some things much better.

It's also helping noname OEM's create pretty quality devices for very low-cost, and Android has also disrupted paid operating systems like Windows Mobile, and even the desktop Windows, and continues to do it:

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/523376fe69bedd1c3ec...

So maybe Clayton is ultimately right. The iPhone "changed the game", but it will be Android the one to reap most of the benefits from this "disruption".
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Never underestimate the power of the opposition to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

We could be having Labor leadership scuffles for the next three years.
Aspirin does cause ulcers. If you have references showing that ibuprofen is more dangerous (or even differently dangerous) than aspirin I would be interested to see them.
Ruby "developers" seem more interested in branding than producing useful code.
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I don't think the door analogy entirely works here. Here's why:

For a typical burglary, person A leaves their door unlocked, and person B walks in. The items clearly belong to person A, and when person B takes them and walks out, theft has clearly occurred.

In this case, person A walks near person B's house, and sees that person B has laid the possessions of person C all over the sidewalk. Person A brings out their duplicator machine, creates mirror images of all person C's items, takes those mirror images, and walks away.

While there is a question of whether person A should have duplicated those items, person C is sitting across town clueless as to what's going on. There's also the question of whether person B should have left things all over the sidewalk, or should have placed the things behind the door.

If we begin comparing accessing a website to opening a door, that creates a lot of legal confusion. IANAL, but IIRC, the current legal understanding is that a computer on a network falls under the jurisdiction of the network. If that's the case, and we consider the Internet to be a public place, then a web server placed on the internet becomes public, unless there's a password on it. If, instead, we consider web servers to be like doors, where you need permission to access them, then anyone who spiders a website might be considered guilty of attempted breaking and entering. For another example, does it make more sense to allow allow smartphone apps to have full access to your phone by default, or should permission be granted for special capabilities? AFAIK, consent in this area is not very well defined.

In the traditional sense of theft, there is an object that I once had in my possession and it has now been taken from me. That doesn't really work so well with digital media where the supply issue goes away.

There's a lot more to this discussion, but I'm curious what the next response will be :)
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http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31253.pdf says there is a 10 year statute of limitations in 18 U.S.C. 1005 (fraud concerning bank entries, reports and transactions).
+1 for the bubble sort. I dont have the patience for that; I did shell sort :)

Also, I dont understand why it has 0 on the left hand side, yet says for the best score -200; same for the opposite end. I got a 0 btw :)
Well obviously spending the money should be free, as should checking the balance. Why can't we just legislate that that exists ?

Prepaid cards, fee-free for the user. Seems like a basic necessity for an economy to work smoothly.
Q: How do you know when an HN user browses the Web with JavaScript turned off?

A: They'll tell you.
Actually, with iOS7s new activation lock feature, thefts are limited by passwords.
I'm CEO at Braintree. I'm not going to comment on any of the rumors that are being circulated. I will tell you that we won't do anything that would compromise our product or our service. We are all fully committed to that. More on that here --> https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/more-committed-than-e...
I don't want to jump in on the "how secure is my phone discussion", I just wanted to point out that with all the revelations and concerns regarding privacy, a single company having fingerprints for some significant portion of North America is nothing to be taken lightly.

That said, I sincerely doubt this is the case. I imagine the phone acts as a proxy for the authentication, validating the fingerprint then sending some other form of authorization to Apple or using the fingerprint as input to a cryptographic algorothm.
Seemingly most relevant bit:

"Since “free” refers to freedom, not to price, there is no contradiction between selling copies and free software. In fact, the freedom to sell copies is crucial: collections of free software sold on CD-ROMs are important for the community, and selling them is an important way to raise funds for free software development. Therefore, a program which people are not free to include on these collections is not free software."
Looking at the chaos computer club video, that becomes plausible/likely (the iPhone UI shows a picture of the fingerprint as a guideline for the quality of the phone's knowledge of the fingerprint, and afaik the sensor does not have a camera, so that is not just an aid for the user.)

Yes, it could also be Johnny Appleseed's fingerprint, used as an image users are familiar with, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction_ridge seems to confirm it, too ("The pattern of ridges they produce in hands and feet". I'm not sure whether they refers to the epidermal cells or to the blood vessels (less likely), but that doesn't matter)
Is there more detailed changes description?
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The reality is, unless you're a child or a teenager, you should just take aspirin.

For me ibuprofen is a miracle. I get bad headaches from time to time that aspirin and acitominphen have negligible impact on. Ibuprofen knocks them out completely.
From the link:

The notable changes are:

* VM (method cache)

* RGenGC

* refinements

* syntax

* Decimal Literal

* Frozen String Literal

* def's return value

* Bignum

* 128bit

* GMP

* String#scrub

* Socket.getifaddrs

* new Rubygem
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Perhaps not, but it's an obscure enough question that it's not going to be analyzed in any depth by someone without some interest nearby. And the parent did say "preferably unbiased", leaving some implication that a biased source is acceptable absent others. Regardless, the arguments can be evaluated on their merits - Lessig is certainly a serious participant in the discussion.
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Another, better input for my self driving Arduino RC car platform!
I think def's return value means returning symbol rather than nil?
I've been waiting for it for ten years, I had almost forgotten why I wanted it in the first place :)
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From DigitalOcean in SF I'm hitting the OpenDNS Palo Alto datacenter. Google is going to San Jose.

Remember OpenDNS is a real business working to provide a service to real paying customers, Google DNS is just a fun little project of building an OpenDNS clone.
It's "latex milk" today, tomorrow it might be just "regular milk" that's needed! The point is that the fingerprint security was bypassed so soon after release, and posted on the internet. Sure, it takes a lot of effort with the first generation of this hack.

No matter how cool the fingerprint tech is on iPhones, you wouldn't go as far as using it for your master access to your password manager app or bank account app.

For the purpose of replacing the lock screen pin, or as others have said, no pin at all, I think it's fine.
Closed tickets in bugtracker:

http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/issues?set_fil...
Google just does it in the browser. (they call it "omnibox")
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Non-Blocking IO with out raising an exception is a notable new feature. The Improvements to Garbage Collection is also pretty huge.

The 128bit number support is cool, I mean if you want to work with Quadruple-precision floating-point numbers... I know I do.
I am reminded of the Apple slogan "Redmond, start your photocopiers!"
Your trust in Apple is heartwarming.
Hey, maybe we will get to ObjectVision all over again, only this time it can work! Or continue to be developed, at least.

I remember putting in around 30 hours on a consulting project trying to use ObjectVision 2.1 (I think that was the version - been a while) before finally giving up and going to FoxPro in disgust... Had to keep project deadlines.
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How about studying the Bible?

"All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work." - 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Why so defensive? You clearly are commenting on the rumors... just sayin'. Cool company by the way! Sounds like you've had a lot of success. Paypal isn't very cool, though...
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So, horse_ebooks could have an ulterior motive?
Oh, pardon me for thinking it was news that a foreign country (incidentally and in your same vein, also the most militarized one; the only nuclear arms user in history; and inveterate meddler in the affairs of countries around the world) thinks it perfectly fine to indiscriminately spy on the citizens of a friendly country. By arm twisting companies like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft for whom India is a large market. Or by stealthily wiretapping our telecom networks.

And since this is as much news to you as "the Pope being Catholic", I assume you'll be perfectly fine if it emerged that, oh, Indian intelligence agencies were spying on all US citizens by secretly arm-twisting the IT services companies and BPOs that work for most US corporations and even many govt agencies?

No?

Lemme guess, that is totally different. Because you're a US citizen?
Fair enough. I suppose the entire HN corpus would probably not be that large compared to modern HW capabilities.

Still seems to be a bit fragile, though. I am assuming persistence is a periodic thing, making the system vulnerable to eg. power failure between persist events, ie writing the text files. To be balanced against the simplicity gains of only having to deal with in-program data structures, though, I guess.

Then again it's worked flawlessly for 5+ years so what do I know!
I was hoping this would cover:

1. Angular.js vs Backbone.js from experience of their differences

2. Angular.js with Require.js (I already know about Backbone.js AMD architecture)

Has anyone done a large project in both Backbone.js and Angular.js?
Aren't you a PayPal (or ex-PayPal) employee? Surely you might have a little bias here!
Which versions of lua and python? Because when I ran the programs python was faster than lua.
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There are an entire list of reasons why a USA-centric internet is a bad thing even without the privacy considerations. Not least of which is the fact that the US is effectively worst-in-class when it comes to Internet adoption. And not coincidentally, also the most ravenously capitalistic society. To far too many Americans, the Internet is a profit mechanism, not an infrastructure.
That's both a very short-term (years to days) and localized (in one specific sector of the economy) measurement. If you look at inter-generational mobility (as these studies do), and look at the level of mobility that you care about e.g. over a whole national economy (as these studies do), a son of such farmers who grows up to be in the same job as his father will be shown as moving around solely within the small slice of the class structure (a decile at most?) that makes up the farmers of the village. Even that much movement will only show up if his income is fairly consistently (averaged over at least a year) in a higher percentile than his father's. So yeah, I think relative mobility is a pretty good indicator.
Yes, but as the same decent locksmith would attest, it would be foolish to have a picture of a key beside the lock, or anywhere in a public place.

And that is what happens with a finger-print based secure system; you inadvertently place the imprint of the key on the phone's display as well as public places.
So, this would mean that

private def foo

end

will now work?
A year ago I wrote TEA cipher implementation with it for fun:

https://github.com/dchest/drakon-tea

(Pictures: https://github.com/dchest/drakon-tea/tree/master/pics)

It was painful.
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As a braintree customer, this deal does give me cause for worry since I jumped to Braintree because of paypal.

However realistically, since all of our production code is already completed and tested against Braintree, we are not going to switch unless they do something really dumb like close their api.

For me as long as Braintree continues:

+ Using their 'vault' for credit cards

+ Continues having a great api

+ Continues have great customer service.

I'm going to watch and see what happens.
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Q: Why do colleges cost so much these days?

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Could somebody elaborate on "new Rubygem"?

I remember reading a while back that Ruby was going to make an effort to separate stdlib components from the language, which I think is pretty exciting.

The more boring side of this would be a newer version of RubyGems.
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This is true, but also true because B2B is generally boring. A majority of readers will never use an analytics platform or a sales CRM software.
This is why choosing WP over Android was such a catastrophic decision for Nokia. Nokia used to have 70 percent of the smartphone market in India. But because of Android, they've lost almost all of their market there. If they would've adopted Android early on, they could've maintained maybe not still 70 percent, but maybe not much lower than that either. The same goes for China, and other countries India used to own.

But with a new CEO that was going to get a bonus for selling the company cheaply [1], that's what you get, I suppose.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2013/09/21/just-ho...
Do 500 mg or even 750mg sound that high?

Paracetamol (the non-US name of acetaminophen) here in France is usually available either in 500mg or 1g doses, and Wikipedia seems to say we had 6 deaths in 1990, and the number has been stable since then, so more than five times less than the US relative to population size.

So, I'm not sure that dosage is the most important factor here.
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Yes, Apple is really good at creating usable, beautiful user interfaces and vertically integrated solutions. Yes, it's very difficult to quantify this, and yes consumers get it. However, Apple isn't the only company focused on getting the experience right.

Once the UX of a competing platform/product is on par (modulo product/company loyalty), Christensen's low end disruption model kicks in. The way Apple can continue winning is to be ahead of the curve, creating new features and product categories that can dominate, until the low end disruption model catches up to them.