skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BofA has a feature called ShopSafe that lets you generate virtual credit card numbers tied to your main card. They got it when they acquired MBNA/FIA Card Services. According to the Wikipedia article[1] a couple of other banks have offered similar services over the years as well (though looks like a couple have been canceled).

With ShopSafe, each virtual card has a custom expiration of 2-12 months, a max spending limit (ex: $100), and only a single merchant can bill to it. That last feature is important as it means that even if it's leaked before the shorter expiration period nothing should be able to be charged to it. Recurring charges are possible though (ie the same initial merchant can charge you again) so you can use it for situations that require recurring billing. Either way the spending limit still applies.

Anonymity aside, I'd argue that virtual credit cards are even better than BTC from a consumer's perspective as you still have the power of charge backs. Each one has the same rights as your original card including the right to declare a purchase as fraudulent (ex: the merchant didn't ship the goods).

Would be cool if someone would create a physical version of these virtual cards that gets created on the fly for each transaction. I was hoping that Coin or one of the other "virtual physical cards" would do that but I guess that'll come later.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShopSafe
"As I said in the beginning, we were surprised that in our industry people weren't as tech savvy or tech-minded as we thought they would be.
...
Another thing that surprised me was how people made themselves available to talk to us. We got quite a few meetings on relatively short notice"

Could be that you were meeting with the wrong people - those with the time on their hands to meet over what is frankly a very unlikely opportunity for them (if you're based in France, and they do Realty in SF/SV etc) or are having to be so opportunistic are probably not the people who are going to be the best placed to help you. Those that can make that golden connection, have they key knowledge or can make something happen may be simply too busy to meet someone without a strong endorsement within their network.

I wouldn't tarnish all of SV as being "not tech savvy" simply from the bench of folks who would take a meeting like this.
I’m not sure why you would choose tech companies to illustrate your point, financial institutions and energy companies might fit your narrative better.

One could argue that the regulatory environment in Europe has prevented local success, you don't get to baselessly blame these companies (none of which have gained their position undeservedly) and spue accusations without proof.

Also you don't get to blame the US for Europe's lack or enterprise, I suggest you ask an economist for a better excuse.
So it's hipsters versus nerds now? Has it come to this?
Unprofessional because we put the government's fault onto an employee's fault. Let's take a secretary. There is no technical skill she did. She was just a secretary under some general at NSA. Sure she could be a spy.

So now every NSA employee is marked as "untrustworthy".

If I may allowed to be radical in my own response, isn't this what the red scared is all about. You are a friend to X who is a known communist and now I cannot trust you. You were a secretary for this communist spy, I cannot trust you even though you didn't know. You just deal his daily accounting.

There are simply people who work for NSA for reason like employment.

> working for the NSA is not patriotic.

Yes, I will agree that jeopardizing democracy and liberty is not patriotic. But I am saying from the guy who started out at age 20 and thought it was everything he could do for the country, and now he realized he was wrong. Now do you trust him?

The ultimate issue is again, we are equating NSA is untrustworthy == employees are untrustworthy people.
I'll be waiting for it. If I knew Craig Frost, I might be more willing... the stilted writing style of the original just leaves me wanting to see more viewpoints.
Holding onto it, probably for long enough that he's noticed even his other, more obviously valuable domains aren't drawing huge offers either.
As a resident of Oakland who is sick to death of professional protesters slapping agit-prop posters on any available surface (not least community-financed public artwork), fuck these people and everything they stand for. And no, I don't work for some billion $ startup or even a million $ one, I'm the sort of starving artist that they claim to be fighting for, but aren't.
Animated UI gallery
I think it's helpful. It's a different kind of contribution, but I see value in it.
From techcrunch
Up until now, the Compass team has made most of its money via R&D for governments and consulting firms and by offering sponsored versions of its “Startup Genome Reports.” Moving forward, Compass will also begin piloting a handful of potential revenue channels, including matching companies to value-add products and services, providing automated audits of startups for investors or bye working specifically B2B transactions, or companies within large organizations. The other option, Herrmann said, is to allow financial customers, for example, to manage their relationships with their tech customers.
What? Gmail and privacy in one sentence? How does that fit?
Wouldn't that be (no food) and (drink) anyway?
When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege
I'm not entirely sure if it's size related or... just lack of energy/ambition. Padova, where I live now, is a similar order of magnitude (214,000 vs 150,000 in Eugene), but there seems to be more going on here.
In any case, if they want affordable housing, the only proper way is to fight for increased supply of housing, not reduce demand of housing by using violence to drive people away.
Yeah, I want to know what people think that alternative to gentrification is. Do they imagine that high income people will eventually just not live anywhere? Do they imagine that life would be better if all growth in the Bay Area were new construction sprawl out in the edges of the urban area where there's no displacement? Is it explicitly selfish, like, "go gentrify San Jose, those guys are assholes anyway"?
Hmm, I unfortunately can't remember the hash attack models right now, but you may be right. I think there are models under which this fails, though.
Thanks for pointing that out. Still, all-solid doesn't look like a very popular choice.
> They segregated themselves

Not a reason to instigate such as policy.

Bussing has other problems anyway, usually that being very bad for the health and performance of the children being bussed.
I interned at Qualcomm once, and they are a pretty great place to work if you are a software engineer with experience in mobile, embedded systems, or even .NET. Plus their mobile computing division is growing incredibly quickly. Over the course of my 3 month internship, my team almost doubled in size.

There is also a great web/javascript community that is growing in the area called sandiego.js (http://sandiegojs.org/). I attended most of their talks this summer and there were always people looking to hire people to do work for them.
At 54F ambient, wind chill at 40 MPH drops to just above freezing.
wtf was I thinking here?
I take that bus routinely (though not this morning), and I can assure you that its occupants are a diverse group of East Bay residents of many races and ethnicities (black, white, asian, hispanic, etc), and though I haven't done a survey, I doubt any of us are 1%s.

Many of us, myself included, support strongly progressive economic policies, but there is no real conversation to be had with people who will resort to violence like this. Sadly, use of violent and illegal methods to convey a message seems to be somewhat common in these parts.

I suspect that these "protesting" groups are acting out some sort of imagined war between rich and poor, and since the real 1% don't take a bus of any kind to work, we're their next best target.
I wouldn't call it hipsters or nerds. The nerd angle has little to do with it actually, in another city it would be financial workers, or lawyers, or local university students.

Anyone that can be spun into an "outsider".
It's as if you are auditioning for the Glenn Beck show. That's probably where you belong

edit: Since when is political vitriol acceptable for HN? If I wanted to hear bullshit political rants with gems like "traditional blacks" or "fuck you and your dreadlocks", then I'd turn on Fox News or MSNBC. Seriously, traditional blacks with weasely scare quotes? That comment could not be less informative, disingenuous, or falsely provocative. It's like reading something by a slightly racist college freshman.
Dunno, maybe spoken language does not have such strict operator priority. Or maybe it has one different than maths and programming languages.
NSA program stopped no terror attacks, says White House panel member
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/19/21975158-nsa-program-stopped-no-terror-attacks-says-white-house-panel-member?lite
People wear ear muffs in 60 degree weather here.
I don't get it.
These kids never worked a day in their life, though. Their parents provided them with all the tools to succeed, but they still managed to fuck it up. They have no desire to improve themselves, they simply want to continue to leech off of whatever person will tolerate them the longest. Sickening.
Announcing the debut of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph
> That describes a huge fraction of today's protestors and activists, which is why despite many things in the world sucking I rarely take today's "activism" very seriously. It's mostly activism-as-entertainment for trustafarians.

The irony is that your comment only emphasizes the severe disconnect between relatively wealthy & employable 'techies' versus the rest of the struggling recession-hit population.

It's hard to understand how life has changed since 2007 when, coming from a tech-related field, one generally doesn't suffer the everyday hardships that most Americans endure [1].

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/poverty-in-a...
Yes, the that was a very simple example.
Introducing Customer Acquisition as a Service 
You want to serve your customers profitably. That’s where your margin is. A big distraction is customer acquisition. That’s part of your “overhead”. Customer acquisition reduces your margin, because it distracts you from doing what you’re in business to do. Customer Acquisition as a Service is your solution.
A friend blew my mind with this a while ago when I was trying to track down a commit which broke something. This short guide he wrote gives step by step instructions for using it with your tests: https://gist.github.com/jordelver/5998870
FWIW, there is a SEBOK ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Engineering_Body_of_K... ) but I doubt it is what you had in mind.
Central Europe has good security tools for this. For example whitelist for transaction. Or approval for each transaction via SMS. Or temporary unlocking card while shopping
I made an app called PixelConduit which is fundamentally a lot like Quartz Composer, although the specific use cases ended up being rather different:

http://pixelconduit.com

The app became free last year, and I've also been thinking about open sourcing most of it, but haven't got around to it... (Well, some of the base libraries are on Github, but that's as far as I got.)

The code base would probably work nicely for something similar to Origami. If someone out there happens to be interested in building something new on top of the PixelConduit code, don't hesitate to get in touch!

(The major reason why I didn't finish opening the code is that some of it is quite old; there's lots of unused stuff lying around that should be cleaned out before a public release. But I'd be happy to share the code privately.)
As far as I recall, the power to decide how things should be rests with all the people, not just the landlords. The renters outnumber them, and they have the ability, the rights and the reason to achieve cheaper rents by allowing to build apartment complexes.
Scala macros that won’t kill you
Pay with Paypal and you don't have this problem, only they have your card number.

(yadda yadda weren't a bank, etc.)
Your disdain for people who attend Burning Man, have so-called 'useless degrees,' and are self-styled-artists does nothing but discredit you as a reasonable person. Plenty of people who fall into any combination or all of those groups are productive and capable, many of them in the technology/tech startup sectors (and don't have a problem with Google's buses.)

EDIT: removed some of my own frothing
Your data is still digital at least. What about the E. coli evolution experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli_long-term_evol...) that has to store its data in analog form in a freezer? You can't send that to other people with interest in the results by e-mail or FTP.
Let's be real. Some of the nerds are also hipsters.
I'm working through the irony of your finding GPG easier to use once it landed in emacs. I mean... Emacs for God's sake.

In all honesty, however, part of the "difficulty" of GPG is really by design. You need to be deliberate about signing and encrypting because security should be a careful and deliberate act. If you're hoping for the program to take care of it transparently, you're probably not being safe enough. At least Emacs requires you to go through an explicit process. As you have to do with everything in Emacs.
Yeah, I originally had thought to do it more like that, but I figured that the big win from having language-level support for something like this was the ability to have clear semantic definitions in the declared relations and concise queries, so I thought naming in the Foreign Key was the best way.

But I can see it either way.
Why You Shouldn't Copy Another Website's Design
...if you are going to rip-off another agency's website, at least rip-off the important stuff!
But, how is it that we recognize "many things in the world sucking" and criticize today's activism as lacking; yet have not done more ourselves to reduce the world's suckage?
Nobody should ever use shell=True.
A saner approach would be to build upon gpgme.
If "Gentrification is a dynamic and nuanced problem", perhaps throwing bricks through windows is not the best approach to finding a solution.

I'm not convinced that "gentrification" is always a problem. Must prices always remain the same? Am I entitled to be protected from competing as a buyer with other buyers who can put scarce housing resources to more valuable alternative uses, for example allowing someone else to commute to a job at Google, rather than allowing me to work a pizza place? This is not condescending, I have, and I wasn't surprised that I couldn't afford housing near the private university, or fancy corporate campuses at that time.

Furthermore, if we think housing prices are a problem, perhaps we should look at zoning and density. If entrenched interests prevent a majority consensus from altering zoning laws, then try throwing some bricks.

Has that happened in SF and I just don't know about it?
Exactly. They want a free lunch off the hard work of others. Otherwise they would have been on their way to work this morning, not vandalizing a bus.
It's the back window busted out though? So there wouldn't be a 40mph wind chill I don't think
I'd bet you've got it backwards, actually.

Google isn't trying to encourage people who work at Google to live in San Francisco: they are trying to encourage people who live in San Francisco to work at Google.

It's the same reason they have such a honkin' big office in the middle of Manhattan. They could much more cheaply have an office park out in western New Jersey, but having the office in Manhattan captures a large number of employees who want to live in New York City, and would end up working at a hedge fund to support their NYC-habit.

Likewise, they probably found themselves interviewing a lot of great people who turned down the job because they lived in San Francisco and couldn't deal with the commute, and would rather find a different job than leave San Francisco. (Or employees who were commuting by car/rail and were quitting because they couldn't handle it any more.) The buses were probably a cheaper / more satisfactory solution than setting up a new office.
Perhaps psychopathy is like being bald - no real advantages, perhaps a small disadvantage, but it doesn't disadvantage you enough to stop you having a few kids so the genes get passed on anyway.

Indeed, if psychopathy is a combination of traits ('feels no empathy' and 'good at faking empathy') perhaps the survivors had a combination of traits that helped them to survive, while those with one or the other failed to survive.
> No it isn't. It's done, individually, by the ISPs. They're not all using the same software either.

I take your point, but I don't think it invalidates the phrase "government controlled."

I agree they aren't all using the same software, and much is "voluntary." However, the UK web filter is:

a) In the 2010 Conservative Manifesto:

> establish a new online system that gives parents greater powers to take action against irresponsible commercial activities targeted at children;

http://media.conservatives.s3.amazonaws.com/manifesto/cpmani...

b) Announced by the government:

> all internet users will be contacted by their service providers and given an "unavoidable choice" on whether to use filters.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/22/david-came...

c) Implemented voluntarily by the main four ISPs (three down, one to go), but with the expectation all will obey it because it's policy:

> "Preselected" parental filters are now official policy, and should extend to small ISPs, according the the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's (DCMS) new strategy paper.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/government-wants-d...

... So, yes, it's not on every connection at the moment. But this is a government programme instituted by direction from the Government. When you combine it with the IWF and mobile filtering, it's not a misrepresentation to say that the Government is drawing up censorship lists and is approximately half-way through the job of making them unavoidable.
NSA program stopped no terror attacks, says White House panel member
It works well on iPhone 4S and up. And it works, but not great, on all android phones I've tried (including Firefox os on zte open!)

The point of rebuilding scrolling is to get the scroll position every frame so you can update the UI (ie rotate a photo or fade the left nav). You don't get scroll events during momentum scrolls so you have to rebuild it.
I believe that both of our experiences can offer valuable data points for others, and I believe that we should both feel free to share. I am somewhat concerned that my point of view is forbidden by polite society, as I believe the silence of people like me could lead many to misery.
> Any nsa contractor who depends on government contract to feed their families - is it wrong?

Anyone who chooses to work (directly or indirectly) for the Government should realize that the public good (not to be confused with "good for the government") must come above "feeding the family".

It is very easy to fall into atrocities and "following orders" when you do things in the name of "feeding the family". For example, spend a few hours playing "Papers, Please"[0] (or, even better, watching other people play it) and you'd be surprised how easily people start looking at the characters crossing the border as adversaries.

[0] http://papersplea.se/ (It's on sale in the Humble store for $4.99 USD.)
As of Go 1.2 (released a few weeks ago) goroutines are preempted. Sure currently this only happens in the presence of function calls, but it is hard to create a non preemptible infinite loop without function calls by accident.
Yes, I do warn my lower classmen not to get those jobs. But schools can mislead them and the "internship" experience can mislead them. It doesn't matter whether how we try to prevent them from doing it, the issue is how we the cryto community, how we Americans, and how we the society perceives and accepts NSA employees (ex/current). It is this "discrimination" I am questioning.

I don't think I can trust someone worked at NSA for many years either. I will give you that. But how should companies deal with these applicants?

> If a year or two of NSA interns have to learn the hard way that they'll never find employment anywhere else afterwords, too bad.

And that's exactly why my question is important to raise: how do we choose not to "discriminate" them.

EDIT

Downvoting on a moral issue? Really?
Of course, it's agit-prop bullshit masquerading as reporting. Self-satisfied ideologues (of all political stripes) are nauseating people.
>> Did unskilled rubes that do nothing all day put up banners saying "Auto boys not welcome"?

'Auto boys' are/were unskilled rubes.

Whites weren't holding up signs saying 'blacks not welcome'. They just left. It was 50 years ago, after all.

edit: They were, up to a point.
>For the last 50 or so years, "urban" has always had the property "bad school district." I wonder how preferences would change if urban school districts were functional, or at least more functional than most of them are now.

There is also the question: What is a good school district?

Are the schools themselves the actual cause of high test scores or the involved parents? How much does it matter if there are some low performers at your school if YOUR kids are learning fine?
That Elephant floppy disc ad brings me back to the days of poring over the latest issue of 80 Microcomputing.
Oh no I definitely believe that gender identification and sexuality are sliders rather than on/off switches. But I think that it was you who proposed a rigid framework where because society's unwillingness to accept your teenage inclinations somehow worked out for you, it might be better for other trans-gender people as well.
I used to live somewhere where I constantly saw these sorts of "activists" protesting: GMO foods, "chemtrails" (which probably don't exist), all kinds of trendy things to protest.

I never once saw them protesting for higher wages for the underprivileged, health care, or anything else that actually matters to poor people.

They were for the most part not poor. They were white middle class pseudo-artists engaged in an entertainment activity. I love the phrase "poverty tourism."
So... we need to organize a working class resistence against the... pretend working class resistance?

Not even joking. If the imposter protestors make it acceptable for "civilized" folk to have a reactionary attitude against equality concerns, they will become a (perhaps unwitting) tool of oppression of the poor, who do have valid (if unvoiced) concerns.
The problem is that a big corporation like Google gives less than it takes as of now, tax wise, and guarantees their employees a standard of living out of reach for most americans now, or the rest of the world for that matter.

A standard of living paid for, in part, by the very same taxes they manage to avoid, along with several other big corporations.
Not to mention they are no stranger to the US government, and probably might have helped the very development of those formerly secret and hated programs, also with direct knowledge transfer
http://cryptome.org/2013/08/assange-google-nsa.htm
It seems like you're correct in this case. Or at the very least there is no evidence for their implication that the protesters were black Oakland residents.

That said, let's not allow laziness on the part of the reporter who filed this story, and elective poor dreadlocked white kids to distract us from the real problem that is class disparity in the west. The elite live under different rules than the rest and the middle class is dwindling. That's way more important than bad reporting, which is just a footnote.