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I am all up for a fast way to buy/sell electronics off ebay and craigslist. So in that sense, this is a good alternative to try. Some of the issues that I see upfront:

- Ebay prices. Is it just me or ebay average price is really not a good indicator ? Yes ebay has cheap auctions but at the same time, there are a lot of "buy it now stuff" that is sometimes overpriced. How does it compensate for that ?

- "No shipping". That is a little misleading because even though there is no shipping, a physical meeting is necessary at the seller's preferred time/place according to them. So how does that make it any better than no shipping in terms of convenience ? Unless I am missing the point.

- One personal thing. It is 2014 and yes apps are the thing but there is no web version at all ? What if I want to browse through the listings and sitting on my computer? I guess i understand the point that the mobile part makes it fast/easy but personally, I would prefer a web version as well (unless it is in works)
You ask some computer-politicians to do real research and tech-work? NO WAY!
1. This is supported through frida.spawn() and frida.resume(). This is however only implemented in the Mac backend for now.

2. Yes this is indeed the case - and using Frida's Stalker (code tracer) you can even trace code without software/hardware breakpoints or any modifications to the original code.
it didn't feel "weird" to me per se, i see the value. but, also with all due respect, i'm concerned the people who need to read this probably won't be at all familiar with Aaron and it might hinder the message.
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No, and in a civilised open plan people keep it reasonably quiet most of the time.

Note that I did't say put your music on, headphones are enough to say 'do not disturb'
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I've been on the service for a few months and find it really helpful. I've sold a ton of unused gadgets through fobo that I was always too lazy to post on craigslist.
Oh ... it just doesn't work right. If you type in two words, instead of giving you fewer results it gives you more results as it matches separate instances of the single words in the query ... pretty dumb actually.
I used FOBO to sell a bunch of stuff I'd had lying around for ages. It worked great. Highly recommended.
May God bless him! Amen.
I didn't know this one, and glad I do now! Is it possible that the other one I wish existed is already commonplace? I'd like to have an arg that cd's to a directory automatically after mkdir'ing it... or mv'ing a file to a directory.

Something like:

mkdir foo -go
and
mv foo ~/bar -go

... Probably simple enough to script, but I guess I'm too lazy at the moment.
I don't think that story means what you think it does. It's a tale of wealth and power. Money is just one part of the equation.

It also perpetuates the right-wing myth/prejudice that poor people are lazy and can't handle larger amounts of money than they "need", which has been proven wrong repeatedly.
If sufficiently popular websites do a "black out" or whathaveyou, it becomes a major media action. Imagine if wikipedia and google simply returned a page that described the problem instead of what you looked for. This affects a great deal of lives.

That said, I don't think there's any substitute for people on the street and other people talking to the political & bureaucratic workers to change policy and procedure.
But, given a single large very high resolution monitor and a tiling WM, don't you get the same in the end but with vastly simpler hardware setups?

If you are so keen on the 'physical separation' then perhaps a WM that includes some synthetic black bars to give defined visual separation of tiles?

You didn't specify what resolutions your monitors are running. Out of curiosity, what are they?
Treat your employees like adults and provide options. The best employers provide a mix of all three: open space, offices, and working remotely.
Rebasing locally before "publishing" (pushing) changes to the central repo is definitely okay. It should always be done before pushing the branch for the first time, really, because if someone else has modified develop since you started your branch, you want to make sure your changes are still working and won't break the build (on develop).
BTW here is a nice project I came across that should do the same thing as Fiddler, but it's for Linux rather than Windows:

http://mitmproxy.org/

To decrypt HTTPS you follow the same procedure of installing a root certificate on your phone.
I think this bitcoin craze is seriously going to hurt the chance of cryptocurrency ever being accepted. Most likely the governments are letting it slide because they probably know it's not going to work. Let a black swan hit and crash the bitcoin that robs it of any trust. Is a government that invades a country who tries to accept Euros for petro oil seriously going to allow a currency they can't tax? People couldn't do shit when NSA snooping on them hit the news, and they are seriously thinking that this new cryptocurrency will replace the status quo?
Thank you for the feedback. That was my original intention, but seeing the constant location updates from Foursquare while writing the article surprised me (admittedly not too much).
some nice walls of text here. If you can't do, teach. Tell him to love his wife and spend as much time with her as he can, if he values her more than his own ego. There's plenty of time to get that winning idea. He isn't some freak from a Stephen King novel and he doesn't need therapy or any tibetan bullshit for dead people.
just a note: Mitchell Hashimoto is the mastermind behind Vagrant and Packer.
I appreciate your candor, sir/madam.
Well, it's a start. However, I agree that it's far more of a branding exercise than an agenda, not dissimilar to professional activists organizing a crowd and then handing out a bunch of preprinted signs to the people that arrive. I don't blame the organizers for this; it's symptomatic of how internet culture works (bootstrap a meme, leverage resulting audience attention) and of the difficulties of organizing in a representative democracy context.

The ideal would be some model legislative proposals or some sort of nominally nonpartisan congressional committee with teeth along the lines of the Church committee in the 1970s (but even that ran into significant opposition at the time, being accused of treason and so on by the usual self-appointed superpatriots.

The basic problem is threefold.

1. The United States has a strong economic and strategic interest in preserving the international status quo or moving it in a more liberal direction (qua trade, promulgation of legal mutualism and so forth). Naturally, maintaining this position is going to involve extensive intelligence-gathering activities.

2. While this is often denigrated as a form of neo-colonialism, there's a fair degree of evidence that it results in better overall outcomes globally; were it to withdraw and leave a power vacuum, that space would be occupied by less scrupulous actors. Although the EU is second to the US in economic power (or even first by some measures) the EU is ineffective at projecting power and less able to provide security to its allies, both practically and politically (consider the rather milquetoast response to the protests in Ukraine, for example). For examples of the alternative, consider the autocratic and cynically populist governance of the Russian Federation or the relative opacity of Chinese jurisprudence.

3. Given the ever-lower barriers to collection and aggregation of data resulting from technology, private actors are able to accumulate and leverage huge pools of data, from Facebook to credit bureaux and consumer intelligence brokers such as Axciom. Until people are willing tolerate limits on private sector activity (and thus financial opportunity) similar to those resulting from EU data protection laws or the like, it's simply not realistic to expect that government should limit itself to technological capabilities that are less than the private sector or even abstain from aggregating publicly available data. This would just result in a a different kind of power vacuum. For all its faults, government is procedurally accountable to the citizenry, whereas private entities are accountable only to shareholders, and shareholdings are fungible in a way that citizenship is not.

As I've said a few times before, I think the US needs a movement for a privacy amendment to the constitution that spells out the scope and limitations of individual's control over their personal information, as opposed to the hand-wavey and contentious judicial interpretations we operate under at present. Putting this in place is a decade-long project, at minimum.
> I don't know of ANY legitimate business that "cannot take credit card purchases because of possible chargebacks".

But a random person trying to sell something on their own cannot take paypal because of possible chargebacks. And we're all paying a premium on the prices because businesses have to cover chargebacks in their pricing.

It's a huge problem for example in trading online game items; the current solution is to have reputation threads, where you have your previous trading partners vouch that you did not chargeback your paypal transaction / did provide the item as promised. Taking paypal from an unknown party is a huge risk.
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I think we agree in the large part. The part about relying on a third-party professional was assumed.

I'm reminded of a relative's teeth: they might have been born with exceptional enamel, preventing all manner of early cavities, but now they lack the oral hygiene habits they need going forward.

Along those same lines: to what degree are you uncommonly well-adjusted, versus born to circumstances in which many of your foibles don't cause problems to _you_ because of the consequence buffer provided by fortuitous race, sex, orientation, class, etc.? I know I can get away with under-developed stress processing because I'm white and male and date women, for example.
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The guaranteed price would have to be extremely low, like when you take your big box of old DVDs down to those retail stores that buy them back used for $0.50-$1.00 each.

I'm not sure if this service is hitting what I see as one of the major pain points of selling your used electronics on cragislist or eBay: You have to list each item separately if you want to get any kind of reasonable price. Who else has one of those "big piles of old computer junk" stuffed in their closet? I do. There are probably a few items in there I could still get $40 or $50 for individually, but if I just photo the whole pile and sell it, I won't get more than $50 for everything.
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But in her time Jane Austen's prose was considered assertive and radical, wasn't it? Just because you think her writing is boring today doesn't make her any less significant in historical context.
Because no African startups whose main target was African markets have submitted feasible YC Apps?
The original link is quite embarrassing as well, "By the way, this may not be the case with advertising for Clicks to Website, Website Conversions, etc. - I don’t have experience with those."

I would assume these individuals know very little about advertising. This is unfortunate because it masks valid criticism about Facebook's platform.

The Facebook "game" is to purchase likes, and then use that as a base to target advertising. At minimum it acts as a filter so that your advertising is reaching people who are active Facebook users (they click like), if done correctly they are both active and have some passion for the topic they are "liking."

One of my friends is a consultant who has done extensive work with Facebook advertising and has to clean up accounts that are basically fucked because a previous employee/vendor/consultant purchased a bunch of un-targeted foreign likes. Once those off topic likes are purchased (someone in Pakistan "liking" Las Vegas) the subsequent ad campaign is ruined.

If you bother to measure your ROI you can make a logical choice as to whether Facebook makes any sense at all to advertise on. Perhaps the ROI is negative, but close to breaking even. You can then take a very tactical approach not just your Facebook campaign, but your site or app, to tailor to those Facebook visits, and get a positive ROI.

Some markets are so competitive, or peculiar, you just will not get a positive ROI. That is not a Facebook unique issue. It applies to all channels.

The discussion so far is one of, this makes me angry, and this doesn't make sense, completely devoid of a analytical approach to the issue. Whether or not I want to personally use Facebook is another matter.
Those are just the modern rich poster childs. The gross of wealthy individuals still come from the same lineage as a century ago.
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But the converse is also true, which is why I'd never sell anything to someone who wants to pay by paypal.
Adults are respectful of an open but communicative workspace. Conference rooms are a good idea but folks don't need private offices unless they are a noise hazard to other people.
The show Revolution uses source code from some open source computer vision projects and Prince of Persia if I remember correctly.
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"Why do you even need some personification?"

People need to be anchored in something they can relate to or is memorable or of note.

Think of all the laws like "megans law" etc.

Somewhat common to use a person as a rallying point for a cause.
The answer in the US for a stock brokerage is "categorically no regulatory-based liability". If there is nothing for a fiduciary that handles your money, there is no hope for customers of any other kind of company. I know this for a fact from first-hand experience witnessing someone's large 6-figure retirement account at Dxxxxxs (name disambiguation available upon request, post an email here and I'll send it to you, but most can guess who it is after this hint: BNY) get zeroed out from an information security attack, and helping with their subsequent attempts to recover funds.

The fiduciary admitted they do not suspect the victim drained the account on their own, and admitted there was no laxity on the victim's part they are aware of (no claim of password has too little entropy, for example). We suspect only a few accounts were hit, and all were drained due to an information security breach of some kind (the victim has some ties to sources who work on Wall Street who indicated they've heard about the breach).

The fiduciary proactively notified the victim of unusual account activity. That was the ONLY positive reaction to date (14 months ago now as of the time of this writing). The fiduciary then proceeds to:

* Lock out the victim from their own online account. Even read-only access to review historical transactions was denied.

* Mark the account "under internal security review", refuse any further discussion pending results of review.

* Make no effort to communicate with victim (my guess is they are likely expecting to lawyer up and go to litigation).

* Refuse at the local branch office to print off historical transactions (victim had switched to paperless a long time ago).

List of agencies contacted and who have refused to assist due to lack of jurisdiction:

* local police

* state banking commission

* state financial regulatory commission

* FBI

* SEC

* FINRA

* CFPB

I am waiting for the victim to give up all hope and give me permission to politely go through my attorney and if rebuffed out this publicly to any financial news reporter who wants the detailed information (account numbers, what little paper history trail exists, etc.), while giving the fiduciary a fixed amount of time to resolve. I might also involve the IRS after consultation with a tax attorney; there are some interesting tax laws that might be relevant from some basic research I did.
Ideally, they would just cut back their operations... probably they'll just raise taxes or start charging more user fees for other things.
I would really like to believe that calls to Congress make a difference.
Yup. The whole point is a build up to a "day of protest", but no mention what this is.

I assume all the avatar and banner changing is leading to February 11, the day in which we change our avatars and banners.
Feature branches really have nothing to do with CI per se. A feature branch is to test major changes without upsetting the stability of your build. Depending on your code review process, it also gives people a chance to give feedback and make changes before everything's merged back into develop.

In fact, the TeamCity CI system now supports automatically building feature branches -- so the two concepts are definitely not at odds.
Bitcoin is not virtual, its digital.
Not to mention young people are just smarter so just ignore all these old fogies telling you there's something wrong with open offices (except for yourself because, ya know, you're special).

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6171235-7.html
You should care, because without any protection for our own citizens, there is no possibility of protection for non-citizens.

That being said, if you best wanted to ensure that no US agency ever spies on you, a good start would be for your government to prove it never spies on US citizens. That runs both ways: you want to trust us, we want to trust you.

So, it takes both: a strong localized protection, and a verifiable remote protection. We're working on our side of the first part, if you already have the first part on your side, the next best thing to do is start working on the second.
> The perennial problem with discussions of Git workflows is the underlying belief that there exists, if only we can find it, the One True Workflow. This belief is false.

Nothing in the post explicitly says this, nor is it implied. You just took 7 grafs to say "the best tool for the job".
Yeah I understand that, I'm just surprised that it's feasible to make that much in technology. I had an offer from Microsoft when I graduated that was about the same so I'd have to gain around 14.5% every year to get to 165k. Seems a bit high or perhaps I was just being lowballed.
> If you still feel that BTC is a good deal and miners with 50+% of hashrate won't be dishonest in practice, then you buy. Otherwise you don't.

That's the thing -- I haven't formed a conclusive opinion on this yet. I was hoping that mining self-regulates to an extent that pools don't reach >50%, or that a majority pools is really transparent and trustworthy. GHash.io isn't.
It's not a chiclet keyboard. Looks like the keyboard for the thinkpad X220. in my experience it's a very good keyboard. of course I would pay a lot of money for a mechanically-keyed laptop.
The average honey bee only makes 1/12th of a teaspoon of excess honey in their lifetime.

The average skeptic/cynic makes none.
I know liability and laws are all the rage, but here is a different take:

I'm disturbed by car == snapchat software. They didn't get the security wrong either. Whatever people can do to abuse the system, at least the system exists in the first place. I fear that if you try to regulate software in terms of right and wrong or in terms of open car windows etc. you will end up with goofy standards that will stifle innovation. I'm sure someone could mention one of those standards.

The software is just doing what it does. You could call this "attack" a feature for power users.
Very true! As with life, ideating and running a startup is ver much a journey of chances and decisions. Such articles and authors' advice is as good as astrological advice for life!
What? Is this a plug for Budweiser? They are a terrible beer that is getting more terrible.

www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-25/the-plot-to-destroy-americas-beer
>Apple frequently gives "official" specs that claim a feature isn't supported when really it is.

"Supported" is not the same thing as "it works".
@james33 I very well know what they did and how they did it. My point was pretty clear though. Consumers don't use Bitcoin yet and won't - if any consumer is interested in Bitcoin, it's to make money by hoarding, not to spend it.
At multiple points during the planning calls for this campaign, we significantly changed our plans, the language, and our tact to make sure that our call was viewed as being considerate of international concerns. This letter originally had language to that effect, calling out GCHQ as a major part of the problem, and that surveillance does not only effect US citizens. For evidence of this, take a look at the "And Everyone Else Too" in one of the Facebook share graphics, which I added early this morning in response to concerns that that particular graphic was too US-centric.

When the banner goes live, we'll likely do IP-geolocation and offer users who are like outside the US a link to necessaryandproportionate.org, a petition to be delivered to international lawmakers.

However, given that many of the organizations behind the movement are US-based, it definitely still leans US-focussed. In some ways that's for the best: many of our organizations don't know how to be effective in changing laws in other countries. For example, during our planning it was suggested that we set up dial-in numbers for each country. After some research, we found that in many countries legislator's offices view calls as a nuisance and do not respond positively to them.

So, what I'm trying to say is: we're definitely trying to address this. And if privacy groups in other countries join us in setting up similar actions (as with the German rallies in solidarity with StopWatchingUs), we'll happily send international visitors their way.
Might sound lame, but as a foreigner, I deliberately avoid posting my opinions on the subject by fear of repercussion for the day I'll cross the US border and they'll have decided unilaterally that my opinions are suspicious.

From my perspective, it's like they read everything, look at your Facebook posts, your emails and what not, trying to profile you as a threat. And when they do so, you'll get on some listed that's automatically generated by some crazy scheme, and you'll no way to change that because you're not American, you're just some unimportant foreigner.

So although I have very strong opinions on the matter, I'm effectively censored by fear of hindering my future.
If I join this wont they go out of their way to spy on me?
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This might seem like an off the wall idea but as (in my mind ) this issue is part policy and part engineering problem, would co-ordinated themed hackathons focused around the idea of creating disruptive & secure communication techniques and protocols both further this general cause and appeal to the HN crowd at large?