skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In The Netherlands you can go with a bank like ABN that issues you a dongle called the e.dentifier. It looks like this: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/dutch-ideal-paymentsystem-usi...

To make an online transaction with it you insert your debit card into it, enter a random sequence of digits displayed on the bank website as well as your PIN in the dongle to get a sequence of digits that you enter into the dongle again.

I found it annoying to have to carry this device everywhere in case I needed to make a bank transaction, so I went with the only bank in The Netherlands that does TAN codes, ING.

Every 6-8 months or so I'll get a sheet of 100 TAN codes in the snail mail, I'll OCR the full sheet with offline-enabled Android app whose name I forget, convert it to a text file, edit it a bit, and encrypt the text file with GPG.

Then when I need to make transfers I can ssh to a box or use my laptop to "gpg -d tan.txt.gpg | grep ^123" where 123 is the TAN code number that the online form requests.

They recently amended this system so that there's a second set of TAN codes (that comes in another snail mail) that they'll supposedly ask for if you make a transaction from a suspicious IP address, I've yet to use one of those.

It sucks a bit but I find it far better than having to carry some device on my person at all times.
Not really. The issue with BerkeleyDB was actually triggered by a new version of the Bitcoin client that didn't use BDB to store the blockchain and that simultaneously raised the number of transactions allowed in a block so that more could be processed. Older BDB-based versions of the Bitcoin client hit a previously unknown limit when attempting to process that many transactions, causing them to fork onto their own version of the network. The issue hadn't been noticed before because the number of transactions was previously restricted to a low enough level that it couldn't trigger the bug.
Sadly, http://business.transworld.net/132043/features/rei-overhauls...
I wonder if the same result can't be obtained by a magnetic ring ...
Just to hijack on one of your points: "it also helped that people really found Rap Genius useful."

This is painfully true, and I know it has been discussed in prior discussions. Rap Genius is without a doubt THE BEST lyrics site available, hands down. Even if the other sites weren't ad-ridden scammy buggy shitty websites, if they got their acts together and actually TRIED, Rap Genius would still be top dog.

I don't care for the attitudes or personalities of the people in charge, and I am absolutely disgusted that they felt the need to scam their Google rank, but I am willing to see that some infractions can be rectified through penance, and am happy to know that they will not be forced to shut down because of this fiasco.
There is a similar site [1] without external incentives (actually Proof Market is based on this). This site has active audience posting problems and proofs. Possibly Proof Market ends up in another example of overjustification.

[1] http://as305.dyndns.org/aps/
Afterall the "drug abuse" execution style is really used from time to time and not only a Hollywood invention. Curious to see what he was working on lately. I guess we'll never know. Being a hacker these days is a dangerous job.
The fact that you can request a google employee in a position to help you out to do so displays enormous leverage.

Imagine a business in Germany, Vietnam, or even.. Texas having to do the same? It's pretty much impossible. This is what happens to everyone else out there.

Which is what the parent is referring to when he says that google results aren't as neutral as they claim to be. They clearly favored someone with leverage in this instance.

But this is the only instance that we know of. So far.
Yeah, we,say the same thing about Obama here in the US.
Does anyone know of any note apps which support Linux, iOS, Windows, and OS X. Starts up fast. For example, vi starts up fast. Works offline and online. Always syncs without a manual step.

I don't care about pictures, or audio, or OCR, etc. I just want the basics to work and work perfectly.
What leak-debugging tools did you use?
In some ways, it's even easier for information to be lost in the digital age; unless it's in regular use, it can end up on crumbling tapes in an obsolete format that cannot be understood. There are various underfunded efforts to recover and transcribe old NASA data that suffer from this.
If it's centrally controlled that defeats the purpose of it being a crypto currency.
I use a folder in my Google Drive.
Umm there is a video demo and links?

https://workflowy.com/uses/wedding_planning/
Rand not Ron, but I know reading is hard.
Thank you, I came here just to point this out.
Take this article with a grain of salt.

Better yet, take everything from huffingtonpost.ca with a grain of salt. They make Fox News look unbiased by comparison...
You don't get it?

Split vote on the center/left (liberal, ndp, green), and liberal leaders who lack intellect or charisma or both.
I wish I could say the same about NYC startups. I once worked for a place where an employee left to a competitor which infuriated the CEO. As a result he had a meeting threatening to track down anyone who left and get them fired. In addition he made everyone sign a non-compete agreement or risk being fired. This startup is still around and doing just fine. I've heard similar stories from other nyc startups.
The OP didn't seem to explain too many reasons other than a link to http://jasonkincaid.net/2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elep... which to me seems to be a uber power user use case and a post that could use some rewriting/editing to cut it down to a post instead of a rant.

I just use it for text notes though. Evernote works great for me - I'm not going to worry about it.
Who takes heroin and cocaine and "other drugs" and then goes to lie in bed?
I know literally nothing about this, but would posit the hope that if multiple people have cared enough to implant an object under their skin, at least one of them would have considered a less-permanent solution like a ring before hand and tried it out.
Because it is a double standard. There are thousands of sites which get blacklisted by Google. I'm sure all of them fix their errors really quickly once they realize they are on the black list. And none of them get back on Google nearly as quickly as rap genius did.

If Google applied these rules consistently with all websites, I would have no problem with it, but they don't. This breaks the myth that Silicon Valley is a meritocracy - as it shows that the connections you have are as important as raw merit, if not more
The problem is with the product
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I have stopped reading it regularly. Just about once in the morning and the evening.
Someone should change the title to Rand Paul.
Thanks for the clarification on #scrub. With regards to guessing a given encoding, I remember trying some (or probably all) of those gems or those that were around at the time I was writing the app, but for a reason or another (I think some were not recently updated) I couldn't get them working so I came up with my own little solution.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to list them.
The whole issue of "if you have nothing to hide then you wouldn't mind the government looking into x" is a question of basic human rights. It's a question of whether or not the government has the right to invade your privacy even when there is no suspicion of wrongdoing. In a society that believes in the "nothing to hide" principle, citizens have no choices. They have no rights to privacy. They are trapped.

The "if you have nothing disparaging to say, don't worry about it" is a question of making a choice. If you choose to be able to disparage your employer in the future, don't take the severance. It would be your choice. If you choose to be careful of what you say, then take the money.

Monopoly affects whether or not you have choices in a society. The government is a monopoly, a monopoly that has the right to physically force you into compliance. Because of that simple fact, everything the government does or is allowed to do requires much greater scrutiny.
The cool thing about note-taking apps is that you can stuff tons of lists of little things in there over years, and it's all searchable. Evernote lets you put in photos, snippets of content from webpages and so on. Just copy & paste, and then it's available (and findable!) whenever you need it. Eventually you have a huge amount of content in there which is maximally relevant to you.
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Sorry to say, but your assessment of the site is 100% incorrect. It STARTED as a Rap Lyrics website, but it quickly expanded to be an ANY lyrics website (and they will probably expand beyond that)

The main driving force behind it is that anyone can edit the lyrics, and even better, anyone can ANNOTATE the lyrics to explain what certain sections mean.

Let's take for example the lyrics for Mumford & Sons' "The Cave": http://rock.rapgenius.com/Mumford-and-sons-the-cave-lyrics

I looked up this song one day trying to understand more of the allusions made in the song; I know the title itself alludes to Plato's 'The Cave' and wanted to delve deeper. Because of this site, I can see that Verse 3:

> So come out of your cave walking on your hands

> And see the world hanging upside down

> You can understand dependence

> When you know the maker's hand

is an allusion to St. Francis.

Most of the time when Rap Genius ISN'T the top result for lyrics when I google, I facepalm and go directly to their site.

I should emphasize here that this overly positive post isn't intended to condone their shady, spammy blackhat SEO tactics, but damnit if they aren't the BEST lyrics site by a fair margin.
Use Vim and GitHub Gists.

https://github.com/mattn/gist-vim
I wonder if this is just feel-good nonsense for the user or if it's actually because moving the mouse causes the message loop to pump and thus prevents something or other from timing out...
Method4:
just turn off the screensaver/standby?
http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/
nice way to say "it's not a bug, it's a feature".
the basic idea, is not around cryptography, the idea is to have, a truly digital currency, regardless of how it is 'created'. I just want to eliminate Card companies, and they were not made for Internet either. they are cool for offline shopping as you don't have to carry cash.
I've been using nValt with synching via SimpleNote. nValt is pretty nice, actually - the UI is optimized for fast searching or adding notes.
What is the best cross-platform note taking tool?
Keep:

https://drive.google.com/keep/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
I use onenote. Its simplicity and multiplatform support resulted in a lot of "is this really a Microsoft product?" reactions by people I showed it to. Definitely recommend to give it a try
For persistence & syncing: A folder called "notes" in Dropbox full of .txt & .md files.

For editing: Sublime Text on my netbooks/macbooks. Editorial on the iPad. WriteRoom on the iPhone.

Works for me ;-)
If you think Rap Genius is stupid try using any other lyrics site. That's what is so special about it.

Is anyone else getting more and more suspicious of the scorn that people have been gratuitously heaping on RG? Like, did they run over everyone's dog?
Move along lads... nothing to see here >_>
I had this bug once about 10ish years ago when I was still a windows dev. Creating a 2nd window on a thread with a window already but then pumping it's main loop on a background thread can cause this. If you do that the loops get hooked to each other regardless of the thread pumping it. The child window has to wait until the parent window forwards the event for the second thread to pop it off. A mouse move will send a WM event and keep the child windows loop on the other thread spinning. My WM_TIMER on the child window was stuck as well.

It happened to me because I had a hidden window on the background thread to get WM events for USB disconnect and reconnect messages from the system. The bug report was funny. "Connecting USB data collection probe doesn't work unless the user moves the mouse after connecting." and the follow up bug "Data collection only works when moving the mouse."
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His physical symptoms indicated an accidental overdose of heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs. The report said Mr Jack's girlfriend had found him lying in bed unresponsive, with "multiple bottles of beer and champagne in the garbage can".

Mr Jack's death occurred shortly before he was due to demonstrate how heart implants could be hacked at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.

This is an awful tragedy, but it seems hard to imagine that there was any foul play involved. They would've needed to subdue him and then make him ingest cocaine. Therefore they'd need to subdue him physically or chemically. Struggling for your life tends to show up on an autopsy, as does being subdued with chemicals.

It's not impossible, but the absence of evidence should lead us to accept the facts at face value.

RIP Barnaby Jack.
Although I understand your concerns, this is just how the world works. If you know the president of the United States personally, there's a good chance he might spend a little of his good will smoothing out some bureaucratic processes for you. Nothing illegal or abusive, just the president asking official this-and-that why process so-and-so is taking so long for your company.

It's not a question of having to do the same, it just means that knowing a Google employee with some magic power is a valuable asset.

But yes, if you're a company that doesn't have this asset and you make a stupid mistake like Rap Genius did your site might be off Google for a month or two, possibly destroying your business.

I still don't follow how that makes Google not neutral in any significant way.
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After getting frustrated with Evernote being slow and buggy I switched to Simplenote (http://simplenote.com/).

It's simple, fast and seamless. You start typing and it automatically syncs your note for you. It does one thing that does it well. That being said it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Evernote does (audio notes, OCR, etc).
I'm going to keep using Evernote but I'll factor in some of the complaints and horror stories by a technique called "backing up" or "exporting" my notebooks.

Evernote solves a great problem awesomely and at the moment for my personal use case. For now I'd rather focus on optimizing other things.
I'm not going to get into the fascism vs. not-at-all-fascism debate.

But there is something like nationalism at work here. You have the self-appointed champions of "real Canada" (Harper's base in the landlocked provinces) systematically undermining the knowledge and cultural capital of the Alien Other (the "weird" provinces that touch salt water, which for various reasons are all not quite "real Canada).

It's probably not fascism. But it's more than just bad policy. It's bad policy that consistently works out to the detriment of non-favored geographic, linguistic, and yes sometimes ethnic groups.
all it took was some country-wide election fraud

That's a bit of a stretch. A federal court found that electoral fraud had taken place in 6 out of 308 ridings, and did not affect the outcome of the election in any of those ridings. Meanwhile 12 ridings would have needed to change hands to change the outcome of the election.
I agree with this. There aren't enough applications yet that even touch what the Mac Pro can do, and when they do exist, limiting them by network bandwidth through colocation seems like a dumb move. Give me a farm of Mac Minis any day.
Where is a class-action lawsuit when you need one!?!
I believe google kkep has no clent for linux.
Dropbox with plain text notes.

On Android (and, I presume, iOS) it caches recently used files for offline access. If you don't access a file on your phone before going off-line it will show up in the directory listing but not actually be accessible.
You gotta come down sometime.
There is no legislation forcing Wal-Mart et al to accept returns.
Ah, thanks for posting this! I have been one of the unfortunate ones who could never even log into the site (tried numerous times over several months), but I tried today and FINALLY was able to login and view health insurance plans.
Seems it's more about incorrect implementation of an event loop rather than a change in active processes. I assume the purpose of the screensaver is to save the screen, not to sleep other processes when it is activated. I further assume that hardware interrupts and event creation are the things happening while moving the mouse continuously. Based on these assumptions, I'm almost certain the screensaver isn't the problem.
BTW, it also helped that people really found Rap Genius useful.

Er, what? You suggesting that Google execs are benchmarking the productivity of google searches? There are a million other "substitutes"...hence the shady SEO...
Although I may be an extreme case, I use Dokuwiki for notes/journals/logs. I wanted something that was OSS, as I am somewhat uncomfortable providing brain dumps to a corporate entity in exchange for a license. Wiki markup is great for quick keyboard formatting, and all data is saved in flat files, so a rsync via cron takes care of redundancy/backups. Revision control works, and I can quickly create a new user with limited access if I need to share, or export to PDF.
"The only way to have such a versioned history is ..." is incorrect, and trivially so.

Datomic provides one existence proof of this: Datomic's history data is kept in distinct data structures, so it is "pay as you go" -- querying history is more expensive, because there is more stuff. Querying the present is cheaper.

Datomic queries are datalog, and do not require writing map/reduce jobs.
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I have to note, you have to be big to make comeback like this. Google provided disavow tool, but from my experience it simply not working. So it is manual action for sure.
I created a project called http://dok.io
The goal is to easily create and forget (like in gmail) small piece of info (dok). The dynamic search helps to find them if needed later.

Of course it's collaborative (like a wiki) and everyone in the team can add/edit just by typing in the dok (like in asana), no edit button or whatever. Oh and behind, it's HTML5/JS with Meteor.

Feedback will be greatly appreciated.
This reminds me a bit of how networking works on OS X and iOS (at least if you are using the "standard APIs" the way they are supposed to be used: The networking that is going on is tied to a runloop. Some apps tie the networking stuff to the main run loop. You can see which apps do that by simply opening a context menu in the app somewhere or open a regular menu from the app's main menu. The run loops will be "halted" for as long the menu is open and thus your networking will stop. As soon you dismiss the menu the networking will continue.

At first this may seem totally bullshitty: Imagine a download manager. Do you really want the download to pause every time you open a context menu? Well it turns out it is not such a bad idea in many cases: What if the context menu allows you to cancel the download? If the download were to go on in the background you would have to explicitly take care of that. If you tie the networking callbacks to your main runloop this simply can't happen.

Of course there are also a lot of use cases where you want your networking code to not have anything to do with your main runloop...
after a year I still see "unnatural" inbound links in webmaster tool. So I would say it have no effect.
Text files on dropbox, using native editors is definitely the most portable solution with no vendor lock in. Dropbox's web site even has an online text editor.
Seems you're a new user - so a healthy tip: Keep those kinds of image macros for Reddit. You'll notice that the upvoted comments here are those that contribute thoughtfully to the discussion.
This is one of two main complaints I have with Go[0], which I've used professionally for the last six months or so. There have been several times when I've thought "if only I had generics..."

Instead I either have to use interfaces and casts (run-time when I would prefer compile-time) or write separate functions for each type (I wrote a Cartesian product library that abstracts the math involved to indexes and lengths, then requires a simple type-specific wrapper simply because of this silly language gap).

Despite that, I still really love Go.

[0] The other being that 1.2 randomly segfaults on my code base during compilation whereas 1.1.2 works fine. For this reason I haven't yet been able to upgrade until I determine the cause.
In life there is always a bias. When that bias is against you, you should learn how to fight back.

This is the PERFECT time for anyone who has done penance and is still being blacklisted by Google to document it all and go to the press.

There are A LOT of people/journalists waiting to jump on a story that shows Google has double standards.

But first they must be willing to do their part by documenting these facts and reaching out the journos. It will not come to them.

Like I quoted "to save a drowning man.....
This isn't really correct. Runloops have modes. Often networking happens in a mode that is not restricted (see NSRunLoopCommonModes here https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/... ).

If you are running your network code in default mode on the main thread (problematic doing that and it's probably better to use async methods these days) then yes that can happen but it's usually programmer error.

On Mac, entering a modal window will usually put the runloop in a context that regular events won't fire and only those that mater to the modal window will fire. Commons mode almost always fires though.

I work on Apportable (YC2011) and we have reimplemented CFRunLoop/NSRunLoop down to the bare metal. A lot of misconceptions on how it works we find.
Yeah, Markdown support would be lovely for me since I write almost everything else outside of Evernote in Markdown.

I’m leery of Keep because Google has already tried this realm before with Google Notebook and shut that down.
Fat has more calories per pound than lean protein, that's all. In this context, "fewer calories per ounce = healthier."
The way he talks is really great and you learn a lot from his tutorials.
>> This problem has been reported when querying an ORACLE 7.3 data source by using the following ODBC drivers. Sqo32_73.dll is manufactured by Oracle Corporation. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.

Maybe not the fault of Microsoft?
Having your (accidental, maybe stupid, very unfortunate) death picked apart like this has been, in front of lots of people who knew you, must be really bad. (well, I mean, you're dead, but knowing that this kind of thing might happen to you sucks while you're alive)
In Canada, at tech startup seminars, the lawyers remind us that the government has a "Ministry of Labour", and it is NOT called the "Ministry of Employers" for a reason. Lawyers advice employers to make the employee happy, or risk costly battles due to a complaint to the Ministry. As far as I know, you are legally entitled to either termination pay or advance notice, and holding it ransom as coercion to sign some agreement would be very risky.

Apparently some companies still download employment agreements off the web that have the "at will" clause but this makes them invalid.
Exactly... where ~40% of the pop vote leads to a majority government & incontestable omnibus bills.
It's not exactly a replacement, but I use fargo.io for taking notes. It saves to Dropbox with OPML files: http://fargo.io