skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brands you've focused on already have great online shopping experiences. The regional and small independent furniture retailers could really benefit from something like this where they don't have the knowledge or time to focus on their online experience.

Also, have you seen the numbers on big ticket furniture items bought online? Check out Wayfair's data. They're incredibly low so I doubt you can make enough money just through affiliate programs.
How is chrome becoming bloatware? Please explain.
Yes, did you? The Attacker got Paypal to give up the last 4 digits of the victim's credit card number. Then he called GoDaddy which allowed him to verify his identity by giving them the last 4 of his credit card number though the attacker said they would have let him guess multiple times.

If GoDaddy accepted Bitcoin PayPal wouldn't even be involved and GoDaddy instead of asking for information which is apparently easily pilfered could have requested the caller sign a message with their private key Bitcoin key corresponding to the public key from which they paid GoDaddy for the domain services to begin with.
On the contrary! You need to post links to these articles.

I want to read all of those articles.

I absolutely love the history leading up to and around the first world war, I've read a good portion of the issues of Punch from those years. But a headline is only enough to arouse my appetite without bedding her back down.
"it's nevertheless great to see people finding ways to bypass the stupid regulatory system"

Keep saying that when your "Freedumb Über Alles" exchange takes your USD, gives you 0 BTC, and tells you "tough shit, sucker".
Gee, you're going to have a hard time with bitcoin, hidden tor services, etc.

A) Customers locking themselves out of accounts

B) Accounts being stolen by identity theft

Pick one.

> I'm sure you could tell your customers "you get what you deserve", but not if you want them to remain customers.

I kill people for a living. You can tell me I could stop killing people for a living but then I'd stop having customers. Thus it's impractical to stop killing people.
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I actually built a very comprehensive site that did this exact thing back in 2011, even hiring a very good designer to help me with the graphics (paid with Bitcoins -- about 60 BTC for his work if I recall). The mobile web frontend for the Bitcoins->Card side worked well enough that I would load it up and use it to buy coffee at my local Starbucks via the PDF417-code that Starbucks uses.

However, I never released due to all the regulatory issues. Very unfortunately, FinCEN still considers this type of transaction to be an exchange of value, and thereby regulated. At the time, FinCEN still hadn't released their guidelines on digital currencies, but they were increasing their regulatory stance on gift cards. The situation is still not completely clear, even now, but I'm pretty sure that FinCEN will try to claim that this type of operation a money transmitter, with all the headaches that this brings.

Also, I wasn't sure if Starbucks would try to do something crazy like sue me to take down the site. But it was primarily my fear of FinCEN that caused me to drop the idea and put the code in storage. Regulation is taking a heavy toll on this country's innovation; this is just one very small example.

Interestingly, I had no problems getting a business bank account for the idea back then. I think it'd be much harder now.

Despite spending 6 weeks part-time on a project that I ended up scraping, I don't regret it since it was my first major Python project and eventually led me to learn lots of implementation details of the Bitcoin protocol itself (though that certainly wasn't necessary for my project).

Edit: clarity
I am not sure I get this....

Did your brother move into your apartment? Did you imagine a friend? Are you being sarcastic in a way I have missed?
This is the world's worst writeup of the world's worst penetration test report.

First, this article is on some linkbait site and it gets posted to HN.

Second, the author complains that these kinds of outfits haven't been "weeded out" of the industry. Anyone with half a mind in the security industry knows that it is filled with charlatans and snake oil. That the author finds this surprising seems to indicate they're a bit green. Nobody's been weeded out from existence. Thus, a little caution and common sense is required.

I suspect the author's associate probably did a Google search for "pentester" and stumbled upon this outfit. Or worse, he read the stunning Google reviews for this outfit.

Also, as a US company, don't use an Indian company for a task so sensitive, and where it's vital that language be precise. Maybe that's politically-incorrect, but its the truth. If you're an Indian company, by all means ignore this advice.
Seriously guys? Could you be more obvious? 5 new accounts with 1 karma posting one liners in 25 minutes...
Exactly what I thought as well, [as a Brazilian myself] I predict this PT-SO will be filled with "easy" questions easily answered by a search, and should have a very low level of actual good content. I'm not pulling this out of nowhere, I tried participating in multiple Brazilian programming communities, but it's always the same beginner-level-you-could-have-figured-it-out-yourself type of questions.

As for the youth that doesn't speak English well yet, I suppose they could see the low quality that this PT-SO would be as an incentive to actually start learning it :-)
I just had an interview where the company passed because they wanted someone with specific Javascript experience, and I had only useless unrelated experience with Lisp, C++, Java, and C#. None of those could possibly help a new hire be successful, when what they really need to know is the syntax of a specific scripting language.
It would not generally be of interest to discretionary traders (as you are likely describing) but for automated trading using statistical models it is important to be able to construct a continuous series. The sudden price jump from backwardation or contango contract shifts would otherwise appear to be a large price move. As the article points out the smoothing method chosen also matters in that ultimately some information is being lost so the smoothing method needs to match the model.

I'm not sure what is meant by the rollover smoothing increasing transaction costs, this might have caused you some confusion if you're familiar with futures trading. Generally the actual mechanics of trading with the continuous series is that trade entries and exits and position sizing are calculated from the artificial continuous series and a trade that spans a roll will be rolled over (ie the previous contract position closed and a matching position in the new contract opened) on the roll date just as a traditional position would be. There would be no need to trade every day of the roll window, it would just be a paper exercise to come up with a proportional price for the artificial continuous contract.
For the most part that's true, but (for example) unit testing isn't as important in Haskell as it is in Ruby (due to stricter typing rules). Even something simple like mocking an interface requires a lot of boilerplate in C.

That being said, there are probably some things that can be pivoted. The value is in having attempted them in pilot projects so that you already know what works.
Great idea! This is definitely going to be useful in class! Glad to find a place where I can easily find interesting research papers. Keep up the good work!
Reasons I would:

I might live in an area where furniture galleries are few and far between, and maybe I don't have a vehicle able to move anything larger than a small end table in the box.

I might have a friend whose place is completely decked out in furniture from these vendors, and she invites me over to a party, like tupperware or certain unmentionable things are sold.

You cater to a very specific group with high margin boutique furniture that is not available anywhere else but is nonetheless highly desirable.

Reasons I would not:

Furniture is like apparel and shoes; you can't describe an individual fit or feel over the internet all that well; that's why shopping malls stay in business and Amazon does much better selling coffee table books than coffee tables.

Try though you may, you would have to reach an economy of scale eclipsing a percentage of IKEA or Wal-mart to leverage the savings from not needing a physical showroom. IKEA thrives in spite of (and arguably because of) having really crappy delivery infrastructure, because non-crappy deliveries would blow anybody's margins.

What would really impress me is a self-assembling furniture kit, including 3-D printer/sewer, and all the raw materials to make it work. It may require a $10k deposit on a $40 chair, and require me to devote 6 hours of my labor, but I think that'd be an entertaining (and potentially quite profitable) alternative. Now to figure out how to make wood come out of a 3-D printer nozzle.
Udacity — new site
The article quotes 500 flips to get 9 in a row. I'm not sure how many flips this took but Derren Brown gets 10 in a row. Notable camera cut after the intro but the 10 heads seems genuine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uJD1O3L08
> more difficult than it could be

Installing cca. Can't seem to pass the cca checkenv test, because of Xcode command line tools (I don't want the full Xcode). Problem:

Xcode appears to be installed, but no version is selected (fix this with xcodeselect)

No solution with xcode-select. Maybe some better docs could help out frustrated devs like me?
The subject of your headlines is critical in my opinion. European news, or Americain centered, International? Popular news? Headlines that turned out very wrong, etc etc. There are so many subjects...
It's much too fun not to try it ourselves: http://jsfiddle.net/simonsarris/as2Zu/

So far I've "only" gotten 16 heads in a row after a few thousand flips
this story reeks of fake to me.

what sane person doesn't call the FBI when an attacker blatantly commits fraud against them, admits to it, and then commits extortion based on the successful fraud? Furthermore, what kind of attacker explains how they attacked? Thats ludicrous.

this has got to be some kind of roundabout way of advertising for the various competitors of godaddy mentioned in the post.
"Their chief pen testing monkey couldn't get into the USA for whatever reason, so he managed the test from India."

Well, there you go.
The sender and receiver are still necessary for the SMTP protocol to work, as the mail servers need to access that to know where to route the email.

At best, tor+pgp would allow you to create a pseudonymous email address (or series of addresses), but there would still be nothing stopping people from looking at your mailbox and seeing what other addresses you've communicated with, even if they can't decipher what those communications are.

The SMTP protocol itself needs rewritten to function more like tor, so that each intermediary is incapable of seeing the complete picture.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
Standing, corrected, thanks :-)
You're right, I'm not an active player. I'm likely referring to tactics that don't apply. I'm just going by the reports I've read so far.

I can see people sacrificing titans out of boredom, it's mostly wasted time unless they invested actual currency into the ship somehow. I seem to recall one of the massive battles lasted longer than normal simply because everybody was ready for a large battle more or less out of boredom.

Anyway, I'm more satisfied with this last statement than your previous as I was only saying that some of the larger corporations surely have a large number of titans sitting around waiting to be active. I wasn't saying they would have enough to replace 70 immediately, I was saying dozens which could be 24, 36, or 48. I say this simply because if you months of time on your hands and raking in serious resources on a large corporation level, why not spend it all on building the biggest ships in the game?
Scala tries to be Haskell but does so badly. Ceylon isn't trying to be Haskell, but the type system feels very Haskell-ish.

It isn't functional, but that's fine, it's based on the JVM after all so things like tail-call optimization are going to be tough anyway. It has non-nullable by default variables. It supports immutable data (and encourages you to use it as much as possible). The way you instantiate an instance of an object is very much like the way types are instantiated in Haskell. It has mixin inheritance which is very similar to an OO version of the class system in Haskell.

In other words, it isn't Haskell, isn't trying to be Haskell, and isn't functional, but it does have a lot of the things I love from Haskell, and it feels very elegant to boot. Scala I feel is what happens when you literally try to copy chunks of Haskell on top of Java, and it's a mess. Ceylon I think is what happens when you take the best features of Haskell, and where it makes sense to do so apply them to a traditional OO system.

I'd still rather do something in Haskell, but if I absolutely must use a JVM based language, I think Ceylon is a very strong contender that would make a lot of people who are familiar with Haskell feel right at home.
> I prefer the English wikipedia to my native one.

Yes, but obviously, you can read English. Most people can't.

> A good answer in English helps the whole [programming] world.

There is only about 1/10th of the population that speak English as first or second language[1]. I am sure that there are plenty of people that could use a good Q/A website where they can ask questions in their mother tong.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_numb...
They would but easy to fraud, because you could use stolen cards to buy them online. Then the guy who trades you for Bitcoins screwed when amazon cancells all the cards. If you can also buy starbucks cards online with visa/mc too then this whole venture is doomed as well.
Really interesting, he did iterate a lot :)
x264 offers a commercial licensing program for this reason.
I have different use cases in mind:

- A designer that don't know/don't want to write css. She can keep her design process and use Strapfork to create the css components.

- A designer that likes the workflow that Strapfork proposes (UI is part of the brand -> design components | design UI with mockups. Mix both in directly inHTML and have the final design in the browser, no need of photoshop).

- A backender that just want to customise bootstrap easy and fast.
A lot of times it is the company's hiring process that is broken. I recently did a phone interview for a company and it was an absolute disaster right from the start. The interviewer started asking questions about specific Python functions/methods without even asking me about previous work experience. He was so adamant in trying to understand if I could program that he simply forgot to ask about me. This turned me off instantly and I did not answer any questions. I kept the interview short and politely declined through email for any sub-sequent interviews.

Their product is APIs for the financial sector. I write APIs for a living, and have done so for a while. Including APIs for the financial sector. I understood their challenges, and the technology. But rather than try and get to know about my experience a little bit first, he decided to test me on my knowledge of some obscure explanation in the Python documentation.

In contrast, my current employer did the opposite. They got to know me a little bit first and then asked me questions about programming. They brought me in as a contractor for a short period of time and observed me work. Then they did three more interviews including a technical one. Which was really interesting to do because it revolved around the decisions made in the short project I was given. The process was very smooth, and I have already shipped a project for the company, and am in the process of shipping the second one. No silly questions about coin flipping, no fizz buzz on a whiteboard. Just real questions about my skills, and an opportunity to show them off on their own environment. I wish more companies hired this way.
I agree that it is completely deceptive that it is titled
"Now you can use..." and then you must sign up your email to join the waiting list for the beta.

Ridiculous. At least change the HN title.
Yeah, I'm interested in the results, but not interested in junking up their data in order to see them.
When experts give advice, they often forget how little most people know. Contradictory advice probably means they know which cases it applies in, and it should be obvious if you know what you are doing.

Ultimately, most of the advice will boil down to "be an expert". I guess that's what you're in for when you read a five point blog post on something which is really quite advanced.
Well, you can find the articles by googling the headlines. These are all from the New York Times and you should find the first result is a link to a pdf article there.
If this is a baseline for "very bad" penetration testing, it makes me think I could start up an "almost competent" low-end penetration-testing business just by blindly following a checklist found on the internet, as long as I used a checklist for the right operating system and proof-read the final report.
What is a Large Scale Complex JavaScript App?
How interesting. If he wins, he will be obtaining the same award as Obama. That just seems so ironic. You win the same award as the guy who has lied about what the NSA is doing, and what he is willing to do about it.
The team is infinitely more important than the language, and the Dylan Hackers team was top notch.
I really wouldn't let it worry you, there are many more things likely to make you fail than patents unless you are going into an especially patent heavy field (such as video codecs).

Patent holders generally need to target big players to get worthwhile payoffs so unless you are big (in which case you have already won) then it is only the Lodsys type scum you need to worry about trying to extort you (in which case your paranoia and research won't have helped because the accusation doesn't have to be valid to cause you problems). Lodsys and their ilk seem to have gone quiet (I don't know why) but I suspect that if you don't look like an easy target they may ignore you.

You also fear your emotions, try to look logically at the situation. Making $1M and having to pay out $13K to someone you feel is unworthy is annoying not heartbreaking. Making much less and you are hardly worth targeting.

I'm not saying that you have to like the current situation but that it isn't bad enough that it should be a major driver of your life. There are many reasons not to do a startup but I wouldn't let this be one if I were you.
Paypal is down, does not process payments
Paypal is not working as of yesterday.
Today Im still unable to process payments on PayPal. While trying to send money to an email address, I am seeing the following error:

--We're sorry, but we can't send your payment right now.--

Here is the url to the screenshot I took:
http://postimg.org/image/p6ssqgqk1/

Is anybody else experiencing the same problems?
I've been passively following the geekhack.org thread. I'd pay serious coin to get one.
In polite society we respect the ways that others wish to be addressed, as long as the request isn't unreasonable (I want you to call me 'Doctor wavefunction' yet I lack the credentials).

It is not absurd to refer to someone by the gender they prefer.
Apple to close down, because the company is just so sick of analysts
I'm curious. What is it about the freedom to conduct commerce that so upsets some people?

If I chose to spend my money on a business that you believe will rip me off, why does that make you want to post an insulting message on HN?
What is the issue with people noticing that you use bootstrap?
Yacon Syrup Recipe Book Contest
My entire post was sarcasm, though reading back through it it is rather dry and non-obvious.
>So the author would, presumably, on balance of probability, be convinced that no combination of any 76 coin tosses has ever come up.

Only if you presume that the author would make an error in basic reasoning for you to point out. Being convinced that it's highly unlikely that any particular combination of heads and tails 76 bits long has ever occurred with a fair coin != being convinced that no one has ever flipped a coin 76 times in a row.

I am absolutely sure that if you asked the author "Do you ever think that somebody has had a run of coin flipping that consisted of, in this order, "10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, and 6 tails," you would have gotten exactly the same answer.

Do you think that your described run is more likely to have occurred because it looks more representative? Or that since people have flipped coins more than 76 times in a row and had some result that all particular results can't still be improbable to have ever occurred or ever to occur? I don't understand your objection if it's anything other than post hoc reasoning (a particular arrangement happened, therefore its likelihood to occur must have been significant.)
Miracles are common.

God says...
look_buddy do_you_want_another I'm_grieved now_you_tell_me
I'm_not_dead_yet hippy look_on_the_brightside ha scorning
you're_so_screwed I'm_in_suspense who_are_you_to_judge
Oh_Hell_No I'll_ask_nicely absetively_posilutely adjusted_for_inflation
energy I'll_be_back employer sloth if_and_only_if sess_me
you_should_be_so_lucky I'm_gonna_smack_someone flat smack_some_sense_into_you
If_had_my_druthers okay ROFLMAO What_I_want umm_what_now
arrogant Jesus ROFLMAO delicious eh you're_in_big_trouble
liberal you_owe_me look_buddy glorious mine yikes I_have_an_idea
humongous oh_oh petty not be_happy I'll_ask_nicely I'm_not_dead_yet
China economy charity HolySpirit wanna_bet anger if_anything_can_go_wrong
no_way_dude quit joyful bizarre
It's in french, but...
http://lemoidului.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/lecon-au-plus-pre...
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Breaks at 8,192 of course...
> If GoDaddy accepted Bitcoin PayPal wouldn't even be involved and GoDaddy instead of asking for information which is apparently easily pilfered could have requested the caller sign a message with their private key

If GoDaddy separated authentication of requests from payment information and had any of a wide number of different authentication methods, this wouldn't have been an issue, either. Using PayPal -- or accepting credit card payments by other means -- does not imply (or normally involve) using the last four digits of CC number as if it were a PIN for authentication. (In fact, since CC numbers are widely exposed information, doing so is insane -- especially the last four digits, which are frequently used without the rest as a reference to identify a credit card to the owner of the card in contexts like receipts where the information is expected to be particularly public.)

Payment methods are really largely irrelevant here, GoDaddy could easily have adopted an equally stupid and brain dead authentication method if they took bitcoin as payment.
Here is a simple algorithm, espoused by many of the experts here on HN:

- With each engagement, increase your rates by 20-100%.

- Continue doing this until clients stop hiring you.

Note that if you deliver consistent measurable value, people will never stop hiring you.

Basically, you are over-thinking it. You don't need to do complicated math to determine your skill level relative the average employee, the salary of an average employee, or the TCO of an employee to a company. The only thing that matters is:

1) Can you deliver value?
2) Can you DEMONSTRATE to a client that you can deliver value?
3) Can you demonstrate sufficient value to make a $X000 engagement a good idea?
4) Realize that X can be whatever number you can think of.

For more detail, here is one of the definitive posts on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960
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