skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus they are continuing to attract a host of litigation from both individuals[1] and nations, alike.

[1]
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/03/technology/facebook-privacy-...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/195351255/Campbell-v-Facebook
> In the end, I think it makes sense that it should be the merchant's task to handle the refund requests.

Right, but the merchant is our customer, it's our job to make their lives easier.

And regardless of the details, my point is that you have to think about this case and others, and then make a call: it's not simply drop-in.

> If the possibility is not built-in to bitcoin, why do you feel that you should make it?

Consumers feel safe using their credit cards because of things like chargeback protection. If Bitcoin is really going to become a thing, it will need to have consumer protections built in. Doesn't have to be at the protocol layer, but it does need to exist in some form.

> which has a much larger network.

Depends. Yes, it's much larger now, but Doge is exploding in popularity. It has a higher trading volume than BTC, and has a bigger network (measured in hash rate) than Litecoin.

Don't underestimate the power of Reddit to turn memes into something big. I agree it's not there yet, but it could be.
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Why do you presume to talk down to me when you haven't even bothered to address the points in my post (in particular the concrete examples I gave of rational agents vs simulations). I have a PhD in economics, but I don't insist that people take my word for gospel. You on the other hand, seem to think that reading a single book makes you an expert.
The new Ribbon is basically a menu that is built out of extendable XML parts that can grow and shrink on context.

I don't see why its bad at all frankly. It is most definitely a win from a user-experience perspective. Even more so... its a win from a developer perspective.

A single XML file can serve as a consistent menu across old-style C++ COM programs or even be used in the new .NET / C# programs. You no longer have to worry about resizing icons to the user's screen, Ribbons automatically stretch or shrink as necessary.

Just from an API perspective, they are far more powerful and consistent way to communicate between the user and the program.

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Menus of old can be well designed, but they won't be consistently designed across all programs.

That said, the older menu system of MS Word was well designed. The real issue was that they totally reorganized everything in a feeble attempt to get people to start using the more advanced style options of MS Word.

"Properly" using MS Word involves using it more like LaTeX or HTML: you use semantic markup, and then later style your document. (or use a style that is consistent with the rest of your office).

But people would rather just hit the bold button or italics button. They don't want automatically generated table of contents or figure charts... they want to manually type that stuff in... like a typewritter from the 80s or something.

I don't know, I can agree that the new Ribbon interface makes it harder to do certain things in Word, but that was unfortunately the purpose. People need to learn the semantic-markup style of Word and start using better methodologies to organize their Word Documents. But no one seems to put in the time or effort to learn how to use the programs they use every day.

Anyway, I've put in the effort to learn the "new way" Microsoft wants you to use MS Word. And I personally agree with Microsoft, documents are much more consistent, and much easier to update styles consistently across the whole document when you focus on styles first and foremost. Hiding the Bold and Italics buttons (and several other popular... but "wrong" features) was a wakeup call indeed.

The problem is that most users don't like being told that "they're using the program wrong". Part of it is truth (really, the new way is better). Part of it is business based though (Using a document editor as a fancy typewritter means you're ignoring a lot of useful features... and are probably better off using the much simpler Google Docs, or OSS like Abiword)
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Finux.
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I started building a SaaS for the legal industry around 2004. It was very small targeted at specific industry. Back then it was very hard to get everyone on board to use Credit Card. I ended up automating everything (including the monthly billing sent directly the user's inbox), but because of difficulty of payment gateway processing (getting a merchant account, parsing the authorize gateway code)

And since I was a one man shop, I just had my users to send me checks at end of the month. I was not the best organized person back then. So let's just say there were quite few uncashed checks. Really wish Stripe was around them.
If I open an incognito window and hit it again, why does the price change?
Before Charles Lee started Litecoin he created Fairbrix, a re-branded and tweaked version of Tenebrix. If you know anything about what happened to Fairbrix it is clear he was learning on the job (not a "competent dev" by your standards). Looking down your nose at Dogecoin's devs because they are still learning the codebase is pretty hypocriticial.

http://www.coindesk.com/litecoin-founder-charles-lee-on-the-...
They did. There are two versions of (client-side) Windows 8: Home and Pro.

Almost everyone wants the cheaper Home edition. Businesses who want Group Policy and Domain Joining will spend the $50 extra for Pro.
Oh that's awesome. What was your team name/year? I may have saw you on the scrim servers.
I find it interesting when someone is watching what looks like HD video on an iPhone 5s on the train. At arms length I would expect that something less than full res would be sufficient, but I don't know if the phone can let you select.
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Feynman once said, speaking of the merits of seeking inspiration from experiments rather than isolated theory, "The imagination of nature is greater than the imagination of man."

Riffing on this idea, the imagination of a human opponent (even when expressed as an algorithm) is far greater than the possible counterstrategies you will imagine yourself when inventing your own system. Having a motivated, intelligent, competitor actively probing your designs for weaknesses rapidly teaches one about the extent to which your expectations for what a given design will do match up to reality in the wild.
Wow, this makes me NEVER want to use app.net

I don't understand why they need to start a kickstarter style campaign with "stretch goals" to decide if they should support Bitcoin. I'm no user of bitcoin, but either use it, or don't. Don't try to con users into using it just to decide if you should support it.
I'm pretty sure the OP is the CEO of Amplitude ;)

Edit: https://amplitude.com/about
You have repeated your belief that if you /feel/ threatened then you /are/ threatened. But threatened feelings are not enough to convict. Feelings are not facts.

But, let's suppose you /were/ right for a moment. What conclusions would that lead us to? If you were right and gaius (the poster above) or I felt /threatened/ by google's actions of photographing our houses and slurping our wifi credentials, would that mean that google had indeed threatened us?

After all, he /felt/ threatened. In your words, the perception of being threatened matters, right? So, if you're to be believed, google _has_ threatened /me/, because /I/ feel threatened by their taking pictures in public and slurping my wifi. If this is true, then according to you, what they have done /is/ tantamount to mob rule and harassment, and Google /is/ guilty of same, as it follows all the way back up to Bahamat's post above.

But of course this is not true. Google is not guilty of mob rule and harassment. Or do you believe that Google is guilty of mob rule and harassment?

If there is a threat, there must be evidence of a threat. Above posters and I have requested evidence. Evidence of a crime, not evidence of feelings. To back up the charge of a threat, can you articulate:

1. A statement to inflict pain, injury, damage, etc.

2. The event for which retribution is sought?

If you have those two, you have a threat. Otherwise, I'm very sorry for the feelings you feel, but the protestors have acted no worse than Google. I'm grateful my country allows us to communicate our grievances to one another.
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I tried googling the name of the article earlier and it didn't work, but apparently I screwed something up. Thanks for the link.

And I like clicksthrough :)
In what world does dropping in a Google-supported library, tested on multitudes of hardware and OS combinations and used widely by developers, cost more than rolling your own UI components and testing them yourself?
Does the higher usage related to the high video resolution of the Retina displays? Does more data imply higher res video and graphics, or data in the traditional sense, words and numbers and perhaps maps?
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ditto. lisp will never die, but to see that a lisp is the fastest growing language on the list is heartwarming.
Nobody is engaged with their phone. Their engaged with their SO, and use their phone to reach them. There are no engaging apps on the iOS at all.

My son, and millions of others, who continue to feed the coffers of such companies as Supercell, Rovio, etc, demonstrate to me that something is very engaging with their iOS device and apps.
> corrupted but legal government

How do these things go together? They are passing laws in clear violation of the usual process. Of course everything a corrupt government does is legal, since they just make whatever laws they need... you could say the same about Nazi Germany, and it'd be technically correct.

Also, the "legal government" is also trying to violently stay in power, while the protesters stayed peaceful until they were brutally attacked (by now, some have been murdered). So claiming the government has some sort of moral high ground is kinda rich, if you ask me.

> Sure it isn't obvious choose as you try to present it.

Are you projecting? The poster just posted a donation link, and then you claimed it's a clear-cut situation of a "corrupted but legal government against people violently trying to take power".
You don't really need to be a master of a specific language. You just have to understand general programming concepts. The hard part is getting the right approach to searching for vulnerabilities. Learning to recognize everywhere the target system is taking input and estimating what it is doing with that input is where the skill is at.
Sites that do user notices on a regular basis often create a system where small bits of text go into a DB along with start & end times for display, the admin who posted it (for auditing purposes), countries where it's visible, etc. There's an ACL for who's authorized to post new notices. Then the main site template has a section that's shown only when there's an active notice and automatically disappears when the notice is stale.

All this is probably overkill for a site like HN. However, think about things like tsunami warnings on the Google homepage. These get shown only in a certain geographical location, they need to be approved by multiple people, and they need to get pushed out to tens of thousands of servers, all within minutes of the alert coming in. There's a lot of complexity that can go into even a simple feature.
Are you seriously suggesting that San Mateo and Palo Alto are "urban", in the sense 'potatolicious means, of "offering a lifestyle comparable to that of Seattle, Boston, or Milwaukee"? San Mateo and Palo Alto are suburbs, each with essentially a single suburban main drag†, neither with any significant transit to get from point A to point A' (neither being large enough, as large as, say, Ann Arbor, to host a legitimate point B).

I think a reasonable case could be made that Champaign Illinois (which hosts UIUC) is more of an urban area than those two cities. At the very least, I think it's better than San Mateo.

I agree that San Francisco sucks (and I lived in SOMA and in Noe Valley, both of which have relatively good [for the area] transit), but it is at least an actual city.

The obvious elephant in the room here is San Jose, and it's telling that you didn't mention it, opting instead to pretend that San Mateo was a "dense urban area". San Jose is an urban center. But it's miserable; nobody talks about moving there. The fact is that San Mateo sounds plausible because of its proximity to San Francisco.

† For Palo Alto, I mean University; you don't need to point out that El Camino runs through it, I know where to go to find the strip malls. :)
How hard is it for anyone to file a small claims?
Not hard I think.
B6 is the IATA designator for JetBlue. People who travel heavily, or otherwise spend a lot of time talking about airlines, often use these to refer to airlines rather than writing out the full names over and over.

IATA designators for commonly-discussed US-based airlines:

* AirTrain: FL

* Alaska: AS

* Allegiant: G4

* American: AA

* Delta: DL

* Frontier: F9

* Hawaiian: HA

* JetBlue: B6

* Southwest: WN

* Spirit: NK

* Sun Country: SY

* United: UA

* US Airways: US

* Virgin America: VX
This can be modified by a criminal on the merchant server to go to <script src='//badguy.com/mystripe.js>

And then the merchant won't be following one of Stripe's two basic rules for staying PCI DSS compliant any more, will they?

That aside, of course you want to keep your server secure. But if you can't, as a matter of practical security and protecting cardholders in the real world, how would it be any better to have your site intended to transfer entirely to a payment service on their own domain rather than just loading JS from that domain? An attacker who has compromised the security of the files on a merchant's server can change an <a href='...'> that should transfer to the payment service so it goes to a hostile site just as easily as they can change a <script src='...'> that should load JS from a payment service so it loads JS from a hostile site.
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That site is hideous!!!!!!!! And I just begun webdesign and am if the minimalist credo
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It's not really a network of networks, but a central repo for social networks. They can store all your contacts and photos (etc) there, and then you can choose to share your photos uploaded from one service with your contacts on another. It keeps your identity intact across the whole network no matter what app you're using.
Just like the rest of the Internets.
How much karma do we need to change the color of the announcements bar?
My apologies then. Here are the links I had a skim through:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2012/05/25/social-grants...

http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=4121

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/young-moms-abuse-gran...

Please note the variance in the sources (even communist party :D ), so not really a biased picture. Everyone knows the grant system is being abused on a massive scale. Also the amount of people on the grant system exploded from 80 000 people receiving grants in 1998 until today's 12 000 000 people. And South Africa is not exactly a rich country...

As for my taxpayer statement, you only pay taxes if you earn above a certain amount. But it is a sliding scale system, so about 2 300 000 people are responsible for 93% of all the collected taxes, supporting 12 000 000 people. Not sustainable.

An in depth explanation:
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-tax/less-taxpayers-than-s...
I think the sheer number of people on Facebook is a meaningful differentiation.
That seems like the sort of market manipulation that you used to be able to do in equity markets before the SEC stepped in and at least made it difficult.

I wonder how common this is, or will become.
Humor is risky, sometimes it will flop, sometimes it will be greatly appreciated.

I think you need to do a little more than just plug cultural references, though.
I would love to attend to such an event but i am neither a MIT student nor living in the US (i am living in Germany). I wonder if there are more competitions like this but open for all. If no formal competition, i would really like to see games like these. :)
I think lots of video streaming is adaptive to bandwidth, and if you have an LTE connection that can handle HD video you'll get it. Still doesn't account for why the trend is supposedly 5s specific. Perhaps because the 5s can handle more LTE bands?
I've wanted to build something like Docker for FreeBSD Jails for a long time. I've been watching the Docker project since it was announced, and I spent this past week almost exclusively working with Docker and testing it for a possible production deployment (hope you get have a 'production ready' release soon :). In short, I would love to have Docker on FreeBSD!
I think you just hit on a major issue that merchants face when it comes to the PCI DSS. Many merchants have been wrestling with the scope of PCI DSS compliance for years. They are looking for easy solutions where unfortunately there are very few. The PCI council has done a very respectable job of creating compliance guides and standards documentation. However, when it comes to implementation merchants struggle with scope. If a merchant server as an example responds with a reference to the stripe.js & that code is then executed within the browser context of the merchant domain, is that merchant server in scope for that component? I believe it is and every QSA (PCI qualified security assessor) I've had this same conversation with has come to that exact same conclusion. If Stripe consults with their QSA and they come to a different conclusion, then I would hope Stripe would share that publicly with the community. That would certainly be a ground breaking event for those of us who deal with PCI DSS on a daily basis.

In terms of accusation, my goal here is to ensure that Stripe.com and others who are working in this space are being as clear as possible with their communication, that's it. Stripe is going to address statements like the one I pointed out on their site & hopefully as an industry we can get to a point where everyone is a bit more clear on what falls in and out of PCI DSS scope.
There's also the Wadsworth Constant.
(Linking to life-hacker rather than the reddit thread as it gives more background: http://lifehacker.com/5849342/skip-past-the-boring-intro-on-... )
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No, he just assumes internet usage equates to more phone usage. The proportion of apps and internet can be whatever, but more phone usage also means more app usage.
GCC support in XCode has been less and less GCC and more and more just the LLVM cleverly disguised as GCC. With XCode5 there is nothing left from the actual GCC project, even gdb has been entirely replaced with lldb. So now if you chose GCC in XCode you're not really using GCC at all.
You can do it- the competition and prizes are 100% open and they have people from lots of schools at the finals.
Not exactly true. If you send a push notification to a device using a token of an app that isn't installed anymore, the feedback service will let you know that the app isn't installed on the device anymore[0].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...
> Beyond all Companies/Organizations are not Governments

All juridical entities other than individual persons -- and this definitely includes all corporations -- are creations of government through which special privileges are given to particular individuals on the theory that by doing so some common good will be served.
Not saying your story wouldn't be interesting, but it wouldn't really be workable without serious surgery to the whole concept. If you remember the machines had several prototype worlds fail before the 'current' one. Humans didn't like utopia, so they gave them a world at the peak of their civilization.

If humans really just got fed up with the general awfulness of life, and made their own Matrix, surely they'd have come up with a better one.
"Where there's muck, there's brass"--Paul Graham, quoting some timeless business wisdom.
True. I won't argue that better, faster devices will get more usage. For the day that I owned a 5s, it was incredibly fast. There is one more thing I forgot, however -- there might also be a bias for the 5s in that early adopters (and those who upgrade every year) could be more likely to both own the 5s and have been trained by past iPhones to use as much data as they want. Those who stick with older phones might not use them as often off wi-fi. (Where "as often" is still within reach.) Who knows, though. Perhaps the difference is that the iPhone 5S is easier to unlock, or supports LTE in more places. I'm sick of guessing, at this point. :)
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shrug not like anyone cares which programming languages are popular anyway, forgive me for adding semi-relevant content to this thread.
>Nobody is engaged with their phone. Their engaged with their SO, and use their phone to reach them.

Actually a current problem is that people are TOO engaged with their phones, including in social situations where they should be paying attention to their company.

>There are no engaging apps on the iOS at all. Name one "killer app" for iPhone, and it would probably be Google Maps

That's an interesting, if kooky idea, but totally on the outlier side (if you're from an older demographic it might be understandable).

iPhone (and Android) users have apps they find very enganging apps that they spends hours on end with them.

From games like Angry Birds to Instagram, including various clients for stuff like Twitter, apps like Omni's GTD stuff, Paper, and lots more besides.

And if you ask (hobby) musicians and graphic designers around (which are in the million), you'll find they spends tons of time with stuff like music apps and paint apps.

>Nobody who does serious anything does anything serious on the iPhone other than talk or reply to emails like "ok I read this", (or just use it as a social signal).

You'd be surprised.
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There's a Youtube video in the middle of this that will let you listen to the music they're talking about. I hear it and feel compelled to start Skynet, so I can hasten the development of the machines that will send other machines back through time to keep that 16 year old from ever having composed that track.
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Neat concept for a strip. One nitpick though, harnessing solar energy would make energy cheap and abundant enough to keep everyone in VR forever. As soon as the tech exists, you wouldn't need an exchange economy for energy anymore, any more than one exists for air.

What wouldn't be possible is slowing the perception of time down so much as to create immortality. The sheer amount of processing necessary would put a theoretical limit on how slow you can make time, while still providing a fine-grained enough experience to be seamless.
> The obvious elephant in the room here is San Jose, and it's telling that you didn't mention it, opting instead to pretend that San Mateo was a "dense urban area". San Jose is an urban center.

San Mateo, at around 8K/sq.mi., is far more of a "dense urban area" than San Jose, at around 5K/sq.mi.

So who is pretending?
Personal experience doesn't bear that out. Back when I had an iPhone 3G, my most-used app was for radio streaming. I consumed 5gigs in a month easy with that. Don't confuse slower with incapable. The real question is if you can't afford a newer phone, can you still afford the more expensive data plans?