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Speak for yourself. I personally know a lesbian couple that forces their boy to wear dresses, play with dolls, and talk down anything traditionally "male".

I completely agree with your original post but it's hard to deny there's a turd in the feminist kool-aid bowl and no one is willing to pull it out.
ATMs and credit cards work 24/7 so no, banks do not close every weekend
still at least its available to merchants almost everywhere..
Thoughts on a DDOS attack
I stand by that comment. I'm disappointed that Bitstamp didn't take this issue into account when designing their exchange, but unlike Gox, their communication about the issue has been very good, and my confidence in Bitstamp remains unshaken.

Also, it appears that the Bitcoin network is under global attack by some large entity, so blame for the current exchange issues lie ultimately at the hands of some attacker who doesn't like Bitcoin, or wishes to plunge the price.
I use the greasemonkey script Hacker News Threadify and it works great for FF:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317
How do you compare to big players in the market like Concur, which has these features?
But that only works if what they say at the outset correlates sufficiently with what they'll do in office.
If it helps, the last time I was in a CS class before this current iteration (more or less to improve my career options) we were playing around with DOSSHELL and Turtle Graphics.
Crestmont Research Stock Matrix: http://www.crestmontresearch.com/docs/Stock-Matrix-Taxpayer-...

Key and other versions: http://www.crestmontresearch.com/stock-matrix-options/

113 years of stock market returns, adjusted for taxes, inflation, transaction costs, etc. Plus extra bonus history.
I think the best way to sum up Abacus is, "Expensify, but way easier to use." The UX is only what you need and nothing else. It's goof proof and just works, that I feel is the biggest value.
New chip lets scientists listen in on bacteria
"We figured pretty much everybody knows JavaScript"

Honest question and not trolling. Can I send a pull request to update this text to "We figured JavaScript is very popular these days....."

EDIT: I just did it anyway. Feel free to accept/reject
The Bitcoin community routinely uses the phrase "magic Internet money" to describe Bitcoin. You can verify this trivially via Google. There it is often used with the millenial I'm-joking-but-not-really sensibility. You might reasonably guess that that is not the type of humor I was going for with the reference to the community's in-joke, but that in-joke was not born of ignorance on my part.

People often deploy the word FUD to describe arguments about technology which have no basis in technical fact. Can you identify statements which I've made about Bitcoin which have no basis in technical fact?
Python's YAML implementation isn't safe by default. You have to use yaml.safe_load() because the standard load() function can execute arbitrary code.
> Is life always better with more money?

More money can buy you more security (unexpected medical bills...), free time (why not take 6 months off to travel?), and opportunity (I'm gona fund my own startup!) that OP might not be considering at the moment. With the future being uncertain, and all other things being equal between the jobs, it would be silly not to take the money.

Worst case, you shove it in a savings account/index fund and never think about it again.
FYI: It takes 3 days to get USD out of TD Ameritrade too.
Want to elaborate on systematic murder? I don't have any idea what you are talking about.
REAL UFO DURING RUSSIA NEWS
Twitch surpasses Facebook in peak traffic
> macros are an ugly solution, but they are a solution

Tangential, but a decent example of that sort of thing, a generic red-black tree written entirely in the C preprocessor: http://www.canonware.com/download/rb/rb_newer/rb.h
Htcat – Parallel and Pipelined HTTP GET Utility
If I understand Persona correctly, you are entirely welcome to have the bank keep your cell phone number on file instead of your landlord's number. You only need to rely on a landlord if you don't want to go to the trouble of carrying a phone of your own.
I don't get it. This is completely baffling to me that this is a company worth 9 figures.
Java memory model under the hood
The lines are blurred here between an exchange and a bank. Exchanges normally don't hold your personal assets. Bank of America holds my equities. I trust them to execute the trades on my behalf on the NASDAQ exchange. If something goes wrong with the exchange, I trust Bank of America to have my back (or at least trust that I have legal ramifications if they don't).

With Bitcoin the entity holding your assets and operating the trading mechanisms are generally the same company. This leaves a customer in a weaker position and could allow the exchange/brokerage/bank to get away with shadier practices. They can do things like delay the execution of a transaction until it better benefits them. Or they can unillaterally suspend the ability to withdraw funds with no advance notice, just as what is happening here.
Didnt this same thing happen in April 2013? Somehow a DDOS attack drove the price from $250 to $75. Then it went back up. My guess is the same thing happens here. Two years ago people used to bitch when the price dipping below $15. Here it is at $650. A week is not complete unless someone claims to be witnessing the demise of bitcoin.
The suggested script is kind of awkward if your representative is already supporting the USA Freedom Act. However, even if they are already in support, it seems important to let them know you have their back on this, and that your future support will continue to be contingent on their stance on surveillance-related issues (if indeed it is). I know not of these things from a political angle, but the following seems reasonable to me

1. Start the call by asking if they're cosponsoring of the USA Freedom Act.

2a. If they are not, use the script, it makes sense.

2b. If they are, thank them for their support of this bill. You can also let them know how important these surveillance issues are to you and the extent to which your representative's actions on these matters will affect your behavior at the polls and in donations.

Just a heads up to those planning to call (please do!). I felt kind of silly finding out that the first senator on my list was already a cosponsor after reading through the script, and wanted to save others the minor embarrassment. It should feel good to call your representatives and express your support for such important issues!

That aside, this is a really great campaign. Thank you so much to everyone who put it together and made it happen!!
You don't need to be a ninja-rockstar web developer to know js. But more importantly, I think it would be useful to emphasize the fact that pull requests don't necessarily need to be about improvements to code.
I always call it 'mount gox'. Whether it is the correct way or not I do not know. :-)
It wouldn't be trading at all, because it is paving new ground. If it wasn't, it would have no reason to exist, because a predecessor coin would exist and it would be unlikely that btc would have enough differing features to justify the risk transitioning to it.

The drama isn't because of bitcoin, it is because it is the first cryptocoin breaching new markets consistently. So as it treads new ground there will always be resistance.
Wouldn't it be easy to join by simply coming up with a username and adding it to https://github.com/larvalabs/pullup/blob/master/config/userl... – and then submitting a pull request for the merge?
Ask HN: Where do you search for talent?
Clearly, a referral is best.

After passing a job description around to your network, where do you post or how do you extend your search?
You may know more about the internet and web than Congress, but you are not typical. I would wager heavily that the staffers involved with these issues are in the top 15% in terms of their familiarity with the issues they work on. I'd wager a little that we can put a tighter bound. With direct popular vote, we'd be regulated by people around the median. This is not to say nothing else could be made to work, or mightn't work better, but your sophistry is unbecoming.
why cloning hackernews?
Back in the days when I worked at Newegg, average order values were in the thousands from all of the custom gaming rig builds so fraud was taken very seriously. Newegg did not allow shipping to an address that was different than the one on file with your credit card company so the only way to do that was for the customer to call the credit card company and add the new shipping address. I'm sure they lost some customers who didn't want to deal with that but they also severely limited their exposure.
Many things correlate to drops in real-world violence. Heat correlates with increases in violence; that is not a reason to depopulate the equator and colonize the Antarctic.

In general, the reinforcement learning present in humans mean that neural systems that are activated more are more influential, easier to activate, etc.. Exposure to violent media unsurprisingly results in increased availability (basically, increased access speed) of violent cognitions and behaviors, and lowered emotional responses (which is not a good thing -- it is very good to be disgusted at violent images, this is indicative of a trait called empathy which can be very adaptive in even the modern world).

Humans are not designed, evolutionarily, to disbelieve things we see. In our evolutionary environment, everything we saw was real. Special effects did not exist. It is actually cognitively effortful to disbelieve -- making research participants complete distractor tasks while having them discriminate between information marked, explicitly, as true or false causes them to be less accurate at judging. When you see a video game character kill someone and experience reward, that is an observational learning experience that is associating positive valence with violent behaviors.

Within the scientific community there's virtually no disagreement on this topic. Denying it is in the same class as denying climate change.

There is definitely a causal link between violent media consumption and violent behavior. Violent media consumption is neither necessary nor sufficient for violent behavior, but it is causal.

(This also does not imply that violent media causes large violent outbursts -- heightened availability of aggressive behavior could manifest as simply as being more easily frustrated or having a slightly quicker temper. But very small effects build up over time, sometimes into large amounts of lost value.)

I suppose your rhetorical question could be read as a value statement, in that it's ethically subjective whether violent behaviors caused by violent media are "bad". But since you seem to care about drops in real-world violence, I'll assume that isn't the case.
Looks great for when you need 37 3rd party repositories to get decent versions of software, and a couple of them screw up badly. Definitely going to give it a try.
Why not? He was a mass murderer and he did support germans and probably was draining info to them. It was an open hearing with local and foreign journalists, what are your doubts?
Although I find programming fun in general, using VBA is definitely not as fun as other languages. If I had more complicated uses for macros I would definitely shell out the $100 for it.
I hate to jump on the Klout-trashing bandwagon...but it definitely was floundering around. Its new redesign made it look like another generic social aggregator, contained significantly less data and insights (hard to believe, but yes), and was unreadable, to boot. But the randomness of the "Klout Perks" initiative seemed to be a sign of real meandering..."Use Klout and get a deal on Chicken McNuggets!" (http://www.publicrelationsprincess.com/2014/02/mcdonalds-chi...)

Yeah, hard to say what their pivot was going to be, so this acquisition is a better outcome than where things seemed to be heading.
Cyprus here. We actually have a monopoly with only 1 credit card processor. Very old fashioned, no competition to speed up things.

the joys of being a small market...
I don't know JS, and really don't have any interest in that site, but it looks like an easy enough language to figure out whatever the trick to it is.
Alienating Atmosphere
So first gox is criticised for blaming an old bug and now they are criticised for irresponsible disclosure. Funny old world.
The tricky part is transferring state between hot reloads, and that's part of what Erlang was designed around. State has to be passed in and owned by the callee. And if the format that state is stored in changes, you need to handle that translation in the new version.

It's definitely doable in C and C++. The question is whether it is easier to re-implement a bunch of what Erlang does for you, or to just use something that supports it directly.

Good ol' "build or buy?"
Protests in front of your local federal court house does nothing. It annoys the residents when FPS brings out the dogs to sniff trash cans and the college newpaper camerman is blocking your front door, and the real news media couldn't give a crap. Voting is the only thing that actually matters.
That's a very good point, and it makes me reconsider my earlier statement.
Some vending machines take credit cards now. Also, what year are you in? These cost $78 on amazon (312 quarters), not $187.50! :)
any time frame on this ?
Poll: Will the Microsoft/Nokia deal close?
Satya Nadella is in charge and it's all about software now. How much does he want to own Nokia's feature phone factories and all the other detritus that comes with Nokia handset business?
Yes. Nadella isn't going to rock the boat.
No. It's going to be cheaper and cleaner to pay Nokia a penalty for backing out than to deal with the mess if the deal goes through.
This site is actually for a new product: an API that lets developers push data (from any language, over REST) to the spreadsheets of end-users.

Not directly related to VBA or Python =)
Customer service is a cost center to most companies, even internet darling companies like Square. So you won't get any because it's cheaper to piss off a few customers than to invest in actual service. Until they feel some financial pain they don't care about you. Which would make a nice new startup, someone who actually worked with both customers (in this case sellers) and service providers to provide actual service. But I won't hold my breath as there is probably no financial reason to do this.
Unfortunately, the line between nature and nurture isn't delineated by mathematical sets, any more then the membership of a particular rock to North or South America.

How do we remove something we can't cleanly delineate? The answer is pragmatically, but while holding to our other principles.

If you wish to find oppression, after following the money, note who is silencing those who are tolerant and sincerely wish to trade in ideas and the truth.
Zooko's triangle is about secure name systems like DNSSec or Namecoin, not about user logins.
Vending machines often take credit cards over WiFi nowadays. Don't even get me started about the poor security practice of it all.
> 2. With password-based systems, a malicious provider could also intercept reset emails,

He could also intercept the login attempts (e.g. webmail login form => the password is typically sent in plain text to the server [regardless of transport security]), the user will never notice.
I don't think it needs to be widespread. I bet if you put this in a central vending machine in the food court of a college campus, everyone would know about it in no time.
Perhaps "and the changes sufficiently small"?
Agreed. You would not want to say "I was fired" in your next job interview.
What needed responsible disclosure was the fact that Gox was clueless.
Molecule-sized wires
First six months of my full-time entrepreneur life
Brain hack: you should sleep a full night every day. Wow what a hack.
Twitter's Search Function Down
I agree. The headline should have been, "Screwed by Thieves that used Fraudulent Credit Cards". It perhaps should have had a subtitle of, "My Education on Implementing Adequate Anti-Fraud Measures at my Company."

I'm not sure I understand why he thinks Square screwed him.
I measure my productivity in a language by how little code I can write to accomplish my goal. You seem to be saying the opposite?

EDIT: I guess you are saying something slightly different: that you can produce reams of C# code that works out of the box without many iterations. "reams" to me implies boilerplate & excessive ceremony, but I shouldn't assume that about your work =)
Fluent Assertions
I learned Scheme first. I still find that experience great.

But I moved then to Common Lisp and think that learning Common Lisp from the beginning is much better. Common Lisp is much better suited to write software than Scheme or even Racket. A good Common Lisp implementation has much better tools.

At the University we had a site license of Allegro CL from Franz, Inc.. Every student had access to it via the SUN cluster. That was a revelation to me. These tools were so much better to use and for learning.
Famous last words. I'm not saying that JavaScript is a particularly difficult language to learn, but most people make the mistake of looking at it's syntax and then concluding that "well, it seems pretty similar to Java, I can't just start coding away instead of learning about the basics".
A more PR-friendly headline would be, "Use Two-Factor Authentication to Secure High-Value Data." Persona is not the problem.
I agree from the original poster having done a lot of C/C++/Java/C# in the past.
Thanks! Yup - we batch up all approved expenses nightly and do 1 aggregated debit out of the company's bank account to kick off the payout. You know, we were also initially expecting to face more resistance, but it turns out finance departments actually really did mean well, but the tools (or lack thereof) that they had didn't allow for them to efficiently do a nightly payout. When you're doing things manually, it's more efficient to do things once every 2 weeks or once a month. By putting all of that on autopilot, we actually found the finance departments jumped on it because it's less work for them and the employees are not only happier, but also incented to submit in real time, meaning finance departments finally get real time visibility into expenses rather than having employees shoebox for a month!
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That's a very quotable statement, and it is indeed true -- some people are intelligent and sociopathic enough that they care about their own amusement more than anything else.

But sadism is very rare, in reality. Most robbers don't give the rubies they steal to the village children. Most galloping animals with four hooves are horses, not zebras.
Can you give me an example of a truly free market from history? By that, I mean absolutely no government involvement and regulation? I want to know what you mean by free market.
Starting a new financial system is proving to be very difficult. Who would have thought.
Wasn't it 800 at the start of the month?
I would use it for a CRUD app and I wish it had features that would support that. As an open-language, this input should be considered (alongside the input of the maintainers and other users of the language). I believe the top-comment here was saying that this conversation shouldn't be side-lined.
"The exact number of digits you need to know isn't relevant"

The number of digits doesnt matter but CVV vs. no CVV does make a difference. CVV is the way to verify that you are allowed to use the given credit card number (its actually the second V in the initialization).

CVV is completely separate from the way the credit card number is generated. If someone else has your card number and CVV it implies:

Either your numbers were stolen directly from your card or your information was stolen from some third party server.

If your information was stolen from, say a merchant's server, it implies that they did not properly encrypt your credit number and that they stored CVV which should not even be in their database to begin with.
That has very little to do with someone not putting the work in to make their CSS responsive.
It's a mental "snap-to-grid" problem. The average American hears the word "free", and they immediately think of $0, absent a specific pre-existing linguistic context (free country, free speech, free range). Because software is something that is frequently paid for as a product on a shelf, a non-enthusiast is always going to hear the $0 meaning in their head, even if they've been educated as to its other meaning.

At a high layer of abstraction, neural connections work probabilistically, firing in the path most likely to be a useful pattern; hence, most people will tend to assume "free" means "as in beer". However, a new term like "liberated software" will not trip this pre-existing wiring, forcing a new pathway that doesn't have to compete with the conditioning created by a lifetime of marketing messages ("Free Checking! Free Estimate! Free For The First Year!"... etc)
It seems the general consensus believes it was MtGox's fault that they didn't handle the protocol correctly. The only way to spin this on MtGox is to blame their protocol problems on BitCoin itself.
Instead of having to click the bookmark, why not present it as a plugin instead? Allowing for it to be automized.... Just a suggestion.
> webmail login form => the password is typically sent in plain text to the server [regardless of transport security

I don't understand what you mean. If the form submit is over https, isn't the password neccesarily (not just typically, but always) _not_ sent in plain text to the server, but sent encrypted via SSL/TLS cause that's the whole point of https?
Who said they were criminals. They were elves who Stalin the Terrible sent there so that noone could stop him eating even more babies.
> Unfortunately, it's more important to spend trillions on other countries than on America and Americans

Clarification (I agree with your gist), that money gets funneled through the military industrial complex back into "construction companies" (i.e., haliburton), security companies (i.e., Blackwater/XE) and various other US-based corporate socialism babies.

Very little of foreign development money is actually seen by the countries we "occupy" or "assist". Please see Confessions of an economic hit man for more details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_...
This is such a common refrain in the tech space.

"We provide you with this disruptive new service that's really cool. Oh, it doesn't work for you? We also provide you with absolutely zero support."

Sometimes this means you lose business for a few days, realize you were dumb for building your business on top of a company that can't even be bothered to give you a phone number, and move on.

Sometimes the company takes the money out of your bank account and gives you absolutely no recourse.

If Alex had time and money, he could bring charges against Square. Not that he'd necessarily win, but he'd at least get himself on their radar (and hopefully get a settlement just to get him off their back). Thanks to Square, he has too little of both right now.

It's stories like this that make me realize how grateful I am for companies like Zappos, whose big selling point was (and still is, reputedly) "we're not jerks". I had to contact their customer service back when they were still independent, and I was very pleased with the experience. I still shop there, even when it feels like I'm paying a premium, because a company that treats me decently is worth it.
We're similar to Concur, but simpler! We don't have 'expense reports' — each expense is submitted on its own, and we bake reimbursements right in — you get paid out right to your bank account as soon as your expense is approved. Concur is targeted at 5,000 employee+ companies, our sweet spot is 5-100 employee companies.
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg60ztgSzm1g10zm...