skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a very large adult website and wanted to integrate Stripe as the payment solution for subscriptions but like most payment processors in the United States they refuse to work with adult sites. Ironically PayPal is more accepting than Stripe and DOES work with adult sites (under certain conditions). Stripe on the other hand does not under any circumstances. I know adult websites are taboo, but it's really hard to find a payment solution that is as easy to use as Stripe. Does anyone know if Paymill fills that void?
I'm building an environment for computer vision, and I recently made a client that can run on the rpi (two minute video if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSigkvbpb_Q). I'm not exactly sure what possibilities this opens up, but I'm definitely going to dig into it and find out.
Is the sample form suppose to look like this?

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/09b77l09xvfrta7/2014-02-2...
Reddit has ads?
Live Q&A with writer and ex-TSA employee Jason Harrington over at Slashdot
In theory, if they can get enough people to stop blocking reddit ads, it might actually increase ad revenues. I guess we'll see if that actually works.
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Why exactly should it bee free? Its free for beta, and i could speculate that the price for the editor is somewhere between 30-50 dollars.

So if its too ethical to pay for quality software, just think about your own job, you get paid, right?

Sublime is not free, still people create packages for it, for free.

Do you mean that if the code is open to everyone, the software should not cost?

Kind of weird, using open source software to create software to make money, but not being able to sell software for money if its opensource.
1896 was still technically in the 19th century. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech
>"... spend 10% of a new form of marketing..."

Exactly.

Seems a big part of the Reddit appeal is the love for feeling a part of the collective.

All at once this reinforces that sense, lends a suggestion of passive nobility to using the site and pre-emptively defends an increase in advertising.

I expect they'll also see some jump in guilt tripping by the community around adblocking as well.
I am pretty sure the extra complexity would still outweigh the benefit of losing 500k bc at one time.
Proud to have worked on this during my 8-month internship at Broadcom. It remains one of the toughest and rewarding projects to tackle within the company. I am pleasantly surprised to see Broadcom open up like this and release the full documentation. A step in the right direction for a grossly under-rated company.
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I would go in the other direction and say that 'hackable' is so fuzzy that it doesn't mean anything.

"I hacked this wood and made a spoon."

"I hacked my breakfast."

I do get that there was at some time a group of people where it had a clearer meaning.
Stopping web scrapers with HTML character codes?
How robust is the idea to protect my website content from web scrapers by converting all my text into HTML character codes like this: <xmp>&#72;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#111;&#32;&#87;&#111;&#114;&#108;&#100;</xmp>
>Very not happy I'm not an investor in that company

So you want to be an investor now?
"how to milk a goat" LOL
My comment to which you replied was tongue-in-cheek, responding to the fellow who was defending lawful intercept. The point is that the NSA's intercepts, though controversial, have not halted nor have they been declared unlawful. (Not talking here about 215 programs.)

You're correct about iMessage, which is an important point to make. But you're not correct about PRISM; see my article from last summer: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/
The overwhelming number of shootings occur in gun-free zones. Its easy to believe; its true.
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No matter how many times I've said I'm not complaining about me, but rather using my experience as an indicator of how things must be in the big picture for many others, people just keep on responding like I'm only talking about me. Is it seriously that hard for people to think beyond self?
Same here actually: the intercity trains have been a fiasco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4#Controversy). But the metro system works well.
Just $10,000? Nice gesture, but they can afford to dig a
little deeper. Their card running Quake III at reasonable frame rate on a Pi is a big deal, and these cheap skates know it. (I hope the person who figures it out, doesn't
give them the code; just show them and collect $10,000 (A
years rent in a bad part of Oakland).
Don't let me start again... :-)
One of the bullet points on the broadcom blog post is: "Write general-purpose code leveraging the GPU compute capability on VideoCore devices"
Well if that's so untrue then you should take your mythbusting campaign to the Mt Gox page on WikiPedia where it clearly states this was the original intent of their business. Mt Gox stands for "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange", does it not?
One big difference between the two is that from what I understand is that with Stripe you use a shared merchant account where as with Paymill everyone get's their own. This explains why with Stripe you can be approved in minutes where as Paymill can take up to a few months at times.
I hate being this guy...but the first definition on Miriam Webster, and the one that I'm familiar with is:

'continuing or enduring without fundamental or marked change'

google gives a similar

'lasting or intended to last or remain unchanged indefinitely.'

Both sites list a bunch of synonyms that are closer to long-lasting and durable, but english is subtle. One can't usually swap in a 'synonym' without changing meaning.
From a technical point of view, it would be interesting to know how this performs near an airport. Multiple giant RF-reflective surfaces travelling much faster than 70mph must be very hard to deal with. Perhaps the lower per-transmitter power makes reflections at altitude less of an issue?

I've experimented with similar things in the past, and mainaining coherence for long enough outside the lab is Very Hard, so congrats on doing this.
Indeed, it seems relatively apparent that the name was originally related to MTG, and the original person had plans to create a MTG website, but I have never seen any evidence to suggest that a MTG trading website was actually created, let alone then re-purposed to be a bitcoin exchange.

There are plenty of things to find stunning or hilarious about mtgox without making things up.
ViralSweep Co-founder here,

The $13,000 figure is only applied to the new customers they picked up with their promotion, based off of current LTV figures JewelScent has.

Your second question raises a good point, which is hard to substantiate either way given the youth of both JewelScent and ViralSweep as companies (i.e.: we'd need more data and more time to know for sure). The priority for both companies is to deliver a great experience for our customers; the needle will continue moving in the right direction if we can continue to do so. It's easy to get bogged down analyzing data whose impact is dwarfed by executing on the 'Big Picture'.
If you go to your user page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=binarysolo

One of the links is 'Saved stories'. That's every story you vote up.
If a person is determined to break the law against murder, they will have no hesitation to break lesser laws as necessary.
Is the NRA a non-profit? That's the sort of place I see redditors shooting for.
well in my opinion, central banking is vital in my trust of a currency as well. But others may disagree. Otherwise, you're just dealing with gold, which is a regression.
That's a heck of a strawman.
There are already ads on reddit that say "Thanks for not using adblock." Though they may get more blatant as time passes.
Does anyone else feel like this is extremely suspicious (classic misdirection) given the negativity surrounding the moderation of Snowden's latest leak?
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They have a "gold goal" progress meter at the bottom of the homepage sidebar. I assume this is approximately "amount of gold purchases needed to keep us from losing money today" -- it's usually above 80%; yesterday it was 107%.
Ugh why do we need an entire blog post about a tweet
I believe this could negatively affect SEO
I'm in the process of integrating with Paymill. I can't say much of the service itself yet, but they are trying to help with the registration process, even calling me when needed. I'm optimistic for now.
In this case, scraping content makes perfect sense for a search engine that wants to show previews or other useful content for search results. Not sure what the big deal is, aside from providing somewhat nonsensical fuel for people who really, really want to have a big finger-pointing "j'accuse!" moment with respect to Google.
Non-profit == noble cause?
I don't see how this can be considered "Massively Viral". Not even viral, it isn't even interesting or note worthy.
Buttercoin – US-based Bitcoin exchange
If the scrapers are targeting your site specifically, then it's not even remotely robust.
I did some quick research. Nothing definitive, but that's not what my research suggests.

TL;DR Gold-as-currency first used in Egypt 4,000 BCE; Egypt implements a commodity-tax somewhere between 3,500 - 20 BCE; Coinage first cited between in Lydia 700 - 550 BCE.

Could you give me an example, like I originally asked?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money#Early_usage

> It has long been assumed that metals, where available, were favored for use as proto-money over such commodities as cattle, cowry shells, or salt, because metals are at once durable, portable, and easily divisible.[45] The use of gold as proto-money has been traced back to the fourth millennium BC when the Egyptians used gold bars of a set weight as a medium of exchange,[citation needed] as had been done earlier in Mesopotamia with silver bars.[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia

> According to Herodotus, the Lydians were the first people to use gold and silver coins and the first to establish retail shops in permanent locations.[12] ...

> The dating of these first stamped coins is one of the most frequently debated topics of ancient numismatics,[14] with dates ranging from 700 BC to 550 BC, but the most common opinion is that they were minted at or near the beginning of the reign of King Alyattes (sometimes referred to incorrectly as Alyattes II), who ruled Lydia c. 610-550 BC.[15] ...

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt#Early_history

> Ancient Egypt, or the Egyptian Empire, was a society that began about 3500 BC and lasted until 20 BC when it was invaded by the Roman Empire.

> Ancient Egypt had a lot of different taxes, but there was no real money, so people paid each other with goods or work. The person who watched the tax collection was a scribe, and every tax collector in Egypt had to tell him every day how many taxes they had collected. Each person paid different taxes based on the work that they did: craftsmen paid in goods, hunters and fishermen paid with food, and every single household in the country had to pay a labour tax every year by helping with work for the country like mining or for canals. A lot of rich Egyptians paid poorer people to do this for them.
> The Fed is not the same thing as the government.

And the Army isn't either, strictly speaking. But it's clear that the U.S. government has no right to control something like Bitcoin, and perhaps more interesting, it's not clear whether the government could control such things if it had statutory authority.

Given the Bitcoin is international in scope, and given that Bitcoin isn't solely a U.S. medium of exchange, the U.S. government has no right to control it, only to forbid its use in certain U.S. transactions if it chose to do so (as the Chinese have done).
Of course, the more wallets you create and sell, the higher the probability that at least one of their buyers is stupid.
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What are your thoughts on something like Sublime Text? That's a product which is highly praised by the community, yet remains closed source.
Actually I seem to recall that the eyes are much more sensitive to heat; the eyes have sensitive tissue and cannot shed heat as fast as the brain.
Ah, thanks. Poor reading comprehension on my part.
I didn't bring it up initially, but there IS a huge cultural divide between 'real americans' and multiculturalism/cultural-liberalism, with security services mostly coming from the 'real americans' camp. That's what the OP was presumably referring to with the "right-wing" comment.

Libertarians are theoretically on the sidelines of that debate if not fully on the multiculturalist side. I guess discussions like this one separate the actual libertarians from the crypto-republicans.
A decision like this isn't made over night.
I would so much like to have something like that for python...
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Yes, if you remove AdBlock (or similar) you'll see them.

Also it has plenty of hidden adds crafted as submissions.
And if we're being legal, a willingness to take it on the chin with short term capital gains rates on everything you rebalance.
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I actually have a strong opinion about the distinction between "software engineer" (someone who has a real computer science background and a disciplined approach), and "developer" (someone who knows a bit of Javascript/Ruby/etc). Developers don't know the difference, because they don't know what they don't know.
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If that is all you see, then you're missing the bigger picture here.
You need more than just 'an utility'.

You need trust, competence and support.

They need to be good at everything they do. Usually you won't get that from clones.

Don't get me wrong, there are usually where a clone could be good, but the Samwer Brothers don't do it to be the best.

When shit hits the fan, you want to be sure that Stripe will step up - don't expect that from cheap clones.
Unfortunately "clear" is not a binary state.

Absolutely clear and honest would be something lie "we intend to take your free labor, declare it our property forever, make money of it en put it in our own pockets".

No one would consent to that, so organizations use weasel words or bury it in the small print. Mostly, they just obfuscate the consequences. Especially the "property" and "money" bits.

And yes, that is a "trick", even though by some definitions they are "clear" about it. Thousands of lawyers make a good living off that distinction.
Its not effective vs any scraping; how do you imagine scraping works? In the most basic case, a program makes a HTTP request, gets the source of your page, and processes it via a HTML parser.

In some cases, the same HTML source will be run through a headless browser to parse it, in which case javascript trickery can't protect it either.

The basic answer is: if an end user can see it in a browser, you can't hide it from a scraper.
Are you serious? Of course it isn't. Not everything is a conspiracy theory, you know. That was to to do with the moderators of /r/news and nothing to do with Reddit itself.
Yes, but constant factors matter.

Consider the simple case of a flashlight bulb by itself, versus in the flashlight (with a reflector). They are both inverse square brightness, but the constant factor in the flashlight case is much smaller.

Similarly this will make coherence areas that will be very small. Wasted power will be approximately inverse-square, but the falloff will be small enough that for short distances you can ignore it.
I can't agree with this enough. The article tries to paint all teachers with the same brush, which when you get to know teachers you realize is absolutely ludicrous.

No system is going to perfect the way teaching works, and it's obvious why when you look at the teachers themselves. They have wildly varying educational background, cultural background, social skills. Different motivations. Different methods. Of course some schools are better than others, because a variety of factors based on region and executive management changes the way students and teachers are sourced, to say nothing of prescribed curriculum and funded school resources.

So when people talk about schools, or teachers, or education in general in the USA like it's one big blob, I know it's a huge crock of shit. It's highly variable all over the country and even within the same local region.

The one thing that is fairly consistent, though, is the passion of the teachers. Most of them teach because they really want to teach. But there are myriad roadblocks to providing kids a good education - and that's in the cases where kids are open to actually learning. But I shouldn't address the elephant in the room of how the culture of parents who don't give a shit about their kids affects their education... then we couldn't blame an amorphous faceless blob of an organization.
I think that would depend on jurisdiction but I don't think reclaiming would be workable in this scenario.

Imagine this: I exploit malleability and deposit directly in my BTC-e account, exchange to LTC etc, etc on dozens of exchange and finally to USD. I cash out to cash and disappear. I of course gave my final stop false information. So now my last victim gets a claim, if this last victim happens to be an exchange and it is forced to pay up and the amount is somewhat significant that exchange is now insolvent. Whose problem is that? The exchange declares bankruptcy and their customers get a haircut.

This won't happen, it does more harm than good.
> It is a fundamental prerequisite that the currency have a backer for said currency to be used widely.

Why? Does it hold true after Bitcoin (rhetorical, we don't know yet)?

Certainly before the invention of Bitcoin and the ability to reach consensus in distributed systems, powerful/rich central authorities trigger initial trust and adoption. Hence you can see why previous digital currencies have been none-starters.

That you must first have "trust" and then comes a critical mass works for bitcoin, the currency, just fine, imo. I would say in fact that the initial seed has already been planted back in 2011 and we are seeing the growth now. Allow me to just regurgitate some things I know of bitcoin that give it some value/trust/seed for adoption:

- completely distributed, no middle-men (and their fees and risks and inefficiencies) except the 51% miners. This is the "reach consensus in distributed systems" which fixes double spending which is arguably the only real innovation of Bitcoin (of course there is more to the story, but this is the real new thing)
- used to be the main way to buy illegal drugs safely and conveniently in the U.S.
- great way to avoid paying taxes (WARNING: probably illegal where you live!)
- great way to do other illegal things online involving money (aka free trade, freedom of speech)
- _exceptional_ utility in transporting wealth
- _exceptional_ utility in transferring wealth (to someone else). i.e. medium of exchange
- _exceptional_ utility in being able to secure
- _exceptional_ unit of account because of specific measure, fungible, and divisible
- known supply and predictable production rate (automatic, built-in, preset control)
- deflationary (can't argue it's good for bootstrapping)
- impossible to counterfeit

Some drawbacks:

- bad measure of value because of exchange volatility
- philosophical underpinnings or effects of being anti-state (see above pros) which also may have the effect of losing control of money creation and debt financing?
- deflationary and built-in control of supply (This is interesting. As I understand it from talking with a couple economists, the "infinite" divisibility may assuage traditional deflationary woes. Though they still generally have a feeling this is a con.)
- very infant, much risk
- will debt be possible, practical to build on top?

And sure, feel free to swap one or two pros/cons if you have reason.

Is there anything in bitcoin's (the "currency") growth to suggest it _won't_ reach a tipping point? I ask because from my perspective it's adoption is ever growing, never stagnant.

Maybe we are actually mostly on the same page? I couldn't be sure but replied anyway. Did I miss this point:

>such necessary characteristics of a currency
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You are conflating free-as-in-freedom and free-as-in-beer.

Software can be free (as in freedom) and open source while still not being free as in beer (ie, charging money).

davexunit is commenting on the fact that the Atom editor is proprietary (non-free) software, which has nothing to do with whether or not they are charging for its use.
As a member of the ad tech community, they're known as native ads and are the hottest thing in the business right now.
I'd like to make the point that PokerStars paid for these payments and offered to pay the players directly and immediately.

However, this offer was rejected, and instead PokerStars paid the amount of the balances (I'm not sure about any fees, etc), and then the players needed to wait until now to receive payment.

Rest of world customers of Full Tilt were able to receive payment from PokerStars long before now.

Edit: For transparency's sake, I do work for PokerStars, I don't speak for them, and I wasn't directly involved with any of the US/DOJ stuff.
Making arbitrary decisions to ban bitcoins seems fundamentally antithetical to the whole exercise.
Let's see what happens, if donations for Edward Snowden are ranked #1 at the end of the year... :)
A funny tweet; A grasping article.
(a) They are a charity.

(b) They demonstrated the Pi running Quake 3 at a reasonable frame rate in 2011. There's a picture of it in the blog post.

(c) The competition rules say "To submit an Entry, and Entrant shall email a link to a public GitHub repository containing the full source code for the Entry..." so just showing the result wouldn't be eligible to win. That and they already know what it looks like, because of (b).
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Why did you choose them over Stripe?
I'm willing to believe both sides of the coin now. Traditionally, I'm not a tin foil hat kinda guy.

I proposed a question that I thought was worth discussing considering the leaked presentation which highlights the psychological theater orchestrated by our government on a regular basis. Admittedly, I'm not nose-deep in all of the Snowden/Reddit drama either.
I had not considered this, and you have a very good point. Most of those people had been getting used to the idea of being rich, that it will be very rough for them to adjust.

Besides, the way their money is lost made it so much worse. The global value of btc crashing would be one thing, corruption would be another, but this level of incompetence.. it's almost harder to digest since they most likely are not guilty of any crimes either, unless stupidity would be a crime.
looks sharp, but doesn't wufoo have a pretty solid foothold in this market?
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Last time I used the Firefox Developer Tools (on 27.0.1), it was unusably slow, caused the browser to crash several times, and very unintuitive even when it was working as (I assume) it was intended to. Are there improvements since v27?
Is there a phpmyadmin thing for PostgreSQL?
We don't have any details of the Atom license yet, but it sounds like it will be equivalent roughly to Microsoft's shared source licenses for proprietary code: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source
When package managers misbehave, the whole software bundle suffers. Maybe the Node.JS project should have more (decision) power over its package manager. Node maintainers properly announce api version changes sometimes months in advance, so you don't need to read through the pr/issues on github or mailing lists to stay up to date.

I really don't think an advance notice would have hurt. So much for automation.