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> I know this is not a popular opinion, but is growing increasingly painful to visit a site that willingly allows to exist subreddits devoted towards domestic abuse and snuff.

How do you feel about visiting a country that allows freedom of speech and association? I don't like many of the worst of the subreddits either, but allowing them is probably much better than forbidding them for the same reason that we allow such things within the US.
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What are some great example videos of tech teaser videos?

Hardware style prefered.
Did you actually read the article? That's not feeding the trolls. That's, after six years of ignoring the trolls, deciding that it's gotten toxic enough that she needs to make a public refutation of weev's reality distortion field.
Citing a single example isn't evidence. Also movies have been less affected than music, which got the brunt of it due to Napster's VC-funded normalization of bulk music piracy. Movies have their theater runs, while musicians can only get live revenue by touring (which is hard work).
Like a lot of my fellow news hacker I preordered coin and was still waiting for it until today. Today I asked a refund. Between Apple Pay, Bitcoins and all the other payments technologies coming up I'm less and less convinced that my problem is to carry 2 cards in my wallet. I realized that my problem is to have to carry a wallet. I might end up buying the Coin or this fancy Plastc, but really I don't need it at all.
On collections - if you sign an agreement to pay and you don't make a payment, you run the risk of that going to collections. However, many monthly subscriptions have you prepay and charge you without your direct consent. There are many unscrupulous businesses out there, and it's easy to put a simple control over those charges to limit your exposure and the "grey charges" on your statement that are tough to get rid of.
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Congrats Peter! I've been using segment.io with many projects and clients since 2012, and I'm superhappy. Peter also helped me alot. My only concerns are:

1. That they will continue to raise prices like many other in the SaaS-space, without grandfathering excisting user/customers.

2. That they will keep limiting certain integrations to their premium plans. This prevents me from integrating with them for new "pet"-projects. I make a lot of MVP-type product for clients, that we test the demand for. For such products, I usually integrate with a lot of tools straight away (GA, Mixpanel, Facebook Ads, Adwords, Optimizely). Even though such MVP-project only will get a few hundre visitors, it still requires Segment.io's "Startup"-plan, which is 79usd/month. I think it makes a lot more sense to allow most integrations for the free plan, and rather segment your customer based on API calls. Many of the integrations that require the Startup-plans are really useful for MVP project (Facebook Ads, Adwords, Kissmetrics, Mailchimp etc.). So please segment your customers based on API-calls, not integrations (maybe except for super expensive enterprise software). I know I could just have one "Startup"-account, and add all the MVP projects to that account, but some of my clients want to have their own segment.io account.
Why are you pissed?
how long before numbers get collisions? are revoked credit card numbers invalidated forever?
I remember very well the Copland fiasco, and the only reasons NeXT and Be came as options was that both owner companies were run by former Apple employees.

The way enterprise does business, I doubt they would even be in the list if that wasn't the case.
Can you post some more details on your situation - location, jobtype etc ?
You might be creating the impression of not being sharp enough. It's probably true that you will never need to reverse a linked list in real life but it is not particularly difficult either.

It is just a fancier fizz buzz test.
You should really really REALLY read the article.
I can't help but think this must be vaporware. I worked in the credit card industry for several years. A credit card company is not something anybody can just start from scratch - you need data to model chargeoffs, fraud, spend, ect in order to be profitable. And unlike Robinhood, you need a source of capital to fund the cash you float, usually securitization or deposits.

I may be completely wrong, but I simply don't buy it. There's so much more to a credit card product aside from the nice-sounding features they have on their landing pages.
Am I crazy or doesn't this (temporary credit card numbers) already exist with a lot of major credit card vendors? I remember getting an Amex Blue card back in the early 2000's because it could do just that thing...
> I just want an online service that will generate a new credit card number for me on demand.

I'm wondering why it's not more widespread. My (small) bank has been providing me a unique card number for every purchase for at least the last 5 years, and they're not usually on the cutting edge regarding banking technology. You can also give a maximum amount that can be withdrawn on the card, and once someone has withdrawn money using that number, no one else can do it.
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Throwing up obstacles to building housing is often called NIMBY-ism or "PC", but it is also what owners of homes would be expected to do it they were maximizing their own economic self-interest
Also, rather than confirming via a link which then takes to the webapp for the confirmation, why not confirm them using say a reply email? this way the user doesn't have to leave their mailbox (more convenient for a mobile user)

Historically, because parsing email is hard, because a lot of reply emails will fail to include your magic verification token in them, and because (if you don't use a magic verification token) spoofing email addresses is trivial.

The easier solution is to simply not verify email addresses.
Yep, and still worth reading in either place.
Not all collections agencies are so sloppy and unscrupulous. If you do owe the money and they do have the documentation to support it, you may well have a judgement against you and that definitely will hurt your credit score.

Some companies (like say gym membership) have internal collections departments that can be quite aggressive. They would certainly be able to back up any lawsuit.

In general, you really want to try to avoid being sued.
It also appears to have a typo:

Enter your emaill address for early access...
Weird, their website seems to have the same color scheme as http://typesafe.com/.
Essentially your credit card number is like a transaction token now. If the token is compromised, no big deal the transaction is over and that token is no longer valid. But it has some backwards compatibility built in so you can re-use the token for systems that are setup to charge one number / token every month. Your credit card number is essentially an implementation detail of your card. Very cool.
"Immigrants coming here to freeload" and "immigrants coming to work industriously" are not mutually exclusive. The general concern is that immigrants work largely under the table. They therefore benefit from the welfare state without contributing taxes. In that sense they are "freeloading".

In other words, they contribute labor to the economy, but largely freeload when it comes to any government-provided benefits.
BTW: Just one example of a typical Linux namespace vulnerability:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-na...
Here's someone doing the math to generate matrices for higher amounts of parity: http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg44948.html
> something that is close to impossible in a super-static language like C++, which eschews most of those features.

I wonder what all those reflection libraries are about....

> As someone who likes C/Obj-C but absolutely despises C++ and everything to do with it, I count my blessings that Apple didn't choose the C++ route.

I hope you never get to write Mac OS X drivers then...
Absolutely, virtual cards have been around for years. But we've researched the space extensively and did not find a product we like or could use consistently. So we built Final. Some of the better products out there exist for customers outside of the US.
Am I really the only one to notice it says "Enter your emaill address"?
> Tired of your monthly yoga pants subscription? Or a two-week "free" trial that lasted four months? Just deactivate that card number. It's that easy.

Is it really that easy though? Sure, they won't be able to charge you anymore but that doesn't mean that you didn't enter a binding contract.

What you are suggesting here sounds neither legal nor ethical.
Speaking of which, how will you be different from other small credit cards when it comes to merchant relations? If I go to "Jo Shmo's Taco Shop" am I still going to need a back up Visa card because that's all they are willing to take?
Bank of America still has this. Log into your BofA account, then go to Accounts->Credit Card->Information and Services. Look under Features for ShopSafe. I use it when I buy from Alibaba.
I really hope they don't arrest him.

But at the same time, I hope they do and then he fights the CFAA and kills that stupid law once and for all.
SV seems to overvalue growth rates and undervalues durability.

This is because early investors have, presumably, already cashed out by the time durability is in question
"Free as in freedom".
Is credit card fraud a real problem for consumers? My experience has been that my number gets stolen and American Express overnights me a new card.

It's mildly inconvenient to update my recurring billing info, but it's not something I feel like I need a product to solve.
The hammer thing is about Uber. It was in the news recently.
It sounds like are questioning the value of loose work associates, I'm here defending the value of friends. Friends rarely ask me about doing work and I don't qualify my friends by their ability to do "useful" things for me. On the Venn diagram of friends/useful people I'd say there will be a lot of overlap but it most certainly shouldn't be a pre-requisite.

If you don't see any inherent value in having people to talk to, experience things with, and in general unwind with than you are either young and naive or a totally different animal than most of your fellow humans. In the latter case, feel free to disregard my message as it doesn't apply to you but if you are are in the former camp, I'd recommend you think long and hard about how you value people in your life.
Yes, I also worked in fields where this was a hot topic. The discussion techniques are very similiar. I can recommend reading up in those fields.

The problem is that online moderation has lots of particularities, especially the lack of face to face interaction. Not a lot of them are covered in published works.
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Is there any insight as to how this works? I got an Openness rating of 97% and a Harmony rating of 100%, both of which I know are not true. (I also received a Love rating of 1% under my Needs, although that's pretty accurate.)
The code hasn't been released in five years. There have been a bunch of security fixes since then, and likely many other changes as well.
> There is a roughly 1:1 correspondence between C and assembly.

I'm afraid that hasn't been true for a number of years. Turn on the optimizer and the resulting assembly can be totally unrecognizable as a translation of what you actually wrote. The compiler takes all kinds of steps both to eliminate redundant operations (via CSE, loop unrolling, etc.) and to take advantage of the weird quirks of modern CPU architectures, like out-of-order execution.
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> People on here claimed it was "impossible" because of how credit cards work

Hi,

Definitely not impossible, but if you are following the ISO you might end up running out of numbers somewhat quickly or having to reuse them, which I'm not sure it's very safe. But it really comes down to how many users you will have.

The IIN (first 6 digits) are fixed and only one can be issued for each company, etc.

I built a small gem that implements the ISO if you want to have a look: https://github.com/eduardordm/iso7812
Care to elaborate? Both on the exact nature of your expertise, as well as your analysis.
I don't quite understand it either; I find his videos to be slightly uncomfortable.
I really like this concept, it's great for using sites that you want to buy from but aren't too confident on their security, but it's not exactly new.

I had virtual card number generators in the UK 5+ years ago with cahoot (unfortunately they shut that service down) and you can get this kind of thing with Entropay and similar providers at the moment.

That said the app+management features look pretty nifty, so this could be a nice advancement of the concept.
Photographers are also open to alternative domains. Our company had to change its name early in its existence. When we were explaining it to some photographers we work with, they were surprised that we didn't go with .co or .photography (shudder).

.com is simple and guaranteed to work. By that I mean both with humans (who just assume '.com' is the thing that goes in the location bar) and with computers (Interac e-transfers, a way of moving money in Canada by sending to an email address, don't work with .photography domains).
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HipChat did offer up a free plan in recent history, unless it is the video and screenshare you are after.

https://www.hipchat.com/pricing
As an individual, yes. Airbnb is more like facilitating individuals breaking the law (or their contract ie lease), so most of the culpability falls on the individual, not on Airbnb.
>Some of the better products out there exist for customers outside of the US.

Would appreciate if you could give some examples for non-US customers, at least for another point of comparison.
Slack has a setting that allows anyone with an email address in your domain name to join without being invited. I imagine if you turn that setting off, this problem goes away.
Right now: we could move out of the city and live for decades on our savings.

In a month: most of our savings will have gone into a down payment on a house and we'll have about six months savings.
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You're right; occasionally you'll find a collection agency that has their act together. Luckily, collection agencies purchase their debt for pennies on the dollar, so they're happy to get anything. Start by offering them 10% of the debt, and go from there up to no more than 25% of the debt, stipulating (in writing) that its "Pay For Delete". This will require them to remove the negative credit information from your credit report/profile in return for payment.

4 states prohibit wage garnishments at all, and other states set the maximum at between 15-25% of your disposable income: http://www.walkawayfromdebt.com/worksheets&charts/wage-garni... (Disclaimer: Colorado SUCKS. They permit up to 75% of disposable income to be collected).

I've helped negotiate away quite a bit of unsecured debt for close friends. Its easier than you think.
Nice.

FYI: I infrequently post some of these tips to Google+: https://plus.google.com/+UmarHansa with detailed descriptions. Also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/umaar with less description.
I think most users understand how to handle that. Put your cursor to the side.

It's one of those things like don't ever use the text "click here" for hyperlinks because people know what links look like. In the same way, it's OK to implement scrolling on maps like this within the page.
There is no such thing as total security, and so there is no such thing as total privacy, nor anonymity. And at the same time, there's no way to completely track everything done online (or in person), as there's always a way to cover your tracks. But none of that address the human behavior aspect.

If you have a room full of people and someone is saying something bigoted, a couple things happen. One, if others agree with the person, they will clump together and gain strength. Two, if they are shunned, they simply go to a corner of the room where nobody minds them and they're allowed to continue. The bigger the room, the more people there are, thus both of these factors simply amplify the behavior. And the internet is the biggest room in the world.

It's quite easy for this stuff to propagate, anonymous or not. Even if public shaming worked they'd just go underground. Most people who have shitty opinions actually believe in them and will defend them if challenged. So whether you 'expose' someone or not won't typically change their thoughts, and thus not their behavior either.
This depends entirely on the sail plan of the ship in question.

An AC-72 might be fastest upwind, but a square-rigged ship definitely isn't.
I was very interested in something like this few years back. But, my quick research showed me that

(a) A company called Orbiscom (acquired by MasterCard) had patents in this space [1], and they are the ones behind Bank of America's ShopSafe and a few other such services offered by various banks.

(b) Almost all of those services (except for ShopSafe) are now discontinued. Which indicates that either users don't care about something like this, or that banks don't like offering something like this for some reason. Maybe that explains why nobody knows about MaskMe [2] etc.

I would be curious how Final guys are overcoming those issues.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_payment_number

[2] https://www.abine.com/maskme/features/cards/
I'm curious as to your source or why you say, in no uncertain terms, that Houston is "the most diverse in the country". If such a thing could be accurately quantified, I would bet my life savings on NYC.
I'm happy to say that we're not vaporware. We're partnering with a bank that provides all of the pieces you mentioned. Our model is similar to that of Simple, which partnered with Bancorp Bank to launch their product.
A linked list is a fundamental data structure. Being expected to reason about fundamental data structures is not unreasonable.

Unless you specifically know that taking 20m to reverse a linked list was the reason for not being hired (I'm skeptical), you're just guessing.

While I don't generally ask questions like this, I'd also be wary of someone that can't reverse a linked list in 20 minutes, although it depends on what type of position you're actually applying for.

I also didn't go to a competitive school; I don't know what arbitrary criteria you'd use to decide if I've "done anything special".

I expect coders to be able to code, or at least reason about code, more or less on demand. I'm pretty forgiving about poor whiteboard coding performance since I also suck at it. But even a terrible whiteboard performance can be accompanied by the thought process behind it, and from that, you can discern whether or not the coder knows anything and just sucks at being put on the spot, or if they truly don't know.
Which I don't understand. All their stuff has such a hipster aesthetic. I'm not knocking the hipster aesthetic (I don't like it, but that's a whole different conversation), but it's certainly not an everyman aesthetic, which I would think one would want for an advertisement which is supposed to appeal to a wide audience. I'm sure other industries have put a ton of research into this and I assume this is why people in most ads are so ultra-generic. So, why go with these guys? Path of least resistance? Do people in SF not realize that the rest of the country is not like them? Do they think the rest of the country wants to be like them? This isn't snark, but genuine curiosity.
Awesome! We hope you'll try us out.
Same here.

The article also highlights that adopting Scala often also means adopting a more functional programming style.
Red Bull settles major lawsuit. Issuing refunds. No proof of purchase required
tiles.ice.org was good, now they have a new site, but it's not quite there yet, the forums are filled with spam. It was a collaborative art project, where either you were given a tile to draw of a larger piece. Either you were shown only the edges of the adjacent tiles, or you were only shown the adjacent tiles, but you had to fill in the blanks. It was fun to participate.
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 has permission to watch your every move
I am really happy for the success here, and it does reflect the Silicon Valley narrative that anyone can make it big. But I am never sure if stories like this help or hurt. The cynic in me sees a PR guy who exploited his own daughter to create a viral PR campaign, the optimist in me sees it as validation that shooting for a large goal is never "stupid" and if your chance of success is equal for what ever goal you aim for then "go big" as they say.

I would be both sad and pretty impressed if the lemonade stand idea was just a pre-planned launch vehicle for the app.
Chances are your computer has already been compromised. Your house? Probably not.
Depends on what you consider income. I live in a tight-knit community (expats) in a medium sized city in the Philippines and I could get pretty close to cashless living here. But the catch is that I would have to help out friends and local restaurant owners with technical skills. I do some of that and in return I'm often able to eat for free at the restaurants I most enjoy going to. Additionally, I have a lot of retired friends who LOVE to cook and are happy to have someone join them for dinner. If I really needed to, I could probably work out a place to stay as well.

Of course, I couldn't really do any of the above as an actual way of life. One hour of client work is the equivalent of more food than I could eat here PLUS a place to stay. An hour actually working for someone here would be an opportunity cost. There wouldn't be many good client fits here as the income these businesses bring in isn't enough to justify my rates.

I could do it if I had to though!
That isn't really something I would brag about, but good for you I guess.
Thanks!

You may have seen my comments in other HN discussions about living in lower cost of living cities that still have decent tech scenes. Consider this exhibit A: the fully customized wheelchair-accessible 1600 sq.ft. condo I bought for my parents (in trade for their house) didn't break six figures. My sister bought a smaller condo in the same complex for under $40k. Literally, buying outright in their neighborhood is comparable to paying rent for a year or two on similar places in or near SF.

You can live a lot more luxurious than they do and still come out way ahead financially, and be ready to retire at 45 or 50, making an ordinary developer salary and not taking any unusual risks. You can make low six figures in Colorado or Texas or Georgia, pay off your house in 5 years, and have a family living on 25% of your take-home pay from there on out. It's not the right choice for everyone, but it's the right choice for some people -- find a place you love to live with low expenses, and you create a lot of flexibility and open up a lot of possibilities you wouldn't otherwise have.
It's not really "unsourced." MundaneMatt did post a screenshot of the takedown notice he received. (EDIT: It's linked in the article, of course. Just in case anyone didn't find it because they didn't actually read the article.)

Of course the request itself looks incredibly fake (not even bothering to capitalize her name), so who the hell knows where it came from?

In any case, the controversy isn't really about Zoe any more. We don't know how much truth there is to the accusations, and even if they are true, she's really not that important to the big picture.