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I am pretty sure they can have babies faster than we can bomb them out of existence

When we defeated Nazi Germany, 70 years ago, we pulled no punches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...

We killed between 22,700 to 25,000 of the enemy's population in just two days (February 13th-15th, 1945).

In a different raid on Japan, we killed between 88,000 and 100,000 people in a single air raid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

I hasten to add that the weapons we have at our disposal today are vastly more powerful than any weapon we had 70 years ago.

While there are people today that question the effectiveness of these specific raids in bringing the war, the overall point remains: we fought a total war, and the result was a total victory, and a lasting peace with the new nations that sprang from the rubble.

Today we don't have a tenth of the moral certainty that our grandparents' generation had, and that is why we (the West) are losing.
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Saw this and heard a live panel at Midwest Gaming Classic last year. Enjoyed it. #HackThePlanet
"Mr. Scheeler testified that it cost the average convenience store $26,000 to upgrade its gas pumps and point-of-sale terminals..."

Really? This strikes me as a nice bit of hyperbole. Most convenience stores I've ever come across have, at most, two or three PoS terminals. Even the most expensive card readers with EMV support—the ones with the fancy colour screens, NFC, and so on—don't cost more than $800 or so.[1] Even with paying someone to set it up, I just can't see the average convenience store spending more than a few thousand dollars.

[1] https://www.barcodesinc.com/verifone/mx-880.htm
What are the advantages of Gitlo in comparison to the official Trello GitHub integration[1]?

[1]http://blog.trello.com/github-and-trello-integrate-your-comm...
> In fact, it's now easier to perform in-store credit
> card fraud, thanks to such technologies.

How is it easier for someone to perform fraud using Apple Pay? You'd need to both have and then unlock either my phone or watch to make a payment using them, which is still two-factor authentication...
As a dev, if you are tool-agnostic, then you're also productivity-agnostic.
If us dummy Europeans have managed it for years, one would think you clever Americans would be able to get to grips with it too...
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There was mention of partnering with Google, Microsoft, and Pivotal (in their blog post http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/global-continuous-delive... ). Maybe they wanted to have a separate github organization for easier management, etc.
Also, the blog post here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/global-continuous-delive...
Maybe look here for inspiration?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502227
> does anyone have any insights on why they are doing
> this, and now

Because it cuts shop fraud down to essentially zero, and the rest of the developed world have been using it for long enough to be embarassing that the Americans aren't?
i like USPS, but thats because that good ol flat rate, if it fits it ships.
+1 went for months without insurance because Zenefits continually promised things they could not deliver. Could not imagine a worst experience for such a critical thing.

Gusto (Zenpayroll) has been peach perfect. Going to transfer our healthcare benefits to them as soon as we can.
I really like they used Python for this sort of "system tool". Didn't know Netflix actually uses Python at all, I was expecting all of it to be Java.
Let's just say it wouldn't chew up nearly the kind of resources as is achievable by selectively dropping IP packets for a TCP connection.
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Dummy?

You can't enter your card until about 10 seconds have passed after all your items have been scanned, or it blows up.

You must leave your card in for ~20sec, or it blows up, while the machine does seemingly nothing.

The quickest you can complete a transaction is ~30+ seconds; after all the items have been scanned.

Compare this to ~5 seconds with the swipe method.

Now, take 25 seconds / registers * people. That is the lower bound on how much additional time we must wait in line because of these BS machines.

Trader Joe's is now a wasteland of wasted time standing in line.
These complaints are all "first world problems". It's a non-issue.
In the US the merchant owns and is responsible for the POS equipment. The banks had to strong-arm merchants into upgrading via liability changes for non-compliant merhants.
I'd like to learn more about it, in particular how/if it can work with private repos. What's frustrating is that all the links on the page don't go anywhere other than a login prompt. Do I really need to login to read the FAQ ?
That's not my job, nor did I remove anything.

That you denounce an essay giving Jessica credit for her work as "patronizing and misogynistic" while defending a comment that was not only both of those things but cartoonishly so, probably takes the cake for this thread.
The kind of readers that are attached to gas pumps seem more expensive and do a lot more.

EDIT: They look like this: http://kytx.images.worldnow.com/images/24359909_BG1.jpg if you aren't familiar with what US gas pumps look like.
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Exactly this

The rest is whining by merchants. And look their fraud levels are going down, so they have a reason to like it

Chip-and-pin existed elsewhere a long time ago, if anyone got a non-chip-and-pin reader on the last 5 years they should have known better

Oh I forgot in the US nobody knows the rest of the world exists
you know i really like my carb'd V8. Nothing like taking it out early in the morning when no-one is on the road and quite literally pouring gasoline into the motor.

I feel that a cup would be more effective sometimes tho. Don't get me started on jetting configs.
What if the card is stolen alongside your pin? Will the charges not be reversed because the pin was stolen?
I have the 15C clone and is awesome.

What I'm looking is a Windows RPN calculator
how does that keyboard feel? It looks not that great from the photos. Was thinking to get the 15L for my son because the keys look the same as the HP version
Hmm maybe I have fallen for the headlines accompanying the recent sealing as though it were revelatory when really it is back to normal practice of medical records being private.
Couldn't the "PIN-required" threshold theoretically be a user preference encoded on the chip?
Gas pumps often are not just a payment terminal though, they use an integrated system handling gas type selection, pump control and payment, so I can imagine they're a bit more costly to replace.
The Wikipedia article sadly neglects to mention the work of mathematician Mary Blagg in the early 20th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Adela_Blagg), and the in-depth examination by Michael Martin Nieto in the 1970s.

That's a significant oversight; Nieto himself pointed out how a kind of cultural 'momentum' in the scientific community kept the old, obsolete ideas in vogue, while more thorough work was ignored. Heck, on this topic, even my undergraduate astrophysics text was a couple of centuries out of date!
similar:

https://spilo.readthedocs.org/en/latest/DESIGN/

https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon

I wonder how they compare to yoke.
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If I had a penny for every HA postgres solution
That's exactly how it is. It does not want to figure out the location itself, so it consults other software, which is optional.
Of course not.

Apple's plan is to unify iOS and OSX. It will be called Apple OS.

The iPad Pro is one step towards this.

Apple looking to replace Intel with ARM architecture is another.

Now that Microsoft have unified with Windows 10 and with Google on the path to Android and Chrome unification, Apple will unify.

There will be no OSX 11.

Currently Apple is on iOS 9 and OSX 10.11, so just 'by the numbers' the unification is not that far off.
Cremating a person with a big lithium battery encased in an airtight metallic casing is also a bit of a hazard. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators add also a few big capacitors to the mix. There have been quite a few crematoriums destroyed or damaged by pacemaker explosions in the last decades.
True - up to a point. Most popular museums are too noisy for effective voice recognition.
FYI we've released the TV display repo, fronted dashboard for the wfh app.https://github.com/pebblecode/wfh-frontend
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10542004
The image is directly copied from the Trello website. I also find it a bit strange that I need to first provide my account in order to find out what the service does...
It depends where you work, but in some places, it can be. Employees in some industries have zero leverage over their employers; they're complete commodities, so if you do something that the boss doesn't like (whether it be get in late or question his judgment or spend time on Facebook during the workday), you're fired.

I've been lucky enough to never have such a boss, but then, I work in tech, where the supply & demand equation has been on the worker's side since I started my career.
Let's remember the context of this discussion. We are talking about hash functions in cryptographic protocols. No one is proposing that you use a hash function to test the equality of two values when you're not constrained to the parameters of some cryptographic problem. E.g. when the two values you want to check are known.

> "Granted collisions may not occur frequently, but a collision could occur at any time."

Your reasoning sounds something like this: "The risk of a collision is greater than zero, therefore you should worry about collisions."

Which is like saying: "The risk of being hit by a meteorite is greater than zero, therefore you should worry about meteorites."

The problem with such reasoning is that it ignores probability.

> "Just because the chance of it happening is small, does not mean you will have to try 1 quadrillion per second for 10 quadrillion years before a collision occurs."

You're right! It means that you would have to try 1 quadrillion per second for 10 quadrillion years before having a 50% chance of hitting a collision.

If you don't like that 50% number, then let's use 10^(-15); a probability of 1 in 1 quadrillion. According to the birthday problem [0], and using the same collision resistance (2^128) and hash rate (1 quadrillion per second) from my previous example, you would have to work for 475 million years before having a 10^(-15) probability of hitting a collision.

Accidental collisions simply are not a realistic problem to worry about. I don't believe that any such collisions are known to have ever occurred in the wild with modern crypto hash functions.

Denying collision resistance renders hash functions almost useless, even for protocols where pre-image resistance is the key property. Think about that. Even if you were confident that a hash input wasn't crafted to conduct a pre-image attack, but you were concerned about collisions, then you should mistrust the hash result simply because it may have been an accidental collision.

I'm sorry you disagree with my reason for downvoting your initial comment. But I did so (or tried to) because (1) I feel it was not a correct answer to the question, and (2) it contained misinformation by implying that the likelihood of collisions is much greater than it actually is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack#Mathematics - Look at the table. My numbers were taken directly from the 256-bit row.
The merchants are the ones calling for chip-and-PIN. What they are whining about is high interchange fees, and their whining is entirely justified. Visa & the rest of the credit card industry is a racket, an extra sales tax on all retail with the proceeds going to a handful of very rich people.

Merchants are furious about the required upgrade to a chip-and-signature system which requires them to pay for expensive upgrades to all their POS machines and is much slower to validate than swiped cards, but leaves high interchange fees and doesn’t appreciably bring down their fraud liability.
Map of terrorist incidents, 2015
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A lot of the history of the internet seems to repeat this theme, idealistic engineers make assumptions that other people are going to be nice and considerate only to discover that there are a lot of assholes out there.
There is very little direct benefit to US consumers from chip cards. Sure, it will reduce fraud, but from a consumers point of view it doesn't matter. By federal law, unless the bank can prove negligence, they have to refund your money. In practice they take your word for it over the phone, and overnight you a new credit card.

There is a small chance retailers and banks will pass on fraud savings via lower prices, but it will be hard to notice a 2-3% price decrease.

It is very easy to notice waiting 5 more minutes for youe morning coffee since each transaction takes 30s instead of the old 3-5s, though.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10579179. Both submissions were on the front page at the same time, but that one arguably gives a bit more context. (Plus it was posted earlier, which seems a fair criterion when breaking ties.)
The media did cover attacks on *insert country*. You just weren’t reading it
Smallest, hah! Check out the HP-01.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-01
> You can't enter your card until about 10 seconds have passed after all your items have been scanned, or it blows up.

What pos terminal did you use? Besides you can just use NFC in Europe these days which is even faster.
I'm no Postgres expert, why isn't something like this built in to the product itself?
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Exactly. Our infrastructure is so vulnerable, that I can think of multiple ways to disrupt daily routine and kill multiple people even without a gun, let alone suicide bombing -- dismantle/block the rails, drop an obstacle on a busy highway, poison the drinking water, cut electric wires open, sabotage industrial/power plants, set buildings on fire etc. heck, even shouting out loud "he's got a gun, run!!" in a crowded space could result in multiple injuries/deaths.
If there were so many determined terrorists on our soil as various governments and agencies want us to believe, they would cause a significant damage, not just stage occasional attacks that are statistically insignificant. The smallest dog barks the loudest.
Only problem with the calc app is that it takes forever to find, load etc. I still use a pair of 16C because of that; they lie on the desk and they look pretty :-)
It wasn't RPN:

"The HP-01 was Hewlett-Packard's first algebraic calculator."
It sounds like we're succombing fast to the fear of terrorism. I cannot understand declaring war: It's reducing our civil liberties, bombing a foreign nation, spreading new hate and new orphan children, and accelerating our own economic crisis. Isn't that the dismay that terrorists want?

If we were purely rational on number of casualties, we'd be working on preventing our own 2-nd generation immigrants from considering becoming terrorists, using better education system and economic development. Or we would just proportionally jail all smokers who kill as many people per day as terrorism in a year. So we're not acting rationally, or the rationality of fighting back is taking over the consideration of the cost, and I'm not understanding why that's so important.
The people disabling javascript are also probably aware that javascript crypto is utterly pointless with the current browser security model. Javascript crypto aims to protect you from the server, but you must rely on the server sending javascript that actually does the encryption. When it can't protect you against the adversary it's design to protect you against then what is the point?

Imagine a client-side-encrypted version of google docs that always encrypts your document before sending it back to the google servers. Any time you visit the site google could send you a modified version of the site javascript (possibly at the request of security services) that just uploads the document without encrypting it first. Browsers currently have no way to prevent that or even notifying you that it's happening.

If you want to do client side crypto you need to do it in native apps. The web is just too technically limited to support building platforms on top of it that have different trust models.
As far as I know that is the cards's choice. My card does unlimited via nfc but it prompts for a pin when over a limit or number of purchases.
Is this not the new behavior? My YT videos only play when I go to the tab now.
Strange. I was the biggest Rdio advocate until it just flat out didn't work on my MacBook. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck. Support couldn't do much for me. I ended up moving to Spotify and while I agree that Rdio has a superior UI, Spotify worked consistently on my machine. Plus, their mobile app, especially offline playback, is a godsend on long trips.
24 people for doing the work Intel's engineers did. That is given the ISA and some hints (e.g a list of components they are going to need), to start from basic components and boolean expressions, convert them to CMOS circuits by hand and then draw them efficiently in a software like Magic.
Tried to order a 16C blue but they are out of stock already it seems. Not that I /need/ one since I hoarded a pair of real 16C, but hey!
To clarify, first paragraph is talking about TCP stall logic. The rest is talking about UDP logic.
Yes. The whole point of FDIC insurance is that you will be reimbursed for any sort of theft. Even pin + card.
Yes, it is, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.

For a detailed explanation, see Pieter's keynote on EuroSciPy 2015 [0], where he answers a similar question around 19:45; however, his entire talk is worth watching because it sums up very well the ideas behind the C4 process.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8CbzKREAj4
But it already exists. PGP and couriers. Taking encryption away from the innocent doesn't change that.
I have a mixed feeling about this. I mean how do you Deliver Spinnaker. The project is fucking complex, if everything goes wrong you are pretty much done..
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That she's quiet in YC application interviews doesn't mean she can't do other types of interviews where she does ask questions.

The book isn't remarkable because of Livingston's writing, of which there is barely any, but for the scope and execution. She found dozens of great subjects, got them to tell great stories, and edited everything into a very valuable book.

I think it also shows her good judgment, her passion about startup founders, and her skill at listening. Of course it's mostly about the founders and not about her.

Graham writes tons of essays about his own opinions, which is quite different!
If this is meant for players, I wonder how effective it would actually and how much of the gaming population it would actually affect.

When I'm reading, watching a movie, or playing a game, I'm generally pretty stone-faced with little to no actual reaction to reflect what I'm thinking as I consume the media in question.
The lawsuits are nothing to do with these companies wanting to provide more benefits and everything about them not classifying their workers as employees because they don't want to provide benefits.

This is just Uber et al. wanting to escape legal culpability for their regulatory arbitrage.
Umm, most of the rest of the first world uses chip and pin. This is more a US problem than anything more general.

FWIW, South Africa started moving to C&P 6 years ago - http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/182/34015.html - as did Nigeria - http://www.atmmarketplace.com/news/postilion-drives-africas-... . And Kenya is further along on the migration than the US - http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/10/chip-and-pin-future-c... .
It matters because it should reduce the costs of everything by %1.
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The image is definitely a bad choice, I don't know many people working on the kitchen redesign using GitHub.
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Man I took the ability to follow people based on musical tastes for granted - I spent so much time looking for people all over the world who were listening to interesting stuff and ever morning I download a few albums I found on the Trending page.

I'm just lost with Spotify and Google music, I go there and see pictures of Justin Bieber and I don't know what to do. Apple Music is a little better but it's a totally different approach, being told what's good by record labels and "tastemakers".

The way Rdio did it just seemed natural, like going over to someone's house and checking out their record collection. I almost think the others are avoiding letting you see who is listening to what so they and the labels can push more Beiber stuff.
I'm not sure that's quite accurate. The assumption that most people are nice and considerate is a fair one; the problem is that engineers often fail to understand how few assholes it takes to ruin something.
Come visit Holland. Chip+PIN takes as long as it takes to enter the pin (max5s). Only some mobile terminals in low reception spots take between 10-20s.

And now with wireless PIN transactions less than €25 are instantaneous. And above again take the time to enter the PIN.
Er. It is almost all Java (well, mostly Groovy). Netflix uses a lot of Python but there's virtually none in this project.
> Definitely work with someone on a temporary contract basis, and renew it, before hiring

If you do this make sure you pay contract rates for the contract period or good people (at least in the dev world) will avoid you like the plague.

E.g. My contract rate is $120/hr for contracts of 3 months or less whereas my full time salary is ~$120k/year. If you try and offer me $60/hr (120k / 52 / 40) I'm not even going to look at your job.
The Spamming Gene, I guess.
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Sounds like a poor implementation. This problem is rare in the UK - the time from card entry to PIN entry, and PIN entry to completion, is typically near-instant on most terminals.
Chip amd pin or EMV cards seem to have quite high usage in Africa, the Middle East and South America [1]. Although perhaps you think cash dominates a lot more in poorer parts of the world?

[1] https://www.emvco.com/about_emvco.aspx?id=202
What you describe isn't the case here in 'dumb' Sweden. Eg, I put my card in while the grocery items are still being scanned. Nor do I recall a 30 second wait when visiting 'dumb' Norway, Denmark, Germany, or Switzerland.
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Really, they don't have this in the US yet?
Wow...
I don't think it's useful for what you intend it to do, anonymous whistleblowing.

I trust nobody on the internet but especially if they are anonymous.

If I tell you that Paul Graham loves to torture kitten, why would you believe me unless I say it under my real name (and have some kind of proof) ? It would be too easy to libel anybody you don't like.

Snowden understood that, and he had much more to loose than HN or SV creds or even his job. If he had remained anonymous, people would still doubt his revelations.
I vividly remember that turning point in Canada a few years ago. My techno-enthusiastic brain had never been so excited to pull out cash to pay for a coffee.
No, FDIC insurance is insurance against bank insolvency not theft.
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I use this for debugging embedded code, if I get a null pointer exception or bus fault I log the calling address. 99% of the time running addr2line points me directly to the offending lines of code. There are also builtins that allow you to walk back up the stack and and thus fink on who's been naughty.
This is specific to the browser, not YouTube: https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/6PiJQqJzGqX