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It also very much changes perceptions. I used to work for a company that manufactured point of sale systems. They found they could improve the amount of time the customer waited by queueing up all the printing of the receipt until the end of the transaction. (This was in the 1980s.) They could save something like 10-20 seconds per customer, which meant they could move 1-2 additional people per checkout per day. (And the store had something like 10-20 registers - it was a huge store.)

However, customers hated it because it felt like it took longer. They would be done with their transaction, done paying, then have to way 10-20 seconds for their receipt to finish printing. So they'd be standing there just waiting to leave with nothing to do. The company had us change it back to printing each line as it was entered into the computer.
I run DripEmails.com and SimpleDonation.com both are profitable.
What scenario is Google worried about where they will face a massive, costly class action lawsuit over their internet service?
Does anyone have an idea how strong this in terms of stones?
Traditional VMs suck. Containers a la Joyent and Unikernels are really two points on the same spectrum of distribution of complexity between host and client. Eventually they will converge, because neither POSIX nor (virtual) hardware are interfaces designed this purpose.

The one-language library-centric ideology of e.g. MirageOS especially is really orthogonal to questions of provisioning data centers. It is truly a huge step in the right direction, and before the unikernel-container convergence, could be applied to the host OS of a container rig.
Cool! IB has an extensive API and they would be next on the list (hopefully Robinhood as well). At first it would not be automatic trading, but rather pull up an order form when the trigger fires. You can chose to set a market or limit order after the condition is met. Regarding selling the data, we have no plans to do sell it to third parties. If anything, we would like to offer insights back to the community of what we are seeing from the triggers, important levels and sell/buy interest.
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Same here in Canada, for slightly more (100 CAD, I believe). It's incredibly convenient. So easy to spend money! Tap, tap, tap with just a dumb card.

During a recent trip to the US, they had to swipe my card and make me sign a piece of paper (which I gleefully sign with an "X" as if I were illiterate). It felt so backwards.
The world isn't static, a "reliable" profit is worth less and less each year if a company isn't growing. Companies are valued based on their future earnings potential, growing companies will thus be valued much more highly. In Yahoo's case not only was there no growth, but their business was shrinking without a clear path to stopping that.
Hacker News appears to be turning into Mayer News.

Is Yahoo! acquiring YCombinator?
No it's not a sign of their incompetence. Planet Money recently did an episode on how much longer it takes chip and pin to work, and also why it took so long to come to the US:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/13/474135422/episo...
For smaller purchases it's not worth it to go to the police or initiate a lawsuit, so people won't. But if they have no recourse they wouldn't buy at all, so payment processors need to offer some easier method of recovery.

If you as a merchant get an invalid chargeback, you can report the buyer to the police.
Suppose that I want to make a medical device, and I want to get liability insurance for when a bug in its code administers a lethal dose of radiation to a patient.

Is there any extant insurance company that would want to review my code in exchange for a lower premium?

If not, why would one be willing to do this for a flash-in-the-pan cryptocurrency, but not a useful, real-world device?
It's not the chips that are slow but the card readers, networking technology and so. The same chip works much faster in many other countries.
The most effective way is likely ostracism, or some other penalty based on reputation. If someone doesn't pay their debts, people just stop trading with them. I'd posit that most people are interested in restitution, rather than punitive measures, which would be the primary goal of a DRO -- making the victim whole again. This is why DROs would likely function similar to an insurance agency.

The non-aggression principle is a central tenet in ancap philosophy which would preclude violence in most cases, however, it is permitted in self defense of ones person or property. Still, most people who subscribe for a DRO probably aren't going to want to pay the high costs for a standing militia. Would you voluntarily pay taxes for the War on Terror, or the numerous other military boondoggles across the globe, if you had a choice and knew the actual costs?

This ventures into the territory of private defense agencies, which decentralize security services, and is a deeper subject. If you want to dive in, I'd suggest Michael Huemer's book "The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey" in which he debunks the Hobbesian war of all against all scenario. "Practical Anarchy" by Stefan Molyneaux is also a decent (and free to read) overview of how ancap voluntarism could work, but Huemer's arguments are more comprehensive.
If it's quality original reporting I think it should be linked to.
If it didn't take so long most merchants prefer checks because there are no special fees on them.

As for Apple Pay, it becomes A LOT more compelling if you have an Apple Watch. All of a sudden instead of having to pull your phone out of your pocket you Press the button on the watch, move your wrist in front of the reader, and it's done.
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Yeah, that's the conclusion in the article too:

But I still don’t use it; not due to safety concerns, but because I think it tastes icky.
Geeze. Click the damn "web" button. There's so little quality news information left on the web the least you can do is spend five seconds to hack around the plebwall.
I just don't see women doing this. I get students participating because they don't value their belongings.

But as an adult woman, I just cannot imagine being part of this... ever. It just seems like an idea that will not scale. I'd be interested in being proved wrong though.
Or, pool owners could announce their position, and you could switch pools. This has happened in Bitcoin, albeit very occasionally.
Is there a graph that shows absolute numbers instead of percentages?
Users can request a dress and meet up with the owner in a matter of hours.

My question is meet where? Are these people verified to be legit? Isn't meeting physically before getting the dress going to pose a problem / bias?

As a woman, personally I don't want to meet the buyer/seller for fear I might not be that open-minded after meeting either for many many reasons.
My guess is that the signature thing probably carries more weight as a contract for payment owed; and if that's not actually true it still feels true enough to make it more of a comfort to the retailers/customers.
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I believe the other commenter was saying that at the time people believed it was an acceptable answer, just as now you're saying it's a plausible explanation for this problem.
I've been thinking the same thing!
I don't think chip and signature is a requirement - most places seem to ask for a PIN rather than a signature.

Just swiping the card, however, also works just fine and I now use it everywhere again because I can't be bothered to remember and type in yet another passcode. Just more friction in the process.
Or, alternatively, the "Web" button should be the default for sites like this.

Quality and original reporting is very nice, but the continuation of paywalls still pushes reporting towards profiting over news.
I run https://formcrafts.com and http://formcraft-wp.com, and both are profitable, netting over 150k+ a year in total. They were my side projects when I was in accounting school, lol
What I love is you have to carefully watch the screen to pull the card out when it's done, otherwise it starts a really harsh a beep that's designed to prevent you from forgetting your card, but is just flat out obnoxious if you haven't.
Sure, but looking at their historic revenue, you're going from ~1.8B between 2007 - 2009 down to ~1.1B 2011-present[1]. In fact, their latest quarter for Mar 2016 only netted them 1.08B.

This is a ton of money and I reckon they could last a long time on it, but I believe the investor-mindset is something like "if you're not growing, you're dying" and if you're dying, you should probably sell at your peak. Looking at Yahoo revenue, it's clear they're dying and as a result, I wouldn't paint this as just greedy investors being greedy.

[1] - https://ycharts.com/companies/YHOO/revenues
If she had managed to turn the company around, she would have become a legendary tech CEO. Either way she has made a lot of money and stands to make even more no matter what happens. So, in the end, this was still a good move for her.
I am using duo security (duo.com) these days. Instead of having to type in a number, you just have to press confirm / deny.
Have you tried aspartame? I've found that Coke Zero tastes much closer to real sugar than Diet Coke.
It's definitely less refined and consistent outside of NYC.
It'd be nice if we just let the voting system determine what people want.
There's something so principled about the Urbit team. Everything from their website to the font :)
We don't have pins on our chip cards and as far as I'm aware, no bank is issuing CCs with pins with or without a chip. Debit cards use PINs, but bring a host of other liability problems to the user, and almost universally lack the rewards programs which consumers with good credit take advantage of (because hey, I get 2-3% towards travel expenses while paying the same).
+1 for JsonB.
I'm a Dao member (or at least I was this morning..!) and didn't vote on that one -- I didn't see the point in voting on proposals that are polls as opposed to votes on moving money to a specific address. There are forums to discuss general strategy, doesn't need to be a poll.
I should clarify: I used the word "house" sloppily. We're talking about renting apartments here; no subsidy would get you an actual house.
I find myself frustrated almost any time I open a WSJ or other paywall article, and close them immediately. It hampers shared understanding and discussion. The 'web' workaround isn't viable for me either. I want to forward URLs to friends, and have open conversations, not conversations only with those savvy enough to work around the paywall. I think we should consider careful focused HN policy around paywall links.
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> In the UK nearly all cards can be used for contactless payments below a fixed amount (£ 30 at the moment).

This sounds really interesting.

I've had chip cards in the U.S. for a couple years, but I've never seen someone use a contactless payment card here. Even tap to pay with phone is very uncommon.
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They also both line politicians' pockets to ensure laws get passed in their favor? (Google has donated to over half of Congress according to OpenSecrets.org, in actual cash donated I think Comcast might still be on top, but the gap's closing fast.)

I'd also comment on their mutually horrible customer service, but at least Comcast HAS people you can call, even if they're lousy.
Nice article and I like the matter-of-fact writing style.

Makes me want to study more chemistry. Any suggestions from this audience of how to get into it? Pick up a Chemistry 101 text book?
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I'll tell you that Apple Pay is significantly better if you have the watch. Since the watch is already authenticated to your phone, there's no fingerprint mess. You just double tap the side button and hold the watch over the payment terminal, it taps you, and you're done. It's extremely convenient.

For extra oddness, Apple Pay is extremely fast everywhere I've used it except my grocery store. There it takes about 30 seconds. I have no idea why. The device tells me I'm done, but for whatever reason the software on the point-of-sale system doesn't decide that the transaction has been paid for for a surprisingly long amount of time.
And plenty of people feel the same way about cards. That's why Apple Pay falls back to plastic cards, and plastic cards fall back to cash.
How on earth can pathname handling be a performance drag? If I read his stats correctly, then `Pathname#chop_basename` is called 24456 times for one page load. Something is very fishy about that.
Not sure about Chicago but in the Bay Area, you only get the cash back prompts when using a debit card, which also sets you up for additional fraud liability and lower rewards kickbacks. I'd suggest getting a chase sapphire or citi DoubleCash card. It'll be faster as well (no idiotic cash back prompts with every transaction).
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She should've focused on growth adjacent to Yahoo's core strengths -- trying to acquire FanDuel in its earlier days, for instance. Maybe we could've seen Yahoo lead the daily fantasy sports industry.
The difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke is that one uses the Coca Cola Classic formula, and the other one is Coke. The name difference is to signify the flavor profile.
Yes, I prefer it. Coke Zero does taste closer to Coke but in an "uncanny valley" sort of way. I drink Diet Coke often, I like it. It isn't really supposed to taste like Coke.
I don't think you can ever go too far wrong with Khan Academy.
For me aspartame depends on the thing it's in. In jelly it's super nice, in drinks? Nope. Coke Zero is gross imo.
I have experience with private investigative journalism and can personally speak on how bad it is. This is awful obfuscation of news.

There's little quality news because it's about what's interesting and what will make the most money. This is not what news is supposed to be about.

Example - after the Tribune posted an article about a lawsuit they filed for getting the Chicago mayor's email records, I called the reporter who wrote it about with my own research for the mayor's phone records. Wanted to see if he was interested in writing about my work. He said, with the most apathetic voice, that he didn't do any of the research and was "just doing a job". He forwarded me to the reporter who did the research, but he never called me back.

Later, called DNAInfo who eats this sort of thing up. They didn't want to touch it because my reasoning for requesting the records wasn't interesting enough.

It's frustrating, and it's even more frustrating seeing WSJ pull this shit without anybody speaking out.. Top-down reporting is bullshit.
I think all the Laravel-related SaaS apps are one-man, and I'm vaguely sure they're profitable going by mentions in relevant podcasts

https://forge.laravel.com/

https://envoyer.io/

https://spark.laravel.com/

I'm not associated in any way other than as a user - Just the first things that popped into mind.
Race to the bottom. Realize that the chip is a computer and performs crypto functions. Slower chip = cheaper chip.
Indeed, she has greatly enriched herself while flailing:

> If Yahoo is sold and Ms. Mayer is terminated as a result, she stands to receive about $55 million. Since joining Yahoo, she has received $118.2 million in cash and equity compensation.
Right, the Fermi Paradox isn't asking why aliens haven't come to visit us now that they've surely heard our radio signals. It's about why we're even here at all, given that it seems like aliens should have come and colonized the place ages ago, or at least why there are no signs of past exploratory visits.
Just dont upvote stories you dont like. This is mostly direct a democracy.

It's rule of the majority. If you don't like it...idk what to tell you.
That would be awesome if the CC provider automatically created a travel notification for you upon booking.
A counter-argument is that most of the American population did not want to enter either of the world wars, but were dragged into it by state and corporate interests who, unlike the general population, did stand to profit enormously from the war. PDAs would not have the authority to do this.
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I like "General Chemistry" by Linus Pauling, despite its age it is a nice introductory book.
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How could printing at the end take less time than printing as you go?
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> But if you can do it for dead-simple programs running on hardware you understand very well, you can do it for complex software as well.

Not necessarily when you're bounded by reality and finite amounts of time and energy. Just because you can count to 2^8 doesn't mean you can count to 2^128.
Executing on the sales goals seems to be the part that most engineerings (at least myself) get hung up on, because that's not our expertise. It's pretty easy to learn once you devote a lot of time to it, but it's a new thing for sure.
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Historically people have said that women were un-interested to be lawyers. They are now quite well represented.

They've said that women were un-interested or ill suited to be doctors. They are now quite well represented (and might actually become a majority).

Maybe are right about women being un-interested or ill suited to be programmers. But I doubt it.
Every chip reader in Des Moines uses the same reader hardware, and every software install on them is radically different. Somebody is making bank writing the glitchy touch screen apps.
I don't really understand the popularity of artificial sweeteners. They all taste totally teh ick to me. I would much rather have something that is not sweet than something that is artificially sweet.

But judging from the beverage selection available at just about any convenience store, I'm possibly the only person in the USA who would rather drink something that isn't sweet than something that contains 0 calorie sweeteners.

Maybe I'm just really picky.
Maybe if they had cancelled their previous 7 "retreats", they wouldn't be in this predicament...
- 15.6" high-resolution OLED screen (but a 13.3" equivalent, due to a thinner bezel)

- 32GB+ RAM

- Best Intel multi-core processor

- Mag-safe adapter (or wireless charging), rather than USB-C

- 180+ degree swivel

- Fingerprint ("Touch ID") sensor

- 24+ hour battery life (that is, I charge the laptop while I'm sleeping, wake up, use it all day and all night, then set it to charge and go to bed. 9am wake up and 2am bedtime = 17 hours. That is, 17 hours of continued use, with lulls throughout at the end of which I will not get a "low battery" warning. So 18 hours to be safe, or at least 12 real hours if 18 is too much)

- Something to make wireless headphones commonplace

- Touchscreen (would give up for something better)

- Continued presence of solid unibody design, backlit keyboard, great touchpad, etc

- Not normally particular about GPU, but as it speeds up the training time of machine learning algorithms, I'm suddenly all for having a decent one (though not so much that I'd jump to getting a heavy, clunky, and ugly "gamer laptop")
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To 1, it actually isn't or at least not as much as you might think. Relevant factors are utilization and average age of your credit accounts, going back 10 years; an account doesn't stop aging when you close it, and it doesn't fall off of your report until 10 years from the closing date. If closing an account decreases your amount of available credit enough that your utilization spikes (over 20%), then you should leave it open. Otherwise it's fine.
My understanding is that wall many stores have the hardware, their accounts haven't been set up for chip and signature because the banks and card networks have been slow in getting everyone switched over. So they had to pay for the new terminals, pay for the fraud liability since were past the cut off date, and they still don't get to use the new stuff. I think some people are actually suing the companies over that.
Diet Coke uses aspartame also.

I figured the difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke was branding for people who don't want to drink something labeled as diet.

EDIT: I drink both regularly (including today), and I personally do not perceive difference in taste. YMMV.
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Gas stations, ahhhh. Gas pump UI and UX was terrible in the 90s and is a joke by modern standards. It makes me almost want to drive off when they make me decline to play the lotto and decline a car wash at the pump.
I can't understand why virtual card numbers haven't been embraced across the industry. While it wouldn't solve every problem you mentioned it would make the need to update cards with services non-existent. I think it's safe to assume that a virtual card number per service would also allow them to more quickly assess where the breach occurred.
Interesting. I've never heard this "America doing the world a favor" version of free trade. The story usually told is "big corporations using political levers to open markets and make lots of money by taking advantage of weak governments". Many of those corporations are American.

But of course, what's good for American corporations, and the people who run them, may not be what's good for America as a whole, or specificaly the workers.
It's good to see that Splenda isn't the potential toxic substance we began to wonder it was, but I agree that it tastes icky.

That said, I wonder why Stevia isn't considered to sweeten drinks? It's very sweet, it's natural like sugar (meaning it's not synthetic or lab-grown), it also has zero calories, and it doesn't taste icky!
That's not a SaaS.
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For anyone considering taking Splenda as a form of weight control: It's true that Splenda has 0 calories, but it also causes your body to develop greater cravings for sweet (sugary) food/drinks. In the long term, this can cause you to eat/drink in a more unhealthy manner, undoing all the caloric benefits you thought you were getting from Splenda.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/...
As incredibly convenient as that is, I always feel like I'm stealing stuff from the Apple store.

You walk in, pick something up, fiddle with your phone, and walk out.

The fact that the Apple people know that I bought something and smile or are nice to me on the way out just makes me feel more like they're watching me thinking I stole something.
> If we do not rally against it, our ability to live on this planet is at stake.

I think you're speculating here, we don't actually know this.

I believe the primary reason we haven't done anything yet is because the effects of increased CO2 levels haven't yet reached the scale of mass food production shortages, or a sudden increase the price of basic food stuffs.

And since we can't know whether that will ever happen, we're easily able to ignore, or at least not be very concerned about, climate change.

Your proposed solutions all require agreement on a global level. I can't see that happening until we actually face an immanent existential threat.

And lastly, on a personal note, the reason I've stopped caring is this: people have been trying to tell us the environmental end of times is nigh for decades, and it hasn't happened. Each year we continue to produce more food and feed more people.

Granted, we should probably stop burning fossil fuels, but I disagree with the reasoning. We shouldn't stop burning fossil fuels because of the CO2 output, I think that's a red herring. We should stop burning fossil fuels because of all the other junk doing so puts in our environment. More uranium has been released in to the environment by burning coal for electricity that nuclear power probably ever will.