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There are more and more people with credit cards per centralized infrastructure to support payment transactions?
In practice though I think it's actually better to warn the public about this so they're aware and can check for themselves. Every single time I contacted the authorities in my entire life (in one instance a pretty significant crime) it turned out to be a huge waste of my time.
Interesting. I just got interested in going the 8-bit retrocomputer route, as I've always wanted to learn the low-level hardware stuff... down to the level of the CPU, the data bus, memory bus, I/O support chips, accessing RAM, keyboard interfacing, etc. So, to that end, I just decided to build a Z80 based microcomputer.

Somebody asked "why z80 and not 6502 (or 8085, etc.)" I guess the 6502 is a fine choice, but my subjective perception is that - out of the popular processors from that era - the z80 is the one that still has the most actual commercial applications, and is the one that is easiest to source, find up to date information on, etc. Maybe I'm wrong, but so far it seems going the z80 path is pretty accessible. I was able to source chips from Jameco with no problem (and they're pretty cheap), and the z80.info site has a ton of useful info on homebrew z80 machines[1].

I was also able to pickup a copy of the book "Build Your Own z80 Computer"[2] by Steve Ciarcia, which should help a little.

Anyway.. not to take anything away from the 6502. If it turns out that chips are available, I may take a stab at building one of those after I do this z80 thing. But for now, this feels like the "path of least resistance". But I'd love to hear about anyone else's experience building an 8-bit machine, regardless of which processor you chose.

[1]: http://www.z80.info/homebrew.htm

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Z80-Computer/dp/007010...
I was just pointing out a flaw in your argument.

I don't actually consider the UK's immigration policy as racist. Short-sighted, definitely. but racist? Definitely not
Note: this isn't just credit cards -- I personally found this right as it happened. My ATM card was declined for any amount at a BoA ATM. Annoyed, I went down to the Citi branch outside where all 8 or so ATMs had "out of order" screens and there was half a dozen people milling about saying it was down everywhere. Took to Twitter and lots were repeating it and saying web access and the mobile apps were down as well.
Me too, rewards plus the ability to easily contest and reverse fraudulent charges (which I have experienced multiple times) make a credit card infinitely better than a debit card.
Bad timing with Brexit paranoia, too.
How you talk changes how you think. That's why propaganda works. In fact, most people don't even realize they've changed.

I've purposefully changed my personality (behavior?) twice, about to start my thrice effort.

The first time, nor longer wanting to be angry, and having run out of ideas, I decided to pretend to be happy. I had read that you can't unlearn a habit, only replace it. So I played chipper all the time. When asked how I was, I'd say something like "Phenomenal!" Initially, it was sarcastic.

Then one day I woke up and I felt phenomenal. I was gobsmacked. I didn't even know the change was taking place. The transition took about three years.

The second time, I ran for office. Deluding oneself is part of the job. A bit like how sales people can convince themselves the next customer will say "Yes!"

This book came out after my first change. It jives with my experience.

How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work
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Thank you for posting this. Awesome!
USAA recently had the same issue; transactions not processing. They, like Costco, switched credit card issuers. So it may very well be a scaling issue like importing millions of customers into the DB.
Even better is the realtime support on their IRC channel.
"move fast and break things" was a philosophy that would get you fired years in the past.
What's idiotic about the right to be forgotten?
"... the arrogance and self-indulgence of youth."

s/youth/younger programmers/

How can they make work for themselves?

1. Do what's already been done, not even knowing it's already been done.
2. Declare "rot" or some similar claim of obsolescence and proceed to redo what's already been done.

There's nothing necessarily awful about this unless they fail to do a better job than the earlier effort.

Alas, this is too often the case. For a variety of reasons.

In the early days, portability was a higher priority. Not to mention longevity. Because everything was expensive.

Today's software "rots" a lot faster than the software from the early days of computing, IMO.

And so the younger programmers have lots of "work" to do.

Yet I do not see much progress being made. Because I do not measure progress by productivity alone.

Programmers who can churn out code in a dozen different languages to do the same old things are a dime a dozen.

As a user, I do not want software that needs to be updated every week. Poorly written software and gratuitous use of network bandwidth.

But I can see how programmers who love writing code would enjoy this state of affairs.
Oops, thanks. Well, that explains why I've never seen Emoji on Hacker News. And I've missed the edit window, so I can't fix my post.

Should have been:

> I don't mind characters like ((yellow smiling Emoji)) and ((thumbs up Emoji)) or even good old ︎((pre-Emoji Unicode smiley)) (which has always been too tiny for its own good). These work in black and white, in different artistic styles, and they're a fairly limited set.

> But now we're going down the road where we get new stuff like tacos and unicorns every year. And even though Unicode is an industry standard, the pictures need to look like Apple's bitmaps to avoid confusion, and the Unicode standard changes so often that you have to manually keep track of who can already see ((upside-down smiling Emoji)) and whose computer/phone/browser/messenger software is too old.
Short answer: no. Long answer: no.

The supposition that the personality is completely fixed or completely mutable is simply false. There are fundamental constraints to how the personality can be manifested. Histrionic personalities are perhaps those most inclined to believe that their personality is truly self-determined, but they'd also be mistaken.
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I was in Munich months after the disaster. A great deal of uncertainty, in the public.

I remember one particularly scary item: Wild mushrooms from Eastern Europe, e.g. Poland.

Only, you didn't have to go that far to have real risk. At that time, some measurements had mushrooms concentrating relevant radioactive isotopes by circa 400 times, IIRC.

Weather patterns and geography created particular hot spots in the more immediate area. For some reason, the Tirol sticks in my mind, for one.
I will asap! thanks!
Good find. An "extended major release" while they're onboarding 11 million new customers sounds painful.
Will fix thanks!
I'd imagine the Napster criteria of "substantial non-infringing use" would be used to differentiate between Dropbox and Megaupload, so I doubt either the company or its employees would have a problem on that front.

But there are lots of companies that break the law so blatantly that their employees cannot claim to be ignorant. For instance, if I were an employee of Uber, I would be very careful traveling and would take every opportunity to hide the identity of my employer, especially if I were going some place where Uber was particularly irreverent of the local laws when trying to enter the market.
I wonder where this comes from? A lot of our culture is based on stories about people changing personality. [1]

Those stories have so much appeal and longevity exactly because the spectator can see someone like himself changing. The underlying motif is that anyone can go from weakling to hero, under the right circumstances.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
Sometimes the work of the same people.
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The person you are responding to never said "because we can't catch their wrong doing all the time"
That whole thread is worth a read. Here is a global forum moderator slating the CEO: https://forums.comodo.com/general-discussion-off-topic-anyth...
Layman questions:

- What are the potential benefits of spintronics to technology? Would it make electronics cheaper, smaller, more efficient, ...? Would it allow something that we currently couldn't do?

- "For example, whether placing a semiconductor in contact with another material would impede spin transport across the interface is far from well-understood." ...This seems like an eminently testable thing- just take a semiconductor, put it in contact with something else, put a, uh, spin current (layman!) through them and check for impedance. What hilariously ignorant mistake am I making? : )
Cars are ultimate commodity - you can buy Lexus or BMW and they are mostly equivalent. I am sure Toyota or Honda will be happy to sell cars in UK. Import to UK from EU is almost 1.5x higher than reverse. Tariffs will cost EU more than UK.
Generally speaking I favor taking the short term pain of breaking up with an abusive spouse.

When France decided to leave the previous union of European states, the #remain folks definitely inflicted a lot of short term pain. Lots of French beaches still have monuments thanking the British, American and Canadian soldiers who died in support of #leave. Did that short term pain make #leave the wrong choice?

Also, as a Yank, I'd just like to tell any Brits on here that we still love them. Think about joining NAFTA. Our wine is just as good as French wine and London needs more burritos. We'd love to have some curries and all your delicious baked goods.
You can practice being more extroverted until you get good at social interaction. I can context switch between the two (introvert / extrovert), but I would tend to think of myself as more innately an introvert in that I am quite happy on my own. The true extroverts seem to find being alone quite hard.
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While I do think it's unfair to describe the brexit movement as wholly racist, it's hard to deny that racism was a contributing factor. After all, a big part of the momentum of the brexit movement was a backlash against the Syrian migration crisis.
I don't think leaving the EU is going to change a pattern of extreme concentration of power and money toward elites, and a few mega-corps dominating every single market, nor the tight relationship between megacorps, elites, and government that is present everywhere to strong effect.

That is a global trend for every major nation, and the factors behind a pyramidal society are not obviously being negotiated with in any meaningful way by the UK, Americans, or the Chinese. This is simply the structural propensity of an economic and political game where strength begets strength.
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You would be correct to believe that.
> Its not uncommon to support free markets without free movement of people

There's absolutely no chance of this happening with the UK and the EU. Free movement is even part of the EFTA. And anxiety about the stability of the EU will be much stronger than any neoliberal impulse that would allow the UK to carve out an unprecedented extra special deal for themselves.

My money's on Article 50 never being invoked, and a second referendum on a slightly better deal with the EU probably next year. So the UK will still have to endure an awful limbo state of uncertainty for a while, but they won't actually walk off the cliff.
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> This client has stringent controls in place to prevent just such eventualities, ...

Like a firewall that allows anyone, anywhere in the world to connect to the common database ports?

That is, they didn't have a firewall with a default deny policy?

It doesn't at all like they had "stringent controls" in place, to me.
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Shouldn't be necessary, usually those skimmers collect,they don't have a live feed.
Bittorrent uploaders in general don't have a "business model" but are still a threat and a "competitor" to copyright holders. And are still breaking the law.

The point Comodo guy is trying to make is they invented/own the 90-day certificate, or specifically the magic number 90.
If they actually do he has the moral right to be upset (but of course that doesn't mean trademark law or common sense stop being applicable to the words "Let's encrypt")
Not in terms of any currency except the massively devalued GBP
Ask HN: Want to create the ultimate software project checklist?
I feel that there are so many times when a project starts and people don't know what where to start, and then closer to go-live more and more issues crop up that could have been avoided. I'm hoping to put together a list of tasks that can be applied to almost any software project and can be used as a 'heads up' or checklist document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1htY5oS1tyMQUBbJ2eaEONbgoqch-fMUPeyFOUkBb8Nk/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks for contributing!
But only because of a huge fall at the start of the week. It's down 1.3% on the month.
+1 for CouchDB. Especially if the application is largely data driven
Agreed: https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/
Once you internalise the rules, it clicks and becomes second nature, and you learn to really appreciate the explicitness. Lifetime/ownership errors go way down, and the ones you do get are usually trivial to fix.

In saying that, as with any powerful type system there are always going to become some confounding cases, but for me the trade-off is worth it. It also makes the complexity of your domain more evident up front with shifts experimentation to the compile time phase as opposed to the run-time phase. I prefer the former though, because it is always a joy to have your code compile after a big refactor, and have it run pretty much as you expect.
To me, it seems they are deliberately trying to differentiate themselves, when reality is they are very similar.
This is one of a few GPU capable compilers currently targeting APL as a source language. I am the implementer for another system, called Co-dfns, which is designed to integrate GPU compilation into Dyalog APL. A third system is the APEX compiler that targets SAC written by Bernecky. We get together at the ARRAY workshop and PLDI each year and usually go over and compare our systems to one another. Each system is bringing some unique features and capabilities to the table, and it will be interesting to see these systems evolve over time.

More information on Co-dfns can be found here:

https://arcfide.github.io/Co-dfns/
Could you give an example or two and some specific reasons why? I don't doubt you at all; I'm just interested.
It sounds like you're saying the information might as well be able to come in the back door (via API) as well as the front door (via direct input like buttons), and let users choose their balance. That way early adopters or innovators can benefit without having to change their workflow, such as in your example.

I'll add it to my big list, though there's several prerequisites to take care of first.
"Did they test against a single MongoDB server or cluster?"

Couchbase: 9 nodes on 9 AWS instances (1 node per instance). MongoDB: 18 nodes on 9 AWS instances (1 primary and 1 secondary per instance).

"Well if you pick a good shard key it should be able to go to a single node."

Not necessarily. From the docs:
In some cases, when the shard key or a prefix of the shard key is a part of the query, the mongos can route the query to a subset of the shards. Otherwise, the mongos must direct the query to all shards that hold documents for that collection.

If you query your data in many ways, you have lots of queries not based on the shard key. Considers users. What do you shard on, email? What if you want to query by location, age, status, and/or preference?
What do you expect? Every bank customer is nothing but a slave. Banks own you
As someone working on a side project that allows people to upload data publically (think something like codepen), what can I do to stay away from trouble like this?
This is a good point. If you are trying to design a system that "tells police officers where to go" then you shouldn't be using data to predict arrests, you should be predicting crime, which we don't have unbiased data for.
1) Here's a good blog post on exactly your situation: http://www.jamesmorrell.com/blog/e3-visa-self-sponsorship

2) The E-3 visa application requires filing you file a Labor Condition Application (LCA) attesting that you will be paid at least the prevailing wage for the job title -- i.e. you must be making at least as much as other Americans make doing the same job.
Compared to the U.S., things go off the wall in Europe, and — as you say — Asia is just another planet entirely.
The distinction between racism and xenophobia is a very fine one. It's a Venn diagram with a huge amount of overlap.
These issues also crop up with installing python libraries via pip in a system managed by apt/yum/whatever, from what I remember. Dealing with Python versions / libraries that are not part of the OS's package manager can be painful. It's why people use things like virtualenv / pyenv / Docker even in controlled server environments.
I did something similar. I was going through a hard time personally and I found myself being negative about everything. I decided to start a "negativity jar" into which I put 20c everytime I said something negative. I promised my suffering work colleagues I would spend the proceeds taking out to dinner at the end of the year. It really work well and a few hundred dollars later I was out of my reflexive negativity rut. The only downside was the resident junkie at work stole all the money - at least everyone was understanding on why they missed out on dinner.
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Yes, and that's why he wanted the trademark. To kill them.
Do you have a citation? The researcher in the article believes the opposite.
> invented/own the 90-day certificate

Seriously? Even the US patent office would balk at an application to patent 90-day trials or 90-day certificates. Also, Let's Encrypt isn't doing trials, so patenting the first wouldn't even make sense.
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If you load the comments on the article, the original author claims that he did in fact contact the Vienna Police Department. Whether he should have touched the skimmer at all is another question.
Reliable UHF RFID when tags are on metal or liquid surfaces is a solved problem. See Omni-ID's tags for an example, albeit not for only a few cents, as the metal makes good RF performance a little more challenging http://www.omni-id.com/on-metal-rfid/
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Will correct it very soon! Thanks.
1.3% on the month! It's the apocalypse.
Perhaps I'm wrong about this, but I can't really imagine the police are well equipped to handle this sort of thing. I guess don't have much faith in the authorities when it comes to cyber crime. The police can only do so much. Giving people knowledge to protect themselves is far more beneficial imho.
I used to be really bad about time/punctuality. Since doing a startup where the tides were relevant, and missing a rendezvous by 10 minutes could mean a 12h wait (not just for me, but for a lot of other people), I made a serious effort to be punctual -- the big change being focusing in advance on "we must leave no later than X to be there on time" vs. "we need to be there at X+Y" is 90% of it.
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There's an anti-collision system which is used to inventory all tags in the field of view of a reader. On the order of 500+ tags per second can be picked up by a single reader. For more details, see the GS1 spec, page 49 or so http://www.gs1.org/sites/default/files/docs/epc/uhfc1g2_1_2_...
So it's okay to:

a) not report a crime &
b) take evidence from the scene of the crime

because the police likely don't care, are incompetent, and have no resources?
> great self-awareness and guts

Let's go with "shows an ability to admit they're wrong when called on it" at most.
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See, the problem here is you're just too cynical. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Regarding hypocrisy, the problem isn't that people are distrustful of thieves, the problem is its a capital sin that is used to find the slightest of problems with your opponents then based on literally doing nothing wrong, attempt to destroy them. It's about giving people space to change their mind. Unless you think the whole 'flip flopper' development was positive and we should prize people who hold on to opinions regardless of how incorrect they become.

As for personality, this article popped up today and I think it's relevant: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/24/48185966...

Finally, as for Google's data I can say without a doubt that we have one of the best internal IT and security policies I have seen anywhere. Not only are the polices solid, the implementation is vastly superior to any other security system in the civilian area, and possibly some military ones. The google privacy and security teams (yup, multiple) are passionate about this and are extremely proactive. There is a lot of people working on this area. I fully trust Google with my data.
I know others have already answered, but I found this learner's diction version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary (and it looks a lot better than their normal site anyway).

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/flush

Scroll down to the 4th listing, which is the adjective version. "even or level with another surface"

So the original poster meant that he thought the card reader should just be completely even or level with the front of the machine. I guess that would just be a plain slot.
Wouldn't that be a very similar meaning? An unbroken chain of cards of the same suit? Makes sense to me.
And probably the slowest. If you can capture 10 faster markets then the slowest gets pressure to get going. But if you only have to deal with the slowest then it becomes even slower. Welcome to capitalism.
I'd bet it's at least a little the same as an offline IQ test.
Do you see new OPT STEM extension (24 months) and it's requirements be something that could be met by most F-1 student entrepreneurs on OPT?

Background:
The new 24 month STEM OPT Extension [1] (effective from May 10, 2016) which requires employers to fill I-983 [2] (Lengthy Training Plan) has created additional barrier for foreign students intending to start/work with startup companies on STEM OPT Extension (which earlier was for 17 months with less regulations). Being an F-1 student myself I can say that, these regulations could certainly influence more potential F-1 entrepreneurs down the "job seeking" path as opposed to "job creation/entrepreneurship" path because it is much easier for bigger companies with resources to satisfy the USCIS training plan requirements/I-983 as opposed to newly born companies.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/students-and-exc...

[2] https://www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Document/2...
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I opted to just roll my own subscription system and use normal charges periodically as needed.