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What about all the new mobile payment services? Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, the Walmart one?

I don't use any of them - I have a prepaid cell phone that lays on my desk 100% of the time, and is for emergency purposes only - but even if they were backed by Visa or MasterCard, it seems like they could be backed by a checking account just as easily.

Visa or MasterCard have value from inertia(all the work they did getting everybody to sign up for their cards), from their relationships with the banks(the banks tried and failed to do the same thing), from their ability to process payments worldwide, and from their infrastructure.

It's not clear to me what prevents Google from taking over if Visa started abusing its power. They have the inertia(everyone has a cell phone, though not the habit of paying with it), they have the infrastructure, I think cell phones work internationally, and they're big enough to develop a relationship with any bank.

To be clear, Visa and MasterCard are going to be extremely difficult to replace in the 'plastic payment cards' business no matter what they do. But not the more general 'electronic payment methods tied to bank services' business.
While I don't have experience with Mikrotik, I've been really happy with the Ubiquiti gear I've installed.
I agree that their current process should become more democratic, and that this is a real concern. There is also benefit in moving quickly to try and solve a real problem and prove that this approach will work. I'm still cautiously optimistic.
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If the OP answers it is anecdotal of course, but I'll point out that there's a whole field of bio-economics that tries to find survey/public answers to these questions for the purpose of making policies. And the result is laws such as the Endangered Species Act which dictates how far society thinks you should go in this direction.
> QM treatment is not necessary for most molecular machines

Still largely true, but more exceptions are being found all the time.
Shortly after 9/11... I was down-voted to oblivion...

Just out of curiosity, what forum was this?
Are you implying that there are differences other than sexual preferences?
Finally someone with an open mind. Its not about what is practical, it is about what is possible. Take what is possible and decide what is practical for your use case.
Ugh, yeah. Ran into that same scenario while working with my third ever consulting client. The features we wanted were advertised as built in, with no (obvious) mention of it being a kind of "in app purchase".

I felt like a total asshole telling this client we needed to shell out another few hundred bones. Then the thing ran like shit (need a lot of rebooting) and we replaced it after 9 months.

Haven't looked at their garbage since.
Rust generics do. Java's don't.
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There's always a serious historical debate about what caused a war, but tossing Molotov cocktails into HN threads is (a) not the way to invite one and (b) no way to behave here. Please don't post like this, and please don't create accounts to break the site rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463191 and marked it off-topic.
> It seems I cannot post a performance comparison without people asking about disk caches. :)

Sorry, the speedup was very great so it almost seemed like something else was causing it. Thanks for the benchmarks.

> Third of all, you can run the tests yourself -- I gave you the exact commands to try. "I tried it and my results are X" is a much better contribution to the discussion.

That's true; I'm lazy.

Actually, I was thinking more of the disk cache of loading hg, not the repo (Python programs tend to have a great speedup through the disk cache).
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This kernel extension:

/Library/Extensions/Dropbox.kext

And good question.
more context here: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol58im...
Because we're traumatized by bouncing pie charts, video backgrounds and parallax scrolling? Many people are eventually forced to use or worse - implement websites with stuff like this even when they really don't want to.

Also, because flashy web gimmics receive disproportionate amount of attention compared to less glamorous but practical concepts. Even here, on an ostensibly technical website.
To write code that outlasts me, so far all my projects are gone within a few years after I stopped working for the company that needed it.
I wonder if he meant "passed on _by_ the merchant", as in, it's not like any business will give non-rewards-card-payers a discount.
I've rephrased the bit you took issue with a bit differently than you suggest; I agree that it was misstated, but its not, AFAICT, universally motivated by actual xenophobia or racism, and is quite often just plain ignorance by people who wouldn't do it if they recognized that there was a difference.
Interestingly, despite all the problems in the U.S., there is an argument to be made that America is among the least racist countries in the world[0]. I also imagine fighting a civil war in which race was a controlling issue within the last 200 years is something a sizable share of nations have done.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...
Almost certainly an amount that wipes out common stock holders. People they want to keep will get a retention offer, but with the acknowledgment that their stock in Chariot is now worth $0.
The point which is very clear that people stick with old definitions despite new evidence even in the sciences. The great thing is different countries use different definitions yet people seem to assume whatever they grew up with is correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#/media/File:Continen...

At most you can say brown and polar bears are "generally classified as separate species" But, there really is debate on this topic.
I am emotionally invested, sure.

However, if you are trying to contrast things fairly, we could say:

* talk about racist policies against the Chinese in California in the 1800s

* talk about racist policies against the Irish and sentiments against Catholics throughout the country even just prior to JFK's election in 1960

* talk about racist views and policies towards interracial marriage in the South and Southwest

That's contrasting different experiences in time and place. That's being fair. The alternative...
I think environmentalists would be more accepting of dams if we didn't dam just about every damn river.
I love seeing open feedback loops like this. Thanks for being open to feedback and willing to include it.
> I think the biggest problem people have with git is that you can't and shouldn't want to change shared history, and yet git provides some tools that suggest that maybe you can.

Funny, I think the biggest problem is people who refuse to understand the caveats of rewriting shared history and spread FUD about it.
The guidelines say:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

Although they don't offer guidance in the case of linkbait, they do offer permission to use a title other than the original. A representative phrase or subtitle from the article is usually best.
The very specific UAC one is secure, at least from anything that doesn't already have basically full control over your system, as it runs in the context of the SYSTEM account. The effect, and even much of the "alternate desktop", is trivial to reproduce, and is not as secure. One notable example is KeePass, which has an option to use a "Secure Desktop" for master password entry, but as it's done from the current user, is not secure against an attacker that understands what it's doing, though it will "bypass" a keylogger that's not designed to log "alternate desktop" interactions.
Yeah the next market is obviously Austin, they've been hiring for ops and marketing for months now. I know because I've been watching and waiting forever for Chariot to come here and show Capital Metro how modern, efficient transit is done.
It's not a reward for the government, hence why they have lodged an appeal. Ireland has a lot more to lose by accepting that tax money than they would gain.
Asset management has been a decent growth segment for Goldman since '09, as money started shifted out of trading.

See p. 59 - http://www.goldmansachs.com/investor-relations/financials/cu...

p. 51 - http://www.goldmansachs.com/s/2012annual/assets/downloads/GS...

~10% YoY growth since 2010; Investment Banking has actually grown a bit quicker than that.

As much as the Volcker Rule has been watered down, it's still having a big impact on banks' ability to take on risk via their trading desks, so you're seeing them shift back into the classic businesses of making deals (investment banking), making rich people richer (private wealth), and making rich institutions richer (investment management in general).
Development is only so valuable. If you can transfer your expertise to 5 or 10 more people and guide and mentor them, then the company reaps the benefits of having 5-10 of you, rather than only one. Ultimately that is the more profitable option and that is why those who can do that are compensated more generously.

No matter how good a developer you are, you're still only one person.

> the logical conclusion is that i will have to become their competitor as soon as i can

If you think you can become a successful competitor to a large company with ONLY development skills and not any of the people skills that would have gotten you into a management position, you're in for a rude awakening.
In what way are you connecting recent password dumps to hackers attacking Certificate Authorities? If someone controlled the CA, they would also need to control the target website and/or the victim's home network in order to MITM the connection and snag the credentials. Also, this would allow them to capture plaintext passwords and as far as I know all of the major password dumps recently have been hashed passwords indicating that the database was breached, not that a CA was compromised and thousands of users were MITMed.
Tl;DR: DC/OS provides all the components you need on top of Mesos to run in production, all pre-packaged and tested together with easy to install way

Mesos provide the core resource management and scheduling, think of it as the Kernel of an (DC) operating system. On top of Mesos you usually need:

1- Container/Workload Scheduling capability which is Marathon, now built in and integrated in DC/OS so you are just up and running in minutes
2- Management (Beautiful DC/OS UI and CLI) to manage all cluster and workload operations. It also includes Installer (of all components including Zookeeper, networking, ..etc)
3- App Store (Universe) that allows you to easily find and deploy latest packages such as Kafka, Cassandra and Spark with a single command, in regular Mesos you needed to find the Framework that worked with a specific version of Mesos, troubleshooting, ...etc. Now it's an app store like experience
4- Core infrastructure components such as very cool service discovery and loadbalancing (Minuteman), Storage drivers, CNI support

If you want to run docker containers, DC/OS also gives you the ability to use the docker daemon or the new Universal containerize (technology preview) which we just released.

Because mesos is very modular and very powerful, it was built to have modular implementation of all system components, but our team and our founders ran some of the largest implementations of Mesos (Twitter, Airbnb, ..etc) and they complied all thes best practices and the bits and pieces in DC/OS.

Hope that explains,
gabrielgoh: thank you for this. Like others, I was more optimistic than others that this had promise, and I was wrong. Now I want to understand how the authors' got it wrong, so I've added your blog post to my reading list.
As long as the client is proprietary, how can one know that they are any better than Dropbox?

Feature-wise sync.com looks interesting, but there seem to be very few users out there. I would be worried that they disappear when they run out of VC money.
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No, that works only until your next reboot. DB has installed an agent that resets that setting in TCC.db a few seconds after you log in next.
It's quite difficult to have no reverberation, but not too bad at all to keep to a minimum. But reverb plus reverb equals reverb, so it's just a matter of finding one that sounds good.

It'd also be interesting to know if this technique could solve the "de-reverberation" problem.
A somewhat lesser known git trick that's pretty much a strict improvement - use `--force-with-lease` for force pushing instead of `--force`.

What this does is check what's on the remote branch and compare it with what you think is on the remote branch, and only do the force if they're the same thing. So if someone pushes a commit, the force push errors out instead of silently overwriting it.

Basically every single time you want to force push, you probably should be doing a `--force-with-lease` instead. I can't think of a situation where you'd want to silently lose commits you don't know about rather than get an error.
3% is absolutely insane, we sell items where our margins are about 4 or 5%
I've had significant issues attempting to run dropbox headless on the server for file syncing. We needed to include files from another group that was used to primarily working in Dropbox in a daily report build, and so our first go at it was to just run dropbox on that machine and pull the files directly from there. Long story short, the Dropbox client crashed periodically and would stop syncing due to issues with its local state.

After setting up monitoring around the client to keep it running we wound up switching to a different, more reliable solution.

Dropbox works ok on the server but I wouldn't rely on it as a step in any important workflows unless the client has improved significantly in the past year.
Sonicwall is now owned by Francisco Partners. Dell sold SonicWall as part of the divestiture efforts.
Corrected proposed non-clickbait title: "How Dropbox fakes an authorization prompt to trick you into entering credentials that it then caches in order to bypass restrictions on what root is able to do so that it can persist a security bypass mechanism."

The first bit, for me, is key.
Rust has been doing that since day one.

What makes this incremental compilation different from that of, say, Go, is that it works inside a package. Before incremental compilation, Rust and Go had the exact same model: package-at-a-time compilation. With incremental compilation, Rust is more fine-grained than that: Rust can compile specific parts of a package while leaving the other parts untouched.
This is pretty much the reason i don't understand people who don't want merge commits (the use case for rebase in the video is modifying commits in a feature branch BTW, not merging to master). You can bend git logs to your will with the various options so there's no problem in being as verbose as possible in commit messages and the concept of a "linear history" is a moot point because, no matter how messy your history actual is, there's a command line option to clear it up.

Be verbose in your commit messages and don't worry about merge commits, it will pay dividends later.
This is akin to saying that stepping on a nail is just as bad as walking into an industrial meat grinder, since they will both hurt your foot.

I don't think anyone is arguing that dams are zero impact. They can and do negatively impact local ecologies, and have the potential to impact animal populations at a broader scale. These problems can theoretically be offset to some degree with good planning and management, but thus far management has been uneven and middlingly successful.

I'm not being flippant and dismissing extinctions and the disruption of food chains as "breaking a few eggs": they are tragedies, but they are extremely small-scale tragedies compared to the ongoing disasters all other forms of reliable energy generation are inflicting on us. Hydro isn't above criticism, but blanket declarations that it's just as bad as fossil fuels is incredibly dangerous misinformation.

If your point of view is that any energy generation that in any way negatively impacts the environment are anathemas and that we should all be living in caves, then okay, but I don't know how you're powering your computer. Otherwise, you're being hyperbolic and enabling regressive and catastrophic ideas and practices.
I think that has more to do with the diversion of water for irrigation. For example, the almost-total vanishing of the Aral Sea.
Man, don't say that. There's no point building a bigger bomb, true, but there's more to weapon "power" than the size of the bang it makes - precision, for a start. For example, a horde of autonomous killbots is a far more powerful weapon than a nuke; you could obliterate a country's populace without fallout and without touching the infrastructure. Do not think for a moment that the US military-industrial complex would not make these if they could.
Are we conveniently ignoring Three Mile Island? It happened in 1979, 37 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
Earlier this year I needed to get something notarized. Went to the UPS store 3 blocks from my work, paid $5 per signature (=$10), walked out 5 minutes later. It's a hassle, but for a $500 transaction it really isn't such a big deal.
I have the same apprehension. It is particularly annoying to see all of the bs scotsman debates on introverts. Seems everyone I meet nowdays thinks they are "really an introvert."
I'm not saying it's right. I'm saying it's explainable, and that it's complex, and that it's driven by real incentives rather than blind malice. I also think there would be a much better chance of making the changes to allow microhousing if you understood where the opposition was coming from. It's hard to convince someone to your point of you by bashing them over the head with "you're wrong!"

I think we have some common ground in that we both think the best solution is not have a tent city in the first place. Homelessness comes with a whole host of other problems that microhousing can't actually solve - like the fact that most homeless people have a hard time applying for housing by virtue of the fact that they have no prior address.

So, maybe the better question is: how do we do that?
Turning to the Vulkan API allowed me to comfortably play at 1440P, Ultra, 60FPS on my (aging) 280X... That just blows my mind.
My company is going through a phase where someone thought "We're doing pretty well by promoting engineers into management/business positions. How well could we do if we put some people with "real" business backgrounds (MBAs) in charge?"

It's a disaster. It seems that finding a technical person and having them learn the business skills is more common and easier than taking a business person and hoping they can learn enough technical skills to be able to understand the piece of the business they're in charge of.

In my situation, it's a manufacturing engineer with an MBA who was asked to manage a design engineering department. What happened was that he forced the implementation of procedures and checklists on immature processes. So the procedures were immediately out of date and because the processes were immature, there's no solid theory of operation - just lists of steps that engineers and techs execute blindly.
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The house is full off morons but I can't say I disagree with this one. It's always left a bad taste in my mouth that the Saudis so obviously had a lot to do with 9/11 but have been allowed to skate.
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Antitrust isn't exactly an issue until you have a significant amount of market power. It's not like it's likely to affect most people who start businesses. Hostile to big business maybe, but not so convinced that's a bad thing..
It also doesn't do people any good to sit in offices and pat themselves on the back for being better educated than the average person 1500 miles away.
Fault trees seem to be reasonably close. While developing my thinking and understanding on reliability analysis I came at it from an analog of decision trees. There were a couple of influential talks that got me started, one was by Sandia labs discussing the ways in which they insure that nuclear devices can't be detonated without approval (big requirement) through a process called vulnerability analysis, and another on how Citibank worked their network to insure uptime. The Chaos Monkey series from Netflix was quite fun as well. Google did something similar internally with its DiRT exercises (Diaster Recovery).

My "fail tree" (and I'll put it in quotes as unique to my conception of them) analysis consists of identifying a failure, the system response to the failure, a time to fix for the failed system, and a guess at the uncertainty on the fix. So for example "switch hardware failure" is a failure, with a fix time that varies based on "replacement part on hand" to "order/ship/install (replace) the entire switch". The first order is failure/fix tree with callouts of down time. The second order is mitigation/cost with mitigation strategies and their cost resulting in a new call out of potential downtime, and the third order is mitigation accelerators and their cost (which shorten recovery to non-degraded mode) which affect cost and possible down time.

Much of that you can do on paper, but sometimes you will have to run experiments to see how long things take to fix.
You may have a point about facebook, but I have to disagree about McDonald's. Many, many people eat tons of McDonald's and live to a ripe old age, including Warren Buffet, my great aunt (now 103), and countless others.

Yes, you can make a strong argument that eating ONLY McDonald's is unhealthy (though others have done the opposite in various documentaries), but if you're going to say that McDonald's is "literally" killing us, you'll need to back it up with a mountain of evidence. Anecdotes aside, the places with the greatest longevity also tend to have a lot of McDonalds restaurants. The top McDonald's eating countries (per capita) outside the US are Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada and France—some of the longest living people in the world!

If they're "literally" being killed by the food, it sure takes a long time to do its damage!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464729
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Then wouldn't they sue the companies?
You are so right!

In the early days (1960s/1970s), credit card companies welcomed (perhaps even sponsored? I don't remember) the legislated responsibility for risk because it encouraged the uptake of credit cards.

Nowadays, of course, almost everyone has a card and almost every merchant needs to take them. So the card cartels were able to shift part of the burden onto the merchants, and in particular the smaller ones. But not all of it.

Banks managed to evade most of the credit card rules in debit cards. Debit cards are a MUCH better deal for banks (they don't incur interest -- except for overdraw fees, but they also don't carry ANY of the protections credit cards do).

> Never ever use a debit online. In fact, don't use in person. Debit cards are fine for ATM to get cash, for anything else use CC. (Plus CC gives you 2% cash back if you shop wise, that is huge).

As an alternative: if you can get a credit card at all, just get one. You don't need to worry about "benefits" (cash rebates, miles or whatever, just get one that doesn't charge you an annual fee.

When you buy something online or swipe, send the CC come any a check that same day. There's no rule saying you have to pay them only when you get a bill. If you do this you'll never accrue interest.