skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>up to a floor limit for offline transactions.

Buy stolen CCs without pin in large volume

Set up online merchant account (eBay is common), use software to scrape and copy listings for popular products that cost less than the floor amount but more than your costs. When someone orders a product and the payment clears automatically put in an order for the product on a different website (preferably one that allows a guest checkout). Automate more and more parts of the process as time goes on (e.g. using a different card when one is declined)

Keep the transaction volume low and you're basically printing money at the rate of the difference between card info cost and item cost.

This is a pretty common tactic to monetize large volumes of CC#s.

It doesn't help that most merchants don't cross reference billing address with the bank and some don't require the security code.
> How long does it take for that water to re-enter the ecosystem in a usable way?

It depends on where you got the water from. If you got it from a river or lake, probably "until the next time it rains". If you got it from an aquifer, then it depends on how long it takes water to filter down into the aquifer, assuming it can do so at all.

> Water isn't just destroyed, yeah?

In the case of aquifers it actually can be, effectively. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer#Human_dependence_on_gr... second paragraph:

Fresh-water aquifers, especially those with limited recharge by
snow or rain, also known as meteoric water, can be over-exploited
and depending on the local hydrogeology, may draw in non-potable
water or saltwater intrusion from hydraulically connected aquifers
or surface water bodies. This can be a serious problem, especially
in coastal areas and other areas where aquifer pumping is excessive.
In some areas, the ground water can become contaminated by arsenic
and other mineral poisons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer#Aquifer_water... is a worthwhile read with specific numbers for a specific aquifer that illustrates some of the possible problems.

All of which is to say that in some places (and in particular in much of the Western US) water may closer to a non-renewable resource than a renewable one if it comes from an aquifer. At least on years-to-decades timescales.
My whole family use it. It's really quite nice.
I'm not sure what was the reason of the refund. It was a mistake of some kind. From what information I could get from the bank, they were trying to charge back the entire sum, but somehow got only part of it.
Except that a strong static type system wouldn't allow you to write code like this in the first place. You wouldn't hit these issues at run-time because you caught them at compile-time.
(a) The marginal benefit to pain assistance over heroin/morphine is almost nothing. Certainly not tens of billions of dollars of marginal improvement.

(b) It's only an ad hom if there's an argument being made, and that argument is something other than "that guy is an asshole."
>the value of this empirical study

The problem is the sample that this study is looking at. As i wrote above, GitHub is simply a big container of code for literally everybody, so judging kind of bugs produced by looking at what it's inside the Github repositories is akin to judging how many gramatical errors book authors make by taking a look at all the MS word documents stored in Dropbox.

PS: No worries, and thank you for being friendly. :)
Chip and PIN is Broken (2010) [pdf]
Apparently, there's an optimization that needs to get done with the retailer's bank. Big retailers have this completed so their chip transactions are very fast. Smaller ones either don't or need to go through a middle-man servicer which adds time and god knows if the middle man has completed this optimization. Subway restaurants, which are individually franchised, are like this. They just have one of those cheap chip terminals and the transactions can take 30+ seconds. Meanwhile at Walgreens it only takes a few seconds.

A lot of this has to do with Quick Chip, which forgoes writing the host authorizer ID to the credit card's chip thus simplifying and shortening the transaction. QC rollouts happen at whatever pace retailers want, so you'll see some shops using QC and others that don't.

https://www.cardfellow.com/quick-chip-slow-chip-card-transac...
Flow has features that allow for IDE-like editing, but I'll be dammed if I ever managed to get it to work.
Yasha Levine, the other person in the conversation attacking Signals credibility, is another person to take very lightly in these conversation. He's a Russian pop-tech author known for his research into Russian/US espionage, but following his twitter for the last 2yrs he also seems to dabble in plenty of borderline conspiracy theorists stuff with. He seems to have a strong bias against anything American (occasionally rightfully but many times seemingly for just the sake of it). In conversations I've had with him he also demonstrated a poor understanding of crypto/software development - but those things are not uncommon for journalists covering infosec from the outside-in.

Either way I'm not surprised he is included here accusing Signal of colluding with the US gov merely because it indirectly took funding... all of those espionage fans see "US gov funding" and instantly assume collusion - but the reality is typically much more boring. Maybe not so much in Russia where money from the state often comes with expectation of favours in return (the opposite of America where money going in to the state demands favours in return)...
> Thumbs down from me for code bloat, but it'll be nice to have a separate app and not be required to keep Chrome open all the time.

In the sense of having a separate instance of Chrome, dedicated to Signal, open all the time:-)

It's probably still the best, quickest cross-platform solution — which is just sad. Although I wonder how bad the current Java compatibility story is: if they used Java maybe they could reuse some of their Android code.
>Given reality, something must substitute for open source drivers

Linux is quite real, I assure you.
My generator backup system has this. The generator is fed into the box and routed through a breaker. This breaker will only switch on if the mains is off. In addition to safety, it just make sense to not dump your generator's energy into the grid.
The official fasm tar comes with a few hello world examples. One shows you how to say hello with libc, other with the kernel (then there's x86 and amd64 versions of bout).

http://chamilo2.grenet.fr/inp/courses/ENSIMAG3MM1LDB/documen... is the official spec for the amd64 calling convention (aka ABI) on unices. http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/amd64-regs/ is a nice table showing what goes in what register (still amd64) when calling a C library or the kernel. X86 library calling convention is just putting everything on the stack, while the kernel convention.. i don't remember (int 80 and syscall in eax, but arguments..). There's a syscall table https://filippo.io/linux-syscall-table/ and i made a fasm to include https://pastebin.com/nnrMVF8u (amd64; i made from the kernel source headers, that i can't find now).

That's about all there is linux specific.
I'm not following any of the logic here. Big pharma companies are already making a killing on a significant portion of the opioid addiction epidemic. They're legally (but perhaps irresponsibly) prescribed by a doctor, and either become abused by the intended patient or subsequently depart from those legal channels.

The opioid crisis isn't the only crisis. America hovers around being the 1st or 2nd worst incarceration rate in the world, and it's predominantly non-violent drug offenses. Friend of mine just lost a job offer they had provisionally because of a tiny marijuana possession charge from years ago, and that's happened to them over and over again.

If your best argument in favor of continuing to ruin people lives over something so petty is "big pharma will make money off of opioids", I call bullshit.

edit: I would also argue that in your analogy, there is almost no water built up behind that dam, and getting rid of the dam would hardly be noticeable downstream. We can't even keep drugs out of prisons very well. I live in a town that hasn't had a single case of violent crime in 13 years, and yet I know exactly where I could go and buy some heroin right this very minute if I wanted to. I know where in the Bay Area I could buy some meth if I wanted to. And these are locations that have been repeatedly raided by the cops, but the selling of drugs at those locations doesn't stop, because someone else who recently finished their sentence will just take over while the person who got busted servers theirs. I was in a concert venue last night with cops, and weed, everywhere. Freaking out about the weed, but no one caring about people having 6 or 7 beers and then getting in their cars to drive home drunk at 1am. The dam makes zero sense to me.
It's not that games from 2009 don't run, only games that haven't been updated since 2009 don't run. All a developer needs to do is recompile and push an update.
Probably you could find some projects on website like Upwork or Freelancer. They usually have some jobs related to electrical engineering.

But if it's hardware related, I believe it's hard to work remotely. Is designing micro-controller also considered electronic skill?
I know a few people who use it a lot and toggle it based on where they are. However those people definitely aren't your average consumer types. I'd imagine probably 90% of iOS users don't even know it has a VPN toggle.

(I don't use it on cellular, do use it on insecure wifi, don't use it on some secure wifis depending on who controls it, never use it at home/parents/etc. Some days that's 4/5 toggles.)
> You can do this with literally anything.

Yes you can. But the evidence shows that crime related to supporting a drug habit actually exists compared to a Facebook habit.

Addiction comes in many flavors. Gaming addiction don't add substances to your body that your body cannot produce and regulate by itself.
Top area mentions HC-05, later in the article it says HC-06. Which is it? Or am I missing something - granted, I did skim the article.
At least it has electrolytes.
Most is lost to evaporation, which rains out in a relatively short time somewhere else. The problem is that the water used frequently comes from either groundwater, leaving users downstream with a deficit, or deep aquifers, which take a very long time to recharge.
Fairness (distributive) != Lawfulness

Justice != Lawfulness - contested

Justice ≈ Fairness - contested, but developed world's post-war political-economies are based upon this either explicitly or implicitly. A lately weakened norm (post-Thatcher/Reagan) that Amazon and others are breaking further.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/
Waiting for capitalism to reveal a profitable hole in the market is sometimes slow.

I'd blame the 5 companies that control 50% of global credit card terminals that decided to keep things low cost in the US. Much of the blame probably also rests on the 5 banks that issue the majority of the credit & debit cards in the US.

In fact I believe the current chip rules are there just to hobble new entrants in the space. Probably 10-20 startups like Square built readers that they provided for free or nearly free and gave millions of units away. Many of these are garbage as a result, and all of the mag readers will be eventually.

The chip (with conspicuously missing PIN) legislation was a pretty expensive attack on all of those companies, intentional or not.
The study showed that average programs on Github really do have these errors. Maybe not on your teams, but they are definitely out there.

Also, I am not sure how you could know whether these bugs have happened on you teams unless you were specifically classifying bugs by root cause? When the cause of a bug is a simple type error, programmers don't generally tell their manager, they just say it's fixed.
What makes a philosopher other than love of wisdom? And in your estimation are they missing the point of other philosophers, or of non-philosophers? If the latter, what's a non-philosopher?
Advanced Lane-Detection for Self-Driving Cars
Typically for turning it back on when it failed to automatically connect, again.
Eh it sounds to me that this is a great quick fix for the "I'm slightly too far from the AP to have bandwidth but I'm still maintaining a connection" problem I have almost daily. Will make an obscure security concern you've identified slightly more difficult to deal with. If you don't prefer trade offs like this, Apple likely isn't the best digital provider for you.
Even aside from changing the syntax, you often have to do this to modify the resolution strategy, such as using breadth-first instead of depth-first search, or add probabilistic or fuzzy logic. A lot of papers on Prolog from the 80s start with "what would it be like to use logic-X from Prolog?" You can do a lot of interesting deep cuts like this without a huge amount of work. Prolog even has a built-in context-free parser that works the same way: definite clause grammars.
I have yet to see how FaceID pans out, but the extra $200 may be worth the smaller form factor yet bigger screen and weight reduction. I'm definitely waiting to see.
The same is true for the Bluetooth toggle. It just turns it off for any new connections.
Maybe you were just younger? I noticed my interactions with family generally lowered over the years, as me & my siblings all went to build their own lives.
> Do you think it's fundamentally impossible for other races to ever benefit at the expense of whites?

I'm generally against rules and regulations where one race benefits over another.

> Do you have any evidence that white nationalists deny the existence of non-zero sum games?

Evidence? Nah, just an anecdote about my experience. White Nationalists refuse to understand that all races can benefit from proper policy decisions, and turn everything into an "us vs them".

For example, a common white nationalist refrain is "They took our jobs". While the counterargument is simply "They took the jobs that no one wants to take", or perhaps "More jobs for everybody creates more jobs for everybody". After all, the economy expands when more people have money, because more people start spending it on more services.

Yes: if illegal immigrants spend more money, then the local economy benefits and more jobs can be created.

For whatever reason, white nationalists refuse to believe in the possibility that maybe, just maybe, there exists a path for everybody to benefit in society.

> Surely you understand that it's perfectly possible for one race to benefit at the expense of another.

Yes. Racial quotas are an example of that. But good policy decisions don't necessarily have to resort to quotas to fix the issues of dwindling inner-city opportunities for people in poverty.

A proper policy framework and law structure can ensure that everybody benefits. A rising tide lifts all boats.

A wall, deportation-based policy, and other such policy decisions FORCE the discussion to become a zero-sum game. A bit of creativity and foresight however can demonstrate far better fixes that are better for society overall.
First bounty, time to step up my game
Apple is still signing 10.3.3, so it's not impossible to go back (yet).
Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century
Microsoft DevCast (1993)
Benchmarks of OpenJ9 and Hotspot
What Jamie Dimon is missing about Bitcoin
I can't really fathom what your point is here? No cars means no pollution -> reducing the amount of cars reduces the pollution. Is that disputed?
> Drugs are a health problem, not a criminal problem.

Well, I would say they are both.

They are a health problem because of the addiction factors. They are a criminal problem because of what people are willing to do to get drugs when they run out of money.
"What many claimed was that QE would increase lending in the real economy, which would obviously boost the economy (because more real economy lending = more spending = more demand = more economic activity). That hasn't really happened, and I hope economists learned the lesson."

I don't know that they have learned that lesson ..

My understanding is that the failure of institutional lending in response to QE is still considered "a mystery" by mainstream economists, etc.

I personally think that banks are in the same position Apple is in with their x00 Billion dollars hoarded overseas ... they are terrified that the system could come flying apart at any moment and are therefore sitting on cash or reserve assets to protect against this.
On a related note, the Trump administration exempted Venezuelan state owned oil company Citgo from the recent round of American sanctions.

Citgo happens to employ former Trump campaign advisors as lobbyists.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/348007-trump-ex...
Well then let us drive, sell food and perform medical treatments without licenses too. Your argument is far too simplistic
If shareholders do not demand the money as a dividend and prefer instead to have it kept in the company's control, then so be it.

Shareholders in Apple want Apple to be able to make big investments or acquisitions and are willing to let the money sit there rather than take it as a dividend. This would not be true for most firms.
Institutions and rule of law are better in the U.S. than Russia, but that is not saying much.
"The Fed can't print money without devaluing the money already in print. "

Yes it can. Banks do that all the time. Money grows and shrinks to ensure all the transactions that are worth completing gets completed.

It's a dynamic system.

"If this were not true, then why would would have taxes?"

You have taxes, so you have to create output and hand it over for the currency the taxes are denominated in. That's how output is transferred to the public sector.

The public sector then creates the money necessary for you (and everybody else transitively) to pay those tax demands.

When government spends it will create the taxation that balances that spend to the penny for any positive transaction. It's a simple geometric progression.

Unless somebody in the chain decides not to spend all their income. We call that saving.

The maths is straightforward... https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/the-function-of-gove...
Why do we trust corporations over government again?
> And many youth will already be trained on the controller.

And if they're not, give the troops XBOXs and Halo, and they'll be more than happy to train THEMSELVES on it in their free time!
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-i-asked-my-friends-to-st...

This article explains a lot better than I can some of the security tradeoffs with Whatsapp, particularly in regard to metadata and data collection.

Also, the worst UX? IMO Signal looks and feels much better and less cluttered than WhatsApp, Wire and Hangouts. Only Telegram has a superior UX (and a really nice QT native desktop app), IMO.
Please recall that my claim is for simple type errors. PHP SQL injection attacks, for example, were caused not by type errors but simply by a lack of enough education on how to safely use SQL (i.e. by using prepared statements, etc.)

No javascript or PHP system will prevent those. And that's my point, the really serious, time-consuming, havoc-creating bugs are the ones no static type check will save you from.
For those of us stuck in 2007. Can you briefly describe how the contactless payment works ?
Bombing civilians and giving weapons to terrorist organizations really helps to support civilian governments and the rule of law.
Code smells: too many problems
It baffles me that the US is still struggling to get chip-and-pin working properly, when most of Europe has been using chip-and-pin for over a decade and is now transitioning to contactless. America seems weirdly bad at this sort of co-ordination problem.
with regards to face unlock, will it always try to unlock when just viewing notifications or text? I would not mind facial if it also had finger unlock; use the side if you have too; because there is so much usage with the form of id unlock I don't want to give up.

and finally I still cannot get past the notch, it is atrocious to me and from a UI perspective the contortions they must have went through to sign off on it have to be astounding.
Some reasons:

- VPNs do not stay connected
- VPNs use a lot of battery
- switching VPNs (e.g. work, personal)
- mandatory for public wifi, optional elsewhere
- some sites block VPNs (netflix, best buy, american airlines)
- some networks block VPNs
It feels like they’re trying to educate me as a user that switching wifi off to save battery is not super smart.

It’s true, the difference is minuscule at best (20-30 minutes of battery life) but maybe I want to micromanage to get these 20 minutes. Or because I am concerned about privacy.

My take is that if you want to “educate” users on how best to use a feature you must leave them the freedom to do it wrong (depending on the consequences). If you’re right they will do what you want (profit) and if you’re wrong then you have avoided alienating them.
Spy Files Russia
I'm building a flexible CRM system for startups: http://orchestrahq.com.

Been using other CRM systems but found them to be too restrictive. Salesforce provides endless customization but costs a bomb.
I have a ton of apps no longer supported on iOS 11. They come in 2 main groups:

- apps which were abandoned

- apps which were replaced by a successor. In the absence of update fees, this is the easiest way to generate new revenue for continuous updates. I am happy to pay for app maintenance, but this scheme means, that there is no automatic data migration from the old to the new apps.
The article quantifies the time involved.
I walk 15-20 minutes from a station in Central London to work and whilst I might see a handful of cyclists jumping the lights, I pretty much always see more vehicles doing similar or worse.
Per-IP rate limiting with iptables
Many banks supply you with a hardware security token.
I don't have much details.

https://portal.smartertools.com/community/a89593/ios-11-and-...

http://www.kraftkennedy.com/critical-issue-apple-ios-11-mail...

Where I work we received an email urging us not to upgrade, I believe for that reason.
Inductive charging!
I hate to defend Facebook, but I'm not sure about their data having no value for the users. One such example would be that they've connected people who were otherwise unknowing of each other. People have found long lost relatives due to the big data that Facebook has. I'd say that's value.
HashiCorp and Google: easing secret and infrastructure management
I have a Junghans solar powered radio controlled watch. Plainly black, but it's made from space shuttle grade ceramics and it's only nerdy once you talk about it ;-)
TL;DR: Someone asked on Quora if 35 was too old. People answered no.
Would love to know how you got started in angel investing?
Those sorts of things only appeal to people who know what they mean, which is a ver very small part of facebook. Does my mother or grandmother care about a social network being federated or open source? No , not even close. Only technical people care about this stuff and it adds no value for the average user.
Programming Style Guides and Google's Python Code
On the X, both rear cameras have optical image stabilization. On the 8 Plus, only the wide angle camera has optical image stabilization.
I tried out Hacklang a bit and I really enjoyed it. However I could not get xdebug or any type of debugging to work with it. Also the lack of an editor on the calibre of PHPStorm (atom is not great at all) made me give up. I am just hoping for PHP7 to move in the right direction.
Strategy and Tactics of Pricing