skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Netherlands, when we switched to a new chip system, most terminals blocked the mag-swipe with some cardboard sign instructing the user to use the chip instead.

I'm pretty sure the swipe-style is aggresively deprecated by the banks. I talked to a vendor who had an older terminal that would not accept NFC, and he mentioned that within 2 years, he'd have to get a terminal that would process NFC payments.
Efficient Image Recovery at Scale Using Amazon S3 Versioning
ASO Case Study: Grow App Revenue X35 in Less Than 30 Days
"If you have mediocre people doing mediocre work, you are going to have a mediocre company."

Aren't most people mediocre per definition?

I really hate all this talk about "We want the best of the best!"

Sure you want them, but there aren't enough for all and chances are, if you aren't a really big company, you won't get the few that exist.

You need to shape you company so that you can deliver value to your customers without the need of a few geniuses. Your company should be more than the sum of its (mediocre) employees.
Not All Threat Intelligence Is Created Equally
I feel a lot of people here see this as a issue of absolutes: either living in the middle of Manhattan or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There are certainly intermediary points. I think the major issue is that very large corporations (think Google/Apple) have no major objective reasons to stay in such an expensive location. Or at least they don't all have a reason to be all at the same place.
No, he’s saying 100% of women want relationships with the top 10% of men. Because that’s just reality
Yes yes

The reason I'm citing this is not because I think we shouldn't worry, but because if the methane is released (and this depends on the release speed as well) we might have a period with an atmosphere with high concentrations of methane, then a sudden reduction.

Runaway greenhouse gas concentrations and higher temperature might trigger (the reason being we know some things, but we don't know everything) a runaway CO2 capture process. It sounds SciFi, and it probably is, and it seems Nitrogen is a limiting factor. But I wouldn't say it is impossible. Or it could be possible with human help.

Then at the end of this period we could end up with less CO2 in the atmosphere, with oil running out and the clathrates emptied.
Sorry - wasn’t trying come off as persnickety - but have seen large public companies be rather defensive/litigious around their brand/trademarks etc.
Heck, virtually all cards still have embossed characters so you can take a carbon copy. That's just finally starting to go away in the past few years; magstripes will be here for a fair while longer.
I love working with Jenkins - I know it is a pain to keep up to date but for me it has become a way as a sole or small team syseng to manage all kinds of stuff. "Jenkins-Ansible-Github" where you have a Jenkinsfile sitting in the git repo you are bulding/ deploying etc., has been a pretty good set of tools to manage heterogeneous environments.
The video has two somewhat distinct parts:

- a first part about the repo market and how current accounting methods to track who owns treasury bills are quite inaccurate

- a second part about bitcoin

Both parts as interesting, but the first (on the repurchasing market and inaccurate accounting) is really worth watching.
PostgreSQL: why and how WAL bloats
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It’s way older than Ancient Greece dude. Google “monkey prostitution”: As soon as monkeys learn the concept of money the very first transaction they engage in is a prostitution transaction.
Joy is a mental process that has nothing to do with anyone outside of you. The fun is in building, thinking, designing.
Documentary about Apple Newton devices and those who love them
I guess mileage varies on these things, laptop choice is quite a personal affair. Personally I'm relatively fine with Windows 4K perf. (running a Dell Precision 7520)...
"NovelRank is the best free resource for authors to track the sales rank of their print and ebooks on Amazon with charting, sales estimates, RSS feeds and more."

I'm kinda surprised Amazon doesn't offer that as a dashboard to authors/publishers.
> researchers have routinely been able to copy the financial details of some cards

I think this is the key. The implementation of each card may differ leading to inconsistent results.

As a general rule I suggest covering up the CVV or scratching it off if you're sure you have it somewhere safe. An option is to also erase the magnetic strip. It might lead to a less useful card (in cases where only magstrip would work) but definitely a more secure one. And for any NFC card an RFID shield sleeve does wonders.
My father retired from the fire department at fifty-three and has been collecting a gold-plated pension for twenty years already, and will probably get ten more years. Assuming my mother outlives him, she will collect ninety percent of his benefits until she dies, possibly ten years further.

The pension plan includes full health benefits including dental. The monthly payout is periodically adjusted for inflation.

How can retirement funds survive people working for thirty years and collecting benefits for forty?

I'll say this - if you have yet to decide a career - pick firefighting! Firefighters still have insane retirement plans almost everywhere, although some are being converted to 401k as reality sets in. Maybe a very small percentage of tech workers will have full lifetime compensation anywhere near what firefighters will have.
A space elevator seems like a much better concept for the Moon. If we could make a permanent Moon base with a space elevator, then it would be possible to use materials from the Moon to assemble things in orbit. Such a base would make it possible to start exploring the rest of the Solar system in earnest.
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> Its a shitty state of affairs, when you are judged based on the sources you read.

I think it's a natural state: sources inevitably influence your view of the world, and most people only consume one source for any given media, so it's not illogical to desume that you will be influenced primarily by that one source.

I completely agree that consuming a multiplicity of sources is a Good Thing.
"If you don’t trust the people you hired, why did you hire them?" How about because they interviewed well and you thought you could trust them

Or just as likely, "you" didn't hire them. Someone else in the company did based on criteria that are different than yours.
Looks like anomalies are becoming the new norm
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People in silicon valley tell me everyone is going to move to the mountains / beach once self-driving cars can bring them to town any time, while they can do whatever in the comfortable commute. My belief though is that most people want to be able to walk to the pub, to bike to the park, and to be a short drive from work... I don't see self-driving cars changing that
>"The more reasonable trade-off is giving up on utilizing all routers for a single flow, to avoid OOO packets."

Huh? No you would never want to use "all" routers for a single flow anyway. Each router just needs to make a deterministic selection for each packet. The alternative to a hash based scheme would be per packet load balancing which is practically never used b/c it gives you TCP packet reordering.

>"if that router has the same number of downstream links that the first tier router had, it will send all packets it receives to the same link, ignoring other links. Which is a terrible trade-off for avoiding OOO packets"

No it would not be a terrible trade off. Optimizing for maximum link utilization only matters if you have congestion in your network and even then ECMP is congestion agnostic. In reality your leaf network has less downstream link that it has upstream. A common topology is 4x4x2 where each leaf node has two downstream links to two ToR switches.
This is brilliantly written. Thanks and kudos to the author!
I guess it is for tabs kept during a single stay, rather than across multiple stays. This would then be to defend against people who 'Dine and Dash'.
Both of these comments belong on reddit, not here.
I agree, the next big next step would shifting the plug-in system (wiki, downloader, etc) to the "global pipeline libraries" level.
What I would like to see is a membership where the price drops each year.

First year, it's $5/month. Second, it's $4. Third year, it's $3. And so on. Ideally it's free year 6 and from then on as long as you have an active account. But it could be $1/year.

I already have enough things I have to pay for every month for the rest of my life.
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This tool generates spammy tech recruiter messages to send on LinkedIn
It's just a question, but people are voting based on some affection for RSS.

Yeah it's still used.
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I wish we could get encrypted credentials a lá travis in a Jenkinsfile. I’ve found most configuration for a job can be in a git repo but you have to manage some things through the web interface, and it’s not that easy securely managing credentials for a Jenkins installation, even with Folders and Roles
Is this his statement or view? Is the "associate" part of his government? Maybe a "firebrand Hindu priest" follows the Rajya Dharma! A proper citation would have helped...
Even though I was expecting the increase at the end, the severity and suddenness of the 2000s is shocking.
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> That severely restricts your freedom with the mailboxes and addresses you can have on your own domain.

How so?
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> Also, it's not possible to take the RPi zero seriously until they start shipping in any serious quantity - I don't like the play they've made by keeping it scarce.

What do you consider to be serious quantity? You can order 250+ of them off Digikey right now or go into any Microcenter and buy them.
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Autocorrect?
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> Do you know of any cases where pilots intentionally hit the wrong targets?

I'm not involved with the military in any way, shape or form. My guess would be that if such a thing happened, it would be buried (see Chelsea Manning, Abu Ghraib etc).

You did say though that pilots are directly liable for any collateral damage, so I was curious as to whether that had any real meaning - would a pilot actually face charges (military or criminal) if they, for example, negligently fired upon the wrong building, or failed to abort launching against a pre-approved target that it later turned out was obviously a school, hospital, wedding party, etc?
Apparently there do exist some cards that are protected, but all I've seen and all I've got access too are completely passive. They serve the exact same function as the magnetic stripe only from a greater distance.
There’s this naive concept that these 8 bit microcomputers programming were based in BASIC. The speed of these Z80 chips was 1-3 MHz.

Almost all games and programs in the 8-bit world were written in Assembly. The BASIC interpreter was just used as the bootloader to load and run these programs, BASIC was in fact the shell interface and the toy language, but the assembly programs essentially sold the computers.

If you wanted to do something in these computers, it would have to involve assembly because of BASIC slowness. And there were newbie books about assembly language, assembly libraries, tons of assembly compilers and debugging utilities available anywhere.
Think you posted to the wrong thread, companies go here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902901
Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted
Absent the authorization you can just unwind the transaction, since there's no evidence whatsoever that you authorized it. It will depend on how strong consumer protection is as to whether this actually leaves you financially whole afterwards or whether the bank is able to get away with just giving back the money for the single transaction.

To the extent that Authorization isn't mandatory before the Payment step, sure, everything about payment cards is "pointless". Banks have decided they don't care about fraud and will just pass that cost on to you. shrug
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One of the coolest things I discovered in Thailand: the offline data economy
I am really curious how this would play out if the user had been running a Tor exit node.
While you can tell revolut to block transactions that use the magnetic stripe, it doesn't physically disable the stripe, so they can still pull your data from it which maybe enough for them to carry out an attack.
Ask HN: S3 but with append?
Ideally, append-only.

Basically, what do you do if you want to pool a bunch of streams into a (potentially very large) log file?
The message is more specifically AWOS.
Newly discovered dinosaurs may be missing links for gap of 70M years: study
Anecdote from the US: Your belief may become more true as demographics change, but my parents and my wife's parents, who are baby boomers, and the vast majority of their friends and acquaintances, have no interest whatsoever in living within walking distance of basically anything because they have such an aversion to living really close to other people. For sure they are hardcore suburban people and not representative of everyone in the US, but I also don't think they're unusual among baby boomers, at least.
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AI in banking is more common than ever
When running backwards and forwards you get the same sequence 3 times, once in reverse. It seems to me like that could be detected and reversed statistically with good odds. Especially if you take into account the 'total length' of the card swipe and have a lower bound on the distance of a jitter. (so you don't have to worry about 10 01 10 being a jitter)
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Personally, blunt candor can work as well.

Only if it goes both ways. If I can't respond to my managers blunt candor with "the reason we're so far behind is because you suck at time management and promised the customer two features we hadn't even begun to plan for" without fear of being reprimanded or punished then blunt candor isn't very effective.