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Ask HN: Altrec security breach letter?
My wife received a letter, ostensibly from Mike Morford, President & Founder, Altrec, Inc., stating the following:

"Altrec was initially contacted by American Express concerning the fraudulent use of a small number of American Express cards that had been previously used at our Website. In collaboration with American Express, we engaged a leading forensic security firm to identify whether our systems had been compromised and to remediate any possible concerns. After a detailed investigation the forensic investigators could not locate any forensic evidence of a security breach. However, we discovered that your American Express account number, expiration date and four digit security code, and associated information (including your name and address) were being stored in our database. If our systems were illegally accessed or used in an unauthorized manner, your personal information could have been compromised sometime between June 2010 and March 2012."

Even though the letter says no evidence was found of a security breach, it goes on to say, "We've addressed the vulnerability found internally and by the forensic investigators, deleted all card information," and etc.

Now, the obvious remedy, if one believes a credit card has been compromised would be to identify the card, e.g., with the last four digits of the card number, so the cardholder could ask to have a new card issued and the card canceled. But oddly the letter does not suggest that, or identify the card in question, but instead goes on to offer a "complimentary one-year membership of Experian's ProtectMyID(TM) Alert."

It seems absurd that either Altrec or Experian would be engaging in a scare tactic mail-order campaign for an identity protection service. Nonetheless, the letter doesn't quite ring true.

It seems possible that people here involved with security issues are aware of the situation. Usually, potential security breaches like this are made public, but I can't find anything about this one.

Is this on the level?
I wonder if this is another example of Gall's Law at work.
I better drop Python & Ruby and go pick up (sure, will do right now) Objective-C & C#. Well, I suppose at least they [Python & Ruby] still "...are the most interesting" (?!) so guess I'll stick w/ 'em for a bit longer. ...she'sus.
Good find. After my previous comment, I've been dwelling on this more, and I think that some kind of server-side retrieving/caching program for these favicons would both speed up the services significantly and allow https. Favicons don't change too often, and most of the use cases I can think of for this (e.g. blogs) would only require a static image. Of course, the caching would provide the major speed increase by avoiding an API call rather than optimizing delivery of the image.
Didn't we just have a story about a successful lesson plan startup that had a $700k grossing participant? This new competitor seems to be lagging.
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Answer: it should be clear by now that the mainstream has decided that any viable language must have an Algol-like structure. It's as simple as that; that's what industry languages look like. They are familiar, comfortable and just have an 'industrial' feel to them.
Sorry - didn't mean to imply the post was the list. Wrote it to illustrate how this list is both absurd and at the same time lacking. The link to the doc is first in the post (list of monitored words starts on page 21).
After a government project just fails spectacularly...the response is yet more spending of taxpayer money? Why not just free the health insurance market to operate like the auto insurance market, such that individuals can buy on their own without having to go through their employers, and such that insurers must face competition across state lines?
(People with serious, chronic pre-existing conditions are another matter entirely)

They may be another matter, but does that mean they don't matter?

I expect that number to be really, really low.
Insuring this entire population against that event seems silly.

That is sort of the definition of insurance: Trading a small regular payment in exchange for being protected against very unlikely events. The argument, "it's ok if some people fall through the cracks because it is so unlikely," in the case of insurance doesn't make a lot sense.
Even better, just allow the user to navigate by hitting the left/right keys. The Atlantic's "In Focus" photo galleries do this, though all the images are on the same page in that case.

It's not always possible to place pagination links at the same location if the webcomic has images of different sizes, but I have yet to see a physical keyboard that moves around depending on what's on the screen.
Sounds like Sherer is an accessory to trespassing and theft.
My understanding is total Allied domination of the air is what made the difference. German tanks were highly vulnerable to air attack, even the best of them.
The entire game works properly for me in Safari for Mac. The figure only moves when you press AWSD or the arrow keys.
I prefer insurance only for emergency, and everything else to be shopped. When you're bleeding to death, you don't care about if emergency care cost a lot of money, just that you get to the closest hospital possible.

We need shopping anyway, as people with insurance are quite insensitive to the cost of care. There's no need for hospitals to break someone's leg if competition can lower the price of service to a reasonable level.
Just use this as a counter to the "rising tide of crap" on HN.

Then again what makes HN special to me is that it is free of otherwise very popular and frequently also great topics I agree with. Exactly because they are popular. Why should they also be popular here as well as everywhere else?

This weekend the US will be awashed in Memorial day related content. Heck, I think this would fit better on HN if it was voted up on any other time of year.

The current top comment mentions Memorial day isn't about hotdogs. But seriously is there a major US holiday less commercialized? Christmas is a god damn consumer orgy. Memorial day in my experience is still quite the thoughtful and yes memory and appreciation full holiday.
Let's see. I've heard this argument before. Oh, right, that's because it's on the Logical Fallacies chart (https://s3.amazonaws.com/yourlogicalfallacyis/pdf/LogicalFal...)!

It's the "bandwagon fallacy" where just because an opinion is popular it must be true.
My experience with it has been mostly fighting with enabling various language extensions to get some (real) sample programs working. The algol languages are much easier to debug compile issues, Haskell's purity makes certain issues non-obvious and complicated.

Also, I think Stevey satirized the situation quite nicely.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-...
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DCI (Data Context Interaction) is a new way to look at object-oriented programming. Instead of focusing on individual objects, the DCI paradigm focuses on communication between object. It improves the readability of the code, separates system behaviour from static domain concepts, and most importantly tries to represent people's mental models in the code. DCI-IN-RUBY.INFO is a project aiming to help all Rubyists become familiar with DCI.
Don't forget anyone who is pregnant or who might have a pregnant spouse.
> We have no idea what the worst-case looks like.

It looks like the Fukushima meltdowns, which with better reactors design would have been manageable.

If you want to get worked up about risks, do the math on meteor and comet impacts. There is a reason that American defense planners are blasé about nuclear reactors and worked up about extraterrestrial impactors. It's only a matter of time before we lose a city to a meteor. That's lose, not temporarily evacuate or have an unfortunate increase in cancer rates.
There are tax breaks to providing health insurance through your employer, so companies are incentivized to compensate you with health insurance instead of more cash.
That's not true at all. I've several times tried to buy items from amazon.uk only to discover they aren't available in the US.
for those wondering, Gall's Law is:

> "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."

— Wikipedia
I think AOL decided.
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Rule #0: Have proper pagination in the first place. Nobody likes it when they have to use "infinite scroll" to get to page 357. Especially if your site takes forever to load anything after the first few pages. (Yes, I'm talking to you, Twitter!)
What does PageRank have to do with HN articles?

Also, people write whatever the hell they want on their own site. That's the point. They can't stop people from submitting links here, wanted or not.

In theory, if enough people don't like it, it'll be flagged off.
The internet is an extremely efficient judge of usefulness. If your pet language isn't taking off like a rocket and displacing the competitors, then it's because it isn't much better (maybe even worse) than the existing solutions.
I don't think I'd call it spam in any sense, and the author references the source. Looks find to me.
That's trivial to fix by restructuring the tax deduction to make it employee-side
Yes, I know this. The solution is to either repeal those tax breaks or provide the same ones to individuals, to put all purchasers on the same playing field. Can't possible be more dislocating than the health care reform bill itself.
So your response to a dysfunctional government that can't even implement something as basic as health care is to say "screw it" and cut everyone loose? Health care is a public good, it belongs in the public domain. Quit electing stupid partisan assholes to run your government and you might get some policy that isn't designed for the sole purpose of benefiting special interests.
I have never met a person who suggests comparison shopping for health care who has actually been seriously ill.

If you have had a major illness requiring serious care (e.g., heart disease, cancer, organ failure, stroke), please talk about exactly how you would have comparison shopped for the best bargain in hospitals.
There are almost no details anywhere, the same article is repeated.

The original article has more details (in german): http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article106354044/16-jaehriges...

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And from a comment from: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/28931/what-are-th...
I got a link that at least explain the problem http://jugend-forscht-sachsen.de/2012/teilnehmer/fachgebiet/...

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I do think the ruby (coupled with rails) toolchain can be a tad overwhelming at first to install and get used to.

I haven't used Ruby a lot, but I do like most of the language. I have a few issues with how some things are named, but whatever. I also miss the great code completion you can get with a language like C#/Java.

Out of curiosity, what broke between 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 for you?

Edit: Just noticed the article is three 5 months old. Guess it doesn't really make a difference when talking about 2011 though.
My wife and I share the same Apple ID for our three iPads (don't ask), two iPhones, two iMacs and one Apple TV. We see each others iTunes music and iBooks. That can be annoying (my wife has a bejillion apps) but most of the time it's a benefit. Messaging on the iPhone is not shared, and we haven't used FaceTime, so can't comment on that. All in all, it works well. I wish we shared the same Amazon account, so we could read each others' Kindle books easily (we can still do it by signing out and signing in with the other's email, but it's a pain) but we started off on the wrong foot there.
> Haskell is a language that rewards those who sit back and deeply analyse the
> problem, and them produce a beautiful solution.

Upfront design is the opposite of agile. As Douglas Adams said, knowing what the problem actually is is often the difficult bit. The very concept of "correctness" rests upon you already knowing the problem well enough to precisely define it.

Haskell is to programming as pure mathematics is to accounting.

EDIT: The idea of agile is iteration (aka trial-and-error). While Agile aims at understanding client needs, the concept derives from experimentation - part of the scientific method. It's also used in engineering research, I haven't failed 1000 times, I've discovered 1000 ways that don't work; in human-powered flight (reconfigurable hardware for new trials every day, instead of twice a year) going back to the Wright Brothers trying to understand flight control - they invented the wind-tunnel, to iterate designs quickly, easily, cheaply, safely (and spent 3 years on it even so). Even pure mathematicians iterate, trying different approaches.

Trial-and-error is a given in research, differing only in the level/domain of interest.
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Generally, yes, but the cultural disconnect between DC and the tech community means that we just don't have the infrastructure in place to do more than sporadic defense, not consistent, active defense, let alone legislative offense.
On the other hand, Tesla is busy getting luxury car buyers to help subsidize the capital investment in building storage on a bigger scale, and nobody has figured out how to get luxury car buyers to subsidize grid improvements.

In the long term, since the grid is a monopoly that is not eager to drop its price, whereas solar and batteries are likely to keep dropping in price, in part due to competition and in part due to appealing to early adopters, I expect that a few decades from now, the typical homeowner will use mostly solar and batteries instead of paying the monopolies' higher prices.
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I'm convinced that this is a byproduct of Americans' inability to do maths. People seem to look at monthly prices and go based on that. They are okay with sales taxes not being displayed in stores. Cell phones and service are notorious.

Probably the best explanation is the historic optimism. If you strongly believe your personal future is going to be better then the price this month is all that matters because next month it will be a smaller part of the bigger pie you will have.

I especially like this quote:

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see
themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as
temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
Which part of the hippocratic oath mentions working for free? It only talks about what behavior is appropriate when rendering service, and the life debt to teachers.

Car insurance is liability insurance. It is completely different. Doctors do carry liability insurance, for example.
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Seems like a solid way to activate the online community in a more regular, flat fashion. If it plugs into the rest of Fight For The Future's Network, I can easily see a dynamic network formed, connecting online activists and their social graphs to the phone networks of DC or other such politically efficacious actions.
People who have serious, chronic pre-existing conditions (or less serious, say, an impending birth...or acne, or asthma, or are a little overweight, or are merely a middle-aged female--insurance companies can and will deny you for any of these things) are the most important matter...and good luck getting stopgap insurance or retroactively-dated insurance. In a lot of states, there's a single insurance provider who does the 'at-risk' stuff and has to cover you (for usurious prices), but you've first got to be denied coverage by a non-State insurance plan before you can go for the state's high-risk stuff (typically and hilariously, it's often the same company - they deny you the cheap 200/month insurance knowing you'll then be forced to fall back on the 1k/month policy from the state). This all takes time...if you're in the middle of, say, cancer treatments or something, damn, this is a nightmare you don't want to have to deal with. Especially on top of losing your income.

There are a lot of things I can sympathize with when a business goes under, but defaulting on your employees' health insurance with a 2-day notice in the US in our current climate (and not really even a real notice, from what I read, someone's doctor told them about it before the company did!) is pretty crappy.
"They may be another matter, but does that mean they don't matter?"

I was actually in that sort of position. Do I spend 80k+ on medicine or just let it be because that's a ridiculous amount that my insurance wouldn't cover because of my pre-existing condition (that really only sidelines me now and then)? If I was still working at a corporation, I wouldn't have had an issue. Alas, bootstrapping and freelancing are different ball-games altogether.

Thankfully, I had the choice of moving back to Canada. In exchange for tax-payers taking the burden of my medical costs for a month or two, I recovered as a productive member of society, i.e. paying taxes, contribute to the economy, and started a business here of my own. As much as I loved living in the U.S., I feel a responsibility to return something positive back to Canada for giving a shit about me instead of trying to gouge me with fees.
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Seems more like intentional corruption than failure. Did Curtis have any bona tides or anything to offer besides photo ops with starstruck officials? The failure was in electing or appointing the bureaucrats who spent public funds for personal entertainment.
Good. These are the same assholes who allowed me to preorder KoA in Japan on Steam, saying "it will be released internationally a few days after the US release". It still isn't unlocked.
Most web apps have a very low bar of good enough when it comes to language requirements. Especially when solid frameworks have already been written for alternative languages. Right now I'm doing Rails—Ruby isn't the absolute first language I'd choose, all things being equal, but it's good enough that I don't have a lot of motivation to use something else.

(Previously, though, I was doing work on ancient Java servlets apps without any additional framework. That was frustrating enough to make me look for something else!)
Ec = 1/2 m*v^2 (you forgot the 1/2, I'm just pedantic).
Gosh, that would be nice. There are software patents for ideas that any skilled practitioner could invent on the spot upon hearing a statement of the problem. Some are so simple, I wouldn't even use them in an interview. I don't know what goes on in other fields, but constant invention is part of a programmer's job description.
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I don't think my students have the context necessary to make sense of Sivers' point before they go through the whole class.

I'm just being honest in the e-mail.
And just in case my implication isn't clear, I think the notion of comparison shopping for treatment is insane. My mother was seriously ill last year, and the last thing we had time to do was get a serious of estimates and do a cost-benefit analysis on treating her brain tumor. Just understanding the treatment options was plenty. And, of course, picking the right doctors, because this actually was brain surgery. Oh, and we had to deal with the a loved one having a brain tumor. Little thing, that.
The German generals, who presumably would have been in a position to know, disagreed with you. Take Heinz Guderian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Guderian), for instance; he was deeply impressed with the quality of the T-34 as a fighting vehicle.
Example (http://books.google.com/books?id=feIBwIK6DA0C&lpg=PA10&#...):

General Heinz Guderian's 2nd Panzer Army spearhead was ambushed near Mtensk on October 6, 1941, by a brigade of T-34s. In a brief action, T-34s under Colonel Mikhael Katukov destroyed ten Pz III and Pz IV tanks for the loss of only about five of their own. Guderian, creator of the German panzer force, was shocked. The German panzers, with their short 50mm and 75mm guns, could only penetrate the thick armor of the T-34 from point-blank range of 100m or less, but the T-34 could destroy the poorly armored Pz III and Pz IV from up to 1,000m. The T-34's mobility over muddy terrain and poor roads astonished the German tankers. Furthermore, the use of sloped armor on the T-34 and KV-1 tanks indicated that German tank design had fallen woefully behind.

Guderian came away from the battles of 1941 believing that Germany should just drop its own tank designs and straight-up copy the T-34. They didn't, of course; the Panther and Tiger were supposed to be T-34 killers, but they were too difficult to produce and maintain in the field to ever really live up to that role.
The two biggest of Getty's "competitors" are owned by Getty (iStock and StockExchange).

Getty makes its money on both ends. They're also slowly rising the purchase prices for both user submission sites to be around $70/photo average compared to $10-20 two years back.
I think a "need to eat" would fix this, e.g. tail gets shorter by one every unit-time (e.g. 10s).
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The author of the script might know, since he is creating the text. But it's easy to imagine that some of his fortune messages have quote marks.
True, but the Russians had their own production problems too, namely the loss of nearly the entire industrialized area of their country to the enemy in 1941. The great virtue of the T-34 was that it was so simple to manufacture that it could be built in numbers in the ad-hoc, open-air factories the Russians set up east of the Ural Mountains, and maintained even in facilities directly under enemy attack, like the famous Tractor Factory in Stalingrad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Tractor_Factory).