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Yeah, psql is really hard to install. For example on ubuntu: apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Who could install this nonsense??
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Something not answered by the FAQ: when the battery starts to die, do you get some kind of a warning? If so, great. If not, I'd be worried that one day my battery would die without warning while I'm out of town and I'd be stuck without access to any of my cards.

Of course I could mitigate this by carrying my cards with me, but that kind of defeats the point, right?

I suppose I could also replace it after two years like they suggest in the FAQ. But at $100 a pop I'd like to get as much use as possible out of it. And from the usage numbers they cite for the 2-year estimate, it sounds like you could probably get well over 2 years of battery life in practice.
It appears that they plan to do EMV in the future. This is rather scary, since you're trusting their hardware, and probably your phone, with the private key in your chip card.
I agree. Maybe you can only change the selected card when it's near your phone?
Then wouldn't it make more sense to complain that Safety Mode should filter "bad" comments rather than all comments entirely than to complain that you want Safety Mode and Safe Search to be in different states?

I thought the point of these features was "think of the children" (and letting kids access comments that aren't moderated is a big no-no in online safety), but clearly there are use cases that aren't being captured here.
> Just waiting for "Works best on Chrome"

Can't wait. I am already using Chrome, if it works best I'll like it even more.

> Silverlight and ActiveX have already shown the usefulness of proprietary enhancements.

So how do I compile Silverlight to .js again?

> No thanks.

Yes please!
> Do they actually have prediction models that work?

The proof is in the proverbial pudding - they trade on their prediction models, and make money.
It's actually the end merchant (seller) that bears the cost of fraud. So credit card companies have little incentive to fix this, beyond customer support costs.

Say you sell a camera to someone using a stolen credit card.

The real owner of the card gets his money back after doing a chargeback. The thief keeps the camera. The merchant loses a camera, the money, and gets a ding in his credit card merchant reputation.
I've used py-mysql2pgsql [1] sometime ago and it worked without any troubles.

I expect this helps you.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-mysql2pgsql/0.1.5
Dart's better than GWT because it's a modern language that is actually designed the be compilable to JavaScript. Not all of Java is compilable to JS, so GWT is really a subset of Java, but it's still verbose. Dart's much more concise and easier to translate to JS, so it's compiler is much faster too, but also adds getters and setters, mixins, operator overloading, implicit interfaces (every class defines an interface), top-level functions, optional typing, (and things Java's just gettgin:closures, collection literals). Dart and it's core libraries being designed for a single-threaded, asynchronous world is a big deal and makes it much more at home in a browser than Java. Where they're similar is in the ability to have tools and libraries that work well together, and mostly sane semantics.

Dart's better than CoffeeScript because it dramatically improves on the semantics of JavaScript. Libraries, classes, interfaces, mixins, only explicit type conversions, lock scope, privacy, no monkey-patching, fixed this binding, final, constructor initializers, optional typing... these are all things that make large programs easier to manage, and tools easier to write. CoffeeScript offers a couple of minor fixes like this binding, but basically is just a different syntax for JS. If Dart were just a different syntax, it wouldn't be worth it, but spend some time with the Editor (or WebStorm) and see the static warnings and errors, refactoring, code-completion, code navigtion, etc. and you'll see how it's miles better for teams.
It's not as simple as in software development - trust has to be given that people are acting in the best interests of the country, and people have to have access to sensitive information in the government.

The only way you can secure against this is to control who you hire, and control as much as possible what they can do. To that end, sharing of this data is perfectly reasonable, as long as safeguards are in place for who uses the data, which is almost always there from my experience.
About 15. And sure, most I barely use. But sometimes I want to use them and they're in my bag and not in my wallet. This would be a great solution to that problem for me if it could hold all of them.
As someone who is only familiar with calling San Francisco "The City", I am curious what city outside of North America you are referring to; please enlighten us.
This will be a rather flippant remark, but very occasionally we, the public, need one to sum things up in a useful soundbite.

DRM --> Don't Renault Me

Maybe it will catch on. Renault Marketing and PR would hate that -- which is precisely the point.
PL/Python is very unlikely to appear soon unfortunately because it is an untrusted language in PostgreSQL.

EDIT: you are right, PL/Python is supported as well. I only read the "Language Extensions :PL/Perl, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl" part at the top.
What happened in Lebanon is part of a demographic pattern that has played out repeatedly in the middle east. By many accounts Syria was a lovely and peaceful place not so long ago. Before Cairo was the pit of poverty it is now it was by many accounts a very pleasant place.
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I was trying to look into this as well. Apparently the chips cannot be read from in the same way unless you authorize it. I don't know how that authorization process works, but I'm guessing it's possible. I'll be looking out for Coin in the future when they introduce EMV support.
If you're interested in SEO, I highly recommend Richard Baxter's SEOGadget for Excel. It retrieves data from Majestic API, aHrefs, Moz, Grepwords API and SEMrush.

http://seogadget.com/tools/seogadget-for-excel/
The magstripe data has all the name information in it.
I'm going to guess he's talking about a dev machine, which is where 90%+ of all DB installs take place.
Americans would disagree! See:

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_95....

Also, perhaps even moreso than other places in the US, "The City" (capitalized, with extra stress on each syllable) has long been an affectation in the Bay Area & Northern California to refer to San Francisco proper. See especially the columns of Herb Caen and regional anthems like Journey's "When The Lights Go Down (in The City)".
What I'm more concerned about is that new, creative innovations (nanobots etc) can have more sinister uses and might ultimately prove a bigger risk than our current bacteria.
Self destructing emails that gmail or the NSA cant read
Thanks for the transparency, I'll wager that this sort of behavior will become much more naturalized in the business environment at large as pre-internet behavior gradually becomes replaced with post-internet sentiment - for now it certainly reflects very positively on you and your business.
I think it looks great. Also, Sao Paulo is about the same density as San Francisco, it's just built more vertical.
NFC support would be pretty slick.
JavaScript was also build as proprietary enhancement :)
I think its all relative. I compare Chicago mass transit to London, Tokyo, and New York. Hard to compete with those cities.
One very important note for anyone looking to purchase this site: a huge portion of his traffic - and revenue! - is from direct visits (no search).

That is a fantastic asset to the site and makes it very sticky in the face of Google algorithm changes.
Bitcoin's potential market cap
Not just during the war. It's been on-going ever since. I usually tell foreigners that our prime export is young engineers.

It is very rare for young and talented programmers to stay here. If they have the means to leave for the states or Europe and study and then work there, very few give it a second thought.
How? Simple is a bank. This is a magnetic-stripe card consolidator.
How about theoretical computer science? That probably doesn't need one to be a good software engineer.
Or the bookstore.
I'm slapping my head and thinking "this is such a great idea, why didn't I think of that?". I'm sure lots of other people are doing the same, and it's a sign of a truly great idea. Congrats on launching!
Yeah, I think the Fibonacci class example is odd too.

I also would love to propose a self-imposed internet-wide ban on the recursive Fibonacci implementation as I'm pretty sure it causes brain rot and makes dynamic programming seem way more magical than it is.
There were separate successful attacks demonstrated against iphones at the same event. I say this just incase anyone thinks of selling any Google shares... ;)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2013/11/14/pwn2own_cracke...
As with some other people in cousins comments to your post, I think you may not realize that that attack is already perfectly feasible today. By "feasible" I mean real criminals already do this today, not merely that some academics hypothesize that it may be possible. It's all very off-the-shelf stuff. If you're worried about this attack, the solution isn't "don't use Coin someday in the future", it's "don't use anything with a magnetic strip, today".
I completely agree that it suggests that we have overlooked something in the underlying state. However, if you take a course in quantum mechanics that includes a detailed mathematical discussion of the Bell inequalities (for instance), you will see that any possible deterministic system along the lines that you're thinking of here will give predictions that are measurably different from the predictions of quantum mechanics. These experiments have been done, and the results are incompatible with any deterministic model (regardless of how difficult we assume it is to measure those "hidden variables" without influencing them).

I agree that this flies in the face of everything that seems sensible in the world. I loathed quantum mechanics for years for reasons along these lines. Nevertheless, the universe is under no obligation to obey my intuition for what is sensible, nor my sense of elegance and beauty. Much to my disappointment, experiments make it absolutely clear that we do not live in a universe where "common sense" arguments are at all trustworthy on the scale of individual particles.

(Also, personally, I would say that the 50/50 result on the x-axis is purely a consequence of symmetry: nothing in the initial state or the measurement apparatus is set up to prefer +x over -x or vice versa, so it would be more or less impossible for it to split any way other than 50/50.)
Swiping a card passes along the name on the card.
Dart != ActiveX

Oh, and by the way, ActiveX would be awesome if it didn't have all the security flaws and was more portable. Too bad it didn't work.
well if that's all it takes :)
Regardless of your irrelevant implicit commentary on lie detectors, my point still stands. Nobody is forcing you to do a polygraph test when you're applying for a security clearance - that choice is yours alone to make.
I hope they also add a laser readable barcode display so I can put loyalty/discount cards on it.
Why is the top of your heading A List Apart hidden behind your translucent navigation bar at the top.

.killer-logo { margin-top:55px;} That might do the trick.

Edit: 42px would be best as your logo is cut off at the top of the letters.
Well, Dart will eventually work best on Chrome because of the Dart VM. There's nothing stopping Mozilla from adding the VM to Firefox, of course. Getting an additional 2x-4x performance boost would be great.
Why do people have so many credit cards? I use one (1) debit card to pay for things, or cash.
Hell fuck yeah this is huge!
Damn, you just made me incredibly nostalgic. Not only for Usenet, but for things like Fidonet.

Not that Usenet didn't (and still does) have its problems, but I feel you're right about the quality of the discourse in some of my old favorites. However, I've personally always attributed that to the higher barrier of entry than the medium itself. See: "the September that never ended".
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Yes, card cloning devices have existed for decades, but this automates the process, allows you to carry a single (disguised) device that can store multiple cards. If one doesn't work, try another card, without eliciting suspicion, and simply replace / swap cards that are cancelled.

The old method requires use of credit card blanks, a duplicating device, and the card itself doesn't look like the card when presented in person. In this case, as someone mentioned, Coin doesn't display the card #s on the front, so it's like a Card Not Present (CNP) transaction, but needs to be treated as if it was.

This doesn't bring anything new to the card skimming operation, but it simplifies, optimizes, and can in some ways facilitate it. They need some sort of ideally biometric authentication and/or a server that identifies when two Coin devices carry the same cards on it to avoid this sort of fraudulent use.
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Reading about new treatments gives me a kind of anxiety: drug trials are so slow and the funding models are so removed from the actual human life-saving potential, that I just am filled with fear that this stuff will get mired in bureaucracy or otherwise defunded rather than getting FDA approved. I dread the idea that someone I know to get sick and die because we're so ploddingly slow at doing these trials.

For example: "DRACO" antivirals from MIT, were developed in 2011, and according to mouse model tests and tests on cultured human cells, is safe and effective against influenza and rhinovirus and everything else they threw at it (see http://mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/20... for details), and yet it could be a decade before we even try to answer questions like "wait, does this cure HIV? It sounds like it might actually cure HIV"
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I have mixed opinions on this - it feels like a cosmetic solution to a somewhat non-problem.

Would I carry it?

As of yet - no, I would rather use iphone apps etc.

The other problem that it misses is the show that people like to make of using a certain card.

I have an amex platinum for business purposes, but I still get a bit of thrill every time I use it and I get a look, how does Coin approach that problem?
I believe that as of January 2013 you can now legally[1]:

1. Add a surcharge for credit card payments.
2. Have a minimum of up to $10 to use a credit card.

See: http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/27/pf/checkout-fee/

[1] Not that it was ever illegal, only against the CC company rules. But now the law explicitly forces CC companies to allow it.
Only solution: Wall around SF. You have to pass the coolness test to get in. Only artisan puppeteers and activist breadmakers allowed. None of these dorky tech folks driving up the rents.
What a pointless argument. It is clear that economics is both a science and not a science. Yes, it has overlapping parts with other sciences, but also parts which are unique to it, such as the human element, which make it difficult to fit into the category. But such fitting is not what matters. Let's move on to the real issue. That economics is difficult, which makes a large part of its application ambiguous, vague, subjective, hard to test, and etc. Through these properties, which are not prevalent in other scientific fields, economics lends itself nicely to exploitation by the natural human flaws. These flaws have to do with subjectivity which arise as a result of ambiguity and lack of fundamental understanding. For this reason, I consider economics to be a much more difficult field than other, more scientific fields. Of course, but what's next. How do we evolve the field to be more useful. How do we begin understanding it intrinsically. I don't know. But it would probably include a fundamental innovation in the scientific method itself which accounts for the human flaw to exploit ambiguity. But perhaps not. Perhaps it would eventually be ousted like an idea and replaced by a better hypothesis and working model.
Have I? LOL.

Seriously, I've tried pretty much everything (medical and alternative). And, actually, the saline rinses helped some, but didn't prevent the infection from re-emerging or clear it once it did.

Then, someone mentioned adding fresh garlic (steeped, like tea) to the saline rinse. Sounded nuts so I didn't bother for a year. Finally got fed up enough to try it and amazed to find that it works better than any medical treatment thus far. I'd recommend it, but it's a pain to prepare, smells, and is not a cure (i.e. you have to continue to do it regularly to keep the infection at bay).

That's why something like the subject post is hopeful.
I'm working on a new email platform,[1] and we've been testing Flanker quite a bit. It's awesome!

Dealing with MIME has always been an issue in Python, and the last move was Zed Shaw's Lamson project a few years ago. The native email.parser module is crazy slow once you start doing heavy processing.

Flanker's addresslib also is a no-brainer to use. These are the sorts of things which should be bundled with the Python email module.

Thanks for open sourcing them!

--

[1] This isn't announced yet, and will deserve a much longer post. You can sign-up for news here: https://www.inboxapp.com.
Except that names aren't required to match on credit cards. For instance, my wife is an authorized user on my card. Her signature is on the back, my name is on the front. Similar situations abound for business use cards.
The world wouldn't magically be better off without copyright, in fact it would be much worse as there would be little investment in producing it. Bill Gates wrote software and other people voluntarily chose to use it instead of something free. If you can do a better job for free then nothing is preventing you.
Sure, but you were comparing it to San Francisco.
It affects the UX somewhat, but since it has to be in proximity (implying data contact) to your phone to operate, you could just move the "switch active card" feature to the mobile app, not the Coin itself, then you wouldn't have to worry about people in posession of the Coin (e.g., when you put use it to pay the bill in a restaurant) toggling through the other cards stored on it for nefarious purposes. Or, for less impact on UX, put a "lock active card" option on the mobile app, and still leave the actual card switching on the Coin.
Well from my perspective I agree. Definitely.

But this is the type of thinking that also got a well known VC [1] to not invest in airbnb even after PG strongly suggested that investment. (Which was documented in an email exchange back and forth that I can't easily find. Anyone?)

So with something like this maybe the idea is not to think "why won't this work" (which is an easy exercise) but "why would this work"?

I think a large part of it working would be the feedback system [2] and social constraints which is what makes many of these things possible.

[1] Fred Wilson

[2] As I learned many years ago the difference between buying a product from a company on ebay (which you can give seller feedback) and buying the same product from the same company off ebay (where the seller doesn't have as much motivation to do the right thing because you don't have the stick of feedback and reputation for motivation).
Yes. This happens all the time to me. I'll sit and burn out my brain trying to think of problems to solve... and I can never think of any then I see this and I want to just bang my head on the keyboard because it's just.. so.. simple.
And I read it as exactly that.

I was pointing out that the PhD is useful for "research", but not for research "and development."
Only you are able to reprogram your Coin, it is paired with your phone. Two things which admittedly do get lost together, but still ..
Unlike employment, there's very little to stop this probably-currently-useful tactic from being rendered valueless by fakers.
Card.io will scan cards and OCR them. Maybe they do something like this to ensure the name matches the registered name on the account? https://www.card.io

Edit: And it's on the magnetic data, too.
Creating G+ Page's for Youtube isn't tied/doesn't require having a G+ Profile. If you don't have one on an existing gmail address it just creates a disembodied Page while your main account continues G+-less. Granted new @gmail's come with G+ profiles so someone who wants to be anon has to go through the effort of putting in a fake name/DOB then deleting the profile. But fake name/DOB were required for a @gmail.com even before G+ existed, so the only thing which has effectively changed is the busy work of deleting the profile. So I stand by the statement that Youtube anonymity is in reach.

As for the rant, random brokenness/inadequate customer support is hardly a trait limited to G+, it extends to all their products.
Ayyo. I work for a quantum information group. Wavefunction collapse is a way of dealing with measurement, or having information spill from a closed system into a system with a huge number of degrees of freedom. If I was able to solve the schroedinger equation on the system that consisted of the "quantum machine" and the observer all in a perfectly sealed insulated box, there'd be nothing nondeterministic about this. I'll go further. Wavefunction collapse is just a system with a few quantum degrees of freedom getting itself all entangled with a system with a HUGE number of degrees of freedom. Hence the "randomness."
Thanks kposehn! But that is a little deceiving. Direct traffic makes up about 40% of the revenue. But about 1/2 of that is phone traffic that we get because we take phone orders via our site, which appears as direct.

So 20% is true direct traffic. But that other 20% of the total probably is originally sourced from other places (referral, search engines, etc) but they just close the deal over the phone with us.
Chinese man gives future bride 8.88 mln yuan in cash
If you lose your coin, and someone else picks it up, then you've compromised not just one card, but multiple. Unless I'm missing some sort of authentication when using Coin? And if that authentication exists, how would the non-Coin holder use that card? Is there a timeout that requires the user to authenticate, select a card for presentment, and holds that card in the stripe until a timeout? if not, then there's problems here.
"'sleep with strangers' seems a little odd"

"Odd" is a great way to get people's attention though.

Of course that was the article title but it actually is a great branding tag even if not factually correct.
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It's a club good (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_good).
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It's almost like a good number of SF residents aren't sharing in this economic activity and are instead being forcibly removed from their homes to make way for the imported worker bees who can actually contribute to and benefit from the industry.
Seems like the legislative solution then would just be to shift (at least some of) the burden to the credit card processors then.
My thoughts exactly. Lack of Postgres support on AWS has always been the one thing keeping me on Heroku.
For a number of reasons, the people voting in San Francisco are generally not representative of the people living in it.
Nope, that's great, thanks. Here we plainly see game-theory science being conducted in the name of economics. If this is considered an economic paper, then economics indeed can be considered a science.

(Of course not all economists are scientists, and not everything an economic scientist says is a scientific result or conclusion, but these disclaimers shouldn't be necessary.)