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It is actually a serious problem. The trouble is that some subset of the usage of P2P apps -- even for copyrighted works -- probably is fair use. Imagine some history teacher downloading Lincoln to make excerpts for classroom use in order to avoid having to personally use DeCSS on the DVD.

The problem is, how is anyone supposed to distinguish those people from naked infringers over the internet? There doesn't seem to be any obvious cost effective way to do it. So you have a situation where either fair use in the new medium is destroyed because those making legitimate fair use are lumped in with infringers for whatever penalties, or copyright enforcement is hopeless because you have to litigate a fair use defense for each of a million different users.
One of my biggest questions/objections is about the battery life issue. They claim that this will run out juice every 2 years or so and that the battery cannot be replaced, so I'll just need to buy a new one. $100 every two years for this device seems like a pretty big expense, as opposed to $100 one time.
Presumably when the card is away from your phone (and BT connectivity), it would disable the button on the card. Or you could lock it into selecting that card via the phone.
Do VPNs fall under the retention requirements of the Stored Communications Act?
I agree. Perhaps I was really just promulgating the Critical Thinking News stereotype instead! I actually love to see progress, especially if something would really make my life better, even in a small way, but I really don't feel like this is going to be worth it.
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You can already steal credit cards really easily. When you hand your card to the waiter, there are machines that will save that number and you can write it to a blank card easily. They can also jot down your security number. This might make it marginally easier, but it is on one service and tracked.
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Searching those two pages yielded one instance of "decapitation":

> “I was playing at the park and we came into the clearing and we just saw a body on the floor,” said Maria Delgado, 13. “He was just decapitated — the whole top of his head was gone,”

So I think it's safe to say that a witness report from a 13-year-old who misuses the word "decapitation" doesn't make for a good source.
"It might sound snobbish or ridiculous, but the reality is that once you've tried a 5-star hotel, you can't go back," said founder Nicolas Reille, a serial entrepreneur who dreamed up the concept when he was traveling for work and could only afford 2- or 3-star digs.

No, it actually sounds like a) you've got a solution in search of a problem, b) you're more concerned with comfort than personal safety or c) both.

It sounds snobbish and ridiculous because it is.
it takes too long to confirm a transaction with bitcoin. Also the risk of having your bitcoins stolen is high - the reason credit cards exist is because reversible transactions are preferred to using cash. The credit card company acts as an escrow system.

I could imagine someone making a credit card that was denominated in bitcoin, but that would be a whole different technology stack than using raw bitcoins.
Really clever hack. Also looked around the original Angular spreadsheet the author offered as a inspiration, the 'hacky' components boiled down to this too parts:

1. Data binding.

Angular: ng-model, ng-controller, relying on Angular's magical $scope

This: custom defined object getter, essentially making the data resides in the DOM input elements (while keeping a copy in localStorage)

2. Expression evaluation

Angular: $parse service

This: 'with' and 'eval' in the same line. Despite its double 'evilness', this is really clever.
i myself heavily favor pg over my also, but just for the record mysql has some kind of support for that, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html#...
They need to fix their closed captioning.
This is an awesome idea! I would love to see it in Dallas. We have some similar services. But they are pretty poorly run and inconsistent so far.
Assume the Bad Guys have figured out how to send the brick-yourself code to an arbitrary Zoe. Which do you think is going to happen more often: bricked because you couldn't afford your monthly payment, or bricked until you transfer 100 BTC to the haxx0r?
Terminology pedantry: the term "Zero day" is normally used to refer to exploits being used in the wild. This was a demo at pwn2own, and by rule was disclosed to the vendor. It is unpatched, but not a "zero day" unless someone else knows how to do it.

It's also not the title of the article, which right now is simply "Chrome on a Nexus 4 and Galaxy S4 falls".
But to make it a meaningful experience (and get out of it with a PhD) you need a wholly different skillset. It's clear that you have never seen a kid who destroyed the productivity of a whole office because he treated his colleagues Just Wrong, and that you have never seen a fellow who just couldn't transfer what he learned in class to real-life application.
I actually have a different workload. Rather than read it, and save for later, I add my links to Pocket first, then read from there. That lets me absorb far more possibility - then read when I feel like it.

Plus, it makes the subway commute kick!
Commenting here so I can find your ideas if you post them, and to say I am also interested.
I was curious about some drop ship info too, so thanks for those links. I was wondering though if it's feasible to bootstrap a site like this with almost $0, or if the money to start it up typically costs a couple grand or so.
Perhaps when the card is away from the phone you can't push the button? Not sure, but this is definitely my top-of-mind question.
The borders and all that stuff is relevant, but the essential problem has been dysgenics, as I have heard it. Highly fertile, poor hicks came to demographically overwhelm the middle class in these places over multi-decade periods.
This makes it less suspicious. Traditionally a lot of small-time (i.e. Vegas) skimmers write mag-stripes onto other cards ranging from hotel key-cards to expired credit cards, but in places where skimming is common gas attendants and cashiers are trained to watch out for warning signs including lots of expired cards, trying lots of cards, name on computer doesn't match name on card, and especially hotel keycards at gas stations.

This device defeats all these human security measures by letting me use a startup bling device to try up to 8 cards at once without looking suspicious at all. "Declined? shit, my newfangled e-bling card must have messed up - try it again!" (while silently changing cards using the button). "No name on the card? Card isn't signed? You want my ID? But this is the hottest new toy! Promise it's fine!"
What is the practical use of this tool? Ex: If I am in the Italian Restaurant business in San Francisco, how can I use it to drive sales? Is it something like I have to search for keywords that are local and relevant and then use data to advertize on google Ads?
This is the only quote from those two news articles that contains "decapitation", and indeed the only instance of the word:

> “I was playing at the park and we came into the clearing and we just saw a body on the floor,” said Maria Delgado, 13. “He was just decapitated — the whole top of his head was gone,”
"BankSimple" was a better name, I think.
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But these apps shouldn't be running/accessing those devices when your phone is locked. If the apps can manage to get around that permissioning issue then they can control a lot of things directly, most likely, and don't need your PIN for much.
BTW, it took us a while to make sure we deploy right from pip on production, that means that community will get all the latest hotfixes and the github repo won't be stale as it's not just the mirror or one time copy.
Because engineers move down to the south bay to start their families. The reason why is SF's public schools are some of the worse in the entire nation, and private schools + mortgage is way more money down the drain than just a mortgage in the peninsula. If public schools were replaced with a voucher subsidy system, you would probably see more families up in SF, the city of singles.

Also being a city of singles and young people, it creates it's own sort of gravity well and you get this magnetic alignment effect. You get married families in the south bay, leading to boring suburbia and the young in SF, leading to all of the fun things up there.
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Sounds like a conspiracy to commit copyright infringement to me!
Needs TouchID just for that!
That sounds more complicated than pulling a card out of my wallet that I've instantly identified by position and color -- something the human brain is really good at doing without much thought. It's far more of a cognitive burden to fumble through a voodoo incantation of keypresses at the register to make the wizard card clone the correct card.
It's totally standard in Canada now. Usually when a place doesn't take chips it's a US-owned chain.
Yeah, I can't remember the last time I saw someone sign for or swipe a credit card in the UK: it's all chip-and-pin now, all the time. This looks like cool technology but it just wouldn't work here.
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What would be impressive is if you could do that without having to give away your identity.
Is that system still popular? I've started lots of tabs in the last few years, and it's always been purely an oral conversation - they only get my card at the end when I'm settling up.
And by using the location of your phone, and the timing of the swipes, Coin can learn a lot about your shopping habits.

Not as much as the credit card company (e.g. not the amount of the purchase), but still quite a lot.
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man, you are out of touch with the reality.

caste system was previous generation's plight.

In this generation lower castes are looting India with scams, and taking undue advantage of too much reservation. Lower castes are the most dishonest and corrupt people, and they have contributed next to zero throughout Indian history.
but libraries pay for their books. And a library might buy many copies of a popular book.
How about a better analogy?

If you lose your job and can't pay for gasoline, you can't drive.

If you lose your job and can't pay the electricity bill, you can't drive. Why add the extra battery DRM on top of it?
Dear downvoter , please tell me something innovative you did in life , other than throwing downvotes . What is happening to HN ? I work in a small start-up and I know what efforts it takes to build something instead of downvoting or discouraging.
Most of the cards in my wallet aren't credit/debit cards anyway. Drivers license, health insurance, etc. etc.

This wouldn't be able to replace my wallet, so I'd still be carrying two things around with me.
Because the article quotes someone who has a misunderstanding of the word "decapitation":

> “I was playing at the park and we came into the clearing and we just saw a body on the floor,” said Maria Delgado, 13. “He was just decapitated — the whole top of his head was gone,”
i don't think there's any ambiguity. that's just my opinion.
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Very misleading considering the FAQ page [1] says: "Can I use the Facebook Messenger app to send texts (SMS)?
Texting (SMS) is not currently available on Messenger."

1: https://www.facebook.com/help/151024075021791/
My comment was poorly phrased regarding libraries. What I meant was there's plenty of code if want to use lambdas for that isn't a carefully planned api boundary.

Even with the provided function interfaces I worry there will be cases they don't cover which means people won't use anonymous functions where they're useful.

However, given you seem to have used Java 8 and. I haven't, I'll relent :)
I don't know if I would really say Postgres won. Among people who care about databases, Postgres has always been the more popular of the big two free databases. Postgres was actually dedicated to being a good relational database, whereas MySQL in its earlier days was willing to cut corners to the point where it wasn't even ACID in most common configurations. But MySQL was faster (because, again, cutting corners) and its tooling was a little more friendly (especially for the PHP crowd).

Over the years, Postgres has made up those shortcomings, so it retains its respect among database wonks and now other people can easily use it too, so you see a lot of people adopting it over the past few years.

But in overall usage numbers, I would be surprised if it were anywhere near MySQL. It takes a long time to overcome that kind of inertia.
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I wonder if this could be used in conjunction with Wolfram's new project, mentioned yesterday.

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/11/13/something-very-big-i...
I've had the exact opposite experience. I have only had nightmares installing MySQL.
No, the frightening thing is the people who are jerks, know it, and don't care. The Jerry Springerization [1] of the audience. Further there is a bit of nerd backlash in the heartland going on. While the readers here might aspire to being the next Zuckerberg, in central part of the US there is a statistically significant part of the population which has this 'over rich, under religious, morally suspect' view of "successful" people in tech.

[1] Jerry Springer, host of a TV show with people acting badly on it and essentially becoming 'famous' has made acting badly more acceptable to way too many people.
It also appears to rely on your phone. It's certainly needs to be carried with an emergency card, but two cards as opposed to eight doesn't still preserves it's utility.
Super cool, but my guess is that there's a very small time window for it to succeed before the phone completely subsumes all card functionality. After all, the phone already scans the old card and sends the details to the 'CoinCard' (and monitors card-custody) via Bluetooth-LE.

It won't be long before most swipe terminals are themselves augmented with wireless transceivers, making the "CoinCard" a redundant middleman-device. That is, your phone could just send archived magstripe details, after your onscreen-app confirmation of payment-intent, to the retailer's terminal.

Coin's real strategy may be for that world - the hardware will fall away like a first-stage-rocket at some point... even faster, say, than Netflix moved from DVDs-through-mail to pure-network-delivery.
heh I agree with you conceptually but I've been in talks that are like (given X is a concept/library/framework) "I don't know about X, but --" "Oh you don't know about X? We don't want to know or understand anything about people who don't BELIEVE in X. You're disGUSting!"

But I never said I personally don't agree with the technique... so the response I go with is "Well, I agree with the philosophy there but my previous employers didn't budget any time for X." which they seem to absolutely hate anyway.

The reason I ultimately went corporate was because the hiring practices were more algorithm/concept-based (web services, AJAX practices, software design principles) rather than library or language-specific. I was hired into a Java team without even knowing Java. About 3 months later I found I could program on any part of their stack if they really needed me to.

Hiring practices that are not based on assessing a candidate's capabilities strike me as egotistical and pessimistic. I'm going to keep reading theoretical Comp Sci texts to see if I can get to the next phase of my career rather than joining the learn-every-framwork-under-the-sun-OR-ELSE movement.
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I agree. It's a tricky problem. Chargebacks are really easy for the consumer - too easy. There has to be a happy medium, but I can't quite think what it is.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is sided on the other extreme. The merchant has almost all the power. However, the merchant still has a reputation, which might be sufficient incentive.
I still use MySQL because trying out PostgreSQL recently scared me away. Maybe I was trying the wrong thing but I couldn't get pgAdmin to display my tables. I think I sank most of my afternoon trying unsuccessfully to do something MySQL can do in 5 minutes.

I recognize I'm used to MySQL but I was under the impression that because PostgreSQL has a similar syntax (SQL) it wouldn't take too long to pickup.
I think you are confusing irrationality with ex-post regret. It is to be expected that people would come to regret many choices that were rational at the time they were made.

Not everything we do is rational, but all the things you mentioned can -- and imo should, absent evidence to the contrary -- be treated as rational choice.
It's not the entire world - for example, Square was able to bring their magstripe-only technology to Japan without much interference.
This is speculation: but JetBrains work on dart IDE, android releasing ART, I'm tempted to say we're 2 years out from seeing DART running on android. It makes sense from a business sense, have the option of running dart apps on android would free the platform from its java dependance.
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I read this to say that Piracy is legal if you don't charge for it. There is no difference between putting a full book on line and a full movie. This won't stand for long, MPAA wouldn't have lost this case. Authors are just not as well organized.
You could turn off bluetooth, that would lock Coin, after a period.
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C'mon ... this is just some guy's hobby project. It is cute, it was built. I say, fantastic!
I love how we are seeing the snapchat-ization and tinder-ization of everything. LA startup scene came out of nowhere!
"Chin also rejected the theory that Google was depriving authors of income, noting that the company does not sell the scans or make whole copies of books available."

I don't see how this would make out of print books available. It would only allow them to come up in a search result.
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Jeffrey Steadfast discusses the edge cases of MIME parsing and performance optimizations in his MIT/X11 C# library here: http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2013/10/optimization-tip...

I appreciate how the Flanker release includes benchmarks without thrashing on alternative implementations.
Thanks for the comments. I do have a financial background, and to my knowledge companies usually don't amortize advertising. Amortization and depreciation is something reserved for large assets that have a significant upfront cost and a very long lifespan - like a building.

The benefits from advertising are usually used immediately. Buy a super bowl commercial? The benefits are definitely used up within that year, if not that week.

For a business like this, cash flow is essentially what you see on the income statement. No huge account payables (pay bills with a CC) and no non-cash expenses (like depreciation. Again, I'n not depreciating my advertising.)

Also, I do happen to have a Series 7 and 66 - but as I left the financial industry a while ago they aren't current. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's any rule that prohibits me from 1) selling my own business and 2) disclosing the financials without a license. Might be different if I was selling YOUR business for you.

If you have a financial background and/or sources for your points above, I'm very open to being corrected. Just let me know.
Seems like a cool idea. But also seems like a credit card thief's dream.
If your screen is sufficiently big, it shows up to the right of the blog post. I turned off adblock trying to figure out what was wrong with the ad placement before I resized the window. It should probably always show up to the right.
Imagine you've dropped your phone somewhere (or had it picked out of your pocket) and tada, now your credit cards no longer work! As a result you're temporarily part of the nouveau poor and can't call anybody for help if you're out and about on your own.
I mentioned only some subset of PhD applicants, which might not be small. So there are many other types of applicants who apply with different and various reasons.

As for your question, no, I don't think that scientists in all of the branches of CS need to be good engineers. But that is just my personal opinion.
In my case, I actually did think of this idea! Just never had the hardware knowledge to even know where to get started (and I was worried about the trouble it'd cause as card skimmers used it to easily clone cards - hopefully we'll learn more about how coin solves that problem). I'm mostly glad they're trying to make this a reality, because I'd really like to get rid of all these membership/point cards that stuff up my wallet.
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With any luck, this will piss off the banks/CC companies enough to finally roll out chip+pin in the US.
Couldn't you technically bypass the OCR by taping a piece of paper with a different name or number over it? Does the magnetic data store the name?
Maybe the button only works when the card is near the phone?
As far as "gobbling the card" is concerned, their FAQ states that they can only be used with "dip" ATMs, which may also address the button pushing issue.

EDIT: More details from the FAQ:

Q. Can someone accidentally change which card is selected on my Coin?

A. We’ve designed the button to toggle cards in a way that makes it difficult to trigger a "press" unintentionally. Dropping a Coin, holding a Coin, sitting on a Coin, or putting the Coin in a check presenter at a restaurant will not inadvertently toggle the card that is selected.
Epsilon is a very recent project though, Japan has had rocket programs since the 60s (the Mu-1 sub-orbital test flight was in 1966)
On all of my cards I have not signed them but written "REQUEST ID" instead. And yet I very, very rarely get asked for my ID when using them. So rarely, in fact, that I make a point to thank them when they do. Some even turn it over to look and then just move on.
>Google, understandably, wants to increase metrics related to time spent on site since it facilitates selling ads.

The funny thing is that Google's original success was based on creating a search engine which didn't try to "trap" users to the site, instead giving what they wanted quickly.
It doesn't. The FAQ says so. But it also says that it's made for the USA market, which is sufficiently large to generate some serious profit.

Not everything has to have global reach or impact.
I can build a JS interpreter in 1 line of JS.
Adobe's AVM2 (ActionScript 3 VM) took advantage of optional typing.

Once upon a time this was going to be the basis of ECMAScript4 via tamarin, but that never panned out for lots of reasons, most of them political.
I think the suggestion is that you first look for questions with the hashtag and then if you don't find any look for questions the way you currently are. That way a small user base can make use of the feature but for everyone else it stays the same.

You should also take a look at youasked.it. They're very similar. I think giving the user a chance to filter questions by topic is a very key feature that is missing right now from your implementation.
There is no way SF compares with New York, London or Tokyo.

This is the BART map: http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/images/2008/02/big_bart_map....

This is the El map: http://sites.williams.edu/thea228/files/2011/09/Chicago-El.j....

This is the New York subway map: http://images.nycsubway.org/maps/calcagno-2010-06-28c.gif

There is no contest.
Or, we could just start using chip+pin in the U.S.
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Unfortunately, no. Amazon RDS instances don't provide console access and are essentially black boxes.
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