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I have never ever had to request a chargeback from my credit card company. I have, however, returned many items which were voluntarily refunded by the merchant, even those items paid with cash or cash equivalent. But then again, I also don't buy from sketchy vendors that have no incentive to want to gain/maintain your trust.
More the latter than the former. There are more suitable tools for the former, e.g. Paypal.
Same for me, the yandex domain they're loading hljs from seems to be blocked. The hljs call is in the same script block as the line to initiate the fancy stuff, so it fails and that line's never reached. Paste this into the console to run that manually:

$('.active form').card({ container: $('.card-wrapper')})
At most. If you dispute fraudulent charges in time, you're not liable for anything. I've even had my CC bank actively call me to discuss fraudulent charges, and that my card would be replaced by the next day.
Fighting semantic drift is literally the hardest thing in the world.
Imagine what would have happened if she stood firm, and brought little Simon NoNo into the store. He proceeds to throw a fit, and then [gasp!] she threatens to, or even does, spank him in the butt. She'd have likely been arrested and missed the flight home.
The platform I learned to develop on was a very small cellphone; learning to live in tight resources is a skillset that sadly not enough people practice. Even today on much larger systems I still out of habit minimize code and resources more than I need to.
The same argument held on Amazon, as the shorts got crushed on it's rise. :-)
>but then you have a credit card

This shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. Like anything else, a credit card is just a tool. It can be used productively, or abused.
And as a guy not on the margins, who has been repeatedly educated and informed by these "spoiled princesses", I can't say I agree with him either. I find their work incredibly valuable, so I'd be interested to hear why joaren believes they're setting back their own cause.

Well, maybe "interested" is overstating it a bit. "Morbidly curious"?
> I haven't read Cringely before. Is he a trustworthy reporter, or a sensationalist?

I've read him since back in his InfoWorld days. For the most part I'd say "non-sensationalist", unlike say, Dvorak. I'd don't know that I'd classify him as a reporter, but more like a pundit. I mean, I don't look to Cringely for hard facts but more his take on the facts that we collectively know.

Anyway, were it the type of thing I care to read about I'd buy his book.

EDIT: "Crinkly"? Seriously, Android auto-correct? (Though to be fair, Mac OS X tried the same thing when I fixed it.)
All this seems crazy... It seems like we are not able to understand some risks and gave up directly to irrational fears... In particular anything related to kids.

I respect people with irrational fears, and understand that sometimes happen. For example fear or flying.

But we seem to accept that just because someone has that kind of fear is ok to act like that fear was a real danger. As the article said, driving is, comparatively, a huge risk compared with things like kid abductions or terrorist attacks. We seem not to give a dam to drive four hours a day, but be scared to death if we cross someone on a dark street...

We are simply terrible evaluating risks, and be more fearful each day...
I'm betting it's the amazon phone with the 3D display that was leaked.
I am used to being censored for being critical of Apple. Not just here, anywhere where an Apple fan is a moderator, I find that censorship is much more common than discussion.
During the hottest days of the summer (it very rarely goes above 28C or so - average maximum temperature is around 22C during the hottest summer months in southern Finland), yes, but not that often.
How was Office ever a monopoly and if it was, how was it lost exactly? I don't get it. It's not irrelevant and it's being used as before. If not, please provide numbers.
And broken retailer POS systems, like Target's.
That is an entirely different world of crazy that doesn't belong here, does it?

Are we going to turn this into a 'You need to be careful about talking to a child' debate? If you cannot address/talk to a child, things are worse OUTSIDE of that car.
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I was about to say the same thing, also doesn't work for credit card number. I autocompleted in a phone number and it didn't show up at all.
SSDs are usually deployed in order to reduce (basically eliminate) random seek time, when compared to a platter hard drive. Ironically, this tends to make less of an impact in a column store, because a column store optimizes data arrangement on disk for reading large blocks of contiguous data, which platter drives are quite good at.

We tested SSD vs. HDD performance effects on our $COMMERCIAL_COLUMN_STORE here at work. SSDs were not worth the money.
Huge fan of Product Hunt. Show HN is great, but PH just makes it too easy to quickly discover, comment on, and share new products. Not to mention, the community there seems more "real" thanks to names/profile pics.
Back when I did IT consulting, I got better returns by bumping up the base rate and offering them 20% discount if they paid on the day the work was done, 15% if within 7 days, and and 10% if within 14 days.

Some customers will whine and moan about late fees and try to weasel out even if they're in the contract, but if you offer discounts for quicker payment, suddenly they're running after you to pay right away. At least in my experience.
Thank you :) . I think you should have chosen a better headline, but it's an interesting story.
yes yes and yes
The headstone of every engineer should read "that looks pretty straightforward."
It's interesting that he claimed IBM has probably been doomed since 2010, considering that the stock price in 2010 was around $120, and it is now $187.06. I guess 50% increase means the company is dying.
I'd report this to Quora not on a public forum.
Yes, driving to the store is considerably more dangerous for the child (even if it's in correctly fitted car seat (and many children are not)) than being left for a few minutes in the car.

Still, leaving the child alone leaves them open to more risk than taking them out of the car.

This parent was not buying anything important - just headphones for a child - and they took the wasy options by i) taking child to shops and ii) not taking child out of car.

I don't criticise other people's parenting because I am particularly lucky with my son but the idea of leaving my nearly-four-yo son unaccompanied (out of eyesight) fills me with cold fear.

Again, the problem here isn't that they left their son for a few minutes in a car, it is that society is pretty hostile to parents and parenting, simultaneously being quick to judge and slow to offer any real support.
There's nothing painful about a regular form with the minimum amount of fields.
It doesn't seem to be working to tab between fields in Chrome. Once I've entered the expiration date it just fails to go to CVC or let me tab into it. had to use the mouse to switch fields.
Ah, Modula-2. Yes. Very popular in the corporate world; huge hit on Github/Bitbucket as well. Lots of libraries, web frameworks....up-and-comer, for sure. I hear we'll soon be writing iOS apps in it?

Occam? No comment. At least Ada is being actively used in something, but Modula-2 and Occam? Seriously?

You can find any idea currently in use that was probably first academically tested out and "proven" in "Obscure-language-nobody-ever-uses-anymore-on-any-real-projects".

The fact that Go, this supposedly boring, unoriginal language is actually taking off in popularity, is for some reason a huge pain point for certain people who refuse to acknowledge that the "plebs" who don't bow before Haskell or similar are allowed to program in something they enjoy and that brings something new to the table, for them. New for them. New for corporate America, new for real projects, new for actual people getting actual work done, on actual projects, in actual companies, getting paid actual money for it.

How did Go haters ever survive the rise of Ruby, for example? A language which brought absolutely nothing interesting to the table, yet after people experienced RoR became more popular, in one month, than Occam, CSP, Modula-2, Oberon, combined, times 1000? You guys must have been foaming at the mouth for years.

Occam? Modula-2? Jesus Christ.

You think Go's success is undeserved? I can't wait to see your reactions when Swift surpasses "My-favorite-obscure-language-X" in number of people/libraries/projects using it before the next WWDC.
Less than an hour, I'd say. A warm summer day can easily be 25-30C, typically 20-25C. That's enough to go to 50C in an hour, windows closed, even on a half-cloudy day.
Obviously a handheld device (phone) of some sort with a motion sensor/face tracker? Lets you rotate an item view by moving your head?
I think it's a fairly common word amongst sociologists and economists. I've heard it in both contexts.
This is a "store" for templates only or will there be something more? Sure it is nice to have I guess but the term App Store confused me.
Roche Bobois Mistral Armchair [1], when not standing or sitting on the ball.

But around here we just call it the chair. It's perilously difficult to escape from.

[1] http://www.roche-bobois.com/#/en-US/products/all/armchairs/a...
https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NYSE%3AIBM&fstype=ii&ei=A...

If $16bn in net revenue is IBM falling, I'd love to see what Cringely defines success as.
Because they're using bitcoins, you don't have to give them your payment information. They gave you their address, and you send the money over.

I feel like that's the point you were making with that last sentence, but I missed the sarcasm until typing all the above out.
Am I correct to understand that it is not possible to determine the payout for winning at the time of placing a bet, since the proportion of bets could change? Payouts are determined when the book closes, not based on the ratio when the bet is placed?
Good idea, going to email them directly. Redacted my post contents.
It's relevant in the sense that it is still very important player in the market it participates in. Granted, the relevance is not a fashionable one.

By all measures, IBM != dead (for any predictable future period).
Indeed, it would make sense with people moving their head around. Link to rumor: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732474410...
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Of course and this is what actually happens if you enable overflow checking but it comes at a price - if your code is correct you will never need the checks but you will execute them every time.
Here's a timing side channel attack in JavaScript that implements navigator.hardwareConcurrency: http://wg.oftn.org/projects/core-estimator/demo/
The problem is that potentially-overflowing integer instructions make a real mess out of things like out-of-order execution and speculative execution.

For data to back this, see your favorite computer architecture reference, particularly anything that discusses the consequences of highly-complex instructions in things like the VAX.
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Same thoughts!
Here's an earlier HN thread on the possibility of these objects. It contains some good explanatory links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7020517
I agree that the police reaction is sub-optimal, but there are reasons not to tie a child to a seat and lock them into a car and then leave them unsupervised, even if that is for a few minutes.
I don't know if this solves all the associated problems. If part of the chain of operations isn't side-effect-free, eg. function call, you'll still have to check more than once for the whole chain. And if you want to do more than throw an error/exception you may need to re-run the operations on a slow path to get the correct result.

But I like it a lot even so. For a general case it seems like it would help.
I'm gonna shill for a moment and link a post I wrote on integer overflows very recently. http://forrestthewoods.com/perfect-prevention-of-int-overflo...

TLDR: Not accidentally performing an undefined operation is really really hard.
How long ago would realtime auditory language translation have been considered obviously strong AI?
Why can't one sell their the cognitive ability if they choose to? If the player is "smart" enough to cheat the test then ultimately it is their choice. Society has deemed their muscles more valuable then their intelligence and I don't think we would be turning towards them for their thoughts on optimizations for database wrappers.
Check the revenues, the stock price is meaningless.
Can not agree with this post more.
I've flagged down a cop seeing a kid alone in a car, and would do it again.

Should people who leave their toddlers in cars be prosecuted criminally? That's a complicated question. In almost every reasonable case the answer is probably "no".

But this article doesn't really grapple with that question. Instead, it's a stew of rationalization and misdirection. It is literally an argument for leaving kids alone in cars. "I immunize my kids. I know pools are dangerous." Yeah, and you left a four year old alone in a parked car. You brought it up. BAD CALL. "This other parent let their nine-year-old ride the subway by themselves." Well, I think that's a bad call too, but who cares? Nine isn't four, the subway isn't a parked car.

"And then I left him in the car for about five minutes. He didn’t die. He wasn’t kidnapped or assaulted or forgotten or dragged across state lines by a carjacker. When I returned to the car, he was still playing his game, smiling."

Asshole. The risks to a four year old child left alone in a parked car aren't that the boogeyman might steal them.

If you want to read a piece that seriously grapples with this issue, read Gene Weingarten's "Fatal Distraction" from the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...
I recently was told a story by an internal developer who works for a company that outsourced their IT infrastructure to IBM.

Their deployment process for a business critical java application is as follows:

- Someone calls IBM to alert the person (resource) responsible that they want to do a new deployment. If this person is sick or on vacation, try again later.

- Then they send over a jar file with the compiled application.

- The responsible person copies the jar file to the appropriate location and restarts the server.

I rest my case.
> Dynamic allocation isn't free, it's terribly expensive. Dereferencing pointers isn't free, it's terribly expensive.

So don't do either of those things until your arithmetic overflows the size of a word; until then, you can keep numbers in a register.
I believe his premise is that IBM will do anything to improve revenue-per-share numbers, even if that kills their future. So from his perspective, good stock performance is expected even if you agree with him that the company is doomed.
RIM has never been even remotely close to IBM's market/general-social influence. The comparison is certainly a poor one.

By this argument, we can safely say "X is dead, since RIM dies in < 5 years.". Substitute X with any company you can think of. This is obviously wrong, so your argument does not stand.
Those instructions generate an interrupt; you'd have to define the OS ABI to make those instructions trap back to the application in a catchable way.
With the fruitless/mindless attacks from the comments, I can see the crowd is still about the same. Lots of low hanging fruit with a few guys getting rich (like most schemes).

It is funny how this business has not changed since 1998. The communication channels changed, but the ideas and market is still the same. My first introduction to this was with the Windows RPC remote exploit vulnerabilities. I setup some honeypots to determine what the botnets were up to (most were manual B/C class scans at that time, the good old days before decentralized command). I ended up following the trail of controllers up to a random efnet IRC chatroom and finally to a more private area. That's where they sold/traded data from the botnets. This was prior to the 'rent a botnet to DDoS' era.

Back then, credit cards without CVV2s (from Windows IIS Servers exploited with that long string bug leaking out plain text documents) were worth about 50 cents a piece. CVV2 brought it up to around $2-3 for US, $4-6 for UK/CA. Address information was around $15. It seems the market has deflated a lot, the credit cards are probably from targeted companies rather than scripted botnets looking for vulnerable boxes, and the data can just be bought from a website rather than having to get a third party to moderate the exchange.

Once again,the comments reminded me the most of that community. Someone mentioned about entering CC info on a CC theft site. There used to be a RTF document exploit where you could execute something or another from them, the dump sellers would infect their dump files (RTF docs) and steal the client's data. These communities are cutthroat.
This is great news. I, and others, use WebGL to generate realistic interactive educational content. Not falling back to images or SVG on iOS will provide a more effective experience on one of the most popular educational platforms. It's a win for more than games. We can even offload computations from some simulations onto the GPU.
Someone pull a CSI and enhance the reflection in the glasses at about 43 seconds in!
That's true the numbers are impressive. He did get caught though, not him personally but his network was brought down by the FBI. The thing with the FBI is that of course, in the long you can't win, once you get in their radar it's time to abandon ship IMHO.
> Still, leaving the child alone leaves them open to more risk than taking them out of the car.

So a child in an immobile tested-safe metal box with ventilation, locked and alarmed, is more at risk than being outside the car? I'd like to understand how you came to that reasoning.
That's probably more expensive than a jno instruction after the possibly overflowing operation.
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The video looks like a parody of an Amazon product announcement.
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To be fair, if I'm a passerby and I see a dog with the window cracked open, I have no idea how long he's been there. Calling the cops makes sense, they're the ones paid to made the judgement call and animal control should have the training to diagnose whether the dog is in distress or not. Whoever made the call chose to err on the side of caution out of humanitarian concern, not to get your goat or ruin your day.

Sounds like your police department sucks more so than the worried passerby engaging in "nanny-statism." The police chose not to assess the situation correctly and just went for the easy fine.
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I remember when my mom left me in the car to run into the grocery store one summer. I put the seat back and dozed with my head resting against the partially-slackened seatbelt. It was a hot day with the sun shining right in the windshield. It felt nice and sauna-like, so I closed my eyes for a bit...

My mother got pretty upset when she came back and found me in that state. She told me that's how people manage to die in the car, and when I realized how hot it was I should have popped the door open and come inside.

And, well, she was right! :)
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At that scale, even if its fundamentals have rotted a business can coast quite well on inertia alone for years.
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Which is the doomed company here?
I think the article overstates the cost of doing this in software and understates the cost of doing it in hardware.

The cost of doing it in software is just a highly predictable (not taken) branch after every integer arithmetic operation that the compiler can't prove stays within bounds. The article presents no data on this cost. I have none to hand either, but I'm going to predict that on a modern CPU with typical workloads it will be small enough that it would be very hard to measure.

The article speaks as though doing it in hardware would be free, but that's very far from true. The hardware solution might have a nominal cost of 'zero clock cycles' where overflow doesn't occur, but extra transistors in critical, heavily used parts of the CPU core would be burning a small but nonzero amount of energy all the time even on code that doesn't use the overflow check - i.e. the vast majority.

If you think overflow check is a great feature (of which personally I'm not at all convinced), go ahead and add it to a new language or provide it as a library function in an existing language. But imposing it as an inescapable tax on all hardware makes no sense whatsoever.
Wow, what a story for a parent to read. Lenore Skenazy and her discussion of the various risks we take as parents is awesome. Also, read Parenting with Love and Logic. Makes the argument that over-protecting your kids is denying them important learning opportunities. Mind blowing at first, but then when you think about it (and remember your own largely unsupervised childhood) it makes a lot of sense.
Not really, because that would almost certainly have resulted in the mother being arrested and all the children being taken into protective custody. The police already had evidence of the child being left alone in the car in the form of a photograph. In a situation where someone acts evasively they're going to assume the worst. Think of those cases where children die or are found in situations of truly dreadful neglect and the local captain of police has to grovel in public while trying to answer questions about why they didn't follow up on reports of the situation.

I had to deal with the police earlier this week because my dog accidentally bit someone who interfered with him, resulting in a (thankfully superficial) injury. I answered their questions forthrightly and we emailed some paperwork back and forth, which is why he's now confined to my yard for the next 7 days instead of being locked in a crate at the city pound.

Overzealous policing is a real problem. That doesn't mean that evasion or passive-aggressive confrontation is always an effective response.
> How was Office ever a monopoly

Ask WordPerfect.
Misconceptions that IT professionals seem to have about CS education
Walmart clothes (the clothes of today's poor) aren't particularly nice compared to hand-tailored suits (the clothes of the upper crust hundreds of years ago, and presently).
First of all, I'm all for overflow traps and I'm quite happy with bignums in my scripting languages. I only claim:

1. There is a large class of languages where they do not make sense as a default.

2. The most sensible approach is to fastlane the all-int native case, but this comes at the cost of a preciptitous drop in speed the moment even a single bignum happens.

> Isn't the alternative introducing a thousand difficult-to-debug edge cases that cause your code to produce incorrect output, or crash?

Unintentional bignums are usually bugs, so incorrect output / crash is usually the best one could hope for anyway. People understand that programs have bugs and crash, but the combination of slowness with incorrect output is a special recipe for infuriated users (I waited 30 minutes for the file to load and then it crashed?!?!).
The ACLU can focus a small amount of donor money like a political laser and make real progress on the issues its donors care about. Its less like "voting" with your money and more like raising your own taxes a smidge to get the results you want.
https://code.google.com/p/corkami/source/browse/trunk/misc/e...
An announcement of an announcement does not make for a good HN post. Let's wait until something of substance happens.