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Does anyone think JWT should replace cookies for session management in non-single page apps? I'm guessing you'd have to include an AJAX call to determine if you're logged in on each page, which seems kind of odd to me.
Interesting article. Worth noting that Stiglitz is more bullish about the economic possibilities for Scotland after independence - though I understand he's an advisor to the Scottish Government.

I'll be glued to the count on the 18th anyway.
Their ability to sell parts with defective cores fused off makes this analysis really quite complicated.

Ad absurdum, say only 1% the 18 core dies have no defects and can be sold as such. In a vacuum, the chip would have be priced very high to cover the costs of low yields.

But since they can sell the defects at 8 cores for $1000 and 12 cores for $2000, they can be profitable on the reject chips alone. The 18 cores that work are a bonus.

They're no doubt priced at what Intel thinks the market will bare, meaning that either the process is great (so they're priced low to sell a ton), or that there's just not that much demand for the most high end product. Or some combination of the two.
>> "Independence is a tradeoff"

People seem to forget this and focus on a few individual issues instead of the bigger picture. In the end nobody really knows what will happen. I feel both sides have failed at answering people's questions but that's mainly because they don't know the answers to a lot of them. The decision either way will be majorly uniformed. I think for a lot of people it will be a question of 'I don't like the way things are and this is a way to possible change that'.
Though NoScript is a security measure that 99.XX% of users do not use.
It's certainly that.
Is there actually a timetable for "chip and pin" in the US? I'm only aware of banks issuing chip + signature style EMV cards.
Accepting $10 from a buddy has no fees, no. But a supermarket taking in tens of thousands on a daily basis, has quite high costs of handling cash, usually at least 1%. And cash is definitely slowly being phased out because it has all kinds of issues, security being a key one. (cash-based businesses have higher ordinary robbery risks than card-based businesses for example)
The housing market in NL all but crashed and is still just about limping along. In some provinces the situation is pretty dreadful. The funny bit is that the prices haven't dropped all that much (because people are psychologically much less likely to take a loss on a property than they are to cash in on a profit, a big factor in this is that they'll end up with a remaining debt to the bank after selling the house which is definitely not always an option).

So the market simply froze with asking prices holding relatively steady and sales dropping to near zero at some point. As of late there is a bit of a recovery depending on the area you look at.
depending on how easy 'updating the algorithm' turns out to be - it being as easy as updating an app seems a bit on the crazy side to me

Tesla is already updating the firmware of their cars over-the-air[1]. It seems likely that driverless cars will have the same feature.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/24/3385506/tesla-model-s-over...
AFAIK an independent Scotland would be more open on immigration, plus independence will take several years to sort out, so I wouldn't worry.
No, you are not. Freely given donations for which nothing is given in return are outside the scope of VAT, GST or sales tax.
The greatest YC startup to date, by far. Good job and congrats!
PCI deadline for US retailers to implement chip + pin is October 2015. Mentioned in the Home Depot link above
This is really neat! I love knowing how much a package depends on when I decide which to go with.
I somewhat like the idea, but couldn't you make it no-login? Just send and email and go?

And I think it could leverage email somehow. Maybe save and send the conversation on an email to all the parties involved after some time.

Or it could just work for some people using just email, for others using the chat room, seamlessly.
> Shouldn't the certs related to OS / app updates be self-signed (the root of trust being Microsoft/Apple/pkgmanager*), rather than anyone in your CA?

Yes, this is how Debian works (they use a well known gpg key to sign their list of packages).

I believe the popular Mac OS X library Sparkle also works like this—the master public key is shipped with the App so that it only accepts updates that are signed by that particular key (if you use Apple's code signing then it only accepts new updates if they are signed by a key assigned to the developer).
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> The point is that Americans should be preferred over foreigners for these jobs.

Fwiw, my own experience is that the US is screwed up to the point where EU entrepreneurs are about as welcome as Mexican goat-herders.

Which seems kind of self-defeating if the goal is to give jobs to US citizens. But what do I know...
Depending on the timeframe, this sounds somewhat reasonable.

I'm assuming at the point where you make the offer, you and the candidate have established that you want to work with each other, and already agreed on compensation and terms.

Given that, you're already past the negotiation stage, and there is a time limit on when the deal can close. You need to hire one of your candidates, so it makes some sense to say "you have some-number-of days to accept this offer."

The key here is that you've already negotiated the agreement. In the past, I've had companies make me exploding offers with zero opportunities for negotiation.

Every time I've rejected such an offer, and every time it's been the right decision.
So basically you made an agreement with one set of investors and then went back on your word because another, "better" set of investors wanted to put money in? Maybe it's just me, but this doesn't reflect that well on you.
So many accelerators behave wildly unprofessionally and inappropriately for the space that they're in.

Perhaps all that's needed is more high-visibility guidelines like what YC is doing now. Perhaps we need better platform for evaluating investors from the founders perspective, instead of networks that really only care about evaluating startups.

Either way, the situation seems to be getting worse, with the continued explosion of accelerator programs around the world. I hope we find an effective solution.
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Super absorbent and quick dry towel that sits around the neck during work outs making it easier to wipe sweat!
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Where I pay taxes, I cannot donate money to non-profit registered in another country and write off the tax. Therefore, if I am a business my donation is taxed as cash spending. If I have already paid PAYE tax, I cannot apply for a tax refund on my donation. My country is not subsiding another country's non-profits. Neither is yours.

An example from the U.S.:
http://nonprofit.about.com/od/fordonors/qt/internationaltaxd...
Invest in an "idea" through a website? Don't do this.

I thought it was a database of problems and ideas matching themselves to help entrepreneurs get insights somehow.
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> It's still hard to just send a fixed amount of money to someone with traditional payment systems [...]

How about Venmo? That looks pretty easy.
That's only partially true, and not really an option for most. Your trivial expenses are related to the amount of money you have. For most, a $3 coffee or $14 cocktail go from trivial to significant very quickly.

If you have 10x that amount of money, then your trivial expenses are also 10x more expensive. It's weekend getaways to Vegas vs a cocktail, $100 steak dinners vs a cup of coffee.

This app looks to try to teach some sort of understanding and self control in spending - which is important no matter how much money you think you have.
Fair enough - just crazy enough to work, maybe.

(but still crazy.)
Businesses simply build fees into their product/service cost. That it's 3% or 1.9% or whatever rate they can negotiate is largely irrelevant except for those businesses which focus entirely on price for commodities which are fungible regardless of provider.

If you run a SaaS company and your Pro service level costs $20/month, would you change your price to $19.40/month if you were able to eliminate credit card transaction fees? What if your service involved a little bit of manual data entry by your employees every month and you found a more efficient way to do that; would you reduce your monthly fee by the effective cost of the few seconds a month of employee time you've just saved? Perhaps drop it from $19.40/month down to $19.37 a month? Of course not. Whoever signs up for your service sees value in paying $20/month and they honestly don't care what your underlying fee structure looks like.
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spam. bye!
I got into an argument about that with the guy at the Home Depot paint counter today. I blamed the hack on Home Depot probably running XP on their POS machines and he blamed the banks not doing something that they do in Europe, I'm assuming it's this EMV chip because it sounded like he was repeating something he was told.
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The same logic is really obvious in GPUs, where you can get a 90%-good 600 sq. mm. chip for $500.
> I guess as a developer you would be using Canary Chrome vs. Nightly Firefox, to get the latest

Not always. As a developer I use the latest stable Firefox, since that's what I can recommend to my users.
The North Sea Oil paid for the 80's, the main income from it now is tax. The Norway government will still own a lot of their oil.
It will be very expensive for both the UK and Scotland if its a yes vote. I just hope it isn't because I can't see it being beneficial to either party.
> you now need to right click in the console and tick "Log request and response bodies" every single time

Yes, seems like there could be a pref for that. Filed a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064458.
Many don't read the article and just start commenting.
I'm an English person that lives in Quebec, and going from what I know growing up in the UK and what I have seen here with the current polling I'm convinced not going for independence will work out worse.

The reason is markets really hate uncertainty. Given a close but non-final referendum the result isn't certainty: it's potentially decades of uncertainty. Quebec has had this for over 30 years and it's destroyed the place. (To be clear, I don't think Quebec should go independent now, but if it was going to 1980 was the time).

Independence has many unknowns, but a lot of them are of the kind where solutions mysteriously won't be available until the problem actually presents itself. For example, the Scottish EU question is a lot of bluffing on both sides, but you can't help thinking the reality will prove to be a lot less exciting. After 5-10 years it will settle down a bit, but if the status quo is preserved with the potential for another one you can watch all the businesses hedging their bets with stuff going south of the border for decades to come, while the economy in the north becomes even more dependent on the public sector, which is a recipe for trouble.

As a result I don't think anyone taking too strong a financial position based on this coming out one way or the other is particularly wise.
autoplay=1 ? Seriously?

http://www.coolstartupbro.com/data.js
Norway is not a member of the Eurozone, it controls its own currency.
Are you sure you're not the one that's experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon? I subscribe to Anandtech's RSS feeds and they had a slower period recently for technical articles.
That article's commentary on dating articles is largely complaining about HN's policy. You can still stick a date somewhere on your page - put it at the footer, and anyone who gets that far will already have invested enough in the article to have at least scrolled down a bit.
home depot likes to collect email address for sending receipts (and spam). Along with that older style mag stripes will give out the name. Not sure about mailing info or how they'd get that.

The thing to do is to actually get stores to stop storing CC info at all. they should be able to process the payment and then forget the info at all so it never has to be stored so it can't be stolen. EMV is actually a move to force this as they'll no longer be able to get the number, just verify a transaction in theory.
When will banks actually start issuing chip + pin cards in the US? It doesn't help US consumers much if the retailers accept them, but the banks don't issue them. I have credit cards with four banks (probably the biggest 4 in the US, but I don't know exactly how they stack up). One is chip+signature, and the rest don't have chips at all. Including a brand new one I got from a huge bank less than a month ago.
Great name. Are you from Ecuador or have you been there?
No, because my country (the USA) doesn't tax "cash spending". It taxes income, and it (well, in most cases, individual states), taxes certain sales (generally, this tax is collected by the seller, but when its a foreign seller the buyer may be resposible for it as a "use" tax.) If I don't get a taxable good or service in exchange, its not a taxable sale, and the seller doesn't have to collect sales tax (and, if the seller is foreign, I don't have to pay use tax.)

For a foreign "non-profit", I won't get a deduction from taxable income for income tax purposes for the donation the way I would if the donation was to a local non-profit [1], but I don't have to pay an extra "cash spending" tax the way you describe.

[1] Actually, strictly this is a local charity, which is a narrower category than non-profits. Donations to local non-charity non-profits are generally not tax deductible to the person making the donation, even if the non-profit is itself tax-exempt.
I recently discovered Ugarit and although I haven't used it at all, it traces its lineage back to Venti (and also Git).

Not sure how mature it is, but might interest some:

https://www.kitten-technologies.co.uk/project/ugarit/doc/tru...
99 cents plus $2400.
Yep, absolutely. I said "a form of authentication" because it allows some degree of message authentication, but not to the same degree a proper digital signing mechanism that utilizes public key cryptography would. The term "signing" is also kind of overloaded, and doesn't necessarily mean signing in the sense of a human signature. HMAC-SHA1 and RSA-SHA1 (or PGP) both can be said to "sign" a message, but they mean different things.

Generally for web app development, I think MACs tend to suffice for the vast majority of use cases.
Some previous discussion about the change (though not about the NYTimes article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285764
That's what happens when we don't hire americans to fill american jobs. When we depend on foreigners because they are less expensive and more loyal, we suffer for it. How many STEM majors are out of work now, yet people are complaining that we don't have enough H1Bs? and that we don't convert those H1Bs into immigrant visas? What happens when they too get better say in their jobs, unionize, and finally get laid off... will we just go about our business and hire more foreigners on a legally temporary basis? We'll have so many homeless that it would be ridiculous to even consider public welfare.
I don't have a Home Depot CC, but I've used their e-receipts in the last couple of months and I'm reasonably sure that I've ordered online from them in the past.

I certainly hope they didn't compromise the PIN pads in the stores. That could be a Very Bad Thing.
This project and most emoji projects I've seen are meant as light-hearted takes on an existing product. The added benefit of a URL shortened service is the extended character alphabet to choose from, thus shorter links.

Of course you can use all of Unicode for this for an even larger set of possible chars, but you lose the "fun" aspect.

In the end, it's about not being too serious about things.
Well that is one way to solve the performance hit when using dual physical cpus

(socket contention because of cache-to-cache traffic going through QPI)

presentation on the problem http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...
If I'm understanding correctly, you're talking about a web chat service with a UI that just uses IRC as a backend to communicate between users? If so, that sounds pretty sweet.
Includes sample code for Python using joblib, in R using the Parallel language, and in Matlab/Octave using the parfor construct!
Large retailers like Amazon don't save on their margins if they start accepting BTC

For point 1, obviously wrong. Any sale they make in bitcoin is one they save on their margins. Just because it's not applicable to 100% of sales doesn't mean it has no effect.

On point 2, that's true but is the discount 0? Because BitPay processes bitcoin payments at 0% right now (and has billion-dollar clients like Newegg already), with enterprise options. Point is, whatever discounts CC can make to large clients, bitcoin processors can do, too. Only more, because an average bitcoin order is inherently cheaper.

Fraud is as applicable to credit cards as to bitcoin

Absolutely, but there's obviously different levels of security. e.g. say I tell you 'let's move from checks to creditcards, it's much safer'. It'd be pretty silly to say 'no, creditcards also have fraud'. Yes, but checks are worse. Why? Due to its inherent design.

The inherent design of creditcards (1950s technology, by the way) is writing all the security details (i.e. your money-vault password) on a plastic card. And handing over that information to anyone you're paying, and then they can (and often do) keep that information on file.

Imagine you want to pay with cash at a supermarket and have to hand over your wallet to the company. And when you're done paying and leave, they still have access to your wallet for years.

It's a security nightmare. Bitcoin is different in that you don't send access to your money to a business, you just send money. It's by design more secure.

That's not to say the bitcoin ecosystem is a secure paradise, far from it. But I do truly believe that bitcoin's properties allow an ecosystem with less fraud. Things like multi-sig can create (in fact, already exist) third-party custodians who have no exclusive access to your money and just act as a signing counterparty, for example.

Chargebacks are an interesting topic that I'd be willing to talk about more if you want to know. But it's not a key issue. If it does turn out that chargebacks are wanted by customers, they can be built into the bitcoin ecosystem through third parties like today, keeping all the other benefits of bitcoin. But more importantly, chargebacks as they exist today are pretty shitty, invite fraud, create huge costs, paid for by the customer, and are barely needed. If you want to know the arguments, let me know I'll write them up for you, wall o text already.

yet better systems are emerging to solve those problems (Ripple, Stellar, Ether)

I disagree on the point of remittance, but I'm keeping an eye out for sure! These three are definitely exciting. All three projects by the way see themselves co-existing with bitcoin, check out the bitcoin talks by the CEO of stripe who launched Stellar, but you're probably familiar already.
I apologize for my tone! You made a totally reasonable assumption, but LCDs don't work that way.

A 120hz LCD always refreshes at 120hz, essentially[1]. But it can easily display 60hz content - it just display each frame twice in a row. Same with 30hz (display each frame four times in a row) or even 24hz (display each frame five times in a row) content.

But suppose you were, say, trying to display 119hz content on a 120hz monitor. You'd have to display the first 118 frames for one LCD refresh interval, and then display the 118th frame for two intervals, which causes judder. Or you could blend all of the frames together and simulate a 120hz source (this is "pulldown").

But I see no inherent reason why a 30Hz display cannot also
refresh at 24Hz, especially when the 30Hz limitation seems to
be due to the display connector's bandwidth.

If Dell's 5K monitor has a 120hz refresh rate, it could indeed display 24p content smoothly because, as you say, the display connector's bandwidth would be sufficient.

But Dell's 5K monitor almost certainly is a 60hz panel (else they would have trumpeted the fact that it was 120hz!) and 60hz isn't evenly divisible by 24, so you get judder or have to do pulldown.

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[1] nVidia's Gsync is one possible solution
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7582/nvidia-gsync-review
I still think you are interpreting the statement as being far more condescending than it possibly is. You didn't mention it, it seemed relevant, so someone pointed it out, assumed you didn't know about it because you didn't mention it, and suggested you look it up.

I read it as trying to be informative, not condescending. More than a few upvotes on my response leads me to believe others interpreted it similarly. Maybe the subject is charged enough for you to create a bias for how you interpreted the response?
If you want a real surprise as to Tomahawk's design, grab a recent nightly. Looks fantastic now.

Also, an Android app for Tomahawk is in the works!
Ask HN: How to deal with scroll wheel RSI?
I've been getting more and more RSI in my middle finger on my mouse hand and I'm fairly confident that it's down to using the scroll wheel (including autoscroll). I'm wondering whether anyone has any ideas to alleviate the pain - e.g. a mouse with some alternative scroll mechanism that I haven't considered.

Any suggestions?
Because it was seen as easier to use X.509 (aka a certificate) as a delivery of a Trust Anchor (specifically, a "subject name" and "public key" pair) than to invent yet another storage format.

Certificate verification stops when you encounter a TA. Some libraries do the wrong thing and check that the terminal cert is self-signed, but that's not actually required (nor recommended). You just check that the previous cert is signed by the TA, which involves checking the previous cert's signature (aka the intermediate) with the trust anchor's key.

That's why the trust anchor's signature is irrelevant.

See RFC 6024 for a discussion of terminology and concepts.
The effectiveness of the relationship between investors and startups in SV is built on upon being upstanding and not being overly manipulative. Founder/Investor agreements that are born from the manipulation of unexperienced founders always should be EXPECTED to turn out badly.

There's a child-like expectation that once the deal is signed or agreement is made that it's over. It never is, that's just the beginning. If you're expecting that everything is finalized as soon as an agreement is made, regardless of the conditions, then you're simply bad at business and taking risks that you haven't yet realized.

(Of course this isn't true in Europe. They love taking contracts extremely literally, and their economies suffer enormously for it.)
I'm genuinely not understanding this. Taxing "income" and "cash spending" is the same (at least, where I am taxed).

If I am a business and have earned $1000, keeping it in the bank is exactly the same as if I withdrew that $1000 and put it under the bed in $20 notes. I pay tax on that $1000. I can give it to Watsi, who is outside of my country's tax jurisdiction, and I must pay tax on that $1000.
That tends to happen with housing, meaning people cant move but prices do not appear to fall.

(In the US you don't end up with a debt to the bank if the value is less than the loan, but thats not the case in the rest of the world)
This is great idea! :-)

Am I the only one that looks at some of these graphs and thinks OMG THE BLOAT! and runs in the opposite direction? These days with a lot of app dev the deps go deep and a tool like this draws a very informative picture.
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