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WRONG. It is part of the new EMVco standard, but has NOT been implemented anywhere but Apple Pay at this time. There was years of prep with the banks and Apple to get this initial implementation.
I wonder what is driving this all, I don't really think it is the EU, or even immigration. Those sound more like just the issues of the day, not political paradigm movers.

The reality is that Europe has been in a state of ideological vacuum for a while. The hard right (including most dramatically fascism) really failed between 60-40 years ago as a movement. The hard left failed 25-35 years ago as a viable movement. The old left-right paradigm continued. In many places it's been centrist policies combined with left wing rhetoric. How long can that be the paradigm?

All that's left is the reality that governing bodies, parties and paradigms have been under fire for 5 years now. Political populism and dissidence sells. All that's left is to find a rhetoric that appeals to young, radical or reactionary pockets of political capital.

To me, one of the important takeaways from marxism/socialism is that forces of political stability and instability dictate history to a large degree. I'm very far from Marx on his determinism, but I agree with the broad brush idea. If the current paradigm is both unsustainable and unchangeable, pressure will mount. Technology is a force that Marx never truly reckoned with, but it contributes to the process. If people don't benefit from the system or suspect they could benefit more from some other system, they'll try to kill the old system.

UKIP make almost as much effort to recruit from the hard left as they do from the hard right.
I don't think "a bit of a stretch" quite captures the exaggeration. It is, in fact, a huge ridiculous stretch that should offend anyone who knows what slavery actually is. It's not even in the same ballpark as conscription. (I recognize, though, that you appear not to entirely buy this terminology yourself, which is admirable. The anarcho-capitalist community could use a few more people who think critically and take language seriously.)

In cases like this the government does not compel anyone to do anything. Rather, it permits them to engage in a particular line of business on the condition that it does so in a way that attempts to re-internalize what would otherwise be a host of harmful externalities.
> As far as I remember though, the "breach" was not on Apple's part but on the victims who chose weak passwords; can we blame Apple for this? Except maybe for a lack of forceful education?

In this case I guess we can blame Apple only for the "lack of forceful education"/crappy security ideas (security questions in 21th century, really?).

There is one funny thing about the Fappening - there was this movie[0] released few months ago, that featured a couple making a sex tape that ends up accidentally distributed to their extended families and friends thanks to iPads and cloud backup. The best line from the trailer:

- It went up! It went up to the cloud!
- And you can't get it down from the cloud?
- NOBODY UNDERSTANDS THE CLOUD! It's a fucking mystery!

Call it a prophecy.

[0] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1956620/
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>>“Everything we do, we do for the next generation,” he said, and added, “No matter what, it beats sitting around in the village.”

Being from a small town in an impoverished area of the US, I can somewhat relate to that sentiment. Very interesting story. The author paints a very stark picture about restaurant workers from China. The subject of the story, who spoke the quote above, makes more than I would have supposed.
Also, it's easier for them to get more speculative work because the cost of failure is lower.
That's correct. These APIs are some of the many services you can attach to your applications within BlueMix.
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"they're bad for consumers and the economy as a whole."

I read the book. He argues monopolies are good for consumers and economy as well. When companies have so much returns that they don't know what to do with it, the good ones will invest the money in R&D which in return is good for everyone.
This reminds me of so many times doing ad-hoc manual ETL with co-workers, e-mailing back and forth files with names like "accounts-final.csv", "accounts-really-final.csv", "accounts-this-is-the-last-one-for-sure.csv", and inevitably descending into obscenity.
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I suspect channel names would be much more damaging than team names. This isn't really a big deal as long as people know it's out there.
Flake.com even? Loved fuckedcompany, man.
Suppose we postulate that exploiting a security flaw is wrong, and money obtained by doing so should be forfeit.

The entire business of casinos is exploiting a security flaw in the human mind. By hypothesis, the casinos' money should be forfeit, so they have no moral grounds for trying to get it back from the people who found a way to take some of it.

Conversely, if we backtrack and cancel our postulate, then there is no basis for a claim against a gambler who exploits the software.
Can we please keep this us vs them bullshit off HN?
The linked blog, whether you agree with it or not, keeps a reasonably neutral tone throughout (even if the author's frustration is obvious).

Agreeing with it does not automatically make someone a misogynist, and criticizing a moderator does not automatically make someone an awful person.
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I'd argue that personality traits cluster, so that someone who frequents a fappenings-subreddit is way more likely to doxx your users, troll or cause other disturbances than people who don't.

And of course, junk traffic breeds more junk traffic. Even if the first generation of a shady subreddit might make this up with quality in other parts of your site, it will invariably attract generation 2 and later which will create a mini-eternal September.
Cool video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo67iTY1Yf8
The solution is to use a name that will never get pass legal, like a trademark of another company.

That's what Sun did with Swing, which was originally called Kentucky Fried Chicken[0] internally.

[0] https://blogs.oracle.com/thejavatutorials/entry/why_is_swing...
Occupy Central does not seem to be so well loved
Thanks! I did not know that.

I usually prefer to err on the side of being too specific. :)
I'm already using this and I'm loving it
What conversations are being leaked? It's a list of team names.
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Julia style string literal interpolation in R
Original Post: http://www.econometricsbysimulation.com/2014/10/julia-style-string-literal.html
I would ascribe it to a different form of bad management. Lets say you have 10 first class applications graduated for every first class level job. There are immense value judgments to be made, but from a lazy manager perspective its much less psychically painful to just reward the guy who works the longest hours or has the worst stockholm syndrome (as this guy clearly has, because someone's getting a reward for his excessive work and it isn't him...)

Things are always going to get weird when the supply is too large compared to the demand.

If the average PHD creates 4 new PHDs in his lifetime, then all four are in deep trouble unless three extra jobs are created for them to sit in. What, you say the number of jobs is shrinking? Whoops. Life's going to suck for all four.
Looks interesting. Seems like it sells at $2.5 a piece at the cheapest, hopefully retails at a lower price. The design is creative and sleek. However, how do I know which size is for my device?

Wondering if it will triumph over the ease of a piece of tape for the average consumer.
Where's prompt?

Also, I suggest optionally only blocking a portion of the DOM and centering over it. This would allow a component to lock without locking the application.
Original Post: http://www.econometricsbysimulation.com/2014/10/julia-style-...
Thanks for sharing, did not know. Of course, aware'ing everyone on IDA Hex-Rays on this thread too:
http://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/
Polish as a language is more similar to other languages than Finnish or Farsi. Basically, it's easier to detect Farsi and Finnish because they're more distinct and in smaller language families than Polish, which is similar to many slavic languages.
Found it quickly on https://hn.algolia.com/ it was a thread titled "Steve Jobs - To All iPhone Customers" and here is the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=51226#up_51333

But I agree, I read some of the worst comments and would be nice to get a link to the discussion for each of these to get some contexts!
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Awesome idea! I wonder if they could add MIDI I/O
amazing job !
See my response to philbarr above about a retail partner. Here is another example related to recruitment. Often we have a need to hire that we identify with another model employee (e.g. wouldnt it be great, if I had a dev like John from TeamX). With the User Modeling service, we had a Hackathon team create a beautiful app where you can ask questions like these and comparing the characteristics of candidates to John, it can find similar matches (of course done in the context of matching skills)
I would suggest placing the question of whether or not my internet connection works in the hands of my ISP. I had a similar situation when I used a Linksys router; if Linksys had any problems at all with their cloud overhead infrastructure, my internet connection died.

All I need for my internet connection to work is my ISP's infrastructure; I want my router to work without phoning home to some bloatware belonging to its manufacturer.

Apologies; please don't down vote me for this opinion.
It seems like work because it's done at work. An aspect of an academic job is that once you've done your 40 hours, you are free to use your employer's facilities, which include physical infrastructure but also library access, and the "branding" of the university to promote yourself. This is what provides that extra utility.

A line cook at McDonald's, if faced with what to do after putting in 40 hours, could at most make more burgers. Many white collar workers are restricted by things like confidentiality and conflict of interest rules.

Many of us get our super utility out of hours 41-60 by having a side business at home.
the important change being and update to digestive enzymes to further break down carbohydrates and proteins. they also lowered sucralose levels to give users more control over flavoring.
I find perf a very useful tool, and use it frequently.

At the same time, I don't see how your data supports your conclusion that perf is more effective than cachegrind here. The absolute cycle count is of limited interest. The most important thing these tools do is tell programmers where to look, and cachegrind seems to have done a good job of that here.

In my experience, perf and cachegrind are two tools in the toolbox. perf is stronger at optimizing for the particular CPU I'm on, and it runs faster. Cachegrind collects more detailed information, and while the model it uses isn't perfect for the CPU I'm on today, it's usually good enough to be useful, and it's good for optimizing things likely to matter on other CPUs too.
Slack is super dogfood in the sense that it was built and used internally while building another product, and only productized when the original idea failed (like the founder's previous project Flickr).
So what's the likelihood that we'll see this optimization make it into PostgreSQL core?

That would be an amazing performance improvement.
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I wonder what Peter Thiel's take is on the role of open source in building a monopoly?
I've never seen one of those gift cards in plastic forms. This seems indeed to be very american ;) Every gift card I ever got or bought was just a piece of paper. And my only store loyalty cards are actually from the US (although they exist here as well).
Congrats to the ducks team!! They did an amazing job
IMCS [1] already uses SIMD vector instructions.

[1] http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/322_IMCS.pdf
completely forgot about extropians and cypherpunks which I used to frequent.
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What's Ducksboard?

Think like the Panic dashboard but reconfigurable with as many data sources as Zapier supports APIs.
Depending on the group names, it could reveal product features or business activities these companies expected to remain confidential.
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One challenge with trying to expose these kinds of services via an API is that much of their utility emerges from a building a model around data of interest. In order to efficiently build a customized capability, one would have to upload potentially large amounts of data to an engine for processing. As a general information service, you ask a question in text, and get an answer in text.
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You should've asked Watson. Then you would have learned the truth: dmr is 's wear daily.
Assembler! /thread #rekt #kidsthesedays
When I ask what happens if they disagree, Gates says, "Satya runs the company, so he gets to decide." He says that he has learned from his experience with Ballmer, and from running his foundation, that he does "not have the full picture. So I get to give input. And if I say to Satya, 'Hey, this project needs 10 or 15 people,' I'll bet I'll get it, but it's up to him."

I bet he'll get it too ;)
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No, it couldn't actually.

A key aspect of Apple's NS* and UI* frameworks are various patterns that rely on dynamic dispatch (via 'id') as well as run-time reflection and discovery, something that is close to impossible in a super-static language like C++, which eschews most of those features.

C++ puts performance above all else, Obj-C values productivity as well.

As someone who likes C/Obj-C but absolutely despises C++ and everything to do with it, I count my blessings that Apple didn't choose the C++ route.
That's what ASP.net ViewState does more or less. There's a lot of overhead and little gain IMO. I think it's best to transfer as little state as possible across the wire for simplicity.
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I know situation fairly well, my wife works in marine research. Organization with 150 people has 10 HR persons. There are no money to fund research, everything went into fancy office. McDonalds stuff are paid better than lab assistants...

My point is that people at such position can best serve science, if they funnel some money into actual research. There are many researchers, but qualified administrators who actually cares, are very rare.
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I think that there are programs dedicated to each idea. Some programs are dedicated to teaching basic programming literacy that everyone should know, while some are designed more as career training programs—often aimed at demographics that are underrepresented in the field.
meh.. there is nothing like classical alert in the universe! <3
While I understand how disclosing group names of customers is a bad idea, everyone here jumping on how serious of a security vulnerability this is is missing the fact that it is a feature, not a bug. It's not disclosing anything that was ever intended by the Slack UX designers to be undisclosed, they clearly thought about it and decided to make this tradeoff. This is arguably bad judgement, but it's far from the gross incompetence and negligence that most comments here seem to be frothing at the mouth to proclaim. These are group names, not any internal communication or private data. In a world of Shellshocks and 8-figure credit card thefts direct from PoS systems, there is simply no way this qualifies as a "serious security vulnerability".
Exactly. That's also one of my biggest gripes with yc - Dont be an asshole. If I want to be an asshole, that's my god given right. I say things how I see them and am under no obligation to sugar coat my words. Sorry the chemicals in your brain are signaling discomfort, but that's your job to suit up not mine.
and now it's fixed.
Obligatory Show HN where we first showed Ducksboard to the world (1301 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332464

Thanks for all the feedback and interest we got from the community through all those years and just because we now work at New Relic doesn't mean we'll stop procrastinating on HN!
Am I simply not awake yet this morning or are you more or less describing sessions?
see www.theeuroprobe.org 2012-016 What is Left Wing, Right Wing and Centre in UK politics?
Perhaps what might also be a nice idea is offering something similar to startups from developing countries.

I'd imagine most students in the west are comparatively very rich.
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Let's call it Emma Watson then.
His depth and insight into the industry is fascinating. Here are 32 Peter Thiel quotes from the lecture that I took note of - https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/32-quotes-from-pet...
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Thanks for the clarification. I wonder if the word "wiki" might not work against you though. In my experience people's idea of a wiki is fixed on something from a decade ago. They often react with outright revulsion to the word (though granted most terms in our field such as "portal" and "CMS" have also been abused). But there have been so many examples of "wikis" that turn into woolly messes or are too technical for 'ordinary' uses to want to commit to so fail in their goal of being open for anyone. Without the traction of a Wikipedia style site I would think you might be better off using another word.
That's a pretty awesome success story. I like how the process seems quite doable without any uncommon facts. Will definitely take this into account for my future businesses.
Tone is no excuse and if you agree with awful stuff, well that’s on you. Communities wanting to keep such people out is an awesome policy.
That's why you give it a nonsense name. Windows XP was codenamed 'Whistler'. Nobody calls it Whistler (except when reminiscing about the warez scene). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_name
Thanks to your app, TIL about Firebase. Really neat service. Currently the way id do it in ASP.NET using SignalR, but this could finally take two large chunks out of my stack. Especially the auth chunk.

I would miss Entity Framework and Web API 2 though.
I think the board of supes missed an incredible opportunity here to enforce code. One problem with many of SF's downstairs "in-law" units, in my opinion, is that they are almost always built without permits and in violation of building codes. This can be a big deal - having done a downstairs remodel recently with proper permits, I know the expense but also the value of licensed electrical and plumbing work, proper structural engineering, and firewalls to prevent the inferno that results from faulty wiring from spreading to the bedroom next door. My take on it is this -the government has the right to inspect hotel rooms. I'd say if you want to list your home on airbnb and turn it into a commercial property, you probably should have to accept that the govt will enforce proper safety, environmental, and structural regulations like it would for a hotel room, without the same privacy issues we'd extend to someone's home.
> I think that your benchmarks are a bit off: instead of comparing 5to6 with Traceur + Runtime, you should compare 5to6 + <polyfills> versus Traceur + Runtime (or 5to6 vs vanilla Traceur).

The only polyfill that is required is Symbol/Symbol.iterator and that's only required if you use a for-of loop. I included the runtimes in the stats specifically to show the disadvantages to having them. I agree with you that it is slightly off and I'll work to improve it.

> Same, the Op/Sec doesn't tell us much about how much time is actually required to compile a significant codebase.

I struggled to find a significant ES6 codebase to test against. If you know of one please let me know!

> Anyway, I really like these projects (especially since I'm working on an ES6 library), so good luck ! Is it possible to live-compile ES6 scripts, like with Traceur + ES6-Module-Loader ?

I'm not familiar with that behaviour. Do you mean automatically watching and compiling on changes?

> Finally, I note that 5to6 doesn't use ES6 itself (when the Traceur build process self-compile, for example).

I may move to bootstrapping eventually although it seems like a hassle when I'm more than complacent to just write ES5.
> So you're suggestion that instead, in the name of safety, we should create an environment that is ridiculously hostile to large numbers of people (banning them) to make sure they can't express their opinions?

If their opinion is "You should die you stupid fucking cunt" or "I'm going to find you and rape you and then kill you" then yes, ban those people.

"I'd do a lot worse than rape you. I've just got out of prison and would happily do more time to see you berried [sic]. #10feetunder."

"I will find you, and you don't want to know what I will do when I do. You're pathetic. Kill yourself. Before I do. #Godie."

I find it fucking baffling that you chose to defend those people, the people saying stuff like that, at the cost of their victims.

Caroline Criado Perez was not complaining about one or two people sending a few dozens of messages that were a bit mean. She was inundated with thousands of messages, from many people, threatening sexual violence and death. One man was sending 50 messages per hour, over about 12 hours. Another woman sent hundreds of messages. Perez's "crime"? She campaigned to have a woman on British banknotes after the Bank of England phased out Elizabeth Fry on the £5 - leaving no women on the banknotes.

I would be proud to ban those people from any service I ran.
That's why we need to found a team.
Agreed. Just looking for that word!
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Can't tell if you are joking or not.

The reset mechanism for an hourglass is intuitive and gives very clear feedback on whether or not the operation suceeded
There was a moderator who turned out to be a convicted child molester (Aatrek), and it seems they knew prior, but didn't actually take action to remove him until it became general knowledge among forum members.
> If it was just a question of salary/prestige, I think taking a lower-salary job with more research time would be appealing to many people.

My experience is that it's not necessary the case. Even when such jobs exist ("low-salary" permanent research positions that may exist in some european countries for instance), a lot of people still prefer to take a professor position at some point.

Also, passed a certain age, some researchers find themselves less productive research-wise and want to do other things.
That appears to be discussing the problem of free will, while assuming that you already know what the problem is, and more importantly what "free will" means. My problem is that I don't know what the very concept of "free will" is, completely separate from questions of whether humans actually have it or how.
Personally, I would be ok with a system I am responsible for giving the client a signed or encrypted token. I would not trust many (any?) crypto systems to have signed/encrypted arbitrary code passed to me from an untreated client.