My first development gig in high school was at the NHMFL working with the photo microscopy guys on various projects. It was a great experience that got my development career rolling. This was the mid/late 90's. We went from developing hyper card stacks to OSHA training educational tools and testing in HTML/perl. Good times.
I suspect we met at some point. My friend and I got busted rooting the server at the gifted school (ARC) in ‘97, but instead of calling an authority, the teacher called Mike and we spent the next two years or so playing with SATAN/SANTA, learning Perl and C++, and experimenting with 3D graphics in Java. I can draw a straight line from Logo Writer, through the mag lab, and to my current job.
I just shut down a VB6 app that had been running since 1998 at the company I work for last month. The leadership team finally decided they didn't want to sell that particular feature anymore. We still have a handful of apps from around that time period that do various small tasks. One day it will be a priority to get rid of them.
Authorize.Net is what we've used for online payments and our internal subscription processing for over a decade. API is easy to use. Never really had any downtime. Rates are competitive. No one has come along and given us much of a reason to change.
Have they added support for the Visa stored credential framework [1]?
Last I saw on their forums, a few months ago, a few people has asked about it but Authorize.Net didn't have anything yet. (Support has been kind of spotty in general among payment processors [2]).
I was going to check their forums again to see if anything has changed, but the forum link on their developer site is giving me a 404 right not.
They could really use someone who gives a damn to focus on their official libraries. They seem to have tried to make them function similar no matter which language you use. Not the smartest move, they end up being sort of convoluted in languages like Python. Which lead to many people starting a client library, but probably moving on from using them and the libs go unmaintained.
That brings me back. I remember Authorize.net before there was the ActiveMerchant gem (ruby).
Have you used Stripe as well? Authorize.net always got the job done. Then Stripe came along. I was honestly surprised of its success at the time. It was mainly just more of a joy to use - not cheaper or much easier. Just 'fun' as I remember it.
At this point if anyone in your family (including cousins) submit dna to one of those sites, they can use it to track it back to you with basic sleuthing skills. They've solved a handful of cold cases this way.
I am tired of people calling me a "victim" of identity theft. I'm not the victim. The companies and government agencies that allowed themselves to be defrauded by someone posing as me are the victims. If you didn't do your due diligence in properly verifying the identity of the person you handed out cash, goods or services too it's on you.
That being said, the entire system is broken. I've had 5 cellphones taken out in my name, I've had multiple credit cards opened using my social security number. I've been interviewed by a special agent with the State Department because someone tried to get a passport using my data. I'm sick of dealing with other peoples fraud problems. Fix it already!
> I am tired of people calling me a "victim" of identity theft. I'm not the victim.
Usually, the person whose identity is stolen is the victin.
> The companies and government agencies that allowed themselves to be defrauded by someone posing as me are the victims.
They are also victims, but until you—often at considerable personal effort—have gotten all the debts and other bad marks by the fraudster dissociated from your identity, you are disadvantaged by it, and if you are disadvantaged or have had to pay a cost to escape that disadvantage, you are a victim, too.
> They are also victims, but until you—often at considerable personal effort—have gotten all the debts and other bad marks by the fraudster dissociated from your identity, you are disadvantaged by it, and if you are disadvantaged or have had to pay a cost to escape that disadvantage, you are a victim, too.
You seem to be misunderstanding the point badly--the situation you have described is nonsense.
Firstly, what do we mean by "having your identity stolen"? I submit that this is not an attack on me as a person, it is an attack on a fictional representation of me held by a conglomerate of corporations.
This is the point of OP: I am not involved in these transactions! I haven't committed a crime, purchased anything, or interacted with either the party who has defrauded this conglomerate nor this conglomerate. In fact, due to the way this information is collected and stored, I may not have ever had any direct relationship to either party.
So what's happened here is that a conglomerate of companies have been defrauded and now insist that I am to make amends for it. It's nonsensical, and no amount of repeating the facts of the current situation will make it anything but ridiculous.
Good to know. Concurrent crises also F everything on paper without fam wealth, up but are less common and probably not considered. 800 credit until that, as we start talking about block chain of course. May we always be unchained in these matters, or use a chain model that rolls off old data and keeps an initial value aggregate of old data on the effective block0/genesis or so.
TIL that eggdrop is still being developed / maintained.. I had a few bots running around EFNet and Undernet in ~96. Hadn't heard this reference in years.
I am using PhantomJS for a similar project running on AWS Lambda - running into all sorts of rendering bugs / crashes. Wanted to make the switch to puppeteer, but as of now it requires a higher version of NodeJS than what Lambda supports. Was in the process of looking at Docker containers for my service, anyone have any thoughts on Heroku vs Docker?
Hey, I'd love to talk to you more about your issues with getting over to puppeteer. I'm working on a product that separates application infrastructure from Chrome as it's nightmare to try and scale with.
Friendly reminder that building a wall isn't going to keep blue collar jobs around. Automation is going to kill them much quicker than immigrants will.
First, this kind of post will get you banned from HN if you do it repeatedly, so please don't.
Second, would you please not use HN for political or ideological battle? You appear to have been doing that repeatedly and it's not what this site is for.
The top level comment I replied to went on the political discourse and I just carried on from there. Did he get a warning as well?
Personally I'd be happy to have less political HN. But as long as there're top level political comments.. It's too hard to resist :) I believe mods could easily mega-downvote such comments. Yet particular comment I replied to seem to be upvoted?
As for my later comment, are jokes not allowed on HN anymore? I got grammar-nazi'd, I replied back with a matching joke.
I've been using MotionEyeOS for several months now. I setup a a couple of Pi3's with some cheap Logitech USB webcams. Works great from inside the house - I used velcro to tape the cameras pointing out from various windows around the house and in the garage.
Hey, I've recently been working on a similar project [1] to setup cameras on Pis with cheap USB webcams. However, I had repeated issues with Logitech cams causing the Pis to crash. Thanks for this link to MotionEyeOs, I'm going to see if this allows me to get some use from those cameras as well. (I had fallen back to using some HP and generic USB cameras).
Regarding your quest for a camera that will work outside and has night vision, I mention it in my little write-up, but an amazon search for "elp dome camera" should turn up a handful of USB webcams with IR illumination and an outdoor enclosure. I've had one on my outdoor balcony for about 6 weeks now without issue.
Sure, but you can't do that if you're a web page. This is about a malicious app or website listening to the accelerometer and gyro to determine what the user is typing on the keyboard into a separate app.
This is why I chose one that doubles back on itself in a non-obvious way. I've tested it by trying to teach people the password, it usually takes them quite a while to learn it, even when I do it really, really slowly and give them lots of tries
Last time I used this on Android, there were 9 points but I couldn't use any one more than once. You can double back in a very limited way, but the more complex patterns I wanted to use were impossible.
I'm sure there's more written on this, but most patterns I've seen are just way too short. And hug the outer edge, are in-order, etc.
