johndbeatty
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not so sure Postman's view of ChatGPT would have been entirely negative. One thing he might have liked -- perhaps very much -- is that the medium is linear, rational, and conversational. Compared to watching the "peek-a-boo world" news shows on TV he decried, having long, deep conversations on some topic of interest with ChatGPT looks quite good indeed. I'm pretty sure he would not have liked the reliance on technology, however.
Comment · 4 years ago
I wanted something like this as well, and I have a prototype of something much simpler (using node2vec to generate embeddings using data from Wikidata and DBpedia (and Twitter)). It doesn't really do what you want, but you might find it interesting.
Rousseau: https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c Amour de soi: https://pov.is/e/82e9f674-ebbf-4c36-b225-ec1653ce3367
You can go backwards and forwards in time using by-year view (though missing data in Wikidata makes this a bit difficult): https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c?i=Q5&o...
Comment · 6 years ago
Note that the Environmental Defense Fund is planning to launch MethaneSAT in 2022 to monitor methane emissions. Data will be open. https://www.edf.org/climate/space-technology-can-cut-climate...
Comment · 8 years ago
Agree the people and process side is very difficult to do well. Familiar with all those and more -- we have extremely good, dedicated employees who care deeply about doing those things right.
We have some fun stories on this topic, like when we were using our PCI PIN approved secure room in our development office for the first time. We papered over the cage to prevent a security camera from being able to see employees entering PINs on the HSM. An eager employee papered over this cage a little too well cutting off the natural flow of air. And then there was a bug in our offline CA code and we spent 30 minutes in that air deprived cage while debugging occured :) finally the bug was fixed, we issued the cert on our first production device, and stepped out to get a breath of fresh air. Obviously this isn't our daily driver secure CA room :)
(If anyone reading is looking for a job in security engineering, we're hiring! https://www.clover.com/careers/engineering)
Comment · 8 years ago
Clover CEO here. Won't comment on a competing device but this may not work the way you think. In Clover's approach the touch controller input isn't reaching the Application Processor running Android when in PIN entry mode. You can do patent search if you're interested.
Comment · 9 years ago
Clover has had an offline feature for payments on all our devices (except our dongle/peripheral solution). It's very heavily used -- thanks to flakey ISPs, routers, WiFi, cellular, etc. We often see people go for a day or two offline.
We let you set limits on count/amount/time of offline transactions. After you come back online we send email a report telling you how many offline transactions you did and how many authorized and didn't authorize. This serves as a feedback loop to encourage fixing connectivity issues.
Comment · 9 years ago
Note this is in Canada -- unfortunately there's still a lot of Offline Plaintext PIN cards there. See CreditCall's blog on the subject: https://www.level2kernel.com/blog/2012/02/sda-and-plaintext-...
Comment · 11 years ago
It's complicated. U.S. EMV credit is (virtually) all chip and signature. Debit is split between PIN and signature. US Debit Common AID is Online PIN, but you can legally do PIN bypass ("no cvm") or even fall back (or have user select) the card brand's application on the card (instead of the US Debit Common AID), in which case for Visa it will be signature and for Mastercard it will be online PIN. Politics and posturing.
Former technical co-founder and CEO of Clover. Also former: EIR, Sutter Hill Ventures; Engineer, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, Bix (acquired by Yahoo), and Yahoo.