patrickfl's comments

very thorough article - I've always wanted to know how these worked. I had no idea that many of them used Bluetooth / serial etc.

One revision to the post I'd like to see - I'd love to see a section on how they attach to the actual reader. I know they mentioned MitM attacks, but do these readers fit over the top of the skimmer? underneath? behind the entire skimmer? are the visible from the pump itself?

fascinating - can you still use the backend wp-admin? I've experimented with generating static HTML files with WordPress in the past, but the code has always came out a tad sloppy. This looks really cool, I might be interested in a trial.

edit: nevermind, found this:

https://www.hardypress.com/how-it-works/

again, really fascinating. has it been shown to reduce load times? Can I still minify my own CSS and JS, and "combine external resources?"

is their a public facing demo available?

very interesting - been thinking about something like this for an upcoming project. one suggestion, work on the copy on the homepage. I'll admit I was a tad confused by some of the wording, particularly the main heading.

This is getting crazy! One thing I love about the microSD market is it (pretty much) eliminates the need to upgrade your iphone to the 128/256/512 version and pay $xxx extra when you can just keep one of these puppies, and even take it with you to your next upgrade, or swap to Android etc.

Excellent - I'm a big fan of GitBook and have been using it for my main project. So far, so good. Would maybe be willing to beta test this but I'm afraid I only use basic functions, no Latex etc support.

SEEKING SUGGESTIONS

I'm about to launch a side project / hobby site (mainly JSON-LD, open source) and could really use a second set of eyes. Just need someone good with JSON-LD, DOM, HTML/CSS, maybe Javascript.

My email is my HN username @ gmail.com

I've been looking for this for a long time. I found a website recently that does this, but it isn't an app / interactive you have to find what you are looking for. Will definitely recommend this to my non-political friends who care about the country but don't have time to research.

I think video cards would be really sweet, the gamer community would go nuts over that.

If I could give a standing ovation for this product right now I would. This is exactly what customers are looking for and is a very forward thinking mentality. I would use this, and recommend this, and I could see users loving this.

I do a lot of casual hybrid biking (road / light trails) we have a lot of farms around my house so thats a lot of fun.

Also some light woodworking which is always fun. Building a lot of stuff out of re-claimed wood, pallets etc its a lot of fun.

Mostly computers are my job and my hobby. When I'm not working on mar-tech stuff I like to build PCs, electronics, etc. Right now I'm testing all the USB cables in my house to see which ones are crap.

But most of all when I'm not working I like to hang out with my 4 year old son :) I'm teaching him computers, programming, handyman stuff, riding his bike (just took off training wheels).

Been hanging here in Firefox now for about 5-10 minutes its a receipt for my insurance (no private info) about 2 pages in length.

Either way, super cool idea. My Dad will be stoked about this as he's been OCR'ing his way into oblivion for the past few years.

One of my favorite blogs without a doubt, been reading your onboards since the beginning.

Just curious, I've been through the documentation a few times. Is there any kind of special sitemap we are going to have to do for each page. For instance lets say we have:

http://www.example.com/normal-page.html

and AMP enabled:

htpp://www.example.com/normal-page.html?ampenabled=1

I realize a lot of people are going to do this with dynamic URLs or plugins, will Google just crawl these on their own?

Also does anyone have any ideas for menus in AMP pages? SO far all the solutions I've seen don't have menus. I'd hate to see all this extra traffic and no way for visitors to browse other pages.

I thought this post would be relevant since this seems to be an active discussion on here today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10729464

Aaron is also one of my favorite bloggers in this space, if you are into structured data / search etc you should def check his website out.

Wow amazing post, did not have a chance to read yet but this is definitely "print worthy" material. What I mean by that is when I run across really good posts, I print them so I can read on paper outside etc.

Anyway, I did a skim and found this excerpt:

"You should write about information."

And can really relate to that. I've been blogging for about 7 years now, mostly failing but the last year I've had a few big "hits" even one here on HN.

Almost every one of my blogging successes were data driven. What I mean by success is they went viral on their own without any artificial boosting other than basic sharing with my followers.

For anyone here looking for a really good, free,self-hosted, hackable, open source alternative to Google Analytics that's been around for a long time, please consider Piwik.org.

I've been using it for prob 8-10 years and it has never missed a beat. I use it on all my personal / business sites as well as some client websites that are super high traffic.

Could it be possible that it is Lyft affiliates that are doing this on their own for affiliate commissions? Not saying it is right, but at least it isn't a marketing strategy from the central office.

I wonder why they aren't at least doing some crafty Photoshop and merging images of 2 different people to create a unique persona. There was a guy here on HN that did that a few years back it was a pretty popular post.

Possibly even worse than Lyft spam are infinite scrolling websites such as these. Ctrl +A? I don't think so. How do you tell where the article ends? I was in "skimming mode" and 1/2 way down the page before I realized I was reading another article.

Maybe for people just looking to do plain text / fonts that can't do design in illustrator / CAD make a text box?

Also interested in sample pricing, would also like to see some sample designs. This would be really cool to do logos for doors etc at engineering and design firms.

When I first saw this post I thought (Amazon.com) came out with a new product called "rainforest."

Anyway, so did the natives breed with the Europeans when they "wiped them out" or did the native people migrate to another part of the continent?