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An anecdotal example of my own: I was 'playing close to $0' and my bank (BofA) was clearly manipulating the order of my transactions to maximize overdraft fees [1].

After fruitlessly disputing the fees, I simply opened an account elsewhere and changed my direct deposit through my employer, leaving my BofA account in the red. After about two months without issue, my new bank informed me that they would be closing my account because I'd been reported to ChexSystems by BofA and blacklisted. They wouldn't tell me the reason for the blacklisting (though I obviously knew what it was). I was not even allowed to withdraw my existing funds and had to wait for a check to be sent to my home in 7-10 business days.

I ended up getting a TD Ameritrade debit card through a pseudo-checking/brokerage account they offer and have been getting direct deposits there ever since. It was an infuriating and dehumanizing process overall.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/06/11/yes-ba...
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Why isn't buying a subsidized ACA policy an option?
But, but, but, ..., we should ask where did the AI software come from? Three guesses, the first two don't count, and the third is, may I have the envelope please,
[drum roll],
and the winner is, humans! So, it's not that AI beat a human. Instead, a human with a machine beat a human without one!
Would it be worth it to try to replace XMPP with something very similar but using a JSON based protocol and clean up its worts in the process?
It might have been once, but at this stage the trust is gone and we’re essentially considering Java a dead technology. The two strategies we’re typically considering for current/new projects are continuing with browser-hosted UIs, hoping that the newer features stabilise within a useful timeframe, or switching to native applications on multiple platforms and dropping the web front-end entirely, which has obvious downsides but now seems worth considering for the more stable run-time environments and much wider choice of languages and libraries.
> Strong, deniable, end-to-end encryption should be mandatory.

Strong end-to-end encryption with perfect forward secrecy should be mandatory. Deniable authentication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_authentication), however, seems like a potentially interesting option but not one that the protocol should mandate. Sometimes you do want authentication that remains valid after the conversation ends, so you can subsequently authenticate the messages in it.
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I suspect that a couple months is too short a time frame to judge this—too prone to sample bias and normal fluctuation. But please keep flagging such comments when you see them. No one can read all the comments posted to HN, but we can and do read all the flagged ones.

In case anyone is wondering, the way you flag a comment is to click its timestamp to go to its page (a speed bump to prevent people from doing it impulsively), and then clicking 'flag' at the top. You need a small amount of karma (currently 31) before that link appears.
Well, if that's a publicity stunt, it totally worked with me. I'll search Newegg before Amazon now.
That's the most innovative idea I've heard of for reducing the impact of cell phone tracking in a long time!
May not be 100% replacement, but JMAP ?
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Unless it is misleading or linkbait, please use the original title on HN. This is in the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can any of the new secure-text-messaging protocols, such as the one used by Signal, work in a federated manner? Many of those protocols currently use a central server; which ones actually require that, and which ones don't?
Thanks for letting us know. Any hand-wavy non-committal indication of how long that might be? Weeks/month, two months/more than three months?
- In the modern world, people are afraid of XML
- 95% of people still don't understand XML namespaces

I guess that's one way of saying that something is too complicated :)
I've never thought it was likely to be an attack, but I always thought it was my responsibility to check why it changed or at the very least confirm it looked the same via a separate network path.
I think the issue of running our own servers would be non-existent if we could run XMPP in inexpensive $5 a month digitalocean servers. It is my biggest drawback for XMPP.
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of patent trolls is that they make all their threats and legal actions through shell companies they can light up and shut down for a few hundred dollars. How much good does it do to go after them? Is Newegg piercing the corporate veil, or are they just trying to invalidate patents?

Aren't there tens of thousands of bad patents? Wouldn't it cost billions to invalidate them all, and by the time you were done there'd just be another ten thousand new ones?

I think what they're doing is great, but I just wish it wasn't so sacrificial. Does it make economic sense for them to do this? As long as it doesn't, the primary focus should be on legislation.
Why spend money on marketing when you could spend that on legal defense and receive an endless stream of good will and positive publicity?

Technically inclined customers are inevitably the ones who sell NewEgg to non-technical users because non-technical users will look to ghe technically inclined for advice when they are out of their depth.

We love the site for it's accurate and in-depth user reviews. We love them for fighting patent trolls and standing up for the little guy trying to build a product. The little guy that many of us aspire to be one day.

Being slightly neurotic and overly-excitable about the technical things we like, we can't help ourselves but to share that info with anybody/everybody within earshot.

Traditional marketing has a deterministic half life dependent on the length of people's attention span; which is growing shorter with every tweet, instagram photo, FB post, etc. That's why it's so damn profitable. The more marketing materials sold, the more marketing materials will be needed to remain competitive.

NewEgg is the 'real deal'. They stand up for the tech community against greedy abusers of legal policy. Whatever goodwill and success they receive as a result of it, they've earned.
That's how an industry being massively disrupted look like!
This is the only other alternative to date I've found that gets those things which I want. It's quite amazing all they're trying to accomplish as it is.
> He's talking about Game of War and Clash of Clans, which are both mobile games. Like another poster has said, games are 75% of the top grossing on the App Store. And absolutely most of Facebook's revenue, if not literally all of it, is mobile gaming ads (especially slot machines).

This is false.

Facebook's revenue in 2015 was $17.9 billion. Total mobile gaming revenue for 2015 was approximately $25 billion [1]. Unless mobile game companies spend most of their revenue on Facebook ads, this can't be true.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/01/15/mobile-console-game-revenues-2...
I think his point though is that the wireless technology itself should make this impossible. The fact that it's not provably secure is problematic, because it's all well and good to say "you're not allowed to" until someone subverts the rules. People break laws all the time, including police
If someone is willing to do this, they are likely to be people who currently are on low incomes and thus unlikely to be paying much tax if any. I think it would have the opposite effect though. In most countries, the welfare system harshly punishes people who do a small amount of work, withdrawing benefit at a very high marginal rate. This is a massive disincentive to finding work. With a basic income, people can for example do voluntary work. People on sickness benefit can gradually try to go back into work, doing a few hours per week. If you can top up your income without being penalised for it I reckon quite a lot of people currently on welfare would start working a little.
In addition to being aligned with business strategy, this is a great recruiting strategy as well.

I'd be giving Newegg a call if I were a patent attorney looking for my next gig.
I don't think even more XEPs will solve the problem that there are already too many incomplete / incompatible clients (and servers).
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I'm not sure what needs fixing. People spend what they earn. What's the big problem?
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Let's hope it doesn't turn into a World Wide Web
The author gave a great talk in the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series. She opens her talk with a delightful story about Marilyn Monroe, and the ability to flip charisma on and off like a light switch. Watch it and learn you some charisma.

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/videos/3005/Build-Your-Personal-...
I'm a fan of Matrix.org and very slowly working on an implementation of the client-server API in Rust[1]. In the process of doing so I'm also doing my best to help them improve and clarify the spec. I'd love to see nice native clients for Matrix implemented for the various major platforms. Right now there is vector.im, but I'm personally not a fan of using a web browser for applications I leave running all the time, like chat.

[1] https://github.com/ruma
However the pull request comments, issues, etc are not versioned in the Git repo, so those could be lost.
But do trust this one, it's fab: http://quoteinvestigator.com. I mean the top post there right now is that "a million deaths is a statistic" traces to Beilby Porteus, a classics scholar from 1759. How can you beat that?

Also, Wikiquote is good as a base.
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It's really easy to. Just install e.g. prosody

I run my XMPP server, and IRC bouncer (weechat in relay mode) + a few other misc things all off a $5 VPS.
Don't worry, the free market will solve it. Keep cutting taxes and remove regulations.
Please don't. The last thing we need is someone to get the idea that we need more dedicated non-profits to fight tasteless legal battles.

Supporting their business is a better option in the long-run. Hopefully, their success will signal to other companies; going out of your way to do the right thing is a good business strategy.
IRC - because dead simple & extendable

Tox - because fully decentralized & encrypted

SIP - because rock solid for voice & video

Chat & IM is not the web. It shouldn't be running on HTTP with HTTP APIs.
This is true, but it always takes me a long time to get my setup just right: bookmarks, search keywords, extensions, preferences, getting the address bar history primed...
> What did she expect to happen in this situation?

In my more charitable moments thinking about what they're up to the best I can come up with is "AirBnB/Uber". Just ignore the law and hope it goes away long enough to make money.

But both of those companies actually offer a working and viable service/product while Theranos doesn't seem to be even at that MVP point yet so that doesn't really even make sense either. At this point they're just taking VC money and lighting it on fire.
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Someone knowledgeable enough to do that, probably doesn't have any vulnerable services open anyway.
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The difference in actions between him being skeptical and having no passion is very thin to people like us on the outside that aren't experiencing this first hand. Both case would opt for not fully committing. The answer will be in the details, such as his wording when talking about certain subjects, his mood and expressions when brainstorming and discussing different aspects of the project. Maybe it's a little of both. The point is, it is pretty much impossible for us to tell whether it's lack of passion or lack of confidence that's keeping him from taking that leap of faith.

As far as how you should go about handling the situation, I'm afraid I can't offer too much help as I do not have any experience in this situation. However, I do not think it's unreasonable for you to be pressuring him to call your raise and carry his own weight. The best advice I can suggest is to probably straight up talk to him and explain your concerns. After all, you guys are founding a company together, so you should be able to have discussions such as these as if it's your spouse.

Good luck mate
Losing code wasn't really a risk with Sourceforge either. Submitting patches on mailing lists or controlling access to using SSH will always be workable. The benefit of Github is the directory and collaborative aspect.

It's much easier for people to contribute to projects now, and a lot of projects might not have grown as quickly without it. The central directory also makes it a lot easier for other people to find stuff which probably also plays a role.

I doubt Github will go down the same path as Sourceforge.
Sad state?

How do you expecet them to know all the apps installed on your phone? And if they DID know this information, people would be up in arms about privacy or lack there-of.
"usually", so yes, I'd assume they would speed it up if they started it. But it doesn't seem like they want to, since they are not convinced he is "clean"?
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Is it even possible to cheat at a perfect information game?
It's interesting how ride hailing apps seem to benefit from literal names early in life. UberCab being the other prominent example. But later on they drop the more literal part of the name.
How is breaking useful, working software ever a good thing?

If being “more agile” means that instead of making software that still does its job several years later, I make something that needs constant attention to stay working, then I’m OK with keeping my uncool, old-fashioned ways of doing things.
<People who grow up in poverty aren't on that track and might not even have much agency (due to their circumstances, requirements to work young, entanglements with the law)>

Why do you equate poverty with inevitable entanglements with the law?

In my experience, those of us who had to work (formally employed) young are less likely to have entanglements with the law, as one natural result of spending time working is having less idle time in which to get into trouble.
While I agree with you I think there is some good that can come of more XEPs. Eventually the good XEP concepts can be taken to create the baseline for a new protocol such as multi-user, multi-device encryption, push notifications, sync, etc.

XMPP as it stands provides a good test bed to find out what the minimum requirements are.
Coming from a place with free university education I don't think that is right. More accessible university education, more people get university education, this raises the bar in all fields.

HR still prefers somebody who went through the trouble of getting the paper as it signals putting the effort in.

Now many jobs that previosly didn't need university education have such applicants and it becomes more mandatory to get one in order to compete. And why would you not, it is free after all.

In the end more people get higher education. it won't necessary help you getting a better job but I think it is good for society anyway.

For many others this "useless over education" is one of the reasons to introduce fees to schools. To make vocational studies worth more again and force people to think education more like an investment.
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I absolutely think it would be worth it. The data format change would be one thing. There are many other factors which are worth considering. For example, the long lived connections of XMPP don't work well in the mobile environment. There are XEPs which address things like this.

I think to do it right, you have to build a company around it, and build it in the open. Also, no one is going to jump on a protocol just because it's open. It has to be built around a service which is compelling in its own right, and gains user traction regardless of the protocol. Geeks can get it going, but it has to be self sustaining.
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Any day now...

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HTTP for normal websites may allow your website visitors to participate in DDoS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/an-introduction-to-javascript-ba...

Happened to GitHub once.
FYI, broken link.
Running a cell provider is not that hard.

A lot of companies have their own towers that only provide service within of a city, and for events, you can even set up your own network, like the CCC always does during their conferences.

Having a national, or even global network is a lot harder, though.
how far away is writing ai for dota/sc2?
My thought was that a united front would pose a disincentive for trolls to think of launching patent attacks against weaker players who don't have the resources a NEgg has.
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Appeared to be interesting topic, but this is the pop-up from my AV.

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Fascinating topic. I can see why it is popular.

1. basic income implies that there is a fixed minimum cost for comfortable survival. Does it require organic food? Does it require clean air? Does it require etiquette training? Does it adjust for localized prices? Does it include a vehicle, video games, and gadgets?

2. a simple analogy to zoo kept animals comes to mind. The more detached from the holistic view of nature and the cosmos humans get, the worse off we become. Why? because everything IS connected.

3. Money is a flawed system because you are equating material goods to non-material concepts. It will never balance out. Not even with gold.
Agree, very delightful!
However, the backstory is little more calculative..

"Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng says the move is necessary since Minero dismissed its Texas lawsuit without prejudice, meaning it can refile the case at a time of its choosing.

Cheng noted that Minero continues to litigate against other retailers that sell Rosewill-branded products and that Newegg may have defense obligations to those other companies. Minero continues to press its case against more than 20 companies, with the defendants including Office Depot, Walmart, and Amazon—three big retailers that sell Rosewill products.

Newegg's lawsuit asks only for a judicial ruling of non-infringement, not money damages..."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/newegg-sues-paten...
Repressive governments somehow convincing all CAs worldwide to refuse to issue certificates for your domain is a pretty distant hypothetical. Repressive governments monitoring and altering unencrypted communications in very sophisticated ways is a reality today. It's not a freedom/security tradeoff but a freedom/freedom tradeoff.

Not to mention that, of course, access to most websites is already gated by a central group of authorities - the domain registries - which can and do seize domains. Using raw IPs is one alternative, but if you're in that kind of position, chances are you want to be a Tor hidden service anyway.
One area that can be improved by startups without the need for enormous entitlement spending is food. I don't mean the radical notion of liquid food or pill popping (though that day might arrive sooner than later) or even manufactured food. I'm talking about employing simple robotics to reduce the cost of farm labor. Tasks such as cutting the paddy crop. All these years, plants have been engineered to suit the machines and that has reduced farming costs. However, these machines are expensive and work only on very large farms. If we engineer machines to suit the plants growth, we can achieve a dramatic cut in costs as these machines or robots won't need scale. By scale, I mean you won't need a 100 acre farm to use one. Even a small farmer can rent a robot to maintain his 2 acre farm and produce food at a very low cost. Couple this with the dramatic reduction in transport which will be brought about by electric and self driving trucks - we are looking at food that will cost next to nothing in the next 20-30 years.
> There's nothing that says you must let immigrants become citizens right away, or give them all the same privileges citizens are entitled to.

You already have a process of green card + a bunch of time leading to eligibility. Isn't that good enough?

> For instance, it wouldn't be at all unfair to kick people out for certain classes of crime.

you mean prior to them getting citizenship right?
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Doesn't this just set up a complex laundering scheme? Safeway can accept necessity dollars and cash them in for nicety dollars at 1:1. A startup wants to sell their new gadget which isn't approved for nicety dollars. They accept nicety dollars anyway and pay Safeway 1.1:1 to be a back door exchange.
How the heck does a weak patent filed by General Magic end up at a patent troll?
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Did you ask any of your existing credit card issuers if they will allow additional cardholders on your account? Several of mine outright invited me to add other cards (under other names, not just dupes in my name) at no charge. It's trivial to set spending limits on such alternate cards.
I don't think this is that big of deal. Most intel officers and especially commanders are first and foremost managers of people. They don't really require access to classified information to do their job.
In this era of near-zero interest rates, there is no motive to do this.
FB stocks up 12%

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Zuck just posted (literally yesterday) about FB's attempt to create an AI that could beat humans in Go.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1010261997969648...
He's saying that they spend a large % of their revenues on Facebook mobile app-install ads.
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It's google. They know that you downloaded the app from the Play Store and used the app to connect to their servers directly. They already have plenty of information.
Regarding the censorship:

It's obvious that censorship by western governments is never considered "censorship".

Only the evil enemy censors, we just have to enforce laws.

If one accepts this argument, it makes sense to argue that giving CAs more power is good — because, obviously, they don't censor, they just protect the interests of our economy.
Ennui, once the province of past aristocracy and present trust-fund babies, will be accessible to all! Survival is the natural meaning-giver.

You need bread AND circuses.

TV, movies, reddit and video games are the modern circuses, but we need to make MEANING accessible.

Startups, with lowering barriers, are part answer. But not winner-take-all unicorns; more like long-tail lifestyle businesses. So that everyone can be uniquely useful, regardless of direction or ability (Ricardo's
comparative advantage).
Is everyone entitled to the same amount of wealth?