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> typical fraudsters take your money and run - he doesn't fit that mold.

So if everything happened identically but he failed to make them money _then_ it would be bad? I don't understand.
>Trolling is lying

Not at all, I think one of the most famous "troll" things he did was buy the master Wu-Tang album and threaten to destroy it so no one could ever hear the album.

There's no lying or anything meant to "hurt" anyone there, but you can imagine that it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
For what it's worth, I've colored the usernames on my HN discussions so I don't make mistakes like this. Maybe HN should do that natively.
Your analogy is slightly off... suppose you lent $10,000 to an acquaintance known for being able to double it, and they promise to return it doubled in a year. A year later you ask for your money and he gives you $6,000 from someone else he convinced to do the same thing along with $6,000 from a different venture that was taking off and $8,000 work of equity for that startup. You didn't quite get what was promised, it seems a little shady, but at least he didn't rip you off.
Okay real talk -- who's gonna get that Wu-Tang album he has?
Good, more people should do this until it breaks and reforms. And not just do it, but do it with his face and smile. Because companies have been doing this for a long time, but there's no one to direct the anger onto.
This is a short term strategy at best.

Apple generates 7bn from services with 700mn active phones. Without "planned obsolescence" the 700mn number would be much higher as would services revenue.

Edit: services is iTunes, music, App Store, iCloud, etc. 7bn for comparison is bigger than Netflix (2.5bn) and aws (3.5bn)
Merrill Lynch lost millions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/05/merrill-lynch-salesman-descr...
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There is no reason he would have to launder it at all, it's not dirty money (it's not illegal to sell items in video games, but often against the ToS). He could easily pay taxes on it as business income. Nobody knew he got it illegitimately.
No need to do any malice in order to be arrested on Def Con

https://www.cnet.com/news/russian-crypto-expert-arrested-at-...
Because he defrauded them in order to get their 3x return.

Put simply, if I burn my house down in order to collect the insurance money, I've committed insurance fraud whether or not I pay that money back, and no amount of profit on the payback negates the illegality.
> "there must have been some laxity in inspection of the vats, or some kind of problem in the construction and/or materials (which wouldn't fall on the brewery, most likely, but on the construction/engineering firm they used to construct the vats)."

Well they probably didn't have sufficient construction/engineering knowledge back then to make such a determination of negligence anyway. Conceivably, the vat could have been constructed according to the standard for that time.
Wouldn't it be roughly like when games embed Lua?
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Maybe that's true. I unfollowed him on Twitter b/c of the trolling.
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"If bitcoin is digital gold then Ethereum is digital oil" analogy taken too seriously.
This isn't "forum-shopping". Not every crime is going to get someone extradited, which is a huge hassle, but if the person accused is going to be entering the country of course you grab him.
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it is marked as experimental for now, but their release notes say it will become the new default soon

I am evaluating 4.6 support now and it works okay so far for my VR Game
Patrick Rice gets it free for life after a Reddit AMA. Google not work for you, or were you trying to stonewall the discussion with Rush Limbaugh tactics?

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Perhaps you are being deliberately obtuse I'm not sure. The point the poster was making is that the US happily arrests foreigners who set foot in the US and regardless of your guilt or innocence you get trapped in the US justice system which is essentially a system to tie you up in court and legal processes that you cannot afford so that you accept a plea deal, possibly for something you have not done, because otherwise you face never seeing the outside world again. The US justice system then acts like the guilty plea is enough to warrant their behaviour even though many times it is accepted by the defendant because they have no other options.

This also applies if you are a poor American citizen, the rich can buy their release with sufficient payment to lawyers, plus the courts tend to be more lenient on the rich over there, especially if they are white. Rich coloured people have a tough time because the justice system likes to make examples of them and claim the example is being made because they are rich and not because they are non-white.
Technically, Fred committed a fraud (actually I forget the technical term for the crime where you misuse funds). Its just that he wasn't prosecuted for it.
Anonymous to other users, I guess.
Look, I get why I'm being downvoted, the HN community is a group of, well, hackers, and hackers like to be able to do things like muck about with their devices.

But you need to see things from the perspective of the average consumer. The only reason the average consumer would want to open up an iPhone or a MacBook is to do something like swap out the battery. And since these devices aren't designed with that in mind, the average consumer is very likely to damage or destroy their device in attempting to do so. Apple has a responsibility to remove the obvious easy ways for a customer to accidentally destroy their device. In this way, using custom screws is no different than trying to make the screen less likely to crack when dropped.

But Apple isn't making it impossible to open their devices. They're just making it so the average consumer can't do it. It's not that hard to get pentalobe screwdrivers. Heck, ifixit.com even sells them. Here's a screwdriver bit you can buy for just $4.95 (https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Tri-point-Y000-Screwdrive...). It's not that big of a deal.
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I believe he reinvests 80% back into R&D. That's a pretty large sum. It's a lot more than the big companies. If a better drug for toxoplasmosis is developed that doesn't kill people, it would have been a great achievement.
That doesn't matter. Lying during a business deal is still fraud.
It is an experimental option for Xamarin. Though haven't played with it.
There's nothing like laying down a thick bureaucratic obstacle of red-tape on thousands of very sick people during the key moments of their treatment.
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Thanks! And yeah, I definitely need to look more into filters.
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>He's whip-smart & knowledgeable.

People keep saying this as if it matters. What did you expect, that he'd be a drooling idiot? So he's smart and personable. Of course he is, most con men are.
There's plenty of light international travel that TOD applies to though. Not US-EU but CA/MX/Central America?
Hutchins is accused of creating the Kronos trojan, and of working closely with someone who sold the trojan. The lines the DOJ is saying were crossed are pretty bright.
There is a cap, but the question is whether that cap is high enough to meet demand. If demand stays the same, and you increase the number of cars that can fit on a given road at once by decreasing the space between them, you've potentially reduced congestion.

Walkers, cyclists, and public transits also take up space, and there is a theoretical cap to how many a city can support. It's just that the cap is well above any reasonable expectation of demand, because those are all very efficient in terms of space. So, it's not really a difference in class, just a difference in degree. Cars don't necessarily have to be as space efficient as walking, just space efficient enough.
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I think representing each state by two separate boxes containing the same text is strange and confusing.

If it didn't do that, it would be able to avoid having the 'on create' line appear to pass through the 'destroyed' state.
The US will try to force him into a plea deal where the alternative is 50 years in prison so that they can say "see we were justified in arresting him because he wouldn't plead guilty of he hadn't done anything wrong"
I don't see why it's disingenuous? Investing is extremely risky, and I'm not convinced that he didn't just get lucky on the second bet.

This isn't ok because the original investor was paid off. That's also how Ponzi schemes work - the original investors are paid off (I know, here the money seems to be generated from Retrophin, but the behavior is the same).

This gave me a perspective: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-12-17/martin-sh...
At first I was like, why a whole year?!

Then I realized there is a little less than 5 months left of 2017... Time is fucking flying!
I think it's interesting that since we can put a face and a name on that behavior, it's easy to see that if those price hikes led to someone's death, his actions were immoral or downright evil. It's easy to draw a direct line from his actions to someone else's suffering.

It's well established that what he did so wantonly happens in more hushed tones as a matter of business. The lines are blurred, we find it hard to point fingers at individuals. If Skreli's actions are immoral, so are the actions of the anonymous thousands like him. This is the textbook "banality of evil", and we can see similar consequences everywhere. This seems like classic Philosophy 101 material, is it moral to raise the cost of food when someone will starve?
Genuine curiosity. Since I dont know much about the nitty gritty history of the fork. Who are these couple people who work on AOO instead of LO and why do they?

Do they think its a better product? Better community? Brand loyalty? Money? Did they loose a bet?

I'm not trolling (ok - maybe a little with the last question). I just want to know the story here.
So many extradition experts visiting Hacker News these days.
He lied about the current status of the fund for quite a while as he attempted to replace the money, and sent fraudulent reports showing good returns when all the money was lost. He later replaced all the lost funds with profits from the company he founded (and reportedly worked hard to make profitable).

I'm not sure whether that company was the one responsible for the drug price hike, and whether that constituted a lot of the profits or that actually went back into research as I believe he said it did during that episode.
Oh the poor airlines! They would never, ever gratuitously exploit their passengers. How could these mean awful people take advantage of them like this?

It's pretty hard to root for a corporation when it's smart individual vs faceless multinational ineptitude. Human nature perhaps?
The durability of an iPhone seems way better as well. Within 48 hours of me getting a new Galaxy S8+, the screen had gotten scratched to hell just from being in my jeans pocket. By itself. Now I can hardly read 20% of the screen in direct sunlight with the brightness all the way up, and I'm wondering why the hell I paid $650 for this. Before this, I had the jet black iPhone 7, which was supposed to be very prone to getting micro abrasions, and yet its in better much better shape than the phone I've had for just a couple weeks.

If it were affordable, I'd just have this fixed and put a screen protector on it. Unfortunately, it's not, so I guess I'll be buying another iPhone in a few months...
>>Why is this "sending a chill through the security community"?

because a lot of legitimate security research when viewed through the myopic and cynical lens of a Federal Agent can be seen as illegal, this is an ongoing and ever present fear for people in the field.

The FBI claims he is a malware creator and arrested him for it, you seem to believe fully this narrative of the FBI with no room for the FBI to view completely innocent actions as something else. No room for the FBI to be in error, no room for the FBI to be wrong.

The government has routinely, time and time again, over extended and prosecuted several people wrongly under CFAA, which is a terrible and broad law that can be applied at will to many innocent every day computer actions.
"It's not always about lying! Sometimes it's about being cruel to strangers just to enjoy their suffering!"
You're not wrong. Humans are fallible and thus so are jury trials.
As usual, there is an excellent 99% Invisible episode: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/perfect-security/
Completely unrelatedly and much less tragically, I recall a story from my uncle about the 'great wapanucka train wreck of 65 or maybe it was 66' whereby several freight cars of beer were derailed, spilling their freight into the surrounding fields.

Apparently, or so the story goes anyway, some of the more resourceful people who heard of the incident drove up to the scene that night, filling entire pickup trucks and cars with cans of beer, and most of the nearby university he was attending was drunk for a week.
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Actually there are a couple of companies and labs who are close to (if not already solved) the problem, but no sane person is going to compete in the Amazon Picking Competition if they've actually solved it.
As someone who's not sure where I stand on this, I feel like Hutchins supporters are doing themselves a disservice by overly-conflating this with WannaCry. I think there's potentially a good argument to be made along the lines of "Hutchins good work w.r.t. WannaCry is the only reason that anyone (including law enforcement) is aware of semi-historical Kronos, so going after him for Kronos is equivalent to going after him for WannaCry." Additionally, there may well be other arguments in his favor that I'm not even thinking of.

But those arguments need to be made (and the one I outlined would need decent factual details). That said...maybe glossing over (or even totally ignoring) Kronos is the best way for Hutchins supporters to go...but if it is, that seems an unfortunate reflection on society.
Is this not the concept of forward secrecy? Crypto can be safe today and broken tomorrow.
He's not personally accused of selling Kronos in the indictment; his unnamed co-conspirator is.

(That co-conspirator is unnamed to us, but most probably is someone clearly known to the DOJ).

The indictment itself is pretty bare. But an indictment isn't a trial; the DOJ will need to prove its charges to a jury with a considerable amount of evidence, and, as Orin Kerr pointed out last night, they have an uphill climb ahead of themselves, because the letter of the law is favorable to people who create and sell banking trojans.
If you enjoyed this article, check out the 99% Invisible podcast's "Perfect Security" episode. It covers a lot of the same information, and is a good listen.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/perfect-security/
You sound quite a lot like Trump. "Just let it fail..."
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Obviously both SpaceX and Blue Origin are the leaders here, but once they do it the other majors will either have to build the same thing or drop out of the industry.

There are so many things about space that we just assume are true, but are actually only true because access to orbit has always been so expensive. If we can get the cost to reach orbit down to a multiple of the fuel cost, then so many more things are possible.

We finally get large satellite constellations for low-latency Internet all over Earth. We get space stations and O'Neil cylinders. Moon bases and fuel depots on Titan.

At the same time, firms like Made In Space are working on in-space construction so you can build radio telescopes in space with arbitrarily large dishes (10 km, maybe?). Eventually we build mirrors that size too.

Basically just those two things are the only barriers between us and a solar-system-wide civilization like in The Expanse.
From the article you linked...

"Professionals worry that jurors may acquit guilty defendants because forensic evidence is not presented by the prosecution at trial."

How is that bad?
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When Ethereum Classic hit the markets Coinbase did the same, ignoring it first, then giving in, however it turned out because of missing replay protection (thanks to vitalik) Coinbase had to buy back ETC on other markets first. Feel free to draw your conclusions based on this information.
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Similar to OJ's recent parole that had nothing to do with the murder he was accused of committing. MSM, the previous victim's families, etc, seem to be conflating the two.
It's a check/balance against state power, i.e. the judicial system. Many countries have used this method for centuries. It's not ridiculous because the idea is that (the diverse selection of) your peers are equal to you in most ways, so are able to fairly judge you. A judge still has a lot of power and usually ultimately the decision goes to them as far as sentencing etc.
Relying exclusively on bench trials seems unappealing to me (and I guess to James Madison, who enshrined the right of trial by jury in the Constitution) because it creates a much easier environment for an arbitrary court system to throw people in jail who are innocent and removes other protections like jury nullification. You could look at Japan, which tried to solve its problem of innocent people going to jail by introducing a lay-judge system (kind of like jurors who can ask questions during the trial), for a real-life example of some of the problems you might have.

Clearly the US system is far from perfect but I don't think getting rid of juries would make it better.

Also, in practice, judges make rulings on things outside their expertise too.
Is this really something they're doing intentionally? Or is it just something we notice on Apple devices because you can actually update your 4 year old device?
So they commissioned a high profile typographer to create a custom typeface just 3-4 years after they commissioned a high profile typographer to create a custom typeface? Makes you wonder if donations to Mozilla will help to keep the web open or help to do a third rebranding.
I think that's being too results driven and doesn't take into account the risk that was taken. As another example, suppose your uber driver drove you home while intoxicated. Even if the trip ended up being fine (no accidents, smooth ride), you would still have valid justification for complaining about this.
This is one of those cases where those doing downvoting really should explain why they downvote.

I personally agree with following:

* Defendant being dick or unpleasant should not affect guilty/not guilty verdict in fair justice system.

* Defendant being charismatic or seemingly intelligent should not affect guilty/not guilty verdict in fair justice system either.

* A panel of judges with specialised experience often makes a lot more sense than a jury.
True enough, but it is fairly easy to restrict use of distribution groups in Exchange, which I would bet most of these orgs use.

I'd argue 1hr response is pretty slow for the NHS, since they require 24/7 support availability of even their vendors. I imagine they responded pretty quickly but nobody had a plan in place for situations like this and a large public sector organisation isn't a place conducive to one person taking charge and fixing the problem immediately.
I wouldn't describe him as personable.

Being smart is a trait I admire. I learned from him. Especially from his mistakes.
But judges are infallible and thus so are bench trials?
Hmm maybe.

I don't think content will be an issue if sharing is handled through linking to specific tags (hashtags.chat/NotReallyPrivate instead of hashtags.chat) because of the built in lack of discoverability.
Does anything on the internet?

I'm not trying to defend them, I'm more curious what your definition of anonymous would be? Eg, they could say anonymous and not store any data either, but potentially you can still be identified through an oversight - meaning even if they attempt to be anonymous, you might still not be anonymous. If taken far enough, only the most rigid, hardened and secured communication seems well vetted to keep you anonymous - but then we can't even trust them running it either.

So yea, I'm just curious what's reasonable here. What would make you feel good when associated with the word anonymous?
> Fuck you people, frankly.

27 minutes ago

You might find that waiting a few more minutes might make readers more sympathetic to your thoughts. Often I suspect some users may downvote because they see both the impatience and the swearing at "you people" which they see as being every user except you.

Just a helpful hint. By the way, at 29 minutes, your comment was in the black and was not downvoted and was at #3. Welcome to Hacker News. I hope you enjoy your time on this technology site.
Are you still inclined to trust his teaching? I mean... he's a convicted financial criminal and you're linking to his finance video.
>A system where you're counting on the generosity of companies to charge low prices seems rather flawed.

Oh, it is absolutely flawed and completely corrupt. It's so corrupt it's costing lives rather than just money. I'm not saying it's happening, but I wouldn't be surprised if the FDA's mandates and budget for approval aren't somehow related to keeping profits high.
All good :-) LO is definitely a fork, and licensing was indeed a big issue, there is just quite a bit of history that led up to the fork, which happened before Oracle donated their code and trademark to the Apache Foundation.

It's frankly all kind of old news for most LO devs. We're far more interested in improving LO and competing against our real rival, which is Microsoft. Every now and then someone might make a small comment about AOO, but we don't encourage a lot of criticism of AOO because we have enough to do than spend any effort on ill-will towards Apache. We want to drive positive change and win by being awesome, not "win" through negativity :-)
What legitimate security research are we talking about? I work in vulnerability research and not malware research, but: can we name anyone who has been prosecuted for what turned out to clearly be benevolent research work?
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Arguably the third thing is ISRU (In-Space Resource Utilization), aka, mining asteroids for fuel and materials. But that's not immediately necessary and doesn't count as "around the corner".
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Well I enjoyed reading it, a little bit too much cringe, but still interesting articel!
The law is very clear on what is a crime and what isn't. So when he misused his funds, he committed a crime. And he was prosecuted and convicted for it. Doesn't matter if in the end he cured cancer: he still committed a crime.

I have a feeling that since most people have never dealt with the justice system, they fail to appreciate just how black and white it really is. While the movies/TV do portray cases where "extenuating circumstances" help the case, most cases are pretty straightforward.