skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big risk for banks is that they need to know who you are and to a certain extent how to reach you if there ever was an investigation into your activities.

That being said, is there a way for a bank to always contact you? A bank designed for digital nomads would be a very interesting proposition for me given I'm in banking and am looking to discover new models.
Pretty sure that means people who refuse to deploy TLS & IPv6, even when their hardware & software stack fully supports it.
The technology that spawned Bitcoin, and the technology that is being developed in its wake is the really exciting part of all of this.

So long as some catastrophic event doesn't completely tarnish the masses opinion on crypto's I think we are in for a wild ride (wild ride either way I suppose). Traditional banks, asset managers and transaction facilitators need to watch themselves.

I get the feeling that younger generations (<35-40) are hungry to separate themselves from traditional banking systems, and the group that pulls off (almost) instant free transactions in a distributed ledger are going to cause a real financial revolution.

Cant wait and fingers crossed.
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Computer security engineering is a branch of economics. If you try to think of it in all-or-nothing terms, you’re going to come up with silly ideas like “we shouldn’t bother trying to stop malware because the NSA could theoretically spend $1,000,000 and hack my laptop anyway”.
It has utility for ransomware. Even a niche utility can bootstrap an ecosystem. Add layers and layers of speculation above that kernel and it is a feedback loop.

As long as speculators refuse to sell, people need to spend more and more for ransoms (or equivalently ransomware writers have to demand less denominated by bitcoin), driving up the price as long as those destroyed through ransomware outstrips those created by mining.
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> A basic income which allows me to do something fun is quite the demotivator for doing anything more.

I disagree that this is generally true (all of human history shows that humans generally want to continually gain both improved material position over time and more than those they see around them if there is an avenue to do so.)

Moreover, that's a rather distant theoretical complaint, anyway, because a basic income that provides anything more than the kind of marginal existence provided by American public welfare programs now (but with fewer disincentives to work) is probably far outside the ability of the economy to sustain without enormous technological progress.
Amazingly, the Jet engine in Microsoft Access (a file-based database a lot like SQLite) works very well over Microsoft's network filesystem, but it helps that file locks in Windows are much more solid than file locks in Linux. (The tradeoff is that Windows machines go out to lunch every so often)

This document

http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/xmp/pdfs/XM...

is a great overview of a number of desktop and media file formats (particularly in the context of how to find holes in them in which you can stick metadata.) Read between the lines and you can understand some of the tradeoffs; the database-based format shows up once or twice and, from the viewpoint of XMP, it is the one in which it is hardest for a foreign program to find an embedded media packet. On the other hand, SQLite is open source so you can say "just open it with SQLite".
Thanks! I will stop using it
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Imagine you don't want a single person to control everything in your country (dictator), and you don't want a single person to control your currency.

Against dictators, we have democracy.

Against a centrally controlled currency, there's not much but crypto currencies. They're actually democratic, the majority wins.

Also, I don't want to be the one who will handle security for the single server with a Postgres database that has 100B$ in it. Do you? Do you want to be on call when the RAID array crashes or the datacenter goes dark?

I do believe there will be alternatives to proof of work, but a single database server isn't one of them.
Just withdraw cash on a credit card from a regular ATM. Most "normal" credit cards charge on the order of 3% over spot on the FX, some cards further charge a flat fee, but this is still better than those markups.

It's even possible to get cards that doesn't charge a fee and gives you spot FX, even for cash withdrawal (Halifax Clarity in the UK is one). That leaves any fee the ATM might charge you, but if you can find one that doesn't, this is a supremely efficient way of getting cash abroad.
Nothing beyond some consumer happiness towards their brand, just some wishful thinking from my side, as I hardly believe it will ever change.
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There’s no way I’d take this level of risk for a significant sum, but just to play with Bitcoin, and see my own transaction in the blockchain, I bought £100 in September that’s now worth £200.

It’s of course tempting to imagine doubling my entire savings in just two months, but so too could they have halved, or worse.
No, the point was that the doc and xls file formats were in themselves mini-filesystems, much like an SQLite file, and could support many of the same operations as described in the article. It however made them insanely complex to interpret.

When the docx and xlsx formats were developed, they lost this capability.
What do you mean by they pretend it's not their fault?
They seem to be very open about it, even boasting about their DRM work on their blog[1].
As unethical as DRM may be, I don't think Netflix have been dishonest about their involvement with it.

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/html5-video-at-netflix-7...
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Aye that cladding is so important. Really terrible that the older building would have been less flammable before shoddy renovations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
Ultimately that's true of any non-backed currency (and those too I suppose) isn't it, it's just the bet looks far safer for a country/region wide fiat currency.

I wonder if much of the medium term success of Bitcoin has been because the money put in couldn't be laundered readily in any other way, so whilst Bitcoin is a relatively high risk the alternative was just to dump the money without a way to use it?
I've written a standalone Forth system that could boot from a floppy and recompile itself. I've ported the core interpreter to C so I could use libraries. I've rewritten it using various threading techniques. Up to that point it was just toy systems because i never did something useful with those. Then I rewrote a Forth interpreter than would play really nice with C. That thing right now is around 30k/3KSLOC. This time I wrote various utilities I needed for my job using it. One of them is a log server that runs 24/7 that provides web interface, and I consider making it send emails... So I think I do understand Forth a little bit.
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I don't know much about bitcoin i'll admit. And I was surpised the other day to read some comments where the poster was saying that the transaction price is somewhere in between 5$ - 20$. Isn't that like... a LOT? I thought the idea of Bitcoins was how easy it would be to make transactions but with a price like that I can image most smaller transactions are discouraged. Also, after the initial hype I haven't really seen much of an implementation of payments in Bitcoins.

So... other than the hype, what's driving the price up if I guess the price is going up way faster than the implementation?
Note that Tesla has not offered an explicit license for those patents, so there's no guarantee that companies using the patents won't get sued. It was a pure PR stunt.
Peter Thiel: People are underestimating the great potential of Bitcoin
Lock-free using CAS type operations looks good in theory but having to do a cache flush for every atomic operation really bogs things down when you get into complex algorithms so the simple lock ends up being cheaper.

An alternative lock-free approach is to segmented memory between threads and then coordinate between threads using messages passed with ring buffers. This can be done entirely without atomic operations but hits other scaling problems and is also extremely difficult to implement so probably not widely applicable.
You talk about a “final outcome” as if at some point we will all collectively say “great. We are done with Bitcoin and it is from now on and forever what it currently is.” That’s not going to happen. It may hit a period of more stability than it has now, but I highly doubt there will be a final outcome.
Forgive my total ignorance of bitcoin but - why can't you sell 1 Bitcoin for $7000?
Would transfer learning help with that?
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I need one ATS for my startup, I've been using email so far.
Which is odd, because it's behind cloudflare, should mostly be static and describes itself as "highly scalable".

I guess there is a difference between highly scalable and highly scaled.
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I think you might be confusing cryptocurrency with blockchain.

Cryptocurrency uses blockchain but blockchain isn't cryptocurrency.

Blockchain technology is already incredibly useful for banks doing interbank currency trading iirc.

I guess you could be talking about banks doing crypto trading, then I would guess that they are but a number are still stuck in the stone ages.
Pretty much all the airline cards have zero foreign currency fees. They still have less than perfect exchange rates though.
No. I was doing a lot of research into ICOs over the summer, but its incredibly time consuming and there are so many now. I spend too much time behind the screen as it - need to live in the "real" world every once in a while - I'm trying to quit :) Will try putting my money on autopilot/fund for a while.
It is very much like a decentralized global pyramid scheme, unfortunately there's no concise resource to explain it all clearly - primarily because there's no VC money pumped into anti-crypto assets that are structured and incentivized like a pyramid scheme, e.g. the most popular blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum's Ether. The issue is the unreasonable amount of wealth transfer that would occur if and as society adopts the crypto-assets more and more, and as bad actors manipulate society to take part - whether through lobbying or bribing politicians or worse; there essentially can be a wealth transfer of 40% plus for people having done nothing except trying to perpetuate this system.
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How do they measure accuracy?
Every site I've come across that doesn't work under these conditions wasn't worth whitelisting, I usually add them to my link blacklist so I don't accidentally clicked them any more. I'm curious if you have to whitelist sites you actually need or if it's just news-like sites.
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maybe another alternative here https://rocketmq.apache.org/
Understaning the bitter concept of Bitcoin is really daunting.
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I suspect they see little reason to leave their successful and highly profitable role as a leading 'intelligence provider'.
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Can someone give a precise idea about this entire subject?
It would correlate strongly with people trying to evade taxes and/or launder money. PayPal doesn't like to facilitate illegal activity. I'm not theorizing about this -- I have first hand knowledge.
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How is it normative? Although that's a bit of a rabbit hole, since presumably you won't allow me to appeal to the definition of 'normative'.

Torvalds lambasts a developer for making a mistake, swears at him, and tells him the first rule of kernel development is that you don't make mistakes. Great.
These kind of websites rely on having a huge number of domains (for branding purposes) all doing roughly the same thing. In this case basically 'Shop*.ca'. Of course HTTPS can be automated and facilitated with LetsEncrypt, but it would require switching a working system from one way of doing things to another. It's an investment they are not willing to make, because their customers (shops willing to pay for an extended listing on those websites) are shopkeepers, not tech-savvy users asking for improved security.
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Same to the US. "E-post" from China to the United States is dirt cheap. Impossibly cheap. Very nice for things like electronics components.
I believe, With a brokerage account, it's easy to get your foreign currency sent to a bank account in another country.
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When Paris Hilton started shilling ICOs on Instagram, I was reminded of a very pertinent quote apparently (not actually) by Joe Kennedy

> You know it's time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock tips
The only extra thing blockchain based cryptocurrencies provide is decentalized ordering of transactions. David Chaum tried what you suggest and his currency was shut down by the government quite fast and easily (and people lost their money as their tokens were worth nothing after the incident).
They're actually democratic, the majority wins.

Majority of what? Not the demos, I bet; not so democratic. Majority of bitcoins? Majority of processing power?
> Business are crying for better, smarter employees but they are unable to get them no matter the cost.

If this is true, it's because the existing system actually locks people in place rather than enabling improvement. Willingness to pay more once a state is achieved doesn't actually free people to achieve it. Doing what work one can for now to survive competes with investing time into self-improvement, which is literally a luxury many cannot afford.
1. Cake pattern (now considered more of an antipattern I think).

2. Extending existing class with implicit conversion.
2 questions -

Why are they not able to see what you are able to see?

Why haven't you brought it up with them? What is the fear?
> Like a hyped startup, it doesn't do much yet

It does plenty already. I live almost exclusively on Bitcoin. I only get income in Bitcoin, I pay with Bitcoin whenever possible, and I have a Bitcoin-funded debit card for when that's not possible.
No.

People actually use other currencies as a medium of exchange first, and store of value second (usually they purchase assets to store value long term).

Bitcoin is the other way round (at present at least).
Are there any writeups on MITM SSL (installing custom trusted root), ideally showing how to whitelist parts of YouTube?
it will easily reach $10k...don't ask why
poisoning ML training data is the new weapon against big-AI and the AI industrial complex :-D.

Judging from your comment you probably have seen this already. Let me throw it out there for those who haven't: https://twitter.com/daniel_bilar/status/925541876484231168
A post [1] shared a couple of days ago made a thesis that BTC price needs to grow for it to become a viable "store of value." Maybe this is what we are seeing.

"Market cap size is critical for adoption of a store of value. It needs to be large enough to “fit” even very large amounts of fiat, ideally without affecting the market. Gold market cap is estimated at 7 trillion USD, which means that even the richest people can move all their assets into gold and not move the market. (At least one at a time. All of them at once will move the market big time).

Bitcoin market cap of about 70B USD is not large enough for even one of the richest people on the planet. This implies that if the market cap does not grow, Bitcoin is likely to fail as store of value."

[1] https://grisha.org/blog/2017/09/25/bitcoin-value-2/
Except of course that none of what you said is proven and is merely speculative, much like all the so-called 'investment' in it.

When all is said and done, we will have had a massive lesson in the madness of crowds, high-tech edition.
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> Are you? Why? So far, no bitcoin/blockchain advocates have been able to explain to me a single non-illegal use case that isn't better served by a traditional, centralized database.

I agree if you change "isn't" to "couldn't be".

Consider if I'm a small company and want to process cards. So I try to sign up for a payment provider. Except, oops, I'm outside the US where terms tends to be stricter. And, oops, I'm in a legal field (in my jurisdiction) but one that the payment provider considers risky or morally suspect, such as, say gambling, or adult products, or prostitution, or even just travel.

A lot of companies find themselves spending ages sorting out payments because of this. I've worked with startups (in travel, in one case) that spent weeks getting approvals from one provider before suddenly getting "no" - in the end it took four attempts and several months in case; we developed the whole platform faster than we could get approval from a payment provider. That's unusual, but it happens, and in general having dealt with payment processors in various companies over a period of nearly 20 years: it's been nothing but pain and misery most of the time.

That's not a problem of the "traditional centralized database" directly, but indirectly because the centralized database allows for centralized gatekeepers of transactions: Your payment provider may or may not care about the nature of your business, but if the card association does, or the issuing banks does, or the bank handling the merchant account does, it doesn't matter.

This, to me, is the biggest potential value of crypto-currencies: The rising importance of card payments over cash have been one of the largest un-democratic power-grabs of our time by handing power to those controlling the approvals process.

Some previous developments, like PayPal, had the potential to change this, but quickly ended up as steeped in problems as the card providers.

I understand why: They're taking significant risk, and they're managing that risk. I'm not suggesting some sinister cabal trying to control morality through payments; merely that these companies first interest is to protect their share holders investment, not the public interest.

But crypto-currencies has the potential to give us "digital cash", of sorts, in that while it's not exactly the same (it's much easier to track for starters), it is much closer to cash than cards in terms of inability to control its use. We can track it after the fact like we can with cards, but we can't easily stop people from making payments or taking payments.

That has value. Whether that's enough to sustain Bitcoins current momentum is another matter.
If it's intended to be a store of value, it's an asset, not a currency. Like property.
Which sounds impressive, but are you making at least $100K/yr US in Bitcoin?
The reason would be so that the backend can take advantage of H2 features.
You can, it's confusing but there is Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, and soon to be another one Bitcoin Segwit2x or some such.

Each of these other "versions" of bitcoin were created by a fork. As far as I know, when a fork happens you get an equal number of "new coin" as you have original coin. Seemingly creating value out of nothing.
I save more than I spend, so wouldn't I be mainly using it as a store of value rather than a medium of exchange?
>we should not cause regressions

>and the corollary is that when regressions do occur, we should admit to them and fix them, instead of blaming user space

Clearly he is aware that they did cause a regression as the mailing list post he responds to would not exist otherwise. Reading these two statements descriptively renders him an idiot.
Big banks are the absolute epicenter of fraud and public abuse.
Does the company that you work for receive their income in Bitcoin too?
It's the equivalent of yelling "DONE" to each line. I mean really, the satisfaction of hitting that carriage return is like crossing a finish line over and over....it doesn't get old? I think we need to go back to having a margin bell to ring at the edge of 80 columns :) (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card why this is so) so we know exactly when to hit the return.
The forked currencies behave very oddly. When bitcoin forked, the bitcoin price didn't change but the new coins had a non-zero value (something like 10-20% of btc, if I remember). So some extra value was created out of thin air. It makes little sense!
> extending the XML format

XML is only trivially "readable without any software at all". The same is true of any binary format - the issue is that it can be read, but not easily processed - which is also the case for XML (you need to integrate an XML parser for that).

And if you are including XML libs, why not SQlite libs?
I've never used lever.co. workable is alright, but frankly I'm not sure it provides much more over emails and a spreadsheet.