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Market participants who sold BCH earlier today before the announcement to insiders who bought knowing that the price was sure to rise after this announcement?
I fear this will take the usual course of action: It's gonna get worse until something really bad and really large scale happens, only then will people realize the need to act, but then it's usually already way too late.
Finally the data to prove what I’ve always felt. I knew my phones were getting slower even on the same iOS versions. I always assumed flash, but suspected that there was a time-based clock slowing... lo and behold! Fucking Apple, I’ll be happy to join the coming class action!
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Anyone know what happens if I return coins I had pulled out before the fiasco this summer? Will my acct reflect a balance from both coins?
> assuming no additional risks emerge

The letter was simply a possible notion. No guarantee. Why not send out another letter saying they were going to release it on this day?

I know why, because they wanted to manipulate the market.
If you're in good standing with the various governmental authorities, what are the scenarios that make it worthwhile to convert to some cryptocoin, "send a transaction," then convert back on the other end? There are traditional channels for sending money to various places, what do these extra steps get me?

You may feel a $20 fee is negligible, how about a 1% price move? 10%?

It's funny how often one sees these sort of high-dollar scenarios described for this "decentralized"! "currency of the people"!

Like, sending million dollar wires is a fairly niche market, and to my knowledge people regularly engaging in such things seem to be getting along just fine, there not crying out desperately for a better solution. And how exactly is bitcoin better for doing this if your million dollar transactions don't consist of the spoils from an exchange hack, exit scam or the like?

It's just a very reliable network for sending very big transactions.

Do you think the traditional channels for sending million dollar wires are unreliable? This seems like an area where the market is likely to converge on the very most reliable options and any service provider in this area with even a hint of unreliability would rapidly fade away.
That's why I'm confused. I would have thought people would have been stocking up starting back in August (and especially as December passed and it wasn't on Coinbase/GDAX yet).
I don't really know if any Coinbase employees really committed insider trading - I'm just speculating based on the fact that the price of BCH appeared to rise significantly before the public announcement.

Its also unclear what internal firm policies that Coinbase has in place to prevent insider trading, see my reply to hisabness for more on that and an explanation (note: IANAL) of how regulation could be applied.
This was announced on Aug 3rd: https://blog.coinbase.com/update-on-bitcoin-cash-8a67a7e8dbd...

At that time the price was just under $500 so the public had plenty of time to get in. Also note that the price could very well drop as Coinbase customers sell their "free" BCH.
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The OpenRailwayMap project is great; I just wish their default map viewer had the Query/Inspect feature. When I'm browsing railways (don't ask...), I find myself using OpenStreetMap side-by-side to Query for more details about a way or relation, while OpenRailwayMap gives me a better overview and labels in the main map.
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Currently a software developer (C++ linux backend) in NYC. Looking to move out of the state due to long commute times and high taxes. Was thinking about North Carolina, specifically around either the research triangle area or Charlotte.

A quick google search tells me there are developer jobs there, but I'd like to know if the industry is growing there, and what skills employees are generally looking for. Also is 6 figure comp the norm or exception?
Interesting I suppose, but I didn't see that she purchased the tank. It was assigned to her.
I think it's not quite a normal prisoner's dilemma, because it's not boolean. The browser can be less aggressive initially, pushing against only the worst cases, then become more aggressive over time to make site behave better.
Effectively the same, but it just quickly degrades from 60-0 for me (like 20 mins of just reddit/hn).

100-60 is still decent.
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The next line was "Once supported, customers will be able to withdraw bitcoin cash. We'll make a determination at a later date about adding trading support."
>nothing like SV at all

Seems there are different definitions of "SV". Mine is a geographic region with the unique combination of ingredients for incubating new technologies into valuable businesses and services that mature to some form of market liquidity. Has nothing to do with where they hire their employees from.
Indeed. While I'm interested to see where this goes, current Thunderbird already does its job pretty well if you want an offline mail client. Security updates and bug fixes are always welcome of course, but I don't see why it's not a viable mail client.
> we aren't building coal or nuclear because there are outrageous political risks
Wrong. We aren't building coal or nuclear for reasons of economics.

The high electricity prices are partially due to gold-plating the poles and wires due to very odd 'oversight' agreements in which any investment in poles and wires infrastructure had a guaranteed return on investment - it allowed the infrastructure owners to increase their charges to cover the poles and wires investment, almost no matter how much they invested, so they went LARGE.

High power prices are also partially due to the generators gaming the market in times of high power usage and low wind / solar generation. Making use of loopholes in the 20-year old rules. Loopholes that didn't exist when everything was coal, but caused by the fact that the rules haven't been updated to reflect the inclusion of wind and solar into the generation mix. The "Market Operator" had been asleep at the wheel for years.

Politics is getting in the way of building Wind and Solar , not the other way round.
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If these hidden trades (dark pools?) are possible, why can't knowledgeable outsiders also use them?
> wouldn't they have gone back and renegotiated these licenses?

Why assume they didn't try?
> Once supported, customers will be able to withdraw bitcoin cash. We’ll make a determination at a later date about adding trading support.

It's the trading support part that was not public, and that part is very important as it significantly widens the population of people who can easily purchase BCH.
I don't think parent poster is saying that it should. Instead, I think they're saying "without confidentiality clauses, high-profile targets are less likely to pay hush money to smooth over false accusations, leading to a reduction in false accusations."

(I initially read it the same way you did.)
Actually, they've actually been using Windows Embedded Standard 7 on a lot of their newer kits lately. This started with Dance Evolution Arcade (mainly because it needed Kinect drivers, since it was a essentially an arcade version of a Xbox 360 Kinect game called Dance Masters), but they've slowly been using 7 on newer cabinets for existing and newer franchises.

Konami changed their model for updates to their games around 2013; although most of their games use a roughly annual release model (with each new version featuring a new interface theme and branding, new content and features, etc.), they introduced a leasing system called "e-Amusement Participation" that, in most cases, supports in-place upgrades to new releases (rather than just patches to the existing version installed on the cabinet, and having to upgrade by replacing the hard drive and security dongle).

Unless the update actually requires the installation of new hardware (such as a new PC and I/O system, such as the latest beatmania IIDX release -- which, in case you're wondering, comes out on Thursday), it's pushed like a Windows 10 automatic upgrade as part of the bootstrap script. However, this doesn't update the OS, hence these older cabinets are still running the copy of XP Embedded from the last version they ran before the automatic update system was put in place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPvjhkyl048 shows Nostalgia (another Konami game) booting up into Windows Embedded Standard 7 and installing its "Forte" update. The bootstrap script is nearly identical on every Konami game, and involves quite a few console windows.
Preserved fish (dried, smoked, salted, or pickled) has been a common food for millennia. It's arguable if it's "smelly", it's by definition not fresh, but it's definitely fine to eat.

It was an important source of protein in centuries past, and was traded all over Europe. It would've also been an effective way for inland residents to get iodine.
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No. Use your wallet to split out your BCH.
There is nothing cool about tearing people away from their families and locking them in tiny cages for such a nebulous and arguably victimless "crime."
China's internal markets are at minimum twice the size of the US and EU (or 3x-4x if you include the underdeveloped areas of the country). They can create a SV that's bigger than SV just by serving their own internal markets.
in case anyone is reading this thread later: per the above, I wrote the author a lightly edited version of nadam's question and a summary of this thread. He replied as below, offering to connect with people who know more. I asked nadam if he was interested but didn't receive a reply. So I didn't follow up except to say "thank you" and let the author now I've copied his comments into the thread.

Author's reply:

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Hi,

thank you for reaching out to me, and for your interest in IOTA. You are right about the Tangle paper - I've put a lot of effort in it, and also tried not to overcomplicate it. But, well, it's "make things as simple as possible, but not simpler" thing - nothing comes for free, and so IOTA is really much more complicated than traditional cryptos, one simply cannot understand it without investing some effort first.

Regarding your questions: first of all, I'd like to stress that that paper is more about the Tangle - an idealized mathematical model, than about concrete details of IOTA's implementation. In view of this,

- are nodes full nodes?

In the paper it doesn't matter, there the nodes are just entities that sign the transactions and (more importantly) choose where these transactions will be attached.

- Is the history maintained in each node?

In principle, yes. Note, however, that the tip selection algorithm only uses the recent history of the system (that cumulative weight calculation only depends on this). This opens possibilities for periodic snapshotting: for the system to work, a node should know that recent history, and the account's balances before.

- How much storage does a node need?

- How fast is a transaction confirmed?

This depends too much on the concrete details of the implementation. Unfortunately, I'm not an expert there, I'm too much a "theory" guy. Should I connect you with someone more qualified?

Best regards,
Thanks, well I guess if these encryption problems can be solved efficiently, then most of the modern world would collapse.
I thought it was pretty obvious if they committed to giving people their BCH balance they'd have to at least halfway support it. Plus, they never reported any setbacks. The people I talk crypto with and myself are already busy trying to guess what will make it on Coinbase/GDAX after BCH. If this development is any indicator, we're wasting our time since we can just wait until they announce and buy in the period between announcement and launch (assuming they announce the next one before launching it).
Yet Bannon's push against big websites wasn't done in a bubble. Public sentiment towards these sites is changing, with revelations about James Damore, Russian propaganda, Alexa being an overtly feminist Black Lives Matter supporter[1], and many other things like this.

Like it or not, culture matters. The fact that all of these powerful sites are blatantly picking sides while at the same time accruing massive amounts of power is inevitably going to gain attention from legislators.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2017/dec/12...
Yes, but with analytics in place you'll find that when it happens and be able to fix it?
Which is a problem for people who exclusively eat from McDonald’s, I suppose. Most people use salt at home, though, and salt that you buy in a supermarket is generally iodised.
To a customer there's no visible difference between a company that claims to uphold those values selling the product for $20, and a company actually upholding those values that sells the same thing for $30.
I always thought it was just another name for napolitos. In that case I will say the prickly pear leaves are commonly available in many grocery stores as an ethnic food item. The fruit, on the other hand, is quickly becoming a premier produce item in many major stores here, but the fruit are only available for about 3-4 weeks each year.
That paradigm shift already happened with Charlie Shrem.
> or simply forcing ISPs to ban traffic on mining ports now that NN is gone

If the government can force ISPs to implement content-neutral routing, what on earth would stop the government from forcing ISPs to mandate content-neutral routing for everything except mining ports, or going even further to demand that DPI be used to investigate the content of all ports to prohibit mining activity?
It's all good until you actually have a problem, and then you're just stuck emailing someone who never replies.
Victimless? How so?
Background: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap

It seems to consist of a set of railway specialised tags, which exist within the OpenStreetMap database. OpenRailwayMap then runs their own tiling/rendering infrastructure to generate maps with a rail emphasis.

If I understand correctly, there is no split here, as the OSM database remains the "mother lode" of mapping information?
How do we know this isn't just propaganda?
Soviet propaganda. Didn’t happen.
I'm not going to record a video just to reply to HN comments;)

And we all know what is meant by "X, er, that is, Y"; it's even used intentionally in verbal language.
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I've heard stories, guesses, and claims that the current traffic data shown on google maps is potentially aggregated from smartphone GPS and accelerometer readings on android phones or though their Google apps. It's crazy and amazing to just think about it.
Like I said, on a 100-year timeline, the Dow Jones index outperformed gold -- with and without the gold standard, through booms and busts, through the great depression, through the oil crisis, etc. Since 1900, an investment tracking the DJIA would have gained 6x the value of a gold investment.
The less exciting but correct headline would be "Nazis killed her husband, she joined the army and became a tank driver".
That's what I remember about it too. It was such a drastic improvement over the old MapQuest site where you'd have to click arrows around the edges of the map and wait for it to load to scroll around the map. I was immediately sold on it (even though I was still just printing out directions to take with me in the car).
I think we can agree that not every enthusiast will prefer one type of car under every single corner case. You might consider the case in which electric cars are already more fun: drag racing. I know that's more of an American thing, but still.
Insider trading laws gamify the finance industry by reducing the level of accuracy with which people are permitted to trade in order to increase the liquidity in the market. I believe this is done to increase stability.

It's purely an economic decision to have it be illegal, I can't see anything inherently immoral about it. Some people consider breaking the law to be immoral even when the activity would otherwise be ok however I suspect most people that get angry about insider trading do so because its an activity associated with wealthy wall street types and they're really just angry at wealthy wall street types.
A refreshing change from the factually incorrect fluff pieces about coal and gas that much of Australia's mainstream media like to publish.
Is there a reason anyone uses Apple Maps, aside from wanting to avoid Google out of principle/privacy/monoculture concerns? To be clear, these are entirely legitimate reasons, but I was wondering if the product has any direct benefits for the user (which is a coherent subset of reasons given the modal users' level of concern about systemic issues).

I'm not trying to randomly snipe at Apple here, I just know very little about Apple Maps beyond the bad press its gotten and Apple's general software product competency weaknesses.

EDIT: Thanks for the responses, that's all pretty much the kind of thing I was wondering about
Yeah, I do this habitually, especially for anything I’ve grown myself. To be honest, I suspect it doesn’t really do anything much.
Gold bars don't require the electricity output of a small country to keep running.

Although I suppose digging them up also has serious environmental consequences.
I really want to see the information relevant to me, assuming I'm in the leak. Just to see how accurate it is.
Chicken and egg: Are the unconfirmed transactions because people are selling? Or are people selling because there are so many unconfirmed transactions?

Looks a bit like a bank run, complete with the lines at the teller.
Use TOR?
Oh please. AWS can get super-complicated but, especially with the latest console updates, you really have to try to make S3 buckets public. There are good reasons for public buckets; I use them. At this point if you're kicking people, it really is on the developer (or the management of their app dev organization) if they make S3 buckets public "accidentally."
Of the additional 80% gold I'd guess about half represents profit for gold miners or tax or mining royalties. So 40% of the gold supply has come at zero marginal cost.

Also keep in mind that a technological breakthrough could produce a sudden glut in gold supply, as we have seen recently with oil and gas fracking.

The main reason the price has gone up is that the world population is in aggregate far richer than in 1980. What's more, Indians and Chinese (who are culturally inclined to invest in gold) have seen their wealth grow particularly rapidly, so the proportion of world assets stored in gold has likely increased.
If you send 1 million dollars in bitcoin, the crazy volatility may mean that you only sent $950,000 by the time your transaction was confirmed.

The bitcoin blockchain is a great way to transfer a fixed amount of bitcoin. It is an awful, awful way to transfer a fixed amount of wealth.
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Ah! I misunderstood. You're talking about the possibility of "check one, go by that candidate's endorsed ballot". (Something that could really be added to just about any voting system; I hadn't really considered it as essential to PLACE in particular.) Yeah, that's an interesting point against that feature, then. Hadn't considered that.
Most plug-in EVs have pretty small electric motors. If low performance is your thing, that's great.
Well, yes. My complaint is really about the idea of "our current pure, strict definition". Who gets to make that definition, and when was it ever different?

When Randy Cohen ran "The Ethicist" column in the NYT, and a similar program for NPR ... didn't most non-academics consider it philosophy?

When people talk about "The Trolly Problem" ... isn't that also philosophy?

So it seems to me that many more people are engaged in philosophy - "not only our cognition, but also our imagination, emotions, artistic sensibility, religious impulses" - than the author acknowledges.
I use it primarily because of integration with the lock screen and integration with CarPlay.
Yes, YCombinator, you should be proud; you've made a giant money sucking machine that will suck money out of clueless millennials, poor grandmas, and well, mainstream idiots. Here's to no government regulations!!
Apple doesn't allow non-apple maps apps to be used with CarPlay.
imo It's not just the previous one. Bill is an awesome philanthropist, but I see Steve's reign as a continuation of 'What would Bill do?'.
The other solution is to have mixed representation where a portion of the seats represent districts and the rest are allocated to match the proportions voted for by the state. In this case each voter gets 2 votes: 1 for their district and 1 for a party.
More and more the US resembles the wild west where only the fittest survive and how fit you are depends heavily on the success of your parents and the financial circumstances you were born into.

I liken it to capitalism 2.0 or a new form of corrupted monarchy where the 1% of royalty will protect their castles by slowly diminishing the power of the population’s representative government.

In China there seems to be at least some anxiety amongst the wealthy that the Comunist party’s eye of Sauron might gaze upon you and your life tossed into the flaming lava as it’s harder for a system without elections to be corrupted by lobbyists.

In the US the big money interests are supremely defiant.

Europe still scarred by the wars seems to understand the need for opportunity and decency on a much deeper level.
Drug dealers use Monero, not Bitcoin.
Should only affect pre-broken code. Like complaining that a compiler is doing something with undefined behavior than you wanted: I get that it's annoying, but maybe fix your code so it's not a problem?
So, for example, if a business in my neighborhood has a sign that says "No hippies, Jews, or N?????s", I should continue to shop there until they get convicted by a court?
a state sanctioned E-Coin system

We have these, they're called debit cards, credit cards, paypal, etc.

For anything "state-sanctioned," centralized and "trustful" systems are always going to be more efficient, and chosen over less efficient and inferior options.

This is why it's hard to see where something like bitcoin would ever find widespread use, it's only good for non-"state-sanctioned" things.

If large numbers of people were to start doing non-"state-sanctioned" things, they wouldn't start using bitcoin, they would change the laws of the state.
Would anyone know why a small purchase from Coinbase would still be pending two full weeks or more after funds had left my checking account? Their support isn't too helpful. I've made other successful buys and sells, but one transaction is just stuck pending it seems and they're not being very helpful.
It really is something. If you've never seen it, switch to satellite and start scrolling out. That's realtime cloud information that appears and as you keep going you get realtime night/day location rendering (complete with artificial lighting) and then realtime locations for all the major bodies in our solar system (which you can then hop over too and take a look at) (Edit: Ok, maybe this isn't locations of the bodies but you can still hop over to them and look around. The earth/sun location seems right though). Everyone I show this to has never seen it but the Google engineers that work on this stuff clearly care about what they are putting out.
If a Coinbase employee wanted to trade on inside info they wouldn’t have to do it through Coinbase either. They could do it on another exchange.