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All bitcoin visa cards? My understanding is that bitcoin Visa was already restricted to European countries since September:

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-debit-cards-non-european-re...

Mastercard joined:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/75gu4d/mastercard_...

So, now only Bitcoin Mastercard remains for European countries?

Edit: Added "Bitcoin" to make sure the gentleman below is not confused.
If you see something horrible wrong posted to HN you can email the mods: hn@ycombinator.com (it's a manual process, so write to them only in special cases)

This is a strange submission and probably will not reach the front page, but IMHO it's necessary to report it manually to the mods.

Anyway, if you continue to post similar angry comments in allcaps the mods may notice and ban your account, so better try to fly under the radar for a few days.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

> The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and substantial.
Thought the same. However, consider that it requires a single person of european descent mating with a single person of aboriginal descent to give to the offspring all european and aboriginal ancestry up to a few hundred years earlier. If the offspring mates again within the aboriginal population it starts spreading this ancestry. In a few hundred years it might have spread it to the whole population (even if not a single european gene is actually still present in the dna).

The point is: we consider ancestry a purely additive mechanism; in fact at each generation the amount of dna actually received from a specific ancestor halves, so that you can be of european, or asian or african descent and yet have practically no genes from that side.
I disagree with the last part of this sentence. I know a lot of developers, the vast majority of whom have preferred Apple laptops for years, and very few of whom develop in Objective-C and Swift.
I agree with a lot of other commenters that Apple are becoming more and more complacent and arrogant about the developer part of their customer base, which I think is larger than perhaps they realise.
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> [...]but I still think creators were/are being robbed.

Sure, they are. By the recording companies.

The argument we, nerds, made at the time is that with that model of content creation and distribution artists were still getting most of their income from concerts, so ideally they could move to a self-publishing model or even give their music for free and still retain most of their income.

I don't know how familiar you are with the music industry, but the amount of money a musician gets (or used to get, I've been decades away from that business) is usually cents per album sold. You get 100K sales? Congratulations, that's a massive achievement, here's your $5K. To share among all the band members. Off you go.

Don't take my word for it, either, read a few interviews with Trent Reznor in the early 00's, for example, when he left the music label he was with and moved to self-publishing (which he was almost doing anyway), here's one where he talks about this head on:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/q-a-with-trent-rez...

It turns out that the internet is a great tool for new musicians to advertise themselves, you have plenty of places that allow you to upload your stuff for free and selling your music is easier now than ever. Of course it requires a set of new skills (a bit of marketing, sales, technical know-how) but on the whole, you have more control and less strings attached than with a record label. Very few people buy physical media any more, so most of the advantages of signing with a company (production, sales, distribution, logistics...) are gone anyway.

And that's the beauty of this: Recording labels are still a viable businesses, they can still offer services the musicians and fans need, all we said is that the balance of power had to shift from the power ties in the offices earning millions to the musicians actually making the stuff.
I don't understand, what are lisp/scheme/racket/haskell being used for? I mean how are those languages good from a software engineering point of view? From a project management point of view?

Is it possible to hear bad things about those languages? Why aren't they used? Is it because they are too hard to use, or to difficult to approach for a beginner?
Then why do people rate them so highly?!? Not even Amazon operated like this.

At this point Uber resembles Webvan.com, than Amazon.com.

Does anyone really believe that they're going to recover the money invested in Uber? Let alone get more on top of that.

I don't get it...
I think the title might be misleading here. It doesn't really transpile Common Lisp to C, it requires you to write in a C-like Lisp dialect so it gets translated to C. Might as well have been an entire Lisp dialect with a compiler of its own.
I think it’s more that 99% of people don’t need a gopro. I’m a damn good mountain biker and snowboarder but the footage i would get with a go pro would be pretty boring !!
You can't have it both ways

I'm sure a lot of people said "this is good for bitcoin" when they launched this

Looking forward to read how having long confirmation times, high fees and high volatility is good for bitcoin
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Exactly.. Open source is awesome, don't get me wrong, but it's not safer by definition. Sure, people can look for problems and openly discuss it and fix it, but that's assuming they are whitehats. Blackhats are also looking, all day every day, for exploits in open-source code. And they can find them before whitehats do.
Sure, in theory... In the end you either educate the users if you can, or try to make the big platforms more accepting of this, or both. There is no perfect solution. Being an "entertainment site" isn't a good excuse.
YouTube will react appropriately to a DMCA notice if you send them one. That's all they have to do to keep their safe harbor. Anyone can go look up their registered agent and do it.

But YouTube's own easy-to-use automated enforcement system is very different from the DMCA, and almost certainly will ignore or at least massively de-prioritize notices-within-that-system-which-are-not-DMCA-notices against a major company. So if you felt you had a real case you'd probably have to actually send a DMCA notice, which would just result in automatic counter-notice and YouTube saying "well, we followed the rules, if you want more to happen you have to go sue that gigantic company all by yourself".
for now, but in 2-3 years, you won't, with lighting and schnoor, etc. same as cars eg. there are no roads, are noisy, cost more than a horse, are just a fad, etc.
The VM just needs branches, it's the host CPU's prediction you're messing with.
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Funny, same reaction, but I memorized XcQ :).
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Radix aims to be quick and cheap enough to be a viable option for this https://www.radix.global/
They can even support off the shelf POS terminals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMw7hQ6x2f0

Disclaimer: I have just joined their team, because I think what they're doing is awesome
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Batch processing. Inference with NN's. Yes, even inference is much faster on a GPU. Perhaps a factor of 40.

Some jobs have time constraints and need to be completed as quickly as possible.

And I have very bursty workloads.

I would love such a service.
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This black and white thinking is just not practical. "Since very large increases will disallow nodes on consumer hardware we will block any increase" is just poor engineering.

The approach of Bitcoin Cash is to allow the increase when possible. 8MB is for example perfectly doable today on consumer hardware. Investigations are ongoing for how large the blocks can become and improvmenets are being made on for example propagation time and allowing faster startup of nodes.

For example 1GB have been propagated and validated in a timely manner by consumer hardware existing today. (Not saying we should bump it up right now, but the capabilities are here).

> With a 1MB block size an attack block will take 40 seconds to validate with a 2MB size it will take 14 minutes.

That's just wrong.

Edit: Because Bitcoin Cash eliminates the quadratic hashing problem.

> Bitcoin Cash's mantra is that they want people to treat 0-confirmation transactions as safe which is absolutely the opposite of what the whole protocol is about.

No it's not. There are different degrees of safe which Bitcoin totally fails to acknowledge. Buying a coffee with 0-conf and a basic double spend heuristic is perfectly fine and has been done on Bitcoin until full blocks (and RBF) killed it, for example by shapeshift. xmr.to which converts Monero to Bitcoin is also accepting 0-conf for smaller amounts.

Here again the extremist black and white thinking is bad.

> The correct solution to scaling is a Layer 2 protocol.

No, the correct solution combines on-chain and off-chain scaling.
So, suggesting Site Isolation as a mitigation is a security theater from Google to calm down some users, but it doesn't actually help anyone. The real mitigation is disabling javascript by default, which Google can never suggest.
If you're interested in trying your hand at short-term projects, I may have some work for you in the coming months.

I am a software freelancer and so my work is project based. I also teach web development workshops at the local college.

The way I see this working is to section off chunks of work for you from my contracts. You would perform the work and pay me for mentorship and code review. Of course, your code would then be incorporated into the project so you could claim the experience on your resume.

I wouldn't be able to promise full-time work as mentorship is quite time intensive and I will have to balance it with my own work. Likewise I tend to have some downtime between projects so there isn't always work that needs to be done.

If this is something that interests you, let me know. My email is e@ericwaldman.ca

At the moment, I am on hiatus until February so unfortunately I don't have anything to offer until at least then.
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Also that people thought GoPro would have some kind of network effect: sharing content with each other or GoPro-exclusive accessories or something to keep people on the GoPro platform. Without that, the knockoffs can eat their lunch.
Can't disagree with that, but for some genomics work it's just not a realistic option when you can get output from a slice of mainframe in 1/10th the time, and that time is like 2 and some change days.
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I think the most interesting quote is: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
I would think it is their huge failure of a drone.
This is from March 2017.
this article is fro MAR 15, 2017
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The uploaded title seems to be cut short, as the title of the article is "GoPro to lay off 270 workers in an effort to cut costs".
Hey there HN!

I completely redesigned the website with a login system, up/downvoting, discussion forums per trend and a reward system so people get points when they're good at predicting hypes.

I'm looking for some feedback on whether this is something you would personally find useful – whether I should continue working on it or not :) Thanks!
GoPro cuts 200-300 jobs in aerial products unit
Agreed, action cams are just overhead you don’t need when doing adventure / action spots. Fun once or twice then the novelty wears off and you just want to focus on the sport.

I’ve also lost plenty of footage using my GoPro, cliff jumps in exotic locations etc, get home and and corrupt video files etc. Turned me off it
The inability of adults to get totally absorbed into experiencing a movie (or a book) is a clear obstacle of enjoying the experience. Allowing the experience to wash over you without analyzing it while experiencing gets harder. Getting 3d or perfect reality virtual reality hardware is not going to fix that.

If you can do it as an adult, 2001 is great and Inland Empire from David Lynch is amazing. Inland Empire speaks directly to the unconsciousness and goes past of any explanation. You walk out from the theater wondering what happened. It's like you have been injected with something. The experience that lingers has no explanation.
The Yuan.
HSBC/RBS/Citi were fine with it; and given the amount of the fines, it was plenty profitable and they’re likely still doing it.
there is a layoff but the link here is wrong:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gopro-redundancies/gopro-...
Yes. Same quality with even less than 1/3rd of the price, probably 1/4th or 1/5th if you buy on Aliexpress or Banggood.

It's unclear what they can offer / invent to change that.
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Everyone is free to make public predictions about the future prospects of Uber, including the author of [1] and yourself.

But this is not an example of the notion that "many people get rich by selling shares to suckers", and this is not the kind of thing O'Reilly was talking about.

The people who have invested billions of dollars in Uber are not "suckers". They are some of the most sophisticated and experienced investors on the world, and they have access to information that is not available to anybody else, including me, you and the paper's author.

Most importantly, they have skin in the game, that the rest of us, including the author, do not. If they are wrong about their investment decisions, they will lose significant amounts of money personally and on behalf of their limited partners, which will hurt their reputations and prospects for attracting more funds in the future.

None of this means that I think Uber is certain to succeed. Of course nobody knows.

But it's unquestionable that Uber has already created vast amounts of economic value already (for people - particularly several women I know - who feel safer in Ubers than they did in cabs, for drivers who make a living from Uber, and for people who can afford to pay for rides more often than they could before Uber existed), and the investors who believe it will continue to create more value are well qualified to make that judgement.

For what it's worth, I dislike Kalanick as a character, and I have no great love for Uber as a company.

I just care about accuracy in discussions like this.
Not necessarily. People have different skill sets and delegating something to someone who can do it better than you and with less effort is a win for both sides.
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You usually can’t build wealth or increase the value of a single home much. The physical house depreciates, but the land it sits on increases in value due to factors outside of the owner’s control. You are right though, that it’s a tax-free way of saving, and you can keep trading up using the gains and the leverage you have.
I don't see this happening for bitcoin, though (or maybe for online orders, which don't need to be instant).

Two years ago, I got sick of banks whose services I found of lesser and lesser quality, and tried a bitcoin/VISA debit card, just to see if it was working. The idea was this: I make a bitcoin transaction to add bitcoins in card provider wallet, and when transaction is complete, I could exchange it for fiat that I could use with my card.

"when transaction is complete" is the culprint :) I needed to have fiat in the card so that payments to a cashier was instant. If you remove that step, transaction delays make it not realistic for buying stuff while outdoor, especially given current delays (but even two years ago, it wouldn't do).

So, for bitcoin to work without VISA (or alike) as third party, bitcoin will first need to find a way to make transactions instant.

The alternative, obviously, being to use it for purchases where transaction delay doesn't matter (like online purchases), or to use an other cryptocurrency for that.
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>End users are expected to adhere to FCC rules even if they have the technical ability to violate them.

The FCC rules changed ~two years ago, you aren't allowed to sell devices capable of violating FCC rules. The original rule just banned third party firmware, but after some outrage it was changed so that the easiest way to comply was blocking third party firmware. They clearly wanted to ban them altogether, wouldn't be surprised if they were working on it right now
Coinbase is such a giant scam. Insider trading...questionable banning of users..the list goes on. Doing business with the devil is never pleasant!
Groincoin. Can you guess what niche it was aimed at?
I was not thinking about fake images when looking at the article this was pure instinctive revulsion. It's easier to avoid the uncanny valley with pictures than motion, but some of theses fall deep into it and many others don't even make it that far.
Doesn't "cross-compile" mean to compile a binary meant to run on a different platform than the host? Like, compiling a Linux binary on a Mac... If I'm right then that's nothing like what "transpile" means.
Multicore performance is getting faster at a very high pace.

Ryzen 1700X has 3.3 times the multicore performance of my i5 3450 from 2012 for almost the same price. With 7nm we will see at least another 50% increase in multicore performance on top of that.
Creators were being robbed long before the Internet came along and made piracy easy, yo. The music industry is literally filled with some of the most heinous, double-crossing hustlers you will ever find.
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Haven't heard that song (on youtube) in years. Blocked in my country.
Not sure. You don't have to be Christopher Nolan for it to be interesting.

You can use it as a kind of dashcam to document what you are doing, watch it after the fact to look at what you can improve, what went wrong, etc. and then discard the footage and start again.

Or if it was somehow streamable it would surely find an audience. Even marbles running down hills get crazy view counts on Youtube!
That's up for debate!

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His claim was the leak, and it was huge, and I'm not going to dig through it for you for quotes just because you're a contrarian. The NSA did a shit ton of surveillance that was not justified under known US law, and that's pretty well accepted at this point.

What claim don't you think is true? Was the NSA not indiscriminately scooping up and querying communications between US citizens?
For online payments instant payments are actually not that important requirements. The process needs to happen just fluently from customers perspective. If the merchant is dispatching physical items, he can just wait for the transaction to confirm and dispatch the items after that. The customer won't see much difference because the biggest issue is the shipping time.

For online payments bitcoin works quite well. Still credit cards are often better for the consumer, because of the consumer protection (chargebacks).
Correction: Cards issued by bitcoin services were terminated.

Visa works perfectly fine like it always did. Let's not mix things up.
Even if you need a gopro, your usage will be probably limited once the hype is passed. You will probably never buy a new go pro either because the first one works fine or because of its limited usage. The next buy may probably be a drone that follows you with a camera.
I would actually consider doing this if I were in the same position. You'd have to wonder what the consequences were, considering that by filing a claim against someone you are establishing that you believe there to be a violation. If the claimant then is shown to have the newer work by several years, I wonder how such a claim would be taken?
I wonder if Apple can retro-actively add the retpoline trick to the apps submitted in bitcode.
If so, then I expect Apple to make bitcode mandatory.
Which is why I mentioned the distinction :)
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I think the idea is that you write C-with-sexpr-syntax, but by embedding those s-expressions in Common Lisp, you can make use of macros written in Lisp to generate C code. Essentially, it's a saner preprocessor for C that requires you to write in funky syntax.

I think this would be even more interesting if it could do the C -> s-expression transformation, so that code already written in C could integrate calls to Lisp macros without needing a full rewrite.
You are talking sanity in an insane world.

My money is on more x86 procs with more cores, and even flakier cache coherency and memory protection.
To combat the sedentary effects of sitting at a desk >8h/day and get the blood flowing. I find the physical effort mentally reinvigorating.
never understood why they didn't market a dedicated dash cam variant. there are dash cams in their price range, certainly within the Hero5 and stripped of water proofing needs and such surely they could have banked on their name to push them. site security and more as well.
I tried reading in public transportation. It worked for me 1% of the time. I just get distracted by anything and end up watching the view.
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Stating the obvious, this clearly shows man is not the only animal to use fire as a tool.
That's not correct. There is always some amount of fraud that manage to go through all the checks. That doesn't mean it's intentional. And that certainly doesn't mean that any financial service can stop doing any verification and become a paradise for fraudsters.