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Wire transfer fraud.

I am an insider in the Bitcoin industry, and within 1 day of opening a new bank account we started seeing fraudulent wires flooding in. When we dug deeper, it was shocking to see how many Americans' bank credentials have been hacked. It takes almost no effort for a EEU/RUS hacker to send a wire from a hacked bank account.

Once the fraudulent wire is sent, rest of the wire transfer system is tediously manual. So wire network participants simply choose to block bank accounts that receive repeated bad wires. This is why Wells Fargo cut out Bitfinex and Visa has decided to stop working with Bitcoin companies.

ACH fraud is even more rampant because you can pull money from someone's account without their consent (as long as they don't notice/contest within certain number of days). Coinbase profit margin is 0.5% per trade, so they need to keep their ACH fraud rate below that number to not lose money. ACH fraud rate is well over 1% industry-wide. This is why I strongly believe that Coinbase has to be losing massive amounts to ACH chargebacks.
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They can be flipped, but it takes three hours to know if it was heads or tails.
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As someone who has grown up in the South, and who has visited San Francisco, Philadelphia, DC, NYC, Boston and other places, I agree public transport is amazing, and I wish cities in the South could pull it off. I also recognize it's incredibly difficult, and expensive, to do so. And even if we had the money and ability to build rail along freeway lines, and build stops at popular social and residential hubs, how do people get to the rail station? Vehicle. And for many people, the question will then be, "Why drive to the station, wait 15 minutes, take a train with multiple stops, etc. when I can just drive?"

At which point you talk about incentives against driving, at which point you piss off millions of people, and potentially punish those who legitimately couldn't use rail due to work or scheduling circumstances.

You're really blowing off something incredibly difficult, more difficult (politically and financially) than putting someone on the moon. And your snark isn't even conceptually consistent; we thought we were a snowflake in the 60s, we just really were one of the greatest countries in the world. Firearm issues are there but over hyped/more complex than you want to admit, and if anything, we really should let states take the reins at healthcare, because it'd be a lot easier for regional governments to pull something off and get the ball rolling than to constantly fight at our crippled-by-two-national-parties Congress.
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Umm I wasn’t really being serious about this at first but due to overwhelming response I might try this.
Upvote for cscope mention.

I prefer cscope -Rqk. I run cscope on the zeroth window of a tmux/screen session with a $CSCOPE_EDITOR program that's a script that starts the real $EDITOR in a new window in the same session (with an appropriate window name) and in the background so that cscope gets control back immediately. This allows me to use cscope to drive large code investigations very easily.
To me, this rebuttal reads, "I don't understand it, ergo it must be dubious".

I'm criticizing JWT. Not you, or any other developer. If you don't understand or follow or agree with my criticism, that's OK. We can still live our lives.
> screwing Wozniak

This is an unpopular opinion, but if it weren't for Jobs, Woz would have remained an unknown HP engineer.
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I’d risk saying we’re all intensely aware how hard Cache invalidation is, right now
But society is made of people. If those people had solidarity to begin with, they wouldn't need a government to get them to take care of each other. That's totally compatible with capitalism. If they don't have solidarity they will never vote for the government to mandate that kind of thing.
Since C2Ds are still highly regarded by the FSF RYF crowd, I wonder how much of this has been mitigated and how much of this is still an issue with LibreBoot Trisquel laptops.
The tone of the article seems also rather biased against Twitter. For example, it mentions;

> “Today, we announce a change in collections practice for Twitter. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, the Library will acquire tweets on a selective basis—similar to our collections of web sites.” The phrasing was elegant, but the sentiment was nonetheless familiar: “Quitting this shit!!!!”

No. That's not at all the sentiment I get from that. The volume has probably grown too big and it makes little sense to archive spend money archiving all of it.
But the opposite view could just as easily be used as a justification

Agreed. Human animals will always find pseudo-rational reasons to do nefarious things.
The use of Uber and services like it has dramatically changed the lives of some people. Go ask a blind person if Uber has had an impact on their life. Even in the case of normal day-to-day users, I think it’s disingenuous to say that it’s a “marginal improvement on taxis”. Your bias, likely based on your dislike of Travis or the company, is showing through.
The nature of the ISA can influence the kinds of optimizations undertaken.
I might be wrong, but SaaS is a business model, not a technology or SaaS is not just web-based apps.
+ ~ 10% corp. tax rate (no VAT, gains tax etc.)

+ the legal system is based on English law

+ English is the first language

+ time zone is central to Europe

+ lots of things are allowed such as gambling (hence why online gambling sites are located here often),

+ Part of EU yet self governing. (well technically an UK Overseas Territory but they are far from listening to anything the UK says).

+ No exchange control...

etc.
This hasn't been launched yet, but IPFS is also planning to introduce their cryptocurrency, Filecoin, to offer cheap hosting. People will then host your site (aka pin it on their IPFS node) for Filecoins, which should be cheaper than traditional file storage services.
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True, but filling the records with so much noise that finding the interesting ones amounts to concentrating gold from seawater, you’re no longer doing the job an archivist should.
Thanks for the detailed response. I understand your point completely - I agree that having datasheets publicly available certainly provides a level of transparency.

The problem is that you're already trusting Apple by buying their system which is inherently closed. macOS is a completely closed OS with literally zero information about how these discrete chips may be used. The datasheet provides you with the API to the hardware, but you have no idea how Apple would be using the microphone for example - whether it is T2 chip or Realtek.

GP's argument about "closed system" is moot when you're talking about using an inherently closed system - meaning, OS + Hardware.

Also datasheets are what Realtek, for example, wants to publicize. How would you know if there is additional functionality built into the controller for backdoors, etc. that is deliberately left out of the datasheet?
Amen to that :)
If you look at Figure 1 at http://voxeu.org/article/rate-return-everything, the advantages of housing returns predate those policies by decades, although it looks likely that the policies have stabilized the returns since they have existed.

Edit: The actual paper breaks down the data between all data and post-1950. The advantages of housing appear actually greater pre-1950, before those policies.
Anyone know if the researchers took any pictures/video of the hawks at work?
These sorts of things are great reminders of just how bloated modern software is and what is possible if you can avoid the bloat. These systems are less powerful than a typical modern washing machine or refrigerator.
I rewrote mine to. One big problem i hit before rewriting was performance and also css :after classes they are not reachable in the DOM if I remember correctly.
So I resorted to patching phantom to give me access to the WebKit render tree.(which is a tree similar to the Dom tree but not the same.

I can't remember if there was some big issue that eventually made me stop developing. I think the final issue was characters with dual width like many Chinese characters the gui library blessed did not understand the concept of characters with non standard width and a single such character would destroy the entire layout.
And issues with correlting the render tree and the Dom tree.
When you can explain why people trade hard-earned cash for cryptocurrency but would never buy your UUIDs, then you'll understand the flaw in your argument.

Hint: It's not because they're stupid or deceived. Go deeper.
The fifth hardest thing is figuring out the canonical form :)
I'm a Redux maintainer, and both Dan Abramov and I would disagree.

Describing behavior as plain object actions _is_ a form of indirection, compared to code that directly applies a state update. It's a tradeoff. Use of plain object actions takes some more code, but opens up the power of middleware and time travel debugging.
cscope is a sine qua non of C (and even C++ and Java) development. Of course, with OOP languages a dumb lexical indexer is not that useful (this applies to OpenGrok and many others too) -- if you're looking for calls to the getName() method of a particular class (and sub-classes) in a huge codebase then you'll be in for a lot of pain. But for C cscope is absolutely fantastic and much much better than etags/ctags.
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> I like to think of the universe as a deterministic computer that is calculating its own outcome - there is no shortcut to jump to the end.

I've mostly heard this dubbed "computational irreducibility" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_irreducibility
What does this have to do with TeaVM? I see this as a generic tangent as it could be posted to any thread mentioning WebAssembly.

>Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to use C/C++ as needed -- sometimes you have no choice.
Right, a strength and weakness of cryptocurrency is that you are your own bank.

This post was mostly about what Coinbase is doing to mitigate the risk in their architecture (like AWS) I thought you were implying that Chase's vulnerabilites were different in some regard.

>If someone gets into your Chase account and transfers all your money out there is a recourse and you get all your money back

There is? My understanding is that fraud and theft are not covered by FDIC insurance.
The specs on this are kind of weird.

Z80, 1MB memory, 2TB HDD.

Is this some kind of super Z80 clocked at 50+Mhz? I tend to think of Z80 systems as having 32-128kB of memory and 400k floppies for storage.
The stuff taught in introductory finance is a considerably simplified model of the real world. The prime rate is I believe the rate banks lend to large corporations and those corporations wouldn't bother borrowing unless they could get a return exceeding those costs.
Economically healthy means there are jobs with healthy wages, etc. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston would be healthier than say Detroit, Cleveland, or Bakersfield.

Productive means the money causes things to actually happen like new product development, entrepreneurship, research, health care, etc., vs. just sitting in a bank. Productive also means it benefits people doing real things vs. just collecting rent and sitting around.

Look at Silicon Valley and imagine how much more angel capital there might be if real estate were not so inflated. When someone buys a $1.5M starter home, that's $1M not available for other investments.
I wonder if the extreme r - g divergence is helped by another factor: tax havens and hidden assets. GDP only includes things that can be counted and taxed; there have long been attempts to allow for the grey or black economy in GDP, but fundamentally it's dark matter that the owners are trying to hide.

But on the other end the assets are visible; we can count that there are X trillion dollars in bonds and Y trillion dollars in housing. We just can't work out who owns them because the trail goes dead in blind trusts in tax havens somewhere.

(There's a good paper on this that I can't find right now)
We now know there are many conspiracies in our industry wrt national intelligence but I agree with you- this is probably not one of them.

Why ask for a bug when you can just sit back and wait for them?
In my opinion it's quite simple. I eat what I would be willing to personally kill and butcher myself. I think trying to justify why 'A' and not 'B' to ourselves is somewhat unproductive. Two people watch a movie, one person likes it - the other dislikes it. Both can give their reasons for such, but neither is right or wrong.

Attempting to quantify subjective matters is arguably one of the big reasons so many of the social sciences are facing replication crises. There are so many factors in play that the quantifications, or justifications, we provide to explain social phenomena like this are not very meaningful even if we think they are! The most important thing is to be aware of the facts, so much as possible, but beyond that simply to take your opinion as what it is - a subjective view based on a complex series of mental interactions that even you are not fully privy to.
...and to define things as nefarious.
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The only way I could see you doing this is by automatically scanning an employee's email archive and producing a list of services.

I do not see how introducing yet another standard solves the problem. SAML and similar standards already solve this problem; just many SaaS do not support SAML.
They do update that price frequently (minutes, maybe seconds) and there is a premium added to the price. I assume they add this premium so they can then go liquidate it for profit on the exchange as needed.
Answered in the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16079576

Anything with atomic increments works so we've also used a completely separate system for just IDs before like dynamodb or google's cloud datastore.
If the OS is open sources here are a few Machines it could be ported to with the Z80 processor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Z80-based_home_comput...

Also the Z80 was in a lot of game systems and arcade machines. Imagine Sonic and Pac Man multitasking:

http://www.z80.info/z80gm.htm

http://kmuw.org/post/z80-most-prolific-cpu-all-time
The SEC has said they consider some cryptos securities. They've been pretty reasonable about it so far.
> ionization was sadly impossible in the code, as the repeated volume of supercells made any unbalanced charge effectively infinite. I came up with some ways to handle this, but we lacked computer power for that.

Calculations of charged periodic systems are possible through the use of Ewald summation techniques (or particle mesh Ewald/related techniques). It basically introduces a homogeneous neutralizing background charge, which is unphysical and makes it so that a the total energy of a charged particle in a box converges to the "true" result as a function of 1/volume. This is applicable to both classical and quantum simulations.

There is no way to do a "true" charged periodic system, but honestly that's never what you want (because true infinite systems with net charge don't exist!). You can do better than homogeneous neutralizing background charge by introducing a neutralizing electrolyte through a continuum solvent model. Here's the implementation I'm most familiar with (https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03346), but I know the fully open-source JDFTx also implements this (which has a bunch of other fancy approaches to incorporating solvation into periodic DFT calculations).
In that case it wouldn't have been WaveCrest itself that was dropped. They don't touch the Bitcoin, it's their partners that do (the ones that have their names printed on the card). WaveCrest sells pre-paid cards in general. In the Reddit thread someone pointed to new financial regulation in Gibraltar that took force January 1st but so far they haven't communicated themselves in the matter so it's mostly all speculation.
While I understand and agree with you, I feel it's important to note that death threats are never okay, even if (and especially if) "everyone gets them"
If you mean run on bare metal, not happening, due to MSFT's outrageous core pricing model. They force you to license every core available to the OS, whether you need the capacity or not. Running in a VM is the only way of getting around that requirement.

If you mean run something other than MSSQL — also not happening. Vendor lock in.
You've mixed up two things here I think.

Returns vs Cost of buying a house.

The point is that the government subsidies make the profits on buying real estate high, which leads to high prices.

So both are true: "high cost of buying a house" "high returns on real estate"

Obviously they can't be true forever, the upper limit I guess is the ability of the lower classes to rebel divided by their tolerance of being priced out of their own land.
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> Are you genuinely asserting that if we could take the brain of a (insert whatever animal you're considering) and put it in a human shell you wouldn't be able to tell the difference? That's extremely bold.

He never said that. So don't be surprised if people downvote you, if you use that kind of manipulative arguing.
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I think it means 1024 kB of addressable virtual memory.
What prevents someone from changing that 30 minutes into 0 minutes? Iow, what do they gain by not doing this?
It’s about the idea of community, what we can achieve together, as opposed to this cult of individuality that we live in right now. Whether you’re talking about Silicon Valley billionaires or politicians, I think we’re living in an era that over-prizes individuality at the expense of community.

This seems terribly relevant. And it's interesting coming from a director - the leader of creative communities behind the camera while commercial success often depends on the individual standing in front of it.
In a past life as a solutions engineer at a SaaS company, I'll address a couple points specific to a unified solution.

Problem 1: Not every SaaS platform has a company with an API to manage user accounts. Even then, I would be skeptical of a company that offered it and didn't offer it via oauth tokens.

Problem 2: Automating the task within the browser also fails when it comes to uniformity. Any company that lacks an API endpoint for user management means you need to interact with a browser or some other hacky nonsense. With that solution comes the problem of understanding the site structure, login forms, and action menus.

Problem 3: Even if you did the above 2, you now have additional points of failure within your offboarding. If a failure occurs in the automation process, is it silent? What if the API changes (not that it should) or the UI?

The best solution is to look for companies that offer the API option or that support SAML.
Didn't know about that one. Pocket would also work, esp if you're using Firefox. Also works on the Kobo e-reader.

Other options I'm aware of are conventional bookmarks, and OneTab.
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Imagine that you are a business that operates in Bitcoin and pays employees in Bitcoin. How does Lightning solve that? It doesn't. Lightning falls apart if the graph has heavily asymmetric connections, and the only solution is to have banks, which is what these crypto enthusiasts want to get rid of in the first place.

https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/mathematical-proof-that-...
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> Then, one day he also became conduit to information which lead to the political death of an anointed successor to the Obama presidency and he became a traitor, a misogynist, an enemy most foul.

I think Assange was painted as a mysogynist in the global press right back in 2010 when details of his extradition request for a suspected rape came out. That was early in the Obama administration. I see your point but I think the chronology is off. Perhaps those people that are closer to Assange and know him better would know if he should have been criticised as a mysogynist even earlier?

I think a better way to criticise China is to review the recent release of documents about Tiananmen Square.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42465516
As far as I understand it, Coinbase does not allow a user to fund using ACH unless they first prove control of the bank account by:

1) Providing the username and password for online access to the bank account; or

2) Allowing Coinbase to make two micro-deposits to the bank account, and then providing the correct amounts of the deposits when they are received.
so what is the argument beyond "humans so arrogant and humdrum"?
I'm trying to frame where we are by finding out what we are arguing and what we aren't, if we're not there then where are we? That's not manipulative I'm just trying to fix us to specific points so we can progress.

Lets not forget that the parent comment I'm answering is the pithy:

> > We are the only mammal with consciousness
> Uh huh.

Our parent is an unfaithful sarcastic position so I don't see why that gets a pass yet my attempts to solidify the argument justifies this negativity.
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… and perhaps that'll work out but a huge business like Visa isn't going feel threatened by an untested marketing pitch. A very small percentage of people are ideologically committed to cryptocurrencies but everyone serious is going to be looking for proven yes answers to “Does it work at production-level volumes?”, “Is it cheaper than a credit/debit card?”, and “Can my customers use it?”.

For Bitcoin, the answer is no for all three but even if the first and last question were true for something else, the real question is whether #2 could be true: Visa is making a lot of money at 2-3%. If something else started making a serious play, what are the odds that they'd a) give up and go bankrupt or b) lower their fees and be slightly less profitable?
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That’s a really one dimensional analysis. Real estate has been and remains one of the major drivers of economic activity.

The stuff you are upset about is just the downside of increased productivity and consolidation. The only reason you have the wacky real estate costs in certain places is that the money people have concentrated in a few places. Their convenience is more meaningful than the inflated salaries required to support housing that’s 10x the national average.

People have a fundamental drive to improve their home to enhance its value but also be more pleasant and suited to their wants and desires. That drives everything from home improvements to furniture to art.

This ideal of a higher density residential society with lots of landlords that is popular on HN right now is a terrible future. Landlords want one thing — maximum return on assets. That means high cost, minimum possible opex.