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Venmo Is Killing Their Cash Cow
Venmo has gone completely out of their mind with their ban hammer and they certainly are severely overestimating network effects.

Today I was a victim because of a tertiary transaction where I withdrew funds that bounced from the person who paid the person who paid me. Venmo literally applied the transitive property of math to financial transactions... and this is supposed to be a Bank/large laundry.

I am not the only one, in fact thousands of users have found themselves banned for little apparent cause in the last few months. When I attempted to seek resolution or even an explanation I could have sworn I heard the same guy who told my 12-year-old self he would be keeping my life savings for 6 months because I figured out you could buy and sell things to yourself using PayPal coupons for 20% off and there was no limit.

Either way, Venmo must be executing a page out of Paypals old textbook by failing to realize the network effects high users have on such fragile ecosystem surrouned by Apple, Google, Snapchat, and Facebook who would all love to eath their lunch.

Now I know the people at venmo are aware of the so-called "awkward acquaintance" every friend has, but how am I supposed to know if the money is valid when checks take time to fully bounce. It seems the path they are on is almost assured suicide especially since I am finding it very easy to get people to switch to apple pay (if avail).

Literally, the only thing venmo had going for them over any other monotonous bank site was the transaction feed and they are ruining it. I'm sure the IRS wants to stick their noes in venmo's books over money laundering worries but that's not how the government works. Venmo needs to sack up and do some real work because banning your user base isn't a good idea when the kinder ones (aka the ones more likely to spend money on consumer goods and gifts) decide to leave.
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"worth" being valuation based on debt. We don't know their worth because they aren't public.
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Perhaps they could also be as attentive at sending their customers their money.

Take a gander at http://reddit.com/r/coinbase and weep...
I agree with this - his works may have a logic of their own, or they may not, or the logic may not be a logic that can be understood by any human. For me, it helps to think of them as dreams - there's some normal looking stuff, but then there's that bit where you're cycling up a lane that looks like one you used to ride almost weekly, with the head of the sister of a teenage girlfriend looming large somewhere you can't quite place. It doesn't have to mean anything.
Haven't read it personally but heard great things about: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp - Peter Norvig

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1558601910
We Know Almost Nothing About This Secret US Government Airline
Except that a typical user understands the implications of giving camera or location access. I doubt most would understand the implication of giving clock access.
The post says astatine's radioactivity is so high a small sample would vaporize itself, so it can't exist in a condensed phase that would be convenient to study. It can be made by exposing bismuth-209 to an alpha particle beam.

As the post says, this is a cooling problem. I wonder if it would work to deposit a thin film of Bi-209 on a thin diamond plate, the other side cooled by liquid nitrogen. Bombard the bismuth with alpha to make astatine. The diamond's very high thermal conductivity (peaks at over 40,000W/m-°K at ~ 100°K [1]) could keep the mixed bismuth/astatine film in solid form.

Since you'd want to do the alpha irradiation in a vacuum, the setup would allow for a wide range of surface characterization techniques.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_properties_of_diamond...
I'm not sure about that. If you have dependencies to other internal repositories and to specific revisions, it is not clear who is responsible. Make can be agnostic, but Maven or NPM probably can not.
We have ligthning comming up, anx 600+ altcoins to test.
I think you're missing parent's point. People don't buy enterprise software (six- and seven-figure annual licenses) from a 30-day email drip. Therefore, creating such an email drip for an enterprise software company would not have the same results as it would for a B2C/B2Dev SaaS.
I've worked remotely since late 2004 with one six month exception. It's hard to answer questions like "did it hurt my career" because there's no control group to test against. What I can say is that it has worked out particularly well for me, and part of that is because I don't have any particular ambition to rise up in management (I'm a dev.) Although I think it is possible to advance a career into management working remotely, it is probably more difficult to build the personal relationships necessary to do so. If, on the other hand, you're like me: quite satisfied with coding in silence in a spare bedroom without other people around, it's perfect. I get to do what I want, I don't have to commute, and the office rumor mill isn't a big factor in my life. I will continue to work remotely for as long as I can pull it off.
> Before you downvote me

It's sad you have to say this because HNers abuse their downvote privileges. You have an opinion and you express why. Voicing it allows us to see what other HNers are thinking, and as a result, it contributes to discussion.
It’s worth what people are willing to pay for it. In this latest transaction, people are willing to invest billions at a $48 billion valuation. This money isn’t even flowing to the company, but rather to individual shareholders. That means it is currently worth $48 billion.
Banks will be blacklisted if they finance drugdealers. The US war on drugs is no joke and it is international. If your bank participates in the global financial system it can't ignore the US.
Another great write up I posted recently:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30...
So moved by this. Thank you for reading.
At its core both vulnerabilities are essentially privilege escalation bugs (i.e. a random process can read e.g. secret keys from another process), but the Javascript case is the one that makes it remotely exploitable.
Theory is an 'efficient' market model. Practice is not. Reminds me of the old joke:

An Efficient Market Theorist sees a $100 lying on the ground, and passes it by saying "If that existed, someone else would have picked it up by now!".
Seeing you write his name out just made my mind create a connection between him and Travis the taxi driver from "Taxi Driver".

Life has an interesting sense of humor.
We don't know if 11500 years was indeed the first. But I understand your argument.
Can you elaborate on how this differs from Coinbase? My understanding is that they are insured. If you are a US customer your cash balance at Coinbase is insured by the FDIC (like it is on Chase).
Wine Performance May Be Impacted by Linux KPTI Patches
There appears to be a statement from /u/WirexApp stating it's more than Wavecrest?
GDB builds a dummy-frame for the inferior function call, and the unwinder cannot seek for exception handlers outside of this dummy-frame. What happens in that case is controlled by the set unwind-on-terminating-exception command.
Where can a machine be got to run this system?
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It builds up over time with a slow drip drip drip. Just the constant soul destroying pointlessness of socializing on the internet though comment boards.

Anyways, I googled it and no it is not possible to delete a hacker news account. I successfully disabled reddit, facebook, twitter and linkedin though. So, this is the last outpost of an abysmal time on the web.

Thanks everyone. I am out.
Yes. And we were waiting on an attack that used speculative CPU execution / branch prediction since 2006.
No, at least in Europe "Fake Plastic Trees", "Just" and "Karma Police" were bigger than Creep. For most people their career ended with Kid A.
At its core both vulnerabilities are essentially local privilege escalation bugs (i.e. a random process can read e.g. secret keys from another process), but that still is a very important exploit - if I can run unprivileged C code on e.g. AWS and are able to read the memory of someone else running on the same shared machine, that's really bad.

The Javascript case is the main one that makes it remotely exploitable.
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The SP is not the 'risk free rate of return', but yes, it can be difficult to beat in the long run overall by individuals.
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Haven't taken a mathematical finance course... What is the long-term historical value of the prime rate?

I've seen data showing the overall stock market returns 3% after taxes and inflation for any period longer than about 20 years.
> I don't get these calls to a class action suit... If it was intentional, it could have a reason.

You don't think people should be able to sue for negligence?!?
It looks like ipfs-dropzone is running an in-browser node, which would go away as soon as you close the tab (since it's just a web page like any other). Content on IPFS stays available for as long as there's at least one node which has it and is connected to the network, so how long the link would survive for depends on whether other nodes have it and how long they will keep it for. If nothing else has downloaded the content then it will go away; on the other hand, if someone has pinned it then it will stay forever (or until they unpin it or go away).

The 30 minute interval would apply to the IPFS gateway that someone else would use to download your content (generally a standalone process though I believe there are efforts to make a browser with an embedded gateway). IPFS nodes automatically publish their cache, effectively making an autoscaling distributed CDN. However they will only cache content that they have gotten on behalf of their user; they won't go out and pull random content from the network to host it.
Meltdown fix impact on Redis performances in virtualized environments
I'm still stuck on the notion that the accused is innocent until proven guilty.

I know, I know, that makes me a pinko commie liberal Freedom Markets™ hating fruitcake.

A common theme during this late stage capitalism is the burden of proof being placed on the weaker party in all these transactions, in other words, we're presumed guilty until we can prove our innocence.
Uber's true innovation was creating a very effective model for monetizing the exploitation of a labor force. They've convinced their drivers (labor) that using their own inventory and capital to generate large amounts of revenue for Uber in exchange for a nominal fee is worth it because "flexibility" and "side hustle".
Yeah, I would have thought that results like: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2725 show that set theory isn't the end all be all of mathematics.
In my worldview, it is simply an immutable law of nature that more complex genera prey upon less complex ones. But as we are complex enough to empathize, we also have the moral responsibility to make the best of our predatory nature, whether that means minimizing the suffering of our prey, or minimizing the ecological impact of our predation.
"The uncut version is still super boring"

I find every minute of it to be thrilling (in case you were interested in another datapoint).
#4 means that the "rising tide lifts all boats" platitude is a lie. Or it means that the yachts are dumping their ballast into nearby dinghies.

I don't think the ratio can grow arbitrarily large, but I do think it can stretch the limits of reason for far longer that anyone thinks is possible before snapping.

The amount of the ratio below unity is the extent to which the ownership class captures gains from economic growth. The amount above unity is the extent to which the ownership class takes wealth from those with less wealth. That can theoretically rise as high as is necessary to make one person owner of the entire planet in one year. After that, the ratio drops back to unity, but by then no one cares to measure anything anymore.

If stocks rise 1.2 times growth, that means in aggregate, corporations captured 0.2 more value than was newly created that year, which means it had to be taken from existing wealth held by someone else. Some of that value might come from stockholders, and thus it would be recycled back to them, but the rest of it comes from non-stockholders, who lose it permanently.
Fi is so hilariously overpriced that it's hard to imagine anyone seriously buying into it. Is $20 + $10/GB actually the cheapest available.. anywhere?
While I sit more on the fence with a lot of the discussions in this overall thread, you're increasingly being proven wrong in this aspect.

For instance, prairie dogs are shown to have a descriptive language: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/prairie-dogs-language-deco...

I highly recommend reading that one because it's funny and fascinating.

Expt:

Also remarkable was the amount of information crammed into a single chirp lasting a 10th of a second.

"In one 10th of a second, they say 'Tall thin human wearing blue shirt walking slowly across the colony.'"

--

Many Helens—err....—scientists agree: https://io9.gizmodo.com/5937356/prominent-scientists-sign-de...
Works great with previously shared Go command line tool jw4.us/to8 when input files are not UTF8.

Use to8 to convert from UTF(32|16)(LE)? etc. to UTF8 first, then sort with this tool.
I'm liking https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408416v1
Is the CAPM model an accurate description of reality?
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It wasn't a surprise screening. I had been talking about watching it as a family for a few years. And my family enjoys movies that most simply do not. One of my kid's friends all said interstellar was boring, and he loved it. 2001, I think, is just a bit long in the tooth. If it's redone (properly, shot for shot, in the right spirit) with updated effects and sound, I think it would be way more impactful for modern audiences. (the monkey suits really require forced suspension of disbelief today, where in the past they did not)

I even explained the theory behind the movie, Dave ending up in an environment he couldn't understand, like an animal in a zoo. We discussed this movie, it wasn't a throwaway experience.

And to be blunt about Kubrik, he and the film makers were self indulgent in a few places. Where it wasn't art, it was conceit.
If someone gets into your Coinbase account and transfers everything to their wallet there is no recourse and you're out all your money. If someone gets into your Chase account and transfers all your money out there is a recourse and you get all your money back.

Essentially if Coinbase loses all your USD it should be covered under the FDIC, but if Coinbase loses all your BTC there's nothing you can do.
Wouldn't that be a serious performance hit?
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Quite well if you invested in one of the few quality companies with hard working people and a great product
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So we can eat humans that also do not have that IQ, right?

Thing about consciousness, in the philosophical sense that you clearly mean it, is that it is completely unempirical and therefore does not exist within the scientific model. I know I have consciousness because I experience it, I assume you have consciousness because you are very like me, you assume these low IQ animals don't have consciousness because they are not like you. There exists no objective measurement of consciousness.
Vast majority of your friends and like-minded people does not imply a “vast majority”. The sad reality is the actual vast majority of people don’t have a clue what Net Neutrality means, or what is implied by its repeal.
Most very large old-school industrial firms still own and run a lot of iron on-prem, especially in data-privacy focused places like Germany. My employer, one of those old-school German industrial firms, is just starting to dip its little toes into the cloud - everything important is still on-prem. Companies are talking in public about their cool cloud stuff, but talking to my fellow OSGIF engineers, we're all really in the Proof of Concept phase, pretty much.
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What is an "economically healthy area", and what is "more productive economic activity", if the return on capitol is much larger than the growth rate?
I can recommend https://www.eternum.io, because it's the best (also I built it, so I'd know).
The novel and the film are two different things. I actually don't like Clarke's novel because I disagree with the interpretation he put on the film (even though the screenplay was based on one of his previously published short stories).
Also read Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", upon which 2001 is based.
Win win, as I'm a huge fan of your work.
I think it is a necessary question to ask that what is mathematics which every serious student & teacher of mathematics should confront. The title of this book is “Foundations of Mathematics”, and there are a number of philosophical questions about this. However, the Foundations of Mathematics should give a precise deﬁnition of what a mathematical statement is and what a mathematical proof is.
All true, but since I can't get the PDF to load maybe you can tell me, how were the costs of real estate included? Calculating yield for real estate is not as obvious to me.
Off ebay, An Amstrad CPC 6128 will do.

Though you may want an SD Card adapter to get the files onto it.

As the banner on the site mentions, it works on Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amstrad PCW and Enterprise 64/128 (I'm not sure what this last one is).
It's impossible to know ahead of time which tweets or trends are going to be interesting.
Lol,
One of my favorites is Derek Lowe's write-ups on things he won't work with. Things like FOOF[1], Peroxide Peroxides[2], Azidoazide Azides[3].

The first reference is quite entertaining ...

"“Being a high energy oxidizer, dioxygen difluoride reacted vigorously with organic compounds, even at temperatures close to its melting point. It reacted instantaneously with solid ethyl alcohol, producing a blue flame and an explosion. When a drop of liquid 02F2 was added to liquid methane, cooled at 90°K., a white flame was produced instantaneously, which turned green upon further burning. When 0.2 (mL) of liquid 02F2 was added to 0.5 (mL) of liquid CH4 at 90°K., a violent explosion occurred.”
And he’s just getting warmed up, if that’s the right phrase to use for something that detonates things at -180C (that’s -300 Fahrenheit, if you only have a kitchen thermometer). The great majority of Streng’s reactions have surely never been run again. The paper goes on to react FOOF with everything else you wouldn’t react it with: ammonia (“vigorous”, this at 100K), water ice (explosion, natch), chlorine (“violent explosion”, so he added it more slowly the second time), red phosphorus (not good), bromine fluoride, chlorine trifluoride (say what?), perchloryl fluoride (!), tetrafluorohydrazine (how on Earth. . .), and on, and on. If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic. I ran out of vulgar expletives after the second page. "

[1] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...

[2] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/thi...

[3] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/01/09/thi...
> To combine the eating of other animals, a rational brain and a mind at peace, you need some amount of self deception.

Not necessarily. Many people who eat animals do so because they are not in a position where their nutritional needs can be met by a purely vegetarian diet (largely this is a problem of availability). When it comes to survival, I have a difficult time judging others from my comfortable position of not being in mortal danger.
Obviously everyone is now starting to do the first option

Not in my experience or at least no exclusively. A lot of researchers are paying for open access. Sure they all grumble about it and think it's a stupid system, but since it's neither their money nor in many cases their decision, they still do it.
They tend to organise peer review but they don't actually do it, it's volunteer work. They also usually pay the editor of the journal and assemble the thing, performing the few remaining non-automated DTP tasks required to produce a physical journal. Unless it's online-only.
Back in my day, when we saw something in RAM that we liked, we just read it.
Yeah, just saw that by chance last night. Darn shame.

For what it's worth, I don't thin Chisel is really standardizable as it stands, but something like it could be.
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You have seen idiots call themselves leftists.
Yes, they were denying rides to undercover law enforcement personnel looking to destroy their business.
As long as you accept then that there is no moral problem with some superior species coming along and and deciding the same about you, at least your backwards philosophy will be consistent.
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> I don't know how to publish this package in a way all JS transpilers and bundlers out there can understand. Please help me.

Don't do this:

module.exports = IPFSDropzone

Do this (and change documentation accordingly)

module.exports = {IPFSDropzone}

or to go full ES6 do this

export {IPFSDropzone};

add the package babel-env and add this script to package.json:

"scripts": {
"prepublish": "node node_modules/babel-cli/bin/babel *.js -d build/"
},

and change main to "build/index.js".

Run "npm run prepublish" to test.

Edit: Now that I think of it, compiling with babel is probably unnecessary. But it doesn't hurt and can help old setups.
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Right its not, what does that have to do with my grandparent post

My point was that the ripple network wouldnt be useless for the entity that bought 99.99% because of the network structure, I’m not sure what your point is

Another user of the network would need to buy xrp from the majority holder, there’s nothing controversial about that. Diamonds function the same way for DeBeers except they have a much lower standard of utility until the owning entity created a new use for them.
The thing is though, animals die anyway. And it's not like they die peacefully in their sleep, either. They mostly either get injured or old and starve to death, or get eaten by predators.
Half recent application class arm core are affected.

They are saner but the problem is still here
Everyone fishing around for anyone saying anything about Intel chips ever, and then trying to shoehorn it into a current narative is the ignorance of the crowd. Every single chip has errata. In this case Theo is pointing at Intel's own list of defects in a revision/chip, which is profoundly unilluminating, and is completely and absolutely irrelevant.
“Grep” is like “Kleenex”. It doesn’t necessarily mean specifically grep.