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Show HN: I have been making some kind of music everyday since July 16 2017
I attended a talk by Coinbase. They get A LOT of fraudulent activity (both high end and amateur). They have like 7-8 employees who handle all the manual aspects of user verification. So they have to rely heavily on automated solutions.
I have never used them so I don't know how often they flag false positives but based on that talk I would at least qualify the statement with "it's a hard problem!"
Not if it's your primary residence.

Your summer home or a rental property, sure.
> who take care of the claimed volatility risk.

Under the hood how do they do that? Are are they converting your BTC to USDT on-deposit, then additionally from USDT to BTC on-withdrawal?
I have gig symmetric for $79.99. not a promotional rate, no caps.

Edit: the reason it costs more for symmetric with some ISPs has very little to do with "cost reasons" and very much to do with market segmentation. It's the same reason math coprocessors used to cost extra, even though it was on every package already. If a small group will be the only users and will pay extra, then make a separate SKU which includes it, call it business/pro/enterprise and charge a premium. It's profit maximizing pure and simple. The super obvious check is that there are ISPs which compete on friendlyness and don't do this. They're not special, they just make less money.
> Just wanted to make that distinction.

Useless pedantry. A scam is a scam no matter what you call it. Getting caught up deep in terminology is a great way to for shysters to obfuscate any wrongdoing. These "business structures" are all part of the broader category called "things that are a scam".
I thought Verizon sued over Title I classification (still FCC). They win and Title I status was removed. Then the FCC tried again with Title II. I could also be wrong.
Lol why should it be illegal? It's your service, you can block however you want
No, we're doing it because of all the problems associated with injected DLLs.

Source: I'm the dev who built the foundation for this transition in Gecko.
ISP monopolies control all my access to the internet, that is the difference. They affect everything I do on my mobile (whether Android or iOS or other), desktop and all businesses built on top of it. ISPs control a layer that everything runs on and they have monopolies all across the US. Is that smart? ISP/Broadband mafia wants a cut of everything, with data caps and overages they are already taking a cut of digital purchases while I subsidize their ads they serve me.

Android or iOS are just OSs and there have always been a small amount of those that are market leaders. It is nice to have 2 instead of one that we had on desktop essentially for a while. There are lots of other mobile OSs (Windows, WebOS, linux phones) though but those two are the top. They don't have a location lock or local monopoly on anyone, they won their users through innovation and products people wanted. The exact opposite could be said of ISPs today even though they were innovators in the 90s'/00s when there were many.

I have zero choice of my ISP in my location I have Cox at 100Mbps which is decent and CenturyLink at 12Mbps which is not even comparable. Cox gigablast and CenturyLink fiber is two miles over but stopped installing new when Google Fiber left. Competition could easily get us to gigabit everywhere but their competition is fake and their efforts resides in their past local monopoly areas. I'd literally pay for my line to be ran to my house but they won't. They want to eek out every last revenue cent with degrading service (data caps, overage charges) while the cost goes up, no speed improvements. I'd gladly pay more for more product.

Lots of ISPs delay is they want people to have to switch to their content/tv systems again instead of cord cutting, they are doing this by removing unlimited, adding data caps, and slowing service. They are either going to get people to switch or drive up the costs to offset losses due to cord cutting. People are cord cutting because it is a better product elsewhere and cost is too much.

Broadband companies originally disrupted the telco dial-up internet companies. I sometimes think it will take satellite internet from like SpaceX or some new innovation and current ISPs will be dropped like a hot rock, like phone lines for cable internet back on the 90s/00s.

Do you think it is smart to only have 1 provider in most of the US for broadband? Would you want that in your area?
Uh-huh, ok. Thanks. BTW This is one of the papers, from 2005: http://cryptocode.net/docs/c36.pdf

So... interesting.

Do they just leave this kind of stuff open so that NSA can use it for a while. Maybe so, but then, why are those things published in journals? Weird.
Vimeo also has a lot of conference talk videos from software & maker conferences. I run a monthly email newsletter that includes a "conference video of the month", and my main source is a few Vimeo conference channels I've subscribed to.

But Vimeo's Samsung Smart TV app broke last year, and they haven't fixed it in months. They blame Samsung, and they're probably right, but Netflix, YouTube & Amazon have continued updating their apps during those months. It just feels like Vimeo isn't giving their product the attention that it needs.
Here's the one I'm thinking of:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/288.pdf
Very possible. I just wanted to emphasize that in the same way there are a few people who can run 10.5 over 100m without training (I knew one of them) there are also most likely some people who have a natural ability to do more work than a regular person ever will be able to.
By Native Americans do you mean indigenous Americans (i.e. American Indians), or just people born in the USA in general?
PDO isn't more secure if someone writes:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = " . $_GET["id"];

It's all about education. This does apply to any language.
>So if you were a foreign government and you wanted to place a loyal agent into a privileged position inside the CIA, how would you do it?

A better strategy would be to recruit someone who already has access to the information you want. Consider the difficulty in "placing a loyal agent":

1. Getting them into the country setting up a life for them,

2. Getting them through citizenship (might take five-twenty years, might never happen),

3. Getting them hired at the CIA and hoping they get sufficient clearance,

4. Getting them moved in to a role with access to the information you want.

2,3,4 all require a number of things going right, nothing going wrong and each would take many years. Success would require a large number of attempts and the successful attempts might take over a decade before you get useful intelligence. I'm not sure anything like what you suggest has ever happened, the closest I can think of is the technique of placing agents in a foreign country and having them associate with targets of interest or report back intelligence[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program
not the first time or last time
> "why would burn your proof of work coin?"

You burn your coin to prove that you endured some cost.

Why do you have to prove that you endured some cost? So there is a cost to mining. Why does there need to be a cost to mining? To disincentivize dishonest mining.

> "Proof of work is slow energy ineficient, does it changes that?"

While it doesn't change the proof of work, it does allow that wasted money to be shared by multiple proof-of-burn chains. Remember, it is not the individual coins which are energy inefficient, it is mining which is energy inefficient. There isn't a limit to the number of coins which can be stored in a block, though, so there isn't really a large energy cost of an individual coin.
Ask HN: What's the difference between ICO and selling shares?
I've not been following the coin hype too closely, but cursorily, it looks like an ICO (like, for example, the XRP from Ripple) is no different than a company issuing shares. The latter, of course, is heavily regulated; but there's nothing regulating the former.

So: is there a difference between the two? I'd love to know.
Honestly, if the primary value proposition was "fuck your cable company, here's how to get internet without paying them" you could probably motivate some sales even if the price and service were the same.
What episode of Silicon Valley is this?
Utah art teacher fired for having shown classical nude images
And because Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) is trading at like $1K/share, it's out of most people's hands to even be eligible for the shareholders' meeting. On top of that, the float is almost 603 million shares, and ~81% are held by institutions rather than private investors. ~10% of the company is held by "people" rather than other companies - not enough to make a real change happen in terms of corporate policy. If you could manage to get a coalition together to buy even 51% of the float (~$3.75B), not only would that represent a heck of a lot of money invested, but you could potentially step in and change the direction of the company as shareholders.

Big problem: that's not realistic.
He was obviously not aware the FBI looked at his journals containing the names of the CIA moles - what's really weird is the FBI did not arrest him immediately afterwards instead of waiting five years for his next trip to the USA.
Is it the government's job to create happiness? What else does a govt do with that explicit and sole goal? I guess you could argue any funding of the arts is aimed at creating happiness but it would be hard to imagine a Department of Fun building theme parks and hosting concerts.
Very useful guide to learn about Facebook & Google ads.
The article is by someone with no involvement in the CPU business. We need to hear from CPU architects and manufacturers. This is a fundamental CPU design defect and needs to be fixed in silicon.
And one might be happy to spend a month computing the folding while in the cell it takes a few seconds.
Clickable https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/ax.asp
> Sure, if you are trying to replace one of those as the dominant mass market player in its domain you need to do that.

The parent post was discussing disrupting the major player -- YouTube. Me making some tiny website that caters to videos of, say, amateur astronomy, while interesting and successful in its own right, would not so much as make a dent (let alone disrupt) YouTube.

That was my point: that disrupting YouTube (like disrupting Google) seems, to me, nigh impossible.
Or a creation of a work based on steamboat Willie. Anyone could then write a steamboat Willie 2. You just can't use anything added to the character in later works.
If you are in a situation where you really believe that a group of men have arrived at your Uber branch office with guns, fake badges, fake warrants, and fake uniforms, you should probably just give them what they want. At that point, they are either police or they are effectively armed robbers.

If they're going to risk decades in jail anyway, there's a good chance they're just going to shoot you if you start telling them they can't have what they want.

Your job isn't worth risking obstruction charges or facing down criminals.
Benedict Evans’ newsletter on mobile and related tech (everything in tech is related) is quite good as a weekly round up of important stories, plus his own long form writing which is top notch. [1]

Ben Thompson’s Stratechery is good too. More hit and miss because it’s mostly his original hot takes, but frequently insightful. [2]

[1] Subscribe at bottom https://www.ben-evans.com
[2] Also a blog I guess, hit menu and subscribe by email. https://stratechery.com
The topic of emergent genius was also covered in a short video about a year ago: https://youtu.be/7H6doOmS-eM
Isn’t that most places? It kind of makes sense, because actual productivity isn’t necessarily the easiest to measure (although I think it comes across just in attitude.. how much they care about he project.)
Sounds like a stellar way to miss out on talent, alienate people thereby creating opportunities for foreign intelligence agencies, and create institutional and cultural blind spots. Much like the obsession with Islamic terrorism, it ignores the potential of betrayal from racially/culturally “safe” places.

Most of all though, if your security relies on racism to succeed, it’s already failing. You can’t psychically find traitors, and traitors don’t have a race. Traitors can be turned from any group and the only defense is to evaluate everyone impartially, relentlessly, and consistently. If you find those measures insufficient, don’t turn to profiling race, study behavior!

Profiling is like torture... it appeals to people who don’t understand a damned thing about how either fails in practice... or it appeals to people who already like such ideas regardless of merit.
New Siri Podcast News Feature Begins Rolling Out in iOS 11.2.2
I spend a non-zero amount of time fantasizing about how I'll be socially lynched out of my well-earned livelihood someday for some comment I made 40 years ago on Facebook–like personalities are etched in stone. I never used to do that.
Personally I think copyrights should be for 25 years. Based on the fact that it is almost impossible to find books older than 25 years old on Amazon ( unless they are in pd )
That's only because people wanted to reduce exposure to crypto today, and USDT is the closest approximation to that available for some exchange-committed funds.
Not to mention that they just threw the door open wide for another company to, as many here love to put it, “disrupt” the online video hosting space.

Thank god for that.
That ain’t bitconnect.
Only common thing is that both are fraud.
That’s assuming the only thing you want to prevent is speculative bounds overrun. Even with masking, you can still leak the secret in the array from the path not taken? Do you see evidence of gcc or clang gravitating to the MS approach?

In many ways, spectre is one more kind of attack on code that doesn’t properly separate validating untrusted input from acting on that input, except unlike overruns and TOCTOU races, this is microarchitectural.
the bombshell part is from 00:58:58 - 01:00:28 where his phrasing is as if the hypersonic plane has actually been built within the last 5 years, with a 3-d scramjet engine (and 3-d printed as well).
My opinion is that test names, function names, variable names, constant names, high level languages, literate programming, and well written commit messages, all help code to be understandable; I'm fully in favor of all using all these in source code and also in commit messages.

My experience is that documentation is generally a shorthand word that means non-runnable files that do not automatically get compared to the application source code as it changes.

Of course there are some kinds of blurred lines among tests and documentation, such as Cucumber, Rational, UML, etc.; but that's not what the parent comment was talking about when they described the function with a naive/buggy implementation vs. an enhanced implementation that handles a subtle case.

> but let's not act like the tests themselves immediately solve the problem

I'm saying that yes, the tests do immediately solve the problem in the parent comment's question: a test for the "subtle" case in the parent comment immediately solves the problem of "how do we ensure that a future programmer doesn't write a simplified naive implementation that fails on this subtle case?"
read the article, the mentioned espionage is about "compromising" US spies operating in China.
Yes, that is a password stuck to a screen at Hawaii's emergency management HQ
This looks great. Congratulations on releasing the beta.

* Is it possible to work with incoming data in real time?

* Is it possible to use MIDI and audio as data sources?

* If so, can the applications also output MIDI and audio in real time?
I would still argue level three does not exist - future proofing is futile over the short or long term, and only maintainance is the solution. Good article otherwise though!
This is true, and I'm old enough to just remember the "inevitability" of Japan taking over the world at the end of the 1980s and start of the 1990s. Ooops.

But this time.. .hmm.

When the former (conservative) deputy prime minster of Australia says:

THE 16-month delay in the United States posting an ambassador to Canberra is a sign that Australia has been “downgraded”, says former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer.[1]

and

The United States has been without an ambassador in Australia since September 2016 and Mr Fischer said the long wait was now "beyond acceptable" and bordering on a "diplomatic insult".[2]

it's hard not to think that the US is withdrawing from the world. Plus, of course the US President explicitly says that.

One might argue about the word "decline", but the US isn't the leader it once was.

[1] http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/tim-fischer-says-us...

[2] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-03/tim-fischer-criticises...
Not might - as of Jan 1, 2018, you can no longer pay dividends to any non-working family members.

As a physician, it's a 15-20% pay cut for me :(
I pity all the animators publishing short content since they are going to have a problem get the number of hours in when they spend the time on quality product.
As always you distract from the discussion. What I wrote is 100% true. Rate-limiting is a shady thing here on HackerNews.

I am now documenting a last time what moderation tactics are going on here...

With rate-limiting it means your account gets so much worse:

* lowered the comment start-ranked to below normal
* news & comment votes are not counted at all, but only showed to oneself (fake increase)
* rate-limited writing comments and submit news (only 2 comment or 1 news submission per 6 hours)

It is very shady that this isn't documented or allowed to discuss at all. It seems to be an between state, only slightly worse is the also shady "shadow ban", which features exactly the same symptoms but also hides the comment for public users - users can opt-in to see "dead" comments (via the user settings).

You/your employee rate-limited my account, and a few weeks ago your employee shadow banned my account for a slightly not adhering to the guideline comment. If stepping 3 times slightly beside the guidelines (that are a moving target, an interpreted subjectively) is "serially for years" something is wrong on the other side, I am sure.

I have a good history of comments, the guy who rate-limited my account showed my account the middle finger. And there is no way to get a normal account status again.

What a pitty that Paul PG Graham left, and it turned so much worse since then. I am done with writing comments here, I am sure there are other better websites around, I am leaving the sinking ship.
https://debian-administration.org/ was a site I setup to document my learning, and I wrote a lot of code for it over the years, as well as a lot of articles.

Mostly the experience was positive, but I'm still a little grumpy at the people who would copy posts I'd written into linkedin groups, and similar places, pretending they'd written them. I issued takedown notices against some of the biggest offenders, but it soured my experience of writing documentation, tutorials and guides.
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now you have a problem - your first lady is a naturalised citizen
This is the fundamental misunderstanding.

Most in the ISP crowd agree with what you are agreeing with. But the net neutrality folks predominantly reject this approach.

I want surgery over IP. I don’t want surgical packets treated the same as a YouTube packet.
The shares model is over-regulated and does not allow you to easily buy lambos rekting investors.

The ICO is optimized for rekting: anonymous, liquid, no consequences.
The point is that it supports all the necessary standards, so if it just had a way to add a custom provider and let the user specify protocols and servers, it'd work.
It doesn't need to be perfect, just reliable enough to determine what needs more thorough review.

A 2 minute video titled "How to fix your computer's _______", that is linked from fixit forums, that is universally liked with comments stating "Wow, that worked, thanks!" shouldn't even need human review to determine risk.

The comparison alone to other videos with similar characteristics should do it.
Generally, one country spies on another, and that one tries to stop them.

What is puzzling about that?
Read worldwide news directly from worldwide medias
When does a cryptocurrency bubble burst?
The "math genius" Jason Padgett mentioned in the article has drawn a bunch of pretty pictures, but has authored zero research papers. Unless you define genius by how capable you are of impressing non-experts outside the field, how does he in any way apply to the definition?
See also: the 2016 US election result and the aftermath that continues to this day.
There is a big difference between gathering information and active sabotage. Even allies tend to spy on each other somewhat.
Just multi-tier it.

You can pay more if you only want your ads against thoroughly vetted content.

Or pay less if you don't care.

Less video to bid against will raise ad costs for everyone.
Having a degree in aerospace engineering and being a lifelong air and space fan this discussion is mostly disappointing. hacker news comments are of distinctly poorer quality outside the subjects of software and startups - sensation, urban legend, and ignorant story-telling is rising to the top instead of explanation, context, and insight. 8 of the top 10 comments are inane (UFOs! Movies! tinfoil-hats! Sophomore-year economics!).

Makes one wonder how much the mainstream hacker news threads are suffering from similar problems that I just can't perceive.
If someone told me that I had to have lunch at my desk, I'd tell them to pound sand.

In both jobs I've had, the opposite has been encouraged. At my current job, we go out for a team lunch most days (sadly not paid for by the company). I'd lose my shit if I sat at my desk for 9 hours straight.

At my old job, I used to go to the gym at lunch, and it had to be at a set time due to classes. I blocked it out in my calendar indefinitely and made sure everyone knew. I also made my displeasure very apparent the few times it was booked over.

As far as I was concerned, going to the gym was more productive than any meeting I could participate in, my productivity was at its peak right after the gym.
What do you disagree with, exactly? You just said, "I disagree", and then wrote a bunch of unrelated stuff.

Sorry that you had a bad experience. I've been using Flow for more than 2 years now and couldn't be happier.

What does "unmaintained" mean to you? Other than during Christmas, they release almost every single week [1].

[1] https://github.com/facebook/flow/releases
A theoretical alternative no-one is deploying is not an alternative.
Superman Copyright FAQ (2008)
Moving out of a structured economy and monetary system – Ethereum's Joseph Lubin
Xamarin is Microsoft :)
Ponzi scheme work because people believe the fraud (promise of high returns).

If they said, deposit your money and we'll pay you back only if enough people after you also deposit their money then you'd have an interesting point, although I'm sure it's still illegal even if you announce your intentions before doing something illegal.
The problem with that is cables and infrastructure. Public has paid trillions to build existing copper and fiber networks as telephones were proliferating. Ths infrastructure either has to be unbundled, or newscomers will be at immediate disadvantage, with an exception of aglomerations with high concentration of population.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16165761 (https://www.cbr.com/superman-copyright-faq/)

Similar situation, and a fantastic explanation how trademarks and copyright work and what they enable or limit in this regard.