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It's a death knell for the very first cryptocurrency, which its creator(s?) explicitly acknowledged was an experiment.

Bitcoin is (hopefully soon-to-be) dead, long live cryptocurrency!
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It's just the title of the article, and yes, I think all or most people here are well aware of the fact that not everybody lives in the US.

When I saw it, I didn't know what "our" referred to, until I read it - I didn't assume that the use of this word necessarily implied it had anything to do with my arbitrary country / community / culture / etc.
Consumer identity fraud isn't the only type of fraud problem that needs to be solved from the payment processor POV - there's also friendly fraud (when the customer is actually the owner of the credit card but claims fraud anyway), merchant fraud (merchants setting up bad sites and trying to steal funds), and collusion between merchant and customer.

It seems like Bolt is focused on solving the consumer identity fraud problem for merchants, but this biz models will 100% make them a huge target for fraudulent merchants to collude with customers to steal funds.

I guess I don't see how even an additional low single digit % fee will make up for false negatives. Assuming the company keeps .5% of the standard payment processing fee + takes an additional ~3% in fees on top of that, a $1000 false negative would require $1000/(.035) = ~$28.5k in additional processing volume to breakeven. This doesn't even take into the account the fact Bolt will eat the chargeback fee passed on from the network, so merchants with high volume/low average order value (think digital goods) will be hugely expensive for Bolt to service given they're making pennies per transaction but potentially paying 10x+ that per chargeback.
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Good for this guy. I've never been a 9-5 developer because I'm not a great developer who can get everything done between 9-5. I've always found I have to put more hours in just so I can get stuff done.

If you can do it, do it.
This link is amazing. You made my day. Thank you.
> Behind Silicon Valley on best technology and product building practices by at least 2 years.

Can you elaborate on that? Are these "best practices" around technology or process? Are they found in books, or are the books out of date and you just have to 'be there' to discover them?
You are forgetting that the government doesn't need to track your capital gains, you do.

Any gains you can't prove are capital gains (or more specifically, are long-term capital gains, or collectibles gains) are treated as ordinary income.

Moreover, the government doesn't need to track your initial purchase price. You do. If you can't, you are treated as having paid $0 for the cryptos and are taxable on all gains.
Just walk into their office with a court order and start taking items. I would grab laptops first. Cops will show, then after they see the court order they will help you start bagging things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctLEGrOmf4
Do what she suggests you do: read the original Bitcoin white paper.

Most of Twitter rants I post don't include the complete background of what I'm talking about. I assume the readers who are interested have some context. I'd like to think that at least some of them are useful nonetheless.

Remember a basic issue with things quoted on HN: they usually weren't written specifically to be discussed on HN. That's clearly the case here. Maybe you could direct any other concerns you have to the comment introducing Jeong's Twitter thread, rather than attacking Jeong herself.
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> that such powers don't belong into the hands of bureaucrats

Blockchain tokens don't solve this problem; the power is defacto in their hands and you'll either need their consent or continued ignorance to participate in the wider economy using tokens.
Tesla uses the battery as a structural part of the chassis. A swappable battery simply would not be possible.
I keep seeing this brought up over months and months, but how close are we even to using it? Is the technology a thing yet? Or is it all white papers.
The short answer to this question is that they're individually insignificant and Atlus-like in aggregate.

The long answer to this question is, in fact, extremely long.
Congress could do it just by imposing a 100% tax on income attributable to an agreement providing an abatement of generally-applicable state or local taxes.
* Currently sole proprietor. Will switch to LLC or C Corp in 2018 (depending on income), but I'd talk to your accountant to find out what's best for you.

* I'm remote currently with high utilization client (as a subcontractor) and smaller retainer clients.

* I am a firm of 1.

* I have an accountant to manage taxes and finances. I keep meticulous records of what is a business vs a personal expense. The subcontractor gig is insured by the main contracting company. The retainer gigs stipulate it is knowledge/access only, so without any IP deliverables required, so there's no need for insurance on that. I may get insurance if my employment situation changes in terms of the contracts I take on. For this, I'd talk with your lawyer.

* I would just buy health insurance through the state. I live in MA, so we have to have something. We're both young and healthy, and she has an incredibly stable job, so I don't worry about this one too much.

I should point out that I'm very new to this (4 months in) so definitely don't look at me as a source of having "done things right" - I am learning every day and still sweating it all.
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The SEC is being clear enough. "Take the money and run" is not an acceptable business plan. Doesn't matter if it's "crypto". Doesn't matter if it's "blockchain". Doesn't matter if it's "binary options".

This isn't a new thing. Previous generations of scams included "street railways", "real estate investment trusts", and "multi-level marketing". Read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", which is over a century old yet will sound very familiar to anyone who's followed ICOs.

The history of scams should be taught in school. At least read the Wikipedia entry.[1] High school students should learn about small cons like the pigeon drop up through big ones like Madoff.

The SEC is mostly reactive. After the thing tanks and people complain, they go after people who acted like crooks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks
> Not that US is any better for Indians. Based on current estimates, if someone from India applies for an employment based Green Card now, they might get it in 70 years. And life is a pain because you have to do a lot of paperwork throughout.

I thought that is because so many Indians applying for green cards but there is a limit by country so it takes a long time?
This story seems to combine two distinct events:

1. Man pulled over in SF for DUI

2. Man crashes Tesla into firetruck

In both instances the driver blames autopilot, however the author makes the two events into one to create a convenient narrative "DUI crash with autopilot". Questions still abound for Tesla, but the DUI driver was passed out with the car stopped -- not the same story the author presents.
Good point, but is it not true Detroit was a biz and tech center last century?
This seems a bit simplistic. I mean, it's not the case that all markets are dominated by huge mega corps. There are thriving businesses that are not on the scale of Google, AirBnB, Microsoft, etc. If a startup in Switzerland gets traction and it's a space that can scale globally then it seems like it naturally will scale. I doubt anyone would not want to grow if it can.
I think he means 'Add to Menu/Desktop' and the visual part without the address bar, etc. I am missing that too for the desktop version, but actually I think the mobile version was the bigger issue and I have to say it works great with FF 58 :-)
> My nationality hampered my ability to obtain medical treatment

Why?
I love science history. Probably my favorite non-fiction topic to read.
This is just something I've never understood.

What is taking up that 2.17GB??? Are they just recompiling every shared library or something?

How is it that their updates (even on iOS) are so massive even if they don't include (or need to include) new graphics, etc.
I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator as a warm up to writing a NES emulator. Then I decided I didn't want to write an NES emulator.
I do recommend this as a starting point, though. You'll learn a ton.
PUG used to be called 'Jade', and was basically HAML-for-nodejs.
Same here. Luckily I got confirmed in time as well.

For the interested I donated to charity water: https://www.charitywater.org/
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> and instead collectively bargained with the company?

Because they are not a collective; only one of them gets Amazon HQ2.

Let's project this to actual "collective bargaining" in labour. If you and 19 other people were negotiating in such a way that only one of you gets a raise and improved working conditions, and the remaining nineteen others get fired, would you still engage in "collective bargaining"?
> Obviously, using variables names like `velocity_of_thing` is much too verbose in mathematics

That is not obvious to me. Perhaps in a purely mathematical paper with dozens of formulas, but that's not my field of study. In any paper I read of any discipline, I never came across any paper filled with enough formulas that it would make sense to compress at the cost of clarity.

I fully agree, though, on following conventions (that only conveys extra context) and using hover text to act as a quick lookup function. I actually looked for the latter in the past but couldn't find a way to do it in LaTeX.
Working implementations exist and are usable, but they are being very cautious before releasing to the general public.
It's still a clickbaity title swap.

It was NOT a jet, it was a DHC-5[0]... and the article says that right in the first sentence. Saying "passenger jet" invokes a far greater scope of potential tragedy. It was likewise not a commercial flight, but a charter.

The actual article title is, "How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine", and it goes well beyond this one flight.

As for that DHC-5 flight, it did NOT have Yassir Arafat on it in the first place. Once Mossad recognized that was the case, the operation was called off; it's not like they fired and missed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-5_Buff...
> Can you elaborate how your 200+ variables will be able to block first and allow second purchase

A Bolt employee already replied[1] with a section about false positives vs. false negatives.

I can't imagine any legitimate financial industry company cares much about supporting Tor users. If your financial accounts are based in Canada but your IP traffic appears to be coming from Romania (whether through Tor or VPN or other similar reasons), you probably are much more likely to be involved in fraud from their perspective.

If you have Canadian accounts and are travelling in Romania, that's a different story.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16217020
With increasing regulations around cryptocurrencies large private transactions will be much more regulated, or possibly illegal, which will cut down on usability. Even if it's actually anonymous and buyers don't have to worry about it sellers will have to or risk being shut down
Whole team just to 'manage' ONE virtualization 'technology'?

No thanks.

One admin is more then enough to cover and master FreeBSD Jails and many other technologies ... no just Kubernetes.
That's right. I actually have a pet theory that Toronto has already been chosen, but all this shortlisting thing is a theatre and removing almost all Canadian cities in the first round is for plausible deniability of the preference for Canada. I know, I know...
Very excited about MTurk's feature called Premium Qualifications. Anyone ever have success with this?
Except for the lab-built bacterial chromosomes (1), the lab-built entire viral units (2), and the lab-built xenobases (3).

(1) http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/minimal-cell/overv...

(2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_virology

(3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeno_nucleic_acid

Edit: just to add, I wouldn’t accept “we have not done it from scratch yet” as a valid argument that we cannot do better than natural selection, any more than I would accept ”$person has not yet fabricated a CPU” as an argument that $person can’t code better than at least one professional CPU designer.
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Look at the example of Taxi apps. There are many in the European market, Germany alone has half a dozen local to the country.

Yet, while uber operated in Germany, they could get basically 100% of the customers – simply by throwing billions of VC money at the task to subsidize rides.

If competitors use such methods, there’s little you, as smaller company, can do.
Films also have criminal masterminds ask undercover police officers "Are you a cop?", followed by a tense musical score, and a close-up shot of the cop's face...

And a "Ha, ha, just kidding, of course you're not a cop."

Crime dramas and action films tend to have an incredibly poor understanding of money, crime, policing, and Newton's laws of physics.
Yeah, but who really cares?

95% of people buy, sell and transfer Bitcoin to do one thing: speculating on Crypto-Assets. It really doesn't matter if the fees are so high, it's not like people buy crypto like candy, they buy it like stocks.

Who cares if there's a 30$ fee on a 1000+$ transfer? That's still cheap compared to other methods of international money transfer. People are obviously ready to spend that much.

Bitcoin has always been terrible as an everyday currency, even when transactions were practically free and fast, who wanted to wait 10 minutes to confirm their purchase of a Grand Latte? Just pay with any of the existing methods, they work just fine, it's a solved problem. There's probably 1000 cryptocurrencies that could work for that just fine, but nobody really needs that in the first place.

You gotta realize that Bitcoin is gonna be worth A MILLION dollars or maybe just one dollar, but then it could go back up to a thousand again! That is the real value of Bitcoin.
Would people feel differently (lots of talk in here along the lines of "why bother at this point?") if Perl 6 had a completely different name?
She didn't suggest I read the white paper. She suggested she couldn't be bothered to talk to anyone who had not read the white paper 5 years ago.

Had she said "Those who are interested in understanding it can start with this white paper" and linked to it, I would probably be reading the white paper right now. But I don't actually know what white paper she means.

Last I checked, you aren't a moderator on HN. So how about you refrain from trying to police my behavior here?
I'll believe it when the money actually gets deposited into an account he owns.
For this to be special to someone they have to 1) Understand what it is showing, 2) have nostalgia for these video games, and 3) Want art of these things to display for people who will probably not be in groups 1 & 2.

So there is a very small market for these prints, and the artist can charge what they want because they won't really be making this a business anyway.
> I will guarantee that each drawing sold is unique,

Well, you are paying for the uniqueness. Doesn't sound too bad.
Well my utilization rate is 100% right now, so I objectively make more money than I made before, there is no getting around that one. If it were lower I would indeed need to pad it more, and hopefully with my next engagements I will be able to hit that rate :)
Once you have license numbers, you can get names. Once you have names, you can look at LinkedIn, Facebook, and CiteSeeer to see what they're into.

You can also gather intelligence on what Apple is working on. More AI people? More voice recognition people? More chip designers? More phone sales people?
I just hope they don't come here to Pittsburgh. For the vast majority of citizens, the arrival of Amazon HQ2 will be a net negative.
Unaffordable is relative. If HQ2 brings thousands of high-paying jobs with it, plus creates an ecosystem where tens of thousands of other good paying jobs are created, housing can become more affordable to more people while rising in price.

Owning a house has been a part of the post-WW2 American dream for good reason, and it should remain so. And people buying homes should want their property to retain value
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Your take was bad. You posted it publicly. Pointing out the badness of your take is my birthright as a message board nerd.

I'm really not sure I understand how you get from snark about people showing up in her TL to cryptosplain Bitcoin to her despite her having read the white paper 5 years ago to feeling like probably you shouldn't have to read the white paper.

You've now heard it from two sources, me and Sarah Jeong: if you want to understand the background of what she's talking about, just read the bitcoin white paper.
IMO it's far more misguided. We can push for precise and efficient language, or we can shrug our shoulders and let the lowest common denominator strip out all nuance.
No, those contracts are with cities and counties; the owners of the land that telephone poles sit on.
They won the Binance community vote so it will be there soon.
> There is no technical advantage left to ASCII-only syntax for APL-derived languages.

Except for that minor technical advantage of actually being on a standard keyboard.

That said, I would love standard keyboards to get more symbols. I actally like using symbols instead of words for operators, when done in a consistent and logical fashion as J and K do and unlike Perl's disaster of a syntax.

Map and reduce (each and over in APL lingo, in K ' and /) should be a symbol.
Uh, unless you've got some way to make a decentralized blockchain function at 2.5 GiB every 10 minutes, it's effectively not a spectrum.

At 8mb block size we'd still have the same problem. Except instead of happening at 5 million weekly users it happens at 40 million weekly users. And at 100mb block size we might get to 100 million daily users.

Still haven't scaled the thing. We'd need to support billions of daily users for people to be happy. It's an open question right now
Hey dawhizkid - totally right.

Some comments on that in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216936

We vet our merchants before onboarding and make sure to work with high-integrity companies. We monitor orders not just for identity fraud, but for merchant / collusion fraud.

That being said, we can certainly make mistakes. We also end up in the red some months with some clients. The good thing is that when we make a mistake, we pay the cost, not the merchant (which is contrary to the current state of the industry).

We have made reasonable profit per client even with our costs, but the real winners are our clients driving millions in newfound revenue.
So as the next step you support moving from employer-tied benefits to universal health care?
Ruby is both clean, expressive, has proper OO features and not it's not that alien from Perl. It feels a bit sluggish though, although to a lesser extent since 2.3. Perl 6 is slower for command line scripts anyway.
These issues are only there because python has significant whitespace. These issues should not have been there in the first place.

Ideally, I shouldn't need to use an editor geared specifically for python code to copy-paste some python code and run it. I have had no issues with the majority of other languages when copy-pasting some code and reindenting. Only in python have I had issues with it. Even in elpy-mode in Emacs, I have had issues. Another is Jupyter/IPython, a widely used python IDE for data scientists, where this problem crops up all the time. So lay off with the superior attitude.
Well, good luck getting even the real inflation rate from a corrupt government.
Yes, I remember there is a DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)...

My point is that, as according to what has been written in the article,

"...the disordered and extreme thinking that accompanies
depression..."

and

"In a study of 61 depressed subjects, 4 out of 5
reported at least one upside to their rumination,
including self- insight, problem solving, and the
prevention of future mistakes..."

it seems that the article is merely focusing on the type of depression that involves "thinking" and "rumination"...and there is a certain sub-range of the entire spectrum, of what is called "Major Depressive Disorder" as in the "academic" and "clinical" settings, that does not involve thinking or rumination -- or significantly reduced level of thinking and rumination -- then this subtype of depression is not actually covered in that study, and hence the conclusion of the study has no bearing, for that matter, on what we call "depression" as a whole, but only a subcategory of all the possible depressive symptoms ...
This is a great observation: we need better accelerators to incubate startups that are more realistic and not willing to salt the earth to win at all costs [1].

[1] I'm not referring to YC specifically, but investors and incubators who are comfortable with Uber-esq behavior.
Yes, but Amazon and the companies that spring up around HQ2 will enable many landless people to become landed.

And if that happens to an extreme degree where it becomes unsustainable, maybe an HQ3 would be in order?
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for a U.S. high-cost living area with a graduate degree but no experience, that sounds about right
New value was not conjured up. A new crypto was created, but the value of it was proportional to its expected use and some other features. There are plenty of bitcoin forks, but you dont hear about the other ones as much because they flopped entirely.
First of all, I never said anything about being a "passive aggressive asshole."

Second of all, you didn't even respond to specific point I made. You just repeated the GP's argument with extra force. You didn't even explore the notion of what happens if your ethics are different from what laws prescribe. For example, if you think that others should not plagiarize your work but simultaneously believe that monopoly copyright enforced by a third party (usually governments) should also not happen, then you're stuck. You can choose a license that permits others to plagiarize while simultaneously being ethically opposed to the act of plagiarism because you disagree with using laws to enforce your moral opposition to plagiarism.
Good luck buying a slice of pizza with bitcoin.
Stripe,please just add support for RaiBlocks.
Ah. I see what you're saying. I thought you were proposing to replace paper with AR ("this desk is now a screen", etc)

Trying to channel the researchers at Dynamicland, I think the answer would be that they aren't investigating AR because doing so isn't in line with their design principles. The mission statement for Dynamicland includes this phrase "incubating a humane dynamic medium" - and since most humans aren't equipped with AR hardware, I'm guessing that is why AR isn't an area of research for this particular technology.
Can you say more about how you built this? How you did the scraping, etc. ?
Lobbying is work; obviously, what happens is that some professional lobbyists get paid.
Meltdown and Spectre require recompiling... but it sounded they already did back in December. Did they lie?
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