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I know there is a crime committed here, my first line was "While in both scenarios a crime is technically committed..." And of course I don't question the general case that attempting to commit crimes should itself be a crime, I was merely pointing out that applying that reasoning can sometimes lead to questionably-just outcomes.
Imprinting happens a lot at hotel check-ins, in my experience. They will often imprint your card onto their copy of the check-in document.
you can loan a book out to one person at a time. i think it's a little different.
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>> (not that it is that much harder with chips, see yescards).

Never heard of that before, interesting.

I used programmable test cards when doing EMV and did wonder what would happen if I made such a card but (as the wikipedia page says) they're of very limited utility as they don't have the right keys to do anything but low-value offline transactions.

Cloning chip cards is still pretty hard, IMHO, though that is interesting.
Here's a philosophical question, as technology progresses to the point that virtual reality is so good that it is able to replace real children in cases like these and satisfy child predators thus eliminating victims is this a fundamentally morally good thing?
It still happens. I had it happen at a gas station in the middle of nowhere Nebraska or South Dakota (where he probably didn't have internet) as well as at a gas station in a bigger town where their internet was out.
It's funny, but this (seemingly blind) trust is why I like shopping in the Western world. As someone who never abuses it, it makes my life a lot easier.

By contrast, in India everyone's tried every variant of this scam. The net result? Shopkeepers don't accept returns and buying things is a combative experience.

I guess what I'm trying to say is "This is why we can't have nice things".
Nobody dies because their clothing did not have a particular pattern.
Nice article.

One thing that wasn't clear to me in your explanation is that you're sorting a list of pointers to objects. To sort that list you're comparing two of the objects themselves.

// follows pointer to access *ob_item[i]
IF_LESS_THAN(ob_item[i], pivot)

So the point of __builtin_prefetch is to deference this pointer in advance and so avoid the latency of the 12 million reads scattered all over memory. Nice.

Another useful thing to do here is to see if you can find a "streaming operator" to dismiss *ob_item[i] and ob_item[i] from cache after the comparison. They won't be needed again for a while.

Another good article on this optimisation (mentioned by OP)

http://scripts.mit.edu/~birge/blog/accelerating-code-using-g...
> This is especially obvious in the stock market. If I think a stock is a sell at $X and you think it's a buy, we trade, but clearly one person knows (or thinks they know) something that the other doesn't

Or maybe they just need the liquidity for some purchase they need to make?
Quite possibly. The only thing I can think of is that there was a potential challenge to the PROTECT act, but cert was denied.
The phase-in in USA has "started" for years already - it's supposed to be finished at October 2015; and those who haven't upgraded their gear by that time will be liable for all fraudulent transactions they accept.
Interesting I/O limitations in Kinesis:

1MB/s writes with 1000 writes/s
2MB/s reads with 5 read/s
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The problem is they are not soliciting a bot, they are soliciting children and are going to lengths to ensure that they are getting what they are paying for.

If an MMORPG had "100 year old elvish" NPCs which had childlike features and full nudity, then playing the game might be distasteful but probably should fall under constitutional protection.

The law is very cognizant of intent and willfulness. If you willfully intend to break the law, but fail to actually break the law, you can still be charged and convicted of a crime. I don't have a problem with that.

I think you must agree that if you solicit a bot then there is no crime, just like if you "murder" a bot there is no crime. Ultimately we have juries to decide of the accused if full of shit claiming they were soliciting bots when they were actually soliciting children. The burden of proof falls on the Government to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt.

As bots get increasingly realistic and entertaining enough to create a market for that service (regardless of the physical characteristic of the avatar) it will be interesting to watch jurisprudence evolve.

A convincing avatar which can be synchronized with a human's text input, and/or speech alteration (not text-to-speech) is one way you approach 'the singularity' without having to synthesize human thoughts and emotions. Such a system, if it can cross the uncanny valley, would radically improve quality of live for millions of (and I hate this term) 'genetic lottery losers'.
Do the reverse, switch HN to invite only.
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If you were luckier than others it doesn't necesserily make you an example to be followed.
If that were the case, how would the data input into your cell phone get stored on the card? I believe at a minimum Coin uses BLE to transmit card data from your phone to the device.
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Flat may be fine.
However, from what I've seen in the video, the Coin is not only flat but also almost totally anonymized. The cashier would not be able to verify the name against a photo ID or even take a picture of the card. This would be possible with a non-imprintable card.
Sorry, devs, but you’re not a true ‘software person’ just because you code
I think we can be fairly sure that targeting asm.js would degrade performance for a language like Dart.
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Is this a re-launch of Younited?

Just looked at its website and I can swear I saw it before, not long ago.
Sure, but that's beside the point.

That just means they have knowledge you don't have about an even better investment.

Or, they actually need to spend the money (e.g. buy groceries) and they still want to do the trade and appreciate the liquidity, no matter what knowledge you have.
Why would banks go away? In the UK Barclays ran a load of ads a year or two back about "PingIt", their app for sending money to phone numbers or paying for things with QR codes.

I mention this because you propose banks as active resisters, but from how I see it they stand to make significant efficiency gains by just maintaining an app and website, as opposed to making plastic squares by the million, maintaining thousands of ATMs, even still printing chequebooks...
I don't have any of the studies on hand to link to, but IIRC simulating negative desires (CP, rape, violence, etc) doesn't always reduce a person's incident rate and might actually increase it in some cases.
Isn't the "old crusty infrastructure" in this case the credit card itself?

It seems ridiculous to try to kill the credit card with... a credit card.

I wouldn't be surprised if Clinkle, LoopPay, Square, or any of the many startups in this space kills the credit card (and thus Coin) before Coin makes its first delivery in Summer 2014.
No, most retailers can't accept online payments (or "like an online payment") - if they want to, that's a different kind of agreement with different (higher) fees and more liability for fraudulent transactions.

If they want to book it as 'card present' transaction, then they have to follow the 'card present' guidelines - which, by coincidence, would require them to see the actual card, not just it's magstripe data in some fancy device.
It seems to me the real trouble is that, with torrents, that history teacher will also be giving unauthorized copies to others, who are most likely not also history teachers.

It seems to me that, in the future, a sane legal system should ignore this technical aspect of torrents. Merely participating in an existing swarm should not be considered distribution.
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So there is a part where the US has stronger consumer protection laws than Germany? Interesting.

Besides that, why are digital goods pre-orders seemingly allowed?
IMO, if we worry about that we would never use NFC or any other technology, really.
I dare to say that everything is exploitable.
Note that I didn't say salary, I said raises. ;)

Every other job I've had uses some sort of stressful review as part of the salary process. You get a good review, your raise is bigger; bad review, smaller raise. This seems like it works, but it actually doesn't.

What's the goal of a review? To provide feedback. Shouldn't you be interested in feedback so you can get better, not just so you can get paid more? If so, shouldn't you be getting it all the time, instead of twice a year?

What's the goal of a raise? To keep you from being effectively paid less (because the cost of living keeps going up), and to make sure you feel satisfied with how much money you're making. There's nothing in there about making sure some people feel less appreciated than others. So pick a percentage number, preferably one that's above COLA, and just give everybody that. If that's not enough, your base salary isn't enough.

Note that none of these goals overlap. Feedback and salary don't really have common goals. If you're trying to get people to do better work by dangling the salary carrot, you're taking away intrinsic motivation – see DHH on mixing open-source and money, he did a good job with this topic – and you'll end up with less performance and motivation, not more.
Oh sweet, now I can actually put this up for less than $ArmAndALeg https://github.com/benmathes/earthquakes
knucklebusters (card imprinting machines) are not required or even recommended by processors. The tide had turned on imprinting in the majority of industries.
Github has $100 million in relatively fresh capital to play with and a profitable enterprise product to draw from to pay for the free users. SourceForge doesn't have a freemium model to draw from. And SourceForge pushes way more bandwidth than Github does thanks to all those hosted binary downloads (Github only added this as a service this year).
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Distributed systems.

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Their loss of possibly getting chargebacked? Seems like a benefit.
Guess I have to stick to my shitty baby blue card then. Yes my bank IS Toys 'R' Us.
The product owner should be the person building the product and also be the facilitator for the client. This model of having non engineer/designers as project directors or whatever is broken.
It's difficult to know what they're offering with so few details.

The article writes that "F Secure will not stop a proper investigation from the authorities. But it has done its level best to make sure your content cannot be combed and picked up by intelligence agencies or advertisers, without your knowledge or through illegal means, and promises that everything from the thumbnail to the content itself and the metadata is all encrypted."

I'm not entirely sure how to reconcile these two statements. Perhaps everything is encrypted, but they have access to your key (Similar to Lavabit) ?

Alternatively, they might only be referring to delivering metadata to 'authorities'.

I'm not sure where their niche is - People who sorta-kinda want things private, but not enough to use a serverless solution such as http://www.filetransporter.com/ ?
Just like AWS, you pay Heroku to simplify your system administration. You don't have to like Heroku's product but there is a place for it. I do not use Heroku but it makes total sense if you have an app you need to deploy and you don't know system admin, don't want to do system admin yourself, or can't afford a system admin.

GitHub just "wraps up" git and charges for it and I am happy to pay them. Setting up a git server is a royal pain in the ass. Setting up a wiki, issue tracker, etc to go along with a git server is even more of a pain in the ass.

Well done cloud services make life simpler, and many people will pay for that simplicity regardless of how the internals are built.
> If you willfully intend to break the law, but fail to actually break the law, you can still be charged and convicted of a crime.

No, you can't.

If you take concrete action in an attempt to commit a crime, that is often itself a crime (usually a lesser offense than the one attempted; e.g., "attempted murder" is a distinct crime, and a lesser offense than murder.) But if you are not proven to have broken the law (and, more specifically, committed a crime -- not all lawbreaking is criminal), you cannot be convicted of a crime.
I'm skeptical when people claim that their lack of managers mean they don't have a hierarchy. If there isn't an official hierarchy there will still be an unofficial one in some way - founders and early employees with more esteem/authority, etc.
It would be the good thing to do to inform the seller of their wrong methods, however the lack of doing so isn't unethical: you can't stop people from making bad financial decision in life (it might actually be condescending to make the assumption that they don't know what they are doing). And if you didn't buy the iPod yourself, their bad listing might not even be selling for them.
Given the number of HN users, that may work now but invite-only communities really only reenforce a community. It's difficult for outsiders to get in.

One such example is https://lobste.rs/ -- An invite-only version of HN. It currently suffers from not having enough discourse. One reason may be the small community size.
I recently got back to reading Infinite jest by David Foster Wallace.

On a more technical, I'm reading SICP --- could you believe someone had thrown this book out (I guess left out for donation). I rescued it have been reading through it. Scheme is nice, but what is even nicer is the JS version: ivanistheone.github.io/SICPapp/ (credit Martin Henz for JS adaptation)
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Coin looks great, I want to make that clear. No ifs ands or buts, I think it's a great product.

However - if you're looking for the future, I think I've got something interesting - feeless payments bank to bank by oAuthing consumers directly into their online banking. Completely secure - merchants never get the personal information, they just get paid. Better: I've built it, and we have beta customers. I'm posting a couple comments on HN to start the conversation, because anyone who cares about payments or accepts them online - I'm trying to talk. You'll be hearing more from me in the coming weeks and months - and it's going to be exciting. We're going to kill credit card fees, because we don't need them anymore.

If you want to talk, email me @ tommy@thecityswig.com and let's just chat. I'm not selling anything - we just need to know what hackers are thinking about payments. It's the most valuable info we can have.
"If I think a stock is a sell at $X and you think it's a buy, we trade, but clearly one person knows (or thinks they know) something that the other doesn't"

Theoretically, everyone who ever buys or sells could make money. They just have to be trading on different time-frames, different entry/exit strategies, and/or have different risk tolerance.

I do agree with your overall point.
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This is fair, but paying for their expenses this way is not the way to do it. It's going to kill them in the end, and at best, is going to produce at best, some short term profit while it's community bleeds away. I seriously think if they jusut said, 'Hey, we have bills to pay. Would you be willing to donate?', they might have seen some success. But that is now not a solution, since they basically burned all their goodwill in one fell swoop with this model.
Coin's logo seems to be very similar to Macquarie Bank's[1]. I'm not a lawyer - but Coin may be infringing on their United States visual trademark[2] (of concentric circles), especially as they are also a financial service. I may be very wide of the mark here; but my first thought with this was that this was a product of Macquarie.

[1]:http://static.macquarie.com/dafiles/Internet/mgl/com/furnitu...
[2]: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:8dpjzg...
Everyone loses in this case. The card is supposed to facilitate a transaction and it failed to do so; the shop went without their money, the family went without their bikes, and all of the various financial institutions went without their cut.

Which is why the poster above is warning about this; if there will be merchants out there who won't accept it, it's pretty much DOA as you can't replace all the cards in your wallet with it.
Oh, I agree about the nerd non/anti-assimilation thing, trust me. I might be on HN, but I work in academia with a vast majority of friends who are musicians, artists, or also in academia. Most of which live in Oakland.

Of course, if you're an east coast Ivy who hits up mission cliffs on the way home from your startup in SoMa, well, you're going to have a hard time integrating with the Salvadoran family that's lived next store for 40 years. However, I'm not sure who is to blame for any of that. I think the worst part of it all is this weird form of entitlement where everybody has to live in the trendy parts, coupled with the money to afford it at whatever cost. Couple that with the city's desire to restrict any sort of new building at nearly any cost, well then I think you have a real problem. The only solution I see is to either adopt a policy of higher density, in-place structure and tenant replacement (letting tenants move back into a new higher-density building at a similar cost), do more development along Third Street, or to abandon SF and try building out West/Downtown Oakland or something instead.
Surely you don't think having a bot introduce itself as a 10-year-old Filipina counters as entrapment. That's not even skirting the line — based on what they've shown, the bot is not the one that brings up sex.
How is the bag supposed to securely attach into the canal?
I think it's important to cut SourceForge some slack. They've provided a really valuable service for a long time. Monetizing on the Internet isn't easy and we shouldn't pretend like it is. It's less easy if you've been around as a free service for a decade. Not to mention having a newly created formidable opponent.

I hope they find a better path to monetization. But this idea that they don't care about users and are doing this "only for the money" is a bit much.

I know from first hand experience that when it comes to monetizing a service that you have to be realistic about your options. Sometimes your best option is somewhere between the ideal scenario and shutting a service down.
This article "is the step in the wrong direction".

I see nothing wrong with encapsulating/combining multiple mediums into one solution. One solution that extends the innate functionality of magnetic cards and provides additional functional layers. The author talks about Bitcoin as being one of the "other" directions in the horizon, I believe that Bitcoin or any other digital currency is on the same level as the magnetic cards. If Coin is able to tap into your Bitcoin wallet and execute transactions, that would help Bitcoin further infiltrate the market.

I also believe that Coin has the potential to provide an extra layer of security that magnetic cards don't.

1) Coin can implement a one click/touch procedure to disable a given card at any point in time and prevent its usage, which currently requires a call to the bank and a bureaucratic nightmare to reactivate the card. (at least in my country).

2) I'm sure Coin are able to implement an approval/rejection transaction workflow adding an extra layer of control in case of unauthorized usage.

3) Coin can add a key based security layer to their application also preventing unauthorized usage.

Really, the ideas are endless and this is why I love projects that are an extension/middle-layer for other outdated technologies.

I think the hate is originating due to a narrow vision of this product's potential.
Good point. But:

>> People can claim that quantitative easing will lead to heightened inflation in X years. This claim can then be observed, tested, and falsified.

...which is useful if you can create models that repeatedly make correct predictions.
I think we're talking about two different uses of the word "intuition".

One is basically to grok. To understand so deeply that you don't have to do the calculations anymore - you can just "feel" the truth, based off of the prior work you did.

The other use of intuition is isn't necessarily connected to prior calculation or heavy effort. Whether it's a rule-of-thumb, a gut feeling, a flash of insight or a lateral leap.

Reasoning from first principles isn't a good counterbalance to the first definition, and that's because the person doing the intuiting has already internalized those first principles.

But it is an effective counterbalance to the latter, for various reasons already discussed.
In the late '90s I'd do a much smaller scale eBay gambit. Buy Plam Pilots or Palm Pliots (eBay used to not suggest corrected spellings) cheap and flip them for more money as Palm Pilots. Looking back, it was probably a waste of time. I think I only did this about 10 times. It was easy to justify since there was usually another bid on the item, but not 10 people bidding like when the product was spelled correctly. Also, I figured if I could buy an item for $X, the person was fine with selling it for $X (otherwise they should have put a reserve on the item).
Don't we all know bad players though who misbehave every so often, so even invite only would work for so long (and that assumes there would be enough interesting content in the first place to keep people coming back.
Plastic credit card costs next to nothing to manufacture, can be dropped from a 10 story building (good luck finding it afterwards though), can get wet with me in a heavy rain, can be replaced in 24 hours (at my bank) and I have $0 liability if I lose it or someone steals it from me. Compare this to Coin (or other solutions like phone based payments) and you will see that it is indeed a step in the wrong direction though not for the reasons discussed in the article.
Minor nitpick: I've never read about (or I forgot about reading about) Flynn. I figured this was a big announcement and so I kept expecting you guys to explain what it was in the text, but never saw anything.

Since this has made it to the frontpage of HN, might I suggest adding something like the following right below the post subject?

Flynn helps awesome people do totally awesome things by providing Awesomeness as a Service! Find our more here.

Granted, I was able to find that out by clicking on your main page link, but every little bit helps!
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