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Ask HN: Help I need advice on fraud
I run a web site (side project) where users can use their credit card to send money to a friends checking account as a gift. It seems a user created multiple accounts with fake names then proceeded to send money from stolen credit cards. All the charges to the stolen credit cards where then sent to one final destination checking account which I have all the information on. I detected all this activity a bit too late (2 days late) so the money has been transferred from the credit cards to my marketplace to the destination checking account. Overall there were 5 different stolen credit cards used with over $2,000 in charges! As a side project this a big loss for me. I'm already starting to receive some chargebacks and it's stressing me out. As a result I have permanently shut down my project because this is a major loss, more than I have ever made from the actual side project itself.

I have visited the local police department, but they said since I'm not the victim they can't do anything about it (presumably the owners of the stolen credit cards are the victims here, so they have to file a report). They referred me to the FBI. So I filed a complaint with the IC3.gov. After submitting the form, it said that it may be a while before I hear anything since they have limited resources and they receive thousands of complaints each day.

What's really frustrating is that I have the checking account details where the stolen money was sent to! So it seems it would be an easy case to break. The authorities would have to subpena the bank account since I have the bank account number and bank name, it's not like they used bitcoins.

Can anyone with experience in this situation before chime in with some advice? What should I do? Please help, any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. I had heard about yubikey. will def check it out.
As a c-base regular, I'd say this is actually more of a strength for Berlin. There are lots of ideas and talent that can flow from the hacker and arts scenes into the business world
Idea we played with was one step further--take the entities and have their components/state data backed as atoms, and create separate buffers. During update, read from buffer A and write state to buffer B, then swap. This should allow for fairly trivial use of a worker pool to handle concurrent updates.
I actually even called the destination bank fraud department which is where the checking account resides. They seem to not care. I called them 2 days after the transactions happened and asked if they can reverse the transactions though the agent that I spoke with said he would work on it and call me back. He never called me back, so I called him back and he said he's still has to get to it and told me to have my payment processing company call him. My payment processing company has tried to call the bank agent for 2 days with no avail. I even tried to call him and many times I was sent to voicemail. It has been 11 days and I haven't heard back.
A "Nintendo Seal of Quality" would be really great for games. You can't copyright a game design, only the art, so the markets always fill with clones

What scares me about this sort of program is the possibility of a similar barrier on applications. An app market with only one word processor would be terrible, but a market with only one flappy bird is probably better than a market with two.
Funny timing. Had a near-panic last night where I almost had to tell my wife I lost the last 2 years worth of photos because backups are stale. Fortunately, they were all found on an old laptop, so disaster averted.

I spent last night looking into off-site backup solutions, and haven't yet found one I would be willing to pay for. They all seem to require strange client software to work. Is there anything out there where I can set up an account and simply have cron rsync everything over every week? Why do I need a Java GUI (Crashplan) or some 3rd party python script (Glacier) to do a task that doesn't change week to week?
How is .com not international it's a TLD? by definition TLD's are not tied to a geography in the same way that country domains are.
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>> Apple and Google need to get a whole lot tougher in their approval process. They need to be picky about what they let in and they need to be willing to shut out anything that’s a blatant copy of somebody else’s work.

Bad idea. How do they decide who stays and who goes when it comes to clones? The 'best' game? The first game?
Your understanding of what HFTs do is factually incorrect. They can't see buy orders before they hit the market.
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It's not that it's 'more popular.' That's not the debate. The debate is that the .com site is being squatted. If it was some 4chan interior design company with even some legitimate business, then the debate would be over. Do you think it's a bad precedent if Google becomes popular and you can show that a person subsequently registered all the single permutation misspellings of Google and then tried to sell them back to Google? Or even worse, told them they would post porn redirects at all the sites if they didn't buy them at huge markup? Go read about the Whitehouse.com history.
Culture is collaborative. Every idea is built on something, and you can't lay claim to a whole class of ideas, or expect someone else not to do a better job and charge less. That's just how society works.
> HFTs and other trading firms actually buy up the order flow from brokerages.

I'm going to ask for a citation on this one.

I remember a similar incident at KRX in 2009, and it resulted in a criminal investigation [1], so that ought to be illegal.

[1] http://www.traderdaily.com/07/koreas-elw-players-get-hfc-wak...
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There is something to be said about games that are so easily reproduced. I'm not really sure what exactly, but it seems silly that I could make a simple game and then when someone else reproduced it in a day to call them out on it. Kind of like not being able to patent things that are too simple and obvious.
Rule #1 - an emergency fund of 6-12 months living expenses, in checking or money market. (Putting more than this in cash is a bad idea, because the interest you earn doesn't keep pace with inflation.)

Long-term savings should be in stocks (or gold or silver).

Lazy allocation #1: 100% in S&P 500 index fund.

Lazy allocation #2: 50% in S&P 500 index fund, 50% in gold/silver ETFs (like GLD, SLV, PHYS, PSLV).

Advanced #1: Pick individual stocks in addition to index funds.

Advanced #2: In addition to gold and silver ETFs, also take physical delivery. (a hedge against the possibility the the PM ETFs will default, see MF Global)

Note: The stock market is a risk, but over a 5+ year time period it should do better than 0% in a checking account.
This is a great example of 'why your idea doesn't matter'

2048 managed to execute its marketing better, spreading through HackerNews and Reddit.
"[Free, open-source software] is why we can't have nice things" ...?

2048 exploded because anyone could modify it, create a doge version, create an AI version, a multiplayer version, an inverted version ...

And they did. The formula was ridiculously simple, so it was easy to do.

You can't do that with Threes. It's proprietary. You can't take it apart. You can't mess around with it. The only thing you can do with it is play Threes.
But it's not just identifying HFT systems that need to dump shares, the idea is to induce them to. So for example, suppose the bid is $100.00 and the ask is $100.05. You put in a bid for $100.10 which causes HFT systems to buy at $100.05 expecting they'll profit $0.05/share by reselling to you in a few milliseconds, but before that you change your bid to $100.03, causing the HFTs who now need to dump those shares to have to sell to you at a loss of $0.02/share (and causing you to pick that up as profit).
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> a market with only one flappy bird is probably better than a market with two.

Care to back up that assertion? It may be better for the original author, but it's hard to see how it would benefit the community.
Sure, and I could program using a 386, but why would it be a good idea to limit programmers to old technology?
I thought free market meant equal playing field for all.

From what I read, HFT is limited to people with large amount of money both to start and put their money in.

I think 30 years ago, HFT traders would've spent jail time.
Didn't developers hate the Nintendo seal?
I think decreasing the minimum bid/ask spread value would make it very difficult to continue doing traditional market making. I think that exchanges would then need to add some other incentives/perks to ensure liquidity providers stayed on their exchange, which starts to sound more and more like a specialist system which I'm generally against.

Of course, I don't think there is some natural right for market makers to exist. I do really like the idea of an extremely small tick size as it much more elegant than a transaction tax.
Couldn't disagree more. You should see London. Germans seem to inherently like quality discipline and order and they don't put some ancient laws in front that prevent from taking down some "historical" buildings in order to renovate the city - I'm looking at you, UK.
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I'm in Barcelona. My rent is €1000 per month but that is for a quite nice flat. Food and going out is cheap compared to Copenhagen where I am from, but not as much as I expected.

That said, if you are already up for adventure, you could consider South East Asia or Latin America instead and really stretch your budget.
> They made a touch screen interface and slapped it on desktop.

Which would be justifiable (not good, but justifiable) if there was a tablet where Firefox would actually be usable.
I have mixed feelings. I mean the entire game could be copied in 2 days? Sounds like a serious lack of content in your game. I do feel bad for them though, they might miss their chance to have the game of the month and sell for a billion bucks.
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There was a lot of discussion on HN how police in the US getting more militarized and violent. And people cannot and don't do anything about that. It looks like people really getting fed up. Hopefully this will bring changes for the better.
We do something like classes in JavaScript without touching prototypes, and it works pretty well as a natural way of organizing and encapsulating code.

Private members are variables/functions defined within the constructor's closure. Public members are properties added to "this" by the constructor. Mixins can be done by calling another class's constructor on yourself.

The point is that class-based OO can be trivially imposed on JavaScript objects without abandoning the native object construction mechanism like ember.js does. In fact, CoffeeScript does this in order to implement its own classes.
> But what happens if you approach your plain vanilla H/C/J writing with these DRY concepts in mind?

Once you know a technique you can apply it in almost any language and it really doesn't matter which you choose. But that's why it's very important to use good tools when you're starting out. (I'm reminded of an analogous situation where a friend pointed out the irony of personalized golf clubs: a scratch player can pretty much pick up any clubs and play with them, whereas it's the beginners who are still picking up their technique that would really benefit from having personalized clubs).

Frankly, and this is probably not what you want to hear, if you're wanting to learn it right I'd stay away from the web until you've done at least some UI in a well-regarded native toolkit (I'd recommend Qt, whether from C++ or from Python; I've heard good things about the Apple one but haven't used it myself). The web has a lot of legacy cruft and multiple ways of doing something that tend to obscure the principles and make it a poor learning environment, whereas if you've already learnt the basics using something more consistent then it becomes a lot clearer. But by the same logic I'd say that if it has to be the web, you should start with a big, opinionated framework (e.g. Angular) and try to understand its idioms before diving under the covers.

(But then I could never get on with Knuth at all, so your style may be different from mine)
Really great stuff for beginners. Thanks for the list. I'll forward it along to a few people who are interested but don't know where to start. However, it does look very python-django specific route on the back-end side. My suggestion, branch out the back-end side to include paths using different frameworks and such?
Is HN being trolled?
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but I've seen quite a few posts popup on the "Ask HN" concerning matters like depression and loneliness.

I am just wondering whether this is a real problem or are people simply trolling HN to seek out empathy and replies.

I don't want anyone to think I don't feel bad for these guys out there, but I just want to clarify whether this depression issue is genuinely a problem and perhaps there needs to be a way to address it (sitting behind a computer while typing and feeling lonely and depressed isn't the best way to get help).
I don't think it was really marketing so much as price & platform: Threes is a paid iPhone game, while 2048 is a free web/iPhone clone. Generally free $x finds it easier to build traction for most x (though not all), and being free and in-browser makes it a lot easier to pass links around.
The word "patent" means open or obvious. Technology innovators are offered an exclusive license in exchange for opening up their manufactured devices, making their designs patent to the reader.

Game designs are open by default. They have to be, in order for players to understand them well enough to enjoy them. A quality game design will always look obvious. If it's not simple and obvious, you won't enjoy the game!
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To remotesynth (who I believe authored the post):
Hey, how do I decide what is noise and what isn't?

Could you possible think about adding a section to the post with actionable steps similar to the ones you listed for side projects? Those were golden. But the main part of your article talks about 'finding if it's relevant to your work' and such.

Do you have a process you use for objectively evaluating a new tech for work purposes vs side project purposes? Or do you use a funnel such as:
>try in side project >if good, try at work

I'm wondering because I do a lot of work with edutech, and I have a very specific set of criteria I use when evaluating the 'latest and greatest' new piece of learning software that crosses my desk. It helps me to weed out the chaff from the wheat.
There are a lot:

http://skeptu.com/online-backup-service+has-client:linux-app...
The point of the article is that you will lose the game because you're making decisions in macro time with old information and you're competing against robots that make decisions in nano time with newer information.
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Games do not compete on features, they compete on concept and gameplay. I don't see how the obvious clones offer anything to market participants.

Does anyone actually want to browse 200 variants on flappy bird, or "threes," or candy crush?
Cloudera has some of the best talent in distributed systems in the valley. Nice to see enterprise tech company grabbing one of the largest private financing round.
Well, here's my question, then. If the Obama administration has the power to postpone both the employer mandate and the signup deadlines... What's to stop a Republican president in 2016 from coming in and saying that the employer and the individual mandate are now "postponed" because of implementation difficulty until 2025. It seems to me a Republican president could just move all of the deadlines and effectively repeal the law without having to repeal it.
>> A "Nintendo Seal of Quality" would be really great for games.

Every (legally sold) Nintendo game had the seal. That didn't stop developers from flooding the market with really, really bad games like X-Men and Heroes of the Lance.

Granted, this didn't stop publishers from releasing really terrible NES games like Action52 (of Cheetahmen fame), but of course those were not licensed by Nintendo and did not have the seal of quality. Most of those games were QBASIC-level bad.
From what I can tell from the article, Britain has civil partnerships which have the same rights, benefits and privileges as marriage. That is a completely different debate from the US where there is are various similar things (eg civil unions) but only marriage has the full rights, benefits and privileges.

The correct fix in the US would be decoupling all those rights, benefits and privileges from marriage (only). However the chances of that happening at the moment are very low. So today the issue is all about marriage.
I bought threes because of 2048...

This is a lot of bullshit. They're obviously different games, credit was given where credit was due. 2048 helped, not hindered Threes. I've even passed Threes around my friends, they love it.

I like it less now.
Yes, they can and it's called buying dumb flow from brokerages.

Now technically they write it off as helping you as they group small orders together and execute them, but that doesn't mean these market makers are making a profit off the transaction.
But that's the whole point, isn't it? The reason there are so many shitty games out there is because it doesn't pay to create a good game.

2048 wasn't a unique new game mechanic, it was a just free clone of the game that invented the mechanic.
Very good point, I would probably agree with that.
I don't agree with anything you just said. Seems like you took things literally that I explicitly used as a metaphor. I don't really know what you are doing.
My outrage (not sure you could really call it that) is not some moral thing or based on a perception that they are doing nothing.

My issue comes from the fact that securities trading is based on the idea that we buy and sell parts of these securities under the idea we see value in the company. This fits best with a long term hold position but is not really that divergent with a day trader who buys AAPL today because he thinks news later today about some new product will cause the price to go up thus increasing the value of the company. He will sell later in the day because he thinks that it may drop later.

My issue with HFT is that these trades (well most of them) are not based on the value of the security but rather on the act of buying and selling itself. It is meta in a sense.

That in my mind creates a fundamental flaw in the marketplace around the true purpose of a securities exchange.
Mostly because of the hoops you had to jump through to get it (some of the rules seemed arbitrary).

Not sure what a good equivalent for the App Store would be today. This is, honestly, what the "Editor's Choice" sections are for.
Heh, awesome! I'll try it out today.
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You can be handicapped in locomotion but still able to drive. You can also have one of those fliers and not be able to collect disability so you never have to work again. The point is, how can someone who is capable of driving be given money that is meant for people incapacitated and unable to contribute to society?
In my example, they buy before the execute your trade, thus shoving the lowest ask price up to $1134 and fulfilling NBBO.
Childbirth hurts. Does that mean it's bad and no-one should ever do it? Lots of sports hurt!

I suspect the OP used BDSM because many view it as "perverted", as "bad sex", as "something people shouldn't do". The hell with that. All consenting sex amoung adults in private is fine and ethical and normal.
It took Threes' developers over a year to hone the gameplay concept, but once it was finished, it took only a day to clone it.

This creates deeply perverse incentives for mobile development.
This is really cool - thanks for laying out out like a progression! There are so many resources on the internet I find myself relearning a lot of things several times.
I remember a client who wanted to use Node.js and Angular.js for a simple site that could've just used php, jQuery and ajax but to no avail, he already has rosy outlooks for this latest technology that will make his website scale like crazy and with a front end that will be easy to build on. It didn't help that he had another freelancer telling him that he is 'philosophically against php and uses javascript only'.
He's asking whether the number of jobs is artificially limited to the number of processors, not what happens when the number of jobs is greater than the number of processors.
Did you read the article? :) Pre-emptive buys driving up the price across exchanges.
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Flashed orders make it a bit more complicated than you suggest.
While 2048 certainly cloned threes, I agree with others that threes benefited more with the proliferation of 2048. On that note, I also think it's more interesting to discuss WHY 2048 spread so far and so quickly. Yeah, it's super addicting, but does anyone else think it's related to the fact it was released open source?

If you were to look at the top 50 posts on HN in the last month, I bet 10 are variations of that game. Which is pretty remarkable and no one is talking about.
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The top post is based on a completely incorrect understanding of how a matching engine works.
I remember when Gap (the American clothes company) sued Genesis Access Point (the Irish dial-up ISP) and won, back in the 90s. That's when it all started going to shit.
What makes you think the bank account's details you have that the (presumably) stolen funds were sent to are those of the actual criminal? It could very easily (and extremely likely) be an account opened under a stolen identity.

I'm afraid it's likely you're going to have to put this one down to experience... You haven't gone into specifics, but your side project sounds like a money-launderer's dream.
You should have titled this post "2048: The Game of Clones"
My point is it's not just a question of evidence.
"We know Threes is a better game, we spent over a year on it."

Bold statement that "invested more time" automatically equals "better".

I haven't played Threes yet but from the screen shot in that article, I think 2048 is at least a better-looking game.

I also have a hard time believing that there hasn't been a similar game before Threes. It's not like the gaming industry started yesterday. Such a simple game mechanic is likely to have been implemented before.

That's the problem with simple things. They can get invented more easily by anybody and often independently.
Is something supposed to happen interaction-wise when I go to that page though?