skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin would hurt Visa and Master Card very badly if it were adopted since it obsoletes their entire business practice.

If Bitcoin ever gets to a stage where it even looks like it has a chance to hurt Visa or Mastercards current business model then they will simply change their business model and use their massive current infrastructure and global network to become the biggest players in the new bitcoin market. I would be extremely surprised if Visa and Mastercard didn't have people wargaming these scenarios as we speak.

Now if there were any decently run services out there that could secure the average users wallets the market would pick up very fast.

A service provided by Visa or Mastercard perhaps...
Got notified we're on ProductHunt, what am I supposed to do with that?
Thanks, I appreciate the apology!

Almost 10% of the comments in this thread are by you, and they're filled with numerous bold claims of fact.

Are all those statements "observations of sentiment", too, or was it only this one?
> If someone steals it, they can use it but it doesn't impact me in any way except having to wait for the new card to come.

Unfortunately this is no longer the case in Europe with cards activated under 'Verified by Visa' ( and presumably the Mastercard equivalent ).

If an VbV card is used and passes authentication then it is assumed that the cardholder authorised the transaction and they are liable.
Huh? What world? One where metal, glass, and plastic bottles are all available? Sure!
I don't think Paradox really qualify as indie anymore. They're more on a niche market than anything else.
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I should have clarified I meant why are adults buying them for themselves (as many people are) - obviously it makes sense to avoid BPA for kids' bottles!
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Ingemar's Skiing Game was one of the best versions...
Your reasoning seems sound to me. That said, can we really rule out the possibility that stainless or glass or silicone will have problems found in them? We may have been using (some of) them for hundreds of years, but we haven't been scrutinizing them scientifically for that long.
So you think that allowing black people to shop at white stores is bad for black people as a whole?

Jesus, you're racist as fuck.
keep trying, there are companies out there looking for remote software engineers. I wrote a script to collect remote job listings from various job boards... in the last 30 days there were more then 700 of them. sign up with http://remoteworknewsletter.com, we are launching soon.
You say that as if managing a system at Google or AWS or Facebook scale is free. The downtime of individual servers may not matter as much in that architecture, but they each have an army of (costly!) engineers just to keep things running.

To say that the Google 'many-servers' approach is the only valid one is to overstate the trade-offs.
Very accurate for relocation calculations:

http://www.numbeo.com/
If indeed that's the case, then welcome to the era of the quick hack.

From the nanosecond the user hits the power button on their little box, and the BIOS loads 0x7c00 and executes it (loosely defined, frameworks call your code), we're in framework world.

You want your browser loaded? Better hope that the user clicks it, and the OS calls your code, because otherwise you're malware (and you were still loaded by the OS). Want users to visit your site? Unless you're a virus, you're gonna have to wait for their browser to navigate there. Another framework.

The idea that frameworks are not for writing software to me is just ridiculous. It's the only way useful modern software can be written. Unless of course you yourself have created the hardware, OS, and layer upon layer of userland software that you're going to rely upon, you really need to acknowledge that your code is 99% dependent upon frameworks.
We spent a fair bit of time evaluating twisted string
actuators to build low-cost robots. Unfortunately, [...]
their lifecycle is measured in the many thousands instead
of millions -- despite our best efforts at material
engineering.

I'd be interested to hear more about the materials they tried and what the failures typically were.
The code samples are from the RosettaCode[1]. They are probably lacking a frequent contributor for making and fixing Rust code examples.

[1]: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
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It'd be quite possible for a JIT to have the memory first writable but not executable when creating the code, then the other way around when running it. No need to be both at the same time.
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Taxes would have been a better example.
We are going to see more cases like this, as market-making robots increase their trade volumes. Big players are pouring more and more money into automated trading, and that trading relies on algorithms. Often the algorithms involve some sort of machine learning, and therefore depend on the input data, which is vulnerable to manipulation.

For example, imagine a bot programmed by some 5-10 person team at a hedge fund. They find that running sentiment analysis on twitter and news comments can accurately predict whether a given security will rise or fall in response to a fed press release. The profits are good, so the team manager moves a couple million into the algorithm. One night after work, a team member tells his programmer friend about the algorithm, and mentions some of the most profitable stocks. This friend goes home and programs another bot to corrupt the sentiment analysis dataset, by posting fake comments with properly tuned sentiment. The hedge fund bot reacts as expected, and now the friend has the power to manipulate the bot. He has outsmarted the bot and can take advantage of the high volume trading.

That might be a bit of a contrived example, but corruption in machine learning data is a very real problem. People are just starting to study it. [0]

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1128824
Racism and nationalism are equally silly, yes.

However, that does not automatically mean that institutions (i.e. governments) that are set up to help a specific group of people should refrain from helping them because other people might need the help more.

The US government would help the outside world a lot more if it stopped trying to "help" the world (e.g. by bombing it) and focused exclusively on helping its ownc citizens.
I live in Tanzania :)

I think you're overestimating the impact of bitcoin on poor countries by several orders of magnitude. People who don't have access to a bank account now don't have a smartphone, and certainly not a computer either. And internet access is rare and expensive (most people have dumb phones, internet at home is a rarity, and most coffee places charge you for wifi).

On top of that the only way to buy bitcoin here (for now, at least) is to send money through western union to some guy on localbitcoins and of course, that's far from "almost zero cost" or "without a middleman".

I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but the reality is that it's still much, much easier and cheaper to get a bank account than bitcoin here (you can open a bank account in less than an hour, with a minimal deposit of 50$. That allows you to use ATMs and send money anywhere).

So I come back to my original point, adoption is margnial, at best. Especially in poor countries.
The dollar began running right around July 1st (the effect of the Fed shutting down QE):

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=DX

Oil began falling at the same time:

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=CL

And bitcoin also began the current downturn about the same time. I'd be very reluctant to link the dollar's increase with any of the decrease in bitcoin, even though it's an interesting discussion point, with some money potentially flowing out of bitcoin and into dollars (since it's gaining value, and likely to gain more if the Fed proceeds to raise interest rates this year).

That said, gold on the other hand has not taken a beating since July 1st despite the dollar's significant move:

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=GC
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I'm not sure how to make it much clearer, so I'll just quote your own words again:

I'm not confusing it [Bitcoin vs CC] at all. I was giving an example that closely maps to the security concern with a credit card.

First you say you agree that Bitcoin and Credit Cards are not the same - and then you proceed to complain about problems that only occur if you treat Bitcoin like a Credit Card.
Art and design are subjective, but there ARE color schemes, game design "rules", and UX rules of thumb that will make your app more pleasing to the end user.

A good exercise would be to download/play the top 100 games on the app stores and write a sentence about each one articulating why you think it's a popular/good game. Over time you'll improve your sense of taste for good design.

Good luck!
>Are all those statements "observations of sentiment", too, or was it only this one?

If I use exact numbers they tend to be facts I can source you. If I use vague terms it is because I don't have the numbers or it is a sentiment claim.

I've had a look through my comments here and don't really see too many bold claims at all. Do you have any specific ones you want an answer for?
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So how would these AIs stack up against professional StarCraft players?
Just to provide some contrast, society is headed for cultural warfare between this outlook, and the "OMG the Japanese population is declining and that's bad" outlook.

The basic cultural / economic assumptions that is being disagreed on, are that all humans will be participants in the economy as producers and consumers, in which case the existing pyramidal ponzi scheme can keep rolling a little while longer till we run out of cheap oil, or they will not be participants (which is where we've been headed for a couple generations), in which case we may as well create a startup plan for 3-d printed guillotines, because that's the inevitable eventual outcome.

You can see which side of the battleground you're on by analyzing your response to the Japanese population being 100M and shrinking and only having enough economy to support 90M. If you think the shrinking economy is great, because at least the bread riots will be smaller and maybe the smaller population will eventually match the size of the shrinking economy, you're on one side. The other side believes, (I think rather ignorantly) that if the Japanese grew the 100M population to 120M then magically the economy would grow from 90M people size to 120M people size, because it feels really nice to operate under that delusion, or something.
Well, 10 minutes is still much better than the several days needed to clear an international transfer :)
If you're a business with the right initial approvals, you can initiate wire transfers online. There are all sorts of monitoring and checks that the run in the background, but an innocuous wire can go end-to-end without little or no human intervention. It's just folks like you and me who rarely send wires and have to go through all the paperwork.
cut him some slack - he is only 16 years old
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I would probably solve this problem using Relational DB by having an ItemHeader table with all the common attributes. Then will make an ItemAttributes table where I'd use the foreign key of the first table and just have Key/value pairs for all the unique attributes you want to give to the item. Any sort of query on any of the attributes can be one via a simple join.

Though i suppose it gets trickier if attributes may have sub attributes etc....
Choosing "first world" rather than "white America" is a completely arbitrary division of humanity. I'm asking why a nationalistic division is legitimate but a racial one is not.

Let me again point out - you've brought up a bunch of empirical criteria. Suppose the situation changes and black Americans suddenly satisfy those empirical criteria. Do you favor imposing the same restrictions on them that we impose on Indians? For example, if the educational funding situation changes, and most black people are educated via black people-funded community organizations, would requiring visas before we allow them to work be acceptable?

If not, why is it acceptable to do this to Indians and Haitians?

Are you merely taking the legitimacy of the nation state as some moral first principle?

I think regarding racism you should probably be a bit more introspective.

Ah yes - dislike what someone has to say, so hint that they are racist.

I'm currently interpreting your comment as being intended in a somewhat hostile manner. Am I correct in doing so?
I didn't say the problems only occur if you treat bitcoin like a credit card. I said the problem occurs.

You said that you can not worry about charge backs because you can just ask for the money back. Problem solved.

I gave you a list of occasions where no you couldn't just ask for the money back. You have ignored this and focused on this irrelevant argument to avoid having to face the main discussion.

Just because you're avoiding looking at the problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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The windows install for this took the liberty of removing my original nodejs install, removed the binary and batch files from the program files\nodejs directory, even though I opted to install iojs to its own folder. Nodejs shortcuts are removed from start menu, and path variables were removed as well.

Go to reinstall nodejs, and that install says a later version is already installed and cancels the install without giving me an option to install anyway.
That is precisely why this case is so good for the SEC, there is an email chain.

If you had an email chain stating that you were going to train your bot to layer, that would show intent, which would make it illegal. Otherwise it isn't.

Intentionality is at the heart of the law.
You are wrong beyond belief!

There are not a billion Muslims who would not have killed! Sure there are a few "radicals" that want all infidels beheaded but the remaining Muslims want the radicals to do the beheading.

For it says in the Qur'an Surat At-Tawbah 9:5 - And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

Let me rephrase for you: convert or die.
>Apart from the nationalistic idea that anyone owes the State that controls the land they're born in by default, most of these H1B immigrants in these 3rd world countries get very little government support

Many get a lot, actually. Especially in ex-soviet countries. Many have excellent free education systems.

>you wouldn't prevent any of "their" citizens from leaving would you?

Of course not. Nonetheless, the idea that freedom of immigration is an unparalleled good for the country providing the immigrants simply because individually they are better off, should die already.
I remember Diablo2 being heavily modded though
This is largely a matter of taste, but I think go has it exactly right. Ruthlessly enforce only one way, and make that as mandatory as possible.

Having code which is formatted as uniformly as possible is a huge boon. Rules are better than norms, especially if there is zero cost of enforcing them.
you mean nimrod, right?
If it takes your bank several days to clear an international transfer you need to switch banks not systems.
They (the AIs) would get completely stomped. As far as I know there isn't an AI that comes even close.
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It was my understanding that his plan does not involve banning encryption, but rather it involves the creation of a legal framework which would make it OK for government organisations to break into encrypted communications and communication channels.

I'm not saying that his plan is a good one, but it's not the same thing as banning encryption all together like the this post rather rashly suggests. The source material that this post links to [1], but sadly misrepresents, is a much better read.

[1] http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-pro...
The thing you are missing is that the first mover is not making a bad investment. They get 100% of the willing customers.

A second mover really only has a chance of getting 50% of the market. But it still has to build a network that services 100%.

A third mover really only has a chance of getting 33%, but has to service 100%.

The first mover doesn't get subsidies, they just get 100% of the market. The second mover likely can't be profitable. The first mover will match or beat their prices.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that it is wrong to "trick" HFT systems (for instance HFT systems make most of their money "tricking" other HFT systems).

What is wrong is doing something expressly illegal to do it. Oh and then putting it into an email chain with an FBI informant.
A very naive idea could be just to get some money from the bank and hire somebody.

Why you need a co-founder anyway ? It sound that you just need a great technical leader.
We'll see if Star Citizen is as good as it promises to be, but until then, the height of Roberts' creative career is in the early 90s for now, before he went into movies with his disastrous Wing Commander film. Plus, he is just directing Star Citizen and not involved in development as he was during the Wing Commander series (where he was a programmer himself at least for the first 2 episodes).
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This is due to the fact that bitcoin is not widely accepted yet. An in order for it to be widely accepted, more people have to want it. In order for people to want it, it has to be widely accepted.

This is why bitcoin is doomed to fail.
No. Hoping that your trade moves the market one way or the other is completely different than placing orders you hope never trade.

Why is it different? Because the law says it is.
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Do you even code? If not, prepare to be automated and rendered useless
Bitcoin Price Continues to Fall, Breaks $200 Mark
Np! Otherwise good find, which proves my above point. The first 1994 booklet had a whole essay on the History of the colonization of America, I used to read it several times after playing the game. But this was not just this game, so many others went ahead to provide tons of value besides the game itself (Ultima 7's map printed on a cloth! A classic!). This was just so much more than mere tutorials. They also help create the atmosphere of the game OUTSIDE of the game.
I don't think fenollop means not withdraw it at all. He means after someone has said "I'll take that offer". At which point you can't withdraw it. So these people will make a loss of enough people take up their offers. This risk is mentioned in the article. It doesn't explain why "spoofing" is illegal though. It should be legal. They are trying to shift the market (so is everyone) through an action that exposes themselves to massive loses.
but the reality is

And wouldn't it be nice if Bitcoin changed that reality for the better, a little bit?

So I come back to my original point, adoption is margnial, at best. Especially in poor countries.

Which I never argued.

I merely pointed out that Bitcoin has some additional useful properties on top of being a very volatile electronic gold equivalent.
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Ah, sure, if they use my card with the chip and PIN then I'm liable. Same if an online purchase is validated by 3dsecure, since that would mean that they somehow got my password on top of the physical card and personal details.
> 95 percent of high-frequency trader orders are cancelled

And how does that compare to the pit trader order cancel rates HFT replaced?

> Some high-frequency traders have claimed to be profitable on over 99 percent of their trading days

Are these same traders potentially working on an IPO deal? How about being acquired.

Lets put it this way, it is trivially easy to come up with a strategy that is profitable (also just FYI they mean the buy/sell made money, they dont count their operations cost in that) on 99% of days. Its that 1% that wipes out your whole company that is hard to avoid.
The "cap" is a long styrofoam tube with a plastic top that comes on and off with no resistance (if you upended the dewar, that cap would slide right out).
It does say "Version 1.0.1 (Beta stability)", what more are you requesting?
Not at all. Let me run an example with simple and made-up numbers.

Consider two storage solutions used to gather line items to invoices. The line items are ten cents on average.

One system is properly ACID, and running it costs one cent per line item on the invoice. The other loses 1% of writes randomly, but its hardware/backup/ops requirements are lower, so it costs just 0.1c/item.

The ACID way gives you complete invoices, but you spend 10% of the invoiced amount on the invoices. The lossy way makes your invoices 1% smaller, randomly, but the loss+cost adds up to about 2% instead of 10%.

It's like returns on physical goods, really. A random percentage of customers will return goods, you can't control that but you can estimate and monitor it, and optimize if the numbers aren't good enough.
Nice work! I might work on a ruby script to scan through the results to see if there are any really malicious websites.
Outcome of arms vendors needing new markets.
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The non-pressurized LN dewars I've seen had a "plug" that was just a cylinder of foam that slid into the neck of the dewar, with a light plastic cap on top. It was lightweight enough to bob upward at the slightest pressure, releasing gas. It probably had a design with channels such that the lip never sealed completely anyway.

They could easily preserve LN for days. Dewars are impressive.
It's an empirical question that I don't know the answer to. I can identify pluses and minuses and never much thought about it. Can you say with much confidence that allowing grinnbearit to enter the US would harm India?

Whether yes or no, I don't think it justifies treating black Americans the way we treat Nigerians and Indians.

You again ducked the question - if black Americans satisfy the same empirical criteria as Indians or Nigerians, should we treat them the same way?

As for your ad hominem, I have no idea what I've said here that leads you to believe this. In the lingo of social justice types, one of the largest systemic barriers keeping non-white people out of power is national boundaries. I favor reducing that barrier as much as possible. This makes me "racist as fuck"? Um, ok.