skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there!

One thing I want to be clear about is that we will not support consumer bank accounts, either directly or through our customers. So it will not be possible to build your own branded consumer bank on SEED.

We expect our API will be used by companies that see value in automating their payments and receivables process, have a desire to integrate banking into their internal backend systems, have a desire to easily do analysis on their banking data, and so on. In the long run, we expect that most of our customers will use our mobile and web clients rather than using the API directly.

To answer your other questions:

1. Properly managing fraud is critical to our business. As you mentioned, the potential risks are scary both for us and our customers. Some of what we do will remain private, but over time we'll share more of our approach to ensuring the safety and security of our customer funds. While we intend to protect ourselves against loss as well as or better than traditional banks, we believe there are many ways to do so without the inconveniences that most banks impose on their customers. Our first hire is an expert in cryptography, mathematics, and infosec, so that should give you some idea of where our priorities are.

2. We have thought a lot about how to best serve the bitcoin community. In fact, that used to be our pitch -- a bank for the bitcoin economy. As we spent many months talking to bitcoin merchants and the community at large, what we found is that the problems they face are the same problems many businesses face -- existing banks are serving business customers poorly. Until bitcoin stabilizes as a store of value or derivative strategies are baked into the exchanges, we don't believe that bitcoin transaction volume will grow meaningfully, so we're not focused on serving bitcoin merchants right now. Since our platform is flexible, we'll be able to integrate bitcoin support if and when it becomes a need for our customer base, so we'll see what happens. Personally, I own bitcoin and would love to see it or other cryptocurrencies thrive, and I'm a believer in the blockchain as an enabling technology.

As to banking the exchanges, we're really limited by our regulators. We believe that properly operated exchanges that have MSB licenses and are running compliant KYC/AML programs deserve access to banking, and we believe that we can provide banking services to exchanges in a safe and lawful manner. However, the risk tolerance of our regulators does not always match our own. This is something we'll have to work towards. In the meantime, it's heartening to see that some exchanges appear to have found stable onshore banking relationships, such as Coinbase + SVB.
not necessarily. a big strategy for gray/black hat tools is to sell the tools rather than using them to leverage risk.

Imagine a 100$ tool that might return 0 to 200$, the tool author sells the dream, and collects a more reliable income.
One way to alleviate this problem is to treat all failures as having a fixed cost equal to an expensive successful request. E.g. treat all >= 400 HTTP status codes as having taken 500ms. This works well even if there's a stable stream of faulty requests, since it'll affect all backends equally.
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And nothing says leadership like cracking under stress.
I thought the discipline was ironic too, but it was probably a secretary with a massive spreadsheet that messed up a formula or a mail merge.
The font is way too big in both cases, but aside from the former's weird slidy header effect and the latter's weird diamond link effect, they both seem comparably pretentious.
This headline bugs the heck out of me. Since when did being balanced and thoughtful and considering of the merits of both sides started getting called "hedging". It's only hedging if you take a more neutral position to minimize downside. Taking a neutral position because you believe there is greater correctness in the middle than on either side is not hedging.
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This is great news! Where do I see the source for this?
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Yeah, I'm curious about that. My guess is it has 600,000 results for things it thinks matches your query, based on how it interpreted it. But if it's not in the top 10 or 20, your query must be interpreted more strictly, and synonyms or slight misspellings or related pages fall off the radar.
Is that really true? See, for instance, House: MD.
Not if you start with a gold bar, then hollow the core out like a Twinkie and fill it with tungsten and the plug the end. Which I believe is what gbhn was implying.
Note that "UW" is a very overloaded term:

- University of Washington

- University of Waterloo

- University of Wisconsin

- University of Wyoming

etc.
> If the initial liability isn't on the company, it will be on a party (the driver or passenger) that won't actually have the assets to pay in the case of an accident.

Why not? In the hypothetical Coasian scenario where the company doesn't have liability but the driver and/or passenger will negotiate with the company to change the terms to compensate, the driver and/or passenger know that they are liable and the company isn't. (If they didn't know, they wouldn't know to renegotiate the terms.)

What you appear to be assuming is that the driver and passenger will not know, i.e., that they will be blindsided by the fact that they are liable, the first time the vehicle gets in an accident. But even if that's the case, why is that the company's fault? Isn't the driver responsible for knowing what he is and is not liable for when he takes paying passengers? Even if he wasn't taking paying passengers, he'd still have to have insurance, so it's not like the concept of him being liable when his car hits someone is new to him. (The passenger has more of an excuse here, since he's not driving and would not be expected to bear responsibility under just about any legal standard currently in play.)
If anyone wants to learn more about optimizing for HTTP/2, unwinding HTTP/1.1 hacks, and strategies to optimize for both versions at the same time, Ilya Grigorik's "High Performance Browser Networking" is an excellent resource:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch13.htm...
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HTML5 has local storage, so you can put auth tokens in there and only send them when you need them, versus on every request.
I read Daniel Stenberg's (he is a maintainer of curl, I think?) "http2 explained" pdf the other day, and it's by far the best comprehensive explanation of http2 that I have seen. Well worth a read if you're curious what's coming with http2. http://daniel.haxx.se/http2/
It sounds like the site is not rendering correctly for you. The font size itself is (supposed to be) very large, so if you are zooming in, then it sounds like something's wrong. (Mobile device, maybe?) If anything, some folks might prefer to zoom out, not in.

As for the 2/3 empty white space, that is an attempt to have a measure (line length) [1] that is readable. A general rule of thumb is somewhere around 70 characters per line is comfortable to read for single-column text. Now, I tend to think that 70 characters per line feels pretty short on the web... in my personal experience, around 100 characters feels a lot better.

Anyway, if you're interested in typography, take a look at Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_%28typography%29
Fargo made over 8x it's budget in income on the original theatrical run. That's major success.

For comparison, a traditional american "happy comedy", Happy Gilmore released the same year, made a third less despite costing almost twice as much.
As the article puts it, the internals of Git are brilliant. The UI (the stnadard CLI) is kind of abysmal. It's primary saving grace in my opinion is that for daily work, the number of command variations you need to know is small enough to simply memorize them. 95% of the rest of the time, the StackOverflow answer you're looking for is just a Google search away.
Libc arc4random still uses rc4. The kernel code is actually kind of tangly. I think it still uses rc4 for explicit arc4random calls, but I'm not certain exactly what comes out of /dev/random.
After reading all these (good) comments, I thought I'd go to SO now and try and pitch in and answer a question or two in my domain of expertise. You know...give back to the community. Be a part of the solution.

I found a question that could easily be answered and would be of value to users hitting this issue.

Here's that question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28541540/how-to-generate-...

I could not stop laughing at how this confirms the insanity being discussed here.

"Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam..."

Yes. And 238 million people saw Dez Bryant catch that ball notwithstanding the NFL's rule-which-must-be-followed-to-the-letter-of-the-law.

Some guy, or woman, won't get their question answered that could have helped them. It was a reasonable question. And people are willing to help them. In some way, I suspect StackOverflow is incredibly proud they prevented that...but stuck to the letter of the law on their policy.

You win StackOverflow.
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This same problem happened to the Ethiopian central bank. One batch, which had been bought from a trader, was discovered to be fake fairly quickly; another batch of faked gold, seized from smugglers, had been in their vaults for years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7294665.stm
People creating this stuff need something to sell so might as well sell something they know something about already. Sort of how marketing experts will market their own marketing teleseminars, etc.
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Perhaps I should have just said don't burn your bridges? It's not strictly necessary to quit in a way that can't be unquit immediately upon receipt of an acceptance letter.
The original computing vision, the Mother of All Demos, was philosophically against designing text in the ways of the obsolete print medium. The focus was on inventing a new way of writing information altogether. Instead of having paragraphs go one after another as required by print, have maps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_map of the argument, wikis etc. If we focused on this more, we might have reached a new level of communication efficiency by now.

Here we are arguing if we should let authors stylize text. Does this restyling of text help communicate more efficiently? Typically no, a long wall of text just needs to be set in a readable style.

Even this choice of presentation was supposed to be the reader's, not the author's. I do not care one bit about links appearing in a ♢ weird new way. Links should appear the same way, everywhere on the web. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com just needed some padding, nice font rendering, line spacing and you'd get Medium.

To the reader, Medium promises consistency of presentation that the rest of the web does not. That problem should really have been solved on the browser's end, by a style that applied to all articles, chosen by the user from existing templates.

The style should serve a functional purpose to the reader, be slower or faster to read, reduce eyestrain, etc.

The web was supposed to be more extreme than frozen pizza, more like astronaut's food paste. Skeuomorphic pizza in any form distracts users from the real purpose.

As far as Medium controlling your content, if the web was smarter you could put it somewhere else and the links would magically work. Centralization is a technically simple way to exploit a dumb network and the network should be fixed.
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The short version is that, as I understand it, the FreeBSD Foundation does release engineering different than Canonical or SPI, largely for historical reasons, and that as an end user, you would periodically run "freebsd-update cron" or subscribe to "freebsd-announc@freebsd.org" to check for updates to FreeBSD itself or run "pkg upgrade" to check for updates to third-party packages. It's really, really simple compared to the "good" old days of cvsup and "make world" and roughly equivalent to "apt-get upgrade" or even "apt-get dist-upgrade" (or their YUM analogues).

The FreeBSD equivalent of "main" would be FreeBSD itself, with source/binary updates via freebsd-update or source updates via Subversion. The FreeBSD Ports infrastructure handles package building for _all_ third-party software (Xorg, GNOME, KDE, Emacs, Perl, etc.), which would be the equivalent of "universe" and "multiverse". The Ports infrastructure has integrated license auditing (see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/mast... and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/mast...), which allows you to accept or reject licenses at package build time.

There is no equivalent to "restricted". The binary package repository maintained by the FreeBSD Foundation itself only contains free software, meaning that it includes only software whose licenses allow (a) redistribution of the original sources (like an FTP mirror), (b) selling copies of the original sources (like on CD-ROM), (c) free redistribution of the binary package (e.g., via FTP), (d) selling of the binary package (e.g., via CD-ROM), and (e) automatic license acceptance (which would exclude software like dccd that have EULAs which must be accepted prior to compilation/installation).

There is no equivalent to "backports" or "security". Supported FreeBSD releases get regular bugfixes and security updates as described above. As FreeBSD is a volunteer effort, there just aren't enough people involved to make maintaining alternate ports trees feasible. The ports tree does get frozen and tagged at each FreeBSD release to facilitate package building, CD-ROM manufacturing, and FTP distribution, but those tags aren't maintained except as historical markers. If you want security updates, you need to stay abreast of the latest commits the ports tree (whether via portsnap [source], subversion [source], or pkgng [binary]).
515,000 of the results are youtube comments.
> How do you solve the torrent of duplicates and low quality questions then

This is what voting/scoring is for on all the SE sites. The cream will rise to the top. It would be easy enough for SE to disallow questions to show up in google results with a low or negative score, but leave it open for people to discuss, clarify or solve. The moderators on SO don't give the real community a chance by closing things within minutes. Duplicates aren't even a real problem, there is nothing wrong with seeing the same questions answered from a different approach or method.
it is available for reading even without the account. At least works for me.
They need to harness that opinion/discussion/off-topic-subject energy in a way that doesn't work against their strategy. I think they are losing a lot of opportunity along the way.

I totally agree. This manifests itself in the worst way at http://programmers.stackexchange.com/. Or at least it did when I bothered with that site at all.
It's CMU. I wouldn't expect them to admit a mistake at all, so this is pretty good.
You could match the density with an alloy of a denser metal than gold. Lead - tungsten maybe?
can't reply to tedunangst but it doesn't matter how you do it, you can't "unquit" once your employer knows you've been applying elsewhere, no matter if it's for school or another job.
I saw 'The Day Today, Episode 1: Main News Attack' in the YoutUbe sidebar of your linked videos, well worth sharing as a staple, neigh bedrock, of 1990s UK satire that Iannucci, mentioned in the original article, was also heavily involved in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGE9153VFE&spfreload=10
>This is the first good refutation of the Chinese room I've encountered.

Really? I'd think that the fact that someone saying 'lookup tables aren't thinking' without ever saying what thinking is would be presenting an obviously self-refuting argument.

Like a judge saying "I know crime when I see it: I don't have to write down what it is." It's simply not a basis for rational decision making, so it's certainly not a convincing assertion.

The fact that anybody thinks the Chinese room is an interesting philosophical quandary is far more interesting. It means these are primitive times and you don't actually need to be very smart to beat the competition.
In my experience with open source projects, STABLE should be first on the download list. RELEASE should really be labeled release-candidate, with stable being considered the release.
What is conveniently avoided is that Japan, Germany and South Korea are at (relative) peace and prosperous because of immense investment by the US. All three are still, technically, militarily occupied territory.

The wars were total wars, won at the cost of millions of lives and financial and industrial commitments that reshaped the culture of both nations, at enormous civilian costs especially on the losing side (Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima...) and the territory kept at peace via millions of boots on the ground, enormous military effort (how much does Okinawa cost per annum?) and enormous financial spending, justified by Pax Americana being presumably worth more than its bill. In the case of WWI, not invading the losing power after breaking its will to fight resulted in a worse war a couple decades later.

Another unpalatable and often glossed over fact is that in both Germany and Japan, middle management was kept in power because the invading authority (such as MacArthur) realised that chaos would follow otherwise, and that in a statist, single-party state, all the talent would converge to the ruling party anyway.

Today's taxpayer does not want to pay for another Japan or Germany, and some people in Washington have sold him the unicorn of "instant happiness once the bad guy is removed with a few skilled operators and cool tech" (aka COIN), ignoring decades of history.

Either the American taxpayer needs to push for colonialism (call a spade a spade), or it needs to accept that furthering US interests will create side effects for locals. The latter is obviously a lot easier to stomach, especially with free speech allowing comfortable, safe civilians to complain loudly about how unfair it all is, so it has been the default position of successive administrations since Johnson. Option 3 is to accept the occasional bombing and attack on your civilians, in exchange for isolationism. The risk of that option is well described by the example of Chamberlain in the 1930s.
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Did you run enough requests to allow the jit to work? some jits require thousands of runs (in this case requests) to warm up.
Possibly. Like I said, I like Go. And I don't like to insult anyone's work. But this doesn't seem front page worthy. It's incomplete, short, and not idiomatic. Then I remember seeing posts about Go the game too, which made me suspect bots. I don't care quite enough to test, but I hate to think this quality source of news is being manipulated. Ah well.
On tests on a rather average SPA site I worked on, adding the letters "spdy" to the nginx config produced double-digit% performance benefits.

Keeping it backwards compatible with HTTP 1.1 as far as semantics means it will actually get real adoption, very easily, as you can seamlessly enable it via middleware without changing app code anywhere.

I don't know what you mean to "standardize auth", but seeing what a clusterfuck OAuth2 turned into, it'd probably guarantee HTTP2 wouldn't ship for a long time, then ship a mess.

To protect privacy, major browsers plan to only support HTTP2 over TLS. That should be a major incentive for more websites to force TLS. Pretty clever, sorta, even if we might have technical objections to requiring TLS for no "real" reason.
It's a distraction from the fact that they own you.

1) Many people do not care to maintain a blog

2) Many people do not plan on writing regularly; maybe once every three months may even be a miracle, in which case a shared platform is preferable.

3) Writing on your own blog is like building your own restaurant in the desert instead of a strip mall, it will take a lot to get people to find it.

4) Sometimes you just want to share something, and you just do not feel like having your own blog is necessary for it.

5) Many who claim that Medium will own their content do not end up writing anything, hence their ideas, which could be truly beneficial to society, end up dying as a distant memory.
If the RPi creates a wave of kids enthralled with embedded systems and Linux system development, I'm certainly for it.

But, from my viewpoint as an embedded systems developer, I fear that those are greatly steeper learning curves than how the Apple generation (myself included) got started:

]10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD ";
]20 GOTO 10
]RUN
Right, but there's a difference between things that the OS is expected to provide (OpenSSL, GTK, etc) which the app should not bundle, and things like libpng which the app basically should bundle.

e.g. Windows supplies KERNEL/USER/GDI as builtins, but doesn't supply libpng.

Pretty much the whole point of an OS is to provide a guaranteed stable base. Anything that isn't guaranteed or stable should be bundled with the app.
I don't understand, wouldn't the law account for honest mistakes if you corrected them in a timely fashion (e.g. before anyone relied upon the notification, resulting in actual harm)? Why would a mistake like this be legally binding?

EDIT: Looks like someone further up the thread is in exactly this situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9066942
Gotta say from an outsider's perspective, Seed [1] and Plaid [2] are pretty hard to distinguish from each other...

[1] The world's first business banking API

[2] The API for banking data

[1] https://seed.co/images/graphics/seed_logo_blue.png

[2] http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5572/15111751177_d74935b2b4.j...
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I completely agree, but anyone officially affiliated with MIT has a poorly documented license to use genera and this gets something interactive in front of them. It would be really nice if there were a reasonably priced way to get a better version.
That is great, thank you for the information.
you can't just check density like that, come on. platinum (which apparently trades around the same price as gold) - has a density of 21.45 [1] which more than compensates. If you want 100 grams of a tungsten-platinum mix to match the weight/volume of 100 grams of gold, this is how many grams you get to use of tungsten:

19.3 * 100 = 19.25 * x + 21.4(100-x)

gold is left, mix is right (a sum of the tungsten and platinum parts). I solve for 100 grams because voila, it's now a percentage. That solves to x = 97.7273 (you get to use 97.7273 grams of tungsten) or you just need 2.2727% platinum. (which recall costs about the same as gold.) so if this were a great test people could just use an alloy, which apparently exist:

https://www.google.com/search?q=tungsten+platinum+alloy

and target the exact same density as gold. tungsten alone seems close enough for them, at least, according to the author.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum
Criminals often sell stolen credit card numbers to other people willing to risk buying things with them.
I don't know why you think you can't in general. If you're on good terms and quit on good terms I would expect most places you could undo it once you explained the situation. I know for a fact that I could at my employer.
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Now we need a science fiction storey about the race that travels by moving their star around - and what they did when they last visited us.
Another year, another wheel reinvented.