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atarashion Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B

Let me add:

Only BUSD on Ethereum (ERC-20) is issued by Paxos. The BUSD on the BNB Chain (BEP-20) is not affiliated with Paxos and not regulated by NYDFS. Quoting Paxos:

"BUSD is issued by Paxos on the Ethereum blockchain and regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services. Separately, Binance wraps BUSD and issues separate tokens (known as Binance-Peg BUSD) on several blockchains, including BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, and Avalanche. These tokens are unaffiliated with Paxos and not regulated by the NYDFS."

atarashion The Ordinary License Plate’s Days May Be Numbered

This sort of submarine article for Reviver Auto has come up often in the past couple of months, but does anyone see a market for a $700 license plate with a yearly subscription model, which also requires you to carry a backup non-digital license plate? What's the benefit to the driver?

Also the title, Ordinary License Plate's Days May be Numbered seems inconsistent with No more than half a percent of the registered vehicles in the state, about 170,000, will be allowed to use a digital rear plate ... and the driver must carry a regular rear plate in the vehicle in case the digital version malfunctions

atarashion Advanced SQL window function quiz

The HAVING clause is evaluated before the SELECT so you have to specify the full clause `having sum(weight) > 12` and not just the alias. Most SQL engines are probably smart enough to not actually recalculate everything.

atarashion What are some good Django opensource projects like Discourse?

The backend for Sentry is a great example of a well-architected Django project: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

atarashion Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS

There is a way to interact with the network latyer even when using WKWebView. Since iOS9 there are the Network Extension APIs which allow you to access (and modify/filter) raw packet data.

For example: https://developer.apple.com/reference/networkextension/neapp...

atarashion Volvo introduces airbags for pedestrians

There's a video on youtube of the the pedestrian airbags in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4d9dqaMDxI&feature=play...

atarashion How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail

1. I'm not in MobileMail.app, get a notification that an email arrives, but when I enter the app, nothing is there. When I manually hit the refresh mail button, the new message downloads and appears.

Your iPhone is connected to a push server; the server sends your phone a few bytes that indicate a new message is available to be downloaded, but it does not begin downloading the message itself until you enter MobileMail.app. (Messages.app is different since your carrier pushes messages in their entirety).

atarashion Yahoo Open Sources S4 Real-Time MapReduce Framework

Indeed, it's not really MapReduce (as in Hadoop or Google's MapReduce), but Yahoo Labs did call it "Real-Time MapReduce."

http://labs.yahoo.com/event/99

atarashion Psychological manipulation - what I learned trying to save money on a sandwich

Here's a clip of that exchange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8

atarashion How to Wake Up Ready to Rock

I work at a massive Japanese company, and napping during lunch is an old trick of the trade. Between a quarter and a third of my coworkers power nap daily during lunch. We even turn off the lights for an hour, but that's meant primarily for energy conservation.

atarashion PageRank for shipping

It looks like they're using the following data sources:

U.S. Customs Import Data

Hong Kong Trade Development Council Data

DP Information Group Reports

EDDI Red Flag Database

China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (SINOSURE) Reports

Social Accountability International Compliance Data

TriVista Sourcing Data

Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) Compliance Data

CUSTOMS Info Reports

atarashion Node.js powers comet for plurk (100k+ users at once)

In your Comet with node.js and V8 presentation, you said that Plurk was originally using Netty to handle 200k open connections. About how much memory was that consuming?

atarashion The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur

It's from Joseph Heller. http://sivers.org/enough

atarashion The Joy of Clojure

Our very own fogus is one of the co-authors!

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fogus

atarashion Tablet Musings

the original reason behind the closed architecture of the iPhone was to keep the device secure on cell networks

That's probably true for the iPhone, but it doesn't explain the closed nature of the iPod Touch. The two devices share the same core OS, but it wouldn't be difficult to let iPod Touch users download apps outside of the app store. So if its not about protecting the cellular networks, and it's not a technological barrier, what's left? I guess you could argue it's about control or about enforcing a consistent (and "safe") user experience. I'm hoping they don't apply the same thinking to the Tablet.

atarashion Unladen Swallow: Python 3’S Best Feature

What does SGTM stand for?

Sounds good to me.

atarashion Facebook's 1st CTO Launches His Next Company (Screen Shots)

Stopped reading there.

He got a silver medal at the International Olympiad for Informatics, and the following year his team won the ACM programming contest.

atarashion Ask HN: Where do you live?

Same

atarashion Google Voice’s Secret Weapon: Number Portability

What else does Google Voice have that Vonage doesn't?

In addition to the rule-based filtering that you mentioned, surprisingly decent (and searchable) automatic voicemail transcription and the ability to send/receive SMS to/from the Google Voice number. And, with the exception of outbound calling, it's all free.

atarashion The Incredible App Store Hype

Yeah, I agree with you. My metric was erroneous, and I noticed too late to edit the comment. Thanks for calling me on it.

atarashion The Incredible App Store Hype

The 600,000 figure is probably just the number of times the SDK was downloaded (if the figure is at all legitimate; someone could have just made it up).

Boucher says it a lot better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607884

atarashion New Amazon EC2 Competitor: Cloudlayer's pricing announced

Cloudlayer also includes unlimited inbound bandwidth and 2000GB outbound. The outbound bandwidth alone would set you back $340 with Amazon.

atarashion Dropbox (YC S08) Now Effortlessly Syncing Files For 1 Million Members

Dropbox could definitely have my business there and be price competitive if they offered say 250 gigs for under $100 a year.

Amazon S3 (some consider it wholesale) would cost you 3 times that, and that's not even considering in/out bandwidth charges or Dropbox's nifty client and version history (which lets you, for instance, restore "deleted" files).

atarashion Celebrating 3 Years of Amazon S3 with 3 Months of Transfer-In for 3 Cents/GB

It applies to everyone. You're thinking of transfer out, which begins at $0.17/GB and works its way down to $0.10/GB, as you spend more. For transfer in, the standard price of $0.10/GB applies from the very beginning.

atarashion Content Stealing Jerks

To add to that, the offenders here are not only lifting content but presumably profiting from it (with AdSense) as well.

atarashion Interview with the man who built Google's V8 engine from scratch

Bak may be a computing genius, but he didn’t touch a computer until he was at university.

Wow. I wonder how many 10x programmers got their start in college.

atarashion IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc

I just got back from lunch, where the guy next to me was watching the Japan-Korea baseball game on his cell phone.

atarashion Founder Dilution - How Much Is "Normal?"

He probably means management team + other employees. Isn't the total employee option pool about 20%?

atarashion How Not to Pitch to a Startup

Now I see. I totally missed that...

atarashion How Not to Pitch to a Startup

I agree that "prompts" sounds stilted, but are you seriously advocating using something that's incorrect -- "begs" -- instead of "raises" just because it's slightly shorter?