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Why Your Australian Startup Should Bank with NAB(blog.coinjar.io)
48 points by zhoutong 13y ago|19 comments
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by zhoutong 13y ago
I wonder if looking up the source is really necessary. I did some tests with Rails console just now. It seems that Ruby and Rails are handling the case quite logically. "3.days.ago" at least by default is a TimeWithZone object in
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Automattic Acqui-Hires Lean Domain Search(techcrunch.com)
3 points by zhoutong 13y ago|0 comments
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by zhoutong 13y ago
FWIW, I was in the airport waiting for my flight to SFO, and I took out my laptop and found this on HN. The counter staff only informed passengers of the news one hour after the HN post.
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by zhoutong 13y ago
I was scheduled to arrive in SFO today and now my flight is canceled.
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FAA: Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco International Airport(cnn.com)
3 points by zhoutong 13y ago|1 comments
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by zhoutong 13y ago
The price of ETF and the price of underlying are simply correlated as a result of market forces. There's no "tracking" between the two. The only "tracking" happens to the Net Asset Value of the ETF, which the quanti
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by zhoutong 13y ago
As you have said, the creation/redemption mechanism will enable fair price discovery. The inability of shorting the underlying doesn't matter here, because if the ETF can be redeemed freely, an investor can buy the underpriced ETF
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GitHub was down(status.github.com)
38 points by zhoutong 13y ago|18 comments
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by zhoutong 14y ago
Right. I guess I had confused it with hashing. If the credit cards were hashed then it would be relatively easy to crack. Edited my comment. Thanks!
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by zhoutong 14y ago
EDIT 2: It seems that I have confused the "encryption" with normal hashing. So this comment is invalid if they are doing encryption properly. I wonder how hard it is to brute-force the credit card numbers. Given the last 4 digits, the Luhn
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by zhoutong 14y ago
As a former developer of Bitcoinica, the most affected customer in the previous Linode incident at that time, I have to say that Linode's communication was extremely unresponsive. It took them 15 days to write a reply that is still full of
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NameTerrific Introduces Two-Factor Authentication to Protect Domains(blog.nameterrific.com)
1 points by zhoutong 14y ago|0 comments
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by zhoutong 14y ago
Well, we have already soft launched our own TerrificDNS Anycast and it has replaced the Route 53 solution. TerrificDNS platform is running on Redis + PowerDNS.
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by zhoutong 14y ago
It's up now. Please see parent for explanation. Sorry!
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by zhoutong 14y ago
My startup NameTerrific can support instantaneous DNS updates in a geo-redundant Anycast infrastructure. As long as your TTL is sufficiently low (<300), the impact is quite limited as propagation time is negligible at NameTerrific. EDIT
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by zhoutong 14y ago
CloudFlare offers CNAME option for paid customers. So you can use an enterprise DNS service and only point to CloudFlare via a CNAME record. When disasters like this happen, a quick DNS change can be a life-saver.
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by zhoutong 14y ago
It seems that CloudFlare's DNS is down, and affecting NameTerrific as we have a CNAME record pointing to them. I had to change the CNAME record to get our site working again. EDIT: Based on Twitter search, all CloudFlare sites seem to be do
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CloudFlare was down(cloudflare.com)
129 points by zhoutong 14y ago|143 comments
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by zhoutong 14y ago
Reproduced on Sparrow with success. Whenever you touch the line with File://(/) it will crash. In one instance the Sparrow crash caused the entire mail library to be corrupt and I have to download all my mails again.
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Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters(support.microsoft.com)
41 points by zhoutong 14y ago|10 comments
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by zhoutong 14y ago
I do not understand why anyone would use an account created 9 hours ago and named as a variant of my legal name to criticize me personally without conclusive evidence, other than in an attempt to destroy the reputation of an 18-year-old ent
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Half A Million People Voted Against Facebook’s Governance Changes(techcrunch.com)
7 points by zhoutong 14y ago|2 comments
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by zhoutong 14y ago
The events following the acquisition of my previous startup Bitcoinica gave me a big hit on reputation. This made really frustrated as well. Basically I sold 100% financial interest in October/November 2011 and I stopped all involvement in
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by zhoutong 14y ago
It's really unfortunate that the link you referenced contained too many wrong understandings and misrepresentations. A little research can make the following clear: 1. Bitcoinica was a regulated financial service provider before closing dow
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by zhoutong 14y ago
Not really because there wasn't any advertising happening around the Bitcoin idea. However we did a soft launch within the Bitcoin community when the payment solution wasn't ready, and that gained some initial adoption (with 100% Bitcoin pa
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by zhoutong 14y ago
Currently about 20% of NameTerrific payments are made in Bitcoin. Credit card is expected to be the dominant payment method anyway.
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by zhoutong 14y ago
Thanks Brian. Coinbase is really cool and I also recommend it to everyone who plans to accept Bitcoin online, especially US merchants. There are many services in the Bitcoin world with highly similar features and it's great to see a healthy
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by zhoutong 14y ago
Technically it's trivial to use Bitcoin to hide income. However NameTerrific is a GST-registered company so we (have to) openly collect taxes from Australian residents, even for Bitcoin payments.
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by zhoutong 14y ago
The same problem can happen with any foreign currency. So the normal foreign currency accounting rules apply. IF you're operating as a business: When you receive 1 BTC at 10, assuming your accounting currency is USD, you should record a 10

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