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Wednesday, February 13, 2019
FOX BIZ NEWS: Lawyers leading defense of Nissan ex-chairman Ghosn quits
Lawyers leading defense of Nissan ex-chairman Ghosn quits
Motonari Ohtsuru, the lawyer heading the defense for Nissan Motor Co.'s former chairman Carlos Ghosn, has resigned.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: Head lawyer for arrested former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn says he has resigned from the case
Head lawyer for arrested former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn says he has resigned from the case
Head lawyer for arrested former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn says he has resigned from the case.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: Twilio (TWLO) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
Twilio (TWLO) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
TWLO earnings call for the period ending December 31, 2018.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: Asian shares mostly higher on hopes for US-China trade deal
Asian shares mostly higher on hopes for US-China trade deal
Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday, cheered by prospects for a resolution of the costly trade dispute between the U.S. and China.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: US, China envoys hold last talks before March 1 deadline
US, China envoys hold last talks before March 1 deadline
U.S. and Chinese negotiators meet this week for their final trade talks before President Donald Trump decides whether to go ahead with a March 2 tariff hike on $200 billion of imports from China.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
AKAM earnings call for the period ending December 31, 2018.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
OHI earnings call for the period ending December 31, 2018.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: Why Morgan Stanley's Buying Solium Capital
Why Morgan Stanley's Buying Solium Capital
Though the purchase price is pocket change for the financial-services giant, this still marks its largest acquisition since the Great Recession.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: Shopify (SHOP) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
Shopify (SHOP) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
SHOP earnings call for the period ending December 31, 2018.
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FOX BIZ NEWS: Can You Hedge Retirement Risk If Your Employer Is Uncle Sam?
Can You Hedge Retirement Risk If Your Employer Is Uncle Sam?
If a time comes when you can’t rely on Washington to pay what it owes you, a whole lot of other things may have gone wrong, too.
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New Show Hacker News story: Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
Launch HN: Dyneti (YC W19) – Helping apps stop fraud and process payments faster
57 by julia-zheng | 55 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We’re Julia and Lena, the founders of Dyneti ( https://dyneti.com ). Our first product is DyScan, an SDK that helps apps stop fraud and process payments faster by taking a picture of a credit card ( https://youtu.be/3gzDECAsqXs ). We met about 3 years ago at Uber, where we worked together to fight fraud on the platform. (Merchants are liable for fraud losses on digital transactions). One thing we noticed is a problem industry-wide is that while there is tons of investment in detection (rules and models and features), barely any work goes into figuring out what to do to someone after tagging them as fraudulent. Most of the reliable actions - the ones that actually stop fraud - are very severe (e.g., account banning). In order to minimize good users impacted, fraud systems are built to detect very specific fraud behaviors. It is therefore easy for fraudsters to reverse engineer models and rules and iterate around them, which means even more investment into detection. Along those lines, we noticed few companies realize card scanning is a powerful tool to reduce fraud and improve digital transaction security. Stolen credit card fraud is a major contributor to payment fraud losses. Fraudsters attempting to pay with stolen cards rarely have the physical card on hand, but rather, are running through a list of stolen credit card numbers, expiration dates, and cvvs. Having people enter payment information through a card scan will only allow users with a physical card present to go through with payment. It’s extremely rare to have a tool that both improves customer experience and improves security - but an accurate card scanner accomplishes this. In addition to being a powerful tool for fraud prevention, DyScan also provides a nontrivial conversion boost at checkout by reducing time and effort required to enter payment information (under 5 seconds for DyScan, compared to 21 seconds for manual entry). DyScan is also the only card scanner SDK that works on all credit card formats, including non-embossed numbers, numbers on the back, vertical cards, and Quick-Read format cards (those are the weird ones you may have seen around with a four-digit groups stacked on top of each other). Card.io, which is the card scanner experience you may have seen in other apps, works on only one credit card format (embossed numbers on the front of the card). Other card scanners aren't great because they were constrained technologically at the time they were built. Due to PCI compliance, credit cards must be scanned on device, and it hasn’t been possible to get a good deep learning model small enough to do this until very recently (due to more neural net processing power on devices and better tooling). The additional benefit of this approach is that it means zero latency, which can make a huge difference in terms of user experience and user friction. How it works: After an app integrates DyScan into its checkout process, their users can enter payment information by holding a credit card up to a smartphone camera. At the same time, DyScan verifies that the card is real and non-fraudulent. This results in more good transactions while bad transactions are blocked. We’ve been working hard on DyScan for the past few months and are very excited to share it with the HN community and get your insights on what we’re building. Thanks for reading! Julia & Lena
57 by julia-zheng | 55 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We’re Julia and Lena, the founders of Dyneti ( https://dyneti.com ). Our first product is DyScan, an SDK that helps apps stop fraud and process payments faster by taking a picture of a credit card ( https://youtu.be/3gzDECAsqXs ). We met about 3 years ago at Uber, where we worked together to fight fraud on the platform. (Merchants are liable for fraud losses on digital transactions). One thing we noticed is a problem industry-wide is that while there is tons of investment in detection (rules and models and features), barely any work goes into figuring out what to do to someone after tagging them as fraudulent. Most of the reliable actions - the ones that actually stop fraud - are very severe (e.g., account banning). In order to minimize good users impacted, fraud systems are built to detect very specific fraud behaviors. It is therefore easy for fraudsters to reverse engineer models and rules and iterate around them, which means even more investment into detection. Along those lines, we noticed few companies realize card scanning is a powerful tool to reduce fraud and improve digital transaction security. Stolen credit card fraud is a major contributor to payment fraud losses. Fraudsters attempting to pay with stolen cards rarely have the physical card on hand, but rather, are running through a list of stolen credit card numbers, expiration dates, and cvvs. Having people enter payment information through a card scan will only allow users with a physical card present to go through with payment. It’s extremely rare to have a tool that both improves customer experience and improves security - but an accurate card scanner accomplishes this. In addition to being a powerful tool for fraud prevention, DyScan also provides a nontrivial conversion boost at checkout by reducing time and effort required to enter payment information (under 5 seconds for DyScan, compared to 21 seconds for manual entry). DyScan is also the only card scanner SDK that works on all credit card formats, including non-embossed numbers, numbers on the back, vertical cards, and Quick-Read format cards (those are the weird ones you may have seen around with a four-digit groups stacked on top of each other). Card.io, which is the card scanner experience you may have seen in other apps, works on only one credit card format (embossed numbers on the front of the card). Other card scanners aren't great because they were constrained technologically at the time they were built. Due to PCI compliance, credit cards must be scanned on device, and it hasn’t been possible to get a good deep learning model small enough to do this until very recently (due to more neural net processing power on devices and better tooling). The additional benefit of this approach is that it means zero latency, which can make a huge difference in terms of user experience and user friction. How it works: After an app integrates DyScan into its checkout process, their users can enter payment information by holding a credit card up to a smartphone camera. At the same time, DyScan verifies that the card is real and non-fraudulent. This results in more good transactions while bad transactions are blocked. We’ve been working hard on DyScan for the past few months and are very excited to share it with the HN community and get your insights on what we’re building. Thanks for reading! Julia & Lena
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to get better in advanced SQL
Ask HN: How to get better in advanced SQL
16 by dprophecyguy | 5 comments on Hacker News.
How to get better at indexing? How to get better at joins? How to get better in SQL optimization? Must to know things about SQL and maybe relational databases?
16 by dprophecyguy | 5 comments on Hacker News.
How to get better at indexing? How to get better at joins? How to get better in SQL optimization? Must to know things about SQL and maybe relational databases?
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's it like to work in the same company for decades?
Ask HN: What's it like to work in the same company for decades?
77 by SenHeng | 50 comments on Hacker News.
The longest I've been at a place has been 2.5 years. I find that I'm usually itching to get out around after the 2 year mark due to various reasons like boredom from doing mostly the same thing over and over, lack of change in environment, no new challenges, people I know having mostly left/transferred to better places.
77 by SenHeng | 50 comments on Hacker News.
The longest I've been at a place has been 2.5 years. I find that I'm usually itching to get out around after the 2 year mark due to various reasons like boredom from doing mostly the same thing over and over, lack of change in environment, no new challenges, people I know having mostly left/transferred to better places.
New ask Hacker News story: Random.org and the number 66
Random.org and the number 66
2 by zipotm | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Am I crazy or... it's more often to get 66 as a response?
2 by zipotm | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Am I crazy or... it's more often to get 66 as a response?
New ask Hacker News story: Do you remember a completely portable blogging plataform
Do you remember a completely portable blogging plataform
3 by staticweb | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hi! I'm remember using a completely portable solution that allowed to create notes, that were centralized in one file, with search, tags, videos, images, etc. But I can't seem to find it, I think the name was something like Tidy or Tiny. Do you guys remember something like that? Thank you and sorry for my English.
3 by staticweb | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hi! I'm remember using a completely portable solution that allowed to create notes, that were centralized in one file, with search, tags, videos, images, etc. But I can't seem to find it, I think the name was something like Tidy or Tiny. Do you guys remember something like that? Thank you and sorry for my English.
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Newly purchased domain blocked by ISP filters – what to do?
Ask HN: Newly purchased domain blocked by ISP filters – what to do?
9 by joshpangell | 8 comments on Hacker News.
I'm the CTO of a web company and we recently purchased a domain intended for use on a new product. After a short trial release, we found that the domain was filtered by a handful of European ISPs. With some research, and limited communication with abuse@, we are confidant that one of the sources of the block is Akamai's Nomium security product. We've been unable to get any kind of response from them and seem to have no avenues to get through. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get through?
9 by joshpangell | 8 comments on Hacker News.
I'm the CTO of a web company and we recently purchased a domain intended for use on a new product. After a short trial release, we found that the domain was filtered by a handful of European ISPs. With some research, and limited communication with abuse@, we are confidant that one of the sources of the block is Akamai's Nomium security product. We've been unable to get any kind of response from them and seem to have no avenues to get through. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get through?
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why is the citizenlab spy story not available anymore on the nytimes?
Ask HN: Why is the citizenlab spy story not available anymore on the nytimes?
3 by simon_acca | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I read this story last week [0], now went back to look for it and it was gone. I did some googling but couldn't figure out what happened to it. Anyone knows? p.s. of course the wayback machine has it[1], my question is why it's not hosted at the origin anymore 0: http://bit.ly/2S7CKTS 1: http://bit.ly/2GIXFGV
3 by simon_acca | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I read this story last week [0], now went back to look for it and it was gone. I did some googling but couldn't figure out what happened to it. Anyone knows? p.s. of course the wayback machine has it[1], my question is why it's not hosted at the origin anymore 0: http://bit.ly/2S7CKTS 1: http://bit.ly/2GIXFGV
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you fight through the monotony of daily life?
Ask HN: How do you fight through the monotony of daily life?
32 by _davebennett | 29 comments on Hacker News.
I've been having random discussions with friends and co-workers about life and overall satisfaction. What's interesting is that all of them (including myself) lament over the rinse and repeat cycle of work and daily life. It's like you go to work, come home, go to the gym then repeat for 40 years until retirement. With maybe two weeks of vacation a year. We are all in our early 20s working corporate jobs in the tech industry and can't imagine doing this everyday. So how have you learned to adjust?
32 by _davebennett | 29 comments on Hacker News.
I've been having random discussions with friends and co-workers about life and overall satisfaction. What's interesting is that all of them (including myself) lament over the rinse and repeat cycle of work and daily life. It's like you go to work, come home, go to the gym then repeat for 40 years until retirement. With maybe two weeks of vacation a year. We are all in our early 20s working corporate jobs in the tech industry and can't imagine doing this everyday. So how have you learned to adjust?
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Environmental Cost of Semiconductors?
Ask HN: Environmental Cost of Semiconductors?
53 by drallison | 16 comments on Hacker News.
Is there a recent review of the environmental cost of semiconductor electronics covering the full life-cycle from resource acquisition (including mining footprints) through manufacture (including release of greenhouse gases) through disposal or recycling?
53 by drallison | 16 comments on Hacker News.
Is there a recent review of the environmental cost of semiconductor electronics covering the full life-cycle from resource acquisition (including mining footprints) through manufacture (including release of greenhouse gases) through disposal or recycling?
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What is your failure story?
Ask HN: What is your failure story?
52 by codesternews | 40 comments on Hacker News.
We hear success story all the time. That is good but I think failure stories can give more learning. What is your business or startup or carrer failure story?
52 by codesternews | 40 comments on Hacker News.
We hear success story all the time. That is good but I think failure stories can give more learning. What is your business or startup or carrer failure story?
FOX NEWS: Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel stabbed at maximum-security prison in Australia
Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel stabbed at maximum-security prison in Australia
Drug king Tony Mokbel has reportedly been stabbed by fellow inmates at a maximum-security prison near Melbourne, Australia and is in critical condition.
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