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Absolutely. There's nothing wrong with differing from the interviewer so long as you can clearly articulate the issue.

Encryption algorithms are fraud filters are very very different (as you already mentioned). Most functions used are one way and the inverse is (to the best of our current knowledge…

Happy to hear this about Mozilla and I hope other companies follow the same culture. Balanced cannot possibly be completely open in the sense you refer to since it is a financial s…

(I work for Balanced) Just a simple thing to keep bots and Nigerian princess promising giant riches for small exchange of name/address/ssn/bank account/horoscope off. Also, we have…

Thanks for bringing this up. I responded here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339604 . There's no unique way of solving this and you have a pretty good suggestion

Good to know and thanks for the input. I would assume this is a corner case and does not represent a typical situation. In this case, one could just send in the zip code for avs ma…

You can save a bunch of fields in the form (and has nothing to do with fraud): 1. Given postal code, asking for city and state is pretty much useless. There is a unique mapping fro…

Not sure what makes you think her job is not 'real'. Her title rocks and there's nothing unreal about it. And BTW, here are some 'real world titles': Jolly Good Fellow Intergalacti…

(I work for balanced) The buyer and seller were the same person. Instead of us focusing on the actual case and investigating it, the fraudster effectively distracted us on somethin…

(I work for balanced, I wrote the blog and handle fraud) I am sorry you had to deal with this. Of course, we look at all other signals and of course we use machine learning. What I…

(balanced employee) You are 100% on the money. Customer support part of user experience is largely controlled by the marketplace. We would be happy to provide any guidance in this …

(I wrote the post) I am not aware of any. That's actually one of the motivations to do this. Someone needs to start !

(I wrote the post) Thanks! There are certain aspects of fraud which can be open and will definitely help the community of anti-fraudsters. This was our way of contributing somethin…

Chad (disclaimer: I work for Balanced https://www.balancedpayments.com/ and we handle the payment processing for gittip. I mainly focus on fraud). It's wonderful you are doing this…

Can we get the table of contents?

It's common to post full pdf of one's own publications (have done it myself during my grad school days). Most of these are copyrighted by the corresponding organization (like ACM/I…