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Postmark engineer here!

We are at the high end on pricing, but we constantly hear from customers about how great our deliverability and support is. Also if you purchase in bulk, our pricing becomes very competitive very fast. Since it’s a straight pay for what you use model with no monthly plans required, we think it’s a lot simpler to use.
Posted a few minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11171954
Unions are a market force.
Steam Dev Fights Price Complaints with Excellent Breakdown of Why Game Costs $20
>Or to put it a different way, if Tor doesn't create a reasonable expectation of metadata privacy, what would?

According to the theory put forward in the second part of http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_data_question..., nothing.
I have never owned a smartphone. For the last six years I have not owned any kind of cell-phone, period. For the past four years I have used an Ipod touch so that I can make VOIP calls and check the web if there is wifi around. Despite what you might think, not having a phone is pretty liberating. If I get lost then it is up to me to find my way. This has lead to some super scary situations driving to and from the Oakland airport. Every time people ask me if they can give me a call on my cell phone I have to explain to them that I don't have a cell phone and that I use an Ipod instead, which can be awkward. I have had a few situations where people came up to me and desperately begged me for the use of my phone because they lost theirs or were presumably experiencing some kind of emergency. Now I know from experience that people will not believe you if you tell them that you don't have a phone in that context. If you go without a phone you will quickly learn that people have completely abandoned the concept of meeting at a place at a certain time and planning it a day or two in advance. Also people look super stupid when they are glued to their phones, especially in the car. I do scoff at those people and it feels good. Anyway, I will probably be getting a dumb-phone soon. You need one for two-step authentication and many other services nowadays. And also it is much easier to just provide a number when people ask for your cell number rather than explaining stuff to them.
Then again, nobody is suing over android phone crypto, and as recently as last November bugs have been discovered that sookmg things like entering an excessively long password allows you to bypass the lock screen.
Or a Ubiquiti ERLite which has good HW TCP offload, crypto acceleration, and runs Debian under the hood for $100.
How would he end gerrymandering? Voting districts are set by each state's respective legislative body (supposedly guided by the national census results).
I have Spotify for music, with almost every album known to mankind. I have a 13mp camera which is on par with most professional cameras, and Garmin literally uses the same gps coordinates that phones use except phones have much more sophisticated apps.

Imo phones are the best at everything.
Not trying to be condescending but maybe you just need to utilize your phone better?
LinkedIn's best shot at remaining relevant and growing is if they can turn Pulse into something businesses can get real value from.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11157827
For some cases that works great, but whitelists fall short when the same people text you both for important and unimportant reasons.
When I still had a LinkedIn account, I noticed that being an attorney on LinkedIn made me a magnet for scammers -- mostly folks attempting to get me to deposit bad checks in my trust account. They were a couple steps up from the typical 419 scam, though fortunately were still easily detected. Between that and the crappy articles that people would post in my stream, I eventually decided that I got less than zero value from LinkedIn membership.
I don't disagree with your general point. But we have here a relatively new image showcase feature called "spotlight". I'm not really seeing the deception or poor design if you chose to enable this new feature in the first place.

Edit - I've just found out Spotlight is enabled by default. I don't have Windows 10, didn't know.
He may be, but over the last few years some models have come out with much lower prices: http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/11/23/review-flir-one-an...

I wouldn't be surprised if there are usable thermal imaging sensors out there for $100.
The matching thread from Mandrill's blog is being discussed over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713
Nope. Creating a Toast object just creates the object. Calling .show() on the newly created object is what makes it actually draw something on the screen. The difficulty here is to realize that "new Toast(myMessage)" is not enough, you need to execute "new Toast(myMessage).show()".

By the way, I am 100% sure that Java wouldn't have caught that, because this IS Java.
Is it far too short or plain off ? In a similar scope, it reminds me of https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/common-lisp/

I can't find another one cute 'common lisp the right way' set of slides.
The issue is that NNs are continuous, by design. The more linear and continuous they are, the easier they are to train and generalize well.

But what that means is, changing each input by a small amount also changes the output by a small amount. And images have lots of pixels. Changing each of them a tiny amount in the right direction adds up to a big change to the output.
On Android, try either Tinfoil[1] or Metal[2] instead of Facebook and Twitter's apps.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nam.fbwrap...
The simplest thing to do of course is just try it. You can install Windows in a VM without a product key and try it without limitation for something like 30 days.

That said, "really low latency" is relative. Device assignment will give you excellent I/O performance in terms of sending data to/from the device, particularly for bulk DMA transfers. Where you (likely) still pay a penalty is in terms of interrupt delivery, as on most chips these are still routed through the host even in "passthrough" mode. Even so, you're looking at delays at the outside on the tens of microseconds scale, depending on which microarchitecture you're on and how well tuned the fiddly bits of your hypervisor (presumably KVM for most users) are. Some configurations will be much better behaved here. If your audio hardware goes into polling mode (or can be made to do so) when it is recording you can potentially avoid the interrupts entirely.

(source: I work on Google Compute Engine, in particular on virtualized networking, historically on performance. Virtual interrupt delivery latency is a topic near and dear to my heart, although I don't know a damned thing about audio gear and its tolerances there :)
I actually tried that for a bit. Biggest problem is.. then you have two phones in your pocket.

Since it's possible to send a text to an email address, I just tell folk to shoot me an email with anything important. The conversation can sometimes get weird when they ask, "Why can't I just send a text to your computer?". I'm pretty curious about where that dissonance comes from, as it's happened maybe 4 or 5 times already.
The Mission Model Canvas: Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Orgs
I've been a paying customer of Mandrill for years (migrated two different employers to them, ran probably tens of millions of emails through them) and am a) really sad to see it go and b) completely freaking baffled by the tone and out-of-the-blue nature of the announcement.

If I wanted Mailchimp, I'd have Mailchimp. It's not the slightest bit useful to me.
IMO investing in a hadoop system constrains you - make your data accessible via S3, Kafka, and most importantly, a good data model, and you can attach the right data processing tool when a problem that requires it comes along.
Either that, or our next try is simply with a fresher more energized brain.
Or... Arrow?! :O

JK it's too early :(
This was likely more a result of the European tradition of a Platonic ideal of man, and the Christian doctrine that man ought to be virtuous. The two intertwine, and you have a Platonic ideal of a man who is both naturally and spiritually virtuous. Many scholars spent their careers showing that spiritual impurity effects natural deformity and vice versa. Not only bodily defects were understood to be errors, they were thought to be either a natural result of the person's viciousness, a deserved supernatural punishment, or a Jobian trial. Either way: ideal = good, deviant = not good.

So it makes sense that there is an ideal physical form of a man, which is definite (quantifiable) and unchanging (i.e. no evolution). I have never heard of Quetelet, but I doubt he did anything more than put a series of numbers to this preëxisting notion.
We will be going through the long and arduous FDA and CE approval process. This is a big part of the cost.
To be clear, this is not overfitting. This is non-smooth (poor?) generalizability. Overfitting is related to, but not equivalent to, generalization.

I'm very that skeptical data augmentation is the answer to this. The space of adversarial examples is much larger than the space of true population examples. Boosting adversarial examples would only push the classifier to work really hard to properly classify examples that don't even belong to the population distribution. I suspect it would be equally susceptible to adversarial attacks.
Virtual CPUs with VTx can be made to run at essentially native speed for most workloads on most fairly modern CPUs. Memory performance can be subpar, although there's public documentation on techniques that can improve that: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM%20-%20Using%20Hugepage...

I/O performance is a whole other story, dependent on many workload and hypervisor specific factors.
He'd been pretty buddy-buddy with Microsoft for a while. Microsoft has owned patents on the underlying technology, but as far as I'm aware they never did anything to indicate that they might sue Ximian or Xamarin. As far as I can tell, the bulk of the concern about Mono stems from FUD-spreading by RMS.
EDIT: You did launch your note app. Congratulations! I would to hear more about QuickNotes if you have a chance.

You make a good point. Having worked in consumer & enterprise security space, I can definitely confirm that security is indeed a very VERY difficult thing to sell. It's a chronic pain killer often-time conceived as a vitamin. I wasn't planning on pushing the security aspect of it, but yeah, engineering habit--I get excited about tech and forget that most people don't find it as as fascinating hah.

I sincerely hope you launch your note app. I think there's a reason why there are so many of them out there. No one has gotten it right yet. I thought Evernote did a pretty good job as conquering the market, but I think there's enough individuality, because I think that's what it is, everyone captures and consumes notes differently. We can certainly carve out a niches :)

Good luck!

-V.
How do you annotate contacts? I see you can add tags to them. Is that how you are doing it?
The future of jobs – WorkBee
IMO it's a mixed bag. I agree it works for heart disease, obesity, etc. But, it's also used for anorexia where it seems like a poor fit.
You can get a nice GPS with up-to-date maps and a data connection for traffic etc for $200-$400 these days if that's the biggest part you're missing. Garmin still makes nice ones: http://www.cnet.com/topics/gps/best-gps/
Actually my experience with the medical industry is that products get "value engineered" to oblivion. They are acutely aware of their margins and are constantly trying to improve them by reducing costs where it doesn't affect performance.
Google is not doing "the right thing" here
You would first have to define ethical.
I'm not a lawyer so obviously I'm not exhaustively well read on the law but in the case that All Writs did allow any action to be demanded to help with an investigation it would still require there to be an investigation in the first place.

To preemptively demand a back door is almost akin to guilty until proven innocent, youre assuming that there will be an investigation in the future where a governments ability to hack a device is required.
"These devices were already fenced off from the DOJ, as long as their operators were savvy about opsec."

I hate to be that guy, but if you have an op and you have any opsec, you aren't even carrying a phone.

Right ?
Seriously cannot trust a new product offering from anyone these days.

Newsletters and transactional emails are not the same service. I signed up a client for transactional emails on Mandrill because the client was already locked into a newsletter vendor who doesn't support transactional emails. Now I need to explain to them why they need a second monthly newsletter vendor subscription? One that serves no purpose to their marketing team and was totally free until recently.

Plus I get the honor of having to justify why I made this choice in the first place. Or have to deal with scrambling to evaluate and migrate to a new vendor in less than 2 months, probably out of pocket too.

I purposely pointed the client to Mandrill because it was backed by Mailchimp and therefore less likely to fail than a startup.

I trust in a new product from an established company, and a year later come up looking foolish to my client. This isn't the first time Mailchimp has pulled the rug out from under me in front of a client. Not making the same mistake again. You're dead to me Mailchimp. Dead to me.
> For example, Quetelet showed that the average rate of suicide was relatively stable from year to year. While this would hardly be startling news these days, in the 1830s suicide was seen as a highly irrational private decision that could not possibly conform to any deeper pattern. Instead, Quetelet showed that suicides occurred with reliable and consistent regularity. And not only that: He claimed that the stability of the occurrences indicated that everyone possesses an average propensity toward suicide.

I must admit this is really interesting. If all people are individuals, it's not obvious that the suicide rates should be stable.
I don't mean to be too critical because there was clearly a lot of effort in this write-up, but as a serious question: what value does the post add that's not already found at the huge and very popular Stack Overflow page [0] (that this post even links to) about this subject?

Particularly, the answer by StackOverflow user `Aaron Hall` upvoted around 680 times [1], also deconstructs and provides eerily similar content as what this post gives (for example, the poorness of the

dict(x, **y)

solution and some performance comparisons).

I guess this post does mention itertools.chain and ChainMap ... though I would almost never recommend using those if your goal is to merge two regular dicts. Probably anyone reading the code is going to be baffled unless there was a special reason why generators or ChainMap were needed -- these really don't belong in the discussion; they're very different.

As someone who has used Python almost daily for the past 8 years, I also can't help but feel let down when I read more stuff about being so-called "pythonic." I especially hate it when I see discouraging criticisms on Stack Overflow that seem to scare away newcomers because they didn't know you could do a dict comprehension or something. The whole "pythonic" thing is waaayyyy overrated. Just write code that is clean, and if you use a couple of extra lines, or you loop over a range instead of a for-statement treating something as an Iterator, so what, it really, really doesn't matter in most cases, and you can always profile and fix the few cases where it does. It certainly doesn't matter because of some subjective debates about what is more "readable", like whether a dict-comprehension is "less readable" than a two-line copy-and-update approach.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/q/38987/567620

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/26853961/567620
Maybe what's going on is they're focusing their resources toward paid offerings for large businesses and away from small and FOSS projects.

The most valuable thing Github has is the enormous portfolio of FOSS projects and all the free eyeballs that come with it. Yes, it's not paid, but because its public offerings are so popular, most developers are familiar with it and that gives it a trusted inlet to basically every software organization in existence. After all, in a non-dysfunctional organization, the guy who decides what products to buy to support their developers should give far more weight to what those developers want, than what is said by a vendor salesman whose job it is to convince them to buy a particular product.

Which means it's a mistake to neglect their FOSS users -- it seems self-evident that the biggest, best, most cost-effective way for Github to sell its paid features is word-of-mouth from its free users. It's very hard for a competitor to replicate their enormous network effect, which is also what makes it so effective. Their underwhelming response to the "dear github" letter suggests that their upper management is blind to this. I think there's a serious possibility that, in the next five to ten years, their position will be as marginalized as, say, Sourceforge is today -- long ago it was the "gold standard" in hosting services, but today it's only used by barely-maintained projects who can't even scrape together the resources needed to change their code hosting provider.
Like literally every other type of security, OpSec is not binary.
"Once you’re invited to Stripe Atlas, you’ll provide us with some more information about your product, team, and how you’d like to set up your new company (like the name!)."

From the FAQ, [0] Is Stripe creating a startup incubator?

[0] How Does it Work? https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#How-does-it-work
It was in the leak on mobile OS's. They not only found iPhone vulnerable but mocked their users.
The FBI's argument doesn't come anywhere close to saying that. What the FBI's motion actually says[1] is:

Pursuant to the All Writs Act, the Court has the power, "in aid of a valid warrant, to order a third party to provide nonburdensome technical assistance to law enforcement officers."

The most important limitation here is that nobody, including the FBI, is claiming the All Writs Act grants the court any power at all in the absence of a search warrant. Nobody really disputes the statement above, or the validity of the warrant in question.

Again: if the FBI wants Apple to preemptively insert a generalized backdoor into their products they'll need to lobby to have new legislation passed. They've tried that and it hasn't gone much of anywhere. In my opinion lets try and keep it that way.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SB-shooter-M...
> legacy software that barely works

Did you create a new user account just to spew that shit?
I really liked the "Go Programming Language" book http://www.gopl.io/
Even though it's a book about learning the language and not about some framework or doing particular projects in it - the examples in the book are not just toy examples but very practical examples. Most introductory language books remain in the realm of toy examples for too many chapters before one gets a taste of solving practical problems with it.
Are you telling me a blimp will hold up in a storm like a plane?
Then again 3 point seat belts weren't made generally available until the 90ies.
Statistics are descriptive, not prescriptive. People forget that often.
I respectfully disagree that it is a petty smackdown: the core feature of the app is this location-based business discovery, and on the current production site you cannot even enter your location in the provided input box.

If a person is trying to build a business in a very tight space (Yelp, Foursquare, etc.), then their product needs to be on point.

If it isn't, that's fine--but then they need to be honest when trying to review why the may not be raising funding. This article (and associated product) kinda fail in both ways, and I think my criticism is completely fair in that light.
Is there anything preventing them from imaging the parts of the device that store data? The data in the image would be encrypted, of course, but wouldn't this give them essentially unlimited (or up to their budget) attempts at getting to the data?
You have to look at fiber's effect on aggregate demand, not just the demand at a particular price-point and location. Will it convince more people to move to the area as a whole? Quite possibly, but it's unlikely to be a huge deal. I suspect that there's much more effect in terms of techies moving out of non-fiber units and into fiber ones, making the fiber ones more expensive and the non-fiber less.
Show HN: Better than iPod, Cooler than Fitbit
It's probably worth noting that Kyllo is one of the cases where the recently deceased Justice Scalia's "conservatism" produced a decision favorable to privacy advocates:

We have said that the Fourth Amendment draws "a firm line
at the entrance to the house," Payton, 445 U. S., at 590.
That line, we think, must be not only firm but also bright—
which requires clear specification of those methods of
surveillance that require a warrant. While it is certainly
possible to conclude from the videotape of the thermal
imaging that occurred in this case that no "significant"
compromise of the homeowner's privacy has occurred, we must
take the long view, from the original meaning of the Fourth
Amendment forward.

"The Fourth Amendment is to be construed in the light of
what was deemed an unreasonable search and seizure when
it was adopted, and in a manner which will conserve
public interests as well as the interests and rights of
individual citizens." Carroll v. United States, 267 U. S.
132, 149 (1925).

Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in
general public use, to explore details of the home that
would previously have been unknowable without physical
intrusion, the surveillance is a "search" and is
presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=158400455911157...
Fewer Asians Need Apply
Issue search has a lot of room for improvement. All terms in the search query must occur consecutively.
"-- in reality, only one word."

Because let's be honest... this is because it's awkward to "Like" something awful. I'm pretty sure there will be only one correct reaction for each post, that people spam as they do "Like" now. It's hardly an opinion poll.

"My cat died today" [10 sad, 3 angry, 1 haha]

EDIT: I put quotes around the quote, 'cause it's a quote and you're meant to use quotes for quotes.
It's encrypted against an effectively random 128 bit AES key. Unlimited time is not enough.
Well I'm somewhat surprised the Japanese government didn't step up...or in fact any Japanese company. Sharp may be losing money but there display tech is a head of the game, and you know, Japanese nationalism.
Sure, that's fine. We could then say, however, the robot is more than a machine once it has this new special feature. A special feature that may have arisen from a specific arrangement of the robot's material makeup.

Either way, "more than machine" will help these new love-enabled robots have "human rights" when they eventually do need to stand up for their rights, and wish to do so beyond their programmed directive.
"(BTW, why the downvote? If you think I'm wrong, post a rebuttal)"

Don't discuss your (or others') votes.

Don't interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.
I see what you mean now. This plus the comment from user `argonaut` helped me realize what I was missing. Not all of generalization error is because of overfitting, and even if none of it is because of overfitting, the idea you describe would still allow for the attack.
Darn... this, along with the fact that the MacBook Pro my work gave me is so much better than I expected, is making it harder for me not to become full-on Apple convert.