skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1 man week of work to implement.

A more realistic estimate is probably 6 people for 2 years. Plus increased support costs. Large financial companies are often ridiculously slow to roll things out, but as a customer you want risk aversion not bugs.
Your comment interests me and I'd like to learn more. What is a "reticular activating system's habituation filter"? I tried googling but all I get is a Wikipedia article about the brain stem and some new-age woo.
The training data is emails. Sharing training data means your email is no longer contained within your end-to-end encryption, it's leaking allover the place. If you can find a way to extract useful training data from emails while also making it so it doesn't identify anything about you or the emails you've been receiving, I'm sure you can make a lot of money with that. I suspect if it's not impossible, it's extremely hard, and even harder to do right (that is, in a way that we don't find that is later susceptible to some partial reconstruction of attributes).
Startup fundraising, you may want to seek funding from your favorite rapper
Google got hustled. Nest was a disaster from the start. They are barely even a one-off. The best thing Google got out of their 3.2 billion dollar purchase was a patent troll.

These silicon valley companies made these horrible buyouts in the billions, and they have yet to feel the effects.

Or.. Maybe they are just working on their thug life portfolio? A bit sidetracked at best.
Awesome capability! It is fun to think about the potential for apps to discern geography from unstructured text.
Well they do have to take the hippocratic oath, and they're not all bad. But the OP's thoughts on privacy are definitely grounded in the real world and not made up. This scenario isn't too surprising given that about half the country still thinks the government should be allowed to write the rules on how software engineers design encryption protocols.

I like to think the number of psychiatrists who consciously make stuff up are few, but yeah at the end of the day, even when you visit a doctor, you are the one who is most responsible for your own health. You alone decide whether to get a second opinion or ignore the doc altogether.
Marketing. Building a consumer brand and getting people to sign up takes a ton of marketing dollars.
It's extremely hard to take something away once you've given it. Once it's out there, someone's using it and not everyone can afford to rewrite/re-test/re-deploy just because you changed how iostreams work.

The C++ std. lib. is one of the worst abominations of over-engineered disasters that I have ever seen in my life - how people even deal with stdout/stdin without tearing their hair out is beyond me. I just go back to printf and friends.

The fact that they had to have no fewer than 6 (or is it 8 now?) string types before they got Unicode right... it's truly a sad state of affairs.

How can anyone look at that and not feel embarrassment to have been part of those design decisions...
It takes something personal and meaningful and reduces it to a utilitarian biological drive.
Makes sense - The article mentions that the only reason the squares were used in digital camo is because they had a 2" roller when making the tests, so that is the most natural shape
DevOps for Dummies
If internal combustion engines work so well, why don't animals use it?
> It still cooks his original recipe, unlike KFC.

How does it compare?
I might pay someone to play tabletop board and card games with me one night a week. That's pretty much what I would do with actual friends anyway.

And if I were paid to do the same, I'd think that's a pretty good gig--unless the friendship contract stipulated a certain frequency of letting the boss win, of course.

I don't need much of a trusting bond. Just eat my snacks, drink my drinks, laugh at the 10% of my jokes that actually deserve it, and take your weekly card-table curbstomping without much more than a token amount of complaints.

If I were single, I might also hire a wingman or blocker to back me up at the local meet market venues.
1. PriceZombie was not built on top of Amazon. PriceZombie indexes products and prices in over 100 online retailers. The developers always had the option of using the PZ website as a front end to gather personal shopping habits and other data that is valuable to advertising and marketing companies - which is what many (most?) price trackers do as their primary source of revenue. PZ opted to get their funding from retailers instead. People purchased mostly from Amazon, therefor when Amazon pulled their affiliate program funding dried up and PZ had a choice - go to the dark side, close up, or sell.

2. They had many contacts, some of them quite high. PZ is a very ethical and methodical company. They dotted their i's and crossed their t's. They had an open dialog with Amazon where they were repeatedly told, in writing and on the phone, that they were in full compliance and there was no problem. The problem with Amazon is inconsistent and arbitrary enforcement of their own rules.

The developers are in discussions now with companies that want to purchase the technology - including my own, though I don't think we can afford them. This is no garage set up by comp sci students. The developers have impressive credentials and they have created a very impressive system that has wide application to other uses.
> but its a feature that takes about 1 man week of work to implement.

A good example of how estimates in software are usually off by large factors. Determining the best exit point to harvest a loss at, for example, would probably take more than a week. And that is just one small piece of the model.
Site repeatedly crashes on mobile, thanks to Javascript ads.

And this is why I was made to disable my ad blocker by many sites. Thanks, f*ing ad industry. The least you could do is not crash my shit if I allow you in.
You're looking at it on the wrong timescale. Two years is nothing. This is, again, the failing of modern business school and investor logic. If you spend a billion dollars a year to produce something that will go on to generate ten billion dollars a year in profit forevermore, but produces nothing for the first five or so years, looking at it on a two year timescale is clearly not going to produce an accurate picture of its long-term profitability.
sometimes paranoia is the only way to copying with isolation and loneliness. If nobody is caring and watching out for me - at least the government does.

All of that aside- there are no paranoid people after snowden. Just realists and delusional ones.
PayPal and Stripe wont work with most offshore jurisdictions. PayPal allows Hong Kong companies, though.

If you're selling digital products, it's easier to use an online reseller (eg; PaymentWall, Gate2Shop, etc) but if you want to use your own processor, you will have to set up a merchant account which is a long and tiresome process.

I think 2checkout and Payza still allow offshore companies.

As for bank accounts, you're usually given a list of bank accounts from the same people who you purchased the company formation from. Loyalbank.com is a popular one, they give you a UK bank account.
Excellent question, does anyone know? I'd like to know the answer as well.
The homepage of Drift has a video from the product manager
Google already said in the above article that "only" 0.1% of its users get targeted by state-sponsored attacks (which by the way is about 500,000 users) - so why even bother building that then, by your logic? Clearly, just a waste of resources (probably the same for two-factor auth, Security Key, etc).

How many times have we heard companies "China has a 1 billion people - imagine if we only got 1% of that market with our product!". But we're talking about a feature of a product here, not an entire product that only gets 1% of a market's userbase.

0.1% here, 1% there, another 10% over there - all of these features add-up to create a great product that everyone loves because of the aggregate of features but also because of that "one" feature they love individually.

Another thing to remember is that the enthusiasts are the market-builders. You can't just win with a product that surveys well with 80% of the market. I don't think most of the phone or smartphone customers in 2007 wanted a touchscreen phone. Probably (well, literally, actually) only 1% of the market wanted it then.

Also, we don't know how important this feature could be to gain Google more trust. Telegram for instance has gotten promoted as a private messenger that uses end-to-end encryption - and yet its end-to-end encryption isn't even enabled by default (so same scenario that I was talking about), while its "normal" encryption is probably worse and less secure than what Google uses for Hangouts.
When Your Day Job Is Also Your Favorite Video Game
I think total disaster would have been widespread adoption preceding a devastating exploit.
The authorized cables go through a hole in a secure enclosure that does not expose ports. Physically securing the computer is essential - if only to restrict access to mass storage by anyone with a screwdriver.
I expect a strong correlation with authoritative overreach :-) But more seriously, the study of information flows to uncover information sharing networks is not new, that the networks want to protect themselves from being exposed is also not new. I don't agree with a lot of what Assange says but I do agree with him that conspiracies hate light, and what is more making it harder for them to communicate makes it harder for them to be effective.
Really hope Snowden is never foolish enough to give himself up for trial thinking he is going to get a fair hearing someday.

They will make him rot like Manning until everyone forgets about them and they die in prison.

Pretty sure Snowden will be snatched under Clinton, she seems to have peeve about him.
Npm Gate – Lessons Learned Again
Working with a team doesn't mean synchronous communication. We need to get off of this "I am a special snowflake" and my current issue trumps whatever anyone else is working on.

Hire good people and trust that they will respond to issues appropriately. If your services are down and the company is bleeding cash every second, they will stop what their doing and help fix the issue.

Having communication be synchronous-by-default more easily leads to scenarios where you decide to ask a colleague a question real quick that breaks their flow. I'm guilty of this myself.
That's because the agreements don't say that anywhere that I can find. Both the affiliate agreement and the advertising api have no mention of not displaying historical prices. The advertising API even suggests it's OK if you display the date with the price.

edit: This is the section that Amazon must be referring to

"You may store other Product Advertising Content that does not consist of images for caching purposes for up to 24 hours, but if you do so you must immediately thereafter refresh and re-display the Product Advertising Content"
> Do you mean $1500 in credit? why wouldn't all $3500 be deductions?

Frankly, I'm not sure. I did it through Turbotax a week ago and didn't look closely at it.

> Will this work every year, even in bull year?

As long as you have a security that you can sell at a loss with a comparable security to replace it - yes.
Sure, if you only ever check your email from that one workstation, it's easy. That's not really how email works today. Most people expect their email to work seamlessly across multiple devices and OS's. Email would be useless to me if I couldn't use it on my phone.
Have to agree. I'm guessing most of the "roboadvice" will essential be to use target date funds, or a mix that replicates them closely?
> However, if you're just going to stick around and argue equivocation needlessly, that's not something I want to be a part of.

He says, after multiple replies.
Thanks for your comment. You are right about the fact that we obviously heavily optimized specifically for this microbenchmark. However, Peachpie's architecture is designed in such a way that enables us to optimize most processes and features fairly easily. It would be quite surprising if entire applications ran 6x as fast as they would using regular PHP, but it is not inconceivable.
Snapchat shares security best practices of running in the cloud
Then why call it Opposition Defiant Disorder? Why not call it Executive Planning Disorder or something else that refers to poor planning skills.

I like your dad's definition better, but I fear that there are institutional and cultural factors that allow ODD diagnoses to stigmatize anti-authoritarians.
The lesson here isn't about breaking TOS. The lesson is that if you build a business around a 3rd party API that party can crush you at any moment without reason.
Considering Apple is one of their customers- I'd say they're doing alright.
except for the occasional once-in-a-decade event that would bankrupt you. On the time scale where selling out-of-money puts makes sense, the market is efficient and there is no free lunch.
You can do ACH transactions from Canadian bank accounts.
I know Forte supports it. (Though the actual routing is not exactly "ACH".)
Interac Online might be more popular though (that is a very different payment process, and requires actual logging into your bank, last I looked.)
> The eggs sailed, egg-like, across the expanse...

> ...spent his entire life rallying against liquor (finger lickers notwithstanding)

Amazing.
Create Healthy Habits to Growth and Heal with Mindfulness – Joanna Ciolek
The official way to transcribe the Danish letter ø into English is OE,and if you scan my passport the ø part of my name will show up as OE, but nobody knows this and the transcription is not clearly visible when looking at the passport.

So what should I write when I order a plane ticket? Write an O that the agents looking at my passport expects or the OE that matches what the computer reads?
As far as I understand it, this is different because they were "previously told we were in 100% compliance with the rules"

So, it's more like a cop pulling you over even though you weren't speeding.
Does anyone else find the thought of killing people in position of authority sexually stimulating, or am I just some kind of freak?
Things change. No one expected Mandela to become President when he got arrested.

Let's just wait for the next major data breach or data leak.

Just look at whats going on with Bangladesh's central bank. If they can't protect their data, hard to imagine the rest of the developing world being in a better of position.

Accumulators of data in the west, sitting in ivory towers, disconnected from ground realities, are setting all kinds of precedents just waiting to breakdown elsewhere.
Good, so you have something concrete to share with the developers before they make that mistake:
https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts
Physics software next gen
Marginalia, the Anti-Library, and Other Ways to Master the Lost Art of Reading
I decompiled a third party extension for VS in order to email the author and tell him how to fix it. He actually ended up open sourcing the extension on my suggestion.

In the past I've also decompiled things to see how they work.
He did specifically call out Let's Plays that just run through the game with little to no commentary. Though I suspect those might have less views than ones from the more popular streamers.
Eh, its been used as recently as 2007:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Washington_Dinner_Tr...
Not that you actually have to break TOS. Amazon can shut down your access for no reason at all.
That is not an article that is a teaser for some paywalled content.
Consider a startup. In the long run, it may have a large advantage over its incumbent competitors. But at inception, it often needs a capital investment to overcome a barrier of entry. Without the initial investment, the startup may never see the light of day. The article's thesis is analogous: though sexual selection may be a global maximum, evolution might have gotten stuck in a local maximum (asexual selection) if not for a little boost.

Off the top of my head, I can imagine possible adaptations which humans would find strictly beneficial, but we won't likely evolve (without genetic engineering). E.g. there's no good reason why humans have a blind spot. We wouldn't have it if our optic nerves were attached behind our retina instead of in front. But we're stuck with it because evolution can't conjure a discontinuous jump in our anatomy.
Amazon really has no obligation to provide equal access to everyone though. That's a risk of building on an API. They don't need a reason to cut you off.
First Steps with Python
CRI had a demo like that at RSA (the conference) around that time, so I think your recollection is right.
Aren't there also a whole lot of kids who no one is forcing to read and also never feel like reading (mainly because they never see their parents or adult role models reading)? How do they fit into the picture you paint?
Building a Computer as Smart as Humans. From Condensation of AI Revolution
I'd imagine it would be illegal for Vanguard to implement in the way that Betterment does. Betterment buys exchange traded securities to allow their customers to participate in the underlying mutual fund. They can basically jump from a Vanguard ETF to a Schwab or iShares ETF of a similar market. I'm reasonably certain it would be illegal for Vanguard to purchase a competing fund's ETF as it would be directly affecting the business of a competitor.

In fact, I'm not even sure how Vanguard could do this in any manner that would be customer facing.
Apparently Tinder is a good way to (platonically?) meet locals in Asia.
>Interesting. So under this working theory, the entirety of the IA is fundamentally against copyright unless specifically allowed/released per site?

IANAL, but basically yes. It's one reason why the IA respects robots.txt even retroactively. The reality is that, if something was posted publicly by a copyright holder and intended to be shared, the overwhelming majority of people/entities don't care that it's being archived somewhere but there's no particular exemption for something like the IA.
Because a zebra is hiding from a tiger, since long before humans with ranged weapons were on the scene.
Microsoft Research's Holoportation
Not unless we can solve the energy problem. The reality we've known all our lives is not a sustainable trend.
Leveraging Mobile Gameplay Analytics and User Psychology for Retention
FPM pretty much solves this https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
THE FUTURE OF FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY – PART 1
The Second Amendment Isn’t Prepared for a 3D-Printed Drone Army
Some economists got it right (2012) [pdf]
"If you're serious about your biz, you should take any decision to maximize its success, not to save a few bucks at the beginning."

Being serious and looking for ways to maximize (i.e. capitalize on) the existing success appears to make more sense when you already have a working business model. When you're in the phase of experimenting ideas and there is a high chance of failing it sounds better to fail as cheap as you can.
It's what you use in the US which you seem to think is some kind of standard. The rest of the world follows ISO 8601 where Monday is the first day.
> You should, as early as practical, identify an actual human inside the mothership and convince them to like you.

This presumes humans will retain abilities to manage such decisions, or can manage them at scale in the future. If a company relies on an API for revenue, the best strategy is to have a backup for that API and then a backup for the backup API. A hope-and-a-prayer email address may or may not help retain an existing business relationship, which frankly all depends on the circumstances. Sometimes even a president can't get a company to do something if it is against policy or contrary to revenue.

Assuming connections to people are sufficient to head off changes in business models is a fallacious argument steeped in the idea that VC was a good idea for your company. The VC lead model is the cause of these type of problems, not people who are expected to simultaneously work 20 hour days and still have a life - which is where real connections are formed and retained.

I would have told Dave to go fuck himself.
You mean like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API ?
The extent to which the space programs of nation states are little more than fig leafs over what are in reality a bunch of maladjusted homicidal maniacs, and the extent to which the average person has absolutely no concept of this can be really frustrating at times.

The whole notion that it is "noble" to "reach for the stars" when in reality everybody can see you're trying to develop ICMBS so you can extract resources from competing nation states over threat of nuclear annihilation...makes me want to kick their children's genitals until they become bloody pulp.
Engines (or wheels) need independent moving parts, high temperatures, which is hardly compatible with what's allowed by anatomy and biochemistry. But there's nothing obviously stopping animals from evolving any particular pattern of skin markings.
Is there anyone using this already for a public project that I could take a look at?
No - at least not using conventional definitions. Prostitution, in this context, means doing something immoral for money. Producing something that other people need isn't immoral. (Unless you define it to be immoral to not give away what you produce, but then it's your definition that's the problem.)

Putting a smile on the CTO's face rather than producing something of value is arguably immoral. It's not producing what you're "supposed to" produce. (Whether it is actually immoral depends on how you define "supposed to", and what weight you give it.)
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Python: Myths about Indentation
Before purchasing any equipment, I always spend time researching how well in works with Linux. Doing this, other than the occasional bad update, I have never had a hardware compatibility issue with Linux. And I do mean never and I don't throw that word around lightly. It does limit my decisions, but there's still plenty of good hardware that just works with Linux.
Yeah if you're just regurgitating someone else's data you haven't really created anything. You might leech some money off someone else's marketplace for a while but don't expect it to last.
Fortune and luck are all relative. Maybe a reframing is all that's necessary.

Try volunteering, giving back, and getting to know some of the millions of people who are much less fortunate than yourself. It might help you gain a new perspective on your own situation, and, if nothing else, will stack some karma points up in your favor.
If you want 100% stocks, you just buy an equity fund.

Of course target-date funds don't have that, that's the point.
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You use the phrase "publicly broadcast" three times. Yet the stuff we're talking about is typically sent out over a wired connection with a single destination. It's neither public nor broadcast.
You might want to look at what re-education actually was before you try to imply equivalency with a chat at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeducation_camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea#Re...
Amazon associates is corrupt and not worth your time or its existence. They will wait until day 29 of 30 then shut down your account (after they collect revenue) and find any reason to shut your account down. They have no obligation to state a reason in their email to you. It's a scheme at its finest, unless you are willing to settle for working 8 hours a day for 20 dollars a day capped.
They need to turn their sensors towards their own political parties and campaign advertising
Awesome! Any feedback is always welcome.