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I have been contemplating creating a new credit card the last few years. Most likely under the Visa or Mastercard line.

The thought is, create a reward card specifically for high-value/vips that has the best rewards/cashback program on the market. Currently the best card is the SPG card from Amex which gives points that can be transferred to a plethora of partners and are among the most valuable points of all cards (around 2.9cents per point). What surprising is the cards currently for high-worth users have terrible rewards programs, ie the amex black card.

If you created a new card, the hope would be that you could offer more rewards to transfer partners by upselling 'these are vips' you should compete to get them.

The challenge is in figuring out how to make it all work. Credit cards make money 2 ways as far as I can tell- The 2.9% + 30cents on every transaction, as well as the interest paid on their bill.

So you should ideally have at least 3% of every transaction to give back to the user in rewards while living off of the 30 cents per transaction. Hopefully the interest paid on debts breaks even with the defaults.
How is that not just bragging?
I don't normally ask about downvotes, but I'd be interested to know why this post is getting downvoted.
It does seem like in the long run, SSDs will probably be cheaper to manufacture than spinning disks?
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Yes. The discussion around education in India however remains myopic. Lets build "free schools" for poor Indians remains the objective which has achieved very little.
I have dogs in my office. They run around and bark all the time. Their presence shows to me that serious engineering work is not important, but the image of being a "startup" is. The idea of a musical instrument being played while I am trying to focus on engineering is horrifying.

There's also a whole world of potential designs besides "drab cubicle farm" and "kindergarten mashed-up with ComicCon". For example, the 37signals[1] office.

If they want to show effort and interest in the workplace environment, they should try providing private offices with doors that close.

[1] https://37signals.com/office
It does not matter how we put it. If one is wrong, they are wrong. If one is "opinionated" and he/she is wrong, they will fail.

It hasn't helped Lisp's cause that a majority of its promoters are heavily opinionated.
Do you think like a Y Combinator Partner?
Beware the builtins (2010)
Thank you, that's helpful.
From that "tool" essay:

> (well, you cannot have garbage collection if you have pointers anyway)

what? Java and so on certainly have pointers. Was this written before anyone realized that was possible, or is he just defining "pointers" differently from how I am?
How do they make sure that they don't have to redo the frame again?
I quite often listen to loud film scores - think Inception/Hans Zimmer. Google Play Music has a good radio station for it and I imagine the others do too!
A Billion NYC Taxi Rides in PostreSQL
Thrashed – Jake Phelps has run the bible for skaters for more than two decades
Similar laws exist in many European countries and Poland is very likely to pass one soon.

I guess that the ostensible reason for introducing this is to help against terrorism (it is in Poland). I fail to see how this should help in any way: in places with large population density (where terrorism is more likely) mobile phones with foreign SIMs are reasonably common (am I wrong here?), so a good workaround is to buy burner SIMs abroad.
If you, like, don't mind the, like, valley/bro/speak lingo. AWESOME, right?

I like structured arguments against a status quo - that's what's really required here. This article is one notch earlier in the mental digestion chain; a kind of experiential report, an extended anecdote. It's harder to tell if the problem is the library or the user. It asks the reader to work more, because they need to go on a journey, rather than just parse an argument.

I enjoy reported experience too, but I have less time for them unless they're specific to something I have a strong interest in. Otherwise, give me the executive summary.

Yes, I read less of the internet than I used to.
Unemployment was historically low. The balance sheet of the private sector was restored during and after WWII. All of it resulting from enormous unprecedented Keynesian spending programs. We can do the same thing again but aimed at large scale infrastructure upgrades and I'd even throw in a job/income guarantee.
Rescuing the Very First Air Force One
> trying to uncover government wrongdoing

GP's point seems to be that it's pointful to avoid association of that phone with any news organization at all in such cases.
Learn what promotional videos actually mean.
Good point, I appreciate your feedback.

I wonder if fixing the rest of online advertising would suffocate this technique. If, by adhering to these three laws, we gradually develop a vastly superior way to connect sellers with buyers, then destructive methods like native advertising (and I'm sure there's more) might be much less appealing to sellers.
I've sent a notice regarding this info to what is as near as I can tell the healthcare company which operates this facility.

http://www.memorialcare.org/locations/tendercare-pediatrics-...
CC fees cart wildly per merchant. How would you deal with that uncertainty?
> "HubSpot and John have decided to go separate ways"

That's not much better. It's very rarely mutual. Either John has been fired, or John has found another job - perhaps at a company where no one lights cleaning equipment on fire - and is quitting.
well then for that matter lets just toss out the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments, since they are mostly used by dissidents and criminals to escape prosecution.
Scary, here is a screenshot showing very sensitive patient information from practicefusion. Just because VNC is open, doesn't give you the right to show everybody in the world. I'm torn about this site.

* Removed the link to the screenshot
Right. It's all about people with power targeting people susceptible to those kinds of pressures. We have this habit in the developed world of shunning and shutting out people that are in or have been to prison. But you would do well to talk to those kinds of people. Our justice system takes the word of law enforcement over anyone else. That is a pretty precarious amount of trust in what is nothing more than another human being.

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
> not to allow tyranny

Tell me how it goes with 1% of the US population living in prison, another 2% in probation (and 0.2% tagged as sex offenders).
Thanks for your interest in my article. I certainly believe there's a place for rote, as your examples highlight. But to apply their knowledge of number in the real world, students need to combine their procedural skills with an understanding of how numbers behave and relate to one another. Indeed, understanding and context aid memory even if that is the ultimate goal. As does engagement - which rote learning, as practiced in most schools, largely dispenses with.
In the US Costco, for credit card payments in the store or fuel pump, only accepts American Express. Cash, checks, and (I believe) debit cards are also acceptable in the store.
If I were a VC investing in consumer internet technology, I would be looking for market dominance, a clean user experience, a unique angle that differentiates it from similar services, scalability, high profitability, relatively low costs, and broad appeal. Investing in Facebook in 2007 would have been easy, seeing that the site was already gaining a lot of traction and had high profit potential. Most social networks fizzle out pretty quickly. The hardest part is probably getting the opportunity to invest, not choosing the company.

I def. know a lot about this area, and myself predicted the rise of valuations of major web 2.0 companies like Facebook, Snapchat, and Uber.

But I don't think it's that hard of a skill picking the winners from the losers. But he problem is if everyone followed this strategy you would have a lot of unfunded companies.
I did the same thing in high school. The best I could figure out was to call my dad at work which at least was considered "long distance" despite being only 50 miles away. I do not miss the old Bell pricing model.
The first great war in 2 years has started in Eve Online
The right notation would be:

f(1) + f(1) = f(3)
Setting up Jekyll, Step 0
The scheduling software (Qube) is responsible for retrying failed jobs. A frame render can fail for many reasons (e.g. Incorrectly packaged assets, missing textures, out of memory, bad lighting info, missing plugins, random SIGHUPs - rarer) - so if something screws up then Qube will retry N times if it can find available hardware.

From the artists point of view, they don't render a frame once, they continuously render and progressively increase the level of detail until they're happy with the scene .. this means the render farm is almost always busy.
I'm not sure if MBNA still has mandatory non-arbitration clauses in their TOA, but if they are; go to another CC company.

They use these non-arbitration clauses, and they are always right.
Zomato and Flipkart are not successful. They are just surviving. Most of the startups are "me too" kind just copying what has already been done but just localizing it to the Indian market. It just takes a foreign entity entering the Indian market and competing with these companies to start its collapse.

Also software engineering is not a nascent field. It was nascent in the 70's and 80's. All the low hanging fruits are gone. It is very hard to be a the next Sun, or Microsoft or Oracle. In fact India should start looking at more nascent and upcoming fields and try to be leaders in it.
Wikipedia founder calls alt-medicine practitioners “lunatic charlatans”
Thanks, I appreciate your kind words. Perhaps one day I, or someone else who runs with these laws, will be credible enough for a talk like that. Right now I'm focused on developing software to let us abide by Law 1.
First of all, know that the Halting problem and incompleteness are very related, so you are on the right track :). Here the idea is that to type-check our proofs, if the proof language is sufficiently expressive, we need to run a program which may not terminate. But if it does terminate, we know the proof is good.

From Gödel's perspective, the proof-checker is written in an inconsistent language, because infinite loops themselves prove anything! But us humans are only finite-time-patient, and we have Ctrl-C, so such technicalities are irrelevant :)
Yes, the narrative form gives the impression that the author is a very! excited! person! full! of! energy!

But that's kind of refreshing sometimes. It's easy to get cynical about software engineering like I am. And I followed her stream of consciousness a lot better than I follow a lot of recondite technical prose, particularly when it concerns things mired in proprietary abstractions (Java).
Also, generally if you're doing a lot of math with floats (or some other numeric type) you can do:

Float.(x + y * 2.0 - z / w)

or even just open the Float module locally

Also, the with-open-file problem can be solved pretty simply by using GADTs (and this makes it simple to differentiate between the different modes you can open a file in, as well).
Indeed extraordinary, especially considering that the static apnea world record is 11 min 35 sec.

To clarify: I'm totally calling bullshit on his claim.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving#AIDA_recognized_wor...
I expect there's a reason that Amex's high-end credit cards are light on rewards and heavy on benefits: people in those income brackets don't really care about getting an extra percent back on their credit card bill.
Is it normal in the US for a business like Costco to accept only one type of credit card? Here where I live there are branded cards but businesses still accept cards from all issuers.
A good guideline for whether to truncate a y-axis or not is that the conclusion that a reasonable and knowledgeable researcher would draw after looking at the data should be clearly implied based on a quick cursory glance at the chart. If the chart implies an unreasonable conclusion based on a cursory glance, then it might be said to be misleading. A chart's purpose is to convey information quickly, not to convey information precisely -- for that, a table is often better.

In the example, the true effect is that there was a ~50% decrease, which is newsworthy and interesting in and of itself. Yet, intentionally or not, the chart implies a ~100% decrease based on a quick glance, and so fails to highlight the conclusion that a reasonable person would draw from the underlying data. In this case, I would say a y-axis from 0-60% would be appropriate.
> What surprising is the cards currently for high-worth users have terrible rewards programs, ie the amex black card.

There's a big assumption built into your idea here.. what if the high-worth people don't care about the rewards programs? I assume (no data) that their net worth is high enough that a few percent on the little (in their mind) on their card isn't worth shopping around or even thinking about it.
No. Costco was unique in that.
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haha. Yeah its the exact opposite in Europe. Everyone accepts Visa & Mastercard but Amex is hit & miss like 50/50. And it mostly comes down to trying because the clerks don't even know if the PoS machine accepts it.
Species is a complex concept which does not always fit into nice simple buckets. You might find ring species interesting [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
You don't represent the way a majority of the world thinks. It's important to remember that being someone that creates software for people
Sure, but when you find plain text passwords or unencrypted credit card info (two of the basics of starting ANY business), victim blaming seems warranted.
Under the hood of C++ lambdas and std::function
Nice! Another great site with gorgeous pathways is the Small Molecule Pathway Database (http://smpdb.ca).
Hallo
We just want to drop in to let you know about our new view of idea Bookmarks with a full text search.
We are small team of developers and have a lot of experience with a search engine. This experience we decided to apply in our project GrabDuck (further GD).
The main our idea is to make the process of working with Bookmarks easy and simply. So in GD you don’t find the folders or categories in general meaning.
Everything what you should do:
1 Send url to the GD 2 Ask GD what you need
So it would be great to hear all suggestions and feedback.
The example is using multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool which does not have the GIL problem you mention (at the cost of making it harder to share data).
I used to do something similar, with positive effects.

My wife just tried this with her regular/non-allergy headache and thinks it has cleared it instantly.
I fail to see the point since it's not manmade.
A lot of people have discovered that speaking confidently can be a solid substitute for actual expertise.
In the EU this business model has been gutted by regulatory changes which have pretty much fixed the percentage fee at such a low level that there is no margin to offer rewards.

> Hopefully the interest paid on debts breaks even with the defaults.

Well, fundamentally it must do otherwise the business model for CC companies is pot. Actually, the core for any CC is, of course, the data scientists who build the risk models to work out that red line.

> So you should ideally have at least 3% of every transaction to give back to the user in rewards while living off of the 30 cents per transaction.

From that you have to pay the bills, and of course MC/VISA take a cut too. Don't get me wrong; it's totally fine to work with that 3% but...

a) it's a fixed part of any transaction, which is a pretty dependable to get in your coffers (as opposed to, some money each month for your customer which you might not get depending on their circumstances)

b) it would be very easy for this fee to get regulated (as in the EU) and thus kill your business model. Lots of risk there.

Not to put you off. I think there is definitely innovation worth doing in that space.

> I have been contemplating creating a new credit card the last few years.

Takes an insane amount of money (because; you have to front a lot of "cash" to your customers in the form of credit, obviously). I'd be super interested if you do this because (having recently started working at a CC company) there is a lot of innovation to do in this space!
I would guess it was the immaturity of the java IO layer that didn't play well with green threads. You need a good asycn IO layer on all the platforms that java was supporting (solaris and windows, plus others) for the green threads to work well.
This reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield
Naah, will not do that.

People in Sweden made that joke as well. Kind of worried I will get in trouble legally because of this. If there is gonna be any issues with the damm, he will probably blame me. :(
It's also the exact opposite virtually everywhere in the US. Only accepting Amex is extremely rare here.

Much rarer now that Costco is switching to Visa.
Looks interesting, but as soon as I see spelling errors my brain switches off.
Fascinating. Thanks!
I feel like video game music is perfect for coding - it's not designed to draw too much attention to itself and provides a nice vibe. Rainwave.cc is a great (free) stream for that.

Other than that, jazz/classical when I want to relax, electronic music when I'm in the zone.
Even with privacy laws there is very little in terms of guarantees. Too many ways in which data can be copied or read by those who should not have access. For some data, it is simply better if it does not exist in an easily accessible centralized pool at all.
... which is why many big storage systems keep 3 replicas of each chunk of data stored across different servers. A failed device's chunks can be rebuilt in parallel across the entire cluster.

Or, if you care capacity-constrained, you can use cross-server erasure coding. And even call it cross-server RAID, if you like.
To clarify for the downvoters, freediving has many techniques for slowing heartrate and conserving oxygen. It's one of the best ways to learn to 'control' your body.
Telegram bot as a CLI and monitoring tool for Ubuntu server
As violent as boxing is, it's very rare for fighters to die. Same for Football. Mountain climbing, rock climbing, downhill skiing and snowboarding are more dangerous, but the dangers get much less media attention than the attention over football concussions.
Cool project, although I would not advise using dashcams if you are involved in an accident the police can subpoena the footage which could potentially be used against you (in both criminal and civil suits).

If you do run a dashcam I would suggest having one that does not record audio and only keeps the last 5-10min of footage on record because GL explaining to the cops why you have been driving like a jackass just before the accident even if it had nothing to do with it.
> That doesn't change the fact that few people actually do it or need to do it.

I am one of those few people. We are running some scientific code (currently, unfortunately, written in C++) on a heterogeneous bunch of compute nodes. Some computations can be extremely memory-intensive, and sometimes in ways that we didn't predict. So it's useful to be able to fail gracefully and record that computation X on node Y with input parameters [Z] failed specifically due to running out of memory at step W - so that e.g. the queue manager can try relaunching the computation on a beefier node or adjusting how many instances of which computation are allowed on Y.
As someone with a concussion right now, it fucking sucks. Nausea, headaches, difficulty 'connecting-the-dots' with thoughts. I tried stepping outside today to fetch something I left in the car yesterday, and it was like turning on the lights to go to the bathroom after waking up in the middle of the night. Forget doing homework or reading those Greg Egan books I just got..

1 month down, (hopefully only) 2 more to go before post-concussion syndrome goes away..
For the benefit of our foreign readers, most Americans thought our addressing scheme was coincident with our billing scheme, but it definitely was not.

We addressed phones and routed calls via area codes, but billed based on LATA. In practice if most of your calls were either across the country or across the neighborhood it didn't matter, but in the last days of BBSes being popular due to massive weirdness in the billing models it was often cheaper to call a BBS across the country than to call a BBS in your LATA but outside the local area.

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

It had its strange charm as sort of a logic puzzle.
It is quite apparent that he most likely isn't an American and is well aware of what he's doing.
I'm being treated with medications for my depression, and talk therapy for my anxiety. It's helped a little.
This is a good idea. The costs from getting a pulled over for no reason is a big deal. I gave been pulled over for no reason, so many times, you'd think I wasn't in America.

I bought two $15 Chinese dash cams. The same ones that are being peddled for 40 bucks plus S&H on t.v.

I bought the second one just in case the first one goes down.

I haven't been pulled over since.
https://soundcloud.com/kaltblutmagazine/hanz-mix-for-kaltblu... ~ 180 bpm at parts
I was wondering what you're talking about but then realized that the US keyboard layout does not have the ½ symbol right there in the keyboard like we have in Europe.
Regarding an audit, please apply to the Open Tech Fund's Red Team Lab: https://www.opentech.fund/lab/red-team-lab

Speaking from experience, Cyph had its audit done through them last year (via cure53 specifically).
Most programs do not need to deal with memory exhaustion. There's often little that can be done other than terminating anyway, many OS configurations remove your ability to effectively recover from it (overcommit and swapping making your app unusably slow so you would better off terminating), and adding rarely tested code paths is a good way to introduce bugs and vulnerabilities.

Programs should abort when the disk fills up due to swap exhaustion, yes. They shouldn't abort if I/O fails, but that's because (a) I/O failure potential occurs in many fewer places than memory allocation failure potential, so it's easier to test; (b) I/O failure can occur for many reasons other than disk space exhaustion, and it's usually fine to handle disk space exhaustion the same way you handle other types of I/O failure, so it isn't any extra burden to handle that case.
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Left pad
What you then do is target the perks to be something this hypothetical person would want, which is likely time. If they can save time with your card's perk over that of another card, you win them.
An easy way I've used to explain the difference between junior and senior is this:

> Junior devs use libraries, senior devs write the libraries
That's something that Rust fully supports with panic handlers. Doing arbitrary work before the process goes down is useful and supported. (But you will have to be running Linux in a non-default configuration for it to be reliable, of course!)