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You're totally right here, the time it takes for ACH to process is a tough wait. We're working on a few ways to speed up the process, but the way we think about it right now is that waiting an extra day or two is better than owing several thousand bucks because we couldn't be bothered to set cash aside and pay quarterly taxes. There's always a bit of a trade off with these things. As we grow, we're hoping to make the process 100% seamless, but figured we'd tackle the core of the problem to start and build out from there.
I saw a group of Asian tourists line up and take each other's photos in front of the Venus De Milo at the Louvre. Each one had the most grim expression on their face. Everyone seemed perfectly happy before and after.
There is nothing wrong in using callbacks. I actually see many developers over-use promises to the point where code is nearly unreadable.
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Yes, this thought really makes me wonder about where the future hardware computing advances will come from. How long is it going to take for a new company to 'disrupt' the processor industry in a way that the behemoths of today wouldn't have expected or weren't able to do. I would guess at least 10 years from now.
Pay to be promoted in search? Ugh. How about offer a portion of credits out of the 30% cut to go toward search/category promotions. Or lower the cut taken. Or offer a choice between the two, plus an additional means for buying ads. But digging further into the 70% devs are pocketing before taxes? Lame. And paid promotion seems like it's already going to make the App Store even more awful for users and smaller developers.
The GAAP P/E of the S&P is now at 24.28, that's near, if not, a record high. That's bad. It's very overvalued historically. Banking stocks are doing badly because interest rates are so low across the curve that they can't make money from the spread. But even at that, they are overvalued along with various momentum stocks like Tesla, Netflix (which we saw implode yesterday.)
Of course, there are many much more subtle and effective ways to stifle free speech and human rights than a big firewall which can easily be circumvented with a VPN. MITM attacks, botnet troll armies, astroturfing, etc. etc. Good luck finding proof of that though.
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Windows 10 is malware though.
Writing this on a Toshiba I got at Staples on sale last year. It has 1366 x 768.
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That's one way to look at it. But Chinese view US regime as oppressive, and any opinion to the contrary would result in the downvote fairies of the 50-cent army slashing your karma to oblivion, in a similar way I lost about 25 points on this post.
My grandmother actually died just before my Econ 101 final exam as a freshman in college.

After class I approached the prof and asked if I could reschedule the final -- earlier -- and was somewhat shocked by his incredulous reaction. I think after a couple of beats he realized I wanted to take it earlier not later and therefore relented.
isn't a more direct conclusion is that chip progress has slowed. People's upgrade cycle has extended significantly, and thus less demand for Intel's products?
A more accurate title would "Poor decisions in using $250k investment made it harder to get to market".
Words mean things. When you draw wild connections like these, you endorse the notion that society should be governed by the moral feelings of citizens and not by laws. That may feel good in the moment, but I guarantee you that in the long run, it's people like you and I who will suffer the most if that worldview prevails.

Conspiracy to assist the unethical law enforcement operations of another country is not, in fact, a crime in the US. I wish it were. But to be guilty of a crime, it has to be a crime when you commit it. It doesn't work retroactively --- that's one of the first safeguards against despotism the founders came up with.
Yes and I think that works with many areas and in many products.

But when you have confidential information in the mix - especially stuff that might have SEC implications - it changes the game.

A few years ago, I did a contract with a company that had a system that deleted all email greater than a year old. While the official answer was that it was "to save space and improve network performance" I suspect the unstated reason was to prevent fishing expeditions.

If your email is being cc'd outside the org and read by actual humans, that introduces some awkward problems.. and may force people to admit the actual reason for the policy. ;)
In Switzerland, you get unlimited LTE 150mbit/s with no limit & no speed reduction for CHF59 (~ USD60) per month. Just to put it in context, 60 francs in Switzerland is the price of a dinner in a good (but not excellent) restaurant for one single person.
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No, you aren't the only one that barely uses mobile stuff. My desktops and use of laptops is essentially required for my job (software engineering). I've seen 1 person switch to a tablet, but I'm not sure they have enough power to do the things I need. One day all of this will merge into a single unit, but right now I see separate needs/uses for both.
I don't think it's harsh and condescending. But it certainly reads as flippant and unprofessional to me. I get the impression some college intern wrote this thinking it sounded more laid-back and relatable or something.
Exactly, even if gamers were a big market, they follow the ROI too. Intel can't try to be a brand the way Nike is or the way LV is, they sell technical things to technical people but mostly to industry.
> Have either one of them ever said that there is no such thing as climate change, as your statement seems to imply?

Cruz:

OK, you are incorrect, actually. The scientific
evidence doesn't support global warming. For the
last 18 years, the satellite data - we have
satellites that monitor the atmosphere. The
satellites that actually measure the temperature
showed no significant warming whatsoever.

...

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific
theory for a big government politician who wants
more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can
never be disproven.

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/09/459026242/scientific-evidence-...
"I can't find proof of this, therefore it must be happening" is very popular message board logic.
There is nothing mysterious about the short, mid or long term effects of artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing.

edit

Here's a link to read about it. https://mises.org/library/unseen-consequences-zero-interest-...
The NSA "filters" a majority of the traffic that traverses the USA? What site can't I get to because of those filters?
I've had a blog post sit at the #1 spot on HN for nearly 24 hours and my server never even sweated.

I have a cheap VPS and didn't do anything fancy with caching. I just don't code like a n00b.

Also, either use SuperCache or ditch WordPress entirely.
I would say it all depends on the point of view of the people in charge. The reality is what they decide and whats their take on that.
I don't see why employers making bad purchase decisions signals Apple "calcifying into what Microsoft was".

Just because some employers (and some ordinary people) might purchase it for situations where it's not the best option doesn't make the single-port MacBook "a horrible failure."
I'm a little confused... you say "I have no problem with promo codes for new customers. Zero. None." but that's exactly what they are doing... the $10 credit is only for new customers to DO
These go hand in hand. The debt issued to buy back the stock is cheap. :-)
In the old days broad economic demand moved faster than production declines. So production being vaguely constant the price told you a lot about main street employment.

In the modern era of frac wells where depletion rates are like 50% in 2 years, broad economic demand is now much slower than production declines.

That's the problem with secondary recovery... The "balance sheet" looks good in that you'll profit (unless prices tank) but the cashflow is terrifying you don't dig a well and collect for 30 years like the old days, you do exotic processes and get high production rates for like two years, then production drops to zilch.

On a large, century size scale it screws up Hubbert graphs. You can ramp up for a century, but extensive secondary production means the decline slope will be just a couple years instead of a nice symmetric century or whatever.

By analogy its like switching farm land from an olive orchard to corn production and being surprised at fundamental shifts in the financial sheets. (Yo its just another plant, right, well theres a bit more to it...)
Hmmm...CFO heading up sales is not something you see every day...

Anyone have any further context around this?
This isn't static type checking though, if it happens at run time then it is by definition dynamic. And these languages already do that. What problem is this solving? I'll already get a runtime error now, how is this runtime error better?
For some reason, PHP is not just a language, it's a spirit of writing bad software.

A few weeks back I needed to port some crypto from Laravel to Go. I did not have too much trouble – apart the strange usage of Rijndael-256 that Laravel had until one version or two ago. When I looked at the way they were using keys to encrypt data, I realized that they were directly using "application private key". Is that bad? It shouldn't, but Laravel makes sure all the keys it generates are ASCII, for copy/pasting convenience. What happens if you're using a 256-bit key that can be represented with ASCII? The key space is 10^20 times smaller (the entropy of a byte in the key goes from 256 to 62!). That's been a thing in the most "modern framework" in PHP for more than three years. I'm far from being a security professional, but spending one hour on one file was enough to find a basic security issue. Let's just say we're not writing code with Laravel anymore.

I must mention that Taylor Otwell (the author) was extremely fast for fixing the problem. He is probably among the best open source project maintainers I know, and desserves to live off this work on Laravel.

Here is the commit: https://github.com/laravel/framework/commit/370ae34d41362c3a...
Airbnb expanding to compete with services like Tripadvisor and Yelp
Hi! I think when people use openings like that in comments, emails, etc., it comes off as pretentious because you are in fact not excited to talk to me and are doing so out of pure necessity.
Is this a similar issue to what was reported about Amazon getting rid of people after their product launches (even if successful)?
Because it isn't relevant. This is the impact of moving to the cloud. Those broke and indebted college kids are buying $800 iPhones instead of $800 PCs, because they don't need the hassle.

I'm a power user. I have a 4 year old MacBook and a 2 core * 4GB VDI session. I won't replace the MacBook for another 18 months.

Even in enterprise IT... Every project we did in 2004/2005 required a server purchase with two Xeon sockets and a NIC that might be Intel.

Now the average marginal unit of virtual server needs 1/50 of an Intel Xeon. And a lot of those Xeons are at AWS, which squeezes the margins.
I get that they are trying to use the human responses as a training set.

But the scope of these general purpose concierge services mean that what they are going after is damn near Artificial General Intelligence. At least in terms of capability, after-all ordering a burrito and locating an antique skull is a pretty broad capability range.

And at what point of accuracy are they aiming for for the systems to run on their own?

I guess they're thinking they can get pretty good at identifying the easy requests the system can fulfill at 99.9999% accuracy and then shift the harder requests to a human.

At that point it seems like they're just building a system that can distinguish hard requests from easy requests. Sure fulfilling the easy requests with AI is a feat in itself, but how many of those easy requests does it make sense to go through a third party? Why doesn't the burrito shop just set up it's own ordering bot?

Am I missing something?

The edge cases seem so broad that to sufficiently fulfill them would require something like AGI and the more approachable tasks of ordering pizza or burritos seem unnecessary of a third party.
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Keep in mind that it's still in beta. User who are onboarded do get clearer disclosures.
There is really not a shortage of open source high quality C64 emulators. Does this one bring anything unique to the table?
Its everywhere, the hackathon facebook group, which is primarily americans, has something like 35,000 members.
Guess they're wanting to either halt future apps of that kind, or have a reason for removing them in the future.
Is the idea that people would submit all images to your pre trained API / program, or would they also be generating a training set themselves? How sensitive is the algorithm to incorrectly tagged images in the training set?
this part invalidates every good point you might have had

Why should it invalidate the rest? If this were a different topic that would have been called out as a tone argument. Focus on the content, not the form.

Also, can you provide reliable sources that the executive branch observes the Constitution with the same reverence as other Americans? Because it sure seems like they are contorting it into every possible shape they can.
I admit I don't know the details here very much, but didn't the US do that a while ago to communists? Perhaps not the torture part but the US doesn't have a great track record there either, eh?

The Chinese government has noted that Falun Gong is an active threat to their society and have strict laws.

Half the world has strange laws. Some places drugs can get you killed. Should a US drug-dog training company be sued for leading to the death of drug users?

Edit: What if it was a system to hunt down cults that the US has attacked, like those at Waco. Or that other countries don't tolerate, like Scientology?
Yes. Around 60% of "personal computers" (excluding tablets) sold are laptops.

What's interesting is tablets. The number of tablets sold basically equals the number of desktop and laptops sold combined.
What Intel needs is some reason for people to do compute intensive tasks on their computers. Today games are probably the only popular type of app that requires abundant CPU power, for most other popular activities CPU usage is low which doesn't motivate to upgrade hardware. Maybe VR can change this?
Hey guys! We're pretty familiar with the zen99 crew. For the most part, they were thinking about the same world as we are, but were tackling the problem a little differently.

I think as founders, we have a really bad habit of pretending out competitors are stupid and operating as if they didn't know what they were talking about. That's rarely the case in general, and certainly not the case in this instance. Tristian (CEO of zen99) wrote an awesome post mortem, which I think was just shared below, and it's been really helpful for quite a few of us in the fintech space. Continuing to read and build on the lessons that companies have learned before us is a big part of why we built the product we did as opposed to trying to replicate zen99 and hope it worked out for us. We really appreciate this thread and you guys pointing out the similarities between our companies!
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I don't really understand if you're chastising me or if you're seriously engaging in discussion. If your sole objection is to the tone and word choice of my response, I'll happily concede the point. You dismissed my perception of HN's worldview ("if there is such a thing") as imaginary and due to my susceptibility to unnamed sources of information. I replied contrarily in a purposefully absolutist manner based solely on the original post.

I recognize the zeitgeist is to "leave room for other options" for discursive comfort, but there is a fine line between that and self-defeatism, as much as I might agree that it could have rhetorical advantages to do so. I do not really seek those advantages, since I don't truly seek any gain. The "other options," in this case, might be that some of you are not worshiping Golden Calves and that some of you might be willing to agree that an algorithmic enumeration of bloggers, financiers, and self-promoters could be an anti-intellectual listing of false idols. I accept this could indeed be true for some of you, but it's not incumbent upon me to make your points for you in every rejoinder so as to parry your bristling.
My point is simply a tautology: the price is the price. Now the price may change, someone may have their thumb on the scale, there may be shill bidders driving sentiment, etc. But at the moment you get a bid/ask spread, that is what you get.

Practically speaking, I personally don't believe the efficient market hypothesis due to the very obvious meddling by political actors, central banks, national treasuries, etc. Behavioral finance has also consistently demonstrated that humans do not react rationally in markets.
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Yes, cloudfront gives you far better control over things like headers, routing for different paths, error pages, etc, than vanilla s3 http access does, and is almost certainly lower latency compared to s3 (assuming your files aren't GB-sized)
im confused too... i think SMTP sends mail.......
It's not a wild connection; conspiracy in the US to aid murder/torture abroad is currently a violation of US law.

Couching it in "unethical law enforcement operations" doesn't really change the fact of the matter, does it?
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Just throwing it out there, you can put a Node.js application on Heroku with essentially zero custom setup. Granted, more expensive than shared hosting, but if you value your time at all then the time savings are huge (especially compared to a VPS).
Anecdote, I was an avid gamer that would upgrade whenever the price/performance was good enough for my budget. However, I bought almost top tier stuff back in 2008 and haven't upgraded the core of my system since. I don't game like I used to, but it still does everything I need it to do. I used to do yearly-ish new builds as well.
People who buy from stores after trying on are sometimes not happy with fit either. I don't see a comparison statistic there. You cite 62% of online shoppers as being unhappy with fit, but how does that compare to IRL shoppers who are unhappy with fit?

Lots of people have trouble finding anything at all that fits well. I think mass customization may be a better solution to that issue. Let people input their measurements, then make the garment based on the measures they gave you.

I also think online stores need a great deal more basic information, such as materials that the garment is made from. When I have shopped online, trying to determine if it is, for example, 100% cotton has been challenging.

I have upvoted you, because I think this is a great problem space to tackle, but I really don't know if this is a good approach or not.
Just that it seems odd that the US would prosecute entirely legal actions in other countries, especially when they're guilty of similar things as well.

Edit: I apologize, I'm incorrect in this entire thread and didn't understand how this was happening. My fault for not reading and thinking it was the US filling charges.

Though perhaps China can just claim Falun Gong is a terrorist group and Cisco should be in the clear then. In the end, helping governments go after dangerous cults seems like something that should be legal.
Listening to the earnings call now.. Stacy wants to learn more about the other parts of the business and BK wants to show off his leadership skills to other parts of the company
Laravel has a ton of community around it. I haven't ever found it lacking.
I guess my criticism is that stopping communication (GFW) and monitoring communication (NSA) are very similar, therefore we do have our own GFW.
It seems even with Skylake it still can't power a 4k monitor at 60Hz, oh well, next year maybe :)
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I think if you reformat that percentage as a fraction, you'll understand what he's going for.
> Only intel could come up with something which does not relate to anything.

This is wrong. You have to remember that the 8086 is (mostly) source code compatible to the 8080 (at least if you rename some registers - a simple search & replace) - though not binary compatoble. The assembler syntax for the Intel 8080 that Intel developed is ugly. But Zilog who developed the Z80 (which is binary compatible to the Intel 8080) devised a much better assembly language (as far as I know they had to use a different assembly language for legal reasons). For the 8086 Intel built on the ideas behind Zilog's assembly language. In Zilog assembler

(HL)
(IX+index)
(IY+index)

is used for accessing memory. Now replace the ( and ) by [ and ] and additionally keep in mind that the function of the register pair HL in 8080 roughly corresponds to bx (a "register pair" consisting of bh and bl) and it looks a lot like x86 assembler (IX and IY only exist in the Z80 and not in the 8080; but despite that the syntax for indexed adressing again reminds a lot of what one is used from x86 assembly in Intel syntax).

EDIT: Also the parameter order dst,src is the same as in Z80 assembler (but this order was already used in 8080 assembler so rather Zilog copied this order from 8080 assembler).

TLDR: The Intel syntax is related to Zilog Z80 assembly.
Thanks, it's so useful to get this kind of detailed advice from someone who has worked through these challenges. I may take you up on that offer!
As are appeals to authority. i.e.:
"I can't find proof of this, therefore it must not be happening

Let me ask you this, what precisely would suffice as proof, in your opinion, of such activities?

On the internet, maybe there really is no such thing as undeniable "proof" that anyone did anything, considering how easy it is to fabricate evidence. [1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440594
Shame they didn't drop the 3.5mm jack on the right for a second USB-C port. That is the only flaw for me.
GP is a general response to the other commenters below who are existing DO customers complaining that they can't take advantage of this promo.
>I buy the original homesteader house and open my heavy metal venue? And that's ok? I bet the neighbors won't be happy.

No, that's not ok. The neighbor's have homesteaded their property (or obtained it from the original homesteaders) and the noise would be a trespass on their properties.
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Huh. Even after having used that classic Lena image in the header for multiple visualization projects, I never knew she was naked in the full version.
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This is great. Hadn't heard of deconvnets. Thanks for posting!
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