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How is it possible to connect your browser to a credit card you used at a brick and mortar store?
The major events in the world and in the US are driven by religious fanaticism and tribal behavior. Why would anyone ever think that any aspect of human behavior will be free from stone age impulses?
Wood framed condos. Ugh. Vancouver learned its lesson the hard way with these, and Seattle will too, in about 20 years. There's a reason the vast majority of buildings in Vancouver are now fully concrete or steel framed.
Cheating in the 388 BC Olympics
> Driving is likely a much easier problem than artificial general intelligence.

That isn't actually true. Scenario: Narrow one way road, you get to the bottom of it and there is an ambulance blocking the road. Behind you is a bunch of cars, ahead of you is a few cars.

You need to coordinate with other cars to move out of the way, you need to make use of driveways to turn around, you need to know to override the law and got the wrong way on a one way.

And that's just one scenario. You need general AI to handle all the different things that happen on city streets.

Highways is easier - it's controlled access. And if they block the road it's typically by officials who would have some way to remotely control the self driving cars and tell them what to do (not that that is not a car of worms in itself).

> If we merely want something that's safer than a human driver that's probably nothing more than a (huge) engineering feat.

Not even close. You would need to do better than 99.99999% perfect to do better than a human. That number is correct BTW - that's how rarely humans make a mistake that leads to a fatality. (Injury rate is not quite that good: 99.999% but that's still quite hard for a computer.)

We don't have that level of reliability in a phone, never mind a car. There are some appliances that are that good, but they tend to be very simple.
I wouldn't blame building codes. It's more to do with how the building industry has changed and consolidated, and has had more regulation pushed at it. (Workers comp, ADA)

As information and transport gets cheaper and cheaper, common building plans and prefabrication are replacing architects and buildin crews with factory built material.

Also, as liability and labor costs have risen, more and more machines are used. A dozen masons a few years ago are replaced by a boom lift, glassroc/faux finish and 4 guys.

That trickles down to other places. You cannot get the variety of bricks that you once could, for example. You cannot build classical building elements because the tradesmen are gone.
Comma.ai open sources driving data used to seed its company
I thought about trying this (virtual cards for all transactions)

https://privacy.com/
Could you tell me how to eliminate the notion of object identity from Lisp when it's unwanted? (FWIW, “just don't use eq” isn't good enough advice, because you can just mutate one of two supposedly “equal” objects to observe the difference between them.) This is crucial to make functional programming work.
What is it with people on hacker news? You all love Amazon or something? Chances are a lot of them are coming back because their system, at jet, is guaranteed to be cheaper if you buy multiple things. It is why they have double the order size when compared to Amazon, at least according to the news articles.

Amazon is about to close down every Walmart in America. They are going to shut down the number one employer in the whole country. It is absolutely on its way.

I for one hope we have a few players in this space.

Edits: for grammar and clarity.
No, it's called taking advantage of a brain drain, and has long been a point of pride for Americans.
who was that rule named after, that is about questioning headlines never beeing followed by an answer? Rhethoric question ... didn't read.
Men can’t compromise without women around
Making the obvious code fast
Worried about earthquakes? Or city-wide fire? Or termites?
It would be interesting to see how this compares with French, whose numbering system is complex (at least when you get to the 90s).
Far worse than that: Bernanke publicly proclaimed over and over for years that there was nothing to worry about. Almost right up to the point of collapse, he was saying that the risk of a bad recession or large housing implosion were very low.
or as you can tell from the picture, high levels of Chinese and indian immigration in past couple of decades.
Try 1.7+ supersampling with a 1080 some time. The difference is notable, esp with the current batch of VR games that can't use MSAA. I think it has enough resolution for games, just not enough for text to replace a screen.
It's like you're dangling a pinata and yanking it away at the last second. If you want to talk about your particular backwoods place, name it with greater specificity. If you want us to focus on labor force participation rates vice unemployment stats, offering those up would be similarly wise.

For the record, my Appalachia town also had good schools, though we had more than our fair share of meth and poverty as well.
Noise through floors and ceilings. Creaks and steps and thumps. These buildings all loosen up over time, and if you walk through one under construction you will understand when you see the C grade plywood, particleboard and chipboard.
JVM Language Summit 2016
Better GitHub notifications for Slack
Researchers Bypass Chip and Pin Protections at Black Hat
The Vive is much more glasses-friendly. Also having hands in the virtual world is a whole different experience.
China's run is pretty incredible. Its also crazy how competitive North Korea is, despite having a nearly non-existent economy or education system and a tiny population. PRK finished in the top 10 every competition in the past decade, except '14, '12, and '10.
Good catch, works for me as well. Pops up with my first name, last name and email address.
Another front page thread tonight has multiple people saying it's 0.4 hereditary at childhood, rising to 0.75 by adulthood. Height is 0.8. I take those numbers with healthy skepticism, having not read the source material, but they aren't out of thin air.
Data brokers like Axciom collect offline purchase transactions and have partnerships with Facebook, Google and others, http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/14/data-broker-acxiom-mo...
I don't want to get all tinfoil, but have read many who have insinuated that this may have been an inside job by president of Turkey to get rid of dissenting voices.

This sort of thing kinda lends credence to that sort of idea.
The ridiculous thing about it is the power supply itself is almost an engineering feat unto itself.

In my personal experience, I've owned hundreds or thousands of electrical devices, but to date I've only gotten an electrical shock from my old MacBook Pro's power brick, which was an amazing device in every other way.

It speaks to the hubris of their design org.
There's a nice Scientific American article that reviews the literature:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-make...
> Ankan Bhattacharya, Allen Liu, Ashwin Sah, Michael Kural, Yuan Yao, Junyao Peng, and coach Po-Shen Loh.Credit

I looked up the name of the most English sounding one, it's probably of Turkish origin.
Have you considered recording him and playing back the recordings to him? It might embarrass him a bit or hopefully let him see how outrageous he's acting? At the very least it might be helpful to show a professional specializing in child behaviour.

I am not a parent but had experience raising a family members child. I was also a "problem child" similar to your description (probably worse).
Code: https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/master
Rowing, too. It's substantially harder to win races when your school isn't allowed to import eastern Europeans for that purpose.
I one time met an Asian American woman that did a graduate study in Italy. She said it was constant that the Italians always assumed she was from Asia, and never believed she was really from the United States.

People outside of North America just assume that Americans come in two colors: white and black. And why wouldn't they? That's all the American entertainment industry shows.
I get your point, but I think what your describing isn't particularly meaningful. By definition, nearly 50% of any population is categorically an undesirable surplus.
Pay in sports in USA is primarily market driven. It has nothing to do with how good someone is objectively, because I can make up a sport that I would be best at in the world and I wouldn't get paid anything for playing it.

People through various means ranging from tradition to culture to watchability in bars to whims of a leader settle on a few mainstream sports.

Then, based on a million factors such as how many people watch it in which countries via which medium, whether you can squeeze in commercials during competition, whether there is a "player union" and how much sports-related accessories cost, you get paid a certain amount.

If more people watched WNBA than NBA, WNBA players would probably get paid more than NBA players even though the competition level is higher in NBA.
Apples and oranges. 25 years ago we didn't have 4000+ GFLOPS GPUs. No 90 hz, no low persistence, no 90+ deg FoV, no high enough resolution, no absolute positional tracking... at least for a sub-1000$ device (expensive ones had a couple of those features). And until this year 2016, there was no actual, released games where the VR user had hands (other than tech demos) with the Vive (or leap motion or razer hydra which sort of work with SteamVR too).

It's like being a kid wanting to have a car, then realizing you need to be 18 and to have a job, so all you had was a toy car.
VPN. Turn them into the dumb pipes they should be.
Streamdata.io (linked in a different post) has blogged [1] about why they chose SSE instead of WS. Additionally, WS drops you down to something very similar to raw TCP, so you have to bring your own application-level message framing, while SSE comes with its own minimalistic format. From a middle box's perspective, SSE isn't that different from streaming video or long polling, although the SSE recommendation [2] does have a line about older proxies:

"Legacy proxy servers are known to, in certain cases, drop HTTP connections after a short timeout. To protect against such proxy servers, authors can include a comment line (one starting with a ':' character) every 15 seconds or so."

[1] http://streamdata.io/blog/push-sse-vs-websockets/

[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/comms.html#authoring-...
Opening the floodgates can be tremendously beneficial provided we allow capitalism to work. It's called comparative advantage.

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

Of course, the modern welfare state cuts against that, as do the harmful externalities imposed by (eventual) voting. But the humane solution here - which might be politically impossible - is to allow immigration while eliminating the welfare state and making the newcomers into a permanent non-voting underclass.
And they're only going to get better. Ten years ago a funded company might have done much better rolling their own CMS, but nowadays I agree whole-heartedly that managed solutions are the way to go and I believe ten years from now this conversation will be even shorter.
If the article is posed as a question, the answer is almost surely no. Having read the content of the question as well, I now have two reasons to come to that conclusion.
IBM: Response to RFI
Your CC has a home address. Your ISP geolocates your home connection to that address. You browse from home, everybody at the house now gets advertising tied to the purchase history of any cards with that home address.
Applies pretty much to anything. Basically, it's a self-maintained FAQ, and you realise that the first law of the FAQ is that people won't read the FAQ (well, some do), but you can point them there when they ask a FAQd question.

I've approached this variously and at different times on stuff I blog, mailing lists, or just maintaining my own offline factoid / response collections. A filebase you can quickly query and recall is good, my current subreddit is useful as I can keyword search it and pull up articles for reference in other discussions.

A real key is that not only do you not waste time on repeated answers, but you get the opportunity to improve your responses. If information changes, or you find a better reference, or you see (or come up with) a better argument or example, you can include it.

I've applied this in programming, hobbies, economics, politics, and other fields.
Perception matters - my admittedly unscientific feel is that there's more due diligence being done (which is a good thing, good lord), which also means less dumb money flowing around to companies that have no merit. Ed-tech I think is in a similar space, though not because of any particular scandal.

More careful investors are good for the economy overall, but still represents reduced hiring demand from the previously irrationally frothy peak.
This advertising-after-purchase has always seemed stupid to me: after all, you've already got the item. Sure, you may be interested in buying many items of one class (say, you're a watch collector), but delaying ads for several months would be clearly more effective.
Actually, since the data is sequential, I think you can write a very quick and optimized combining process.

E.g.

Open each file and buffer a small amount, such as 4k.

1) Read the first record of each buffer

2) Display the first record of the buffers

3) Read the next record from the buffer you just consumed from, and re-buffer another 4k from it if needed.

4) Go to 2.

Go ahead and change how much you want to buffer from each file depending on what seems to work well and to take advantage of sequential read times if using media that uses that to it's advantage (spinning disks), but I don't see that being very slow. Worst case, you are naively sorting X records each time to find the first, but since you are always consuming them in order, you can easily keep track of the current order and do a dingle comparison per loop after the first.
> What is the wise CTO's recommendation?

Shut the fuck up and wait for instruction.

When you're in the conspiracy stage, you need a cell like structure to protect the conspiracy against double agents and detection.

When you go live, you decapitate the local flavor of secret police, arrest the leader, and start rounding up or killing the key players.

Then talk.
It doesn't really say how exactly they are linking your real world purchase with your online identity.
I have not read the Updike article, but I might seek it out and read it if I find myself with some extra spare time.

Based on what you have said so far, I get the impression that you admire handiwork of actually constructing a 4000+ page novel of this kind. In that respect I can actually agree with you. It is indeed a remarkable work in many ways. But, it is my opinion that in terms of a vessel for conveying a compelling story, it completely fails.

Can you say that you actually enjoyed reading the book? Or did you appreciation stem from a feeling of accomplisment that you managed to plow through something that few people succeed in reading?

I can happily admit that I was not able to complete it. Once I realised that it wasn't going to improve, I just stopped.
One way would be to use any standard messaging app, but bury the message in the noise. Make it look enough like normal communication and provide only as much signal to the people who need it and could fly under the radar long enough to pull it off.
Looks very promising, sadly I cant get past configuring a new SQL Server data source (which does say Beta).

Points of contention-
First load using edge DataSources was not visible at the bottom right, had to access from User drop down menu and nothing happened

No error returned when trying to connect to a SQL Server type connection, just said Invalid database address with no further information about why. (default database wasn't accessible was the problem).

After getting past the connection screen, tables are arranged in a nonsensical fashion, not a huge issue but I would have thought alphabetical option at minimum.

Some tables don't preview, haven't dug into this further.

Once I selected a table it could preview, clicking NEXT did nothing.
Use Square for a purchase, card you used before? You get an automatic email receipt. Convenient. What are they selling?

Cookies are one avenue, but there are others.
It might not be quite so direct, but there are a number of ad-network companies focused on exactly this. It can work like:

1) Sign-up for a "rewards card" or mailing list at a store

2) Use a credit card with that account

3) That account is linked to that card within the network or sold to a network

4) The ad-network profile is then leveraged with a variety of e-commerce sites
through cookies and the like

5) Purchases made online with those cookies are linked to purchase histories
and profiles

You can see how these network profiles are developed and interlinked until "spooky" things start happening. Following a consumer from brick and mortar stores to online is an advertising/e-commerce dream. I know several ad-networks are working towards developing graph databases linking profiles across devices.
Thank you. The original post now makes much more sense.
Did a google search on Algo B5500 and found this:

ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/tr/1970/09/UW-CSE-70-09-04.PDF
Great hack and great writeup.

Since part of this work was originally done back in 2013 it seams like some vendors have started experimenting with hard drives with direct Ethernet connection. Some folks I know have even gotten access to prototype models to hack on. This is fascinating to me because I love messing around with distributed systems and I think this will open up a whole new world of possibilities.
Mine have always lasted for Macbooks, as I never take them out with me. Phones/iPads start fraying after a year or so if you chuck them in bags etc.
Why assume that it's necessarily a one-way relationship? Real life is full of these positive feedback loops. A slight innate mathematical advantage leads to a slightly better system which leads to mathematics being slightly more valuable, prompting a higher valuation on mathematical ability in one's potential spouse.
They do sell to people that are outside of the US. They just sell via freight forwarders. In Central America (and probably all over) there are many businesses that exist entirely to service customers. The biggest bank in the country I'm in now (Guatemala) gives people credit cards and a Miami address specifically marketed to buy stuff off Amazon.

You'd think with all that money spent, they'd have recognized this. FWIW, they eventually fixed it, a week or two (or so) after several poorly-written emails I sent them. So I think it is more likely to be the result of bad thinking, or just being unaware of the situation.

Furthermore, if their anti-hacking defense relies on a captcha or not being able to easily download their app, they're beyond screwed. I don't think they are that incompetent, it might have been, at best, oversight.

Probably the fault is at least partially on Cloudflare, though. Trump's read-only campaign website throws up a captcha at least to Guatemala. And GT isn't known as a centre of any hackers, to say the least. So if they have high profile sites like that which are misconfigured, perhaps they don't do enough review or customer education.
Just "bought" implies that the sale of the books is compassed in the past. It sounds strange because no explicit compass is mentioned and the reader suspects they are still for sale. I don't see anything wrong with "at least" though. Note that "over" changes the meaning (>= vs. >) and at least some prescriptivists obelize using "over" like that (I believe the AP Stylebook used to).
Of course Comcast wants to do it. If it makes them more money, don't they have a duty to their shareholders to use that asset to generate profit?

It does bother me that privacy is turning into something for the wealthy.

I also think about how companies like Facebook gather an unbelievable amount of information about me and use that to generate $15 every 3 months (I'm in the US). I wish I could just pay $5 every month for an ad-free version.
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Are credit unions not available to you? The only banking fees I've ever paid in my life were foreign transaction fees at ATMs in China and Spain.
> You only make money after a sale, up to that point your still gambling. AKA a big stack of chips is not the same thing as a big wad of cash you have to actually leave the casino without blowing it.

Yes, but I want to sell off to diversify the kinds of chips I'm holding. At the moment, the tech stocks I'm holding on to as a result of work are doing quite well, but I'd like to insulate myself from risk anyways.
Best of luck to George. Have always been a fan of his work. Favorite line from article:

"Ultimately, Hotz says, the comma.ai philosophy is simple – tell people exactly what they’re doing, but remain confident in the startup’s ability to do it faster, smarter and cheaper."

The confidence of hotz is astonishing but I'll be the first to admit I'm still cheering him on. This is such an incredibly hard trying to get right, but he is either going to knock this out of the park or die trying.