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It doesn't seem to be a common term but I found one post saying a convex investment has a lot of upside and little downside, with concave being the opposite: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15932

So I guess the idea is to be ready to position yourself as an semi-expert in a variety of technologies that haven't gotten big yet, but could.
Jet, based on its promotional content is heavy into the home products category. Walmart would love to knock them out to absorb that competition to getting delivery and even subscription delivery of home products.

So it may be the price Walmart is willing to pay to ensure nobody is making Jet their new source for houseware products and avoiding the WalMart Brand. We also don't know what else Jet has in the pipeline, negotiating with them and through their research may be revealing more to WalMart.

all said, I hope Walmart doesn't buy Jet. I want Jet to exist on its own. Competition is the way forward in shopping, if not against Walmart, definitely against Amazon.
I have faced something similar. Though I have 14 years experience with technologies that are suppose to be in demand (Ruby On Rails, NodeJS) I have had a very difficult time finding work this year. It's certainly more difficult now than in 2012 or 2013.
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I hope they keep today's "designers" as far away from it as possible.

Clear, correct, and discoverable functionality. That's what I want.

Mystery meat UI and the latest "precious" shade of pale blue or whatever? Fuck right off.
> this increases demand for condos, thus raising the price

Condos are not supply-constrained. You can tear down like 6 detached houses and build 240 condos in that space.

In Toronto they're making over 100,000 new units a year: http://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/mortgages...
Yes, that does sound hard, but you might have to chain all the way back to chapter 1. Often times, chapters are grouped in self-contained blocks.
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Really, you are claiming that if a company raised $570M and sold for $3B, the common shareholders will get screwed? Do you have some information we don't? The publicly reported valuation at the last funding round was $1.4B. Those would have to be some impossibly harsh terms to not leave well over $1B to the common shareholders.
Walmart has already spent close to $12B funding walmart.com/labs and not made a dent in catching Amazon.

Jet has a super smart team looking at ways to gain margins in areas amazon is ignoring. short term their investors won't appreciate this buy.
I HATE American protectionism in farming. One such example is the ridiculous subsidies of corn that lead to obesity, feeding ruminants grain and even crappy cocacola!

Other terrbile side-effects of our agrisubsidies include crap processed food, agricultural practices built on assumption of nearly free water leading to droughts, nutritional deficiency in produce etc etc.
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I sincerely dislike it when the mods change the positions of comments in a thread.
Are you seriously stating me the obvious that stealing without punishment can give 1 party an edge over the other one ?
Hello..

And that's the thing. I would not want to start a business in China just to see it destroyed in an unfair battle.
I think large systems would benefit from "playgrounds" as well. Staging servers are a thought in that direction, but they're a very serious matter designed to root out failures before they destroy a production system.

I think it might be useful to have a playing server/system as well, similar to the staging server which houses the version currently in production with mock data, intended for rapid testing and iteration or playing through failure scenarios. Let's see if we can put feature X into it. Let's see what happens when Y fails catastrophically. Let's do a practice deployment with one of the devs. Let's see how quick can we get it back up if the cleaning lady pulls the plug by accident. That kind of stuff.
We should understand that this is really what companies are buying when they buy a product. There seems to be an impression that companies buy technology because it's cool. That's almost never true, because they could hire similar engineers and build it out themselves for much cheaper than they could buy a company.

They buy the company because they want something that they can't easily replicate (which, again, is NOT the technology, because they can hire engineers and replicate your work product).

Typically it's one of these things:

a. they want your installed userbase. It's really hard to get people to use something new. If you have a lot of users, they will buy you even if your stuff is total crap so that they can get access to your users.

b. they want your intellectual property, like a patent and/or trademark portfolio. Patents are a great way to make companies think about buying your company instead of just ripping it off and copying it internally.

c. they want to retain the personal goodwill of someone they care about. For example, investors will often buy each others' portfolio companies, even when they're worthless, as a way to save face and ingratiate themselves one to another.

It's important, as entrepreneurs, that we understand what really goes into a big exit, and how it's not tech (unless you have patents, in which case they're buying the patents), but installed base.
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Every time I read Vernor Vinge's _Rainbows End_ I find myself wishing that someone would invent Up/Ex --- big pneumatic cannons which fire disposable cardboard gliders into the air; they glide down autonomously to the delivery site and then you tear then open and remove the package. Last mile delivery.

I don't care that it probably wouldn't be practical, or feasible. They'd still be awesome.
Ask HN: How to Update Windows 10 Enterprise to Anniversary Update?
Not getting anything through Windows Update, and when I try to force it through the Update Assistant app (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12387/windows-10-update-history) the utility fails and says "Operating system: Contact your system administrator to upgrade Windows Server or Enterprise editions."

Apparently I'm still on version 10586, and the latest is 14393.
I imagine something ingesting vpc flow logs and building the aggregated data could do that for you, but I'm not sure how much delay that would inject.
What if you practiced these problems?
Best Buy stopped doing that (thankfully), and I think Home Depot doesn't either.
I feel like Microsoft Office's UI peaked in Office 2004, before the ribbon, and LibreOffice's UI is almost identical to it, except I get lost less in LibreOffice looking for formatting options.
Building the world's fastest supercomputer is a financial and construction problem, not so much engineering. Assuming we are talking about a system built out of thousands of distinct nodes.

If I wanted rank #1 on the top500 list, had $900 million sitting around and wanted to build something faster, I could, by hiring some of the people responsible for building massive datacenter facilities in the US (750,000 sq ft+) with their associated cooling, generator, UPS systems, and buying several metric shitloads of 1U supermicro dual xeon systems.

All of that also assumes that it's a supercomputer designed for compute tasks that can be neatly divided up into small chunks and doesn't require a totally proprietary bespoke interconnect (rather, it can use something COTS).

It is a budget problem, not technical: Are you prepared to fork out the money for a hundred 200 kilowatt air conditioners all running in parallel? Do you have the real estate for them and their air handlers?
> It seems to me that China outplayed the West here by a wide margin.

Don't worry, the game is not over yet.

>For some reason, the West has let China get away with extremely protectionist trade policies the likes of which no one else in the world would dare even attempt.

Yes. But this could be changed by Trump in one day. (Sorry, I know that this is an extremely liberal board).

Chinese don't believe in win-win. They believe in win-lose. Thats great but in my experience there is a point where you run out of stupid people to screw over.

Also, it is difficult to do business with Chinese. Why? Because a lot of their decisions are irrational and it is extremely difficult to have an opponent that does irrational decisions. But this will backfire or is backfirering already. Why? With 10 or 12% growth you can afford to make irrational decisions. But try this at 6,5 or 4 percent growth. Good luck with that.
And an RFC for it to become its own type recently got approved:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1216 (The github thread also has a ton of good discussion about it. I learned a lot).

Up until now it's been a big edge case. This makes it considerably smaller.
Same. Last project I worked on, most people used git add ., git commit, without ever looking at what was staged. The peeves were real. I'd love a tool that didn't let you commit unrelated files.
Your comment should be the foundation for discussion about China nowadays.
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I have had the exact opposite experience. As long as you install one of the common security plugins (and not much else), then you're fine. And all those plugins do is ensure things like strong passwords and auth retry lockout.

A large part of the problem comes from the many, buggy plugins you can one click install from within wordpress.
As an American: the US's protectionism and agricultural subsidies are shameful, and should be stopped.
Putting even a very short lived cache in front of it basically removes the issue. But perhaps asking people to understand, for example, nginx micro-caching, defeats the purpose of WP.

I'm not terribly concerned about WP performance, it's just a blog, after all - it's the security issues.
It doesn't hurt to mash <ENTER> a few times, either, just to tell ssh that you're serious. I used to have it not work occasionally until I started mashing -- probably because it passed the newline through and I didn't make it to ~ fast enough, so whap-whap-whap ~. is my muscle memory for killing ssh now.

This is extremely useful information if you do a lot of work on remote servers, particularly when you restart networking and lock yourself out. You can get your shell back without having to kill the terminal or open another to kill ssh, which I see a lot of people do. It's too bad it's little-known.

~C is useful too so you can alter your forwarding setup (including cancelling open forwards) without dropping the connection.
I think many website operators do not see a problem with lying when it helps them getting more pageviews, signups or money.

In September 2015, Imgur distributed malicious JavaScript that targeted users of 8chan. Imgur fixed the vulnerability, but still displayed the following message when JavaScript was turned off:

> JavaScript is disabled in your browser, which doesn't make for a very good experience on Imgur. We encourage you to either enable JavaScript or whitelist Imgur.com. We would never do anything bad or malicious with our JavaScript, and if you ever run into any problems then feel free to contact us.
I think this is for browsing /newest where noisiness is a more significant factor
It's just a misunderstanding of what the acquiring company is actually buying. When a company acquires a startup, they're doing it so they can get control over that startup's users. They really don't care about the technical or financial details, they just want authority over those millions of eyeballs.
I can't speak with any familiarity to terms of service for these sorts of things, but that does look pretty shady. If you need it, you're welcome to one of the conference bridges I've occasionally used with some friends. This one has become sort of a backup of a backup; 812-462-9297.
The problem is traditional vehicles are required to have an OBD-II port that supports CAN by law.
iFixit got it's start with apple products... tear downs, screen replacements guides, etc... their focus was the iDevice market, hence the name.

An intentional decision is not a grammar mistake
Are you kidding me ? Do you seriously have a clue what you are talking about ?

Lets ignore that almost every company sources components from china and loses its know-how in a process.

But did you actually know that Chinese research on CPU greatly benefitted from OPEN SPARC and OPEN POWER projects ?
Both coming from the WEST ?
>Probably not much will change, because it's an internal culture thing

Is it even internal? This just occurred to me so it's not even well-formed in my head, but I would posit that the policy is (or appears to be) shared even if it's subconscious. Systematic bias is a thing and nobody thinks they're the bad guy, but emergent behavior can be mistakenly attributed to "internal culture" while nothing gets better. Blinders.

There are a lot of commonalities in the anecdotes in threads on this topic, and if it was code being analyzed by a programmer they might say these shared behaviors could be pull-up refactored (or extract superclass, or...) from a scattershot of presumed-local traits ("policy") into characteristics of the entire system.
Also, security is more than identity. You still need to be robust against malicious input even if you know exactly who all your users are.
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To anyone upset: At least we didn't decide to steal all your shit. Because you ran that as admin. We totally could've installed a rootkit.
Yep, I'm just saying that if someone can and wants to release their code, they shouldn't let "is this even useful to anyone?" stop them. It could turn out to be useful in ways that nobody has foreseen.
Europe is free, China is not.
It is just what I remembered to type to mean any kind of screen being used in IoT scenarios, from car displays, factory control units, plane dashboards, cranes, ATMs, entertainment systems, biology cell screeners ...

They are targeting them the same way as iOS and Android in the sense that those type of applications are native to the underlying platform without any kind of browser playing the role of an OS.
Poor health insurance options and they only want to hire Java developers and nothing else.
Please don't continue to run this.

What you are doing is effectively recreating the VRFY command that nearly every major mail hosting service has removed for privacy and abuse reasons. You are opening yourself up to a huge liability, since spammers will quickly use stolen credit cards to crosscheck their lists against your API.

This will cause you to have processing issues from Stripe. This will cause you to have a huge backlash from hosting providers as you desperately try to make sure that your cached address is still valid. (Let's fire off 1000 calls to some random Postfix server, WCGW?) This will cause you to produce false results for domains that run catch-all addresses but don't advertise mailboxes. This will cause you to unwittingly become an effective tool in a spammer's repertoire.

Look, sticking a cache in front of the RCPT TO command is all well and good, but that functionality should be up to the owner of the mail server that you're bombarding, and not up to some third party. You are putting the onus of "hey, just contact us if you don't want us to hit your mail server" on every single mail server admin. This is not okay. SMTP servers aren't nearly as robust, and cannot handle a quickly-spiraling-out-of-control web service hitting them.
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My view is that companies are hiring, but are looking for nearly-perfect candidates. I wonder what part recent changes to the field have to do with this, i.e. higher salaries for engineers the past few years, open office floor plan facilitating/requiring more interaction and communication, etc.
What happens to F# now? Jet used it heavily and championed usage.
round trip times. it makes somethings impossible with that much interchange required to send anything - and it will never go away because the speed of light is a hard limit.
Where I live it is unsafe for multiple reasons. Almost no one does it.
This is why when we hire entry level techies, we mainly look to see if they have a drive and passion to learn the work they do.
I would be very cautious using Anymailfinder.com to generate email lists -- based on this copy on anymailfinder.com:

Anymail finder uses many approaches to find emails—it searches billions of web pages and performs direct server validation.

The original SMTP spec allows for email address validation, and there are tricks like opening an SMTP connection to a mail server and dropping it half way if the address is verified -- but these are the same "tricks" that spammers use, so many mail servers disable or report false positives. There's a reason why most lead services have a high price: they have actually verified an email address.

Next, sending cold emails to business is OK (sometimes annoying but legally ok), but the copy on makesmail.com has a broken link (1) and doesn't clearly describe how to cold email and be legally compliant. From the horses mouth: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...

Regardless, congratulations on building up to $1,500 MRR, that is a milestone most side projects never reach!
"Sleeping gas" isn't safe. Look up the Moscow theater hostage crisis.

A dose enough to knock out an adult might easily kill a child.
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I am in exactly the same boat. Advanced CS degree with high-demand skill set and live in CA but struggling to find job for last 2 months.
Ah, ok, sorry. The tutorial confused me there for a sec: https://i.imgur.com/0Zyygrs.png
Presumably he will send some/all of the coins to himself (plausible deniability).

Or maybe, you are right, he is not directly attempting to launder, but just "creating noise" in the block chain to make it hard for investigators to trace the stolen coins.
I received a box from amazon after making a purchase on Jet.
They've got a three letter domain name. But that's worth a million bucks or so.
Sure. There are tons. Starbucks is everywhere, KFC, McDonalds, Walmart is doing okay along with Carrefour. Apple ofcourse is completely crushing the phone market (and it's not just so they can employ a few factories of manual laborers) Car comapnies do just fine. I'm sure there is a ton of industrial espionage and technology transfer from government to local companies (hard to explain some advances otherwise.. ), but articles screaming about Chinese protectionism mostly stink of "bad sportsmanship". Some of these companies just blew it (Uber and Ebay) or they're social media platforms. The reality is that the government wants control over the media and what 99% of people hear and read. So platforms like Facebook or Google (with their vague moral obligation about not being "evil") make them very nervous. I talked to a Malaysia Chinese guy who supported the censorship and he explained it this way. In the third world (esp if you look at the middle east) there is a huge problem of misinformation and hysteria. People eat up all sorts of conspiracy theories and factoids gets spun out of control and can't get contained. In a country with lots of superstitions like China that's almost doubly worrying. So the government seems it in it's interest to control that kind feedback loop (obviously in part to keep itself in power... you could see some local protest about some minor issue blowing up into a national protest) So in general once some social media platform seems to get a critical mass it gets either brought down a peg or brought into the fold somehow (like Tencent buying League of Legend and some Android game)

I'm not condoning their policies, but they have their own internal consistency that's a little more nuanced then just "fuck the foreigner companies"
Just echo'd this in my own comment; as mark says you will get false positives and high spam reports.
If they want to do it very inefficiently, and have near infinite sums of money to throw at it, yes.

China does not have semiconductor fabs capable of producing anything close to a current generation Intel 14nm process Core i7 or Xeon CPU.
probably going back to $600 soon ,these selloffs are always temporary
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All i know is i shopped on the site exactly once. i ordered 2 cases of monster drinks at a fantastic price. Looked exactly like the amazon page. When they arrived they were 'monster hide safe cans'. Basically empty cans. When i tried to return they wanted 40% restocking. Total Fraud.
Every desktop motherboard comes with a legacy bios, and virtually all of them come with a bios flashback USB port that can be used even without a CPU (it's used in cases where you fucked up the system completely, or you have a CPU which requires a newer bios).

Laptops are another story.
> but afaict it doesn't work at all for adding totally new files

You can use git add --intent-to-add on your new file (or -N for short), and then use git add -p as usual. You can then use the edit mode to remove hunks you don't want to commit just yet.

Not quite as convenient as on an already tracked file, but it's reasonably usable.
The point of posts like this is not to provide specific suggestions, it's to shift values and provide validation.

Many of us live in a culture which is decidedly anti-intellectual, e.g. where showing genuine interest in learning will get you derided as "weird" or "nerdy" and lower your overall social status. Humans tend to respond pretty strongly to social incentives, so this causes people to study less than they otherwise would. Conversely, positively reinforcing learning really does cause people to spend more time on it.

pg's "Cities and Ambition" covers this topic pretty well: http://paulgraham.com/cities.html
Tried my name at my Google Apps domain... no results as it's apparently "catchall domain", but a few alternative addresses were provided, several of which I know do not exist.
> WordPress is easy to start using

For many people it's "log in to cpnael, press the wordpress button, done". this is what other systems need to beat, and... without the cooperation of major hosting companies, they won't.

get install scripts in to control panels like virtualmin to get rolling on adoption.
So, a reasonable question to ask is what can I recommend to non-technical people when they need a website quickly and inexpensively that won't make me feel like I'm setting them up to get owned?

Also what advice should I give to WordPress users to help them improve security, other than the rather useless and bratty "don't use wordpress lol" answer? I'm a security professional and I follow the constant stream of "lol WordPress exploit" articles, but proactive security measures for WordPress are a bit outside my usual enterprise infrastructure work.
They would be a hero customer. From my understanding, Jet.com is already a reference customer, which means that they talk about intimate details about their infrastructure with prospective Microsoft customers.

A hero customer typically pushes your platform in radical ways to let you know what to improve. They're also someone you can talk about, and it instantly gains you credibility. For Azure, actual workloads are lacking, especially workloads that are volume, B2C businesses a la AWS's Netflix, and GCE's Spotify.