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I was recently at a Restaurant Tech meetup in New York. One of the panelists was a restaurant owner. Others were startups in the food space.

What I found repeated over and over again was that the food delivery services specifically Seamless, but also others, take too much of a cut ( 1/3 ).

Restaurants tend to operate on razor thing margins, especially in cities with high rent costs. If your product or service is going to be a significant cost to the restaurants bottom line, they most likely will not use it.
Dynamic languages can kinda cheat here. Python has mocking built in to the core lib.
That's Baruma's point: though such claims are propagandistic and false (and he says that nobody three millennia ago would have called themselves "Chinese" to make it clear), there is at least a long-running thread, which is visible in the exhibition.

Also, per your "common single heritage, without a politically forced inclusive approach" -- this is true of a country like, say, France, which is a deliberate, forced creation of Louis XIII and Napolean. China is hardly alone in this regard!
Another meal delivery startup (Maple) bites the dust
Keep. Net. Neutrality.
Here is the actual blog post:
http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Ortho

Very cool!!!
> "1. It discourages "routine maintenance" -- it's a lot cheaper to go to the dentist annually than to get a root canal every ten, yet there are many who if they only had catastrophic dental insurance would skip the annual."

It's not quite fair to say that it discourages, when really it just doesn't encourage routine maintenance.

To that end, it would be interesting if there was a component that encourages routine maintenance. Every undocumented annual checkup results in <some percentage> of the claim being the claimant's financial responsibility.

Similar, I suppose, to an automobile warranty where a lack of documented regular maintenance can be grounds for voiding some portion or all of the warranty. The healthcare parallel being less extreme.
I believe they mean it hears human speech by applying beamforming on the sound from multiple microphones.
It'd be awesome if I could connect my Chromecast to the Google Home and have the Home use my TV as the display for content like this.
What is Amazon's long term strategy with all these devices with the main feature still being voice?
My Echo is basically for music and weather as well. However, my less tech inclined -- not always attached to a laptop -- friends and family (e.g. my parents) love theirs and seem to do a whole lot more. I think HN is not necessarily the demographic that is the focus.
I have a Push (v1) and it's a lot of fun. The whole idea is to pull out the functionality from Ableton onto a tactile device, and I think it succeeds in doing so. When I play with it, I stash my laptop to the side beecause you don't really need to stay glued to the screen while working with it.

Beyond its utility, it's a really beautiful device.
The government has limits on how much it can defy economics - if it inflicts too much unnecessary economic damage on its corporate powerbase, they'll go support other factions, who promise to rectify this.

Relevant CGP Grey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Well they are definitely pushing into that space with Amazon Chime, so it only makes sense.

This is also absolutely going to kill Nucleus[1] which was the first device released with Alexa Voice Service integrated and was heavily hyped by Amazon at the time.

[1]: https://nucleuslife.com/
I'm taking a beating in another comment (it's one of those ridiculous discussions where everyone can demonstrate how righteous they are), but I listened to the podcast and the argument was that the management company (e.g. not the actual funds) used management fees to pay for their own investments.

Ala the frat bros owned A. A had funds B, C, and D. Investers are LPs of B, C and D. Management fees flowed from B, C and D to A, where it was used for nonsensical stuff.

There's nothing at all illegal about that. If a fund has a 10% of holdings management fee, the fund has zero obligation or "fiduciary duty" to the charged fund holders in how they use that money. They can use it on a mountain of blow, or a room of strippers. Or they can invest in dubious investments. Whatever. If investors don't like the returns relative to the management fees, they redeem.

This whole story is very offputting. The individual is talking about various completely uncriminal emails that he read in podcasts, itself arguably criminal and with profound civil liability. And that's the hero of the story? Eh.
Thanks for pointing out the thread-unsafe alternative. I'll update the benchmark with it and double I configured it with cityhash. (will update in a day or two).

Speaking of cityhash, have you tried farmhash as well? I'm not sure what I did wrong, but farmhash's performance wasn't good as cityhash in my hash table. Did you experience the same problem?
Not sure, maybe.

A lot of it might be that simple games are fun and relatively easy, so well suited for learning new stuff in your spare time.

Then again, the electron golf game re-renders SVG DOM at 60fps. Building web apps that way hadn't occurred to me until React came along, and I didn't attempt it until Elm.
But... why?

Presumably everyone who would even consider buying this already has a computer at home, which does that better anyway.
Agreed on most points, however there is a bit of utility in it. Every time your echo directs you to the Alexa smartphone app, you realize how useless it is. I know how to use the Internet. If I wanted to look something up, I know how to do it and I wouldn't need to use the Alexa app.

I think the key part of the screen is how it functions as output rather than as input. It can "fail" more gracefully when it has no idea what you're talking about, or when there are troubleshooting issues.

And on that point, I have sort of come to the same conclusion that these home assistants would be best as plug ins to a TV with HDMI pass through. Keep the audio input interface but default to a video output interface that overlays on your TV, somewhat similar to what the Xbox used to do with snapped windows.
Behavioral data. The more they know about you, the more they can accurately target products/services/etc at you.
Speed of RS coder depends on the amount of data/parity blocks. From the URL you mentioned, speed with 50+20 blocks is 713 MB/s. This algorithms is O(N^2) that means the speed is proportional to 1/N. So if it will support 500000+200000 blocks, the speed in this configuration will be 70 KB/s

My algorithm is the only open-source one that has O(N*Log(N)) speed so it runs 500000+200000 blocks at 1.2 GB/s. Overall, FastECC should be faster than existing libraries starting from ~32 parity blocks

It's like bublle sort vs quick sort - for small datasets they may be comparable, for larger ones they are just different worlds. It's all FFT magic, after all. I have added descriptions of method used, but will try to make a longer version since the math behind is is really wonderful
Because I want a Jarvis, and this is the closest thing.

If you can think of a way to have an artificial assistant of that class without being tied in to a corporation, I'm all ears.
The term "responsible disclosure" is actually a bad term to use, even if you support it: https://adamcaudill.com/2015/11/19/responsible-disclosure-is...

TL;DR "coordinated disclosure" is preferred.
Actually, people don't know that. The Echo doesn't "record everything", and I'd challenge you to provide any evidence that it does.
.NET standard looks like a description of features, but not its implementation. It's the standard to which all other .NET implementations are measured by.

.NET core is the new guy in town that is cross platform. ASP.NET Core is the web framework built on top of .NET core.

.NET Core is called a superset of .NET Standard because it implements everything and more.
Collecting video data for future use.
I provided a source that answers your question.
It must be too early, but I am failing to see the major benefits here.

Is it cheaper and more durable?
> can do more things

You answered your own question. Not every device used in a home (remote control, light switch, thermostat) needs to be replaced with a full tablet computer, even if it could be.
Having almost failed my last year of IT engineering because of the AI part (which included neural networks) I would have loved working on such technologies, because my teacher only gave us a scientific article about a neural network algorithm and asked us to implement it with Netlogo, which was a huge pain in the a*s to work with. Whereas with this library I understand the code and therefore the logic behind it almost instictively. So to the people behind it : good work, and thanks !
I'd recommend Avira.
I think there are certainly reasons to have your "hands-free conversational interaction" device also be able to show you things.

It seems like the big pitch they're making right now is on communications, but there are loads of reasons why I can imagine it being useful. Most mornings, I ask Alexa about the weather. Usually, the voice response is all I need, but occasionally, there are storms in the forecast, and there's a big difference between "60% chance of thunderstorms" and "here's the radar image".

Traffic is another good example. You want to know that there's a 30 minute delay on your route to work, but it's more important to know where so you can plan your route around it.

Just look at human interactions. We mostly communicate by voice, but that doesn't mean that we attempt to provide every answer as spoken conversation. If I ask my hypothetical assistant what a lemur looks like, he or she would grab an image from Google -- not spend 5 minutes giving me descriptions of dimensions and colors.
Amazon Alexa Calling and Messaging
There's space for all kinds of music, and for some, triggered samples under a grid is considered music.
Do you turn off your cell phone and computers at home? Even if you do, most people don't. And won't.
> it makes absolutely no sense to test private members

Don't agree. I think this is something that people tell themselves to justify the anti-pattern that is private members being nearly impossible to test directly in a variety of languages, but it seems like nonsense. I've never seen a real case for excluding private methods as a testable unit.
You can leave the TV always on, but muted and blacked out by the set top box. That may be a good solution to that? Not sure if anyone has designed that on a set top box.
Interesting choice going with an x86 chip. This could potentially be a hackers dream if you got Linux running on it.
I'm not an artistic musician, but it feels really satisfying to make something that is my own, even if musically it's really simple. Your comment is nothing but unnecessarily elitist.
It's possible to design DPI-resistant protocols; see e.g. domain fronting (Fifield et al. 2015, https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/fronting/), which uses HTTPS connections to popular CDNs where all unencrypted data (target IP address + SNI header) look just like normal connections. Tor supports this (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek).

I don't know how to make this work with IPFS' P2P approach: a request for www.google.com with a destination IP of some residential Turkey customer looks awfully suspicious. I suppose it's workable if App Engine has a colo inside Turkey.
So this is kind of a tablet, but with voice as main UI
Why would they not have it until next week. Per the advisory, the engine update is part of the normal windows defender updates, which happen up to 3 times daily.

I just checked this morning, and I have the updated version already, and took no action.

Those millions would have had to have disabled windows defender updates in order to not get this update before next week.
New explanation for middle-age weight gain
This is about Mac Pro, which is the spaceship looking like server hardware from Apple, not Macbook Pro, which is a notebook.
It's the Chumby for 2017, with less freedom to hack.
Love it. Great web app from a really good company. I use Ableton a lot and I'm continually impressed with their software and content marketing activity.
Valuo
The best way to get a feel for this is to show you a real example from your own website.

I’ve just added a free report for the Hacker News community.
Would love for you to test this and see for yourself.
You can try it here -
https://www.trybaseline.com/partners/hacker-news
You don’t need to create any accounts, passwords to test this.
But you do need to have access to your Google Analytics account to test this - else there will be an error.

Cheers

Arjun
That's for workshop materials. Here is the model itself https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl
You can turn cookies off or similar, or you can choose to not use or employ such services. That the ISP can do this, without your consent - each DNS lookup, each TCP connection you're making - is a whole different thing.

I think it is truly insane.
I doubt the typical user of Internet(-enabled) services has any idea how much is recorded about them, or what it's used for. They probably intuitively think that recording and retaining these sorts of things on such a scale and for such purposes is already illegal.
How to fake an APT28 attack: danger of single source data in threat intelligence
It has a much better microphone array. It's actually probably the one thing that stands out about the echo to me. The mic is really good.
I can't remember her name, but it wasn't long ago someone tweeted an incredibly stupid joke about AIDS in Africa, and by the time their plane landed they'd lost their job and had been publicly disgraced so thoroughly they were unemployed for something like 9 months.

I should've been more specific, obviously a car will do more physical damage but I'm talking less about actually hurting someone and more about ruining someone's life.
Do an A/B test and you'll have your answer.
Introducing Echo Show
Even being associated with one is. Then, being a whistleblower is a major risk to HR since most will assume the person might publish just anything as opposed to worst stuff. He already claims to have been rejected for a job being a whistleblower but rejections happen for a lot of reasons.
It's probably running their fire os.
> while at the helm of KeyBase

'cjbprime (cjb on Keybase) is an employee of Keybase; he's a different Chris from 'malgorithms (chris on Keybase), who's a founder.
Do believe that banks are setting their fees based on their associated costs?
What Matters to Designers
I agree Apple does release a far higher quality product which is why I'm a fan. Your point about the iPod Nano and iPhone/iPod Touch is a great one. Apple does have a track record of holding back and releasing a much more relevant and well thought out product in the end. I guess I question if this is even a product category they want to get into or if they feel that from a utility standpoint the ability to just say "Hey Siri..." from any apple device already fits the bill for most use cases.
>"Stack allocation is the default in all practically used languages that actually have a stack (e.g. C, C++), and heap allocation is explicit in all of those as well."

That was my first thought as well when I read that passage. Do you know why the author might have felt the need to state this specific in the context of Rust then?
Bascially this. Since the return of Jobs, Apple has not been first about anything (and one may argue about them not being so back in the day as well). But Jobs always had a flare for marketing.
I must be one of those old farts who prefers privacy over convenience.

I do not want what amounts to an always-on black-box surveillance device in my home and I simply do not understand why other people think it is okay. I honestly don't.

Down with this sort of thing!
Presumably you only listen to chart-topping american pop and music made by people with common english names?

Because so far I've never had any luck whatsoever with anything else.
The video calling capability seems especially neat - I wonder if they will interoperate with Facetime, Google Duo/Hangouts, and other video calling protocols. It will make our lives so much easier.
True. Excel makes a distinction between functions and commands. Functions can't modify other cells, commands can. Since VBA can be used for "automation" (invoking UI events) it can modify cells.
How to Stay the Course and Develop Great Products
I used to be an avid supporter of kickstarter in 2013-14, however, I've experienced too many products which over promise and under deliver.

Now, I would rather pay the 10% more for a product after reviews come out than be an early adopter because in the long run it saves me money from buying bad quality products.

I think a lot of people are starting to realize this, and kickstarter itself is losing credibility.
Don't worry, due to demographic changes, whites' influence on politics is diminishing quickly: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/31/10-demograph...

Soon anyone advocating enforcing borders will be unelectable.
I somewhat agree with your first sentence, but it's not a super advanced technique, either.

It's simply teaching rhythm and orchestration utilizing a step-sequencer. Similar to how beginners to music are taught rhythm and division of the beat, or Common Core Math grouping.
I agree. A solid understanding of why it works is still a requirement if you want to do something productive with neural networks.

But as someone who has been taking video courses and seen youtube videos, somehow this was the final step I needed to get started on my idea. It was easy to follow along, the code was nice and clean (most importantly without convoluted variable naming), and the immediately-interactive code made it quick to test a few things, rather than having to fork a project, NPM install a thousand dependencies and then actually do some coding.
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tmaly 10 minutes ago [-]

I echoed this idea in a comment yesterday.
The medical industry is the only industry with a broad anti-trust exemption. What this means is that they do not have to publish prices like all other industries.

Could you elaborate on this? I don't see what publishing prices has to do with anti-trust, and certainly I have encountered "call for prices" elsewhere.
He basically announced that he knows a secret worth millions. Criminals and state actors might do everything they can to get this secret, starting with trying to hack him, over bribing him, blackmailing him, serving him secret court orders, or even physically assaulting him with the famous wrench.

It's not a secret worth millions and nobody does any of that stuff for Windows RCE vulnerabilities.
Presentation Skills Considered Harmful
> So basically you're saying "do not circumvent censorship and tell the world about it or your domain might get censored too", right ?

No, that is not what was said.

What was said is, if you're going to claim to be able to circumvent censorship, actually be able to circumvent censorship first. There are connections (HTTPS to GitHub was a specific example that was given) which cannot be censored without significant collateral damage to the GDP of the country. IPFS is not yet one of them. IPFS should become one of them, and then make these sorts of claims.
by block i mean the same thing as they mean by shard. it just doesn't make sense to count entire amount of data processed - only amount of data processed TOGETHER make a sense

and yeah, it's quite hard to believe that some new approach may work 1000 times faster than existing ones. that said, i'm not alone - there are a few academic paper/code which is only ~10x slower than my code. i just developed better math scheme and made accurate low-level implementation
How would you even know that?
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A lot of times people just are trying to gauge demand initially. Why blow hundreds of hours or thousands of dollars trying to build a product that people aren't interested in buying.
There are a few relevant facts that should be known to everyone (including managers) involved in software development, but which probably are not:

1) 100% path coverage is not even close to exhaustively checking the full set of states and state transitions of any usefully large program.

2) If, furthermore, you have concurrency, the possible interleavings of thread execution blow up the already-huge number of cases from 1) to the point where the latter look tiny in comparison.

3) From 1) and 2), it is completely infeasible to exhaustively test a system of any significant size.

The corollary of 3) is that you cannot avoid being selective about what you test for, so the question becomes, do you want that decision to be an informed one, or will you allow it to be decided by default, as a consequence of your choice to aim for a specific percentage of path coverage?

For example, there are likely to many things that could be unit-tested for, but which could be ruled out as possibilities by tests at a higher level of abstraction. In that case, time spent on the unit tests could probably be better spent elsewhere, especially if (as with some examples from the article) a bug is not likely.

100% path coverage is one of those measures that are superficially attractive for their apparent objectivity and relative ease of measuring, but which don't actually tell you as much as they seem to. Additionally, in this case, the 100% part could be mistaken for a meaningful guarantee of something worthwhile.
360 degree feedback, good or bad?
I tried reaching out to Coinbase and only received an auto response email. That said, my purchase of $2,029.80 cleared after posting this thread. What a coincidence... If you search Coinbases forums, many people have had this problem in the past, and Coinbase does not respond to the situation.

It seems after people receive their coin, the problem just goes away.

Personally, I find it unacceptable and have lost trust for this company. Had the funds been deposited when they should have, I could have hedged into bitcoin with my profits.

Now I sit and wait for another larger purchase to go through. It is down 12% or more. I have faith that Etherum will bounce back and break a $100. Regardless, as a customer, I should have the ability to handle my funds after my bank has cleared the purchase.

What is one to assume for the delay? Are they holding to buy/sell on the cheap? Do they have the reserve to fulfill the purchase? Or is their Tech just crap? I certainly know their support is...

Yesterday their entire support page was down. WTF, it's only a FAQ page. How the hell does a static FAQ page go down.
U.S. Treasury upgrades website to better track federal spending data
Server 500 error ..
The Open Source Policy Center, where I work, is focussed on this issue. www.ospc.org Most of OSPC's work is focussed on fiscal policy rather than monetary policy.
Well, it's MY code so i use term "block" in the same meaning as they use term "shard" :)
PureScript's thermite is what I had in mind, but yeah this is good.
As an employer, whistleblowers are not something to fear unless you have something to hide. What exactly is he going to expose if everything is legit? Better to have honest employees than those would do otherwise without question.
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How is "a slight cough" an emergency room issue? I just call my regular physician (is that "general practitioner" or "family doctor" in English?) and her assistant gives me some advice.

I have no idea what would happen if people were to start abusing emergency rooms and ambulances for regular care, but I think it would make a lot of sense for emergency rooms to just direct people to their regular physician.