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Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Indian IT Sector
14! is quite old. 87178291200 years in fact.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/18/now...

The linked paper goes into more detail, of course. And this is only one drug, but there are quite a few other failures of similar type, though less dramatic, discussed in the "Cardiovascular Disease" section of his blog. He always links the original papers, but they're often paywalled or highly technical.
What might plausibly happen to Earth that'd make it less appealing than Mars, even temporarily? You've gotta practically melt the whole planet's surface or strip a bunch of its atmosphere or something wild like that to even maybe reach that point. Hell, all the oceans could simply vanish tomorrow and this place'd still be less awful than Mars (though obviously very, very bad—which just emphasizes how truly terrible a habitat Mars is, that we can go to such extremes and still not have made Earth as bad).
And unsustainable way, as higher taxes->fewer consumers->higher taxes->...
A Starburst candy is a 10 on the sweetness scale for me.
Hey, just an update! I shipped a new value-based pricing model today (https://keygen.sh/pricing) after getting feedback from HN as well as others. Would love to hear your thoughts!
> If you're in a marriage with two high earners (lets say > $500k household gross) then most of your income is being taxed at the highest (or close to highest) marginal rate.

Incorrect.

The highest marginal rate kicks in, for married-filing-jointly, at just over $470K; the next highest at over $416K. You have to making close to $1M in taxable income for a married couple to be paying the top marginal rate on most of their income, and over $800K to paying at least the second-highest marginal rate on most of your income.

At $500K, you're just barely paying at least the third highest marginal rate on half your income.
Tested on samples of actual users. Unsure of size because I don't work there.

If you think making avatars round is a usability issue this conversation isn't even worth having. You seem bent on deriding change regardless of what I say.
Just because people collaborate from all over the planet to make the pencil, doesn't mean that's the way it has to be. This kind of collaboration simply enables economics of scale to kick in (and possibly improve quality as well).
> While email has evolved from plain text to mostly HTML

You must have a very different set of correspondents than I do. About the only non-bulk, non-plain text mail I get is when the office manager sticks a cute .gif in an announcement.
It's a currency. It's not supposed to go up and down like a stock. It is supposed to remain stable.
Apparently not. :)

Also, I'm not entirely convinced it will be a waste. Even a 0.2% chance of success is worth taking if the payoff is high enough. And we're talking about forces with both social and economic consequences.
If it's still about punishment, it's still coming from the wrong place, imo. Furthermore, everyone will have different opinions on which crimes are more heinous than others.
there's a way to be an ethical investor - pick a 401(k) fund that invests in ethical businesses (according to whatever ethical standard you hold).

This might not be an option for everyone, of course.
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Ask HN: Are auto-playing videos now the norm?
Seriously, wtf?

Forbes, TheHill, LinkedIn, and various other sites now just auto-play videos following right in facebook's footsteps.

I started instantly closing browser tabs for articles I'm trying to read, as the video would just start blasting through my speakers and on-top of that begin with a noisy and annoying ad.

I can't be alone here to think that these sites will be losing a lot of viewers due to auto-playing videos?

Anyone else feel the same way?
This is a technology to be deployed in Amazon's brick-and-mortar stores, which used to be an oxymoron in the past but is increasingly no longer the case.
For cryptocurrency, yes. People love to hate it.
What I say to people who bang on about pesticides and GMO:

The problem isn't that people are eating too many vegetables sprayed with pesticides.

The problem is that people aren't eating any <expletive> vegetables.

That's not entirely fair, the green grocers and supermarkets sell a lot of vegetables. But it is a fair description of what I see my colleagues eat.

Also, I don't live in a major city, so my organic grocer options are limited to precisely one. I should go there more often.
I can vouch for the fact that legal technology as a category does not address the needs of lawyers. And which is obvious to most practicing attorneys. As an example:

> "spend less time [billing] on research"

is not, and never will be, an effective value proposition; and which would be obvious to anyone in anything but the most niche putt-putt fields of practice.

Rayiner is of course authority enough on this subject qua the intended market. But I'm here to confirm further that legal technology startups which ignore these central things -- PDFs are essential, confidentiality is maintained on in-house systems with their own vendors, and depth and specificity is critically more important than survey-like breadth -- will probably fail to address any real needs.

Source: I worked at a highly atypical IP litigation boutique (where drafts were written in LaTex and we scripted common ediscovery stuff), and later in relevance ranking at a legal tech startup.
What's grim is getting a tooth ache and having no where to go, so you go to the ER, they prescribe you pain meds that don't work, and then tell you to go see your regular doctor, which you don't have, because you're poor.

Grim is having an infection with no way to get antibiotics, but you use your friend's because he had some that he never used.

Grim is going to the food pantry because you ran out of money and then you have to fill out a promise to get financial help if you need to use the food pantry too often, as if you don't know how money works.

Sounds to me like you need to get out more and see how people really live.

I'd rather live in a world where I can't watch all the tv I want cuz i can't afford any, but at least I get basic healthcare.
This is for people who are in stores owned by Amazon.
If that were the case, we'd have never got to the moon.
FTA:
"When that happens, Amazon may take one of several actions. It may block access to the competitor’s site, preventing customers from viewing comparable products from rivals. It might redirect the customer to Amazon’s own site or to other, Amazon-approved sites."

How is blocking and redirecting traffic NOT tampering?
Congrats, Augie is a great guy so a huge win there as you already know.
So, basically they block access to competitor's sites via their captive wifi? The article looks, smells and sounds like click bait.
tangent: Sears is 130+ years old and arguably it was a close analogue to Amazon over the early 1900's.
I'm a frontend engineer for the one of the big 4 tech companies, so I'm not really concerned. I'm in my 30's now, and don't expect to be coding for the rest of my life, but is the field going to become so constricted that 30 years from now wages will stagnate? I doubt it, at least not in the grand scheme of things.

At the end of the day, I'm not going to plan my life around my job suddenly becoming less valuable.
I love the Windows Updates restart warning in the video. :)
Germany (O2) had an obnoxious check. The dude bitched at me because I had a copy of my passport "saved in the cloud" (it was in 1Password local on my phone; given that the US, RU, CN, JP, UA, MY etc governments all have copies of my passport already, it's a whole lot less sensitive than anything else I have in a local-only encrypted database on my phone. It took about 30m to go through the process.
> Isn't it worth a few billion dollars and a few million lives to bring those stories to life?..

Do you really mean this, I mean, I don't even....
Ah. Bit of a shame...But yeah 6-7 full compute cards is still incredibly powerful - especially when paired with so many CPU cores.
Sure, my email is in my profile
Will-AI-Systems-talk-to-other-AI-systems-using-xml-json-http?
spurious lap infant?
As with all complex matters there are numerous considerations and issues with all of these.

Moon is close, we've already been there, escape velocity is low but there appears to be very little water, not very accessible at least. The day/nigh cycle is 28 days long, so there are issues with overheating during the "day" and lack of power during the "night". Solar radiation induces static charge on dust, which makes it go everywhere, particularly difficult condition to run mechanical devices for long periods of time. That said an air-sealed cavern on the Moon could be a great intermediate solution for making humans interplanetary. Electromagnetic launcher could also make our interplanetary ambitions more sustainable.

Mars on the other hand has an atmosphere (faint but still), better day/night cycle, more accessible water and carbon dioxide - allowing to manufacture rocket fuel and many chemicals needed for agriculture. Ultimately it seems better then the Moon in many respects, but it is very far away. In case of emergency there is very little that can be done to evacuate, transporting anything there will be more expensive (though not that much more expensive than the moon actually). There is the danger of irradiating astronauts during the trip, so crew missions should take faster transfer windows and trade more fuel for speed. Cargo missions could take longer, with better fuel efficiency.

Asteroids would be great but they are hard to work with because of the very low gravity (and electrostatic dust as on the Moon). Capturing one, though perhaps theoretically possible, would require enormous amount of force to change the orbit in any meaningful way. Perhaps detonating a hydrogen bomb near one could provide enough thrust, but likely not enough precision (we would not want such asteroid to accidentally hit the Earth). It would take many years to tow one any close to Earth with regular propulsion, so that is probably out of the question for now.
There is a need for a VPN. Most public access points perform some traffic manipulation and I absolutely believe that some intentionally block and/or modify data to obscure some data from people who are in-store. In fact, I believe Best Buy was already caught doing this with their own site; in-store APs wouldn't reflect the price that was really shown on bestbuy.com. ...

Ah, it seems that Best Buy did this but only on internal workstations, so that when the employee would access bestbuy.com, the discounted price online wouldn't show up: https://consumerist.com/2007/03/02/best-buy-confirms-the-exi... . However, they could trivially do this via wifi.

While searching for this, I also found this: http://adage.com/article/digital/retailer-jo-ann-aims-retarg... , which registers the device MAC on the backend and uses it to track how many times a user has entered the store (that is, connected to the store's wifi). Even VPN wouldn't stop this from happening, you'd need to randomize your phone's MAC address.

Public wifi is convenient but we shouldn't be naive about it. Companies are using it for their own purposes.
Just so you're aware, I added it and Messenger automatically sent the "Get Started" text, and the typing animation ran for about 30 seconds until it stopped with nothing happening.
Probably a bummer if you hosted your site on AWS and you can't hide your IP.
>Yes, think of the poor truck drivers. I'm sure they love doing a dull job.

Yes, they're clearly doing that for the personal achievement that it brings them and not for, maybe, money. That tiny thing we all kind of need.

Jesus Christ, the arrogance of HN sometimes.
seems like 2 different aspects of the brand

the perception here seems to be that Wal Mart only sells stuff that 'people of Wal Mart' want to buy

there's is probably plenty of room in Wal Marts brand to get at - 'we sell everything, down market stuff and up market stuff'

--------

wal mart's impact on Main Street - while (somewhat) real - is a separate question
HTTPS wouldn't prevent this, just harvest the CN and SNI names from the presented cert and use those to match. And as far as changing DNS servers, those can easily be MITMd, or they could just ignore DNS altogether and use a transparent proxy to block/redirect traffic.
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Pharmacies take a $10B hit as Amazon lands Whole Foods deal
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14568146
Verizon just launched its first LTE-only flip phone
You sound like you know this is irrational, but you don't care.

I have often wondered if rationality isn't in the eye of the beholder.
I'm not on messenger but that's pretty cool. Is it one at a time? What's the upload limit?
In theory, I don't have a problem with a retailer offering free WiFi but limiting it either for QoS or to block certain sites or protocols. It's their bandwidth and they should be able to offer it to the public on whatever terms they want.

As with anything, if you aren't paying for it then you are not the customer.

Now, if they somehow convinced Verizon or ATT to interfere with the network access that I am paying for, that would be a problem and I'd stop doing business with both the carrier and the retailer.
> Sorry, you can't build a financial exchange on Ruby, Node, and Mongo.

To anyone doubting this (particularly the MongoDB part): it has been tried before, with bad results. Look up "flexcoin".
I mostly agree with you and I very much do what you suggested. After all my interviews, I spend a lot of time researching the question to see what the correct answer is. For example, in one interview they asked me to make a crossword puzzle solver. After the interview, I spent the rest of the day researching algorithms to do this.

That's great and all, but it doesn't give me insight into specific things I could improve for the next interview. Was I too slow? Was my solution too convoluted? Did I spent too much time thinking and not verbalizing? Is my solution wrong?

I wish to have that kind of feedback because it will highlight my deficiencies.

I get that they don't owe it to me to provide that feedback, and there is no incentive for them to. But it's a nice to have.

As software engineers, we're all familiar with code reviews and why we do them. This is very much similar to that.
Weird. I remember being pissed off at a Home Depot price. So I bought it on Amazon, right at Home Depot. I bet half of you have done something like this.
I don't think the parent poster was talking about being confused as to the meaning; rather, they're talking about the presence of these characters impeding fluent reading speed even after one knows what they are. Enough of these changes and you feel like you have dyslexia, a bit: you have to consciously analyze each word on the page to extract its "reading", rather than just letting your visual cortex pass the words straight into your brain's audio loop.
What does that matter?

It's not like rockets launched from the surface spend a long time pushing on the planet.
anonymousbtcsms here.

This is not a scam website. As I stated in my previous comment, we are having issues with our integrations with Coinbase. Because I have been out of the USA, they refuse to service my support tickets.

I am in the process of moving over to Bitpay, but I have not had the bandwidth recently to tackle that project so I have manually been entering in payments as I see them. As a result, the payments wont be registered for multiple hours.

Any customers that have not been happy with the service have been refunded upon request. I wish OP had contacted me directly about the payments not registering.
I am pro universal basic healthcare. I have written about that. I am also homeless and run the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide.

Maybe you should check profiles before saying ugly things like "you need to get out more and see how people really live."

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/ir2.html
Are you sure you'd still feel that once you're actually there? What if many people might believe what you say, but then quickly change their minds as soon as they find out how difficult and uncomfortable it is to live on Mars?
Reminds me of this post I saw last week or so..

https://dissention.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-business-mod...
I loved Linode for their support. When I had issues, they were always good at responding to me and getting things resolved. AWS and GCP do have support, but you have to pay extra for it (sadly).

The other nice thing about Linode was the free upgrades. When they did fleet-wide updates to CPU/Ram/Disk, you could go into their UI, click a button and be migrated fairly quickly/easily.

I also agree that GCP and AWS are a lot more complicated, as they are vendor-specific ways of solving certain problems, which can be solved normally with Nginx and some configs (which is portable across any VPS/dedicated-host provider).
Glad to help. I agree it shouldn't be removed entirely and FB will get crap either way. Thanks for the differing opinion, best!
No, in this context we're talking about things digital computers can do better than humans. Doing arithmetic was the first job where digital computers replaced humans, so my comment is quite relevant to the discussion.
Although thinking about that, it does explain why Elon is suddenly so interested in tunnel boring machines, and why the boring company's machine is designed to be small and easy to build in large numbers.
I think this Glassdoor review sums it up pretty well: https://i.imgur.com/sJd56AT.png

Linode has been hacked at least 5 times¹ in the past decade, and EVERY TIME they try their hardest to downplay the incident and distract attention from it. Avoiding any public communications at all if possible.

This HN comment from a PagerDuty employee is also particularly damning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845985

¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845278
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This was an amazing story, but there are LOT more take-aways here!!!

First of all, let's look at something: the burden of memorizing 29 words was SO great, that despite carefully writing it down and double-checking it, the user failed to memorize it or even come close: after trying 500 times, they could not tell that ionic was a different word from tonic. No doubt they had looked at each handwritten word very carefully during the 500 attempts, but just could not do it. By the way, if you write the word ionic down in your own handwriting, you could easily see that it might look exactly like your own handwritten tonic.

There is something else about these 29 words. You can find the number of bits of entropy in a dictionary you'd pick one word from at random by taking the log2 of the number of entries. (In a pinch you do log 2 by taking the log and dividing by the log of 2). That shows that 1626 words (the number of entries in the dictionary) have 10 bits of entropy.[1]

So by making the user "remember" (write down) 29 such words, you are making them memorize (write down) 290 bits of entropy.

2^290 is 1.9892929e+87. There are about 10^80 atoms in the ENTIRE universe (a hundred billion galaxies with a hundred billion stars each). You'd have to get every atom in our entire universe -- every planet's every atom, every sun's, every black hole's, every one of the atoms anywhere in the world, to try 10,000,000 operations each, before you got an answer.

That is WAY too much.

But despite having such an incredible amount of extra information in there (base-64 encoding 290 bits would take 48 characters - six bits per character), it does not contain enough of a checksum to correct against a single transcription error.

So this is a great example of a solution that is very user-hostile: so long that the user is forced to write it down, but despite its length so fragile that it does not contain any help against any amount of corruption. And very clearly, the longer it is, the greater the possibility of user error: could you hand-write an entire Dickens novel without a single error anywhere for example? What about a 12-character alphanumeric password? So the latter is stronger than the former! The latter is a better password.

I am not sure what kind of passwords would have redundancy built-in (so that a slightly wrong version would be corrected and accepted) but this would be a good time to find out.

One last thing. Does anyone know how long it takes to try a combination? I'm surprised that the blog poster went through the trouble of finding Levenshtein distance, since I would think from a coding standpoint it would be faster to code trying all 1625 other possibilities for the 1st word (leaving the rest unchanged), trying the other 1625 possibilities for the 2nd word, and so forth. Since there are 29 words this is just 47125 possibilities in total which doesn't seem like it's that many. (Then again, some 'treasure hunter' the blog poster was "competing with" might have had that script running already when the blog poster got there first!)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=(log+1626)+%2F+(log+2)
I avoided password managers as long as possible but I tried 1Password for some reason and now I cannot dream of not having it around.
"Some massively rich companies colluded to keep their 5%-er employees from making even more..."

Not that I disagree that it was a huge deal, it's hard to gather greater sympathy/empathy from people that tend to make less than half of those aggrieved.
People here are misunderstanding what a currency is supposed to do.

It isn't like a stock. Equities going up is good and will have periodic retreats. It is a company and supposed to gain in value.

A currency is a medium of exchange and unit of account. It is supposed to remain stable. It shouldn't go up or down like equities. It should be stable. The unit of account changing would be like a unit of length changing. Try building a house if your measuring device was constantly changing in you.
Pure speculation but I'm guessing their strategy here has a few elements:
- they need to get to meaningful scale on the buy side of the grocery business which they weren't able to do on their own
- Whole Foods is already a "tech friendly" grocery brand (Instacart, Apple Pay)
- Whole Foods has a lot of premium/value add and non-grocery products (prepared food and organic underpants and such) that offer more profit margin than just groceries

It probably also doesn't hurt that Whole Foods is the only grocery store within walking distance of Amazon HQ and about 1000 employees eat lunch there every day.
Pretty sure that would be a quick way for someone to invalidate your patent claim.
[Removed rant in which I was trying to explain my frustration about investors having ill effects on the usability of such protocols by driving up associated fees. Unless you can mine coins, you are stuck dealing with a volatile market as an entry point, which blows. But nobody cares about that. So never mind]
>>Given the difficulty of entering the mobile handset market, and the inertia of most players, I'm just not sure we would have broken out of the rut.

I think we might agree on that?

I guess my main thesis rests on the idea that an iPhone is more like a tiny computer than it's like a circa-2007 cell phone. It was easier for Apple to make a tiny Mac with phone capabilities than it would have been for a handset manufacturer to retrofit PC-like functionality onto their handsets. Apple was already the master of the Mac ecosystem, which they could leverage however​ they wanted. Handset manufacturers would have had to acquire a computer platform or partner with a computer company (which, I guess, is the story of Android).
I would think tampering implies more subtle actions.
Could somebody please help me understand how this patent would be enforceable? I mean, wouldn't it be invalidated by any of the public wifi's that prevent you from accessing the internet until you visit their log in page? Or does the specifics and niche of this patent actually matter?