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Software means one idiot's algorithm can quickly become every idiot's algorithm.

That said, the urge to federalize everything is troublesome. Democrats want to protect Alabamians from Alabama, but who's gonna protect us when Alabama takes over the federal government?

De-centralization at the very least makes it easier to fix mistakes piecemeal, even if it doesn't prevent everybody from making the same mistake.
Google’s Pixel 2 XL also appears to suffer from poor audio recording quality
Off-topic but I admit I find myself wondering how much 'a fortune' is.
You think they need microphone access for that? Froot Loops is in the middle of a massive co-branding campaign with Burger King, and you are surprised that you'd get an ad for Froot Loops while at a Burger King? Occam's razor says no.
> As a result if you were dumb enough, ignorant enough, or presidential enough, you could stare straight at the eclipse for seconds or 10's of seconds during totality. During that time it will not seem "too bright", but nevertheless your eyes will be focusing intensely damaging UV radiation onto your cornea, causing those cells to malfunction and die, which is what causes blindness.

What you are saying is wrong during totality on a total solar eclipse (not an annular one). Your reference to Trump does not apply since he was not in the zone of totality. Did you view the August 21, 2017 eclipse in the zone of totality with glasses on? If so, I feel very sorry for you, you saw nothing.

"When the eclipse is TOTAL, that is, when ALL of it is COMPLETELY covered by the moon, you can then look at it directly without eye protection. In fact, during those few brief minutes and seconds of totality, you MUST look at it without protection to see anything at all."

http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/viewing.htm
Wonder if he pays taxes.
Right, by "kaggle problem" I mean the general case where we roughly know what we're going to want to have on the right hand side of the model we're going to run (plus or minus some feature engineering, model choice and other hyperparameter specification, etc.)
Try a two-step process here.

1. Passion - what area excites the team the most? Health, AI, FinTech, Hardware? You are going to spend a few years building a brand, company, and product. The more connection you have to it the better.

2. Network! Be inclusive. You are basically saying you can build at scale quickly. Ideas come easily from interaction. Plan the next 30 days to scour every event you can and go. Listen, don't build. See what pops for the team. Iterate from there until something bubbles up.
I'm sure all of these boxes come pre-configured with a VPN Service, but all the standard protocols can still be detected with Deep Packet Inspection, something I've seen AT&T do (and block) pretty effectively. I guess there area always the StealthVPN/Chameleon providers out there that try and mask the signature of "what" is going over the VPN - but enough of that and I'm sure they'll nix those connections as well.
why the downvote? Obvi sarcasm.
People who design pretty marketing emails and are sick of having them get destroyed by email clients. You want to do as much as possible with as little risk of it getting mangled.

To be pedantic, no one really wants to write markup. Marketers want a simple solution that lets their emails get through intact. This is not a bad solution to that problem.
Not sure a system like that can really work. All a counterfeiter needs to do is buy or scan a legitimate product if it's just a code printed on it and now all the devices validate as 'real'. Can't do a challenge response authentication with a simple printed HMAC.

I guess if we did a lot more intensive inventory tracking so whatever validation service knew batch 213489234 was made 10/21/2019 and was being sold by Amazon/CVS/etc. and was all sold out by 3/14/2020. Then grandma could say 'Oh no' I bought this from BobsDiscountPharma.com so it's maybe fake.

Another option that could maybe make it work with a little RFID/powered chip so you could actually do authentication but that's more expensive and creates a lot of ewaste if it gets applied to a lot of products.
An open problem that's "sexy" but may be intractable is that of fact checking.

Can you determine which articles in a corpus of news, or other documents, agree/disagree with one another? Can you cluster and sub-cluster along statements of fact being made? Can you then trace a statement of fact back to it's "original source" based on when that entry was acquired?

There's a lot of opportunity in that space...
Stick to private equity, it's a better business and is evolving--plenty of good ideas remaining.

If you're doing a software startup, your team should be 3 engineers, not 2 business guys and 1 engineer.
We stopped storing our IoT raw data in databases. We still need to search it, but now we store only metadata in the database (we know what we will search by, so we can make appropriate metadata) and store the raw data in S3. So any searches are in the DB, using the DB for what it is good at. This means that our storage / database cost approaches just the S3 cost, because our metadata is ~0.001 the size of the raw data. It took our product from "we are going to shut this thing down" to making money.

Got the idea from an AWS talk here https://youtu.be/7Px5g6wLW2A. Blew my mind. I coded up all the changes in a day. Took way longer to move the data than to code it.
Very few people object to the concept of voter ID. They object to its implementation in the US, which is virtually always done to disenfranchise legitimate voters.

The fight against voter ID laws is really a fight against voter laws accompanied by biased ID requirements and intentional difficulties foisted on the opposition voters.
This turns out a great solution, Airflow ticks a lot of boxes for us, and we are likely pursuing that option. Thank you!
I did some digging and I think I was wrong above when I made that distinction about live and recorded content.

P2P can be done for live sports via sopcast/acestream/etc, and (as far as I can tell) this seems more popular than the method I described above (eg: ripping content from live stream websites) for live sports, due to the quality difference.

In addition, P2P addons for movies a la popcorntime do exist, but the biggest addons that I have heard of: Genesis and Exodus, just rip content from file host sites.

But yes, if they're doing P2P, they're definitely liable to get letters. I think people overestimate the frequency of people getting caught for p2p file sharing, especially for live things that appear and disappear quickly.
I think there is room for a full service solar company. Feel free to email me for the full rant.
>What scenario creates an incentive for a fork to die once it has been created?

If mining fees get low enough to not be profitable, mining will cease and the fork will be dead (even if the chain still exists on inactive Nodes).

>Because doing so multiplies the person's wealth.

I don't think you can necessarily extrapolate this. In theory this should be something like when a public company splits or pays a dividend; the value of the parts should be equal to the whole.

You're correct that it's not that way right now. That probably speaks to the inefficiency of the cryptocurrency markets currently but I would hope that that will improve.
I believe competition could be a big force towards progress. GANs are based on this topic and are very successful.
Besides Facebook denial and the complete lack of empirical evidence, what are you looking for? Why do people keep talking about "this one time it maybe happened", when it should be happening to everyone all the time, if it's happening at all?
My VPN activities run on a old Windows box, and I did not want to trust the VPN clients to not fail and blast my data in the open for a day or two before I noticed. I ended up writing a SafeVPN Windows service that kills processes within 30 seconds of VPN failure.

I used PIA for a couple of years without issue, but then it went into some kind of decline for me, always driving network traffic to zero after a few hours. After changing hardware and reinstalling the OS with no effect, I finally tried AirVPN and things went back to normal. AirVPN is a bit more expensive, but their client is light years ahead of the PIA client.
And there I thought that the ideas were the easy part :-)

Frankly I'm not sure you can succeed if you're just a mercenary (not trying to insult you).

To me it seems you're approaching the problem the wrong way : it shouldn't be about doing like everybody else or trying to be successful just because you think it will make you feel good but it should be about releasing this f* idea that is nagging you since years and that nobody can do better than you.

I have one of those ideas since 2007. One day ... ;-)
The few product ideas we came up with following the above process we dropped, often because we discovered that that space is ultra crowded or commooditized.

GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons once said something like (paraphrased slightly) "never be scared to enter a crowded market. Just be better than everybody else". Something to think about.

Beyond that, consider that your product is not the only dimension on which you compete. That is, there are other ways to compete besides having the best product. As we all know, the best product doesn't always win.

I'd recommend reading The Discipline of Market Leaders by Fred Wiersema and Michael Treacy, as well as Mastering The Complex Sale, The Prime Solution and Exceptional Selling, all by Jeff Thull. These books deal a lot with how to compete and sell and differentiate yourself... even when selling a seemingly low-value commodity like sand. Another valuable book is Differentiate or Die by Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin.
Small gain: Deleted all snapshots that were accumuated over 6 months across 100 instances. (Generated by Cloudwatch rules).
At FB in engineering, you generally don't get placed on a team, you choose which team you join, only after 6 weeks of "Bootcamp" where you ramp up on the technical and cultural environment. That said, you're right that even with that, people can end up joining teams which are a poor fit, so internal mobility (switching teams) is definitely valuable here too.
This field is a killer app of coq. Nowhere else do your bugs cost more while the program size is small.
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Automated testing of video games is less painful than manual testing though.
What are some use-cases for this sort of thing...?
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Yeah! The first time I had heard of Robert Morris was in that book. I didn't know the author's active on YouTube - I'm definitely going to look him up.
has something changed since a bunch of ladies got a constitutional amendment passed banning everyone's favorite beverage and the federal government's main source of income?

say what you will about the temperance movement, they made shit happen.
Instead you appear to be advocating for over engineering a solution for a problem you don’t yet have where the opportunity costs are probably features customers can use. That is also a huge risk to a business, but one that is immediate.
Are you talking about NoSQL databases, like Mongo and Redis?
I counted 3 (+1 in top caption) in the entire article. Probably less intrusive than typical newsletter popup so common among lean startups (disclosure: I've done work for Codementor in the past)
I just tried that but on my VPS the 'tun' device was not enabled and the automagic script died. Seems that is not easy to fix on a VPS depending on your provider. Thanks for the tip though.
FYI for the authors. Typo on page 3: " All Bitcoin Script operations are pure functions of the machine state expect for the signature-verification operations. "

And page 4: "As such, we expect it to be a target for other, higher-level, languages to be complied to."
Spotify, but for news. I don't like having to subscribe to the Economist, NYT, WaPo, etc. Would be great to have a bundle and one place to consume it all.
Knock-offs are a particularly big problem in the electronic cigarette industry, so many of the device manufacturers already do something like this - usually a code on the device or behind a scratch-off panel on the box (ie somewhere you can't read it without obvious tampering), then a form on their website that tells you whether the code is one of theirs, and if so, whether it's been submitted before (to catch knock-offs copying a genuine code). Eg:

https://www.innokin.com/verify-device/
http://svoemesto.de/serialcheck/
https://qr.szkanger.com/check/
https://www.geekvape.com/authentication/
the reviews are all but useless because you don't know which version they're referring to

This is an, err..., "prime" point: Their aggressive and increasingly universal "mushing together" of reviews for specific items/entries into a single set of less-specific reviews.

Even if you've developed a nuanced view and ability to assess Amazon reviews, they've made it yet harder by dissassociating reviews from the specific, exact item in question.

The primary remaining value that Amazon has, for me, is that so far -- anecdotally and as far as I recall reading -- their payment system and record-keeping has not been directly compromised. (There was the password shortening/weakening behavior, exposed and fixed some years ago.) I hesitate to face replacing an exposed credit card -- maybe months down the line, and with fraudulent entries to clear up -- due to competitors' less robust payment systems.

That, and the fact that I now find the Prime video selection better than Netflix (in the U.S.).

But actually shopping on Amazon -- trying to find a best choice when you haven't already decided and know how to differentiate the authentic from a counterfeit or gray source -- has become damned frustrating.
How about an e-commerce service to layer environmentally sensitive and/or humane shopping on top of traditional retailers like Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, grocery chains and Amazon?

You could sign people up for grocery/sundry subscriptions, just like Amazon, etc, and fulfill through those retailers.

Just starting with weekly groceries that omit single use plastics, by choosing glass peanut better jars and cardboard detergent boxes.
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> VPNs aren't a defense against subpoenas or warrants, they're a defense against ISPs scraping your connections and selling them to advertisers.

Some VPNs imply this when they claim they don't keep logs on their users.
for anyone new to gitlab, it is a bear. even their own cluster/HA documentation is mostly just a thin roadmap to a final goal. a statement of intent if you will. There are just far too many moving parts in this software and the glaring problem of "ruby doesnt scale well" is everpresent. packaged releases depend entirely on a bundled chef installation to get everything out the door and running.

The software tries to do too much. CI/wiki/code review/git/container repository/analytics package.

CI sharding per team and carving up gitlab into departments and groups has been my only solution so far, and its just distributed risk at that. its the difference between the unix ethos of do one thing and do it well, versus the F35 approach of do everything forever.
I might add that the noise doesn't necessarily have to always come from the same distribution. The more the noise changes distributions, the harder it would be to use sample averaging to extract the signal, I think.
What, in practice people are burned out by twice-to-thrice-a-generation format changes. I have a bunch of TV series in DVD boxes and now have no DVD player.
Why would you want them to be the same? What percentage of people who use slack on both platforms and who care whether the appearance is the same on both?
People care about facts that go their way and ignore the others.
Talk to someone that isn't your stratified group of well educated, affluent people.

Ask them what problems they need fixed in their life or what things they thing are crap and could be improved.
I'm not sure there was a T-Mobile customer out there who was happy about the possible merger. T-Mobile has been doing a really good job of providing value and improving their network, at least in reasonably populous areas.
I was commenting on the beneficial influences from functional programming on mainstream languages, and noting that a purely functional programming style with no effects isn’t (IMHO) particularly necessary or desirable.

I don’t know much about Rust so I can’t comment much on that. The intended point of my example was that in a purely functional environment, you can’t have a local, low-level cache, because updating a cache is inherently stateful. So either you need something like a mechanism that lets you break the rules locally, like say unsafePerformIO in Haskell, or you need to infect your entire call chain with whatever mechanism you use to manage effects top-down. While that is perfectly reasonable, given the constraints you choose by adopting a purely functional language, I don’t think it’s particularly helpful.

My conclusion was that I’d rather have a hybrid of imperative and functional styles, contrary to the suggestion in the original presentation and in general agreement with stdbrouw’s comment.
In the EE community, it's generally understood that if you use ebay or amazon, you're probably going to get counterfeit electronics components. Mouser and Digikey are largely considered safe places to order components from, and presumably they have incentive to maintain their supply chain as free of counterfeits as possible.

For physical goods, I'm more inclined to go to local retailers, since I can inspect them. Case in point, rat traps, I couldn't find a place on line where I could convince myself they weren't selling cheap knockoffs, so I drove to home depot and bought them there. I can't guarantee I didn't buy counterfeit traps, but at least they were high quality.
After cleaning up all our unneeded instances and optimising our architecture, we finally realised that our developer stacks and test environments didn’t need to run 24/7, which has so far been the biggest single cost saving we’ve implemented. By only running stacks from 8am-8pm then stopping everything, we’re getting a 50% saving on our instance costs. If a developer needs a stack they can still launch a new one or start their existing one. We also moved a few test stacks to use single AZ modes instead of multi AZ for another significant saving.

Dialing down our snapshots in non production environments was also a great help to cut our costs.
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I agree, the only reason favico.js needs that is because favicons can only be set through a link, which means you need to pass a data URL, which means you have to read the data out of a canvas.

I don't see many other situations where that applies.
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I didn't get that feel. Codementor had some calls to action, but that's common for content marketing; there's a lot of similar articles here where a developer is selling their ebook or course while providing good value in the article. As for it being an ad for Drift, I didn't get that; it felt similar to something you'd read on Indie Hackers.
Natural keys are no substitute for unique fully synthetic identifiers...

Synthetic identifiers SHOULD identify zero or one entities (zero if the reference is not presently valid).

Upon lookup, /verification/ should still occur at an operator level.
The thing is, while Sammy was absolutely huge (and landed the author is a lot of legal trouble) it was totally harmless. The only thing is did was added a friend and a sentence to your MySpace profile, nothing that brings down sites or anything like that. Though technically MySpace did bring the site down to fix the worm though.

Plus 12 years ago can hardly be considered "modern day" in computer terms. ;)
A good piece of reading on that: https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminjof...
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Satoshi posted about a method for upgrading block sizes back in 2010:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg153...

if (blocknumber > 115000)
maxblocksize = largerlimit

In the original white paper, the goal is to have a consensus protocol for tamper resistant record keeping and accounting. Satoshi's proof of work using SHA-256 has now proven to be vulnerable to ASIC attacks and heavy centralized miner operations and mining pools.

The arguments of semantics really miss the point of the intension to offer egalitarian access to currency production and account. Keeping the transaction rate low on purpose is counter productive by all measure, but several of the core devs work for blockstream which would stand to profit by selling their own sidechains to enterprises, counter to the first sentence of how Bitcoin is defined in the white paper.

A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would
allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to
another without going through a financial institution.
A counterfeiter could simply duplicate a valid proper key.

This is an exact analogue for client-side validation, which doesn't work in the presence of active malicious counterfeiters.
Yes, an annular eclipse is dangerous to look at at any time without protection. An annular eclipse by definition never reaches totality, since at maximum eclipse the sun is never 100% obscured. While the linked article discussed an annular eclipse, kobeya's comment makes it sound like looking directly at the sun during a total solar eclipse at toatlity is dangerous. This is wrong. It is not.
Would it be possible for your team to start a small VC firm instead of a startup? Wouldn't that be a better fit for a team that has lots of capital, one technical partner, and one sales partner, but currently doesn't have an idea?
Imagine spinning up 1000 instances of your game through Kubernetes and running automated end-to-end tests, with automated inputs and screenshot capture.
Ask yourself why you want to start the business first. Provided making money isn't the only motivator, start talking to people in the spaces that excite you and your team. Design/mock some simple concepts, show them to people, get feedback. Find pain points, offer hypothetical solutions, let the market shape your ideas/thinking. Get that feedback engine in place, and the ideas will flow.
Hmm, shame - I was hoping to promote actual discussion about the real reason at hand, but I guess that's not allowed.

I do find it very strange that we're not supposed to foster discussion, but rather quietly accept silencing of dissenting views. Seems very against the meaningful discussions that I come up HN for. Strange for me.

Thank you, despite it breaking the rules I guess. I'm let down by HN this day. :/
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This is totally just an idea, and not something I have ever seen put into practice (not worked anywhere that used AWS), but depending on your expense, hiring someone who is specifically skilled at objective performance measurement and optimization could pay for itself I would imagine.
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You can use Tensor Cores on AWS p3 instances (v100) now. Just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of ML framework support for mixed precision training with CUDA 9 yet

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/programming-tenso...

Google's TPUs also do low precision training (with some special version of TF). https://cloud.google.com/tpu/
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