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Entrepreneurs be wary of SHAPE CAPITAL they ripped us off
On April 10th we submitted our PITCH DECK and Funding Application to ShapeCapital.com.au owned by Anoosh Manzoori. According to their website, they will get back to us in 7 days with either or potential investors or a 12-16 page evaluation of your PITCH DECK. You pay anywhere between $220-$299 depending how many countries they will reach out too. Initially, I thought it was a win-win, even if no investors liked our site therightpi.com, at least we would get some good advice on how to improve.

Well as of this date 4/29/18. The only thing we have received from ShapeCapital are standard marketing emails offering their free advice which can be found on their website. I called there New York office twice, and their office in Austrailia once. I even contacted their "consumer complaint site in Austrailia near Melbourne but apparently, they don't protect against FRAUD committed online.

In all instances I got a polite secretary telling me someone would contact me (even Anoosh) but no one has done so minus the Consumer Complaint folks. Please be wary of these guys.. they have a good website with lots of interesting PDF's and they are on Crunchbase but they seem to only just take your $220 or more with no response. We all work too freaking hard to get our platforms and websites off the ground to be taken advantage of and stolen from some fraudulent dude claiming to know Investors. Please spread the word. Thank You.
Bobby Sheppard
CEO - TheRightPI.com
Claiming 'space' and not saying suborbital is why people are criticizing them.
How could that problem be solved? Is it something that market forces could somehow self-correct? It is in a sense a general cultural issue, but how does one go about correcting the culture?
I personally got hooked at age 7 after my dad showed me how to draw circles in BASIC.

I don't think it's so much about a specific age, but to help stimulate a kid's imagination what's possible with a general purpose programming language.
I wouldn't say someone is dumb because they don't understand how SSL in the browser works. In the same sense I'm not dumb because I can't perform heart surgery.
I haven't seen this mentioned yet in the thread but France.fr is a relatively new website for the promotion of tourism in France. Big part of their prospects is worlwide.
You seem to be confused on a few points.

The court case is that Android infringes on Java SE, not the Java language. The question is if it infringes on the platform, not the language.

> Android uses Java the language, alongside a partial implementation of Java the standard library

That's not what is being disputed. They use an API written in Java, afterall.

> Likewise embedded vendors that sell C compilers, even if they aren't fully ANSI C compliant, still acknowledge they are selling C compilers.

And Android has a compiler for Dalvik and AR. That's not up for dispute either. That doesn't make them a vendor for Java SE. No more than the compiler in GCC makes the GNU project a vendor.

> A few Java vendors on the embedded space also provide their own implementations, where .class files are converted either into their special VM format or straight into native code, before generating the firmware image for deployment.

Usage of the Java brand requires any platform you ensure compatibility between your implementation and all other implementations [0]. The Android SDK is not compatible to the letter of that trademark license, as the Android SDK is both a subset, and also extends the Java API, so Google followed their license by not claiming it.

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The only thing being disputed, is if their Java-written API is allowed to reflect Java SE's API.

Google is a library vendor for a library that reflects a subset of the host language. They also have their own compiler for a subset of the language.

> Likewise embedded vendors that sell C compilers, even if they aren't fully ANSI C compliant, still acknowledge they are selling C compilers.

This is more akin to claiming that a C++ compiler is infringing on a C compiler by both being compatible with a subset of the C language.

[0] > This resulted in a legal dispute with Microsoft after Sun claimed that the Microsoft implementation did not support RMI or JNI and had added platform-specific features of their own. Sun sued in 1997, and, in 2001, won a settlement of US$20 million, as well as a court order enforcing the terms of the license from Sun. As a result, Microsoft no longer ships Java with Windows.
https://github.com/wting/hackernews

Sure.
Did something similar.

My GitHub account: https://github.com/tmm

A deprecated projects GitHub org: https://github.com/tmm-archive
Picking graph paper using k-means clustering
This to me is one of the biggest proofs that the Torah (first part of the Bible) wasn’t just a bunch of legends written by man.

It says that Abraham’s children will be as numerous as the sand on the seashore and the... stars in the sky.

After all, as far as ancient people knew, there were millions (possibly billions) of sand grains by the sea, and ... maybe 5,000 stars?

I am sure Greek astronomers would have laughed at any Jew who said that the number of stars is in the millions and billions.

Yet these days with modern science we have found out that there are as many if not more stars than sand grains.

Now, an atheist would say “that was just an expression”. But who really uses stars as an example of millions, just like sand grains, over and over repeatedly, if they really thought there weren’t that many? It must have been one lucky guess!

There are other proofs but this to me is one of the hardest to explain away.

* EDIT: lots of militant atheists on this site I see, wielding that downvote button rather than engaging in substantive argument
That text only refers to an exclusive right
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> good looking

beautifulpeople.com
An Introduction to Deep Learning for Tabular Data
Hasn't the use of "and" been considered a bad practice for years?
just great!!!!
Im 27/female. My annual comp this year is north of $220k. I have about $12k left in student debt, which at this point I am making smaller payments towards because paying it off will drop my credit score and I really want to get a good rate on a mortgage soon.

On paper, things look great. I save about $2500 a month after my own bills and helping siblings (parents cannot work). I have a good deal of investments already built up and max out my 401k.

However, I really can't afford to buy more than a dumpster. Its going to be several years until I can purchase a home but at the current housing spikes, it's going to be out of reach even then. I could just move, but the job prospects aren't amazing in cheaper parts of the country.

My management just does not care about me. Its about their goals. I'm just a tool or a service to help them achieve those goals. Services get sunset. Services get deprecated.

Again, my compensation is amazing on paper considering my age, but I am over worked and under constant stress and anxiety. I don't take many vacations because the anxiety of my work is overpowering.

I have two weeks of vacation banked, but even if I took off, I can never deflate and distress. I don't know how at this point.

My work is pretty much all my life... oh and commuting.

I know there are people with alot less than me, far more student debt, etc. I am grateful for what I do have and cannot begin to imagine what it's like for the folks living paycheck to paycheck, although I am terrified that my career stands at the whims of egotistical men, and I could easily end up in that paycheck to paycheck situation.

I occasionally see headlines on news sites while reading on my phone during commutes... "x analyst predicts y company to hit trillion dollar by z date."

Nobody stops to ask who is reaping the majority of that and at what cost?
Thanks for the plug. I'm the author of the failover piece. Happy to answer questions.
When the inbox categorization system was rolled out by Gmail, I thought this was over engineering and the average person wouldn't need this.

Fast forward an year later, I'm surprised how good it works. My inbox is filtered clean of all "secondary" email. You might have some false positives and you have to tell the system that Amazon deliveries go to Updates not Promotions etc. But I wouldn't want to go to the world before the categorizations.
NASA used to run an experiment with students counting stars [1] in various sites. The most that was counted was around 5000 which tallys up to the theory.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140610015945/http://starcount....
Or how much effort you're willing to put into prepping for interviewing and getting a new job. It definitely filters against the casual looker.

Which, to some extent, makes sense. You're basically filtering out people who won't put in the effort to get the job. Whether or not those who put in the extra effort are actually going to be better employees is a different decision.
We've started using it. We're a Dev team with less than 10 developers. Took a little while to set it up, but it has been working flawlessly since then.
I definitely thought this was going to be about graffiti.
You sound exactly like the type who would defend ULA and other rocketry incumbents when SpaceX was a tiny startup.

Why are we so intent on dismissing the little players here?
If it was an acquired thought, it was acquired more than a few thousand years ago. The Bible mentioned uncountable stars; "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore".
This is brilliant. What's worrying is that this could quite possibly be a valid, profitable business idea. Maybe even using deep fakes to put your face on a moving jetski or something. It would probably impress a lot of people while the tech is still fairly esoteric.
Facebook Launches a New Ad Campaign with an Old Message
just a thought otherwise the Internet looks to becomes a joke and maybe that's not a bad thing!
It seems to be a common occurrence for people who grew up in a denser, more kid-friendly post-war suburb next to a walkable downtown, but are now raising kids in a new, barren, sprawling suburb surrounded by stroads and next to a 7-11.
LOL, yep. I used to refer to it as a movie; but now I call it a documentary.
Since the French government has assets in the United States, yes it very much should.
Has anyone tried dual n back? Has it improved your cognitive function?
Yeah, ammonium perchlorate doesn't burn as cleanly as liquid hydrogen does.
I think he meant the Blue Origin crew shouldn't care. Yes, Hacker News commentors should care. Agreed.
Do you have a source for this? That sounds incredibly implausible--analog tolerances are basically never tight enough that you'd rely on them for something like the DC value of an RNG's output, over temperature, normal production spread, etc. Any hardware RNG at least goes through digital processing to remove that bias, and usually goes through a cryptographically strong PRNG.

As an aside, hardware RNGs are one of the only places you can put an undetectable backdoor in a design, since they can't be verified (since they're deliberately non-deterministic). If you do hash(stuff) ^ HRNG, then the CPU can make the result whatever it wants. If you do hash(stuff ^ HRNG) then it can't.
Have a mini-course into maskless photolithography[1][2], and find out how an old DLP projector combined with some advanced optics can yield this: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_2917-e1...

Take a tour in a home fab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrmqZ0hgAXk

His website and Youtube channel are so richly filled with knowledge that so desperately needs to be in the public domain, instead of being locked in corporate structures.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVoldtNpIzI

[2] http://sam.zeloof.xyz/maskless-photolithography/
again, why do you treat employees as a distinct group from shareholders? At many companies, employees are the shareholders.
Maybe one of the books that might be an SICP type book could be The Classical Style by Charles Rosen but I'm not sure how accessible it is to a nonmusician...

I found biographies helped build my appreciation of the music. A good one will cover both the personal life of the composer and their musical development (which are often intertwined), with some light commentary on specific works.

Something I love doing these days is witnessing the evolution of the composer by listening to their works across their life. At least for Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Chopin I can say that I personally detect this maturity in their late music that experiments more with chromaticism and harmony. The late music also tends to have a slightly more conservative sense of emotion which I feel must be some reflection of how people's emotional range develops as they get older. (early Chopin is this sentimental romantic adolescent, while late Chopin has this refinement and grace about it)
>Or: OOP theory essentially says that classes should never be "subclassed." As in, the code isn't supposed to evolve that way; you're Doing It Wrong.

Got a reference for that? I've heard "prefer composition over inheritance" (GoF) but never have I heard that classes should never be subclassed.
Intellectual property isn't quite property either. The Supreme Court recently rules against a patent troll claiming that an administrative revocation of a patent was a taking without due process precisely by this reasoning.[EDIT: as detailed at http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/04/opinion-analysis-justices-...]

Specifically:

> Two key points support the view that patents are matters of purely “public right.” The first is the notion, illustrated by quotations from earlier cases, that the patent is a “creature of statute law” that “take[s] from the public rights of immense value, and bestow[s] them upon the patentee.” The second is that the Constitution explicitly allocates to Congress the power to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts” by granting patents; Congress’ decision to authorize the executive branch to grant patents is thus a constitutionally sanctioned delineation of “the executive power,” something which “need not be adjudicated in an Article III court.”

Public rights are not property.
It would have made much more sense for T-Mobile to merge with AT&T given the GSM heritage of both wireless networks. This is one situation where the sum of the whole is probably less than the parts. Bleh!
Are you serious?

1) Surely the Bible is just making the same mistake I make when looking at the sky - imagining that I'm seeing millions instead of just 9k.

2) If it wasn't just an expression then there are an estimated 300 billion stars in the milky way alone. Astronomers put current estimates of the total stellar population at roughly 70 billion trillion (7 x 1022). I don't see that many descendants of Abraham.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A figure of speech that uses the stars as a reference to a huge number is not extraordinary evidence.
>The great strength of markets is their decentralized and dynamic nature. They are the original hivemind and crowd-sourced wisdom.

The problem is that markets optimize for one thing, to the detriment of all others: profit.

Anything else (e.g. more inventions, etc) is a byproduct. If avoiding it will bring more profit, that's totally fine for the actors involved.

And it's not even long term profit (which, because of costs to reputation and such, will require more good behavior) -- quick term profit is equally good a motive under such a market system, human costs and externalities be damned.

Under such a system, if people could sell baby milk mixed with chlorine to make a profit, they would (and they have -- among countless of other examples of putting profit first).

We should create and foster decentralized and dynamic systems that optimize for a better world in aspects that we want -- instead of piggybacking on a naturally occurring decentralized system based on greed like monkeys.
That's really funny. I went to the github repo and saw my words copied and pasted from my blog into the description.

I'm not upset though, I think this is actually pretty cool. Good job for putting this together. I'm happy with people using this if they want to run it locally.
I do wonder how many 40+ programmers are able to keep up with "young ones" in these contests.

I fear it is like chess, the cognitive decline starts to become noticable in the mid 40s and only gets worse from then on.

There are a few exceptions like Korchnoi was in chess so there must be Fabrice Bellards and Bill Joys who would be able to keep up.

Still looking at completion times for Advent of Code made me feel old.
There is a paper that indicates Earth mover, aka Wasserstein-1 is better for convergence of GANs:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.07875.pdf

I tried it out on one of the Udacity Deep learning assignments using the Wasserstein loss functions built into tensorflow. I was unsuccessful in my limited use. The discriminator always ‘won out’ rather than the combo finding a saddle point. I eventually got my project to work without it, and did not go back to compare against just swapping EM back in.
That technique isn't as powerful as sometimes believed. In your example, you've assumed the uncomputable thing, an algorithm which reliably produces a solution to a problem for which one exists. Consider, "Is there a proof in fewer than x lines of the Riemann hypothesis?"
Give us a frelling break. Please don't willingly invite derison.
Not that I disagree with what you’re saying, but I just want to point out R&D expenditures have been rising, not falling. It is even rising as percentage of GDP, so companies are investing an ever bigger slice of their revenue in research.

http://www.oecd.org/sdd/08_Science_and_technology.pdf
That's enlightening. Never thought of it that way.
Here's a real world example:

https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher/commit/d7bb73f65a...

So I have this function, `crypto_wipe()` that wipes memory regions with `volatile` so the compiler doesn't optimises it away. In the link above I was using it thus:

crypto_stuff(stuff_ctx *ctx) {
// stuff
crypto_wipe(ctx, sizeof(ctx)); // BUUUG!!
}

See the bug? I should have dereferenced `ctx` in the sizeof operator. As it was, was only wiping a pointer's worth of data instead of the whole structure. Oops.

Now I write this instead:

crypto_stuff(stuff_ctx *ctx) {
// stuff
WIPE_CTX(ctx); // correct!
}

The amount of repetition I avoid this way is almost negligible, but that was enough to trigger a mistake (I had quite a lot of wiping to do). With the macro, errors are much easier to spot (so much so that I am willing to give 100€ to anyone who finds such an error, see https://monocypher.org/quality-assurance/bug-bounty)
"And yet variants of the Apple II kept outselling the Mac all the way until the II was unceremoniously dropped."

That was mostly school purchases.
Nice.

Anyone else getting a "Connection Lost..." message as soon as they visit the page?
Sorry this is a pet peeve of mine, but I don't think sci-hub is stealing, it's infringing copyright. And this is one of those instances where I think what words we use to describe what sci-hub is doing matters.
True. I mean I work since 5+ years in Startups, even (with not so much success) co-founded. At the bottom line it stinks, of course I see that I can find a new well-payed job with ease. But people do treat me like a drone and I need to go through all this stupid office politics. Working from Berlin in Germany though but I get the taste of the pure essence, which seems to be in SV for instance...
>(It is because often you need to do stuff that the system doesn’t allow on older versions.
As updates are rarely ever applied, you have to deal with 10 year old versions frequently.

That's not a programming problem that this capability allows us to solve though.

That's a management/market/etc problem, that necessitates that we use this method as a kludge to bypass it.
That is not an illustration of eight quadratic curves, it is an illustration of four.

"The figure below shows how the curve x^2+y^2−1=0 is approximated by four quadratic curves (in red). An approximation by eight quadratic curves is just about indistinguishable from a true circle."
the illustration shows 4 an approximation with quadratic curves. There's no point drawing the one with 8 as it would be indistinguishable, as the article points out
I work only in VMs. So I wonder if websites accessed in VMs could charge such capacitors in CPU cores. By default, virtual CPUs aren't mapped to particular cores. But then, I do tend to use hardware virtualization. Maybe it'd be more secure to avoid that?
J uses all ASCII characters so you can use a regular keyboard
You are describing a particular way of creating a UUID ("Version 1").

Another method, "Version 4", is simply a 122-bit random number.
If Stasi had had todays technology, the wall would never have fallen.
Strange, as this is accounted for: https://github.com/acarabott/audio-dsp-playground/blob/maste...

OS / Chrome version? Were you clicking the start button or using the key command?
> Both Sprint and T-Mobile struggle to compete with AT&T and Verizon in coverage

Indeed, and I've been considering switching from T-Mobile to Verizon for exactly that reason, much as I like T-Mobile.

I'm a long haul trucker, and there are long stretches of I-90, I-80 and I-70 where I have to roam, and therefore data is capped. It's not a disaster, but it makes it more difficult to stay firmly and broadly (pun intended) connected to the web, my employer and my family when I'm roaming.

I've taken to having my phone look for existing networks whenever I stop. Verizon is almost always available, and T-Mobile is often not. I don't pay attention to Sprint's availability; I left them long ago because they're Sprint.
That's only true if screen readers haven't adopted to framesets.

With the popularity of the latter for 20+ years of early web, they're totally fine with them (as they are with tables for layout, and many other things people believe "break accessibility).
The recent new keyboard's keys are known to be easily rendered unusable due to a crumb getting into it. Repair is expensive (may require replacing the whole upper case?)

That may be part of what he's seeing.
It's not like 99% of corporate users know about headers and header filters either.
For sure, it's exactly why you get these comment threads. They're going after the same press that SpaceX gets without being candid about the vast differences between the two companies when it matters most. Such wilful muddying of the waters serves nobody.

Rocket Lab has - at this point - as much or even more credibility than Blue Origin has in spite of the more modest goals and the huge disparity in funding. At some point Blue Origin will simply have to deliver, sooner is better than later.
I wish they'd use them externally too. My on the fly calculations using feet and miles are clumsy approximations.
I'm glad you get to travel. (no sarcasm!) I wanted to mention though that I am seeing irony in this.
"R&D expenditure" is a very loosely defined term. And companies get a tax benefit from spending on "R&D". Thus, it's not obvious that R&D expenditures are truly rising, or companies are just gaming the system.
Same here, certain this was about graffiti
Not sure if that's a thing but I've heard of developers streaming their screen on nights and weekends on something like Twitch.
https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/uk_r...
> APL mode in emacs, typing these things in is pretty easy...iota is just `.i`, rho is `.r`, etc.

...and iota is just `i and rho is `r in the Dyalog editor. So non-emacs folks can play too.
Sounds like

Becker, Regazzoni, Paar, Burleson. "Stealthy dopant-level hardware trojans." Proceedings of CHES, August 2013.

https://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/BECKER-CHES.pdf