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Hey everyone! Launchaco co-founder here. Excited to share Launchaco's free AI logo builder! A lot of our users didn't have any form of branding so we wanted to make a simple tool that served as a placeholder until they could afford a proper logo.

We classified > 400 fonts based on 7 features and used a k-d tree for organizing the multi-dimensional data structure, all open sourced here (https://github.com/launchaco/logo_builder). As you go through the logo builder we tweak your font vector based on fonts you like, with a little bit of randomness added, then search the k-d tree to find fonts similar to it.

Also here is a live demo of the repo in action, letting you change the feature vector and search manually. https://www.launchaco.com/logo/demo/
The Carmen Sandiego game taught me terrible puns!
4. It's a covert war involving tech that neither side wants to disclose. This may be the counterattack for the string of unusual Russian diplomat deaths last year[1].

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/3693018/russian-diplomats-died-su...
In the bitcoin system, miners make literally billions of dollars a year protecting the network. Any successful attack on the bitcoin network is going to massively erode confidence, reduce the price, reduce the usage, and therefore reduce the value of all that single-purpose, bitcoin-only hardware.

Large miners don't want to see Bitcoin get attacked because it destroys their income and de-values their incredibly expensive hardware. This is also why miners won't just let you borrow their hashrate for a while - it's a big issue if you use that hashrate to undermine their cash cow.
I keep a few critical passwords in my wallet - but they’re encrypted - simple OTP type cipher I can hand crank in a few minutes - but useless to anyone who finds the scrap of paper covered in cryptic utterances.
> Any supplier thinking long-term I'm sure will recognize the economic downside of killing off their clientele

maybe, maybe not. often when someone overdoses, the dealer has customers lined up around the block the next day. addicts don't know whether that particular stuff was cut with fent or just stronger than usual, and they don't particularly care.

even if enough people were dying that it made a significant dent in sales, i doubt it would change anything for the suppliers. selling fentanyl as heroin is massively more profitable than just selling heroin, and there's no way to do it safely. low doses of heroin are in the tens of milligrams, while fentanyl can have a potent effect at doses less than one milligram. this makes it really hard to achieve a homogenous mixture; there's basically always going to be some potentially lethal hotspots.
If you have two dozen nodes each with 6 TB of RAM + a few petabytes of HDD storage you're definitively going to need a big data solution.
1. MongoDB is different from PostgreSQL in more ways than sharded clusters.

2. Pg has variants (e.g., Postgres-XL) and extensions (e.g., CitusDB, as you mention) and methods (e.g., postgres-fdw, pgBouncer etc) that let you keep using quite a lot of Pg features with your data horizontally distributed across machines.

3. If you still want automatically managed sharding, there are quite a few databases (SQL: CockroachDB and NoSQL: Cassandra, FoundationDB) better than MongoDB.
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Was this basically the Enterprise Version of "el paquete?" (The Cuban sneakernet)
To be fair there are no experts able to guarantee their advice is good. They often disagree as the law is incredibly vague. And the EU DPAs are not ready to apply the law. Relevant laws have not even passed in many EU countries: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-privacy-analysis/e...
Yes, there's an exception in the GDPR for explicit consent to ML:

The regulation identifies three areas where the use of autonomous decisions is legal: where the processing is necessary for contractual reasons, where it’s separately authorized by another law, or when the data subject has explicitly consented.

But, again, nobody's going to consent - after encountering countless permission popups on websites each and every day, most will just be hitting "decline" without reading what is being asked.
And Swift, and Rust, and... Really the C style is the odd one out here.
The most rational piece on GDPR I've yet seen.

So of course you are being downvoted.
That's my entire comment about. The Gates line made sense when platforms brought infrastructure. It doesn't when the platform is less about infrastructure and more about providing an audience for the services built on top to succeed.

To clarify, maybe these comparisons are not justified when we're comparing different kinds of platforms altogether. Infrastructure platforms still exist, like AWS and Azure. The solution is likely classifying—in Ben's terms— 'aggregators' into an entirely different bucket called data platforms.

When dealing with infra platforms, the value providers build things on top of the platform and that's where the relationship ends. If company A works on AWS and makes $X MM a year, it could still make the same $X MM if it is built on Azure (all infra costs being the same). Whereas, a content creator can produce the same video and would make less money by hosting on Facebook as compared to hosting it on YouTube. The platform has a direct impact on commercializing the content/value/whatchamacallit.
I just want to hammer home how correct you are. I remember thinking in 2006: "all audio consumption applications eventually go to shit. When will iTunes go?"

12 years later, the application is a nightmare to use while Spotify is a joy. I have my fingers crossed that Spotify remains usable, because I don't see them making huge business model shifts.
Hey, great info! Wasn't aware of that, and it definitely changes the substance of my comment above.
In the threads like 'Removing Monal from the EU' [1] most folks say you'll get a warning before any enforcement is done. You could try rolling the dice on that.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17095217
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Fix the terrible memory subsystem. There is no need to swap on a 16 GB laptop! Especially when Apple solders the drive to board! That leads to premature ware on the board and me having to spend 600$! My Linux machine is perfectly fine running 2 Eclipse IDEs, 3 docker containers and four Spring Boot Services. No swapping. Since macOS disabled overriding the memory configuration, my laptop swaps merely running Safari ( less than 10 tabs), and VSCode for Cordova all with 16 GB.
Very cool. This belongs in a medical journal!
I don’t know it’s so much Russia’s MO as the result of a decentralized Russian intelligence community that overlaps heavily with criminal elements. So some Russian mafia cell may be spying on Americans hoping Putin throws some legitimate business their way if they prove their worth by murdering a defector with some poison they “found”.

The downside to this structure is that you have rogue agents you can’t control. The upside is that clandestine operations are very difficult to uncover if nobody in Russia knows about it.
Probably drinking too much koolaid from the AbstractBeanContainerMappingClassFactory... Sadly, this might be a classic example of the the Blurb paradox.
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Which of those decisions is unintuitive? They are the same choices most big companies of the past 30years have made.

> no advertising in the first several years,

Standard VC funded startup

> real name policy

This may be the one non-obvious choice.

> dropping out of college

Like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

> moving to silicon valley

ahem, document.location == "ycombinator.com"

> hiring experienced tech executives

How is hiring experienced tech executives unintuitive for a tech company? Google hired Eric Schmidt. Microsoft hired Steve Ballmer.

> buying a dead-simple photo filter app for 1 billion dollars

Paying a fortune for apps with eyeballs was the m.o. of the first dotcom era, and hasn't subsided.
That's a great way to lose all your capital, or force someone else to. You will probably not outspend a focused attacker or nation-state.
The way the word "yellow" is highlighted can't be good for dyslexic people, right? (Or people blessed with the gift of sight for that matter)
That doesn't make much sense. The US wasn't meaningfully involved in the 100 years of shame. Britain, France and Japan were the antagonists. The US, if anything, helped to end the abuse by treating China as a legitimate peer trading partner and helping to build them up into a world power.

The US helped China re the Empire of Japan and WW2.

The US helped China re the Soviets.

The US was responsible for China gaining access to the WTO, which rapidly transformed their economy.

The US helped China develop by pouring trillions of dollars in capital into their country and trading with them in a mutually beneficial manner.

No other dominant world power in the last ~500 years has ever treated China with that kind of respect. As recently as 1992, the US had an economy 15 times the size of China, and it didn't seek to conquer them or humiliate them.
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Wasn’t the Cuba incident determined to be caused by interference between two US ultrasound surveillance devices?
Could you explain more about what the Powerline interference are? #explainitlikeImfive
Attacks can hit multiple parties simultaneously. So you need to account for that as well and make sure an attacker doing a sweeping attack that includes you is still not incentivized.

Luckily, there are deeper incentives protecting large asic mined chains such as bitcoin.
I see a lot of posts about updating / innovating the OS that mainly have to do with the GUI and app frameworks. Fair enough.

Personally, I wish they would just quit innovating for a while and FIX THE DAMN BUGS.

I am far more upset by a feature that doesn't work right, than I am an absent feature.
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500GB is still laptop SSD territory... unless you meant 500TB but that's still doable with a single 4U Backblaze Storage Pod with 60 x 10TB HDDs.
Bitfinex isn’t a company that ignored some AML requirements and they’re not a company just using Tether. They’re the company responsible for tether, they are the creators of Tether. Tether is hugely fraudulent, it’s foundation is fraudulent, they haven’t just avoided some regulations. There’s no way that Coinbase or any other legitimate institution would open themselves up to being responsible for that.
> then why would you adopt it when it's missing important features compared to Scala?

A useful IDE, much faster compile time, lower cognitive load in daily usage.
I strongly dislike the mac OS. I only use the system because a.) Duel booting systems are a real pita (oh, let me boost to windows so I can look at that spreadsheet in a excel). And b.) Macs are powerful and light. I spend 1hr plus on the subway, so that's important.

If windows had a sensible terminal environment and real package manager and i could use that, great. And not some hacky workaround. And no, powershell is not sensible.

I do like mint and ubuntu, but office productivity software is on linux terrible on linux envs imo.
I don’t understand the hand-wringing about this. We have had this problem for decades with all forms of media other than video. Text, photos, and audio are all easily faked and can be done so to a degree indistinguishable by 99.99% of people. Why weren’t we all terrified that bad actors would create fake images or audio files that the stupid electorate would find so persuasive that it would overthrow governments and swing elections? What makes video different? And in particular, why won’t video quickly join the list of things that people don’t trust without a credible source vouching for it, like we do everything else?
Nice work! I like the simplicity but, after having seen lots of similar tools, I'm wondering what the use-case is? On all the ones I've tried, I've been able to produce a logo that looks okay, but not amazing. So, why should I use a logo generator instead of a hiring a designer?

EDIT: I should have read your other comment first, which basically answers this.
Enough voiced their opinion that EA changed the Battlefront system. But Battlefront also failed as a francise game, hardly anyone plays it.

League of Legends is probably the most long lasting multiplayer game that has skill based micro purchases, but it's not as egregious, because the game has been around for a long time, and the amount of pure avarice isn't anywhere need the obvious money grab that EA tried to pull off.

Take Fortnite, the game which is printing cash faster than Epic can spent it. Their entire loot system, like Counter Strike and Team Fortress, is cosmetic only and grants no extra ability.

It remains to be seen, but I bet Fortnite has longevity far in excess of the pay-for-skill titles.
I've only worked with one account/client that used Segment specifically, so I can't speak authoritatively about what their primary market segment is.

But it fills a really valuable hole for anyone that spends a decent amount on paid media. Having conversion and tracking data funnel through Segment has two benefits:

1. Every ad network has it's own conversion tracking system, and Segment makes it a whole lot easier to ad in another one that marketing wants to test out
2. It enforces a semblance of consistency. Implementation can have a very large impact on analysis. Whether intentional or incidental, it's really easy to implement analytics code inconsistently. Then the business/marketing user is evaluating results between campaigns/platforms/agencies/etc as if it's apples to apples, and it turns out it was implemented like apples to oranges. Standardizing events with Segment and then forcing tracking events based on those neatly ensures a level of consistency between services that's hard to achieve otherwise.

#2 is the biggest problem I've ran into managing clients' web analytics. My goto solution is to leverage a tag manager, work on mapping out significant actions and creating triggers for those, and then making sure as much as possible is driven by those standardized triggers and anything one-off is scrutinized appropriately.

But that process is easier said than done, since the friction to create new triggers is low and just requires appropriate GTM access. With Segment, making a completely new event involves an actual development release and is harder for a business user or agency to push through nonchalantly.

$0.01/visitor is not insignificant but in that environment (which is not all that rare), something like Segment is invaluable.

Plus, don't assume cost scales linearly with the same variable as publicized pricing. Have never been privy to a Segment contract, but part of the "Call Us" component is to ensure hte unit economics of the product make sense to your business. MTU is the unit they chose for automated pricing tiers listed, but there are other variables like the number of sources/destinations, number of seats, etc are negotiable.

High volume of MTUs but just a handful of sources/destinations? Can probably get a contract structured with a very low MTU price but a negotiated max active destinations with a per-destination charge over that. Your MTU peaky? Can likely get those to roll over or have the MTU measured against a per-month average over a quarterly basis. Allowing your peaky periods to be offset by your down periods. Don't view the Business custom pricing option as only for super huge spenders - a lot of companies are willing to work with you when you're smaller in hopes to structure a contract that'll grow annually as you grow. Custom pricing doesn't always mean super expensive, it also means "atypical unit economics". And also happens to be a market research tool to help companies discover use cases they hadn't thought about (hence why their standard pricing differentiator didn't work for it).
Yeah. You're taking things that don't belong to you, and you're defrauding others. Regardless of the technology, those things remain quite illegal.

Courts generally frown on cutesy "gotcha" type defenses like that. See: Sovereign Citizens.
There certainly are a lot of stories about China's perceived misdeeds in Bloomberg, and a lot of Bloomberg articles are reposted on HN lately. Enough to make me go hmmmm.
Cloud, big data, "AI", i wonder what will be the next "me too, look at me" kind of buzzword for the corporate world...
The documentation and code quality is all good.

The implementation choices leave some things to be desired. The Queue and Stack implementations are Linked Lists instead of array backed, the hash table is closed instead of (the only barely more complicated) open Robin hood hash table scheme, the union-find/disjoint-set implementation doesn't have path compression or rank unions.

Overall very good, but it could be Great (tm) with just a little bit of work.
I think it's probably fair to say that he/she did not anticipate people spinning up a whole bunch of crypto-currencies and that those crypto-currencies would be worth something. How many coins are out there that are worth millions of dollars to people speculating? I certainly wouldn't have given that idea credence at the time Satoshi wrote the original whitepaper.

I personally thought that BTC would either be successful (in that it would be a useful currency) or that it would tank. I did not anticipate people dumping piles of money into it to speculate on its value. I certainly did not anticipate a bunch of wannabe coins sitting on millions and providing practically no value to anyone.

It's a testament to the number of people who are desperate to get rich. I probably should have taken a cue from the lotteries...
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https://www.quora.com/What-startups-have-been-launched-by-ex...

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/technology/03facebook.htm...

"But a number of Facebook’s early employees are giving up their stable jobs..."

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-former-employees-are...
That's a totally reasonable sentiment and I can totally see how I didn't clearly articulate my feelings on the matter.

Of course we do want new tooling - ES6 and Angular in particular have worked well for me. Where I have some trouble is the tendency of some organizations to adopt these frameworks without considering whether the framework is actually solving a problem the have or expect to have in the near future. YAGNI is very tricky to get right.
Personally, Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is a fine solution for my most common use cases.
Wait...you mean that referring to the people in charge of GDPR as "good natured enforcers" who will "first warn you with a notice that you are not in compliance with the law, give you some period of time to become compliant and will - if you ignore them - fine you," even though no requirement for warnings exists in GDPR, might be unrealistic? Perish the thought. /s
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I'm almost done with my side project and I feel exactly the same!
speaking of AFP, since apple is dumping their routers, does that mean time machine is going away? I imagine remote time machine will and we'll just have local snapshots.
macOS does have — kind of — window snapping, doesn’t it? The split window mode? Or am I missing something? Although I agree that it should be more flexible and should have better keyboard controls....
I think one of the other issues is that each transaction that they are double spending can be worth so much. If each transaction was maxed out at say $100, the incentive to double spend the transaction becomes smaller. Obviously that changes a lot about the costs of mining and transactions, just saying the bigger a single transaction or value in a single address, the larger the likelihood of an attack.
We see the same things with cash, they only run the "counterfeit" pen on $20 or larger.

Just wondering if there is some kind of crypto currency where the transactions had a max of some kind. Would the difficulty be able to be much smaller and blocks every minute (since there would be so many more to transact)? This isn't well formed, just off the top.....
Yea, that's one piece of information I haven't found. I'll have to look if it's in SEC filings for credit card companies.
It’s a fear of failure. The sky is the limit with new fresh projects. Thinking of the potential and possibilities is exhilarating. But reality hits hard once you launch. That’s why I’m a proponent of launching early and often. Get it out there fast and don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how successful or unsuccessful it will be.
Pretty much our entire justice and corrections system is a tragedy.
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Sounds like you need a partner to take on the things you dread (marketing, sales, & support). And you take on developing future iterations of your idea based on the marketing, sales, and support feedback.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/

"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"

Nowadays, s/Man/Person/. Women of course have equal right to be hypocrites.
With all the new IAC stuff coming out, expect big companies to move the web IDE route over the next 10 years. Even if it’s less functional, they will push it out. I have several clients really interested in it; not least because in combination with a serverless architecture, it makes end-to-end security really easy.
This is exactly why Bird and Lime, et al will be very low profit margin businesses. No brand loyalty, no differentiation, lots of competition.
Confused... I thought the claim was about receiving and not sending?
Why do you want to see the company as a priority if you have no brand loyalty?
The energy released was put into the atom when it was created through fusion.
I think GP's point was, if every practice run costs a quarter, there's likely a correlation between wealth/resources and practice/skill.
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In fact, the difficulty tuning was usually harder within the first release of the game(regardless of location). So games that saw a US release first were hard there, while games released in Japan first were hard in that version. And since the majority of the NES library derives from Japan-first releases you get the "Japan version is harder" effect.

There are some exceptions to the rule of course, but it usually holds that the later localizations get the more polished product.
I am the first to agree that this is a terrible law, incredibly vague, overly broad, poorly written, etc.

The difference between actual experts and people like Jacques is that credible experts recognize the complexity and will be honest about it.

Granted, it’s in their interest to do so, but still, at least the better ones won’t lie and tell you it’s simple just because they wish it was.

Not to mention accusing you of bad intent and doing shady things if you don’t quickly agree that the law is perfectly clear and simple and that any compliance costs are worth it if you’re honest.

After all, only an evil person would avoid the EU market with the stated reason that the compliance costs seem too high or the law too vague, because random blogger Jacques already cleared that up for us :)
Does Medium ban proofreading before posting now?
Maybe inflation is part of the reason for this
How many millions? Is it time to update http://dayssinceacryptocurrencyexchangehaslostmorethan100mil... ?

Meh. I think I'm just gonna go ahead and add it. I haven't been paying close attention. I'm sure I've missed 1 or 2.
LBJ was a well known asshole on every medium that was available to him.

Does Trump use a lot of profanity? I've never really noticed. What I notice is that he makes fun of his opponents a lot, but I don't really see how that is considered rude, when his opponents are doing the same thing back to him.