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Ask HN: Is it OK to scrape data to gain affiliate membership?
Is it OK to scrape data to gain affiliate membership?

I want to start a price comparison website in order to get commission by being a partner/affiliate to the products I am comparing prices with.

I am trying to be an affiliate but the requirement for me to be an affiliate is by having a working website with good content. I don't have good content because I don't have data on the products. To get good data, I need to be an affiliate. I see this problem sort of like the scenario where I need to have work experience in order to get my first job...

A work around I thought of was to create a scrapper but I am a bit worried that once I have a working website with scrapped data, the company I am applying for affiliate membership would void my application due to me scrapping their product data.

This is my first attempt at a business. I was wondering if anyone could chime in with some tips/suggestions/advice in this field. Thanks!
You assume that there is a problem that requires distributed consensus. They aren't common. Bitcoin had to invent a whole new distributed consensus problem so that it could solve it.
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I found rust-embed recently[0], which lets you embed an entire directory in release mode while deferring to the file system in debug mode.

[0]: https://github.com/pyros2097/rust-embed
You're right, it's not a brand, the correct term is appellation.
Given that 'disappeared' is a euphemism for 'killed and disposed of', that depends on how much worse it is given in the end you still cease to exist on the most meaningful level.

Put another way, is it better if they feed you an exceptional mean before they kill you?

In the end, focusing on the how's instead of the why and the concrete fact they did is just a way for others to to manipulate people into feeling one way or another (or more of either) instead of just taking the hard line that it's unacceptable in any and every form.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not accusing you of manipulating people, just stating that it's just a common tactic in general.
I have been afraid to take an IQ test for the fear of finding out that I am not very smart. In any case, the current hubbub of folks speaking against IQ tests seems to be more of a idealogical reaction to what IQ tests are telling us. OTOH, this guy seems to be legit. Truth is so hard to find these days.
All of which sum to significantly less than current demand when used for ground transportation and heating/cooling. Would not be surprised if this followed the 80/20 rule.
IQ is definitely not a good measure of value, contribution, quality of thought. I think it's probably correlated, and for some contributions may be a gating factor, but I've seen plenty of smart people examining the wrong things, for sure.

Meta-analysis of focus doesn't seem to come free with IQ. I think it's a skill.
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It seems like the author is setting up a straw man representing the IQ test as some omnipresent (or at least somewhat prevalent) test administered widely. He then lambastes it for all its faults (some of his accusations are correct).

But the reality is that IQ tests are only very, very rarely used. In fact a career on the periphery of academia, academic testing, and their efficacy in predicting academic success at the University level, I have never, not once, not from any colleague or at any conference encountered mention of an IQ test as something to be considered for practical use. I have a lesser degree of familiarity with grade school/high school testing methods, but (in the US) I am similarly unaware of any common practice here.
If it was, any cosmo/astronauts that have been there since, should be placed under quarantine for a very long time.
Except (hopefully) when you are interacting with someone on your field of expertise.

I'm sure everyone here has run into someone talking about a topic with great confidence, a topic you yourself are actually intimately knowledgeable of, and you realize that they really have no fucking idea what they are talking about.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is saying that the second part is likely accurate - e.g. low IQ people are accurately assessed - but the former part is off. This graph: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*76fPv686eOXo1b7F.... shows how he claims IQ scores correlate with outcomes, i.e. as you move away upwards from < 70 IQ, its predictive power plummets.

Said simply: stupid is stupid, but we're not totally sure what smart is.
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http://www.gistnetwork.org/content/gameonline-2019-sugar-bowl-texas-vs-georgia-live-stream-reddit-stream-ncaa-football

http://www.gistnetwork.org/content/gamefree-2019-sugar-bowl-texas-vs-georgia-live-stream-reddit-stream-ncaa-football

http://www.gistnetwork.org/content/livefree-2019-sugar-bowl-texas-vs-georgia-live-stream-reddit-stream-ncaa-football

http://www.gistnetwork.org/content/officialfree-2019-sugar-bowl-texas-vs-georgia-live-stream-reddit-stream-ncaa-football
Couldn't agree more, by the end it was readily apparent that the host was on a strict time schedule and was required to talk with each Nobel laureate about their specific work.

A real loss considering that some of the conversations were just heading somewhere interesting before they got cut off.
It sounds like I probably haven’t gone deep enough into macro territory then.

Still, when having to do things with JS/Python/C++ I’ve wasted many afternoons down the rabbit hole of trying to glean information from Github Issues, stackoverflow answers, Twitter threads and obscure forum threads — usually to find the problem (and fix) I ran into was so trivial it could have been a single line in an error message. (I feel like a lot of JS tools - particularly Webpack, Jest and Babel - have regressed a fair bit recently in this regard. Python just fails silently (or bizarrely) too often and C/C++ compiler error messages are often less readable than the code itself.)
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Not to mention, the assumption is that if IQ is not useful for predicting success regardless of circumstance (i.e. whether somebody is employed as an astrophysicist or as a sweatshop seamstress), it must be not useful in all cases.

The fact that IQ is a useful metric at the low end of the scale is exactly the hint as to why it's not useful when misused at the high end. That is, the difference between being able to return 100% of balls in tennis at, say, one return every 800ms, is not any greater help when your opponent can only return every 1400ms anyhow.

In order for a difference of general cognitive ability to be useful, a cognitive task of sufficient complexity over a sufficiently short period of time must be presented.
This claim crops up a lot, but the counting only seems to work out if we either put a finger on the scale for European standards, or perhaps if we count nominal communism in its traditional place on the far left.
scrapp -> scrape

And no, I wouldn't say that's OK. Morally, for one, but also probably illegal.
Hmmm, what if aliens drilled it from the outside, made it look like it's drilled from the inside and dispersed a super virus, that will kill us all.
Think about what? Think about poems with Terrence or music or movies or stochastic calculus?
Just because they make tens of millions of dollars doesn't mean that they're the ones holding the pursue strings. For every 10,000 Spielbergs, Eastwoods, and Weinstein's there is one Les Moonves type who actually calls all the shots. The employees are overwhelmingly liberal. The employers, not so much.

Besides, most actors/directors/producers dont make nearly enough money to have the impact of a Koch or Mercer.
> both parents get equal child leave (with a floating pot to be shared as needed)

That is so obvious. How else would one do it?
It's adorable how people think Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain.
Wiki says that the average IQ of MDs, JDs, and PhDs is 125.[1] That is pretty far away from 70.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Other_ac...
I would say "more precise" political terms, such as on individual issues.
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I would like to get rid of all the cruft:
* Cortana, Store, Weather, Xbox, Mixed Reality Portal, etc.
* Turn off telemetry
* Configure privacy settings
* Configure User Interface elements
* Install Software

After much searching, I found this script:
https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/

I was wondering if there are other tools people are using.

Chocolatey and Ninite seem to be good ways to install software but not clean up / configure Windows.
There is a limited number of possibilities

1. Done by a right handed person on space (crew) or on earth (builders/crew/other).

2. Done accidentally (a drill machine slips) or with a purpose.

3. The purpose can be seen as good or bad for the mission. The result here was neither good nor very bad, so can be neutral also.

4. A neutral purpose can still serve a role as a tool to alter the status of the cosmonauts either punishing them or improving their situation (like in: returning home faster or somebody drills a small hole to be able to fix it later as an hero).

They should look for shaving cream in trash and check it.
Looks like here's the original announcement, which has more background on motivations and has a comparison with regular Courier:

http://johnaugust.com/2013/introducing-courier-prime
Get a dayjob, keep pushing the idea forward, don't bother paying anyone back
Must be somewhat reasonable, FreeCAD uses the library.
Do you need an alternative to criticise a measure? The alternative is to place less emphasis on IQ tests and focus on other qualities.
Well, it had been sealed with glue. So probably someone really did accidentally drill in the wrong place, sealed the hole with glue, and hoped nobody would notice. But then eventually thermal cycling borked the seal.
No need, they can determine the point in time the air started escaping from looking at the internal pressure.
Yep I was 8 or 9 when it came out and magical doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Rather I'd say that "intelligence" in practice is an enormous grab-bag of different skills and qualities, some broad, some specific, some learnable, some inherent. A brilliant mathematician like Terence Tao may still very well consider themselves a dullard when faced with, say, the musical intuition of a piano virtuoso, or the effortless foresight of a chess grandmaster, or the rapt attention commanded by master storyteller, or the social intelligence of a smooth-talking Jobsian entrepreneur. For these kinds of intelligence, the IQ test is ill-suited, which is fine as long as we don't conflate IQ with the be-all end-all of intelligence (which has arguably happened in the popular imagination).
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Can you share which app that is?
You act like it’s just that simple

1. Have an idea for a profitabld business

2. Raise enough money until the business becomes profitable and self sustaining

People in the tech industry are so use to being able to get money from VCs once they get to step 1 and aren’t concerned with step 2 because they are just trying to survive long enough to have an “exit strategy”.
You start to diversify 30 or 40 years before the catastrophe. If they wait for oil to be valueless before investing in anything else, they will discover they don't have anything of value to invest anymore.
It's remarkable how UI design followed architecture (as in: buildings) down the dark alley - both went on a crusade to expose inner substance of things by cleansing it from "redundant ornamentation", both ended up steamrolling over the ergonomics, the human comfort, in the fight for the inhuman ideal.

This is what I see when I look at the web (+Electron) today: https://www.google.com/search?q=modern+architecture&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=brutalist+architecture&tbm=i...
This is what I would prefer to see:
https://www.google.com/search?q=victorian+architecture&tbm=i...
The article gives two definitions of linearity:

1) f(x) is linear if f(x)=(-a2/a1)x-b, and later

2) f(x) is linear if f(x1+x2)=f(x1)+f(x2)

But the function f(x)=x+1 is linear according to (1), but not according to (2). And there is no mention of affine functions, so it's not immediately clear why the same word is used to mean different things.
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Blockchain isn't decentralized in that sense is it? What can you do offline with BTC or other crypto?
IQ is an EXCELLENT measure of "value, contribution, quality of thought". The idea it isn't is weird to me. What IQ fails at is being an ABSOLUTE measure of those things, e.g. John Nash is a genius, but his schizophrenia likely made a lot of what he did and said questionable. Just taking IQ and ignoring other factors would lead you awry. Even then, John Nash came up with the Nash Equilibrium.

I think the mistake is thinking that one measure will be absolutely predictive. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's point is that IQ is a great measure of stupid people, almost absolute at < 70 IQ levels, but as you progress upwards it's predictive power wanes.

Which is GOOD. Success is defined by many parts. Genetics, culture, training, hard work, timing aka luck. That there is no one metric that predicts everything is a good thing. However, while we should be clear on the limits of each of our measures, and not over state their individual value, that is not to say that these metrics are useless.
Thankfully, it's unlikely that someone who spends their day tweeting like that could ever be a position of responsibility.
Oh, nice! I did not realize tuple constructors implemented `FnOnce`! Thanks for the tip!
Interesting... for some reason I thought Taleb was a darling of the alt-right and the biological determinists (but not necessarily that the feeling was mutual).
A guy I know—who basically spends his time around high-IQ kids, seems to be on speaking terms with several Fields Medalists, and has closely studied the lives of lots of great scientists and mathematicians—says that great achievement comes from three ingredients: (a) mental horsepower (roughly measured by IQ); (b) taste, an aesthetic sense that helps one decide to work on the right things or investigate the right hypotheses; and (c) obsessiveness, such that when you encounter a project that truly is worth working on, you're likely to spend enormous amounts of time working on it. (The big-5 trait Conscientiousness may be one way of implementing (c).)
I have no way to navigate this, I've heard psychologists claim that IQ is the most well proven concept in the social sciences.

Now this guy comes along saying the complete opposite.

Anyone have any advice on how to weight this up and figure out what the truth is?
Would it be that hard of a stretch to convince people that a healthy population is more important and productive than how much you trust your neighbor’s work ethic and role in a darwinism nightmare?
PR. And if they're meritless, sooner or later a judge would get really angry at Disney and make them hurt.
Intelligence: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

I don't think you need to define Intelligence with reference to the IQ metric.
I'm not sure if you got the reference but in case you didn't:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/33230821132142592...
> Being “smart” implies there’s a set of “un-smart” kids

On the flip side, trusting in my intelligence let me persist on problems even when others said they were lost causes. If everyone is equally smart and all that matters is hard work, it doesn’t make much sense to work on different problems from others. (Or on problems others deem to be unworthy.) This leads to a monoculture.

At the end of the day, if you have a smart kid, praise them when they’re clever. If you have an empathetic child, encourage them to explore that. Humans are different.
From the article:

> Note that IQ tests correlate with SAT scores!

That is (in part) Nassim Nicholas Taleb's point: we use IQ to select for success, then say IQ is correlated with success. It is circular reasoning.

The more interesting measure is not jobs for which IQ is the main selection criteria to qualify for the training (your examples of MDs, JDs, and PhDs), but things where people create their own impact, lets say entrepreneurs, or world changing ideas (think Naler's Nudge).

I don't necessarily agree with this, BTW. Just linking the ideas back together.
The preamble of the wikipedia article on middle class espouses why its such a loaded term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class

I'm using the academic definition, where if the upper class earns their wealth through investments and the lower class through labor, the middle is a mix of the two.

Humorously even the wikipedia article mentions how the middle class in the US is framed as a political tool of manipulation...
The smartest people I've known almost never come across as smart when interacting with them.

Perhaps the most easily observed indicator of smarts is humility. The learned learn.
> Copyright and intellectual property are entirely state constructs.

Copyright and patent laws are enacted by Congress, and are explicitly an optional legislative power given to Congress by the US Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8). The two main types of "intellectual property" are explicitly something that Congress has power to legislate.

Congress has also legislated additional forms of "intellectual property": copyright is codified in 17 U.S.C. (Copyright Act), patents in 35 U.S.C., trademarks in 15 U.S.C. 1051-1141 (Lanham Act), and trade secrets in 18 U.S.C. 1839. So all of the substantive forms of "intellectual property" are federal law, and thus aren't state constructs.

EDIT: Ah, if you meant "state" as in "government" then yes you're correct.
I have my beef with ribbons, but ribbons came out in Office 2007. I’m talking about subsequent developments, like Edge throwing away both ribbons and hierarchical menus and moving to an ellipses menu. There were some pre-2009 mistakes for sure. Arguably it started going downhill with Jaguar and metal windows. But now the wheels have come completely off. You can’t tell what’s what anymore—is it a button or a label or just text? Tap on it and find out! Discoverable buttons and menus have been replaced with undiscoverable gestures and swipes. Not even consistent gestures: how do you move the the insertion point in iOS? It depends on what kind of phone you have! The apocalypse happened, and the righteous were saved. We were left behind to suffer through flat design, material design, the new gmail, Edge, and web apps.
> the author is setting up a straw man

As a former options trader, this is Taleb in a nutshell. He builds and attacks straw men for popular consumption. (The one time he tried running a hedge fund, it failed ruinously.)
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Apparently Disney's names for the dwarfs, other than Sneezy, are copyright. So pantomimes regularly turn up with a slightly different array of dwarfs. (And different songs, of course)
Yep. I once considered donating to them for developing a browser I quite like and that's needed in the current landscape, but they obviously want to be for profit in the scummiest way possible, so - yeah.

There should be another organisation taking over Firefox development.
I’d guess incompetence over malice
For simple geometric models for 3D printers, it's hard to beat OpenSCAD for precision and productivity.

It's not particularly good for more organic shapes, but simple mechanical parts are a dream to make.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mentioning Dave Ramsey. His podcasts, his youtube videos.

If you are living paycheck to paycheck, he is a great resource. It's very easy to fall into the consumerism trap in the US. Plenty of people have iPhone, iPads, Macbooks, seem to travel a lot, student debt, car loans, go to concerts go eat out daily, etc... If you make 100k, or 200k or 300k, you feel you are "rich", you don't need a budget, you don't need to keep track of every dollar, you don't need a plan, a 2% car loan interest is fine, the S&P500 gives you a return of 10% anyways... But Dave Ramsey stirs people in the right direction. At first you will probably curse him because he goes head on against simple math. But his teachings are great, they push you into making actual progress and not postponing efforts. I think someone making 60k and following what he teachers can easily become a millionaire.
In other words it's pareto distribution. Most of the scientific citations goes to the 1% of scientists. Most of the success in business goes to the 1% of companies/entrepreneurs.

In Taleb's words: we live in extremistan.
Another option for programmatic parametric CAD is cadquery: https://dcowden.github.io/cadquery/index.html

A cadquery FreeCAD plug-in exists, so some tasks can be done via the GUI and others programmatically.
What changed was pretrained word embeddings like fasttext and GloVe. These embeddings drastically reduce the complexity of text classification problems, and reduce the amount of data you need to produce a high quality text classifier a great deal, and in that 2 year span, understanding of how to leverage them spread far enough to reach applications like this.

The world has been sleeping on leveraging NLP, given the incredible amount corporations spend paying people to read and summarize text (answering questions like "How many people are having a bad search experience?", etc). The recent leaps in NLP make for many opportunities, and many products are coming to market that allow even non-technical folks to train and utilize text classifiers. If you're thinking about getting into NLP, now is definitely the time to do it.

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Better integration with Python would make OpenSCAD 1000% more usable.
Isn't this computrace repurposed? this research is about 10 years old. https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ORTEGA/BHUS...
Yes wire isn't perfect, but I think that if more people used it and more organisations paid for it, then it would become better over time.
> why do we have ~200 nations instead of a single world government?

Coase won a Nobel Prize for this. Simply, the trade-off between bureaucratic inefficiency and economies of scale.
Illegal how so? Maybe I'm misinterpreting what he is saying, but isn't he just getting publicly displayed product information from multiple companies, and then comparing it?

This is the sort of site I'm imagining: http://www.logicalincrements.com/
Well, most of his argument is that it measures nothing, at least not more than let's say... astrology. IQ is pseudoscience. And people using it are wrong - whether they place a strong emphasis on it, or only a little one.
I agree with you although at this point I wish MS would start over from zero with an entirely new OS and then just run all old stuff in some VM. There's too much cruft and they really need a reboot like Apple did with OS9 to OSX
The D version currently on display on the website (Which I wrote, minus the use of static foreach):

void main()
{

import std.stdio, std.string, std.algorithm, std.conv;

// Reduce the RPN expression using a stack
readln.split.fold!((stack, op)
{
switch (op)
{
// Generate operator switch cases statically
static foreach (c; "+-*/")
case [c]:
return stack[0 .. $ - 2] ~
mixin("stack[$ - 2] " ~ c ~
" stack[$ - 1]");
default: return stack ~ op.to!real;
}
})((real[]).init).writeln;
}