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half the comments here think you're offering to do the mvp, the market research, and find the first customer, all for 2k+80%.

when i read it it looks like you're offering to do the mvp but you're buying the idea, market validation and first customer for 20%.

which is it?? the first option makes sense, but its not how i read it. if thats what you mean you should clarify.

if in fact you are just offering the mvp, you are terribly undervaluing the work involved in validating the idea. the 80-20 split is backwards.
What models of causal inference do you have in mind that is not amenable to DAGs?

The reason DAGs are useful because it shares similar axioms as probability.
Can a physics minded HNer confirm something for me (or set me straight)?

One piece of evidence for dark matter is observed when galaxies collide. Two galaxies collide, but by observation of gravitational lensing on the light from stars "behind" the colliding galaxies show that much of the matter from each continues moving. This matter (dark matter) is seemingly unobstructed by the collision (because of dark matter's lack of electromagnetic interaction).

I heard this explained to me once, wondering if it is true.
Lighter than original CGI-BIN, fork() and exec() for every request.
When corporate workers strike, they don’t disrupt the board members and major shareholders that set their pay, they disrupt the everyday customer who might have even been sympathetic to their cause.
From Elrond's comments on him at the Council, he's basically an Earth Elemental (which would make Goldberry a Water Elemental, I suppose), a personification of the element of earth. But, I agree that it's better that JRRT left it with room for some mystery.
What exactly is 'Orange Mystery'? From the context of the article they make it sound like it is another known vulnerability, but I went looking and can't find anything related with that name.
Figs. 33 and 35 are really lacking. Can we see the stickers at another angle? What is on them, just a white mark?

I'm interested to see something more along the lines of Figure 19. That is, could you take a sticker of a stop sign, add some secret noise to it, stick the sticker on top of a regular stop sign so no one knows, and then have the car roll through the stop sign?
I don't understand the downvotes for this. I feel that by making something public and open source, there is an implicit assumption (unless otherwise stated) that the software is worth sharing.

The problem is that this puts what I consider the right amount of responsibility squarely in the middle of a continuum: library authors shouldn't be totally free of obligations to others, but the insane abuse that people level against open source maintainers is also obviously unacceptable.
Heroku does. The $50 standard-0 plan has 4 days of rollback available.
What ports does a Tesla have open?

Anyone NMAPed their tesla?
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Sounds like something that might have potential! (the subcontractor idea, the mindfulness reminder is something you can't really monetize and most likely exists already)

Any experience in the wedding subcontractor field? I'd love to discuss some idea's if you like (email in profile)!
They don't find them, they pay to have them created.
This proposition probably needs further refinement, but I like it because it will explore an area where there's little historical data or real world examples.

I think that the first few dozens of "pitches" will give a much clearer sense of what kind of ideas you can attract, and also what's the friction in the interaction between the "producer" and the "idea person".

Keep going. And please, if you can, share more once you've been through this for a while. Very curious to see where this will go.
I mean, PRC occasionally threatens Taiwan and says they own/control them. Taiwan can/should protect itself in whatever way it sees fit(within reason). If that’s tech/media influence then so be it- they think that it is an issue.
Can you point me to a reference re: what happened for the third study? If this was caused by an actual Plink bug instead of incorrect usage, I need to verify that the bug has been fixed...
You could set up a large live display of your github contributions calendar. Or some type of holographic telepresence.

Or just be overly-active in email/chat.
Eddie Valiant uses the same technique in Who Framed Roger Rabbit: https://youtu.be/1mGFCGgH1-A
The summary is slightly inadequate. There wasn't a corporation that usurped the government - the government made corporations of everyone

Basically it goes like this -

* SSN Act (created after the market crash) was created not only to provide faux "retirement" accounts but also "incorporate" every citizen of the country as a company upon birth.

* New baby John Smith instantiates company JOHN SMITH with account 123-45-6789

* ALL banking and financials go through your company account JOHN SMITH (check your checks, statements, loans). This included Liens, child support, taxes, alimony, etc.

* The line you sign your name on your check is not actually a line but very tiny "Authorized Representative" IE: John Smith is acting on behalf of JOHN SMITH

Why?

Because Feds didn't have the power to enact laws on individual citizens at the time. So they created companies out of every citizen which they can then force to pay into Social Security (among other things). This has evolved over time granting the government the power much more power over individuals through their "shell companies"

Some sovereign citizens claim to be able to gain sole control over their shell corporation JOHN SMITH and with that all government encroachments on their rights via liens and taxes are invalid.

Disclaimer: I have no position on this conspiracy theory just providing a better summary
It is easy to point out the flaws in others. It is harder to recognize that we are hypocrites who have the very same flaws we accuse others as having. Perhaps the world would be a better place if we all stopped to first check to see if there beams in our eyes that would need casting before targeting the motes in others' eyes.
Not where it snows. I grew up in a place with real winters and agressive plowing/salting of roads. Drivers there don't rely on what's painted on the roads since it's often obscured and the state DOT doesn't really bother putting much information on the road surface, since it's often obscured and when not obscured too damaged from the plowing and salt to be of reliable use anyways.

It was one of the notable differences when I relocated to CA. CA puts a lot more information on the road surface, and CA drivers correspondingly rely on it more heavily.
I disagree with the idea that software is only worth sharing if it is updated. I've found plenty of value in code that hasn't seen a single commit after initial release. I'd consider it a bad thing if the people that made it available to me got shamed into not publishing it.
Or they could, you know, be a neutral search engine.
I just checked my spam folder and there is an email from YouTube in there. (It is a notification that I subscribed to telling me that one of my favorite channels posted a new video.)
How about: because Snowden isn't interested in murder.

What if the documents contained the identity of an American mole in ISIS, would you release that? Would you watch the execution video when they chop off his head because you blew his cover?

What if the documents contained details of a terrorist plot that the NSA has been tracking, would you release that? Would you apologize to the families of the dead because you tipped off the terrorists on how to avoid law enforcement?

That's why Snowden entrusted the documents to journalists that he drilled in security practices, and that's why he gives the Feds an opportunity to comment on or object to each new document release: there is some stuff that rightly deserves to be kept secret.

Just because the classification system is regularly abused doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
How do you 'split' a product if it's a SaaS?

Who pays/manages the platform?
Yes. That would be awesome. But it doesn't exist. And a third-party/private company doesn't have the ability to do that without govt partnership. What they can do is develop a completely separate system with a sustainable business model and basically demonstrate how it can piggy back on existing emergency systems regardless of the capabilities of said system (ie one doesn't need to know if the 911 system is the "upgraded" version or make that determination during an emergency).

Also, in many cases a phone is not able to use (or has limited use) of data during a phone call. An sms would be able to go through concurrently. Imagine being on a 911 call. They ask you to click the W3W button (built in? Next to other on-call buttons?) and read out the response.

Not a w3w shill - but I think there's a use case for the emergency system that uses sms and it is usable right now and doesn't require any system wide upgrades. The only potential upgrade would be at the OS level just to simplify (button addition).

The ideal would be having the DB of W3w words locally so that it doesn't need the SMS gateway. Or having a completely open system...
The fact that I have to install a Windows app to see the content makes this an instant non-starter for me. Sorry, but I have no idea who you people are or whether I should trust my security and privacy to you. Why couldn't this have been written as a web app?
I’m not sure the number of patches actually provides any definive information on the current state from a purely logical argument.

Zero patches, one, two, or more. That there are patches merely tells you that they tried to respond to an identified threat. It doesn’t tell you the threat was properly mitigated in any case.

I think we can say it is strictly better to have more than zero patches in the case where a vulnerability is public. Exactly one patch to me doesn’t guarantee anything about the quality. Multiple patches at least implies persistent effort and dedication to securing the fix. Maybe at some point the number of patches implies incompetence but I’m not sure I’d draw that line at “2”?
Yeah, you would think native Chinese speakers are somewhat invested in writing those characters.

http://thepenngazette.com/characters-in-search-of-writers/

That aside, as it currently stands, yes, if someone were to learn Chinese/Japanese long term, yes, learning to recognize a few hundred characters helps in understanding a lot of native materials.

I'd say learning how to write those characters is mostly a waste for anyone other than historians, although kids are forced to learn it in school (I was one of them).
I don't think the average pirate is going to distinguish on this level of quality difference. As long as it isn't a theater cam most people are going to be satisfied with the quality / price ratio.
Not really, a hotfix is a do no harm situation where an initially conservative approach that’s unlikely to cause harm may be deployed. That’s true even if it’s known not to completely solve the problem.

Now, in the case of an undisclosed voluntarily, waiting may be preferred as a path is going to get people to look on that direction. However, with public disclosure the clock is ticking.
I thought from the domain and title it would be about some arcane flaw in a CPU or something.

And I always thought Tom Bombadil was the Green Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man
The thing that concerns me more is the machine's confidence. A human seeing unusual lane markings would be confused and exercise extra caution. Confusing a person is easy, but I don't know how you could make them confident there is a nonexistent lane.
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I used to be afraid of stuff like this, then I realized that you know what, prison time is a heck of a deterrent against this, which will probably take care of most of any actual risk (at least on a "this is the end of society as we know it" level).
Great point. I give the author of this post props for trying this and it has been an entertaining proposition. But to me premise 2 is admitting there will be massive shortcuts taken here. There is now way one person could build a product that would scale as well as a product made by an entire team. You might be able to get it about 90% there, but the last 10% is the hardest IMHO.

In my experience this kind of rationale is what leads to MVPs being spun out quickly using hybrid tools which have a hard time scaling. Sure it kinda looks like the real deal, but the product will limit the growth potential of your company.
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mvps are easy. there are thousands of grads who will build your mvp in a weekend hackathon for free. its the market research/validation that is hard. as the guy with the idea, i'm supposed to do that part and pay 80% to the guy who did the mvp?? or is the op saying they do the marketing and provide first customer?? the wording is terribly ambiguous.
The second half of the word (the "komori" part) is not written 子守 but rather 籠り, which means "to isolate oneself".

The 引き part is less "dragged along" in this context and more "pull away from," so the literal meaning is "to pull away from (society) and isolate oneself."
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'We Will Win Because History Is On Our Side' (2018)
I worked on self-driving cars in 1991 at Daimler-Benz. We used prominent horizontal lines with significant bilateral symmetry and an overall trapezoidal shape as a proxy for a car ahead. (Such was the state of computer vision [and prevailing automotive design] at the time.)

We were running a test day on a wet day at a disused airfield in Bavaria and during a test run, the car (bus really) slammed on the brakes, throwing some of the occupants forward, and then, like a recalcitrant horse, the car refused to move forward. It turns out that the drying pavement on one of the taxiways had created a visual pattern on the ground that our vision system ID'd as a nearby car.
Can confirm that RDS does and I've used it and it works.
I think one of the reasons lots of people liked Piketty is that he produced a huge book that most people didn't read but confirmed their bias, so he became some kind of hero.

Taleb did a pretty good job of taking apart Piketty's work. Its worth reading:
https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...
IOW, a bad persistence design in redis currently interacts with a suboptimal COW-after-fork implementation in linux.
> 5 successes for every 100 failures

Never tell me the odds.
These sorts of systems tend to be far easier to trick than humans with certain sorts of "camouflage". Is the reverse true? Are there some kinds of markings that confuse people but not modern image recognition systems?
I love her films because they are so different and distinct. She seemed to always be true to herself and her vision.
Just because something isn't science, doesn't mean that it is art. Social "sciences", psychology and the like are neither. It is true however that they get more and more ridiculous when they try to dress their ideologies in a scientifically-sounding language to get a piece of the cake which is credibility that the hard sciences cooked for themselves, at the same time having remarkably little to do with any science at all.
For people not familiar with the situation, there are many similarities between China/Taiwan and Russia/Ukraine.

We speak similar languages and we are geographically close to each other. The recent propaganda from China in specific Taiwanese media have raised concerns in many Taiwanese people and of course the current governing party. That’s one of the reason behind this move.

There are also news claiming that 2020 might be the last “real” election Taiwanese people will have.

In general Taiwan in 2019 is like Crimea in 2013 and we have to do something.
I’m not optimizing our lives to leave an inheritance. The optimum scenario is to spend our last penny on our last breath and leave nothing for our kids.

We took care of them growing up, we gave them the advice and financial backing to help them get their lives off to a good start. It’s up to them to not mess that up.

I’ve told my parents the same thing - I am an only child. They should enjoy their lives to the fullest and not worry about me. We’ve had discussions that they brought up. They know I’m not keeping the house and I am going to sell it as quickly as possible if they pass and not worry about optimizing what I get out of it. I’ve done the real estate thing before. It’s a headache when you live close by, let alone when you are a hundreds of miles away. They know we aren’t keeping anything in the house besides the pictures.

They have long term care insurance, but if they didn’t and it meant selling the house to qualify for Medicaid - so be it. They said it is just “stuff”.

My parents are in their 70’s and they both retired in their mid 50s when they were both healthy enough to enjoy themselves. They are still relatively healthy today. They didn’t have millions in the bank. My dad was a factory worker and my mom was a school teacher.
I didn't look at the other one but NGC1052-DF2 is consistent with MOND:

Original sigma = 7.8 (+5.2/-2.2)
New sigma = 8.5 (+2.3/-3.1)
"Crude" MOND sigma = 14 (+4/-4)

https://tritonstation.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/the-dwarf-gal...

And keep in mind these uncertainties are arbitrary cutoffs...

Also, others claimed the distance they use (20 Mpc) is wrong. It should be 13 Mpc and this throws off the calculations:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10141

I see them still using the 20 Mpc value without addressing those concerns.
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Apart from ubiquitous cheap hosting another big factor in PHP's early success was the numerous magazines pumping out "Build X with PHP and MySQL" articles. The shelves of newsagents were full of them in the early 2000s, some devoted purely to PHP development. Dreamweaver also adopted PHP for its dynamic site generator which made it accessible to front-end developers.
A Landlord Wants Facial Recognition in Its Rent-Stabilized Buildings
I don’t know any numbers (the best link I could find is at best anecdotal: https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2012/01/22/music-in...), but I have the impression more restaurants used to have live music than nowadays.
I don't quite understand what that has to do with the parent commenter's language suggestions. Simple TCO is easy to implement in the compiler level. ReasonML, for example, is quite capable of optimizing the usual recursive fibonacci example into a while loop [1].

[1]: https://reasonml.github.io/en/try.html?rrjsx=true&reason=DYU...
Why did that aggravate you? It's Glorfindel's only appearance in the book, so we're not really losing anything.

There were a lot of irritations, but the only really unforgiveable fuckup for me was the complete dog's breakfast they made of the Pelennor Fields.
You could argue that the current record is simply a legacy of previous high quality government regulation and oversights. And that the 737-MAX is the first article of the new regime.

Another good example of that is the defective Bay Bridge replacement between Treasure Island and Oakland. That bridge is going to fail during the next earthquake because of design flaws that the oversight agency didn't have the manpower to spot. CALTRANS after three decades of Republican lead budget cuts doesn't have the ability to safely oversee projects of that size anymore.
It's scarcely a joke
How did the first[1] offer went?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694
A service for “ordinary people” would likely involve targeting services which are not operated by the customer (e.g. brute forcing gmail or fb creds).

The tester would be taking on legal risk for performing any kind of account takeover.

Consequently, I don’t see this as a viable service offering.
Not OP so I can only speculate, but perhaps something like in order to get content online you had to either have the ability and know-how to run a website yourself, or work for an organization like newspaper, journal, etc. I think traditionally, news organisations are able to output higher quality of information backed by research, reputable sources, etc.

Today anyone can post any random thought on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc and have that viewed and shared anywhere from dozens to millions of times regardless of how accurate, insightful, truthful it really is.

Now the onus is more on the reader to double-check and verify what they are reading since there is simply so much garbage.

Certainly there are benefits as well, where people who have something important to share can do so easily, unfortunately I think it's easy to be drowned out by all the noise.

It's certainly hard to argue that you should take away any "one" voice as that would be unconstitutional, but maybe there should be better ways of filtering information for each individual so they don't have to see stuff they don't want to.
This is an interesting article, but it’s worth noting that the study was on rats rather than humans.
The problem isn't someone doing exactly this, it's that the Tesla auto pilot is based on a bunch of heuristics and assumptions that if they do not hold on certain stretches of road people may die. It's just not safe enough to claim it's a robust working system which is what Tesla and Musk have pitched and sold it as.
Can I enter your factory and inspect the dies as they come off the line before they are sealed? If yes, then you could indeed verify the silicon is as designed. Probably just as you could take a chip that does not work and diagnose the problem, this functionality would seem to be necessary to successfully build a chip/chip factory in the first place. How would you troubleshoot the manufacturing process if you couldn't audit the product for quality/accuracy?
Ask HN: How do you choose the best resource to learn something?
For any topic you choose, there are thousands of books, slideshows, websites, weblogs, online courses, and youtube videos.

How do you find your way among them and choose what works best for you?

I've realized not knowing which resources to read/watch is the main obstacle in learning a new topic. As such, I'd appreciate knowing about your strategies. Thanks.
OK, I'll try to contribute more high brow stuff
That's.. not an argument. Of course if you omit the significant differences between two things they look the same.
> PRC occasionally threatens Taiwan and says they own/control them

Huh? The PRC has said Taiwan and the mainland are one country since 1949, and the Taiwanese government has said the same since 1949. The previous Taiwanese president, Ma Ying-jeou, said this all the time.
I was driving towards an oncoming Tesla recently on a 2 lane country road and it lane changed neatly into my side and drove straight at me. Closing speed 160km/h or so.

Fortunately it chose to do so with enough time for me to stop, and for the driver to re-take control and take my shoulder as a stopping place. If it had made the decision a few seconds later, it would have been a different story.

I think old snow across the centre lane markings was the cause, but if you can't handle the edge cases, then perhaps you shouldn't release.
I'm confused. How is it in 2019 that financial services companies, in particular ostensibly internet savvy companies, aren't using DMARC? How in the world can authenticated legitimate emails ever end up in spam?

And surely by now Google spam filtering has a pretty good idea what emails can be categorized as "financial institution" likely, and if they aren't conforming to an agreed upon DMARC policy to put those in spam?

Or even better, a mandatory agreed upon tag that indicates the content is 'financial institution account security notification' related (i.e. not marketing spam from that institution), but any emails that use that tag but don't also use the agreed upon DMARC policy always go to spam.