skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that what Radar does that you cannot is the ML to calculate the risk scoring and they give that to you for free: https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/object#charge_object-out...

EDIT: It appears that risk_score is indeed not available but risk_level is. You are still able to use your own logic to say for instance "don't capture if card country and tokenization IP country don't match and risk_level is elevated".

I honestly don't think it affects my answer much. They offer a less granular but still useful version for free.

AFAIK Radar also for free applies these learnings to the charges and blocks high risk ones for you.

> If Stripe had an API endpoint where developers could get the risk level of a transaction before the payment intent was put into motion then we could in theory build our own risk management tool at our app level by saying "if $risk_score > X then deny transaction".

But you can. The majority of what Radar custom rules allow you to do you can implement fairly easily on your own. You can take the risk scoring into account by separating auth (then looking at the risk score and make your own decisions) and capture (see link above). Granted it's a bit annoying you have to do a separation of auth and capture while with Radar custom rules you don't have to but it's not that big a deal.

There are possibly some pieces you cannot completely reproduce but for the most part you can build your own rules on your own. Even if one were to follow your reasoning of them using your transaction data to learn, Stripe doesn't owe you the part of Radar that allows you to write custom rules. That's an entirely tangential feature: Those are rather simple if statements that have little to do with the ML part of Radar.

I also encourage you to question your entire argument here. You'd have processed with Stripe if they used that data for anti-fraud ML or not. They didn't take that away from you or lured you into anything.

The actual work is in their engineers building the ML system, maintaining it (also: computing cost), tuning it, updating it, adding new data, cleaning up data (like extracting info from unstructured data on transactions).

I don't even think they owe their users the free version to be honest, but it's in their interest as well to make sure merchant exposure to fraud is reduced, and so you get it.

Blaming them for trying to make some money with an add-on system that simplifies writing custom rules like "if card country not IP country" or ones that combine the risk score, seems a bit rich.

And just to too this off I do have my qualms with some Stripe fees that seem outrageous, but Radar/Radar for teams, really?

I'm not sure what you are selling on Stripe but if it in anyway relates to software I'd expect some degree of understanding for the monetization approach.
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Sure. Just get the corporate entity to say a single word. No representatives. No notes. No proxies. No robots. No automated voices. The actual corporate legal entity. Not even the CEO. No clever stand-ins with same name.

Just one mouthed, audible word to confirm the entity can qualify for speech. Then we can consider "free speech" for that entity.

I can only dream this would hold up even as I know there are likely dozens of loopholes to render it irrelevant. Not to mention specific exceptions and allowances already in law.
I've browsed through Udemy and have the same impression. I used Pluralsight before I ever saw Udemy and when I saw Udemy for the first time it seemed pretty bad in comparison.
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Until you realize that not even booleans are standardized between SQL dialects...
The whole point of this is the scripting language, there are already lots of other browser automation tools out there.
Because your phone is designed to do that, a car is not. Besides, iirc the most car services don't even use the car hardware itself to enable their service. They usually install secondary systems for communication with their servers somewhere inside the car and then communicate with the cars controllers. So its not even a matter of how expensive the car is, its a matter of how well designed the rental companies hardware is.
So just look at the logs? Why is tracking link crap required?
Fidelity having IRA, HSA, and a 2% cash back Visa (Citi and Paypal are Mastercard for 2%) is a really attractive bundle.
Is your startup planning to have an initial public offering? I’d be interested to hear how that works in your country.
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As the article says, the standard for tel: urls specifically forbids the behavior you’re describing.
If you read the article, it's clear that wouldn't help much as the thieves are quickly breaking down the hives and reboxing the bees. The original beehives are discarded.
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Thank you. I want to know the same thing. To be more particular, the parent comment declares that all priests (and seemingly all religious leaders) are nothing but frauds who make up everything they say.
The Braveheart edition is sold out, which is intended for developers to hack on so the production version is solid. There were 3000 in the batch, with much more coming in the production phase, which will be in March or April, depending on software progress and China factory timelines after the disease outbreak issues are resolved.

Development has been coming along nicely with a recent video showcasing calls being made and received, and there's promising early results from power usage optimizations (battery life may now approach 12 hours standby, up from a handful of hours). This should show you that this device is not quite ready for a production release, but it is rapidly getting there.

I hope to buy one when it's ready for production release, but it at least needs to be capable of 12 hours of standby time, decent call quality, mass texting, and dependable system updates (everything critical should be upstreamed) in order to replace my current phone. I'll definitely buy one on launch regardless.
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Who is this we who's not doing anything to address the problem? There are quite a few people working on solutions to this problem:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/breeders-toughen-bee...

https://www.genengnews.com/news/honey-bee-microbiome-bacteri...

https://beecare.bayer.com/media-center/news/detail/a-new-way...

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/05/30/program-to-help-mi...

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/victory-for...
Back in 2016 I made a comment[1] about Unity being impressive because of how easy it is to use and a great option for simple indie game. I noted, however, that it didn't yet seem to be a good enough option for AAA development.

Since then, Unity has grown into a serious contender and while my experience with Unreal is limited to hobby projects I can definitely say I prefer Unity over Frostbite for AAA development.

At this point, I'd like to say that what I said back then now seems to be true for Godot instead.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13151354
Could you explain what "AC components" refers to? I couldn't figure that out just by reading your README.

I wonder how the efficiency compares to just encoding on the bit level.
what next, a cyber MRAP?
FYI to avoid all those awaits and make it chainable you can wrap it in a Proxy.

https://github.com/kozhevnikov/proxymise
I wonder if they got the idea from the "Die Hard" movie? Says "20 worksations"... Even with the trailer folding out, that sounds crowded. "gestural controlled" displays... and a telescoping light tower!

Everything necessary to convince the CEO that "Action is Being Taken" when they're troubled by something "cyber" they can't be bothered to understand.

https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/DXGD7N9K

* Also, the "infographic" shows a different tractor than the pics.
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What about a bare tar ball though?
Yep to all that.

But. Meanwhile, you've probably lost your job, either for not showing up or for being arrested. At least then you can argue that you're indigent and need a public defender.
Random thought, but why the vector versions of both the folder and cassette reader use perspective projection while the bitmap versions are using parallel/isometric projection?

It doesn't look good for this kind of icons IMO.
Yeah... you have to start with music, not bytes.
I apologize. It is possible I used too strong a characterization for the sake of effect. Still, with regards to propaganda, you are subject to it. Best you can do is be aware of it and act accordingly. Maybe it would a little less unnverving if I used term advertising since they are closely related and propaganda has more negative connotations?

But going back to the original thread. How are my arguments miscolored? I think your internal frame reference might be off. Could you elaborate? I do not want to assume and I find the conversation interesting.
We've been breeding bees for millennia. Maybe 7000 years or so. We're pretty good at it.

Honeybees are domesticated animals, like dairy cows. When we need more, we breed more. There's no threat to domestic honeybees as a species or even as an industry. Unlike the native bees, which are being threatened by introduced diseases (both from non-native introduced species like honeybees, and through bulk imports of honey from other continents), encroachment of non-native species (did you know native bees in North America can't pollinate European or Asian flowers?), and possibly pesticides.

I lose hives every year (from winterkill to bear attacks and my own stupidity). A new nuc ("starter pack") is about $300. It would be cheaper and easier to steal from my neighbours, except I have morals.
These are the safest I could find. They are perfectly fine for using in filenames.
I heard about about a similar (same?) method before and wrote about it here: https://ethresear.ch/t/optimizing-merkle-tree-multi-queries/...

In the comments Vitalik links to his implementation.
Slightly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(film)
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> You're also welcome to do post-charge processing using our risk scores.

But if it's a post-charge operation, then the transaction already took place and it's too late.

If I need to refund a transaction after the fact because the transaction looks risky, then I lose out on the non-refundable processing fee that you now take, so I lose there.

Can you lay out a 100% exact work flow of how I can implement what Radar for teams does without losing money to extra transaction fees through either paying insurance on each transaction, or losing refund / dispute fees?
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A mute person has the right too :)
You already hinted at it, but anyone interested in computer security should read Ken Thompson's short but majestic "Reflections on trusting trust".
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It is a lot smaller than that, that is probably the size of all JS code on the web page?

The algorithm itself fits into a few k.
Funny thing is that I don't need the 10-day forecast when driving across the state, I just need to know if there's rain/snow/winds ahead on my particular section of the highway.

Seems like that's available from NOAA for cheap, isn't it?
Every application, no matter how small, needs to be written in form of good APIs.
When I worked at a large telco/broadband provider in the 90s and onward such concepts of selling this data was forbidden and you'd get funny looks for suggesting it. Our leadership chain - comprised of a mixture of long tenured employees with mostly engineering backgrounds supported not wanting to sell this data as well. It wasn't until the mid 2000s when our leadership got swapped out with younger executives who'd do 2 year rotations across the company and were looking to do a fast big bang to wow others that would go down this road. It wasn't just selling data this new gang wanted, but DNS redirection (think for nxdomains), and ad insertion thru TCP seassion hijacking platforms. There were a number of startups who were happy to give us free gear to sniff & manipulate customer traffic and we'd get a cut of the ad money.
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If you can assemble a big enough team of competent people to maintain it, you could perhaps make the argument for Canonical to include it.
That sounds awful close to advocating in favor of more plain text and less encryption.
Wasn't Apple using the same argument when they refused to make custom iOS firmware with backdoors for the FBI a few years ago?

I could be wrong. I guess my point is, this is a double-edged sword, like most freedoms.
I'm not sure it is "required".... depending on what you're talking about.

I was speaking more generally about what folks think of as "tracking" being a really wide topic that can involve totally innocuous "tracking" that is actually to their benefit, and far worse that is more of a dark pattern.
This is the reason common icon sizes are spaced in the increments they are: 16, 24, 48, 64, 72, 96, 144, 192, 256, etc.

There isn't really a "good" solution to this other than the above system (and it's not solved by rasters in any way)
“For many traits, males show greater variability than females” - first sentence in the paper’s abstract.

What “many traits” do you think are being referenced?

I’ve worked with many female engineers who are unquestionably smarter than I am. I’m married to one. Of course we are talking population-level differences, and I’m not suggesting that women shouldn’t be included in any table based upon meritocracy.

That doesn’t negate the fact that a president of Harvard was forced to step down for having a hypothesis that there could possibly be a gender difference explained by variance. Now that his hypothesis has a glimmer of possibly being supported by research, again, it continues to be vilified.

I’m asking for a world where a scientist can freely propose a hypothesis and not be forced to step down. Anything else is driving the anti-enlightenment.

Lawrence Summers is the Galileo of our time.
You're, perhaps understandably, thinking of Mr Creosote - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Creosote
It is a consumer facing product. Like the sites I mentioned (employment/dating, etc) it's driven by connecting people with a unique twist. I'm a little reluctant to discuss it more than this because I really do think this is the kind of idea when you hear it you think 'oh shit, yeah I'm surprised nobody thought of that already!' In fact I had this idea originally in 2005 but didn't have the confidence to try to go against the existing players (I also didn't know anything about incubators, or any of that world yet either).

So yeah I would reach out but I also don't really want to disclose any details until I've got something running and hopefully users using it. Of course there are NDA's but I've always wondered if those are worth anything.

Thanks for the response either way, appreciate the offer.
You have set your browser to US-English...

You haven't though because there isn't a locale setting in the browser.
Larp has different cultural baggage in US vs Europe. In US it is depicted as the most nerdy, most socially awkward activity. Very insulting.
If it's an incredibly boring enterprise app that people have to use for work, yeah. Make the UI obvious so users don't hate it any more than they have to.

For websites and apps that are recreational in nature, a unique UI that encourages exploration is completely fine. The death of Flash has turned websites into a wasteland of cookie cutter templates that still take forever to load thanks to hulking masses of tracking Javascript behind the scenes.

If users are so turned off by an unfamiliar UI that they'll bolt to a substitute, like scrolling endless feeds of images/text on Reddit/IG/FB, then that's their prerogative.
This thing always made me laugh. It’s actually quite genius considering most of IBMs customers are going to eat it up, but goddamn imagine making a favorable decision on a multimillion dollar security contract because your exec team liked IBMs adult “cyber” escape room.
The important lesson being to do it with a big smile!
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I'm using a USB Ethernet dongle in my laptop. They're cheap and Linux seems to support all of them these days.
I think that the correct answer to this is to A/B test it ... and to dynamically determine which provides more business profit (if you were to experience a spike of publicity-driven sales, selling from your web-site might be a short-term improvement to your profitability).
A mute person can write. Or sign. A corporate entity doesn't communicate in any way. Because... It obviously cannot.
Damn, you were faster. I was gonna write: "I can shorten the title: Stop tracking."
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How are you different than lemonade? I use them
And sounds like same approach
FDIC payouts are extremely rare. As far as I know, it only kicks in if the entire bank fails. I don’t think it covers fraud.

Having said that, I’d be surprised if E Trade were not legally required to cover losses in the event of account break ins, regardless of what their customer agreement says.
The big telcos have always been horrible and they will never change. I used to work for a small provider in that industry and always hated USWest because of that experience. They will never change as long as they exist, whatever name they go by.

Good to see Maine has a law protecting privacy. I agree with other commenters that this kind of law should be broad-spectrum, affecting all businesses from telcos to lemonade stands.

My ISP is a municipal fiber provider with strong and proud Net Neutrality. Obviously NN isn't a privacy issue, but it's unlikely to pair with trying to sell personal data (of our own neighbors!) for cash.

In addition to consumer protection laws, strongly consider supporting local municipal FTTH. Compared to Comcast, I pay less money for unmetered symmetric gigabit, it's run by ordinary people (not comic book villains), and the money stays here in town. All it takes is determined civic engagement.

(And that includes voting out the people who support these attacks against people.)
More like, there were Saudi spies within twitter, the company, telling the govt about dissidents.
It is a term often used for DCT-transformed data. DCT, in this case, breaks the image down into basically an average colour of the whole image, referred to as the DC component, and a bunch of waves that make up the detail of the image, referred to as AC components.

https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash/blob/master/Algorithm.md
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It would not be absurd for normal people to have > $500k in their retirement accounts, especially if they are close to retirement.
An interesting idea. Perhaps one for Western countries to consider.
> But you can. The majority of what Radar custom rules allow you to do you can implement fairly easily on your own. You can even take the risk scoring into account by separating auth (then looking at risk level and make your own decisions) and capture: https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/object#charge_object-out...

Did you read the documentation you've linked to? :D

This field you linked is only available with Radar for Fraud Teams (it says this in the last sentence of the outcome.risk_score field). This is the extra Radar feature that you need to pay insurance / extra fees for. It's not available for everyone by default. Stripe purposely removes it from the API response because they know that score is the missing link to be able to do risk assessment on your own.

So as mentioned before, this feels really dirty because they are taking your private data and are profiting from it by selling it back to you and others in the form of insurance -- and there's nothing you can do about it.
Here's my build

$55 Pi 4 (4gb)
$8 Official USB charger
$25 Argon One case (could also get acrylic + ICE tower)
$10 microSD card
$12 Sata to usb adapter
$40 Kingston 240gb SSD (we can't do over 500mb/s anyway)

$120 Total

You get a significant performance boost switching to a 64-bit OS. aarch64 has better SIMD guarantees, hardware AES (over 10x faster), double the registers, and generally more optimizable due to the more streamlined ISA. I haven't tested it yet, but in-memory compression could potentially help with the 4gb RAM limit.
A scripting language is not a goal in itself (although in the case of a DSL, it often is unfortunately because of the coolness factor), solving a problem is.

Here the problems it tries to solve are:

1 - to have a nicer API to do automation

2 - for non tech saavy users to be able to create tests

My take on this is that DSL are a wrong answer to this.

1 can be solved with a better lib, with a better API, or a dedicated env.

2 is probably not solvable: automatic testing it hard, you need to be tech saavy to do it.

But let's say you still want to solve 2, a better approach would be to solve 1, then solve 2 by creating a GUI that let users record their actions and generate code from 1.

Such API and GUI exist, as you said, but they could be improved by tenfold.

It's boring work though, and working on a DSL is much more cool.
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Hey @dsukhin!
Thank you so much for reading our story and checking Catchar! Sure, I would love to answer your questions..

1) Regarding this point: From the description of your pivot…..

Yeah, you understood this correctly but I feel that we need a half a year to bring this model. In terms of revenue, we are testing the different streams but I suppose the most profitable would be B2B (between brands and creators) /or/ a subscription-based model for creators and studios with PRO features.

2) Regarding this: Do you feel that the simplification of your stack from JS to PHP…

I’m very happy that we switched tech stack. React and Angular are too much difficult for bootstrapping, MPVs and PoCs... Unless of course, you have 100500 ready to go components that you can adapt to your new project. Sure SPA is much better in terms of performance but honestly, we feel good right now.

3) Can you share some of your most successful SEO/Traffic tricks...

Huh mate, SEO is tough in 2020 especially that Google changed 2 or 3 times their ranking system for the last 5 months. A couple weeks ago we lost -3 dA and this was very sad. I wouldn’t say I can recommend some hacks but you have to write tons of unique content posts and make guest blogging this is it.

4) Do you miss working in AR dev itself given...

I have some ideas in terms of new AR apps however I feel that Catchar has right now more value for the AR/MR industry. I hope that shortly, Catchar will open lots of opportunities for AR/MR space and for their creators and help to scale these domains.

5) Shameless plug...

Actually, I love your idea... Monetization of AR/MR apps is the pain in the a… #2 after promotion and user adoption. Sure, I would love to discuss some potential opportunities, feel free to ping me anytime. You can find my contacts on https://catchar.io/creator/dan-zaitsev

Best of luck to you!
Dan
I actually kind of really like this DSL, I think it is going to be easier for my QA team to use this, than asking them to use javascript.
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