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> Ads right now are attention stealing, privacy invading monsters as a result of an arms race for users' notice

All true, and this is why I use Brave. Brave punishes privacy invading ads.

If you opt in to BAT, Brave values attention and gives users control over how the attention value is spent.
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Well, my personal experience is in direct opposition to what you are exposing here.

I've been dealing with a vindictive plaintiff for a few years now.

No lawyer will take a case on a contingency basis, especially against a plaintiff with "deep pockets", if there's no money to be made (which is usually the case when you are on the defending side).

Let me illustrate, let's say a company gets a loan from a creditor, then the company fails to pay, the creditor sues, the company doesn't have the money to pay.

At this point lawyers see that there's no money to be made and will rarely touch the case. The defendant is out of luck and will most likely have to file for bankruptcy (which at the minimum will cost $10-15k in legal fees, so it might not even be an option).

As long as the creditor wants to keep spending money, they can keep going after the company, its founders and directors. Most lawyers will say that it doesn't make sense because the creditor is very unlikely to recover anything. But if the creditor still wants to spend the money, the defendants will be forced to keep paying to defend themselves for as long as the creditor attacks them, even if they didn't do anything wrong or ilegal and they prevail in the end.

So most lawyers will recommend to settle and pay the creditor, because you'll have to spend about $100k defending yourself anyway, hence you might as well pay that in a settlement and not go through trial. Lawyers will also note that 90%+ of cases settle. In the end the company officials/founders might unfairly pay a bunch of money to someone, just so they can get rid of them.

Then, even after the defendants pay, everyone might have lost a bunch of money and not found any justice whatsoever.

Now, regardless of the example above. It costs about $5k to file a lawsuit and about $50-150k to go through with it. How many people have the means to pay for that? I'd say very few.
In my opinion, a successful startup proves a market exists, it doesn’t have to fit a product to it. But it’s important to create IP relevant to exploiting the market. A very successful startup demonstrates multiple angles on one or more markets. A startup going for ipo can then go for fully exploiting these markets. A startup going for acquisition will let the acquirer do that. The acquirer is purchasing proof of market and relevant IP for exploiting it.

Basically, I’d say product market fit is mostly bs for startups. A great startup will be a string of demos uncovering a market. Product market fit is for maturing and mature companies to worry about.
Robin hands, you mean
You have a regulatory authority step in, and allocate the masks to people who need them (e.g. healthcare workers). Sales from individuals are banned, and said authority can buy them back from people who own them. Just like how the government buys back land or property if there is important construction that is to be built over it, a similar procedure can take place here.
Even in academia most people write 'code'.
Because DO is crap and they treat their customers like crap. Constantly breaking SLAs and revoking enterprise accounts.
'Consumer ISPs generate very asymmetric traffic (more down than up) which tampers with the core "equality" assumption of traditional peering arrangements.'

Shouldn't this be in favour of the ISP? If the traffic isn't balanced, then doesn't the peer that's sending more (e.g. YouTube, Netflix) usually pay?

I have no experience of setting up an ISP, so this is just based on what I've read. I'd love to understand it better.

"IPv4 allocations are hard to come by unless you want to bid on them at auction which can be expensive."

Looking online, it looks like the prices are $15 to $30 per IP address, depending on the size of the block. So I guess this cost swallows the first month of revenue from each new customer.
To all designers: Present your website as if its a piece of paper on your desk. It is rectangular, it has a specific size and it can be manipulated by the standard means that the browser provides (scroll). You can have different sized papers for different screens.

What if every book you buy is one of those origami popup castles that explode upon opening a book? That would get pretty frustrating to read and understand the book. What if some pages move and shuffle unpreditably? What if it autoplays music without user invoking anything? That's essentially what you're doing with websites.

What are they teaching in Design universities these days?
If you have no experience with programming, then m start with one of the head first books. Any head first book is designed for complete beginners, and I have heard very good feedback for them via my friends in other disciplines who used them to learn programming. For someone just starting, SICP is too advanced for self study. You can also try one of Manning's in action books all of which have some real world projects, in a language of your choice.
Ethereum will move to proof of stake phase 0 this year
> you have to pay all the legal fees

"Reasonable fees". If You sue me, I win and my lawyer sends me a bill for a billion euros that I pass on to you, no judge will consider that valid.

As for damages and reimbursements: hardly. If you arrest a highly paid consultant and keep him in jail during his trial, he's not getting paid his hourly fee * 24 * days in jail.
Ask HN: What's the technology behind the stock market?
As I know some of you are in the financial technology industry, Are you aware of any good readings/content (books if possible) regarding the technologies/processes/mechanisms that keeps the stock market running smoothly? I'm looking for a detailed explanation of the backend. Once I submit an order using the trading desk platform, what's happening behind the scenes?

I googled it and the best I found was the first quora answer on this tread: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-technology-behind-stock-markets I'd like something more detailed though.
On r/CoronavirusWA there was a brilliant suggestion to "soft close" the schools - keep them open but encourage parents to keep their kids at home when possible. This reduces the risk without hurting low-income families.

School could either be mixed remote/local classrooms or a study hall/computer lab with everyone logged in.
Excellent marketing, with an army of BAT bagholders willing to shill for the product pro bono.
Contrary to the dominant narrative of this Hacker News post’s comment thread, I find this mathematical modeling exercise to be rather informative and inspiring. Life sustaining. It can be considered practice that keeps the vital muscles active.
You don't bother with S3 setup (let alone aws setup), static access rules, then cloudfront setup and config, domain binding and ssl setup. You also don't bother with cloudfront cache invalidation.

Netlify abstracts all these things for you, also it stores all the versions you have uploaded or built and gives a quick option to rollback to the specific version.

I'm kind of AWS power user and have no problem with with corresponding terraform templates for S3 hosting, but I prefer Netlify if possible.
There is a lot of anti-Brave FUD, particularly on HN. It's good to see people pushing back against it in favor of a more rational treatment of the pros and cons of Brave.
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It's essential to it. Literally computer science 101
I'm sure the homeowner who had their entire house destroyed to catch a petty thief appreciated the police's efforts to save him from anarchy...by essentially being anarchists themselves.

Even if you follow this logic and believe it to be true, the police decided that putting an innocent homeowner out of a house and over half a million bucks, plus the cost of all the officers spectating, and the cost of rolling out a tank, was worth it to recover a few dollars of lost income for Walmart.
How common is it for the army to receive the source code of their devices? From what I recall Microsoft had to have the Windows and office source code analyzed by the army.

BTW, the title should be changed to source code rather than key codes as the article later clarifies
I find that the sense of safety in the public eye is really whats at stake here.

FFS flying is stressful enough in general - but when you have specific events (the crashes) and specific evidence of corporate [corruption/concealment/negligence/malfeasance or whatever the truth is within Boeing] which detracts from the faith in the safety of their life critical product(s) -- it has just destroyed a fair amount of trust in the company and the industry as a whole.
Jira is hell. There are now multiple boards, issues cloned from one board to another, and tons of lanes. We'll probably add more because documenting every detail is now the goal. We are a small team that is spending many hours per week having discussions on process. We even hired a consultant to come in and evaluate things.

Jira seems to help stakeholders and product owners conceptualize the work and timelines but I see zero productivity gains from continuously evaluating and tweaking Jira.
Amtrak suspends nonstop Acela service between DC and New York due to coronavirus
Thanks! God speed
These are artistic 3D models of different parts of a fictional miniature nuclear reactor, right? Am I missing something here?
From the article

> The graph above features a linear line of best fit. Clearly we can see above that the data isn't linear, and a linear line of best fit doesn't make sense

I think the reason for not using a linear fit was that it "doesn't make sense", but the reasoning is not given. It would be interesting if the article explicitly said why it doesn't make sense, and why the somewhat arbitrary choice of the log function does. As you point out, gross profit will not be massively negative when there is 0 ad spend.

By my eye, the gross profit as a function of ad spend looks approximately linear in the region where data was sampled: say gross profit = 400 + 0.5*ad spend . If you plug that in & then optimise for total profit the most profitable non negative choice of ad spend is of course zero!

So in this case a structural modelling assumption that isn't well explained or justified (log vs linear vs any other function) has a very large impact on the answer. It seems like we're trying to maximise a function in a region where we don't have observed data.

Since the problem as given is data poor and modelled in a way that is trivial to compute, perhaps it is a reasonable candidate for: running some more experiments to get more data points ; or using a statistical method that can express the uncertainty of our structural modelling decisions & parameter estimation (e.g. a Bayesian analysis starting with a prior distribution of possible fits over a richer class of functions with plausible behaviour near zero) since we don't have a physical theory that justifies a particular functional form of the assumed shape of the relationship.
When should you eat to manage your weight? Breakfast, not late-night snacks
Great, now I feel nauseous.
In his novel Heliopolis, Ernst Jünger devotes a chapter to the relationship between justice and grace. It's not completely unexpected that the title of that chapter is called "In the War Academy". PDFs are easily found online.
It’s time you learned how to pay attention
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I've always thought of DNA as mere "data". "This goes here, that goes there", etc. And I've always wondered how such a relatively small amount of data could describe the massive complexity of a full-size organism.

But this makes it sound like DNA is data the way Lisp is data: it can contain procedures and transformations and meta-statements about itself, and even mutate during the course of being interpreted. That would explain so much.

The use of the term "virus" in software seems to be more apt than I'd thought.
Probably a poor choice for a demo. Shouldn't be using any demo material which would cause you to pay more attention to the content than the tech.
Death rate being 0.5% in Italy, for 80 Austrian cases we might have one fatality soon.

When was the 1st case in Germany and when was the 1st case in Italy?
I’m 48 and I rent a nice place at $2100/month. All my loot is invested in balanced 60/40. 0 debt.

Absolutely, if you’ve won the house lottery, cash out now, invest and rent a nice place.
Yes, there was - but now that Airbus has small planes, Boeing's lineup "needs" to expand to match, and buying a smaller manufacturer is the easiest way to do that.
What is the price at which you could buy ~30%? Ultimately, the useful parameter is LCOE.
The majority of the ones I've seen are great, some of them make me amazed with how far the web has come. I agree though this one is just like, why?
The questions I raised above are the theoretical conditions under which laws of supply and demand operate perfectly. Thomas Sowell is a political economist who explains economics anecdotally and in rather rudimentary fashion.

I am talking about the rigorous microeconomic theory which involves using calculus is required to actually pass an economics course or analyze a commodity market. If you are not familiar with concepts like elasticity, substitution, or the difference between consumer and producer surplus then I suggest you look deeper into microeconomics.
Or they do, they've done the calculus, and their threat models are different from yours. Ideally, yes, Bank of America, Chase, and Wells Fargo would make an API and give OAUTH (or SAML) access for mint.com to your bank account. But that problem's been around forever, and they trust lunchbag.ca with their login creds. You could fake a site similar to lunchbags' and grab a bunch of login creds and steal all their money? Go for it.

The issue here is the banks: until they change, the status quo here is stupid - you, the user of mint/lunchbag/etc, have to trust an agent with your password.

How do I convince Bank Of America that it's worth their time to work on giving 3rd parties API access to my account?

https://xkcd.com/364/
How do Brave's ads actively harm users?
Obviously - people with money have far better connections.
>can gain in ease of use, we can also lose regarding user control

The problem is actually far more insidious. When everything around us, the tech we use all day every day, becomes excessively simple to use, the technical skills of society decline.
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It seems that the old money has finally got the angel investing bug. It will become a flood if the returns are there or shrivel up if not.
Yeah, save that money and may be invest in education or learning a new skill? Living paycheck to paycheck is a problem of lifestyle and not the problem of affordability.
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I would say no, more information here:

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
How much of this is really specific to NYC? Not sure if it's just the NYT an their NY centric view, but most of the stuff shown and talked about seem to be about moving pianos in general, and not about NYC.
A coworker asked the other day: what's the end point on WFH and school closure?

I think it's a good question. In this specific case, for Northshore, have they specified? Is it some number of weeks, months, years? Is there some inflection point in the spread they've predetermined it will go back to normal?
It should be disallowed. It's more anti-competitive conglomeration, and risks the contagion of corruption.
> I started to carry my phone in airplane mode, in an electromagnetically shielded pouch (most of which only work marginally), when in transit from place to place.

That looks extremely suspicious. If they don't have a match, looking for "who turned their phone off somewhere in the vicinity and turned it back on 30 minutes later somewhere else" makes sense.

If you don't want to get tracked, leave your phone at home, and carry a switched-off burner for emergencies.
Yes, in the physical sciences it is very common to use the plural rather than the singular / mass noun version. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that "a code" may be associated with a particular paper i.e. science works in discrete units.
This is more like a cellular automata game named after the virus that just happens to play out in the shape of earths continents.
Was the reason this article was posted because of the horrible ux? I found that way more interesting than the article tbh.
A Calculator in 2020?
It will cause issues if a type implements the interface where it didn't mean to.
In case anybody wants an answer to that, here's mine:

Cost estimates only are valuable if a) the amount of time involved is relatively large, b) you expect to learn nothing during that time, and c) the expected-value estimates are precise enough that you can calculate a narrow ROI range.

Instead, the way I prefer to work is with continuous delivery and small units of work. If you are releasing daily or more often in a context where you can learn a lot via experiments and user tests, then estimates cease to be valuable.

Another way to look at this is in terms of push systems versus pull systems. Scrum was made for push systems, where executives push large idea lumps through a plan/design/build/release process. In that world, estimates are valuable, if only because executives like to appear in control and need signals to tell them when to yell at people.

But in a pull system, you have small, cross-functional teams observing user behavior, developing problem and solution hypotheses. There, delivery is used mainly to test hypotheses, which are then revised based on new data. In this context, batch estimates are generally wasteful because new data and new hypotheses change the basis for estimation too often. There's rarely sense in estimating a month of work when every day you're learning things that change what you'll do and how you do it.
Expanding, and Eventually Replacing, the International Space Station
Maybe. They could also make a lot of money playing roulette. I'm not sure one is a better idea than the other, though at least if you lose a lot of money in a casino, they'll comp you a room and some meals.
There was an interesting article a while back on them playing a part in schizophrenia. "The Insanity Virus" https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-insanity-virus
Do you even have any idea what Brave is? It was literally made to address everything you said.
Starbucks's open bathroom policy leads to sales declines
It sure is a shame that people working on magnetohydrodynamic simulations aren't part of the same conversation as the people writing advertising code in javascript. Imagine all the best practice in scrum and agile that they've missed out on.
It classified that Uber driver as an employee. This does not change anything for others who still need to go to court in order to have their status changed (or not, they may loose. We do not have a legal system where precedents can be used in other cases)
The thing is, it's not all about you.

Source: I am a developer like you that has the exact same instinctual attitude about it. Here is why it's wrong.

Project managers need to build schedules so they could coordinate dependent features across multiple teams.

Marketing needs to orchestrate launch announcements and fixed activities that are not quite as inflexible as printing millions of CD-ROMs, but still require dates.

And managers, ultimately, are held responsible for a project delivery, so they need to track it's progress, understand what things are ahead (lol) or behind (yup), which areas need help from more people, more seniority, or less scope.

All of this needs to come together for any successful project of any reasonable complexity.

None of this is new, or news to you, of course. Here's the part you're missing: The way things USED to work was that PMs, Marketing, Sales, and Managers would come up with processes that worked for them, and forced it on development teams, regardless of how it made the devs feel.

Agile was an attempt for the developers to take ownership of their process bottoms-up. Planning poker, standups, sprints, all these ideas were invented by developers to make their lives EASIER not harder. And none of it was supposed to be panacea - the only way to do things. Each team is supposed to figure out the right balance of what works for them.

So don't be apathetic. You are an active contributor to this process. Take pride in the fact that you have a lot of autonomy about how to define your project structure in an agile environment. Change what you don't like, and figure out what works the best for your team.*

* Giant fucking asterix: I understand plenty of companies are extremely top-down and inflexible about "AGILE" development processes. They paid some consultants millions of dollars to define a process, and they're going to force their development teams to follow it regardless of what the front line devs want. If that is what is happening at your org, I'm sorry, that is truly unfortunate. But by and large, I find that even at companies where the devs have plenty of autonomy to define their process, they still grump about the very idea of having be forced to provide status updates or work in atomic chunks of effort and keep their software constantly releasable.
Ditto.

I use Brave everywhere, from desktop to iOS. I do not use their BAT thing at all, so my praise is not incentivized.

I love the page that shows me time saved/ads blocked/redirects/etc. I'm sure the time saved stat is highly questionable, it's only as good as heuristics in it, but it's fun.

Anecdotally, last summer, we were vacationing on the Oregon coast, where the service was really poor. I experienced multiple cases where safari (on iOS) just was not going to load any time soon if ever, but brave did and handily. IIUC, Brave is using the same low level rendering engine that safari is, but the top part (UI and request handling) is different.

I think it's cool that Firefox users have lots of knobs and buttons they can turn and push, but for right now I value that the Brave experience is an ad-less experience that Just Works out of the box.
America has a lot of problems, major ones. But there are glimpses of hope, truth, justice and fairness that still resonate in the ethos of America - thanks for sharing.
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I'm a big fan of Brave!
Not only do I have a mostly ad-free web experience but it also saves me bandwidth and time. 22 hours saved in one year to be precise.