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Ask HN: Help me find name of credit card transaction analysis company
Hi,

I was looking at a company last week that sold insights to investors based on credit card transaction data, I can't remember the name of it. Could anyone help me find it?

Thanks
Wow this was amazing. As I was reading the article something at the back of my mind felt off but I could not tell what half way through the thought came to my mind it would be funny if this was an ai generated then the pay off at the end was great.
This just seems to be a list of answers to common "trivia" questions, which are becoming much less popular in interviews, and often are just one part of it, rather than a guide to a whole interview
Yes, we have poorly written babble from humans too. Now we will have weapons grade babbling from machines.

The result is that worthwhile public discussion is dying. We have to transition now to secure verified communication.

Either that or the bots fork off a new cultural discourse and we treat them like a new form of entertainment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886158

> Three reasons companies lose their best innovators.

> 1. They fail to recognize and support the innovators

> 2. Innovation becomes a herculean task

> 3. Corporations don’t match rewards with outcomes

While the paragraphs under point 2 do discuss risk and the paragraphs under point 3 do discuss rewards, I'm not sure this article belongs here.

Risk and Reward.

Large corporations are able to pay people by doing things at scale; with sufficient margin at sufficient volume to justify continued investment. Risk is minimized by focusing on ROI.

Startups assume lots of risk and lots of debt and most don't make it. Liquidation preference applies as the startup team adjourns (and maybe open-sources what remains). In a large corporation, that burnt capital is reported to the board (which represents the shareholders) who aren't "gambling" per se. "You win some and you lose some" is across the street; and they don't have foosball and snacks.

How can large organizations (nonprofit, for-profit, governmental) foster intrapreneurial mindsets without just continuing to say "innovation" more times and expecting things to happen? Drink. "Innovators welcome!". Drink water.

"Intrapreneurial." What does that even mean? The employee, within their specialized department, spends resources (time, money, equipment) on something that their superior managers have not allocated funding for because they want: (a) recognition; (b) job security; (c) to save resources such as time and money; (d) to work on something else instead of this wasteful process; (e) more money.

Very few organizations have anything like "20% time". Why was 20% time thrown off the island to a new island where they had room to run? Do they have foosball? Or is the work so fun that they don't even need foosball? Or is it worth long days and nights because the potential return is enough money to retire tomorrow and then work on what?

Step 1. Steal innovators to work on our one thing

Step 2.

Step 3. Profit.

20% Project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20%25_Project

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

Internal entrepreneur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_entrepreneur

CINO: Chief Innovation Officer / CTIO: Chief Technology Innovation Officer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_innovation_officer

... Is acquiring innovation and bringing it to scale a top-down process? How do we capture creative solutions and then allocate willing and available resources to making that happen?

awesome-ideation-tools: https://github.com/zazaalaza/awesome-ideation-tools
Do you honestly think the military is a criminal activity? Not specific things that happen inside it (obviously some people in the military commit crimes). But as a concept?

What would you replace it with? Nothing? How do you think a nation could defend itself without a military?
At some level nobody cares anymore where or how you studied. They are interested in what you can do. As in "What you can do for us in $field" And they mostly look at experience of what you have already done.

Did you learn it from books? Coursera? MIT? Less interesting than you did it here and this other place with this kind of success given the projects respective constraints. And that can often be a personal project.

Anyone getting too excited about the signalling value of the name on your school is looking at the wrong thing and might be a bit garbage to work for as well.
This comment reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
Is this something which you can share with the public? I'd very much like to see it! I feel like all the modern UI libs are based too heavily on OOP.
If designers wanted to write texts to create visual designs, they'd be using some form of DSL and learn to code, wouldn't they?

I believe the hype is that people think they can replace the designer by "just telling the computer" what they want. I don't believe that will work, as they already have trouble telling a human what they want, and a computer won't really know what to do with "I want it to kind of feel like it's from that movie with the blue people that Cameron did, you know?"

In my experience, people have a hard time writing their ideas about designs & features down, because they don't know what they want. They want to talk about it abstractly with somebody who has a better understanding of the field so that person can help them develop the idea. I don't think ML will cover that part any time soon.
First line of the article: non profit [...] company. These two concepts are antinomical. Makes the article even more realistic as I thought a blogger would make that mistake.
Jetbrain IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ) have structural search which is basically a query language for code: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-re...

I know there's more to just queriability in the post, but I thought this should've been mentioned when discussing what existing IDEs can offer.
This is apropos but...

Sewage, or rather, highly accurate analysis of sewage... can yield all sorts of data. Theoretically, you could probably determine the number of contributors with genetic analysis. Consumption levels of drugs and such.

It might even have applications at the personal level. Auto Diagnosing toilets.
This is an interesting & relevant question. What are the best practices in managing large "dev" clusters that typically have multiple users (developers?). How are "infra failure" tests performed? (or are these clusters not the right platform for such testing)
That reaction is an unfortunate part of modern European culture, and I'm sorry to say that the USA encouraged it after World War II. I say "unfortunate" because it takes away the natural urge for self-preservation and will ultimately lead to the demise of European culture. Culture dies if it is not defended.
the site is missing a cookie warning ;-)
> I recall a researcher filming their child from the day they were born until they began to speak.

Can’t tell if you are kidding or not, but if you aren’t, mind sharing links about the researcher for the curious?
Yep, you'd need to write a device driver for all the hardware if Microsoft hasn't done it for you.

I would not use Windows on a Pi, it can be done, but makes no sense to me.
to be clear they sound different
>Do you honestly think the military is a criminal activity?

Yes. It does not build society - it destroys it. There is very little difference between a soldier and a psychopathic criminal - in fact, the only difference, is a very thin piece of paper that authorises the former to act on behalf of the state in committing crimes.
Yes. I meant statuary, obviously. I also meant it as a joke.
If memory is the concern, node V8 Engine has the mode "lite" mode:
https://v8.dev/blog/v8-lite

with that perhaps you could spawn node to all threads and do even better in terms performance/memory?
Stl.Fusion in Simple Terms
Yesterday I announced Stl.Fusion — a library allowing anyone to write real-time apps and UIs much faster, but importantly, also quite differently from what most people used to. And this is clearly the biggest point of frustration — long and comprehensive documents like Overview are fine, but we definitely need a really simple explanation. So here it is.
It's possible
Significant Locations in iCloud backup under iOS 14
Yeah think your intuition makes sense. Probably won't bias it all to much and perhaps, they can filter it as they probably log what is going through the API.
Why do they need a door?

Motorway service stations in the UK don't have doors on the entrance to the restroom just to the stalls. Same in many airports around the world.

Ok, smaller facilities might need doors but quite a few really don't.
My problem is, folks such as yourself continue to discount the evil cost to humanity of ignorance of Americas recent multiple, heinous crimes against humanity, and folks such as yourself justify these evil acts endlessly, such that they continue unhindered by civilian oversight, in order to avoid the cold hard truth: the American people have the blood of millions of innocent people on their hands, today. Just as the German people did in 1945.

My problem with you specifically, is that you are doing this:

“People tend to turn away from disasters such as a war gone bad very quickly. They turn away because it bothers them morally, but also because the carnage challenges their strongly held self-perception that their country is a force for good in the world,” said Tirman. “In the face of something horrible, people are much more likely to become indifferent than they are to protest. Oftentimes it’s even easier to just blame the victims for causing their own suffering.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/19/civilian-casualties-us-w...
Yes, with some effort you can make NIMBY people move out.

As a result, jobs and money also tend to move out. Somehow the low-income people, who now have all the space and jobs to themselves happen to be uncapable of running the place.
Hmm, I don't know. If you're the IRA [1], it sounds like it could be more efficient to have your trolls select plausible-looking comments from the auto-generated ones rather than having them write them themselves all the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
Aww c'mon. You guessed it was fake, because it's an article about computer generated articles. Who would read that and not question the content in front? You are not analysing everything you read for oddities in writing style.
I never really understood why tar "won" and cpio "lost" the archive wars. Both do pretty much the same thing, thus I think it was just a matter of personal preference?

I started using *NIX around ~2006 and nobody was using cpio already then, I only had the chance of learning of its existence when I first had to extract an RPM.
May I ask where you find writers? At Upwork?
Not every garment is a fashion statement. Some people dress for practicality, and not to appease others' innane sense of fashion or vanity.
It doesn't matter if there is a causal link unless such a simulation aims to be perfect.

If the simulation only aims to be convincing, it can take all kinds of shortcuts.

In the latter case it only matters if it is directly or indirectly observed. A simulation might choose to resolve that lazily in the case of indirect observations, in which case it'd only need to determine the proximity of entities deemed to be observers.

We have plenty of cases of that in games already, where events only take place if a player entity is present.
Background:

Significant Locations are found under Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations.

Basically it's tracking every place you are visiting frequently, such as your work, home, school, girlfriend's parent's home, etc.

These have historically not been included in iCloud backups.

If this has changed (looks like that based on the investigation in this post), this is important because Apple are not using end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups, putting this fairly personal data at risk.
I find this article a nice counterpoint to “it is difficult to reason about performance in Haskell”. A person who had never programmed in the language, found all the tools and resources to implement an algorithm from a reference and make it fast.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on investing in tech?
The growth of tech in the past 6 months seems too high given the uncertainty of recent times (not having a working covid vaccine, the potential of a second wave, medium / long term consequences that are still propagating, etc).
That is not what is happening in Switzerland. There isn't reallya reason why ot would play out differently in the USA.

The beginning might be turbulent, but that should cha.ge after a few years
But then if the models are trained on that dataset they might make the same errors to better approximate humans on the forum.
I just had a look at the courses that I completed and they are all still there, which courses were removed?
RPi4 has up to 8 GB RAM. I think any RPi with anything better than one 32-bit LPDDR4 memory channel would fare better... at everything. I'd like to see at least a 64 bit wide memory channel if nothing else.
That being said, North Korea has a fairly decent cyberespionage program from what I hear.
i prefer metric units always. i have spoons in all different sizes, and i can't always tell which measurements matter, and which don't. from metric units i can more easily figure out which spoon size i need.
JPEG compression works in a similar way: the image is segmented in blocks, each of them is transformed to frequency domain via DCT and then the frequency coefficients are quantized, or discarded if small. The rules for the last step are optimized to minimize human perception of discrepancy between original and compressed image.

What compressed sensing shows is that even a very rough optimization step, completion unaware of contents and human perception, can give worse but comparable results.
Calling war endless is accurate, given it does not end. Plus, there was always armed conflict for over last 30 years.

Calling war evil is not uncivil. That is how wars are perceived by people who live through them - there are massive non combatants populations suffering a lot.

Movies don't show that part or only as aside, that they make you feel it is all cool and heroic. But reality and memories of civilians who went through wars are in the realms of "that was evil".
The Role of Hardware in Emerging Technologies
"Donate $5 for a coffee with my cookie" Since when does coffee cost $5?
tar is far easier to use, I think.
I think at either extreme its probably true. I don't spend my time signaling on linked in, but I do like to have a "diverse" team. Things just feel more even when you aren't surrounded by the same types, and there is space in that for white people with right wing views
Jospeh O’Connor denies Twitter hack
Listening to people who say “sleep is for the weak” and “stop trying to understand things, just learn by doing.”, “stop trying to understand the universe”, and “just do the obvious thing.”

Different people are different. Personally, I find I am 5% as productive if I am working while utterly confused and running on 4 hours of sleep. It sucks to look back on my effort and see I made as much progress as Luigi Cadorna did on this 10th time trying to cross the Isonzo river.
You do understand that pre-pandemic people still met face-to-face, right?
private investors may know these famous companies like Tesla, but they may not know the details of their business operations. The investment bankers create a prospectus which describes the "story" of how these companies plan to make money, present financials in a way that is understandable (albeit likely an optimistic way), and then sell the investment as an opportunity.

For doing this work, the bankers do get paid handsomely. Whether this work results in a better investment price for said company remains to be determined tbh, but on the whole, i suspect it must be net positive, otherwise this method of IPO won't have continued for a century.
"Cygnus: We make free software affordable."

(That countered the anti-slogans: "Free software: more expensive than money" and "Linux is only free if your time is worthless".)

I once asked Gumby if he and John Gilmore and Michael Tiemann named their company "Cygnus" as the result of typing "grep gnu /usr/dict/words". Without missing a beat, he replied that if they'd thought of doing that, they would have named the company "Wingnut".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingnut_%28politics%29

Wingnut (politics): According to Merriam-Webster, it is "a mentally deranged person" or "one who advocates extreme measures or changes: radical."
I think this is the Best method - it is quite safe, I’m doing the same
Spotify do regional pricing, the cost in India is about a tenth of what it costs in the United States. I don't know if Coursera do the same but I don't see why they couldn't.
Telecom (Argentina) got hacked. Hackers requesting a ransom of $7.5M in Monero
Show HN: Appydev - Hand curated list of tools, communities and podcasts
I think his idea of this website is based of one of MKBHD videos
https://youtu.be/u41Zt6z5s7A
Android got optional Vulkan support on version 7, yes. And by being optional, meant most OEMs cared as much as the optional updates.

Hence why on Android 10, Google took a set of actions, made Vulkan mandatory, started the path to have OpenGL ES on top of Vulkan and introduced GPGPU driver updates via the Play Store, as means to force OEMs to actually care about Vulkan.

Just like many devices still don't ship with OpenGL ES 3.x, because it is optional as well.

There a reason why I mentioned Win32 and UWP sandboxing and not just UWP. Yes the pure UWP model although quite nice to program for (for me it is what .NET 1.0 should have been all along) failed to gather the mass adoption that Microsoft hoped for, and that is why since two years they have changed course to merge both worlds, now officially known as Project Reunion.

As a matter of fact, here is the application model for the upcoming Windows 10X, where pico processes are used to sandbox Win32, WSL style, https://youtu.be/ztrmrIlgbIc

Angle for UWP was contributed by Microsoft themselves and now they are working together with Collabora to support OpenGL and OpenCL.

https://github.com/microsoft/angle

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/in-the-works-opencl-a...
>Yes. It does not build society - it destroys it.

Then why does every society have a military?
it'd be easy for the company to commit fraud by doing this. That's why it's disallowed.

An IPO which is underwritten by sophisticated investors will be assumed to have done due diligence and thus, less likely to be an act of defraud.

Hertz tried to sell more shares during their bankruptcy, and needed to ask the SEC for permission (to which the SEC is pretty much denied it).
That's a neat observation. If you're writing a function as "How do I get from A to B?", that's more error-prone than "What are all the possible outcomes of trying to get from A to B?"
Yes, exactly. And this is, incidentally, why Americans are so afraid of looking at the statistics of their wars.

Because the very real evil of America's wars is obvious, in plain view, for all to see.

“People tend to turn away from disasters such as a war gone bad very quickly. They turn away because it bothers them morally, but also because the carnage challenges their strongly held self-perception that their country is a force for good in the world,” said Tirman. “In the face of something horrible, people are much more likely to become indifferent than they are to protest. Oftentimes it’s even easier to just blame the victims for causing their own suffering.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/19/civilian-casualties-us-w...
Wow, first time I come across the concept. Fascinating, and a bit eerie when we start drawing closer relationships between AI and nuclear tech.

Interesting times.
You could be right. Actually I have no idea about the aileron's use in turning at high speed - i would have thought they were, just more subtly? That's the limit of my knowledge :P

I do know however that they are used symmetrically as part of Boeing's "cruise flaps system", which dynamically adjusts all of the control surfaces to optimize wing camber for weight, speed, altitude etc at cruise. Not sure if it's standard equipment.
This point - that the field of virology will be seriously damaged if a lab leak is believed, is one that Bret Weinstein, a serious biologist, has been advocating.

It explains the difference in opinion of virologists and the well informed independent investigators.
> I assumed like many that Kodak had a bright future ahead because they had a world-renowned brand and excellent scientists and engineers. What many at the time didn't yet recognize was that there was no business model in digital cameras that would employ 100 thousand engineers, managers, factory workers, technicians, and staff. There were certainly no senior managers willing or able to sacrifice the golden goose of film to pursue something entirely different.

From "Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12111597
I'm an optimist so shoot me. I believe that AR combined with AI enhancement is the future for human kind. We will become cyborgs, but not in the dystopian usually described in movies/books, but the one usually described in Asimov novels (like Johnny Mnemonic though I know is not Asimov's novel, but no title comes to mind). We will be 100% in control of all devices, so there will still be both evil and good in humanity.
maybe it was preference at first, some people finding it annoying to deal with cpio's file list, and it built up to the modern stuff like builtin integration with compressors (probably coinciding with tar.gz becoming the de facto *nix archive)?
I personally find xz and cpio both cool, despite both being barely used ;)
It seems that there is a JS context per worker and the workers are shared among different requests. Further, the requests are handled by simple string formatting and eval in the JS context. This means that it should be trivial to inject arbitrary js codes in the server and initiate a XSS attack.
Innocent until proven guilty an all that, but being one of the first to post the screenshots doesn't look great for him. Also given his history in gaming (as booter and ddos) it does seem like he likes the attention..I'm guessing his social media showing off hasn't caused him much trouble before, however this time it might be the final nail.
Putting roller blade wheels on your office chair