skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should be somewhat instructive to founders of companies that get far enough to receive a buyout offer. Try to realistically evaluate your startup's place in the world; in most cases, a buyout offer is something that should be seriously considered. Your company is almost certainly not the next Facebook or Snapchat.
Depends on what's low for you. Given many banks will transfer money without any fee within that bank, bitcoin is definitely not low cost. Fast depends on how much you pay for the transaction - if you don't pay anything, it may take over a day.
What license if I want Postgres as a free option, but Oracle paid?
This would only be true if the library stored all of its books on disk. It doesn't need to because of the algorithm it uses to generate the books, which is described here: https://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html (davegauer linked to this description as well)

You shouldn't think that this means the books do not exist. The concepts of presence and absence which underlie our understanding of existence were long ago inflected by the existence of virtual archives. Any digital archive, like JSTOR for example, exists as a mass of zeroes and ones, and only enters a form intelligible to the human eye once an article is loaded from its reserve. But I doubt anyone would say that these articles don't exist before they are loaded, come into being from nothing when someone opens them, and cease to exist again when they are closed.

Already when Borges envisioned it, the library was more capacious than the universe.
sounds like every other e-commerce website i use.
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That assumes that civilizations derive power by encasing their host star in a Dyson sphere, which is not a foregone conclusion; that prediction was based on our current understanding if technology. Think of Huygens who imagined that Venusians sailed the seas on ships held together with hempen rope.
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+1 funniest thing i have read in a while (would make a great review of this book on "The Onion", i should think)
Most of the banking-information-malware I take a look at hooks multiple browsers from the OS. So the browsers would need to be isolated in a better way than just being different browsers.

Using an uncommon browser for something like banking (Opera or Vivaldi or something) would be a pretty good solution because no one would have bothered to develop the hooks for them, unless the malware is keylogging, which is not uncommon but less popular now than the smarter solution of watching browser form submits on known bank websites.
Well. Guess you are specifically talking about USA.

We have users across 160 countries and we CLEARLY say we are a second opinion platform. Our doctors are licensed to practise in their respective geographies.

We get the best of doctors from each country to answer questions. This is another reason why icliniq is the most cost effective second opinion platform in the world.

We are able to leverage the best of doctors across borders for cost benefits. That's what we specialise in. Imagine asking a radiology opinion less than $20. :) We do that.

Lot of Americans goto Costa Rica and other countries for their surgical procedures because of the cost benefits and the same quality of medical treatment.

Cuba is supposed to be one of the best in the world for Eye surgeries. Lot of people from other countries go there.

We want to replicate this to the online space. :)
The milky way galaxy is about 200,000 light years in diameter, but only about 200 light years thick.

Given this thickness, I imagine you'd need to look beyond the 200-light-year range to notice a significant influence of the plane of the galaxy on the distribution of stars (and planets).
It's a cute feature but hardly something that you could build a company around. Like Yo.

In a case like this, do they ever transfer the service over to someone who might be interested in having a go at it (without any money exchanging hands)? Always seems like people would rather shut something down than hand it over which is unfortunate.
> If you could pay $10 to get $100, wouldn't you do it?

Certainly not, if the $10 is a bribe. Would you?

> A bribe is an investment...

No, it is a criminal offence, in most places. And for good reason. Corruption does horrible things to the economy.
It never made sense as to why you would need so much science in a field where investing and trading is an art half of the time.

There are many people who believe arts are just sciences we haven't worked out the rules for yet.
All Starbucks out of a few markets are operated by Starbucks. And even the ones that aren't operated by Starbucks are operated by Sodexo, Marriott, or some other big company.
> Given many banks will transfer money without any fee within that bank

What about in between banks? My bank still offers this for free, but I know that that's not the case for everyone.

If you want to receive money for anything on the internet or pay for services on the internet, that means international transfers becomes the most common use-case because there is no way to guarantee that the sender and recipient resides in the same country.

I'm constantly amazed by the amount of people who completely disregard this scenario as something "esoteric" and which doesn't need to be addressed. This is the core requirement* for a universal payment-solution in a internet-enabled world. Quite frankly, just talking about "banks" and in-bank transfers makes you look like something out of the 1920s.

My bank will do international transfers, but at a considerable fee. This is where even "evil" actors like PayPal completely trump banks and this is why PayPal and its likes are very popular, at least on the internet.

Bitcoin gives you all the internet-based benefits of PayPal (low cost) with none of its evil. I don't think calling it low cost is misleading or false advertising at all.
A simple idea that would likely lead to isolation and calcification. Things like NIMBY and decision to properly address share dilution for newcomers sound like things that simply

The problem is really about how real-estate is now securitized and bought/sold primarily as investments rather than living/working quarters.
For this app I don't see much benefit of an Android version but I see it diluting their efforts meaningfully.
So the next question is, anyone running Firefox on Wayland yet? ;)
Consider what Borges says about the impossibility of meaninglessness before feeling confident in such a calculation:

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. It is useless to observe that the best volume of the many hexagons under my administration is entitled The Combed Thunderclap and another The Plaster Cramp and another Axaxaxas mlö. These phrases, at first glance incoherent, can no doubt be justified in a cryptographical or allegorical manner; such a justification is verbal and, ex hypothesi, already figures in the Library. I cannot combine some characters - dhcmrlchtdj - which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god.
Just as an example, Bristol to Paddington is 118 miles.

118 * £0.28 = £33.04 for the marginal cost of driving.
An anytime ticket is £98.50.
An off-peak ticket is £43.00.

UK train travel seems to only be cheaper if you can buy an advance ticket (restricting you to the one particular train you've bought for), or with a season ticket (where the price is regulated).
We haven't had the rise of computer-aided explanation yet. The article is more about the problem of not having it. It's needed; "Why did the classifier do that" is starting to become a big problem. Google is having PR problems because their image classifier labeled black people as gorillas.

They can probably use their classifier in feedback mode to generate a canonical image of what the gorilla recognizer is looking for. Publishing that image would create worse PR problems. But at least there's some way to get insight into what's happening. That's been a big problem with ANNs - you get a matrix of values out, but there's no "meaning" associated with it.
For me, the big surprise here is that Google Voice is still receiving any active development at all. Last I heard, the Voice team had been handed over to Hangouts, though I don't know if that was just a rumor.

I can't remember the last time the Google Voice app received any update at all, and it's definitely been years since it received any non-trival, non-bugfix update. Not that I'm really complaining - it works well enough that I'd be more afraid that any update would break it by forcing me to use Hangouts or Google+ to use my Voice account. But it would be nice to, for example, have the Google Voice notifications support quick actions the way the stock messaging app on Android/CM does, and the way the Gmail app does.
> There is a distinct lack of OSS in .NET. I've been trying to find a project to contribute to among the graveyard on Github. However, I think the author falls flat explaining the why.

Simple, Microsoft killed it with the transition to .NET.

People have forgotten just how extensive both the open and paid ecosystems were around Visual Basic 6 circa 1999-2001. Those ecosystems were huge--they absolutely dwarfed open source ecosystems in the same timeframe.

Then Microsoft completely stomped it flat with .NET in 2001.

After that, people with two brain cells to rub together figured out the decision matrix really quickly.

1) Stay with VB6 until it finally breaks (still running today)

2) Switch to something non-Microsoft like Java

3) Switch to web-based stuff (Hey this XMLHttpRequest stuff is kind of cool)

4) Port it to Visual C/C++--whoops--the Microsoft C compiler sucks donkey balls

5) Port the code to Microsoft's new crap until they stab me again

And then they wonder why, 15 years after shooting their developer ecosystem in the head, their ecosystem is inferior.
I used licecap (http://www.cockos.com/licecap/) to create that gif.
"Think about it. How do you benefit from someone else spending your money for you?"

What is convenient and rational for an agent from the perspective of that agent could be not the more convenient action if all the other agents in the “game” take the same action at the same time.

In a sense, this is the root of the separation between microeconomics and macroeconomics.

In other words, you can benefit from somebody thinking with a global perspective. Of course, finding the incentives for that is a hard problem.
Except they didn't.

They named it ASP.Net MVC.

<Platform> <Pattern>

Their other framework follows the same pattern:

ASP.Net WebForms
Yes, and it's totally reasonable if it's actually a good app. Like Instagram, Vine and Periscope.
just seems like nonsense without the drawing in the book to refer to :-)

(David Hyde Pierce--who i think was the brother in the show "Frasier"--reads the entire book in a video on youtube.
Anything that can accumulate attention can be easily monetized. The hard part is accumulating attention. Wondering about business models is exceedingly tired.
About Nimrod's features (2013)
Are there any other projects, Google or otherwise, that's using Aura?
Yes - makes sense, I did factor in holiday time but you are right still far too low.
In my personal and professional experience, A/V is effective but not in the way you might think. A/V has a very good detection and quarantine rate for situations where the infection vector is bloody obvious. When you open the .zip attachment to that email and then go right on ahead and run the .exe inside, that's when a good A/V product will save you.

What I'm saying is that I view A/V as protection from users, not from malicious actors. In a corporate environment with mixed-skill users, A/V is key. On my own devices, I don't frequently get into situations where A/V would be effective, the threats that are more likely to get me are more sophisticated.

This isn't to say that I don't have Windows Defender enabled, but I don't see a value return in purchasing a commercial product.
Do we push brands and their agencies to do “better” ads?
Do we push publishers and ad-tech to make less-intrusive ads?

Yes. This would be the polite, adult thing to do.

Do we take half a percent of every ad budget in 2016 and do a PSA campaign to educate users about the content they consume?

'Hi. I'm an ad man, and I'd like to stop lying for a moment and talk about something serious - my ongoing need for a high income. You see folks, those shows you like cost a lot of money to put together. In an ideal world we would just show you commercial messages all the time and you could pick and choose which ones to slavishly obey. But we know all that decision-making gets tiring and tedious, and that many of you would rather read a book or have sex or something, which means you're not taking part in the economy. So in the goodness of our heart, we gave you shows and characters and entertainments to give you enjoyable little rest periods in between the hard work of being a consumer. The only problem is, you've started treating these programs as an end in themselves instead of our little gift to help you watch our important commercial messages. Now we find you don't want ads on the websites you mindlessly click around either. This is very selfish of you! Think of all the poor boys and girls who will be unable to get jobs providing goods and services if you go on lying on the couch like a beached whale with a remote control watching other people live meaningful lives on TV shows when you could be shopping. Think about it, you idle bastards.'
>There are 259 stars within about 30 light years. Communication could be conceivable with such distances...

Wouldn't that mean a minimum of 60 years to get a reply to any message?
I wonder how much it costs to keep this type of thing running? There's really no one out there stepping up to take it on?

Edit: after reading the shutdown notice, it was a little vague about what's happening. It says the iOS app will convert to a camera app. Does that mean they are gonna try to retain connections to all the existing users and roll out out some new concept?
>> Starbucks customers go there for the customer experience, not for the coffee - there is better and cheaper coffee elsewhere, even McDonalds (literally).

This is a sweeping generalization. Coffee, like food, is a vastly subjective experience.

>> Most people can probably grab coffee at work for free if they wanted to but they choose to go to coffee shops for the "cool factor", and to feel like they are taking a break from their normal routine.

Who are these 'most people' are why are we making assumptions about where the get their coffee from without a research or a survey citation?

I'm sorry, I don't intend to be mean spirited here, just that I've been increasingly seeing seeing comments here that appear well thought out and well written on the surface but are peppered with logical and factual fallacies.
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Do you respond well when someone yells at you? Honest question.

In a lot of cultures anger is seen as weakness, it's the person giving into negativity. It's also seen as hostile. I don't attribute "passion" to someone who is angry. You can be angry without being passionate, and vice versa. Some people are just bitter.

I'm honestly really surprised by this response.
> it's not a panacea because it tends to get very expensive, very quickly.

I've investigated colocs near some AWS locations and found AWS to be around 20% cheaper than the cheapest viable option. With AWS's occasional price drops on top of that and general flexibility it's not a difficult choice.

One thing I found was that most providers were trying to sell vertical reliability (e.g. hardware RAID1), with a matching price. Our redundancy is horizontal at the application level (e.g. Zookeeper, Cassandra) so this has no value for us.
so we would only be able to detect those [non cross planar with earth ] planets if their orbit occluded another background star [ not their own sun ] .. wonder how rare that is.
IIRC the ones working on it were some leftover Nokia people. Nokia...I guess that answers your question, right?
It seems that no one knew the term because the one used in the industry is a Parliamentary Train.
Lets say this service is generating truly random bytes. If a subset of the bytes that you download happen to describe, say, the last episode of Mr. Robot encoded in MP4, does that actually constitute piracy?
These guys (ie Verge) are going to have a really really tough time when iOS9 lands

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...
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I like the idea but most of the servers we manage have out going firewalls to block them from talking to the internet. We produce installed package lists during deployment (as much as possible we run immutable pre-built images and replace the image rather than upgrade in place) which could be sent to a service like this but wouldn't want to start punching holes and adding routes for it. To work as is we'd need to add duplicate canary servers in an isolate environment to talk to the service.
At my last job we ported the build scripts to FAKE and afterwards many people (everyone?) felt that it had been a mistake. There were probably a few reasons for this:

1. we wanted to split the build scripts across multiple files, as we had multiple builds sharing common parts of a build process, and the only way of doing that with F# seemed to be writing a bunch of scripts that #load-ed each other. This was unpleasant.

2. at the time FAKE tried to kill processes it launched at the end of a build, but this was not implemented terribly well, so if you ran multiple FAKE builds in parallel on the same Windows box there was a fair chance they'd start trying to murder each other, and you'd end up having builds fail for no reason. This was fun to debug. IIRC FAKE was trying to track processes using process ids, but these get recycled...

3. we weren't using F# for anything else in the business, so having the build scripts in F# meant even less people wanted anything to do with them.

Here's a Q&A with myself that I wrote at the time about the #load-ing stuff:

Q1. do you recommend constructing build systems out of many .fsx scripts that #load each other?

A1. no. the #load mechanism of f# scripts is lamentable, in that it does not like you #load-ing something twice, yet no mechanism like #pragma once or #define / #ifndef is provided.

Q2. couldn't you work around that problem by not making your "library" .fsx scripts #load anything, and write a top-level "main" .fsx script that #loads all transitive dependencies exactly once in the correct order?

A2. yes. yet that sounds strangely similar to what you might wish a build system to do for you.

edit: and now I'm reminded of something else, that isn't to do with FAKE, just another fun windows parallel build interaction thing: you run a couple of builds on a windows box using jenkins. in each build, you use msbuild to compile some visual studio project. msbuild launches some mspdbsrv process that is cleverly shared between msbuild processes. then the first jenkins build finishes, and jenkins cleverly kills all processes launched by the build, including mspdbsrv, while the second build is still using it. hurray for interactions between two different pieces of clever software! at least this one is fixable by setting environment variables telling msbuild not to do this once you figure out what is going on.
Hello SmugMug CEO, I've received many emails the last two months about my credit card expiration. The problem is I cancelled my account a couple years ago. I have not gone through a couple of years of bank records to find when/if you kept charging me and didn't send an email.

I liked your service and cancelled because I was in China and couldn't reliably use the service. Every one of those reminder emails I've receive makes me feel like SmugMug is not a good company. I am not in China anymore and don't think I would use the service of a company that can manage to send so many emails to remind me they can't take money out of my bank but don't do so when they do.
I'm an active user of this app. I really enjoy scrolling through app feed and discover people around the world by not just their selfies but also a proper image context attached with it. I'm in love with the idea of this app. Really sad to see they are shutting down the service :'(
My bank does super fast wire transfers from Slovenia to the US. It's not free, but at $40 to transfer ~$4,000 almost immediately, it's not bad either. If I initiate the wire at 1am PST it hits my US account at 8am PST.

Sure, most of the speed is because of timezones, but still. It works, it's reliable, and if something goes wrong and the money doesn't show up on my US card, I know exactly who to complain to.
> Bitcoin gives you all the internet-based benefits of PayPal (low cost) with none of its evil. I don't think calling it low cost is misleading or false advertising at all.

For now.

A block size stuck at 1MB as transaction volume grows will result in a fee market, eventually making Bitcoin impractical/not so competitive for daily use as P2P cash...

...resulting in transactions being pushed off-chain onto centralised and regulated payment hubs (lightning, sidechains) which will most likely turn out to be just as "evil" as PayPal.
This is Jakub, founder of Estimote here.

@RexRollman: it seems Google is experimenting with that at the moment and the feature is opt-in only, so no worry.

When you download the new Chrome for iOS you "have to" include Chrome into "Today widgets" section and also Enable "Physical Web Scanning" that will show you the list nearby URLs broadcasted by beacons.

As you can see there is still a lot of efforts there and you need to turn on initially.
You just described the movie Vanilla Sky
Your last question is really, really interesting. The answer is yes in at least one case (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0923), but I'm not aware of any real in-the-wild behavior of this sort (that is, not just basically a PoC of that vuln).

Note that that vuln is related to shared directories - anyone using a VM for isolation should probably not use these. I recently heard an amusing story of another infosec professional that cryptowalled their Macbook by testing on a VM with over-generous folder shares. Of course this is an extreme example caused by a clear mistake, but it's food for thought.