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by dperfect 8y ago
From a privacy standpoint, third-party scripts intercepting data is essentially no different from the "trusted" site explicitly sharing data with third parties. In both cases, the site using "Login with Facebook" is resp
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by dperfect 9y ago
> The only things that are checked are the digits of the amount, and the account number. Well, the payee is also usually verified to match the destination account, and a few other elements are technically required for it to be a legal fi
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by dperfect 9y ago
It might not exactly answer your question, but you may enjoy this description of what it would be like to fall into Jupiter: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5041
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by dperfect 9y ago
> ...hooked to real-world data feeds I think that's what is meant by "a trusted source of information from the outside world". You can have as many layers of smart, trustless technology as you want sitting between the dapp
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by dperfect 9y ago
There might be a loose standard, but if you've ever tried to reliably convert text with emojis to a static image or print media (with proper licensing), you've probably experienced how much of a pain they can be. The fact that new
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by dperfect 9y ago
I'm pretty sure Chrome (for iOS) does this too, and presumably it could be sent to Google's servers. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to suggest opening a URL that has been copied (and show the URL before any user confirmation
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by dperfect 9y ago
From my experience with MACD specifically, it basically came down to the fact that with longer periods (or less sensitive thresholds), you lose out on most of a price swing by the time your trigger fires, and with shorter periods (or more s
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by dperfect 9y ago
Thanks. The conclusions may be obvious to experts in algo trading (and I heard similar things about the problems of TA for stock trading prior to doing this), but it was educational for me to go through the exercise because (1) it confirmed
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by dperfect 9y ago
Yes - I found that to be true in my testing as well. The configurations optimized for highest absolute returns did very poorly in unfavorable market conditions (and max drawdown became significant), while there were some that performed mode
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by dperfect 9y ago
Well, the data did include Bitcoin's first rise above $1000 and subsequent crash (which most people called "a bubble"). If you had bought right before that one "popped", yes - you would have waited a while to be bac
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by dperfect 9y ago
I ran some tests of my own with simulated automated trading strategies over the past few years of historical Bitcoin price data. I used a genetic algorithm to encode a range of time parameters for MACD, along with different trading triggers
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by dperfect 9y ago
Still seeing the errors an hour later here. The AWS Status dashboard has finally been updated to show the issue, so it sounds like they're looking into it now. Edit: Resolved now
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Amazon ECS Management APIs Down
4 points by dperfect 9y ago|1 comments
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by dperfect 9y ago
It probably has something to do with this ruling: http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/judge-rules-that-dishs-slin... It sounds like Dish and Fox did end up settling out of court (with Dish adding some commercial
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by dperfect 9y ago
My experience with an HDHomeRun Prime (and CableCard) is that none of Plex's DVR features (not even live TV) work with DRM programs. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but DRM content only appears to be accessible using som
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by dperfect 9y ago
> By the time Zuckerberg began extolling the virtues of hacking, he had stripped the name of most of its original meaning and distilled it into a managerial philosophy that contains barely a hint of rebelliousness. Hackers, he told one i
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by dperfect 9y ago
It's not as significant as the notch, but the corners of the display area are also rounded off, so the screen has some fairly interesting effective geometry in terms of viewable pixels. I wonder if the graphics and UI SDKs will have bu
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by dperfect 9y ago
What's the best way to apply the suggested solution to a numeric 5-star rating system (the author mentions Amazon's 5-star system using the wrong approach, yet the solution is specific to a rating system of binary positive/ne
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by dperfect 9y ago
A little more context on the speech recognition part: I remember going to a trade show (many years ago) where a representative from one of the major speech recognition companies was showing off the technology. He wasn't just dictating
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by dperfect 9y ago
I've been saying this for a while. The problem is that people are mostly familiar with the rate of overcoming traditional technical challenges (e.g., making your current computer/phone more compact, improving graphics quality, ma
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by dperfect 9y ago
> The immune response is therefore not entirely autoimmune in nature but necessary to protect the cells. The vili are being destroyed directly, essentially. Isn't the damage to villi a byproduct of the (auto)immune reaction? I haven
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by dperfect 9y ago
This is especially confusing to me given the fact that immunotherapy (allergy shots) for hay fever has been used effectively since at least the 1930s[1]. I've heard that it may be due to the severity of a possible reaction to peanuts c
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by dperfect 9y ago
New fields don't constitute the kind of backwards-incompatible changes mentioned in the blog post (adding fields is just as easy with RESTful APIs). GraphQL does help cut down on payload size (no extra fields for clients that don'
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by dperfect 9y ago
Does anyone know if there's a publicly-available Ruby gem for doing what's described in this blog post - i.e., cascading transformations with a nice DSL? If someone from Stripe reads this, I think you could count on some decent co
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by dperfect 9y ago
Looks like this extension was developed by the same author as the "User Agent Switcher" extension (mentioned in the comments of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14888010 ).
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"Web Developer" Chrome Extension Infected with Adware
12 points by dperfect 9y ago|11 comments
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by dperfect 9y ago
Looking at the actual charts presented in the article, I can't help but draw a very different conclusion: the spikes in Bitcoin-related HN posts do not precede BTC price increases, but instead they more or less mirror the price swing
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by dperfect 9y ago
> When it comes to versioning, GraphQL has an interesting take on that. Versioning can be avoided all together. Basically, we can just add new fields without removing the old ones, because we have a graph and we can flexibly grow the gra
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by dperfect 9y ago
Ah, that does make more sense, though you'd think they could mention it if that's what they're doing :)
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by dperfect 9y ago
> Enhanced Vision produces extremely sharp, detailed images of even faint astronomical objects by accumulating their light and projecting it into the telescope's eyepiece. So... it pretty much works the same way every other telescop

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