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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for Bavaria/Swiss Alps on Sunday January 21, 2024 @12:31PM (#39080507)
I recommend spending a night in Wengen (nearby Lauterbrunnen). It has stunning upclose mountain scenery; better than Grindelwald or Interlaken IMO.
I just finished Neuromancer by William Gibson (published in 1984) – a mind-bending story with elements of AI consciousness, corporate overlords, and human augmentation. Personally, I loved the whole book.
Re:Ask HN: Where should I buy my next book? on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:08AM (#29276386)
https://www.abebooks.com is great. Amazing selection of new and used books. It connects you directly to book sellers.
Re:Ask HN: How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer? on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:13AM (#28562994)
https://darebee.com/programs/30-days-of-yoga.html

20 min max / day. Helped reduce my stress level, improve endurance & flexibility, and an overall pleasant start of the day if done in the morning. Bonus: no purchases or equipment necessary beyond daily will power.

Re:When can I consider a business dead? on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:09PM (#27664494)
A business is dead when you run out of positive free cash flow.
Re:Ask HN: I have 3 weeks off, what should I build? on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:24AM (#24907146)
A peer-to-peer backgammon game where you can challenge friends using an invite link
Nice tool. I was really hoping though it can help me tabulate messy copied text data from PDF.

For example, from Philips 2018 annual report [0], I copy the income statement, and I get the below when I paste. I found it impossible to get this into Excel or any other table format, without writing a Python program for it. Your tool still made it as one column. If there's a way you can automatically detect the 3 numeric columns below, you can have a large audience of finance folk analyzing PDF documents.

Sales. 17,422 17,780 18,121 Cost of sales (9,484) (9,600) (9,568) Gross margin 7,939 8,181 8,554 Selling expenses (4,142) (4,398) (4,500) General and administrative expenses (658) (577) (631) Research and development expenses (1,669) (1,764) (1,759) 6 Other business income. 17 152 88 6 Other business expenses. (23) (76) (33) 6 Income from operations. 1,464 1,517 1,719 7 Financial income. 65 126 51 7 Financial expenses. (507) (263) (264) Investments in associates, net of income taxes 11 (4) (2) Income before taxes 1,034 1,377 1,503 8 Income tax expense. (203) (349) (193) Income from continuing operations 831 1,028 1,310 3 Discontinued operations, net of income taxes. 660 843 (213) Net income 1,491 1,870 1,097 Attribution of net income Net income attributable to Koninklijke Philips N.V. shareholders 1,448 1,657 1,090 Net income attributable to non-controlling interests 43 214 7

[0] https://www.philips.com/c-dam/corporate/about-philips/sustai...

Re:Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:18AM (#20693876)
Anyone familiar the pricing structure of Planet? I couldn't find that on their website.
Just a heads-up, you have your API key in the source code. You may want to consider having a gitignored secret.txt file for the keys.
I have also used Bayesian quantification of uncertainty in pricing forecast models. Decision makers love a measure of uncertainty when one recommends a pricing scenario that can have significant impact on revenue. Also, you get the chance to build multilayer models to combine knowledge from independent samples. PyMC3 is fantastic for building these models within Jupyter and Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis is a great introduction for different Bayesian model applications.
Re:The Advertising Bubble on Monday November 16, 2015 @10:21AM (#10574882)
(I work in market research industry for promotions/ad optimization and effectiveness; off and on-line)

I agree completely with Maciej points. There is one other factor that should be considered; the more ads served to us (normal consumers); the less our reception to them is thus the new ads need to be more powerful. Only giant companies can fund the creativity and subtlety needed for very effective ads on a large consumer scale; everything else is noise in the consumer mind except for tiny well-targeted niches. Those are the two groups (giant companies and very niche businesses) that will survive the consumer-ad bubble burst easiest.

Market research / analytics director by day.

Building a niche end-to-end encrypted storage/communication web app by night.

This is all nice; and as hinkley pointed, Stanford already proposed a better protocol. The primary issue in my opinion is how to trust the JavaScript arriving from the server that it does what it's supposed to do.

In my humble opinion; we need to use the blockchain to save hashes for trusted and open-audited JavaScript files to be confirmed by the user. This, however, needs to be done at the browser level to avoid an endless trust loop with JavaScript/browser extensions. blockstrap.com has figured out how to put file hashes on the chain; so technically it shouldn't be a major challenge to do the first part. The browser part is where it gets tricky!

Re:Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules on Friday September 11, 2015 @03:22AM (#10202393)
Same for the Netherlands, a lot of employers reimburse the public transport subscription costs or pay an amount depending on km distance between work and home. That's wherever you live, even if you are more than an hour train ride away.

Ask HN: How to maximize the value of a crypto lawyer consultation?

I am setting up a meeting with a lawyer to help me prepare well to launch my startup (crypto export rules in EU are complex!). I have a detailed list of questions I need to know the answer for before I incorporate and launch.Any advice from HN-er's about how to maximize the value of the consultation would be great as this is my first time asking for legal advice and I want to make sure I have...

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