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Payment Request looks useful...anyone using it?

Could VP9 replace widevine?

Congratulations!! Nice work...looking for lots more math libraries :-D!

Yes, I believe the oldest trees on Earth are around 5000 years old. Some Fungi systems could be extremely old...but they sort of clone each other so it's not exactly the same organism living...but that said most of your cells except neurons seem to die and get replaced, so continuous living is open to some interpretation. You could say the creator of the Venus Willendorf is the oldest "living in our memory" human being...the sculpture is thought to be 35,000 years old and continues to influence artists today like Jeff Koons. http://arthistoryresources.net/willendorf/willendorfdiscover...

Getting image recognition to work to "replace" radiologists is both a game-changer and a HUGE money-saver and thus a GIGANTIC opportunity. Radiology is the most common specialty and one of the highest-paid in just the US -- 40,000+ radiologists earning $350k/year (so maybe $15 bn in salaries). Radiologists and thus some of the smartest & most capable people in the country and they spend the whole day just looking at images...computers should be doing this!! Not only that, computers will soon better...for many skin tumors and others, even the leading human experts differ in their opinion, so humans today out-perform computers but I don't foresee that being the case for long.

A game-changer in cancer treatment would be "early detection". Once it gets to be inexpensive to analyze images, then we can have vastly earlier cancer detection...you could work into a scanning machine in a local pharmacy, get scanned & get the analysis right there...you could go in for monthly scans. Theranos had something of that vision with a drop of blood in pharmacies which could also provide very early detection of cancer...but they didn't execute technically among other issues.

She longed to be the kind of person who was confident enough in her own sense of goodness that she would know definitively that she could never commit murder.

Try the Epic Privacy Browser..its ad blocker worked great for me ;-)

Way too expensive in respect to users...at $.20/user/year...for 100k users, it's $20k/year. This vs. most installers that actually pay you...

Ouch!

This is great if the focus is more on doing good i.e. revealing "evil" companies...rather than more 'pump & dump' type schemes (well in this case, drain & dump may be a more accurate description). To have the kind of following & effect he does, though, he must have built up a credible reputation.

This is a great idea. QVC does billions a year in revenues.

Wow! What's the easiest way to stop this kind of attack? Stop all two-factor authentication?

Age may mean certain things about DNA methylation, but it doesn't mean you can't continue inventing, challenging yourself taking chances e.g. 94 year-old co-inventor of lithium batteries co-invents a solid state (solid-glass electrolytes) battery.

http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/technology/94-year-old-...

Niagara Falls is at something like half its potential power. There are talks to open the floodgates so to speak once a year and let Niagara Falls be really gigantic (bigger than Iguaza) one day a year.

To see the tuna auction, try to have someone who's seen it guide you. You have to get there ridiculously early, maybe 3am or even earlier...just so you know.

Cool! Any video demo or anything of this anywhere?

Yes, I think they were thinking of a way to pay potential startup mentors/advisors initially as a marketplace, then pivoted to general startup advice.

Great idea about a marketplace for this! I think it could work for celebrities...I think fans would pay a lot to lunch with someone they're a huge fan of.

21.co looks cool & a nice idea!

I remember when it was $25 to 50k and thinking that was a "steal"...but $2.7 million is ridiculous, though the money does go to a great cause :-).

This article is misleading and wrong in some of its ideas. Every company wants to employ as little expensive and unreliable-relative-to-a-machine human labor as possible. Trying to cut down costs is in fact not short-sighted or somehow "wrong", it's efficient and great (as long as you're not treating people unethically or polluting the environment, etc.). Amazon is simply growing tremendously quickly...it's not that they're trying to create jobs.

In the past 200 years there's been a tremendous increase in leisure for most people (except perhaps ironically for the best paid but that's a lot by choice), and also there has to date been no end to human desire. It used to take 80% of the labor force just to create food, now it's around 4%. It used to be 150 years ago the average American had 1 pair of paints and 2 shirts. Today the average American has 20 pairs of blue jeans.

What's creating new jobs is not that a company is trying to create jobs but that human desires keep expanding.

Interesting! Probably the most consistent top performer of the large hedge funds is the quant fund Renaissance and it's 100% I think employee/owner-funded at this point.

There are actually lots of companies building robotics toys for kids and inspiring a new generation of Robotics Engineers :-D!

They do have a good point. For the airline industry & its norms, any sort of ethical requirements will undoubtedly hamper their ability to hire "industry talent".

Woah...that's a gigantic valuation...I wouldn't have expected their gross income to be in the nine figures yet?!

Yes, "Partners at two prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms deceived four of the five founders of a start-up company, withholding critical information and thereby cheating them out of tens of millions of dollars, according to a lawsuit.....The suit named J. William Gurley of Benchmark Capital and John R. Johnston of August Capital, both original investors in Epinions and directors of the company, and an Epinions co-founder, Nirav N. Tolia."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/technology/founders-of-web...

Interesting also how they had what ended up being the basoc idea behind the much more successful Yelp, also Quora arguably and others.

Despite this formidable team of engineering talent, in eight hours of off-and-on tinkering they couldn't correctly assemble any desks. Finally they called a carpenter who had done this before, and he started building two desks an hour.

Anyone know more stories from Carrington's life? I love this one!

"As the most famous Carrington story goes, she once cut off the hair of a much loathed houseguest in the middle of the night and served it to him in an omelet in the morning."

YES YES YES!! More support for this!

That said, be prolific and deep...try not to repeat yourself depending on what you're doing but go deeper...

Aaron Levie of box.com I believe started 10 different websites and box.com was the one that took off.

A friend of mine in Japan started 3 companies...and only 1 took off...initially all 3 looked equally promising. Imagine if he took 2 years per experiment and gave up after 2 of the 3.

The hit rate of Beethoven between masterpiece and so-so piece was relatively steady in his middle and late periods.

Often works that are pre-planned "masterpieces" slaved over fail to engage, while some things made quickly live forever...think of Leonardo's drawing the Vitruvian Man, a quick sketch that's one of the most famous drawings in the world vs. his destroyed or not-made (I forget) statue of a horse (it is being re-built by someone and the world is still not taking much notice).

Google, Amazon, etc...how many failures do they have, if you look at that list they'd look like giant failures...remember Google Knol? The wikipedia killer. Or Amazon Fire Phone? Really embarrassing...do they care? Not at all! They simply don't care...but it's a little bit because despite a hundred failures, two of the more experimental things they did become $100 billion dollar businesses namely Android and AWS.

I read https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention... which details this.

They're just being a little sophisticated in how they block third-party cookies. This will hardly stop other tracking scripts, tracking images, widely-used fingerprinting techniques and related js calls. So nothing remotely close to even Brave let alone a TOR or the Epic Privacy Browser.

Wow, yes, could be very true!! Could be related to higher crime rates by certain minority groups that may tend to live in old homes with lead paint.

Historically, the great great great painter Caravaggio was quite violent/irritable and died sadly so so young (30 something) and many theories are that he was quite irritable/violent because of lead poisoning (he was prolific, working all the time with lead points).