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It's all perspective. My hourly rate is in three figures, which, for a lot of people looking at me as an individual freelancer, seems high. But the local mid-sized agencies all charge in that range for someone with my skillset anyway. But... that's not how I justify my rate, which is what my original reply was about. And... there are some things I simply can't offer - I can't parallelize my efforts like a larger agency can, which may definitely be worth it for people trying to hit specific market deadlines.

I don't even do MSDN costs. :) But there are definitely some overheads - insurance, I have office space (coworking), services (bookkeeping, etc), transportation - conferences, etc. I may have, say, $12k in overhead each year - including health insurance. That cost is pretty much the same whether I bring in $15k or $150k, and certainly if you're bringing in $15k, those expenses are far higher % of income.
You answered my point, how a free market approach to labor fails to sufficiently account for hazardous working conditions, with a set of truisms: such working conditions exist, it costs to address them, and that there is incentive to avoid those costs.

Different systems distribute power differently, and rest on different underlying morals. There is an incentive for workers to avoid health costs. There is an incentive for capitalists to avoid labor and production costs. In a system where people and their labor are treated like a commodity the same as rice or sugar, and there is an oversupply, guess which incentive wins?

If you view people as things, as commodities like rice and sugar, then just like those commodities the more people there are, the less they are "worth". Should we value people in this way? If more people are born, should my life be less protected? If the number of people born with the genes and/or the environment to produce neurosurgeons halves, should neurosurgeons get double (or more) the social, economic and political power?
Useful and obtrusive are not mutually exclusive. Is it useful to have only large companies with large ad budgets peddle a slight iteration to their product line as "the next best thing", while smaller companies with a really great (superior) product don't get the exposure. The smaller company would have lower margins because they invest much more in superior materials, QA, R&D, etc. Where the larger company has an advantage because they invest more of their margin on ads. Note: I have an "MX Performance" and I would not recommend that line of mice no matter what the ads originally said.
I wrote this: https://github.com/Jchase2/simple-pass-manager for that reason. It doesn't even store unencrypted things on disk. I'll still probably keep improving it, like the interface and what not, but I feel like the concept is pretty solid. Granted, it has a very limited feature set. But that's all I need. It doesn't do syncing though. I was thinking about an ocaml pw manager. If I get time.
This Theranos story just keeps getting more and more bizarre. George Church publicly criticized its board in a remark to the WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/15/th...). Considering that Holmes is on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, while Church is one of its most prominent researchers, why is he suddenly speaking out? If someone like him was concerned about Theranos, how did she end up on the Board of Fellows in the first place?

Then Michael Moritz of Sequoia specifically pointed to Theranos as an example of the 'subprime unicorn' boom (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/91063628-73f5-11e5-bdb1-e6e4767162...), which is a pretty odd choice, considering the vast majority of unicorns are software companies with very different risks from what Theranos faces. DFJ is one of Theranos's investors (https://www.facebook.com/dfj/posts/10101511622019206), and I can't imagine Moritz would want to publicly antagonize them.

And why did the Murdoch-owned Journal publish the original article anyway, despite the Theranos board being stacked with Republican heavyweights? What's the point of having Henry Kissinger and George Shultz on your board, if not to prevent these sorts of incidents?
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The same reason diamonds are expensive?
"Would you turn down a 2nd date because the restaurant you met at had poor service? ... People (in general) need to decouple the interview process from the act of working at the company."

I'm not sure I agree with your analogy that HR and the rest of the company (as opposed to the small group of people you'd be working closely with) is analogous to the restaurant. You're actually going to have a relationship with the entire company while you're working there - in other words, I think it's more like you're dating the company.

That rude HR person who couldn't be bothered to answer a simple question? They're the one you'll be going to when you have problems with your health insurance or direct deposit.

And that arrogant manager from another group who interviewed you? They might end up being promoted to being your boss's boss in a couple of months.

HR and the rest of the company report to the same CEO as developers do. If the CEO doesn't care about making HR treat job candidates respectfully, it could be an indication that they don't spend a lot of time caring about how employees are treated either.

So if you reject the company because you were treated badly during an interview, it would be more like turning down a second date because your date, while very attractive, was an hour late, made insulting remarks about your choice of clothes and spent all of dinner playing with their phone instead of talking with you.
Fair criticism, although generally I think for organisms that are that far separated, you'd think the substitutability would be a bit lower given their evolutionary distance.

As for the worm being icky to be honest I hated C. Elegans when I first heard about it, mainly because the primary phenotypes were "dumpy" and "uncoordinated". That said, I feel like the value of the organism exceeds the ick factor for myself and TBH I find lumps of E. Coli pretty unappealing.
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I think there is a big difference here between distinguishing "is this an ad? y/n" vs "is this an allowed ad? y/n"
"Are you arguing that it doesn't exist, that the one I suggested isn't the appropriate one, or that we can just ignore the problem? "

None. For any area, there will exist numerous levels of perspectives such that people will argue over which level matters.

"This is basically about framing issues"

People will move to arguing which frame is relevant.
I'd say that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and a few others are really good at this.

Many of them release a fair amount of their code as open source, but these sorts of capabilities are generally dependent on having absurd amounts of data, which is prohibitively challenging for anybody who doesn't run a website that sees massive traffic.
This is a step in the right direction. However the $33k for the 2nd semester is still out of reach for many.

"As part of the pilot project, students who perform well in the online half can take an exam to apply for the second semester on campus. Those who get in would pay $33,000, about half the cost of the yearlong program."

Would be nice to see them eventually offer affordable online courses & exams for 8 semesters.
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Actually he mentions that he ran Apple's Engineering directly in his email:

I’m also a techie and, among other things in 47 years in
the tech industry, I once ran Apple’s Engineering in
Cupertino.
they're huge in Germany, so this is significant news. get out of your US centric dream land ;)
This might be a good chance to ask something that's been bothering me -- is there a good training log format for weightlifting?

I can find apps for recording training data, but they all use their own formats. Anyway, if there is one it would be cool if this program could use it as output, instead of making up its own ad-hoc format.
Yeah, but the adblockers will win in the end.

Worst case: we lose all bandwidth winnings, and have to simulate functioning ads to content distributors.

P.S.: NoScript blocks the Javascript warning for me, unless I allow the bild.de domain. The adblock-blocker only works with NoScript fully disabled. I'm using Firefox with uBlock and NoScript.
The problem is that extremely poor women are often in a situation where they cannot afford birth control and are sleeping with assholes who will neither provide condoms themselves nor help her in any way if she turns up pregnant. Turning up pregnant can make long term poverty an inescapable fact of life.

I don't think denying men who are old enough to serve in the military the right to reproductive choice remedies the situation in any way.
Loyalty should be to individuals, not companies.
So the threat is that if someone hacks Dropbox and gains accesss to your Dropbox they can read which sites you visit?

Wouldn't this be "self fixing" problem, if you use 1Password to comeup with a secure Dropbox password?

Obviously this isn't ideal situation, but I see no reason to switch away from 1Password and currently I don't even know where I would go from 1Password. I jumped from LastPass to 1Password since I want to have access to my passwords on mobile devices without paying a yearly fee and now that LastPass has been acquired by LogMeIn I'm in no hurry to jump back. And I don't know if opensource managers like KeepPass have mobile support.
Everyone seems to criticize Theranos but I'm 99% sure other labs have similar variances in results without a WSJ story. The FDA should investigate Quest and the other labs. With the Electronic Health Records, relying on a single lab result could be problematic.
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> There are too many variables at play, and numbers can change between morning and afternoon even on the same day depending on the test.

Respectfully, you are making a broad, inaccurate statement and assumedly without a medical background.

While it's true that some numbers can change even on the same day (Gassée specifically mentioned glucose as an example of a lab value that can fluctuate quite a bit), the concentration of red blood cells and platelets is not affected by what you had for lunch and definitely should not vary this much. Keep in mind that the difference Gassée saw was was almost enough to trigger unnecessary therapeutic phlebotomy.
Theres also http://elasticlunr.com/, I'm not sure what algorithm it uses, but the site says "Elasticlunr.js use quite the same scoring mechanism as Elasticsearch, and also this scoring mechanism is used by lucene.", so maybe? I can't say I know that much about this topic...

I actually just used that library in creating a search for the docs site where I work and I have to say it works really well, it's a fully static site (hosted on github pages) and all the search is done in the browser based on an json "index" file that I generate along side the rest of the site. http://docs.exosite.com/
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This is not at all surprising in that censorship is one of the few viable business models for a 'free-to-play' social network.

Defusing and diffusing social movements before they get traction is something many organizations with money are going to find appealing whether or not it works...

Facebook understands this quite well and is the canonical example of the model; but if you don't think that "Steering the conversation" is a core value proposition for privately operated social networks ( including Hacker News ) that are free to the general public; you are naive.
For me, the differences look more like noise than a clear tendency. If you run bunch of test on any corpus you can get some non zero slope and try to piggyback on the media coverage of the original source.
I believe it'd be "...identical pressure for all cultural groups" where cultural groups tend to contain (or become?) predominantly one race. I'd argue it's learned behavior because centuries ago, trusting outsiders was risky and what better way to identify "outsiders" than "they don't look like us."?
How do you define "stupid people"?

I don't feel particuarly intelligent - I often meet people with my IQ who have all sorts of illogical views, but according to an IQ test, I'm smarter than 95 out of a 100 people.

If you accept that "stupid people" create bad reviews, then your argument falls apart pretty quickly.
War indeed. Well, since AdBlock introduced me to that addictive clean-browsing crack, I can't go back.

I don't read Bild but as I've said before, most content I view online falls under entertainment anyway. So, being blocked on sites as an AdBlock user (like Forbes now does) can only cut my procrastination time short, which isn't a bad thing.

Plus, ads are not the only way to make money online. So, if it isn't working for a company, then it's time to pursue another business model.
> I don't buy this at all. Without understanding root causes, this is just stamp collecting, and we have no clue how far we are from those root causes. At the very bottom (we think) is quantum field theory, which we only really understand in simple situations (eg. single particle interactions).

No matter how many more levels are down there, everything has to add up to normality. When we discovered relativity, apples didn't suddenly start to fall up. We may discover new ways of looking at the world, or new things hiding behind that n-th fractional digit, but the world will work in the same way the day after such discovery as it worked the day before.

Unless the fundamental laws of the universe have conditionals that branch on cognitive state of human beings, at which point all bets are off and you can assume anything can happen. We have hovewer no evidence that would suggest that hypothesis over the usual one, that the world works the way it works whether we know how or not.

> If a four billion old intelligent alien race handed you one of their computers, do you think you would be able to work it out any time soon?

I would be able to work something out. For starters, that I'm dealing with a computational device. It's hard to imagine what would be the level of technology four billion years old aliens, nor what problems would they be trying to solve - but I'm pretty sure that if you travelled back in time and dropped Isaac Newton a PC with a nuclear battery (and infinite supply of spare parts) he'd figure out some basics of how it works and why it does the thing it does. The very process by which humans do that is called "science".

I guess my point is - we definitely don't know everything, but that doesn't allow us to assume "shit's magic" and every point of view is equally valid. There is observable evidence that shifts probability towards some theories and away from the others.
They're checking for "SMART AdServer" only. Fake that and it still works.
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It's true, but we don't know to whom he addressed the email...was it the general info@theranos.com email address? To Theranos's PR team? Or to a private direct email address that JLG was able to get? I would guess it'd be the latter 2...JLG has been writing about media/tech long enough to know that sending an email to the general contact form is not adequate, and he doesn't seem the type to be out for a hit-piece (i.e. "I am publishing an exposé in 1 hour, please respond"). And Holmes and her media people obviously are reachable -- besides maintaining Twitter accounts, Holmes was doing interviews the day after the WSJ piece (nevermind all of the PR she was doing in the past two weeks).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10408285
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> I have a theory that the processing that happens in the brain does not all happen by physical means confined to the brain. I think that neurons either have quantum ability of using neurons in other dimensions or somehow have access to some of the machinery that runs the universe itself.

Bunk.

>That's how we get these ideas about the universe and everything in it, because the brain taps into the computer that runs the universe.

No, we get ideas about the universe by looking at it.
I was puzzled for a while, but then found out Xtreme Consulting have offices in Redmond -- guess you're talking about them.
There's a reason it's not called 'data', is my point. It's false, insofar that it's not the 'data' you give to 1Password.
'“Strict procedures are in place within these technology demonstration centers to ensure that no software source code is released, copied or altered in any way,”'

So... if I were an IBM shareholder (I'm not), I'd certainly hope that this means the code has been provided as a series of highly-compressed JPEGs of the code in a non-OCRable font (i.e., with randomness injected). Otherwise you can go ahead and set your forecasts for IBM's software sales in China to 0 for 2019 or so and beyond.
Nice work. Some suggestions:

1. Better to include a demo. If I'm using this service I'd want to know how the blog looks like.

2. The gif doesn't really look smooth. Maybe consider using a low-quality mp4.
Wow this highlights how brutal and vulnerable working in the tech space really is.
Are we talking about the same thing? I was referring the point in the interview when Eric says that ML will help make software development teams smaller.

I was imagining some bit of AI that had figured out the best way to download asynchronously. Or the best way to layout a UI with code. You could maybe describe a process using natural language & it would just create a best attempt for you. You could then modify or steer it.

Seems doable, but I don't see how you'd need big data from massive numbers of users. And seems very interesting given that APIS and what they can do is much more finite than the physical world.
Seems far too much for an online-only degree, but I guess the danger is devaluing the MIT brand.

And in essence I guess it is a sort of freemium structure.
"Don't let the fox guard the henhouse."

(unless the "fox" is Firefox, and even then you should be using 3rd party privacy extensions like Privacy Badger or Ghostery)
That data is being sent on the original load of the Javascript file. Please refer to this section of the article: "To summarize: When google opt-out is enabled. Google still collects." (you will see a list of all the data including the original referrer)

The part that you are quoting is for a different product by Google. "googleadservices.com"

>"You are making false claims about a competitor without revealing that they are indeed a competitor nor that you have a long standing grudge against them."

I am not making false claims. Please hold the heavy handedness until we have reached an understanding.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10399051
> Considering that Holmes is on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, while Church is one of its most prominent researchers, why is he suddenly speaking out?

I think Dr.Church's lab is very prominent in the field of synthetic biology; if I have to guess, his lab's work funding comes from lots of federal research grants outside of Harvard Medical school. So financially and politically, I don't think his hands are tied at all.

Also on principle, as a tenured faculty in academia, I don't think he is bound by the same rules/expectations as a FTE at a regular company.
This is why senior leaders have executive assistants. C-level execs of large companies get a lot of email and don't read all of it themselves, at least not initially, especially if the email is from someone they don't know.

Emailing a large company's leader from the outside is and should be tantamount to emailing a part of their customer service team, if you are a customer. At least, that's how they need to arrange it if they want to be responsive and are failing to be. Good customer service will also escalate complaints internally so that they're properly dealt with, not just responded to (though they might be escalated to a subordinate of the person you intended to contact, rather than the person themselves). If someone emails your CEO, it's a fair bet that they're either really happy, or really unhappy and need attention, versus contacting frontline support.

Companies that have good customer service typically have an "executive customer service" team made up of their best CS reps, who have good judgment and can handle unusual situations. Executive CS would for sure research and discover who sent the communication, and consider that fact as part of their response, and how to escalate it internally.

To summarize, if a company cares about providing customer service, they can certainly do so, and they should look at email sent to their public figureheads as an extension of their customer service responsibility, or a delegated responsibility to the CEO's assistant. There is no excuse for the lack of response.

This is also true for internal communication within a company, by the way. It's routine for assistants to respond on behalf of the person they support for matters that are within their area of responsibility. One of the marks of a higher grade executive assistant is that you can trust them with all of your communication, and can trust them to decide on their own what they can properly respond to on your behalf.
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"There's nothing in it for them."

I think there is, actually. If the company acquires a reputation for treating job candidates disrespectfully, it might deter the most qualified people (who have a choice of where to work) from applying there in the first place.
It appears that most tests done by Theranos are using the same techniques as any other lab, so naturally the variances would be similar. The only test their Edison machine is FDA approved for is herpes simplex. They have caught some flak, however, for allegedly diluting blood samples before standard analysis.
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My video-to-GIF tool is optimized for this particular use case.

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