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Keep it on! I'll talk to you! Let's keep fighting the good fight. I just setup my XMPP server a few months back.
Indeed, but actually much more importantly it doesn't try to "freeze" derived information that you could just as well construct after the fact from raw information.

This is a very important general concept in Git. It's reason for why it doesn't have an explicit "rename" primitive, instead you construct that information after the fact from the raw history.

Similarly if you're looking to do forensics on merge conflicts it's much better to have the raw original information.

As an aside, the author also seems to be making the dangerous assumption that just because the default merge driver doesn't indicate something as conflicting that he doesn't have to save the original information, his implementation hinges on `rebaseWithoutConflictsPossible()`.

It's possible to have logical conflicts that Git doesn't detect. E.g. if your addition of some code uses a function that's been removed from the upstream.

Thus if you really want to cover all these cases just push your original unrebased branch, then rebase it and push the result (with conflicts, if any, resolved). That gives you all the information you need for after the fact forensics, while keeping your history simple for casual inspection.
dunno know if it's necessary to go all the way back to the 60's to see interesting approaches to cognitive science.. hofstadter's 1995 book is a good read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and_Creative_An...
Right, and unwillingness to consider the possibility of group differences comes from a quasi-religious devotion to the blank slate model of human nature. The way radical egalitarians see it, we're not only equal in dignity, but in potential.

That's a pretty view, but it's inconsistent with reality, and radical egalitarians need to come up with increasingly implausible explanations to explain everyday circumstances that make perfect sense once you drop the blank slate model.
The real solution is that we need single payer healthcare that only covers generics. Then if people want to experiment with patent medicine, they can get supplemental insurance from the private markets or pay for it out of pocket. Until then the whole system is fucked.
I'm blown away! Thank you so much for this!

I do realize that speaking english as a second language is an issue considering our target. We definitely need to find someone to proof-read our texts and landing pages.
Embedding images in emails that disallow images but allow css?
The market response to this misconduct has been enormous. The legal response hasn't even been decided or implimented.

They're already a failed company because the insurers won't touch them.

You don't have to feel guilty that you once believed in something.
Sorry if I have bothered you, I wasn't replying directly to you but was actually aiming at adding a complement to your answer.
> That's still opposite the claim that they were good before colonization

What does colonization mean to you? What value did colonization bring (lets talk factual specifics here) that weren't there before.

> They might be better off after a genocide, too

So what exactly are the benefits of a genocide?
It's still what's known as "general collateral" - it's not only easy but free to borrow shares. I shorted more shares yesterday.
I am coming late to the game but cannot find useful, clear explanations (I read the rather over wrought citron doc ... Is this a genuine stock researcher?)

So as I understand it :

- valeant sells over priced medical drugs, which are
named on a prescription by a doctor (?) but if you
Are with insurer X, the insurer requires the druggist
To replace expensive named brand with generic alternative.

- Valeant "owns"/has crushingly close relationship with Philidor a network of local pharmacies / druggists.

- philidor then buys a small druggist in Canada named R&O who then gets orders from all over the country and stops sending the cash to HQ because they were bought for 350k and now have revenue of 69m a few months later

- And ... Exactly how does Philidor do this fraud thing? If you are supposed to swap NameBrand out for GenericBrand, how does sending in 69M of invoices for NameBrand help? Philidor / valeant were not supposed to be selling it anyway? How does this coupon thing help?

This is one of the annoying things about fraud - it is all simple when you eventually understand it.

Ps if anyone cares to explain how one can make and obtain money from having "stolen identity" please post that too ...
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165k and crying lke a bitch... First world problems
np. Remember this. There is always someone else doing what you are doing. You should never worry about that. Just execute the heck out of it. Yes there are to may webapps but to be able to create 100K income is very possible. Remember, we are not talking about a high growth startup which is a different story.
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> Here, what we're saying is, "For any lifetime 'a, foo can take a slice that lives as long as 'a and return a pointer that lives as long as 'a".

Another way to phrase it is: the return value of the function is guaranteed to be valid for at least as long as the argument (but may borrow from it, and hence mutations of the argument need to be outlawed as long as the return value is held).
Genuine question - is not the big downside of shorting that there is a real non-zero risk that there won't be a company to have shares in shortly?
You are doing well enough to save to do your own project to do later.. Eventually this company will move on from your work, even though it seems impossible now, they are quietly trying to figure out a way to do so. When they do, just be keeping your expenses low now and low in the future so you are not dependent upon a job. I have made the mistake of becoming "invaluable" and every time the company management works to find a way to replace me because they want to show they are in charge and are not dependent upon any one single person even if it is not in their best interest to do so.
Tap to click is not turned on by default in OS X, but is possible through System Preferences - as is a tap with two fingers to get a right click.
> But we haven't been biased against A. [...] It was just their prior distribution that was different.

This is why that isn't a counter example. Right at the beginning, the article clearly states that this method is only applicable if the prior distribution is equal:

| You can use this technique whenever (a) [...], (b) [...], and (c) the groups of applicants you're looking at have roughly equal distribution of ability.
I'm always fascinated by scams. As entrepreneurs we look for holes in the system to fix, whereas scammers look for holes to exploit.
Not sure where you're going with this. That would mean that no one would have access to any drug until it had already been on the market for at least 8 or more years, unless they were willing to pay it out of pocket (if they can't afford the insurance).

On Medicaid and have HER+ breast cancer? Tough, you can take some horrible chemotherapy that will give you 6 months, not the new HER2 drugs that will give you 5+ years of life.

How would that even work?
I consider myself relatively libertarian, so I find myself nearly in shock that I believe a single payer system is the inevitable, and perhaps best, solution. (Although your generic vs branded thing makes no sense, no offense) Our problem is that we have made thing SO dysfunctional that a few laws here and there probably cant fix it - that's how broken it is. There would be drawbacks for sure, but we're at the point where things are so bad that the incremental drawbacks would be far outweighed by the benefits. It's pretty depressing to think about in all honesty.
Although the word also threw me when I read the article I thought it was possibly a negative thanks. I think you are reading to much into it.

> The "conversion" of various indigenous peoples to essentially a western system of beliefs is what I find disagreeable.

Keeping people in a zoo is more disagreeable to me. This liberal idea of keeping tribal cultural of any kind around is incredibly disturbing.

We should not be using the communities poorest children for instance as repositories of language.

As a rich, educated person I would never want my child to learn a dead language. Even Latin with it's ivory status. Their future will be hard enough.
We're hearing about them because they went too far, not because the incentive landscape keeps the rest of their peers headed in the opposite direction (as it ought to and doesn't).
I'll have you know that this particular subthread was way too civil for the Internet.
Added to the to-do list, tomorrow I'm going to add multi-currency support to the store!

If your wife will decide to be our first customer, tell her to get in touch via mail. We will be super-happy to offer free shipping to the US :)

Thanks a lot for the kind words regarding the products, they are (quite literally) our craft!
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This well-circulated image shows that making everyone a winner has merit in some circumstances.

http://static.themetapicture.com/media/funny-equality-justic...

The left hand side is fair rules, the right hand side shows a fair outcome
This would be fine, so long as we made drugs go generic much faster. Which would require more public funding for drug research. Which would turn the system on its head.
Many of these comments remind me of one of the most potent biases known to man: confirmation bias. If you are smart and want to believe something, you will surely be able to come up with a mathematical (albeit flawed) way to convince yourself you are right.
Off course you are being downvoted. HN sucks sometimes.
PID 1 should be boring. Tiny, simple and boring. Any software project that raises this much controversy should be looked at with a raised eyebrow.

A software project this large, complex, controversial and coupled that wants to be PID 1? Absolutely no way.
In b4 some one says that guns don't work in space, they do even your everyday firearms.

All propellants contain an oxidizer otherwise it won't work the amount of oxygen in the casing is miniscule and would not support any chemical reaction of note.
It is tackles above the shoulder (not waist) that are forbidden (along with striking an opponent with a stiff-arm whilst tackling, tripping, picking up and dropping a player etc.).

Law 10.4 specifies what is considered 'dangerous play': http://laws.worldrugby.org/?law=10.4
there was extensive documentation on www.boycottsystemd.org but it seems to have been taken offline and there's no trace in the internet archive.
Agreed, it's nicer to talk about "validity" than "liveness" :)
Have you thought of getting into People's views with YouTube influencers? Since you do need someone to check out the clothes and "recommend" them, digitally this gets you a very targeted audience.

Depending on your budget you can go big and spend on influencers making specific videos, or go low budget and have them do shoutouts during their regular programming.
or just send them free clothes.

Here's a few that might be good:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGentlemanCove
https://www.youtube.com/user/DulceCandy87
https://www.youtube.com/user/lindsayslatest

Here's a few things I thought while on your site:

1) It looks like you're in the sheep business.
2) It took me a bit of digging to get to "Products" and even find out how to purchase anything.
3) You can deliver something directly to your potential customers that they are looking for, based on at least season. Right now I might look for hoodies or sweaters, show those right away!
I like that you have to press/click it.. no accidental clicks while typing... as to middle click, click with three fingers on the pad, as two acts as a right click.. once you get used to it, it's very intuative, dedicated click regions (like many pc pads are adopting) are actually really annoying to me after using it, as is dedicated buttons imho. I have not love for apple, but really do like the touchpad interface they have more than any other.

There are some alternatives to Lenovo, I happen to appreciate some of the Acer and Asus products available. I just like the macbook pro as a whole much more... Though, to be honest I don't see myself having to have a new laptop for some time, and even then likely won't buy Apple because their software has not been as good lately, I'm not tied to it, and would just assume use Ubuntu if there were a good hardware option (good by my admittedly arbitrary standards).

The thing I like the least about macs is really my muscle memory is heavily tied to the Model-M style keyboards (including the mechanical feel). I have a Unicomp for my work macbook at work, that I flipped the ctrl/option/cmd buttons around, only in terminal windows, it's referested there and I can't enable software that could correct/reverse it only for iterm...
Makes perfect sense. Thank you!
The way they introduce the positions of Akerlof and Schiller seems to indicate that markets are not irrational, but insufficiently informed.
Thank you.

> It's possible to have an example where 'c must be shorter lived, and cannot outlive the struct.

I'm interested in such an example. Could you provide one?
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I believe it. Sounds like a market rife for disruption by people that can turn it into a cookbook approach on the cheap. More interesting from a security angle: malicious tooling on packaging side might be used to pre-compromise chips or devices. I haven't seen anyone write on that and I've had to little time to do a paper on it. I'm sure there's a whole cat and mouse game waiting on us that the cats are probably already playing. ;)
This is my take (based on other articles I've read):

- Most of Valeant's drugs have cheap generic options, so most insurance company's say "no" when a pharmacy tries to fill it, hence it's hard as hell for Valeant to sell their drugs

- Valeant forms a cushy relationship with Philidor. Unlike most pharmacies, Philidor puts a LOT of effort into getting the insurance companies to say yes (they just give the drug to the patient before getting paid; if the drug gets denied, they try many others ways to get paid)

- Philidor was starting to get shutdown by payers, basically, any request from Philidor was red flagged by the payers to double check to see if something fishy was going on

- Philidor also tried to get a pharmacy license in California, but the authorities said no because they lied on who actually owned what (apparently getting a "no" to a license is really bad)

- Philidor then decides to buy R&O to get their licenses and their payer contracts. Basically it's a run around, the insurance company will see the script coming from R&O and basically think "ahh.. at least it's not Philidor"

- However, Philidor starts playing loose and fast with R&O license even before they closed the deal. Philidor would bill an insurance company using R&O's pharmacy ID, which is a HUGE no-no

- R&O sees what's up and says "screw this crap, I'm not going to give Valeant any of the insurance money I have until I get some goddamn answers as to what they are doing"

- Valeant (in all it's wisdom) sues R&O for non-payment and R&O says "I never got a invoice from you" and all hell breaks loose as the story unwinds
I have been to PNG three times. Early '80s when I was three for ten months (had my fourth birthday there), again when I was thirteen for three months, and lastly about eight years ago for a few weeks.

I agree with your observations, which feel quite astute to me.

Some of the cities are awful, particularly Moresby. (I stayed in the Mapang guest house that was mentioned when we got stranded in Moresby due to a missed connecting flight. Travel plans always involved trying to get in and out of Moresby in the same day and not leaving the airport if at all possible.)

I spent most of my time in Ukarumpa but have visited Goroka as well as Lae and Madang. Never been near Mount Hagan, which has a long history of violence.

One thing I noticed changing over the times I visited was the increased amount of security. The razor-wire fences, not just in Morseby. Armed security guards and such.

With around 860 distinct languages, isolation and travel difficulty imposed by incredibly rugged terrain, it is a country with remarkably unique challenges.
"An aside: Academics are overwhelmingly liberal. People say it is a consequence of bias, but that is not necessarily true. If (broadly speaking) the smartest people are mostly liberal, maybe that tells us something."

Test the logic of this aside by changing "Academics" to "software engineering" and replacing "Liberal" with "white/asian, straight, males." I don't think it holds up very well.
Nope; if the company goes bust, you make full profit, because you don't need to return useless shares. See http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/03/082803.asp
Only 6% percent of Valeant's revenue goes through Philidor. However, this raises HUGE questions about the legitimacy of the other 94% of Valeant's revenue streams. How many other arrangements like this does Valeant have. Is it conducting it's business on its other channels in an above board manner?

A huge portion of Valeants growth strategy comes from specialty pharmacies like Philidor. The integrity of the strategy has now been called into question by investors.
Wouldn't buying lumber and burying it also work?
The baseball game in the image wouldn't be worth if equality of outcome were the rule for baseball team tryouts. The entire game is based on fair competition under the rules pushing participants toward excellence.

Inequality of outcome is the entire reason we see baseball played at a high level. When you demand equality of outcome regardless of talent or effort, you're asking for society to stagnate. You're asking for pervasive mediocrity. You're asking for us to kill effort and motivation. No thanks.
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The allegations of channel stuffing were pretty reasonable from the outside.. When Left wrote his report, it was clear that Valeant had extensive relationships with several pharmacies that weren't disclosed -- he couldn't have known that although Valeant didn't own any of them, they were rolling up their financials. His intuition was pretty spot on though, since he felt there must be something shady going on given that Valeant hadn't disclosed their relationship and it was clear they were responsible for hundreds of millions in revenue.
I'm well aware that some might consider them "middle-eastern", which is why I said "essentially" a western system of beliefs given that the representation of them today is more reflective of current "western" culture than how they originated.
So in this particular case, assuming that First Round's sample size is significant, it may just be that the female founders who seek them out are just on average better than the male ones? I suppose that if women think that the selection process is biased against them, and most do (and it may be) perhaps the less than excellent ones just don't apply, whereas that isn't true for males?

First, the sample size not significant. Adding back one data point, Uber, which was a real data point that was intentionally removed, likely reverses the effect.

But imagine we had real sample of thousands of companies, and it did show the result.

A typical scenario is that different demographics might connect with First Round via different deal flow channels. For instance, one channel might be longstanding personal connections, another channel might be outreach to companies in the news.

Now imagine female founders are much more likely to be found via outreach rather than personal connections. Perhaps this is due to a negative personal bias -- the VC's are less likely to be chummy with females because of their sex. So they only find female founders when their company is in the news.

It is typical in all businesses that different deal-flow channels have different average returns. So:

* If both channels perform equally well, no bias will be seen in the statistics, even though the VC's are in fact biased.

* If the outbound channel generally performs worse, then women founders in the sample will perform worse than average, even though the VC's are actively biased against them (they are ignoring all the women who would have done well, if only that had personally known them. Sine the VC's never invest in them, their results are not measured). This is the opposite of the statistical relationship that PG claims should exist.

* If the outbound channel generally performs better, then women in the sample will be better than the average.

I should also add that the differences in the channels might be due to a positive bias on the part of the VC -- perhaps they do more aggressive outbound outreach in order to get more female founders in the pipeline. Or the difference might be due to something completely neutral.

The lesson here is that using statistics is a perilous endeavor. If you want to detect something like bias, you cannot use numbers alone, you need to combine any numbers with a deeper understanding of the selection process. There is no way that a third party can run a simple correlation and determine with any degree of certainty that the field is in fact biased or not.
Some good articles here:

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/comments-on-blockb...
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Debian isn't really a leader. They're more of a passive target platform and their committee has people from various strokes of the Linux community. As such, RH decisions with significant influence definitely would impact them. Ubuntu, in turn, is symbiotic with Debian, though still quite forked from it in most aspects beyond the packaging infrastructure (now with Snappy diverging even further). Nonetheless, Unity needs GNOME and Canonical are still a small player who are perfectly capable of foreseeing future trends. Adopting systemd is the path of least resistance and will help them track Debian's packages better.

Most RPM-based distros (openSUSE included) tend to follow RH's direction, so that's not surprising. Besides, SUSE has always been enthusiastic about most desktop efforts.

Arch Linux have at least two systemd developers on their team (Tom Gundersen and Dave Reisner). In fact, it was tomegun who wrote the Arch migration rationale: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530, based on the usual fallacious arguments (http://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/09/systemd-biggest-fall...).

Also, distros have blindly went along with other bad ideas before. The most prominent examples were HALd and LSB-style initscripts.

In fact, I'm not sure why you're at all surprised. Large groups of people in real life have collectively made far, far more catastrophic decisions. Why would a bunch of distribution maintainers adopting a piece of software be so shocking?
I like the idea, but how do you apply this to power law distribution outcomes and get any statistical significance? I don't know the answer.

E.g. the underlying First Round's analysis likely has no statistical significance. Assuming the power law distribution of outcomes top 5 outcomes will account for 97% of value. So we now have a study with n=5.

To make the point let's apply this to YC's own portfolio. Assuming Dropbox, AirBnb and Stripe represent 75% of its value, we'll learn that YC is incredibly biased against:

* MIT graduates
* brother founders
* founding teams that do not have female founders
* and especially males named Drew

Hard to believe these conclusions are correct or actionable