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And you'll wait forever b/c the governing bodies are all corrupt. (ADA, FDA, etc.)
I should've mentioned that all the times are in UTC. I'll work on normalizing them to PST - it's pretty confusing right now. Thanks for letting me know!
It is violent, not physical violence but it is violent. Especially in a world where people toss around the ideas of microaggression, death by a thousand cuts and others.

How is publicly shaming someone and aggressively lobbying for them to be fired not violent?
I don't think they minimized it. To the vast majority of consumers, 4K is currently irrelevant. There's barely any content (only 2 to 3 dozen movies on each streaming service) and a small fraction of 1% of homes have a capable TV. So, they're framed it accurately. It may make more of a difference in 2016... more content, rumored 4K upgrades to the Xbox/Playstation, more TVs compatible, etc... Right now, I don't know a single person in real life that watches 4K video.
Wow. This opens a way for deep learning on much cheaper and less power-hungry hardware.
> For example, a company that exclusively uses Haskell or Scala is probably not a great idea.

Wow, you and I are totally at odds on this one.
I feel like dental work is harder. I've had an ingrown toenail worked on, and every painkiller injection was a) incredibly painful, b) barely useful for dulling the pain. After about seven shots, I decided that the knife-work on my toe was going to be less painful than subsequent injections, and toughed it out.

It's much harder when having dental work done; I've had painkillers not-quite-take, and I always ask for additional injections, unless they're minutes from being done.
The way root canals were handled is by usually killing the nerve via opening up the nerve, putting arsenic in and sealing it with a temporary filling for 2-3 days. After that's all done, there's very little pain felt except when the doctor goes far enough to poke at the gums. The procedure does take longer than with anesthesia in that you need two visits for the whole process, but that's how they did it.
While I like your version more, I can't help but have certain scenes from The Matrix flash into my mind.
> requiring that regulations that limit trade should be based on evidence, not on political whims

That would be "sovereign democracy".

It's remarkable what cowards so-called free trade advocates are. If the benefits are so manifest, then they should survive just fine in the free market of ideas, and be voted for.
It really matters at what stage the tooth is in. If the tooth is dead (e.g. you have pain that intensifies to heat, and cold helps)[1] then anesthesia won't make much difference you won't feel a thing anyway.

If you're getting root canal, because cavity is close to the nerve and your dentist don't want to use amalgamated filling then you will need anesthesia, because the nerves are alive.

[1] It gets a bit complicated with molars, which have multiple nerves, if one nerve dies, you'll still need anesthesia for the remaining ones, and you do need root canal, since you can't save part of the tooth and you do need anesthesia, because the tooth is not completely dead yet.
Agree. Maybe it comes down to the relationship between "creative" and "productive". They're related without being synonymous. I think "chemically" is just one way of accomplishing the goal of thinking differently but as it's a pretty reliable method (albeit an occasionally overpowered one) it comes up a lot.

I'll leave the discussions of whether the various drawbacks outweigh the benefits for another conversation but it's hard to deny that treating yourself chemically can be a very direct and effective way to ensure your thought patterns and processes are temporarily changed.
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Usually it's because it has some impact on you. Like blocking your driveway, taking up all the parking, or leaving trash.
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I have to disagree with the most upvoted contributors in the article. The #1 on here has over 200,000 karma points. https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
That just means that food commonly eaten in the US doesn't allow you to avoid cavities. It doesn't mean there are no such diets, nor that there aren't diets typical for some regions that avoid cavities.

Caries is also an infectious disease. It's extremely common but not everyone is infected. There are tribes that simply don't have it.
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This is absolutely violence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IEFD_JVYd0
My dad, grandfather, and sister-in-law are all dentists. This was something we'd chat about every now and then, and the answer inevitably came down to "whatever is better for patients is good for me".

Sounds a bit like a platitude, but there are so many different treatments and procedures modern dentists do that I think it the profession would generally be fine for quite some time. In a large sense, there'd probably be a transition towards more emphasis on repair and fixes of traumatic injury rather than preventative procedures, but it would likely take awhile before things dramatically change for the profession.
Great comment. I grew up in florida and know so many bright kids that have to move across the country to the NE or California for tech jobs. Whereas you study accounting, medicine, law etc and can work anywhere.
State Capitalism may be an actual thing. But no one means it when they say "capitalism".

"State capitalism is usually described as an economic system in which commercial (i.e. for-profit) economic activity is undertaken by the state, where the means of production are organized and managed as state-owned business enterprises"
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When you've never had to work to provide for yourself and others, it's very hard to imagine the damage done from someone losing their job.
Oh, it's cool. And clever. Part of my "disappointment" was that I hadn't thought through how simple it would be, and so was half expecting some crazy trickery.
In this regard, I think we agree very much! I simply wanted to point out that the specific example that they endogenously synthesize ascorbic acid wasn't a great reason for why this particular trial wouldn't be valid.

Be skeptical of any scientific claim made, especially around possible links between animal models and human clinical environment, and even more especially when the systems involved are not highly conserved cross species.
They've been reinvesting potential profit into the company in order to grow R&D. (Spend has increased from $57M in FY13 to $141M in FY15.)

Their gross margins are probably what you want to look at instead, since their cost of revenue won't include R&D ($ in 1,000s):

FY13 FY14 FY15
Gross revenue 148,512 215,109 319,521
Gross profit 115,481 117,123 266,589
Gross margin 77.7% 54.4% 83.4%

These are very healthy for a software company. They nearly doubled their spend on sales and marketing between FY13 and FY14, which explains the temporary dip in gross margin in FY14.
It may be aggressive, but it is not violent. Violence is generally understood as the use of physical force.

Violently going after someone's job would be punching their boss in the face until they agree to fire the person.

EDIT: Speaking from an American English perspective, anyway.
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> Perhaps, if these software engineers make a mistake, people will not die, as with the civil engineers building bridges.

(these == infrastructure engineers)

When you have software that decides upon real life's objects, a small bug could end up in a disaster, even death.
Holy crap am I glad I'm extra sensitive to painkillers' effects. For tooth work, I can easily get by on half a shot.
I can help as to why it is annoying. I felt the same way before typing that out, but still wrote that.

I seriously tried to honestly tell myself whether I would have the same opinion and view, was I in the shoes of the author. Would I be able to rationalize it the same way? Would I be able to marginalize that event to a statistical "nonevent"? I don't think I would.

But I assumed that everyone commenting on it had already exercised that viewpoint, and still shared those views. That is what I would expect of perfect decisioning AI units. That's not a bad thing. I just didn't expect it so early.

What do I think should be the response? Um, well, sue the shit out of the host and by extension the provider, or require insurance by the hosts. The alternative would be that this guest's death is reduced to a reputation negative (statistical nonevent).
"This response is a little on the hostile side and doesn't address the clear problem that there is an economic incentive for arbitration companies to provide resolutions favorable to the company providing their source of income."

You certainly realize the justice system has the same problem, right?
Judges are elected in most states, and not by corporations.
You are also quite literally paying their salaries.

Additionally, if you had any source of statistical data showing that arbitration was an unfair process, that would be admissible to get the arbitration thrown out.

"There simply is no check or balance to such an arrangement where one party picks and pays for the judge and process that will be used to settle a distribute"

According to roughly all arbitration rules, the arbitrators can be picked by the people complaining.
Remember when professors actively made you confront ideas that you felt were uncomfortable to explore yourself and examine if you had any inner biases? Those were the professors whose classes you _wanted_ to attend...
I believe it will all end up owned by Uber (or similar) using self-driving cars. The vehicle is easily loaded at the supplier, and then you unlock a lockbox when it arrives to do the delivery. Dynamic pricing can be used to direct demand to low hours (eg delivery is $5 at midday but $2 at 2pm).

The remaining question is how soon. A company trying to make use of a self driving vehicle for most hours of the day across a wide customer/usage base will find it far easier to spread the capital costs, than single purpose or single customer vehicles. There are also big advantages to having a larger fleet (economies of scale). Consequently the moment the self driving vehicles are somewhat practical, I expect massive attempts to corner the market for using them. (Human driven vehicles can still be used for trickier locations and journeys until the self driving tech matures.)
Why not, are you afraid of hurting someone's feelings?
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1) I've worked IT or IT/operations at a handful of small to large companies over the past 15 years where I've been directly in control of email and any "snooping" requests needed to go through me. I can count on one hand the number of times a manager has asked to read their employee's email. It's either been due to some HR related issue (harassment, misuse of resources, etc.) or because the employee was unreachable and some critical info had been sitting in their inbox. Employers snooping on email in a business environment is super rare.

2) My experience managing and being managed has led me to believe that most managers want their employees to work less, and most people believe that their manager wants them to work crazy hours. Frequently these people are the same people. eg. a middle manager wants his employees to go home and not work after hours, but they assume that their manager expects them to work from home between 7 and 11 PM every night. the GP of your comment even said this - he tells his employees to not work odd hours, but he does so anyway.
Yes, because on your death bed you'll remember fondly the growing number in your bank account.
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Except, as I said, if you appealed and provided that evidence to the court, the arbitration would be thrown out, and the company likely sanctioned.

What can't be appealed is an arbitrator's judgement because you didn't like it, you can definitely appeal if the actual process is unfair.
You know, I agree with you. But in a world of "microaggressions" and a systematic devaluation of the meaning of English words, I'm not sure the people you're sort of defending would necessarily agree.
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Here's how it should work, IMO:

(1) An upvote signals a positive sentiment

(2) A downvote signals a negative sentiment

(3) A subject's "newsworthiness" is measured by the sum of upvotes and downvotes (i.e. 5 upvotes and 5 downvotes = 10 newsworthy points)

(4) A subject gets buried by measuring the square of the difference between downvotes and upvotes, divided by total votes squared (i.e. 5 downvotes and 1 upvote has a newsworthy score of 6, but it will have a "bury" score of (5-1)^2 / 6^2. This would only apply to subjects with more downvotes than upvotes.

Currently, upvotes end up being a mixture of "positive sentiment" and "newsworthy" -- there needs to be a method of distinction between those.
I respect peoples right to down-vote, but i would appreciate you to also leave some feedback if you have the chance. I'm genuinely curious as to what someone might disagree with, I feel that all I stated were facts from my own personal experience without any real argument for much else.
I've seen lots of alternate approaches to constructing neural nets with varying operations and one of the common themes is that it doesn't really matter that much w.r.t. accuracy, so you may as well optimize for performance. This seems to indicate to me that neural nets are some variation on a yet unidentified more elegant mathematical structure that might enable better theoretical understanding about training phenomena. The spin-glass equivalencies I think further suggest more elegant underlying structures.

Once we understand that underlying structure we might be able to do really cool things, i.e. identify the nature and size of training data set required for solving a given problem, or train much, much faster.
Not to worry, our duty-bound ADA/FDA cronies will make sure this never sees the light of day.

P.S. There is something you can already do btw. If your teeth are still good then go get them sealed. Most dentists won't do it, and will give you some lame excuse. Just go find another dentist. There are a few out there that aren't full of sh*t and they will do it and it will save you thousands of dollars over the course of your life (and a lot of pain too).
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There is a disturbing trend over the past few years of using social activism as a pretense for outright harassment and bullying. The most disturbing part is that it allows the harassment to happen completely out in the open. The harassers will gladly sign their own name to the actions, with the implication that if anyone should question them then their detractors will be the next target.

Welcome to the New McCarthyism.
All solid advice. Involvement with an open source project with decent name recognition can give a leg up with all of this.
(IANAL and I haven't even read the document)

My interpretation of that has been to safeguard against a smaller country or two dropping out:

For example, if NZ bailed at the last minute, the agreement would still hold between the other 11 countries to whatever extent is applicable. However, if some critical mass of countries all drop out, the whole agreement is invalidated.

In this sense, the negotiators didn't bind their countries to anything; they just set some terms regarding what does and does not invalidate the entire agreement.
Education - developing and sharing knowledge; its organization and distribution, like degrees, curriculums (curricula!), lessons; multimedia content, text books; discussions, tools..

Government - massive legacy monolith in serious need of public participation: to build new features, refactor, improve efficiency of the decision-making process, better tracking of performance issues, cost/spending, transparency and accountability. The open-source model seems particularly appropriate here.

Social infrastructure - research, development and distribution of information for alternative/affordable/sustainable ways to build machines, equipment, farming, housing, renewable energy.. Projects to help people improve their conditions in "developing" countries.

Scientific advances from outside traditional contexts like academia and corporations - more ways for amateur scientists and serious hobbyists to build, invent, experiment, collaborate.
Same here. I want to believe that it's just a minority of students, but it's like every day there is a new incident like that.

It was reported that most of the administration in colleges is composed of liberals. To be clear, I have nothing against liberals but the over-representation of a specific political/societal opinion in an education setting is not a good thing. And I would say the same thing if it was mostly conservatives in charge of education.

And to contrast with what I just wrote, I don't think colleges are responsible (not directly at least) for this new trend, I think they just go with the flow and try to cater to students to attract them, they just give them what they want (safe spaces, puppy time, trigger warnings, etc) to make sure they can keep bringing revenue.
There are other successful exits than being completely profitable and sustainable. There's always the "bought out by player with bigger pockets and/or competition" ending?

Are startup investors going back to profitability as their key measure? Some might hope so but I think traction and marketshare are far more visible right now...
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I even love saying the word "TEAM".
>while full-service restaurants can often (and at great inconvenience) accommodate the small part of the population that has true and significant reactions to ingredients, they're not equipped to handle a huge percentage of their customers asking for changes (which will often require them to use totally separate prep, storage, and mise en place)

This is technically true, but nothing requires "asking for changes" to done with the same painful effort as avoiding allergens. You don't need separate prep and storage to skip an ingredient, and 1% cross-contamination isn't going to hurt someone that just wants a different taste or nutrient balance.
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Same here, but as I listened to more samples, I started hearing the noise throughout the sample, a swishing sound mixed in with the music. $25 headphones here (Sennheiser HD202).
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If the students are bullying, then name them! The only way I can see to stop a bully is to fully expose them.
When I saw the reemergence of postmodern feminism and critical theory brewing up over the past couple of years or so, initially on fringe alt-media like Tumblr blogs, I just expected it'd be another brief intellectual trend that would fizzle out.

Nope, it exploded into an all-out culture war I couldn't have imagined.

Unsurprisingly, all this identity politicking has been met by a swift reactionary movement in bile like The Daily Stormer becoming surprisingly popular given how niche the ideology generally is. It's a buffoonish competition of "more persecuted than thou".

Meanwhile, liberal values get to bite the dust.
This unfortunately matches the rhetoric of the students themselves, which is exactly what we should not be doing.
So far for dental work anesthetics have always taken for me (or I've been knocked out, like when my wisdom teeth were pulled). I only brought it up because the foot happens to be another particularly sensitive area of the body. It's possible to get by without anesthetics, and you may (though I hope no one here ever has to find out) surprise yourself by how much you can tolerate while still remaining still for the procedure.

But in general, I think you're correct that dental work is harder. A bunch of stitches on the bottom of your foot, however, is still some sort of torture. The ones I've had on my head or arms or torso with other non-functioning anesthetics were far easier to take.
When political correctness goes wrong...

Seriously though, what is wrong with people these days that they can't even have a dialogue?

Is this the result of the us vs. them propaganda started by George W. Bush? The result of an education system which forces students to only memorize, and not to think? The result of a generation of helicopter parents?

Regardless, it's scary to think that in this day and age in which we consider ourselves so 'progressive', people attack others' beliefs (even very moderate ones) with a zeal that would make ISIS proud...
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But since no one does that, the result is that everyone has half of their config files in $HOME, and the other half in $HOME/.config.
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Interesting observation. Can't understand why you have been voted down!
I confess, I'm not myself an English native speaker, but there seems to be a proper definition for non-physical violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence#Non-physical
The point of the article was that the restaurant can't always tell whether customers are asking because they have real problems, so that 1% contamination is going to be a huge problem, or just a preference. If they're going to serve someone who says they have a food allergy, they often have to err on the safe side.
I've read about this previously, and would love to see it take place.

But would kissing spread the non-tooth decay version of the bacteria, or the tooth decay version? Testing must be done!

Also, TIL that bottled water promotes tooth decay (by displacing flouridated tap water consumption)

" there are several factors that are likely to increase the incidence and frequency of tooth decay, including increasing consumption of both dietary sugar and bottled water. Bottled water generally does not contain fluoride, and thus does not impart any of the protective effects of fluoridated water from public systems."
I wonder if a boom would bring a change in some of the issues that many people find less desirable (ie. drinking laws).

Part of why the Bay Area sees the demand it does is not just because of jobs, but because of the combination of great weather, great food/drink, lots to due in the area, and a highly liberal bent.

Those things would likely outlast any sort of future tech bubble popping (if we are indeed in another one).
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I've worked with this dataset.

Since the dataset is derived from the official HN API, there is no tabulation for Comment Karma, which will result in misleading rankings if attempting to reverse-engineer overall karma.
This is exactly the tactic those bullies use on their victims. "But it's okay because we're on the right side" is exactly the reasoning they use, as well.