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Should I pursue the mentoring program in corporation?
As a typical technical mind person, I'm naturally attracted to hacker news. Meanwhile, as getting deeper involved in corporate politics and the dynamic so things can get done, and push for "right" agenda (design, vision, strategy etc.), I'm starting to be asked to join the mentoring program and learn soft skills and involving in career planning etc. etc. However, inside I've always been a person hate to deal with people, especially the general crowd where lack of wisdom or logic, so only same kind people as me attracted me. I seriously thought I could get away from the pop corporate culture throughout my life. Now, it's knocking on my door. I'm afraid if I refuse this will leaves a negative impression to corporate as a person who doesn't want to go up the latter or join the rest of them. What should I do?
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Great stuff. Also love the UI. Thank you, Sama!
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>(EDIT: This does not mean that he necessarily didn't have mental problems, but that he was coherent enough to be able to justify his decisions sufficiently that the court found he was competent to make his own decisions about whether or not he needed treatment)

Where is the difference between this guy and the one who risks their lives and their childrens' lives by being a missionary in some place where their work can be punished by death? If anything, this man is more sane as he isn't risk his life and the lives of those close to him.

P.S. I'm a religious guy myself, but I am seriously asking this. In many ways religion itself can seem to be a mental illness if it weren't so popular.
No, I'm referring to real matter stars. DM critters would see the gravitation from real stars, and would watch them implode into black holes.
In the US though there is a sad twist to this story. I know a family with a mentally ill adult daughter. They have health insurance, but insurance doesn't want to cover "unnecessary treatments." Sometimes when the daughter has had a psychotic episode or another acute difficulty, insurance has not been willing to cover inpatient treatment/overnight stays. On at least one occasion, the family has waited with fear and danger to figure out how she can get treatment, only to get the blessed call from the police: Your daughter hasn't hurt anyone else (yet), but she totaled her car/got caught stealing/got found by police in the street; since we've arrested her and do believe she's a threat to herself or others we can admit her on a 72 hour hold. And now insurance will cover it.

When compulsory doctor visits are not working, care is not available to those who need it in the US because of cost and insurance. It's not government taking away our freedom here, and it's a pity more Americans don't see this.
Software obviously kills people sometimes. But I'm pretty sure that people who blindly copy/paste code from the internet into production systems don't.
> - "a prohibition on the worst forms of child labour"

Just the worst. A little child labour, that's OK. I'd love to see the circles any lawyer would have to run to give a legal definition of the "worst" forms of child labour.
It's pretty easy to get numbers that big when you're Twitter's size. Salary and overhead (taxes, rent, food) for 1000 employees is probably on the order of $300-400m/year, and
server costs for a high traffic site like Twitter is probably on the order of $100m/year.
<mind-control-sarcasm fetch-type="eager">Cool, maybe we'll finally see what happens when there are no American vested interests in fluoridating water now.</mind-control-sarcasm>
Well, if the other metrics are as bad as they sound then saving $3K USD per employee might not be a net win for AT&T.
That sounds like the next hot startup! Will you be dogfooding your own service?
How Ruby Interprets and Runs Your Programs
Why should it be easy for us to understand the system that (we assume) gave rise to us? In fact, there are numerous arguments via things like Godel's theorem that it should be hard by definition to understand one's "container."
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If those people are still criminals in the US, they will have to deal with organized criminal organizations to export to US instead of using the official channels.

One big benefit of legalization of drugs was that the organized criminals wouldn't be able to make money off it, but most of their business is in the US anyway.
I have a really hard time buying a lot of this about how novelty and monopoly are keys to a successful company. If you look at the really successful startups, especially unicorns, almost none of them are actually monopolies or new ideas. The vast, vast majority are old products done right, and almost all of them have very substantial competition. This attitude is, in fact, encompassed in the near footnote-like section entitled "Competition." That section sums it all up: success is determined with obsessively improving the company. Competition isn't what kills, it is failure to keep on improving.

https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies

There is the list of current Unicorns. I can't think of one of them that doesn't have very, very substantial competition or is a genuinely novel product. All of them ventured into highly competitive, well-worn fields and what set them apart was quality of service, ease of use, and responsivity. Very few of them made conceptual leaps in the underlying product - they mostly made leaps in lowering activity energy to use products or solving associated logistical problems.

Sorry Sam, I have to politely disagree with you on this one. Lord knows you are the one with the resume and authority on this, but I am a startup lawyer and work with clients on this stuff all day, so I am not totally unqualified. I do defer to your judgment, obviously, on companies that you want to fund, and your track record more than speaks for itself. However, what I want to know is if there isn't some disconnect between the companies you do fund and the attitude that is expressed in this post. I would love to hear your insights or opinions on whether you feel that I have this wrong, and if you think that the next generation of unicorns are going to be novel monopolies, or that maybe I am misreading the characteristics of current successful startups.
Um... the question would be what the definition of "Party" is in the agreement. If a Party is a signatory country, than it wouldn't affect the GPL. If a "Party" is just "anyone", then it might?
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INAL but I think it has more to do with deals like where China requires the source code of certain products before they're allowed to be imported or used by the Chinese government.

It doesn't read like it would prevent an individual from applying the GPL to their software but it might prevent the government from doing the same... Which would be exceptionally strange and problematic.

It could mean that government agencies would be prohibited from contributing to GPL-styled open source software or even using said software since they would be required to distribute it to anyone that asks for the code.
It's a minor browser feature. Most people will never use e.g. the mozilla developer tools.
This is partially selected for based on the kinds of businesses Berkshire invests in. They love high free-cash-flow businesses with significant regulatory or operational barriers to entry; the cash flow is then available to finance other acquisitions when opportunities arise, at a very low cost of capital.

In those kinds of businesses, there tend to be easy-to-understand performance metrics that can actually be optimized for on a longer term. The bet on the business model has already happened and there is limited ability to make company-risking bets or engage in empire-building.

One notable thing about Berkshire businesses is that internally they tend to be extremely "thrifty". Their insurance operations have one of the lowest expense ratios (operational expenses as a fraction of premiums) in the business, and are some of the only ones to actually make a profit off of the premiums directly rather than off of investing their float.
The discovery URL is only used for bootstrapping, nothing will break if you specify IPs instead. They are interchangeable.
Her dad apparently made a great recovery; the sad thing is that the event that made it possible is a heart attack, i.e. an organic condition. Shows how little society cares about mental illness IMHO (although free will issues have been pointed out)
How do I shovel food into my maw when I'm wearing VR goggles? What happens when my spoon misses the bowl?
distributed doge network.... i like it.
We certainly need to initiate leadership in trade in the Asia Pacific region before China writes the rules of the road. If the last 7 years are any indication China's rulebook our inaction will result in them owning everything within a 1000 mile radius of their coastline and using dirty extraction and dirty construction to turn Vietnam, Indonesia and others into pollution leading concrete jungles similar to Beijing. Question is whether the measures to protect American manufacturing in key growth industries are enough to offset free labor, and whether they are truly market-based and therefore sustainable. I'll enjoy reviewing
Mistakes Will Happen in Building a Startup – But You Will Learn from Them
You're going to have me counting the words in the sentences.
Can an Algorithm Prove You Won’t Quit Your Next Job?
It should be called "undelete". Decomment sounds like it is deleting comments.
> As China and other places green, you can expect the price of aluminum to rise and production to float to other places.

It's the opposite. As green energy gets cheaper than the traditional sources (subsidized or not), only then you get a massive shift to the green energy. Until then only very rich countries can subsidize enough green energy to make any meaningful changes.
Reducing crime by not calling something a crime doesn't help very much.

The crimes Mexican people most want to reduce are the violent crimes, the corruption, etc, all caused by people having to deal directly or indirectly with cartels if they want to produce/sell/consume drugs.

As long as the US keeps drugs illegal in their market, people will have to deal with the cartels to be able to sell there, and the US is the biggest market.
How are we still having this same damn conversation with the same tired drawn out, poorly conceived, cheaply constructed and even easily destroyed arguments?

> Mozilla is not a political organization, his opinions in this matter should make no difference whatsoever.

How can you be serious?! How would you feel as an out direct report to Eich? I wouldn't want to work for that person.

Freedom of Speech is a meaningless phrase in this context. As an employee of the company, he is free to say what he wants and Mozilla is free to respond as they see fit. Period, end of story.
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"As you start to rate articles in a topic, we show the predicted number of stars for all articles you haven't rated"

I'm not sure the average user would be actually interested in this, it might even be bad to show them the "magic" at all because they might try to game it and muddle their own results. He has the newest stuff you determined he might like at the top and is good to go (the focus should be more on the articles itself than on the ratings, although you need the ratings). More experienced or technical-savvy users might be interested in it, so perhaps make it an option to display this information if wanted.

Here is an idea so that you still get your ratings: What I have recently seen on lichess.org is the occasional reminder to vote their training-games. You should do the same. E.g.: If a user hasn't rated anything in a while. Or perhaps display just a reminder every few visits to actually get the data your tool needs to be better.
> I couldn't immediately see any of the other suggested lists

Fanboy's Anti-ThirdpartySocial is right there in the list of lists, under the Social header.

> In contrast, with a couple of fire-and-forget plug-ins I've been installing as standard for years until recent FF updates broke them

Ok, my answer was meant to address your point that uBO was no replacement for ABE, as you stated "uBlock Origin is apparently now the blessed alternative [to ABE]".
This is absurd. First, structural engineering in the developed world is insanely expensive because everything is overbuilt by at least 100% and teams of expensive senior people are hired to check every single number many times over the course of many months.

Software engineering, in contrast, is rushed out the door by typically over-worked, junior, and small teams. Blame the management, not the engineers.

But more importantly, this is totally beside the point, because the two problems aren't even the same: most software has to change constantly; structures mostly stay the same. The hard part about software engineering is designing for flexibility -- it's ridiculously easy to build software that never changes.

Oh, and by the way, it is extremely common to have significant structural flaws in major construction projects; they simply find ways to go in and fix them before the building collapses, but not always before leaks occur, mold grows, etc.
I'd think, personally, a bit less so if he signed up specifically to post that one thing, and contribute absolutely nothing else..
I toured Sun Microsytems a long time ago, and at the time, they said they gave all employees private offices. They had copious open areas for team collaboration, but everyone appeared to have their own (small) private office.

I think they eventually moved to floating offices with Sun-Rays everywhere, plug in your employee ID at any workstation and your desktop (and phone) magically appeared in that office.

Seemed like it would have been a good place to work at the time (mid 90's, just as they were starting to skyrocket along with the dotcom boom).
How about you mind your own business instead of attempting to project your own personal set of ethics onto somebody else?
How to design the perfect contact page
Not working for me...says I am not part of any organization but I am a member of two.
SR&ED was pretty decent for me this year. I claimed almost $120k in qualifying expenses (a roughly $90k salary for myself and the proxy amount).

I spent about two weeks putting together the application (along with the rest of my corporate tax return, so time was spent there too), and wrote up a few pages about the software development work that we did.

It took about 2 months for them to respond, and I was approved without a request for additional supporting documents. I received $48k.

I don't think I'll try and apply for it again next year, since I think it's going to be harder to justify the time expense, but overall, it wasn't so bad for a small claim.

I can certainly see how larger claims than mine become onerous though.
That depends very much on what's doing the chatting. If it's code chatting with other code -- for example, mobile devices receiving near-real-time notifications -- then half a million is just getting started.
Apart from data privacy and formal restrictions on sharing, what would you say the reason for this lack of public data is?

Am I right to say that the bandwidth and storage needed to upload whole genomes is prohibitive?
I'm curious to hear about those arguments.

My intuition tells me that what makes it hard is that if you are part of the system trying to understand the full system, you must change the system in order to observe it. In effect, you can never have a perfect model of the system because the system will always be affected by the model you build.
I'm not buying it. In what popular language would 'Null Media LLC' as a string have 'Null ' dropped from it. You'd be bending over backwards to write a system that would do that. If his last name was an escape sequence, I could understand.
It is pending.
Party = country here.
I can count with zero fingers the number of times I've used ADB for debugging my phone.
I'd very much like to separate "paid" from "is using real name"; many of the twitter accounts I follow aren't people under their real names.
Nope. For your assisted outpatient treatment, for instance, you must show that the person

"have a history of non-compliance with treatment that has:
been a significant factor in his or her being in a hospital, prison or jail at least twice within the last thirty-six months or [] resulted in one or more acts, attempts or threats of serious violent behavior toward self or others within the last forty-eight months; and

be unlikely to voluntarily participate in treatment; and

be, in view of his or her treatment history and current behavior, in need of assisted outpatient treatment in order to prevent
a relapse or deterioration which would be likely to result in: a substantial risk of physical harm to the patient as manifested by threats of or attempts at suicide or serious bodily harm or conduct demonstrating that the patient is dangerous to himself or herself, or
a substantial risk of physical harm to other persons as manifested by homicidal or other violent behavior by which others are placed in reasonable fear of serious physical harm"

etc. So if he hasn't showed that he's going to harm himself or someone else, there's no help from our health care system, whether the government or insurance. No one will admit him and no one will pay for it. Trying to forcibly or bodily move the guy would be a crime for the daughter.

http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/aot/assisted-outpatient-treat...
I couldn't resist so I tried a table look-up (16 elements) version which was about twice as fast as the multiply version.

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Can you please get the designer of this playbook and ycombinator.com to redesign HN too?
Actually, can I contact you @uniprot.org with more questions?
We have certifications in different parts of tech that are not exactly the best indicators of knowledge / skill either (see: MCSE, RHCE, CCNA, CCIE, Java certifications...) so one of the distinguishing factors I see is not a level of formalization / standards but the adherence to standards as consumers of an industry's output. For example, there's not a lot of start-ups making skyscrapers, so the market for those selling the construction becomes large entities like governments and corporations, and the standards become ones that they care about. This is similar to how software is sold to the government, which is completely different than how it is for consumer software. But few people buying Wordpress are willing to buy some mythical Enterprise Edition that's $100k / mo with an operations team at your service basically, so the cost of paperwork pushing involved for the bureaucracy-driven customers is removed at the cost of perhaps some corners cut.

However, I see quality output as a false dichotomy (rather, negative correlation) with bureaucracy / regulation of an industry's workers - look at the horrendous crap being produced for the Pentagon. Forget the glitzy articles in Wired and Techcrunch for defense-tech companies - most tech for government is done by under-qualified folks trying to make a quick buck off of Uncle Sam that couldn't really make it in the commercial software world. They'd be hard-pressed to make anything even close to some Chinese knock-off of a tech product if it came down to the wire. But I suppose this is because most defense contracts are regulated based around political and social requirements (see: the advantages for being a disadvantaged minority in getting a defense contract, plus Veteran's preferences) rather than actual functional requirements. Maybe the medical software industry is a better example of regulations in the right place (not that it's well done).
Another foreign bank bets on blockchain while U.S. counterparts dabble
Link needs relabeling. No avowed atheists were included in study.
Pathogen identification is indeed a very exciting application for NGS. In case you're interested, here[0] is a paper about a tool called SURPI (Sequence-based Ultra-Rapid Pathogen Identification) which was designed for that purpose. Also, here[1] is a case report from the NEJM where SURPI was used to diagnose a patient with Neuroleptospirosis, which allowed him to be treated quickly and eventually recover. SURPI isn't the only horse in this game, of course, but I've worked with it before so it immediately came to mind.

[0]: "A cloud-compatible bioinformatics pipeline for ultrarapid pathogen identification from next-generation sequencing of clinical samples" http://genome.cshlp.org/content/24/7/1180.long

[1]: "Actionable Diagnosis of Neuroleptospirosis by Next-Generation Sequencing" http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1401268
Is this satire?
If the civil rights movement has taught us anything, we know that there is a difference between legal right and moral right.

This action of Mozilla's doesn't peal back the first amendment. But it does chill the free exchange of ideas. That's what the first amendment was for. Shouldn't we be concerned when someone finds a way around the safeguards we put in place to protect free society?
>"There are no homeless people in Hawaii"

This person is sadly misinformed.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/hawaii-grap...
If this is something that is expected to be around for awhile I recommend talking to an editor. Friends are good to check for overall content and typos, but they are too familiar with the subject to check how well you convey something and too nice to really tear through the text objectively.
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I don't agree with you. I would argue that Genomics England is doing genomics right with the 100k genomes project and they certainly aren't doing custom analysis. Their pipeline is standard through variant calling and annotation. The WGS pipelines are pretty well established at this time. What you do with your VCFs is what can be customized. There is no reason for a small lab to write their own aligner or variant caller. The most that many do is write wrappers to create "customized pipelines", which is really just reinventing the wheel.

EDIT: I want to clarify my mindset. In the environment that I work in there are three stages of analysis: primary, secondary, and tertiary. We mostly ignore the tertiary stage (I'm not actually doing science). Primary analysis is on instrument (base calling), secondary analysis takes you through variant calls and annotation, and tertiary analysis is where the real science happens. When I'm talking about canned analyses I'm talking about what I refer to as secondary analysis. Tertiary analysis is a very hard problem and will often require custom solutions. In my mind I'm separating bioinformatic analysis (secondary analysis) with interpretation (tertiary analysis).
Can you still be convicted on evidence coming from an imported, computer-controlled device, if a treaty prevents your examining it?

http://www.cnet.com/news/police-blotter-defendant-wins-breat...
Respond to phone calls with emails. This will move the conversation to your preferred channel.

That said, if your employer's business is based on providing clients with phone access, then that's what why they pay you.
I have a very similar setup, except using YNAB[0]. I never felt like I really used Mint, besides just going and looking at my balances and (infrequently) thinking, "huh, looks like I'm over-budget again". With this setup, I feel like I'm taking matters into my own hands, which has had a noticeable impact on my spending and planning discipline.

Thanks for the link to your project, looks really useful!

[0]: https://www.youneedabudget.com/