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Actuary here, though I don't work with these types of policies.

Your description of how insurance makes money is the standard understanding. However, I would think that most products do have some underwriting gain built in as well.

It can get pretty complex as you need to set up a liability (reserve) to match the assets (premium) that come in. Interest causes both the asset and liability to increase. As benefits are paid out, both the asset and liability decrease. If the liability decreases more than the asset, you make money. Or if you have a substantial surplus (asset - liability), the interest on that is pure profit as well.
Another tool like this, written in Go:

https://github.com/dinedal/textql
Considering what their software actually does, which is basically displaying a dashboard of nice tables / visualizations / graphs, and knobs to turn those visualizations/graphs, no. Palantir barely does any machine learning.
Implementing a CNN for Text Classification in Tensorflow
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> You know why? Because compliance departments don't have teeth.

Unless they do of course.

> In an ideal world, compliance departments should be staffed with asshole anal geniuses.

That's the (legendary) IBM Black Team option. That's not the only one though, the (almost as legendary) "on-board shuttle group" did that with friendly rivalry and an absolutely anal process (which, importantly, is solely blamed and amended whenever problems occur).
This is partly outdated.

Tight sulphur emission regulations happened in 2015. However they are limited to more populated areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur_Emission_Control_Area

NOx limits are tightening. Didn't get a great link but this has something:
http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/PollutionPreventio...
The "vast majority" of our ancestors were single cell beings.
I worked with a large company preparing for Solvency II. My impression was that it would generally increase regulatory capital requirements, not decrease.
10x10 is brutal. We usually do a strict 2:00 rest between sets, but one time tried dropping that to 90 seconds and it was at least twice as bad.
I'd be really interested in seeing the actual presentation. Does anyone have a link to the slides?
The article says:

"We stress that this is a theoretical attack on the definition of security and we do not see any way of turning the attack into a full plaintext-recovery attack."

... which appears wrong, and even published after the other paper?
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>How the disappeared from the sex toy

Title needs a penis. Should be:

How the penis disappeared from the sex toy
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You can show that the likelihood (read: P(data|~X) of ~X is low, given a particular underlying model and a set of observations. To bootstrap that to a probability of ~X (read: P(~X | data) ), you need philosophy to help choose a prior on the underlying set of models.

Or of course you can just ignore these details and fallaciously conflate likelihood and probability like most pop-frequentists, but that leads to crazy results even in the "real world."
If you did philosophy you know that arguing over word definitions is a complete and utter waste of time and effort. What is altruism? Go. Be bored. Makes a mockery of the entire philosophy of morality.

While Philosophy is useful in teaching you to understand the crux of an argument and how to structure an argument, the discipline itself is of little merit and consequence in this day and age.

We had this argument here recently, Phil of Sci is a post-facto justification of methodology successful scientists already employed.

Having done it myself, it's not really a discipline, it's a side-note of historical interest. Saying that intelligent people like Feynman couldn't understand PhilSci without studying it is laughable. Especially because it's one of the simplest branches if you skip the tiresome arguments about word definitions in empiricism.
>VW should have a department that checks up on these sneaky cheating engineers to make sure they don't expose the company to liability.

What would eventually happen is that this department would decide to if the liability is greater than the profits generated by the cheat.
The iPhone 6S is rated at 172.8 GFlops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mobile_application_proce...
People hate change, no matter how good or bad. For instance, Arlington, VA has transformed massively since they ran the DC Metro through it. To someone who was alive in the 1960s the parts near the Metro lines would be almost unrecognizable.

Here's a letter to the editor complaining of all the changes in Arlington written a few days ago:

https://www.arlnow.com/2015/12/09/letter-to-the-editor-arlin...

TL;DR old woman complains of change, wishes there were still cows in land immediately adjacent to the nation's capital city.
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The Android Telegram app uses a closed source blob for messaging, so we can't check what it does either.

The server sofware is closed source too, so we can't check what it does either.

What is your point then when both ends of the communication are closed source?
It's a good thing that states and state-owned enterprises always optimize for the well-being of their citizens and customers - after all, that's what they're supposed to do! It never happens that, being largely unaccountable, people working for the state and its enterprises act to maximize their own well-being and minimize their own effort at the expense of the citizens and customers.

This is why the enemy is capital, not human nature. All you need is employ people in properly-named organizations with properly stated lofty goals (the constitution of Stalin-era USSR is a good source of inspiration), and none of their bad traits will ever rear their ugly heads!
Not everyone. To some, it will always be better back in ye olden times.
There's a nice table with $5 and $.5 words here:

https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/style/pompous_words.html

First time encountering the expression for me. It's not about jargon, as far as I can tell.
Interesting that this gets posted at the end of the week when a significant percentage of the readership is stoned ...
Yes, but in this case compliance is quite difficult. Why would the compliance department go out of its way to develop a new mobile testing infrastructure when that isn't the industry standard? So it seems very plausible in this case that compliance might not have found the issue. It required a novel method of testing to discover the cheat.

I have to be honest, when I first heard about this, I suspected a genetic algorithm as the culprit. It's exactly the kind of result you'd expect when giving an impossible optimization without sufficient boundary constraint. AIs can and have been known to cheat, and because the fitness driver would have been compliance (V&V) the GA could plausibly have settled on methods that were undetectable (i.e. Not part of the fitness function).

Often the output of GA code is not understood formally by engineers, or reverse-engineered into a traditional algorithm, so it's plausible that it could have remained hidden in plain sight.

BUT, if that had truly been the case, the engineers at VW would have quickly suspected and publicized it. So the fact that VW blinked showed that in fact they lied and didn't have an honest technical explanation.

However, I think the GA scenario is good to keep aware of as we increasingly rely on machines to optimize solutions based on testing.
How it is that one can (seemingly) reason effectively using inductive logic despite its not being, according to Hume, formally valid is exactly the question Hume is interested in. You might think he's wrong to find this interesting, which is fine. But remember that the point of philosophy is to be grappled with--if you ignore the work just because you think the conclusion is incorrect, I submit that you're doing it wrong.
In some ways git blame accomplishes this, at least conceptually.

It chains back through the diffs to find out who edited the line.

So to address the OP problem you could have a hash that was based on :
Original Line number , diff id , diff id etc
What's a free market?
As opposed to London where companies just can't _afford_ office space ;)
I did undergrad at UMass Amherst, where computer-science students take math up to multivariable calculus 1 and linear algebra. I then did my MSc at the Technion, where some amount of differential equations and vector calculus is normal for undergrads, but even there, requiring multiple semesters of analysis to grant a degree in computing, where most of the maths are discrete, is considered overkill.
In a sensible world, building loads of office space should decrease the price of it.

But welcome to London...
Compose.io also looks like a good choice https://www.compose.io/postgresql . I have no affiliation with them, just wanted to try their service for attractive pricing.
And the article linked by tptacek (by the same authors) builds on this and shows practical attacks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713064
Even if that were the case in this case they really messed up.
The obvious counterargument is that every ideology that tries to force theories to be accepted for aesthetic or subjective reasons is just as fundamentally anti-science.

This situation is more complex than these quotes can handle. The most relevant link I have is to http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/, if anything.
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Engineer in this context appear to mean: anybody not present in the board room

Which is kind of ironic since 4 out of 7 of VW's board hold technical or engineering degrees.
Looking at the latest release of Anglican, it looks awesome. I'm quite happy to see a PPL actually being maintained that still uses a functional-style `query` (allowing conditional distributions to be Yet More Distributions) instead of the imperative observe-infer programming from Venture.
Singularitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularitarianism

EDIT: I agree with the parent reply that Elizer's writings do not rise to the level of good philosophy, but don't believe that 'singularitarianism' can currently be considered a cult. But it possesses some attributes similar to cults so I believe it's correct to call it a 'cult-like' or 'proto-cult' belief system.
I was about to write: "there is something like printed journals" (I read it at the physiotherapist while waiting for my treatment).
But it is online:
http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/testbericht/real-abgastes...
Test your german.

I just saw, that the Fiat 500 is even worse that all the others. Shocking results.
If we can exchange it at a standard postal office, we'll do it.
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The name made me remember some childhood anime antagonists.

sigh i miss those times.
> new residents, who want to add bike lanes. The congregation doesn't like that because it would reduce on-street parking.

One can easily imagine the bike lanes being used as stealth exclusionary devices, which depresses me as I would rather see them as empowering people through better urban transportation.
Always wanted that github sticker, never knew where to get from :)
Free for small teams, paid for larger ones maybe? Both cloud and self-hosted. Both core and agile.
I don't really understand how a state law declaring something as so can have any relevant effect on federal determinations of employee/contractor status, which is far more dangerous to the TNCs business model. This mostly seems like feel-good legislation purchased by Uber to try to delay the inevitable, but the drivers are employees by any sort of logical duck test, and it's only a matter of time before the courts come to that conclusion too.
Does anyone here know the theoretical (usable) energy output they can expect to get from this device?
Another reason for Uber to delay going public - so they don't have to show the world how much they spend on lobbyists.
Das geht schon ;)

Surprisingly, the EA189 does not even appear to be the worst offender there.
How do you know they are doing fine? :) I don't like the UI. Looks a bit clunky. So maybe there is a market...
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> This is the sort of thing that Germans tend to be big on and it is one of the reasons 'made in Germany' was seen as a source of trust and quality.

And this is a huge part of why I will never buy a Volkswagon, and possibly never buy a German car. Not even used, because that contributes to the predicted resale value of new.

Volkswagon has made great effort to position themselves as environmentally conscious, with lighthearted ukulele music, kids running through clean air, flowers and lots of white backgrounds. They said a specific thing, while they were doing an exactly opposite thing. A thing that is deadly in the small and in the large.

I bought a used car just before the scandal hit. I'm old enough to remember when American cars were seen as piles of junk. I was trying to be open while walking the lot, and I did sit in some American cars. But due to my prejudice, I ended up thinking "Japanese or German, Japanese or German, ..." while walking the lot. And the next time I buy a car, that chant will be much shorter.
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Nice! Just added to my list of Python wrappers -> https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api-wrappers#mo...
I agree. If we're going to add compliance the list of groups to blame, we might as well add the regulators. VW did pass the test.
I didn't have my speakers on, so I wasn't aware there were any!

(And, TBH, I rather like the idea of the bandwidth heavy video player automatically turning off when it becomes invisible.)
> no way to check what WhatsApp or iMessage are doing because they're not open source

> Reverse engineering is possible, but is tedious

I think for a security-related application, trusting that the code you have is the one being built and distributed as binary is a huge oversight. I'd argue that sniffing packets and stepping through code is the proper way (of course having code /does/ help with this) Consider: what idiot would put a backdoor in plain sight?
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If a DirectX game written in Visual Basic is malware, you can call me sally!
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When will city buildings stop being delineated by ground-level roads, and start extending thru the space over roads - making single vast structures instead of individual spires?
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You mean, because the Russians parked their money there?
Fun project, cheers!
go to a conference that they sponsor (or at least have a booth at), they will be everywhere. I went to a small regional Python conference a couple years back and they were there.
Yeah -- I see this not going very far as the states don't really have control over this.
To (somewhat) rate limit it, we'll only send 2 stickers back per envelope (regardless of whether the envelope has 1 sticker or 10 stickers in it).
> Just got through writing an essay comparing the conditions that led to Sir Francis Bacon's New Orgonon with conditions in the Agile practitioner community today.

Can you share a link to the essay?
It's important to choose a single coherent definition of "alive" so that we can accurately communicate with each other. But it's actually not a very important question whether a virus is alive.

If I define "alive" as {X, Y, Z}, then I might make scientific claims like "alive -> Q". This is a shorthand for "{X, Y, Z} -> Q".

If you define "alive" as {X, Y}, then according to your definition "alive -> Q" might be false.

But as long as we can clearly disambiguate and substitute definition for term, there is no problem. I am claiming "{X,Y,Z} -> Q" while you are claiming "it is unproven that {X,Y} -> Q".

See also: http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/
Well that is obvious after 2008. Last I checked there are around 5 vacant houses for every homeless person in America. According to anthropologist David Graeber, the real original (pun intended) meaning of the phrase "real estate" was royal estate, referring to the British monarchies' royal estate in the 17th century.
Oh, cool. Well, thanks for that. That's just one of several random things around, but seriously the chemical weapon detectors were labelled and chained to a pole. That was funny. :)
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"A Science Of Operations" sounds great.

But can someone explain to me why the hard cover costs $120 (Amazon), and the paperback $180 (Amazon, B&N)?

It's 342 pages, so it's not like it's one of those encyclopedic tomes. Not that I try justifying a price-per-page, but what is it, a collection of expensive papers in print form?
Yeah sorry, comment written too hastily and had the inverse meaning I intended. I agree, Solvency II increases capital requirements. Edited to be "with respect to S2" rather than "such as S2".
With 760 million cars in the world and 7 billion people, that's one car per 921 people..

So if you have a car and your family is smaller than 921 children, you're ahead of the game, globally.
There are workplace cultures where that's not a senior engineer's prerogative. The tea leaves in the question could be read as suggesting that is the case (though alternate readings are possible). From here, I don't see enough information to determine if it's nature or nurture.
Just some basic particulars (if you can call them that): he is not in the habit of carefully exploring alternative views to his own (instead he ridicules them without attempting to understand them); he seems to write as if both his deductions and assumptions are obvious rather than question them; he almost never tackles more current actual philosophical ideas (rather than occasionally paint them in an "obviously" ridiculous light by completely misunderstanding them); most importantly, he seems to present a definitive answer after definitive answer rather than seriously and systematically explore questions.

That is not to say that I don't occasionally agree with his conclusions, but his process lacks the originality and constant self-doubt that makes philosophy so entertaining and interesting. Instead, it offers dismissal or certainty -- stuff that may make religion or blog posts entertaining. But that's not philosophy.

Besides, my vague insults are pretty much the common view (which is actually far more dismissive than I have been). It is anyone in the small minority who considers Yudkowsky a philosopher that requires substantive justification. In any case, even if you find his writings convincing, Yudkowsky would still make for a very bad foray into philosophy, because he tends to make up his own nomenclature rather than use accepted one (and present age-old ideas as his own). His fondness of definitive answers and ridicule of others means his work mostly serves to confuse rather than enlighten anyone who is interested in what philosophers do, or what current interesting debates are taking place. Even if you disagree with all that, you would surely agree that a fringe thinker, unrecognized by the academic community and who's not recognized to have made a single original contribution to the field (pretty much by anyone) is probably not the best guide for a beginner.
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Having worked in highly regulated environments, I would characterize the role of the compliance department more as enabling business operation and development while keeping the regulatory risks acceptable. Often times I found out technical staff had a far more black & white view on rules and regulation than was warranted by compliance.
Oh yeah it does baby, just slide it right in there.
We're using piwik(https://piwik.org) for analytics, which has a nice map view.
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Ask HN: Why are so few people using/talking about Mithril.js?
I see a lot is being talked about React, AngularJS (even Ember): tutorials, performance benchmarks, posts, videos, libraries, etc.

But recently I found out about Mithril.js and it seems to me that is technically superior than most of it competitors (in terms of performance, ease of use and size), and yet, pratically nobody is talking about it.

Is this just a marketing issue or am I missing some crucial point here?
> I don't really understand how a state law declaring something as so can have any relevant effect on federal determinations of employee/contractor status

1) It causes the state tax boards to go along with it so Uber can focus its legal resources on when it gets dragged into Federal court.

2) If it becomes "usual and customary" in enough states a Republican congress might be willing to pass a bill to back it.
In the context of startups, my understanding is that it's not enough to identify a small initial market (e.g. Julius Caesar impersonators), ideally it should have some reasonable potential to be huge in the future.
This, actually, is much better; the Slashdot summary is often wildly inaccurate, alas.

Thanks intelligent commenters!
> displacing poor blacks

That would be "redlining", another very despicable tactic used to keep cities segregated.

If you haven't read it, Ta-Nehisi Coates impressive essay on the subject is worth a read.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...
>there is a much higher chance that someone here has a gun

valid point.
So towards the end of your post, I began to get the impression the tongue was somewhere in the cheek. But up to that point I was thinking there was some good insight there. The dichotomy of business vs the state. The roles of each: A business to make money; the state to look after her citizens, and the ongoing struggle for dominance between each - firmly skewered by the citation of the USSR, where "it was tried before". Poor businesses fail, whereas a poorly run state will limp along, but at the end of the day it is the businesses that fail into the state, and if a business is badly run it is the state (and her constituents) that have to pick up the pieces.
I think this is a common misperception regarding Apple Pay - it actually does not use disposable credit card numbers. Apple Pay generates a Device Account Number (DAN) once when you add a card to your phone's wallet. Thereafter, the same DAN is reused on that device for all transactions with that card.

So it actually does not do much to defeat merchant tracking, assuming you consistently use Apple Pay where it is available.
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You could hook into https://twitter.com/savedyouaclick?lang=en for the most clickbaity of clickbait.
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People require tens or hundreds of examples to get to the point of learning new concepts from just a single example.
Exactly. "At one point, Uber sent five representatives to a meeting with members of the insurance industry to negotiate language in the bill"

Just makes you feel warm and fuzzy doesn't it?
November Volkswagen sales in the U.S. fall 24%. (vidoe, sorry, but the blurb under the video essentially says what the video says) http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/volkswagen-cor...

It may not be on the 100 biggest problem list, but it must be in people's minds, and there are lots of other brands to buy so it's an easy thing to do.