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What stops these guys from selling to all the major health insurers.

Been buying too much sugar? Dental insurance up. Too much butter? Health insurance up. Bought three times the median amount of headache tablets? That's a paddlin'. Bought more alcohol than normal? Car insurance up.

Opt out to keep off their radar? They assume the worst and charge you double?
Not all software will work, but plenty of Windows Server services can be controlled via remote procedure calls. Even Active Directory has supported remote administration via LDAP. These protocols can be wrapped around GUI applications or run via Powershell - either of which would obviously run from your client workstation like PuTTY / xterm would when SSHing into Linux.
That was my thought as well. Garbage in = garbage out, that's pretty standard in most fields. I really didn't like how the author treated the theorem as if it's some sort of magic, aside from something everyone that's taken a college prob/stat class has derived from first principles.
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The question was sarcastic (poor form, I know). More than 90% of workers earn above minimum wage, despite this supposedly inevitable race to the bottom.
Calling it a clone of Prison Architect is pretty weird. There's very little shared except for the graphics style. Even the basic "click to place walls" construction system is broadly different, given that in Prison Architect you have to lay down foundations and then build on top of that.
I prefer to think of it in terms of the statistical inversion problem. That is, we have an event(s) that occur, which we may imperfectly understand. We take noisy measurements of that event. Clearly, the causal relationship is the events cause the measurements - a bad measurement does not cause the event to move.

But, in practice all we have are measurements, and from that we want to find an optimal (or good) estimate for what the events were. Hence, inversion.

Bayes formula expresses P(x|y) in terms of P(Y|x), so you can perform the inversion using bayes.

In many fields establishing the prior is difficult, hence frequentist methods are popular.

There are many techniques for the statistical inversion problem. Trying to track a ballistic object in a vacuum? Fit the measurements to a second order polynomial (parabola) and you are done (well, you have to decide least squares vs robust methods, but it is not such a hard problem in the scheme of things). Trying to track a manuevering jet, stock prices, or disease incidence rates. Now your model of the problem is much less clear.

We model lack of information as random variables. It isn't "random" in the deterministic sense, just in the sense that we don't know. Establish a good probabilistic description of that lack of knowledge in your prior, and you are probably going to get good result: this jet fighter is probabilisticly either moving straight, performing a coordinated turn, or performing an uncoordinated turn. Use a Markov chain to model those likelihoods (e.g.), and you may end up with good results. But if your modeling of the prior is poor, well, good luck to you, your output is probably nonsense.
My thought exactly. A $148M tax write off is pretty substantial
It's spammy. No way has the guardian produced 15 thought-provoking articles in the last 24 hours. I doubt it has in the last 24 weeks.

I also have a hard time believing that 15 people who have no vested interest in the Guardian have decided having read these that others must see it too.
there are reasons to think the GLX would be better than the B line or downtown. No traffic signals, more than a block between stops, and no tight turns. Lots of people love the D line, which shares these features.
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At the root of this proposal is the fantasy that scientists would somehow be selfless adherents to the alter of the scientific method. They give up all honor, pride and recognition so that the "scientific method" be protected from the often selfish desires of human beings.

In the real world, having names on papers is a really good thing. In real academia, I've heard professors say "well that work was done by so-and-so, and they're bad researchers so I don't trust their results".

There's this popular misconception that just because something is published in a peer-reviewed journal that it must be true. Nobody in research actually believes that. All it means is the authors were able to convince the reviewers and the peer reviewers to publish it.
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At the point when I applied to Automattic, I was working for Speck (phone and laptop case manufacturer) as a Senior eCommerce Developer specializing in Magento, and had been an active contributor to the WordPress open source project for probably about two years?

That being said, please don't think you need to know PHP to work at Automattic. I mean, it's useful, sure, but JS knowledge is huge as well, and we have some folks on our Data team that just do Python. Our Mobile team works pretty much purely in the languages for Android and iOS. Elasticsearch is something we also do huge amounts of work with (as @gibrown can testify)

If it's interesting to anyone, here's my resume as I submitted it with my application (with personal information redacted) (yes, I wrote it in markdown) -- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/georgestephanis/a5095ca4f...
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Hollande did the same speech as Bush in 2001: We're at war, we'll restrict liberties, we're sending the army. Since Jan 2015, we've had the Loi sur le Renseignement, which allows secret services to spy individuals. Since Nov 2015, we have warrantless police raids. The Boston bombing shows that US hasn't gotten rid of terrorism after 15 years of this regime.

A journalist from Le Monde maintains a very good blog about it: http://delinquance.blog.lemonde.fr. For the moment.

We've raided about 2500 homes, including, for example, hunters. Of course we've seized weapons, those people have a valid gun license. Of course we've seized drugs, but that should have been dealt with before the state of emergency and that's still not fighting terrorism. One Muslim father of two, in his 40ies, was able to show 6 testimonials from his police friends about his morality, and is still house-detained. The police is having fun with race-based or denunciation-based raids, but terrorism will never be fought against. We're exceeding the EU debt restrictions with our war in Syria, the #1 driver of terrorism is poverty and police state, and that's exactly where we're going.

I've always believed a cultural difference between USA and France would be that we do not overreact on violence (e.g. We wouldn't invent the TSA or we'd never present false proof of WMD at UN). We've just proven otherwise.

The irony? The terrorists were born in France and Belgium. They're native. It's just a failure of social integration.
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> US pharma companies like Pfizer gets more than 50% of their revenue from foreign markets.

To be fair, this statement doesn't really tell us anything. Pfizer's foreign market profit might be 2% of sale price, and their US profit 98% of sale price. So despite that figure, the majority of their R&D investment might still come from sales in the US.
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Yeah, I dunno if it was worth all the billions, but the Greenway is really beautiful and ties the entire city core together with a beautiful grassland. They even had some Burning-Man mini gathering on the Greenway this summer, and that definitely couldn't have happened if the entire city was still dominated by a highway.

The tunnelways are pretty good-- even though they seem to have breakages pretty frequently, they improve the traffic to Logan a lot.
Thanks for the warning. Going to make sure I liberate all my Nook ebooks tonight.
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It's actually just a setting in the Amazon Underground app to disable tracking of apps. The "actually free" apps require the setting enabled. He disabled it and it's telling him that. The CyanogenMod/Privacy Guard/Location stuff is all unrelated.
You're doing exactly the thing that you're accusing of -- labeling. Just because you disagree with left parties' policies you're labeling them they were running towards Stalin and USSR, which is also not very logical since Stalin died in 1952.
The rotating image carousel seems like an example of idea averaging.

- "What should we put on our homepage?"

- A bunch of people have different ideas.

- "I know, we can put them all up with a carousel!"

Even Apple has succumbed to his, which is perhaps not surprising. Carousels often come out of collaborative cultures (everyone wins!), which has been a point of emphasis for Tim Cook.

Avoiding carousels requires that a single person is willing to make a bunch of colleagues unhappy by picking only one thing at a time to feature.
FYI, server-side APIs don't require premium accounts. :)

I'm pretty sure it's the same mechanism used for mobile/app non-browser tracking.
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I would like to understand this in detail. Did one of the mods make a post about it?
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> No mention of controlling for a predilection for sweet tea, fried everything, and vegetables being limited to fried okra or green tomatoes.

All of which were probably intelligent adaptations to living in a post-war economic backwater. The trouble now would be that folks have enough money to drink enough sweet tea and eat enough fried foods that the formerly-subsistence-level foods are now obesity-causing.
> I know liberals are going to argue "that's why you need to take the market out of it and have single payer." It's a consistent argument only if you believe that you'd be better off with single payer. Some people would be; I know I wouldn't be. I'd end up paying even more for everyone else who isn't paying.

US government currently pays more per capita than eg UK NHS, and you still get stuck with insurance, co-pay, and bills for your very expensive health care.
You are lucky that you are in Austria and can check prices somewhere. In US It is really hard to get prices for any medical services (including serious and expensive surgeries) before they are scheduled or you already received them.

My friend had a C-section during the delivery, hospital billed insurance 40K. She paid her deductible. C-section just like many other procedures are not planned and doctors are making decision on-fly during the delivery and obviously you do not have enough time to discuss pricing or negotiate them. So normally in this kind of cases you see the price 1st time in the bill, when you get it in your mail in couple weeks after the fact.
Eh, people build what they're gonna build. Pay it no mind, if it fatigues you. I do agree with your point about building more APIs btw. Just not necessarily less dashboards.
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Is 15$/year for a niche subscription based service too high? Suggest a niche tool or service for which you are likely to pay 15$/year ? Please name already existing service that you are using for which you pay under 20$/year.
The Silver Line is typical of the public transportation system in Boston: almost good enough, but frustrating in its compromises that passengers have to live with every day.

For people west of town, it's a great convenience to park or be dropped at Alewife station, ride the Red Line to South Station, then the Silver Line to the airport. This is versus the old system where you had to change twice. We're thankful for small things.

And yes, the lengthy stop to change over from electric to diesel is logical yet seems poorly implemented. Many times I've watched the driver climb out to manually operate the electrodes. Surely it's possible to better automate this process, given that people headed toward the airport are usually in a huge hurry?

Maybe eventually they can just make the Silver Line buses completely electrical; batteries propel them above ground, the third rail propels them and recharges them underground, perhaps with hybrid-diesel supplemental power.
BitKeeper has an export command that at least exports diffs of its changesets. Merges would have probably been an issue to easily model.

But at least some of the commit history would have been possible to incorporate into the new git repository.

I'm no expert on BitKeeper, there were probably more options to achieve that but it seems Linus didn't think it was needed.
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translated to cartesian coordinates. position x, y; tilt x, y; and pressure. No yaw, which would be twisting the pencil.
It was designed to be "single operator", but that's not how it is shaking out. I think a trainwreck is coming, because if you have multiple LoRaWAN networks operating in the same area, all the packets are colliding at layer 2. They have to be thrown away by the server. And since the Semtech SX1301 baseband chip only has 8 demodulators, capacity quickly approaches zero, if there are multiple uncoordinated networks.

LoRaWAN is an okay solution for European Carrier networks where duty cycle limitations come into pay, but for the 915MHz band, it is not a good design.
I suspect Eliezer is targeted specifically due to his tongue-in-cheek presentation of understanding Bayesian statistics as being initiation into a cult. Also due to the author's familiarity with the topic likely specifically as a result of Eliezer's efforts to popularize the subject and his association to him resultantly.
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Wouldn't work. Gotta justify getting your grants by being able to point to previously published work.

Plus, everyone can tell who did what-- if not exactly who, then one of a small (5-10) group of people who are likely in the same geographical location.
Interpreting the "well regulated militia" text as limiting the right to state militias is an anachronistic, twentieth century attempt to read modern sensibilities into the text. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it wasn't even a debate: the right of individuals to bear arms was understood simply to be the manifestation of their natural right to self defense. Consider texts contemporaneous with the constitution and written in similar places:

Pennsylvania State Constitution, 1776: "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned."

New Hampshire State Constitution, 1783: "All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state."

And, of course, the second amendment itself: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
It's good that you managed to intervene - I know a lot of Dell owners that are not well equipped to handle these sorts of calls. Hopefully the worst that comes of it is a small fee.

At least it is good to see word getting out - that is likely the first step to any reasonable resolution.
> I believe discoverability is now horribly broken and the queue and recommendations features both fail to mitigate the issue.

I agree, my queue is littered with genres I have zero interest in. After the 10th anime dating sim I marked not interested in, it should prevent those games in the future.
No, but it would be nice if we had a place where we could discuss scientific papers anonymously. Of course, to keep things concentrated, it would be nice if there was exactly one such place.
Typical epi-nonsense: ignore the huge and omnipresent genetic and other confounds which lead to long pre-existing differences, find congenial event to blame as origin, then leap to the most exotic methods of transmission possible; bonus points for each mention of Holland, rats, or mice.

The South as a region is very distinct from the rest of the country: settled by different ethnic groups (no, not all 'whites' are genetically identical twins; consider the different genetic BMIs by country in http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n11/full/ng.3401.html ), different cuisines, different industrial patterns, different weather and climate... It is eyebrow-raising, to say the least, to bring in the Civil War as at all relevant and speculate even more wildly that it has intergenerational effects.

If they want to talk about that, they should be trying some sort of regression-discontinuity or other natural-experiment design involving borders or Civil War activity, not, effectively, saying 'look at how different the South is! the Civil War?!' Uh, yeah, I think we all know the South differs. That's not very helpful.
Based on the number of issues I've had with either OS, Windows 10 is much less ready for desktop than Ubuntu.

In fact, using Windows 8.1 or 10 I can't get 1080p video over HDMI without screen tearing.

With Ubuntu, I can.
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Looks like a good start and seems to do its job.

A suggestion -- you mention "Automatic thumbnail generation" in the feature list but the thumbnails in the demo have massive file sizes (~80-100KB each at 800px width).

Thumbnails should generally be <20KB and <320px width. You could re-use the `createTim()` function you have to generate an additional, proper thumbnail instead of the 800px preview image squashed down via HTML as you do now.
> I can't imagine going to my boss and proposing I spend 20% less time working for the same amount of pay, and getting approval for that.

Get a 25% raise, and then 6 months to 1 year later drop down to an 80% workload and take the corresponding 20% cut in pay.
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This is a great investment by NVIDIA. Becoming quite a big player in this space doing what they do best. Now to see one of these vehicles commercialize (even with level 1 autonomy) would be awesome.
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When you're 60 years old you're going to want doctors and nurses who know what they're doing. That means someone needs to pay now to train them and their replacements.
This issue is captured in the Authoritarian <--> Libertarian axis on the 'grid' representation of political views.

It's the reason I really don't like Hillary. I can put up with her economic and social positions but in my view she hits the tip top of the authoritarian graph and it scares me.
>No mention of controlling for a predilection for sweet tea, fried everything, and vegetables being limited to fried okra or green tomatoes.

You left out collards, green beans, field beans, turnips, turnip greens, etc. Personally, I find the traditional southern sides as tasty as the BBQ/Fried chicken.
How is that working less?
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You're asking the wrong question.

How niche something is is largely irrelevant, because your userbase is self selecting and doesn't care how many of them there are.

What you should be asking is: Does the value of what you're offering justify $15/month?

Also consider doing A/B testing at different price points. Just ask for email addresses, and see if you get a different response rate at $5/10/15/20.
> any other app store, like Google's

Not sure. This looks like a US-centric, bureaucratic thing. I doubt that F-Droid https://f-droid.org/ requires this kind of nonsense when submitting apps.
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> you're asking most large C/C++ users to rewrite their codebases in assembler or suffer an unacceptable performance hit. Not going to happen.

I am aware of it.

They rather rely on something that isn't guaranteed to even survive a minor upgrade of the same compiler, and always act surprised when they discover what compiler does and the standard says don't go always hand in hand.

So no reason to complain when those long weekends come in to track down optimizer induced bugs.
What citizens lack in firepower they make up in numbers. Just the 12.5 million registered hunters in the United States exceed the number of active duty military by an order of magnitude.

There is no possible way that the military of today, with all its tanks and bombs and drones and planes, could even attempt to hold any large portion of America under martial law.
While I get the whole buyer beware thing, as it's supposed to be consummate investment managers making the decisions, I can't shake the feeling that this whole thing is shady. Anchorage Capital used a bunch of accounting maneuvers to make the company look stronger than it was in actuality. It's even shadier if you agree with the position that Woolworths wanted out and was willing to take ~60% haircut on $300 million worth of inventory, because then it becomes kind of obvious what Anchorage was going to do all along. I am not sure what is more unsettling. That investment managers didn't realize they were buying a retail company with no inventory and cash flows generated by the liquidation of said inventory, or that a PE company sold what they knew was a stripped down company to the public?
Very few jobs offer 35- or 30-hour weeks (which would still be called full-time). There are part-time jobs that have much shorter hours, or often no contractual hours, but they're a different thing.
Source link doesn't seem to work right now, but wouldn't the "Oracle database" also include the open source MySQL?
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I've accepted that we live in an age where no one can secure data that is coveted by determined attackers. Even companies with the best infosec are often taken down by the simplest social engineering or clumsy spear-phisihng attempts that work well enough.

I hope this changes as we migrate away from passwords and passphrases to mandatory two factor login with physical keyfob tokens, from C to Rust, and from putting things directly onto the internet to putting everything behind a IPS/IDS that updates itself via signatures, honepots, etc. Especially in the home where no one runs IPS, the same way early consumer OS's didn't bother to ship with firewalls.

Phones need something like this too, especially with blocking known spammer numbers/providers. Everyday I get an Indian call center impersonating either state farm or blue cross. I have no way to stop this as they randomize the phone number each time, often in mocking ways like starting with a movie 555 prefix or having a prefix starting with 1.

I also don't want a relationship with companies like Dell where they store all my info. Why can't I buy something via a private OpenID/Persona-like system that has a tokenized version of my credit card and Dell just ships the product? I must have hundreds of accounts spread out with various sites, vendors, etc. Each of them ripe for the taking by scammers and hackers with my real name, stored card, etc.

I hope this stuff is what breaks the camel's back. IT security right now is a nightmare. I suspect it will get much worse before it gets better. Cryptolocker didn't suddenly fix corporate IT security. From what I can tell, its just as bad as its ever been.