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I want to use this message thread to tell a story and make a point. If it is off-point, delete it, give it negative votes, whatever.

I had abdominal surgery. They had to remove 14cm of my
colon which was badly inflamed due to diverticulitis. When I woke up, I was so doped up that I felt no pain. I even danced a jig in my room.

That evening they hooked me up to a hydromorphone injector for the inevitable pain. Every 12 minutes or so, I could give myself a shot into my IV. Hydromorphone is about 100 times stronger than morphine, so the doses were in micrograms. I was allowed, like, 5 shots per hour, and the machine could get loaded with about 50 shots. I kept a record of the shots in my Iphone Notes. I tried to space them further than 12 minutes, but I only decreased the frequency by a few minutes. I liked those shots. They worked. The nursing staff encouraged me to use this. They could reload the machine, no trouble.

Now the thing about colon surgery is, your colon has to get working. Those opiate shots very effectively prevent this. I wanted to get out of that place. So the next night, I quit cold turkey. I was freezing cold, and the pain I felt was not just from the after effects of the surgery, I am pretty sure. It was fucking horrible.

Now the things is, I was addicted. I did succeed in quitting cold turkey. My colon still didn't work for a day, so I vomited almost a gallon of green bile over the edge of my gurney. It was so much, it lapped up against the walls. Then my colon worked, and I got to go home.

But I was addicted, and I am a recovering addict, from that one time. And every nurse I mention this to says, "Oh no, you weren't an addict." They even quote some bullshit criterion for addiction, which I've forgotten.

I haven't had any problems since, and if I have to take oral oxycodone, or hydrocodone, there have been no problems or instance of abuse.

But I was an addict.
I recommend the book "Monetizing Innovation". It won't give you an answer, but it will equip you to understand value and think about pricing.
Google’s Deep Learning AI Diagnoses Cancer Better Than Human Pathologists
I had bought (and returned) the new 15" MBP, with my workload of a few VMs and lots of stuff running, I was only getting 3-4hr. I run Ubuntu on this and was able to tweak the power settings (and use containers instead of VMs) to get 8-12hr.
I know nothing about insurance, but treating this like one of those crappy interview questions, I'd say you multiply the probability of an incident with the cost of that incident times 1 million people, and that's your expected cost per year. Then you look at how much you charge each person and see if they're willing to pay.

Probably as someone else mentioned, dental insurance is expensive because even though routine dental work is cheaper than getting cancer / breaking a bone, it happens 100% of the time.
Here's the NASA article without all the intrusive advertising on the CNN site:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-nasa-radar-technique-fi...

Also, lots more information.

Please change this thread to point to NASA instead.
Senior Java Developer | New York City | ONSITE | Contract/Full-Time

About the project:

You would be in charge of architecting a system that processes hundreds of thousands of transactions and tracks millions of dollars. The system is designed to make sure recording artists get paid every time their songs are played internationally, and you'll get to work in the heart of downtown Manhattan.

- Stable and long-term (12 months or more)

- High impact (you'll be taking backend lead with a small team)

- Great for your portfolio, we're a leader in the music industry.

- Well compensated

If you're interested in the project respond with a little about yourself and your portfolio if you have one.
This is for senior candidates who can work onsite only so please only respond if you're able to commute to NYC.

If you're interested contact us at hello@staffhappy.co
It's funny you say that because I feel the same way as a developer. However, users of my site wanted password-based logins even though I support multiple social logins (Google, FB, Microsoft, etc.). Granted, I use PBKDF2 salting and hashing and I take security seriously, but it's interesting how average people sometimes don't trust social providers or think I'm storing their credentials to that provider.
ID.me is a truly amazing organization that my family and I absolutely love. Their platform is incredibly sleek, user friendly, and solves so many pain points within the Military space. Great to see an amazing company continuing to do amazing things!
And this is a premier example of improper application of popular logical fallacy.

The dichotomy isn't false. Like it or not genetic diseases are easier to fix when there's fewer cells to modify. Modifying a few thousand cells will always be easier than billions.

This will mean diseases that can't be cured in adults can be prevented from childhood. Denying this is condemning untold numbers of victims to diseases we could have cured.
Completely agree with this. You can't count your hedge fund's returns as compensation. Most hedge funds are terrible and I don't want my money anywhere near them.
One thing to note is that if you manage to get access to just the hashes, they won't have sha512(p), so they wouldn't be able to figure out sha512(q). So while your are correct that there is (technically) a weakness there, it's not one that's actually exploitable.
How This Company–and Mike Huckabee–Cashed in by Scaring Conservatives
Even more fun, they have a minimum salary as well - http://basketball.realgm.com/nba/info/minimum_scale
"GPs should know about clonodine. It's a blood pressure medicine that counteracts the massive norepinephrine dump you experience when you kick (and which is the number one thing that makes it so unbearable). It helps a lot."

Is that a labelled use? Because most physicians are restricted or prevented from prescribing drugs for "off label" use.
I don't want to be excessively glib here, but general practice in modern medicine is often very close to being "health theater" like the TSA is security theater.

We're not talking about the rural doctors of old, their job could be automated in the next five years or so.
It also requires a degree of knowing your worth, asking more than your worth, doing insane amounts of work and being very good at pricing and marketing yourself.

I personally don't care that much about money, so I tend to work for a year or two and then take a year off:

http://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

Unlike a lot of other careers, this isn't as difficult to do in software, and you end up working for better companies who care less about having a warm body that will stay there forever over having someone who can think creatively.
Time crystals make their appearance
She has just accepted a new job that'll start soon, so she'll hopefully make some more. She is requesting 4 lakhs per year (~$6000 dollars) but doesn't know if it'll be that yet.
Both Labour and the Tories have gutted the NHS at various times. Bureaucracy comes from both sides too.
If you're new and don't really know what you're doing, price it just below what alternatives are charging. Make it a non-issue, learn as you go and adjust. Don't get too fancy. If you are able to attract & delight customers you will have nearly unlimited flexibility to adjust pricing.

If you are experienced and have a strong vision on the service you are offering and how it should be priced, you can think about premium or non-traditional pricing schemes.
I would imagine that the medical community could learn a lot about what causes this phenomenon by studying the DNA of the parent and child.
Similar to https://color.hailpixel.com/ which is pretty useful too.
This is one of my favorite hobbies to take part in.

I've got a hot glass shop on my farm in Kentucky (where I will make blanks and other artistic pieces), and I have built a cold shop with some tools (my favorite is a mold that uses pennies instead of the porcelain that they use in the article) and then using a HD projector and a DSLR that I remotely trigger, I get a map on the screen of where the imperfections are relative to the "top" of the mirror (that I indicate with a dot on the side).

Once I've worked the imperfections out, I'll then take it to an observatory in Ohio to get mirrorized -- and generally speaking, I'll donate my last telescope to the observatory (for public use) once I get the one I'm building done.
I recommend the book Monetizing Innovation. It'll equip you well to talk about and think about pricing and value.

In my opinion, the hardest part of the problem is getting away from the psychology that pricing "uncomfortably high" is somehow cheating people. It isn't - your product is more often than not more valuable than the sum of its parts.
True, but they did say that they did that to accelerate, to spin it off and let it grow on its own faster. It was profitable at the time.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/24/trello-series-a/
This is an important column on the architect of the future Trump Republic, where the US Constitution is an obstacle to be debased and then ignored. The column is a quick read, just enough to get a flavor for Bannon's agenda and what's in store for all of us if the resistance movement is not successful.
And this is actually one of the great things about zfs: you can now have a volume manager and filsystem that is fully portable across FreeBSD, (Open)Solaris and Linux. Keep /home on a zfs volume, and you can really mix things up.

The only thing missing is solid cross os encryption - but for those that can live with some metadata being exposed, it looks like encryption is coming [ed: to open zfs].

I suppose one might even share home filsystems with OS X - but running OS X requires Apple hardware (and/or breaking the license and some hacks).

[Ed: and sharing home filsystems across unix-like os' actually works: thanks to things like the Bourne shell and other software being available and using the same storage for preferences etc (typically text files) - Bsd even comes with an emulation layer to run Linux executables.]
A programmer walks into a bar, checks his bank balance, checks his blood-alcohol level, checks his stomach capacity, checks the menu price, checks for bartender availability, checks for open seating, and orders a beer.

A tester walks into a bar and orders a beer. Then orders 0 beers. Then orders -1 beers. Then orders pi beers. Then orders 2.2 billion beers. Then orders 1 cerveza. Then orders an aircraft carrier. Then changes the programmer's beer order to 2 beers. Then cancels an order for a beer. Then flips the calendar back to 1980 and orders a beer. Then flips the calendar to 1925 and orders a beer. Then sets the clock to 23:59:45 and orders a beer....

Those bar jokes represent not only different skills, but different stereotypical personalities. The builder-programmer has to be cautious, methodical, and well structured, whereas the tester has to channel the spirit of the chaos monkey to find something that no one else ever expected.
I've done massive (billions of rows) ETL jobs in pure ruby (since 2.2.0) without Ruby being the bottleneck. A lot of performance problems I've seen went away when they fixed the garbage collection (especially of symbols). There's a small handful of others I saw resolved by using JRuby.

I mean, if you need good threads, you probably shouldn't be on Ruby, but as far as I can tell its single-core performance is pretty okay compared to other scripting languages.

It's still the absolute best (most features I need in the standard library, or easy to use libraries, and easiest to use) thing I've ever used for working with manipulating large quantities of text (save for maybe Perl, but ew). I've started using Elixir when I need concurrency, but Ruby is still the language I'm most likely to use for most classes of problem.
Which just goes to show what a joke progressive income tax is. It hits the upper middle class hard, while ignoring the biggest money earners.
Famously Renaissance has an employee-only fund that's provided insane returns since the early 90's [1]. It's kind of a ridiculous claim you're making -- that the entire trillion dollar industry is struggling to beat just sitting on the S&P. Capitalism doesn't work that way.

[1]. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renai...
Just what Wordpress needs.
Most employees even in Google don't make $250k base.

Most of bay area is littered with low-profile companies like Brocade, Broadcomm, McAfee, KLA-Tencor, Micron, Hortonworks, Arista etc. Most "senior" engineers in these companies don't make $150k base.

Some guys just have a retarded view of what companies are paying. Outside the top 10 high-profile companies, most engineers in the bay are slaving away in low-mid 100ks
That's like saying the nazis tried rockets so SpaceX will fail
We use a twimlet for our business number. It simply plays a recording directing people to our support web page and email (phone support would be too expensive). A surprising number of places need a phone number; for example, Stripe includes it in the charge description.
And what if you never had a pet?

I love the ones that ask about one's favourite sports team (not everyone likes sports), or first girl (or boy) friend (not everyone has dated) or first car (not everyone has ever owned a car).
Introducing the Twitch Desktop App Beta
I think the answer to all your scenarios is: It depends on the company. Some companies (regardless of size) give refreshes, some don't. For those that do, some do it discretionary based on performance, some just hand a little to everyone. Some companies give options, some companies give stock. Some companies give "thanks for working here you're so great".
Tesla to add 300 body shops to its network
I've never used it. I'd like to though.
Ask HN: Clarifications on redis replication in redis-RC-4.0
Replication version - 2 in redis-rc4.0 looks great..

I was trying the repl. enhancements that were added to the latest redis-4.0 and like to be clarified on the below :

Looks like psync is enhanced to handle more no. of cases with the help of master_replid, master_replid2 and offset. But seems a buffer(repl_backlog) is used to capture the delta data in master if there is an breakage/disturbance in the link between master and slave.

Consider i have a setup like Master -> Slave -> Secondar Slave and the slave dies, now when i tried to join the secondary slave with the master, the secondary slave did a full sync due to the lack of backlog :

"Unable to partial resync with slave %s for lack of backlog (Slave request was: %lld).", replicationGetSlaveName(c), psync_offset)"

When the size of repl_backlog_size increased from its default value 1MB, the psync worked.

My Questions :

If the master_replid and offset is captured in the dump.rdb file, why are we not using this without the requirement of the repl_backlog buffer to retrieve the delta data (during the repl. breakage between master and slave) from the .rdb file and psync with the slave. ?

The delta data can be retrieved from the .rdb file if persistence is enabled or from the repl_backlog buffer if its otherwise.

Or already is there an config to achieve the above behaviour which i might have overlooked ?

Question regarding slave-read-only config :

In the master -> slave -> sec. slave setup we set the slave-read-only config to "no" in slave and wrote some data, but this data failed to get replicated in the sec. slave. Is this the intended behaviour or an issue in the redis-rc-4.0 ?

@antirez
My intuition rings false on this -- I don't think this is right. In a vacuum, ignoring the rocket equation (that is, assuming ejected reaction mass is negligible compared to projectile mass), the energy required to produce the 120 -> 96 mph change is the same as that required to go from 24 -> 0. This works out in conservation of energy because the ejected mass has kinetic energy of its own.

In the case of you landing, I don't think energy balance is the way to look at it; each of the collisions that slows you down will transfer some energy to the ground. In terms of force, the force is dependent only on the acceleration, so it comes down to how long each impact lasts. If each "bounce" or "thud" lasts the same amount of time (I don't know if this is realistic) then each one will transfer 1/5th of the force, as the article says.
Add and remove a component and look at the total in each. The difference is the component's size.
false dichotomy. can be higher end and cheaper.
This is a good book on drugs and the history of prohibition.

https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Oblivion-Global-History-Narco...
GNU Toolchain now accepting donations with FSF support
Really awesome find. As a microscopist, I suspect I'm going to find myself trawling my gutters pretty soon...

Key information from the paper: 0.3 to 0.4 mm, metallic, round-ish.
This is a great read.

Also, it's transcription of a lecture, which is much less common than YouTube videos of them, but a hundred times better IMHO
It's like working anywhere else. If you work at a fund you believe in, you want your money there. If you work at a startup you believe in, you want equity. If you know you're working at a terrible hedge fund why are you working there?
I see "nullptr" in a few examples, which is C++11.
Persuasive analysis. There may be a rather machiavellian technique to deploy here - hire mavericks early, but move them on when the team outgrows the drama
Not the parent to your comment but I'll chime in here.

Heroin is more dangerous than cigarettes, since the threshold for overdose is so low. So, probably not a great thing to be able to buy at a gas station.

Personally, I think heroin should be available at pharmacies by prescription, cheaply purchasable in small quantities. Addicts should have to visit daily for their doses, and should get some support from doctors and pharmacists if they want to withdraw. Doctors should make it easy for addicts to get prescriptions for heroin, and clean, safe drug delivery options.

It's a matter of harm reduction. It would help reduce overdoses because dosages would be exact. It would help reduce organized crime, because the money would be diverted to legitimate channels and taxed.

These kinds of ideas are already being discussed in Vancouver, where black market fentanyl and carfentanil is causing a rash of fatal overdoses. While we have safe injection sites, addicts are still using black market drugs which are wildly unpredictable.
Gotta remember, if we are seeing light intentionally or unintentionally, they pointed these sails to our current position, almost X years in the past. Where X is the distance in light-years.
I have climbed for many years, though as more of a gym rat. What this article seems to primarily be about is the psychological aspects of the sport - there are many times when you need to do a move which is physically not a stretch, but your mind resists, because you become stuck thinking about the consequences of failure. For a non-climber, think of walking in a straight line for ten seconds. What are the chances you will fall over and sustain an injury? Very small, of course, you do more dangerous things every day without thinking about it at all. But now walk in a straight line along a small ledge, where falling would mean certain death. Objectively, you know you can do it, it doesn't become any more difficult just because the consequences are much more serious. But if you panic, it does, and the panic can kill you... Still, I tend to prefer to stay closer to the ground, what can I say, I haven't achieved that level of confidence.
> It seems like a really powerful way to price products, but no one appears to do it.

In a closed system. There are too many factors obfuscating the landscape in real markets (most notably consumer access).

The only tidbit is, in a new market you can overcharge.
For those who don't know: Markhor is the national animal of Pakistan. It is a type of mountain goat.
Yeah, Blair "Labour". The french term "champagne left" is very apt in that regard.
Opiate addiction is hell. Just pure unadulterated hell. I've been through a lot of hardships in life but I honestly can't begin to explain to you the amount of pain this has caused me. I'm currently in a methadone program after relapsing for the first time since I got clean five years ago. Just.. stay as far away from this stuff as you possibly can. It has the potential to swallow you whole.
>pricing A/B tests moral dilemma

You could call the lower price "on sale".
They just bought Terra Bella too so they have a bunch more data from that.
New and improved Samba file server released
Building and coding a Tetris game on Arduino. PCB schematic included
New vulnerabilities found in ARM mbed TLS
Unfortunately the false positives vary greatly with your mail patterns. For me the amount large enough that even though it also stops a shitload of spam I'm starting to think it's too much of a problem. Just checked right now, and though I've checked my spam folder earlier this month (and emptied the folder), it now has 40 messages of which 9 are false positives. What's more, several of them are from senders I regularly get e-mail from and that I have never marked as spam.
There are many refactorings already and if you want more you can invest in Resharper or CodeRush.
Be a useful beta tester or give up your right to use the beta.
> Choose a server near you and aim for a Speed-Index of maximum 3000 - I personally target 1000, but depending on your influence regarding the website's frontend you will not be able to achieve this.

For some comparison results: Uncached, with my own CMS indexing and analyzing a 6GB database of crashdumps and providing an overview with graphs over that, I get a score of 623. (This running on a 9€/mo dedicated server).
Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus are pretty different. The big draw of the former is that it provides PostgreSQL as a managed service on top of a cloud-optimized flash storage layer that facilitates high availability, durability, and low-latency read replicas for PostgreSQL workloads that fit on a single machine. The latter provides a product (or managed service in the form of Citus Cloud) that performs transparent sharding that allows for scaling relational workloads beyond the limits of a single machine. Most workloads will favor one or the other of those scenarios pretty clearly, either by not stressing the capabilities of a single machine or by being easily shard-able.
‘This Land’ Was Our Land: A Eulogy for a Groundbreaking Magazine
12 Important Career Lessons Most People Learn Too Late in Life
For those who prefer dead trees, the hardcover is miraculously inexpensive: https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-Applications-Thomas-...
Decriminalization doesn't mean legalization. It just means that you don't make criminals out of drug users, and instead use the money that you would spend policing drug distribution (which doesn't work) on rehabilitation (which does).
What are you looking for from a roguelike engine?

Just display/controls? Or do you want something that'll do the level generation too?