skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody who claims a $250k compensation package is normal in the US is bonkers. Somebody posted it in a sibling thread, but the US BLS has the average salary at $100k. Add benefits and bonuses and you might hit $200k, but even that's a stretch.
And here in the United States we are talking about removing drug treatment options from our health care. Over a million people.
Thanks for the analysis. I have only played with Snap on friends phone s. Sounds like Twitter is a better comparison then?

I guess when I am thinking about "messaging" I am just thinking 1:1 or 1:few publishing and private. Which Snap is (mostly? Kim Kardashian is on there so semi-public)

The distinction between media capture and text is interesting though. I haven't thought about the possibility that those are fundamentally different.
Basic economics. Your most profitable product line disappears to the tune of a few billion usd. Your next move is to push up the volume of your next profitable product line and increase the margins.
I have to imagine that CRISPR will be weaponized regardless of what the civilian world decides to do with it. When it happens, we'll be better off if we have as much experience with it as possible.
I keep trying to kiss rats. I think my adventures won't be re-told in epic song.
America's Labor Market Is Getting Better by Almost Any Measure
Great article, reminds me of the same writing style used by the author of the Rotten Library (which, by the way, is still a great read).
Not outsourcing one's semantic network to Google and Amazon seems highly practical, unless one is a drone.
Most of the modern theory of error-correcting codes has its roots in abstract algebra. It's also important in theory - Babai's recent celebrated quasipolynomial algorithm for graph isomorphism relies on group theory. Most of the recent results in cryptographic obfuscation also rely on group theory because they encode circuits as permutation matrices using Barrington's theorem.
That's the point. The marginal value for each person isn't that large even when you account for the collaboration features. But when you build a product that can be everyone's todo list incredibly cheaply the value starts to accumulate.

I mean Heinz sells bottled tomato paste. If pressed, it's probably isn't worth that much to each individual, but they're successful because it's cheap, available everywhere, of sufficient quality, and consistent.
> I really doubt that multi-thousand-dollar dental events are as common as once every five years.

I don't have the actual numbers, but even if they were once in ten or twenty years, nothing really changes.

> Insurance doesn't have to be for things where most people will never incur the expense. The average time between car accidents in the US, for example, is a bit over a decade, yet car insurance is very much a thing (and not just the legally mandated liability insurance, either).

That isn't the average time between major car accidents. Most accidents are little fender benders that often don't even reach the deductible. What comprehensive insurance is really for is when some drunk totals your car while there is still a five figure car note on it -- and having that insurance is required by the lender. Or for liability if you maim someone and owe a million dollars. But neither of those ever happen to most people.
I'm a very happy paying customer of Enchant. We tested Intercom (much broader scope than we wanted), Helpscout (among other things, no Markdown support), and a handful of other tools. Enchant does what we need, nothing we don't, and stays out of the way.
>That quickly assumes second-job status and can wreck your personal life.

Your what?
Frankly reading up on The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is disheartening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...

Keep in mind that it came into being right as the Nixon years used anti-drug legislation to effectively take down blacks and hippies.

On top of that you have nations that wanted to hedge around their big and growing pharma industries, and others that was negative to all drugs (except their local cultural ones) for religious and cultural reasons.

In effect religion and economics trumped medical science, and the world has been dealing with the blowback ever since.
> the complexity of verifying a composition of k components is not only exponential in the number of components

You're assuming that the components are allowed to interact with each other in arbitrarily complicated ways. IMO, if the complexity arises from the interaction between components, rather than staying confined within each individual component, you effectively still have one gigantic ball of mud.

> Many of the algorithms that drive most progress in verification itself -- such as SAT solving and static analysis -- would themselves fall far short of this bar.

Indeed. That's precisely why I'm not interested in mechanical verification anymore.

> Ironically, forgoing complex algorithms altogether would make verification even harder.

Perhaps. But it would also provide an incentive for exploring how much systems can be simplified. Maybe there are hard limits, but I don't think we're anywhere near reaching them.

> Developing a correct program can be no easier than verifying one.

The difficulty lies elsewhere: in the extremely low probability that an unverified program will be correct.
I had a very religious mother, and we lived with our pastor. I remember having something like a dungeons and dragons board game I owned burned in the backyard because it was 'devilish.' However, the pastor had no problem himself playing his own copy of Castlevania 3 on the NES and letting us watch. Sort of a tangent, your comment reminded of this experience though..
What does it mean to get this? https://s.ave.zone/066.png

[CHIPSEC] Modules failed 1:
[-] FAILED: chipsec.modules.common.uefi.s3bootscript
Waymo files injunction against Uber over alleged LiDAR theft
"every business"? I'm thinking of Craigslist, they don't seem that interested in making more money.
I concur. I bought with "ProSupport" and they come next day to fix things. If you don't need the absolute latest, I'd also highly plug the refurbished models. I recently bought a refurbished Precision 5510 (XPS 15, but more configurable) and saved $1000. Also avoided some Kaby Lake / Linux kinks still being worked out.
It's completely fine! I jumped the gun :)

EDIT: It's also a really pretty site btw. I love the simplicity of it.
Evidence to support the theory in this specific instance, please.
Yes, when you smoke jalapeños, you get moritas, and then chipotles.

Other smoked chilies are also nice. Both smoked pasilla (“chile negro”) and smoked poblano (“chile ancho”) peppers are commonly available in Mexican food stores in the US.
That also applies to abortion. Careful...
> The about pages are pretty scarce in information...

View any online sources with healthy skepticism, especially media stories and Glassdoor reviews. It's seldom as good/bad as it appears.

THE only true way to get an insiders take on a company and culture is go talk to them. More specifically, you want to speak with individuals at all levels/departments. People will open up more away from the office, over lunch or a beer. Then you'll begin to see a portrait of what the place is really like.
Typical deductibles are $500-1000. It's nearly impossible to cause more than zero but less than $500 in damage to a modern car. Those little fender benders generally have price tags similar to what you'd pay for oral surgery.
I agree with you, and others in this thread have lauded Trello's success. But the author of the page is angling for another interpretation, and I'm trying to figure out what he hopes to get out of it.
Yes, we read more now that tablets are here, but at least in my experience, we kind of also ´cheat´, skipping pages (are there even pages anymore?) and glancing ahead... in my more physical book reading times i felt skipping pages was a betrayal of the author´s intentions, now i am just in a hurry and really want only to know how it ends and if all the knots are tied. And we can do this beacause electronic books have put A LOT of lesser readings in our hands, books we never would have bought or even read in our physical book reading times. It´s just like buying a 1 dollar app: you play with it for a few days, then forget about it.

If you really think about it, that´s NOT reading.

We all should go visit https://www.gutenberg.org/ and start reading on a tablet, you know, real books.
Richard Löwenstein is creating Reshoot R – A new Amiga-Game in 2017
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>But in my experience (physics) that usually requires a lot of manual LaTeX control. Also these documents are often written in collaboration with other people, who do not use org-mode.

You can pretty much embed any LaTeX code in your document. Org mode is usually smart enough to pick up command (\whatever) without any extra markup (I believe this works even for custom commands you defined yourself). Equations are surrounded by a single or double $. If you have other special stuff, you can explicitly put it in a block by itself and Org mode will pass it to the .tex file unmodified.

Yeah, coauthoring could be an issue.

>Frankly, Auctex with Reftex is so nice, I do not see the advantages of org-mode for my main use cases.

I'll confess that I was not an advanced Auctex user, so I can't compare. The author of org mode is a heavy latex user (astronomy professor), so I'm sure he made it good enough for his needs.

One thing I liked was the ability to insert Greek characters with minimal keystrokes (a for alpha, b for beta, etc). You can preview your equations just as you would with auctex.

This tutorial shows the capabilities in older versions of org mode. Not sure if there is an updated version:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html
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-- clarification

Technically all it means, if the error is as advertised, is that the uefi bootscript failed to match. Now, it could be as simple as that UEFI was customized by a vendor. Or it could be something less innocent.
The approach most advanced people use now is deformable mirrors. They work in concert with a laser that emits from the detector, bounces off the atmosphere, and produces a real time map for the deformation (you have to solve an inverse problem here IIRC). You can also use a wavefront sensor.

For small problems, you can just buy these things off the shelf: https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=32... "only" $17.5K
Is there a way to match pricing to how busy it is? like i want to charge customers $100 to post an ad to sell their used tesla BUT if its slow then i wanna be able to reduce it to , say, like $50 maybe even free when its damn slow, like during the weekday or something. maybe automate it ?https://onlyusedtesla.com/
Amiga: Wicher 500i – Upcoming turbo-card for the Amiga 500
You have two sails in concentric rings that are connected, with your craft attached to the outer ring. When you want to decelerate you disconnect the two rings and and tweak the reflection of the inner ring to be somewhat outward focused and give the inner ring a little push. As it moves forward the energy bouncing off the inner ring is directed backwards to the outer ring, which slows. As long as the inner ring reflect more energy backwards (and to the outer ring) than the outer ring is getting from your source the outer ring slows down. Really hard to describe, but easy to draw. First proposed by Robert L. Forward.
I can't help but think that since the 80s these systems have been deliberately rigged to fail, to give an excuse to privatize or introduce parallel for-profit options.
Quite off-topic, but that made me think of a project I wish I'll live to see implemented. I'm sure it will be done by someone eventually, though it's probably too difficult right now. I'm talking about a whole-world representation of paleontological knowledge. It'd be a simulation of the world with all known species. There would be a time slider that would span through all eons. On large scales we could see continental drift and on short scales we could see procedurally generated simulations of plants and animals with basic behavior (like hunting, grazing, circadian rythms, reproduction and so on...). It would make it possible to see evolution going on, generations after generations.

I don't think it's totally unfeasible in this century. We already have video games with procedurally generated planets that include flora and fauna (No Man's Sky is a famous example, but I believe Elite Dangerous wants to do something like that eventually). So it will be similar, only it would be based on actual scientific data.
The Precision 5520 at least has a matte screen option and I think the costs are comparable. They are basically the same machine. If you are running Linux, you don't want a 4k screen (at least I've found DPI scaling to be terrible). They do offer the 5520 preloaded with Ubuntu as well.
The Precision 5520 at least has a matte screen option and I think the costs are comparable. They are basically the same machine. If you are running Linux, you don't want a 4k screen (at least I've found DPI scaling to be terrible). They do offer the 5520 preloaded with Ubuntu as well, although G-d help you if you want to have full disk encryption with that...
This isn't an item that is doled out it is a fundamentally bases about humanity. The analogy doesn't fit.

Can we say "All Men are Created Equal?" Not anymore.
I've never been on the offshore survival course where they teach you how to jump off an oil platform into the sea and survive, but allegedly they tell you to cover your mouth firmly with the palm of your hand and pinch your nostrils closed tight between your thumb and fingers. Apparently when you hit the cold water your natural reaction is to breath in. Also, you must prevent water being forced up your nostrils and damaging your brain etc.
Some of the applications mentioned in this book are:

-cryptography

-algebraic coding theory

-Burnside's lemma

-molecular symmetry

-design of software for parallel processors

-lattices and Boolean algebras applied to logic, circuit theory, and probability

-Galois theory
Maybe planet.com only sell their imagery datasets to companies?! That's what came to my mind with GP asking "who are you?" probably meaning something like "who do you represent?"..
100% of all Wives in a couple are Women.
you can track with an alt-az mount, no problem. It doesn't rotate, but as long as you know an alt az pointing, and have feedback servos, you can track any celestial location. Tracking at very high azimuth is hard, though.
If DoubleClick stopped being so slow, I could really give AMP pages a run for their money.
Yea, but it doesn't help.
100% Wives are Women.
> The Electoral College doesn't 'reduce the weight of votes coming from inner-cities and urban areas'; it allocates votes to states in roughly proportion to population.

Um, that depends on what you mean by "roughly proportional":

+ Each state, no matter how low the population, gets a minimum of three votes in the Electoral College (one per House member and senator).

+ House representation increases by population, but Senate representation is capped at two, no matter how large the population.

+ As a result: "Each vote cast in Wyoming is worth 3.6 as much as the same vote cast in California. How can that be, you might ask? It’s easy to see, when you do the math. Although Wyoming had a population in the last census of only 563,767, it gets 3 votes in the Electoral College based on its two Senators and one Congressman. California has 55 electoral votes. That sounds like a lot more, but it isn’t when you consider the size of the state. The population of California in the last census was 37,254,503, and that means that the electoral votes per capita in California are a lot less. To put it another way, the three electors in Wyoming represent an average of 187,923 residents each. The 55 electors in California represent an average of 677,355 each, and that’s a disparity of 3.6 to 1." [0].

[0] E.g., http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-petrocelli/its-time-to...
I believe the $100k number includes bonuses.
I thought it was due to phishing. I'm not sure where I heard that, though.
I have experience in Android development, but not game development, and I was looking for something, as you said, less visual than Unity to get started in game development. So far, the learning curve has been gentle. Maybe libGDX shows limitations for more complex games, but it seems to me like a great framework to introduce game development to beginners, especially if they are already familiar with Java.
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Observations on the CIA Revelations
Why does the community link on your pricing page lead to a 404?
Economics-wise, drug manufacturing can be the next-big-thing for the US economy. Sprinkle in some regulation and oversight for quality, and BAM we're good to go.
Easy with that free line promotion. I got two free lines for Black Friday (4->6 lines) and my billing still hasn't been correct since then (being charged $20/month for each of my "free" lines). I had to escalate to John Legere's office, and it still isn't fixed ("next billing cycle we promise").

Otherwise, have been a happy T-Mobile customer for 16 years.
I came out to my mom as trans. Then she came out as trans, too
> Pricing is mostly not affected by if you have insurance or not.

Based on the bill breakdown I get from my dentist, it appears negotiated rates are a thing here too. I regularly see a total price, an insurance discount, and paid-by-insurance amount. The 'discount' ranges from 10-50% depending on the service.
you charge what your customers are willing to pay. no micro economic theories or price psychology is going to change that. if you charge too low though, people will wonder where the catch is. so dont charge low unless its easy to judge the quality.

to find out what they are willing to pay, ask for budget.
My sister in law is a software engineer in India, and she makes about $450 per month, which is $5400 per year. She also often has to work weekends.
Here is my recipe (YMMV)

- Love what you do, this is extremely important, although you have goals in mind, you should enjoy the process to reach your goals, this would make you work harder, and failure wouldn't be a big deal, as you enjoy it.

- Practice, solve useless problems for fun, sharpen your skills, until you become really good at what you do.

- Really know what you are good at, and what you are not, and don't be afraid of pointing out what you don't know, even to someone who is interviewing you, and always know why you don't know, and if you need to know what you have to do.

- At this point, have the mentality whenever you go to an interview, that they would gain more from hiring you, that you would gain from being hired by them.

- Profit!!!.

Edit: formatting
As Stepanov said: “[Generic] algorithms are defined on algebraic structures”. He even gives an example: “I realized that a parallel reduction algorithm is associated with a semigroup structure type”. If you care about algorithms being maximally reusable (as in “just reuse”, rather than “tweak and reuse”), you definitely want to adopt an abstract-algebraic mindset.

Source: http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html
Still irrelevant - funds do not beat the market and you shouldn't be parking your money at your fund, even if your job gives you "exclusive access" to it. If you did, and you miraculously beat the market, that was due to luck and shouldn't be considered a perk of working there, since actually the perk is to get below-market-rate returns.
There's a whole world of investments you and I don't have access to because we're a few $B short. As a perk some shops allow employees some access to their funds, like a parallel to RSUs or equity.
I think the skill difference comes down to learning to write code vs learning to run code.
Testing, manual or automated, involves executing your software, whereas often while coding you've only ran the code enough times to make sure it does what you expect of it most of the time.
Ethically we should to born humans. Absolutely do the good and the great. Unborn embryos never except what is medically to save the live of the fetus. We are not talking about medical but genetic and equality. We could no longer say "All Men are Created Equal."
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Could the reason handoffs are so bad be because the person doing the handoff has been working for 16-24 hours straight?

I mean in IT i see first hand the notes left by people on pager duty in the middle of the night, and they differ significantly from the same peoples notes after a restful night of sleep.

Has there been any controlling in these studies i see mentioned through this entire thread for sleep deprivation present in people performing the handoffs? If they arent controlling for the amount of rest the people in the handoffs have had in the last 24 hours, im not sure i am willing to put much weight in these studies.

>I'd prefer single physicians for 24 hr shifts rather than 2 or 3 handing off to each other per 24 hr shift.

But if you came into the ER at 3am and the doctor you get has been working 23 hours, youre still going to need ot be handed off, and now youve received sleep deprivated care in the interim while waiting for a fresh doctor. Sure, for the guy who arrived just as a fresh doctor arrived, it might be beneficial to have them there for 24 hours, but how many new patients are they seeing in hours 12-24?
That's the first level, obvious credentials. Don't forget that legwork like SAT prep classes, or presentations which don't teach you useful skills can still open doors.

Next is networks of people that will vouch for you. This does not necessarily take a lot of effort, but being the only resume someone is looking means you just skipped a lot of pre-filters. "I was thinking about possibly jumping ship. O your looking for someone? How about we do lunch and talk about a possible fit."

Now add presentation; speech patterns, dress, non verbal indicators, but also what subjects to bring up in conversation. Pull this off and people will often skip the need for in depth evaluation based on assumptions.
I've always been intrigued by this stance. Do you believe that heroin should be available for purchase, like e.g. cigarettes? Is this a matter of individual liberty, or some other reason?
Yep, JIT is way more viable (and being done) with Ruby.
This is what you should do:

Fire-up Excel and develop a financial model for providing dental insurance to a million people.

On another tab, develop a financial model for providing mid-range health insurance to a million people.

Finally, develop a financial model for providing automobile insurance to a million people.

This will answer all your questions.
> Whoever decided that email verification was a poor user experience needs to be hit in the head with a shovel after he digs the appropriate sized hole.

That's why you get send the verification email first, when creating the application user, and don't do anything until the email is verified.

The flow should be:

User: Please give me an account; my email address is jim@example.invalid

Server: I have sent an email to jim@example.invalid

Server → jim@example.invalid: Please go to https://server.invalid/register?token=KDU6dG9rZW4xOWppbUBleG...

User: visits URL, completes registration
Doctors need to stop blindly following big pharma suggestions on prescriptions more like it.

Supposedly a pharmacorp released a painkiller a few years ago thats supposed to last longer pr dose than then existing ones.

but when patients complained that they didn't work, the corporate advice to doctors was to up the pr pill dosage rather than advice the patients to take the pills more often (as that would make a lie of their marketing claims).
The same way you introduce a 5 year old to particle physics.
(hint: you don't)
I think the only XPS they regularly offer in a "Developer Edition" with Ubuntu pre-installed is the 13" model. If you want the 15" that way you have to move up to the equivalent Precision.