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Yes, I know a TON of doctors and used to work very closely with about 50 of them.

Well the solution to your problem is not to inundate them with misleading or false information from someone whose entire base of scientific knowledge comes from employer-led seminars. The solution would be to train more doctors, so they have more time with patients AND can be more effective physicians.
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a recap is when the company issues new shares to change the capital structure of the company (i.e., the ownership percentages). the early investors aren't getting any new shares, so their stake in the company gets "crammed down".

it might be to make room for a new shareholder to get a larger stake of the company for a given dollar amount than might otherwise be implied by the current capital structure (a down round).
>I'm not sure what you're alluding to

I have no opinion on the matter, but clearly the OP is alluding to the fact that HN will bury negative stories about their investments.
Are you prepare to look for a new job? If so, yes.

I would frame it slightly differently. I would set up coffee with the investor you know. Ask them what they thought of the demo. Ask them if the demo was the reason they invested. Ask them how large a role it played in their decision to invest. Ask them if they believe the code in the demo is proprietary or open-source. If the answers are different than the truth, re-do the demo in front of them, including going to Github and cloning the repo.
I know a cop in south florida who's is getting 5800 a month pension after 20 years of service with health insurance included. Not bad if you start working at say 25 after a few years in the service.

The packages some of these municipal employee's get for retirement are amazing.
The safe withdrawal rule changes as you age. At 60 taking 3% is safe. At 95 or when diagnosed with some diseases you can be more greedy.

However, if your below 70 and in very good health the 5k/month is probably a much better bet.
I understand "vector calculus" here as meaning "how to compute stuff with vectors", i.e. adding and subtracting vectors, computing the inner product etc.; not doing calculus with vectors. Obviously both interpretations are possible, but the latter is usually called multidimensional analysis.
It was the last unit in senior math at my high school.
There is no slippery slope. The legal doctrine of quiet enjoyment is well established with clear limits based on centuries of precedents.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/quiet+enjoymen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_annuity

A life annuity is one where up front you pay $X, and for the rest of your life you get $Y at regular intervals. They're comparing what someone would pay out on a $1,000,000 life annuity.

This is different than the 4% safe withdrawal idea because you're drawing from the principal all the time not just the interest.

Companies offer this because they expect you to die long before the principal runs out and then they get to keep what's left of it. Or, maybe you live longer than that and they have to pay more than what the initial investment earned them.
Maintainer of Redux here.

I concur with giving Mobx a try. I'm using it at least one product so far and it's been working out great.

One thing I will say is that because your subscriptions are set up implicitly, it's easy to have things misbehave in unexpected ways. For instance, if you update multiple observable properties in a single function, it will fire off observers multiple times. That could put you into an unexpected state and cause some errors.

Luckily, almost every time I've run into this kind of issue, I've discovered there's an API to cover that case (runInAction in the previous example's case). And they APIs themselves are really neat and fun to work with. `when` and `observable.array`'s extensions are some of my favorites.
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I was thinking the opposite - the safe withdrawal rate accounts for a 3% inflation rate for your 7% safe investment figure, so your nest egg grows over time for the same equivalent $3,333 in perpetuity no matter the year.

The $5,000 would get progressively worse over time.
Capitalism will give you what the market wants, not what a snob would consider "good." E.g. popular music and movies suck, but that's because that's what the market wants. Phone call quality has gone to shit compared to the POTS network of yore, but again the market doesn't care.

Keeping AT&T would've given people what folks on HN want: a wired network that was expensive built gold-plated.
This may have been true during Darwin's time, but it simply does not apply in today'a academic world. The level of competition for grants, publications, etc. is way, way higher than before. Not that I've conducted a survey, but I'm pretty sure every professor at an R1 university works at least 60 hours a week, if not more.

Source: Am finishing up my PhD in theoretical high energy physics.
$1M buys a lot of (mostly) safe dividend paying stocks, bonds, and real estate. $5k/month worth, net? Perhaps not, but certainly one could position himself better than $5k/mo on an annuity with a fairly small effort or higher risk tolerance.
> IMO, if you're an API company, and you can't handle bursts of traffic from your customers, you should work on improving your backend and stop wasting time messing around with implementing patterns like this. It's a lose-lose situation for you and your customers.

Counter-argument: That's not a reason not have these things, that's why you should think about implementing patterns like this before a unforeseen situation happens where they are useful. So they can limit the pain while you fix whatever causes the current load problem.

I agree when it comes to strict limits like "a single customer can only do X requests per hour", but that's not all rate limiting is good for.
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They are probably assuming you are investing this $1M and getting some return on it.
You can't count productivity in hours. Someone who goes "all-in" 6 hours a day can certainly accomplish more than someone who says they go "all-in" 12 hours a day.
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If investors have to risk money in order to [potentially] earn money, that doesn't sound so "free" to me.
As someone who has been on both sides of this equation, I think you've phrased it very eloquently. Well said.
i wonder if he sent their resumes over to SimplyHired
Couldn't Canada in this case change the way they handle the subsidy, such that they only subsidize drugs consumed by Canadian citizens, or some such? In other words, you can not export a subsidized drug without refunding the subsidy first. That way, imports would be at the negotiated cost plus markup, rather than the subsidized negotiated price.
That seems to hurt me in the Airbnb ranking algorithm. I probably should.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

For good or bad, academic performance is measured with GPA, so you should not be surprised to see people optimizing for this measurement. You can't measure "interest in the subject" and even if you could, you could not judge teacher and/or student performance based on it, so instead we have GPA.
>(sans holograms)?

With virtual entities on a MR platform. Redmond PD at least will be calling them holograms.
I don't think the author knows. They say "to spend" which implies net, but other phraseology in the article indicates it's the total amount. You'd almost certainly have to pay taxes on it.

Other criticisms are mentioned elsewhere in the thread; overall a pretty sloppy and incoherent article.
>but why can't Dinulescu go after the idiots who did this to his apartment directly?

Do you think it's easier to chase down a few random citizens, or a multi-billion dollar company that accepts liability for damages?
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Well if they do not understand Bayesian inference, then they may feel that there needs to good reason to move on from frequentist models...and I'll tell you that case has not been made except for certain specialized disciplines.
Normalley I'd say - "There's nothing wrong with that and they can do what they want."

but... .they're filing for an IPO.. so their shareholders are going to start hitting them with the "If you don't always make more money than last time we'll fire you and find someone who will."

If you don't want to expand your business far beyond what it's already doing then you don't IPO and take on shareholders.
> some ignorant person, in violent denial regarding creative work

What an apt description of the tone of the top of this comment subthread.
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Finally an IPO that makes sense to me.

I can understand the value of Dropbox. Stuff like Snapchat being worth billions just make me feel like I don't know how anything works anymore.
I don't see why you'd need this sort of indirection. It's a very strange way of hiding behaviour from people that is currently clearly understood. Should metaclasses really be able to magic up decorators out of thin air and why is importing a decorator and using it bad?

As for __init_subclass__() it literally allows you to mess with things when subclassing objects in totally unexpected ways!

"Adjusting how classes are created can be very difficult to debug and so should only be used when you have a really legitimate use-case."

I'd say never use it - if anyone has a good reason to do magic like this I'd like to see it!
Before reading the article I just calculated that they would probably be similar, I would probably be inclined to take the monthly $5K because I don't have as much faith in the market delivering 6% returns over the long term.

However; there are so many factors that could push me to decide that $1M would be better.

I don't think it would help me personally to see a Monthly projections on my retirement accounts. In fact, I trust monthly projects less because I've seen my 401K projecting a huge per month number when I was contributing a miserly amount of my pay check. I wonder whether they were straight up lying or assuming my salary and contributions would increase.

The thing about projections is that there are so many factors that the investment companies don't know about me or my plans. They don't know when I'm planning to retire, what my budget is, what other investments I have, what I expect to make in the future, or what risks I'm planning for.

If people have as much information as there exists today and they make bad decisions, changing it to monthly projections won't solve their problems. It might create more.
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That doesn't make the study any less flawed. I'm questioning whether we should even accept this study if there wasn't a big enough pool of black people to actually run the experiment properly.

Isn't anyone at least a bit curious how an all black team would have performed? If the all black team performs as badly as the all white team, it would only bolster the argument that diversity is important. Which is a good result, because you've made a more convincing study.

But what if the all black team performs the best? It would cause you to look at the study completely different, wouldn't it? Maybe for cultural reasons, black people are better at these kinds of puzzles.

We'll never know because it seems like they have already decided this study in its current form is enough to conclude that "diversity=good".
Come in early and kick ass.
> if I had to choose all or nothing, an annuity ensures I will NEVER be broke, I will always have $5,000/mo

$1 million is 16⅔ years of $5,000 a month. The cumulative rate of inflation since 2000 has been -29% [1]. That $5,000 would buy today what $3,500 bought then.

Also, keep in mind that someone is paying you that $5,000 a month. They could go bankrupt one month into their obligation to you. Inflation risk, foreign exchange risk, counterparty risk and tax consequences are just some of the risks one would need to consider when weighing lump sums versus annuities.

[1] http://www.usinflationcalculator.com
Soon to be the last generation that receives these benefits, if they aren't already. And a city without a workable budget to boot.
Haven't they already started with Chime?

https://chime.aws/

EDIT: Looks like this article was written Feb 3rd, and Chime was announced 10 days later.
No, because the "slightly lower annuity" will cost you only "slightly less" than one million dollars.
Hey! What do you know? I guess they added support after enough complaints. Now I'll give it a go.
Let's get to clinical immortality before worrying about scientific stagnation.
I would take the $1M: with that money you can reinvest part of it in a diversified portfolio and in the real state market having money and an income.

Also due to inflation $5000 today might be worthless in 10 years, so it would take more than 16 years to get the same ammount of cash. Considering you retire at ~65 would be one more reason in favoring the $1M.
I think this exposes the "religious" nature of humans in general, including plenty of people on HN. You see them using logical arguments to reason, instead of practical proofs (presumably in order to get away from personal bias). Surprisingly they end up with even more bias when using logical reasoning.
It took me a minute to get the riddle (if you haven't tried, go read it now), but I don't believe that means I am biased. My first thought was that the "surgeon" was the son's father, and the "father" was just someone who had children. In a literal sense, that could be a valid answer, but the focus of the riddle is whether I considered the surgeon to be the son's mother.

Does the fact that I consider a surgeon to be male when there is no gender specified mean that I am biased? Of course not! I would not bat an eye to learn that there are female surgeons. That is not where the ambiguity comes from. My assumption that a character is male derives from both the fact that I am male, and the fact that the majority of English writing, and indeed, English grammar assume male gender.

When I read "To Kill a Mockingbird", I assumed the main character to be a boy until several pages in, where, to my surprise, the gender was specified to be a girl. Of course it was easier to read a first-person story from the standpoint of my own gender. Did I have a problem that the main character was female? No. That did not matter to me. Did I wish that gender was specified as soon as the character was introduced? Yes. That would have made the writing much easier to comprehend.

TL;DR The fact that gender bias exists in language does not mean it exists in the mind of the reader.

EDIT: To those that are downvoting, would you care to explain your complaint? Just because I disagree with OP's argument does not mean I am not open to discussion.
We put quotes around that word in the title. I'll add an explanation here in a bit.

Edit: ok, here's an explanation.

We put quotes around "bribes" because that's the tiniest intervention I can think of that still addresses your concern. Why so tiny? That takes a while to explain, so read on if you want to understand how we approach this.

The title breaks the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) by being both baity and misleading. It also contradicts the article text (assuming I read it correctly), since it declares a thing to have happened which the text itself reports as not having happened, if you read it to the end. Such a bait-and-switch is a marker of a bad article.

Normally the moderation on this would be a no-brainer. We'd replace the title with one that is accurate and neutral, and we'd apply a standard downweight that we put on outrage stories which don't contain anything of intellectual interest, especially when the topic has appeared many times before. If we didn't do these things, HN's front page would consist of nothing but dime-a-dozen outrage and the elves would leave middle earth.

However, when the story is negative about YC or a YC-funded company, the regular rules don't apply; we still moderate, but we do it less. That is the first thing pg taught me about how to moderate HN, and the first thing I've taught every other moderator. I've written about this many times: e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=... and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date....

Frankly, it bites to see an article get away with this kind of thing on HN when we spend every day trying to keep the front page good. But that's the price we pay for being able to answer users' concerns about conflicts of interest in moderating HN. It doesn't prevent a few people from saying awful things about us—this is the internet after all—but it does let us answer in good conscience. Doing our best and answering questions seems to be enough to keep most HN users happy, which is the thing we care most about.
People down voting this comment, care to explain what's wrong with it?
That first tweet is about Uber. Uber is not a YC investment.
It's also one of the most heavily discussed topics on HN, so it's hard to understand what's being claimed there.

The idea that HN "buries stories about [YC] investments" is one some people assume must be true—as you did, for example, in your use of the word 'fact' above. But the truth is the opposite. When stories are negative about YC or YC-funded companies, we moderate them less, not more, than we otherwise would. I've posted about this plenty of times, e.g.
recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13861389.

For example, consider the current post. This is not a good HN story, because it doesn't describe anything of intellectual interest. It also has a baity and misleading title, which breaks the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. But we haven't penalized it, and we haven't replaced the title other than to put quotation marks around "bribes", in response to a user's objection. Intervening less in such cases, even at the expense of HN's quality, is the price we pay for being able to answer comments like yours and the GP's in good faith.
Realize that sometimes taking a break and going home actually helps you solve problems better.

Understand that you can never ever finish work. Work will always be there and we should not define how successful we are by how much work we do.
That's an incredibly simple and elegant solution, and it's obvious how simple it is to scale it. Thanks for sharing!
I think the hospitals jack up their list prices with these adjustments presumed.

Of course, they don't tell the patient to negotiate a discount that's the last thing they want to deal with.

And you're right, it doesn't always work it depends on the context and financial health of the provider.
Linking the manual:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7h4vPhh2vD2SlY1OUdmNkFGRzQ...
Sadly only in german.
He can influence the voters, sure, from his soapbox. But he can't make anyone vote his way. It's the government that wields the power, not Bezos.

Keep in mind that Clinton way outspent Trump, and had most of the media on her side, and still lost. Money and media do not buy elections.
IMO, if you're an API company, and you can't handle bursts of traffic from your customers, you should work on improving your backend and stop wasting time messing around with implementing patterns like this. It's a lose-lose situation for you and your customers.

Improving performance can be significantly more expensive and time-consuming than implementing simple rate limits. A realistic scenario is something along the lines of:

- 99% of time your request rate is N requests/min or lower

- 1% of time your request rate exceeds N requests/min, which could cause service degradation

You can deploy infrastructure to handle the 99% case, slap rate limits in front of the service, and sleep well at night. It's often not worth it to pay for additional infrastructure, spend time optimizing, etc for that 1% case.

As an API user, the way to think about rate limits is as a form of protection from other (misbehaving) users. Everyone is going to be upset when one user's script has a tight-loop firing at 100000 requests/sec and then the API becomes lethargic, throws errors, or goes down all together.
What is the timeline for rolling out JavaScript support?
"The rest of the time, they were hiking mountains, taking naps, going on walks with friends, or just sitting and thinking"

I think in most likelihood that the creative mindset of these people ticked when they were doing these stuff, hence, once they get back to work, their focus is so sharp and intent on finishing.
Huge congrats to the amazing team at Apollo! :)

We at Graphcool (https://www.graph.cool) are super excited about this release as the majority of our customers are building their apps with Apollo Client.

A few months back we launched Learn Apollo (https://www.learnapollo.com/) here on Hackernews which so far has helped thousands of developers to get started with Apollo. (HN Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187431)

For people just starting out with Apollo: With tools like graphql-up (https://www.graph.cool/graphql-up/) it's super easy to get a GraphQL API for your Apollo apps. We're looking forward to contribute more to Apollo and its ecosystem going forward!
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There are two guaranteed downsides to annuities: 1) they generally fall into the "insurance" category, and as we know insurance companies can get in trouble and even go under, and 2) there is a 0% chance that your annuity will outlive you. If you had $1M and withdrew roughly 4% for the rest of your life, there's a decent chance it would be worth MORE than a $1M when all is said and done. The annuity takes advantage of that fact.

Like other forms of insurance, they're probably going to make money on you. Unlike health/car insurance, this type isn't legally required or usually a good idea.
No, certainly not. In fact, I'd say it's much harder to be successful if you're not trustworthy or if you act inconsistently, which is what unethical behaviour boils down to because you're applying different sets of rules to yourself and others.
It's sad that the answer to this issue is to literally pay the offender.
His entire site is really quite interesting, almost strange that I never stumbled over it (given a large overlap of interests).

Thanks for posting this!
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Translation: "if you don't agree with this, you are not being reasonable"
ISDN is actually used quite a bit in niche markets in the states. For studios, typically you'll see a couple B-channels bonded to give someone 128K MP3 or AAC. At a bare minimum, 64 kbps/16khz g.722 is used. I worked in a newsroom a few years ago where I frequently had to record a weather guy from a distant area who used this.
Ended up just writing it in Rust which I've been using for years now. I wanted to try something new, it's hard to compete with Cargo for package management + build tools.
Google will track even on non-Google products by virtue of their various media and analytics products that are prolific on many sites. No consent required. A couple of years ago they were caught collecting private home wifi traffic from their map/photo cars.
Can the Smarter FridgeCam detect expiry dates?
Scottish, Geordie, Liverpudlian, Yorkshire, Birmingham, Welsh, Somerset, Cornwall, East Angular, Estuary, Cockney, or from somewhere else?