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It's definitely a good sign that he jokes about it, on the other hand, I would prefer a doctor that acts as a consultant, there to give proper advice.

When I go to the doctor, I have Googled the symptoms I'm experiencing before I go. Once I've been given a diagnosis by the doctor, I Google the diagnosis to verify that I have the symptoms one would expect from such a diagnosis.

Having had and heard too many experiences where Doctors got it wrong to huge detrimental effects, I want to double check what I've been told and not just blindly accept what one Doctor has judged in 30 seconds based on an initial perception of me without really knowing anything about me.

I think if I've correlated what I thought was a possibility along with what the Doctor has diagnosed and the expected symptoms of that diagnosis, at least I can be confident to a degree that I can trust the diagnosis, prognosis and the course of action provided.

If I am experiencing symptoms vastly different than I would expect from the diagnosis, I want to be asking questions as to how and why the doctor feels they are correct and I am incorrect. I realize I'm not a doctor, but in this day and age, for us all to have the world's information at our fingertips, to be blindly believing anyone whose advice could have catastrophic consequences on our health and lifespan is shortsighted at best and plane idiocy at worst.

That doesn't make someone a hypochondriac, that makes someone cautious about misdiagnosis. Unfortunately, there are many hypochondriacs out there.
Why you'd go to the effort of doing all these estimates and just make up nonsensical multipliers is beyond me. Off-shift work is a little over 1.5x (this is non-overtime work that's not between 8 and 5), overtime is 2x. Weekend is 2x. Every overtime hour gets you a D stamp that is not insignificant in value.

All that information is public. I'm a little suspicious of a $500k crane engineer myself, but you managed to get everything wrong. If you missed half the stuff, and the half that was available in the article and in a two-minute Google, god knows what you're leaving out. I literally had the top result in my first search showing the wage card and here you're busy making up nonsensical numbers.
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Yes, I suppose I should have said with virtual/augmented reality experience. But something tells me that you knew what I meant.
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Many tools are indeed not the 'feel like a boss' type, but the 'thoroughly hate it' kind. Having tried plenty of tools for cfg mgmt for example, GPO, Ansible and CFengine basically make you want to jump out of a window, as well as diverse puppet versions. Same goes for SCM/VCS systems that can't even get on Subversion-level, which by itself nowadays is a reason to not take a job.
Looks awesome. Congrats on the launch! I'd pay for a Ruby/Rails version of this.
Beautiful. Or a tape load error on a ZX Spectrum!
At the end of the day, it's all about leverage.

I'm not sure how the job market is in Philly, but one of the reasons this worked in SF (I imagine), has to due with the leverage the employee has over their prospective employer.

In SF/bay salaries are quite high, and talent is hard to find.

It doesn't hurt that the engineer who I know that did this, was an incredible engineer.

That said, I still recognize it's probably not something that's going to work all the time. For every 10 companies you ask, 1 will agree.
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Yah was gona say, no one really uses pooling / unpooling in convnets any more, SOTA tends to be more about strided convolutions / unconvolutions. Not really sure why this is on the front page....
This is a pretty neat perspective.

Maybe insanity is repeating the same quote over and over again, expecting different results ;)
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I totally agree. There are enough "open" social networks like Twitter and Instagram that are public by default, the point of being mutually authenticated friends on facebook only seems useful if you interact with that person in real life (or did at one time). Otherwise why not just make Facebook public by default like the others?
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How is that really any different from any Silicon Valley company raising a new round of money? So long as the valuation goes up enough to compensate for the dilution, the per share stock price will be the same or higher. I'm not saying the valuation is correct but the fact that dilution happens and stock price goes up isn't that had to reconcile, right?
..or blown on a Nintendo game cartridge.
Anyone who knows more about iOS care to share their input on this?
Very interesting. Technically this should work in Dalvik opcodes too. But I do not know if there any runtime checks done by VM. I have never seen such technique used in Android.
I wouldn't call it bad intentions. I'd call it being opportunistic or having unaligned incentives.

When you own the platform and discovery features (i.e. search), you can create an environment in which your products could be on average more successful than 3rd party products.

The calculation to build your own products is probably "is the total value of having a given category of 3rd party products on my service worth more or less than if I build that category of products myself and sell directly to customers?"
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Curious to try Kite, I started to integrate Kite plugin into PyCharm until I saw they keep our code in the cloud which enables Kite do what it does. I'm not sure how many of them would be ok with their code being stored in a private cloud!
Cancer genomics researcher here. I agree wholeheartedly about getting sequencing done if you have cancer - it's what I would do for myself or my family. Two minor quibbles about your thoughts:

1) Exome sequencing is below $1000, but analyzing that data adds a non-negligible cost. Still, even 2 or 3 grand is way cheaper than wasting time on treatments that won't work. Whole-genome sequencing is even better (for a little more cost) because of the extra types of information it adds about structural variants and copy number changes.

2) We're reasonably sure that most cancer causing variants are in the coding space, but there are undoubtedly some in non-coding regions (and classes of large structural events like duplications or deletions that affect both).

It's the best time in the history of the world to have cancer, and it is only getting better. Survival curves are slowly bending, and new classes of treatments like immunotherapies are helping to bend them even more.

The bottom line is, If you get cancer, fight like hell to get your tumor sequenced. Most insurers cover at least some kind of genomic test for cancer these days.
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I'd love to be running a business that is failing at 10B a year net income!
Elon Musk launches Nuralink which merges AI with human brains
Thanks - we're investigating. Seems to be working in most places but there may be an edge node out of line.
Same here, ~1200 people on site, less than a third are German. Engineering teams are mostly foreign.
> Because I would like to be an acquaintance, but facebook doesn't have that option

It literally does have that option - go to their profile, click the "friend" dropdown, change it from "friend" to "acquaintance", see that they stop showing up in your feed :)

http://www.bewebsmart.com/social-media/facebook/use-the-acqu...
Your model of cognition is off. When you are thinking about an orange, you don't have an actual orange-like terabyte structure appear in your brain. You think about individual body reactions you might have to an orange, or you think about specific things you could do with an orange. Which slivers of orangeness appear is highly context dependent.

The fact that you have control over your attention... you can direct it to arbitrary things you could do or feel with an orange... that gives you the subjective impression of seeing the whole thing all at once, but that's just a lie your brain tells you. You only actually experience tiny vignettes.

You imagine your experience of "orange" is this massive huge bandwidth cognitive experience, but you only really need a handful of neurons to maintain a weak signal signifying orange.

A crude drawing of an orange in an app can trigger exactly those same neurons. As long as your mind is busy with other things, you won't even notice the difference. This is why novels work. And it's why comics work. "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud does a great job of showing how abstract representations of things can provide richer experiences than realistic ones.

Of course, if you direct your attention to the differences between the crude drawing and a "real" orange, you can interrogate those differences. But the fact that you can explore a rich representation of an orange in your brain doesn't mean that you do when you experience one in daily use.
Not enough holidays?

I know a lot of ppl in USA which take too little or none of them for quite a while until they burnt out.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/07/america-vacati...
So, (without the money sloshing about) grad school?
/pol/ thread != debunking. You should stop spreading propaganda and consider maybe not hitching your horse to a pathological liar.
This is only for Amazon Drive. As others have said, 3rd party apps won't be able to make use of the data, but there's probably another reason.

I'm assuming Amazon uses fingerprinting to store only one copy of a file across their system, and just link to it if you upload the same file. If the files are encrypted they can't do this.
And this is where I turn right around and advocate a UBI. The problem is that labor is not a free enough market.

A giant clot of tiny worker friendly regs is one answer. I think a UBI and something reasonable for health care is better. Losing all your best workers because you create a place no one wants to work at is the best possible outcome for corporate doucheyness.
My OpenDNS is also unhappy about it, getting all sorts of SSL cert issues.
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Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work.
Well clearly the brain isn't infinite, but nor is any Turing Machine we implement. When we say something like C is Turing complete, we don't mean that any correct implementation can compute what a TM can compute, because no implementation is finite. Eventually both the stack will be exhausted and malloc() will fail; there's a finite amount of state available on any concrete hardware.

My point being that that seems to be such a trivially true statement - conveying no information - so that we must understand the sentence to mean something else; that it can compute what a TM can compute, up to some arbitrary limit related to available state. So, would you say that the brain isn't Turing complete either?
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fair point -- we are subtly varying our practice attempts and the world is subtly changing, and sometimes those trends intersect in such a way that the clouds part.
I see. It'd be interesting to see what kinds of behavior the anonymity would bring out in the long run even with the restrictions.

On a different note, have you given consideration to side-channel leaks? It seems possible to me that over time, one might notice trends and correlate a certain behavior with the presence of someone specific in the group, who is known to be in the group without their username being known.

Do you expect the usage model to involve "volatile" groups, as in, you create a group for every project or side project, or are groups long term?

Either way, pretty intriguing project, particularly as a social experiment. Best of luck.
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Or programmed with unpure functions, haha.
It's worth noting that humans completely suck at almost any task even simple statistics can be applied to. Even world class experts will typically be beat by simple linear regression. See here for many examples: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gv/statistical_prediction_rules_out... And this is very old research with methods that are very primitive compared to modern machine learning (most of this was done on pencil and paper!):

>Wittman (1941) constructed an SPR that predicted the success of electroshock therapy for patients more reliably than the medical or psychological staff.

>Carroll et. al. (1988) found an SPR that predicts criminal recidivism better than expert criminologists.

>An SPR constructed by Goldberg (1968) did a better job of diagnosing patients as neurotic or psychotic than did trained clinical psychologists.

It's completely amazing we allow human doctors to make diagnoses at all. At the very least algorithms should always be part of the process (but note that humans given the results of an algorithm still do worse than just the algorithm on it's own.)

The problem is there has been enormous resistance to the use of algorithms in medicine. People irrationally distrust algorithms and strongly prefer human judgement. Even when they know the algorithms are superior. Psychologists have actually studied this phenomenon and have named it "Algorithm Aversion": http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/risk/library/WPAF201410-Algort... This isn't even getting into the institutional resistance to change or having people lose their jobs to robots.
Aside from this being legal boilerplate used in most terms of service documents, this snippet doesn't say anything about data retention.
Unsubstantive partisan comments are a kind we really need fewer of, so please don't post them here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I had to look it up, and it varies by country (obviously), but assuming you are in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_Stat...
Same here, the startup I work for has ~100 employees less than a 1/5 are native German speakers. Though some team (e.g. operations, HR) are obviously more biased to people who speak the language well.
Considering it's a debate about health care and insurance, I'd say the health of the individual is relevant.
I get a lot of lift out of ndjson-cli (though jq is a lot more popular) for command-line JSON manipulation. I've found it incredibly powerful for scripting and piping with web/RESTful services.
Great to hear - we'll be there soon :)
Yes. https://www.thestar.com/business/2016/04/19/cinespace-sells-... GM Canada purchased land in downtown Toronto and made the announcement for a corporate campus with a dealership/showroom. The challenge will be with the existing franchise dealerships that will balk at GM taking a bite out of their market share. edit - The GM official announcements specifically refers to the sale and service of electric vehicles. http://media.gm.com/media/ca/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/...
Are you sure your monetization strategy is the right one? Do people have the right incentives to pay? Not allowing people to stay in the free tier is a pretty bad motivator.
That's exactly what I meant in both instances. Uber is one of the few companies that actually disrupted a market where the main player had to make a major change or lose out (probably not full elimination) big time.

On the other hand, it seems like Uber's necessity is confined to hubs. I use the US as an example since both I live here and the markets are very disparate. People do use Uber here. However, there was nothing to really disrupt. I still see (as far as I can tell) just as many taxis as before. It feels more like Uber is supplementing hailing services than replacing it here. And in a lot of smaller markets like mine, I feel that it is similar.

How many markets can Uber realistically snub before it starts to become an issue?
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Where are the Instructions?

okay, so I am excited about this, don't mind some code in the cloud, but I am having trouble with a quick start.

Downloaded it, had trouble launching it (expired certificate).

Once I did launch it there are no instructions.

I went into the tray and went to settings. It was trying to map my WHOLE USER FOLDER.

I turned that off, and whitelisted a smaller folder for it to use. Set up a small test python file. Opened up a sublime file.

Can you include some instructions about how Kite is supposed to integrate with anything? I see this cool video but it is not obvious how I am supposed to get it to work for myself.
Great question. I killed in my first few years at that Fortune 50, then stalled because I was on an unfit team and continually pressed my colleagues. Learned a lot from that, but I digress. I did some contracting where I worked ~50, because the pay was hourly. Now I have a great full-time spot making about double where I started out of college.

I'm glad you left and hope you found something better!
Interesting. Then, why isn't the bytecode always stored with the caller, that way you can have return-type dispatch?
RIP to Treehouse's 4-day week.

http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2016/09/t...
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I'm talking about cultural relevance. AOL still has a revenue of $700M btw.
Which, of course, the NYT played its part in fanning the flames of war.
Ford sold 66,000 F-Series pickups in February 2017, alone. Small car sales are declining, across the board.

https://www.cars.com/articles/top-10-best-selling-cars-febru...
? I mean economics has been politicized extensively. Other than that economics is applied math and behavior. Systems of equations, Markov chains, game theory, ... Then there are specific levers one can push (inject money, take out money, regulate or not regulate). These basically modify the transition probabilities on specific states. 2007/08 was predictable fundamentally because wages didn't keep up with house rising house prices.
I don't think we can guarantee the absence of that kind of errors from all existing billions of lines, but the work is still far cheaper than switching languages. New projects can make use of sound static analysis from the get-go, and old projects can apply them incrementally.
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Thank you for taking the time, I appreciate it!
I'm from Copenhagen, and I'd say that's the case here too. I know lots of people who've never used Uber in Denmark, and those who have do it for the price. Taxis are easy to come by and they have waaay better service and more comfortable cars.
Python 2 to Python 3 was basically world-breaking for many projects. Most every non-trivial piece of code needed to be modified to work with 3. Many people maintain older code on 2 to this day even with newer code being written on 3 by the same people.

Is that what you're wanting for curl?
I didn't like ultrasonic cleaners, I found the hydrogen peroxide based cleaners to be amazing.
You have to admit, the honesty is nice. They'd do it too, if they could.
I agree, that line is widely misused, and it clearly doesn't cover every type of insanity. Like you say, too, sometimes conditions change and the "same thing" does, in fact, have different results. Actions in society, after all, only have meaning in context. Economically, for example, if you spent 50 years as an artist, your sales are likely to vary a great deal over that time based as much on economic conditions entirely beyond your control as any action of yours.

This quote, though, I like: "From the standpoint of the psychology of personal constructs we may define a disorder as any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation." It seems like the broader, common quote could have been derived from that, imprecisely, losing most useful meaning in the process.
Differentiation.

Most off the shelf ML tools are not that powerful - and they don't make a difference in how you differentiate as a business. If you have a ML team and know how to build models from scratch with novel data, then you can iterate on your model and expand, something you can't do if you don't own the model.
TBH I think most quotes can be over analyzed like this to the point that the quote seems ridiculous.

IMO quotes are just ways to remind you of lessons learned; you take them at face value and move on.

A literary analysis of quotes seems out of scope of day to day life.

Of course this doesn't mean you shouldn't analyze things, but this quote does have an obvious face value meaning that is..well valuable.
That supposed block diagram of systemd is taken from the Wikipedia article on systemd, where for the past two and a bit years there has been an explanation that it is not a block diagram of systemd.
Windows 98 regularly produced different results from what appeared to be the same input.
>First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture.

Should I be aware of something from GNU coding standards?
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For Windows, there's Ditto (http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/). It's insanely useful for slinging text around, like when you're copy-pasting a ticket number into several different places in-between other bouts of work that need the clipboard. Also useful for saving small URL/code/SQL snippets and retrieving them with a quick incremental search.
To me, this is like trying to use a hammer for nails, screws and painting. Use the right tools for the job at hand. Don't know how to hang dry wall? It's ok to get help!
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Honestly, watch what people do, not what they say.
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Then they literally give me janitorial work. What?!?
This is where a good company culture could make a difference. I have family, and I don't miss real life because someone decided to have a meeting at 7. No one stops me, but I know the people who always stay will progress further and faster, I only have my skill to rely on.
This looks great. Any plans to support notepad++?
aah, there's nothing like utopian geek idealism...
I guess you don't remember the lead up to the Iraq war.
The thing that gets me about this is that we all think that the brain is an understandable object in the end. This may not be the case at all. There are things that we have in our world that are going to stay fundamentally mysterious. Strictly, they will always have 'edge cases' that are logically considered to be paradoxes, yet exist all the same (Godel's Incompleteness Theorem). These things are Hurricanes, where we will only ever really be able to give probabilities of paths or the stock market, where if you canfigure it out you'll have killed the whole thing.

Most importantly, the idea that we can understand the human brain and then manipulate it must be false from our everyday experience. Simply put, if we can understand our brains, then we can understand women, something we all know to be forever impossible.
"Then they literally give me janitorial work."

That's not so bad. I'll sweep the floor in my lab, wipe down benches, equipment, etc after a project. I make it a habit of doing that so I have a fresh start for the next project.

Manual labor is somewhat satisfying sometimes as you can think about other things while doing it.
In the context of substance abuse, it's not hard to see the original implication of the now-largely meaningless aphorism: People trying to beat an addiction have to work very hard to keep from falling back into the habit. An addicted person will often find him or herself doing the same things (hanging out with the same enablers, doing the same activities that surround substance abuse) and expecting things will be "different this time."

Thus the admonition that someone is "insane" if they expect change when they are doing the very same things they did when they were dependent.