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This argument founders against a pretty simple rebuttal. Unless you believe software development of the variety practiced at places like Facebook is so intellectually challenging that its demands outstrip molecular biology, mathematics, and indeed all of science save the fields of physics, computer science, and engineering --- despite the fact that virtually all of science now requires deep facility with computers! --- then that argument has to account for the fact that every one of those fields has much better parity between men and women than software development.

Of course we all here understand that 80% of software development as practiced commercially is not especially intellectually demanding, being as it is essentially a series of variations of transforming database rows into text markup and back again.
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A lot of people do, actually, and your estimate of the cost associated with bringing a drug to market is off by an order of magnitude.

The true cost of bringing a drug to market - inclusive of the extensive research and development required, the failed candidates, the FDA testing and approval processes, etc. - is around $2,800,000,000.

And so, as the saying goes, the first pill costs $2.8B, the second pill costs $0.01. "People" only consider the $0.01 cost to produce the pills that they desire to take, and seem to easily ignore that initial $2.8B investment. This is why patent protection is so critical to the success of many industries, especially medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

This also explains why drug companies refuse to develop life-saving drugs if the potential market for the drug is too small. In many cases, they would have to charge $1,000,000+ per treatment to break even. There are several medications on the market which, for the full course of treatment, cost around $300,000. This seems to be the upper limit in drug development, and insurance is willing to pay the price because one successful treatment will likely save them 10x that amount in the elimination of future care.

This is a recent (3/2/2017) article [1] on one such $300,000/year enzyme-based treatment for a rare disease which affects an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 people worldwide! Development of drugs for rare diseases has been a major problem for quite a while, with legislation on the matter dating back to 1983. However, it's apparent that it's still a problem.

And here is another article on yet another $300,000 treatment (see, there's that number again) to treat cystic fibrosis.

[1]: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/pompe-drug-lauded-by-trump-co...

[2]: https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/09/19/sarepta-duchen...
I've never seen an autoreply that's included the original message
Wow, downvoted. Who could possibly think cheating is ok...
Is that so different from the app store? Why would Steam games be meant to last for a shorter time than mobile apps? Most mobile games tire pretty quickly, whereas some of the games on Steam have enormous statying power.
The value of software, copied or bespoke designed, is not in the bits but what it allows me to do. The value of a new mobile game is fairly low to me, even if a small team spent 5 years creating it, but the value of a service like Google Docs is high because I rely on it daily for my work. The value is further increased because I'm relieved of having to update, patch and secure the software, the vendor providing this as a service which I'm very happy to pay for. Millions of other people having access to Google Docs does not diminish the value I derive from it, in fact it increases it.

There's a saying about "a man knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing", that you might want to consider. By the way, if your toilet-as-a-service is always magically clean, nice smelling and stocked with a never-ending supply of toilet paper, I might very well be interested :)
Here's the actual request: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1705.0/00987.html
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I've paid for IntelliJ and Maple. Yeah, my company would pay for IntelliJ, but I prefer to install it at home and work on my own projects and occasionally change jobs.

I am paying for the updates is how I see it. As long as people keep paying, they ought to keep working on it. The minute that stops seeming to be true, I will probably switch to other products.
The use case for Pilosa is usually as an addition to something like Cassandra or HDFS where you have terabytes (or more) of data that you want to be able to query more flexibly - especially if there are a very large number of attributes that you want to filter and segment on (think tens of millions).

I think you're right though, that there are use cases which would benefit from a library exposing this functionality - you need to have quite a lot of data before compressed bitmaps representing the relationships in that data start overflowing memory on a single machine.
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This exploit was reported in 2016 with no progress made.
You are right, with the current state oft LTE and a digital video pipeline we are not yet competitive to analog latency. On our Sky Drone FPV system we get a glass-to-glass latency of ~150ms which is good enough for controlling a drone at some altitude. It is not good enough for competitive racing though.

But I am confident the time will come. The next gen cellular network aka "5G" will reduce the network latency significantly and with some new technologies on image sensors (super high framerate, global shutter, ...), I am confident that it will eventually make analog setups obsolete.
The legend on this map is wacky:

1-5
0-1
0-(-4)

So what if the change == 1? Does it fall in the upper or the middle bracket? Same with == 0.

Also, the % is misleading. The changes are not in percents, they are in actual units. You can verify this by examining some data points on the map.
Yeah i'd love to have giant epaper screens for use in a coder's workstation where emphasis is only writing code and looking at terminal screens. along with a b&w focused windowing system.

It'll be like sitting on an old school workstation again, more focus, less distraction and still have modern underlying hardware.
Facebook Profit Surges 76.6% as Ad Sales Jump
My understanding broke down when they introduced the Israeli connection, I couldn't understand what point was being made.
Side project idea: ultrasonic jammer. It's really simple, just use a piezo speaker and drive it with a small microcontroller (or an analog circuit) to jam the frequencies they're using.

The only problem is that dogs and other animals won't like it ;)
I'd argue it's not just the lack of paid upgrades, but also the inability to do trials and/or (easy) refunds. I think the absolute glut of "free with almost all functionality as in-app purchases" style apps speaks to the demand for trials.

The lack of an ability to trial iOS software with no financial risk means that the risk of purchasing crappy software is priced in to the amount people are willing to pay. Think of it as a weird sort of reverse insurance. Every iOS software developer is "paying" (via lower prices) customers for insurance against crappy software and, unfortunately, there is a lot of crappy software, so the premiums are sky-high.
Asking for mic permission with no apparent reason is scary, many people will not allow it. Also you can easily change it from the settings.

Apps on Apple App Store can't stop functioning just because of a permission is not given. If the app can't perform it's function without a specific permission the developer needs to explain it to the users and ask them to go into the settings and lift the ban.

So if an app that does not have a really good reason for asking for the mic, the use can just deny that permission and continue using the app.

No need for fishing in the sewage until you find the gold among the sh*t and it's my main reason to use IOS over Android(Though I hear its getting better).
VR Porn i believ will be the biggest of all social consumption. last year i had a chance to try it (out of sheer curiosity and nostalgia) . it was way way to real. the end of society.
Has he made a public comment on this? The only reporting I have seen has been third hand. I am taking the reporting at its word, which is that he did an analysis using alternative dependent variables that showed no significant difference. I'm also asserting that his analysis is more likely to be flawed than the original study, since promotion level is not clearly an independent variable whereas Facebook tenure is.

If the facebook engineering department is biased against women, they are likely to both promote deserving women less and reject their code more. If you do an analysis using promotion level to predict code rejection, you may not see any evidence of bias in this scenario, no matter how severe it actually is. Do you disagree with this possibility? Can you point me to anything that Facebook has said or done that explains why they are not concerned about it?
Your reply sort of proves the point of the article ...

> Put it this way: if it were somehow possible to make more money as a developer in the App store, how would removing Apple's 30% cut make it more feasible?

30% is a pretty hefty percentage. It's the weakest point in the article but imagine if I just cut your salary by 30%, is your job still worthwhile?

> My iPad and my iPhone run the same operating system. Why should I pay twice for the same functionality across both of them?

Except it's not the same functionality. Try Evernote for instance ... does it LOOK like the same functionality? That's a lot of developer effort you can't recoup. You've just diminished all that extra work to support both modalities with a wave of your hand.

> That seems fair to me as a consumer. If I bought something a year ago and want to re-install it, why shouldn't I? Wouldn't it seem unfair to not be able to use something I paid for?

That thing you paid for 5 years ago no longer exists, the software you bought 5 years ago can't even RUN on your new iPhone, what you are getting, for free, is the thing the developer made this year, with actual work, which looks like the thing you bought 5 years ago.

> "Ideally" = Apple does not enforce [family sharing].

But they do encourage it. It's part of the diminishing effect. That you can opt out as a developer doesn't change that.
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Well, in Toronto - anecdotally - a lot of condos are being snapped up by Chinese. I have no problem if these individuals work and live in Toronto itself, but I have a serious problem if they're holding on to it as investments. In that case I've no issues with slapping punitive taxes on the property.
That looks pricey, but great. Thank you. I'm not sure if a double-page is necessary. I was thinking about using an old iPad in the meantime. I wonder if a microphone could follow the music well enough to follow along -- detect mistakes or automatically change pages.
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it's possible to do such optimizations for a (safe) subset of javascript, such as these pure functions.

Arguably java has a larger subset even today.
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Bigtable sounds like a massive undertaking. What is it that will eventually make you upgrade your data architecture? Is it the amount of data that is the main issue or is it something else?
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>but if people will pay higher, then there is value.

It's important to note that this is a particular kind of value, a neo-classical definition. The Marxian one is independent of what people will pay for an item; for example, land, honor, titles of nobility etc. Have no value.
The former is a debt you have the right to collect from the seller. The latter is actual ownership of the money. E.g. if you're behind on your cell phone bill, you owe the company money, but they don't automatically have a property right in your bank account.
> ...as long as the market is more or less zero-sum game, one always go in hand with the other.

This statement derives from pure propaganda. It has almost never played out that way in history. What almost always actually happens is that once a business gets large enough, it has the power to force all of its competitors into bankruptcy or buy them out and then it gets monopoly power. Once it has monopoly power, anything goes.

There are so many examples of this just in American history up until Teddy Roosevelt busted the trusts. Even after that, there are a ton of examples of businesses being allowed to get way too close before the government got around to breaking them up.

If you want to see the clearest example what happens in an entirely unregulated free market -- look at the internet. The internet has, thus far, been almost entirely unregulated and it has the lowest barrier to entry of almost any business ever. It takes almost no capital to start an internet startup -- just the knowledge and some free time. And yet, Google has near monopoly power over search. Facebook has near monopoly power over social media. Amazon is nearing monopoly power over internet retail. In each case, they haven't wielded their enormous power in the marketplace, largely for fear of public backlash leading to regulation. If there was no threat of regulation, you could sure bet they would.
It looks like part of the problem is that somebody simplified what the puzzle was supposed to look like: https://intelligencegroup581.wikispaces.com/file/view/feat_p...

A bit easier when the pieces are the right shape, and the black ink isn't missing or worn off.

Edit: Another historical picture with yet another configuration of the same puzzle: http://imgur.com/a/URP4m

Edit: Please note "Part of the Problem". I agree it still has issues.
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No, really it's not. America has been changed for the better by many immigrants who had "ideals and ethics" quite counter to what dominated American society at the time. Many European Jewish immigrants, for example, fought for labor rights and racial equality based on their treatment in their home countries. This was much to the chagrin of anti-Semitic "titans of industry" like Ford and Disney, who are absurdly still held up as paragons of American culture.

The dynamism of American society exists precisely to the extent that we don't let unthinking appeals to the validity of the status quo guide our behavior.
Yet nevertheless the engineer and programmers are for the most part paid wage for labour power, measured in hours.
so for example in any given country, you think the people who voted for president x, and the people who protest against him, both share the same culture ... the same values

is culture something that can change, do you think your culture, values .. changed over time, or could have

anyway .. check immigrants for crime records, check them for what they did, or do .. not what they think (or what you think they may do, based on what you think of their ideas), because you know what immigrants spend few years 3 to 6 usually in any country before being granted citizenship, during that time if they break the law in any major way, killed someone for example, this in most countries will prevent them from being granted citizenship ... so you see there is a way to see if they fit, and that is ... if they respect the law ... and the law should be fair, and the law can be changed, this is only to preserve freedom of expression and thinking

and i agree immigration is not like hiring, because a country is not like a company, companies are not democracies .. companies have owners, countries dont
I'm sure you'll be surprised to find that many people do think that would be morally good.
If it seems like an interesting experience, go for it. If it is likely to be harmful don't. In the broad world of business, travel is not uncommon. For example, construction workers might be on the road for months working on a project.

In software, heavy travel is probably more common within consulting firms than any place else. But big organizations often shift people around.

As for negotiating more money, a person can always ask. Depending on the company culture and the individuals involved it may or may not generate positive or negative reactions.

Good luck.
I have multiple dedis (not VPSs) at OVH Canada (Windows on bare metal as well as Proxmox with Linux and Windows VMs). You'll want multiple dedis there too, if you use them.

Occasionally a server will hard lock and when you got into the management web app and ask for a reboot it will say that the system is not responding and they have to send a tech to go physically power cycle it. When that happens (and it will, it's happened to ALL of my dedis there at some point) you're down for 30-90 minutes.

They provide remote reboot and a java-based ILO which can solve most weird issues, but the hard lock stuff continues to confound us.
Whoa whoa whoa! If people default, then bankers might actually have to work for a living and actually evaluate potential customers instead of just cargo-curling their way through forms and praying that everything will be ok.

The C- students that became bankers can't be expected to actually work for a living!

(Sarcasm)
I wonder how much of that is just the result of bureaucratic inefficiency. I'm sure if one looks deep enough and wide enough, that cost may be cut down by several orders of magnitude. Maybe not. However, no matter what the case, there may be no incentive to do so, for the people who are actually in a position to do such a thing.
> if I record it then someone else will be convinced that Ali Baba knows the secret

Isn't that exactly what they're trying to do? Prove that Mick Ali knows the secret?

I thought the zero-knowledge part is in showing that Mick Ali knows the secret but without knowing/revealing the secret itself.

EDIT: On a second reading I see your point. The paper says "the reporter could not pass on his conviction to the judges".
>I swear HN seems knowledgeable on all subjects except those I am deeply familiar with..

Good old Gell-Mann amnesia.
Tautologies are neither arguments nor explanations - what about it seems like bad stats to you?

I agree that there are many plausible explanations for why code from women would be rejected at a higher rate at Facebook. I don't think that demonstrates bad stats though. I don't think your collaboration suggestion is very likely (given other public large scale analysis of male/female PR acceptance rates that showed them to be roughly equal) but I don't think that undermines your overall point.

I don't think it's material whether it is overt or subconscious bias leading to these results - either one would be a big problem that Facebook should recognize and work on.
> The value of software, copied or bespoke designed, is not in the bits but what it allows me to do.

Water allows you to live. Should the water company raise the price to €1000/liter ?
I think what he's saying is that a disproportionate amount of time and money is spent on saving a tiny number of lives.

If your goal as a government is to minimise the number of lives lost that were preventable, then the argument is that there are many more effective ways of doing it other than spending huge amounts on security services.

I presume there's some stat somewhere that says that young drivers are more likely to be involved in fatal traffic accidents. No-one would claim that dying in these accidents is not tragic.

So if you were to raise the legal driving age by a year, you may end up saving lots of lives, and that would be a lot cheaper way of saving lives.

It's not a flawless argument, as one has to balance freedoms with restrictions and the fact that any historic analysis of attacks has to try and unpick the fact that security apparatus was in place in the past. Spending 0 money on security could have unforeseen consequences, and most people would accept that preparing and executing an attack would be easier.
It was being sold up until about a week ago. I'm sure that you can find a store that still sells it on CD.

Blizzard is making a StarCraft remaster right now; who knows how much original source is still in there. My guess is probably a lot, since they want to keep the same mechanics.
When it comes to deploying outdoor signs the price of a sign is the least of your worries when it comes to TCO. It's more about how much does it cost to deploy and how much does it cost to manage the signs. Digital signs also give you the ability to update information more often.

Given the positive feedback from the end customer and Mercury Innovation (http://www.mercuryinnovation.com.au/) that took our platform and built the traffic sign (we're not the ones selling the end product) I'd say that TCO is in favor of e-paper traffic signs.

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Interesting, and I see it's backed by Y Combinator, too. Would need to see a price comparison with AWS and GCP, though. Do share if anyone does a proper write-up.
Credit card fees at Apple's scale = $0.15 + ~1.5%
Google offers Gmail and Docs for free to consumers, in order to hook businesses into using it (and mining the consumer's data, of course). And it's working great, they announced a while back that over 3 million businesses are now signed up for the commercial G Suite [0], paying $5-
$10 per employee/month in perpetuity (I personally consider the G Suite fantastic value as a business owner).

[0] https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/01/27/google-just-passed...
If I could get a refund if an app sucked I'd be infinitely more willing to try out random paid apps.

Use the steam method if necessary, only auto-refund it if you've used it less than x hours
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1. Neither is rural. 2. LOL at Brisbane to Sydney being "across Australia" :-)
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Pushing for healthcare to be state funded, not free. No-one expects pharmaceutical R&D to be purely philanthropic.
Okay? Maybe not.

Illegal? What's the point of that?
Me too! It just doesn't look right and I probably would try all combinations over and over and overthink it too much until they decide that I must be "feeble minded"
"a country is not like a company, companies are not democracies .. companies have owners, countries dont"

I disagree - the citizens of a country are its owners.
See my response above for links :)
Would they break up families? To me that is the most immoral part of immigration policies and having borders.
I suppose it was when the CAD did not lose 40% of it's value against the USD. It knocked Toronto out of the top 10.
Exactly: The problem for small software developers isn't Apple, it's that the logical price for the far-and-away biggest app makers (Google, Facebook, Snap) to charge is $0. Customers naturally fix their expectations from the apps they use every day.
no they are not, this is exactly my point, you dont own your country ... you just have a vote ... which you dont always use , sometimes your vote will win, sometimes not

what separate a citizen from a resident is ... in most place i know .. the right to vote

and an owner does need a vote .. he may have some restrictions imposed by law, or how to use what he owns, but beyond that .. he can do whatever he want with what he owns, not permissions needed
Yelp uses lots and lots of Python :)
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