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I always chuckle when I see people compare what amount to 3rd world countries with the US system, my mother was trained and worked in Moscow's largest hospital. The shenanigans that went on there, the level of training and expected knowledge of staff, the baseline expected standard of care all don't even hold a candle to what she had to reach to be considered competent in the US.

On top of that I don't know if this applies to CR as much as other European countries, but homogeneous populations really are easier to care for and create actuarial tables around than the stew of the US; when people bring Sweden with its <50 million pop of white people with very similar ancestry to prove their method might work, they ignore how medicine and the whole industry actually is practiced (and needs to be practiced). Let's wait 20-30 years now that they've taken in 1.5 million refugees from a very different background who are projected to grow 3x faster than the current population before we start trying to emulate unproven theories.
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No worries =)

Castelvetrano is one of those interesting olives for me, personally, in that I'm not a big fan since I prefer the richer, earthier flavor of the slow-cured (dry-cured are my favorite!) olives, but my wife loves them most of all b/c she doesn't like the earthier olive flavor.

So, it's one part plant, one part process that gives them their unique flavor. The olive its self has a bright, crisp flavor with a good buttery profile. The process used for these is an extreme example of the lye-cured process, where they are lye-cured for just a few hours, and then soaked in fresh, cold water for at most a couple of days (changing the water every few hours). Basically, one of the most minimal processing of the olive world. After this, they are generally kept in a lower-salinity brine than other olives, to avoid the "salty bite" of a standard olive.

So, the Castelvetrano olives are really an exemplar of how lye can be used to great advantage in curing olives, to create a unique flavor profile.
> That's a problem with converting from one DB to another.

The article is about converting JCL to PowerShell, so I'd say it's related.
I wouldn't call it extreme paranoia. Amazon has a pretty well established history of undermining business partners on the merchant side... why not competitors on the cloud side?

Competitive intelligence is a thing. For all you know, Proctor and Gamble has Amazon consultants in house, and those folks may well have access to information sensitive to WalMart.

Be careful about assuming rationality from the actors here. Lots of egos and competive people are at play here, and people will do incredibly dumb things to win.
Out of all the people I know, software developers are generally the most allergic to spending money on software.
Sure, but the commute is a bit of a pain.
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Bill made a profit. If Travis did too, he would probably not have been asked to leave.
Well, for one, the post I was responding to claimed that no language touting type safety had ever caught on, and yet there is Java, likely the most used programming language on Earth next to C and C++ (which themselves offer some level of type safety).

But moving on to your claim in this post, nobody ever said "compile-time checks eliminate errors altogether." What they do do is reduce errors and completely eliminate certain classes of errors. They also make maintenance and debugging much easier because they define clear expectations for the interfaces of their arguments and return values. The length of stack traces is a completely orthogonal concern.
Thanks, I did check both examples and what it strikes me about them and other similar "good" examples on HN are they are usually based on failed strategies or technologies, so basically the discussions are pointless...

All in all, the YCombinator is a for profit corporation, which by censorship and bullying (or so called "down voting") is shaping the people on Hacker News to frown upon small or lifestyle businesses, because they need the flock of dreamers to get their underpaid workers to work on mostly failed startups... They are not out to help you or anybody else, this is how they make the money in the end and they go after everyone who threatens their business model... If you are to remember just one thing from my short stint around here, please remember this: They need you, but you do not need them!

Good luck!
Bloomberg says majority of positions eliminated in BK HQ.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000137063717...

On June 16, 2017, the Board of Directors of Etsy approved additional initiatives associated with the May Plan that are designed to improve focus on key strategic growth opportunities. These initiatives include additional headcount reductions of approximately 140 positions (approximately 15% of the total current workforce) bringing total eliminated positions to approximately 230, or an approximately 22% reduction, compared to its headcount at the end of 2016. In connection with these initiatives, Etsy expects to incur additional employee severance charges and other exit costs of $6.0 million to $8.8 million, largely made up of cash expenditures, which will be recognized through the end of 2017. Etsy announced these additional initiatives on June 21, 2017.

Bloomberg says majority of positions eliminated in BK HQ.
His misbehaviour is (in this case) tolerating such behaviour at Uber, something which many seem to consider a strategy to "let boys be boys" and create a great business freed from the oppressive shackles of "political correctness".

But go google and you'll find quite a few anecdotes that do make it seem as if he has a strange hangup with women himself.
There are so many projects now that I don't know if anyone is already working on or has a token sale being planned for these, but the best ones I could think of are:

* using Town Crier or some other oracle that utilizes trusted hardware to provide authenticated online bank transfer statements, for a Dapp that enables trustless fiat <-> ether exchange. This would be very ambitious and very costly in resources and time - possibly over a half a decade to really get it right.

* online markets, though several are being worked on

* a Dapp for trading GPU time for game-time tokens, and using the GPU resources to generate procedural worlds, fauna and plant life, like a much richer and decentralized version of No Man's Sky. With the GPU resources, the fauna and plant-life could be generated through evolutionary processes, to make them much more compelling and realistic.

* a privacy-focused payments Dapp, especially one that utilizes the new functionality that will become available with the release of Metropolis, which will make both ring-signatures and zk-SNARKs possible.

* a payment channel Dapp for use in a Lightning Network implementation
> I'm not sure...

Ours? We were talking about coming up with the best single metric for internet speed which is difficult to cheat, provides some minimum guarantees, increases with speed and reliability, and correlates with the actual user perception of speed (e.g. latency alone would be a terrible metric because 1ms ping and 128k throughput isn't 'fast'). I would say such a metric is absolutely necessary for advertising purposes because without it companies will just choose their own to mislead consumers into worse service.

> I thought...

I only brought it up because you were citing the article authors opinions and conclusions from the facts as if they were facts themselves.

> Your last...

None of this really has anything to do with the FCC although my sentence might accidentally suggest it. How the courts rule will depend on their analysis of the FCC's authority, how their rules relate to state consumer protection laws, and if the FCC intended for their rules to be preemptive. The courts are the ones carrying out the formal process of law and being cold and analytical.
I think it's harsh to call it extreme paranoia. I've heard that one of the reasons Amazon won't use Slack for its chat is because it isn't self-hosted. I'm sure many major companies won't use Gmail. I don't think Slack or Google have done anything that suggests they'd mine their platforms for corporate espionage. Slack isn't even in the same industry as Amazon. Is Amazon paranoid?

According to the article, Walmart seems hesitant to support so much profit running to Amazon. While Amazon's retail business runs on razor thin margins, their cloud business reaps enormous profits. That means that the cloud business is helping Amazon put a lot of pressure on Walmart. Without it, would they be able to eat such thin to negative margins in the retail business or would they need to raise prices and make Walmart's offerings look better for consumers?

In the article, they note that AWS was 89% of Amazon's operating income. It's likely that Amazon's thin retail margins would bother investors if AWS wasn't raking in money. It's also likely that AWS margins are helping Amazon be more aggressive in retail.

Still, I don't think it would be more paranoid than most companies to avoid using a competitor's infrastructure at that size. Amazon will prefer self-hosing email rather than using Gmail regardless of assurances.

It's not even just about trusting that the competitor wouldn't actively decide to peek into your data. It's trusting that no one in that company would take a peek even though that the competitive data could give them a huge career boost. Let's say Amazon hosts their email with Gmail. You're a struggling middle-manager at Google Cloud who has seen some failures. Maybe peek at Amazon's email and see what their cloud plans might be and when you're able to get out in front of Amazon you amaze your colleagues - maybe you have to bribe someone with access.* It's not just trusting that Google doesn't want to do this.

*Now, I'm sure that Google has safeguards to make sure that employees can't do this (or it's at least hard), but the point is that you have to trust 1) the company, 2) the employees, and 3) procedures the company has put in place to prevent nefarious data access.
Because knowing when and where a trainload of toilet paper is showing up at Walmart gives Amazon stronger bargaining power and ability to hurt Walmart.

If they can add a penny to the earnings or take one away from Walmart, that means bonus and stock $$$.
Parser combinators are a quite general technique which has been applied to PEG parsing, Earley parsing, and many other specific algorithms. Recursive descent is common because it is easy to implement and allows the resulting combinators to form a Monad.
This mirrored my confusion when `AES_cbc_encrypt` modified my IV data when _decrypting_.
So rehabilitation's completely out the window then? Why take an offender and create a situation for them in which they'll be more likely to re-offend and work more closely with other criminals?

I know that personally if my vote was taken away, for example, that I'd lose a great deal of respect for and connection to the state; the meaning and validity of laws would be seriously diminished.
> £300-400 day rate

How do people earn so much?
They're spending a lot. If they throttle back to the core business they might be able to squeak by. I do wonder how feasible that is given how bizzare their cap table is.
Not Unions' fault. I don't understand the animosity towards Unions specifically to this revisionist history of Health Care.

> The Birth of Employer-Provided Health Insurance

During World War II, the federal government was wary of post-war inflation. The administration saw the terrible devastation hyperinflation wreaked on post-World War I Germany and they were determined to hold it at bay through wage and price controls which they instituted during the war. In reaction to the wage controls, many labor groups planned to go on strike en masse. In order to avert the strike, in a concession to the labor groups, the War Labor Board exempted employer-paid health benefits from wage controls and income tax. https://www.zanebenefits.com/blog/part-1-the-history-of-u.s....

> Company provided health care became a standard thing from union demands years ago.

I have heard that for years and I can't see anything that wasn't really the Federal Government's plan to stop all wage increases. Yes the Unions got mad and were going to strike but that was because the federal government was going to freeze all wages. Hardly a Union fault.
Apple is an electronics company.
> How much money does a doctor need to make?

If patients are looking for open heart surgery, brain surgery, or something else that's life-and-death? It's amazing how quickly people start looking for "one of the best surgeons in our state." And I don't blame them! If somebody is going to saw open your skull and stick a scalpel in your brain, you want the medical equivalent of a respected senior Google engineer, and not a fly-by-night outsourced IT subcontractor.

Similar issues apply with rare or weird medical conditions. In these cases, front-line doctors might see a condition once in their career. But there's a specialist somewhere that deals with those conditions all day long. If you ask your regular physician to try to diagnose something weird, you may wind up getting expensive tests like an MRI, whereas a specialist might instantly recognize that an MRI is useless.
But is that true for most people who use Uber, or even taxis? I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of Uber/taxi users were in fact people traveling to a different city.
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I've built a couple lead generation sites and some of the things you've determined don't make a difference with e-commerce seem to have a huge impact on people filling out forms on line.
> You're never sure at a glance what's an input or an output parameter, what needs to be freed and how you're supposed to free it.

Terrifying; would a more functional style of programming help here?
The people most likely to respond to dumb outrage like that are also the least likely to stop using such platforms.

I don't think they have much to worry about.
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Drag and drop editor like Scratch, but for Python – all coded by a 13 year old
Hi everyone, I’m posting this on behalf of Josh who has created EduBlocks – a drag and drop interface for Python which helps young coders make the transition from Scratch to Python. You can check it out here: http://edublocks.org/

Despite being only 13 years old, Josh has created this project and released it Open Source with the intention of helping other people his age get into coding. He is also a keen member of the Raspberry Pi community and leads workshops to engage youngsters in computing.

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Chevrolet Bolt self driving test fleet comes this way. The difference is that Tesla has been talking loudly to get people to not see the short comings other companies are actively compensating for.

so what if they can add it to future production, their talk promises or implies they have all they need. yet cursory review of random youtube videos will show you how limited their system still is.

this may be another "war" they lead the charge on but falter in securing the win. you can play the car marketing game at times similar to the technology market but in the area of safety there is no compromise. instead of acting like a tech company pushing a new tablet they should have acted like SpaceX
Uber has been a fantastic means to lose billions, so far. It's not clear that they have a way to profitability. Are you going to invest in them? Do you trust their numbers? If so you might want to explain why.
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...my dryer simply doesn't go long enough to keep them wrinkle-free.
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Finally, get paypal scammed at competitive prices! :)
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I am doing in a research in finding out the most innovative companies that offer ML or AI products. I found http://www.sparkbeyond.com/ to be an interesting company in this space.
These 1:1 are the best numbers for demineralizing sweet water - I assumed that salt water desalination had much different proportions, which also means, that the relative change in salt content is pretty small and consequently the impact of putting it back into the sea.
> you have to quadruple check each function invocation with the docs to make sure you got it right.

If the docs contain that information ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Is LinkedIn down?
You really don't know what you're talking about. There's more to Uber than just an app. There is a large set of backend services responsible for everything from authorization to billing, promotions, logging, road directions, ETA forecasts, driver portals and so much more. I've never worked there but ventures like this tend to be very complicated with lots of moving pieces.

More than a team of four can manage certainly.
And then using its monopoly power to demand their suppliers take action against Amazon's monopoly power.

We really are slipping into the 1870s.
This has not been my experience in the last couple of decades.
MyTutor raises £3M Series A led by Mobeus to attack UK tutor market
Proper API design and documentation would be quite sufficient, breaking and expensive.
They certainly aren't the only major retailer to have an embargo against AWS because of Amazon's retail business.
About 5 ms/frame, i.e. 200fps except that it caps at 60, on a i5-7200U (integrated graphics) laptop, firefox, linux.
As far as I know that's really not even a "fair" rate in the US at least. I.e. full time employees with benefits can pretty easily make more.
Haven't thought that Andrej is such a big star in tech and deep learning communities. Which him all the best, his deep learning course was amazing
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Honestly, when I get home I try to avoid the computer as much as possible. It's why I enjoy playing video games on consoles instead of a PC because I don't have to continue doing what I've already done for 8 hours that day (sit close to a monitor, use mouse/keyboard, etc).
Isn't Slack on AWS? So effectively it is self-hosted for them :)

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/slack/
Sexual harassment in all it's forms should be taken seriously.
I dunno, sounds almost like competition when you put it that way.
I don't want to be paid by the hour. I want to get paid by the return I generate.

The idea of renting your life to someone else for sustenance is at an anthropological level odd, don't you think?

Also from a capital point of view. Why work harder? In fact why not work easier if you are paid by clock hours.
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> Flags for England, Scotland and Wales are part of Emoji 5.0 and not shown here as they don't require new code points.

Apparently Unicode Inc. isn't concerned with flag emoji at all. This 'Emoji 5.0' is a completely independent standard.

Personally, I prefer reading about Unicode updates from http://babelstone.blogspot.com/ ; it doesn't mix up details like those, and covers additions beyond sensationalist fluff like emoji.
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Same. Juno in NYC, RideAustin in Austin, and Lyft everywhere else if there's not another local(ish) tnc
Yeah, that's the whole point. If you make it so a felon is essentially completely shut out from mainstream society, it will be really hard for them to not commit crime again, since they may not even be able to get a job or find a place to live. So in effect you just incentivize them being jailed again, which is bad for them and for all of society, since we have to pay for it.
I'd say that it's more that we're caught in the middle. We can't get the advantages of a free market because there's too much regulation and a competition-hostile legal framework. We can't get the advantages of socialized medicine because we lack the regulatory and legal framework.

We're just kind of stuck in a local maximum in a poor area of the search space. In order to see a much better maximum, we'd have to move to an entirely different area of the search space.
For those using Serverless, being able to upload just the code (not a full Cloudformation stack) is built in, and will save you tons of time. Also, do what you can to limit/optimize your npm modules (if you're using node) since it has to be uploaded every time.
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This is a really useful article. It's a shame that so much development time is wasted on large numbers of fruitless optimisations just because they are "easy" (eg. tweaking the colour of a CTA).

That being said, I'm surprised many of the results are so negative. It would be great to also see the max uplift achieved for each category. A number of retailers I've worked with have been able to beat these uplifts by quite a bit. I wonder if it might be significantly skewed by the kind of clients Qubit has?
Here's what I don't get. Why do a price match guarantee? Why not just price your items lower? Or do a "match" where you guarantee every item for 10 cents cheaper than your competitors?
Makes sense. But out of curiosity, where are you getting that info? Personal experience? Research in some field?
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Just add /amp/ after the domain name...
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It sounds like the experiment there wasn't to add call to action buttons, but rather to change the wording to be more action-suggestive.

And they might have flubbed them - I see people go way too far on that sometimes. Changing it from something reasonable that matched the site, to something over the top and not fitting.
Yes yes, clearly there are points in time where there is a real entity that exists as a company. But in the context of "can I lose all this?" where you are a founder building something, you don't just not have control, you don't have anything when you are dependent on future investment.
> So its possible to have to wait more than a month for your first paycheck?

Yes, it's pretty typical.

> I'd hate to be loaning the company money that long every month

That doesn't make any sense.
Hmm.. Randomly generated real-world traffic based from traffic sensors and cameras. The key here is, if they use the same data and feed every car the same, then it can be easily gamed with overfit techniques.

The better question is, what happens if you give the AI car a no-win situation? How does it handle it? The Kobayashi Maru can be looked at as a way to detect outliers and failure modes... even if the game is rigged.
It's been great for using as 'glue' to do small tasks like clean ups in our case or other short lived minor tasks. I haven't used it for anything major though, only for minor tasks that are easier or more convenient to do with Lambda rather than a different way. The real value comes from the integration with other AWS services, for example, for developers using DynamoDb Lambdas make a lot of maintenance of records far easier with streams events.