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Company I worked at removed all coffee from the break rooms, because it would save them money.

Sure did, except that people now had to go down the cafeteria, if it wasn't closed, or go to the local starbucks down the road (which quadrupled it's daily order volume almost overnight).

Going to Starbucks was a 20 minute walk, plus the 5 minutes standing in line... some of us started bringing insulated containers with coffee to work to save some money, but if the black liquid ran out and it was close to normal quitting time, we now went home instead of grabbing one more cup and finishing the problem we were working on.

Not sure which bean counter decided that was a good idea :P
I understand Tokyo's subway systems developed in a unique environment before and after WWII, never the less, despite being commercial entities, they best just about any state run subway system in the world.
I would like to point out a library that does this that is an npm/yarn install away:
https://github.com/gemini-testing/gemini

it's quite full featured for my needs and it's backed by Yandex
1. Even if you were right, that still leaves international transfers as an area where cryptocurrency is superior to the old establishment system.

2. Not all countries have free domestic transfers. The US doesn't. Many of Canada's banks don't offer it. And not everyone is banked, even in the developed world.

3. You give up your privacy when you use the banking system, so if you don't want your payee to know your name and bank account number, you're better off using cryptocurrency.
Southern California, for example, dumps most of it's rain water into the ocean. I'd bet that capturing some of that would be much cheaper in the long run.

it's not hard to come up with some creative solutions... How about a giant bag or huge tanks out in the ocean for holding the water, instead of building dams. Or injection wells to replenish the water tables during the rainy season, pumping it out during the rest of the year.

It just seems weird that millions of gallons of fresh water gets dumped into the ocean, and nothing is done to capture even some of that water.
Nokia bought Alcatel-Lucent who previously bought Timetra which was a silicon valley start up that at one time was meant to compete with Cisco, a pretty bold move for sure. They had some pretty amazing stuff (IMHO) but I think one acquisition after another ruined them, sad I think.
Isn't it still insurance though, as in insurance against tremendous healthcare costs without it? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought the definition of insurance was just protection from loss
Essentially VC is subsidizing part of America's goods then. We could always skip the middlebusiness and just go straight to universal income paid for by these firms.
What would "not hiding" it look like

I'm guessing it would take the form of higher prices.
I haven't used Kafka yet, but a Kafka partition is roughly the same as a Kinesis shard, right?
If you'd like to read something from Camus, I highly recommend The Stranger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(novel)

If you have some knowledge of French, you may try the original French edition - the style is simple and should be very accessible.
Wow, I thought I knew a few things about web security but it turns out I have a lot to learn.
If I read things right, the pictures were being used were actually from MLS sites, and Zillow was using them on their site.

A large goal of the site is to take the different closed off MLS listings and aggregate them on one site for people to find.

But, working with the MLS sites is extremely hard to do and they require sometimes large fees and have very strict/weird requirements to use the data.

The big thing with Zillow, is that a problem for them is having access to as many MLS listings as possible, since most of the realtors use the MLS to post homes. Without these, its basically just a price estimator and search engine for homes.

Zillow already has a tenuous relationship with the MLS sites and most likely pursued the lawsuit to prove to the MLS sites they are serious about the use of their images, and likely were worried about this affecting their relationship with some of those listing agencies.

Although only speculation, I see this as more likely than the lawyers just going after this to be a bully (but they still probably did the wrong thing either way).
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"You should only test code you wrote that can break. "

A common source of errors are mismatches between what your dependencies say they'll do and what they'll actually do. There's been huge, costly failures from developers expecting the dependency would honor its documentation or just take a standard approach to error handling. So, either testing them or at least good catch-all error handling + logging should be done.
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This is stunning! Great stuff.

Since the input and prediction is a single sequence, did you experiment with beamsearch/stochastic beamsearch decoding (maybe with additional diversity criteria)?

I found that even simple models (markov chains) got a big diversity boost with a stochastic beamsearch - it might avoid the problems with low temperature repetition that could happen in a standard beamsearch. However, my music models are much, much, (much) worse than this, so my relative improvement might be related to that.

Similarly, I am finding really nice results in text (RNN-VAE) with scheduled sampling, it might be worth experimenting with.

I am amazed at how good this next-step sampled output is. The above ideas might just hurt the result, I am having a hard time imagining how it could be better.

What soundfont/midi rendering package is used for this? The piano sound is really rich.

Looking forward to hearing what creative things users will do with this model.
But this weirdness still happens when you have a combined entity like Kaiser.

I went for a routine visit, and paid the $30 copay before the visit.

After the visit, I get a bill for Ridiculous_Number_X - Ridiculous_Number_Y = $30.

The "actual cost" of the visit and the "negotiated discount" are numbers that are obviously pulled out of someone's ass because they magically align so that I have to pay $30.

And since everything was handled by Kaiser, how the hell could they not know before my visit that they would want $30 extra and just charge me $60 beforehand and be done with it?
Me and a friend were talking that idea a few weeks ago. You'd need to further include what insurance plan that consumer was on as well, so know what the hospital would charge knowing that information.

Crowdsourcing it would make it significantly more transparent, but the problem (to me, at least) is more that submitting that information somewhere is more of a privacy/HIPAA thing than most consumers and companies are willing to handle.

I could definitely envision a government system, like medicare, would hire people to do this, and make the prices more transparent to consumers, but this is the same medicare whose part D cannot negotiate drug prices due to lobbying efforts.
Glad I'm not the only one... I mean I get the 'hacker' appeal of this, and why it's on HN, but at the same time it's so impersonal and weird to message that many people.

I can't see how almost all of the HUMAN BEINGS on the other end wouldn't find their treatment in this exercise at least a little bit disturbing.
> McMansion Hell educates the public about architectural concepts, urban planning, environmentalism, and history.

That's simply not true. It's ludicrous.

At the EFF level, this is a complete waste of time. There are more than a few instances of fair use out there that are defensible and are worthy of protection efforts. McMansion Hell provides a fraction of the public value that Perez Hilton does - and like most people I consider his site a black mark in societies history.

I get that everybody deserves a level of protection, but everybody does not get it. Resources are thin. EFF should be focusing on more important pursuits.
It's not that different, though. Preventative measures show up in many insurance contexts (although I guess usually as a premium discount, not as being paid for by the insurer): fire alarms, and training for motorcyclists and pilots, come to mind.
Very good point. Conflict of interest is the real flaw in the insurance business model. What other industry makes more money when their customers slip up?!

Insurers try to protect their margin by finding ways to reject claims.

I am actually working on a company changing that by making money when settling claims instead of losing it.

http://insureathing.com/insurance/wanted-an-insurance-partne...
Some lawyer terms are 1000 per click. They win the cpc war. Stuff like personal injury lawyer.
Thanks for responding. The whole motivation of why I wrote my post was, to paraphrase "You're late to the party, there are already extremely competent experienced players already working hard in what you think is ideal." Seeing your quick input pretty much affirms my impression that yes, improvements can be made but it's hilarious to think a couple years of outside study might reveal some kind of gem.

As in, there are already block-chain based deployments going for portions of the industry. That's some pretty aggressive shit in my opinion. These are also industries with loads and loads of proprietary data that simply can not afford to play fast-and-loose with integrity.

That's why Cyber Insurance now exists. Even the Industry itself knows how to layer risk models.

Hey though, if somebody wants to march into Stalingrad in the Winter and prove me wrong, they can reap the rewards. Full stop.
I'm no financial expert, but I don't understand why it matters that 88% have been produced. Each bitcoin can be split into a lot of pieces. The satoshi is currently the smallest unit of the bitcoin currency recorded on the block chain. It is a one hundred millionth of a single bitcoin.

So if the market cap was 10 trillion rather than 42B, instead of your Big Mac costing 0.00157btc like now, it would cost 0.000006594btc. Why is that a problem?
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> Now we’ve got to focus on the next target: more women-founded billion dollar companies.

Why? 'Billion dollar' is just an arbitrary target. Why not focus on more $500M women founded companies?
On the topic of scary chemical plants: check out the Chemical Safety Board's videos on Youtube. Mostly computer-animated recreations of serious industrial accidents.
Probably still in Finland.

Source: I went to school with a Son of a Nokia employee who informed me the origin of the name wasn't anything exotic, but a specific town in Finland. Thus, I gather it's still there.
Foundation and Empire has two wars in it so there would be plenty of potential for explosions. The actual fighting isn't described much in the book, but I doubt that a TV adaptation would treat it the same way.
You could add a dublicate counter.
Once out find a pair, let j increase until numbers[j] != numbers[j+1] and count how many duplicates you encounter. Add this number to pairs everytime you find one. Once you increase j set the duplicate counter back to one.
They lost their ca tax exempt not for profit status but they are still not for profit... which means they pay normal taxes and still operate as a non profit, which is actually pretty amazing in my opinion.

They also limit net income to 2% of revenue and refund anything more.

https://www.blueshieldca.com/bsca/bsc/public/member/mp/conte...
@pinboard for excellent snark + tech political activism
He'd tell you he didn't realize that until very late: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/facebooks-mark-zuckerber...
Plural vs. Singular – it usually is an either or when you’re talking abt domains
TDD is closer to the Spiral model of iterative development of a product always assumed to be incomplete or broken in some way. Constant improvement instead of perfection.

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

"As such the tests often end up containing bugs, which is the same problem as the classical "when we got going we found that the spec was wrong." Do you code to the bugs in the tests?"

Work in high-assurance field showed it's often easier to assert or check the results of complex software than it is to implement the software itself. Imagine a control system bringing in data, making complex calculations, and deciding whether to accelerate or decelerate. You want to ensure it never pushes past a certain maximum. It's much easier to code something at its output that says (if value >= maximum then StopAcceleratingMaybeNotifySomeone()). The checker is even easier to formally verify if you wanted to go that far. This is one of reasons many proof assistants started building stuff on simple-to-check cores where the generation process is untrusted but the trusted checker is tiny.

Empirically, though, there's confirmation out there in terms of defect detection that tests catch more bugs than they create.
From yesterday WSJ: "Daniel McCarthy, a professor of marketing at Emory University, analyzed Blue Apron’s numbers and estimated that roughly 60% of customers stop using the service after six months." https://www.wsj.com/articles/blue-apron-chops-its-ipo-price-...
If we create a modern skull cult involving Elon Musk's neural lace, how will future archaeologists refer to it? An Anthropocenic skull cult?
FYI -- it forces you to select a build tool, even if you don't use one.
tl;dr: Clickbait headline. Exactly-once delivery not even close to implemented. Typical de-duping, as you've seen and read about hundreds of times already, is what they did.
Main points, like talking about all 1.3B people as if they are of the one mind? 1.3B brainwashed chinese, unlike the 300M free-thinking americans, none of whom buy into any sort of blind nationalism, amirite?

Also, how does 'extreme nationalism' manifest in the expat community? Is it just talking passionately about your homeland? Or are these people actually taking physical action? I mean, 'extreme nationalism' is suggestive of more than just talking.
On the other hand, are we sure that there are not people here who are paid by Monsanto to push their agenda? I'm not saying that's the case here but I don't know.

Insinuating that someone is a paid shill isn't allowed on HN. I know it seems harmless, but it's been a recurring problematic theme for years.

The problem is that every time a shill insinuation comes up, there's almost no evidence. That leaves an unproductive conversation that goes nowhere but down.

I know how frustrating it is to be the target of downvotes and flags, but it's a reaction to a long history of similar types of comments leading in negative directions. It's kept HN discussions interesting, so typically it's an asset for the site.
I've never heard of him. Or Billy Blue design. Or anything to do with him and I'd expect I'd recognise his hair.

Either this is a meme I'm not familiar with or we're being trolled. Perhaps both.

Source: I'm Australian.
Social intelligence seems to be what's typically need to rise to the top of the management or political hierarchy, unlike intelligence as it would be defined here.I can't think of too many politicians I consider even remotely smart these days.
Here's a great blog post on insurance and healthcare: https://healthcareinamerica.us/how-to-ask-good-questions-abo...

I think insurance is not an accurate word for the health care industry. I, like you, think of that word as coverage for risk, and in fact that is how the industry started in sixteenth century Netherlands (mentioned in that blog post).

But the business of insurance is about defining and measuring risk, and putting people into pools so that you can charge the riskier people more.

I don't think that maps well to health care, especially when you consider how good DNA testing will be in a matter of years. "Yup, your kid is in a high-risk pool for leukemia. You get to pay $50,000 a year for family insurance instead of the normal $19,000." [The first number is made up.]

Also, if you run an insurance business and someone with a pre-existing condition knocks on your door, their "market" rates will be their cost of treatment as their risk has become a certainty.

If you don't think charging people based on your best knowledge of the risk is fair, then it is a government program, a forced redistribution of risk across a larger pool; not insurance.
> EFF should be focusing on more important pursuits.

Your opinion of that website has absolutely no bearing on whether EFF should focus on defending them. This is a clear First Amendment case with digital rights square in the middle. Zillow is attempting to exert copyright claims against a blogger when Zillow owns zero copyright on the photos in question.

This case is exactly what EFF is all about, hell it's what their name means.

Don't let your own biases block out common sense.
Maybe this comment points to a larger misconception: that some people will fall into the trap of analyzing Blue Apron as something of a tech company?
Where do you get your numbers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_high_...
I am familiar with NY medicaid. They do publish a way to calculate the Medicaid default rate. Insurers do not have to pay exactly this but it provides a decent base line. Here is a basic description of how inpatient pricing works.

Each year the state publishes the set of hospital rates and intensity weights for each DRG (Diagnosis-Related Group) and severity combo (currently using weights developed in 2014). So a DRG of 460 (Renal Failure) with a severity 2 has a weight of 0.7393. Now the actual cost will depend on which hospital you go to since each hospital has a different base rate. For example each Mount Sinai hospital has a base rate of $8,743.45 while Niagara Falls memorial hospital has a base rate of $5,558.99. Each hospital also has a per discharge rate. To calculate the default rate take the hospital base rate x DRG intensity weight + per discharge rate.

https://www.health.ny.gov/facilities/hospital/reimbursement/...

https://www.health.ny.gov/facilities/hospital/reimbursement/...
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That depends on the type of solar power. Yes, there's photovoltaic power - though you'll note that the article was talking about mirrors - mirrors heating up something. That something often has quite a bit of heat capacity.

There are quite a few ways to store that thermal energy from solar ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#Heat_stor... ) The Ivanpah Solar Power mentioned in the article lacks any storage, but its possible to store steam - the PS10 plant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS10_solar_power_plant ) stores its steam at 50 bar and 285 C for an hour.

Its also possible to do molten salt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Molten_... ) which can store its heat for up to a week. Solar Two used this in the Mojave back in the late 90s.

The peaker plants aren't necessary when you can just grab some steam or other thermal energy from a tank and use that.

Hydroelectric power ( http://www.energy.ca.gov/hydroelectric/ ) also does a good job of being an instant on (recognizing the issue that California has had for the past few years with hydroelectric power...).

From https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2011/10/20/the-high-s...

> Each generator housing contains a 280-ton turbine that looks like a ship’s propeller and a 430-ton generator rotor that spin in perfect synchronization with the grid’s alternating current. As large as these generators are, they’re among the nimblest big sources of power available: Duffus can bring a turbine online in under two minutes and, once it’s running, can summon as much electricity from it as he needs in as little as ten seconds. Each 60-megawatt generator can produce enough electricity to supply roughly 60,000 households, but all of that capacity isn’t needed most of the time.
You're talking about the change from Netscape Communicator 6+ to Firebird and eventually Firefox in ~2003. That was a positive change.

I'm talking about the the change from Navigator 4.x to the MAS-based buggy crashy slow XUL monstrosity in 1998-2000. That was a terrible change, it killed Netscape as a company, almost gave Microsoft complete control over the future of the Web, and ended up necessitating Firebird/Firefox.
The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien

Ubik, Philip K. Dick

900 Grandmothers, R.A. Lafferty

Moderan, David R. Bunch

Radiance, Carter Scholz

Little, Big, John Crowley

Lizard Music, Daniel Pinkwater

Camp Concentration, Thomas Disch

Peace, Gene Wolfe
No one to name. No examples to present. Just an agenda to suppose.

Seems a little hand-wavey, no?
You'd think, but the setup and configuration on these things can take forever. And nevermind the things that can and occasionally do go wrong and need fixing.
But universal income will be used by poor people to buy essentials that have low profit margins, rather than an addiction by wealthy people to high profit margin services.
Offtopic: this is the first time I've seen geoblocking on Humble Bundle which is really sad.

"We're sorry, but these titles are not available in your region: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History and Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon."
Ah truly Silicon Valley is at the bleeding edge of social benefit!
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The main benefit of TDD:

It strongly encourages you to think of your code as several input/output problems.

When you apply this model of thinking at scale it tends to lead to a much simpler (read: less-complex) codebase.
Don't waste your time grepping for "churn", it's not mentioned in the body of the article. This article is long on code and graphs, but short on intellectual honesty.
Yes, Matt Yglesias once said Amazon is "a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers"
It wasn't bad at all, but maybe some people are put off by certain characters in roles that are not associated with them, like Stallone in Copland.
The ultimate reason behind hospitals attempting to charge exorbitant prices is due to Medicare and Medicaid paying under cost for services. Hospitals need to make that difference up somewhere. Surprisingly, if you remove the profit hospitals make on ancillary services like the gift shop, parking fees and investment income, they are losing money.
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More women at oil rigs, coal mines, and trucking.

It is way over male dominated and it is about time we get equal representation of the sexes in field's like that.

Oh, wait. They only want equal representation in cushy office programming jobs.
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> Other than a few isolated places, housing across all of Canada has been going up substantially for well over a decade.

The average Canadian home price in 2005 was about $250,000 CAD. The average home price today, excluding Toronto and Vancouver, is about $300,000 CAD (in 2005 dollars). That is 1.6% average growth per annum.

1.6% real growth is substantial? It is not nothing, but I think you're being a tad overdramatic. If any other asset class only returned a measly 1.6%, we'd call that disappointing.

The story is, of course, quite a bit different once you include Toronto and Vancouver. But that's been the entire discussion up to this point, so I'm sure I don't need to reiterate that yet again.