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>"See, according to what I've heard/read, freezing your credit actually negatively impacts your credit score."

Do you have a link or some further explanation for this? I don't think this is true. It's actually the opposite - when someone runs your credit which can happen without your knowledge or approval then your credit will get dinged. By freezing it and not allowing anyone but existing creditors to access your profile you prevent this.

Not having enough credit will keep you from obtaining a higher FICO score however. For instance you can have perfect credit but if you have to few credit cards your FICO score will be lower than someone who has perfect credit and has more credit cards. It's insane but true, its a metric called "balance to limit ratio":

http://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/getting-more-cred...
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How's the battery on the pinebook?
If you strip out all the regulations in healthcare all it takes is one preexisting condition to make healthcare runaway expensive for a majority of people.

Most UBI proposals include universal healthcare because healthcare is a problem best solved when everyone is in the "insurance pool" automatically. As long as the hippocratic oath exists and doctors have to provide life saving treatment it will always be in our macroeconomic self interest to incentivize people to seek healthcare before its life threatening.
Like I said, a small relief. To clarify, I'm not worried about them selling the data now, and I have hopes that there will be some headway made on the issue legislatively prior to them running into problems. It's not a good situation, but it's better than joe-schmoe-adtech right now offering to target me for $X, and outright sell all that info for Y x $X because they need to raise some cash fast.

If we don't make headway on this issue legislatively and soon, I'm not sure it matters, as your profile information's privacy at all these sites has a shelf life in my eyes. Both sales and security breaches with exfiltration of data at random adtech companies will eventually lead to most this private profile data being publicly available anyway, so unless we put some strong limits on what can be collected, how it must be stored, notification of who is storing it, and the ability to review and remove items (and all of this at a minimum), I think it's a moot point who has it now, since everyone will eventually.
Why would that lead to less variation? What would cause hormones to not (say) bell curve? And hormones are just one piece in the puzzle.

There are, for example, a diversity of hair color, and that changes over a lifetime. Why would DNA's natural "experiments" with regards to gender be any different?
I have Kaiser and I am an exclusively pumping parent - the rental is through Apria and Kaiser covers it in full on an indefinite basis. The $1-2k+ Symphony as a free-to-$40-monthly rental, with a free (with ACA plans) basic-level pump, makes a $600+ pump a bit of a nonstarter to most people that plan to pump.
I can't imagine blockchains ever satisfying all legal requirements.

At some point I expect some court to say "X shares were illegally transferred from person A, give them back". If we don't know where they went, it's impossible on block-chain to give them back, unless we assume the existence of someone who has the rights to make arbitrary changes, at which point there is no point having a blockchain.
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JS and PHP won't get you anywhere - you will need to use something else like R or python to start looking at it.

Check out this course: https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-text-mining-bag-of...

This will help you figure out how to convert those words into variables which can be used for modeling.
They would probably pick something more secure than the government did, considering they have a vested interest in not succumbing to fraud.
A developer may also fail in communicating how much time will something take, explaining clearly to pm why is feature harder to implement or not feasible due to existing architecture. A developer may fail at asking questions clearly - so the pm don't even know what info is missing. He may be unable to explain why more time for refactoring is needed or why change of technology is needed.

It is not possible to write specs completely without ambiguity - just like no one writes code without bugs. A developer who can ask questions to customer with empathy is more valuable then the one who plays telephone and needs interpreter.

What you are describing is junior work - juniors are closely supervised and fed every detail.
> My proof is by example through thought experiment: I'm a grad student who has a bicycle accident. Without free gov healthcare I now must go into debt to either the hospital or a lender (medical purchases are just one example of an essentially non-negotiable expense). Perhaps I already had other debts, but somehow now my interest payment + living expenses payments are more than my basic income, otherwise known as the normal life of a grad student in todays society anyway - in my case BI didn't work. This is just one example of how easy it is to slide back into poverty with such a system, it could occur slower and over a few generations but sooner or later poverty is back. We just pushed the goal posts back a little bit.

Two arguments against this. The first is that you are comparing a steady income with an insurance. You can always spend your BI on insurance. Wether insurance would be more expensive if you had BI or not, has not been proven in this model, but it could go either way.

The second is that BI in that tought experiment, even if you eliminated insurance-type nets, would still yield lower poverty. Its just not the exact same people. That is one of the hardest problems on any social welfare program: if you need to improve everyones position absolutely and relatively, you basically cant do anything. You have to let some lose for others to gain.
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Some VCs liked it and invested. Others weren't willing to take the risk. Others acted deplorably.

When a Naya pitch meeting turned into a porn-fest, what did the Naya reps do? Did they try to laugh it off and humour the offenders because they wanted the money? Or did they realize that they didn't want to be in business with these people, shutdown and walk out?

If they didn't walk away, they are culpable. They clearly communicated that bad behaviour is tolerable depending on the money.
Yeah, not with the sovereign immunity to prosecution that the gov't has.
DNS is often like that for me as well :-) But, yes, the DNA in Seveneves involved a huge amount of handwaving to arrive at the story that Stephenson apparently wanted to close on.
That's not how risk works, though. The probability of dying from a gunshot to the head are basically 1, but the probability of that event happening is basically 0. So it wouldn't make sense to never go outside because getting shot in the head is almost certain death; the risk that matters is of the event itself happening, not the outcome given that the event has already occurred.
The use-case for Simon/Speck are things like IoT and other places where you are not only limited by CPU power, but also by message sizes, while on the other hand the amount of traffic is so small that you can live with significantly smaller Ns in various 2^n attack difficulties than normal use cases. For such applications it is certainly better to use Simon/Speck than rolling you own proprietary algorithm (see KeeLog, NXP "Crypto-1" as used on MIFARE Classic and so on).

Probably only other algorithm with similar level of scalability which was openly peer reviewed is RC5. In comparison to Speck/Simon, RC5 is significantly more complex (due to it's key schedule) and is not constant time on platforms without barrel shifter. (X)TEA and such things can be similarly tuned for various block and key sizes, but there are no recommended parameters for doing that and thus you get into the "rolling your own crypto" territory very fast.
I really enjoyed the first book, liked the second one, and wish I could unread the third one.
Interesting...I've also spent a lot of time training in apnea, but I've never tried to test my cognitive abilities while training. Instead, I try to get to a state of meditative non-thought while training since it seems to improve results. So, I'm curious...do the mistakes start immediately or do they only kick in once you're near the end of your hold? The first 1-2 minutes of a hold are so easy for me that I'd be surprised if there were many negative cognitive effects.

Also, I used to get pretty severe effects from altitude whenever I'd go above about 10k elevation. But since I've trained apnea, the headaches, nausea and general crabbiness haven't happened and I've even been able to go for ~5 mi jogs. So I'm curious whether people who've trained in apnea would be somewhat resistant to the effects of flying just because our training has pushed us so far beyond the effects of flying that our bodies are accustomed to it. Of course it's also possible that we'd still be feeling the effects and just have a blind spot to it because we're more used to noticing the end stages of oxygen deprivation.
Hi,

Any plan to support jdbc so that it’s possible to connect to things such is HiveServer2/SparkSql?
Oh god with Wifi this thing would be terrifying for hackers - just add a wallwart and shove it into an available electrical socket at an office building and you've got something that can sniff forever.
That limit will only be hit in 2140.
I’ve also learned through multiple bad experiences to use booking.com only to find hotels but to book directly with the hotel.
I'm just here to play devils advocate, I don't know how I feel about this suite.

That said, oil companies have known about the effects of climate change for a while, have known that their products cause it, and then with that knowledge funded climate change disinformation campaigns to persuade public policy.

You can liken it to a drug company knowing about the effects of thermeldahyde on pregnant women, but still pushing it as a cure for morning sickness.
You find plenty of Agile in government contracting. Generally the requirements are very high level and the implementation details are after the fact.

I am also aware of some huge pivots where some minor feature became the only thing the customer cared about.
The "lowest bid" thing is actually now starting to change. Government buyers are starting to get trained--and there is an accompanying culture shift--on the idea of best value, which is a combination of price, timeliness, ability to deliver, and whatever other factors actually contribute to money not being wasted.

It's stupid that for so long it's been coded into law that you need to spend as little as possible, because that's part of what got us here; the buyers in a lot of cases can't go with a better, more expensive option.

Hopefully the "best value" culture shift in government buying will go along with legal changes to let them act on that.
I am the target market for this. We have a Medela and it's doesn't work that well. We can easily afford Naya's $1000 version, but I don't think we'd pay 4x as much. In general, before saying the the situation is because of sexism, racism, etc., check if the other criticisms are valid. In this case, they sound very reasonable to me.
I want to embed something like this into a nice mechanical keyboard, with some way of hooking up to a display (possibly an Android tablet or something head-mounted). Finally, ultra portable computing with a decent keyboard!
I highlighted a specific line, not this one, that I had a problem with. The line I did reference refers to the following:

"Only wear black and gray; don’t use nail polish; don’t smile or laugh too much; and keep your hair back in a pony tail"
Is rugby too dangerous for children to play?
> not succumbing to fraud.

Erm... that's the entire fucking point of Experian. And yet they failed.

Experian is a free-market for-profit corporation.
gold jewelry was not illegal until 1974. It was "hoarding" of gold coins or bars worth over $100 (1933 dollars = ~$2000), and rarely enforced. any actual use of gold as a part of something was exempt.
In this case using the system is very much tied into joining a singular community, so it's relevant.
Appalling.

Economic doctrine/ideology says that this should create opportunities for someone to swoop in and do a good deal. I think we all know that reality rarely matches theory, especially in economics.

It’s possible the business itself has structural problems (cost, channel) — we don’t know those details. But these stories are dreadful, and dreadfully common.
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There is one planet, yet an average American child's impact on the environment is 35x an Indian and the American child consumes 53x goods and services more than a Chinese child [1].

Hey, do they get a chance to ask the American one to not destroy the Earth, or only the American one can lecture them to not hunt some food?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/american-consumpt...
What really upsets me is that most of the whitepapers pumped out by ICOs today are emphatically not the way we best understand how sustainable new companies come into existence. Many contain big grandiose plans that stretch years and don’t admit the necessary network effects, new technologies, etc., for even modest success. An idea, a LaTeX installation, and WordPress landing page are a very low bar for raising millions of dollars, especially by today’s standards. With open source software and services like AWS and GCP, we should expect more.

Startups by definition are organizations in flux seeking their scalable business models, and claiming to have all the answers upon inception is an exercise in hubris and/or grandstanding. The late Steve Jobs did say that customers don’t know what they want, but many of these ICO firms don’t even seem to take the first steps in talking to early prospects.

1999 is calling, and they want their 18-month growth plans, 50-page business plans, and million dollar war chests back.
It's remarkably simplistic to draw analogies between small kitchen appliances and cultural-diversity in a way that suggests that the latter is even remotely as "clean" as the former. Diversity is intensely emotional for those in minority populations, and it cuts to the heart. A cherry pitter merely cuts to the pit of a piece of fruit.

So, from a business model perspective, an emotionally-connected underserved niche can represent a viable opportunity.

>why would we want to segregate content to one specific channel or network...
>True diversity would be having this content everywhere.

Yes, that would be true diversity. But, it's not what we have. Hence, the opportunity for what you referred to as "segregation".

It's kind of a wishful world vs. the real world thing. Consider that, for those in a majority population, content that is specific to them is segregated as well...to all channels/networks.

But, populations that are underserved in media don't just go away because the content is not dispersed as one might wish. So, they represent a niche that is ripe to have their needs served via a medium that is exclusive to them. In that way, they are no different from any other underserved economic niche, on which a business might do well to focus.
>Girls who work in that environment grow up without great interaction with boys and face a lot of trouble in future.

assuming this is your personal opinion?
As a browser vendor, yes, you have to try to not piss off advertisers, because if website owners don't make money off of your browser, they're not going to test against it much, but why would you list that reason specifically for Firefox?
Firefox is the browser that's willing to bite advertisers' hands more than any other browser. They even ship effectively an ad blocker in Private Browsing.
I've got three kids - all who breastfed for 2+ years and am intimately aware of the challenges of breastfeeding. You could consider me a lactivist.

I can teach you how to get your baby to latch, how to efficiently express, what nipple cream you need depending on what is going on between mom and baby, when or when not to pump/breastfeed based on your diet etc...

Pretty sure I know the market bud.
Nice simulation.

But I think that the assumption that all the collisions are elastic is too unrealistic. I expect that adding the inelastic collisions, where two fragments can merge in a bigger fragment, would produce a very different result, where a big chunk (50%?) of the moon is reconstructed and get to a stable almost circular orbit.

For comparison: "What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory" https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-made-the-moon-new-ideas-... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094302 (59 points, 27 days ago, 18 comments)
> Lastly, when something goes wrong on a plane, it goes /really wrong/. Hijacked = dead. Pilot error = dead. Fire = dead.

Most hijackings in aviation history haven't had catastrophic outcomes; the 9/11 attacks were an exception. Also they're incredibly unlikely on commercial flights in the post 9/11 aviation security atmosphere, at least in the US/Europe.

Pilot error, while a large statistical source of catastrophic accidents, is also mitigated by the fact that all commercial planes have at least 2 pilots and often more on longer flights. And there are plenty of mechanisms and procedures in place to ensure that a single pilot error is rarely catastrophic.

Fire in the sky, particularly above 10,000ft (3000m), yea you're probably dead. On the ground, it's hardly unsurvivable. If you avoid panic on the way down, get your shoes on, get in the brace position, and head towards an exit asap, you've got a good shot.

FWIW, I also used to be extremely flight-phobic. I still have a bit of anxiety flying, but I've been able to significantly assuage it through exposure therapy, by watching literally every episode of Air Crash Investigation (also know as Mayday) (they're all on youtube). When you understand the lengths the aviation industry goes to to unpack and understand the exact causes of every accident (catastrophic or otherwise, and even near-misses), you'll be somewhat reassured. For example, regarding pilot error, every time a new class of pilot error is exhibited in an accident, the NTSB and FAA ensure that the lessons from it are propagated throughout the industry. Procedures are changed, pilots are educated, devices are modified, regulations introduced, etc - whatever needs to be done is.
I'm not trying to justify theft, I'm trying to get you to think about their business model and how good it actually is.

What is the engine designers key competitive advantage or advantages? What is their IP?

Foxconn could ship iPhone X's out the back of the factory and sell them itself as "FoxPhone X"s. What stops Foxconn from doing that, that didn't stop the engine designers outsourcers?

What did the engine designers do wrong, that they should have done differently?
How do you model a population's (or even am individual's) innate preferences and behavior when their income patterns and ability to spend change? You're essentially describing the economic calculation problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
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For such a bold lawsuit I thought a Scientific American article would surely post some trend data about what sort of sea level rises these specific cities faced. What a let down.
> For most industries, it would healthier for consumers in the long run if the major stakeholders competed, rather than collaborated, at this early stage.

For what it's worth, I figure they have lots of competition in terms of Samsung, Oculus, and Microsoft.
This. A lot of the other commenters have no idea what it takes to get software productionized in an industrial company.

This is more of a proof-of-concept (and a very impressive one, congratulations), but it will take much more development and resources to get it working on the production line.
Something in the article that jumped out at me was:

"But the couple still couldn’t raise money. As cash got tight, the founders asked their eight full-time employees, who are mostly in the San Francisco Bay area, to work for minimum wage, which would buy the company a few months of extra runway. The staff agreed."

The 8 employees must have drastically reduced the cash flow requirements by just being paid minimum wage. My question is, is that any different than directly investing into the company and giving the company cash outright like a VC?

The employees made an investment into the company like a VC would by giving extra runway to the company. I wonder if the employees received any equity compensation for doing so under the same terms that the Alvarez's are trying to raise financing under. Getting paid higher than minimum wage and needing financing which dilutes you or taking minimum wage reducing the need for financing but getting no equity for it seems unfair to the employees.

They never mentioned that detail in the article but it's something I always think about when founders and executives ask employees to make these sacrifices and take on added risk but without ever compensating employees like they would compensate other capital with equity for the risk they take.
There is no solution to this problem of identity. So they invent the credit freeze. Then they invent the credit freeze PIN. Then someone loses their PIN and they want to buy a car now. So business adds "look up your PIN" feature. It is face-palming. But that's what you get when your business requires a way to securely identify people when no such method exists.
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