skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a completely opposite experience one time. Was also told to take it easy for the first year, wasn't really given any real work to do, etc.

I did not want to waste time and lose my skills, so I talked to a few people here and there, found a few sharp corners in the product that many wanted to improve and started working on them.

Turned out, the reason behind the "relax for 1 year" rule was stack ranking. In order to promote the right people and award them bonuses, the management needed a steady flow of newcomers that would perform poorly and get abysmal review scores.
Looking at the article, I can't understand what your complaint is.

There are three paragraphs of introductory information, and literally 100% of the remaining content is images of completely disassembled and knolled iPhone components, with a brief description next to the parts.

I'm not actually certain how you could represent this information any better than they already have.
Less likely to get caught engaging in drug abuse, maybe
Altocins have an incentive to hype what they are going to do. bitcoin is conservative and doesn't hype (no ICO) so people miss how much is actually happening.

Bitcoin is dominant in large part because it has the best development team and they are delivering code at a huge rate-- even compared to ethereum.
If you don't misrepresent it then I can hardly see how. Does the writer of a recipe book incur blame if someone undercooks their chicken?
DIY pharmaceuticals sounds dangerous. Sure! So is eating 47 teaspoon of salt, 480 bananas, or drinking 179 expressos [1].

If you happen to be unable to afford so much coffee, just rent a car and smash into a tree at 100 miles per hour. So driving cars is also immensely dangerous!

I really hate that nany state we are living in where an average 16 year old is lawfully allowed to drive 5,000 pounds metal machine and kill people at even limited speeds of 50 mph, but yet when it comes to DIY pharmaceuticals we immediately see a vision of most population dying at home because they mixed something wrong.

https://gizmodo.com/how-many-x-would-you-need-to-eat-to-die-...
I don't really trust any Glassdoor reviews. I've always figured many positive reviews are fake, and the problem with negative reviews is that they're often written by disgruntled employees who are unable to reliably assess their own contributions to problematic situations.

The company I'm at -- the best company I've ever worked for, hands down -- has a few negative reviews from over the years that were written by employees who were fired for basically being awful, hostile, aggressive people who fought with everyone and refused to do work. These are the folks who are technically competent and think that gives them a pass for generally being an awful human being to work with. Being willing to fire people like this has resulted in this company having the happiest and most productive culture I've ever personally worked in, but it does lead to some pretty harsh reviews on Glassdoor. You're not going to get any of this context from the reviews.

The most informative reviews are the negative ones written by folks who left voluntarily and were not fired. In fact, these reviews, if they exist, can be a gold mine of valuable information. But it can sometimes be hard to pick these out, as folks who were fired sometimes lie about it and make it seem as if they chose to leave.

A generic tip when reading negative reviews is to look for specific details and concrete examples. The more details -- and the more specific they are -- the more likely the review is to have some basis in fact. This tip alone can filter out a lot of noise in both positive and negative reviews.

If you ever want to write a negative review, the corollary is that you should include specific, concrete examples to convince the reader that you're not just disgruntled. Avoid emotional language.

A negative review written with a calm, collected tone is also a sign that there might be something there.

It's also worth looking for themes that seem to be consistent across multiple negative reviews. As with Amazon reviews, it's often best to look at distributional properties of Glassdoor reviews rather than focus on specific reviews too much.
Isn't the actual surgery in LASIK-style operations pretty much fully automated anyways? Feels actually quite a bit safer than DIY pharmaceuticals. And the failure-modes of LASIK seem kinda less worse than in pharmaceuticals too.
> (and not just when it comes to the amount of melanin in your skin).

Hopefully this is just by accident, but this comment has the air of downplaying the value of racial diversity. Imagine someone saying "we value diversity of all kinds, not just how much estrogen you have", or "we value diversity of all kinds, not just which invisible being you pray to".
Ripple isn't a cryptocurrency and it's not distributed, it's not really comparable, as its centralized. When you're centralized its trivial to deliver high transaction rates but you lose all of bitcoins advantages.

Stay away from Ripple.
Gmail gets a big amount of metadata with each mail which they run lots of checks against.
>but if you're offered medicine with 95% efficacy that you can afford

But it's not clear at all this is the case here. The article itself notes that it's unknown whether anyone has ever used any of these DIY medicines/medical devices, let alone how well they actually work. For all we know he could be pushing complete nonsense that kills people.
What if it’s not about when but how? Anger is there when we need to set a limit, lending us a little severity and fearlessness. Simply being very firm with someone can be a complete expression of anger, leaning on that severity and bravery to set aside conciliatory manners when they are unfitting.
It pretends to, but they made their own terrible hash function and their "coordinator" is closed source and centralized.

Beware.
> “To deny someone access to a lifesaving medication is murder,” he said. And “an act of theft [of intellectual property] to prevent an act of murder is morally acceptable.”

I agree with the conclusion, but for a different reason. "Theft" is the wrong way to think about IP. The economic function of IP is not to protect producers from consumers, but to protect producers from free-riding by other producers.[1] Thus, for example, stealing pills does not offend a drug creator's IP monopoly. Teaching people to make their own pills, who couldn't afford pills anyway, does not really do so either. It doesn't implicate the real purpose of the patent monopoly, which is to keep some other company from profiting by free-riding on the R&D of the original drug creator.

[1] To use a copyright analogy, copyright does not exist to protect content creators from downloaders, but to protect them from companies like Youtube, which make their profits by selling other peoples' content.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464648
Nicely sieved out! I too found this sentiment very essential.
The question here is:

Does the presence of the sign make you behave differently when you're the car driver? Will you be more aggressive and/or reckless if they cyclist doesn't have the tag ?

If the answers to both are no, which they should be, then one wonders the need of a sign to begin with, no?
> The point of journalism is to be biased

I can certainly see why you might think that with how MSM reports today.

An unbiased human works about as well as an untrained neural network. But journalistic integrity requires objectivity despite any bias you might approach a story with.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity
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Even things in your newsfeed that you pause over for half a second without clicking on can be tracked and made public also.
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Transaction fees were $0 last week. A bit higher now due to the ATH and high numbers of transactions... most of the "high bitcoin fees" claims are from spammers who were spamming transactions to drive up fees. Chinese miners are able to do this profitably, unfortunately, and this is an issue that is going to need addressing.

Segwit makes it a lot harder, and as segwit adoption happens it will be a lot cheaper to transact, even when the spammers are spamming.
is this like animated perl operators?
OTP in this case means "on time performance?" I love Clojure and your comments about Elixir intrigue me.
>Long term don't these companies think that charging outrageous prices for drugs will cause a future voter/government backlash of some sort

No, because it demonstrably won't. People say they're angry and then do nothing about it. The US has an entire political party angrily decrying any effort to regulate healthcare as socialist slavery.

The drug companies know they'll be just fine. Maybe some token slaps on the wrist and public performance of cosmetic changes to appease people now and then, but nothing will happen to them.
What is it you think Investment Banks do?
0.002 BTC seems generous these days!

Interesting post, I wonder how common this is.
What I really want is to the ability to optionally select the shipper... UPS, FedEx, USPS, OnTrac, with different prices as needed. I think a lot of people who have trouble with one particular shipping company in their area (which one varies by area) would enjoy the ability to choose the one that is more reliable, and be willing to pay for it.
That's no excuse to make them work in the conditions they have to work. We should be willing to pay more. I know that I am a hypocrite.
MAST is in discussion now and will dramatically reduce transaction sizes (SEgwit already did it too, and segwit is still being deployed).... with MAST bitcoin will be more of a smart contract system, and even very complex transactions will be tiny.
Pumping liquid metal at 1,400°C opens the door for better solar thermal systems
What a difference a word can make:

This post heading:

Google is building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join

and the source article:

Google is essentially building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join

The one word changes the article from providing an interpretation of a set of facts to a declaration of a proven fact. Since Recode has some gravitas the difference is even greater than if it was a blog mill churning out click bait.
>a lot of people create alternate personas for varying reasons.

I'm sure they do, but I doubt 30% of them do. That's what you'd need to balloon from 30 million to 40 million. The 30% also assumes that EVERY 18-24 year old American has a Facebook account in the first place.
This is a 1 in a million special case that will almost certainly never happen. We can't embed such cases in our law without drastically undermining our laws, our justice, and our morality.

If this ever does come to pass and the lives of 10's of thousands are at stake I suppose you do it anyway in violation of the law and take the punishment knowing that your sacrifice prevents greater injustice and evil.
you would need to be really famous.
Absolutely, it's not something transparent at this point, what the true realized value of a coin will be over the long-term. I appreciate your insights regardless, thanks for updating me on the amount of USD in circulus
Yeah, it's like debugging a particularly bad kernel bug in a convoluted spaghetti coded OEM driver.
That's actually not my experience; I see people using "old" software all the time, and rarely looking for newer alternatives even if they feel that some things could be added or improved. As just an example, my mother still uses ATnotes - last released in 2005.

And I think the limited data we have shows that, like the number of people who upgraded their browsers before it was automatic.
Alternative accounts are much more common on sites like Twitter and Instagram. I don't think it happens as frequently on Facebook.
> two professions with high ethical standards precisely because they went through the same painful growth the software industry is going through now.

High ethical standards enforced by a court of your peer professionals, who can ruin your career if you break the code of conduct. The last part is, unfortunately, crucial, because ethics can quickly go out of the window when people face monetary pressures.

> It is incumbent upon us, the knowledgeable and ethical practicioners of our field, to hold not just ourselves, but our whole industry to a higher standard. Thus, discussions such as this one on HN where we point out that IoT devices could cause a world of hurt because of all the make-a-quick-buck hucksters who couldn't be arsed to do due diligience.

I strongly agree. And I feel there should be loud naming and shaming of companies with anti-consumer practices like these.

One thing I feel we can teach the general public, though, is the distrust towards the cloud and SaaS model. IoT devices can, and should, communicate point-to-point or in your LAN. If a device needs an Internet connection to work and doesn't have a damn good reason for that, one should avoid it.
This prompted me to log in and check out reviews for the company where I work.

Some observations:

- Reviews are more or less accurate, but in the context that it's a big company and most of the reviews apply to their immediate team

- Most reviews don't seem to be aware that they are actually reviewing their team/their manager/their org

- Viewed with that lense/context, reviews are accurate but not representative of the company as a whole

All in all, if you look at the reviews holistically, they paint a good enough picture. Most reviews for the company in this case were positive, a few bad teams, but for the most part the company at least makes an effort to provide a good environment for employees. After reading enough reviews, that theme did come across and I would agree with it

I imagine the site is great for assessing the area you're going into, but only really paints a good picture of the entire organization when the company is pretty small.
BCASH has less capacity than BTC does now, in large part due to Segwit (which BCASH doesn't have.)

BCASH is a miner sorta scam, they will mine 60 blocks in a minute for awhile until the difficulty shifts, then not mine any blocks for 12 hours.

Sucks to wait 12 hours for a transaction to clear.
One may argue that friends begotten through fame are not the sort of friends one wants.
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Again, I don't disagree with you. But shepherding a drug or treatment though the FDA is a mission in itself. It is expensive. The cost of goods may be relatively low once the process of production at scale is worked through, but it is hardly trivial.

Notwithstanding what I've said, I genuinely find it appalling that these drugs are priced at five figures. That's just criminal. In the range of thousands (or even 10s of thousands, if it's a single shot treatment), I'd think the pricing is justified. Maybe if it's a rare disorder, charge a little more.

But the travesty in the US system is that the govt., Via Medicare & Medicaid, is just not allowed to negotiate on costs. That's what the UK NICE does. The American system is insane!
My key recommendation is to think in terms of building an audience, rather than marketing your product. Who are the people interested in buying your product? Create a community around the content that appeals to these prospective customers. Provide genuine value.

Once you establish yourself as an authority in that field, or at least someone who can reliably provide useful advice, selling your product becomes significantly easier. In some cases, people will even want to give you money just to support what you do.

If you sell a product or service for, say, wedding photographers, create a blog that covers topics relevant and radically useful to this particular niche of photographers. Perhaps make a YouTube channel on the topic, hang out in the forums and groups where wedding photographers are, leverage social media, etc.

Find out what they need and satisfy that need, not just with your product but with your content as well.

And how do you aggregate/consolidate your efforts through various channels? Mailing list. Nothing beats email.

Make sure you collect emails from day one and keep your list warm by providing great content regularly to those who subscribe.

Occasionally, you'll drop in a soft sale and special discounts for your loyal subscribers. You'll be surprised at how many will buy from you because they know who you are and trust you on the subject manner.

There are of course paid strategies if you have the budget, but I would first focus on organic audience building.

Best of luck.
This is a misleading title. This is a news piece released by an editor for JPL's news outlet, and only describes the preponderance of indirect data suggesting there is a ninth planet orbiting out of plane with the other planets set on the ecliptic.

It's not an official press release saying they have found said planet.
Or be convicted, definitely.
So a userspace application with ring0 access, or are you describing paravirtualization or containers?
Not listen to this guy. As the article notes none of his ideas or creations have ever been tried by anyone, including himself, and require fairly sophisticated ability to set up and make.

In fact from the article it's not clear at all what exactly this guy is offering or how it helps anyone beyond his self-aggrandizing bluster.
A cheap used car costs a couple thousand dollars up front, plus license, insurance, maintenance, gas. Plus even cheap parking rental in a city can run to hundreds of dollars a month.

Taxi/Uber/Lyft is, what, $5-15 per one-way trip? That's between $10 and $50 per day to commute. And that's before errands, weekend activities, and unexpected emergencies.

My spouse and I have a six-figure household income and I'd have a hard time finding an extra ~$10k/yr for transportation costs. It would be a complete nonstarter on minimum wage. Snarky or no, "be rich enough you don't have to worry about it" is a really shitty piece of "advice".
Does anyone know how GD is funded? Is it ads or do companies pay somehow to be listed?

I ask, as the payment method is critical to understand it's reliability.

If it is ads, then yes, I think it should be reliable. 'You' are the 'product' in that case. More negative press will likely keep you clicking and searching about, therefore more money.

If it is the companies, then it it not likely reliable. Why would you pay a company to essentially bad-mouth you? You pay them for good press (the pizzeria in NY on Yelp being an egregious exception). I'd say this holds if the companies can pay in any way at all. If they can influence for dollar, even rarely, then the whole thing is suspect.

Anyone know the real answer?
i empathize with Laufer's goals and purpose and concept, but, er, judging by this article's description of the man, he seems highly idealistic and overconfident.

i personally wouldn't be ready to place my trust in his drug recipes.
Dat works great in the sneakernet flashdrive scenario as you can P2P sync over offline WiFi and dat clients like beaker browser will automatically verify cryto signatures. It makes distributing a verified offline and online P2P web very accessible for non technical folks. It's like SSL for the offline web.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15463796
I wouldn't call that a counterfeit, that's just cheaper generic brand products in the same vein as grocery stores have been doing for decades.

If I know that I'm buying a "Great Value" branded product, that's fine. If I go on Amazon and spend $30 on an official Apple USB charger and get a fake one instead (still with an Apple logo though), then I've got a problem. The manufacturer of these are doing them at even lower quality/safety than the cheap brands like Anker, since they don't have to worry about damage to their own brand when it burns someone's house down.

Amazon has a huge problem with fake products being sold as name brands. Inventory from different sellers gets comingled, so you can't even avoid it by buying from a particular store.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3133627/technology-law...

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/20/birkenstock-quits-amazon-in-... [autoplay video warning]
> Twitter has 300 milliom active users per month, 9-15% of them bots, the US election had 120 million voters

Fair enough. So if 10% of voters used Twitter, that means 3% (400k) were bots, and of those a tiny percent were fringe/far-right.
v0.15.0 is a great release. Feels done. Just needs the router updated for compatibility, and were ready for 1.0 imo.
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Offer them only what will benefit them in the short and long term, be they words thoughts or deeds, and eventually people will lovingly rely on your language, words, and presence because you have been thinking so much of how to be of aid to them.
>What kind of errrors do you think are not caught with static typing?

Citing awj's post above:

"Some of the biggest errors are subtle failures in the implementation of business logic."

Other examples:

- bumping into unkonwn bugs of a library you are calling
- implementation of an external (library) function behaving differently than the documentation
- various memory leak problems
- locking issues
- race conditions

etc
hi @sharemywin, that's a good point. and i really mean friends and not fans.
don't correct them, let them make a fool out of themselves and then proceed to take their job.
Unfortunately, "organic" today mostly means overpriced crap for eco-freaks that's about as bad or even worse[0] than regular food. Hell, sometimes the same companies makes both regular and "organic" stuff.

But I get your point. Now I would like to have some "smart" devices, though, so beyond your label for self-contained devices I kindly ask for a label for devices that stay on local network.

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[0] - industrial pesticides are better than "pesticides" that still let you claim the "organic" label.
I agree with this as a standard for judging others, which is what your post addresses, so I have no disagreement with it.

For your self, though, if you are doing good only to feed your ego, the appetite of your ego is still the driving force, so your morality will be subject to the whims of your ego, which means that you're a fair-weather do-gooder - sure to do bad when your ego demands it.
Or the criteria: "which moral stance makes me the most profit?"
Go learn Clojure or any LISP language and solve some problems using it. Watch the videos by Neal Ford and Rich Hickey. Think about your data. Then come back and reflect on it.
as vonmoltke suggests, even if you've got some chemical synthesis procedure laid out in a peer reviewed journal, you are, in the best case, expert man hours away from successfully duplicating it. and you'll only know you've successfully duplicated it if you can run the result through really expensive analytical equipment to confirm that 1) you made the stuff you wanted to make and 2) it doesn't have impurities that are problematic.

(as a minor defense of the pharma companies, you're paying them not just to do a bunch of organic synthesis for you, but also to do ongoing QA that the synthesis process is working correctly. and not all processes are equally easy/amenable to industrial-scale duplication.)
// offtopic

BTW, big fan of what you and serotiny are trying to do. I've just moved back to my home country.. am dabbling in other stuff at the moment, but the dream is to join with friends and start an automated high throughput industrial biotech company. PhD work used a lot of robotics and high throughput screening & mutagenesis and what have you.. and services like serotiny give me the comfort that my pie in the sky idea has a chance..
Buy time at a lab to ensure QC at all levels of production, which they’d need to do this safely? I’m sure lots of desperate people have the time, money, and expertise ro make that work.
Now if you can trick the bots into viewing the ads and change their behaviour...
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