skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Near the end of the article, it's mentioned that they ARE single use: RedBox isn't re-using them, just selling the code that they get out of each retail dvd that they buy, and then renting the physical DVD.
Morty :)
This is an important update for practitioners: beware of Adam, it has fundamental flaws. In practice, carefully tuned learning rate schedules for basic SGD, as discussed in this, has gotten me much better results on very large very complicated data sets... SGD is clearly a brute force approach requiring more effort by the programmer, but with sufficient data and sufficient computing power it's still the best starting point, because it assumes the least about the constraints of the data.

As a related aside, my current interest is on stable efficient use of higher order derivatives for topological inference in optimization, and I wish more energy was invested in such math...
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What are some example replacements that would make the statement less applicable?
The Minute Clinics are staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants

https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/why-choose-us/our-practitio...

To expand their services to all of their stores, they'd be looking at hiring 5 or 10 percent of the NPs and PAs in the country.
It's a lot more complicated than that. Suppose the miners did go MAD, and refused to accept any txns. How many days, weeks or months before the bitcoin users can decide on and implement a new hash algorithm? And with several other coins looking to take the crown away from bitcoin, how long before it no longer is the defacto entry point into crypto?

Not only that, but if bitcoin dumps its miners as unceremoniously as you describe, it will create a lot of distrust between miners in general and the bitcoin users. I don't know what alternative hashing algorithm you had in mind, but if it becomes mineable by miners of another coin, they may see an opportunity to attack. Without a large community of miners protecting bitcoin, you will have thrown bitcoin to the wolves so to speak. And there is little reason for miners to protect bitcoin against such an attack, after they showed such disregard to the original community of miners.

So, no, miners are not as impotent as you make out.
Technically it is totally possible to create a cryptocurrency that whose price is fixed relative to a basket of oil, gas and gold reserves... until the day comes the government decides that some baskets of fixed goods are more equal than other baskets.
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I'd love to see HolyC ported to Linux. The language seems like a pleasure to use with some interesting features.
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If everybody uses that software and follows trading advice, the price could get more predictable. Creators could then make lots of money. /s
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> That really surprises me.

well maybe it was the terrain, it is a mountainous and maybe the shape caused come kind of reverb. I know I was warned by my camping neighbors about the sound and I thought "how bad can it be".

But it was a rough night with little sleep due to the sound.
This sounds like a great way to manipulate the price of Bitcoin
Your CTO has an interesting avatar picture.

http://www.compilerworks.com/index.html#team
For those who haven't seen yet, Intel is hosting a NIPS 2017 party called "Let the Gradient Flo", with Flo Rida performing.

Got to be close to peak hype.
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Currently, bitcoin uses about 1 out of every 5,500 Watts being generated on the planet.[1,2] So, unless bitcoin is secretly a paperclip optimizer, that should offer some upper limit.

1 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

2 = https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
It's basically a shitcoin. How about calling it "Merduro"?
> Worse, NHST is often taken to mean that any data can be used to decide between two inverse claims: either ‘an effect’ that posits a relationship between, say, a treatment and an outcome (typically the favoured hypothesis) or ‘no effect’ (defined as the null hypothesis).

This is the whole problem, the rejection of the null hypothesis is not just a ritual to follow before you then accept the alternate. Fisher's core idea is that it only takes one piece of evidence to reject something, while it should take many to confirm something.

So the only conclusion you should draw is about what you've rejected. You can't then take that and infer the acceptance of something else. It's a subtle but important distinction that is the whole reason for this process.
I hear the same things in DC. Even (maybe especially) from people who work in government.
> a crypto which is relatively stable could be very useful ...

It seems like there's a fairly tight correlation between the value of a cryptocurrency and the effort required to mine it. (Which is what you'd expect -- if the price of BTC rises, more people mine it, and the per-block difficulty increases, and if the price falls, fewer people mine it, and the difficulty falls.)

I wonder if we could create a more stable cryptocurrency by keeping the mining difficulty constant (or possibly tied to moore's law). It may be wildly "inflationary" in terms of the size of the monetary base, but it should be fairly stable in terms of real resources per unit of currency.
Most large companies like Microsoft have a title called Developer Evangelist or similar whose only job is to know all the newest and greatest and do the conference circuit and have blogs, videos and presentations.
It's sad that I know enough about cryptocurrency speculation to know that if they really launch this currency, there will be a willing crowd of non-Venezuelan investors likely to pour millions or even billions of USD equivalents into this. (That's assuming Maduro is informed enough to only guarantee a price floor for the currency and leave open room for upward price appreciation via speculation...)
A corrupt government that ran its economy into the ground backing a cryptocurrency. What could possibly go wrong?

OTOH, if someone with centuries of banking experience were to launch a well managed cryptocurrency, that could be pretty useful (Switzerland I am looking at you).

I would like to see a digital currency whose money supply is linked to the number of users in the system. As more users enter the system, generate proportionally more coins and vice versa. Something like this might work as a stable store of value.
How many college students have to stay on campus? How many could go to two year college, stay at home and then transfer two years later?

I went to a small state college with a horrible computer science department. Four years out of college I was making just as much as people who had way more debt than I had (I.e. none)
This part is laughable:

> Some parents are having a hard time. They sacrifice for their children and give so much. They want some rules to keep things under control. But rules can’t create good family relationships. Cooperative learning and problem solving is the only win/win approach.

You can't spend time explaining ALL the rules around in society because it takes literally years to explain the ins and outs of everything. And kids need to know how to behave well before they can master speech and language, so it's pretty obvious you need some level of rules and some level of obedience. I am totally for "explaining why", but just saying "rules are bad" sounds like a very poor generalizing principle.
As he still have no kids at 44 (and not intend to have any), I guess I’ll never know if he would have be a good father or not.

Beside that, I followed his advice and I am very glad I did
You can spoof DNS requests of a victim when you are in the same network as them (the router knows which sites you visit through those DNS requests anyway). It doesn't matter which DNS server the victim uses. As long as they don't use encrypted DNS they expose the websites they visit.

Takes 5 minutes to configure your OpenWRT router to log all DNS requests: https://superuser.com/questions/632898/how-to-log-all-dns-re...
Or if you are an attacker without control over that router: search for dns spoofing. I did this several times to demonstrate companies that their public networks can be hijacked.
I think the Neo 2 has a bit more storage capacity than the Neo. The main thing for me was that, as it's a more recent model, I figured it might have a longer life, especially considering things like the internal backup battery (which is replaceable, but involves opening everything up).
Venezuela seems like a solid case for a privately-financed coup (Equatorial Guinea and Zimbabwe are there too, but in EG this was already tried and failed for stupid reasons). I don't know who they'd put in power (is there a viable opposition still?), but really anyone would be better. It's not an inherently poor country, but horribly misgoverned, and it's sad to see people suffering for decades as a result.
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Even AWS can't get their status pages right, how about people don't put their faith in something like this.
Forsyth County. I've lived in Marietta,Decatur, And Johns Creek before. And yes the salaries are accurate. This is from both my own experience as both a job seeker and a hiring manager (not really a "manager" more like a team lead who has hired contractors)

Salary.com is seems pretty much in line with my experience.
The ACA states that your insurance provider must spend 80% of their premiums on health care. The doctor is more expensive, so the health insurance provider is allowed to keep more nominal dollars.
I’d see a psychologist because your child kinda sounds like a sociopath: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-yo...
The OP said something about zone files earlier, so it's possible that they're getting their data from more than just Whois lookups.
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Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
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Yes, this is also my reasoning.

> Unless avoiding this becomes common practice and then the whole story changes

If that means that everyone starts to use random mac addresses, you still can't identify specific persons based on their randomized mac addresses when they change them every time they reconnect.
One point of view I find helpful is the reverse, that people are just really old kids. It makes it easier to, within limits, accept and forgive irrational behavior (including my own!) while keeping a positive, growth-oriented mindset.
It’s not his child
These documents are versioned in VCS. The core issue is that either you update the master document every time you have a fix, or you don't.

If you do, it's a living standard.

If you don't, then people have to cobble together the latest version from various sources.
We live in Dallas on about $185k/year cumulative. Despite $1200/mo in rent, >$1500/mo student loan repayments, $500/mo car payments and $1350/mo credit card debt (i’m aware of how dumb that was), we are living comfortably. My plan is to earn a $200k/year income in less than four years so that my fiancee can go back to school without sacrificng our current lifestyle.

However, we live in an apartment and don’t have kids.

There is absolutely no way we could do kids and a mortgage with this debt burden without life going to hell. Once that debt goes away, though? Not a problem at all...for one kid and a cheap house. ($250k house, which is what we wanted anyway, as we aren’t fans of big houses)
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Inspiring. Just as our brains combine signals from two eyes, scallop brains must be able to combine the signals from all of their eyes, but what would this conception of the world even be like?

It’d be fun to build a headset rig that tries to imagine scallop vision. With present tech, I imagine this would require some preprocessing to combine the various eyeball streams into something human eyes could understand. Anyone done something similar yet?
The insurance provider doesn't care how much it costs. The ACA states that the insurance provider must spend 80% on services. So as far as they're concerned, the higher the costs of healthcare the more money they get to keep. They just can't let costs skyrocket faster than they're able to increase your premiums.
>One of the major puzzles of corporate China is why firms have struggled to expand internationally. The answer may be that they're offering solutions to problems that don't exist in quite the same way overseas. Unless they can cater to the needs of customers operating under very different conditions, their remarkable progress may end at China's shores.

Is this not the case for all companies who want to scale internationally? Maybe I am naive but I think it would have to be extremely difficult for a U.S company to immediately succeed in China w/o extensive knowledge/expertise beforehand.
Would love to know which side effects there are. I've never encountered any problems in all those years I use those randomly generated mac addresses.
There's already an imbalance when it comes to different genders and races, I don't get what they would lose.

The real reason companies don't do it is because Fizz Buzz is a better test than IQ tests.
> How would that not significantly harm the pharmaceutical companies? Don't they make a decent percentage of their revenue off of brands which are currently price protected via these tariffs?

As lostapathy explained below, US prices are currently high because that's where pharmaceutical companies are capturing their profits. In fact, even European pharmaceutical companies make most of their revenue from sales in the US, not Europe. (This is why the US funds over 50% of R&D for the entire world, even though it only has 300 million people, and many of the largest pharmaceutical companies are based in Europe, not the US).

If reimportation were permitted[0], pharmaceutical companies would adjust the prices of drugs across those countries, which would bring drug prices in the US and Europe in line with one another.

Ultimately, pharmaceutical companies would still be able to make the same amount of money off the drugs, but it would distribute the sources of that money more evenly across the people who are actually using the drugs (and benefiting from the research and development).

[0] it would almost certainly only apply to reimports of drugs from other NATO countries (more or less), because those are the countries that abide by US patent law on drugs (India and China, by contrast, do not recognize US patent law on large classes of drugs),
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Maybe motivation is a factor too. Debate and negotiation are not games that I anticipate enjoying, whereas spending intelligence and practice on becoming a better musician motivates me. ;-)

Also, I suspect that Truth isn't always easy to discern, especially in a world where we're immersed in tradeoffs and complex systems.
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I agree that CVS wants to stave off Amazon and mail order pharmacies. But a buyout is an expensive way to secure a fraction of the market.

Buying Aetna makes it easier to expand the new Minute Clinic business model. CVS no longer has to worry about getting paid less than a hospital for treating a cough or fever. Aetna could even charge zero copay for nurse visits. It's more competition in the "basic healthcare" space (if it happens).
Any references on (or reproducible examples for) the flaws in Adam?
www.mixpanel.com - here’s a big co using Stripe’s design as “inspiration”
No idea but I'll submit myself for counting. I replaced my provider's router with some Unifi gear and am running DHCP/DNS/Storage/Backups/Misc. off a small server running KVM. I would be excited to talk about my lab in an interview.
20 years ago you'd pay a lot for a fridge that would last you 30 years. Now you pay 2 times less for one that will last you roughly 5 years. So you're going to buy 6 fridges in the space of 30 years for at least 2 times more money, which means that it's a net benefit for the "fridge industry" in every way to build cheaper.

Ethics? quality? nah, most people want cheap, they are living from pay check to pay check and their capacity to borrow have been greatly reduced since the 2007 crisis.
How can it be backed? Unless they are not allowing any mining, and merely having a currency that can be traded like a cryptocurrency. If you can mine, it would be worth something, and who would be backing that with oil? It'd be like giving away free oil.
I used to have an ASA has my home firewall, but the problem was that its ethernet ports were 100 megabit, which meant that it eventually became the bottleneck in my internet connection. I ended up replacing it with a Ubiquiti router, which was faster, far cheaper (than even a used market ASA), still getting security updates (without a support contract), and a lot easier to manage (and I say this as someone with extensive experience with Cisco gear, dating back to the 90s). The Ubiquiti might not look as nice or be as cool of hardware, but in practice it's better in every way that matters to me.
> Yes. If consumers and/or pharmacies in the US could easily and reliably source cheaper brand-name drugs from international markets where price ceilings are in effect, it would ruin many drug companies, especially smaller ones.

Those price ceilings only exist because of the artificial trade barrier between the US and those other countries. Without that trade barrier, pharmaceutical companies would charge roughly equivalent prices in the US and other countries. It wouldn't ruin drug companies at all.
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Ah, someone who doesn't feel the need to overcomplicate things. When can you start?
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Tell them that it'll take an hour or so of effort, but they'll have their estimate by tomorrow morning. Then spend some real time documenting the more and less certain areas of change, the likely risks, and the unlikely-but-very-costly risks. The estimate will be dramatically more accurate, but more importantly, they will stop asking for it when it doesn't matter.
> I only know about mac whitelisting in protected networks managed by wary administrators.

Wouldn't make any sense for properly securing a network. As an attacker you could just create an evil twin (same ESSID), let some students connect to it and just use their mac addresses (and even drop their connections when they try to use the university wifi).

Edit: You don't even necessarily need an evil twin to get their mac addresses. You only have to listen to the wifi traffic and get some - even encrypted data packets still contain the raw mac address as far as I know. airodump-ng is the perfect tool to do that.
> The opposite of a bad government is not a smaller government but a better government

Except if you think all government is bad government. There is no reason to believe that chicago should raise taxes to prevent chicago from selling its taxpayers.
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Reselling digital download codes seems like a bizarre risk for such a well known established company to take.
Do a search for "McKinsey health costs" and browse the report. It breaks down category spending in the US vs. other western countries. Yes, admin cost more in the US, but it doesn't add much to the overall costs. The biggest driver of US healthcare spending are out-patient care. The US just does a shit-ton more of it then most countries.
Exactly.

Markets adjust to information, so even if the algorithm was somehow accurate, people acting on the information will correct the market. And at some point it may even become self-reinforcing if enough people buy into this "black box" that can predict the price of Bitcoin.
Frequently, the right answer is actually "I won't know until I spike on it - that will take a couple of days".
If a system is good at predicting prices and makes you money, why sell it to others. It would be worth millions.

The quant hedgefunds spend millions developing "black boxes" to carry out trades and guard the secrets within like it was their own life. And yet here we have these people giving it away or selling it for 2.99 on the Play store.
Not everyone wants to work for a huge corporation, where most of those jobs with the salaries that you cite are located.
Knowing the future is much more valuable than any monetization model.
It is difficult, which is a _massive_ reason why multiculturalism and diversity has been pushed so hard in our corporations.
> What evidence indicates it's 95% and not 20% or 80% or 99%?

I'm not sure I understand your question. If you're asking the method by which this is done, it's a pretty straightforward econometric analysis problem - any graduate student probably does something similar in their first year.

If you're asking what the exact percentage is, I don't know. I remember it's in the range of 90% or 95%, but not the exact number. (It also varies slightly with economic cycles anyway, because the main determinant is the relative elasticities of supply and demand for labor).
Why would anyone use HDMI instead of DisplayPort? It is cheaper to make?
This title is deliberately misleading and does not reflect the actual title of the article: "Association of Exercise Preconditioning With Immediate Cardioprotection"
Curious to know more about your claim that rewriting stuff in Swift causes a lot of bugs - got any sources on that?
I think the main issue might be language. For companies, the english block is a huge benefit. If I launch a company in the UK, I have customers in Canada, India, United States, Australia, and New Zealand right of the back. I can then focus on refining the product and get into the mindset of making the product better for different international audiences.

Secondly, the english block tends to have a similar legal and regulatory mindset in dealing with companies. The Chinese system seems opaque and hard to understand for outsiders and for good reason. There is a lot of government influence and thinking that shapes Chinese products which doesn't appear elsewhere. That is a huge disadvantage.

When you consider all the of the other issues a young company face, having a huge multi-national singular language and somewhat similar regulatory framework is helpful in getting started.
Depends. Kaiser is a great example of this (its a closed loop payer and provider) but it has a huge network within certain regions and doesn't cover nationally. The problem is that CVS via pharmacy retail and MinuteMan only satisfies a part of the whole care provider package. Kaiser on the other hand has it's own providers that carry everything from head to toe (no pun intended). That's why I don't see why this would be such a big deal.