skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The NYT has lost a great deal of trust from it's readers in recent years

We need some evidence of the level of trust and its change over time. I've read such things about the NY Times since I first learned of its existence. It seems to be the nature of journalism, telling people uncomfortable, undesirable things about red-hot issues.
I highly doubt that learning German and learning Swiss German is actually in the same category. You essentially have to learn two languages as as Swiss German is only spoken, the written language is German. And there are many different dialects in a very small country.
I'm not defending "code-is-law" as a valid solution to this, but wouldn't a smart contract require the cash (crypto) to be sent in before allocating equity? The issue in this situation is that no money was ever wired. In a smart contract, that means the "invest" function would not be executed and the "equity tokens" not assigned.
Read "Chickenshit" and "The Divide." Starting with the Obama administration and definitely continuing there is effectively no law for the sufficiently rich. It makes no sense for Uber to worry about laws.
Even better if you watch that API call (and it actually succeeds) you will see lots of personal info (emails, etc) that are not rendered in the HTML results.
Model 3 is pretty stylish on the outside, but the interior is garbage for a 30k car. Bolt's isn't good either.
I'm happy to pay for good journalism, but I'm not paying separate subscriptions to every decent newspaper.

If they had some sort of alliance with the Post and the Tribune, or something like that it would be very cool. As it is, I recently signed up for the Washington Post which means I now have to cancel the New York Times. :(

People have money to spend, but you need to offer them some better options than the current model of paying separately for every news outlet.
I signed up for that. One of the many frustrating things about recent US politics is that I needed to at all. I was mostly pretty good with The Economist for national news coverage. A few articles every week covering the highlights. Too much is happening too fast for them to keep up these days.
StartupChile is significantly different. With SUP you have to prove the funds were used appropriately as part of the fund. It is an equity free government program. The terms of the agreement are that you are reimbursed for approved expenses.

This is much different and worse. This is a traditional investor / incubator that took equity in these companies and promised them the money and isn't paying them.
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I guess the corollary to that is Dropbox faking the macOS credential popup [1] - anything you can see can be cloned. If they'd just fixed it so it didn't appear so damned often and without any apparent cause (I get that it was probably triggered by some background process trying to sync or something - those should really have triggered a "Open Settings to confirm your Apple ID" sort of message, rather than a direct request for credentials), that might have been enough.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/51wqhd/dropbox_fak...
Ask HN: Been to SHMOOCON? Whats it like?
In which George does not understand corporations and investor presentations.

Disclaimer: I work for GM, but not on any of this.
> Is this ultimately what the insurance company is paying out?

No not at all. “Self pay” was your status and those people pay the highest rates. This is true for almost all US healthcare. Being self pay is basically like going to a car dealer and paying MSRP with no negotiation or rebates, etc.

The pharmacy has agreements with wholesalers (sometimes directly with manufacturers) that determines their cost structure of inventory. This includes discounts and rebates and a lot of other cost reductions but All these drugs have sticker price. Insurance companies drive volume and can decide which pharmacies their patients use, thus they can negotiate prices as well. The pharmacy<>insurance transaction is usually going through a PBM, another middle man, that can tell them pretty much instantly what you owe based on your coverage (this is why a pharmacy can give you accurate pricing but doctors offices can’t). There’s a lot of intricacies but the difference between self pay and insured rates can significant. For a generic, I’d be surprised if the pharmacy paid more than 5-20$ but billed you what they could. When insured and you pay 10$, the insurance company has done the math that they will profit on their total generic base even if they lose a little on your purchase (but they probably didn’t).

I work in healthcare finance currently at a pharmacy
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This a terrific quote.

Having written a production compiler in a previous lifetime, and talked with developers over the years since then, it is clear the difference that knowledge makes in their day-to-day programming.
Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at Last
Hey it looks like your CSS isn't loading in Chrome due to mixed content protections.
No, it's not. Using text still works great and is much simpler.
In the biotech / pharma world, it's common for startups to IPO years before they have a single paying customer.

The difference between a biotech startup and many ICOs is that the former typically has years of validated and peer-reviewed scientific research backing up the hope of eventually having a product.
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Hacked this together today, inspired by today's xkcd[1]. It grabs your location based on your IP address, if you're behind a VPN then you'll probably get inaccurate data back. Or you can enter a zip code input and check the temp in Felsius wherever (wherever in the US).

[1] http://www.xkcd.com/1923
Ask HN: What's the best way to monetise a DIY site like Hackaday?
Besides ads and selling parts, what are good ways to monetise a site like hackaday.com
This isn't a particularly good example, because on a blockchain, both the currency received and the equity percentage of ownership of the company are numbers that go onto the blockchain and can be cryptographically enforced. A blockchain simply wouldn't let you write a contract that says "I give $X in exchange for Y% equity in this entity" unless it could prove that you have ownership of $X.

The real advantages of a human judicial system come when there's a judgment call involved in the contract. For example, "I own X% of 500 startups and have control over future investment decisions, unless it can be shown that I have violated the laws of the United States, some of which happen to be about sexual harassment." What constitutes sexual harassment? Damned if a blockchain knows. It's hard enough for humans to come to agreement on that, let alone computers.
I could ... but I'd rather not comment too much :D
Wow thanks for the explanation, I would they would just use what you wrote for the abstract.

At first, I thought the machine learning algorithm was able to just bridge the gap in images from nothing...

CSI time:
Enhance ... enhance... enhance!
Thank you, the "before office" part seems to be the key here I was missing.
New Segmentation Paradigm
Or save to Instapaper.
Initializing a neural net with random weights =/= making a neural net with no preconceptions on how to play. It still has those preconceptions, you just don't know what they are.

Closing your eyes so you can't see the contents of a room =/= the room is empty. Not knowing what something is, is different from it not existing
If we’re going to talk “timeless” I might recommend a read through Chris Alexander’s “A Timeless Way of Building” and its follow-up, “A Pattern Language”.

Alexander talks about the timelessness and beauty of buildings in terms of culturally-defined patterns—almost ‘design patterns’ but a bit more abstract—that are applied and repeated to create buildings and spaces that evoke a particular “feeling without a name”: something we all feel when a building feels alive and congruous with the actions that take place there. A beautiful building is symbiotic with its purpose, its surroundings, and the people who use it.

That’s sort of a gross oversimplification though. I really recommend checking it out. Though its focus is loosely on architecture, I’ve seen a lot of engineers and designers get excited about it and find applications to their own work.
Toyota basically started this trend by making the Prius ugly and distinctive. Which is why Prius's sell very well but other hybrid drive trains in normal looking cars don't. You don't get cool points for driving a Camry Hybrid.
I've had a bad feeling about Dave McClure and 500 Startups since their Geeks on a Plane trip to India.

I was living in India at the time with a few other American open-source engineers. I reached out to 500 Startups and GOAP several times about the trip and couldn't even get a response.

The whole premise of GOAP felt like a way for Dave McClure to travel to remote places with attractive women. I'll probably get heavily down-voted for this comment, but I think it's not very far away from the truth.
Uber had $6.6bn on hand at the end of June [1]. Burning $1.5bn in Q3 [2] means they are down to $5.1bn.

Absent cost-cutting, that implies a 9 to 12 month runway. Even if SoftBank injects $1bn, that could only add a few months. A larger-than-expected fine in the Waymo case [3] could literally bankrupt them.

It's time for Uber to reduce the number of markets they run losses in and cut costs at headquarters. Their old growth model was predicated on an assumption of unlimited fundraising capability. The scandals seem to have hurt that.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/23/uber-is-still-burning-cas...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/uber-s-th...

[3] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/business/waymo-uber-tr...
It's often there, it just doesn't hit your Google News feed. The NYT Magazine has a lot of it as well.
Hi, whereabouts are you based?
One thing not to miss when you get a subscription to the NYT, Washington Post, WSJ, or other large newspaper/magazine is the access to the archive of articles.

If you like long-form, feature-style articles instead of current events news, there is enough stuff in the NYT archives that you'd never be able to read it all.
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow - dying in the streets - I would not want to think about how I put 2.2 M$ in my savings account.

To get you started... you could try to think about the cliche "how to be the person selling shovels in the gold rush".

Write an online course on how you parametrized RNNs to predict Bitcoin markets. I got it to work well on predicting a certain low frequency event well with not too much effort. This resulted in 2~3 trade opportunities per day, making only very few $ each trade. So no luck in the gold rush but maybe not a bad shovel to sell?

Switch professions, maybe? 2.2M$ are not uncommon if you can wait a few years... Become a medical doctor and freelance across the country? Enter the middle management in any 200+ B$ company? Marry into a rich family? Low tier drug dealer in Europe (short prison times)? All of the above require working long/stressful hours over years. This brings me back to my first point: forget about the 2.2M and do s.th. you enjoy doing.
Or just trigger the break lights.
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Subscribing to the NYT will get you access to the Magazine and the archive which holds thousands upon thousands of articles that are more like what you describe here.
I recently discovered halite too and I think the origin story is pretty interesting.

from https://halite.io/about/

> Halite I was conceived of and developed by Benjamin Spector and Michael Truell in 2016. Two Sigma, having had a history of playful programming challenges for its mathematical and software-oriented teams (e.g., see the Robotic Air Hockey Competition) retained Ben and Michael as 2016 summer interns to develop Halite, run an internal Halite Challenge, and ultimately open Halite up to human and non-human coding enthusiasts worldwide. Halite I was a great success, developing a flourishing community of bot builders from around the globe, representing 35+ universities and 20+ organizations.

> As a result of the community’s enthusiasm, the Two Sigma team decided to create Halite II, an iteration of the original game with new rules but a similar structure and philosophy. With Ben and Michael as creative advisors, Halite II was developed by David Li, Jaques Clapauch, Harikrishna Menon, Julia Kastner as an evolution of Halite I. The team considered simply reviving Halite I, but given the progress the community made and the number of open source bots that had been published, the team decided to create Halite II with new game mechanics and a fun background story that fleshes out the Halite universe. Halite involved moving pieces around a board with only up-down-left-right options. In 2017’s Halite II, bots battle for control of a virtual continuous universe, where ships mine planets to grow larger fleets and defeat their opponents.

not bad for just a second iteration. cynical people can view it as just a marketing thing, but you can also think of it as a very successful intern project that I personally would find hard to pull off. in particular i am surprised that there are more "professional" players than university/high school players. (https://halite.io/programming-competition-leaderboard)

in the forums there are high schoolers doing well in this game and the fund is choosing not to work with them. i think this is shortsighted. (https://forums.halite.io/t/two-sigma-interview/312)

disclosure - am interviewing with 2sigma.
Why the Team Behind Sesame Street Created a Character with Autism
Which is your favorite? Do you have any really unique ones?
I bought 4-5 items this year that were sold and dispatched by Amazon which turned out to be counterfeit.

Even without direct commingled inventory the generic supply chain is riddled with counterfeit and quality control issues.

There is a very big difference between buying a Generic from the likes of TEVA or Novartis vs some low tier Indian or Chinese generic manufacturer.

Even large health care providers have been struggling with the quality of generic these days when not buying from the top 3 manufacturers im not seeing any reason for Amazon to do any better.
Start-up raised millions to sell brain hacking pill, but finds coffee is better
I know there was a study on possums where those on an isolated coastal island were different from their mainland cousins. besides the isolation the mainland ones suffered genetic issues they attributed to environment stress.

my googlefu fails me currently
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Flash LIDARs have some serious problems:

They require extremely high power outputs since the beam spreads out. This limits the range significantly but also makes it so that you need very powerful lasers, and the only way to make that eye safe is to use 1550nm light, which requires InGaAs photodetectors, which are much more expensive. In addition, you usually need SPADs which have very high noise levels. You can reduce this noise somewhat by cooling them, but that's very expensive and infeasible for automotive applications m
No, that is done by buying up most local tv stations and airing propaganda.
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And if programming careers were like medicine, we'd all have to do four years of residency working in our specialty, for 80 hours a week for half the salary before we could be licensed to program without supervision.

If it were like civil engineering, we'd need to attend a certified program at university, take an exam in our focus afterwards, then work under a Certified Licensed Programmer for four years. After which, we'd have to take another exam to get our state license that allows us to practice programming on our own. *

Maybe we could establish a huge bureaucracy around programming, requiring a decade of schooling and license in order to practice the art. Then we could make these pesky interviews a bit easier!

* The first half of this is already in place. I attended a ABET CS program, and I'm sure many others have as well. ABET has a FE exam for CS/EE that we could take.

> Thanks for your interest in Bueller and Co. accounting. We love to hire the most passionate accountant rock stars in the industry. In advance of the interview, please send us links to some of the side accounting projects you’ve done for fun in your spare time.

Funny, when I did consulting work, I hired an accountant who did side-gigs in addition to her full-time job.
Are remote positions available also for the people from outside of US? (Europe, Prague)
Once they hit 500 startups, did you _actually_ expect them to continue to pay?
The Bloomberg 50
I wonder how this fits in with the decline in accelerator and seed funding activity?
One can be passionate at work without enjoying coding on their free time.
Markdown vs. Sundown
> Many opposed to the growth of populist, right-wing movements in the US (and to a degree abroad) see the NYT as emblematic of a news media more interested in humanistically profiling far-right extremists, including self-avowed white nationalists, than in highlighting their evils.

Many opposed to the growth of populist, right-wing movements in the US would like their newspapers to provide reporting and understanding, which can include "humanistic profiles" of people we don't like. The last thing I want from journalism (outside the opinion pages) are stories selected to highlight or build support for a particular opinion, as justified as that opinion may be.

> On the other side of the American political divide, many have found the 'failing' NYT to be unrepresentative of their experiences as Americans, and have begun to dismiss it's coverage as partisan and often distorted. The paper's attempts to introduce balanced coverage, especially in the editorial pages, has been met with vitriol from both liberals and conservatives.

IIRC, the NYT has long been regarded the voice of liberal orthodoxy. Any attempts change that (if they are in fact happening) are going to be painful but also needed and welcome (by me at least).
I'll subscribe to the NYT again when they stop requiring you to phone them to unsubscribe.

I was a previous subscriber, and when I wanted to unsubscribe, I discovered there was no way to do it online. This is, of course, an intentional move to make it hard to unsubscribe.

My advice to the NYT: learn from Netflix.