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Ask HN: Is a micromasters degree enough in Switzerland or your country?
I made a degree in logistics in Switzerland. At the moment i work as UX designer in a medium sized digital agency as newcomer since 2 years. Would a micromasters degree be enough to apply for jobs at agencies like Hinderlin Volkhardt Liip, Namics etc. and getting them after lots of experience and a kick ass portfolio?

My biggest concern is that I'm only officially trained in logistics and i think i should hedge myself in my career. Degrees are important in Switzerland, but to be honest I'm not happy with what you get from most of the schools and unis. This is also what I hear from my friends and coworkers.

I would take the UX Design and Research Micromasters. I love the concept and i think i would learn much more and more specific than a normal degree which i could take on my educational level in Switzerland.

Any experience with this?

If you work in HR or you're a CEO, how would you handle an application from somebody with a micromasters but experience, talent and passion?
That, followed by the fact that many of their users probably sit on the site a good part of the day constantly refreshing the page/taking up websocket bandwidth to watch price changes. Yeah, load is a serious issue.
Because of licensing?
For me (lost 90 pounds, went from 10.5 A1C to 5 A1C), it was:

- Removal of all beverages aside from water, unsugared coffee, tea
- Removal of all rice, grains, potatoes, corn
- Chicken, Pork, and Beef (in that order) became my primary food product. Sous Vide allowed for a more convenient method of food preparation that made it feasible for my schedule (throw it in in the morning, done when I get home from work)
- Vegetables other than the ones above became my secondary source of food.
- Don't care about fat, just about carb intake. My personal target goal was under 30 grams of carbs per day, which I was mostly able to adhere to. Now that I am stable under 6 A1C I have loosened it to about 45.
- My caloric goal has been to stay under 1600 calories. I feel like all the other steps helped drop my A1C, but this alone was what made me actually lose the 90 pounds of weight itself.
I recently bought furniture. There was small print that said I was agreeing to the terms and conditions on the back. Historically you're used to seeing warranty and financing (if any - none in this case) information. When I flipped it over, it turned out it was a binding arbitration agreement.

For a furniture purchase.
Closures still borrow whole structs from the captured scope when they could only borrow the fields they actually need:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=26b2efa859589a8172cad982f0d...

This is especially frustrating when it's self that is being captured. There's an accepted RFC for fixing this but I'm not sure when it's going to be implemented.
"Stop-losses are very important in investing but I'd recommend always executing them manually at market rate."

No, no, no, no ...

You do not ever want to insert a market order[1] ... the market can be manipulated and high frequency traders can buy/sell your public market order at an artificially low/high price.

The answer to getting "stopped out" is not to insert a market order - it is to create a fill-or-kill at a specific price or other more specific order type ...

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-why-you-never-use-...
Been using Insomnia for a few months now, some things I really like:

1. Env switching. I believe this is available on other clients, but it feels very intuitive in insomnia.

2. The ease of using results from other calls and making method chains. When testing something locally, I can make a POST call and then click on my GET call and have it implicitly GET the id that was just created.

3. Computed values -- putting in uuids or timestamps for each new call without having to change them. I looked at the api and the code to add your own seems pretty straightforward.

4. Input data types are toggleable, but the form stays the same. This bugged the shit out of me with Postman: I'd fill out a form with my content body only to find I had marked the wrong content type, switched it, and saw Postman present me with a blank form.
It would be cool if the govt had to develop an open-source tax estimator whenever tax-change bills were introduced (or make modifications to some base tool). An iteration of a tax bill would be presented alongside the tax-estimator tool so that citizens and businesses could run real numbers through the hypothetical tax-changes.
> If it scales faster than linear, then your recursive bootstrapping operation takes longer and longer each time,

Wait, does that really follow? What if you have a better than linear bootstrapping compiler. To unpack that a bit, imagine we not only have $n$ such units, but we have them wired to together in a creative way-- i dont know whether it is hierarchy, or some clever topology, but lets say that the bootstrapper now gets sub-linear scaling properties as it grows $n$.

If we look at the brain, there is a lot to be understood from the dynamics of recurrent neural fields. They are wired in a very complex way which seems to allow for some kind of very special booting (re-booting) operations. And thats just at one level of abstraction, then we re-wire them into meta-fields (like the columnar abstractions that Hawkin's builds his HTM theories around). If we have a sort of fractal information encoding, we ultimately approach shannon efficient coding. Is that what evolution has selected brains to do? And do you think it is possible the first seed AI may realize this and exploit the same strategy, just 1000x (10kx?) faster?
I won't say I didn't intend to stir the shit a little with this comment and figured I'd rightly it would be downvoted or flagged into oblivion, but now it's my most upvoted comment in the last week or so.

So what? Did it in any way foster interesting discussion? No, just the opposite. It's bad and you should feel bad.
I think this would also apply to most investments - if it costs much higher than the average, it's likely to be bad.
Yes, Africa -> Spanish -> Native Americans.
you say that as if it's empty hype. but it's not: deep learning works, and works much better by any reasonable metric than SVMs in most problems that require high to very high model capacity.
I would think so. Getting enough buy-in for such a thing could be challenging.
I don't think this is a nationalistic issue, more a case of do you live in a major city or just somewhere else?
There's another component to all of this, and that's psychology. There are people who are anorexic/bulimic and it's a horrible affliction. There are also people on the other end who compulsively overeat, usually to cope with some kind of trauma or as a reaction to anxiety. Or just because they've been fed one way since they were children, and habits are really difficult to break.

Distinguishing those people from the people who can just decide to make it better is probably impossible.

So I see some validity to all approaches.

The problem with treating it as purely a medical issue though is that, by doing that, society is being more permissive of the poor decisions people make. People who can choose to eat better and improve their health that way might never find that out, if they're just told it's all medical and we're dust in the wind.

The problem with treating it entirely as a choice is your prescription becomes punitive toward people who genuinely can't control themselves.

So I think the right approach is a balance between the two. Having said that, I think the current climate favors the dust in the wind hypothesis too heavily, and I think a lot of people are hampered and harmed by a complete lack of criticism and concern as they make and keep themselves obese.
If they are, that's an improvement. What's the breakdown like? I've venture to say less than 1% overall.
The article that this is a response to was discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15788807.

People apparently didn't like my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789304, but I still stand by everything that I said there.
Exactly.. the "we had hot wallets for all our currency" excuse would have worked 6 years ago, not so much today.
Online C# IDE with Intellisense and Web Service Execution Environment / Subroute
neural networks are stacked logistic regressions. a lot of the deep learning research benefits logistic regression
From the view of an individual with self control you're correct. From a societal view that doesn't help. A large percentage of the population has demonstrated a lack of self control in this area. This has lead to widespread health problems. Those problems are a burden on society. Simply saying it's your responsibility deal with it won't reduce that burden.

We found a similar problem with smoking. Numbers of smokers have reduced with public education plans and limitations on marketing. Perhaps there are similar things that can be done to help reduce the number of people suffering obesity related illness. Perhaps it's something that will have a net positive impact on society as a whole?

There is of course a balance interfering with individual dietary choices is a slippery slop, freedom must be preserved at all cost.
Not sure the intent of the author was to cover operational-level commanders. Even if Gulf War I did count, coalition forces outnumbered the Iraqis in sum total, so Schwarzkopf's WAR probably wouldn't be very good.
I was sending a favorite podcast of mine (It's Just Banter) $1 a month. But with a 35 cent fee to send 1 dollar, it seemed crazy, so i cancelled it. I'll find another way to support TC and Jake.
Have you tried Nvim-R?

I love it.

You can send a line to the R console using <space>. I've assigned loads of keyboard shortcuts beginning with your local leader that will do things like str(), levels(), head(), tail(), sum() on the object under the cursor.

It works fine with plotting figures, and I think you can set it up with tmux, though I use vim's buffers.

Haven't seen any disadvantages to compared to Rstudio yet. I guess you could even do :!git add ... from vim.

[1] https://github.com/jalvesaq/Nvim-R
I guess, because GNAT is the only free Ada compiler, all the remaining ones being commercial.

So Ada and SPARK ended up just catering to the industry that created them, high integrity systems, the kind where people die when an out-of-bounds occurs.
Does anyone know how people are supposed to use these if they have a home alarm? This obviously won't work if your alarm is armed, unless you give Amazon your alarm code.

I've asked a few friends who have an alarm system and they said they would not give out the code if it's going to be passed along to delivery people (who could break into the house later and then disable the alarm).

But I guess not enough people have alarms for Amazon to be worried about this? Or perhaps this is aimed more at urban apartment-dwellers, who are less likely to have security systems?
I think "existential panic" in this case maybe isn't referring to existentialism, but... existence? Like if you aren't going to have food tomorrow, and there's no solid prospect of figuring out how to get food the next day, that's a panic fueled by the desire to continue to exist. It's kind of an imprecise term in this case, but that's what I took it to mean.
He didn’t specify though. Cooked and raw spinach have very different nutritional properties, so it makes sense to eat both.
Would you consider using Liberapay? Would be good to give those that want to support you a way to do so without having to put up with Patreon's latest antics:

https://liberapay.com/about/faq
The big effect of the dot-com boom was that it forced every business to have an on-line presence. This was by no means a given at the time. We could have had a world where maybe 20% of businesses, mostly those that were doing mail order, had a web site.
No but you can give a door access code if one is available.
The biggest impact was definitely to make more approachable the design of ATS and Cyclone to common developers.

But borrow-checker still needs some fine tuning, as per NLL and further planned work.
> Secondly, unlike companies, cryptocurrencies can never* go bankrupt. They cannot be shut down by any single government. There will always be developers with machines somewhere willing to mine coins.

Here's one way cryptocurrencies could go bankrupt: The US government decides it doesn't like cryptocurrencies because of their use in money laundering and other illicit activities, so it puts severe restrictions on conversion between USD and BTC (or whatever other cryptocurrency) by going after the exchanges.

The value of a cryptocurrency is that you can convert it into a fiat currency, ie, one you can actually buy real things with. If that starts being restricted, then the value will plummet.
The bigger it grows the harder it will fall. The design/implementation of bitcoin as a currency is severely flawed.

Projects like Ethereum, Hyperledger, and IOTA have a more long term focus. Full Disclosure: I have no positions in any crypto but have been reading a lot. Also, in the midst of two courses that go that cover crytpocurrencies and blockchain tech.

1. https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
2. https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-business-introduction-...

#1 gives a very good history of what a blockchain is, and how is implemented by bitcoin. This is enough to keep me away since I have learned about all the technical flaws:

#2 discusses blockchains, and consensus algorithms. This project shows lots of promise. They just added code that allows the consensus algorithm to actually be changed via a transaction, without a hard fork.

Bitcoin gets all the credit for introducing the world to the blockchain concept, but its far from a sound solution as a cryptocurrency.
I agree the example looks "obviously" correct. But my paranoia worries that an aggressive optimiser might write to bytes next to the actual fields in ways that render the code incorrect.

While that worry sounds insane, it is exactly the kind of thing C compilers have retroactively defined as Undefined Behaviour. So kudos to Rust for having the compiler tell you up front where it reserves the right to do stupid stuff in future.
Haven't had occasion to use it yet, but I've chatted some with the founders of http://nouvola.com/ - bright women and it looks like they've done a good job with their product. Once you're at that kind of scale, maybe a prepackaged solution is worth the savings in time.
The article says they are told to say "I'm (real employee)'s friend". If I go to a party put on by my employer and they are paying people to lie to me, I would say I'm not being treated fairly.
.local is for mDNS. You're just asking for conflicts.
I do R code QA for a living now.

And I can see why some people like R. They are end users for whom the language was explicitly designed, so they like the ergonomics (to use the term Rustaceans are popularizing.)

The thing is, like Perl and Latex and other products you could think of, R was initially written by people with a good idea of the end uses and how to enable those end uses, but not a good idea on how to reconcile those ergonomics with the need for a clean parseable syntax.

So if you make too extensive a reliance on R, you wind up having to hire someone like me.
Texas Prisons Ban 10,000 Books. No ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ for Inmates
Thanks for your suggestion. I am onto it. :)
I thought this was an API I could order insomnia cookies with. Cool regardless
I stopped using Paw because it’s macOS only. I work across multiple operating systems and that was very limiting.
Yeah but I feel like if I'm going to use Qt I may as well write it in C++. Part of the reason I like Go is that it makes easy-to-distribute binaries. Adding Qt back in gets rid of that benefit.
Ouch! I've gotten a few bad sunburns in Los Angeles, but that sounds like something else.

My sunbathing policy is to go without sunscreen but only for 20-30 minutes daily around noon.
I just received information about another payment provider, and of course, paypal direct.

https://liberapay.com
> Really, the only way economics make sense is if you assume that everything is valued at its real value at any time -- not just when it changes hands.

“When the price of a stock can be influenced by a "herd" on Wall Street with prices set at the margin by the most emotional person, or the greediest person, or the most depressed person, it is hard to argue that the market always prices rationally. In fact, market prices are frequently nonsensical.”

“Ships will sail around the world but the Flat Earth Society will flourish. There will continue to be wide discrepancies between price and value in the marketplace, and those who read their Graham & Dodd will continue to prosper.” — Warren Buffett
"Amazon Logistics" - it's just a front company

Are you sure about that because all deliveries I have had are clearly not from any of the regular companies you mention?
Thanks. I didn't know about the historical context of that argument and it turned out to be quite important.
Thanks, quite interesting, specially the publication year (1999), yet another proof how long people have been trying to advocate for safer systems.
I think "sneak" means they are trying to pass them off of friends of employees, even instructing them to say so, as opposed to disclosing why they are there. Lying to your employees, even "white lies", is sneaky.
just for the sake of warning, keto shows lots of results, but taps into a body mechanism that yields some form of withdrawal syndrom (keto flu IIRC)
"You can use '=' and '<-' to assign values to variables and both do the same, except in a few edge-cases where you now spend one week finding the error"

Can you tell us a bit about those edge-cases which can lead to hard finding bugs?
LMRTAFY: "For a typical party, scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8, Cre8 Agency LLC is sending 25 women and 5 men, all good-looking..."
I live in an old house in a cooler climate and my place and most of my neighbors' have a special small two-way "cabinet" through the exterior wall in the back where the milkman used to leave your delivery, sort of like a mailbox built into your house.
Well for a start I can literally never find the option to show the tool docks (fill & stroke, align & distribute etc).

They're not in the View or Window menus.
The article gave one example of 30 models (5 men and 25 women) -- so 20% in that case.
You can work-around that by capturing the fields you need individually. It's a little awkward but does let you express what you're trying to do there:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=2463ff559d7f96f916d246272b1...

Agreed that it's not the best default behavior though. Generally I tend to try to keep unrelated things in separate structs for this reason(with the nice side benefit of keeping concerns separate).
Not quite. A sha256 preimage attack would possibly let one mine blocks more quickly, but would be significantly more difficult than a collision attack, which won't help you in this case. On the other hand, finding private keys for a given account would require solving elliptic curve discrete logarithms, and only then for bitcoin addresses which have been used as inputs to transactions. (This is one reason why change addresses are a good idea).
Sounds amazing. Wish my company treated us to this kind of delight!
You can make a virtual file system in the browser using localStorage. You can then sync it across devices and browsers via a server.

You can upload files to the PWA using drag-n-drop or file input. You can also send files from the PWA to the device file system.

I think it's important that Web browsers can't automatically control the device hard drives, imagine if all web sites you visited would be able to do rm / -rf or scan all files on your hard drive.
I suspect the investment banks that say they're going to stay away will quickly get FOMO and jump in sooner rather than later.

Crypto is always in the headlines and will constantly occupy the headspace of trader's colleagues and peers, so it's just human nature that they will not be able to resist having a taste.
Been using VS Code on a mac for over a year now and literally nothing you mentioned is true for me with the exception of the scroll bar being thicker than the OS default, but it does autohide.
I can't seem to comment anymore on the original article, so I'm going to write here in the hope that the author will see it.

Lots of people are commenting about the poor data set selection. I think that's understandable given that the author isn't a historian but rather a baseball geek and data scientist. Although I can't help but feel a little bit of anger to see (speaking as a software engineer and a history Ph.D. dropout) yet another example of a technical person blithely wandering into a field that has been studied for thousands of years and make very grandiose claims without even a cursory study of the field. Buy hey, that's tech for you, always disrupting (I mean that both sarcastically and not sarcastically at the same time).

What I want to address is more fundamental than getting the data set right, however. The author doesn't seem to understand that the very nature of the historical record is highly subjective.

1) Even if Wikipedia nailed every statistic, the statistics themselves about wins and losses, troop numbers, lengths of battle, places, etc. are increasingly unreliable as you go back in time. In some texts and historiographical traditions, the numbers are not just unreliable, they're arguably cut from whole cloth. Anything past, say, 1000 A.D. in Western Europe, for example, is highly disputed. Biases in old texts aside, we have enormous gaps in what texts have survived to this day. History isn't written by the victors, but the dried wood pulp and calf skins that it's written on is selectively preserved by them. The author's model has no awareness of the history of historiography.

(Tangentially, Napoleon, whom the author's model rates as the greatest general of all time, was indirectly responsible for a huge amount of destruction of Europe's archives after issuing orders to transfer archives from across the continent to Paris. Early modern logistics meant that huge portions of documents were destroyed in transport. I remember when I was working in the Vatican Secret Archives, something like 1/3rd of that archive was destroyed, and that's one of the main archives for European and world history.)

2) Even if we had all the numbers exactly perfect, what counts as a victory and what counts as a loss is highly subjective. Was the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive a victory or a loss? For whom? In what sense? These philosophical questions can't be answered by a model, at least not without the philosophical assumptions being made explicit.

This question is fundamentally one that requires a nuanced approach. I think that data-driven approaches can really help, but the author's model needs not only more refinement, it also needs to acknowledge more of the confounding factors involved. I encourage the author to keep working on it.
wow, these guys seem even shiftier than usual, trying to deflect whether or not they have a bitcoin strategy..
America’s long history of predatory lending
>Sounds like I hate the tech, I don't, just hate the bullshiters

This is my exact feeling in regards to blockchain. Bitcoin is fucking stupid, but blockchain does have uses - unfortunately there are a lot of bullshitters out there.
So it's every communication service's responsibility to keep only the people they like using their service?
>~60% of the developers on my team are women. It's not magic

Which is leagues above the vast majority of engineering companies, as well as the overall population within the software engineering community at large. Yours is an outlier, and an obvious one at that.
Digital Ocean all the way. I am using a couple of inexpensive Droplets for server blocks and Dokku to host multiple websites, applications and APIs horizontally on those instances. This article [0] gives a lot of insights about my setup.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/deploy-applications-digital-ocea...