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Can you tell me more about the problems you faced with your startup? My experience with 2017 has been the same in terms of working at the highest paying job I've had in my career. However, I AM thinking about leaving the traditional job market at some point to start my own start up in the next 3 years. I want some reality checks though.
As far as I know men behave the same way and thus this article comes across as misogynous as it tries to portray women as being unfair or something.
> Most people will default to "fake" and have to rely on the trustfulness of the source.

Until faked video of the trusted source him- or herself appears.
It's certainly a field plagued by some intentional obfuscation and annoying jargon (krigging anyone?), but there's real value in it like anything else. You can prove that to yourself easily. Choose a noise process and generate x,y samples off a line + noise. try ordinary lst-squares and then some gaussian processes...

Basically the value of statistics lies in the fact that there's some human-tractable set of noise processes and correlations which appear universally in a wide spectrum of real phenomena.

Knowing the real mechanism which generates the noise is always better, but not always tractable.
Last year I started meditation and as a part of it, I quit alcohol and pot. I wish I can quit my bad habits.
That's an interesting analogy but the big difference is that with traditional edit distance every edit is exactly the same -- one character changed to another character. In the business case there's no equivalent "unit" size for changes.
Sure, if there is comprehensive immigration reform that removes the queue for Indian-born applicants. Doesn't sound like that is what the current Administration is planning though.

I think at least some people on H1B like their jobs and company (and vice versa) even if the wait for a green card is currently indeterminate, and won't be too happy to see this happen.

> I wish no one else have to go through what I'm going through

So you think this is a good idea even though your family and you will likely be negatively affected by it if it happens? I assume the only reason that your family and you are still on an H1B is because, on balance, it is better to be in the US than somewhere else, despite you "taking the abuse".
I for one thought it was worthy of a chuckle...
On Jan. 1, California is basically becoming a different state
Knowledge in software development: what’s your wood lot?
The problem with Day One is it is now a subscription model and the old version no longer syncs across all your devices.
But this is in Iowa with snow on the ground. I would think that lower than 50 degree F, insects can't really move too much at those temps?
It's ironic that you're commenting on bee hive insurance, something that is essential in nearly every kind of food production, by claiming that the state offering it at a loss will lead to everyone starving to death.

If "bee populations are declining, we need bees to make food, we should encourage people to keep bees by limiting the amount of risk they have to take" isn't a really good reason, I don't know what is.
Funny that this thread was censored (i.e. collapsed) without any apparent reason.

Myself I also believe this to be the case. Vandals don't just burn 50 beehives. And the fact that the farm says this is vandalism, instead of wondering "how is it possible that vandals destroyed 50 beehives for no reason", just reinforces my suspicion.
the choosen metrics seem very suspicious... "number of cryptocurrencies" doesn't mean anything other than it's easy to create one. bitcoin market cap growing means there's probably a bubble, but 65 billions is too small to trigger a systemic crash by orders of magnitude. putting the two close one to a other is a really cheap trick to make you feel like the monetary system is in danger. Same for tesla, it doesn't make any sense other than to show that stock is overvalued.

To call something a bubble you need to identify a market that's "bubbling", a whole area or sector. otherwise you've only identified a few assets.

housing market is more sensible, but bubble on the housing market have been announced for the last thirty years, and prices kept climbing. everywhere. maybe it's not a symptom of a bubble, but just that there's more and more people, and less and less places they want to live in.
C macros would just take the place of your python script. It's literally the exact same idea.
This depends on what the counter in question is measuring. If it's "background" radiation, where background is outside the counter, it should be pretty easy to bring your own foreground.

If it's an internal source and it is properly shielded, this becomes much harder.
At grocery stores where I live you can't bag any of your groceries until you've scanned them all. It's the main reason I don't use self-checkout alongside the computer nattering at you and making you wait for it to finish.
No. That's not how microeconomics and supply/demand curves works.

"increasing suppy" does not mean "producing more goods". Increasing supply means producing more goods AND lowering prices so much that those goods are then sold.

And then consumers look at the price and will decide to buy more.

That's how supply and demand curves work.
It doesn't specify that "attractiveness" is limited only to physical appearance. It defines attractiveness based solely on what portion of women swipe right, so by that definition your friend would probably qualify as above average attractiveness.
Yes, WhatsApp is Down and will be permanently down for these mobile devices
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Interesting. Any link or place to watch the product at?
> when/if I recognize it as an ad.

But that is exactly what I'm asking: how do you tell the difference between an ad and a positive review written in good faith? In particular, how do you tell the difference between the kind of advertising you yearn for, that "earnestly connect[s] people with products that might improve their lives" and a positive review written in good faith? And if you can't tell the difference between the two, then what exactly is the problem?

My point is that while I agree with you that modern advertising mostly sucks, I thought this article was pretty useful. I wear glasses, but I've never bought them on line because I was under the impression that Warby-Parker was the only game in town and I hate their frames (I like rimless metal frames and WP only had plastic the last time I looked). This article prompted me to take another look, and in particular it led me to two sites that have exactly the kind of frames I like at less than half what I paid at my optometrist. So this article was tremendously useful to me. Why should I care if it was an ad?
I built and HN-launched Vexlio (https://www.vexlio.com), a technical diagramming tool with embedded LaTeX equations, an interactive Lua-drawing mode, and other assorted neat features. It's finally reached a fairly stable point in the last few months or so, so I can start looking ahead to more interesting features!
There are peak baggers from all over the world, it's not an American phenomenon. I got a nice tip the last time I was hiking in Colorado: ignore the 14ers and go for the just unders. 13,950 feet has the same views and sense of accomplishment, but with no peak baggers.
No, it wasn't. The Catholic Church had separate-from-the-state but binding authority in some areas of life, and something like extraterritoriality in much of the Western world, but it wasn't the government ever over any but a few relatively small parts of the Western World (well, technically, never over any of it, though certain clerical positions were conjoined to positions of state authority, either lower in the feudal heirarchy or, occasionally, actual sovereignties like the papal states or one of the co-princes of Andorra.)
On my mobile, the text is cut off after the 25th character on each line and the browser doesn't render a horizontal scrollbar preventing me from seeing the right half of each line.

It would be nice if MIME format=flowed was a thing for quoted text on web pages that otherwise would be hard-wrapped.
Where is it relatively easy to immigrate in Europe? If anything, isn't it harder than the US?
I Disagree. I run Linux desktop on all my computers.

I think you don't understand how much Google works to have security from design. Windows, Linux, OS X can all be fine "traditional" desktop systems (though the lack of a unified vision on Linux hurts it incredibly).

I see Fuchsia as a desktop system that (a) has a native, fundamental concept of graphical desktop and (b) has deep sandboxing on a level similar to Chrome, but for the entire OS, meaning -> it could become an all purpose platform for thick client applications that isn't reliant or the web and still unable to be exploited.

I suspect they are not satisfied with any of their desktop options. I doubt this has anything to do with Android or Chrome OS within the next 10 years. They just want a desktop that sucks less and they can guarantee follows their own security practices (not FIPS, but process isolation and capability injection).
I designed and implemented an in-house timeline system, which collects communications with our customers across all channels (chat, email, sms, phonecalls etc). Learned a lot, but also almost burned out closer to the end of the year. I was working remotely and mostly alone. Scope creep and lack of proper management has bitten me really hard. When I finally launched the app into production, I felt nothing but tiredness.

I still can't wrap my head around the React ecosystem. Front-end part was the most time consuming (probably because before this project I did only backend stuff). I enjoy react, but the whole game "build your own build system", "build your own framework" is beyond me. I hope the new year will bring more solutions like nextjs.
When a ship is off course, you correct. I don't see either party letting healthcare slip under their respective watch. Taiwan's two party system does not have a (major) party built on small government like the US does. Both parties want to keep their people honestly happy.
> he might be more of a liar than some of his adversaries.

It's a funny comic and it doesn't need to be taken literally. That is it exaggerates to tell a story. You do know what Dilbert is, right? How did we end up going from that to maybe "Scot Adams" is a dirty, rotten liar? Do you know some extra info about him to support it.

As an author one doesn't necessarily have identify with all the characters and ideas in the story. For example I might not like or enjoy potty humor but my kids like it, so I'll tell them jokes to amuse them because I enjoy seeing them laugh. Doesn't mean I am a dirty liar.
Launched a new web app in late 2016 so this year (2017) was all about improvement, refinement and listening to customers to ensure it truly is the best way to report build status and automated test results.

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Built a home office v2 after working a couple years in various offices, coworkings or in my living room (couch != home office).

Single best decision I've done in my career. Finally I'm in control of lighting conditions, noise level, ergonomics, schedule.

The number of hours/day (secret) I am able to comfortably deliver has literally doubled.
"Don't focus on doing these activities to meet potential romantic partners - do them to have fun because you enjoy them and meet other people who enjoy the same things."

I can't disagree with this enough.

If you want a job, are you going to continue going to the activities you've always been going to and hoping to meet someone that gives you work?

If you want an apartment to live in, are you going to go to the same activities you've been going to and hope that someone there is a landlord?

Maybe you would. But most people would check a jobs site or a rental site. Why would romantic relationships be any different?
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Personally I like buying my glasses in real life from higher end stores because the stores offered me years of free repairs and adjustments on-demand, and even given discounts on recurring appointments and purchases.

I used to only buy glasses from wal-mart or other cheap alternatives and went through 2-3 pairs a year (I am clumsy and my lenses are thick, a tough combination for durability). Customer service aside, I found the larger pricetag has had a huge psychological impact on me not being negligent to the item... funny how that changes if i perceive something as 'disposable'. I'm not proud of that fact, or of the prices I've paid in the last 8 years; but I've only had two pairs of glasses in that time -- a huge improvement from when I was a child/teen. In fact, the last pair I owned are still intact but I simply wanted a new design.

I will probably give online glasses shopping another time when this current pair is exhausted. Which could be a while, and i anticipate huge advancement in visualization capability by then!
Nobody is forcing anyone. It's a choice. The system is not perfect, but we still have a choice. Your choice was to stand in the line as a compromise for better life for your family.

I'm standing in the same line as you are, and I have the exact same choices. My choice is to leave the US and go back to India - and take all the money back to India, of course - the money that would've been spent in the US.

I do agree that some clarity on whether one will get permanent residence or not is better than this suspended animation we are all in today. Even a definitive "no - you have to go back" is better.

Edit: Changed "visa" to "permanent residence"
I think this is a much lower level thing.
Interesting. More influence from Windows (NT) than I expected.
Does it, though? I don't think all the sledgehammer swingers starved to death when the jackhammer was invented.
> Let the down-voting begin

It violates the HN guidelines to include this sort of baity noise in comments here. We'd appreciate it if you'd read and follow the rules. They're at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Part of the reason eyeglasses are so expensive is "vision insurance", which is not insurance at all. By definition, insurance is the spread of risk of a high-cost, low-probability event over a large population so that no individual has to pay a huge sum if the event occurs. For instance, eye insurance would have a small premium that would pay out if an eye injury occured that required very expensive medical care. However, modern "vision insurance"

1. won't pay if you injure your eye

2. doesn't spread any risk over a population

Instead of reducing risk, vision insurance simply spreads a known cost over a period of time. If each customer would pay $240 / yr on eyeglasses, it allows them to instead pay $20 / mo. That is not insurance -- that's a payment plan!

So, why does it exist and why does it increase price? Very simply, vision insurance can be provided by a company to its employees and deducted as an expense. This allows the employee to avoid paying personal income tax on wages, which would happen if the $240 were provided directly to the worker. Thus, it is cheaper for the company to provide vision insurance than to increase wages to provide $240 in after-tax take home pay.

Because the money tied up with vision insurance can not be used for anything other than glasses (e.g. you can't cash out a vision plan and spend the money on video games or travel), there is no incentive for the end customer to spend less on glasses. They will want to spend as much as possible while still remaining below the maximum budget from the plan. As a result, this distorts the normal financial incentives in a marketplace.

As a result of the favorable tax position and lack of cost incentives, vision insurance inflates the price of eyeglasses and exploits a de facto subsidy from the taxpayer to the eyeglass company. This increases the profits of the eyeglass company (owned by Luxottica) at the expense of the consumer (and to the detriment of anyone who buys their glasses out of their own pocket)
Meta-study finds robust sex differences in children’s toy preferences
I never considered getting stung by insects a career. ;-)

I got stung by a wasp when I was like 6 years old, and it kind of traumatized me, so I was rather careful ever since.
"I am going to strongly disagree with well established statistical evidence" usually isn't a strong starting point for an argument.

> How many garbage men have been killed on the job by their customers or targeted specifically because of their job?

Why does this matter? Dead is dead. If you're more likely to be killed or injured doing that job, why does it matter how it comes about?
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I've been dealing with non-profits for most of my life. I started working with orchestras when I was about 7 or so, and these idealists (at least in the U.S.) are the absolute worst people to work for.

Almost every so-called idealist I've worked with is something close to a cultish sociopath. The non-profit world is full of these people where only true believers can fit in.

It's toxic. And the non-profits get a special status for their pathology that helps drive their insanity.

I remember doing a market research study for an orchestra that will remain nameless. The point of the study was to do an honest assessment of optimum price points. How to maximize either revenue or attendance.

I was serving on the board of this orchestra and did the study at my own expense. When I delivered the numbers, they didn't align with conventional wisdom.

And numbers weren't crazy. The bottom line was that people who buy season tickets are more hard-core supporters. They aren't looking for the cheap deal. They are looking for more opportunities to support the orchestra. The one-off people who just buy tickets at the door on a lark are much more price-sensitive.

So the solution is to ignore the bulk deal appeal that season-ticket buyers are getting offered. Raise the prices on those. And lower the at-door ticket prices. Lower the barrier to entry for casual users and raise the price for people who are going to pay whatever anyway. It's kind of obvious.

That's the math of the situation. Merely talking about these results and presenting them to the board got me kicked out. The orchestra did the exact opposite of that, and suffered the fate that the distribution said it would.

A few years later, they decided to try my idea. It worked. Who would've thunk?

Liberal, artsy, idealistic brats are no worse than conservative, religious, idealistic brats. They are all immune to logic and science, and just want to keep doing things that don't work because they sound good.

I think you should be cautious. People claiming to have a handle on all the world's problems are usually a part of the world's problems.
>we should encourage people to keep bees by limiting the amount of risk they have to take

or you know, by the beekeepers charging more for the service. if pollination is really that essential, they shouldn't have any problem getting farmers to accept the price increases. otherwise it's just another subsidy that distorts the marketplace (against other pollination methods, or crops that don't require bee pollination)
To be fair, the Tesco I use most has found some really irritating middle ground where the bags are held by a specific employee that you go and ask for a bag from, slowing everything up massively.

Every time I go in I have the same thought that it's such a waste of someone's life to spend most of it standing motionless with the sole purpose to reduce theft of plastic bags.
> I find it very strange that technologies like the internet appear to have created a world with more ambiguity and less transparency than we've had before

Any technology created by humans will be a mirror of human shortcomings. Techo-utopians believe that technology will make humanity somehow better. It won't. We'll just use it to do the same terrible shit we've been doing since the dawn of time.
Google would fire those scientists.
QE, in particular, consists of buying second hand government bonds with printed money. The holders of government bonds are not a representative selection of the populace, to put it mildly. I have nothing against anti-cyclical measures (aka Keynesianism) but the implementation is ridiculous.

Giving low interest rates to the middle class just inflates the housing market, which is bad for everyone, even the middle class.
Trying to be the world's first person to be cured from autism. I believe my autism is caused by the shape of my forehead, which puts too much pressure on my muscles. Evidence is here: https://corticalchauvinism.com/2017/11/13/yuval-levental-cra...

Also, I have prepared for a potential surgery by getting botox injections in my forehead muscle. So far, my focus at work has dramatically improved: https://corticalchauvinism.com/2016/10/17/yuval-levental-aut...
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Honesty is all about the right level of abstraction. Knowing the difference between feeling you are right, being right, and the right way of conveying each of those things are all separate issues. If they seem intertwined what that really means is there are race conditions in the processing and it's going to lead to some static.
What if this is fake news?

Once it becomes law you can ask for people with decency to resign.
I don't wear glasses but I can recommend this store https://www.aliexpress.com/store/201163

Have ordered a few pairs for family and they are all happy with them. I didn't tell them how cheap they were though.
Started my own company as a side gig and started selling my own software. I developed PowerShell Pro Tools for Visual Studio as well as a web site development kit with PowerShell. https://ironmansoftware.com/ It's been super rewarding and a lot of work. Very excited to see how it turns out in 2018.