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Parent said puts, and (assuming they bought puts) that means they think the price will down. Which is why I’m confused by the post: you won’t be posting on HN because...you’ll be busy rolling in a bathtub of money in March?

If parent sold puts, well, maybe they should stick to S&P index funds.
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> No one is saying the singular goal is to reduce cost

But that is exactly what the argument is for why we must(!) eliminate smoking from society. Well that, and the also false claim that you will get lung cancer from a whiff of second hand smoke.

Like religion, gender, and sexuality, there is something about smoking that seems to make it nearly impossible for people from Western cultures to have a reasonable and honest, fact-based discussion on topics that have any association whatsoever with any of the above.
> "All tax money is wasted on making society worse"
lol really? Then go live somewhere that has no functional government, like some undeveloped place in Africa (sorry a good specific example escapes me). There you can live your libertarian dream.
That seems at odds with the concerns an HNer brought up the other day about their adult business and moving to SF. Most people warned them that VC is still reticent about porn. I guess it's whatever they would perceive would make them money.

As to your advertising idea, that's interesting but also brings up issues don't you think? Especially now with better facial recognition technology. For example, walking down a street, a camera scans your face, pull up a bunch of data on you (say you've been looking for a kayak lately), then in a nearby billboard or hologram display area, they show you images of yourself and your family kayaking down the Colorado or in an ocean.

What's interesting in movies/tv is that as the technology matures, we may never see some of our stars actually age or even what they truly look like. A lot of time and money is already spent on beauty work so it's not too big a leap to see this being mixed in with that.
You can get custom sized flannels too, I'm wearing one right now. Just have to look around or pay more but it's worth it if you're a fringe size. (I'm tall.) I get mine from Trumaker.
They could have, but I've worked with many ecosystems/platforms/partner programs (AWS, Heroku, GitHub, Asana, Trello, others) and their starting point is that partners need to - and know they'll need to - build a product that's deep enough to succeed on its own. If you need your "partner" just to be in business, it's not a partnership at all.

Just because GitHub offers a minimal version of something doesn't mean all others will become "useless just a few month later." It means the partner product will need to be more sophisticated, or provide a better customer experience, or obtain additional distribution/direct access to their customers, or solve some other problem too, or accept a smaller addressable market. Basically, compete.

If your statement was true, every AWS product would have made every other competitor "useless." For example, Amazon SES would have obsoleted Sendgrid, Postmark, and many other high-volume email delivery providers. While SES certainly made other vendors adapt, it didn't become impossible to succeed at email delivery. GitHub didn't make it impossible to succeed at dependency security management, either.

It would be fair for Gemnasium to say that Gemnasium tried to build a business that depended almost entirely on GitHub for distribution, and that turned out to be a poor risk. That was Gemnasium's choice, though, not GitHub's.
Most people will get cancer or some terminal illness that requires expensive treatment eventually. And if they don't then they will live long enough to require assistive living which is also very expensive. Lung cancer is particularly aggressive and trends to kill people right before retirement age so the argument has been made that smoking reduces overall costs because you don't have to spend money on as many retired people who otherwise would need assistance.
Have you heard of Facebook's Aquila drone? Sounds like something you are describing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Aquila
Also, Google's project loon comes to mind.
>Nobody forces the city to participate or offer incentives.

The fact that cities need jobs and an inflow of money in order to function means that they're forced.

It's like saying that nobody forces you to take a job coz the park bench is always an option.
He ended with that about non-first-person existants. His argument works for proving oneself exists to oneself.
I get the sense that proportionally more US education spending is lost to graft than in those European countries (from the top down to teachers who come in and don't teach).
Most Lyme disease doesn’t produce the rash, and ticks can transfer non-Lyme infections as well.

I agree with your post, I just wanted to clarify that people shouldn’t think they’re in the clear just because they didn’t get the rash.
Do you realize that your chart indicates that it would have been a very bad idea to buy AMD stock in late December? How can you make recommendations off such bullshit charts with a straight face? Maybe cherry-pick a better example to sell people on your product next time.
What’s the status of d3 ports to Python? I believe plotly, d3py, and Bokeh all offer some amount of support.

I’d expect more python users to bring d3 in that bring python to JavaScript.
Why? Same applies.
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Hi, Amazon engineer on the EC2 service here.

Please let me know if there's some material that calls a hyperthread a core. On our main product detail page for EC2 instances here: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ look for the text "Each vCPU is a hyperthread of an Intel Xeon core except for T2."

See also the "virtual core" information page here: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/virtualcores/ and you will see that for most instances the core count is 1/2 of the total number of vCPUs.

Direct connect pricing for egress traffic ("Data Transfer Out") is here: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/pricing/. Please let me know if there is some other traffic classification that is not metered and billed as you'd expect.

As I'm sure you're aware, comparing on-premises vs. cloud is a multidimensional problem. Customer resource to help with TCO calculations and comparisons can be found here: https://aws.amazon.com/tco-calculator/. Even for a component of overall cost like network transit, not all products are created equally so a simple price comparison may not capture the whole picture.
This isn't even a well-formed question: IPNS clearly documents what it does do. It provides superior guarantees to cached HTTP.

What's more, calling a node fault in a distributed quorum a "replay attack" suggests that application logic is hosted on IPFS. Since it is not and cannot be and redundancy is ultimately the responsibility of the storing agent, this seems like at best a misapplication of the term and at worst a disingenuous scare attempt.

In either event; IPNS is still considered a second tier, less complete that other "beta" parts of the protocol. It's not as experimental as pubflood, but less reliable than pinning.

It's all a moot point anyways, since IPNS is so slow as to be unusable in all but the least interesting cases anyways.
Big fan of IPFS here, but silly question, isn't a status page suppose to have realtime updates of whether a service is online or not? This doesn't seem like a good fit unless you're using some realtime CRDT adapter on top like they list here https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT/blob/master/Readme.MD (disclaimer: I'm the author of https://github.com/amark/gun, which is one of the listed options). The StatusPage link is sparse on info, anybody know how it works underneath? Sorry if I'm confused on how status pages are supposed to work, can it really be static if it is supposed to be reporting services uptime liveliness (and thus requires some type of realtime monitoring)??
Perhaps this story is why Kodak is down 15% this morning, and trading halted at one point? Can’t find any news about it, other than Kodak hit a circuit breaker.

Those April puts I bought are looking better every day.
Natural philosophy, rhetoric, statistics. There are a handful of skills that for some reason we don't teach and then society suffers through the impact the lack of them has on public debate.

Philosophy has been a victim of its own success. By creating science and organizing our relationship with religion, it has pushed itself out of the public arena.
> I'm planning on upgrading to Team Red over Intel as soon as DDR4 prices come down a bit.

You probably want to buy that DDR4 as soon as you can - memory prices (DDR3, DDR4) have been consistently going up - not down[1]. It's insane. The price-fixing fines the memory manufacturers paid were clearly not punitive enough, we need more anti-trust action in this area.

I recently made a build on a budget, I had to snipe online specials on DDR4; waiting for the prices to come down is not a winning strategy.

1. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
So they stop doing arm to others.

Once most websites understand it is not viable to attempt to mess with their own visitors, browsers could block the remaining ones by default?
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Until very recently, and due to a job change, my family and I have had KP as our healthcare provider. So many people derided managed healthcare, and KP specifically, but we (my family, and I) loved it.

"It's like I'm a Walmart or Disney World for healthcare" is a comment that we heard a lot. So? When pressed about the Walmart comparison, it had more to do with availability than quality. I could never get a solid answer justifying the Disney World comment, but I like Disney World and so does my family.

I also liked having everything in one clinic. I didn't have to drive across the city to find a lab or a pharmacist. Friends would raise the specter of prescription price-gouging, but when we'd compare prices on prescriptions that we'd held in common, we paid quite a bit less than they had.

I also generally had the sense that the people employed there had genuine care and concern for our health and well-being. Not that they shouldn't, and not that they're better than other providers, but the notion that you're a piece in a big machine (a common argument lobbed against KP) is ludicrous and probably based more on personal bias than actual experience.

Yes, as an organization they're going to want to cut costs (another common argument against KP and managed healthcare, in general). Yep. They do. That's true. That never translated into a diminished level of care for us. It did mean that they didn't order a bunch of unnecessary tests, but our PCPs always listened to us and would suggest their course of action, and we'd negotiate a course of care if there was any sort of dissonance between us about what we wanted. This is similar to my experience in the broader "Family Practice" world too.

I've now been on UHC for about 2 months. In that time, I've had to take 3 phone surveys, and fill out 2 Internet forms confirming that nobody in my family has any other insurance. The proliferation of UC/ER pop-ups in neighborhoods is evidence of the profiteering that occurs in our healthcare industry (because of loose medical coding standards). I've always felt insulated from that side of healthcare while with KP, but right now I honestly feel very vulnerable and kinda regret taking an otherwise excellent job because of this insurance transition.
I've never been anything but impressed with Kaiser.
Lyme disease can also kill and cause neurological damage.
If AriseBank ICO was a scam as claimed by the SEC,then they were a dam good Scam
What’s even worse is that advertisers end up paying a lot of money to advertise to these bots. In an early ad campaign with Twitter we quickly realized a lot of our spend on “engagements” was engagements with bots. We pulled the plug on Twitter spend really quick.

This has been a known problem for a while and Twitter has done little to fix it at scale. Given that they make their money on these paid “engagements” there are going to be a lot of people taking a real close look at this. Interesting days for Twitter ahead.
> Still far, far cheaper than the hidden cost of alcohol.

The essay is not about the hidden cost of smoking, as you might expect, but on the hidden profit of smoking. (Spoiler: You have to be careful to define profit very narrowly.)
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

-Upton Sinclair
I might have used it to debug Ada, which is like Pascal, back when I was in school.
How many per day?
Couldn't he have donated to a different university that could effect more students rather than a school with a $3.381 billion endowment?
Depends how you define "cost productive". Cheaper on a cash basis, but that ignores the (not insignificant) externalities of doing that, such as landfill remediation down the road, and increased cost of transporting other trash to more distant landfill sites.

It's easy to say recycling should "pay for itself" but if you're going to do that, you need to consider the entire economic picture, not just how much value is generated from the recovered goods. There's also landfill savings, protection of the environment, reduced usage of energy (both in disposal and generation of new materials), etc. Given all of those, it can be entirely rational for a government to subsidize recycling heavily, because the overall impact is still "cost effective."
I know many developers who've integrated Jupyter Notebooks in their workflow too. For Python-specific things, it's a great way to replicate bugs, try out a few initial solution paths, and share them with collaborators who can then interact with.

Regarding D3, I haven't tried that out yet, although I've used the `folium` Python package, which generates leaflet.js code you can put on a website. Otherwise, maybe check out [Jupyter Dashboards](https://github.com/jupyter/dashboards), whose interactive widgets seem to be in the same vein as OP.
Facebook, at least, is quite happy to build your shadow profile regardless of whether you're logged in.
Yes, but it wasn't what it is now.

First version programmed in C (not assembler) was version 3 (1983). Row-level locking was introduced in version 6 (1988). Constraints, stored procedures and triggers - version 7 (1992).
To me, a netbook like this is similar to a REPL and works well for visualization tasks. You can figure it out in the netbook/REPL and then move it to "real code" once you've got it figured out.
I'm no expert in this field, but with my CA based employer the co-pay/deductible via Kaiser is quite significantly less than the other insurance options my employer offers. I switched to Kaiser two years ago and have found no material difference in the standard of care for my family's medical requirements, aside from having significantly more money in my own pocket.
I'm guessing the nose must be grounded and safe to walk on somehow as part of the regulations? I remember watching it live and wondering if every car has a different procedure, or was it just Renault that had the nose. Whereas Ferrari might say, get out on your right side, or stand up in your seat and jump over everything..
They know that they know nothing, so the question of proofs is somewhat moot.
Maybe you should change your earlier statement to "smoking reduces public costs" or something else a little more inclusive. While there is good evidence smoking reduces costs when savings on retirement programs are considered it's less clear that it reduces health expenditures specifically.
Sorry to hear—my sister is in the same boat with alpha-gal from a lone star tick. It seems that very few people are aware of it.
My favorite memory was of a session over candle light at my parents' kitchen table while I DM'd* a raiding party through what they discovered to be the internals of the NCC-1701-C Enterprise - I had received the space ship's floor plans (the set in the vinyl snap enclosure) as a Christmas gift some years back, and decided to introduce a few of my younger friends to the D&D world spiced up with a bit of Sci-Fi.

Did you know that according to those plans there was a restroom right behind the main screen? Now I have to go find my set and check my memory...

*DM then meaning Dungeon Master :)
I had extremely positive experiences with Triplebyte, FWIW.
It's can be ~impossible to get proper funding for a new subway for existing users, but if it brings 50k new good jobs also? That subway can get approved much more easily. Chicken/Egg scenario in many cases.

Re: specific company tax exemptions -

Pittsburgh as an example. Steel left, the city was in a depression. The city then gave a sweet heart deal to UPMC, who then expanded massively and became the states largest private employer. That coupled with good universities (Fore and it's offspring) led to the tech revival the city is currently enjoying.

Does Pittsburgh need Amazon? Maybe, maybe not - but it could* be incredibly helpful, time will tell.
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To show that studying philosophy causes improvement, at least we need to compare them with a control group whose average SAT scores before going to college are similar to philosophy majors. Otherwise, it could just be a selection bias (i.e., those who choose philosophy tend to score high on those measures like Verbal and Analytical Writing). Any such studies?
> The price-fixing fines for memory manufacturers were clearly not punitive enough

This commonly touted meme seems to ignore market realities:

https://www.dramexchange.com/WeeklyResearch/Post/2/4879.html

Data-centers buy TBs (not GB, but Terabytes) per machine. And then they buy ~20 machines per rack, and then fill an entire room full of racks.

When Data-centers decide its time to upgrade from old 1.5V DDR3 machines (or 1.35V "low voltage" LDDR3) to 1.2V DDR4 2666 MT/s like they have been doing in late 2017 through (estimated) 1H 2018, it is only natural to expect DDR4 prices to rise.

The power-savings from switching from 1.35V "low-voltage" DDR3 to 1.2V DDR4 are big enough that there are lots of upgrades incoming from the biggest purchasers of RAM in the world.

> waiting for the prices to come down is not a winning strategy.

2H 2018 seems to be the current market predictions. This also works in line with waiting for Zen+ (aka Ryzen 2). If DDR4 prices are still high at that point, I'll reconsider then.

I plan on recycling my old R9 290x until GPU prices come down... but waiting till August 2018 may be long enough for GPU prices to normalize as well.
I'd suggest those people "in the know" are probably talking out of their arse.

It's commonplace for consoles to go through a number of hardware revisions over the lifetime of the console. These revisions are rarely made for performance reasons, but instead would be made to improve reliability, security and manufacturing cost. Setting aside security (which is would be done as reaction to a hack that can't be patched with software), the whole idea is to increase the margins for the manufacturer. Note that the brand owner may, in some cases, sell consoles at a loss, but the manufacturer is very unlikely to be working to the same business model.
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> getting rejected like this is still a blow. I wanted to leave on my own terms.

Do you have any previous Managers/Superiors who can serve as a professional reference and vouch for your skills & expertise? Was there a previous position where you delivered superior work?

Do not lie, do not misrepresent your situation.

Be candid-- Tell them you we're fired out of the blue. But your job engagement level had likely suffered when you realized the role/company wasn't a good strategic fit.

Confidently add - 'My references will tell you that I'm a trustworthy, thoroughly professional, known as Top-Notch Developer who thrives on delivering out-of-the-box solutions for tough problems'.

*You'll be surprised to know some of the most intelligent/productive/impactful talent tend to get fired at least once in their career.

Manage your inner-game, move on!
So I see that in order to communicate outside your local network you need to connect to a pub.

Can you set up a private, invite only pub? Say for an organization or team?
> you don't have to remember which ones to update if you changed one, it will update automatically.

Although I see how that would enable rapid iteration and make e.g. creating nice visualizations much easier, I don't think it should be mandatory. The user may want to control the state their notebook and variables are in manually.
There is no ReactJS company. There is a company behind ReactJS but that's irrelevant since there's also a company behind those millions of fake users.

What about my pet open source projects, shall I shut down their account because they don't have a company backing them?
Finally just relaunched it again after the updates. it's now taking 10% CPU while watching a Twitch stream and 1–3% CPU when not. That's much better than 300% CPU :D
I'd really like a way for a program to have an API for interacting with GDB: with that it could tell "I'm running under a debugger". There would be a file descriptor which talks to the debugger, if the debugger is present. Output sent to it goes to the debugger and perhaps it could obtain input from the debugger also. Maybe the API could provide some introspection: the program could ask what breakpoints have been set and things like that.
People have been talking lately about how Pittsburgh has turned things around.

The Raleigh-Durham area is always talked about as kind of an unappreciated, affordable place for tech people to work. Both downtowns have improved over the past decade or two (like in many small cities), the three big universities have plenty of students, RTP is around, the only thing really against it is the suburban sprawl. I hear they are getting light rail but I've heard people talking about rail in NC since I was a child (30 some years ago).
Swiping from the side of the screen is much more convenient than buttons, and fits perfectly with the X's gesture-based app switching. Pretty much all apps now do this (I believe UIKit has it built in, so all native apps).
Apparently, not: "Intel to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free in 2018"[1].

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-to-make-thunderbolt-3-roy...
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I heartily disagree. You're chasing a ghost.

Morality is how people react to what is done, how they enforce the rules and such. That's the "doing" I'm pointing at. I'm sorry if that was unclear in my initial statement. It seems you may have thought I was assuming perfect moral behavior from all people. No, that's silly. People are cheating trash, lol. Not all the time, of course, but it's in the grain.

Morality is as fractal as truth is, entirely dependent on the depth of questions being asked, the edge of inside and outside determined on the number of iterations. And morality is certainly not something to be determined in the vacuum of thought, it's a gritty, dirty, and nasty thing with edges in the slow slime and quick muck, it's ornate and like the rest of reality.

> but you can't coherently argue that physical facts both exist and can be determined by empirical observation...

Heh-heh, gotcha! ;)
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