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Please don't make HN into Reddit.
Her husband's a developer at Microsoft, so they had good coverage. IIRC, they just weren't carrying the special paper you're supposed to print out to tell foreign hospitals that you're covered.
I am wondering if the type of bacteria they mention is the one that can be found in probiotics.
I think I suffer from intestinal candida (I have many of the symptoms) and medical exams of my intestine did not reveal anything (Helicobacter Pylori had been tested but not candida). Thus I have reduced drastically my carbs consumption and also take some probiotics to well balance the yeast/bacteria ratio in my gut.
Well yeah, I don't expect every business to be 'Very Good Building & Development Co.'. Why would you even start the business if you didn't buy into all the touchy-feely stuff? It's not like there aren't better paying super serious dev jobs out there.
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Do you really find it harder to believe a tourist wouldn't have travel health insurance? I've never heard of anyone buying that for a day trip to Canada. And just generally it's rare in my experience for people to buy insurance unless it's required in some way. Maybe that is an American phenomenon though.
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Here's an article from 6 months ago about new helmet technology.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/08/revolutionary-new-zer...
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What year did you receive the cease and desist and was it from Brinks Hofer / Brinks Gilson & Lione?
Take the pads and helmets off and make it flag football. Therein, the game will be transformed into both athleticism and grace and would probably attract females into a womens league as well.
>Arguably, you could be super dishonest and handle every single intersection manually, and still have a massive miles driven statistic since most distance is accumulated on straight-ways.

i'm not sure what benefit there would be to gaming the disengagement stats. If anything, i think the incentive would be the other way around - inflate your number of disengagements so your competition thinks you're further behind than you actually are.

The point of testing is to bring a product to market, and if your product sucks people are going to figure that out relatively quickly. hiding your disengagements from the california DMV isn't going to do anything for you except build hype your product can't live up to.
I think you make a good point, downvotes notwithstanding. A "market society" inherently rewards people who are good at "the game." Which is fine for most things: worst case scenario you pay too much for a shit car.

But having to play that damn game when you life is on the line is inhumane. There's no time out zone.
The NFL is testing a few different helmet types and devices designed to reduce head injuries this year. Some of the quarterbacks have different looking helmets, and a few players have a neck brace like thing too.
This, like many other current network flow innovations (see: QUIC), is greedy-algorithm short-sightedness that only works as a result of the improvements to regional/inter-datacenter networking over the last decade. They fall down miserably in the face of actual unreliability/variable latency/packet duplication, which still exist on many less developed networks worldwide.
Patent attorney? Me too. Have you read the malpractice case in California that basically says that you can't be found to have practiced malpractice for violating the RAP because its too convoluted?
You can maintain that size and eat cleanly. Their requirements wouldn't be too much different than a professional body builder or strong man from a nutritional perspective.

Linemen obviously will want to cut after they stop, but many athletes could maintain their diet as long as they stayed very active.
> This is medicare. Would you say medicare is economically successful?

Please explain what you mean by economically successful.
> After controlling the major companies in Sweden, they would have of course continued with the non-public companies, because the main goal of Löntagarfonder was to create equal salaries between high profit companies and low profit companies.

No, that was the "solidarity in wages" policy which was already implemented. It was this policy that made successful companies make excess profits. Those profits were supposed to go to "Löntagarfonderna".
As I come from the UK and am not familiar with NFL, what moves specific to this sport cause this? This issue is not prevalent at all in Rugby, which is arguably more dangerous (no pads or helmets)
probably these, give or take: https://www.google.com/about/locations/?region=north-america
All simple metrics can be gamed.
As a friend accountant/layer said: there will always be people coming to us, spending 51k to avoid paying 50k of taxes, and we'll help them arrange that. Legal isn't the same as moral, so sometimes the legal limit becomes meaningless.
It's so trivial to add ordering to UDP, it's really the right protocol to use here.

Subverting TCP leads to all sorts of problems around congestion(which you can no longer filter on because which TCP streams are being non-compliant?) that it just should not be done.
Insurance companies are the problem. Single payer + Universal Healthcare is the answer because it will eliminate insurance companies from the equation and get us back towards actual cost and remove this threat that hangs over all of us.
An Army professor and former college football athlete described combat to our class once as “Football with guns”. It’s a gross reduction I’m sure but probably some truth to it.
The problem with socialists policies like this is not necessarily the high taxes or the hostile takeover aspect of it.

The issue is the intent.

When socialists start doing stuff like this, it is clear what the long term goal is. The long term goal is to take the means of production from those who have it, though whatever politically palpable means necessary.

Sure, they start off doing a voluntary stock buyout program, but what happens when that program inevitably fails? (perhaps because it takes way to long to takeover a company, or merely that the company owners refuse to sell)

Will the socialists come to the conclusion that their socialist policy didn't work and reverse it?

No. What happens when socialism fails is that the socialists conclude that they didn't go far ENOUGH and then they double down on their mistakes.

In this situation, "doubling down" would be increasing the tax, forcing the owners to sell at a given price, and eventually straight up confiscation of the business.

When people in the government start yelling about how they want to take the means of production, even voluntarily, the proper response is to run away as fast as possible, and take your means of production with you, before they make it illegal to do so.
Which is why I started that with "If you have a currency backed by some good".
When I lived in Austin, a raccoon snuck into my house via the cat door along with two of her kits one night. After giving my cat the fright of his life, she jumped on me from her perch hanging from a corner of my ceiling (!) and scratched me. Insurance company initially didn't want to cover my 10 minute hospital visit and rabbies shots and sent me a bill for around 35k. Then, magically, they decided they would cover it.

I was a grad student at that time making 18k per year - in retrospect, that bill could have truly messed up my life, and it all hinged on the whims of some anonymous insurance company employee. And that raccoon's poor decision-making, I guess.
> From the link provided, only 5 people die.

How many would have died if they weren't treated? Like, to a first approximation, nobody dies of measles any more, but you're not going to see me saying that that means that we don't need to vaccinate against it.
The problem is, CTE is not caused by "one large hit"; it is caused by repeated, sub-concussive blows. If you had something collapse on the blows that cause it, you'd be changing helmets after just about every tackle.

There are newer helmet technologies that are supposed to absorb more of the impact, and in particular allow some slippage of the shell to reduce rotation, which can be one of the most harmful types of movement:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/sports/news/a2797...

Whether these will be effective at preventing CTE, or only preventing concussions, is hard to say without a lot more data.
This is the most recent one I’ve seen: https://vicis.com/. Has some big name players on board, Russell Wilson I believe. I’m surprised the NFL isn’t highlighting this effort more. I imagine it has something to do with existing equipment agreements.
Hi! The maker here.. I've been working in this website for a couple of months, and I had decided yesterday to turn it public to start get some prio feedback.

The idea behind is based on my own needs, I've been working as remote engineer in the last couple of years, and when comes the time to search a new job position I like to know as much information as possible about the company, like what they do as opensource, what is the stack, if there are other remote employees from the same country, what are the benefints, what is the pay average? etc...

So I decided to start this project to answer those questions, currently is aggregating public data from a couple of website and it's trying to show those data together with the company profile to make easy to pick a new position.

It is and still under beta, and I will be working to add more features in the next follow weeks.
Not sure I believe the title is justified given what the rest of the article says.

I'm no statistician, but I'm not sure if there are enough miles being driven that good conclusions can be drawn about whether self-driving cars are getting better or not.

Lots of testing is taking place outside of California due to other states' efforts (like changing regulations) to cater to it. So data from just California very likely doesn't tell the whole story.

Also, as has been mentioned here before, once they've solved and tested the easy cases, they might move on to solving and testing the harder ones. So there isn't an apples-to-apples comparison on test failure rates from one year to another because they could be testing different things.
That was part of my point. Even adding the full price of an office visit shouldn't get near $300, unless their idea if an "office visit" is hitting the nearest ER.
Players tackle harder and in more dangerous manners (head first) because the pads lessen the apparent impact. They make it not hurt, but they don't actually prevent damage.
The problem is that helmets--including the designs you describe-- are designed to protect the skull and not the brain.

The brain suffers damage from slamming against the inside of the skull due to inertia changes during collisions that are inherent to the sport.

There is literally no way to protect the brain as the sport is played today.
I often hear people say you have to 'coach how to hit properly' as if hitting with your head is just a bad habit, but when you watch the top pros they spear people with their heads, even high speed hits. This is built into the game, and the equipment enables it.

I have not seen any meaningful change from the NFL (or CFL, haha) to specifically combat this risk. I think they know the game is exciting because of these brutal impacts, and they're afraid to water it down and risk profits just to protect the (expendible) players.
Odd. I had to spend 5 minutes convincing myself from the site (which uses the same wording) that it was actually a 'decimal floating point' library, as I've never heard such a thing called a 'floating point decimal'.
>This issue is not prevalent at all in Rugby, which is arguably more dangerous (no pads or helmets)

The pads allow for you to hit harder, and constantly.
The pads and helmets make players more likely to smash into each other head-on as there's an illusion of safety.
I've heard Malpractice insurance is very expensive too. Courts must side in the patients sides in malpractice cases somewhat often.
Did anyone mention parasail? It's a statically typed programming language with region based memory management, builtin parallelism of every expression, and a number of other quite entertaining design decisions. I think it's a shame nobody has heard about it.
I know this is a snarky comment at football players for not seeing the obvious, and it really isn't worth a reply, BUT let's walk through this.

I played football all through middle school and high school, and was fairly good. When you are playing as a kid, unless you are extremely elite, you aren't thinking about the NFL and potentially hitting your head hundreds of times into NFL sized players. You are just having fun and playing a sport. Then maybe you start getting good and someone tells you if you get a bit bigger and faster you might be able to go to college for FREE! You think, "no one in my family has ever been able to go to college!" Suddenly that sport-for-fun becomes just a means to an end that you never thought was possible.

So you work your ass off, get really good and college recruiters start showing up to games. You know they are there and this is your chance to shine. So you run extra fast, hit extra hard, you aren't showing any mercy to your opponents and you certainly aren't thinking about your brain at age 40. Maybe you get hit a bit hard and feel like you need to throw up. Your coach knows about the recruiters also, so he helps you hide the fact that you threw up. He stands in front of you pretending to talk to you while you bend slightly and puke in a water cup. You aren't thinking about brain injury, you are thinking about not showing weakness in front of these people.

Now MAYBE you are the ~1% that gets a full ride scholarship. You are playing college ball on a scholarship and you know the only reason you can stay in school and finish a degree is if you stay on the starting squad. You aren't staying on that squad as a linebacker unless you are ignoring your own personal safety.

MAYBE you are again the ~1% that make it the four years and are maybe good enough for the NFL. You can either say "nah, I'm good with my accounting degree" or you can see the potential to make more money on one signing day than your entire family has made in all of their lives combined!

I can keep going, but I hope people get the point. When millions of kids start playing football in 6th grade (12 years old), them and their parents weren't thinking about the potential they'd ever be "mashing your head into the helmet of a 300lb person" in the future.

As a parent now, me and my friends are thinking about that now. For some players (like the one in the article) it is 30 years too late.
Kind of similar situation has developed in crypto currencies. Yes, we can now accumulate vast wealth and transfer it around. But still there are $500M heists. And transaction clearance takes way too long. Fixing these inconveniences will take a long time.
The players were also way smaller and less athletic. Today's receivers are the size of linemen in the past.
Just doing some napkin math.

It would be about 13,000 calls into C per frame, to waste 1 ms with call overhead.

1ms would still be a lot when you only have ~16ms to work with,but I don't think even AAA games make within an order of magnitude of that many opengl calls per frame? Even writing in pure C you want to batch things as much as possible. I think typical is well under 1000 calls per frame, but I've only got experience with small hobbyist projects.
LIDAR doesn't really work in rain and snow. That's part of why this is a hard problem.
I think this may be the most obvious solution path, but probably not the right one to be thinking about.

I think it may be better to actually provide less protection and/or reduce designs that mitigate or otherwise disguise the immediate physical consequences of doing things like spearing another player head first.
The fact there are no pads or helmets actually makes Rugby safer. In American Football people rush into each other at almost full speed, which can lead to serious brain damage. In Rugby, if you were to rush into each other at that sort of speed you would become seriously injured, so brain damage isn't as prevalent.
This "review" is the video portion of this Ars Technica article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-o... which of course does not purport to be a review of Fuchsia.
lies don't work that way - people will believe a live even when offered evidence that it is a lie and the first imprint of the lie seems stronger than the correction of the truth
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Healthcare produces a mental model on patients that is not how medicine is practiced.

Doing tests is not only economically costly, its also costly in terms of health, so ordering unnecessary tests is in detriment to health. There are also false positives. So tests without symptoms should not be performed. But that also means you dont find things pre-emptively.

For example, you are worried that your fatigue is due to a brain tumor (google surely told you that), so you ask your doctor to do an MRI to rule it out. MRI comes in negative. But the MRI radiation gave you cancer, because it does (in a very small amount of people), as well as gave you very expensive bill for it, because MRI are expensive everywhere, not only in the US.
It makes them more flexible in the same way that dynamic typing is more flexible. A type error that doesn't execute doesn't really exist either.

It's fine to not worry about types that don't get instantiated if you are the only person ever instantiating a template, but that's obviously not always the case. If my template doesn't typecheck for a type that someone else wrote, I don't find out about it until they send me a bug report. With typechecking before instantiating, I find out about it as soon as I write it.
Never mind that most sensible streaming formats will include data in packets that allows the receiver to rebuild missing packets (up to a threshold).
Much as people don't like to think of Medicare that way, Medicare itself is an institution with an enormous degree of influence. Medicare is arguably even more powerful than private insurers, because it's both the single largest and also one that receives a lot of special protections in law that private insurers don't.

Currently, Medicare is able to balance its own books regardless of any increases or decreases to its tax revenue, because they can set the prices they pay unilaterally, with no mandate to cover their own costs (which is why they already don't cover their own costs). Any decreases in revenue purchasing power, whether due to tax cuts, budget cuts, or inflation, they simply lower their own reimbursement rates, and eventually private insurers will be forced to cover that difference.

Medicare - and those who benefit from posturing themselves as supporters of Medicare politically[0] - would frame price transparency as cuts to Medicare. It's not really a cut to Medidcare's revenue; it'd be a reduction in their ability to reduce costs by extracting money from private insurers, but the latter doesn't really roll off the tongue, so they'd be pretty successful in messaging it as "cuts to Medicare".

[0] which is not the same as people who actually benefit from Medicare or supporting Medicare, as we already know.
Also agree here. I think you gradually get to know these technologies with the more practice/experience you get. I might not know Puppet or Chef, but I've used Ansible in the past and they're a bit different but they're also the same. So if I was applying to this company I'd say that I haven't used some of the specific technologies per se but I can learn them when I get there.

I think this job description just says, "we want to see if you can contribute in the front-end, back-end, database design, have some literacy in the Amazon services, use development tools like Jira, etc." This sounds daunting when you read it, but over a span of a few months with a company or with a project, you'll get to experience most of these anyway
As long as we're exploring punctuation, the apostrophe in that case is valid and correct, but it's growing obsolete as it becomes more normal to write "70s".

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/9199/do-decades-ever...
I've used a lot of these systems in the UK, but I don't work in that industry (I'd love to be corrected by someone who does!) but my impression is that these machines are primarily slow because of a combination of awful software and sloppy guard periods around their operations in an attempt to help with UX.

Some of the examples I've used are catastrophically broken; the machines in low-to-mid-tier supermarkets (ASDA and Tesco) are in this category. Some of the machines are so bad that they are obviously malfunctioning – extensive delays between scanning and registering an event on the screen, or failing to react to button presses, that kind of thing. The software on these machines is embarrassingly bad. These ones also have a deliberately enforced delay when scanning multiple instances of the same item, which is utterly confusing, though presumably intended to prevent accidental double-scans. Combined with the enforced "pick-scan-weigh" workflow they're a total pain to use.

On the other hand, some of the implementations of this technology are great. The machines in the relatively higher-end supermarket Waitrose are fast and efficient; the settings appear to be tuned much more leniently. In smaller stores, there now seem to be quite a few with no weighing system at all; these are particularly great to use. Waitrose also has a pre-registered portable scanner system which can use either a dedicated device or a mobile app, and this is also a good experience.

The impression I get is that manufacturers can tune various parameters to suit the shrinkage requirements of a particular retailer. I'd wager that in lower-cost supermarkets or those subject to higher shrinkage, these settings are more aggressive. It's a shame, because when the technology is well-implemented I much prefer using it. When it's bad, it's unpleasant being repeatedly screamed at by poorly-implemented bug-ridden software.
Which component are they going to name Steven?
The government that likes to blame what is left of the private market for all the problems when in reality the government created the problems in the first place.

They want to move everyone to the bankrupt medicare system that which be a catastrophe for everyone
>And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
What happens if you have too many jupyter notebooks?
These days there is a tendency in data analysis to use Jupyter Notebooks. But what happens if you have too many jupyter notebooks? For example, there are more than a hundred.

Actually, you start creating some modules. However, it is less convenient to work with them compared to what was before. It happens that you should code in web interface, somewhere in similar to the notepad++ form or you should change your IDLE.

Personally, I work in Pycharm and so far I couldn't assess remote interpreter or VCS. It is because pickle files or word2vec weighs too much (3gb+) and so I don't want to download/upload them.
Also Jupyter is't cool in pycharm.

Do you have better practices in your companies?
How to correctly adjust IDLE?
Do you know about any possible substitution for the IPython notebook in the world of data analysis?
By contrast, I know few Canadians who would set foot in the USA for one day without travel health insurance. We've all heard the story about the Canadian couple who went to Hawaii on their honeymoon and delivered a baby (prematurely) there, and it cost them 1 million in hospital fees because their coverage wasn't sufficient. And they did have insurance, it just didn't cover baby deliveries.