skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The accounts of all UK companies are filed publicly. They had about 1M GBP of sales in 2016 from memory. I would guess with overheads, each unit is currently sold at a loss.

Illumina doesn’t beat nanopore because of the “scale” it beats it because the technology produces fundamentally higher accuracy data. The error rate on Nanopore reads is >10%. Even on first generation Illumina machines the error rate was 1%, and is now significantly lower.

Oxford Nanopore have been working on this for 15 years, this is the best they can do. It might be possible to create a Nanopore (maybe solid state, not protein) system with a lower error rate, but I think they have little hope of doing it.
The IP space is so tiny that hashing doesn't make any difference.

In addition, watch out for logs. By default all web servers log requests with the IP address, and depending on what you do with these logs, the IP are there.
Can't reply to your comment, so I'll just say over here, thanks for clearing that up.

"I sincerely hope that you are not attempting to build tools of any sort.."

First, don't insult people like that, it makes you look small minded. Secondly; I'm working on a text command based ux tool :), you might just be my target audience.

https://www.trueuxapp.com
It's only a constant factor improvement, but it is a massive constant factor improvement. Mass transit easily scales up to the limits of our building construction abilities. You can only make buildings so tall before you start getting diminishing returns on density because you need to have more and more space taken up with elevators, HVAC, plumbing, etc.

Even in an incredibly dense city like Paris, they aren't running out of space to put subway lines. They are limited by by the number of people who need to get places and by the cost of building more subway lines.
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>In failed rule of law states, it has often happened that former politicians were/are criminalized.

If they were "criminalized" and no one had the power to lock them up, there was no rule of law in the first place. There was a dictatorship masquerading as a democracy.

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I tried applying to Kaiser and they rejected me for having a pre-existing condition which couldn't be helped given that I was born with it.

Good for everyone else, I guess. :/ I ended up moving back home where the government covers my treatments.
Those offenders have helpfully immortalized their activities in an immutable public ledger. The SEC is going to have a field day, and the effort will be low. I suspect that the only measure of their interest will be total dollar amounts, beyond that... bang. I’m not sure how small you’d need to be when the nature of the activity itself produces cryptographically secure evidence of your activities. It may be that the directive to smaller ICOks will be something along the lines of, “Give it all back, now, or we’ll make you.”
64-bit ARM has similar advantages as 64-bit x86. It cleans up some cruft but more importantly it doubles the number of registers.
A MiniSeq or MiSeq would be cheaper by the time you do the 3 flow cell/person (minimum -- they claim 10-20GB/flow cell but that's bullshit -- so at least ~4K, probably closer to $8k of chemistry/person). You can get a used MiSeq and for ~$50k then its ~1500/person
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His book “Racing The Beam” is very good, tho’
You're not kidding, that was horrific. I thought I was reading a full page ad. I wish we could go back to a time of formatted plain text websites.
Most marketplaces for ideas do not intrinsically involve a competition for raw quantitative attention--i.e. a single metric like raw numbers of viewers or minutes of attention (or in the case of Twitter, followers or retweets).

Most marketplaces for ideas, historically, have measured success with a more complex function that also included qualitative assessments of who heard the idea, when they heard it, and what they did with it. For example classical music and jazz are never going to get as many listeners as popular music. That's not what success looks like. Going back a few hundred years, it didn't even really matter if the audience liked a piece of classical music, as long as the artist's patron did.

What is fake is the flattening of the metric of success for every single person or idea into the same 2 or 3 numbers.

The Atlantic is a pretty well-known magazine, sure, but it does not command nearly the aggregate attention that The Voice, a TV singing competition on NBC, does. But Twitter (and other social media platforms) invite us to directly compare the two without further context.
This concept also seems appropriate (extrapolation): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_republic
I would guess they currently make a loss on every device shipped. Most current sales are about generating press coverage/traction, not revenue.
After 20 years of software development I‘ve come to adopt a best practise:

Whenever I start writing a regular expression, I stop and write a „manual“ domain specific parse function instead.

Saved me a LOT of debugging time.

Since I can now use kotlin pretty much anywhere (jvm, browser, shellscripts) this is easy because of the superb stdlib („startsWith“, „lastIndexOf“, „substringBeforeLast(...)“)

The time saved I invest in Unittests for the parser.
So who was fired for this? Someone dropped the ball by not communicating the fact that this was a test to the employee who sent the false alarm. That person should be fired.

This reads like a classic tale of government incompetence. If you don't fire people in a situation like this, why should we expect anything to change?
I put a hold on books I want on my library's website, then go pick them up when they're available. I spend less than 5 minutes inside it during a visit. I can buy books, but I just don't have the space to have a copy of any book I was or am curious about.
"Maybe someday we’ll all be flying in commercial airplanes directed by calm, professional, reassuring pilots who are sitting on the ground."

Color me old-fashioned, but I like it when my pilot has some skin in the game.
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Max output of a motor is constrained by weight, or more specifically, its ability to dissipate heat. Racing quads generally use 30-40 gram motors. The top racing motors these days produce 1.6kg of thrust at max output and consume 40 amps of power in the process. It's not difficult to produce a quad under 500 grams.

4 motors would produce 6.4kg of total thrust for a 500 gram quad for a nearly 12.8:1 thrust/weight ratio at a 160 amp current draw. A few years ago a 4:1 thrust/weight ratio was considered pretty good.

160 amps might be a stretch, but it's not uncommon to get >100A out of a 1300mah battery.

All that is pretty crazy, but I think the more interesting bits are in the open source efforts around flight controllers and speed controllers.
Well, that's true if they hit the cap and have no competition. If they don't have a 25% profit margin yet, they can still try to increase profits by cutting costs. There is also the strategy of lowering prices to increase market share.

The downside I was hinting at is that as a patient, cutting costs isn't always what you want. If it means more prevention or paying less, it's good. Otherwise it'll probably mean worse service.
I use Strava but I had no idea it's intended for meeting others.

Can you give more details on this? I can't find much in the app.
So we will have a comment about how it's not a Ford Edge ;)
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I'm not completely sure whether this is as relevant for racing drones as it is for surveillance/video drones. Racing drones often fly at a 45+ degree angle, so the thrust is angled more backwards than downwards. Also, one of the benefits of the NASA research is longer flights. But racers often don't fly more than 1-2 minutes, after which they swap batteries. A slightly lighter battery could give the benefit of slightly quicker acceleration though and that's pretty important. Lastly, in the pro leagues, they usually fly the same drone, so there's no need to have the fastest drone.
This is also true.

With relatively fixed technology, the human population tends to expand to the carrying capacity of the land.

Agriculture did not make life better. What it did is make that carrying capacity a LOT higher. At the cost of great increases in how much work was needed, risk of plague, and so on. This topic is covered in some detail in Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.

When, as in the 1200s, the climate moved to increase that carrying capacity, life improved. When, as in the 1300s, climate made life harder, we had mass famine after mass famine (and by coincidence, also the Black Death).

Technology has increased the carrying capacity many-fold. And also changed the incentives for large families. We can look back and laugh about how wrong Malthus was, and say that it is clear in hindsight that the English should have ignored his analysis and intervened in the Irish Potato Famine back in the 1800s. But his theories were grounded in the universal truth of what life had been like in agricultural societies for thousands of years.

I wish all of this was more widely understood.
Last week's (Friday, Jan 26) Exponent has a lot of this kind of conversation after his article about Amazon Go. Toward the end of the article is this gem [0]:

> In fact, they are all gone, replaced by automation. And, in the meantime, nearly all of humanity has been lifted out of abject poverty.

I think Ben is an incredibly intelligent and accurate commentator who constantly ignores the very real side-effects of tech on poverty and justice in favor of handwaving about potential side-effects of regulation that doesn't currently exist.

> Still, what of those companies that can’t afford to pay for zero rating — the future startups for which net neutrality advocates are willing to risk the costs of heavy-handed regulations? [1]

Meanwhile, 48% of America have only one broadband provider and 30% have no access to broadband at all [2]. Ben is scared of title II but strangely silent on the same cable companies he's so desperate to protect from scary scary 'regulation' spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make municipal broadband in underserved locations illegal. [3]

All this being said, I am a frequent reader of stratechery, an exponent subscriber. I think Ben gets it right more often than not, but I often find that he goes out of his way to defend 'capitalism' in ways that seem antithetical to his other espoused beliefs.

All of his articles and their associated exponents on anti-trust take great pains to make the point that 'real capitalism' has competition [4,5,6]. He fails to address what, if 'real capitalism' means competition, our current economic situation is. Personally I'd describe myself as a socialist so perhaps this is just a pure idealogical divergence on our parts, but it seems like Ben is make the same arguments about capitalism that are so popular among people criticizing communism: "Sure, it works great on paper, but in practice it is an abject failure". I fail to see how Ben's points about capitalism and competition, which I agree with, are not the exact same critique of our current economic system.

Sorry for the long and late reply, this sort of just became a bit of an unstructured rant about all the things I yell at exponent in my car on the way home Friday evenings...

[0] https://stratechery.com/2018/amazons-go-and-the-future/

[1] [https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/voters-reject-ca...

[4] https://stratechery.com/2017/ends-means-and-antitrust/

[5] https://stratechery.com/2017/facebook-and-the-cost-of-monopo...

[6] https://stratechery.com/2017/everything-is-changing-so-shoul...
I think I haven't come to a conclusion about it, but I think it is more complicated than Strava just being opt-in.

This op-ed makes the argument that it is difficult for users and even the companies offering services to fully understand the impact of their privacy choices:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/opinion/strava-privacy.ht...

A sort of concrete scenario here would be the app asking the user before uploading an activity and whether the user wants the activity and segments to be visible on the public parts of the service. Strava probably doesn't want to introduce that friction into their product, but maybe that is a better balance than having a setting allowing users to opt out.
If they were trading for $10, they'd have a P/E ratio of around 0.3.

You'd have to be a complete idiot (and I'm sure you are) to sell GOOG shares for $10.
"beginner's mindset" was my favorite line in the article. Classic Bezos. Yes, it might indicate building their own stuff. I also interpret it that sometimes the experts are too stuck in their ways.
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I think they like to say they have a patent monopoly, but I don’t believe they do. Genia (which also has issues) are developing a protein nanopore platform.

Illumina (see recent IP battle with Oxford Nanopore) also have key IP in this space (for mspA).
fraudulent? no. legal? no. legitimate? depends on your definition.
The movie definitely makes him look a bit mustache-twirling Bond cartoonish but I've seen him at things like the Southern-Fried Gaming Expo and he does come across as pretty conceited.
For elaboration on how cognitive bias causes people to interpret the facts in different ways, I always recommend:

http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/08/17/how-to-know-youre-in-a-ma...
Given the tiny slices of time doctors seem to have for each patient, it would seem that having time and history to have actually spent time with patients and their medical background would seem to be a common sense advantage. It's good to see that borne out in evidence.
I downvoted because it's a pretty strong and cynical-seeming accusation with little evidence. If it was suggested as a theory for the spinoff (or the entire Alphabet re-org?) or as one of the likely motivating factors, I think it would add to the discussion, but as-is, it's stated as fact that the sole reason for Waymo becoming its own company was to shield Google PR.

There are many Alphabet companies: Calico, CapitalG, Chronicle, DeepMind, Jigsaw, Nest Labs, Sidewalk Labs, Verily, Waymo. Is the idea that all of these were created under the same PR-driven motivation? I think it's much more reasonable that it was a legitimate re-org of a massive company, and that organizational units want their own identity and autonomy.
It's fairly easy to price against perceived worth of labor, but it isn't really helpful neither in competitive, nor in emerging markets to base pricing decisions solely on it.

Concepts behind all pricing models are fairly simple and don't require overly sophisticated math. Instead, they require sober look into 4 variables:

- Replacement cost: what would it cost to replace your service/product with something else?

- Market price: what others are charing, charge around their price.

- Cashflow/Net present value: if something you're producing has long-term economic impact, you may price not only based on actual value of your offering, but on long-term profit your offering will generate. And, in some cases in enterprise industries, this is the only way to reasonably justify your prices.

- Value-based pricing: this is fine adjustment mechanism for everything you've figured during previous three stages. Think who's target audience for your product, and if there's something which makes your product more valuable for them than the rest of the market - price it accordingly. Simple example - luxury DSLRs (whose sensors, firmware and lenses are just as good as professional ones, yet luxury casing and a good brand name makes them significantly more expensive).

(I'm not a salesman, I'm an engineer, yet I had to sit through decisionmaking sessions about pricing services in 2 different companies over last decade, and found them very amusing - if you get to the core, the ideas are very simple, they're just surrounded by plenty of bullshit bingo and lingo).
Racing drones typically fly at extreme tilt angles such that the wake of the front props isn't interacting very much with the wake of the rear props.

That said, I have seen that configuration on a frame.
And immediately after, administration costs shot up to ooh, 15-20%...
PathPicker is a new tool I discovered from this article.

From their GitHub page:

PathPicker accepts a wide range of input -- output from git commands, grep results, searches -- pretty much anything.After parsing the input, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in. After that you can open them in your favorite editor or execute arbitrary commands. http://facebook.github.io/PathPicker/
There's also clinical evidence in favor of placebo usage, that doesn't mean that placebos increase medical efficacy, it means sometimes people just need to feel good about what's happening. And people - myself included - would probably prefer seeing the same physician long term.
Thanks for the question furilo.

We run behavioral cohorts. We do cohorts over everything, every action people do, every screen they visit, every piece of value they receive. We also know when those actions take place (first 5 minutes, first hour, day, etc).

With the above, we've learnt what actions have the strongest retention. Now we need to look at the duration of the first session, which we have. We know that if we dont convert people during their first session, they is no coming back - no push or email or anything, will bring them back.

Once we know what the lever of retention is/are, and much time we have to convert, we run user tests with different types of users (converted, non-converted, people who've abandoned the app, people who dont know the app), and observe how they discover the lever, how they describe it, how they use it. This is gold, and helps us iterate.
will this fix slow gRPC performance in Go compared to Java/C++ or that is different issue.
As someone who has worked on building a custom consumer API for kafka (in a distant past, before the 9.0 Java consumer came out) I am curious about how much engineering effort this required.

I can see from github that the project is about 16k lines of code. I wonder how many developers worked on it, how much of each of their time it required, how many false starts in the architecture of the library had to be abandoned...
Several charity shops locally now have signs in the window saying they no longer accept books.

They were receiving so many unsellable pulp novels that they were having to pay recyclers to take them away.

Which is a real shame because amongst the mass-market paperbacks I occasionally found gems ( e.g. geological atlas of French wine regions )
I've also had lots of weird and frustrating insurance and doctor issues, but am surprised COBRA was your best bet or that your wife being high-risk was relevant. In the current system your preconditions shouldn't be a factor in the price.

I am also high-risk and have always found that the Obamacare market had prices close to or lower than the unsubsidized cost of an employer provided plan.

The most frustrating for me is that the doctors can't even guess how much their facility will charge for the treatment they decide is necessary, much less how much the bill will be after insurance gets their cut. It is a major barrier for me to get MRIs and blood tests. Especially blood tests, which seem to range in cost from practically free to thousands of dollars for a single blood test panel.

It's infuriating, and no matter how closely I read the insurance fine print I still cannot guess what the hospital and insurance plan negotiated ahead of time. Kaiser was way better, at least there the incentives were aligned to sane billing procedures.
Wanting to continue to see a provider that you know and trust is an "edge case" now?

We truly live in the darkest timeline.
They’re going to need more money.

I think they’d need to sell >10,000 units a month. That is if they are making any kind of profit. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s a market for anything like that number of flow cells.
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When it comes to ballistic missile warnings, I’d rather err towards false positives over false negatives. Whomever made this mistake is highly unlikely to do so again. Throwing that away seems wasteful, ceteris paribus.
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> I have bought tickets on Amtrak

Me too.

> Amtrak sucks

It sure does.

> I have done the price/time opportunity cost calculation for several destinations, and Amtrak came out a big loser, and I ended up driving.

Which proves my point.

> pc86 you are wrong

Okay.
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I guess it would depend on how that confirmation screen worked. If the design asked for a confirmation from a second user, then a single user's confusion wouldn't have resulted in the error.
It absolutely does have a constitution. It's just not explicitly written down.

https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/britains-unwritten-co...
There is when that lining comes at the expense of the people that you're supposed to be helping.
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Sure sounds like it!

What is confusing is that the article still points to the UI as being a part of the problem though while they're now saying the employee intentionally sent the live message. Looks like the PR campaign is still trying to deflect blame or perhaps keep things just ambiguous enough that they'll be able to rush through some extra spending to "fix" the UI issue.

Hopefully more details will continue being shared and they deal with the organizational flaws instead of pouring blame on scape goats (software and individuals).
I've known two people who loved Kaiser until they had a serious issue. Not privy to a ton of the details, but it appears that they Kaiser is not immune to at least a divergence of interests with their patients when the figures get big.
Residency programs are more restricted by funding for residency spots, not by the AAMC. Funding is, very weirdly, provided by Medicare. It's all a tangled mess with lots of weird stakeholders, but saying "doctors are using rent seeking behavior to limit new entrants to the field" is a bit disingenuous.

https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/how-medicare-s...

https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/gme/71178/gme_gme0012.html
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He manages engineers, and he would seem to be quite effective at it (a rarity!), but being a highly technical manager isn’t the same as performing engineering work. Do you have a specific example in mind?
They are a business not an ONG.

US is a shithole country in relation to healthcare systems
Big PR coup here, well done Woebot Inc!

I look forward to computational therapists, it should help with a lot of the oddities with traditional therapists.

Love to see it turned into a non-cloud service though. Mental health stuff can be incredibly personally sensitive, and a non-cloud solution would be far preferable.
There's a good reason all the listening tests have stopped at 96 kb/s. Above that, the quality of Opus, Vorbis and AAC is so close to transparency that it's pretty much impossible to get statistically significant results. Even the latest 96 kb/s test was really stretching things.
Yes, I suspect it ends up as something of a perverse disincentive to control costs
Kik filed with the SEC before doing theirs last year.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574601/000157460117...
They can move the cryptocurrencies out and claim they got hacked. How do you prove they know the password/private key to a new wallet address that isn't tied to any exchange identity/background check?
isn't that illegal now?