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... which describes accurately nearly every minute of my fours years as an undergraduate (in the US).
Another user, Siphor, went through the documents in a response on another thread [0]. I think the second paragraph adds some important context, especially in regards to the accusations of Mr. Song committing insurance fraud.

>The most damning thing in there was that the Doctor tested for HHV-6 (something 100% of humans have) and then charged for it and claimed it was HHV-2 (genital herpes). Theres apparently a lab technician available to testify that the Doctor commonly tests for HHV-6. Guy seems sleazy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17182181
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> they have no special enforcement powers

I absolutely understand this, the problem at the time the officers were notorious for presenting themselves as if they had a right to enter your house. They would be particularly pushy and work on the assumption that you were going to let them in. Myself, my father, and a friend all experienced this; guy turns up, says he needs to come in to inspect the TV, when you refuse to let him in says he will come back with some kind of legal paperwork to allow him to enter, returns another day hoping someone else opens the door.

> The whole TV licensing thing is basically based on the assumption that most people want to follow the law most of the time

This is BS, they had infamous adverts on TV saying they would 'catch you out', suspecting the public were stealing the airwaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnnaPfAEISo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q9CsRRhWQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmdUcmLFkw

^ Three decades of threatening the public. You tell me that those ads don't make it look as if the officers are gov't employees and have a legal right to inspect your home. In fact, from those ads it makes it look as if they can tell from outside your home that you have broken the law, I am pretty skeptical that any of that would stand up in court as conclusive evidence.

Fact is you can legitimately own a TV and not want to watch the BBC, but the BBC insists that owning a TV is essentially the same as wanting to watch BBCTV.

</rant>
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Another thing the article doesn't mention at all: if it is true that by not letting these entrepreneurs in we're missing out on half of >$1B companies then we should expect some of the countries these entrepreneurs are leaving to be the sites of these companies instead. I suspect we'll see a mix of both, some companies will be founded by a different founder with a different visa status, some will be founded by the same founder, but in a different place. Neither of these is necessarily a bad thing, granted the US might be missing out on some good founders, and thus some good jobs and some tax revenue. So from a purely "America First" we're missing out... but our government does many ostensibly benevolent things to help other countries, many of them, it's very dubious whether or not they actually help. But not brain draining everyone's entrepreneurs might actually be some effective benevolence. It's ironic that it comes from an administration whose slogan is "America First."
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Wow, you really showed her.
IEEE to me is a different case. They do more than publish and IEEE, along with SPIE, although expensive still carries weight for me. I can assume the content is reasonably high quality and well reviewed.

In general, though, for-profit publishing will hopefully go away soon. As an engineer I need quality scientific publications without the distorted politics behind it. I could come up with any number of ways to improve on the current situation.
I yet ever heard of infinite loops in loading. Do you have an open issue?

The webcomponentsjs package has polyfilled the v1 Web Components specs for over a year. Polymer 2.x was the version that used the new specs instead of the older v0 specs.
Is there a handbook or something akin to "Scheme for C Programmers"? I think I can manage with other options and this position looks promising. But I'm quite often in a C mindset and it would be helpful to see how some idioms can be translated - for example typical integer arithmetic.
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Many fields are small enough, with infrequent enough papers, that experts will be able to tell the author from style and content alone...
>it's so successful because, despite there being lots of ways to pay back friends

It was far and away the simplest and easiest way to quickly transfer money electronically, at least around ~6 years ago. The "big players" that have payment apps either weren't launched or were just getting started, and PayPal just had/has this bizarre level of BS required for a process that should just take like 2 or 3 simple steps.

Nowadays I have friends that occasionally put amusing messages and stuff in their payments, but I don't really get the feeling that people are actually showing off much. Most of the payments I see are between SOs or roommates splitting utilities+rent and such. There are probably plenty of people who do enjoy this part of the app, but Venmo just seems like a great product regardless, so I don't know how key it actually is.
Yeah that’s a good point. Might seem like a waste of money but it could be more effective than anything else they’ve tried.
Because the dentist will diagnose you first. When someone says they have a headache, you dont know if he needs an MRI that costs thousands of dollars, or aspirin which is cents.

And also, each insurance pays differently for the same service.

You can always go as a patient to an all cash-clinic, which will have fixed pricing, but then you throw away the benefit of your insurance.
Turn down service.
I really think we need a standard way to handle linear time that is not effected by leap seconds but can be mapped between back to calendar time (UTC)

The Unix Epoch does not handle leap seconds (time just rewinds). Google's time smearing approach is a great hack, but trades one issue for another.

This is a niche case in high resolution time, auditing and security considerations.
You could never get hired as a chef with this approach.

They would reject you for not using dynamic programming recipes instead.
I was also shocked, and immediately set it to private. I registered using an email address (as I do for practically every online service I use) so I don't have to deal with the Facebook dimension.

However, for the handful of people I regularly send money to, I can see all of their transactions on the home screen, including business fees (which reveals the freelance rates they charge), family loans, etc. I take it they have not limited their transactions to "private".

Regardless, I am amazed that Venmo/PayPal thought sharing payment activity would be a good idea.
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The goal is to always keep UTC within one second of UT1.
Short of very drastic events I don't think it will ever be neccessary to introduce more than one leapseconds in a fairly long time interval. And even if it was, I would think that they would do seperate leapseconds events some time apart.
Are you claiming that most research is already freely available and yet everyone is, for some unspecified reason, still paying publishers for an extraneous service?

The NIH site links right to PubMed Central from which it seems like it'd be 'easy' to find a paper for which I know the title. None of the pages on the NSF site ever seemed to be intended for someone that's not contributing to the 'public access repository'.

Would you demonstrate your claim and provide a link, for an article published in Nature, to the same freely available version that "must be made"?

It seems pretty fantastic that libraries would spend taxpayer money for access to journals containing papers that are already freely available. I'm very confused why that would be.
How far are we from blockchain adoption?
Recipe substitutions would be great so you can have multiple ways of making the same thing. Someone else mentioned seawater and soil substitutions until you have a recipe for the universe. Though there are other ways to also grow food without soil (hydroponics).
Developing the Natural Language Understanding Behind Shoppy Bot
100m around a hospital is still a much smaller pond to fish from than the city as a whole.
Let's say you sign up for a free account on a shared git-whatever.example.com and set it up to auto-mirror a malicious repo you host elsewhere. If git-whatever.example.com(1) had implemented its mirror feature on top of regular git, boom and you might get shell access on their server and full access to any and all private repos stored on the same service.

(1) could be any shared service like gitlab.com, github.com, bitbucket.org, etc
> Can you speak to ageism at facebook?

I can share my own experiences, but I can't and probably shouldn't try to address it generally. I'm not just a sample of one, but I'm well aware that I'm an outlier in a couple of ways besides my age. So take all this with a grain of salt.

Yes, you're right, HQ totally feels like a college campus. Some of that's deliberate, from the architecture to the cafes and other amenities. I'm sure it feels comfortably familiar to the high percentage of people you see walking around for whom college is clearly a very fresh memory (or current "normal" during intern season). To me it feels a bit weird, but still quite pleasant.

I've honestly not seen any evidence of overt ageism since I've been here. There are other people my age, though even after a year I can probably still count the ones I've actually met on one hand. AFAICT nobody believes being older makes one less fit to be there or in a specific role. They sure don't believe it makes one more fit either, but that's OK because TBH that's something I'd become a bit too comfortable with and that's my own fault. If there's ageism, it's a very soft kind - more to do with comfort levels than "harder" boundaries or opposition. Some examples...

* Open-plan offices are objectively, provably even harder on older people than younger ones, because of hearing and focus/attention issues utterly unrelated to the actual work.

* Lots of people complain about the artificiality and induced stress of coding interviews. Well, it doesn't get better with age. As awkward as it might be to stumble on these when you're still young, imagine how it must feel when you're being tested on something you've been doing for 20+ years and the person judging you is half your age. The one truly negative age-related experience I've had (not in the interview) has been people who look down their noses at "old fashioned" code because they themselves have never known a world in which their favorite libraries either didn't exist or were buggy as hell.

* Being able to work from home is much more important for older people who are more likely to have families, minor medical issues (including other family members'), etc. Therefore a general antipathy toward letting people work from home is in effect discrimination against older workers.

So it's not like anyone has ever actively tried to stop or discourage me from working here, but there are ways in which we could be more welcoming nonetheless. Does that answer your question?
Just as with the established journals, organizing it isn't that influential and relevant compared to actual editorial board; and it would be likely or even expected that the board of a publication organized by some university would have just a couple members from that university and dozens of respected scientists from outside.

It's generally not considered conflict of interest, as the boards transcend single institutions and their members tend to be individuals in the stage of career where their individual reputations that matter more than the reputation of the institution they "represent".
Neither is all success. My mother has Alzheimer’s, I look after her, and I count any interaction as “successful” if both she and I are smiling afterwards.
I remain skeptical of that part. There are, however, plenty of cities in the US where the school district boundaries are drawn very precisely to enable the imposition of property taxes that support the schools. It becomes a sort of private-public school, in the sense that all the homeowners in the district pay extra and those schools have sports teams and labs and orchestra and field trips that the kids on the other side of the line can only dream of.

(This is impossible in California, however, because the property taxes are set at the county level and school districts have no control over their own funding.)
Not a "legitimate" descendant, whatever that means after 60 generations.

However, he was an aristocrat, and a soldier, in a time when birth control was rarely practiced. I imagine he's got plenty of his DNA in the modern pool.
sit/stand desk that goes both high enough to walk on a treadmill, and kneel on the floor. A soft standing/kneeling pad. With this combo I find I rarely use my chair. (not never, just rarely)

Bonus would be a treadmill that is easy to get out of the way when I don't want it (I've never seen this, but you asked about ideal).
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PayPal was doing most of this years ago - and keeping your transactions private...
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I draw smiley faces on the signature line at stores and restaurants pretty often.
Collecting Application Logs on Kubernetes
You are correct. I'm also fascinated by my history even though I'm a Turk.
Any time you have to explain some to someone else you can't lie to your self about how much you understand.

Also, I think the simulations can help one understand some of the emergent properties that come from physics principles.
A long time ago, checks had to be deposited at a bank counter, in person. If I wanted to embarrass my payee, I'd write something risque or vulgar in the memo line. That way they would have to suffer that embarrassment if they wanted my money.

Yeah, it's juvenile. I don't understand why the FBI would care though. There's a 0% chance that a real terrorist is writing "ISIS" on their checks to fund terror.
Usually calling something a meritocracy implies that it also has public bars for promotion that you can constantly self-test against and so iterate toward.

A common example is a marital-arts dojo: every student can take a belt (rank) promotion test at any time, and as many times as they like; and it is crystal-clear what such a test entails (usually, being able to beat someone who is already at the given skill-level, with both participants using a defined subset of the taught skills that the target ranking "expects.") Thus, even without taking the official test, students can simply ask their peers who have reached that skill level to spar with them, and in-so-doing iterate toward being of that skill level themselves.

For a more hypothetical example: a meritocratic public schooling system would be one where there're no "years" of education, but rather "ranks" (or just a big unified "tech tree" of topic-units to study), with tests to attain new ranks/unlock new topic-units; and where each student can take each test an infinite number of times (presumably with procedurally-generated tests that resist answer-memorization.)

In such systems, you (ideally) will first very quickly equilibrate to the rank in the system that your initial level of merit allows you to reach, and then will continue forward through the system at the rate you're willing to grind to increase your merit.
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It doesn't take much imagination to use geofencing for lots of sleezy advertising. Like lottery, gambling and loan shark ads around pawn shops and food banks.

Also, I imagine that televangelists who want a shiny new airplane probably target low-income neighborhoods with their free enchanted water 'guaranteed to bring wealth and prosperity'.
I was blown away by the design on this blog, super slick!
You cant veil an accusation under a single adjective, come on..

It might happen to many others, but her accusation is baseless and she is responsible for it. Suing for libel is an appropriate right.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's got to be at least one app on the person's phone that's reporting GPS info that is feeding information to the marketing company. Is the name of the app(s) mentioned?
Advice on marketing hyper-local b2b startup
Hey, we're launching an office catering startup in Toronto, ON. To refrain from being self promotional I won't share its name or URL but rather, I'd like to share a general idea of what we're doing and get some collective wisdom from you.

The idea is partnering with local restaurants and catering companies to be the "Uber for Office meals". What does this mean? It means that we can do volume orders, e.g. orders with a minimum required order amount of $150, and a minimum required notice time of 24 hours.

With over 15 restaurants / catering companies signed up with accounts (listings) with great offerings. I'd like to gauge the best way to market this and sell it. Given that it's a "hyper-local" marketplace of restaurants and catering companies offering "platters" essentially, what's the best way to get people using it and trying it out?

And then to provide more general advice, the take-away here can be applied to almost any hyper-local, b2b focused startup.

Thanks! Looking forward to engaging with you.
Actually the meaning of a date like:

2018-05-26T13:45:21+02:00

Will never change, regardless how many time zone changes you may have. What does change is the method to compute the time difference. So can you say how many days, hours, minutes, seconds ago that was from:

2043-02-12T11:15:16+02:00

You won’t be able to, because then you have to account for leap seconds, etc.

Also “next Tuesday” does have to take into account the time zone as you may need to deal with daylight saving time.

However “next Tuesday” is not a date-time, but a relative difference from where you are now and by pre-calculating you lose information.

Also relevant, in such cases storing the time zone doesn’t help because the user himself might travel and next Tuesday at 7:00 can remain the same, no matter what time zone you’re talking about.
How many Model S/X?
The problem (in this case) isn't "social status currency". It's that the social status currency system has real (financial) costs too!

The value of a prestige journal brand is that it is (supposedly) selective in which papers it publishes; not that it costs a lot of money for people to read those papers.
Ironic given how Softcard used to be called Isis.
I've worked in two shops that used 1/8 space for loopback addresses for iBGP and nobody that worked there was a dummy.

It is/was not uncommon either[1]. It was never a concern since it wasn't allocated. It being a concern is a very recent phenomenon.

[1] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/press/internet-protocol-...
Time is difficult and system design depends on the intended consumer.

For the case you propose, I read it as a "meeting" planned at a point in the future. In this case storing the start of the meeting as a bare timestamp is inappropriate design. What really should be encoded is the set of rules for identifying the proper timestamp. There was an existing standard mentioned for that which I'd use as a starting point if designing or implementing (if I chose their design) such a system.
I don't get what you mean by "... most of which is no longer in production."

It seems like most home lab folks run a lab to gain experience on platforms people actually use.
That was an efficient way to heat a battery.
Well, as jdoliner says, those companies might be started in other, more entrepreneur-friendly country like Chile or France or maybe China instead (no idea about the latter's entrepreneur-friendliness though, but I do know about Chile's).
> Probably around this time your first boss's ancestors were also discovering minutes as a good way to make sure your ancestors got to work on time: "You're exactly 56 minutes late today, Holman, what the fuck is wrong with you? Go shave the sheep!"

OK, I guess this is a joke, but this actually began to happen during the Industrial Revolution, when factory owners were obliged, as part of worker training, to teach workers how to read a clock.
Did that happen to be the name of the restaurant?
So you would need to know both the position and momentum? Good luck with that.
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This is going to be interesting for the go-guys, since a lot of go package management is built around git clones. It's probably fine for things hosted on gitlab, github or bitbucket, and then you missed that one sneaky little dependency stabbing you in the back.
You might be impressed with Namesilo. They've always had Whois protection for free as long as I've used them. .com domains are something like $8 per year.
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Geo-fencing might not be terribly accurate but it gets you close. If combined with Bluetooth beacons (any chance the hospital is willing to install one for a fee?) or WiFi network recognition (I see the ER's WiFi network -- I am almost certainly inside the hospital) you can get the accuracy down to a few feet which is more than good enough for advertising company to sell that phone's position to the law firms.
That mini-mini tower pictured (HP Proliant Gen 8) sure doesn't look like big iron.
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Ask HN: How to transition from web developer to products?
I've been a full stack web developer in marketing agencies for the last ~4 years, having predominantly taught myself, learning what I can on the job and in my spare time. The agency I currently work for uses Laravel, but I've worked with many other platforms/tools. I'd consider myself quite versatile.

I don't find working for agencies very satisfying any more; the hours of extra work I put in are never appreciated by my colleagues or the clients we serve and the margins are so slim/deadlines are so tight that I never feel I get the chance to properly finish anything.

I'm very interested in working on software products and starting a company is certainly an aspiration of mine (call me naïve). I've launched a couple of side projects to mixed reception and I'm about to launch another - something that I've put a great deal of my spare time into recently. I'm aware however that with a full time job I'm severely restricted when it comes to serving a user base well.

Would a tech company/startup accept me with my current skillset? What would I need to know or be prepared to learn if I wanted to work for a tech company? Would it be wildly unrealistic to quit my job to work on something full time (despite not currently generating revenue)? Might applying to an incubator even be an option?
I have a bad time with redis hosting from time to time. It is surely my own fault. What are your favorite resources/recipes to configure/host redis on your own?
Sent you an email. I would love to be able to add "weight" to songs in my "shuffled" playlist so I can identify songs to play less often and other to play on "heavy rotation".
What's a (common) example use case for a post-checkout hook?
It depends. It could be a meeting in a particular city at 4pm local time. A "+02:00" or "-05:00" specifier is insufficient because the government of the particular city/country might change the time zone rules between now and when the event is to occur. So you really need to store "2018-08-01 16:00:00 America/Argentina/Buenos Aires" for example, because maybe after 2018-06-01 they decided to go for "-05:30".
Disagreeing with scientific consensus for ideological reasons, however, might make you a bigot
I'll tell you you're a cheapskate. IaaS -- insults as a service.
Pretty simple I think. They just make less profit per domain.
Unless you’re a multinational conglomerate with a contract to buy a huge amount at a particular price.