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Karma | Chennai | ONSITE | Full-time | http://mykarmaapp.com

Karma is a Live Trivia game show where more than thousands of people gather every day to play the game show live and win a cash prize. Karma combines some of the winning formulas of traditional TV quiz shows – an energetic presenter and scheduled programming at the same time every day – with the fast-paced interactivity of a mobile game. Altogether, the Online Game Show will be a Mix of Entertainment, Skill, and Creativity. Every viewer becomes a contestant, competing for a cash prize.

We are looking for a team of passionate Engineers in various fields to join our engineering team and help build, scale the Live game show which is played by thousands of people across the world.

Here are our open roles:

- Software Engineer - iOS: https://angel.co/karma-20/jobs/377418-software-engineer-ios

- Software Engineer - Android: https://angel.co/karma-20/jobs/377423-software-engineer-andr...

- Software Engineer - Backend: https://angel.co/karma-20/jobs/377431-software-engineer-back...

- DevOps Engineer - Platform Engineering: https://angel.co/karma-20/jobs/377441-devops-engineer-platfo...

Tech Stack: iOS: Swift & Objective-C. Android: Java. Backend: Python, Django, AWS, Celery, Redis, Cassandra. DevOps: Python, AWS, Ansible/Puppet, Cassandra, Kubernetes/Dockers, Jenkins/Travis CI etc.
From my personal experience programming (for my own pleasure) has three phases just like any other addiction.

1) Expectations phase where I love opening my laptop, touching the keyboard etc. and I have some sketchy ideas what to do.

2) Extatic phase - where I am working for 16-18 hours solving problems I didn't expected I would be able to solve and writing a code that I later keep re-reading just to appreciate it's dense beauty.

3) Diminishing returns phase where I am still trying to get some kicks from it but it isn't coming anymore.

If you are in a phase 3 then it is clearly a time to stop, get sleep, do yoga, meditate, go for a run or get on a bike. Don't look at a laptop for a few days.
I started at a community college and transferred to a state university, getting degrees at both, putting myself through the whole way while working.

I don't remember anything noteworthy (in terms of professional stature) from any of the state university teachers (few bad, some quite good, but no real experts). In the CC, an instructor I had multiple times had a Doctorate, the old-school Certificate in Data Processing, and decades of industry experience.

The best instructor I ever had in any discipline, whom I had for calculus, was at the CC. He authored several college math texts as well. Jack Minnick, you are greatly missed.
I feel like the sites on http://brutalistwebsites.com/ aren't really what's described in the OP link, conversely they look full of redundant CSS and JS that hinders efficient reading. Now, http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ that fits very well, however.
Sonos was a manufacturer of wireless remote speakers in the BC (Before Cloud) era. They had a good reputation until they got religion and started frog-marching their users into the cloud against their will. Pretty much every mention of Sonos I've seen online has been associated with complaints about that, e.g. http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/sonos-holding-their-users-... and https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/s... .

So they appear to be a leading-edge wireless speaker manufacturer who woke up one day and found themselves to be a little less leading-edge than they thought they were. They are now trying to make up for lost ground by using Amazon's IP and storefront to compete with... Amazon.

So I can see why the author of the article is bearish on these guys.
You should do it anyways. If somebody can only reach you through lawyers, you will only get contacted through lawyers. This generates costs which somebody will have to pay, which might be you in the end.
I'm glad not everyone is drinking the Kool-Aid.

This is pretentious nonsense. It was indeed satisfying to scroll to the bottom of the page and see the author's "Colophon". It immediately reminded me of the footer in Maciej Cegłowski's site, http://idlewords.com/.

> This is where a douchier person would write 'colophon'
Learning chess will make you better at other board games, even if it doesn't improve, say, your maths or language skills. For instance, chess may teach you lessons about sacrificing assets to earn a reward later on, or lessons about material advantage, tempo, controlling the board and so on, that can be applied to many different games. That counts as transfer learning and it is something that statistical machine learning cannot do at all, basically (i.e. a new model has to be trained from scratch for each different game).

As an aside- you might argue that there are common elements of board games' design that make it easier to reuse knowledge. However, statistical machine learning systems can still not transfer knowledge of one game to others, even given the common design elements that should make it easier.
Whatever she said, it has nothing to do with her company and her company shouldn't get involved in the punishment (should there be any at all).

Let's say I am employee of a company, which makes computers, and I have a disagreement with my neighbor. He is a customer of that company, because he bought a computer from them. Does that mean I can be fired? How is that different from a police state?

No, society needs to wake up and determine where are the boundaries of this. The truth is, social media put everything, even companies, under wider scrutiny than ever before.

It's like when a printing press was invented, it put governments under wider scrutiny. They fought back, and it took 500 years before it became generally accepted that we should have free speech.
In general swimming is not particularly popular in Thailand. Dark skin complexion is seen as something for the poor or uncultured (foreigners generally excluded), and that tends to go along with swimming. This is why you can find more than a few local hotels that will have pools built under natural shade. That way you can swim without being in the sun, even though it's something the vast majority of their target clientele would not want! It's also why you might see a Thai fully dressed while swimming at the beach or a pool. It's not about modesty - it's about avoiding the tan!
This seems to be your 6th attempt to post the same article here (albeit with slightly modified titles). Are you doing this because you are genuinely interested in discussing with the community or because you are desperate for some internet points?

If it's the former, let's hear your thoughts.
The central thesis of the article is rather naively assuming (or asserting) that CAs profits come primarily and directly from selling certs, rather than eg value-add services. It might be very well that it is the case, but before going any further I'd like to see the claim backed up by something
I just taught myself, using what was then PBFixit, and is now iFixit. When it's already broken, you can be more confident about trying to take it apart - it can't get worse!
Not to be dismissive but better look for an alternative solution. The SAML spec is a beast, you can work on it for months, you will hardly get a few percents of it working.

If you're doing that for a small company, maybe try to get a Microsoft active directory instead. It's a lot easier to setup and maintain and everything does their best to integrate with it.
Petition to Thank Google Employees Who Rejected the Business of War
Ok, in the US we are one medical trip away from complete bankruptcy. Not too long ago there was an article saying the average person in America doesn't have $400 stashed away for an emergency.

So what do you do when you get this bill? You can't pay, you don't have the money. What do you do?
Cool company. When you guys get going do post something to hacker news for us to check out.
I bought a Sonos One for my partner and regret it.

One of our use cases is playing audio from videos of dance classes. But it can't do this, because the WiFi streaming protocols are set up for linear streaming, using long buffers. That kills the ability to do frequent seeking and looping of sections of a video. Yet the most basic of crappy Bluetooth speakers has no trouble with this.

It never occurred to me that a premium wireless speaker released in 2017 could not do this. My fault, of course, for not researching it thoroughly enough. But Sonos's also, for arbitrarily restricting a perfectly sensible use of generic hardware like a speaker.
I still find improbable that in 50 years there will be a single hegemonic “coalition” in Europe. So even if we will not be friends anymore US will have to deal with maybe 2-3 regional powers, not a single global one.
One of the reasons I have basically given up my fantasy of moving to the USA is the russian roulette that you seem to have to play with your health and its insurance.
Not SpaceX, a partner company. While helping is admirable, if he actually wanted to help in a more reasonable timeframe/more humble way then there are better channels he could have used, this all seems like a publicity stunt to me.
Maybe it isn't the first time her short fuse got her into trouble at the company. Triggering a social media backlash might've been the last straw.
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In Australia we went to the doctor after my kid had an allergic reaction. They medicated him, had a nurse within 10 feet and kept him for 6 hours until symptons receded. Total cost - AUD$40.
The US systom is absolutely insane, expensive and delivers worse results.
Can medical tourism grow enough to bring medical costs down by competition?
Because Governments can make laws but ICANN can’t? (GDPR explicitly exempts personal data that is legally required to be disclosed from protection)

Edit: actually after a bit more thought, it’s more nuanced than my somewhat glib response lets on (since there’s also an exemption for contractual obligations).

The answer is likely that a) the law hasn’t been tested in the courts under GDPR and/or b) the Government requirement has the additional test of providing a service, which may alleviate the privacy cost sufficiently.
Could just use https://github.com/symfony/console :-)
If you have insurance through your employer you'll be ok. If you don't you'll pay anywhere between $800 and $3000, a month, for healtcare.
The margin on Apple products is tiny though. As a reseller, you'd be lucky to make 5% if you sold at the same retail price as Apple.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17482494

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17480488 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17478215 (5 comments)

Other sources of similar or identical stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15225573

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15212737

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206248

Finally, 6 years ago someone submitted a similar sort of project here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4850715
Maybe.

But I believe that concern about privacy is the main issue. If you trust some firm with your data, you also trust their data systems. And their staff. But if they're giving your data to numerous third parties, there's far more potential for leaks and malicious activity.

This reminds me of NSA's argument that data collection and processing isn't illegal, because ...

> According to USSID 18, a top-secret NSA manual of definitions and legal directives, an "intercept" only occurs when the database is queried — when someone actually reads the text on a screen.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-data-...
"Frankly, this “much responsibility” shouldn’t exist in a sane world"

Exactly, that's why employees should organize and the society at large should determine where the sanity lies.

"But again, in this case I think the outcome was deserved. I’m tired of people bringing up the gender & sexism card for a simple problem of “someone is wrong on the internet”."

So you disagree in general but here you think it was deserved, because you happen to disagree with her? That's not fair, I think, and is "end justifies the means" argument.
I recently stumbled upon this link and found it to be a huge eye-opener. I am curious to know how often folks here apply similar techniques while reading books.

Do you do this only for non-fiction? Or maybe, you do this for fiction or research papers too?
Mean while corrupting and wrecking other countries healthy(ish) national health systems? No thank you.
How is this practice of inflating prices while exploiting urgency and lack of choice not clearly fradulent and illegal?
Even so, the brief summary hinted that he probably did more during an earlier 8-year stretch than at Google.
I live in a landlocked country and nearly everyone I know can swim. People usually swim in public pools, lakes or ponds. Swimming is also very often part of the PE middle school curriculum here.
The medical system in the US is rampant with this sort of thing, what a shame.
I am pretty sure $40 isn’t the cost of the exams. It is being subsidised by other tax payers. We can discuss the merits of this approach but it is not necessarily cheaper overall.
Not at all. The answer is that the guy is pushing for his own product and company.
On mobile, use your browser’s reader mode to avoid those nasty popup overlays.
Of course that was not the total cost. That was just the cost to you at that moment. The rest is paid by the society.
The real total is probably still a lot less than the cost in the US would have been.
And that Vindaloo is a Portuguese dish
Hey,

Fair point. I wrote the story. My thoughts are in the story. I don't generally submit my own stories, but I genuinely want more people to see it. (There is no traffic incentive or anything.)
Could you clarify how? I don't see how that follows.
Ding ding ding. Look at the brain on Brad!
We do have a generalised model for learning- it's called PAC learning [1] and it's part of Computational Learning Theory, which studies learning in computers.

Note that machine learning may be popular today, thanks to the recent successes of deep learning but learning is not the only thing that makes humans intelligence. For instance, there is reasoning about what you know, and possibly other stuff like motivation, etc.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct...
Early stage? As fast as possible. Just plug it into something like MailChimp, even if it's more expensive. You can cut costs later, but honestly manpower is money, so it's usually not worth setting up your own.
But gender was relevant. You're failing to understand the relentless toxic entitlement shown by many young adult male gamers. That's toxic to everyone, but it's more severe and frequent for women.
Currently people work an hour later in winter (because of daylight saving time). If that's gone I'll have to get up as early in winter as I do in summer (and in winter in the dark and cold).
What's the long term stable state for American health care? Given the difference between the rate at which healthcare costs grow and the rate at which wages grow, it will only take a couple decades before the former is larger than the latter -- and at that point, only a few years until it starts becoming (large) integer multiples of the latter.

So what's the plan then? Obviously, nobody will actually be capable of paying those costs. Will people simply choose to die, or leave untreated most medical issues? Even in the case in the article's title, how could any non-billionaire justify paying such a cost? They don't even live here -- I could never imagine what sort of calculus would lead me to even pay a single dollar to someone requesting such an obscene price for so few services rendered.
The article has some intriguing detail: contrary to my bias, it seems to be that the routes with the most earnings are highly contested (and not the fringe ones with an immediate monopoly).

But I wonder: has this more to do with a) existing demand and b) high optimization capacity (since the routes have dozens of flights/day and include at least one of the airline‘s hubs.
whats unprofessional about it?
It sounds like this "trauma activation", has replaced the triage system. Where a triage department will determine the severity of the emergency injury, and associate an appropriate medical response.

The triage activation assembles a team of experts that treats every emergency patient with the same high level response, similarly because doing so attracts a higher fee.
The article seems to be saying that in some cases the insurer assesses what the hospital is charging, decides it's too high, doesn't pay it all, and then you owe the hospital thousands of dollars despite being fully insured.

So I don't believe your assertion.
> Total cost - AUD$40

That's not even paying 30 mins of the nurse. You are kidding yourself if you consider this is the total cost.
Odds are he has been using other more official channels to communicate with the scene.
Probably not for emergencies.
Only for things which are not time critical.
What happens if you get fired from your job suddenly? And if you happen to have pre-existing conditions, such as a type 1 diabetes, that is known for being very expensive to treat?

How can you live with this fear?
Behind the scenes, this has been a big boon for CDNs, my work is powering Amazon, and it is interestingly derived from work from Netflix on FreeBSD TCP. Together we are making TCP work much better on these largely wireless networks.
I'm in Australia too, and I equally laud the system we have here.

But note that this article was about a Korean family travelling in the US.

A foreign family travelling in Australia won't be covered by Australian Medicare and will be at the mercy of the medical cover on their travel insurance, which is the real story here.

That's not to say that the charges for this visit weren't exorbitant, but your case isn't an apples with apples comparison.
Of course you can isolate the identity from the identify provider. It's fully supported by OIDC. It's a main use case for every website that wants to manage its user accounts.
I'd be surprised if he wasn't now - I meant in the first place.
The business model works fine and is in-use if many industries. The problem comes from raising and spending money on beliefs that costs will reduce to 0 because of AI, which may never happen.

Sadly most of these startups could do much better by just hiring and using human staff to provide the same services.
Giving an upfront indication of the costs would have been the least they could have done.
There are emerging alternatives on the market:

https://reason.com/reasontv/2017/10/16/doctors-direct-primar...

Note that the current system is actively fighting off the development of such alternatives...
I wonder as well, even with a single month of experience in web development you could make a theme for a site that is your own. o_O
a country healthcare system is not designed to support people of other countries that come because their own healthcare sucks.
Of course it's not, but the difference here is that OP isn't made insolvent, or forced to sell their home, to pay their hospital bill.
My wife has sleep apnea, so during her normal annual checkup the doc wrote her a prescription for a CPAP.

She goes to the local vendor, they tell her to pick out whichever machine she'd like. She would rent it for a few months to make sure she liked it. The insurance company would pick up the bill.

Many months later we just got a bill for $500.

She calls them. They tell her that this is the balance owed on the machine. Now they've already billed the insurance company four thousand dollars for the machine. The insurance company paid about a quarter of that. Then she the rents on top of that. And now they want the balance. The bill came completely out of the blue.

They won't take it back. So she's thinking about selling it. Going online the machine is only worth 500 bucks brand new. They're basically selling the same machine three different times: once to the insurance company, once on a rent-to-own deal, and once as a bill coming from nowhere.

I don't know in what universe this is not considered plain old fraud. The billing situation in healthcare in the U.S. has become so byzantine and complicated that's it has basically turned into a shell game of screw-the-consumer.

I don't want to talk about why it happens. I don't want to talk about solutions. I will say that the politics of healthcare has led us here -- nothing else but that. And the more we argue the worst it will continue getting. I do want to note that it seems like every month or so there's some new horror story. It's so bad that the vast majority of the time nobody talks about it. It's an awful mess.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17468788
How can I determine why the System process is listening on port 80?
- xfig

- xterm

- Paint

- Wordpad

We can argue how useful those versions of Wordpad and Paint are, especially with modern file formats, but they are usable. I won't blame you for disagreeing with xterm, but over 30 after it was first shipped it's still the closest thing to a standard terminal, and the UI is decent once you get used to it (and much like emacs, it's partially jarring at first because it predates some expectations).
Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System (2015)
Also, early treatment avoids really expensive later treatment. Wait too long with an allergic reaction, and you might end up calling the ambulance, invoking ICU and so on and so on. Instead of probably a couple of pills to reduce the immune systems response.
you don't go.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4311663/massachusetts-subway-inju...
Health expenditure per capita in the US is about twice that of Australia so it does appear to be cheaper overall.
Not that I know of, but LW 64bit and SBCL are comparable in my experience. Allegro I have heard is slightly slower but with a better memory usage (so maybe like CCL?)
The US government pays more for healthcare in the US than many other countries. When you add in private insurance the US far outspends outher countries for healthcare. But they don't have better results. For example, the US has a shorter average lifespan than many countries.
IMHO that is way too much asked for a UI around commands you can snatch from https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-macos-command-line via copy/paste.
LVMH perhaps?
As I understand it, bankruptcy is often not necessary. In the US, public hospitals must provide service to patients who can not pay. So they typically forgive unpaid fees. But private hospitals and clinics are more likely to sell unpaid balances to collection agencies. And then bankruptcy is the only way out. Also, if they know that you won't be able to pay, they may do whatever's needed to keep you alive, and then transfer you to a public hospital.
GP is probably referencing a meme in UK politics — there is a widespread beleif that health tourism is responsible for everything wrong with the NHS. (It isn’t yet responsible: was recently estimated to cost 0.3% of the NHS budget [1], and before anyone points out that future costs of this to the taxpayers don’t depend on current costs to the taxpayers, the NHS bills tourists [2] — however, it may still be good to be a health tourist from the USA, as even at the 150% rate for visitors without insurance I would expect it to be cheaper than the USA for many things).

[1] https://fullfact.org/health/health-tourism-whats-cost/

[2] https://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/uk-visitors/P...
You contest what you can, and then you arrange a payment plan... also I believe the median surplus income (mean is higher) per month in America is ~$1k, most Americans just do something with it (leave it in checking account, invest it, or spend it) instead of putting it in a separate savings account.

Your general complaint about high medical costs is on point of course, but for most people in America they could pay off a dumb $18k bill over a period of time if they had to.