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> How many startups comes up with new medicines, for example?

Is that a serious question? The answer is plenty, you just don't hear about them because they're bought up once the FDA approves their medicine.
Also tomorrow on the news: People who leave stupid fucking stereotyped comments on every story surrounding Facebook
If it's this easy to swing an election why doesn't everyone do it?
I'd love to see this in Presto. It would make my life 1000x easier.
Discussion on Google's Dopamine - its Reinforcement Learning Framework https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648746
I'm on my Lumia 920 right now, due to my Nexus 5x finally biting the dust. I still love the OS. Most of the apps no longer work, my signal is crap, etc. But I still like the OS.
Yes I'm sure it was done on purpose, just like over-saturated colours on TVs and cameras.
Google is normal too?

If I'd named my company Orange, I would be laughed at too.

And people also got used to Ubuntu by now I guess.

And Yahoo and Bing? There's not much reason to keep surprising on new names people find.
I interpreted the parent comment differently. Basically, I think they are agreeing with you, that fairness shouldn't necessarily factor into a (private) business transaction. However, many people do feel that their should be some notion of fairness factored into what have been historically governmental responsibilities (e.g managing roads, prisons, etc.) and that the push to privatize many of these functions is dangerous if it does away with "fairness" in these functions.
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>argument against the idea to privitize everything

Go to a different company next time?

If the government denies your paperwork, you get to keep working with the same government.
Those $10M companies don't do research because they are research. The founders have an idea, they try it out, if it works they get acquired by a big company that doesn't do nearly as much of its own research as it used to because this is easier. Sometimes the big companies deliberately let groups of employees leave to try something, with IP and funding and legal indemnification, then buy them back if it works. So plenty of research actually occurs, and it's the big companies that don't need to be part of funding it.
Copy Google Photos' deep learning photo system

I use it all the time to search my own photos. It tries to figure out the content of the images so I can search for "horses" and it will find every image I have of horses (well of course it's not perfect).
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I understand what you mean, and it's definitely a trade off.

Static typing requires all types to make sense together no matter how small the addition is.

In dynamic typing, we can just add a class/object/field here and there because it'll only be used narrowly anyway. So, it's often fine.

This would be great if we can think of a small example to illustrate this trade off.
I felt genuinely bad for the animation team that worked on AI-generated walk/movement when they showed their work to Miyazaki. It was downright brutal.

That doesn't change the fact that he has told amazing stories. He is an amazing creator, and has made some of my favorite films. But the hurt in those folks' faces as someone they idolized called what they did 'an insult to life itself'... It was ugly behavior.
I doubt it. It'll allow for the all diseases in one country to more easily spread to every country. This isn't just limited to human germs but also invasive species.
What's new in Cython 0.29?
First question is why? Are you making systems programmers? Are you trying to ensure they have a deep understanding of how a computer works?

Personally I would recommend teaching some simple type-less language first. This will be their 'Crutch' language, used to test out simple algorithms.

Then I would teach them assembly language. Make sure they call subroutines and use pointers, but on a simple level. Like sort an array of strings.

Then I would teach them the C and show how it directly and easily translates to assembly. Having done assembly they should have an easier time of pointers. As we all know, pointers is what makes the new C programmers cry. Well that and freeing the same space twice.
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>there is no data to support the wage gap

This is false.

https://www.epi.org/publication/what-is-the-gender-pay-gap-a...

>it's very unpopular to question it.

Also false, it's very popular (and almost cliché) to dismiss it.

>Christina Hoff Summers... has paid a huge price by actually investigating these issues.

And what price would that be? She seems extremely successful.

http://www.aei.org/scholar/christina-hoff-sommers/
> How many startups comes up with new medicines, for example?

Lots, and lots try and fail (the ones that succeed, or even make it past the first few big hurdles, often get acquired by the big players, because buying work that's done is less risky than early research...)
Of course, people still carry knives (mighty useful, what with today's multi-function ones); but about ~0% of them use them as their primary, day-to-day eating utensil.
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>"Were there any surprise findings? NTP found longer lifespans among the exposed male rats. This may be explained by an observed decrease in chronic kidney problems that are often the cause of death in older rats"

The increased lifespan could be at least partially responsible for the increased cancer rates. All populations that see an increase in lifespan see an increase in cancer rates. Cancer seems to be the default prize for living a long life.

Also, the caption on slide 20 for their BioEM2016 Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, June 8, 2016 presentation surprised me a litte. It states that the historical control incidence of malignant gliomas is in the range of 0-8%. This study saw a rate of 0% for its controls. That's not unreasonable but it is interesting. It's also odd that they did not see an indication of a dose response curve for GSM modulation, though admittedly the number of samples is low.

I don't doubt the statistical significance of the evidence presented, but data patterns suggest that it's at least a little possible that there's an issue with their protocol.
Id be looking for web programming and business savvy skills.

Btw, Ive recently fell in-love with embedded systems. Ive built a dishwasher that sets your dinnertable. But the issue is the business, not the tech.
One thing that's scary to me as someone who will be affected is the thought that one day, so much of my work could be just gone.

I am not a full-time photographer; there are runs of time every year where I spend a lot of of time shooting (e.g. live music gigs), and then long periods of inactivity.

I have over 1000 photos on Flickr. I've been a user for over a decade. And I found out about this change from this post, because I haven't been reading the associated Yahoo email that often.

So, leaving my account alone for 3 months = losing most of my photos forever.

Great.

Just the service I want to pay for.

I understand the business need, but perhaps could you take it easy on irreversible changes? Sure, make the photos over the 1K limit unavailable even to the account holders -- but let them buy the access back long after the change.

Not only you might get more subscriptions from that alone, but there's also this:

Unlimited storage might not be feasible for a fixed pricd. Photos are growing larger, dollar is getting cheaper - we're betting on HDD costs going down, but that's not a given.

You might need to have a change in the future.

Again.

And I don't want to lose data because I'd have missed that announcement - just like I missed this one.

How you treat your free users indicates what the paying attention ones can expect.

Please, for the sake of everything that's holy, give your devoted users some goddamn peace of mind that they can camp in the mountains for a year and don't return to see their data gone.

Yahoo! screwed up there - but two wrongs do not make a right.

Not all of us use the service every day. Take it easy on annihilating work and memories.

TL;DR: every account whose data you keep is a potential subscription. Every user whose data you deleted is a guaranteed loss of business and eternal scorn. Please take care of your intermittent, but devoted users.
According to CNN[1] and a scientist in Scotland- yes! It hydrates pretty much equally, though it's slightly worse for your teeth. Not nearly as bad as regular soda/pop/etc, though.

Missed the second part. The article doesn't address it, but from my knowledge flavoring shouldn't affect the hydration unless the flavor includes other components like sugar/acid/salts/caffeine/etc.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/health/sparkling-water-hydrat...
Probably the "Who wouldn't" phrasing.

That said, having lived above a restaurant, I personally will never again live in a building shared with a food-related business. Even the cleanest tend to have a poor record controlling pests; and when they exterminate, all the critters will flee into your apartment.

A grocery store a couple doors down on the same block, though? Ideal. Pharmacy on the ground floor of my building? Absolutely. Shoe store? Jewelry store? Toy store? Hairdresser? Why the hell not?

Many of the most popular neighborhoods in New York are built out like this. The convenience is part of what makes them so popular.
I hear you. Right now a lot of our meetings involve sitting with or across from decision makers, and being in DC is really critical for that.

For what it's worth, some of our individual agency engagements (e.g. VA or DoD) might allow you to come to DC for a short while like three months and then work remotely after that. But most of our work is in DC, at least for now.
There was a lot of churn in JS. Things have gotten pretty damn stable.

I usually use Express(2010), Socket.io(2014) and React(2013) for new projects.

The libraries that break with new versions are the ones that rely on exotic features.
We're all vulnerable to smear and false accusations. Anyone could claim right now that you sold company secrets to a competitor, yet we don't worry about that because most people are not liars or jerks and would face repercussions themselves if proven wrong.
As much as I hate Google, this is pretty cool. They even have donuts for everyone.
The cloud is going to move underwater
I live on the San Francisco peninsula. A mountain lion killed a deer in our back yard once, and then the buzzards came and cleaned it up. Not that I wish to dispute the premise of the OP in the slightest, but you can still find wildness in some unexpected places.
Ask HN: Online CS Program from Dakota State Universisty, Opinions?
I'm applying for this program:
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I was wondering if you guys think that its sufficient, covers all the CS core requirements ?

working full-time and not being able to go to a university on-campus limits me to online programs.

I'm also hoping that a structured-deadline way of studying would force me to sit down at home and study/do homework better than any freely available courses out there.

I welcome any other suggestions to get an online CS degree.
Until these corporations are properly held accountable we can expect the same old.
And a cell phone emits <1 W total, of which tens of millionths or less are absorbed. I was pointing out the difference between W/kg absorption and W/kg emission. These rats were absorbing tens of thousands of times more energy than you would experience holding a phone directly to your head.
so all managers are exploiters?
When will people realize that saying “Long Island ,NY” isn’t an actual location. There are 4 counties in “Long Island “ there are very different parts . For example in the Town of Hempstead in southern Nassau county you have the likes of Joey buttafucco , however in North Hempstead in the northern western section of Nassau county you have some of the priciest homes in the county in the village of sands point . That doesn’t even take into account Suffolk county , and kings and queens counties which are part of Long Island . So reporter ; where in the 450+ square miles of Long Island did this take place ? Why even say Long Island ?
Water taste can vary depending on the municipality and how they treat and transmit it. Look at how Flint fucked up their water supply. I could see people who live there never trusting water from a tap ever again.
> a relatively simple puzzle

I'm curious where the line on "relatively simple" is.

Other people have already noted the tasks can be confusing if you're not an American English-speaker, and that the backup tasks for people with vision difficulties are nigh impossible.

But beyond that: some of the time I have to do 1-3 Captcha pages, which I would class as relatively simple. Other times, I've gotten up to 10+ pages with what I believe was perfect accuracy. (They were fairly simple tasks like "click the stoplights", not the sometimes-ambiguous ones like "click the storefronts".) That's usually when I'm traveling, so it's correlated with slow internet. I don't know what the upper limit is, because there are very few pages I care about enough to push through 10+ rounds of Captcha, but I'd argue that "spending 3 minutes studying traffic photos with no end in sight" is way past my definition of 'simple'.
You just said, don't use a free service to back up. They said, "okay, it's not free" which is exactly what you just said was the right thing to do.

> I thought about storing all my family photos on flicker a few years ago... Would have been useless now.

No, it would have been exactly as you just said. You'd start paying and your backup would still be there.
Is "nabbing a Series E" really a sign of something flourishing? The way I view investment rounds is as a letter grade. Once you've reached a "Series F" maybe you've just failed? Has this company made any profit, for instance? Just conjecture.
This seems useful for prototyping and quick GUIs. Usually for one-off apps I end up creating a local http server on some port then pop up the browser to view it. Before I know it, I end up serving a few different ports and losing tabs... Being able to pack each script up complete with GUI - without a lot of effort or huge dependencies - seems like it might be convenient.
You’ll get put on hold forever: “this person’s calls take 30 minutes to resolve”

Edit: and makes our call takers feel dumb with low resolution rates
These systems only exist to help their customers so if it is "clogged" it is probably indicative of fat execs and a successful round of layoffs after they realized they could "make more" by supporting their customers less.
Howdy redneck, this New England yankee carries a Leatherman (Skeletool CX) everywhere. Do you think we can find us a midwest farm boy in here?

I've also used for food in a pinch (mostly cutting things up to share with others).

I see a lot of people carry pure folding knives (Spyder, etc). Honestly I use the screwdriver, etc at least as much as the blade. Not sure why anyone would forego a little extra utility.
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Great article on that here: https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum...
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> Twitter and FB are not mediums for communication, but mediums for marketing broadcasts.

Why not both? There are plenty of people having legitimate, personally meaningful conversations on both. There are plenty that use both for marketing. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

> You can also do that on Slack, Discord, even phpBB forums

...except that people mostly don't. They seem better able to discover and maintain their online friendships and communities on the bigger platforms, for whatever reason. They went into the market and they chose. Who are you to second-guess them?
Wow. This is a far better article than the one posted. I didn't have to read it four times to figure out what the point was.
I certainly understand the harsh reality of seeing a glimpse of a solution and finding no logical path there.

For me, it's factoring large numbers in short times. I've spent 18 years on and off of the problem. Most of that time was coming up with novel ideas and then arriving at the same conclusions as everybody else.

I'm too obstinate and "stupid" to know that the problem is practically unsolvable - but fortunately I'm not obsessive enough to throw my life into it. It's basically a hobby I do during my downtime.

I like to call it mathematical finger painting, or nature walks through obscure numeric systems. Studying topics, geometries, ancient multiplication methods for fun, and generally scratching under the surface of "why" without knowing how.
Complaining to a congressperson is usually more effective than complaining to a monopoly/oligopoly like Comcast.
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