skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They use memtest=n kernel parameter now instead of sdmem https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/more_efficient_memory_wipe/...

I don't really trust their tests, but DDR3 memory kind of makes this attack useless. The $FEDAGENCY also plans arrests so you're cuffed with everything turned on and no way to push buttons or yank out cables like Ross Ulbricht or Max Vision
A quick web search reveals that Microsoft and Apple have had a cross-licensing agreement for at least 10 years.
Either you're doing a lousy job of putting Harris's thesis across, or the thesis itself is gibberish. Whichever is so, you would've added more to this discussion by not posting this comment at all, than by doing so in its current state.

(And, having just spent a year in academia and seen "methods of science" firsthand, I can only assume the suggestion they be applied to questions of morality represents a blatant grab for funding on the part of Dr. Harris, who no doubt envisions himself as a PI presiding over such investigations. On the other hand, if he were all that good a grant writer, I doubt he'd have gone to the trouble of publishing in the popular press.)
A nit, in the military this is not limited to "special forces", and I'm just talking about the stresses of peacetime. Look at e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_system which doesn't list the 4 hours on, 4 hours off system the US Navy used, at least in the '50s when my father was First Lieutenant on a North Atlantic radar picket ship. He still remembers it being very hard.
Knoppix was really innovative for it's time, the first live CD OS that I know of, it was great for accessing drives that were toasted or even mounting other linux volumes. All the stuff we do with USBs now, but back in the early 2000s it wasn't an easy thing for them to accomplish.
> All art comes from other art. Copyright is fundamentally based on a lie.

Copyright is not based on the idea that art isn't influenced by prior art, its based on the idea that things of value with some original element (no matter what other inputs they have) are more likely to be created and distributed if their creators are rewarded with the exclusive right to control the use of their work for some period of time after it is created.

So, your second sentence might be true, but your first sentence is unrelated to it.
As a ladygal in the tech world in NY, who has taught myself something about code, and whose grandmother did buy her a silver spoon* on birth:

These people do exist in the NY tech world. However, so what. Despite literally being given a silver spoon, this didn't equal contacts in the tech world.

I went out and made them. I cold emailed people, I messaged people on blogs, and I helped people out. I push people to talk to me. And I still do all of these things.

COuld I lean into my parents's contacts more - yes (and I might for certain aspects of my startup, since it takes years, 10 something years in some cases, to get to know the right people at some places) Do I most of the time - no.

Developing a book of contacts is a skill. You can learn it.

*My grandma did this because I was her first grandchild. It was her thing, apparently.
> In fact, physicians are so bummed out that 9 out of 10 doctors would discourage anyone from entering the profession.

OP missed a perfect headline opportunity: "9 out of 10 doctors recommend not becoming a doctor."

But seriously, we wonder what's wrong with healthcare. I seriously believe it's because of the lawsuit-happy nature of patients nowadays. Yeah, something could go wrong during your surgery, or your diagnosis for that matter. But that's an inherent risk in having something wrong with you that you need checked out.
> To pay this off in 10 years, the monthly payment would be on the order of $3400.

Once employed, hospitals agree on some arrangement in which they help pay sometimes up to as much as 50% of their loans (HRSA alone pays $170k in loan repayment to primary care docs for 5 years of service in a shortage area). And I don't know what kind of doctors you guys have been hanging out with, but most make way more than $300k after only a handful of years of experience.

> It's not unheard of for some medical students to have loan debt exceeding $300k.

True, but as it turns out, most doctors are sons and daughters of rich folks (at least that's what sister tells me, who's doing her residency now). So those loan debt episodes are being paid by mommies and daddies, and it's rather rare for these doctors to ever feel the pangs of financial pain in their time.
I should have written a more clear question. I read the page, and I understand that now you're doing two-day instead of seven-day transfers.

What I'm wondering is, "how is this possible?" How is Stripe now moving the money faster than before? What change made this possible? Did the stewards of the ACH system make a change that allows this? Is Stripe advancing funds ahead of time based on some kind of credit? Was the seven-day policy basically arbitrary before, and so changing it to two-day basically involves changing an integer somewhere in the codebase and updating documentation? Or is it something else happening at a different layer? More generally, what are the pieces at play in transferring money that influence transfer time? And which of these pieces has Stripe interacted with in order to transfer funds faster?
I like Jessica, but it would be nice to get a perspective outside of the Y Combinator philosophy on starting a company.
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As I said, cash out refinance (easy with 50% equity).

Yes, if you're buying a house in the US you are typically going to take on some debt.
This only works for bugs which are easy to reproduce automatically and on all hardware. Your system would completely block a lot of bugs in linux (e.g. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68761). For some projects this might not be so ridiculous but you're still raising the barrier to bug reports and so you're going to miss bugs. I don't think a manual process is all that difficult unless you have an especially large and/or vocal userbase.
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Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is the exact reason that a couple of my relatives in medical profession gave when asked why their training involved 24-36 hour shifts routinely with very few sleep breaks.
Payments?
A similar phenomenon is at work with law students. Granted law school is shorter than an MD program at only 3 years -- but can still result in $150k of student loan debt.
You can try out my co-founder equity calculator (http://foundrs.com). While it's not biased, I hope it never gives a 50/50 split. There are many reasons why 50/50 is bad.

The obvious one is that it kills decision-making. One day, the two co-founders will disagree, but since no one can overrule the other one, the company will drift and possibly die.

But there is a much more interesting problem (that they don't teach you in you MBA class): founders going for 50/50 is a sign that the company doesn't have a real leader. Rather than have a very unpleasant conversation about why you, the alpha CEO, should be the ultimate boss, no one feels comfortable having that discussion. You sit one evening around the table discussing how to incorporate, you sort of shyly say "what about 50/50", your co-founder stares at the floor and nods. Done. You have a 50/50 split, and a huge red warning sign of future company failure.

Source: I wrote the calculator below and had detailed discussions with 100+ founders about how to split their equity with their co-founders.
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There's a million fixes for that. Ultimately it needs to be the patients that are in charge of the payment.

As it stands there are no published prices (or they're bogus, if your published prices are 3x what insurance companies pay it's not a real price) for anything so nobody can shop around. That means there is no competitive pressure on the non-critical, non-life-threatening things that are expensive-ish but possible to pay out of pocket. And that means that nobody can circumvent insurance. And that means that doctors have to keep spending $58 to process a form that will net them a $20 to $30 copay and maybe another $50 worth of reimbursement? So the doc nets between $30 and $40. Call it $35 and multiply by 5 (12 min per patient) and the doc is billing out at $175 per hour provided he teleports from one exam room to the next.

There are a great many people who could afford to pay $100 cash (or equivalent) for a doctors visit, for say 30 minutes with a doctor. So that's $200 per hour.

Major medical plans (for big stuff) coupled with health savings accounts will empower patients to ask "do I really need this" with a price sheet in hand and a real conversation about the benefits vs the costs. Right now that happens approximately zero.
I just don't get why banking in the US is still so far behind. I recently did a wire transfer from Turkey to Germany between two people's accounts at two different banks. It settled in a mere morning. Same day.
It seems that a of these comments are taking offense, and equating cognitive motor performance = intelligence.

The article describes it as:
"Cognitive motor performance is how quickly your brain reacts to things happening around you"

Meaning it is measuring your reaction time, you already know what to do in the situation, you don't have to think about it, you react.

Which is why they elderly are so dangerous behind the wheel, they didn't forget how to drive, they know that they can't run the red light, but the amount of time it takes to process that the red light is there and then to press on the break increases.

I find it fascinating that that this decline starts to show so early.
When did you grow up there? I've heard those terms used extremely commonly from 2002 onwards
d3.js doesn't target <canvas> (it renders to <svg>) so graph drawing can be pretty slow. Some more alternatives for this scenario (both of which handle fast drawing to <canvas>:

http://trifacta.github.io/vega/
http://sigmajs.org/
Agreed - but enterprise sales is a very different market and sales process. It is not the freemium often developer led market that Google has traditional excelled in.
In my province of BC, all payments from the Medical Service Plan (MSP is our public insurance system which costs Canadians a maximum of $65/mo or as little as $0 for low income individuals) publishes all annual payments to physicians:

http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/legislation/pdf/bluebook2012...

The average for Family Doctors is around $240,000 CAD and for specialists is about $430,000.

Average registered nurse salary in BC is about $61,000 CAD.
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Let's demand her resignation!
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This looks really interesting http://www.cs.ru.nl/P.Achten/IFL2013/symposium_proceedings_I...
>Granted, the salary will probably hit $200k with some years of experience

More if they're specialty and/or surgical. One of the side effects of most hospitals being organized as non-profits is that they have to disclose the compensation level of their five highest-compensated, non-board/officer employees. I know at my hospital (mid-size, 250k metro area, ~$35k median income) that number ranges from $750k-1.2M.

Granted, most doctors aren't making anywhere near that, but it was pretty surprising to me when I looked up our 990 out of curiosity. I do think an MD, especially a specialist, stands a much better chance of making that sort of money than any given software engineer, though.
Oh, definitely. But when it comes to "problems we should all have to bear a burden to prevent" -- the target of public policy -- it just doesn't seem like that particular problem should be very high on the list.

It's not that being priced out is a pure good; it's that it naturally comes with effects that very much soften the blow (at least for homeowners). It's not the sort of extreme personal catastrophe that social policy tries to mitigate in general.
> It doesn't really look like this is meant to make any money for the developer yet

Incorrect.

> the new fee you will need to pay is 10% of the undo amount, plus the original mining fee. Note: If you are sending a secret transaction, you must then double this fee

http://www.bitundo.com/developer.html
My laptop power supply isn't grounded.

I assume that there is a good reason for this.
This has actually happened, as reported here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/prostitutes-renting...
Given how weird Google's hiring practices are, how does one actually go about getting hired at Google X? Would you have to interview for a few thousand positions before you get the right one?
High. VHF AC to DC conversion isn't in many devices because it is actually hard to get it to not cause issues with everything else on the same transformer (not even breaker).

Also you notice they use a lighter wire than most laptop power supplies would and no ferro loop at the end to reduce the noise to the device.

Maybe I missed it, but I don't think I saw a UL approval on the device. I also don't think there is enough room in the case to have a thermal cut out, and a fuse/breaker. Which you really need on a power supply.

I'd love to be wrong on all this. I hate carrying a brick (though mine is about the size of half a deck of cards).
Obviously want to optimize for success. What I'd really like to know is what are the pitfalls that non-even equity split can bring, so that I can watch to see if that's happening and potentially mitigate.
Hence "and willing".
Maybe for reversible computing? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing
240W?

How much battery life do you get? Half an hour?
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Did they control for having a real-life job?

I can easily imagine this effect being due to people having less time to practice, and due to less time spent practicing, and playing more casually due to 8 hours every day spent working.
This is the NY Post'a article which the kreuger text references, it's in the headline article

but for those skimming the comments or who missed the hyperlink:

http://nypost.com/2014/04/14/hookers-using-airbnb-to-use-apa...
The percentage of the tax take goes up because the richest 1%'s income has gone up massively while the bottom 90% has stagnated.
I'm sure HBO can figure out advertising if it needed to. I gather it is simply financial; advertising costs money. By not having to advertise, HBO saves money, so there's clear monetary benefits even in addition to their cut of the subscriber fees.
"It seems to be more closely related to the fact that HBO has evolved symbiotically with cable over many decades"

Yes, and that might even be an understatement. To the extent HBO moves into direct-subscription or advertising-driven models, it'll need to find a way to do those in addition to its existing, cable-licensing business -- not as an alternative.

The problem is that HBO makes a lot more money licensing to cable providers than it realistically could by selling episodes a la carte, by selling advertising, or by selling HBO subscriptions individually. Any president or C-level exec at HBO (regardless of its corporate parent) is going to have a hell of a time initiating that process, politically, organizationally, or economically. It would basically amount to telling shareholders, stakeholders, and peers that one is going to jeopardize X to pursue a very uncertain X/4.

HBO will go a la carte, or ad-driven, if and when it can figure out how to make the economics of doing so more attractive than the economics of B2B licensing fees. That's easier said than done. It will probably require one of two things: 1) a platform-agnostic licensing strategy, i.e., to diversify away from cable; or 2) a complete rethinking of content forms, types, and salability.

It bears mentioning that even ad-driven broadcast networks make more money off of cable licensing than they do from advertising. (The revenue split is about 48% advertising and 52% cable/distribution fees, trending toward 40/60.)

As for the article's fundamental mistake--conflating Time Warner with Time Warner Cable--that's a pretty big one. TWC spun out from TW back in 2009.
Awesome, got to love High Risk Mutual Funds. This seems like the right way to go, because most don't have the time to research startups.
"fiddle"? I expected it to run the code. But for running simple C/C++ code I made me these anyway:

https://gist.github.com/panzi/7010082
https://gist.github.com/panzi/7010082

C example (-i for include, -p for printf, standard flags: -I, -L, -l, -W, -O, -D, -S, -E):

$ cexpr -imath.h -iunistd.h -p '%f %d' 'pow(2,3)' 'getuid()'
8.000000 1000

C++ example (-i for include, standard flags: -I, -L, -l, -W, -O, -D, -S, -E):

$ cppexpr -ilimits 'std::numeric_limits<long>::max()' '"hello world"'
9223372036854775807 hello world
It seems like they have already received about $5M in funding:
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/finsix-corporation

The implications of the technology are a lot bigger than laptop supplies and I am sure they know that. Laptop supplies seem like a good way to raise some cash without dilution while they work on harder problems.
> (underlined) Today it's a prostitution ring, tomorrow it could be an illegal gambling ring, and maybe next week it could be a drug operation.

This is textbook 'slippery slope' fallacy. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope You said that if we allow A to happen, then Z will eventually happen too, therefore A should not happen.
I disagree. The problem is frankly that we've come to expect too much from modern medicine. Doing a triple bypass surgery on a 90-year-old is expensive, plain and simple. Yes, we can save his life, but we have to be willing to pay the cost—and we aren't.

Medicare is a monopsony. They represent such a large share of patients for many practices that they set their own prices. And when people expect medicare both to pay for their triple bypass and not to go broke at the same time, what we get bankrupt hospitals and over-worked doctors.

Being more responsible about the way we apportion healthcare is the only reasonable option.
Wild ass guess here: keep funds at all the major banks and do intra-bank transfers which are instant. We've considered something similar. You need enough cash to keep a pool at every bank large enough to cover transfers and you need a big enough customer base that the net flow into or out of your account at a particular bank is small enough that you can rebalance periodically.
TBH from the moment AirBnB was announced, with it's inital focus on couch surfing from strangers (and the lack of traditional 'quiet enjoyment' as a result) I expected a serious sexual assault to occur.

A prostitution ring is pretty low on the list of things that could go wrong.
"Obviously want to optimize for success."

No, you're optimizing for "fairness" as you see it, for yourself. This split will do nothing good going forward ... unless, of course, you will internally burn at the idea of your cofounder getting more than what you view as his fair share. Which should tell you something, and brings me to:

The pitfalls are inside people's heads and hearts, so I think you'll find that strategy to be particularly difficult to execute.

The cofounder should be obvious; others who, especially down the road when the starting details are lost in time, will ideally see you two working just as hard as each other, and wonder why the split is so uneven. I don't see anything good that can come from that.
If you take away the need to pay back six-figure student loans and tens of thousands each year for malpractice insurance - then much more of that money stays in the doctors pocket.

Doctors in Europe live quite well, and don't have as ridiculous workhours as the numerous USA examples listed, or the suicide problem.
Perhaps something like "allowing same sex marriage today will lead to humans marrying animals tomorrow" is a fallacy.

This seems very well reasoned. I hope you're not implying that we can't make reasoned assumptions and take actions based off them.

Also there's actual law breaking going on here.

I love and use AirBnb but the lady has some great points.
Inside jokes, or humor of any kind, have no place on HN, Ben. May you be stripped of all your imaginary internet fun points, so that you learn not to be such a light-hearted and well-adjusted individual.
Thats a bogus distinction. If it matters, animals have shown to have the concept of 'self', its not unique to human beings.
Sticks a long way out of the wall. How much, lest's see: the size is given in cubic inches, how useful - not.

It's also only 50% of the size of my current adapter, not a quarter, although to be fair, that one is only 33W. Does have a UK plug though! Dart plus plug adapter is probably no smaller.
It can't get much worse than one's apartment being used as a brothel, there's really nowhere to slide to at that point.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593830. They will be sending stuff out after 7PM.
Clutch those purse strings! Clutch them tiiiiiiiight. Lest some ne'erdowell slip something like DRUGS into your bag. And then you might accidentally take them, and LORD KNOWS one dose is enough to make you so addicted to the marijuana shots that you will be shooting cops and blowing judges for your next hit.
Hmm. Why do we need that? AirBnB promotes better capital utilization. The only reason to be against that is if you're some sort of Commie at heart and think that the government should be in the job of trying to make your rental a way to transfer wealth from landlords to tenants.

Which is certainly a political opinion that some people endorse, of course, but when you do that it's generally a contributing factor towards a housing shortage, like you see in places such as New York and San Francisco... go figure :b
This is interesting. Thanks for the link!

Nonetheless, I don't think these guys are getting 4 on 4 off... I think they just work basically straight through for 12-16 (or more) hours and get maybe a day a week off.

I can completely sympathize though that 4 on 4 off would be incredibly hard in and of itself. I'm not sure I could do it for weeks let alone months on end.
While I totally believe this to be true, I can't imagine myself to become much smarter once I've reached 24. I feel like I already know way more than many people older than me, well aware that I'm probably terribly wrong.

I mean, what ground-breaking stuff did you learn since? I would really like to read some anecdotes.
A consideration of the economics would suggest that any doc who trained in the last two decades isn't in it for the money - the ROI on an MD is far less than most other advanced degrees. If we wanted to be wealthy, with the grades and letters required to get into med school in the US, most of us could readily have chosen other professions. (Heck, some even walk away from startups, believe it or not).
My impression as someone in practice for more than a decade, who cares for a large number of docs, and has run a large clinic: It's really not the reimbursement. It's the combination of dealing with payers determined to deny treatment, massive requirements in terms of documentation and ongoing accreditation, and - in particular - constant pressure to spend less time with more patients. Then, we read posts like these which buy into conspiracy theories about how we're out to poison patients with expensive medications to line our pockets. The time problem in particular afflicts primary care docs the most, but even the surgeons complain about it.
As far as ACA and its impact, there's no question it's a hack (and not a good one) - most economists not on the far right agree single payer would be optimal - but under the political circumstances, it was probably the best we could get.
Regardless, we'll move to a system where the majority of care isn't delivered by docs. Then we'll complain about it. But, it will be more cost-effective.