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I don't buy the numbers on dog walkers. I live in NYC, which is probably at the high end for this and many other things, and I don't know anyone who's paying $25/day to walk a dog with up to 7 other dogs. People will pay more to have their dogs walked by themselves or in small groups. I don't think I see groups of more than 4.

The theater/opera carpenter one really surprised me. I wonder why they are paid so much? Unions?

Construction I totally understand. I come from Perth, Western Australia, which is in the midst of a resources boom that has been going on almost unabated for 15-20 years. The scope and scale of what is being dug up from the ground or drilled from the sea is probably unprecedented.

This puts an incredible amount of pressure on construction. So much so that in 2000 you could buy a house for ~$100k in Perth. 5 years later that same house was $350k+. Most of that was just increased construction and materials cost, not land appreciation.

The problem with such massive increases in the cost of construction is that it feeds into virtually everything else. If you've ever been to Perth, you'll know it's an incredibly expensive city now. Back in the 90s I lived comfortably as a student in a 2 bedroom apartment and all expenses for <$200/week.

I often wonder if Australia will suffer (or is already suffering) from Dutch Disease [1]. It's a place now of the haves (those in mining/construction) and have nots (everyone else). Even if you're one of the lucky ones, the standard of living is not great.

I say this as someone who lives in Manhattan. But New York City has way more options for the whole income spectrum. Less than $200k can get you a 1 bedroom in Sunnyside, Queens that's <30 minutes to Midtown.

In Perth, there are no cheap options anymore. Even 5 years ago, 40-50 year old crappy apartments were being rented out for $300/week sight unseen.

Anyway I don't begrudge any of these jobs their good fortunes (I am a software engineer after all). I do worry about construction in particular however because of the on-flow effect into everything else.

Construction really is a mixed bag too. Highly paid crane operators? That's a stressful/demanding job. No problem there. 6 figure incomes for guys who stand on the street with a stop sign wearing a hard hat? Well, that's just a racket.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
> “If you don’t constantly insist upon your rights, you will be denied them”

I think in US Jails like Rikers is that if you insist upon your rights you will be thrown into solitary. Americans don't think prisoners should have rights, they went through the due process system and lost them because they did something bad.
I'm not at all sure why these are 'surprising'. $100k/year for a dog walker is not possible in most areas unless there's a lot of dogs to walk for a lot of dog owners with disposable income. That $96k figure is 'up to', and while much may be in cash, it's probably closer to 50-70% that on an annual basis. If you're doing this in an area with enough rich dog owners to sustain that business year 'round, you're living in an area where earning, say, $60k isn't going to afford you a great lifestyle. Liveable, certainly, but not wealthy.

The 'not surprising' part really is the down to hustle - it should not be surprising at all that some people can hustle up paying customers for services that we'd ignore or look down on. The dog walking gig - you must really love dogs to be cleaning up dog crap for up to 8 dogs at a time, 5-7 days per week, 6-8 hours per day.

I've known dog walkers and pool cleaners. Most don't make anywhere near that, because they're not good hustlers - they're not networked sufficiently, and don't know how to attract enough customers and manage a business. Someone with the skills to attract customers and properly manage 'busyness', money will flow almost in spite of whatever skills/education they may have or, more usually, not have.
I think the advantage of choosing your endpoint is it allows finer grained control over what gets rendered in the GIF

you could argue that if you really cared you'd just use a GIF editor to "trim" the final result to your liking, but would be nice not to have this step.
But this assumes finite human greed, and people to be perfectly content with their current standard of living.
Could you add a “standard” mailto: link? I’m not using any of the popular webmail providers, but this looks really nice otherwise :)
Everytime I read stories about dramatically shrinking cities I wonder if there's an opportunity to create a startup hub. The cities aren't always where the customers are, so probably the only kind of startup that would work would be tech related.

If a dying city invested in great internet connectivity in one neighbourhood, offered extremely reasonable cost of living expenses (mostly cheap rent), maybe even a tax break in the first 2-3 years of your business, would you consider relocating to help keep your startup expenses down?
> Some physicians and ethicists question the relative morality of allowing thousands to die just because the means of saving them is considered repugnant. A regulated marketplace, they say, could all but eliminate the shortage.

If synthetic organ synthesis (or regenesis) is successful, the field of transplantation will explode and the driver for this black market will disappear. Until that time, we're stuck with an ethically delicate situation. Curious to hear what HN thinks of creating such a regulated market, and whether it's fundamentally different from unpaid donations or chained donations.
I think the point stands that the FDA get almost no credit when it rejects drugs that could have harmed Americans and get fully blamed when any drug causes excess deaths in the US.

That's the big problem.

In addition, the public has little appetite for conversations that start with "We balance risk so only a handful of Americans die..." The public has zero tolerance for any mistakes the FDA makes, which I think is unfair, but that's the world the FDA lives in.
I managed scrum teams a lot so I know tdd and xp and the like. As for the interview, I did a couple of pet projects in the last 1-2 years in the evenings so I've been able to answer all of the django questions. Plus I'm awesome:) Just kidding. No I'm not kidding - it's pretty important to be on the same page with your team/employer.

Also I bought a c64 as 6810 assembly is on my bucket list. So as AI and Lisp.
Option A, monsters use the players class system.
Option B, monsters use a separate system, need to be balanced externally and become part of a large rule system...

City maps and politics might work, but pre canned campaigns never seem to sell well because building that stuff is generally considered a fun part of being a DM.

That said, I actually found D&D/white wolf source books and monster manuals etc a fun read on their own.
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I was thinking more changing the priorities rather than more.
Value added taxes/sales are plausible if they are selling stuff.
I have great appreciation for russian technology, but aren't those exaggeration ?

If setun , the ternary computer was so efficient - how is ithat today we use binary machines(and that in general the russians didn't have a moore's law ) ?
I really dislike this - an article with unverified sources and no original content in the BBC, what I consider a very reliable, ethical news source. To me this is yet another example of the cheapening of modern journalism - quora has been "partnering" with several "content distribution partners" including BBC to market themselves while doing the newspapers' jobs.

> Quora exec Marc Bodnick sees the media deals as a win-win, where Quora writers get more distribution, and media partners get good content. (http://allthingsd.com/20131119/quora-will-push-its-most-link...)

At least some publishers have been called out and ended up doing the right thing, like when huffpo published unsourced, ridiculous answers about trader joes' two buck chuck:

>This blog post contained un-sourced claims about Two Buck Chuck and its proprietor, Bronco Wines. It has been removed from the site in accordance with our blogger terms. (http://www.starkinsider.com/2014/08/trader-joes-two-buck-chu...)
You won't be able to avoid clones which is probably why you're being down voted, but fwiw it works really well with a touch screen and would make a great app.
In Switzerland this is very common. From my point of view, the US is rather exceptional in terms of crime rate in a highly developed nation.
This comment could not be further from the truth, as I feel you do not have strong basis in understanding what the weighted cost of capital refers to.

Here is an example calculation of an infrastructure project:

http://investment.infrastructure.gov.au/publications/reports...

Also, your ghost city comment is irrelevant, which I already addressed in a prior comment.

And as a final point, even with a 6% WACC in an ideal scenario, which I addressed, the NPV is still -3.33 billion.
Principles of Antifragile Software
It probably depends on why you're learning this. If I understand the concept correctly, the idea is to interleaving complementary skills. i.e. you stay within the same broad skill/activity domain.

So if learning this to prepare for a quiz show, I'd probably interleave it with specific trivia-esque facts about each capital city's culture, history, etc. That way you both learn the names of the capitals, and you attach varied bits of context to each name.

If I needed to know them because I'm moving to somewhere in Europe and I want to have a "lay of the land," I might interleave other useful tips and tricks I would need to know. Any quirks in how they drive over there, how to order food in whatever languages I need to know, the different new social customs I need to be aware of, how to translate in my head between English and metric measurements perhaps, etc ...
Taking luck out of the equation was a primary reason for not sending any of our kids to school.

You are right, you are lucky.
I'm more worried about the fact that more and more drugs are reclassified as prescription only. Right now, I can only get green tea or alcohol without a prescription for anxiety - not exactly the best choices.

No Adderall, Xanax or Provigil for me either - the only things I can get right now are Tofranil from a friend (which is technically illegal) and racetams from eBay.
I may not be as well-informed as you, but I don't see a problem on those on-label uses you mentioned.

If you want to evaluate the safety of a prescription, I hope you have the right degree for that. Things can look safe on one paper and not safe on another. Or your condition may warrant a risk of greater side effect with the upside of better efficacy. It's true that doctors and FDA can make mistakes, but they are the best people you have.

Uh oh... Didn't know that your AMA is such a place. Do you have a association that represents all prescribers? Prescribing habits should be looked over by them.
One of the best speakers on Django is James Bennett, especially his django in depth and django the good parts presentations are highly recommended:

http://pyvideo.org/speaker/25/james-bennett/
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A human-controlled punching machine is not a living thing, a human-controlled nibbling machine isn't a living thing. Thus none of the sentences support the notion that "life is far more energy-efficient than machines for most tasks".

There might be some manually controlled machines that are more energy efficient than some automatic machines, but that would be a very very different fact, and I don't see any reason to believe that it would hold in general. For example the table you linked to doesn't say how much that is produced per energy unit, which would be the relevant measure, and it doesn't take into account that the operator uses a lot of energy. With your kind of arguing I could show that a hand saw was infinitely more efficient than a chainsaw because the hand saw in itself doesn't use any energy at all and we don't count the operator.

A human in standby (resting) consumes about 80W power, and a human that does any kind of work much more than that. Humans use extremely inefficient fuel that takes many times more energy to produce than it makes available to do any kind of work. For most physical work it is easy to find a machine that does the same work using much less energy. In those areas where computers can replace humans they also do the same work using much less energy but also much faster. And then we haven't even taken into account that the human only works for 40 hours per week, need a house that keep her warm and uses a shitload of energy every day just to get back and forth to their workplace.
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Thalidomide was very effective in treating morning sickness, it "just" wasn't safe. Why does the danger of thalidomide justify giving the FDA extensive powers to regulate the effectiveness of treatments?
> If synthetic organ synthesis (or regenesis) is successful

I'm rooting for it and I think we should devote more resources to further that field. Apart of being able to completely eliminate both organs shortage and the problem of organ black market, we can expect lab-grown meat to appear as a side effect of early research. There are lots of problems - not only ethical, but related to energy and fossil fuel usage - that we could solve if we didn't have to kill that cow to eat our burger.
Reposting surprising21415's dead comment (spam filter went mad?):

> Also: https://github.com/arachsys/containers https://github.com/ghedo/pflask https://github.com/vincentbernat/jchroot https://github.com/vi/dive

> But seccomp in Firejail is a distinctive feature.
The slide (8) says 72k EEPROM, 6k RAM and 256 k ROM.
Has anyone used both Phoenix and Chicago Boss in anger (to at least some extent)? It'd be great to see a comparison between the two.

I'll start by saying that Phoenix seems specifically built for Elixir, while Chicago Boss appears to be an Erlang framework which works fine with Elixir after a minimal amount of initial configuration upfront.
Surprisingly "empty" article. "Well folks we've just lowered the bound on data compression - there you have it."

No reference, No Paper not even an example of how it applies.
I hope an editor notices it and they pull it out - pretty embarrassing.
The analogies in this article are stretched to the point of nonusefulness and the sarcasm makes it difficult to parse what the author is saying.
>I really dislike this - an article with no original content and unverified sources in the BBC, what I consider a very reliable, ethical news source.

About that...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilmidgley/2014/06/03/bbc-news-...

I personally thought that the BBC News jumped the shark when they introduced a "BBC Capital" section. It really rammed home Chomsky's point about major newspapers having a "business" section but no "labor" section.

It's been a downhill slide ever since Hutton, to be honest, and a crying shame.

At least we still have Al Jazeera, though.
It's $25 per session... Their math is $25 * 8 dogs * 2 times daily * 240 days a year. That's how "up to eight dogs" turns into "eight dogs every day, every time".
Well I'm not too surprised as Japan is often referred to as "The Switzerland of Asia", but I can tell you that in France people would steal without thinking twice in no time.
Why can't you see a doctor about your anxiety?
I think the problem here is that the predictive value of the "pretty good evidential" support and success in a future (acceptable to the FDA) clinical trial isn't as high as you might think.

Admittedly it's for a different indication, but the Medivation experience with dimebon, which is a drug used in Russia as an antihistamine for decades, which had "pretty good evidential support" that the drug might work for Alzheimer's disease is, unfortunately, more likely to be par for the course.
For film cameras at least, the best bang for the buck brand is Cosina Voigtländer. I own a Bessa R4A with a Cosina Voigtländer Color Skopar 21mm f/4.0 Pancake and seriously, what a great camera package for around $1000.
Okay, I agree, he's being sarcastic. Sorry, I'm obviously too tired to contribute to this discussion.
The dog walking job, at $96,000, is a flat-out lie. I owned a dog walking company for several years. There is lots of competition and no barrier to entry.
Oh my god, that first track brings memories flooding back. I was a kid! I wonder how many other such things there are out there like this?
Cool, I wasn't familiar with the Orphan Drug program. From the Wiki page it looks like it's focused on development of new drugs for rare diseases, for which the market is inherently small and thus impossible to do large clinical trials, etc. That's similar to but not quite the same as the problem here, where a drug already exists and the market is potentially quite large, but the lack of patent protection prevents any one company from funding its approval. Do you know if the Orphan Drug Act specifically designates some government body with the mandate and funding to study and approve pre-existing foreign drugs? If not, maybe that could be a useful extension.
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Several years ago I knew a hair dresser who made 90K working only a few hours a day while I worked three times longer as a software engineer making only 75K. A third of her income was from tips (and I've heard that a lot of people don't pay taxes on those).
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I've heard it called grain of sand journalism. It usually goes from a couple of very broad statements about the entire desert directly to an in depth look at a few grains of sand.
We need to get rid of the SIM card and the closed basebands if we ever want to save the internet / PC / FOSS that permitted this open ecosystem... #KeysToTheUsers
Nice
and what a clean and clear "Terms of Use"
Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There's A Website To Prove It
It's amusing that they did include this disclaimer at the bottom:

> Quora respondents are required to use their true names under the site’s Real Names policy. To help ensure legitimacy and quality, Quora asks some individuals, such as doctors and lawyers, to confirm their expertise.

Yet there was not a single doctor or lawyer quoted in that article.
It looks like nukes are off the table. In any way, Russia is invading countries who don't possess nuclear weapons, and uses unflagged troops. From that logic it would be illogical to retaliate with nukes for attacks on troops that aren't yours...

Putin is deliberately isolating conflict regions from each other and from the bigger picture, somehow hoping that no single attack is worth it for NATO to actually retaliate in any form. So far, as long as no NATO countries are in immediate danger, this works extremely well.
the instruction is very long for something that's "one click"
> Why does the danger of thalidomide justify giving the FDA extensive powers to regulate the effectiveness of treatments?

... because it wasn't safe for use by pregnant women? Am I not understanding part of what you're saying?

I wouldn't consider that to be truly "effective" when the side-effects are quite serious. And by the nature of the medication, all pregnant women taking the drug are necessarily at risk of these side effects.
Imgur, please don't be the next TinyPic or ImageShack
I loved school because I enjoyed learning and was the top of the class. I had a compulsion to finish every test first, and have the highest score. IMO, I was born to learn, and would have succeeded in almost any type of educational system.
This. Think about how hard it is to figure out who is going to be a good developer, and then think about how much harder it is to figure out who is going to be a good teacher.
When the construction market busts a lot of stuff busts with it, usually. It's not a good time to hunt for a new job. Not saying that your idea is not going to work out well, but be prepared for some bumps in the road.
US rethinks giving excess military gear to police
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Yep, he pretty much applied literate programming and first made it practical
Hextris
Thanks. Some other lightweight container implementations are listed on doger.io.
You can't attribute thalidomide being blocked in the US to "the FDA". Frances Oldham Kelsey was practically solely responsible for stalling the drug until sufficient evidence of birth defects emerged to reject it. She was under intense pressure from within the FDA to approve it. In addition, the US benefited from being the last major market to receive the drug - if it had been developed in the US, the US would have almost certainly been hit just as badly as Europe.

The scandal did lead to FDA drug testing reforms, but that was after the fact.

(Also, there were US victims of thalidomide birth defects. There were human clinical trials and the American distributor aggressively distributed "free samples" to employees.)
I think Thomas meant that designing a lossy compression scheme inherently involves making decisions about what parts of the data it is OK to lose -- i.e., in audio processing it might be acceptable to drop frequencies outside of the range of human hearing from the compressed output.
Oh the irony in linking to a third-party contribution to Forbes as your source of this news. Is this what each newspaper's online presence is going to devolve into across the industry?
I've got 4 kids, 16-7, none of which have ever been to school. The only thing we require them to do is read and learn. The subjects don't matter. The oldest likes philosophy and science. My 12 year old enjoys video production and 3d animation. My 9 year old really loves comic books and cooking. My 7 year old loves crafts and writing adventure stories.

We unschooled when I was making $10/h.

They all have big groups of friends, with an incredible level of diversity. They spend a lot of time with them, and enjoy unstructured, uninterrupted play.

Beyond that, they all love organized sports, field trips, traveling when we want.

The older children always have the option of going to school, and choose not to.

With regards to learning to read. Our oldest was reading at 4, one read at 9, and the other two around 5/6. It doesn't matter.

Your fear and ignorance is understandable. It's "radical", and certainly not for everybody. The suggestion of "child abuse" is silly, and totally unfounded. I've actually met many of these "clowns", and can attest from experience that you're not only wrong, but out of line.

Experiencing life with our children is wonderful.
I see, it is indeed quite different. I'm not sure what the Orphan Drug Act specifically says though.

Actually if the market is potentially quite large, big pharmas should already be researching it. The problematic ones are those that are in-between orphan drug and market-quite-large drug. The society probably needs less of these drugs (there should be alternatives at the other ends), but if it's still needed, maybe expanding the scope of the Orphan Drug Act can be a good solution.