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I don't know how many times I've been contacted by a finance recruiter because I listed some skill they need on linkedin. These positions usually pay about double what I make now. I'm never really qualified for them so I haven't followed through but something tells me that if they have to pay so much (sometimes for junior positions) than there must be something else causing these positions to be vacant. For me I don't care if they want to pay me 150k a year if I have to give up my life to earn it. I'd rather make less and be able to spend sometime with my family. The culture in finance is a big negative.
Interesting that as it's getting easier & easier for "normal" people to do stuff like this - our media is getting worse and worse at it. They've essentially given up on reporting or investigating anything original and simply spew back "opinions", "tweets" or PR releases.
I think it's important to note that every individual is different. I'm surprised that gene therapy has not made any inroads into weight loss management and diabetes/hypertension prevention. In an ideal world, diet and exercise should be tailored to your genetic makeup, instead of the "one size fits all" brute force approach.
Does it still refuse to index without managing?

A quick glance at the documentation says yes.
ooh, alright, now it makes sense to me. Thanks.
Should be noted that the original authors are the founders of the SciFund Challenge, and they've gathered tons of great empirical data.
ATPase is gear-like and present in all living things (to the best of my knowledge):
http://www.psc.edu/science/schulten2004.html
But in the case of Hydrogen such 'completely obvious' things are actually not all that obvious to the target audience. So it's ok to spell it out to avoid the risk of overselling a new technology and thus create a situation where it will fail to deliver due to unrealistic expectations.

Hydrogen is not exactly the easiest compound to work with and how it is generated is a huge part of equation.
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Niels Bohr - Nobel Prie winner, Quantum THeoretician, Olympic athlete.

I think you might be onto something - I suspect its that genius is not genetic, which indicates it might be nurture not nature - which means things might be really cool for humans in a hundred years.
It's mostly due to the total mass of the star, since a more massive star has greater gravitational force at its surface, overwhelming the structural forces in the particles.
Most (american) workers lack common sense, because its be beaten out of them
I'm not sure i agree, I can't imagine it taking more than a solid day of work prototyping this in OpenCV.
Unsubscribing from your system actually means "opting in" not "opting out". You have to store my e-mail address somewhere in a list so that you avoid sending to it.
I've been playing around with this same kind of idea.

In my case I was using a cheap Android phone as a camera. Color recognition of 1x1 size Legos start to become problematic from more than 2 meters away, even in good lighting conditions.
Market pricing is not a surcharge.
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Those of us in the Keto community (who have our heads screwed on straight at least) willingly admit this.

I have seen people try high fat ultra low carb diets and fail badly despite following all best practices. I have also seen the exact same diet completely turn lives around restore hope to people.

There is a lot we do not know about nutrition yet. Why some people respond to certain diets and not others is one of those large unknowns.
It is not easy to talk about mental health issues or any other stigmatizing or threatening matter. That is one of the reasons why people take recourse to anonymous chat sites like Omegle and sharing apps like Secret. This leaves them even more vulnerable to attacks. However, there are startups like 7 Cups of Tea that go one step beyond and connect people anonymously with trained active listeners. If creating a support mechanism is not possible, a partnership with a provider of such service could help these anonymous networks. A responsible website/app must actively provide some amount of support to users. Tumblr has implemented it really well.
Finding things that we have never observed before tends to be its own kind of special property.
It's still vulnerable to a binary search to find an author: create an account with the first half of your contacts and another with the second half, see which account has the secret (if it's in neither, it's from outside your network and you don't care) and repeat the process on that half. You'll figure the account with a dozen or two accounts created.
I love Panoramio and shame on Google that they made it more difficult to access in the new maps.google.com! I often use it to see how places look like I may or may not travel to, sometimes to see how places look like that I order things from (for example obscure Chinese sellers and manufacturers on eBay).
This is fantastic. Looking forward to pairing the 'save as ansi' option this with escapes.js (https://github.com/atdt/escapes.js).

Nice work!
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If Uber does it, it's innovation. If Yellow Cab does it, it's gouging.

Leaving the Internet Retailers conference in Chicago a couple of months ago, someone behind us in the shuttle line was remarking how they heard they could Uber to the airport for $41. Looking at our phone, we tried to tell them that the Uber price was surged to some crazy amount (can't recall exactly, I think it was $120-150). They kept telling us we were wrong - I'm sure it's hard to use the app and get sticker shock, but I wonder how often that happens.
Anonymous funding isn't the same as anonymous speech (although SCOTUS disagrees with me.) Everyone has the same number of voices, but a vastly different number of dollars.

If one party spends $100M on their message, and the other just says it loudly at city council meetings, to his/her friends, passes out $100 worth of fliers, writes letters to the editors of every major newspaper, and puts up a webpage they designed themselves - there's no competition on message here. It's a slaughter on resources.

>Banning anonymous speech means if you lose on message, and you have power, you can attack your opponent on other aspects

Money is far more akin to power than speech. Money is generally a proxy for power.
Robin's logic only works if you think the existing distribution of wealth is equitable. If you think unjust systems and behavior led to the current distribution, you would want to limit the extent to which wealth imbalance impacts the consumption of goods you consider essential.
So if I took lots of pictures of you and published them on the internet you wouldn't mind? Maybe you don't, maybe you do, but shouldn't you have a say in that?
Article seems to be a bit dumbed down. Many people are familiar with the school experiment where you do electrolysis using a battery (A water splitter from an ordinary AAA battery!!!)

Article links to the paper. Unfortunately only the abstract is free. Seems like the advance is making it more efficient. Electrolysis at a usable level with just AAA-level voltage.
These are all things that are there now, except user namespaces (which is indeed huge), not roadmap items.
It is anything but. It's like saying "gasoline is emissions free, it's the burning of it that's the problem."

If we're going to have a rational discussion about various forms of emission, we need to talk about total fuel cycle emissions, otherwise it's meaningless. Touting one small section of a fuel cycle as emissions free is at best confusing, at worst misleading.
They dug a channel through Panama by hand. We humans are pretty good at engineering.
what were the details of the failures?

i'm doing keto right now and steadily losing weight.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=seeing+spaces#!/story/forever/0/se...
These are probably staged photos taken for use as propaganda. The probably train far from this location. This is just where they stopped on the side of the road to take pictures.
Those are the buzz words they use - "collaboration", "energy" etc. but to be honest has there ever been a study done to show if that is indeed the case? Also, I see no reason why those can't be achieved with high walled cube sections.

Our whole floor is open, we have different departments, and even then I mainly see only a single group talking/collaborating, it's not like suddenly the lawyers are more social and are breaking their cliques and interacting with the marketing teams.

With the last sentence, I am going to assume you are more outgoing and extroverted, because a noise-cancelling headphone will not do much to reduce the external stimuli that I'm receiving from my other senses.

I guess there is a certain level of coziness, safety associated when the world is not able to look at me and vice-versa and it may be hard to explain, but it is vital for me to focus 100%, and I'm sure a lot of people towards the introversion end of the spectrum feel that way.
Holy crap, talk about burying the lede.

There's a table at the bottom of the article that contains the tl;dr about the scientific studies referenced. All are still underway, there are no published results yet.
It seems to me that the best way for Uber to implement surge pricing without the public relations fallout would be to combine it with UberPool: Instead of "surge pricing hours" have "car pool hours". Tell Uber customers that because there's so many people trying to go places right now, they'll have to share... and if they really don't want to share a ride, well, they'll have to pay extra for that privilege. Suddenly the story ceases to be "Uber is an evil company which hikes their rates during peak periods" and turns into "Some Uber customers are selfish and don't want to share".
Lame attempt by a cordless phone store to score some google-juice. I first thought this was some 7th grader's history report.
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It's annoying that NYC is usually stereotypically associated with Wall Street. I think there should be more technological companies in NY.
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Give me a break. Did you read the article?

Although touted as zero-emissions vehicles, most of the cars will run on hydrogen made from natural gas, a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. Now scientists at Stanford University have developed a low-cost, emissions-free device that uses an ordinary AAA battery to produce hydrogen by water electrolysis.

You don't agree the juxtaposition gives the impression that the latter alternative won't contribute to global warming?

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not saying the research isn't useful. My issue is with the article.
Once you understand how the things around us work, jumping in a new field becomes easy. Everything is connected.

Most people can't do it. Recipes are required. Do that to obtain X result. And most people apply known principles and methods in order to obtain what they want. But if you understand how it all fits together, you create your own recipes. This is what we call innovation.

Some people manage to do it through brute force. Some people are simply born different. And it all boils down to what you want from life. There is no easy answer. Some people are simply driven and also have the mental capacity to understand.
One thing that really sucks still is the conversion of PDFs (for e.g. journal articles) into formats suitable for e-ink readers. I've tinkered with its heuristic processing and regex formatting, but I'd never considered manually touching up the final .epub as it comes. If their ebook editor is any good I might start reading journal articles again.
What do you usually do after you have gotten really dirty?
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CBC radio did an excellent program about price gouging a couple years ago; I highly recommend it (and also the rest of the Invisible Hand series): http://www.cbc.ca/theinvisiblehand/episodes/2012/06/27/the-g...
Every single human being ever in the history of time and space places infinite value on water (up to the quantity necessary to remain hydrated.)

You're not allocating based on how much they're willing to spend, because anyone would be willing to spend anything to stay alive. You're allocating based on wealth.

It may seem natural to the HN anarchist-libertarian crowd that someone's wealth is a prefect proxy for the extent to which he deserves to be alive and "very strange" to think otherwise.

Personally, people with that attitude are about as close to "evil" as it's possible to get outside of a movie villain.
The more cynical among us would say that one of the media's main jobs is to reinforce pre-approved narratives by cherry-picking examples that fit that narrative. Look how much attention the mediocre punk rock band"pussy riot" got because they happened to reinforce a narrative that the west was pushing about Russia.
> processes that are consistently worse at giving goods to those who value them the most

I believe the willingness to stand in line for an extended period of time is a much better indicator of value then having large amounts of money.
Maybe give CL another try? Since the mid-2000's the ecosystem has definitely improved exponentially. (ala Quicklisp, Quickdocs, and related portable libraries)
Threading has a de-facto implementation as well now.
Presumably the low voltage saves energy. If a given number of electrons produce the same quantity of H using two different methods, that means the yield is related to current, and is the same for both methods, ampere for ampere. And so the higher voltage method will have a bigger dissipation (product of voltage and current).

Still, as a user, I don't care about voltage. How many kWh of energy does it take to produce n grams of hydrogen with this method, and how does it compare to existing methods.

Give me the highest relevant abstraction related to energy use.
This is cool and all, but I can't help but be reminded of the hunt for Boston Marathon bombers. Sure, maybe the author's heart is in the right place, but Random Person On The Internet could easily have gotten something wrong, that seems intuitively correct to the author and a general audience (us), but is in fact incorrect. Which makes me inclined to instead leave stuff like this up to the professionals. (appeal to authority, i know, but... getting this stuff right is important.)
I'm skeptical of hydrogen infrastructure using direct hydrogen too, and assume you need some other way to store and release the hydrogen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage I would think it would be more interesting to electrolyze directly into some storage material. But then, I'm just a casual observer in this topic area...
Anyone else annoyed by the claim that

the general mood being summed up by a tweet calling Uber “price-gouging assholes.”

links to a tweet with underwhelming retweets and favorites? (1 and 2, respectively)
Precisely.

To put a finer point on it: Imagine a disaster that seriously impacts food delivery for several days, e.g. while access roads are cleared of debris/snow/whatever. You want some reasonable mechanism that distributes food to people until normal operations can continue.

Given wealth distributions as they exist today - i.e., unequitable ones - using flexible prices may lead to a situation where sufficiently rich people maintain their eating habits to an extent where not enough food can be provided to the poor, who are then likely to suffer entirely unnecessary deaths.

An alternate system of explicit rationing, such as has been used during major wars, works better in such situations.
Finding where James Foley was executed is less interesting. It is most likely just outside Raqqa. Not much you can do with the location (and they likely know it).

When they were AQI, the beheadings were conducted in homes and buildings in areas under US control as part of an insurgency - so finding where they were was essential.
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Money is not free speech, regardless of what the Supreme Court says.
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Anyone who is impressed by this should seriously check out Andrew Sullivan's view from your window contest. Most weeks a reader submits a photo from their window, literally anywhere in the world. And people track it down with very similar techniques, to the exact window. And a lot of the contest photos offer much less to go off of than this [namely, only 1 photo, low res, country/context unspecified].

Here is the winners archive.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/

Some of photos aren't too crazy or offer a landmark that is recognizable if you'd seen it before. But most of them offer very little in terms of knowing where to start unless you've got a huge body of contextual knowledge you can draw on.

A couple ones that I had absolutely no idea where to start with:

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2010/08/17/the-view-from-your...
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/08/19/the-view-from-your...

I imagine the CIA/NSA has a crack team of a couple dozen people doing this exact job.
Some of the reasons for the development of this project were mentioned by one of the developers when the Redis HyperLogLog support was discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506774#up_7508861

> We sacrificed durability, accuracy, and some level of safety [...] for raw speed.

It comes up a lot as being used by various ad companies to track all their counters.
Sure it make sense. The post office could do the same nasty things with your mail. But they don't, even though they could.
It's not because you can you should.
Even if we imagine ourselves in a crazy world in which banks of actual AAA batteries are used for water splitting (not only to demonstrate the low voltage) there can still be an advantage.

A cylinder full of compressed hydrogen weighs less than a trunk full of AAA batteries, which cuts into economy.

The clunky bank of AAA batteries can be stationary in some water-splitting plant, whereas the hydrogen is light and portable.
I think the issue isn't that the media is getting worse at it - rather they're just as good as they used to be (not very) but it's a lot easier to catch them when they're bad at it, so they just don't do it as much anymore.
More no than yes.

But what is an "investor" in this case? Can someone buy a 1% equity and then walk away with your source code potentially worth significantly more than that? That isn't rational.

If they /buy/ the company they get access to the source code naturally but why would an investor? An investor is just staking capital for the chance that the company's venture will do well. SOME might be investing for the chance that the IP is worth a lot, and in that specific circumstance it might be rational to give them limited access to the IP (so they can verify claims).

However I'd never let an investor walk off site with the code or email them a copy of it to do with as they will. I would let them sit in a room and read through the code or even have people on their behalf do the same. I'd also do a code-review style thing where we talk through it together so they better understand the IP/project. Naturally this would all come with appropriate non-compete/NDA.

As to root access? HELL NO, that's insane. I don't even think programmers should have root on production servers let alone fucking investors. The only people who should have root are your system engineers (for maintenance) and your deployment lead (so they can pull from the master and deploy to prod' after it has hit test).
I'm annoyed by the mentality that the number of retweets and favorites is a gauge for the validity of a claim.

Well, just gotta pay 5 bucks and get a thousand bots to retweet you then.
Well, they're legally required to.

The reason that taxi fares don't vary is not that nobody until Uber had ever thought of varying meter rates. It's that, in developed nations at least, the government imposed a regular rate, largely in an attempt to forestall situations where there is real or perceived gouging of customers. The idea is that nobody could possibly be expected to maintain in their heads different meter rates for every taxi company in town, much less if those rates vary at times of days, and that you didn't want to compel people to jump in the car and then bargain with the driver (as is done in much of the developing world) or otherwise investigate the rates.

Uber's solution of advertising a multiple that you must very explicitly agree to before hailing is, don't get me wrong, a very elegant solution to the problem. But it's not as though they came up with the idea of variable rates for rides-for-hire.
I think this is more research than akin the boston marathon hunt. This guy doesn't have access to bombs and I would assume the people who do have access to them would probably fact check it with some higher-level intelligence.
To be honest, I don't really call very many people "heros". I personally keep a pretty high bar for that. But that goes into an entirely different, and very large, discussion.
Well, he only had one kid. That makes him a pretty lousy performer from evolution's point of view.
I might be tweaked if you published a bunch of pictures of me sitting at my desk at work or whatever (because you would be a creepy stalker), but I would not be unhappy in the least if you developed a timemachine, went back in time, made friends with my parents and started posting my baby pictures to future-facebook.

The things that babies and children do vs. the things that adults do are not comparable. Leaving aside, it's darn hard to reliably recognize people from their high school photos when looking at their older selves and next to impossible for babies.

Further, if that parental photos and publishing those photos somehow violates the child's rights, I would say that children have virtually no rights and what rights they do have their parents can exercise on their behalf, regardless of the child's opinion.

Even further, what plausible harm could come from a picture of a kid in a tub, for example?
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