skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's measuring percent, not percentage points. 38% is ~34% less than 56%, but about 18 percentage points.

If your risk was lowered from 2% to 1%, that's a 50% reduction, but a 1 percentage point reduction.
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I have no interest in working with a recruiter at all. I'm fully capable of applying to a company directly if I am interested. Recruiters are parasites who need to get a real job.
Bill Moyers did a pretty solid piece on this.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-the-top-secret-trade...
Thx. Slowly non startups start adopting it. Compass Monitor helps with that as Consulting Firms, Accounting Firms, etc. use it also for non startups.
Well I certainly know one of two bits of information this app can use to make its guess but I still can't use it because.. well.. you know. Defeats the purpose altogether.
Are you sure about that? I might be wrong, but IIRC, Monsanto's RoundUp-Ready Corn was said to be only transgenetically modified (i.e. the Genetically Modified part of the corn came from another organism's genes), but was patent-protected.
+1 for David, +1 for anyone from the Rust team, looking forward to seeing the outcome.
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> the defendant can only argue once the domain has been transferred over

Sounds like a very scummy thing to do. Any legal system that allows this sort of tactic is ripe for abuse.
'Know Your Five' would include whether or not you have diabetes...
I've heard from enough women to believe that it is not commonly thought to be gender-neutral by women. Like the post says, you can get used to something else if you use it enough -- it's a small thing to do.

I also use "staff a booth" rather than "man a booth".
I don't know if you submitted your app to the Million Hearts challenge, but it would have made a nice fit.

http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/one-in-a-million-hear...

Are you using the Archimedes Indigo back end?
https://archimedesmodel.com/indigo-api
I think the real opportunity is to explore (hopefully in depth) whether or not development is the right thing.

Its definitely not fair (and not true because I know people who are the far other extreme) to say that you have to grow up being a developer to be a great developer.

Example?

Our CTO had a traditional engineering education almost 2 decades ago, but never touched web development. He worked as a project manager for 8 years. Nokia, Textr, etc etc. 2 years ago he started to learn web development. Today he's built a major platform and directs a team of crack developers. Is it a unique and special example? Hell yes. Can everyone do that? Almost definitely not. But is it proof that not having grown up coding doesn't mean you can't become a coder? Yes, very much so. And he's not my only story like this.

On hacker news we also talk a lot about developers with developers, many of which take it that to be a dev you have to be crazy talented across the board. I personally am totally ok with people who learn the basics of code, to start building sexy looking and simple websites as a freelancer. Hell I know people who learned front end, ruby (because it's "cool"), a little PHP then started working with a group of common platforms like Square and Wordpress, designing front ends and making an incredible living for themselves. I think that's totally a valid outlook for people in bootcamps, and not always considered in the conversation here....

Would love your thoughts!
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The point was that the 6+ sales exceeded the forecast by a significant margin. This same size debate goes on inside Apple, and Steve Jobs even highlighted the intense scruitiny they put on size when designing the iPhone, and the "Giant" (in Apple's words) Samsung Galaxy and Note phones were outselling them. And Apple released the 5s / 5c which tested some aspects of the equation, and they release the 6 / 6+ which tested the size question. Given those two market tests one might presume that Apple learned 'plastic was not a good material for an expensive phone' (under performed the forecast) and 'larger phones have significant appeal' (over performed the forecast). And as I stated outside Apple's testing this hypothesis there are a bunch of different Android phones in different sizes and they too inform on market acceptance or rejection of various design choices. The age old model of 'buy what you like, they will make more of them' is more true today than it ever has been, manufacturers are so intensely watching and tracking the buying habits of their customers that feedback is immediately implemented in products in the next round (you'll notice neither the 6 or 6+ are 'colorful' :-)
The ratio of capital-to-labor money was at an unusual low even in the US during that era. It has since been returning to its pre-WW2 levels. Piketty addresses WW2 a lot in his book, for many reasons including that this economic anomaly occurred during this period.
I used FreshDirect frequently when I lived in New York. It's incredibly useful -- particularly if your only local supermarket is fairly awful for real food like produce or meat -- but it's also fantastically expensive. I don't see how Farmigo can skip FreshDirect's warehouse model of distribution without even more drastic cost premiums.

Grocery delivery IS the future of supermarkets, but it requires significant infrastructure to make it cost-efficient. As Amazon is the only real player in Silicon Valley to invest in delivery infrastructure, it seems pretty likely that this future belongs to Bezos.

Matthew Yglesias posited that groceries would be the next logical step to build out that final mile to customers. When AmazonFresh starts building out with muscle, that's when it's time to short FedEx and UPS.
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> If Microsoft can do it, so can you. You have as much authority as Microsoft does. The only difference is that Microsoft flexed those muscles, while the remaining 7billion of us did not.

well, that and a legal department. I don't know many solo entrepreneurs that could deal with the drawing of '3 inches' of legal documentation to serve someone with while maintaining any level of profitability.
"Ebola tourism" is "Citizens of the effected countries looking to leave?", Mr. Duncan being the current example.

The other types ought to go into 21+ day isolation/quarantine; while the risk might be low, the consequences are grave, and enough doctors have been irresponsible that I'd like it to be mandatory. Those who already have Ebola go straight to one of our 23 beds for that, as we've done with 3 people. ADDED: Now both of the nurses are going to those, the 2nd is already at Emory, the 1st is now said to be going to the NIH in Bethesda. Leaving only Montana's 3 beds untested (they've never treated a case). This vote of no confidence in a perfectly fine major hospital for "normal" problems is telling (and another strike against our idiot CDC director), as will the lawsuits that will almost certainly bankrupt it. Who wants to be next?

As I understand it, public health law allows us to temporarily quarantine incoming expats and citizens, I'm not talking about a simple ban for them.

When you say "I don't see the majority of them" we get to one of our fundamental disagreements, going back to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464603 up in this subthread. I just don't believe it's responsible to think about this like that; in this case your language admits that a non-majority will be seeking treatment.
Deeefinitely relevant. We teach a full stack course (as many other bootcamps both on and offline) but sometimes the goals of students aren't that broad to begin with. They start with a small chunk, and then pick up projects that perpetuate their learning as they go. I can totally get behind that!
"6x faster than other browsers at typical JavaScript on websites."

Bold claim. http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-october-16-2014-media-eve...

Would be interesting to know what the technology is behind this (if the claim is even half true).
What is funny is that I suggested admission of wrongdoing with an apology letter in the employee poaching scandal not long before.
Going back and forth between the iPad and the Nexus 7 probably influences my opinion. The 7 is just underwhelming in many areas. I'm not a fan of the iPad mini either though I prefer reading on it to the Nexus 7.
Which is totally fine! I'm more of a systems programming kind of guy, and it is still doable remotely. Just seems to be a distinct lacking of those job positions for remote work.
Yes, stop Musk et al., doing what they're doing because we 'don't need it' 'cos it's bogus.

How your ideas could operate in other than a totalitarian state is not clear to me because you'd certainly never be able to implement them otherwise - thank goodness.
You might have good reasons (and, certainly, you list some) but at the end of the day, you track every user's IP address and geo-locate it. This is Wrong (tm) for an app that claims to be about privacy.

Also, just because your maxmind geoip database is crap doesn't mean that the DOD or whoever you're selling information to doesn't have a better one.
I think you're right.

Just FYI, the line of thought of Gates here is probably based on the idea that you need "capital" in order to have a productive work force. If the rich spend all their money for consumption, then there will not be enough capital available - or so the argument goes.

I personally don't buy the argument; I believe that it goes too far into abstract models, confuses finances for the real world, and (like so much of economics) ignores the existence of banks. If Bill Gates were to sell shares to finance frivolous consumption, this would obviously not cause the physical destruction of factories and machines etc.

At the same time, it would encourage the companies he buys from to expand their production and invest. Now, some people may wonder what investors/financiers those companies can find if all the rich guys sell their investments to consume. Well, those companies can always go to banks, which have an essentially unlimited capacity for funding real-world investments.
Try now, it should work.
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I live in the UK, I think of my height in feet and inches and my weight in Kilograms. Blood pressure is in mmHg while cholesterol is in mmol/L.
That sounds pretty middle class to me. Professional people - lawyers, bankers, management, etc. The US doesn't really have an upper class at all - just lots of rich middle class people.

Maybe it's a British thing, but to me class is only minimally about money, so you can't just say the Gates family are rich so they're upper class.

In Britain you can be penniless but still be upper class, or a billionaire but still working class. Take David Beckham - rich but working class. You can probably find some destitute Baronets somewhere who are definitely still upper class.
100% of network services "track" their users' IP addresses. Every website that is accessible outside of Tor can see its users' IPs. That is the nature of TCP/IP.

You act like this is a deliberate violation of privacy. I don't know what to say, except that you're wrong.

If you ask a question, you consent to be "tracked" to the extent necessary to deliver an answer to you. On the internet, that means IP address.
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Don't forget that those people are still going to be automated away from their jobs soon, so it's in everyone's best interest to figure out how to make society work without requiring people to slave away doing increasingly worthless and wasteful things. I.e. how to make those people feed their families without working on things that don't really need to be done.
That's easy! Inequality matters until some people are more equal than the others.
Very good point. Perhaps you could use libclang?

Regarding the import code, even if you start with just emitting a C header, it would make it easier to use your tool to design file formats.
Based on following the research, I don't believe all these risk factors have been established scientifically. What i've gleaned over the years:

Total cholesterol: probably doesn't matter much

HDL: matters

Blood Pressure: I don't know

Smoking: matters
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The current risk in the graph doesn't update when I change a value and click Calculate My Risk again; e.g., if I calculate with blood pressure blank then recalculate with it set to 130.

I'm using Firefox 33 and Chrome 38-ish for Mac.
Air-gap elimination in the iPad Air 2 should make this much better at use in sunlight - there's a claimed 56% reduction in reflections.
I have a 12 inch tablet with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, its perfectly good for content creation, it comes with an office clone that makes creating docs a snap.

I have been using a bunch of editors, and while many of them are great the mostly suffer from 3 main problems.

1. Capacity, most can handle a 200 file project, but they sieze up solid much beyond that.

2. Git and github integration is often poor, for some reason they all get ocd about dropbox and google drive integration, but fall apart on git or svn integration.

3. They need a good ssh client embedded, both to provide sftp capability, and to allow you to have one click access to your dev, staging and production servers.
This is interesting, but in my experience, you can't use this data to usefully extrapolate anything. Slightly different hardware, topology, OSes, drivers, system load, network "weather conditions", etc, can radically change the results.

My biggest UDP "surprise" was on a system using UDP but treating it as perfect, because the system designers knew that the hardware bus they were using was "100% reliable". And they were right--the hardware wasn't dropping anything. Too bad that the OSes on either end would discard UDP packets when they faced buffer pressure.
There's an interesting controversy around the lipid hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_hypothesis#Minority_disag...
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Being able to distinguish when you go close enough to your phone doesn't mean you do this everyday.

Personally I cannot really see the difference between my 1080p 15in laptop screen and the 15in retina macbook screen during normal usage.
But as long as Github still removes the content in a reasonable time period if the user hasn't, aren't they still in compliance?
Actually, Microsoft's SQLSRV PDO driver supports named parameters.
You completely ignore the whole argument for why the "good investor" is dangerous: He accumulates, and by accumulating he enables far more substantial interference with the democratic process.
I'm trying to publish my post and it keeps saying "RuntimeError: Failed to send emails: self signed certificate"
Also live blogged here: http://live.theverge.com/apple-ipad-live-blog/
Indeed, companies should post remote work policies on their websites and job listings.
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You know what demoralizes a team EXACTLY like that?

When people on the team think they are pointing out problems, but are doing so without support, by simply saying "That won't work" instead of "That won't work because of ...".

This does nothing to further a project and leaves the burden of proof for a working solution on the person who proposed the solution in the first place, and the way for them to prove their solution is to continue working on it, with no actionable feedback to revise their project on.
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You answered your own second statement.

Their PARENTS earned it. Not the kids. That's my entire point- I don't think children should be entitled to assets their parents "slogged their bones off for" simply because they won the lottery of being born with those parents.

You disagree and that's fine, I was merely presenting the other side of this debate (and the one I personally sit on the side of).
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I'm going to vote for a simple answer on this. We don't have enough solid talent because there simply isn't a high enough saturation of learning opportunities. not even on the most basic levels. Higher ed CS degrees don't train you up to work in the million and one startups that are looking for engineers of all levels.

You might argue that in the tech scene (those of us in locations where it exists and is prominent + we pay attention to the news because we're in it) its VERY saturated. But your examples of other industries are those that have been standardized by higher ed. Apart from MBA's and (for the most part agency-focused which don't teach you much about modern digital tactics) marketing degrees, the start up industry, even to some extent the tech industry, lacks the educational infrastructure that fields like the sciences do.

If it was on that level, businesses like the bootcamps wouldn't exist. Is it a problem that should be fixed? Yes, but bootcamps are the current solution. Some of them ::cough::careerfoundry::cough:: are rapidly working to help with the efforts of bringing things like teaching code to schools. Yes its a good business play, but it builds awareness around the problem at its core rather than creating a business to capitalize on it... which is what we do now.... obviously.
If you don't enter height or weight into "debug my life" it says: "Your current BMI is 23, which is in the healthy range" instead of "you didn't give us what we need to calculate your BMI".
Economists don't consider philanthropy a strong factor in economic development or advancement. Philanthropy IMHO has never contributed significantly to lift millions of people out of poverty. Although Gates Foundation and similar NGOs are doing wonderful deeds in Africa and the USA, it will not have the same impact as tax structure/incentives, trade policy, labor laws, access to education, immigration laws, etc. Also how do you define philanthropy, the work of the Koch brothers can be considered philanthropic in some peoples' opinions. Philanthropy is personal and political exercise.

I think philanthropy is great, but only few people are doing it. And those who do it, don’t do it effectively, do it too late, or focus on the symptoms rather on the causes, which are much harder to deal with. Philanthropy has become an accessory or a career suffix for those have got lucky.

Gates talks about the middle class in China and else where is getting bigger. True, but philanthropic has little to do with this improvement. Aggressive and central economic management, and free trade policy with the US helped above mentioned countries to sustain a healthy middle income class in China, Mexico, Colombia.
The competing viewpoint is "why should our company pay to train you, when you could have paid to train yourself?"

I'm not saying it's necessarily "right", but that it could be a reason why many companies do not share that viewpoint.
Good idea leveraging Clang for struct round-tripping. Yet another thing to look into!
> don't have any professional connections, and don't know who to talk to...

Search HN posts, news stories, blog posts, and Linkedin for potentially interesting contacts working in and around your space. Reach out to them on a professional networking basis. You'll be surprised how many folks will be receptive to your call/email.
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Internet should be a tool to help traditional industries.
> I think you are saying taxes cause inequality

No, I'm not saying that. That's your argument.

> and the way we tax everyone can make inequality better or worse

Yes, I am saying that the way tax burdens are distributed can increase or decrease inequality.

> but my argument is that the complete absence of taxation will always improve inequality.

I recognize that that is your claim. What I don't see is a reason to accept that claim, in the form of evidence or even an explanatory theory of why one should expect it to be true.

> In another thread here I pointed out that inequality only became an issue in the 20th century around the same time the US government began taxing everyone directly through personal income taxes.

Yes, I saw that claim, as well. I'm not conviced that inequality only became an issue then, and even if it did there's a lot of competing explanations (e.g., the end of the frontier period (which, while it may not have actually impeded the growth of actual inequality, provided a distraction from it as an issue.)

But even if it was accepted that the adoption of the federal personal income tax was a contributing factor to actual inequality, that doesn't provide support for the claim that the mere existence of taxation causes inequality rather than that the particular distribution of taxes does so. First, because taxes in the US existed before federal personal income taxes were adopted, and, second, because even if they didn't, you couldn't, from one instance of taxation, differentiate between an effect of the particular form of taxation and an effect of taxation as such.
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One might call passive investment "hoarding" because it does not really encourage economic activity.

See, "investment" is such a loaded term. Somebody who uses their savings to open a restaurant is clearly making an "investment", and this form of investment is directly positive for the economy.

When you put your money into e.g. an index fund, the situation is much less clear. You help drive up stock prices, but this does not immediately say anything about the real world. At the same time, the counterfactual is that you would have spent this money on consumption, or to buy a new car, or whatever.

Those latter actions directly increase the demand that companies see, which encourages those companies to expand, i.e. to increase real world economic activity.

Don't get me wrong: individual saving is a wonderful thing, and there are all sorts of good reasons for it. But if nobody consumes, the economy has no reason to grow...
The tax will make sure they list deductions, which are also useful to know.

Also, the transparency is a benefit, but so is the tax revenue. We should at least cover the expense of the program and consider if there are other taxes that should be reduced.
If the user doesn't do it themselves within that short window, then GitHub has to. Every web hosting company I've worked with in the last 10 years has forwarded DMCA notices on to customers. They only disable a server if you don't handle the removal yourself. I don't think GitHub is trying anything new here.
That's very bold, but also pretty vague given the "average website" mention.

I doubt Apple has more developers working on Safari than Google has on V8.
The sensitivity analysis being displayed automatically is a nice feature, as it immediately shows the effects of changes. That's a clever bit of UI that most similar apps don't have.
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