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Product designer @ Stride Health here. We actually work closely with TaskRabbit to help Taskers signup for coverage. Single payer would be pretty awesome but the next best thing is a high functioning individual market and companies that encourage their freelancer population to get signed up for coverage and stay healthy. You can check out the LP we direct Taskers to here: https://taskrabbit.stridehealth.com/launch
Hi HN, I wrote the post and am trying to discuss whether you believe Social Media can scale to serve the whole of humanity.

In my article I propose that the future of media and distribution will take a page from HN and Reddit and be accomplished with shared audiences that create and curate content.

Here's my summary of the attached article: https://medium.com/@cyrusradfar/summary-of-my-recent-article...

Don't know how to format it correctly, so I'll spare you an eye-sore of copy and paste.
What are you talking about? The iPhone uses standard USB chargers, and the only non-standard part (a USB-to-lightning cable) can be purchased from third party manufacturers for less than $10.

Yes you can find micro-USB cables for less than $2, but I don't mind because the utility of the connector outweighs the small price premium. What do Dell chargers do to deserve a premium price?
A teacher would need training to explain class participation and write a checkmark? Students are too clever to not notice. There's nothing to hide.
“i am lonely will anyone speak to me” (2004)
Maybe more significantly, they aren't the only ones who are collecting this data. A lot of retailers are doing it, and apparently some governments and others are doing it too, all to keep track of people's whereabouts and habits.

There are also people who get in a position to map between a device MAC address and an online identity. The easiest case is people who operate hotspots that make people pay; there are also hotspots where you can authenticate (sometimes optionally) with an account of the hotspot operator's service, which may now include Facebook, not just mobile carriers.

In prior mobile OS versions -- at least -- some mobile apps were also directly collecting the wifi MAC address and sending it back to the app developer.
This thread got bumped from #2 to #90 in less than 30 seconds. Good thing still up top is "Can Family Secrets Make You Sick? (npr.org)".
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Like I said in the original comment, I'm not trying to discredit anyone or even this particular study. I'm simply seeking a more deliberate model of transparency. That also goes for studies who may claim that marijuana is healthy or "less harmful" than other products.

This guy has over the course of several years come up with very damaging evidence that marijuana is irreversibly harmful to humans. To start with, to know who these studies are funded by would be helpful so I can know whether it deserves my attention.
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If you're not prepared to give up all claims on how others should act, then you're not really a moral relativist.

I disagree completely. The claim might simply be based on might. We as a society are more numerous and stronger than the occasional murderer, and therefore we'll act on our moral taste and punish him.

I agree that people don't actually think like that, but that doesn't prove that moral facts exists, just that many people think they do.
This is really cool - congrats on the launch!

Does all of the property analysis currently happen in individual reports? As a RE investor, I'd love some comparison tools to comp out similar properties side by side.

Shoot me an email if you want to chat further. Love talking all things RE tech.
The bigotry scores are especially interesting.
Well you picked a good one with murdering and the death penalty and so forth.

> If you're not prepared to give up all claims on how others should act, then you're not really a moral relativist.

My only claim extends as far as I can act or influence others to act to serve my own needs and wants. Am I not a moral relativist?

I'm not sure that the author is commenting on society, but young people who are morally relativistic. I think he badly misrepresents their argument and doesn't really make one of his own.
What other meaning could there possibly be for words like "bad" and "good"?
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"Might" is pretty much how I think about it anyway.
Seriously? When I went there it higher than 30%. That was less than 10 years ago.
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> Taken to its logical conclusion, there would be no way to prove anything since it's all an illusion.

Yep. And then you can either get to the island of the cogito and find you can't get off, or you end up shrugging and going with Shaw's great line about how skepticism is "logically impeccable, but psychologically impossible".
> It's not objective if it changes based on who you ask and how you observe it.

Sure it is. I'm not sure what you think the word "objective" should mean.
> You can effectively get unlimited amount of water

For an effectively unlimited amount of energy. We do not yet live in a post-scarcity era when it comes to energy so that "unlimited" is quite hypothetical. In the same sense that there is unlimited amounts of space available for humans, <please insert spaceship here>.
Besides the mere irony of lonely people finding each other by admitting their loneliness to an algorithm, I thought this was an interesting look at how loneliness persists (and is perhaps amplified, some would say) in our ever-more-connected society.

"I feel so much better that I am not the only one that typed in “I am lonely” on google. How pathetic that I have nothing better to do. It is amazing that I can be so extremely successful at work and so lonely at home. I got married at 17, had four children, completed a masters degree, became the youngest professor at my work, opened my own practice, yet have found myself in a lot of debt with a husband that has worked out of town for almost a year. He visits every once in awhile. I am not sure what to do but I need to do something. I am not getting any younger."

This thread also has a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_t...
I think that saying "it's all the voter" tends to shut down thinking about the real alternatives for fixing problems

There are plenty of real alternatives for fixing problems that involve the voter: Education, access to information, encouraging cultural changes, etc.

In part, I was countering the previous poster who was blaming the 'Industry' boogey man, for why sugar has done the damage it has - but not mentioning the culpability of a government so easily influenced by money and then voters so easily influenced by politicians who don't have their constituents' interests at heart.

As you say, it's complex. But, we could talk about fixes on HN all day, but until voters elect smart politicians with integrity who will implement fixes, it's all just academic.
'Landing on the moon' simply isn't as simple as the slogan makes out. The project took 4% of the USA's GDP to complete...
For example, death is not proper to the life a rational being.

Why not?
Interesting! Could you say more about the unit and integration testing? E.g., what sort of things you find it useful to test, and particular toolkits or approaches you like?
This is a big sell for me. There are some small catches to it - for example, for operations requiring an associative function (such as reduceByKey), the need for it to be associative may not arise until the data-set becomes suitably large to be split across multiple workers, so in my team our testers specifically check reduce function associativity has been demonstrated in a unit test.
You'll love the article he linked to:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/372-mor...
> I don't know Haskell, so there wasn't anything in my head.

Then what were you impling by saying:

> Do you know how this would look in Haskell?

Because that sentence seems to imply it would be very convoluted in Haskell. How can you imply it would look convoluted in Haskell if as you said:

> I don't know Haskell, so there wasn't anything in my head.

Anyway, onwards...

> I'm not convinced after seeing the Haskell code. Python is both semantically and syntactically a better fit for that problem.

You aren't convinced of what after seeing the Haskell code?

How can you come to the conclusion that Python is both semantically and syntactically a better fit for that problem if you don't know both Python and Haskell?

Can you give me the criteria you are using to come to that conclusion?
Moral relativism is not incompatible with not tolerating practices which you personally disagree with. You may simultaneously believe that morality is relative, and not have any particular regard for other systems of morality. You may enforce your system of morality on others simply because you can and because your morality, which you recognize as relative, permits such enforcement.

> "Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."

Sir Charles James Napier may not have earnestly bought into cultural relativism, but the sentiment he expresses is not inherently incompatible with it.

You don't need to believe that your system is "correct" in some sort of universal way. You merely need to believe that your system will be best for your personal interests.
Really? Self-sacrifice and penance are almost the basis of one the most popular moral theories in the world. Just go ask the closest Christian you might have.
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The author can be ignored. Now focus on my words.

There is no point debating without first accepting the existence of absolute, universal and objective moral truth. You can't claim that someone "is wrong" (in the objective sense) if "being wrong" is not something that can exist. When a subjectivist "debates", it can only be motivated by selfishness - never by truth.

Self-awareness is the only thing that matters. The system only exists to understand itself, as accurately as possible. That's what we also call "truth", and that's the most important thing. Really.

Truth is about convergence, as there exists only one truth. When a person lies, it increases entropy (that's not good). While there exists only one truth, there can exist infinitely many lies. You can't disprove truth, but you can disprove lies, if only through contradictions. Whenever a person lies, progress (proximity to truth) slows down. That's the definition of evil. Therefore, lying is objectively/universally/absolutely a bad thing.

It is not important whether a lie today could lead to a better outcome in the future. We can't accurately predict the future. We don't even know "when" the future is. It is therefore, impossible to evaluate whether something is good or not based on future events, as it can never be known.

This is at this point that you must realize that what matters is not the end, but the means. The means justifies the end, not the other way around. Failing to understand that hurts the universe.

Aim for efficiency. Aim for truth. You will find that these two things are just one. Only then will you be one with the universe.
Thread is hiring developers to help men dress well using machine learning (UK)
Hey HNer!

We're a startup in London, UK that's using machine learning algorithms and human stylists to help men dress well without being subject to the horrors of shopping. We believe we can help hundreds of millions of men to feel happier and more confident about themselves, and build a multi-billion pound company in the process.

We're a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold two companies before). You'll be the fourth technical hire and get to build and own huge parts of the product, work directly with the founders every day, and be part of a team made up of some of the most talented engineers in the country.

We launched just over a year ago and are growing extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley, as well as taking part in Y Combinator during S12.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

You can learn more about us here (including a drone video we filmed on our office roof):
https://www.thread.com/jobs

You can see some of our code here:
http://dev.thread.com/

And read the full job description here:
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Any questions you can also ping me directly on ben@thread.com

Thanks!

-Ben & Team Thread
I know of an easier explanation on why a^0 (with a != 0) is 1. It is because a^0 = a^(n-n) = a^n / a^n = b/b = 1.
I know you're in pre-launch, but if you can provide some examples of what deals I am going to be getting I might be more inclined to provide you my email.
I'm not an expert, but I've had both (and dozens of others), I smoke my own brisket, and I feel like I have a decent understanding of it. Salt Lick mops their brisket with a mustard based sauce. They smoke their meats indoors over a direct heat, open pit. Franklin uses a "domino rub" of just salt and pepper (for brisket). They're dry smoked (no sauce) in closed, indirect heat, offset smokers (the wood is in a chamber to the side of the grills). Franklin can control the temperatures of his smokers MUCH better than Salt Lick can. You can taste the meat and smoke better on a Franklin brisket. Salt Lick has a lot more sauce flavor though, and the mopping does add moisture but not tenderness. I have a very strong preference to Franklin's. I think his is the best brisket I've ever had, but that being said, it's not so much better that I want to wait in line for 4 hours (It's a guaranteed wait of 4 hours whether you show up at 7AM or 10AM, but show up after 1, and they're sold out) more than once a year or so.
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I hate recruiters and I am ready to go get my own gigs.
The relevant metric is price of desalinated water, not the number of plants.
So would magic.

We need to rid ourselves of the mythical notion of "abundant", meaning arbitrarily cheap, energy. There are only a few more doublings of global energy usage left before we heat the atmosphere significantly, not due to greenhouse gases, but by raising the equilibrium temperature of Earth as a radiating blackbody in space.

TANSTAAFL. Every resource is ultimately finite. Let's live within our limits rather than justifying our actions with unrealistic fantasizing about future technology.
Black's opened a second location in Austin on Guadalupe near the University of Texas. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm curious.
You just asserted a lot of stuff. You're not debating, merely preaching.
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It's not the punishment that's relevant, it's the claim, or the ability to judge behaviour by a moral standard. You can judge behaviour even if you're too small and weak to enact punishment.

But if you're a moral relativist, you can't judge at all — you can't say "that killing was wrong, it was murder". The best you can say was "that killing was morally wrong by my standards, but might well have been acceptable by his, therefore the discussion can go no further".

Relativism reduces morality to little more than a preference, and makes it as impossible to reason or debate about morality as it is to debate about whether you should like your eggs sunny side up. Very few are really moral relativists; the logical consequences of believing in it are usually too much for people to stomach.

(This doesn't mean moral facts exist, though! There are more options available than just moral relativism or moral objectivism, not that the article bothers thinking about any of them)
Here is a article about samething but in Canada. Also touches on the issue in Washington state and new York.

Article also from 2013... So I guess the problems only worsened?
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/flushable-wipes-clogging-can...
Well, we unit test each of the functions which are typically mapping, reducing or filtering.

The only thing special we do here is explicitly test that any reduce function which is required to be associative is actually associative, due to a dumb bug I wrote once.

With the integration test, we have structured our code so that the processing occurs in a function that takes an RDD and returns an RDD. We then start a SparkContext in local mode[1], create an RDD with test data and can easily test that our processing produces the correct results.

We're just using JUnit for this, as we're largely a Java shop, so while we're coding in Scala for the cleaner API, we haven't jumped into the Scala ecosystem fully.

We also run end to end tests on our cluster using a subset of production data stored on S3 (Spark workers have to read/write from a distributed file system, S3 is one that the Hadoop ecosystem supports), and just verify the output against expectations derived from crunching that same subset via traditional means.

Hope that helps! I found Spark very easy to get up and running with, you can do a lot of experimentation in your IDE, and when you want to try a cluster, it ships with some convenience scripts that make it very easy to start a cluster on AWS.

[1]: http://spark.apache.org/docs/1.2.0/programming-guide.html#in...
Great article. Perhaps because I suck at grammar, I didn't even notice the language issues. Interesting that HN is getting bogged down analyzing grammar rather than the actual content. Were the mistakes so bad that they detracted you away from the message? FWIW I was able to comprehend it just fine.

One interesting issue I see is with specific documentation rather than 'self-documenting code': Considering docs don't compile, I have seen (in my 13 years ;) that docs tend to drift apart from the actual code and become more of a PITA than the code itself. At least once I have caught myself down a wrong path because I trusted the docs.

I don't have anything against docs though - write a bunch myself: I am very circumspect against trusting it completely though.
I didn't just assert that, it was based on the preceding logic. "Why not" is answered by what I proposed in my previous comment.

Not up for debating it with you further. With a name like icebraining, have you ever wondered if you're the baddy? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
No, you constructed a straw man.

I didn't claim that voters got what the median wants. I claimed that the main driver in the complex cycle of perversion of the function of government is the bad choices of voters.

Without an informed citizenry that can make solid election choices, even the best government framework is doomed to fail because it will be populated with politicians who are unable or unwilling to do the jobs they were elected to do.
> From technological perspective of course, it have never been easier. On the other hand since everybody [0] can now create a game the competition between game developers is much stronger, which is arguably a good thing for gamers, but not necessarily for developers. Also from consumer point of view signal to noise ratio will probably get worse (many inexperienced designer flooding marked with their first games etc.).

This isn't the first time the games industry has seen a flood of games and it won't be the last. I suspect the bar to attract consumer interest will rise, and things will return to how they once were - with the ease of development being supplanted by the difficulties of the new quality bars. As curation catches up to the rest of the industry (or we see another crash and the flood abates) the S/N ratio will improve back towards old levels - if you follow the right channels.

The size of large game studios, to the best of my knowledge, has never been bigger than now. The size of the market, when everyone has a smartphone in their pocket, has never been bigger than now. Entirely new markets (first mobile, now VR) are opening up. Devs are doing OK at least.

I'd say the sheer enormity required to develop AAA titles might make it hard for e.g. the next John Carmack to make their millions on their own, but Minecraft selling for $2.5B pokes... at least a few holes in that theory.
There are services like net verify that have Apis you could use for compliance with anti money laundering rules.
Yep, I agree it wasn't simple at all, but what percent of world GDP did me with a macbook with chrome on it connecting to Facebook to post a message take?

Again, building a one-off is easier than a consumer-ready working system deployed across millions of locations that is owned by no central authority and has to run continually. That's why we had SHRDLU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAJz4YKUwqw and http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/) and The Mother of All Demos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY) years ahead of their time. That was my point.
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Great article from Bruce. Always helpful.
Can't help wondering why they have the "choose the line" step. An obvious improvement is to have one line and direct passengers from the end of the line to the next available station.

Then again, a better solution is to staff all screening stations all the time or build more. Why do we wait passengers wait for a minimum wage screening person? By do this we effectively say the passengers time is worth nothing. Their employer might no appreciate them having "idle time" with no-one to screen but I'm sure the passengers would sure like it. We don't mind firefighters and paramedics having down time, this should be extended to airport screeners.
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> "An association doesn't necessarily mean that one thing causes the other thing," says Floud.

Does anyone else get tired of seeing this all the time? It feels like the standard, pat response nowadays of a smart person to basically any association whatever. Of course ice cream sales in the summer don't cause murders, but in turn, I seriously doubt anyone is saying that sexual assault somehow physiologically deforms breast tissue directly leading to carcinoma.

Look, I know very little about medicine, I don't even know that much about statistics. But wouldn't the idea be more like these traumas could stress the body in some way that makes some of its subsystems perform in a degraded manner, which over time develops into illness? As I say, I'm out of my depth here. But that sort of response is starting to strike me as irksomely glib.
Perhaps this crowd won't agree, but "income properties" and "real estate investment" are horrible things when it comes to residential real estate. This is THE major driving force for urban cost-of-living increases on both American coasts. If I could downvote the whole concept of this industry, I would.

When speculators speculate on food commodities, people argue that it provides market liquidity to justify why that's not entirely illegal. Well, real estate is by definition illiquid, so speculative activity in this area benefits nobody but the speculators.
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Sure you can judge - based on your own, subjective morality. "To me, that killing was wrong, it was murder". All you need is to acknowledge that other people will judge it differently, and that their judgment is just as objectively valid. And you can still judged them for judging so!

And it doesn't make it impossible to debate about morality - merely futile.

I don't see what's so difficult to accept in this, frankly.