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The supposition that Uber spent 15bio to lobby NYC to let it operate in the city is nonsensical.

Nevermind the alternative that it's not Uber's business to spend money on fixing the L train.
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> This is why we need single-payer. You need an actor without a profit motive, and government is it.

That's a really common talking point for single-payer healthcare, but it unfortunately it doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Government-run agencies have the exact same incentives for profit as private companies do, even if they don't use the terms "profit", "margin", and "P/E ratio".

Ironically, the closest thing we have to single-payer healthcare model is Medicare[0], which absolutely does have all the problems associated with a profit motive. In many ways, it's worse, because Medicare is able to set prices across the board by fiat, is not required to negotiate with providers, and is essentially mandatory for providers (so providers just have to swallow whatever reimbursement rates Medicare offers). As a result, providers make an operating loss on Medicare patients[1], to the tune of 7% nationwide.

Think about it from Medicare's perspective. You have to balance your books at the end of the year. Do you either (1) ask Congress to raise taxes to increase your budget and hope they act quickly, or (2) lower the price you decide to pay for services, knowing that it will have zero impact on whether or not providers will still perform services for you? Unsurprisingly, they choose (2).

Also, ironically, most patients who are happy with their Medicare plans[2] are actually using privately managed Medicare plans anyway. So they're essentially opting into profit-driven insurance anyway, with the only difference being that their premiums are being "subsidized" by their past tax withholdings.

[0] There's also the VA, but single-payer advocates usually balk at that comparison since the VA actually operates the medical practice itself, unlike the single-payer models typically proposed.

[1] This means that they make a loss even before accounting for any overhead, such as salaries, or markup.

[2] And at the rate that MA is increasing, pretty soon the majority of all Medicare patients altogether.
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Not to mention, it's probably less useful.

I am actually okay with the privacy I give up when using Google Now, for example, because being passively informed about things I'm getting shipped to my house, about traffic conditions to/from my house, etc. is nice. Giving up privacy seems justifiable in those instances.

But FB suggesting restaurants, I just know that there will be money exchanging hands. FB being FB, will extort small business owners into paying them hand over fist to get considered for suggestions to the user.
Better coverage? What a joke. In the US, self insurance is a way for corporations to avoid state and local laws regarding health care through the use of ERISA. For example, if your state mandates that health insurance plans must cover a minimum set of infertility treatments, ERISA, when invoked through your employer's new self-insured plan, let's call it PlanX, overrides the state mandate and allows PlanX to decline coverage for those same infertility treatments.

Yes, I have experienced this first hand.
In section 6.1, [_] is replaced with [ ] (with the second bracket being italic).

Same thing in 6.2 with tail_len = tail len

Seems like the markdown parser partially went into the code blocks.
If you're just doing a short term job as opposed to sticking with this company for the long term, consider thinking about it as you investing $50k as a convertible debt note.

Have the $50k convert to equity at your option based on their next round of funding with a discount of 15%, with a cap of 2.5% equity based on a typical rule of thumb initial valuation of $2M for a company at such an early stage, and 2.5% equity by default if they fail to raise a second round or sell the company within the next 2 years.

This may be a bit on the aggressive side, but what you're really doing is giving them an investment of in-kind labor.
Uber has competition?
Well of course they haven't heard anything about support for an unreleased device that at this point is only rumours and leaks. Did you really think that a company representative would just up and reveal any information (which they probably wouldn't even know until maybe a week before release when they get training on it) in an official capacity like that?
Then the state will get used to having a certain volume of such funds, and the departments that provide a substantial fraction of those funds will tend to get looked on favorably...that doesn't end well, either.
Interesting. I thought I had read this was an exemption.

Even people in ATT's forums are having same question:

https://forums.att.com/t5/Data-Messaging-Features-Internet/W...
Raw numbers aren't of much use here. You need to also gauge intent and opportunity, which is much harder, and at least in the case of opportunity, there was virtually none. You can't do that, so just stay the hell out.

"An epidemic of cheating over the internet". My God, do you think adultery was invented recently? This is a classic fallacy of blaming the mere institutions as opposed to the root cause.
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
I assume they mean that they used it as a password.
It's worth pointing out that even traditional Western morality looks askance at "detraction" which is "the sin of revealing another person's faults to a third person without a valid reason."
America is not a forward-thinking country anymore. This is not yet apparent for everyone, simply because very large amounts of financial and military power are still amassed here, which allow the country to dominate the world. But its ethos is falling far behind the times. That will take a while to unravel.
Well I ten to look at it like this. To get true value for your 50k worth of work. True equity pay out is :

(1/Probability of Startup Success) * (50k/10M)

So if they have a 25% chance at success, then you should be getting 4*.5 = 2%. Otherwise, you are not taking the expected value, you are taking probability of success = 1. To make matters worse, assume you wont see the pay out for atleast 5 years. One in the hand is better than two in the bush, so there is a discount there as well.

Am I missing anything here?
UPower will be able to use thorium.
> And if a ton of these people are non-monogamous, then perhaps we as a society should have a discussion about how our values are shifting and what new families look like

Why should we have that discussion? If my spouse was cheating, I'd want to have that discussion in private, without gawkers, and without social pressure from the uninvolved.
There are actually two Aldi companies. The Albrecht brothers split the company in the 1960s over an argument about selling cigarettes.

Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe's and Aldi Süd owns the North American grocery stores.
Yep, horrid title.
In case you miss the link inside the article, be sure to read the ruling[0]. It is both thorough and entertaining.

http://www.la3circuit.org/Opinions/2015/03/030415/14-0943opi...
The same "not sticking our noses into other people's relationships" was the root of the Family Values crowd in the 80's saying that domestic violence is a family issue, incest is a family issue, etc. Where do you draw the line at sticking your nose into other people's relationships?

How about we put the line somewhere between physical force and broken promises? Just an idea.
I don't get what you mean by "linear is too slow" -- if you want to decode n bits you need at least O(n) time. Decoding every potential alignment seems equally silly since even in parallel processing each branch will have to performing at least one decoding task, so what exactly are the gains?
I would prefer for people to mind their own business. I don't think that is so "amorphous", do you?
> Good to see the 90% of startups fail 'statistic' blown out the water with some facts!

If YC companies were representative of all startups there wouldn't be any point in going through YC.
Performance improvement plan. It's the first step in letting an employee know - supposedly - that their performance is lacking and needs to be improved else they be terminated. But as mentioned, PIPs can be misused for other means.
There's a service to do something similar called Dead Man's Snitch (https://deadmanssnitch.com/).
Clearly from the response we're seeing from society outside of this tech bubble where your privacy must be protected at all times otherwise doom ensues, people want to know when their spouse is cheating on them. You make an assumption that quite frankly ignores reality in favor of a weird moral relativism where any sort of judgment is bad.

Odds are that people don't want their spouse cheating on them.

Someone stealing from someone else doesn't have an affect on me either, but I would operate under the default assumptions that
1) they want their things
2) they would want to be notified if someone wanted to steal their things
3) they would want to be notified if someone actually stole their things

And guess what? People acting in this way has the prosocial implication of teaching people that stealing is bad, and gives me the assurance that if someone is trying to steal from me that people will let me know!
Yeah, just like we should slow down before drawing conclusions from the NYT article.

Or before drawing conclusions from the plethora of anonymous posts all over the Internet.

Etc etc.
and only at this point will everyone realize we're all hypocrites, liars and cheats that will all do whatever we can get away with when we need to or it serves our purpose. We'll all have to acknowledge that life isn't as black and white as we like to pretend but is almost entirely some blurry shade of grey that only resembles our own specific set of beliefs in the most narrow of circumstances... and that any and all human behaviour is totally normal and would most likely be considered completely fucked up when applied through your own set of ideals.

We're all capable of fucking up, making shitty decisions, painting ourselves into corners, getting depressed, thinking emotionally instead of objectively/logically. That is the peril of the human condition. I don't think it's fair for any one of us to pass judgment on others actions except when it comes to the physical safety of the community.

So what, one group of people holds marital fidelity dear and think that any action that compromises this view is worthy of exposé. Another group doesn't believe in monogamy or lies about it... largely because to disagree with it ostracizes you from the community - makes you an outsider. Forget innocent parties that are hurt by this - collateral damage, a necessary evil to expose the cheaters. Can you even hear yourselves? Who cares? People lie, cheat and steal all the time. Politicians do it, spies do it, FBI, CIA, NSA, the police, hell, even Presidents do it if it serves their objective. Think about that. When are we going to wake up and realize that this is normal human behaviour - regardless of whether you're happy about that or accept it or not, this is the case.

I agree with those who say leave this behind closed doors. If marriages fall to pieces because of this, that is between them. But to publically name and shame people because their [non-criminal and not-concerning-you] actions don't jive with your morals [Perhaps politicians would be an exception to my perspective on this] is inexcusable. Not many are going to die because someone cheats on their spouse - even if they're caught. But leaking a database of this nature has real repercussions that could cause people death or persecution for something that should only between them and their partner and was none of anyone else's business.
Oh, I see what you're getting at. What I was getting at, though, is that you wouldn't live off of the bounty of that society. Only owners of capital get to live off the bounty of their capital. Everyone else has to sell themselves to capital. If they don't need you though, why would they bother? They would just throw you away.

Capitalism is a hell of a drug.
it's an internet dating site, did you really expect more?
I recommend YOU read the appellate cases.

It was established that NONE of the citations were correct. She had a valid license, registration, and insurance at the time of the illegal stop. The second appeal makes this crystal clear. (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/la-court-of-appeal/1693755.html)

Nothing about the situation was valid. Not the stop, not the citations. There's a reason why she was willing to fight a traffic stop for 6 years, and why an attorney would take on such a penny-ante case: because it was pure injustice, top to bottom.

Perpetuating the notion that the victim had legitimate charges dismissed on the technicality of an illegal stop is wrong practically unto libelous. Don't do that.
I think you're right that Interpy and PEP 498 have a different, earlier binding strategy than say does. I've found the late / local binding of say() and fmt() convenient. Are there use cases where that earlier binding is valuable or critical?

Your example highlights the binding strategy, but more typical would be:

>>> def test(x=1):
... return fmt("{x}")
...
>>> test()
'1'
>>> test(12)
'12'
>>> test('woobers')
'woobers'
Please do not post fluff to Hacker News. We want substantive stories.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> But of course I know multiple people at Amazon who had PIPs used against them politically - a PIP is an employment lawsuit mitigation strategy, even though it's a "Performance Improvement Plan" there is never an actual intention to follow through, it's always the precursor to firing.

I understand that it's less about providing evidence to sink lawsuits (so many PIPs don't hold up to legal scrutiny: it actually opens less liability for a company to say "we're firing you because we don't like you" than it is for them to issue a PIP) as it is about demoralizing the employee and making them feel like terrible people, so they feel like them getting railroaded because of office politics is their fault, a) so they don't want to file a lawsuit and b) so vengeful managers can dig the knife in a little deeper and humiliate their victim.

Honestly, the best thing to do when given a PIP is to immediately start sending your resume out and calling any contacts that might lead to a new job. If you have enough of a nest egg to afford to be unemployed while you're looking for your next job, go ahead and put your two weeks' notice in the day you get the PIP.
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One could argue privacy is a more natural right than, for example, property rights since strong encryption can give you absolute privacy, even against the state.
Have an ad network buy products on my behalf? No thanks.
If anyone here is a science fiction fan (seems unlikely right?), there's a great comic called The Private Eye which takes place in a society which experienced a fallout from an event not unlike this (though on an even larger scale).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Eye

http://panelsyndicate.com, "pay what you like"
Like Upwork (formerly Elance and Odesk)?

Hiring contractors instead of employees isn't that uncommon, and now we're even seeing the startup studio become more popular as a business model.
As far as I understand the issue, I think that's only true as domestic sales are concerned. Like you, UK to UK.
But if you are from another european country, even under your own country thresholds, you have to apply UK sales tax if the UK customer is not VAT registered.
cDc == cult of the dead cow? I haven't seen them referenced in ages. Probably since my own arrest actually.
PHP and MySQL. Replaced with Python3 and PostgreSQL.

Why?

Left PHP because I lost confidence in the language. I cannot write 10 lines of PHP with out feeling nervous of the edge cases I have missed.

Also, some exchanges with the 'core' developers of the language completely convinced me that the language is not going to improve. Their behavior and competence felt like they are just 15+ year old kids doing programming language work on the side. And the community! I cannot think about that without throwing up. Over engineering and bike shedding is the norm. Even the so called community leaders are UTTER MORONS. Without exception. No. I am not exaggerating [1] and that is not the only one, just the most recent. Also, please note that I am some one who started with great respect for these guys...

That is my opinion formed by closely following everything related to php, mostly from /r/php for 4 or 5 years.

Regarding MySQL, I was one bitten by MySQL when it didn't allowed me to use the same temporary table more then once in the same query. So that left me with a bad taste. And once I tried PostgreSQL, it felt quite a bit simpler and seemed to be lot more capable than MySQL.

[1] https://twitter.com/ircmaxell/status/632422970636419072
Windows 10 now running on 75M devices
The 'backdoor' just refers to the fact that it starts a TCP server that will execute commands sent to it. That's not really the point; the novelty aspect is that it uses the new 'c-shared' buildmode supported by Go version 1.5.

I think it also demonstrates how easy it is to write something similar to Telnet in Go.
The intent when you register on a website designed for cheating on your spouse seems pretty clear to me. If you found your spouse registering for AM would you assume that it was just to see if they had a sleek UI?

Hook-up culture has always existed as well, but let's not pretend that Tinder hasn't changed the pace/availability of hooking up. In the same light, let's not pretend that the anonymity of the internet hasn't facilitated people comitting adultery.
How this 14-year-old already has 12 apps in the iOS store
It's true that cancer can fuck your life financially in the US. However the central plot of Breaking Bad wasn't healthcare coverage. It was Walt trying to leave a lot of money for his children after he died. He essentially received a terminal diagnosis.

Walt could have gotten coverage from his former company, they made him an offer that he refused. He preferred to kill people and sell drugs instead, because he liked it.
False positives are far more useful than false negatives.
It would be great to get stats about exits as well. How many exits? Total valuation at exit? Median/average age at exit? etc.
If you want to get all fundamental about it, it's right because of their might. Most societies are signed up to it, and they're much bigger than you.

Society might adopt your peculiar view of a right someday, when it does we can judge Amazon by that. Until then, we should actually existing mores.
This seems like a move into the Chinese-style mega-app where you can do everything from one app - buy shoes, talk to your friends, figure out when the train departs. Facebook already has two top-50 apps, and creating new, unproven apps and promoting them to that point is expensive. So, to increase influence they are putting more into the existing apps.
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Because the battle between approaches to fusion power is not so much on the grounds of how easy they are to build, but how likely they are to generate more power than they consume.
Really?

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/io...

Aquifers aren't infinite.
Worth noting: According to an article by Mary Jo Foley, "the 75 million refers to activated copies of Windows 10 (not devices in channel)".

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-more-than-75-million-...
First:

...young lawyers are less concerned with right and wrong than with chasing dollars.

then:

But matching people who need help to lawyers who have the time and institutional resources to take on these projects pro bono isn't easy...

Sounds like an excellent opportunity for a startup that is more concerned with right and wrong than with chasing dollars.

Any takers?
>The original citations were reasonable...
NO, they were not. She had a valid license and a valid registration.
Offering support for a game is a never ending support task. If you aren't willing to support your users, you aren't ready to publish games. Don't blame Linux users.
This is a duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10124499
I'm totally fine with FB charging businesses for advertisement. It's a free market, they can choose not to advertise there. Not a terrible exchange imo. However, Yelp extorting businesses to pay them to remove bad ratings/give good ratings is pretty shitty.

It would be pretty cool to order in the chat, 'deliver me 10 burgers from this restaurant using doordash at 6pm'. I would rather not click through crappy websites/enter my cc every time.

However every time we do do that, our habits and conversations get written in stone (in multiple data sets being passed around and bought/sold everywhere).
Wasn't there some other difference of opinion regarding the philosophy of marriage recently?
Guess it's not that rich then huh.
There really aren't better ways to solve that on a mass scale at this time. I intend no offense but to be honest I care much more about my system's security vs your need to interpose system processes. SIP is a step in the correct direction for security. Is it perfect or a catch all? No of course not but it's another layer of security that helps the situation overall.
I think this is inspirational... Cheap hardware fault tolerant software...

http://americanhistory.si.edu/press/fact-sheets/google-corkb...
Again, you have no way of gauging intent. An example the poster above gave is a really great one. A couple having a consensual S/M relationship that involves controlled pain, possibly leaving visible marks. Your method would be to immediately rat them out to the authorities. Congratulations, you just ruined a happy couple's relationship because you can't see past your own thin worldview, and never bothered to think before you act.
>Im sure Larry and Jeff had good intentions when they started their companies but now that it's in the hands of middle management it's no different than any other big corp.

Why is it that there are some in this community that want bank CEOs jailed for what their underlings do, but give a pass to tech darlings, who have "lost control" to the MBAs as the company has grown?

Are leaders responsible for the behaviour of employees, or are they not?
If you had the option of knowing that your spouse was cheating via dox, or not knowing at all which would you choose?

I would still contend that you do get to have the discussions surrounding all of this in private, if you choose, or in public amidst people who are going through the same thing that you are through discussions like these, the legal system, etc.

What about the scores of people to whom cheating is a dealbreaker, who now have the means of divorcing their cheating spouses? What is the net outcome of the situation?