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>trying to pick apart everything I say and find a way to disagree with it.

We're totally not.
Using real money accounting or funny money accounting?
As someone writing one of those tutorials, I think it's a little early at this point. The material provided by Google is thin at best at the moment and you frequently find yourself having to dive into the code to get anywhere.

I think it's fun to play with, but not ready for hard-core study yet.
As long as you don't enter the domain of falsifiable facts, you should be fine.
It's a huge game of economic whack-a-mole, where "solving" problems here just causes them to pop up in another place. It is very, very difficult to work around the basic laws of supply and demand, and arbitrarily picking winners and losers is hardly a fair way of allocating anything.

Nice to see a comment from someone who's seen it up close.
That's because while we're upgrading the hardware and software, for some reason government restrictions force the new models to be tweaked until they give the same output as the old models. Apparently someone feels that similar results are more "reliable" and don't see that maybe different results means BETTER, more accurate results than the old model.
The frustrating part about this is that fossil fuels have had the scales tipped in their favor via 1) subsities, and 2) not accounting for externalities in the price. The economic costs of particular emissions, CO2, mercury, and other pollutants are very real, and astronomical, but a classic tragedy of the commons.

If we factor those into the price, renewables like solar and wind would be much more competitive.
Insurance is such a scam. A friend of mine made two claims within about five years: once for water damage and once for a burglary.

The insurance company agreed that she was covered. So they paid her and then dropped her. No big deal, right? Wrong. Once you've made a claim or two against your insurance, it can be very hard to get any new insurance company to cover you. She finally did find a new insurer, but the price has gone way up -- negating her original claims.

Did you know every claim you make goes into a CLUE report? It's like a credit report, but few people know about it. Once you make "too many claims" - even if they're legit and beyond your control, you become an insurance pariah.

Because of this, I avoid making any claims unless absolutely required.
Interesting. It seems to alternate between being "stuck" in certain conceptual valleys, and jumping between different concepts quickly. Perhaps an effect more similar to the op could be achieved by enforcing some sort of smoothness and similarity constraints.
Recorded, Asynchronous Video: The New, Hot Communication
Google's Doubles # of Self-Driving Cars on the Road
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Ah I had not considered snapshotting just /usr before. Thanks for the link, it makes a lot more sense now!
As a sysadmin, I find that every time I rail against systemd here, I get constantly challenged by developers who know far more about, well developing, than I do.

Is it so hard to avoid change for change's sake? I'm not opposed to learning new things, but we're all really busy, and when the standard way of accomplishing things changes in every major release (which you're usually trying to deploy to stay on top of the latest developer demand, or audit requirements or whatever) just adds a massive learning curve. Now I've got to learn something new, rewrite a bunch of tools, all because.. why?
This is so strange to hear. I moved here in 2006 and made friends without any unusual effort. The idea that someone is going to be non-interested in talking to you because of your profession is... strange.

No one here that I've ever met hates Amazon (though some are bummed by the economic effect on the city). I've never worked there, but I have friends who have-- some of them didn't like it (and left), others really love it. Like any big company, depends on your team and your boss.
Yes, I imagine if you have a large 2 story house with 30 metre cable runs you would need to use a backbone of solid bus bars, with shorter runs of cable to the outlets.

As I said, I have my doubts it would be a win anyway - for much the same reasons: I^2R losses and because I'm not sure that large switchmodes are significantly more efficient than smaller ones anyway.
The gender imbalance is a bummer got almost everyone
Just to play devils' advocate, that's less than $1k _in a savings account_. Many people store cash straight in their checking accounts or have much more than $1k in stocks and bonds which aren't too hard at all to liquidate, and the figure you're quoting didn't account for that.
Wage stagnation would be expressed in constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars, but it's also quite possible that not all products are subject to the same rates of inlfation.

Energy, food, and housing costs have increased. Electronics, especially on a capabilities-based scale, have become profoundly less expensive, though when factored into the end-use impacts (communications, information, entertainment), the cost reductions are far less substantial.

Healthcare is another area in which exceptional inflation has lead to only modest improvements in overall outcomes, particularly life expectancy for those already receiving good results: white females and males. Much of the improvement in health outcomes in the US since 1970 has been focused on bringing minority populations' standard of care and health closer to that of privileged majority populations. Not that this isn't a good thing, but it's different from saying that the _overall_ improvements in delivery have been evenly distributed.

How to lie with statistics and all that.
It's very easy to tell the difference between 192kbps and FLAC if you have a decent subwoofer and the song ever goes below 30hz. On run-of-the-mill speakers and earbuds, probably not.
Yap. An insurance inspector if they are nice enough, will let you know between the lines how you need to phrase your claim. Forgot what the trick word was when we had a leak at our house, but it was similar phrasing -- "So let me remind you, if it is <this>, we'll cover it. If it is <that> we won't. So... which one is it". -- "Oh ok, definetely <this> then ...". /smile
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
Sorry, purely hypothetical.

But, it might be worthwhile to make this work. If you implement the margin calls right, there's almost no risk for any party involved. Stand by, while I talk to my bitcoin obsesses friends about a startup idea.
A shopvac (or any vacuum not designed for mercury) would be a really bad idea: they vaporize the mercury and seriously distribute it around the house.
> Can you describe an asset (besides US treasuries) that you can be assured of its value in a volatile market?

My point is emphatically not that your stocks will maintain their full value. But even at their lowest, their value will be more than enough to cover any emergency fund. A 50% drop on $100k will still leave you with $50k.
I'll throw my hat in the ring. Recently had a car totaled when getting it shipped cross country. Apparently because it was an "Act of god" (a hailstorm, with what looks like fist-sized-rock-hail in that every piece of glass and most trim on the car had holes in it, although I'd argue the insurance was for the idiot driver who didn't pull over or cover his load.) the insurance company refused to do squat. The car was only blue booked at 5k at the time, but we had to replace it with a 25k car, so I count that as a decent amount of loss.

To bring this back to topic, I would gladly get on board with any plan to fix "insurance". It really feels like less insurance and more government mandated protection money ; but that seems to be the fundamental problem, that reforming insurance is almost paramount to reforming finance. How do you even begin to make headway against an entity with that much power/influence and tentacles already so deep in these processes?

(edit re: protection money; the gist of it is anger that if you fall on a "responsible/lucky" part of the bell curve, you'll likely end up paying out for FAR more than you ever get back while simultaneously watching the insurance company often do everything in their power to NOT come through when they should. In my case, I would have expected the transportation company's mandatory liability insurance to cover this.)
> Yep, an alternative model enabled by technology is mutual / cooperative insurance in which the policyholders not only own the company but also govern the release of funds. This way incentives are aligned - the insured want the insurance to act fairly, even with respect to others

That doesn't really align incentives, though. There's really no benefit to each individual to approving another person's claim (all it means is less money in the pot).

Claims are rare enough that it's not enough to simply say 'if you vote this way for someone else, we'll apply the policy consistently for you', since the expected number of claims that a person is likely to file over the course of their plan is close to zero.

(And even if it weren't, the whole issue is that insurance has relatively well-written rules for clear-cut cases, but the complaints people have - like this one - are generally about the interpretation of those policies for special cases, since policies can't possibly enumerate every possible outcome.)
Ironically, you are so proving his point for him.
In my high school they didn't know the word "techie" so they had a different word for kids they considered quite and boring. Ironically it was the same word they used to describe people like John.
So people would use a mercury seal to put pressure on the water, allowing the system to run hotter without boiling.

I didn't quite follow this part. Where in the system does the mercury go, how does it add pressure, and does it have anything to do with Wikipedia's description of using mercury in glass-to-metal seals?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-to-metal_seal#Mercury_se...
Wonder how they share this information. Is it a private database service they are all subscribed to?
I think you're the one who might need an attitude adjustment. Instead of providing reasoning for why cash is necessary, you continue to belittle people who invest their assets.
Using real money, taking into account much of the complexity of real world accounting: i.e. considering lower current interest rates, and many places where many of fossil fuel's externalities have to be paid for by the users of the fuel.
In my opinion, Tesla has no true rivals... yet. It seems car makers have finally started to take note of the impact that Tesla is making. But Tesla being solely focused on electric vehicles and other auto makers focusing mainly on fossil fuel vehicles with electric being an afterthought, I think Tesla won't be displaced anytime soon.
It's a great idea, and I definitely relate to the problem you're solving. I've used http://tldr.io in the past similarly.

Differences:
- they don't include a photo
- usually a smaller number of bullets (3-5)
- their audience is broader than just tech

While I really loved it myself, it seemed like I was the only one summarizing the HN front page. That or this would be so awesome with a little more community embracement.

If you're curious, you can find my summaries at http://tldr.io/tedmiston.
Ah, makes sense. I guess that someone (not necessarily I) is in the clear as it was not a prolonged exposure. However, since that someone (not necessarily me) may or may not have disposed off the drops of mercury improperly, I wonder how often people disposed off of mercury properly in the past.

There is some awareness about asbestos but probably not mercury. It'd suck to buy a house and a month later discover a puddle of mercury in the attic.
Reminds of Mr. Incredible's day job as an insurance salesman who helped the nice old lady by telling her how to work the insurance system.
That looks fine for embedded systems or maybe some end-user systems, but doing that in a server context would be scary. The original filesystem hierarchy was designed so that /usr, /etc, /bin, and so on would have their own partitions and in the event that something tried to eat the filesystem, you might still be able to boot into single user mode and repair the damage. I've had to do this on a handful of different servers where /usr is boned and won't mount, but I still have enough stuff available that I can fix it.

Plus there are a handful of tools with smart option that take advantage of the multiple partition approach, like rm and rsync's --one-file-system option.
The "engineers" that these stories refer to are kind of like saying the CTO is an engineer. These weren't rank and file employees.
Yep! One thing to note, the header is likely to change at some point from X-Associated-Content to the emerging link preload standard (in-progress spec: https://w3c.github.io/preload/ )
900/11 = 81 + 9/11 I am OK with this.
In Victory for Digital Privacy, California Governor Signs Electronic Privacy Act
In android this is (was?) a built-in feature, no need to install profiles or apps. I say was because it seems like Google is removing all the things I liked about android.
Most organizations past a certain size will provide for anonymous feedback internally both among peers and up the org chart. Why do you think this is? Why do you think most organizations also have policies providing for penalties, including dismissal, for retaliation against people who provide honest feedback?

It's because sometimes people can be vindictive, petty assholes, and it's a small world. FWIW it does seem like Jared just had too much on his plate at the time - no big deal. But shame on you for calling someone out for providing honest feedback (which was well-received, at that), just because it was anonymous.
I also changed my provider after the initial story. Originally went to tmobile but the service was terrible. Att removed their tracking header so I have switched to them now.
You make a valid point, but I'd be curious to what extent this applies on both sides. I know I certainly hear a lot of buzz about the subsidies provided for "green energy", installing panels, that sort of thing. I was also under the impression that we haven't fully moved away from using certain rare earth metals/other compounds in the panels/large electric generators, which likely have a heavy cost externality in mining.

Really wish there was some repository of what the "true costs" of the things we use are, this has got me thinking about even more mundane goods when you consider the whole supply chain.
If you have access to Nature, you might like this article [1]. Even if you don't, check out Fig. 1 to see how forecasting has been improving.

[1] "The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction", http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7567/full/nature1...
Probibly won't happen since it's based on a will. I think part of the prize allure is that it is limited and non-predictable.
> She finally did find a new insurer, but the price has gone way up -- negating her original claims.

This isn't a scam at all. That's exactly what you'd expect from insurance. Insurance isn't there to save you money. In fact, the expected value of an insurance plan is always going to be negative on an infinite time horizon[0].

The whole point of an insurance plan is to smooth risk: instead of the small possibility of a catastrophic failure, you take the relative certainty of having a fixed monthly payment (your premium). At a very high level, it's sort of similar to taking on consumer debt (credit card debt): in the long run, you'll always pay more than if you just paid cash up-front, because of the interest. The difference between credit cards and insurance is that you don't know when the expensive event is going to happen, so you agree to always pay the monthly payment regardless of what happens. And while banks charge interest based on the risk that you won't pay back and the opportunity cost of that money, insurers charge you a premium in exchange for the luxury of not having to guess whether next month will have an expensive event or not.

In your friend's case, the fact that she had two claims adjusted her relative risk profile, which means that her premium had to adjust accordingly.

[0] If it weren't, there'd be no point to going into business as an insurer, because you'd be guaranteed to make an operating loss. The only way you'd be able to make any money is based on the investments that you make, at which point you might as well eliminate the insurance side of your business and operate as a bank. (Interestingly, this is why the relationships between banks and insurers are so close in many countries, and also why most insurance markets - car insurance and health insurance[1] being two notable exceptions - have surprisingly slim profit margins).

[1] Health insurance is a special case because, strictly speaking, it's not really "insurance", but that's a whole separate discussion.
I moved to Seattle in 2011 and left in 2013. It was a little difficult to make friends at first because (1) people are generally standoffish and (2) the whole 'I work at Microsoft' thing really turns people off for whatever reason.

What I learned after a while was you can't really do anything about #1; thats just the NW culture. To deal with #2...just don't bring it up and don't be a stereotype and get to know Seattle and all it's good for. Music, mountains, etc. I loved living there the second year I was there.

I find the Bay Area is so inundated with tech it's almost impossible to encounter #1 or #2...almost anyone you meet socially if you live in SF will work for tech in some way or another which was not guaranteed at all in Seattle (also true of Oakland but not quite the same). People are friendlier in the Bay but that's got no bearing on you actually being friends with them.
Why not explain them here? It's probably interesting for a lot of people.
I just edited my comment to add that. It's called a CLUE report. Every claim you make goes into your report and it's shared amongst all insurers.

https://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs26-CLUE.htm
> those firms whose models don't reflect reality will blow up,

I'm picturing one of those dystopic films/novels where the main character is deleted/fired/jailed as a result of an algorithm error. Yes, in real life the trends will overcome the bad models. But just think of the potential consequences for harm on an individual basis!
How is that correct? Almost 70% of americans own their own house. Are you telling me that one can get a mortgage and make a down payment for a new house with only $1k in savings?
Yet another way that privileged White males from the tech industry oppress women.
It is an http header: X-UIDH added to http requests
From everything I've seen/read during the security research phase for my project, trusting in the computational/security integrity of endless P2P nodes is not a road I want to go down.

There really is nothing _a priori_ wrong with the centralized system, PROVIDED said system/operator makes strong Privacy / Data Sovereignity guarantees from the word go.
I agree with you both, but that doesn't change that I suspect this would be the default approach for a lot of people that have neither the money nor the ideology to justify a professional cleanup.

An easy example of this kind of thinking is that people used to (and many still do) bury used motor oil in their yard. (See e.g. http://www.experienceproject.com/question-answer/How-Can-I-D...)
No shit. What's the point of buying insurance then? I had septic tank back flow into my basement due to a design defect that was put in PRIOR to my purchase of the house.

Insurance paid up then dropped me. Second insurance doubled the premium stating I'm a high risk. I was like WTF? This was a design defect that has been fixed. It's not like I'm a slob and let the house fall apart. It's a relatively new house.

What's even dumber is the 'claim' followed me to two more houses over the next eight years. WHY? It's not like I have a magic wand and caused the pipes to bend and cause another back flow. I argued with the current insurance company as high as I could until they agreed to reduce the premium to a level I'm comfortable with.

It sucks.
Er.. I'm not arguing with you. I understand it perfectly well. Please see my other comments in the thread....
Seems like a pretty clever way to bootstrap Metcalfe's Law.
See what was published just days before the VW scandal in Nature. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7569/full/nature1...
Do you really not understand, or are you just very angry that some people don't agree with your politics?
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Apple: TSMC vs. Samsung A9 Chip Variants Result in 2-3% Difference Battery Life
Combine my individual sentences, as I did, and try again.
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Michael Horn, CEO of VW America: "This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason." That sounds nothing like what you're describing. The article alludes that many were suspended, but it doesn't directly attribute blame to them.

I find it impossible to believe any software engineer at the implementation level would assume that level of risk. This is obviously scapegoating. I really hope they set those engineers up for life, because they'll never be able to find another job again.
Insurance companies cannot credibly cover acts of god, aka correlated risks, because they happen to too many people all at once. It's not a simple matter of "fixing" insurance for those matters.

NPR's Planet Money had a good discussion: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/03/353030214/bedbu...
Author here: happy to answer questions.
Sounds great... but given that medium is owned by one of the twitter guy, I would think twice before building anything serious on top of this API though this is a publish only api so it should be fine (twitter publish api is still pretty ok).
> Building housing in a bull market is almost always the right choice, but let's not pretend rents are going to magically fall. Or stop rising. Housing is one of the most elastic goods one can find. Everyone has to sleep somewhere.

It doesn't matter if it's inelastic if demand can meet supply. The econ 101 example is diamonds (expensive but useless) vs. water (dirt cheap but necessary): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value

If the theory's not enough for you, I don't have it on hand but there's empirical research that shows this relationship holds for housing like it does for any other good.
Obama administration opts not to force firms to decrypt data – for now
The US militia is the most well-equipped in the world, when measured in dollars.
If you want to see the impact of profoundly cheap labor in a modern country, go to India. When I was there last winter, it was fascinating to see how many things were done by simply throwing seemingly-inordinate man-hours of labor at tasks (e.g. painting roads and signage by hand).
The sad part is that I clicked the link to the Seattle proposal and they are repeating the same mistakes as San Francisco.
> It really feels like less insurance and more government mandated protection money;

Car insurance is different from other forms of insurance. The reason car insurance is mandatory is because otherwise, if you hit someone or damage their property with your car and they successfully sue you, they could very well end up with nothing (if you're broke). With insurance, that person is guaranteed to get a payout, because the insurance company is well-capitalized enough to be certain to pay out.

In a world in which everyone drives, this is mathematically equivalent to everyone purchasing insurance against damage that happens to them or their car by someone else. The reason it's not structured this way is because (1) not everyone drives a car, and (2) it creates a moral hazard problem (having car insurance - and the consequences to taking actions which can raise your premiums - serve as a deterrent to bad driving.)
I have noticed FanDuel commercials have disappeared for now on TV. But this was a long time coming..