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Having worked with many, I have to believe it's more a mix of things. There were certainly cases of hard luck, but it's also not hard to see that spending your paycheck on beer every week when you have no money is never going to improve things. In reality, it's more a mix of things, some bad luck and some bad choices.

Now it's true that some people can absorb a whole lot more bad luck than others because of their family, but I remember one guy in particular who was rather determined to send his life into a ditch in spite of having parents who were willing and able to do a lot of things to help him. He managed to do things like going to prison for beating his girlfriend and robbing her sister and endangering (and injuring) himself on the job.

So it's not all black & white like you're making it out to be.

EDIT: I do feel I should put in a counter-point, in that I also knew a guy who made about one bad choice and the rest was hard luck, so there's that too. Most people were more a mix and for whatever it's worth, I tried to help where I could. The guy who loved to drink had his cruddy old bike stolen one Christmas, so I gave him a brand new one. That was pretty important to him, as it was how he got to work. I put a headlight on it too, as he had to ride a lot at night.
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"Supplement the fresh produce with lentils, beans, and other nutritionally dense items that store well and you'll be far more competitive."

found an interesting example that matches this description, "‘cucina povera" (poor cuisine), yesterday ~ http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/17/rachel-r...
Uncompensated care in the US for 2013 was $85 billion (http://kff.org/uninsured/report/uncompensated-care-for-the-u...). Which may seem like a lot, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the total health care spending of $3.8 trillion (http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/02/02/annual-u-s-h...). The alleged problem of people deliberately not buying health insurance and then freeloading when they get sent to the emergency room just isn't a significant factor. But the ACA cleverly uses that as a pretense to force young and healthy people to pay far more than the fair market value for insurance policies, as a way to disguise subsidies to others.
True, but the same argument could've been made about the value of verifying the firmware. Eventually there will be enough formally verified pieces to put them together into a full software stack.
The article title is very misleading. It's just a proposal, couched on whether enough gas plants could be built in time to make it a reality.
This is one of the more insidious techniques used by pharma companies. See [0], search for "free sample".

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/17/pharma-virumque/
The UK has abundant coal reserves, but my understanding is that their natural gas situation is not nearly as secure - does this effectively mean they're choosing to become more dependent on Russia (main source at least for continental EU) for LNG delivery?
Well, pizza rolls in the basement have a terrible ratio of omega-3/omega-6 and no vitamin D, and omega-3 supplementation is quite effective against depression.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21939614

So there ya go.
The doctor has to write a prescription for the drug based on his knowledge and experience the tv add therefore is superfluous and solicitous and Unnessary the add is an attempt push the new expensive drug on the patient and their doctor
Google thinks bebop is better than whatever they could do internally (including finding people to hire up) to build a comparable product for that budget.
Not if all the cars are smaller cars.
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Indeed. It remembers me of Louis CK - everything's amazing and nobody's happy [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/uEY58fiSK8E?t=143
Thanks. But I live in China, and Banggood doesn't ship to China (it's not in the 'Ship to' drop down on their site). I presume this is because they would then have to deal with domestic taxes like sales tax or VAT, whereas goods which are exported aren't subject to domestic taxes, and may even be eligible for export subsidies.
Slack does not work in China
Anyone ever try/know how to get Slack (desktop client that is, mobile client sorta works) to work in China? Or am I 'firewalled' out :-(
Bouncing isn't an issue if you poll the button state once a frame, because almost all switches will finish bouncing within 16ms.
From my very surface-level experience with HIPAA, I'd say to just call the whole thing off. All it does is make me irritated that medical providers send me those stupid "secure email" messages - or worse, only accept fax.
Yes, that's big too.
In the "I, Robot" movie there is a ruined suspension bridge that ignores physics. That was not the most serious problem with that film.
ABSOLUTELY YES.

That we, as a society, allow people deceive us and to lie in our faces, and not only that - we've turned it into an respected occupation - still boggles my mind.
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The basic argument I have against this is that people say things that make assumptions they don't realize and those assumptions can be testable. Let me give an example.

Say you have a liberal who says, "regardless of whether we go into debt or not," since that is an objectively measurable observable, "we should spend more on education because education is something I value." That already has a problem: it assumes spending more on education increases the quality of education; therein lies a testable hypothesis that we can demonstrate true or false. If a liberal is offended by that notion, that is what I'm arguing against--for me, ideas just aren't "so obvious" that they can't be demonstrated, if it's true, there better be evidence for its truth. If, for example, we spend more on education than other nations and we still have subpar outcomes (which is true, actually), then the stated reasoning "go into debt because we value education anyway" contains a false assumption and thus the argument is fallacious.

Also, other assumptions could be violated here. To further use my analogy, another assumption the liberal has underpinning his arguments is that a state exists to provide education. If you're in debt to the point where your government bonds are considered crap by the market, your decision to spend more money on education could threaten the existence of your state. Therefore, once again, you're making an argument and not rigorously considering whether assumptions are/will remain true or not.

Of course, you could change the "axioms" of the universe of discourse and just enshrine "spending on education is good regardless of whether it actually improves education or not," as a true, and at that point, you're right that I can no longer argue with you. However, I almost always hear an argument with a "because": "the right for free speech for the press is good because it ensures they report fairly and honestly and make their fellow citizens," or, "health-care as a right is good because the government providing healthcare to citizens increases the quality of their care and wellness." Whenever someone says this, there is something in there that is testable and they'd better be willing to demonstrate it, especially if my tax dollars are going to fund their ventures.
I think I understated the advantage the wealthy have while making the point that the parent comment had overstated it. That said, I'm embarrassed to admit my opinion was mostly informed by anecdotal evidence, and your example with Harvard is certainly better than that. The "fact sheet" in the article is dead, but the conclusion seems reasonable. I'd hoped my comment might serve as some encouragement of the sort outreach might, not as a justification for the current state of economic diversity at elite schools.
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I don't need to dodge the first-sale doctrine, because on the facts you recited, the doctrine doesn't apply. The case law has been pretty consistent that when you "buy" software in a typical mass-market transaction, you're not buying a copy, you're buying a license, and consequently the first-sale doctrine doesn't apply. See, e.g., Vernor v. Autodesk [1] [2]

EDIT: Suppose that the first-sale doctrine did apply (e.g., in the case of an object with embedded software with no license as part of the transaction). You'd only have the right to redistribute that copy. Without a separate license, you still wouldn't have the right to create new copies, nor to create derivative works -- that is, no hacking to "improve" the code" --- nor to "publicly perform" or "publicly display" the copyrighted work (which conceivably might apply in some circumstances).

As to your Upton Sinclair quote, you're assuming facts not in evidence. I try to stay on top of this area of the law, but it's never been more than a miniscule part of my practice --- nor for that matter of anyone else's, save for those rare lawyers who have to actually litigate a case in which these issues arise, which happens only rarely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_v._Autodesk,_Inc.

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=107420563841684...
That's what is really cool about this work -- it's not just an algorithm that's proven correct on paper, it's a formally verified _implementation_, so there's no formality gap.
We should just ban profit seeking in health care. It removes the incentive to cheat.
> if your drug is the best, doctors should use it anyway, and if it's bad but you can increase its usage with huge marketing campaign, then mankind just gets screwed for own money.

That's 100% true for everything - just replace "drug" with "product". As soon as an advertisement is leaving the point of informing about product's existence and features, it's starting to trick people into chosing a suboptimal option.
"I work for ViaSat"

Well, well, well...

So, does viasat use different beams for the airplane links than the normal ground based, satellite consumers ?

I assume yes, since most of the beams for ground users are stupendously oversubscribed, such that you can't even open gmail or load your banks website during a lot of the business day.

Our solution for rural Internet used to be a plain old T1 from AT&T @ $450/month, and we replaced it with 12mbps viasat at $149/mo ... and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish we had that T1 back ...
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They failed because they thought it was magic and probably no one ever stopped to show them that it wasn't.

The skills necessary to be an average developer are pretty minimal. Basic math, literacy, organization, basic problem solving, patience and persistence. Communication helps but it's obviously not a requirement as you've displayed.
How does this change anything? You can accept the update, or just let it will stop working with their network. And how is the new update any different in terms of trust than the initial carrier-specific update the modem gets when you activate?
Wow, £3 is a lot for eggs. Over here, they used to be around $2/dozen (~£1.30), and then this happened,

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/21/401319019/5-m...

http://nypost.com/2015/06/07/eggs-prices-on-the-rise-due-to-...

All of a sudden, buying eggs isn't the cheapest way to eat animal protein

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/eggs-...
The tax load is very different because of different tax rates on long term capital gains (tops out at 20%) versus ordinary income (tops out at near 40%).
> The attorney patiently explained to me that returning to Santo Domingo was far too risky. Because I’d overstayed my tourist visa as a child, I’d be subject to a ban on reentry; it was also extremely likely that I’d be denied a student visa.

Well, why can't we just fix that, instead of completely ignoring the law for 20 million people (while in the meantime, millions more wait in line the legal way without the privileges that this guy's family took illegitimately)?
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Why do you assume plumbers or electricians let's say have a lower average iq than programmers? Until ~10 years ago plumbers and electricians far outearned programmers.
Darn, it's been more than half a year, so I don't remember the model name. It just recall it was Arris and the webpage manager thing had similar graphics and look to the one in the article (although they probably all have that).

Nonetheless, regardless if it is the same model as they tested, this demonstrates that I really shouldn't trust anything from Arris now.
I think this needs hard evidence to back up - is adherence much worse in the UK where ads like this are banned?
I second this. I like digital ocean a lot for the simplicity and the community. Obviously, it takes a much more bare bones approach, but being greeted with 50 icons on your dashboard, each of them a proprietary product and cost/second pricing services makes it super hard to figure out what you even are paying, much less receiving.
Some airlines call it "PDE" - Personal Device Entertainment [1]. You connect to internal wifi and can stream all the catalog of movies available aboard. I think it's a lot more convenient than those old (and usually malfunctioning) lcd screens. Even better when there's a USB port right there, so you can charge your phone while you watch it.

[1] https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/inflight/ent...
Given how absolutely widespread this kind of emotional mismanagement is, is it fair to call these people stunted? If a lot of people are like that, isn't that just normal?

Maybe it's not ideal, but maybe that's just life, and it'd make sense to adjust one's expectations a bit and work from where we are, instead of that elusive ideal.
We don't have ads for this in Australia, and everyone knows about viagra. Ads for drugs aren't creepy, they're fucking crazy. When I watched hulu for a bit I was astonished by them fascinated. Terrified. The US is wild west capitalism

EDIT: And another thing: you guys don't even have affordable health care, so people see this shit they blatantly can't afford advertised at them relentlessly. That's why spam is so lucrative I guess: huge demand built for something virtually no-one can afford.
Majority of the Chinese birth tourism seems to be coming from either super rich families or well off middle class families.

The former group are probably not worried about their children finding a job, maybe the safety an American citizenship provides is what they are after, I don't really know. The later group are probably thinking to send their children to the States later for better university education and job prospects, but most tend to seriously under-estimate the downside of having an American baby growing up in China, and over-estimate how much better American life is compared to their own.

So closing the loophole is probably a good thing for all parties involved. Those Chinese families can still send their kids to America later in life and let them decide for themselves if they want to become Americans.
You know you are irrelevant and pretty impressive that you are a multi-billion tech company and HN doesn't even comment on you.
Pretty middlebrow dismissal. How about educating us about something pertinent to the paper in particular, instead of seemingly just scoffing at the idea of formal verification of software in general?
Nothing like active-standby or active-active at the moment. When Raft gets added in the future it'll have active-active at the cost of read and write performance.
What about bitcoin ? :P
That already exists for the labeling of alcoholic beverages in America.
Why does cable company need special powers that my DSL provider does not need?
I'm trying to understand, but I'm pretty confused. There must be something I'm missing, because it seems that this is an obvious move to the majority of the world, as well as the majority of Hacker News. Could you all help me out? What am I missing?

First, implicit in most of the comments here is the idea that whether you need or don't need a drug is a simple, black-and-white thing. The idea seems to be: if you truly had a need for a drug you'd be going to the doctor for it already, and if you were going to the doctor for it already you'd get the medication. It seems to me there's a lot more nuance. There are many, many classes of drugs that solve problems that aren't obviously "go to the doctor!" kinds of problems. I take a prescription medicine sometimes when I do public speaking. It never occurred to me to talk to a doctor about that problem, because it just seemed like a "problem" some people have and others don't. I happened to find out that this situation is easily treatable online, but I easily could have found out by watching a commercial. And this medicine makes my life significantly better, so that commercial would have been of enormous benefit to me, the consumer.

Secondly, it seems obvious that commercials which increase demand would inflate price. For the class of drugs like above -- drugs that make people's lives better but aren't saving lives or addressing significant medical problems -- why should that not be the case? I pay zero dollars for this drug because I have good benefits. Why should that be? I make plenty of money, and I can survive just fine without this drug. Why should I pay zero dollars for it? Why shouldn't the free market be in play in that situation? If we pretend my insurance didn't pay for this drug, I would be happy to pay a bunch of money for it -- or choose not to pay a bunch of money for it because it's too expensive. It's exactly the same decision I make about food at the store, or a new TV.

I understand that there are many prescription drugs that aren't "casual" in this way. I think it's good for society to do everything it can to grant to citizens a certain level of health, and therefore I'm all for restrictions on how these kinds of drugs are priced. And therefore it makes sense to have restrictions about how these kinds of drugs are advertised. But Viagra? Why shouldn't Viagra be subject to the free market? I'm an ultra-progressive (though rational) liberal here, so I don't really understand what I'm missing. Clue me in!
It's possible (at least with the HN7000 ku-band system) to put a Hughesnet dish on a tripod and point it yourself (with the proper tools and knowledge). You'd need to get it from a dealer that allows self-installs (Hughesnet won't sell you equipment without a professional installation), such as Montana Satellite.
Hard to say from your comment what you are doing, but I've struggled quite a bit with getting good colours for both dark and light themes while working on agnostic [1]. Obviously, if you are using 256 colour scheme, then you can choose whatever colours you like. But if you are using a 16 colour scheme there are some significant issues you have to keep in mind.

Colours 0-7 are "normal" colours. Colours 8-15 are "bright" colours. Unfortunately, back in the old days when bold wasn't supported on terminals, they decided that bold should be implemented with "bright" colours. So now, any time you use bold, there are applications that force the colour to be the bright version (i.e., even if you tell it to use colour 6, it will actually use colour 14 if you specify bold as well).

For light themes, this is a significant problem because most colour palattes actually put the bright (i.e. lighter) colours in the "bright" colour section. This means that basically every time you use bold, there will be very little contrast -- making light themes practically useless. You can't just change the palette either, because then your non-bold characters will have poor contrast.

What agnostic does is to use colours 8-15 as "normal" colours and 0-7 as "bright" colours. This way, when you use bold it actually uses the colour you intended. Then you can adjust the palatte in your terminal app to use whatever colours you want. Agnostic is also designed so that it doesn't completely suck with standard palattes (like the Xwindows/iTerm default, Tango, Solarized Dark) because it is designed to be a pair programming theme. It works best if you make your own palette, though.

Saying all that, there should be no reason you can't set up a good light theme with whatever colours you like, but you will probably have to do the same kind of thing as agnostic if you want to support bold well.

[1] - https://github.com/ygt-mikekchar/agnostic
I have one on my desk. I turn it on when I sit down for work in the morning, hitting the timer to run for 45 minutes. There is a marked improvement in my wakefulness, mood, and productivity. I don't care if it's a placebo or not, Dumbo's Magic Feather is good enough for me.
> While there is no accepted definition of a Sudbury school, the intended culture within a Sudbury school has been described with such words as freedom, trust, respect, responsibility and democracy.

I'm trying really hard not to be immediately cynical about this, but a lot of this page doesn't make any sense.

Most of these sources are primary, where the "Sudsbury Valley School Press" sells books of information about its schools, and they're apparently acceptable citations.

A lot of the ideas here are noble and interesting, and can challenge the way people think about teaching their kids.

At the same time, I don't think it's possible to treat most kids with their own education until they're in high school. And what's even better is that neither my opinion, nor theirs, is backed by scientific evidence in a peer-reviewed journal.

Some of the concepts within are interesting, like keeping parents out of their child's education (assuming the school is good enough that the parent doesn't need any control).

But it's a system based on beliefs and beliefs alone.

Call me cynical, but I don't get it.
Likewise no one I spend time with are creationists, but the Internet acts as an inter-dimensional gateway, connecting me with creationists with whom I schooled as a child, and the die-hard you-get-what-you-deserve libertarians here.

I'm writing a treatise on advertising and the internet, or at least I'm trying. I might hit you up for feedback. It may be a while.
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Data >> Anecdotes [1]

60% of domestic flights have wifi on them. My apologies if you are flying outside the US or using regional carriers 98% of the time (which might not be included here).

1: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/26/for-onboard-wi-fi-not-all-air...

(this was google result number one for 'percent of flights with wifi')
> Without awareness that an effective treatment exists, patients with ED or another embarrassing condition are not likely to bring it up with their doctor on their own, thus resulting in unnecessary suffering.

Research has found that 80% of over the counter and 60% of prescription drug ads are misleading or false.[1] ED mediations are one of the top offenders in false advertising in the study.

1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/study-finds-most-d...
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we need to price this shit in to the goddamn market, having random unpriced externalities that can just be captured by whatever the base cost to obtain them, is reckless.

Not only is it not an equitable way to disperse resources, but there is an incentive to just absolutely destroy another key piece of the environment. I am not some tree hugging greenie either, not there would be anything wrong with that, but dispatching remote control bulldozers underwater in droves is going to be a great way to ruin an ocean that already has significant problems.
The list is missing OCaml, which is a functional language that's being used for some serious applications, e.g., in the financial industry.
But how do we explain why WiFi never works on buses?