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I expect that Netflix's technical staff would be very interested in this. Have you tried -ugh- tweeting at them and telling them that their IPv6 geolocation information is wrong for your address range?
This was incredibly tart. Some of us younger millennials are not "subsidized" and scrape up the extra money per month for a gym because we are concerned about aging healthfully. I, too, bristled at the writer giving the "special snowflake millennial" dead horse another dryfuck.
Exactly. See single return statement, highlight variable, see branch structure at a glance, ???, profit.
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Same here; I have been listening to streaming stuff less and less...but my reasons are:
1. Between so many work/day-job meetings, seldom in front of a laptop with the opportunity to work with headphones, and music in the background.
2. When I'm mobile - and on my mobile/away from laptop - I'm just too stingy with my mobile data plan. (Maybe its my age, or cuz of family, but priorities of data plans change with growing families ;-)
In addition to OTA, I've found CBS has CBSN - a 24/7 news channel available on roku. I found their coverage of the Paris attacks to be pretty good, easily on par with what I'd be watching on CNN or something. That and Democracy Now feed my "cable news" need just fine. But mostly, I've learned to live without 24/7 "news" coverage and I'm happier for it.
Completely agreed.

I think early returns deep in the logic of a method can be problematic, but I think early returns at the top of a method before you get to the meat of the logic are very readable.
This loses meaning when we realize that the US is a huge force behind defining who is "recognized" or not anyway. Also this doesnt change the fact that during the American Revolution, the British were much more "recognized" in the international space than America -- so why were we rebels and not insurgents?

But let's not over glorify the terrorists either. I think Naomi Klein said it well that if you had to choose on a deadly multiple choice questionnaire between American imperialism and fundamentalist terror, the correct answer is "none of the above."
> Gyms like Equinox in NYC start at over $600 per month

No, they don't. That's ridiculous.
Technically, there was a military target for both of those. The firebombing of Dresden was designed to deprive the German army of materiel by bombing strategically important industrial factories. With Hiroshima, there was several Army headquarters and key logistic facilities. (Hiroshima probably fails to be justified on the grounds of proportionality; the military objectives there probably could've been achieved with conventional bombings.)
+1 to codecombat, especially if you find yourself easily distracted. It has you "playing a game" of sorts, which keeps you (or me, anyway) pretty focused.
I would not be so harsh, my initial comment is a bit misleading. And most Europeans do not know the difference between Washington and Washington D.C. :-)
> We also accidentally dropped two nukes in Japan, and accidentally made Napalm and Agent Orange rain into the Vietnamese, with enormously high and vastly-civilian casualties in both cases.

Don't forget the extensive firebombings of numerous cities including Dresden or Tokyo (casualties estimates for the latter are in the same 100000~200000 range as the two nuclear strikes combined)
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but, in a way, the fact that this sort of analysis isn't about the movies, but the people doing it, is sort of my point.
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Frightening the enemy is almost always an important part of military tactics (e.g. "shock and awe"). And what war doesn't have political aims?
Isn't pager duty baked into the salary of the position? I thought that jobs where you're expected to be on call to some extent (hopefully at level 3 or 4 of support?) have an artificially high salary compared to those where it's a 9-5 gig?
Anecdotally, in my gym a lot of the younger people shower while wearing underwear.
Out of curiosity: Is your grand mother from the Netherlands ?
The article does not link to the FAA's website.

Here's the link to the actual FAA page: https://www.faa.gov/uas/registration/

It appears that registration opens on 21 Dec, 2015.
Further, if registration is done before January 20, 2016 the $5 registration fee will be refunded.
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If that is the reason, why do many countries, such as India in the article, have systems that work efficiently and simply?
I should mention that Paul Buchheit wants to fund the Uber of medical tourism:

https://twitter.com/paultoo/status/566379518261088258

The tweet: "I want to fund the 'Uber' of medical tourism
Needs 5 star service, simplicity and safety
Let me know if you apply - http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/"

It really has to happen. Health care in the US is just fucked, and everyone knows it.
Is it ironic that the AMP build is currently claiming to be broken?

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml

Or that it makes pages faster to load by adding a Javascript library?
Am I the only person in the world who thinks email works pretty well? Maybe I just get less mail than many people, but I just delete (or mark "read" and ignore) most of the marketing ham mails I get. I read and respond to the actually-important messages I get for work or from personal contacts. Actual spam is pretty well filtered.

I vastly prefer email to Facebook messages, or Slack notifications, or any of the other purported "solutions" to communication.

Why do people hate email so much?
I think you have a wrong idea here about quantum computers. It is not likely that they will end up on your desk any time soon.

What is likely going to happen at first is that for very specialized problems there will be large scale quantum computers. Think of them as complex physical experiments, occupying whole rooms with delicate equipment. That will be the reality of quantum computing for quite some time. If they ever end up on a desk is hard to tell, but that's really science fiction, it's like asking whether we'll visit foreign planets in the future.

That means unless you are working in a very specialized environment quantum computers are irrelevant for you as a developer except that you'll likely use different crypto algorithms in the future. But you will use different crypto that still runs on classical computers.
I guess not. Which does seem a little weird now that I think about it. Not sure why cars would be different.
I feel like the trend in domain name "investing" is a fad.

I find myself googling for websites more than actually typing them out if they are not populated by recent history anyway.
Can anybody demonstrate any advantages people of Libya have from the West supported removal of Gaddafi?

As far as I understand, before it was at least peace in the land, now it's a second home of ISIS.
As someone's mentioned on Twitter, I'd like a browser extension that replaces "Millennials" with 'people more youthful, more attractive, and more sexually active than us', please!
The note that was added made a big difference. There is no genetic basis implied, it's assessed on an environmental basis. The links do an excellent job at summarising some measures of IQ.

Another question is why raise the comment? This could imply a prejudice. While the reasoning wasn't clear, it made me think that Africa is a source of radicals unless its education standard can be lifted.

I have little faith in most sites being able to objectively discuss differences, but HN is still better than most. I encourage people to challenge prejudice in a consistent way (eg. No free tickets on being prejudiced based on gender or skin colour, unlike what happens at The Verge and most other media sites).
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> You can't charge money on each and every site, it makes no sense for eg. a blog and even if it did - transaction fees would make it infeasible.

That's a pretty clear sign your content isn't as valuable as you think.

> A blog still costs money to run/host, it has to get paid somehow.

Hosting a blog is very, very cheap (aka free), unless you're getting tons and tons of traffic, which you're probably not. And even if you specifically are, the majority of people aren't.

Monetizing a personal blog is kinda lame anyway.

> Ads are basically a bad implementation of micropayments that the internet seriously needs.

No they're not. You can't just change the definition to make it seem less sleazy.
So the doctors have a list price, which is then negotiated down. They set the list price high for the same reason many sophisticated goods are set at a high price (cars, houses, enterprise software, etc.).

However most, if not all, doctors will absolutely charge you less if you pay cash, you just have to ask for it and have the conversation.
You're right, I was thinking of the starting fee. The monthly rate is around $200:

http://ny.racked.com/2015/1/13/7561179/nyc-chain-gyms-cost
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This feels a little like a troll, but I'll bite. :)

I'm new to management so I'll be the first to admit that I'm not great at it. I do wish I'd had someone to tell me some of these things when I first started, so you could think of this as advice to my younger self. YMMV.

As for whether asking tough questions makes people feel safe, I'd say, "... maybe?" I can think of hard questions that would certainly make me feel less safe. Two things: 1. Asking the question I lead with got me some great info, so I'm going to continue trying this; 2. I'd want to encourage people on my team to feel able to do the same, so I look at this as leading by example.
'Do you have any evidence of this or are you just asserting to because it sounds nice?'

I don't have evidence that what the parent said happened actually happened. I'm not saying it didn't happen but I don't have any evidence that it did. Do you?

"Saying "we don't target civilians" doesn't get you any points"

Not targeting civilians gets you a lot of points. 'Intent' vs 'non-intent' (along with 'consent' vs 'non-consent') is in my view the central concept of all ethical / moral discussions.

As for whether or not US soldiers, either disobeying orders, obeying direct orders, or obeying the orders from high up in the chain of command, actually kill civilians, yes, that is a critical part of this conversation as well. But it is much easier to stop killing civilians when it is not a stated part of our foreign policy, our military strategy, or our laws to deliberately do so. And I can't say the same thing about ISIS or Al Shabaab or terrorists in general.
For me, precise and binding terms of service are what's at issue. When people start forking over dollars, they will be more sensitized to precisely what's being exchanged. They way the deal is structured now, they're implicitly agreeing, usually without knowing about it in the first place, to give over an unspecified amount and type of information to an unspecified set of businesses who will be licensed to use it in unspecified ways for an unspecified period of time. That's just stupid. I'd be all for an advertising-based model if there were precise terms of service that would be binding for both parties. Until then, I cannot prove that I'm not being screwed now or later by someone completely unrelated to the content I'm trying to read.
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Same here, I've mainly learned from just guess and check. Any tutorials I've tried (admittedly not many) are too basic and haven't given me a good mental model of how to approach a problem with CSS.
> In everything else e.g. car repairs, the cash price is always lower than insurance covered price

For starters, insurance smooths risk. It is not there to save you money. By definition, insurance will always cost more than than paying out-of-pocket in the long run[0]. Think of insurance as a luxury that mitigates (but does not eliminate!) the worst-case scenario for you. It costs more (a premium[1]) because this luxury has value to you.

The fact that this does not always apply to health insurance is a sign that health insurance isn't entirely (in the economic sense) insurance; we just happen to use that word.

> One thing I've never understood about the US system is why do the doctors charge more for paying cash e.g. $200 for a visit, whereas insurance reimburses them less than half e.g. $80.

In general, Medicare and Medicaid reimburse the least - the amount that they reimburse is actually less than COGS (not on all individual services, but in the aggregate, it amounts to 7% less)[2]. As a result, providers have to overcharge private insurers and uninsured patients in order to cover their own costs.

The price that you see on your bill is basically a starting point for negotiations. A company like Aetna will say "okay, there's no way we're paying that, but we will pay you 250% of what Medicare reimburses for the same procedure".

As an uninsured patient, you can do this as well if you know to ask. It's less of a practice for outpatient care, since that tends to cost less and also have more predictable costs associated with it, but for (e.g.) unexpectedly large bills for inpatient care, you can always just tell them "I will pay $X today in cash if you reduce the bill to that amount." They'll always be willing to do it, because they literally do not care about the money that they get from uninsured patients - the large bill is intended to be received by an insurance company, not by an individual.

[0] ie, on an infinite time horizon.

[1] The fact that your fixed monthly payment to an insurer is also called a premium is not a coincidence.

[2] To preempt the inevitable question: COGS refers to the direct costs of providing a service, so this is before even accounting for the fact that an outpatient office has to pay rent, pay its staff, etc.
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Before we start squabbling over whether the fault lies with the AMA in particular (this topic has come up before) let me propose that instead we discuss the more general and more relevant claim "the USA overtrains its doctors, creating needless scarcity."
Chrome meets their criteria too, when bundled with other software, example: https://i.imgur.com/MakuHWC.png

It deceptively claims to increase web speeds, piggybacks on CCleaner's installation, doesn't inform the user about what it does, replaces the default web browser by default, "collects or transmits private information without the user’s knowledge", and it is bundled with other software.

The only characteristic that Chrome doesn't have is being difficult to remove.
Why use email as a to-do list, when it's obviously so poorly suited for the role? Why not use email for things email's good at, and use one of the wide variety of to-do list tools for task tracking?

When you need to refer to an email from a to-do item, there's ways to do that; some clients support direct hyperlinks, and others can be dealt with by just including the date/time and sender or subject of the email in the to-do item's notes, so that you have the information you need to quickly find the message via search. You can also include excerpts from email, or even whole messages, directly via copy-and-paste; after all, it's not as though they are going to change once received, so there's no sync problem to manage.

Granted, this might seem like being more effort than just mapping task list semantics onto email. But the article under discussion here chronicles its author's essentially having reinvented every task abstraction all the way up to the project, solely in order to overcome the inherent drawbacks of trying to use email as a task list. It seems impossible that this could be easier than just finding a task list tool that has the features you need, and learning to use it alongside your preferred email client.
Similar treatment for LOTR
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Recognized is a binary; you either are or you aren't. The colonies behaved like a nation-state during the Revolutionary War -- they had ambassadors to multiple European nations during the conflict, for instance. The American revolutionaries also raised an army, for instance. They wore uniforms, etc. Similarly, during the Civil War, the Confederacy was not an insurgency and we didn't treat it as such.
Now repeat for C++.
Unlike the real world, the force actually exists and has practical applications within the Star Wars universe. Who wouldn't want to master that power? Same cannot be said for some "other thing" in the real world which people believe in...
The problem with this is that "the Force" really does have supernatural powers (in the context of the movie at least), whereas religions only claim them but can't prove it.
Yeah, Spotify and Tidal have terrible Uis. I'm testing deezer now and I find it a lot better.
I do care for finding new music, I just don't do it through Spotify. I do play that new music through Spotify, however.
I'm not advocating anarcho-communism or left-anarchism, necessarily. I'm more than aware of its bottlenecks regarding economic calculation and so forth.
Duly noted, your feedback in this regard is most appreciated. Good eye!
At the time the Millennium Falcon was captured by the Death Star, it was a civilian transport. The use of enemy uniforms was to facilitate escape from captivity, note that they sabotaged the tractor beam preventing them from escaping, not any other part of the Death Star.
Direct navigation is definitely becoming less common. The browser search bar, the awesome bar, and App Stores are increasingly becoming the ways that internet users reach their destinations.

Still, .com domain names continue their march up in value. It's been a ~20 year fad at this point.
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Not even that.

The Empire had a population of >100 quadrilion, Alderaan killed about 2 billion people. That's a difference of 8 orders of magnitude (50 million), that's equivalent to killing ~140 earth humans. In relative scale, it doesn't come close to Hiroshima, it's closer to having bombed a large wedding.
Is it really? If I just point Burp Suite to some website they're going to come after me?
I appreciate your effort on trying to putt the words 'google' and 'ethical' in the same sentence. It just doesn't fit. It's business. Who cares about the user any longer?
Yeah, I could definitely see that. Great game too. Wish they could somehow recreate that magic.
>I'm just too stingy with my mobile data plan.

Yea that is exactly my sentiment. There was a time when I was cool to walk/drive about and listen to music. Now my data plan pushes me over the fence into silence.
> I feel like the people who push for the paywall & a la carte type solutions don't really consider the full implications of their suggestions.

This sounds ironic, considering that with cookie- and tracker-supported content, people also don't and can't know the full implications of their online transactions. If there were terms of service I had to agree to for every single business who was going to view or handle my data for every single ad I loaded before the ad loaded, then I'd be considering the full implications of the ad-based model.
> They aren't hiding among the civilian population. They're fighting the Empire in straight-up space battles, they aren't loading civilian ships down with explosives and blowing up Imperial bases with them.

"This is a consular ship! We're on a... diplomatic mission!". :-)
There's an Eclipse plugin, if that's what you mean: https://github.com/google/git-appraise-eclipse
The firebombing of Dresden in WW2 (which killed 25,000 civilians) was according to at least one RAF memo due to the fact that it was primarily a civilian city with undamaged housing:

“Dresden, the seventh largest city in Germany and not much smaller than Manchester, is also far the largest unbombed built-up the enemy has got. In the midst of winter with refugees pouring westwards and troops to be rested, roofs are at a premium. The intentions of the attack are to hit the enemy where he will feel it most, behind an already partially collapsed front, to prevent the use of the city in the way of further advance, and incidentally to show the Russians when they arrive what Bomber Command can do.” [1]

In other words, it was specifically targeted because the civilians were conflated with "the enemy" broadly, to deny resources to refugees, to demoralize the German public, and to warn the potential Soviet enemies of Allied military prowess. Definitely a lot worse things happened in WW2, but neither British nor American hands are exactly clean when it comes to war.

[1] Source: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/the-bombi...
I'll throw that one right back at you. ;)
Do you do this manually? If not, care to share your filter?
If publishers behaved themselves then adding Javascript for optimization would be odd, but they don't behave: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-... ...but overall I agree it does feel strange to have worked to hard to have highly capable browsers and then only use a tiny subset of functionality.

From: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/get_started/about-amp.html

AMP JS

The AMP JS library implements all of AMP’s best performance practices, manages resource loading and gives you the custom tags mentioned above, all to ensure a fast rendering of your page.

Among the biggest optimizations is the fact that it makes everything that comes from external resources asynchronous, so nothing in the page can block anything from rendering.

Other performance techniques include the sandboxing of all iframes, the pre-calculation of the layout of every element on page before resources are loaded and the disabling of slow CSS selectors.

To learn more about not just the optimizations but the limitations, read the AMP HTML specification.
Pretty good suggestions. Here are some thoughts that I had reading the article;

* Suggestions are newly browser supported CSS properties in lieu of the earlier ones. It is always easier to use new and improved ones than making it work on olden browsers.

* Most of them are also of how you should scaffold your styles and not necessarily the nitty-gritty of writing better CSS.

For instance, vertically centering a block element inside another block element can be done in various ways

* display:table, display:table-cell with a vertical-align: middle method for olden browsers is indeed of of those sure-shot method that works across a plethora of browsers.

* The translate method for newer browsers including IE10+ with some quirks.

* And of course, the Flexbox method, which is the current talk of the CSS town.

Well, centering in CSS has even spawn a whole industry - http://howtocenterincss.com/.

Liked the idea of ":not()". This is something most developers overlooked.

The blanked statement and advice to 'use of SVG for icons' is something I can debate. This is not a binary statement/switch that you can make decision on. I'd rather decide on the method based on the requirement at hand and how it is being delivered. Even in dev-time, I do setup such that the team have to just drop in SVGs but eventually, a task runner takes care of the final icon set - be it as a @font-face - either served separately or BASE64 encoded with the styles (for something within a size budget that we set for the font-family).

I'd be pointing anyone wishing to improve holistically from a n00b to a better player would be to look at the likes of http://codeguide.co/, http://sass-guidelin.es/ et al. And get http://caniuse.com/ hooked up in some way, either via your IDE or leave it open in a browser tab.

Edits: I thought Hackernews supported Markdown!
That only means ads don't fit anymore in this capitalistic world.. so shut them down..
>Orwell would have a field day with our modern linguistic contortions

As much as I like NPR, they're consistently guilty of this. I have never heard the Confederate flag called a "battle flag" before the whole fracas around getting it banned.