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Not three years ago, with "comprehensive" insurance, I paid $7000 for a kidney stone, with a full total approaching $50-60K.

For a kidney stone. I had to have two surgical procedures, admittedly - they went in to remove the stone, found long-standing infection, closed up and catheterized. A week of antibiotics later I had it shocked.

But still... $60K for a kidney stone.
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As those who control we (white men) have the responsibility to fix the issue.
Exactly, the problem isn't email, it's the level of communications you believe you are expected to maintain. Maybe you are expected to maintain this level, in which case you have a problem that no level of email-client fixes will solve.
> "Chicken gun"[3].

I've also heard it called a "rooster booster" :)
Wow. That's site's awful.

I got a bit further than you --- I actually found the API docs, before giving up when a manual Javascript page-load hook broke the back button.

AFAICT it's a web service which talks the email providers for you, thus making writing email clients easier. I'm not quite sure how they do this without the end user having to give them their login credentials...
To a vast number of people, Google is the Internet. They don't know or care to know what a domain name is; they know the name YouTube and know that they type it into Google and then click the link at the top. That's why short domain names are not as important as unique brand names.
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You are absolutely correct.

Every time we have collateral damage in a drone strike, every time someone's child is killed by a missile or bomb dropped by an American aircraft, that child's father is going to go to war with whomever dropped that bomb, fired that missile, sent that drone.

If instead of burning corpses, Luke had found Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru at home waiting to ground him for a month, he would have never gone with Obi-Wan.

The Empire's heavy handedness lead to its downfall.
Calendars are a classic thing to stick to a fridge by magnets.
The error checking example conflates two different things:

• Early returns vs. single return.

• Excessive nesting vs. simpler flatter if/else.

The real problem with the "before" example is the excessive nesting. I do prefer early returns myself, but even if you wanted to use the single-return style, you could simply un-nest the whole thing:

public string Execute( int integer, string str, bool boolean ) {
string result;

if( integer <= 42 ) {
result = "Error: Integer is too small";
} else if( string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(str) ) {
result = "Error: String is null or empty";
} else if( ! boolean ) {
result = "Error: Incorrect boolean";
} else {
result = "Success";
}

return result;
}

It's a bit ironic that this is C# code, because ReSharper would offer to un-nest the code for you.

Also, this really has nothing to do with tail call optimization.
The fact that you have to explain a reference to The Jetsons with a Wikipedia link makes me feel old.
Really? You don't think <insert popular black, asian, latino, etc name here> is rockin' a fridge that speaks internet?
Relevant: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
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managed permissions, built in history (doesn't rely on you being connected to get a log of a conversation that happened when you were gone), great full text search, integrated rich content (posts, videos, images) which are also searchable in the same way, adding context to conversations, built-in system for notifying people, channels, and groups, with centralized options to tailor those notifications to yourself, a fully featured mobile application that synchronizes with the desktop app seamlessly.

Slack basically removes the requirement for you to have an IRC server, client, and a suite of IRC scripts and bots. It unifies the experience across the team, which, yes, does remove some levels of customization you would get from your personal IRC client, but in practice, it's been a highly productive work-chat tool.

I've basically replaced Dropbox as my source for important files, instead, putting them into a Slack channel. That way what ever made that file relevant is surrounded by the chat that necessitates the file.

It's not for everyone, and I don't think anyone would claim it should be, but if you work on a team, especially a distributed one, Slack brings a lot to the table "batteries included."
Apple products have a special place in Japan in general. their computers was perhaps the first personal computers that supported the Japanese alphabets.
No, it's that they don't care about people not being able to get care, whereas we at least try to care about it.
How should retailers take action on shopper data strategically using it to grow?
No need to even glue. They sell things like "FridgePad - Magnetic Refrigerator Mount for iPad" that is what it says. Magnets that hold an iPad (Mini or full) to a standard fridge. You can also get 3M mounted ones which allow you to slip in an iPad.

Typically it is cheaper to buy a regular fridge and add an iPad than a smart fridge.

Also it is cheaper to buy four(!) iPads and back-seat tablet holder for a minivan than an integrated DVD player. Easier to replace when it dies too. Those DVD players can easily run $1500+.
This is the kind of stuff that should be number on HN everyday.
It's in my references.
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Agreed. So far, the best feature is a convenient dock for a tablet or phone. Same goes for cars.
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Only people in a position to try, and doing a lousy job so far.

The title is pure clickbait. The article is about the challenges faced by women and trans people of color when they attempt to enter the tech industry. It raises some good points.
I find some great posts on the new section that rarely make front page. Its my luck that I find them given the speed at which new posts are added. To answer your question, maybe a little overwhelmed at times but hey fake it till you make it
I'm not an old fart by far, but even I have never imagined rebooting a refrigerator. I'm floored. It sounds like some obscure IT insider joke except that this time it's for real. I don't know what to expect next.
That post says nothing about FreeBSDs grep or why GNU grep is faster.
I don't know if this is a definition other people use, but here's one possibility.

Intelligence (in a domain) is measured by how well you solve problems in that domain. If problems in the domain have binary solutions and no external input, a good measure of quality is average time to solution. Sometimes, you can get a benefit by batching the problems, so lets permit that. In other cases, quality is best measured by probability of success given a certain amount of time (think winning a timed chess or go game). Sometimes instead of a binary option, we want to minimize error in a given time (like computing pi).

Pick a measure appropriate to the problem. These measures require thinking of the system as a whole, so an AI is not just a program but a physical device, running a program.

The domain for the unrestricted claim of intelligence is "reasonable problems". Having an AI tell you what the mass of Jupiter or find Earth-like planets is reasonable. Having it move its arms (when it doesn't have any) is not. Having it move _your_ arms is reasonable, though.

The comparison is to the human who is or was most qualified to solve the problem, with the exception of people uniquely qualified to solve the problem (I'm not claiming that the AI is better than you are at moving your own arms).
Wondering the same. This could be the antidote to that.
I'm surprised you're getting downvoted, because this seems like a valid criticism and was the first to pop into my head as well.

How is this not anti-competitive? Google is favoring the ranking of sites that use its own tech. According to the AMP docs on third-party components [0], only 5 ad networks are supported, most of them Google-owned.

[0] https://www.ampproject.org/docs/guides/third_party_component...
> ... would probably be a "bad idea" in 5-10 years.

This is what I don't think people quite understand.

Same with (Android|Apple)Auto that's coming out. By the time you've paid it off, who is going to buy it?! You'll HAVE to trade it in at the dealership. That limits you in so many ways.
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This isn't universal. Several times I've gone to "urgent care" clinics for e.g. persistent illness without insurance, and my bill showed a 50% discount for paying cash. Perhaps if I had had the right insurance the effective discount would have been even higher, but it makes sense that cash is worth more to a provider than an insurance claim that might be disputed or delayed. This is kind of the "sweet spot" for cash, though. For more expensive procedures even a 50% discount wouldn't make it easy to pay cash. Anyway, it's clear that a portion of the high prices for care in USA are specifically for dealing with insurance companies, both for "negotiating room" and to compensate for the hours that must be spent every day dealing with insurance companies.
Not sure if i should consider myself praised or lectured.
It's not just about how a single page looks.

Even assuming that a nice backlit AMOLED is preferable to ink on paper in good light (which I'm not sure is true), physical books have pages that are easily turned, quick random access to different parts of book, and lots of subtle cues to reader about current location, etc. This is an advantage over ebooks.

Ebooks can be digitally searched, which of course is an advantage for them. But it's hardly clear that any electronic reading experience is hands down superior to physical book in all situations. And if one were it would not likely be an ebook in a 5" form factor, that's too small. 5" is good for portability, but for sitting down in a chair at home for a 1 hour session, I can't imagine anyone preferring a 5" smartphone to a larger tablet. (I say all of this as someone who probably reads 40% on 4.5" smartphone, 30% on 13" laptop, 20% on 8" tablet, and 10% physical books.)
Selling yourself <> exaggerating your skills (AKA lying).
> They do allow you to provide Sieve scripts as text, but you do have to use the Web interface to upload them, under Advanced → Rules, so changes aren't readily automatable AFAIK.

Not only that, but I can't upload them using my email client, which has managesieve support already built in.
use grey text on black background. Absolutely 21th century
I do most of my music discovery on Soundcloud these days. That plus Bandcamp covers most of my needs.

Many artists are starting collectives which publish albums with a variety of artists approximately monthly, which also is great for discovery.

Of course this only works if your preferred genres are there - if you like future funk, nightcore, and hip hop you're golden.
"single doctor coordinates all specialists"

GPs in the UK (who are most certainly real doctors) refer you to specialists - state or, if you want, private. They don't co-ordinate care after that.
Step 0) Disconnect any phone or network cables and ensure RF jammers covering WiFi and cell frequencies are active before commencing home appliance repair.
He's a journalist, so I'm sure he expected people would be looking at it. Reasons were probably more due to inexperience and lack of time.
This is why I hate proprietary systems like this, too many options for failure, you're at the whim of the manufacturer.
Most high-end fridges these days are stainless steel, which is non-magnetic. So you'd need to glue it on (or find some other way).
fun fact: the author of gnu grep is actually a freebsd user :)

the linked email thread is also more informative than the blog post, so why not go there directly?

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...
More reasons to be aggressive about marking things const.
What's scary is there are hundreds of messages from people seriously trying to resolve this. I expect to see a bunch of snarky "first world problems" comments, but its mostly "me too! my many $,$$$ fridge isn't working!"
What do you mean dirty vs clean QC? Do you mean adiabatic vs gate based?
Also agreed - I found the best solution for me was a cheap Amazon Fire tablet and three large strips of velcro. It stays firmly attached to the side of the fridge with the cable running straight down beneath the cupboard routed over to the plug. It looks a lot better than expected and handles calendar/metric<->imperial conversions with ease.
Nicely articulated.

I think the key consideration should be the context in which the movies were created. Movies are made to make money and the more time a movie-maker spends on ironing out small inconsistencies, the more money they lose.

That movie was made to be relatable by a wide audience so it's no surprise that many people can have differing interpretations of the deeper meaning. This is simply one of them.
You're comparing keys from two different cryptosystems, which is a mistake. A RSA key ("1024 bit keys") needs to be longer than a AES key ("256 bits") to provide a given amount of security, since more conditions are placed on an RSA key in order to get its favorable properties.

In 1999 you could break a 512-bit RSA key with a supercomputer, in 2015 you can do it with 4 hours and $75 on EC2:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/breaking-512-bit-rsa...

A 768-bit RSA keys has been factored in a large academic effort:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1000.pdf

When you pick a key length, you want it to be long enough to provide security for your communications as far into the future as practicable, and the classical efforts to break RSA are getting uncomfortably close to 1024-bits. Maybe in a few decades it would be practical for some adversaries to break even perfectly made 1024-bit keys.

However, I'm not a cryptographer, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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I've actually heard about your product, as someone was using it against a customer's app portal (on one of our servers). It didn't find an exploit per-se, but it helped us to discover a performance/DoS issue when it would occasionally start crashing + restart a vhost. So, indirectly, thanks for the great product!
And stole a hostage and killed several soldiers.
Over confidence is related to self deception. In fact research shows that over-confidence is the biological norm. It is normal for people to lie to themselves. In fact the strange thing is, people who are under-confident tend to be diagnosed as clinically depressed.

source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904433437045775489...
I thought that was the whole point of going with Android|Apple Auto vs the manufacturer's homebrew: at least you'd get updates for a few years.
I'd be relatively happy if diversity in tech had progressed sufficiently that second order effects like intersectionality were the most important issues remaining.

Pretty sure we're not there yet. I'd argue that focusing on the big first order problems still has the most upside in general if not for everyone.
I wish that people would write stuff like this in languages other than PHP.
It's cheaper, and probably a better UX, to duct tape a tablet to the fridge door.
Even here in the UK - where we do have a socialist health care system there is still the option of going private. The only option you don't get if you are a normal tax payer is opting out of paying for the state funded healthcare - which is fine as far as I am concerned.
Thanks, I just successfully wasted 15 minutes on it. 10/10, would procrastinate again.
Imagine a future where you don't have to because we have a strong 5G network and mobile providers that don't price gouge per GB... we can dream...
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If I'm following your logic correctly, you believe it is less ethical for a company to benefit too much from a promotion, even if that promotion has no apparent ill effects.

Did I mischaracterize your stance?
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Except it won't compile anything but "C++" htat's really C code.
Technically it can be. Seth Lloyd has a paper on a way to run gate based algorithms on an adiabatic computer by adding a clock degree of freedom.
I was impressed and a little amazed by how deadpan and serious the messages in the discussion are… nobody stops to reflect on the sheer insanity that we’re all giggling at over here.

I assume, anyway, eventually my attention wandered and I skipped to the end, where a charming young lad does indeed go unhinged over “samsucks” and heroin-addicted mothers.
A basic income that's going to need to exist for most of the population regardless?
"Samsung support advised...to restart the refrigerator and check timezone"
I don't know about that; the moment those coins are suspected to be compromised, you'd get a near-immediate run on BTC. So yes, there are a lot of Bitcoins available, but stealing them would undermine the entire system their value is based on, rendering them worthless.
The Jetsons is that old show where they're yellow and live in Springfield, right? /insult-to-injury
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The first gen IoT stuff is going to be a walled garden, compuserve/aol mess. Some lessons seem to need to be learned the hard way every damn time.
As someone who sits in or runs technical interviews fairly often, we will try to determine if someone is lying on their resume. If a skill is on your resume, you are expected to be able to utilize it in a professional context. For entry level folks that bar is pretty much "did you touch the language in a class" or "have you committed code to a FOSS library" (to use two example).

That being said, if the extent of the lie is that a group project is sold as an individual project, as long as the person can talk intelligently about all aspects of the project it's nearly impossible to find something like that out. New graduates are expected to have few skills and produce largely academic (read: bad) code.

But you are correct that technical aptitude by itself has very little to do with getting an interview. You said you are getting your Master's, have you had a programming job in the past? What is your field? We take a pretty skeptical stance with candidates who have advanced degrees and no experience, because nothing we work with requires that sort of knowledge. That may be part of your problem.
I guess that between Luke Skywalker's lifelike radicalization, and Palpatine's seizing dictatorship through an emergency-powers clause, _Star Wars_ is the story of how al-Qaida fought the Nazis...

("You're all a bunch of damn Yankees," as the hillbilly said of the Yale versus Harvard football game, "and I hope you both lose.")
It's much cheaper, and definitely a better UX, to buy a whiteboard and hang it on or beside the fridge.

(BTDT. Why waste $50-250 on a tablet? If I really want to tote the whiteboard with me when I go to the shops I just snap a photo of it to view on my phone, then delete the shopping list when I get home.)
By A. Appel? I heard that the ML version is better since much of the code apparently isn't very idiomatic (It was supposedly translated directly from the ML book). I would probably recommend both that and The Dragon Book, as they cover roughly the same material but in a slightly different manner.
> Well, when writing Haskell I'm not dealing with object instantiation, OO-classes and OO-subclassing.

I think what the person you're replying to is saying is you actually are. You don't literally write "Foo x = new Foo()" but that's just a syntactic feature of some language. Haskell has types and classes and sub classes. You just don't write them the same way.
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> Are the Jedi "hypocrites", or is the writing just too clumsy? Especially after the prequel trilogy, I can't help but think it's the latter.

As I read it, the Jedi are supposed to be hypocrites, particularly in the prequel trilogy. Its a pretty standard "the supposed guardians of good have become overly comfortable, arrogant, and neglectful of the higher virtues, creating the environment in which evil will flourish from within and nearly destroy them, until a messianic figure restores virtue and reestablishes the institutions that are supposed to guard the good."

There's plenty of clumsy writing, too, but the basic outline is pretty clear.
I doubt you predicted ISIS in 2011, and neither did the State Department.

I did, and I'm no foreign policy expert. Plenty of pundits did the same. "Nature abhors a vacuum" applies just as much to politics as it does to physics, and it was pretty obvious that by removing the stabilizing force we were throwing the dice, making a hail-mary bet that whatever sprouted up in the rubble wouldn't be any worse. Anybody who wasn't thinking that far ahead shouldn't be making these kinds of decisions.

EDIT: at the time I argued about it back then, my primary point was that our attacks were clearly illegal, the president usurping Congressional authority. The outcome really underscores the reason that we have these checks and balances. If we'd had some real deliberation, rather than one "Nobel Peace Prize" winner with any itchy trigger finger, much of this might have been avoided.
Anybody who has ever had a TV/VCR combo knows to avoid multi-function appliances.
"Quantum computer" is a very specific term. DWave can compute things, and it uses quantum effects. But it is not a "quantum computer"
I'm thinking that if you're in the market for a $3600 Internet-connected fridge, you can afford and would just rather have the iPad.

I don't know enough about the Fire to say whether it's a piece of garbage or not; all I know is that I have a bunch of iPad apps that I've paid for and Apple's ecosystem makes it easy to add another iPad and transfer my settings over.
Self-hosting is pointless. Go has it--who cares. I wrote a program 1000x faster than the ruby one (at work) with zero bugs in Go, but I still don't want to use it(Go). Java is fine. Do I care if Java is self-hosting? No. I'll do (another) language in Javacc (my first one is still awesome) or ANTLR.
I bet if you asked him nicely or kindly pointed out that he's missing that, he might add one.
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I've always liked that pleasant surprise you get when a novel finished "early" because there's a novella or preview of another book or something that comes after the main text, so that those "subtle clues" don't give you unwanted hints that you're near the end.
Forget 5-10 years, the choice of ARM SoC will be a bad idea in 3 years.

You know this Moore Law thing, about software getting twice slower every two years to compensate for increasing transistor density... except that already deployed hardware doesn't grow these extra transistors in the meantime.
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- Socrates
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Pretty sure most modern democracies don't have poll taxes. How about open sourcing the language, Wolfram?
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You should take the advice to mean "Don't comment on how your code is doing what it's doing, comment on why it's doing that." An English transliteration of a source code statement usually isn't very helpful.
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