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That's definitely true, but it does seem like there are some broad generational commonalities. I think using a 20 year definition of generation might be too broad when rapid societal changes happen.

For instance, I think people of 1970-1990 and 1990-2010 are likely to be more similar than 1980-2000. But that's just deciding where we cut our sausage into links
This would be awesome. I currently use Slack as an RSS reader (Have a dedicated channel) and it works mostly nice.
I'm not so sure literature is as important as the people who study it think it is...
I have a similar perspective. My mother's and father's families fled from Cuba with the clothes on their back after the Revolution. The rise of communism in their country is no-doubt the defining tragedy of my grandparents' lives. When I hear an American politician talking up socialism, the alarm bells start to go off. I'm very worried.
Yup, I'm used to being on the other end of the scale where you're working a fixed device so renting more VMs isn't even an option. That's when you need to start taking some of this stuff more seriously.

I agree on all points, writing correct data oriented code is hard. I've got some hope for Rust though, a lot of the common patterns lend well to the pain points you enumerate(slices, pointer chasing, OO inheritance mess, ownership, etc).
Right, but for that to happen you'd have to stick your... uh... various balls directly into the path of the RF field. Like at the business end of a big RF horn antenna.
Investments into price discovery mechanisms. You know, like what the ACA does.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cos...

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...

The US has begun to track health care costs, and is beginning to make it public. Oklahoma Hospitals are publishing prices, leading to a free-market solution.

http://newsok.com/article/5434353

You no longer have to leave the US to take advantage of Medical Tourism! Furthermore, health care plans are now required to have some degree of out-of-network costs under the ACA, so you know that even in the worst case, medical tourism to Oklahoma will lead to clear and consistent pricing. Or if you have good out-of-network costs (ie: More typical of the higher-cost Gold or Platinum plans), medical tourism might be a very good idea for you.

Hopefully, other hospitals will notice the beneficial (and profitable) effects of medical tourism, and will join the hospital free market association. At which point, they'll start publishing health-care prices online to capture marketshare in the growing medical tourism industry.

It will take years before the market builds out the infrastructure, but America is actually well on its way to fixing the problem. I think we should hold the course with Obamacare. Lets not go left (Bernie) or right (Repeal), lets keep steady and see what happens.
I would like to understand why a gravitational wave distorts length in relation to normal gravity wells; specifically is this particular to waves? Why don't lengths get distorted in a normal gravity well, or do they? In essence, what is different between a gravity wave and a gravity well, which i understand both distort space, but only the wave distorts it in a way we can measure? Does the gravity well change lengths proportionally in all directions and thus isnt measurable?
He (kind of) had to add the cosmological constant to GR just so the universe wouldn't collapse onto itself and instead be static. The idea of the unchanging universe was maybe partly due to personal or religious preconceptions. So at least in his mind the universe was static, which of course was proven "wrong" by the discovery that the universe is expanding. This was not a proper scientific theory of his, rather a preconception, like his aversion to the randomness of Quantum Physics (again, religion it appears).

Of course, being Einstein, he was again on the right side of the argument when the universe was much later discovered to be accelerating, again requiring a cosmological constant (or some similar fudge factor).
Right now there are still 29 million who are not covered and most of them probably never will be because it will be too expensive. And the current system doesn't cover everything for most people who are insured. Single-payer would cover everything from drug addiction to mental issues to cancer. How many families go bankrupt from having to deal with things like cancer?

And prescription drugs are too expensive, and currently Obama is trying to make that a reality all over the world, not just in the US, thanks to TPP and TTIP. Obama was also the one who banned Americans from buying cheaper meds from Canada to maintain Big Pharma's monopoly in the US.

Not sure I understand about going to a different healthcare provider. You can still go to a different hospital if one is too full.
> India's problem was never socialism vs capitalism. India's fundamental problem is systemic corruption and heavy bureaucracy.

Socialism, in the context of poverty, inherently leads to corruption. This is something that's hard to understand for people who've only ever seen socialism and communism in countries that are already quite wealthy (e.g. Western Europe).

I say this as someone who is from West Bengal, which has had the world's longest-serving, democratically-elected Communist government.
I think it's a familiarity bias with the occupation. More women have business degrees than nursing or education [1], but it may not seem so since business degree holders are more dispersed among types of businesses. The link seems to indicate that software developers are just as likely to marry accountants or nurses as teachers.

[1] http://www.collegeatlas.org/top-degrees-by-gender.html
I am still pretty skeptical. We've had very promising implementations of 80-90% of the language, which faltered once they got to the less tractable parts of the language. Not saying it can't be done, but definitely saying I'll believe it when I see it live on a few legacy production sites.
You didn't correctly read what he said. He wants an option to directly buy mp3s (etc.) from SoundCloud directly with one click.
Also not open source (just as an FYI to anyone reading this).
This is the resolution of the "is express dying?" discussion that was previously on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10919502

I think that this is probably the best solution for all involved, and a good move on IBM's part.
How well is the opposite working for Russia currently?
Go on a dating site like Match.com, and it seems like 75% of the women are nurses or teachers. Fewer natural dating opportunities in such heavily female professions, I suppose.

Anecdotal, but I have to think really hard to remember a male teacher that wasn't married to one of the other teachers in my school district.
Please (re)read the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Comments like "have you actually read", "your statement is just absurd", and "You're incredibly ignorant" (a recent one) are what they ask you not to do. They also ask you not to use uppercase for emphasis. Putting all that together and applying it to your comment, we can shorten it to:

The 55% rate is for people who make ten million dollars a year.

... which (if true) is a fine and factual comment for HN.
Yes, see you get it.
If people refer to individuals as toxic, then there is high chance they really are toxic to teh team. It's devastating when these type of high egoistical engineers just cannot find any civilized debate.

There's a reason why women are leaving tech in droves and why there aren't as many African or Latino engineers. The very people who are toxic are often blind to the fact themselves. How many more fine African American engineers being driven out because they couldn't bear the micro-aggression from caucasian workers?
I think eligibility interviewers are just on the other side of being able to qualify for benefits, for the most part, so it's not _that_ surprising
Oh please. You're not getting taxed 50% or more. Also, according to this website, you're only paying 52% on the last $ 10,000,000 of your income. If you're brining in more than 13,000,000 per year, cry me a river. You can afford a solid gold house and rocket car.
As a counterexample, I come from the USA and live in the Netherlands. About the only thing that would get me to move back would be removing profit motive and billing overhead from health care and deflating the price of housing.

I pay a substantially higher percentage of my income here in taxes than I did in the USA, out of a substantially lower salary than I made in the USA. Still totally worth it to live in a place with functional social services and infrastructure, and affordable (outside Amsterdam) housing.
Thank you! Although I don't think I'd like to live in Spain as I hate when it gets too hot.
If health insurance goes single payer you stop putting money into your (presumably) now non-existent HSA and start paying it in medicare taxes. Depending on how the rates end up you might end up paying more or less. I mean that's the end result no matter what your current insurance situation is: you might end up paying more or less. Thats also true no matter what happens in the election or what happens to the ACA. There is no law anyone can pass/get passed that will absolutely guarantee every individual in the US has an equal or higher effective take home in 2020.
My intuition is that this is unlikely, but I'd love to see someone do the math. Given the scale of interstellar distances, any locations on our planet (and even in our solar system) are going to effectively function as a single point. Given arbitrarily-accurate measurement, it could work, but I'd bet physical limitations will prevent that from being a possibility.

To my mind, it'd be roughly like trying to triangulate an earthquake in France with three sensors in a 1mm^3 cube in NYC (scale is probably way off, I definitely didn't do the math).
Dynamically typed languages essentially have something like Java's Object type as the type of everything. Using wide types like that and interfaces in Java, you easily have dynamic traits in your code.
> Google made javascript pretty fast.

A small outsourced team in Denmark did, actually. Sure, they were hired by Google, but that kind of belies your argument that only a large corp can do this, no?
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> I'm never going to own a house here if I keep getting taxed 50% and more

The idea is that you wouldn't be the only one paying more. Real estate prices would need to come down as well, so everyone else buying a house would feel a similar crunch.

What it really comes down to is that the US has collected a lot of infrastructure debt over 30 years of budget austerity dating back to Reagan. Roads and bridges are crumbling, water systems are poisoning people, our education system is a joke, and there are a lot of people without access to health care.

These are all federal programs that have been cut over the last 30 years because we have been determined to make sure the US has the lowest tax rates in the industrialized world. As a result, it's one of the most run-down and least safe places in the industrialized world, and that trend isn't going to stop until we pick back up the investment in infrastructure. We leveraged our long-term prosperity for short-term growth, and it's about time to pay the piper.
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Quebeckers against bilingualism don't see a real difference. In their view, signage or services (such as schools) in both languages endanger the status of French. At least, that's how I understand their position.
That right there may be the most succint and acerbic summary of the issue I've ever heard.
It is a plasma speaker? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_speaker
Sorry, "echo" wasnt the right term (hence my quotes).

What I am trying to ask is if these behave like concentric water ripples, where from a single event you get first one peak of a wave, followed by many more repeated concentric peaks gradually getting smaller in amplitude? It sounds like there is just a single momentary wavefront without any residual secondary waves? Why is that?
Have you been to Sweden or other Nordic countries, which Sanders openly claims as his models for many of his social-democratic (not socialist) ideas? They are free countries and at the top of most measures of human welfare. Most of Western Europe embraces more social democratic concepts than the U.S., and their standards of living are at least as high as America's.

The USSR said it was implementing communism (not socialism), but really implemented a brutal totalitarian dicatorship.
Serious question, what is the opposite of communism? My understanding is Russia is some sort of quasi-democratic-in-name-only oligarchy led by politicians and mobsters.
There's a new and improved syntax format. Which cleaned up some problems and errors in the old syntax formats. However it turns out some people preferred the way stuff used to look.

If you spent days adjusting your themes to be just so and get violently enraged at other colors, it's probably best you hold off on any updates.
Bernie never spoke about banning private healthcare.

I find it amusing you think there is a free market for healthcare in the US.

Bernie's main idea is to destroy all forms of monopoly in various industries in the US - banks,healthcare. It's no different than state capitalism ( in USSR ).

Bernie is not against the free market. He wants single payer to leverage the free market in healthcare which is dominated by big players on the supply side.

You as an individual are free to afford whatever you want. But the govt's concern is improve the standard of living for the average citizen. And all of the world it has been proven time and again that single payer is the best system - empirically. So any arguments you make without any data but on some notion of "choice" will not be as convincing - sorry.
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When the ATF asks you do to do something without a warrant, is doing it really "voluntary"? What business owner would say no?
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Having been in this position before, I can tell you that maintaining large patch sets increases friction against submitting anything upstream. Even if this was a Google-only CPU (it's not), that'd still be an argument for merging upstream.
Bernie will also increase capital gains taxes. This lowers the effective return on investment. This might make the risk of investing in start ups too great. Plus a lot of VC money comes from rich and upper middle class people in investing.

And more than a few start ups cater to upper middle class folks with cash to burn.
The coalescing and ring-down takes a fraction of a second. The fraction of a second refers to the duration of the event. It does not mean they caught an event a fraction of a second after they turned it on.

Here's a better article:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gravitational-waves-e...
Time Inc buys MySpace?
Move somewhere cheaper.
Interesting article.

Some thoughts off the top of my head: Proxies are presented as a possible candidate to improve performance, but in conversations w/ some vdom library authors, I learned that proxy performance is far too bad to make it a viable option for high-performance vdom engines (in addition to having abysmal cross-browser support today)

Another issue is that observable overhead must be offset by savings in number of DOM operations in order for change propagation to be worth it. For example, a `reverse` operation would not benefit much, if at all, since it requires touching almost all DOM nodes in a list, and would incur worst case overhead on top of it.

While naive vdom can lose in needle-in-haystack scenarios, vdom libraries often provide other mechanisms (thunks, shouldComponentUpdate, per-component redraws, etc) to cope w/ those scenarios.

In addition, the field of vdom performance has very strong traction currently. Authors of vdom libraries often share knowledge and implementation ideas and there are now libraries than can perform faster than naive vanilla js in some cases by employing techniques like DOM recycling, cloning and static tree diff shortcircuiting, as well as libraries w/ strong focus on granular localized updates.
I imagine a webcam capture to a window could then be inspected with a tool such as http://www.sikulix.com/

I was attemping to scrap a Flash newspaper website with PHP and found it wasnt possible easily with Curl, so i wanted to automate navigating chrome and the Flash app using Sikulix about a year ago ... So I imagine Sikulix or a similar tool could be the glue you want to marry your robot tool with information you inspect from the webcam/LCD screens.

Sounds like a fair amount of work though.
It's super early, and detection seems at the limits of our technology.

This is just understanding at present. That, in itself is worth it.

As that understanding develops, and our tech advances, engineering may be able to apply it in useful ways, maybe object detection above a specified mass? New ways to visualize things?

One "application" is to serve as a ruler to measure out tech with. The limits are there, putting these observations just within reach.

Now that we have some confirmation, we also have the metrics as well as the compelling new science that may arise from all of this as a strong motivation to advance.

It's like being able to detect color for the first time. At first we understand what color is, then we refine, and after iterations, engineering, experiments, we get to a place where we see it all in color.

Applications will follow.

These waves being confirmed are like a new sense. Crude, but real. We can now follow this new perception to its conclusion, just as we have many other things.

We don't always know what that conclusion will be, or the form an application may take, but we do know we won't actualize any of it if we don't do the basic, hard, expensive work needed first.
What are you talking about? Stone, paper, and magnetic tape are more permanent than any hard drive or optical storage medium today.
Deductions are basically exactly this. They come out of top bracket income too.

Purchase an expensive house on a big loan? Get a bigger reduction in federal tax liability than someone in a lower bracket that is buying a cheaper home.
There also seems to a disproportionate amount of male-male lines, weighted just as heavily as male-female lines. I don't think gay marriage is that prevalent to show up with equal weighting, but my cursory googling didn't turn up the number of gay couples in the US.
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OCD does not begin to compare to what I suffer. Look up cystic fibrosis. It has an average life expectancy of about 37 in the U.S. It impairs gut function and lung function and immune function. Most people with it struggle to achieve a normal healthy weight while eating twice as much as others and it accounts for something like one third of adult lung transplants and one half of pediatric lung transplants.

Telling me you hope I feel better is the kind of thing that absolutely is best left unsaid. I am, in fact, gradually feeling better because I have, in fact, figured out how to fix my body. This gets me nothing but shit on by other people, who accuse me of being crazy and a teller of tall tales.

Do not assume your suffering begins to compare to mine. It most likely does not. And do not ever tell someone you hope they feel better when they are talking about being suicidal if you do not have concrete suggestions for helping them actually feel better. It just comes across as incredibly obnoxious. (Yes, I am a Pollyanna who has done similar things in the past. I try to offer solutions these days, not empty wishes.)
I find this argument sort related to the framework vs library and opinionated vs agnostic.

Being an old fart Java developer I generally prefer things where you can plugin your own implementation (ie agnostic).

That is there is an extreme for killing your dependencies of either extreme copy'npaste OR which every library offers a plugin SPI (ie inversion of control) (or a combo of both).

The problem with the dependency injection above approach (aka Spring prior to Boot) is that you have developers doing lots of custom crap, bloated/overly engineered libraries, increased ramp up time, and configuration hell.

But I still think this is probably better than ole copy'n paste.. most of the time. I do hate dependencies though.
How do they sleep at night!? /s
https://www.black-holes.org/gw150914 has some visualization of the event. There is the initial inspiral, and then there is a ringing afterwards. However, the entire event is over in a fraction of a second, which may be a "blip" to humans, but is very long when things happen at the speed of light.
There's nothing ad hominem in pointing out that your argument is based on ignorance because you lack specific knowledge of this area of expertise. Sorry, but pretending you are on some equal footing with people much more experience in a particular industry is the only logical fallacy here - False Balance.

If I argued - as a non-doctor - that anyone should be able provide medical advice to people without being an MD, or that Joe Shmo should be able to provide legal advice without being admitted to the Bar, you'd rightly call that attitude ignorant and naive. The same holds true with your argument. It simply comes from a place too far removed from the topic at hand to be considered even remotely viable.

Don't take it as an attack on you, it isn't. Do take it to mean that you are clearly out of your element, and that with a little bit of research on your part, you'll understand why this is so.
Yet, that's what redlight and speed cameras do, don't they?
> "Moreover, if law enforcement were required to engage in live surveillance without the aid of technology in this type of situation, then the advance of technology would one-sidedly give criminals the upper hand. The law cannot be that modern technological advances are off-limits to law enforcement when criminals may use them freely."

Nobody said you can't use webcams for surveillance, just that you need a warrant because that's how the law works.

At least, that's how the law is supposed to work.
It would work. The delta-t is a few miliseconds. This gives enough precision for a decent estimate of the direction of the signal.

Now estimating the distance is a different matter.
Bernie's whole plan is predicated on eliminating private health insurance. In order to achieve the "savings" that he promises, he needs to be able to go to doctors and hospitals and say "take this, or you get nothing".

Without that bargaining power, he'll just push the entire health care industry private. That's already happening with Obamacare now (reference all of the health insurance companies stating they are considering withdrawing from the exchanges).
Regardless of how you categorize the system, having more money flowing through an organization increases the incentive for the members of that system to do something unethical to take advantage of it.