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In theory? As I understand it ...

A market allows for innovators to find ways to deliver better service for less money and thus offer a more competitive product and gain market share. This competition forces all players to improve, or be forced from the market.

A publicly owned and operated business has no incentive to improve its operational efficiency and little to no incentive to respond to complaints in service.

In the US we have two examples of public insurance providers Medicare and the Veterans Administration (VA).

What we haven't tried as far as I can tell is to apply regulatory pressure with marketing forces. So for example if we made it illegal for pharmaceutical companies from preventing generics to be sold or marketed. If we required by regulation that all facilities publish their costs, and to whom those costs were paid, for every procedure. If we required that all medical procedure costs and options at every facility had to be made available at a publicly searchable database. Etc. It might help in making the market more efficient.
Ha yes I was stupid for a long time (as a stay-at-home/starting-a-company dad) and actually tried to work during the kids' naps. Napping myself would have been a much more effective use of my time. Took me a while to realize though.
If we are unwilling to confront the bloody, economy-crashing hellscape that is the foreseeable result of a system that only provides non-emergency care to people who can pay, then it seems like socializing the costs of care is the only method that could be made to be sustainable.
A couple things.

Don't blame USB Type-C for killing your headphone jack. Blame your device manufacturer.

And from TFA . . . "will really make USB Type-C the right connector for audio," Saunders said.

I say: Type-C will really be the right connector for DRM audio. How about I just keep my simple, standard and ubiquitous analog audio headphone jack.
The irony that you are blaming social security and medicare on the US costs while US healthcare is far more expensive than almost every socialised healthcare system in the world is astounding.
Three years paid off consecutively seems a bit abusive of the system though don't you think?
Hello!

I am a PM at Microsoft and we are looking to learn about how we can help mobile app developers work faster and build better apps.

Can you share your thoughts?

Best,
-Joe
Sure, my point was they're related (usually).

Sounds a little like you generally stop at the aesthetic level. The map isn't the territory, and the signals aren't the actual internal mental state of the person. Since you say "usually," how have you been accumulating data about this relationship?

It's useful in many cases, yes. Solid? No. It requires far too much attention to context, and experience, to apply it wisely all the time.

Hmmm. You should be making exactly this sort of decision all the time. The major task of a developer, as I see it after doing this for 36 years, is to pay a lot of attention to context and apply what you've learned by experience wisely. Erring on the side of caution and waiting until there's evidence you need something isn't a bad 1st order heuristic. I would label people who consistently stop at the 1st order heuristic and go no farther as "shallow."
Dam straight, nothing wrong with coolaid if it's good for you. Mid sized company(~3K), 30 years old, well above market pay, stellar benefits, 10-30% bonuses and a very family friendly culture. I don't blame them if they want to keep what works, people are smart enough to smell bs coolaid.

There's never 'layoffs' and never ever entire groups let go. Just regular PIPs for people who you think... 'no great loss'

I'll admit, doesn't scale to cisco though.
thanks for pointing this. It's fixed!
Theme selection doesn't work properly on this site, any other site to browse classless themes?
Say you sell a widget. You want to update both your cash account and your inventory, and never one without the other. Which is easier to understand and more reliable: doing them atomically, or making sure you have designed in 2^n intermediate states and all the code required to complete work that should happen but hasn't yet?
"Pull to open" is ambiguous, as doors that pull to open are push to open when you go the opposite direction. Which way does the door swing (into the room or out)?
It is funny you talk about perspectives here and yet you assume that I have a “certain” perspective by you just observing what I said. I believe perspectives can be learned from observations or experiences. I have observed enough in NYC by observing the lifestyles of people here and obviously engaging them into conversations. Your perspective comes from your experience of being a parent, the hardships and struggles you have faced while living in NYC.

By "NYC parent" you mean people who actually live here especially in Manhattan and I am excluding tourists as NYC parents as it is beyond me that why in the world would anyone want to bring their young kids on a trip to the New York City! Why did you never think about moving to somewhere peaceful as in New Jersey to raise a family? A lot of my coworkers moved there the moment they decided to have kids. I will move there or to some outer borough or outside of NYC eventually if I decide to have kids of my own one day.

I have seen parents fighting with homeless people on the subways when they try to interact with their kid. I have seen parents using twin-strollers just for one kid. Confirmed by my own neighbor, this is actually a “trick” that most young parents use in NYC. It apparently gives them more room on the walk path or in the subway and they can use the secondary space for groceries etc.
Thank you! Let me check if it is technically possible if so I will implement it.
A large proportion of developed countries use single-payer, single-provider, or insurance vouchers. Including... Canada where you live.

Serious question: are you a refugee or emigrant from an oppressive communist country? Often this can color one's thinking to reject all aspects of those regimes, even including the few positive things.

Edit: I don't think it's insulting to ask a question. Context helps us to understand each other and the world around us. Downvote, but also reply.
Single payer systems ration the amount and quality of care given.

When you ration the amount and quality of care given, you can drive costs down.
It's not just the rich who do well, it's the middlemen at every step of the process. Everyone skims a little extra off the top when medicine or medical equipment is so expensive. Bring costs in line with any other western nation and you're looking at a massive wealth transfer away from everyone with their finger in the health care pie--not just the rich.
Would you? You'd expect a bell curve; a small number of complete failures of entrepreneurs, lots of moderate but eventually failed attempts, lots of moderate but somewhat successful businessmen, and a couple of repeatedly successful ones. You got three. And all that's compounded by the way that success in one business, even if it was purely by luck, drastically increases the likelihood of success in another simply by giving you more capital. How successful has Elon Musk been? He started one reasonably successful company, then got in early at a very successful one, and has been using the capital from those ventures to fund interesting projects--but as cool as Tesla and Spacex are, I wouldn't call them wins yet.

In the long run, luck and genius are probably both necessary but not sufficient; I have no doubt that Zuckerberg's a very smart guy, I just think there are many, many people just as smart who aren't billionaires.
What is "AD environment"? Sounds like maybe what I want.

I want no updates or changes of any kind without my knowledge. Indeed, before any change, I want to backup the relevant boot partition so that I can restore it if any changes are harmful or doubtful.

For Cortana, when I looked at it, everything it has I have a lot better with just my favorite programmable text editor and a few simple macros.

Uh, to reply, I have to edit my post! So, here is my reply!

My now very old and crude understanding is that Active Directory is a standard part of Windows Server and plays the role of essentially the old MIT system Kerberos for authentication.

My concern is that ASAP I need to take my Web site software currently in alpha test and have it go live. For that, for maybe just a few, first users, I could use just my development computer running Windows 7 Professional. But, also on that computer I intend to have at least one bootable partition with Windows Server.

So, with Windows Server, I could be running Microsoft's Active Directory. Fine with me.

Then that means that somehow all my bootable partitions with Windows 7 or Windows Server will not get updates or changes without my explicit permission? Hope so.

Or maybe your point is just that the automatic updates don't apply to Windows Server? I would believe so.
> rather than a single provider of health insurance (government, aka "public option")

Those aren't the same thing at all.

It's impossible to debate health care at all because everyone believes a bunch of fairy tales. HN is an extremely poor place to discuss this, because people here are smart enough to think that they aren't being influenced by politics.
Difference between TOR and VPN
I don't really understand how this is a threat without understanding whether Humana is on the same exchanges and what other providers are on those exchanges. Journalists seem to get really excited when they get some inside scoop.
I think its more like 'Choose one'
Also available with bushes and trumps.
#DynamicLanguageProblems
A couple of arguments in favor of a marketplace:

1. In theory, a competitive marketplace should be able to cut costs and improve outcomes by incentivizing innovation and efficiency (of course, you also have to try to guard against incentivizing insurers to cut costs by reducing access to care).
2. Switching to a single-payer model would be incredibly disruptive to the economy. It would need to be done gradually to minimize the pain.

I actually work for a health insurer, but I've also been a big proponent of healthcare reform for quite some time (I see the ACA as a step in the right direction). I'm definitely not opposed to single-payer, but I don't think it would be a silver bullet, either.
Equality for all is much better than improvement for the 1% and misery for everyone else.

Read your Wilkinson and Pickett. Aside from perhaps the environment, equality is the political and economic issue that will shape the 21st century.
Liberalize healthcare to allow anyone to provide it.

Did you know that before the AMA was created that doctors had to do house calls or face living in abject poverty as a result of the market being flooded with healthcare professionals?
The big difference with respect to Germany, though, is that they are not afraid to regulate their health sector. The problem with the US model is not so much private vs. public, but a matter of lobbyists and ideology getting in the way of regulating it in the way that makes sense for people instead of for healthcare providers and insurers.

(France also has a mix of private and public healthcare insurance)
What is with the obsession with thinner phones? Also, is the headphone jack the real limiting factor in thinness?
btw, you've linked to a 2012 version of the book. Since 2012, they've added another author and changed the name of the book. I have no idea how much the content changed.

Anyway, here's the latest version of the book: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book2016June9.pdf .
(I got the link from http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/)
The few times I've had Let's Encrypt's automation fail it's taken a few minutes, not hours, to investigate and fix. Anecdotal, sure, but I don't see it taking hours to fix
Well, it is not really "money given to employees" unconditionally. First it is time-off given, the employee couldn't take only half of the time-off and cash the rest for example. Second it is only subsidizing some employees.

Not saying it is a bad thing, but in the end such decision are likely made to attract talents and/or limit turn-over more than anything else.
I'm glad you mentioned this. Some people have lost their jobs to workers overseas. People can't always be "retrained" and so for these people, since they are now unemployed they are not able to buy more.

In addition, lack of employment correlates (and presumably causes) and increase in crime, in drug use, in depression. These are all externalities that are borne not only by the former worker and their families but by taxpayers and society at large. Someone has to pay for the increased crime and protection, someone has to pay for the additional health care costs, and so on.

These negative externalities of exporting jobs to China, to Mexico, and soon possibly to other Asian nations through TPP are never part of the economic equation.

In order to address a problem, it must be fully analyzed. In this case, there is much finger pointing at the victims of a broken system.

So, when a company exports a worker's job overseas, who is supposed to pay the additional healthcare costs cost by the unemployment? Should us the taxpayers or should those that caused the problem in the first place? Someone has to pay and we shouldn't just let events decide but rather make a conscious choice.
Very well done, but not the first: 2 years ago Jetpac released DeepBeliefSDK (https://github.com/jetpacapp/DeepBeliefSDK). They were acquired by Google and development stopped. But the demo has been ported (http://waylonflinn.github.io/DeepBeliefSDK/) using a newer toolkit called webblas (https://github.com/waylonflinn/weblas). Reddit discussion about webblas at (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/41luif/gpu...) which has some more links and thoughts about this kind of thing. One more toolkit, written during a hackathon and still getting started, is gpu.js (https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/).
Pulling towards you as you exit. Particularly with stalls: This means you're unhygienic hands are touching a handle that everyone else will have to touch (and has touched). With respect to the bathroom exit: Somehow grown men (and women? Don't use their bathroom so can't say for certain) haven't learned to wash their hands after using the toilet. At least I know who not to shake hands with in my office, and who isn't allowed to touch my workstation.
Cybercriminals join forces with malware ransomware attacks
related (flagged) thread of the zeit.de article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12303927
Private insurers also ration the amount and quality of care given.
Well wouldn't that obviate one from working at NVidia? Sure, we could sidestep the CAP theorem by moving to Montana and living off the land. What does this have to do with TFA?
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> Secondly, I am a shareholder and I applaud this.

I'm a shareholder as well. I'm willing to believe this decision was made for good reasons so I give the executives the benefit of the doubt, but to me it is slightly worrying.

You applaud this, fine. We disagree, still fine. There is no right or wrong here, in the end it's only the votes that count. Because, if what the executives do pisses enough shareholders, they will be voted out and unlike you I believe this is all right.
For some people, the command you gave would fail because they can't bind port 80 because apache or nginx is already listening there. And they might not be able to stop it and restart it. That's not the case if you're only running an SMTP listener, but it would be if you're already running an HTTP listener.

(I wrote the original version of standalone in certbot, but I'm just trying to stand up for the people who complain that something is complicated in their use case.)
In my experience (12 years, 6 apartments) no fee apartments are priced somewhat higher than comparable fee apartments. Of course there are exceptions, we all know the guy that lucked into a great deal, but that's a hard thing to make happen on demand.
I don't think that's a YAGNI reply, it's a don't-reinvent-the-wheel or anti-NIH reply.
There was talk of starting to cover dental.

The prescription thing is a pain in the butt. My mom had to pay out of pocket for her medication for years, until she got a job with prescription coverage.
The signing capacity of the HSM (or possibly HSMs, I'm not sure) holding the intermediate certificate is limited. These devices are quite expensive, so it's not that easy to scale this resource. In comparison to that, a pending authorization is just a row in some table, so that doesn't take up too many resources.

For use-cases like Plex (or generally things that require a large number of subdomains), there's now a form you can use to request rate limit adjustments[1].

[1]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfg56b_wLmUN7n-WWhb...
Of course, the constituencies which oppose single-payer seem often to be composed of the same people who will vote out anyone who messes with their Social Security, Medicare, or VA benefits.
The public is starting to get a peek at the 2017 rates. To put it lightly, they're not pretty. This post shows the proposed premium increases, averaging around 24%. It's likely these may land somewhere below those numbers, but the cost of simply being insured before any co-pays or paying any deductibles has rapidly become unsustainable for a huge percentage of the population, especially the middle-class who earn too much for subsidies but not enough to cover the costs of proper insurance and care.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-15/obamacare-sticker-s...
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Somewhat off topic, it seems to be easier for Canadians to permanently move to the US then for Americans to move to Canada. In your experience is that true?
Doesn't make the issues not relevant. Do you argue that we're incapable of dealing with these issues for all eternity?

"Who voted this up?" is the community rift.
Equality for all is much better than improvement for the 1% and misery for everyone else.

Don't be dense. You know there are happy mediums.

* Read your Wilkinson and Pickett. Aside from perhaps the environment, equality is the political and economic issue that will shape the 21st century.*

I've read Pickett. Equality is horrifying. Eastern Europe is the result. The handicapper general is terrifying.

It's the end to any human greatness.
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You can look into PhotoReading and Mental Photography. The ideas sound "scammy," but if you look at what's being said generally, it'll help you (centering your mind, entering the alpha state (you can even use brainwave entrainment until you can do it naturally), suppressing subvocalization (repeating the words in your mind), scanning the table of contents and pages of the book to get a "big picture" sense of what it's about, "activating" what you've read (after taking a nap) by summarizing it out loud, etc).

Also, you can try taking supplements that help with concentration and maintaining awareness. Things like (N-Acetyl) Semax (Amidate) + N-Acetyl Selank + PhenylPiracetam Hydrazide.

If you ask questions, keep your mind active, and engage in what you're reading (visualizing, questioning, etc as you go), then it becomes easier to pick up on things, keep the pace, and fly through it all without even noticing.

Moving your eyes faster is really basic and almost stupid, but the idea of keeping your eyes moving (to prevent backtracking and spacing out) makes sense.

Also, if you have the choice, then it's better to read from a crisp-screen-having tablet, such that you can adjust the font size, width, and spacing of what you're reading, and can have software automatically scroll through the text (and show just the right amount of text at a time, to allow you to digest quickly without having to move your eyes).
If you marked your connection as metered, I believe it respected that and wouldn't download it.
That's not how government works; it's not about pragmatic solutions or logical solutions; it's about what you can get enough people to agree on, which is what Obamacare is, the most enough people could agree on to get it passed. Whatever isn't in there, isn't there because it wouldn't have passed so all Monday morning quarterbacking about what it should have been entirely misses the point about how government works.

Governing is about consensus among ideologically opposed members, not about correctness or efficiency.
I think that Microsoft could fix this fairly easily: make an easy opt out for Cortana and telemetry, offer more control over security options.

I totally sympathize with Microsoft for wanting everyone to be on Windows 10, with continuous updates (security and otherwise). Better for them and long term probably better for users.

I don't use OS X anymore but when I did, I liked always being at the latest update.

Except for my iPad, I use Ubuntu Linux laptops and like keeping every device up to date.

Pardon a tangent, but: society as a whole really needs a "going to the moon" level global project to harden computing devices. As an end user of technology I am willing to keep my devices up to date and I try to be understanding of Apple, Microsft, and Ubuntu (and other Linud distros).
I'd hardly consider having three children in the space of three years a 'vacation'.

And that's a vanishingly small edgecase, anyways. It's a good system.
That's a good argument against "accessibility". You're probably not getting significant revenue from the screen-reader people.
I should probably clean up the readme then. Those were an initial set of ideas when I started creating the story.

I went a bit off track.
"But it’s a shame that Microsoft made users choose between having privacy and security."

Great article, but this part is simply wrong. Microsoft chose to remove both. You now have an operating system without security that is known to steal data and install things on its own (malware). How can EFF say this OS is more secure when Microsoft can and does access any data on the system at any time without asking for permissions? When even the permissions dialogs are fake? To classify this as anything but malware would be willful stupidity at this point.

It's not that the OS has less security, now it has none. In fact, users running Windows 10 might want to question whether they even own their machines anymore. Physical possession aside, when one no longer controls the software or data on a machine can one be said to own said machine? Can one be held responsible for what it does? What if Microsoft decides to download child porn on everyone's machine? Considering what they've done in the last year, I wouldn't put it past them.
The "leaked" numbers have always been higher than what actually happens.

The insurance companies always propose higher increases in order to have a stronger bargaining position, and those numbers have historically been bargained down to something decent.
So simple and easy to add events, I ended up adding trivial reminders and notes. Will be nice to have editing and deleting support. Kudos to the team
You mean snake oil salesmen?
It seems he refers to pull-to-open when exiting.

In a stall, it's hard because there's no space. For the main door, it's unsanitary, especially if there are no paper towels (but rather air drying).
Not always feasible. The brilliant designers of my office gave us a total of 8 urinals/stalls for the men on this floor (same for the other floor, approximately). The ratio here is terrible, about 5:1 men to women (probably worse, actually). There are 200 of us on this floor, 800 in the building. The after lunch bathroom rush means you stand around uncomfortably while waiting for a stall, or use a urinal and get back to your desk.