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I was simply relating to the severity of mislabeling. The last comment I made about the price was merely to support the need for greater punishment of mislabeling (added cost is a side effect of mislabeling). Not to draw comparison to my added expenditure and EpiPen over-pricing.

I wasn't over-charged for drugs, I was over-prescribed by the doctor - and this shows the danger of being given drugs you're not supposed to have (both wasted money and loss of treatment time). Which was the point of the last two paragraphs in support of my claim that mislabeling is worse than pharma companies over-charging insurance companies (I believe non-insurance holders were offered lower prices by Mylan?). But I could see how my choice of phrasing might have been misinterpreted.
I'd put it even bigger: if someone didn't buy a Ferrari but spent the money on the food for poor, it would work. But if all or many rich did that, it would result in little but increase in food prices and decrease in Ferrari prices. Only second order effects (increase of food production because producers now make more profit so they will invest into using land more efficiently) will very insignificantly benefit the poor. Plus some auto worker strikes in Italy.
Thanks for your comment. I see mesh networks as an alternative to be used alongside the web. Also, in the USA, local mesh networks were useful in dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, as another example of utility of mesh networks.
Many people don't drink from the tap because they are convinced it's bad water (which is true in corner cases at least in the US). Everyone I know who drinks bottled does it because of this and it has nothing to do with this 'hydration' ritual you are theorizing.
The shocking surprise is that customers don't like being pestered by a salesperson masquerading as a support agent.
Because you are going to die pretty quickly either way if you have terminal cancer. At least if you try a new treatment you could theoretically help other people in the future live for longer, and other people who will get very, very rich. lol
> They did say that Java MC isn't going anywhere.

Embrace, extend, extinguish is how it always plays out.
IAM instance roles are still an improvement over how it was typically done in the past: hard-coding the same key in a configuration file and deploying it everywhere.

It's a balance between security and convenience.
Working with you must be a joy.
The tools are called clang tidy and Visual Studio 2015 Update 3.

Other vendors might eventually add support as well.
Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica, uses this idea as a major plot element.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_(TV_series)
It is interesting how 60,000 excludes ONLY Tesla but excludes only some models from other companies. It's very difficult to not make the obvious conclusion on how that number was reached.
Their home page is terrible. Full screen background video is over, you can barely read the text, and I personally can't stand any webpage that eats up that much of my CPU even in the background.

The home page amuses me too because it's still emphasizing that they're "free", when that's clearly not going to be true for the vast majority of their users, I bet.

I don't think this company has any clue at all what they're doing, they just want to make a quick buck.
It feels like he's trying to stay relevant and retain as much public support he can get.
One more thing, they reflect upon what they do. It is not just constant practice, it is also about reflecting upon that.
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I had been following Magic Leap and seems they have an incredible technology in the making and prototypes made already. Seems if the technology matures once its out, it could replace almost most of the stuff which we have a screen with (eg., Mobile phones, tablets, laptops, display screens, TV etc). as it would just allow for all those things to exist and more in mixed reality and each individual can manage it or share it as well with others. Has anyone here experienced some of the tech in their office in Florida and how did you feel about the light field technology? I have saw some recent videos and talks online which is quite encouraging and seems its materializing.
Americans complain about taxes more than perhaps any other people from a rich nation, but we frankly don't pay that much. The OECD average is about 35% of GDP. The UK pays right about that. The US pays ~27% of GDP. And of course even with that relatively small amount of revenue, a lot of it goes to uniquely American spending schemes like defense or NASA, both of which are vastly better funded than their European equivalents. So it's really not all that surprising that lots of other stuff doesn't get funded much.

That being said, the homeless rate in England and the United States is the same ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_... ). Do you see a similar resistance to supporting people there?
I've found that America makes a lot more sense when you think of it as a country run by rich people, with a whole lot of workers. For the rich, this place is amazing.

The rich have all the political power, so this makes sense. You'd think the working class has political power but their opinions are controlled by the wealthy.

So for the people running America, there's nothing to fix. The system is designed to produce exactly what it produces. The fact that there's no shelter or health care for the poor is a result of the fact that the poor in America are discarded. We don't have a cultural respect for human life here. We have business. And business doesn't need poor people. They're not good workers or good consumers.

I'd like things to be different, and I'm working on it, but I don't have much power at the moment.
ES6's template strings can do something similar: https://github.com/erights/quasiParserGenerator

I was disappointed when Python added its f-strings instead.
The homeless problem is worst in cities that are doing the best.
As with many definitions, there are tradeoffs to be made between utility and accuracy. The more limited form of definition has uses as a shortcut to describe a certain subset of people, but if you look at disability more broadly you can get a fuller sense of what disability is.

To give another example, consider the definitions we use to describe sexual preference. This article on sexual fluidity gives some good examples of how the way we describe sexual preferences may be fine for many, but misses the bigger picture:

http://nautil.us/issue/41/selection/beyond-sexual-orientatio...

I found this passage about bisexuality from the article particularly interesting, describing how openness to bisexuality was suppressed because it didn't fit into the more limited but easier to understand narratives that reflected mainstream thinking about sexual preference at the time:

"Robyn Ochs, who came out as bisexual in 1982 and has been campaigning for bisexual rights ever since, remembers some gay marches before the mid-1990s as unwelcoming. “Lesbian women thought that we were sleeping with the enemy,” says Ochs. Dawne Moon, a sociologist at Marquette University, explains that some gay people felt that bisexuals were watering down their message. Any kind of sexual variability outside of homosexuality would threaten the narrative of the gay movement, says Moon. That narrative revolved around same-sex attraction being as authentic and fixed an orientation as heterosexuality.

The scientific practice of the 1960s through the early 1990s reinforced this message. Some researchers blatantly denied the existence of bisexuals. In 1956, the American psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler described bisexuality as “a state that has no existence beyond the word itself” and an “out-and-out fraud.” Other researchers used terms like “true homosexuals” in their studies. It was common for academics to lump bisexuals and homosexuals together.

Even many school and college textbooks did not quite recognize bisexuality as a possible sexual orientation until about a decade ago. Bisexuality was seen to be a phase some people go through before identifying as heterosexual or homosexual. Kenji Yoshino, professor of constitutional law at New York University School of Law famously called this phenomenon “bisexual erasure” in an essay he wrote in the Stanford Law Review in 2000. “It is as if self-identified straights and self-identified gays have concluded that whatever their other disagreements, they will agree that bisexuals do not exist,” Yoshino says."

Why do I bring this up? It's to point out that broader understanding of human variability has its place, even if it makes people who prefer neater definitions uncomfortable. It's the same with disability, it takes on many forms, and although shortcuts/simpler definitions have their place it's worth recognising that variability, even if that makes reasoning about it harder to do.
I've started to create a side project with the sole purpose of generating extra revenue. Why do you see it as a sin? If you make just enough with your day job I would understand but just leave alone those who are savvy enough to grab some extra cash.
Yes, any idea on the specifics? I wouldn't be surprised if the chat bot actually didn't work too well, but the opportunity for a good article was too much for any
journalist to pass up.
> Just look over recent ShowHN entries...

That's a great idea indeed... I'm sure it'll turn out to be a good starting point. Thanks.
It's got to do with the volumes of carbon we're currently emitting, and which we have emitted.

Keep in mind that the carbon cycle was already in balance before humans started digging out gigatons of coal and pumping gigatons of petroleum. We've skewed that balance -- not by a terrible lot (or we'd have been in trouble a long time ago), but by enough.

The problem now is unwinding ~100 years of industrial fossil fuel use, quickly.

Remember that while plants fix carbon, it doesn't necessarily stay fixed, and you cannot release what you're fixing from the atmosphere if you want this to work.

Trees and plants don't fix CO2 "for free", they have a considerable energy budget they expend for this, and have other things to tend to as well (making leaves, drawing up water, fighting off disease and insects, feeding animals).

So you're talking about increasing plant growth beyond present levels, and preserving the carbon without allowing it to be re-released to the atmosphere for at least a few centuries. That's a tall order.

Humans fixing CO2 requires energy to do so, energy which will have to come from some non-emitting source (solar, wind, geothermal, and nuclear are the only really viable options, hydro, tide and wave are too small to matter), and will compete against other human energy uses. Renewables have their own considerable energy input requirements as well for construction and maintenance, which multiple credible sources find close to the limits which allow technological society to happen (see Charles A.S. Hall's work on EROEI, he's got a book in progress due out next year I believe on the topic).
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This all sounds a bit like the Apple security flaw that landed a guy in prison for a year [1].

At least this doesn't leak personal details.

On the otherhand, it doesn't take much imagination to see how this could be enough for some social engineering and/or phishing scam.

1. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/weev-is-in-jail-because-the...
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When we get the political consensus to put a price on atmospheric carbon, it will give a subsidy to anyone who can make a solid material out of carbon. What will be the most economical way to get those subsidies? I don't think it will be making carbon nanotubes. That requires an extremely pure source of carbon. I think the biggest application will be construction materials:

Mine CaO, use atmospheric CO2 to convert it to CaCO3 this use that as feeder stock for making limestone-like and marble-like construction materials. These could be premium materials -- I could easily see Salesforce paying a premium to cover the floors of Salesforce tower in 'reclaimed atmospheric marble' to advertise their green creds -- or a down market material -- just mix it in to drywall to get the CO2 credits. Either way, this process would be much less fussy about the purity of the CO2 source.
Well, first of all, companies do close, people do get tired of companies, so "great" developers do move.

At some positions, the demand is lower than the offer
I would add Google, Microsoft, et al to that list. Seen lot's of candidates come in for interview who have read books like "Cracking the coding interview" who have obviously memorized the white board solutions to complex problems who then can't implement 'boolean equals(Object)' correctly when asked to do so.
"If you hire someone with a trendy background who’s good at traditional coding interviews and they don’t work out, who could blame you? And no one’s going to notice all the people you missed out on."

How is it that fear of false positives keeps coming up again and again in discussions of hiring practices?

Considering at-will employment (is that the correct term?) is the default here, you'd think it wouldn't be that big of a problem to get rid of an underperforming employee. I guess it's more of a cultural/social issue but I can't pretend to fully understand it.
Ah yes! Apologies. Stripe is the one. Thanks!
> they will only switch if something else offers a clear higher value

No, that's not how it works. Sure, perceived value is important, but that's not where it starts. For people to switch to something else they need to find out about it first, and to find out about it somebody has to promote it to them. And how do you get people to promote it? You need an incentive, you need to find some way to make it worth for people to promote the software and of course it has to have a value for users to use it too.

Torrent sites, for example, benefited from promoting torrent technology.
> As a customer, I hate it being difficult to reach someone technical. This doesn't sound like it helps that.

If they're doing it properly, it should be much easier to reach someone technical, because the dedicated technical support contact still exists and doesn't have to divide their time between dealing with technical issues and sending out "you don't seem to have logged in yet/recently. How can I help you?" messages because a dedicated person is performing the latter function.

And there's no reason why someone holding a "Customer Success Manager" title shouldn't be technical: indeed if the product is something like an API, the Customer Support Manager probably should be an engineer, and a better engineer than the Sales Engineer too. The linked article is basically an argument that Customer Success Managers in adtech really ought to be people with a strong understanding of how to optimise a marketing campaign and not just people that ask how you're doing and tell you where the filters are
The water peddlers have successfully convinced people in places where the water is perfectly safe to drink (and tasty too) that it isn't. There are plenty of places in the world where the water isn't safe to drink but a very large portion of those is so poor the people there could not afford bottled water anyway.

But for places with old water lines and all kinds of junk in the water it can make good sense to use bottled water for consumption.
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Where is the race equation in Joel's claim? I am a black and a great developer. Many years ago, I worked in one of the top five tech companies in North America. My second line manger called me 'a Slave' because I was working harder than my team and contributing across team. I complained about the incident, and left the company after there were no action from the top management.
Good article. Anyone here a fan of Greg Egan? I found "Schild's Ladder" the best piece of Sci-Fi I ever read. Can anyone suggest similar authors?
They solve a small problem most startuppers / entrepreneurs would not jump on because the market is so small (or at least they think it's too small).

They don't want to change the world, just make it a tiny bit better.

> Can it be done in a way that makes it less like your day job, so to speak?
Of course, just do things when you feel like it to do, no stress, no pressure.
Not really. Our team spun off and my boss worked really hard to keep me. My good friend left last year to go to a startup and just rejoined there (working for You Tube) at the age of 53.
MC's mod ecosystem is also an Achilles heel. The primary audience is tweens/teens and the typical mod author is someone who cranks out something in their spare time and doesn't think about install hygiene. This leads to mods being hosted on the shadiest of shady sites. Downloads can be infected with malware and the users don't really know why they shouldn't just run "InstallMyInfectedMod.exe".

Then there's the mods that break between versions. You can have mod A, B, and C on 1.8.1, but only A and B on 1.8.2 and only B and C on 1.8.3.
My favourite bit is how they skipped adding length negotiation and it is causing them problems already. See the brief discussion of size limit on http://ircv3.net/specs/core/message-tags-3.2.html

Adding tags forced them to increase message length because of how IRC messages are hilariously limited to 512 bytes in all directions. In the existing protocol you already have to guess how long your messages are allowed to be because the server tacks on a prefix to your message before relaying it, which can require it to truncate characters to fit the modified message into the length limit. Having some amount of tags tacked on as well would have made it impossible to guess how much room you had.

Now if they had started with fixing the actual protocol they wouldn't have had to deal with that. Honestly this feels more like a standard "let's add cool stuff" push than intelligent stewardship of the protocol. I guess that is kind of cool too though.
Well, that was a complete waste of time. I requested a refund or credit for Dash as I paid $29 for it.

Chat and Phone T1 and T2 Advisors all said there is nothing they can do and kept suggesting I restore a backup. Too bad "Transfer Purchases" was removed in iOS 9 with App Slimming - meaning that there is no way to backup/extract an ipk file from iOS using native tools. They also couldn't offer any sort of iTunes Store credit or refund.

Long story short, if Apple decides to remove an App from their platform, it's gone - period and they don't give a sh*t how much you paid for it.
This is a mistake. As soon as you allow squatters to essentially start building shanty town communities, you are going to start exacerbating a lot of problems: drugs, crime, rape. All one needs to do is travel to Brazil and see the favelas to see the effects of an unchecked, institutionalized homeless population.
Here in Mexico, you get an XML for your invoices, which you must keep in order to be tax deductable. However, it gets messy very quickly, as it must have your Tax ID, it has to exist in the tax office's database and then you must keep it for 5 year. It is a chore.

I run http://www.boxfactura.com, an email service for your digital invoices. It has been quite a journey because everyone I speak to has some kind of trouble with their invoices, but they don't know there's a product for that, so first you have to market the idea of it, and then the product.
True, though you don't know if it's worth it anyway until you spend the time to do it. Just because you make $200 with your (established and known) site doesn't guarantee someone else would just by copying it.

I do get your point of view though, and it's fair enough, I just think the risk of someone copying a site they see here (and hurting that site's bottom line) is minimal.

I doubt you're going to copy every site on this page and I know I'm not, and yet they collectively bring in several thousand dollars a month.

Anyway, good luck with your site, whatever it is. :) And to everyone else who posted.

I think these kind of threads are really interesting, mainly just to see the different kinds of sites or apps people are making, but I think they serve as an inspiration for people to create something themselves (not just copy), and I'm glad people are not shy about posting what they're doing.
Firing someone isn't he problem. The sunk costs of bringing that person onboard, and the new costs of doing the same for a new hire, are the real killers.

There is a philosophical view that optimizing onboarding is equally (or more) important when compared to recruiting processes. A common blocker here is that onboarding isn't done by HR.
Google is too big right now to be damaged significantly by leaks.
It seems that "great" developer is somewhat a synonym for "public" developer. I'm not sure how companies would just "know" someone is "great" otherwise. And yes, not all publicly known developers are necessarily great (or even good), but I'm not sure how one would recognize a 'great' developer without that person also having some degree of publicness to them.

And yet, I've known more than a handful of developers who are really solid, great people to work with, and I'd like to work with again. None of them have ever blogged, podcasting, presented at conferences nor run a public repository on github. Yet by many definitions of 'great', they fit the bill, but not the sort of 'great' that would mean companies would just 'know' of their greatness, and go out of their way to hire/recruit them.
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No actual exposure, so no news.
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Roughly how long does this algorithm take to run?
If he actually does what he said he would and releases a bunch of info about one or the other of the candidates right before the election, he'll have used up the last of the goodwill I afforded him.

The only reason to release at that time is if you want to affect people's voting emotionally before there's any chance to examine and verify the information.
I love reading your weekly digests!
Trump might disagree. No party is too big to be damaged by leaks it all depends on the nature of that which is leaked and the timing.
I never feel shame and embarrassment over actions other people have taken. Why would I?
> Even though open source is "cool" now, I can't help but feel it's mostly people working for companies
> that just want to export their technical debt for free and use open source as a marketing tool.

I think it's more that originally FOSS developers/users were hard-core's who were into the tech and the ideology of 'Free Software'. The user-base now has many people who are into 'open source' for the collaborative (group motivation) and perceived technical benefits at an infrastructure level. It's a benefit because there's more 'free' code flowing around, but the downside is that as soon as a proprietary thing is better the user-base moves to it - they have no link with ideology, they're linked to utility.
Feem (http://www.feem.io) is making over $1K/month online; and I'm from Cameroon, Africa.

Feem is a great cross-platform way to share files within your LAN.
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At least Google can say "we get so many applicants this is what we have to do!". Why do random web dev companies attempt to grill you with the same level of rigor as Google is beyond me.
so now accessibility is called "inclusiveness" ? Can we please stop with the marketing bullshit ?
There's a great multimedia feature from the article at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/11/science/huntin....
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