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The pharmaceutical industry lobbied for Medicare Part D which prevents Medicare/Medicaid from negotiating prices.

This is not true. Medicare Part D is run by private insurers and they certainly do negotiate for discounts which eventually pass on to the gov't since CMS pays a capitated rate for each person covered and private insurers bid to manage those lives.

Medicare Part B drugs are not negotiated. CMS pays for those drugs directly and has been for 50+ years. However, Part B drugs are reimbursed based on ASP (average selling price). What that means is the gov't never pays more than the average discounted price that manufacturers offer private insurers. If a market is competitive enough that manufacturers have to offer discounts to private insurers, the gov'ts get the average discount out there.

Add in Medicaid's mandatory rebates and the 340B program and I find it hilarious that people say CMS isn't leveraging their volume to lower prices.
If this delays its onset until after death (if you follow), it's practically sufficient.
Logic is also logic, so most texts (your comment excepted) shouldn't be allowed in markup.

Note that nobody actually wants to embed the code for validation within the document, but you want to be able to properly identify a form-elements attributes so as to allow clients to make a smart choice about validation, presentation, defaults etc.

JPEG decoding is also logic, but it's also pretty useful for client to know that the binary stream it's reading may best be handled with the jpeg library.
Yet, aren't you also applying similar stereotypes to "leftists" here? Not everyone with a left-wing political outlook has the attitude you have described.
>I work in VR now and honestly nothing comes close to the experience we built.

This is an interesting statement, because in all the wide sphere of points where VR can be applied, it seems to me that the only place of any 'validity' or .. true social value .. (i.e. not gaming/entertainment) .. is in the realm of training for high-performance/life-critical operator scenarios.

Which is not to say that these things can/can not be gamified - but perhaps that the end result of such a stringent effort by society to apply VR technology to training and simulation of otherwise-life-threatening roles/responsibilities/duties is that it all becomes a bit of a game.

What I mean to say is, why is there such a gap between "work in VR" and "built serious simulator system", in your opinion?
Hey @twic,

Does the fact that Java is "pass by value" explain why the reassignment of "obj" does not change the output of re-invoking the method ref?
There is substantial on-going costs to manufacturer a drug even if you're not doing clinical trials. I agree that this particular drug's price is inflated, but you can't compare the cost of a bulk manufacturer chemical to an FDA approved drug.
I second this. I watched the votes for a while to gauge what style, topics, or counterpoints had impact. Then, I mostly just ignored them. The real value is learning from people that know better than me on numerous topics. On top of helping out others with whatever I've learned. I've learned a ton, though, from other commenters with some things might have lasting significance in business or software developments I participate in.
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Why did he censor Kevin's name in all exchanges except for one? Was that an intentional "slip"? Or was revealing his last name an accident?
> I prefer cynicism over unthoughtful, inconsequential comments

Reminds me of the episode from latest black mirror episode where the truck driver falls from 4.6 rating to 1.8 because she is critical of other people, thoughts.
I'm sorry but I suspect your deeply, deeply wrong and your work will damage your university. Everything you talk about is about centralising knowledge and control.

In practice, this never helps in the business of getting experiments done. Students and postdocs just pend some time doing pointless training courses, overheads increase, lead-times for ordering equiment increase. And to what purpose?
Ah, OK, now I get you ;-) An interesting hypothesis, I honestly don't know whether that would work. The biggest problem then is that there is a large percentage of HNers who see downvoting as a legitimate way of showing disagreement. One of them happens to be dang, so you would have some convincing to do...

(While I don't subscribe to their view, they do have some arguments in their favour. And what is more, this is an issue that gets debated at least once a month on HN, so good luck trying to push the balance :D )
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>Because DuckDuckGo's index of the yarn's website could be screwed or out of date.

And why should we know about DDG's index info about Yarn?

Just visit Yarn's actual project site (which is what you're supposed to be criticizing), and focus your critique on what's actually there now.

>Also, because people communicate using language, not axioms.

So? How does that justify adding off-topic/redundant information on one's critique?
Here is a possible scenario (not saying it applies here)...

There are substantial fixed costs for manufacturing a drug. The more volume you sell, the lower the total cost per unit since fixed costs get spread across a greater number of units.

As volume drops, profitability eventually goes negative, so the price needs to rise for that drug to stay on the market.
Or do what I do, express yourself like a human instead of a business machine, leave, go do the rejected right thing for a competitor, and send the product brochure to the people who cared more about their feelings than the work.

You have to be willing to do a lot of walking away, but the inevitable "you were right" has been satisfying so far.

Or I guess another way to say it is if you can, do, and if you can't, by all means, coddle. Just hope I don't end up across the table from you.
>Everyone wants to have that Tesla

...in Silicon Valley. Tesla is far smaller than you think. The market and mind share outside of extremely wealthy sectors of the country is miniscule. Nobody where I live has even heard of them (unless, of course, you are a technically inclined forum reader).

HN seems to think Tesla has already won (even though they can't profitably produce a vehicle), and that everyone working for the auto majors are old, stodgy, and stupid. But I'm betting otherwise. I think they see that the writing is on the wall, and they're allowing Tesla to do much of the leg work.
You would be right. I used to run poker games myself. Basically home games that people find out about through meetup etc. While I never condoned cheating and only made money on rake, I had dealers who would offer to cheat. They basically used anything from simple slight of hand tactics to brazenly just stealing chips. The alcohol is always free at the games and bad dealers will pass around drugs to any willing victims.

Some will organize with a group of 5-6 people. They basically come in and collude with a lot of cash to rob the other 4-5 sitting at the table. Once I realized how pervasive cheaters were I stopped playing and hosting games. I was trusted by the cheats and could have worked with them. I didn't think it was worth losing morals over nor the risk. Soon the higher end games started getting straight up robbed at gunpoint.
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A major theme of the story is using third parties means you have less control. So why post it on Medium?
A perfect example of my point.
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>GNU Tar provides the ability to create tar archives

Really descriptive.
"I find articles on technical and mathematical topics to generally be extremely accurate, content rich, and surprisingly bias free (so not very, but still)."

Same here. I usually just link the Wikipedia article because it's either totally accurate or accurate enough for what I'm trying to accomplish. I added a bunch of stuff to it as a result from my domain. I do spot marketing BS on occasion in there but the baseline makes it really stand out. Most people doing IT work are going to say, "Wait, that looks like a fan or advertiser wrote it" then dismiss that specific point.
Your competent attorney will probably, after they get done with the facepalming about you bluffing and getting called on it, tell you that enforcing a judgement internationally will cost you six figures.

DMCA requests are cheaper, if there is something on his site which is definitely your property. Find 1+ vendors who are necessary to keep the site on the Internet and which operate in jurisdictions where IP is customarily granted lots of respect by courts; send them DMCA takedown notices. I wouldn't spend more than 20 minutes on this.

I feel for you; it sucks to have one's work ripped off. This is, unfortunately, basically built in to the model with downloadable software. It is unlikely that devoting huge amounts of your time and attention to this will be more beneficial for your business than devoting huge amounts of your time and attention to selling more software. If it's more an urge to get-back-to-not-being-violated, I very much understand the impulse (as someone who sold downloadable software and had many permutations of this happen), but there is almost certainly another area of life or the world which would be more rewarded by your attention than this.
> Private networks is something that we're working on

Pretty sure you can already do it by setting up your a node on e.g. a Digitalocean droplet, removing all bootstrap nodes from its config file, and having everyone on the network replace the bootstrap node addresses in their config file with your server's address. Granted that's not a very user-friendly way to do it, but when I tried it it seemed to work.
> graphical models typically serve as coarse, high-level descriptions, eliding critical aspects such as fine-grained independence, abstraction and recursion.

Maybe you're not impressed with graphical models due to your experience dealing with them according to the points above.

by "writing code that generates a sample from the joint distribution", you can achieve much better modelling and control than what it would take with the normal methods of producing graphical models.
I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with the POWER architecture. Just look at IBM today selling POWER8 and POWER9 systems.

For example IBM Watson, which was featured of Jeopardy, was built on a POWER system.

If you look at performance per watt, I don't think the G5 is that far behind the NetBurst architecture Intel was pursuing at the time. Pentium 4 Mobile laptops were absolute beasts to handle the power and cooling needs of the chip. Pentium M laptops used a completely different CPU design which evolved from the Pentium 3 and later became the basis of the Core/Core 2 series of chips.

The main issue for Apple was that IBM couldn't make a processor that could work in a laptop (both for power and cooling reasons), and Motorola/Freescale were seriously behind schedule in shipping a dual core G4. Freescale eventually shipped their dual core in 2007. [1]

So the main reason for Apple's switch was an immediate availability of mobile CPUs (which greatly outperformed the single core G4). The first Apple Intel products actually used the Core Duo, which was actually a laptop part.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_e600
Doesn't matter if it's a birthright (and the use of "to have the right" in that sentence was more the meaning of "entitlement"). It's "an inherent part of most people working and participating in society". You need to change that if you want it to be reasonable to stop more than a few extreme cases from driving.
Sounds like a lot of work! Paypal will just turn off two-factor themselves if you ask nicely via an unverified twitter DM.

http://imgur.com/a/Tu1AN

https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialEngineering/comments/3kgw3s/p...
Planet Money did a great episode on Argentina, which decided at some point to default on its debt.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/11/470136949/episo...
>what makes the supporters of it think it will be any different from the original web.

Disclaimer: I have worked on building the Internet since before the web, and have a BOFH kind of point of view of things, 2 or 3 times over now ..

I support IPFS - and things like it - as a technologist/hacker/punk-ass because, in fact, we have built an utter monstrosity of a beast of a spaghetti god of an Internet, and we can always do better.

Software - and by extension, inter-networking - is like music. There will always be better ways to do it, beyond the horizon of what is current and now. Just because what we've got "basically works, even though its all broken", doesn't mean we can't 'fix whats broken'.

To those of us in the group of your postulate, whats broken is the fact that its all so damned hierarchical, and requires canonical/authority issue and agency in multiple forms before the bits can flow. We can't just set up an IP address - we also have to have DNS, serve content on it on some port, etc. And, on top of this, we end up having to sort it out all the way down the OSI stack, at the hardware layer, by keeping as many hosts as possible up and running as are required to service the customers, here and now, who are using our service.

All of that is what is broken about the current Internet, but of course the irony is that it is all that works about the Internet at the same time.

So, IPFS/distributed/etc. means this: we can un-bork all of the above, and just have all the things route down to the real, hard, user of the system, i.e. the original content provider. IPFS, and its ilk, is all about putting the original content provider in control, while also having the network - as a function of its operating capability - contribute to helping those content providers who become, eventually, popular.

So, we don't have a lot of rigid hierarchy - we have instead multi-variate spread spectra of responsibility/duty to serve up the bits of it all - packets at a time, as part of participation in the whole - to those who want something, and those who know how to find it, from those who have something, and know how to name it.

In short, "its not about the network any more, its the people..."
If by that you mean "responded with an argument to a vague and contentless accusation", then yes.

Is there a more childish response to an argument than "ha! it got to you"?

(Not to mention that age-wise I'm far off from the "hipster" demographic, and was watching Bill Murray way before hipster was even a term. Not everybody is 20-something on the internet).
Solar City is basically a bundle of loans that will pay off over the next 20 years. The company has lost a ton of money loaning out other people's money before govt solar subsidies expired. Now that it's at it's shittiest point, Musk/Tesla is swooping in and buying it at a discounted price, without spending a cent in the purchase. Musk is a genius.
Take a look at System76, especially if you're considering running Linux.

https://system76.com/laptops/kudu
https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
Good question...was wondering the same thing.
Or, it could actually be groupthink, and your bias is acting to prevent you from having to admit that a group you identify with expresses positions that are wrong.

There's actually no way to prove that either case is true. However, you expressed a position as a certainty -- "what you see as groupthink is really..." -- that is in reality just another opinion. Therefore, your comment is equally as ill informed and myopic as OP's.
Actualy I see the big egos as a benefit. They just say "No, you are wrong, thanks for our input." And they really mean both sentences.
I will be willing to do it. I won't be willing to be present in an aircraft while someone elae does it. Not because I am a pilot - just I am ok with dying from my own mistake.
Verily. What you cannot prevent you should lead :)
It might be just true. Destroying value is not such a big deal since after all value can always be created.

But when bonds default people start losing trust in fiduciary instruments. And trust is much more difficult to build than pure value.
Does this compile to a binary? I'd love to see some sort of similar live-compiler like https://gcc.godbolt.org/ for this language.

I've wanted to port my operating system attempts to some LISP-Like system but I've not found a good Scheme implementation that generated nice and clean assembly code.
I have updated the post to reflect #1 - thanks for pointing that out!
SD cards are in normal operation mode, besides of one card failure after one month (some factory defect I suppose), everything is fine. We will see when do the life cycle of cards expire, a year is behind us.

I tested power-off events many times - there were no issues at all. At last, keycard failure won't be a crucial issue, there is a parallel intercom connected with reception - our front-desk manager can open the door wirelessly.
The articles I read have everything from people with a passing knowledge of finance to finance professionals to people apparently involved in HFT shilling for it. Just as an anecdote, most sites I see on the topics are more polarized in one direction or another. I won't say it's the most diverse crowd here but all the counterpointing brought my attention to many different aspects of the finance and HFT problems.

Curious, what discussion site(s) in finance would you recommend that has more diverse opinions from known experts or veterans whose writing is accessible to non-experts?
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Yes, you are completely right! It was just wishful thinking on my side.
You don't think that entertainment holds "true social value?" We are playing game at this moment, with points, turns and rules.

To answer your question, the difference is in fidelity. HMDs are slow, low resolution, heavy and uncomfortable compared to a properly built cave.
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The UK driving test's "hazard perception" is a hugely watered-down version of this - you watch a video and press a button when you think you've encountered a hazard.

I think a lot of people would benefit from being able to practice their parking in VR rather than with a >£25/h driving instructor.
This is why we badly need an alternative to input's `type` attribute, as the type attribute encapsulates many different things:

1. Validation

2. Autofill hints

3. Native helper widgets (date calendar, number input spinner)

4. Mobile keyboard layouts

And, confusingly, while most `type`s are text inputs with differing values of the above, others are very, very different (radio, checkbox, select, file, etc). Still others use completely different tags (like <textarea>) and you even have to switch on `value` or `checked` for checkboxes.

Many people use `type="tel"` or `type="number"` just for the mobile layouts, and spend a long amount of time working around all the awful bugs in number inputs. Our own `<NumberInput>` React component works around multiple browser bugs and took weeks to get right. The incidental complexity even creates very hairy React bugs (https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/7253).

Even if you get around all the bizarre failures in differing implementations, you still have ridiculous spec bugs like the (intended) lack of selectionEnd/selectionStart on number inputs (https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24796) and the like.

I don't know if anyone is championing splitting these concerns into separate attributes, but the web really needs it.
I dunno. Effectively, it's just a frontend for a TCP protocol that's used to communicate with the program being debugged: this allows for remote debugging and all manner of fun. They probably picked TCL because it's really good at GUIs, which is the brunt of the work feathers is doing, as most of the heavy lifting is done program-side, in scheme.

But that's just a guess, if you really want to know, I'd ask Felix: He's the lead developer on Chicken, and he's the one who actually wrote the thing and pushed the commit (see https://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.g...). He's also pretty approachable.
Apple moved from the 68K to PowerPC and, from there, to x86. Many companies did such moves before: HP from 68K to PA-RISC, Sun, from 68K to SPARC and IBM from the proprietary AS/400 to POWER. All these migrations were very successful.
Chevy will probably be the largest electric vehicle manufacturer in a year or two. They're #2 right now, and the Chevy Bolt comes out soon. The Bolt is a useful car, the price is affordable, it has more range than the Tesla Model 3, and the Chevrolet Division of General Motors has a track record of building large numbers of cars at low cost.
I know nothing about the probabilistic programming, but would not it be easier (and more applicable) to have a library with relevant functionality and a bunch of interfaces for Go/C/Python/... than to implement a new language? An honest question.
Casinos ban cell phones at black jack because you are playing against them. The allow cell phones at poker because you are playing against other players. You can bet that the casino is not aggressively putting security into watching poker dealers. They make rake regardless of the cheating as long as customers don't stop walking in the door.
I think what they were trying to say is that AT&T is buying up Time Warner Cable/Spectrum to own more of the broadband and cellular service markets, such that they can better compete with Google, now offering broadband and Google Fi data service over Sprint and T-Mobile's cellular networks.
The differences are arbitrary. Fact: we could be using our iPhones as portable OSX machines, desktop-version-style, right now. It'd also inter-operate pretty well with existing desktop archs too.. If only Apple would let it happen.
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As I alluded to in another comment, one of the issues here is that, for most adults in the US, driving is pretty much part and parcel of working and functioning in society. And wishing that everyone lived in cities and that we had futuristic mass transit systems or 100% autonomous cars doesn't change today's reality.

Therefore, if we're going to require advanced multi-day driving schools and/or annual physical driving exams (or whatever), you're going to have to explain how that works in a world where many people can barely afford to keep their clunker running and are unemployed if they can't drive.

Driving may not be a "right" (whatever that means exactly as we place limits on lots of rights), but I wouldn't want to be the politician who decides to take that "privilege" away from 20% of the population because they missed their annual refresher course or recertification exam.
Very nice. Look forward to using this.
Why?

The laptops I know work mostly fine on Linux.
> The first and second paragraphs seem to contradict each other.

The assertions that "HN comments are terrible" and "I haven’t found a public internet forum with better technical commentary" don't seem contradictory to me if you allow the implication that all other (known-to-Dan) public internet forums have technical commentary that's at best also terrible.
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In which way is IPFS immune to content takedowns?

IPFS provides no anonymity, so it won't take long before DMCA notices to start arriving.
Yes it does. Positive and supportive of people doesn't require being positive and supportive of every idea.
It might be time to redefine "leftist" at this point. What is so "left" about being intolerant?

To me it seems more like class warfare, and sides are being chosen amongst the elites, the ultra poor, and those of us stuck in the middle.

You, unfortunately seem to them like an elite but behave like a traditional conservative, which gets you nothing but hatred from all angles. I'm sorry about this and hope you keep doing and preaching what you believe in.
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