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You can exchange labour for land or capital as well: go work for money, then buy a house..

Your second point is sort-of true. That's why when Britain freed the slaves they bought them free.
Although the data is supposedly anonymized and doesn't include URLs, this is basically as bad as it sounds. The extension is installed by default, with spying turned on by default.

Chrome enforces a one-time check when you next use it re: keep or discard the extension.
Here's an unpopular point of view. I believe we have telepathy already - but we repress it consciously or unconsciously for the simple reason that down that road lies madness. Let's say for example that people can telepath. How do you turn it on or off? Maybe you can't turn it off: that is the definition of insanity. You hear voices talking to you and they never shut up. Or, you have an argument with someone, but they are telepathic. When they leave the room, you still hear them shouting at you - the argument goes on and on even though physically you are no longer in the same place. Definition of insanity right there. Who would want that? No one really. Telepathic ability is repressed for good and logical reasons. Why would you want telepathy? So you can know what people are thinking without asking them? Wouldn't that be a huge invasion of privacy? Would you want people finding out your thoughts without your permission? Another nightmare scenario. If you think about it long enough - telepathy is a truly bad idea.
The mortgage interest deduction is in fact federal spending, as it is a subsidy.

The healthcare mandate is a tax. What many people object to here is that most taxes tax an activity (making money, buying things, owning things, etc.), such that one does not HAVE to do any of those things, but if one CHOOSES to, they become subject to the tax. Here on the other-hand they are being TAXED for NOT doing something.

Using your analogy, the healthcare mandate is the same as taxing people for not owning a home.
You can use either Unity or Unreal Engine - both are free to develop. They cut into your returns, though.

Some people are talking about app building. Unity and Unreal 4 are both game engines which means they run simulations. Since they use C# and C++ among other languages, and the target is desktop PC, you can run any software. They both also have other ways to write logic with triggers or blueprints, etc.
We can learn one important thing here - it is not possible to trust closed source software. Enough said, next issue please.
The Guardian slipped up again, expect more BS from their incompetent journalists.
There is the object of this discussion, systemd, that has always been about "starting things in parallel" to make it "boot faster" but there has never been a proper benchmark (the distrowatch guy said, when asked, that he didn't notice any difference; i didn't see a proper benchmark anywhere by anyone). The kdbus proponents that were active on lkml at the time of increased drama (including the devs) also never did a proper performance evaluation. It was Linus who had to actually run perf on dbus to (easily) show the real reason why it is slow... I also remember commenting en passant once or twice about bad and/or biased performance testing. So that is my "source", the relative lack of proper benchmarks on blogs when they talk about performance of a piece of software. At least this is how it seems to me, as i did not email a bunch of programmers to feel around (innuendo not intended, but funny so i'l leave it).

On the other hand some OSS projects (the various databases, for example) do have posts/writings on performance. There are even some really in depth ones.

I'm fine with things being bloated (or just plain cpu slow) as that careless coding lets people make some nice things (a big part of KDE, for example). But i am not fine with people who publicly claim that their code is fast(er) without doing proper benchmarking. Hell if it was hard i wouldn't say anything, but it is not (for C code at least).

Objectively most programs i use (and most people use, even without knowing) can afford to be slow and eat much more memory then they should. Because most programs just sit there doing nothing for the grand majority of their run time (FF and sublime.., why do you send those msgs that use up 1-4% cpu ? i just don't understand). (honestly i'm worried that they are lowering(raising?) the performance baseline. but that's just predictions of future, voodoo, spirit animals showing the flow of chi or something)

PS Sry for the dumb rant. I like the topic of performance.
I think what Steve King said makes sense to me - protections like 'blanket no denial for pre-existing conditions' could incentivize waiting to purchase insurance until a condition arises, which compromises the system.

The gap solution, though, is not a great idea. If someone falls under a certain level of economic or other hard times and incurs a gap for even a very brief duration, it is in my opinion a very harsh penalty to use that as an excuse to deny them coverage. This is especially true when many families pay a large amount for existing coverage.

The only tenable solution is to force everyone to have coverage. If that's the answer, I see no better implementation than single-payer.
HN comments from yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387551
Neither, I mangled my train of though a bit. Let me try again. (Wish HN had strikethrough.)

Dual intent is a great idea, and H1-B is really useful for companies who want to tempt highly skilled workers who aren't sure yet if they definitely want to immigrate. Some of my UK collegues stayed in the US, but about half came back after a few years. So that's a good reasons not to force companies to automatically apply for permanent residency, not everybody wants it (probably the majority though - hard to get numbers on this).

But then if you do want permanent residency, the process takes ages. I'm not sure there's a good solution to this. One option would be to increase the cost of the H1-B application, require companies to submit the I-140, and pre-process it. Then if the visa holder decides to apply for permanent residency it's already mostly done. I think requiring companies to guarantee a certain employment time also fixes this though, because that way they're invested and the visa holder has time and safety to figure out if permanent residency is what they want.
Agreed. In fact I found this post a little obnoxious. Not only is it an observation that is at least two years behind the times, it offers no new insight into everything that we've learned about VR in those last two years. Heck, we're already seeing the first round of VR startup closures (VRideo and Envelop VR among others), something we'll only see more of in 2017. It's exactly what was to be expected and not a sign of the death of VR. But nonetheless a culling will take place and there's a lot more we know now about what areas are and aren't viable in the current and near-future VR ecosystem. I would have far preferred a post from YC titled something like: "How To Think About VR Startups In 2017".
We have no idea what is the orbit so the distance doesn't matter there is no way to do a flyby unless we know for sure it's there and can map it's orbit nearly fully otherwise regardless of how fast we are going we'll never get to it :)
"The WhatsApp clients have been carefully designed so that they will not re-encrypt messages that have already been delivered. Once the sending client displays a "double check mark," it can no longer be asked to re-send that message. This prevents anyone who compromises the server from being able to selectively target previously delivered messages for re-encryption."
Are reverse engineering techniques currently greater than known ability to obfuscate compiled iOS code?
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?

I've been tangling with ghost and scorpion peppers lately and even for someone who likes hot food those things will wreck you. They're in the 1,000,000+ Scoville range and make Frank's Red Hot taste like salad dressing by comparison.

Does the heat matter, or is it just a property of the peppers themselves?
During my training, at one point, I helped in a BIND4-to-BIND9-migration. I learned more about DNS than I ever wanted to know (and then even more to avoid having to learn Rexx). (I have forgotten most of it since.)
I set up a DNS server for my LAN to see if I had understood what I had read.

Haven't looked back since. The main advantage, initially, was performance, but it has other advantages, too.

Although, now that you mention it, I kind of do use BIND9. It hasn't been that much work over the years, really. I am open to alternatives, but so far, I have not found a solution that would be easier to maintain and serve both as a recursive resolver and as an authoritative nameserver for my local zone. (I do admit that I did not look very hard, because the current situation with BIND works for me.)
It's possible that the actual effect is to limit discussion to those who don't care about their reputation.
It's true, I can't argue with you. There are people at the hospital (or their parent organization) that know actual dollar amounts and then argue them with insurance companies. Outside of that person it's pretty hard to get any numbers, let alone numbers you should feel confident about.

I am a software developer, I worked for a mid-sized community hospital. "It's a frigging mess" is a reasonable summary and also heart-breakingly accurate.

This is one area in which the ACA is making progress: providing an incentive to the hospital to know what a particular procedure actually costs. Your example, while disappointing and frustrating, was extremely rare in the 90's. High deductible insurance has given every customer a reason to shop for the hospital with the most reasonable rates. I can't say if that incentive is strong enough, but I believe it is progress.
Despite having two perfectly functional eyes, my brain only uses the right one due to a squint I had at birth which later improved but by then my brain had wired itself to ignore input from the left eye unless I close my right one (I get a quick shift to the left of everything in my FOV when I do this). As a result things like 3D cinema don't work for me (and I find using a telescope much easier than binoculars!).

If VR really takes off am I going to be unable to join in or will it work with one eye?
An aside point of curiosity: That is quite a dictionary at the end of the HTML...
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It's been talked about extensively, but there wasn't enough political will to push it through in 2010, and—as others have pointed out—it would take a comfortable Democratic supermajority in the Senate and House, and a Democratic President to make this happen.
Just because you don't understand the difference between a penalty and an incentive doesn't make your analogy suddenly correct.

There's an incentive for having a home mortgage under certain conditions only, and you do not owe anyone additional money if you have no outstanding mortgages on properties.

The same is not true for the ACA. You are fined for not owning something - e.g. if your net worth was $0, you could go into the negative for not having insurance.

If you don't own a mortgage, you cannot be fined into the negative.
> that's cool, how does that work?" not "I want to cure cancer"

With regards to your final note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_and_bottom-up_design
I don't agree that there is anything game-breaking in the current state of the tech. Also, I don't see why they won't get better rather quickly.

And VR sickness is not really a thing for the vast majority of people. It gets hyped up by the press a lot. I've put hundreds of people through intense VR experiences over thirty or forty minutes long. In that time, ONE person had issues. I've seen higher proportions of people get nauseous from regular, first-person shooter PC games.
who's doing that research?
You can't tell someone they're doing it wrong if what they're doing works for them. At the very least, if you aim to convince someone of a better way, you can't lead with that statement.
You might be able to disguise it as debugging/development code that was mistakenly left in there. And instead of a hardcoded list of targets it could pull down the values in a more creative way. But at the end of the day that probably wouldn't stop a talented reverse engineer from figuring out what was going on.
You have to physically compare the numbers on the two phones (in real life), or send the numbers through a different trusted channel (PGP, USPS, Carrier Pigeon, etc).
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Sorry, I don't understand?

Making a clear distinction between capital (which we can produce more of) and land (which is fixed in supply for as long as we stay on earth) is just good economics. See also Henry George's Progress and Poverty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty), the book that essentially kicked off the Progressive Era in 19th century America.
Wasn't there recently a link between actual heat (saunas &c) and decreased mortality? I wonder whether there's any connection.
Regardless of the merit of this specific accusational-and-denial cycle, the fact remains that Whatsapp is closed source crypto and there is no way in principle for the user to verify any security claims.

I happen to trust Moxie's principles, but not as much as I distrust the relationship-with-government imperatives implied by FB's vast business interests.
WhatsApp has a gazillion+ users, most of whom don't care about e2e security and definitely don't care enough to verify keys before they are allowed to chat with their friends again. The friction caused by a security popup that 90% of users simply ignore is real. It annoys users and causes fatigue that jeopardizes future security notifications.
If we're talking about key change notifications, isn't SSH the thing that throws the following error when a key changes?

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
51:82:00:1c:7e:6f:ac:ac:de:f1:53:08:1c:7d:55:68.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/user/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending RSA key in /Users/user/.ssh/known_hosts:12
RSA host key for 8.8.8.8 has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
While witty, your comparison to the Ballmer quote has nothing to do with what I said. I didn't say "VR won't do well because people are cheap," I didn't say "VR won't do well because many similar, lower-tech products meet its needs fine." Further, the iPhone was immediately well-received and a huge success for Apple. VR products are not taking off, and will not do so. I'm not commenting on a press release or a tech demo. These things are carried by major electronics stores today.

If the headsets cost $50, they'd still be a novelty. Case in point: Many cell phone users have the ability to use some of this technology today with a low-cost addon. I'm no hermit and apart from some reddit posts, I have yet to see a single person using any VR device.

I repeat, most people don't want VR, and even most who do find it underwhelming at best, nauseating at worst. The comments here are evidence of that.

AR is another matter. AR has a bright future.
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You left out one huge area: weight/comfort, which includes being untethered because having a wire sticking out the back affects comfort by pulling on your head. VR won't take off without this area being tackled as well even if all of the areas you mention are addressed.
> drop your coverage if you got sick and became too expensive to insure (recission)

Yeah, the significance of rescission and the ACA's prohibition is often overlooked. Prior to the ACA, if you got sick enough and expensive enough, insurance companies could -- while you had outstanding claims, and this happened while people were in the hospital -- retroactively cancel your insurance, refund your premiums, and walk away leaving you fully liable not only for any future healthcare, but for anything they hadn't paid for yet from the time when you had coverage. Now, this could generally only be done based on an omission or inaccuracy in initial disclosures, usually related to a preexisting condition, but there was no requirement (federally, some states had controls) that the be intentional or significant, and insurance companies would hunt out errors once care got expensive.

The ACA elimination of exclusion for preexisting conditions itself elominated most of the basis for rescission and the onerous disclosure requirements that it was based on errors in, but the ACA also explicitly prohibited it except for fraud or intentional misrepresentation of material facts.
There's one on steam. It's really good but I can only do it for five minutes because motion sickness.

I'll look it up if you can't find it.
Couldn't the server change keys after every message? The delay would be fairly small. Hold the original, change key, retransmit, change key back? Guess that is easily enough mitigated if the client won't allow switching back to the same key.
I don't know what happened here, but ...

Let's avoid our own bias of automatically believing the engineers are in the right; they are fallible people, no more or less honest or prone to error than journalists.

Every news story that breaks, involving any person or industry, gets the same response: It's false, they didn't ask us, etc. etc. Therefore, that response is not an indication that something is wrong (or right); the response tells us nothing in itself.
Yeah. It's been like this since the beginning of free press. This isn't new.
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It isn't possible, in most cases, to trust open source software either. Have you verified that the binaries on your phone were indeed built from the source you can read on github or wherever?
Having been a programmer and a lawyer, I can't think of anything about the respective jobs that is a good explanation for why my programming jobs were 10% women while my legal jobs have been 50% women. Even if we indulge stereotypes about men versus women, programming is if anything more social, collaborative, and cooperative while law is confrontational and adversarial.

So what's left are bad reasons. Women who are logical/mathematical go into medicine or law instead of programming because frankly it sucks to be the only woman in a room full of men. It gets tiring.

And even if you get into the realm of "things you can't say." The ratio of women to men in the SAT Math in the upper ranges where you'd expect most programmers to score is like 40/60. I think everyone would be ecstatic if 40% of programmers were women.
Even better, step away from the desk, go outside, skip the cigarette, and take a walk.
It's up to you to confirm what's going on using another channel (say call them on phone and see what's going on, compare the numbers). It's the same thing ssh does when server keys change for instance. To me it's a reasonable way to handle such situation.
It looks like they are technically anycasting, but doing it totally wrong.

From multiple test locations I am seeing lots of network tromboning. Queries from the US going to Europe and vice versa.
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you mean like the current ACA which allows people to buy coverage after being diagnosed (since they have to accept pre-existing conditions?)
No there's nothing stopping WhatsApp from lying to you, although if they are then the double checkmark seems like the least of your worries.

As far as I can tell this 'backdoor' is only relevant for the scenario where WhatsApp is not actively malicious, but gets taken over by a malicious entity, which wants to target someone who's disabled updates.
Change once to server keys, ask for the entire history retransmission.

No. the WhatsApp client will not retransmit messages that have already been acknowledged by the recipient device.

Of course, you'll have to trust that this is the case; but obviously you'd have to trust the the WhatsApp client app isn't backdoored in the first place, so there is no change in security posture.
They've sold 63.3 million 3DS units (counting the 2DS) and 14.7 million copies of Pokemon X & Y, the bestselling Pokemon game on the platform. So while it's undoubtedly a very popular game I don't think you can rank it above cost as the reason so many people were buying handhelds to use at home.
Somebody, there's always somebody else.

Right?
I'm rather obsessed with CRISPR these days. I'm considering leaving traditional tech and self-funding a new CRISPR company. The accessibility - in most every regard - of CRISPR has entirely changed the game in gene editing. It's only going to accelerate and there is so much land to discover, pick a direction and go. Cas9, Cpf1, CasX, CasY, it's all so exciting compared to most of the things I see in tech these days (except for AI and VR).
In the long term I can see it being a huge social tool (to the
point where people might regularly meet their significant other
in a virtual environment, if the rendering is accurate enough).

I think I understand the thought process behind this, and I've heard this before, but this idea literally makes no sense to me.

The sense of logic that wearing goggles will let you see people and be seen is, outside of cultural context (sci-fi movies, books, and TV), a non-sequitur. It's like expecting current consumer Hoverboards to replace bridges. (They can't fly.)

If you start to expound on how you think people can meet in virtual reality, then it might be more useful.

If you know anything about visual effects, then you know that with motion capture it's possible to animate digital characters. Do people want to put on black clothes with white dots in order to look like themselves?

Along that line, if you take together existing technologies like VR, mo-cap, custom avatars, kinect, Second Life, and OKCupid - and combine them, then you're going to find the bottom of the uncanny valley.
If you'd said "most" I wouldn't have responded, but since you said, 'all': My out of pocket expenses are drastically up; the smallest deductible I can get now is $3,000 (after that, it's covered at 80%). I'd have to see the doctor > 120 times a year for my overall healthcare costs to be anywhere close to what they used to be, and that's exclusive of premiums (~6x what they used to be) and drugs (haven't checked lately, but last time I looked, they were around that same multiple).
Has it happened before in a similar case?
Nice write-up - it makes me wish I lived in SF (or USA for that matter) so I could apply for a job there.
So don't use Chrome?

Maybe Vivladi as an alternative to the main stream browsers:

https://vivaldi.com/?lang=en_US
Same here. I'm much more excited about AR devices like the Hololens and Google Glass than VR devices like the Rift or Vive, because AR has much farther reaching applications than just gaming.

In our current tech landscape, we mostly interact with the digital world through screens.
AR has the potential to turn any real world object into a human-computer interface. I definitely think AR technology is going to be nothing short of revolutionary once it matures, possibly even more so than the advent of the modern smartphone.