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Quite possibly education and elder care too.

I'm not into gaming much (I find the magic of games pretty much gone for "moar" details, "moar" movement). But for health and also bootstrapping understanding your body, I'd contribute a lot to VR.
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I comment rarely, but had to chime in as the ACA was very important to me in terms of starting a company.

The ACA also allowed me to pursue founding a company. 6 months before the ACA kicked in, I left my job to start a robotics company. As I was only 29 years old, I did not think it would be a problem getting individual health insurance -- I had done it in the past when attempting my first venture.

What ended up happening was that every health insurance company rejected me for having the pre-existing condition of asthma! It made no sense as I was very healthy and my asthma under control as long as I took a control inhaler everyday. The cost of my medicine would be way less than the premiums I paid -- but some actuary somewhere decided I was too high risk!

For 6 months, I was scared of getting sick or injured -- to the point where I was considering giving up to get a job just for health insurance. That thought to me was just so ridiculous and heartbreaking that I couldn't do it --I just kept telling myself that I had to make it to Jan 1.

I was overjoyed the day I got my insurance card -- it was a huge sense of relief. What brought me even more joy was knowing all my fellow Americans whom also could not get or afford insurance could finally receive it.

Today I no longer need the ACA -- our company is doing great, we're well-capitalized, and provide excellent health insurance to all of our employees. Without the ACA, this dream would not have been possible. We were able to create wealth and jobs because of the ACA -- it makes no sense to repeal it.

Even before I needed the ACA -- I had enough empathy to know that every person has the right to health care and one of the biggest reasons I voted for President Obama. When it affected me personally, it obviously hit even harder. The GOP's lack of empathy as well as a real solution to the problem are just infuriating -- it is absolutely shameful and disgusting how they are attempting to repeal this law.
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My only real complaint about HERE is that it's search is inferior. Google maps always lets me just type in the name of the store or restaurant, while with HERE I find that far too often I have to use Google to find the actual address and then type that in.
Precision is easy for computer. You don't need AI or supercomputers to calculate good ranges or pot odds.

In multi-way poker the way you estimate range of another player has effect on how you estimate the range of other players and how you present yourself.
2015-2016 rate increase was muted due to insurers still trying to price the market.

Rates for 2017 increased significantly, from -3% to 116% depending on the state: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/11/01/Here-s-How-Much-Oba...

I think the ACA was responsible for temporarily suppressing rates. Now that the costs are better understood, we're back to around where we would have been without it.
A very ugly 7U server: https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B...

The point was less about the form factor and more about the number of PCIe lanes that can conceivably be available and the associated memory/bus bandwidth that is possible.
Strange, I remember people using the phrase in sentences where one would otherwise say "polite", like "that's not the polite term" or "that's not the politically correct term". For example, "Oriental is not the politically correct term, say Asian."
I have a family of six, 2 adults and 4 kids. I pay $1400 per month for a plan with a deductible high enough that I will pay for all of my expenses.
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If you're poor enough to not afford healthcare how can you be rich enough to hop state boundaries?
First, just because an adversary understands how a given steganography app works, or knows that it exists doesn't mean that they can detect the specific communication that's occurring, or will move to block that communication.

The canonical image hiding stego applications are a case in point, where the applications are widely distributed and understood, but in principle (if not in practice due to steganalysis[1]) one could know of their existence and how they work but still be unable to detect that covert communication through them was going on, nor be able to block that communication short of blocking all image posting.

Second, they need not be on any app store.

Third, any leaks about their existence, if they come at all, may come too late. As Napoleon said, it's not necessary to censor the news -- it's sufficient to delay it until it no longer matters.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganalysis
Presumably to create mood and context for his story. He's telling a story not publishing a research paper, a little creative license is appropriate.
But then you have to cache the input strings, I don't see how the hash could work any other way independently of the input lengths. And thats rather called an index list compared to the common use of the word, which the GPs might have thought of differently, too..
Perhaps I am being overly simplistic, and I do support ACA reform, but I don't believe there is a silver bullet to reforming ACA. If there was Republicans would already have come up with it and would have been publicizing it for the last 8 years.

The fact remains - covering pre-existing conditions, kids till 26, and low income households is expensive. You can pay it by increasing the insured pool - which is what ACA tries to do via the individual mandate, or by introducing a single payer system whose buying power would be so big that they will substantial leverage over healthcare provider. As a society we have decided that a single payer system is socialist, so it cannot be adopted here (and it has its own problems - wait times, lack of R&D incentive etc.). So now we have to choose between not providing healthcare to 40-50 million people or pay increased premiums to cover for those.

Some reforms that may somewhat bring down the premiums:
- Offer subsidies to even middle income people, not just poor. May be set the income limit by geography
- Make the individual mandate more expensive to incentivize healthier people join the pool
- Offer a public option
Actually rather slow, at least in the San Francisco area over Comcast.

https://gist.github.com/xxdesmus/336af4b717fdb719f20e9ef284c...
The reason the bare bones plans were banned were because many of them had rules that really screwed consumers. No one wants to think they'll be the one that gets cancer, but people do, and when you have plans that practice rescission, or lifetime maxes (after which they don't pay for anything), or annual maxes, then you've got the case where all of a sudden you are going bankrupt and losing your house due to treatment costs.

The main political/democratic value codified into the law is that no one should have to go bankrupt from treatment costs. That means outlawing those practices, which meant a lot of plans no longer qualified. That was the moral argument part that Republicans generally disagreed with. We're all paying a little more so that a family we don't know doesn't go bankrupt from a family member getting cancer. (And we're all also paying a little less due to other parts of the ACA.)
I've tried the Vibe and the Microsoft Hololens. The Vibe feels like a minor improvement over Jaron Lainer's original unit from the 1980s, which I tried back then. It's still too big and heavy. The update rate and position tracking are at last acceptable. It's going to be popular with the FPS gamer crowd, but beyond that, it doesn't seem worth the trouble.

The Hololens packs an incredible amount of hardware into a small package. That's a very good piece of mechanical and electrical engineering. While it can't really "draw dark", it does a decent job of trying, displaying against a filtered background of the real world. It's also cordless, which the VR guys really should have had by now. Its display field of view is too small; it can't maintain the illusion of markers on the world. A wider field of view and it will be useful.
> Insurance only works when the costs of the most expensive customers are shared among the cheapest customers.

That is not insurance. That is a wealth redistribution. Those are not the same thing, although the current discourse around health insurance conflates those two concepts, for obvious political reasons.

> Could you imagine a system in which car insurance wasn't mandated but car insurance companies were required to repair your car regardless of its preexisting condition? No smart person would preemptively buy insurance. You just wait until your get into an accident and then bring the already damaged car to the insurance company and demand a policy to repair it. No insurance company can work like that.

Actually, this would be completely feasible to implement. The insurance company would price you based on your risk. In this case, P(risky event | all available information) = 1), so there wouldn't be much of a point to buying the insurance, but it absolutely would work.

The problem is that the ACA also forbids insurers from underwriting plans based on anything other than age, income, zip code, and whether or not they smoke. That's guaranteed to increase the cost both for healthy and for unhealthy patients, because they have to make overly conservative estimates when evaluating the risk level of their patient pool.
I said that was when I would go back to VR. Of course I know we don't have the consumer hardware to run it today. But we will in 10 years.
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Exactly this. I have no doubt that Trump and the Republican controlled legislature (and soon judiciary) will bring significant changes to how our country operates. I have very strong doubts that these changes will be net beneficial to the lower and middle classes in this country.
Well, you're still an employee right?

You're not the guy actually footing the majority of the bill, so it doesn't really matter as much to you, right?

BUT, if you own a small tire shop and some guy just tripled your healthcare costs, well....he might have a different opinion.
Another explanation here: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/372/key-compromise-imper...
What I mean is mistakes are more mostly HU.
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I've pre-announced Cachoid ( https://www.cachoid.com ) here as a Show HN. I'm still working to understand the impact (or lack thereof) and how I need to proceed further. Would love to hear how you're handling your launch.
So what gets me is that people seem to think healthcare should cost less than $1000/person/year and I just can't see how that's reasonable. If anything remotely serious happens it will cost hundreds of thousands if not millions, and I just can't see how it's possible to cover that kind of situation when we know from our own lives that things like Diabetes, Cancer, Stroke, Heart Attack, and even Car Accidents and such are common enough.

I had childhood cancer and at the time it'd have costs millions without insurance.

While the healthcare market is hopeless opaque and corrupt and no doubt that does drive costs somewhat (or a lot), and probably there are things to do about it, but I think fundamentally the success of complex and expensive treatments is also driving costs - things that you'd have gotten painkillers and left to die even in '50s and '60s now can be cured/improved/fixed, it's just ridiculously expensive compared to popping some pills and expiring. Or look at prosthetics. There was a time you might have made do with crutches or a peg leg and now there are specially designed, fitted, and crafted prosthetics for various activities... that don't come cheap. Not to mention improvements to the standard of care or the sheer man-power requirements of health-care. A normal doctor's visit requires interaction with 3+ employees, across ~45 minutes, all of whom are presumably being payed more than $10 an hour, and possibly a lot more. It may actually be reasonable that budgeting $5k/person/year for healthcare is sane in terms of both risk and what you get, but just far more than people are used to thinking about or seems intuitively reasonable.
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People already spend significant amounts of time on game console screens and there hasn't been an explosion of non-game apps on those.
> I'm not sure it would really matter which establishment candidate was in office

Obama was the change candidate that didn't have a long history in congress. He gets labeled "establishment" by Bern victims out of propaganda. It's kind of funny how there's an anti-establishment candidate every 4 years that has a long history of being part of the establishment. At some point people have to start realizing that "anti-establishment candidate" means underdog who wants his small donations to add up.
> I agree that opening up across state lines is a very good thing.

When this was done with credit card companies, they all moved to the state with the least regulation and started instituting consumer-hostile stuff like mandatory arbitration.

I'd really rather not have this happen with my health insurance.
That's not what it meant back in the 90s. Certainly not like "war is peace". The phrase was most often used to explain what a person wanted to be described as, like, "Please call me handicapped, not retarded."
It's really a shame there's so little innovation going on for these sorts of devices. There's nothing inherent about a nuclear device that will make in unreliable.
Hey

You replied to me about a month ago concerned about my health when I was dealing with issues with my wife: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039203

I couldn't reply to that as it is too old, but wanted to tell you that we talked and we ended up parting ways. While things are still in a turmoil, it seems like some kind of window opened and hope is out there again.

Just wanted to thank you for the concern showed then.

Happy new year!!
I had a philosophy professor once who was very upset after she'd graded our papers on Plato's Republic.

She gripped the lectern and looked at the floor for a few seconds sadly.

She looked up.

"What happened here, guys? You're all so smart. This was a real let-down. No, the Republic is not a sacred text. No, we're not here to worship it. But there's also such a thing as employing the critical spirit in the wrong way. We're here to understand this book, to engage with its ideas seriously, not to tear it apart without thought to feel superior."

"Again, this is not an object of worship. But this book has been preserved for 2500 years by human beings, most of whom had to copy each page by hand. A long chain of brilliant people from across generations worked to put this paperback in your hand. They did this in part because they thought it was worth the effort of preserving it for you. If, after a minute or two of thought, we find a glaring flaw that makes Plato looks like a blithering idiot, it would be wise to examine our critique in a spirit of humility. Without humility and charity, it's impossible to learn anything."

"After we've understood, then we can critique."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

This idea is equally valuable outside the context of interpreting philosophical texts.

Everything she said is unfashionable, not only in academia but in public life. Political entertainers earn their keep by deliberately distorting their opponents' arguments with easy mockery. A lot of social media reward mindless criticism.

But the most productive, insightful online communities have some element of exclusion and some punishments (karma, banning, etc.) for repeated violations of the principle of charity.
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Seems that they either somehow don't have contact info (but then - how contact discovery's working?) or they had failed to comply with court order.
Or I'm really not getting something, which is also well possible (and quite probable) explanation.

Upd: Hmm... or maybe the user had no contacts.
Do you thinks he's wrong?
Some of the electricity at McMurdo is generated by wind turbines. Nearby active Mt. Erebus could potentially be a source of geothermal power, but I don't know if it would be legal to do that under the Antarctic Treaty.
I'm interested to hear why you believe that guns are not a useful and necessary defense against tyranny.
Keyczar is no longer being maintained and should probably be deprecated.

Either that or someone can take the reins and update it to use modern algorithms.
And for-profit insurance profit--what's the word--Greed, has nothing to do with the huge deductibles, and ever increasing premiums?

Anyone who followed this Act knew what power this bill would give to insurance companies. We just hoped they woudn't abuse the gift.

They abused it, and blamed the Act, and their customers.

(Obama wanted private/public health care system. The Rebublicans, and their boys(the Insurance Lobbiests) did everything to scare, block maybe a bill that would have brought in competition, and provided sensible health care to all. I remember it because it has been my pet peeve for years. I followed that fight since Hillary was fighting for Heath care. I remember looking at Ronmey's state's Heath plan, and thinking the premiums are too high? Way too high. "It looks like the Insurance companies are in direct communication?" I told my uninsured girlfriend 8 years ago. But--in--no--way would we get anything if Obama didn't cave into Rebublican strong arming.

Between April 1, 2009, and today 8/16/2016, Aetna's share price has increased 525%. (Probally due to the free money corporations/funds have to invest, but come on?)
Your second paragraph is not even close to true - if you do more research on the ACA you'll find that it does all kinds of things to try and improve the affordability of care, a lot of which has made real improvements. Incentives against fee-for-service, quality-of-care rules, medicare/medicaid rules, there's just a ton of that stuff in the ACA. The stuff in your last paragraph is directly addressed by many parts of the ACA. And, more can definitely be done, including price transparency etc. These things tend to be supported by Democrats and opposed by Republicans.
Space works by giving you a set of new app icons to use instead of the normal ones. The process of creating new app icons from a webpage is very streamlined in Safari. As it turns out, most iPhone users who aren't the HN crowd use Safari as their default browser. We're working on Android native, Chrome support, and chrome extensions!
I'm using factory config on well supported Intel GPUs. I can see the difference pretty clearly. Especially when dragging a full-screen window playing youtube or whatever.

This works fine with Wayland. With X11 I get tearing. I'm pretty sure this is what everyone else is complaining about too.
By 'cannot' do you mean _can't afford to_ or _are not allowed to_? Because companies can file a green card application (I-140) for someone under the 'Employment Based' category.
Are you saying he is incorrect because the ACA is being repealed and delayed ? The Senate already voted on the budget bill and House is supposed to vote for full repeal. They may delay the repeal, but how is incorrect that they are voting for repeal ?
> Taking it a step further, I would argue that it ceases to be an 'insurance' product if allowed to purchase after the insured event has passed.

You can offer insurance against an event that has already occurred, but the insured price will always be slightly higher than the uninsured price. One could call that insurance, but it'd be a degenerate case, so at that point it's more of a word puzzle than a real question.

> Our failure to find a non-insurance 'hammer' with which to hit all of the health 'nails' is a larger issue.

Exactly - the problem is that people talk about health insurance like it's supposed to solve the problems that a wealth redistribution program would. Except, insurance is not a wealth redistribution mechanism - it has a completely different goal - and trying to turn it into one just results into the worst of all worlds (expensive and ineffective at achieving either goal).
This matches the experience that I've had personally with VR. Maybe if a future phone-based mobile headset with quality hardware (i.e. decent controls a la Daydream or Leap Motion and inside-out tracking) comes to exist, then the commitment level will decrease dramatically and recurring use will increase.
Sure, there's points where you grind experience, but it's towards the goal of finishing the game. Grinding experience and leveling up aren't the game itself.
We need something like the ACA. Shit, we need more than that, but the very imperfect ACA is a good start.

I look at it this way: Right now, I'm with a large company - I have a wife who left corporate life to raise our daughter. It's all riding on me. And on that, I have some ideas, one has become a small side gig, but if they grow enough to become my focus, that essentially opens the basic question of how I'd provide health insurance to my family.

Thankfully, I have a backup plan to some degree, as I happen to be a citizen of a European country as well as the US, but it's an imperfect backup plan as my "other" nationality is a place with notoriously difficult small business bureaucracy, and while I could live in another EU country, I'd need to establish the ability to support myself before anyone's going to let me stay.

Ideally, we'd stay in the US, because let's face it, this is a pretty great country to found a company, warts and all. But we have to not be having to worry about something as basic as healthcare if we're to take the kinds of risks that lead to innovation.
Starting a startup is fucking hard (and the story of Founderkit)
If we're lucky and the news media gets completely destroyed by the Internet (which process has certainly begun) whatever replaces it probably won't be as unified in reinforcing the two-party hegemony. I think that's the biggest factor in people not even considering a vote for even the milquetoast alternatives that we got this last time around. Every time the "other" candidates get a mention, it's to poke fun of them for some geographical error. ("She flew to the wrong city!" "He couldn't find Aleppo on a map; doesn't he know we'll have to bomb that city soon?")
That's because single payer IS socialism. The problem is that not all socialism is bad :) .

We have single-payer here in my country, and anecdotal evidence is that it works incredibly better than healthcare in the U.S. for 99% of cases (the U.S. is far better at treating complicated health problems, but at staggering costs).
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Digital Detox [1] is an interesting idea. I think that we, as a species, still don't have a great handle on how to use technology without being consumed by it.

[1] http://digitaldetox.org/about/
I don't get why you, or the other person who replied, concluded that I thought 8k per eye was feasable now. I only said that was when I was going back to try VR. I'm positive we have at least that resolution in 10 years. I am also perfectly aware of all the challenges involved in outputting such a resolution and manufacturing such a display.

As for the history lesson, I played the SU2000.
I'd love to read/hear more about your experiences, as a fellow gamedev and looking at VR but not ready to take that plunge yet (couple projects first).