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I recently quit my six figure salary job at a startup here in Minnesota to start my own startup. Just before I quit I was looking at around $650/month premiums for my family of four as the absolute cheapest plan with the highest deductible. Right after I quit, the two largest health insurance providers in MN pulled out of our MNSure health insurance exchange, causing premiums to spike up across the board. Now I am faced with a $1200/month premium which is more than I'd pay for my former employer's health plan through COBRA. Having to cover such a high premium expense is significantly impacting my ability to start my company.

So perhaps Sam is happy about all the ways in which the ACA has helped much younger entrepreneurs get off the ground with their companies, but a significant portion of the population is being impacted in a very negative way. Maybe he believes that only young people should be starting startups in the first place, but we know that's an absurd proposition. Even if I was under 26 I wouldn't have been able to rely on my parents for health insurance because they were unemployed. The only way I can make this all work is to claim a low enough income to qualify for medical assistance which is going to be hard to work out because of my monthly expenses.

What I really wish I could do is pay for a very low premium "catastrophe" plan with an absurdly high deductible like $50k, because my family is very healthy and I have enough in retirement savings (IRA, HSA, 401K, etc) to cover it should something severe happen. In other words, I wish I could just buy health insurance that was like my car insurance. But I'm being forced to pay for a plan with far more bells and whistles than my family will ever use or frankly even wants to use.
I would just replace the Raspberry Pi with a modern wifi router connected to your ISP provided router and run that one in access point mode.
I have a hard time interpreting this comment. Reading only the factual statements, I come away thinking, "What a great system, for a couple hundred extra dollars a month a ton of people were helped." Yet the language around those statements seems to be intended to paint all of this as a really bad thing.

I don't see how Republicans could not throw out the good parts. When you boil it down, the good parts of the ACA are the requirement to cover pre-existing conditions, and the individual mandate. The former is what's needed to ensure people aren't completely fucked over at the slightest opportunity, and the latter is needed to avoid destroying the insurance industry in the presence of the former. Republicans appear to be fundamentally opposed to both of those. Without them, what's left?
LOL. They had to drop the public option just to get the Democrats to in the Senate to vote for the bill. Single payer would not have gotten anywhere.

Never mind that it's the Congress that passes bills, not the President.
Mind sourcing that? I have also have not had this experience.
Not scaled movement, but there was research done in the 90s about having the computer subtly "distort" (I can't remember how it was really done) things being displayed to in effect make you walk in a curve to keep you away from walls (I think it was similar to how you can attempt to walk a straight line in a forest - and without a compass, actually find yourself walking in an orthogonal direction compared to where you started - simply due to ground level differences, motion cues, etc). I'm not sure how well it worked, but it was a workable system.

There's also the more expensive idea of an "infinite 2D treadmill" - which was first implemented by a guy named Rudy Darken; iirc, he did it for the "dismounted soldier" VR/AR training project for DARPA:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1246853
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.

Our failure to find a non-insurance 'hammer' with which to hit all of the health 'nails' is a larger issue.
I have a mini hub like that for the Surface Pro.

I definitely wouldn't leave it on when transporting my Surface for the reasons you describe.
Houses can and do crumble, which is part of the reason building regulations were introduced. And builders/plumbers/electricians certainly aren't immune to the temptation to charge for unnecessary work. But for the average person, medical care is substantially more difficult to evaluate (your doctor is smarter and more heavily qualified than the average builder, right?) and a person worried about their symptoms has substantially more incentive to procure additional medical care that just might work than a person unsatisfied with their house procure speculative building work. I'd run a mile from a builder that conceded that despite their best efforts their structure might fall down of its own accord, and be nearly as worried by a doctor who insisted a remedy was guaranteed to work.

Accreditation bodies may be able to determine whether a doctor is knowledgeable; whether they overprescribe placebos to an individual patient to increase their revenue is significantly more difficult and resource-intensive to evaluate. And homeopaths and faith healers have accreditation bodies too.
Eventually! It was added to the standard over the objection of the only people with a working implementation, though.
The cable is very long and it is "room-scale" (You can move around), meaning games involve actually moving around.

And soon there will be wireless adapters.
I've been reading "Ready Player One" over the past few weeks and it's description of a VR-filled future is blowing my mind. It's really a great look into the possibilities for VR in the next 30 years. Highly recommended!
We don't have to assume Obama knew about it back then. The spooks could have been keeping it in their pocket for December-intelligence-briefing leverage. In years past, they haven't had to worry about who was president, because they had a degree of control over each one. Now that it's clear that Trump DGAF, they're desperately circulating all the dirty laundry they have or can manufacture, but perhaps to no avail?
> But the question is can we keep those parts and not keep the insurance mandate?

The state of Washington tried that in the '90s. Passed an ACA-like system. Republicans repealed the mandate, kept the preexisting conditions. Result: within a few years every single insurance company stopped selling individual health insurance in Washington.

Seattle Times article from yesterday about this: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/dismantlin...

HN submission for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13393537
Can someone explain the benefits of a US-style healthcare system vs nationalised tax funded healthcare?

All I see from threads like this is a lot of Americans bickering over their own healthcare, and as an outsider I don't really know how how it works, and why everyone is so invested in how it works now.

What happens if you don't have insurance? To me any system where you make sick people pay more than rich people seems bonkers no? If most people's employers already pay it on their behalf, isn't it a business tax already?
Actually the health cost really ramp up when 20 or 30 somethings start having kids.
Facebook owns WhatsApp and has been increasingly hospitable to government intrusion on users' privacy. That seems like a good enough reason given that Facebook violated its pledge not to combine user data.
The ethernet port seems a bit close to the 2 USB Type-C ports. I wonder if the USB Type-C ports will still be able to support a flash drive (the thicker ones anyway) while being wired in.
Interesting. I got a PSVR over the holidays, and had everyone in my family try it out. Experiences were mixed, but trended strongly towards 'blown away' (the major exception was my mom, who was underwhelmed). I'm genuinely blown away by the immersion of the games is Virtual Worlds, and have played hours of Thumper in VR, which is my favorite game of 2016. I did find the more 'room scale' games to not work as well with the setup, though (I'm looking at you HoloBall) but that might just be that my play area isn't set up correctly for it.

My experience was the opposite of yours: I expected a lot, and was still happily surprised by the results. Head tracking is excellent, no motion sickness at all, and consistently high framerates made the experience extraordinary immersive for me. I love just spending time in Windlands and Robinson.

Like you, though, I look forward to higher resolutions and field of view, but I'm a very happy customer with the current setup. I guess we'll see how I feel in a few months!
You move your upper body a lot. You also move your legs more than you might think, to peek around things, dodge, or line up shots.
How do you deal with neck muscle strain from the weight of the device which also gets soaked in sweat? I think it's great that you've been able to exercise but for me those two points are still a big area of potential innovation.
I could not agree more. Taking two of the things you said, I would take it one step further. Not about just the direction, but about the structure/gameboard not only when it gets close, but mostly on the way there [0].

About ensuring most researchers and companies have the most incentive for a good outcome. (This ties back with guaranteed basic income, so that people can work on this unconstrained by salaries and papers citation metrics. Or stealing researchers from Google et al to AI safety, without overinflating salaries. Elon and company should be (seems they are?) dropping as much as needed on this (not just money, but PR and status as well).) Naturally, gym, universe, etc can provide more leverage to do all of this, otherwise researchers feel more compelled to join Google/Amazon/etc, just for the raw computing power and software infrastructure (the data advantage is largely overplayed for advertising purposes; what's useful is the GPU clusters for hyper parameter sweeps (of course, in RL the data reappears as an advantage if there is no open gym)). I realize some of the examples above are naive or incomplete, but they serve mostly as an example to illustrate the point.

In the blog you mention balancing managing people and technology, and I could not agree more. The AI safety problem will have the best odds if individuals are incentivized to contribute in their own short term selfish reward way. Specially among extremely intelligent and ambitious people, the danger of self denial is quite present, one can convince oneself that this is actually in everyone's best interest, when in fact one is looking for the always needed social and intellectual validation. Please do not underestimate this, and try to find ways to counter it.

Edit: This is also related to Conway's Law [0], as I think you make an allusion to (values of inventors).

[0] http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap6.html
Depending on how active the game is and how much you sweat it can be bad. I am certain that one of the first improvements in future devices will be better ventilation without leaking light.
Pre-existing conditions
Why? That's certainly not what happened with Google's browser.

Because they can outspend you in engineering resources to push forward, and working with someone elses stack is a burden, not a blessing, if the other side moves more quickly (and forces you to rebase).
"You weight until you have cancer to sign up? Well then you have to pay for the cancer treatment"

Unless you're rich, you either die from lack of treatment, or declare bankruptcy and let the rest of us pay for your treatment. Neither option is particularly good for any of us.
Additional workout suggestion: try Thrill Of The Fight ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/494150/ ). It's the most physically intense experience I've had in VR so far - I'd say even more intense than Holopoint, although the two are close. Obviously you will have to enjoy boxing for it to be much use or fun, mind!

You might also enjoy Climbey (http://store.steampowered.com/app/520010/ ) - it doesn't look particularly physical at first but it uses a decent amount of slow muscle movement. I was surprised at how sore I was the morning after a long play session with it.

(Oh, and given you love Dark Souls - you have heard of Left-Hand Path ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760 ), which keeps getting described by users as "Dark Souls VR", right? If not, I seriously need to work on my marketing. It's also at least somewhat physical, particularly if you decide to use the dodging mechanics a lot. Full disclosure: I'm the developer of that one.)
That's surprising. Network Solutions was caught doing something like this (http://domainnamewire.com/2008/01/08/network-solutions-faces...) but I've never seen any evidence that Go Daddy does anything like this. Blake Irving is a good man.
Split-second data mapping
Medical stuff is much more complex than building a house. You can pretty well predict how well a house will perform but every human is different. One therapy works for one person but not for the other. In addition your accrediting bodies would be highly susceptible to corruption as the ratings agencies have shown.

One thing that could be done is to open up all data hospitals and doctors have about their success rates and other quality numbers, also prices. Then a lot of people could crunch these numbers and make sense of them.
What's apples to oranges, exactly? (single vs. family) also (HSAs 'high deductible' vs. actual high deductible).

HSAs are from 2003 and it's overloading a reasonable definition with a new a silly one. You can see people in the mid 90's talking about high deductible and meaning something very different. ACA also capped out of pocket so you need to compare everything about a plan not just it's deductible.

PS: Find me a family plan with a 50k deductible under ACA. They used to exist.
If it's lonely I think you are just missing out on the right software. Oculus has a built in mic that works great and is enabled by default. The Unspoken, Rec room, Dead and Buried, Arizona Sunshine are all very fun experiences that have a strong sense of presence for the other players. The inverse kinematics combined with various bits hand detection functionality are a hoot.
I don't think it's true that "details can't be shared(because they don't exist)". It is a political imperative for Republicans to repeal the ACA now, and worry about replacing it after the positive PR. Without doing that, Democrats have no reason to come to the table to work on bipartisan reform (not that Republicans necessarily want this), and any replacement will be spun as a minor modification to Obamacare, which causes big political problems for the GOP both among its base and among swing voters. Details of a replacement aren't being shared right now because it would be tactically damaging to Republicans and Democrats don't want to attempt reform.
> "if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department"

This is troubling on many levels, but the one that concerns me the most is game theory.

We want people to pay taxes on criminal activity (because it's economic activity and uses services taxes pay for) without the tax authorities "narcing" on the source. IRS is doing the right think by not leaking Trump's tax info even if people within the IRS think the public have a legitimate right to know.

You are required to look after your kids yet you can drop off a baby you can't look after, no questions asked.

Hospitals have to treat patients no matter if they can pay or not, and no matter if they became ill due to criminal behavior because we don't want people with tuberculosis or Hep C wandering around (not to mention presumption of innocence).

Every time we add a "mandatory reporter" rule we actually endanger ourselves, so we should tread carefully.
This is really great - I have been doing some hiring recently and it would really help me if candidates asked more questions so that I can talk about their interests.
Sarcastic, smug and highly quotable, all in one. Wonderful.
He's saying that discussing a scientific theory requires more than just "my opinion is that it's all bunkum."
I have half my basement setup for hockey specific workout stuff, I call it 'Hockey Heaven', and repurposed part of the area for VR use too. You can see pictures of it on my old blog below (which I'm in the process of relaunching as a VR specific site in the next month or so).

https://existentialquandary.wordpress.com/hockey-heaven/

This is before I setup the VIVE so basically I hung the sensors around the 'blue line area' and put all my computer gear on the desk in the corner.
A Study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types (pdf,2011)
Yup, and medical providers (like the compounding pharmacy in the pain cream case) need some attention as well and that is missing in the ACA.
I'd bet more on AR.

Personally, as someone who has issues in crowds, I would shop so much if I could try things in AR.
Willing to negotiate on immigration? You're "pandering in the name of a solution" and your bill "effectively wipes out the Republican Party."
Thank you, I will follow your recommendation.
That's a great point that I haven't considered before. Back on the PS2 there was an "eyetoy" camera addon that allowed you to interact with certain games. "Eyetoy: kinetic" was a favorite of mine and my nieces/nephews: they could punch and kick and get rid of enemies or blocks or whatever on screen, instantly usable compared to the abstraction of a controller. It was easily the most engaging fitness I've done. It had its faults (proper spacing and lighting was critical), and now that you mention it I'd love to get into similar things in VR.
Doesn't the mophie have its own charging port?

I think it's weird because the external battery would need to know to only charge when the host Macbook Pro is charging, otherwise it's draining the Macbook Pro's battery to backup the battery it's draining.
The reason is relatively simple: approximately half of the electorate and half of our political system is caught in a feedback loop opposing public health care. Lots of voters are convinced that public health care is a disaster. One of our two major parties wins votes by accommodating that. Further, that party ensures votes in the future by pushing misinformation which helps convince more voters.

Until and unless we can get people to examine the facts, this will continue.
If you are experiencing inconsistent Internet Speeds, it sounds like you will want to look into getting support for your router and or network connection. You could also check with Apple to do testing to see if perhaps you have a defective Wifi card? Does your iPhone get consistent high speeds, if so then sounds like you may have a defective wifi card or something. If iPhone is also intermittent would assume its your router setup/internet connection. As there isn't any wide spread internet connectivity issues with this model. My home gets 250mbps with Comcast. Depending on my location on the house, how many, and which devices are currently active and their load, I typically get about 220-240mbps. Plugging in via ethernet does give me consistently 250mbps, but that is the case with any computer.

To note it did take a long time get my network setup to give the best speeds as there are so many factors that affect that beyond the computer.
Actually that's a fairly common refrain here on HN as well. I'm glad to have short-circuited that somewhat on this thread, to the marginally more plausible "all I need is to be very active in political campaigns and fundraising" alternate narrative.
There is not one single social contract that we all must subscribe to. It's much more nuanced than that, with lots of little obligations here and there. Some are more valid than others, and the individual should have a right to decide which to be a part of. Not paying taxes is a much different violation of a social contract than not paying for health insurance, especially considering the very legitimate argument that the ACA penalty is unconstitutional in itself.
I think it's much more complicated then that. Perhaps a different analogy is better:

There are the people who just are bad at organizing their life, and can't really get it together to purchase insurance.

Then there are the (cough) normal middle class people who can either write a check every month or have their employer write the check every month for them.

Then there are the people who prefer paying for things out of their pocket as they go.

The problem is that, as a civilized society, we need to make sure that the people who can't "get it together" are still insured, and the people who prefer paying out of their pocket as they go pay a fair price too.
I'm a casual gamer, enjoy gaming and like to buy a game and play it with my kids as a family activity. I bought an oculus rift when it came out, figuring it would be fun to try out. Everyone used it a few times and then it just sat there. Most of the enjoyment we get out of gaming is sitting around and interacting while playing, that really didn't work very well with the bulky headset on one person. I think maybe in a few years when the headsets are cheaper, smaller, and easier to manage then it will make sense, but I'm not sure that will be for a while.
Interesting! Are you able to share anything about how your algorithm works? I've been playing around with feature detection (using HoG descriptors) plus constrained local models to identify locations in an image and then manipulating the mesh to better match these locations and extracting a corresponding texture.
I wouldn't trust anything owned by Facebook. Period.
CodeWarrior is readily available from abandonware sites, and can be used inside 10.5/10.6 on VMware Fusion if you don't have any PPC hardware around. Older versions of Xcode (2.x) can then import CW projects, you can swap in open-powerplant, and do an Intel build. Let me know if you want any help/advice
I have played Left Hand Path a lot, very intense esp. the boss fight. I can't seem to complete the ruin sequence to get past the end of level one so I put that one on hold until it gets patched, I'm pretty sure I am doing the ruin sequence right... but yeah great Dark-Souls like experience in VR. Can't wait to see what From does in VR.

Climbly is good too but it's tough because you still have to move around with their locomotion technique and I find it quite vomit-y unfortunately the way it currently works.

Thrill of the Fight is on my list to check out this weekend... new release, looks great :)