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> its going to get quite interesting on both the phones and game consoles

A key insight. Many companies sell products that in turn have marketplaces which they wring some control over.

Game consoles is indeed an interesting one, because it parallels so perfectly. If Apple must allow competitor markets within iOS, so must Sony and Microsoft. (Note that physical game sales also require paying a commission to the console maker, so it's a different market but the same business model.)

Or cable TV. Does Comcast have a monopoly on selling additional cable channels and pay-per-view through my Comcast set top box? How is that any different?
I built something very very similar at Whispe.rs except it took me a bit longer than 2 hours :P

I built it first using Twilio but didn't think the ad revenue would pay for the messages so I switched it to using SMS-email gateways.

Great job! What did you use for the captcha?
I'm sorry, did you just complain about making 30% ROI on $200k over two years? Oh no, your tax burden.
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I'm seventy. It has happened to me three or four times. My own experience and the experience of those I know has been: I always find a substantially better job. It was good for me. I know it HURTS. Boy do I know it hurts! But it will be good for you.

Buck up!
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It compounds, though. You can't tackle your debt if your other cash outflows are too high. iPhone, Starbucks, sodas, cable TV (versus Hulu + Netflix + Amazon, which many have in addition to cable TV), that's 2-4k/year. If your debt is $100k or less, that's 2-4% of the principle that you can pay off as extra in one year of living more modestly, which means you can get your home and other things much earlier.
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I don't get these articles. As a person who uses Linux personally and MacOS at work I haven't seen a huge change or innovation in years in either OS and honestly I'm not unhappy about it. I don't get what people want out of OS's these days. They are suppose to be platforms to write applications on right? Why do we treat them like they should come bundled with a bunch of bells and whistles. We used to call these bell and whistles bloatware till apple started making them. I think both OS's are great in their own right for what it's worth. I'm just more on the side of give me a base and I'll decide what I want. So these new releases mean very little to me.
If they are teaching Ruby and Javascript, then that must be a web development specific bootcamp. Javascript is a must for web, Ruby is a solid backend choice with very high readability.
It's unrealized earnings. They don't have $200k to spend on taxes, and if they sell the home they still need to buy (or rent) in an area that's very expensive to live. That extra tax burden is not something most people plan on (smart or not, sometimes these booms are more unexpected than others).
ACA has got to be the largest tax increase ever foisted on the middle class.

We already have a progressive tax, but let's add an individual mandate, tax credits that phase out at 400% FPL, and cost sharing subsidies which phase out after 250% of FPL.

The maximum value of the tax credits for your family would be nearly the full cost of the premiums at 133% FPL, let's say $12,000. Then on top of that the cost sharing reductions would reduce your out-of-pocket maximum -- which if you're truly unlucky could run your family another $14,300 -- to a maximum of $4,500, so that's worth potentially another $10k.

What this means is ACA is a $12,000 - $22,000 tax on your family depending on your health care utilization, as income rises from 133% - 400% FPL.

For a family of 4 the 133% FPL = $32,250 and 400% = $97,000. So as you make that extra $64,750, in addition to all the other taxes you are paying, you are also phasing in $12,000 - $22,000 of increased payments for the same exact health care. Now that is one hell of a tax.

So while you and your spouse are working your asses off to earn $150k, you can look back and appreciate how $10k went to the town, $10k to the state, $30k to the Fed and ~$15k to the SSA. So it's really just the cherry you're being charged an extra $15k for insurance, come on, you can afford it!

I won't mention all the other subsidies you lose out on for being a productive member of society. Because when you realize the real tax rate approaches 100% on the first $97,000 it's a bit of a buzz kill.
Thats even worse. Derek Lowe is playing the classic no one ever went broke being skeptic move. These blogs are written to assuage egos of underpaid academics, who can't stand wealth creation nor understand risk taking. In fact if he really belives it then he must put money behind his words. And then donate earnings to whatever cause he believes in. Untill then its just sour grapes.
The trick is legally immigrating there in the first place.
> But there are nuances here that are important, and fleshing them out is a big part of what this community is about.

The entire point of the crypto community is to maintain as little trust as possible unless you can be highly certain about things.

The media reaction to "OMG WHATSAPP IS FOR SURE NOT SAFE" is a HUGE over reaction. But in an industry where audits and open source are huge factors in trust... WhatsApp doesn't do a whole lot. Phrased better, the article could have done a great job of explaining how to secure yourself and enable the messages, rather than just fear mongering.

Lets be honest. Facebook doesn't have a great privacy record. Theyre an advertising and data harvesting company. I basically trust them 0. But I trust Moxie a lot (its possible that he's been bought out by facebook/egyptian government for billions of dollars, but Im just gonna keep trusting him).

Honestly, Moxie saying that WhatsApp has a decent implementation of Signal does a lot more for my concerns than Facebook saying the exact same thing (though I too would love to know more about how much Moxie knows about whatsapp). I don't use whatsapp, but Im less prone to go "oh yeah, you def dont want to use that, its a facebook product!" like i would for skype/MS.

Its reassuring to know that if someone tried this, I could be notified of it, which means it seems like no one would really try this unless it was SUPER worth it (I dont think facebook is going to try to MITM and expose themselves so they can hear about my weekend drinking plans). So for common folk, I think it would be pretty safe. And if you are talking about things that require crazy opsec, definitely turn notifications on and verify those numbers.
I'd like to know what your response it to the claims of ageism. The median age of American workers is 42, what percentage of your employees are over that age?
I don't understand. How is it misguided, and who is it a hazard to? Are you saying the unstated goals of state surveillance are good ones which conflict with popular use of crypto, and therefore popular use of crypto is bad?
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What a remarkable insight.

The thing is, the law doesn't concern itself with iOS app sales, but rather the overall market of app sales. Is the overall market of app sales healthy? Yes, it most certainly is.

The reality is Apple doesn't control the marketplace of mobile apps. They don't even have a majority of it. People are free to choose whatever handset they like. And they do.
Here's my complaint with the ACA, and it has nothing to do with insurance premiums.

My job ended in January '16. I got a large severance and left the US for 7 months. I sold some stock in July, but other than that, my income was $0 each month. Looking forward, my income was likely to be just as erratic, with most months being $0. After spending way too much time talking with the folks at CoveredCA trying to figure out just how to fill out the forms for such an uncertain income level, I finally got all the information on my application and got denied. I couldn't even buy an unsubsidized plan. The exchange failed hard for my scenario and I ended up having to buy insurance directly from the health insurance company I was with when I was employed. It was quick and easy and cheaper than it would have been on the exchanges. And now, to add insult to injury, I'm probably going to have to pay a penalty for not having US health insurance for all those months that I wasn't living in the US, since I'm pretty sure I didn't pass the threshold for being a non-resident.

As a programmer, I'm all to familiar with code that handles the 90% case and just assumes those other edge cases don't exist. It's lazy and error prone and a sign of an amateur programmer. The ACA feels like the legislative equivalent of that sort of code. In their hurry to create a system where the majority of those without health coverage could get it, they created a system that's truly terrible for edge cases like me.
There used to be a rule for the Mac App Store (I don't know if it is there anymore) that forbade developers from selling the same app at a lower price somewhere else. Wouldn't this be a case of anti-competitive price-fixing?
Perhaps this is old information, but do SSD's from the same batch/model not tend to fail all within the same timeframe? A steady stream of failures is probably preferable to a single mass failure.
From a substitutes perspectives...

If you look at the absolute numbers, Ruby jobs are fewer, while (its primary competitor) Python jobs are higher (Python over Ruby by 2:1 according to both GlassDoor and Indeed). About the same ratio also seems to apply for job postings.

So why so many Ruby bootcamps? Maybe it's a relative thing, but I don't have estimates of the number of Ruby bootcamps versus Python bootcamps. But assuming there are more, I can hypothesize:

Python is increasingly being taught by universities. Thus there is a natural pipeline of Python users entering the workforce. Plus, with Python's "one obvious way to do it" philosophy and incredible online documentation, there's a lot less to learn to master it.

Thus, there would perhaps be more demand for Ruby bootcamps, even if the relative job market is smaller.
re: hg clone timeouts, you can download a leaner hg bundle over HTTP and then "unbundle" it:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

mozilla-central is just such a big repository that it pushes the usual cloning process to its limits.

The Rust dependency was added to Firefox very recently, so I guess with the holidays it hasn't made it into the bootstrap script and docs yet.
For about 12 months, but not anymore, which was my point.
Who have you shown VR to was interested in it? My brother shows off his VR unit to everyone, but I've never seen anyone that tried VR that was interested in purchasing it. Even he doesn't use it anymore.

Using VR actually seems to cause less desire to buy it, including me. It actually turned out to be a worse experience than what I expected.
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Taking negotiation off the table is simply another form of negotiation. Most car dealerships negotiate; CarMax does not. CarMax simply says, "this is the price, take it or leave it." That attracts some customers, and repels others, the same way that an outright refusal to negotiate compensation will attract some employees and repel others.
> One major difference is the actual price paid for a medical service by an insurance company is much lower (often 10%) of the cash price.

It is often much lower, but it also varies by insurance provider and the specific plan you are on, which can itself (AFAIK) vary depending on when you joined said plan, your group, et c.

The hospital can't even guess at a price until they figure out which procedure codes they're going to bill, which itself isn't always clear, then to know what you'll actually pay they have to apply the effects of your specific insurance. It's often quite difficult to get them to do this. Often it will end up being wrong anyway.

Bonus: you can't be really really sure your insurance will pay their part until the bill goes out and they do. Sometimes they deny claims. They may be wrong to do so (it's sometimes hard to tell) but even if they are you're in for 100+ hours of work (much of it waiting on hold) to get them to do what they were supposed to.
Nice to see you here on HN, Oliver :)
The 2.0 version will then be employed by governments to silence dissent by bleeding the energy of movements before they happen.

It's a tool that cuts all ways. There's nothing in a 'positive' social movement - however defined - that makes it less vulnerable to this sort of baiting than a 'negative' one, because it's an exploit on a close-to-universal personality flaw.
So should they explain the pricing schedule while you're still unconcious from the accident at the crash site or when your eyes are fluttering in the ambulance? Then at the E.R., they can talk you through your various choices in surgery, a menu of blood products, and let you peruse through a catalog of doctor histories. If you decide this isn't the place you'd like to have the steering wheel removed from your rectum, you can always go online and browse a few local options from the dozens of hospitals in your area until you find a price point and payment plan that's right for you and your intestinal needs.

Similarly, when your diagnosis comes in and surgery is required, you can take time off from your three jobs to carefully research the pros and cons of various procedures to determine which is most financially appropriate for you. I mean, it's not exactly heart surgery we're talking about here. Well, technically and literally it is, but it shouldn't be too hard for anyone to understand the pros and cons of different surgical equipment and procedures to evaluate the risks and cross-compare with the clear apples-to-apples data sets to arrive at a medically and economically responsible decision while blood is pouring out of your extremities and your body feels like it's on fire. Take the time and shop carefully. You are a model fiscal actor and will make the right call.

Free market forces will make this system work and work well. The invisible hand has been after all such a huge success in setting health care prices and has proven to be the model every modern industrial country has taken because it's so intuitive and has great proven results.
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Walmart doesn't negotiate it's prices, but still keeps them very low. I don't agree that outright refusal to negotiate is incompatible with market compensation. Of course, that could still happen.
It is good to witness so much improvement in VR tech but most people focus on the eye. I think the killer step in VR and also AG will be when we can use all our fingers. Once we have that it will be a huge improvement in contrast to 2D interfaces. Haptic feedback on top of that would make the experience even better. Till that happens, VR experience is merely an eye interacting in a new world with 2 bulky pointers.

It would be great if someone develops a bracelet that can detect the electric signals going from my brain to my fingers and use it as an input to control virtual fingers.
HN also has a strong libertarian bias.

Having a sizable libertarian presence is not the same as having a "strong libertarian bias".
I'm not sure it's about the secrecy so much as the culture of distrust.
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At one of my jobs the network team uses a thing called "Forcepoint's TLS inspection" (aka Websense) (aka Raytheon). My browser happily let's that network team MITM me all day long without a peep, and logs & archives all my TLS traffic for who knows how long.

The funny thing is a VM I setup from my same laptop tried to make an https:// connection and the browser outright refused, without any possible workaround until I imported the Forcepoint CA cert.

Security people must love us users so bad. Love you, too! xox

(Note: the same network team imaged the laptop in the first place, and it's against my contract to re-image it. Hence the Forcepoint CA cert's presence in my browser's root chain. I prefer to call this LAN-In-The-Middle.)
Parents would like to think that they do so, this article defies that.
Disputed at best, the opposite reality at worst (i.e. it bent the cost curve up):

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/theapothecary/files/2016/04/S...

It was the recession.
As a little cherry on top, the CPU they sourced is also crippled with no onchip crypto. Even the half-price Pine64 has a CPU with crypto instruction sets.
Skipped steps are called "high-tech".
I am not convinced of the conclusion you've drawn based on the things you've outlined.

Would you mind elaborating on your chain of reasoning a little bit further?
I mean... to me, the possible health benefits are pretty tenuous. I probably wouldn't make it a point to pursue eating progressively hotter food on the off chance there might be some minuscule health benefit. To me, the reason for eating hot foods is because they're tasty and good, and it's an enjoyable experience.

FWIW, though, I didn't always like hot stuff. In fact, up through probably my mid 20's, I really didn't eat much spicy food at all. It wasn't until I moved to a more urban area and did two things that my taste for hot stuff started to develop. One, I started hanging out at sports bars to watch football, and got into eating buffalo wings. Two, I discovered Thai food and started eating that a lot. And over time I just found myself wanting the stuff hotter and hotter. I never made a conscious decision to say "Hey, I hope to one day be one of those guys who eats crazy hot food loaded with Ghost Pepper sauce." It just kinda happened.

So I guess I'd say... eat what you like. Branch out now and then just to explore and expand your boundaries, but I wouldn't suggest making eating a painful experience for no particular reason. shrug
That article is a waste of time and only serves to muddy the waters, much like what happened to tilting trains. There are plenty of ways the mentioned issues could be ameliorated, though there's no way past the resolution issue, right now.
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Those are the least of its problems.

The big problem with VR is the product liability issues.
"People are free to choose whatever handset they like. And they do."

Except for those tied to a specific device for work reasons. Blackberry, anyone (that is, back in the day?)
No, this is how stores work. Wal-Mart will also not stock your game if you are selling it for half MSRP on your website.
Is diversity in opinion and philosophy part of what you aim for?

How many of the Lever employees are openly Republican or conservative?
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> I'd also much rather self-insure the first $15-20K of risk each year in exchange for a much smaller payment.

Would that still be true if you had to pay retail for all your care?
I'm glad you mentioned that case, I just filled out the documentation. Luckily I kept receipts, correspondence with Seagate, and still have one of the failed drives.

Considering I was a college student at the time, it cost me a lot of money to replace my failed Seagate drives (after RMAing them and having failed replacements). I've never bought another Seagate product and never will, regardless of claims that they've improved.
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No breakthrough or anything here, I like uBlock Origin (my favorite extension of its kind), but I hated that there is no global power switch and only a whitelist button. I personally don't like whitelisting, and prefer to only switch it off and on when needed.

Don't know if there is anyone else like me out there, so I released this to public and see. I might add a feature or two down the road.
Drop out of the class-action, file your own suit, and demand whole remedy.
Same. I'm Australian, but to get a job doing something there I'd probably have to be their IT guru (something I'm not particularly keen on, but I'm not a research scientist or somesuch). But I wouldn't mind the isolation, and the opportunity to get some astronomy done.
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I was being hung out to dry before the ACA and paying about double for near equivalent coverage.
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Are there SoCs at a comparable price/speed that are more open?

I can understand being disappointed at this choice, but if no other options exist, then either you're sacrificing price or performance to get more open-ness. My impression has been that this has mostly been about giving a cheap, easy to use software platform, and they've succeeded at that because of the price/performance balance.

That was then, though. Now that this platform is more established, I imagine they can apply some pressure to get things like the video core to be more open.
I agree about "easy to get started." When I came up with the idea for http://TexasCoders.com I absolutely didn't want people to think about Javascript or any particular language, because I mostly care about teaching the fundamental concepts. I'm not advertising it as a Javascript class.

Maybe the appeal of Ruby is that it's "new" but not so new that it's a waste of time to learn. Also, my impression is that some effort was made to make Ruby's syntax "pretty" in a holistic sense, which might save a teacher some time. Personally, I was turned off by RoR very early on because it was a pain to install on Site5 (the first and only web host to offer it) and then had no compelling reason to try it again after that. Also the concept of "Rails" bothers me, because I think software should be unique and "off the rails" like art. But that's just my opinion :-)
>Also note that burkaman was pointing out the irony of an insufficiently researched (and churlish) accusation of insufficient research.

Which is incredibly frustrating because the article burkaman linked to specifically mentions (in more than one place) the claim has not been verified.
Fair enough, the comparable number in car insurance is 97%:

The personal auto insurance combined ratio rose by 1.4 percentage points in 2015 to 97.3 percent for a group of 10 publicly traded insurers.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/features/2016/03/0...

When interest rates are higher car insurance runs > 100% loss ratio. They stay profitable by earning short term interest on premiums before paying out claims.

In a different insurance vertical fixing loss ratios at 80% would be called a cartel, and would put involved executives into prison for a good long time.

In healthcare the government forms the cartel, fixes the prices, gives money to poor to become consumers, and then fines everybody who won't become the consumer.

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Sorry if this is obvious - how is this different from the Google Play store?
Some people just want a place to live close to work/whatever that doesn't have high maintenance (e.g. rent/mortgage/taxes).

In a "hot" city it's trivial to get very modest places that have monthly tax bills more than rent is on a similar sized place in the mid-tier NFL city I grew up in. That's a lot of cashflow to be burning - even if the investment is appreciating faster than the burn. It eventually forces you to sell and move, when your goal was not an investment but a place to live and make a home.
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If you go to enterprise storage, then you can get 16TB SSD though. It is not comparable.