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You say: "It's a race to the bottom in terms of regulation"

Consider your assumption that regulation is good. In point of fact pernicious and arbitrary regulation within states brought us as a nation to this desperate situation.

You say: "To the point it is not even actually seen as a viable option"

Check your prejudice at the door and look at reality. You may need to understand markets and human nature more clearly. You may "see" and understand other, better options.
From friends that have done it, I've heard that it's quite the opposite. Harsh, depressing climate and heavy alcoholism.
I really think VR will take off but not yet. I was waiting for new games and new hardware for a year now but i think there is just a little bit of time needed.

I'm very enthuastic but not enought to pay 1k for it. Every game i saw in some video felt to 'simple'. More like funny small games but nothing which would make me using it for long enough.

but still i can already see useful usecases: When you buy a kitchen for example but the needed software needs to be build and that takes time and money. Something like this needs just time and enough 'normal' developer and manager have to be motivated.

Every peace of money already made with vr and which will be made in the next two years is probably opportunistic money.

I'm looking forward to better hardware (4k! lightweight, enough smartphones for google dream) and more software (architecture, kitchen, bath, ikea, website support for simple plug and play, concert videos, museum and history tours, games, games games :)
Making it run faster wouldn't make it a better game while making it worse performance art.
Guess what, you can't just "form a C corp" and go from there. The rules specifically exclude that kind of structure.

Look, it all looks great but when you REALLY DIG down into the rules, what you see is a recipe for disaster. The plans in NY that had to shut down were staffed by a roster of amateurs because the laws SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED people who had worked in the healthcare insurance industry from splitting off and starting their own companies.

They quite literally expected a bunch of community activists to run an insurance company and it failed MISERABLY.

Facts are sometimes inconvenient things.
I would love to be able to read in a car.

Got any additional info on this?
> It's heavy reading, I don't know why it's getting upvoted here.

This is needed exposure for a lot of the libertarians that populate hacker news.
We’re mostly intrigued with 1:1 locomotion and agility in competitive multiplayer. For instance players who can run a marathon, or throw a baseball, will have a distinct competitive advantage over players who cannot. But, in theory, if you played enough it would supplement physical training.

But moon jumping would be a fun game concept :)
> It's the arbitrary length that causes you to have more pigeons than pigeonholes.

No you can have a fixed length and arbitrary text. Say the input could be 32 hex characters representing a UUID. The key distinction is whether there is a finite / known list of the possible inputs. If so, then it's possible to create a hash function the perfectly hashes them.
> Yes, they are the same thing. Insurance is fundamentally a redistribution of risk with money being shifted from those who have not fallen victim to that risk to those who have. If you have a problem with that aspect of the ACA, you have a problem with the general idea of insurance.

No, they are not the same thing. The fact that a transfer of money happens is not a sufficient criterion for defining insurance.

Take two people with different risk profiles but who are both insured. If you can tell a priori which one is expected to have lifetime claims that exceed their lifetime premiums, then you don't have insurance - you have a wealth redistribution scheme[0].

Note that I didn't specify which person had the greater risk profile, or whether they both purchased the same "tier" of plan, or even whether they purchased their insurance from the same insurer. This property of insurance still holds even if the two people have completely different risk profiles, if one purchases a gold plan and the other a bronze, and if one person purchases from MegaInsurance in New York and the other purchases from AcmeInsurance in California - as long as they are both insured at risk-adjusted rates.

> You do realize that this is functionally the same as getting rid of the preexisting conditions protection, right? Whether someone pays tens of thousands to a doctor for care or to an insurance company for coverage are in practice exactly the same. The whole point is that many of us think that is a fundamentally unfair system to force someone to face in that situation.

First, nobody is paying tens of thousands of dollars to a doctor, because there's an out-of-pocket maximum cap. (And that cap could still exist under a risk-based pricing world.)

Second, it's not, functionally the same, because that doesn't mean that you can't separately provide income- or wealth-based subsidies if you're aiming to redistribute wealth. But that happens at a completely different layer from the risk underwriting - and because the underwriting process is allowed to properly account for a person's risk profile, you end up with lower aggregate premiums (pre-subsidy). Lower unsubsidized premiums means that you don't need to subsidize as much money in order to achieve the same sticker-price premiums that consumers see - in other words, the entire process is significantly cheaper for what appears to be the same result to the patient.

The reason we don't do this, even though it would be significantly cheaper, is because it's politically infeasible.

[0] Which, you may note, is currently the case - and that's because health insurance as it stands is a mishmash of two completely unrelated products ("insurance" and "wealth redistribution") that we happen to try to stuff into the same box.
“Wanna go to the top of a ten-storey building?”

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fungus
Perhaps if you didn't equate "denier=the right", "non-denier=the left" and didn't make swiping statements like "until the left wants to have an honest debate on the costs", and refer to "you people", you might find that others might be willing to discuss.
Pinterest's Ben Silbermann looks ahead
You want honesty? Scientific discovery doesn't care about economic models. The chemical properties of CO2 are not affected by politics. You don't get to vote on thermodynamics. There is no debate regarding the existence of AGW, except outside of science.

What is this leftist ideological economic model you speak of?
The full bill for insurance (minus savings for being part of a larger group) is coming out of my paycheck and profit shares, one way or the other.

> if you own a small tire shop and some guy just tripled your healthcare costs, well....he might have a different opinion.

I have a few friends and family who can get insurance due to ACA, so no, I wouldn't. I don't fall in that group (thankfully), but I'm more than happy to pay the costs so they can not go bankrupt or have to play the emergency room shuffle.

Hell, we'll all be there someday. It's the unicorn individual who is never sick throughout their life until they simply drop dead.
Oh definitely, even at my most enthusiastic I was only ever keen to do a couple of seasons
As a Tox user, I'd love to see some of these cryptographers calling it out actually contribute lines of code. Tox fills a niche. It might not be perfectly secure, but there is also far more to software than the crypto. UI stuff takes a lot of grunt work.

Please, improve this. As a user I want Tox to be secure. But also, as a user, I'll use it rather than Skype even if it does have some concerns. It's a genuine, open source, Skype replacement that more-or-less works. The encryption stuff is just the icing on the cake.

It would be a great project even with zero encryption.

/ramblerant
I wonder if skiing might be good for VR based exercise - you already wear goggles, hold poles (controllers) and have your feet clamped into restrictive boots.

Would need some kind of machine to attach the boots and provide some motion & feedback...
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What she said is absolutely not unfashionable in the academic areas I am most familiar with. Much the converse in fact.

Public life, I'll give you.
You're absolutely right... But by rendering separately the high resolution and low resolution views (each at 1k, but one 4x upscaled) we could do 60Hz today. It only requires 2 FHD renders (which is less than a 4k 2eye view at UHD) so 60Hz is very reasonable... possibly 90-120Hz. It also cuts the bandwidth by 8x (2/16) without compression.
Harry's Lawyer Sent Gillette a Letter Accusing Big Razor of False Advertising
I wouldn't go that far, personally. Well, with respect to the "old guard" of Democrats, yes.

But Bernie Sanders' position on health care was essentially single payer (https://berniesanders.com/medicareforall/). And he did quite well, particularly with the younger voting bloc.

From a perspective of "the left" overall, I think the seeds for single payer might be a little stronger than you think. That's especially since opinion polls seem to indicate single payer systems are fairly popular. (http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-...)

Whether enough political will can be built up to get past the perverse crony capitalism inside the health care industry, that's another question.
http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/Information%20Obligations%20...

"""
Recruitment efforts: The H1B dependent employer must also attest to making good faith attempts to recruit US workers and offering prevailing wages for this position. When hiring an H1B worker, it is important for employers to recognize the attendant responsibilities that they must shoulder. Although the requirements are not excessively burdensome, the employer is required to maintain some paperwork to demonstrate its compliance with the law. A clear understanding and fulfillment of these requirements will minimize possible civil penalties and ensure that the employer will be permitted to petition for future H1B workers
"""

http://www.h1base.com/content/h1bvisarequirements
"""
The requirements to qualify for an H1B visa are:

You must have ONE of the following

1) A Bachelor's degree or Masters Degree (or the foreign equivalent degree from your Country), OR

2) 12 years work experience, OR

3) A mix of further education + work experience

The general H1B visa qualification rule is:
- for every 1 year of studies at University / College = 3 points
- for every 1 year of work experience = 1 point

12 points in 'total' are required to qualify for the H1B visa program
"""
OT: well that problem is outlined in some articles about inotify. Probably most people don't care. Since they only want to watch a directory and their subdirectories and not edits from hard links.
Easily implemented in AwesomeWM

Edit: Actually, most all of this could be implemented in X11 keybindings outside of your window manager. Just the full screen part that the WM is needed for. And that can be implemented in any WM and probably most DE
What was your out-of-network out of pocket maximum before ACA?

You've also confused deductible with out of pocket in your original post, on top of rounding up by 15%.
Thanks for the book recommendation, I'll have to check it out.
Amazon seeks 5-month STA to test ‘innovative communications’ in Seattle
Well if it is a planet 10x the size if earth it might have an atmosphere so we could aerobrake, no?
I've long been thinking about creating an army of bots to promote my views on HN. Now I'll definitely do it!
The two-envelope paradox and the limitations of Bayesian inference
I think I remember the author posting on /r/haskell a bit back about this project. He mentioned that in his editor even the core editor functionality are implemented as extensions (contrary to Yi), so the extension API is quite robust.
The directory of Facebook AI Research is Yan LeCun, one of the top minds in the field of deep learning.
Obama was supposed to be the change candidate, it's what he ran on, but he didn't really do anything.

That's part of why Trump won. People have been wanting significant change for that long, yet we never got it.
> That's the sort of app I'd pay for.

Good new! You can! We use Stripe. I'm sure our conversion rate is a lot lower than if we were in the app store. But it's still possible for people who love it to help us keep working on it.
The harsh climate is what appeals to me, of course I wouldn't want to experience it long-term.
None of that means it will succeed.

Apple Watch sold millions, and it's about to fail. Same with all the other smartwatches.

VR is going away, since it's such a terrible user experience compared to laptops/desktops/smartphones.
Well otherwise what does it mean if they have a tiny part of an $18B company?
Out of interest where do you stand on educational vouchers? What about charter schools?
Types and Tests
There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
The topic of this discussion is "Calling bullshit".

Will you define exactly what you mean by the term "not allowed to speak", and list the names of scientists who were not allowed to speak?
Agreed.

Would one describe a human as "enslaved" by our own human values that we were born with? Maybe as a figure of speech but not necessarily with the usual connotations of "enslaved".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWsdsjs_A7A&t=10s
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You say: "The problem is what "best" means. In an unregulated environment it would mean what's best for the insurance company, not the patient."

No. I don't buy auto insurance on that basis. It is required by my state in order for me to legally operate a motor vehicle. I buy what is "best" for me (and my family).

Only in our closed highly regulated environments that
denigrate personal responsibility and individual liberty do we get this extraordinary markets dislocations that come with the bizarre healthcare system that we have today.
A public option is just a mandate by another name, it has to be paid for by higher taxes: still a mandate. But yes, we should do it that way.
Which example are you referring to? The HN comment with the AKE?
> but whether WhatsApp servers report to the device that the message has been delivered

It is hard to check what WhatsApp does, but in Signal it is not the server, but a recipient who sends delivery receipt. WhatsApp then has to either recognize encrypted receipts or allow only one-way conversation during attack. Carrying out the whole attack just to decrypt "hi, are you here?" is not really interesting.
Where can I apply for an exemption to the not owning a house penalty?
Suppose Person A lives in a house with a mortgage, and Person B lives in an apartment with a lease. Suppose -- it's unlikely, but for sake of the hypothetical -- Person A's monthly mortgage and Person B's monthly rent payment are the same dollar amount and their gross annual income is the same.

Person B -- the renter -- will pay more income tax, because Person B does not get to deduct mortgage interest while Person A does.

In much the same way, if Person A carries insurance all year and Person B doesn't, Person B will pay more income tax.

So yes, you do get "fined" for not buying a house. We just spin it as "encouraging the dream of home ownership" instead of as a "fine", a "penalty", as "the government holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy a house", etc.
Does the name mean "aroma" or "flavor" (from Sanskrit), or has another meaning altogether?
> Naturally, the law contains no procedure for return of the bond and imposes on the court no duty to return it.

Chilling!
(Adam from Realm) Thanks for the feedback and glad to know this meets your needs! Anything else you feel you are waiting on?
If you are feigning interest the opinion of an investor, you are probably doing it wrong.

Your broad point is a good one, and I'll note it is not completely asymmetric by gender either. Anyone with functional communication skills should be able to resolve this potential for misinterpretation fairly early and painlessly.
Could you post photos of them? I'd love to see if it's something I could also build.
You're getting downvotes. Could you explain some of the stuff you're describing? Maybe the thinking about normalizing sexual violence?
They would immediately start taking Medicare when nearly all available patients moved to it. They can only afford to not take it now because other customers are available.
It could end up being a cost savings overall, or at the very least be cost neutral. Most people are paying for health insurance now anyway. If that shifts from a premium paid to your insurer to a tax payed to the government is that really a big deal?
Specific recommendations for a different protocol that does not have this concern were made, and a detailed bug report with repeated explanations of the issue were provided. Why is the onus on me to also go fix the problem, when it's repeated in the issue that the authors are mostly interested in stabilizing the codebase first? (That is not a criticism, but rather: not only do I not feel this is my responsibility, the way I read it, the maintainers don't want that contribution right now.)
Apparently (or rather allegedly), some Apple developers feel constrained in what they are allowed to discuss publicly. I'm merely saying that the availability of WWDC conference tickets doesn't fix that. For me anyway.

I never said that Apple actively replaced anything. That's your straw man.
Thank joe Lieberman (a democrat) for why we don't.
My work desktop is a laptop, and I don't care what ports it has because it's always plugged into a dock.
Calling it a "debate" might be giving too much credit to D-Wave. Nobody, not even they anymore, is claiming that this is a machine capable of more efficient computations than a classical Turing machine (as opposed to a quantum circuit). By "efficient computation" I mean asymptotically polynomial.

Moreover, experimenting with the actual hardware has shown that a classical computer is practically better than this machine (in terms of money, electricity, or time).
Countries that offer universal care such as Canada, The UK, France (also also NY State/NY City where I live) have a tobacco tax in the $5 to $7 range or more that helps to pay for the higher health care costs of smokers. NYC tax is $6.85 for city+state+fed. The US Federal tax is about $1. If the tax were increased by $5 for the 13 billion packed smoked each year it would yield approx $30 to $35 billion which could be used to mitigate the high cost of insurance for others.

Also, the medical ratio of youth to elderly is 1:6 and before the ACA, youth would pay about 1/6 of elderly costs. Congress unfairly mandated that ratio to be 1:3 meaning youth pay 75% more than they should. They already have to pay for student loans, save for a house, and now they have additional burdens paying for smokers and those who drink daily sugar Cokes and thus obese.

Tax tobacco like other countries and NYC/NYS and use that money to make premiums for youth and middle class more fair.
Yes, all of the past technologies you listed, I was bearish on. If you have tried the current crop of VR and don't see the difference, I don't know what to tell you. Come back to this thread 10 years from now so i can say "I told you so".
Hilarious "cease and desist"
New encryption (public) key is selected by the attacker, so he knows the decryption (private) key. Basically attacker just puts real device offline and registers his own device.
Well going further than that, on Facebook, for a lot of people the majority of their 'friends' are school friends (for younger people often their entire school year, even the years above/below), and extended family, people that they feel obligated to add (due to Facebook's pressure to have a high friend count).

These are ultimately people they wouldn't choose to follow the conversations of at all, given the choice.

For me Twitter was like starting with a clean slate. I just follow the people I want to follow, basically no 'friends', just interesting people.
Uh, this content was authored by Zhang Yi Jiang two months ago [1][2], and is now posted without attribution on someone else's blog.

[1] https://meebleforp.com/blog/36/angular-2-is-terrible
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13081833
That is true, kind of, but grinding efficiently was probably the very first time I learned the lesson "work smart, not hard". There is a microcosm of reality in grinding which I think is why some of those games ultimately felt more rewarding than ones that omit it. I don't want the time I spent playing Diablo II back, it was worth it. I can't say the same for some other titles I've played.
The nice thing about a FOSS mobile app is that you can (in theory, at least) sideload it. A covert operation could just gather up everyone's devices, build a fresh copy of the app, and then sideload that copy for everybody.

Of course, for that to be feasible, the network architecture of the app must not require API keys—and so must either be purely peer-to-peer, or involve a FOSS server component that the developer can run an instance of themselves (as in the Matrix protocol.)
I haven't actually played any games in VR yet, but is there any reason the headset couldn't display a normal game? Even if it doesn't need VR and doesn't benefit in any way from head tracking or 3D visuals, just imagining a hypothetical future situation where all 2D monitors on the face of the Earth are replaced by VR headsets, you could still play Pillars of Eternity on a VR headset and it wouldn't be any worse, right? There's no technical reason a VR headset couldn't replicate a regular monitor?
This progressive-SV obsession with diversity is a pretty odd shibboleth from an outsider's perspective. Why do companies set this as a goal for themselves, or brag about it?

There are only three ways to have a workforce significantly more diverse than your applicant pool:

1) Get lucky, and have the best candidates just happen to have the particular immutable characteristics of birth you think qualify them for a job. In which case, congratulations? But it's nothing to brag about. And it's only possible for low-n. The law of averages will wipe it out sooner or later.

2) Intentionally hire suboptimal candidates because they have the immutable characteristics of birth you think qualify them for a job. Congratulations, you made your company worse.

3) Spend an inordinate amount of time interviewing candidates in order to find ones who are both excellent and have the immutable characteristics of birth you think qualify them for a job. Congratulations, you made your company worse. Time and effort are finite resources and you should have been spending yours building better products and connecting with your customers.

All this, for what? Plaudits in the tech press? Maybe attracting investment from VC firms that say they want their companies to employ people with a wide range of immutable characteristics of birth? You haven't made your products better, and you haven't connected with your customers more. You've either hired a worse team or wasted your time.

If, for sufficiently large n, your workforce does not look like your applicant pool, you have broken hiring practices.
The coolest thing about VR right now isn't the visuals, it's the controllers. Being able to move around and interact with things in virtual space is a very powerful experience/concept. I can actually see some future apps/games using controllers without the goggles.
I really hoped was this: http://darkmatter.wikia.com/wiki/Raza
Yes, taxes would go up, but would most people really notice? You are basically shifting from paying a premium to a private insurer to paying a tax to the government. It's kinda six one half dozen the other.
There are so many new rendering tricks popping up all the time... new APIs also give less overhead, which is nice.

Either way...

580 gtx
gflops: 1581

1080 gtx
gflops: 8228

7 years.
420% increase in float calc perf.