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Preventable medical errors are certainly something we should continue to work to reduce (significant progress has been made over the past few decades in that regard).

I'm not advocating complacency, just pointing out that many people think the 250k/yr number is substantially inflated.
To add to that

4. You will need a clipboard everytime to copy paste which is not very safe

Suggestion: Add a salt parameter to make it less deterministic, keep these salt in a personal database
Please let me know if you do get around to releasing it!

I think scheme is woefully underrated as something that can be used for "real work", especially with something like chez. You can find my email or other contact info through my bio, I'm dead serious!
Mozilla doesn't pay nearly as well as the top tech companies out there do. Maybe the people who are left after all the best people leave end up making bad decisions. Human capital matters.

Of course Mozilla's decisions look foolish to us. We (for the most part) are not the ones who couldn't move on to greener pastures.
Most of his parodies are more clever than the originals, IMO. I say this in an objective sense because there have been multiple instances in my life where a song came on in some circumstance, and someone started singing the Weird Al version. I don't know about his more recent albums, but half of his songs were original and I liked many of those even better. "Good Old Days" is absolutely hilarious.
> I assume you spend most of your income of water, right? After all, it's the most indispensable element of out lives.

Water is a commodity, it doesn't require you to contribute for it to be available, it's ubiquitous and cheap. I pay less than I value it at, yes, as a price has been set and there's no method or reason to pay more for it.

YouTube content however is not a commodity and the amount of money that goes into it affects the quality and quantity of content available. Throw $10m at water, you get nothing meaningfully better. Throw $10m at YouTube creators, you get a new major original series or a few small ones.

> Also, as it was pointed out in this thread, less than 10% of the world population has access to those subscriptions.

And they can pay for it with ads.

The price for the content has been set. You can choose to pay for it or you can choose to essentially steal it.
> When the PSP was around and kicking that was the main thing that got me engaged in the community, and I still remember those years with fondness.

I found my dev calling with PSP hacking and homebrew development. Those were good times.
I remember using AutoHotKey [1] (windows only) to randomly prompt me what I was up to every hour.

This was many years ago so I don't recall the details but my intention was to understand where/how I spent all those hours in the day as a student.

While there was no formal syntax that I followed that would have helped to analyze the logs programmatically, it did help me get a general understanding of my schedule and identify things I should change.

Ref :
[1] https://autohotkey.com/
[2] http://lifehacker.com/5582372/use-a-daily-log-to-keep-yourse...
I found I could scroll with the keyboard, at least.
Definitely. This is exactly the reason I switched from Chrome ro Firefox. I mean, when I'm on mobile it's even more important than on desktop that I have my adblocker in place, as both bandwidth and screen estate are more limited.
Making up numbers doesn't help the discussion. Can you prove that firefox users are at all more likely to be infected in practice? I doubt it. You surely can't prove they are 10x.
But there's nothing stopping someone who wants to play a game "for free" from finding a torrent of a retail copy, downloading it, stripping the retail signature off it, using the SDK tooling to apply their own developer cert's signature, and then booting that on their console.

It's certainly possible—and already done—with iOS.

Likewise, "homebrew" on such a system would probably be like iOS homebrew is currently: an ecosystem of open-source projects where users are expected to download, compile, and sign the binaries themselves using their personal developer certs.
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Cloud Computing for Newbies
Looks like a good server, but please change the font color of the content on your site so it'd be more readable.

Grey text on white background is kinda difficult to read.
Sounds ok. Thanks
I think there is an important point for people to remember: The cost of a procedure, like a CT scan, is not the cost of the procedure. The amount you are getting charged is the Chargemaster rate.

The Chargemaster rate is the same no matter who you are, the different is what people pay from the chargemaster bill. Let's say you are given tylenol and the charge master is $50. The reason why this is so high is because medicare will then say that they pay , say, 20% the chargemaster rate, and thus elderly patients pay $10. This is why elderly patients are seen as great patients for revenue: They all actually can pay something, even if its only a fraction of the chargemaster. A gold plated insurance patient will pay Medicare+30%, and thus the gold plate insurance pays $20. The patient with no insurance then is also billed $50 because they don't have an agreement with the hospital. Thus, what likely happens is that they pay $0 and goes bankrupt, or more likely, these patients don't have any net worth at all. This creates a weird situation where the homeless, destute, and people with no net worth essentially get infinitely free healthcare. These patients tend to be very high volume healthcare users (homeless patients that take $5000 ambulance rides as taxis because they know they will never actually pay a penny, despite having millions of dollars of charges.). This is what the Affordable Care act tried to prevent: by making people pay something, you were actually decreasing costs for all because you remove free riders who present the majority of sunk costs in the healthcare system. Very few people if ever pay for the full cost of a procedure or chargemaster. The chargemaster is a negotiation tactic. Not a final bill.

That is why a CT Scan costs thousands of dollars. Because everyone knows you'll only end up paying a fraction of that if you have insurance. And if you pay cash, its only a few hundred bucks, because thats how much people get paid anyways.

Source: I'm an ER Doc.I do research in healthcare and billing
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> "Good Old Days" is absolutely hilarious.

Did you ever hear "My Hometown", by Tom Lehrer?
They are the subject of antitrust laws. Hospital mergers are often blocked due to this very issue
A minute-by-minute eyewitness account of Clayton Lockett’s execution (2014)
>Instead of an abstract complaint, it would be more instructive if you could provide concrete examples of children's films that are: not contrived, not cliched, not sappy with no lame humor.

Where to start? The works of Miyazaki, as somebody already mentioned. Anything by Tex Avery. The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Triplets of Belleville. James and the Giant Peach. The Illusionist. And tons of others (haven't even delved into anime). And if we get to overall children's films, e.g. not just animation, there's a whole range too. Heck, old (2D) Disney films were much less contrived as well.
The syntax of Python is sane, which can't really be said of JavaScript.
Wasn't aware of them, signing up my daughter now. Thanks!
Sure, an echo chamber is way better than hearing other sides.
Yes, it's been a disaster for several South and Central American countries :(
I think this topic should have a permanent link at the top of HN; it seriously comes up so often we need to setup a sort of wiki page about this.
> Truncation to 16 characters is to appease stupid websites that limit passwords to 20 characters.

This is something that drives me up the wall. I understand that you have to impose some kind of limit on password length to avoid abuse, but there's virtually no reason to cap it at anything less than 32 characters. I think a cap of 128 characters is completely reasonable and likely to appease even the most paranoid of users-- it all hashes to the same size anyway.

Another thing that irritates me is when registration forms enforce max password length via javascript or maxLength, without describing the max length in writing somewhere on the page. If I generate a password and I paste it into that field, I have no way of knowing if it has been truncated or not. I can't count how many times I've registered for a website and then had to immediately recover the password because of this. The time that stands out most to me is when this happened with my bank! Come on!

Pro-tip to any web developers out there: providing some kind of visual cue that the password I've entered is at the maximum length of the field (and that it was possibly truncated) is a good solution to an edge case that I feel is rarely considered.
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We used Learn to Mod for a junior hackathon, it is like modding Minecraft but with a scratchlike interface. Super cool
XUL has always been pretty terrible, IMO. But it has advantages over Chrome-style addons. Should Firefox support WebExtensions? I'd say absolutely yes. Should Mozilla remove XUL support? I'd say probably not. Or at least it should be optional, as there are clearly some people who want full control of their browser. I'm not one of those people, but I understand where they're coming from, and it would be like a food company deciding that they're getting rid of their other flavors and are just going to sell the one flavor that the competitor is selling out. Unless Firefox has an edge over Chrome, or even Chromium, there's very little reason for me to use it. This is coming from someone who was a Firefox evangelist for years since 2005.

Also, the Electrolysis project taking forever is one reason I ditched Firefox for Chrome, and I suspect I'm not the only one. It was only late last year that it finally got released(I think?), and that was a project being talked about at least since 2010. Chrome had process-per-tab a few years before that, and there was even word that Chrome was being developed in that direction long before its release. Firefox took nearly a decade to compete.
"During learning, a tournament selection genetic algorithm is used to select pathways through the neural network for replication and mutation."

Trying to think of another 'tournament' like process that would allow for a massive distributed network where each node already has a decent GPU, where something like this could be successfully run. Maybe someone could help me out here...
Disclaimer: I'm purposefully stretching to come to this conclusion, think of it as me transcribing an idle thought

I think people are taking out their frustration with C++ on Swift by saying it's fine to churn the language so we don't end up with a mess like C++ because they just despise the way the past of C++ has marred the present by existing, no matter how hard the language is trying to be in the present.

They feel Swift should move fast and break things so that we don't have to live with the mistakes of the past like C++ does.

The problem is even if we think what Swift is doing is perfect and let it solidify, odds are in the future we'll still come to despise it, and the parts we despise will eventually be old and well used enough they can't reasonably be changed by breaking stuff, and then it will be time for a new language to repeat the cycle.

(Replace C++ with Java or some other older language as preferred)
Clozemaster looks pretty cool.

A couple notes:

"the post-Duolingo learn language in context app"

This was really hard for me to understand. When I skimmed this, my first assumption was that this was a direct replacement for Duolingo, when it's actually complementary.

It would probably be better to split up the long list of languages on to 2 different pages. 1. Language you want to learn, and 2. From which language. An alternative would be to have a separate section for each language to learn on the page with space in between.
"Anchoring is a powerful psychological weapon": http://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-comment/

"Why so expensive compared to Reddit": http://upvotes.club/buying-hacker-news-growthhackers-upvotes...
Beeminder's TagTime does this, but according as a poisson process averaging once every N minutes.
Its not about frivolous lawsuits as much as defensive medicine which is the standard of care. For example if you come in to the Emergency department with a traumatic brain bleed (even a tiny spec on your scan), then you end up getting another scan at 6 hours, likely platelets since you took a baby aspirin that day, a very expensive neurosurgery evaluation, keppra for 2 weeks, and continuous monitoring, even though by all metrics you have a very benign pathology. Why? Because this is the standard of practice. Not because it makes any sense.

also, keep in mind that the factor that matters the most for practice patterns (especially defensive ones which drive up cost) is not where a doctor practices, its where a doctor trains. Since most doctors train in high risk litigation environments, and most standard of care procedures are developed with defensive practices in mind, the standard of care is high cost high utilization medicine.

Source: ER doctor
You disagreeing with the decision doesn't make it a bad decision.

You go one step further, though, and passively-aggressively call the people making the decision incompetent. That's just rude.
i couldn't even play the video
+1 for Scratch Jr.

I am also a fan of hour of code ( https://code.org/learn), it uses popular games and Disney characters and typically no project takes more than an hour.
They could also just stop selling in Nebraska because nobody cares.
If I understand the theory correctly the adaptive bin-sizes give a better fit than a fixed step-size (since you're choosing the optimal partition, and the adaptive partitions include all possible fixed step partitions).

You can of course use the same criterion to choose an optimal step-size, this is fairly easy to do with just brute force.
The clipboard is indeed unsafe. I don't use the clipboard. On my Linux machines I use xte (apt-get install xautomation) to have my script enter the password after a delay of 3 seconds which is enough for me to switch windows and click on the password field where it needs to be entered.

On phones I just type it in after looking at it, or compute on my computer and punch into my phone. I can memorize a 20-character string for a short time. In the future I might make a device to plug in via OTG cable, emulating a USB keyboard, to enter the password into phone apps. Another option for phones is key injection using /dev/uinput which is accessible if you run Cyanogenmod.
1. Wildly overpay someone now and save yourself some learning curve and errors. There is a reason we pay for tuition when we go to school.

2. Failing that, make your chart of accounts in Quickbooks be exactly equal to the tax return you are filing. If there is a line item on your tax return for "Rabbits" then make a "Rabbits" account in Quickbooks.

3. Only make accounts to match the expenses you have. Don't try to guess the future and pre-populate the chart of accounts.

4. Be willing to have 5% - 10% of your expenses fall into "Misc." It isn't worth being anal-retentive.

5. All of this advice is based on the assumption that you are tracking expenses for the purpose of preparing a tax return, not gratifying your inner MBA with all sorts of management-related financial reports.
With the difference that when user types the password it is not displayed on the screen. Server-side generated password must be somehow presented to the user.
The fundamental difference is that Google is a gigantic engineering organization that dedicates enormous resources to security, benefiting Chrome directly and indirectly. Over the years, lots of work has been done to ensure and improve its security at a design and architectural level.

Firefox, as this announcement shows, is just getting around to freeing itself from design decisions which may have made sense over a decade ago when Mozilla had 'software suite' ambitions but we now know are a liability for something with the security demands of a browser.
100% agreed with this. This is an insightful comment. people have no idea how much practice patterns would change if less defensive medicine could be practiced. So much of the inconvenience of medicine exists because the standard of care is extremely conservative to ensure minimal risk of litigation. The few states that have malpractice caps really doesnt change anything--those states just provide a good practice environment in rare situations, but doesn't change the way that standard medicine is practiced because that is developed out of state as a national consensus.
In college I had to keep a life log for about a week as part of a psychology class. It was a completely manual process (i.e. pencil and paper; this was quite a while ago), and I was supposed to log in as much detail as possible what I was doing throughout the day. At the end we were supposed to create categories from the log, and add up all the time spent in each activity.

The purpose was to find out how much time was really spent on each activity, rather than what we thought we did. It was an eye opening experience.
I did something similar to this for a long time, but had constant headaches because URLs and domain names often change for services as companies consolidate, etc. Drove me nuts, I had to remember the old domain name. Now I just use 1Password (which may or may not be the best choice in password managers).
Android TV is one way to look at it, but there are others.

I probably phrased it badly, but I am actually curious about what people think Nintendo's place in the market should be.

Making a new $300 console targeted at casual gamers doesn't seem the wisest move these days.
SpaceX need to show they can launch frequently, period. Higher launch frequency with lower reliability is a market that aligns with SpaceX's commercial customers.
Anecdotal, but - me too! (by the way, how many times does it have to be anecdotal before it's no longer anecdotal?)

Anyways - my personal opinion (for what it's worth) is to teach them in multiple activities, not only learning math/science/English/whatever, but also learning physical skills. I think that if you can show them progress through repetition in physical skills you can help them generalize that to more mental pursuits. Everyone knows that if you skip leg day you end up with matchsticks. Same with the mental muscle.
Compared to other languages and environments, debugging JavaScript can be difficult if you don't have a good idea of what's going on behind the scenes in specific browser versions, the DOM and JavaScript VM. Throw callbacks, Promises, etc into the mix and things get confusing pretty fast.

Comparatively, other languages, like Python, will throw sane exceptions and a meaningful stack trace when something goes wrong.
You are right. The second point remains valid though.
I had found it odd, knowing that SpaceX ignites engines at T-2 (and releases clamps at T-0), watching the Arianespace launch earlier in the week. They ignited the main engine at roughly T-1, then revved it up until T+7, and then fired the solid boosters and released at T+8 or so. https://youtu.be/pgj0kSXEtdQ?t=890

The STS fired the solids at T-0, thus being the "point of no return", why is it that Arianespace waits until +8 to fire solids? Do they just consider igniting the liquid main stage as "no return" ?

Also, SpaceX had a T-1 abort after main engine ignition later too. (the one you showed doesnt even have landing legs!). The later one was SES-9 in Feb 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuS5mehCAMI

A boat was down-range and the cryo propellants had warmed up and started getting bubbles in it... the engines fire at T-2, run diagnostics, determine if they are running properly, THEN release clamps for lift off, but in this case, the bubbles caused lower than expected thrust, so it turned itself off.
what else goes into publishing for the switch? what kind of content restrictions are there? is it like the app store where you have to be 100% family friendly? what percentage of the sales do you get as a developer? will they be cracking down on asset flipping games?
Every time I see a "considered harmful" title, I groan and think of this. It's a meme at this point, and really detracts from the value of the article for me.
This is much better than duo lingo. Amazing job!
They could even use that to monetize people who want to vote but don't want to go to the game (and even monetize away games). Purchase of an at-game ticket comes with a free voters pass. Or can can buy a voter pass on a game-by-game basis or a season pass.
Kevin Mitnick AMA
But first, you must answer the question of why you want to teach coding to kids. If it is because they have asked you about coding, or are curious enough that they will be intrigued or interested in coding, or perhaps you are convinced it is a life skill they should learn, then proceed.

But if you want to teach coding to increase your own esteem in their eyes, or to validate your own life choices by making them follow yours, then step back a bit before proceeding. Get to know them - and yourself - well before embarking on this quest.
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I just started my first project with my client. The project is still getting started, it's Django with Docker. It's doing fine at the moment. It's the perfect form factor for me, and it's a Mac so I don't have to port all my stuff to my Linux yet. It's great for taking out in front of clients. I'm enjoying the lack of weight on my shoulders when I'm carrying it around in my backpack. It's got 512 gb, which is a lot more comfortable than 256 gb. I haven't encountered any issue with the 8 gb RAM yet. The battery is shorter when doing development compared to an older 15 inch Macbook pro I used to use, but it's fine, I get half a day out of it. I love the thin keyboard. There's a "Turbo Speed: 2.9 GHz" that can come on if it's not too hot - I was using my Macbook in 40 degree celsius weather and that day it shutdown a couple of times from overheating - I was playing with OpenGL.

When the project I'm working become more complete and there's more processing then I'll see what happens then. ;)

TLDR: Most of the performance bottleneck from Node.JS and Django is from I/O anyway and the SSD is pretty fast. I love it because it's the perfect form and it's a Mac. People are still using 2012/2013 Macbook Pro's, Macbook Air's for development, and this computer can more than compete.
White And Nerdy shows a very impressive amount of genuine nerdiness. I mean, rapping in front of Schroedinger's equation for the hydrogen atom?
I taught my 8 years old girl using JavaScript and we made a simple game (numbers falling from the top of the screen and you have to click them to make a number: e.g. "3" and "4" because the number to make was "7").

It eventually became PopMath (which I reimplemented in ObjectiveC for the iPhone) but she understood the concept of loops, random number generation, collision with sides (so x coordinate had to be reversed) and event handling (function to get the user clicks).

I also did the same with my son when he was 9, with another game where the player would need to use arrow keys to navigate a maze.

Also in JavaScript because they can see the results right in the browser, can easily add graphics, and even sound effects.

I think simple games are a great teaching tool.
Yeah, we used them at LinkedIn, they are definitely enterprise, but are also the best. I have no idea of the price and im sure linkedin is going to skype now.
I disagree. Walls stop physical objects from passing through it. Good economic policy has the primary function of building the national economy––economic policy has no role in curtailing contraband.